brandon rittiman in iowa for us thank you. super bowl week started with a primetime event. super bowl media day was a three hour party with the teams taking questions from hundreds of reporters. fans paid more than $25 just to get inside the arena in san jose to watch it. the biggest interview may not have happened in that room. 9news reporter rod mackey joins us from the bay area with that. rod? >> reporter: that's right, adele. we were at opening night what they're calling media nowadays, but with so many cameras and so many reporters we wanted to see how inside broncos insider mike klis could actually get and he got peyton manning all by his lonesome. >> he's going to play till his 70. belichick will coach till he's 90. maybe i hit the fountain of youth in the next couple months and play another 10 years, but in case it's the last time i play a championship, this could be, no definite and something about telling them man to man, it was reactionary. you media folks are all over the field. you barely have time to move or talk to anybody. so i just took the time to tell tho

brandon rittiman in iowa for us tonight. thank you. >>> for the first time ever super bowl week started with a primetime event. super bowl media day was a three hour party with the teams taking questions from hundreds of reporters. fans paid more than $25 just to get inside the arena in san jose to watch it. the biggest interview may not have happened in that room. 9news reporter rod mackey joins us from the bay area with that. rod? >> reporter: that's right, adele. we were at opening night what they're calling media nowadays, but with so many cameras and so many reporters we wanted to see how inside broncos insider mike klis could actually get and he got peyton manning all by his lonesome. >> he's going to play till his 70. maybe i hit the fountain of youth in the next couple months and play another 10 years, but in case it's the last time i play a championship, this could be, no definite and something about telling them man to man, it wasn't planned. it was reactionary. you media folks are all over the field. you barely ha

in iowa, brandon rittiman, 9 news. >> big night for us in politics. >> yes, it is. >> exciting. finally somebody is out there voting or caucusing. >> are we not been talking about it? we were down to 148 days, 10 days, here we go. >>> a more detailed number at the storm, we have numbers there. >> yes. >> snow bands tonight and most likely tomorrow. >>> we have proof broncos country extends into the pacific. >>> a college student from lakerood signed up to work at >>> on the hawaiian island of malachi, there is a fanatic bronco fan, and his family, their bronco blue house makes their passion pretty clear and it will be packed super bowl sunday. michael-- sorry, kahinu said his mom is from colorado and he was born bleeding blue and orange, what he calls island broncos headquarters for the game . >> this season we got on the field and we watched the bronco/vikings game and my first game i ever went to, blast. my son who was 10 years old is a fanatic now. fanatical than i am. >> and, former 9 news reporter roger wolf who sent so much time in northern colorado was vacationing there a

brandon rittiman, 9news. >> lundberg is saying it is a debate he hopes to continue in the future. we do expect debate on another bill on this topic which would allow courts to seat a second jury on the life or death jury if the first jury can't agree on a decision. its first hearing in the >>> more than a 1/4 of female undergrad graduate students of university of colorado say 28% of them were assaulted ranging from rape town wanted touching. the survey was conducted by the boulder campus. 41% completed the survey. officials say the results will help them fight the problem. >>> within the last hour a spokesman for denver public schools gave us a final count on how many kids missed class to instead celebrate the broncos super bowl victory downtown. dentist had 24,001 -- dps had 24,152 students with one or more excused or unexcused absences on tuesday which is 9,268 more than were gone on monday. denver public schools serves 90,000 kids, so that's the math on thousand it all broke down yesterday. >>> there was a stinging loss clinton and a resounding win for bernie sanders and donald

brandon rittiman, 9news. >> colorado's two u.s. senators held true to party lines on the issue today. gardner supports waiting until the next president takes office and the other senator says there should be a fair hearing. >>> there are blatant violations of international laws in syria. some children have died, two of the medical facilities supported by unicef and one a clinic run by doctors without borders. a syrian watchdog group based in london said the attack on the clinic was carried out by russian war planes. >>> indigenous mexicans say pope francis visiting them call attention to their often ignored culture. a message read during today's mass says that while many others have southerned indigenous people -- have scorned indigenous people, francis has taken them into consideration. francis goaled part of his -- devoted part of his homily this morning criticizing exclusion of mexico's indigenous people. hundreds of thousands of indigenous people traveled across the country for the mass, many lined up since last night to attend

with your truth test brandon rittiman, 9news. >> go to 9news.com to see our research and other truth tests. >>> chelsea clinton stopped at university of denver this afternoon to campaign for her mom and brought along actress america ferrera. the two spoke to volunteers, supporters and students to touch on several topics including climate change, healthcare costs and higher education, of course. an iranian american asked about tensions with iran. >> she also said we're not at a point yet where we can normalize relations with iran partly because iran continues to deny israel's existence and also partly because iran continues to be a black box when it comes to human rights, when it comes to women's rights, particularly in some of the more rural areas. >> former president bill clinton will campaign for hillary this weekend in pueblo and colorado springs. clinton leads bernie sanders by double digits in a new national 53% of democratic primary voters back clinton while only 42% sanders. that 11 point advantage is down from her 25 point edge just a month ago. the new poll was conducted sun

brandon rittiman, 9news. >> after new hampshire voters will weigh in. colorado's caucuses are march 1st. >>> a blizzard warning is in effect for southeast massachusetts, up to 14 inches of snow is forecast for the region with winds expected to gust over 60 miles an hour, rough surf already washing out dunes along the coast and streets. utility crews are reporting power. the blizzard conditions are expected to continue into tomorrow. >>> an engineering team from cu denver is in an elite group, part of a design competition for a new form of transportation. it is called the hyper loop and it's similar to a high speed train only much faster and as 9news reporter maya rodriguez tells us, it got the backing of spacex founder elon musk. >> reporter: it's called the fifth mode of transportation. >> it's a completely new way of traveling. >> reporter: that's the idea behind the hyper loop, a transport system made up of pods traveling at extremely it's a concept first proposed by spacex and tesla founder elon musk. >> this is our spacex concept. >> reporter: this

brandon rittiman will keep us all updated on 9news throughout the day. here's a look at what -- new hampshire's primary is scheduled next for february 20 and south carolina primaries for the republicans will happen. the -- republican caucus happens on the 23rd and the caucus for democrats is on the 27th. >>> the center of the storm system now moving over the arizona new mexico border. we've had upwards of 2' of snow already in many colorado california all the way to the great lakes by tomorrow into wednesday. blizzard warnings in effect for parts of nebraska, iowa and minnesota. again many areas anticipating stores. let's do details now. 12" - 24" in the eastern slopes . 10" - 20" for vail , write down along the colorado river 3" - 6". of new snow. above 10,000' , easily getting between 1.5' to 3 feet. much lighter amounts. cortes and durango, and the wet mountain valley looking at 7" - 14". the entire state pretty much shaded in red. >> thank you very much. >> it's been five years since he last represented the >> he took to the ice again last night and

tegna's brandon rittiman is in des moines with more this morning...brandon... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 if you are traveling in the town of lexington early this morning... here is a road closure you need to be aware of. the city will close the up until 5am today... for landscape maintenance. east bound traffic will be detoured onto east butler street... west bound will be detoured on maiden lane. 3 if you head some loud booms going off in orrangeburg county today, don't worry. the organeburg county sheriff's office and sled will perform bomb squad training...you may hear explosives going off. this is happening from 9am to 4pm... at the training facility located about eight miles east of bowman. 3 lexington's state of the town address ius tonight. mayor steve macdougall will discuss the steps taken to provide cleaner water and lower waste in the lower saluda river.this includes closing the coventry woods and four other wastewater plants. the state of the town address is at 6:30 at lexington town hall on maiden street.you can also watch the address live at lex-s-c dot com. 3 3 in co

in des moines, brandon rittiman. >> thank you, brandon. >>> we will check in with marty and amelia to see how things are moving on or maybe not. >> reporter: i want to pass this on. it's great news for the colorado city resorts. these are the snow totals we have gotten. they may get better today. we will talk about 2-3 feet of snow. that's what was forecasted for the mountain areas. light snow for meeker, and up have snow here, and down through the denver area, cloudy right now in fort collins and greenly. i think the biggest issue is the winds. the winds 35 to 50 miles an hour on the plains during the day today. additional snow 2-5, out to burlington. heavier as you get into north western kansas, and even heavier moving up into nebraska and iowa as the storm spreads to the north and east, and i would say, amelia, it's tough around town, but you can't go in colorado on the highways. >> we have closures on 76. highway 86, and we will look at the closures in a minute. we will actually throw in good news here, and i-70 is all clear after the earlier westbound crash at havana that speeds

brandon rittiman is also in iowa, he's been following the story and keeping you updated on the networks of 9news. >>> today they start clearing out the mess in san diego. the tree came crashing down. it crashed into four cars beneath the giant limbs. people that saw it's a it happened in a matter of seconds. one driver was killed but no one was inside the other three cars. that is something though, those keep -- those trees just came down. >> we have the high wind warning going on in southern california. over to snow, just got a photo from my buddy in silverton, a foot of new snow, that was by 8:00 last night. right now and that high train, just north of durango piling up now especially at about 10,000 feet in the sand wants, running up into the grand mesa. a couple bands of snow. you just mentioned -- that active alert. that's what we have, banned it snow this morning, plenty of gaps in between and more widespread snow for the front afternoon. not especially cold anywhere in the state. a few bands of snow, moderate to heavy through the afternoon. we had upper 20s and low 30s early in t

in waterloo, iowa, brandon rittiman, 9news. >> brandon will have more coverage of the caucuses tonight on 9news at 5:00, 6:00, 9:00 and 10:00 and wrap up on the morning show tomorrow morning. >>> there was a minor crash this afternoon, a broncos brush was involved in a crash in sunny -- bus was involved in a crash in sunnyvale, california. broncos insider mike klis said the accident started when a motorcycle cut off the police escort and caused a chain reaction with multiple player buses. the team's vice president of public relations said the broncos team buses were involved in a minor accident on the way back from practice. the team is back at the hotel. okay. all good. it just makes it interesting, as mark says. >>> he hasn't taken a snap yet at the super bowl, but it is all about the pants. cam has got them talking about the pants. he is the quarterback, of course, for the panthers wearing a very unique pair of pants when he arrived. so while in san francisco we asked 9news reporter matt renoux if he could find some cam pants. where matt goes now i don't know. >> reporter: kim, it w

my colleague brandon rittiman todd. >> how much does the expectation game by hillary clinton suffer if she loses as expected in new hampshire? >> i think, look, it depends on the size of the loss. she loses by 20, 25, i think it's hard to spin that. if it's a single digit loss, she can say all the polls have shown her down 20 to 30 points eight or nine. i happen to believe this is out of whack. >> republicans in colorado will not choose a candidate next week. the state party got rid of the preference poll. they will choose delegates to represent their views at local conventions. gop candidates hold their new hampshire debate tomorrow night. >>> denver police have a plan in case fans get out of hand after the super bowl. last time the broncos won the super bowl it was pandemonium. police do not want a repeat this year. officers have been coordinating with bars giving them instructions on what to do in case the broncos win. >> the cops will come through and if it gets really bad, they can use tear gas and stuff. we don't want to get it in the air. >> denver police say officers are cracki

brandon rittiman, 9 news. >> lawmakers are debating the issue as we speak in the first committee hearing there is no statute of limitations for murder or kidnapping in colorado. >>> jury selection began today in the trial of a woman accused of cutting another woman's unborn baby from her womb. 300 potential jurors summoned to the boulder county court house this morning, filled out written question airs in the case of lane, accused of luring a pregnant woman to her basement the unborn girl did not survive. she is charged with attempted first degree murder, assault, ask another. willcons was responding to a craigslist ad for baby cloegs. >>> wednesday morning a woman called for help saying she was sexually assaulted at knife point. officers found a man injured with self-inflicted knife wounds and his son, a 6-year-old boy dead. a sheriff's deputy was injured heading to the scene. nelson garcia has the latest. >> reporter: outside of the wood haven apartments, things look back to normal. there is little indication something gruesome happened here yesterday, except for the last scrap of crim

brandon rittiman, 9news. >>> nielsen said 14.5 million people watched last night's gop. the first gop debate of his campaign season last august remains the most watched with 24 million viewers. >>> the spokesman for the u.n. secretary general notes an increase of military activity across the border in syria leading up to a ceasefire that has just now taken effect. he called today's violence tragic but unfortunately not surprising. more planes have been launching airstrikes against rebel held positions in the suburbs of the syrian capital. the russian and u.s. brokered ceasefire took effect across syria midnight local time. >>> farms in pennsylvania damaged this week by a tornado are getting help from neighbors and local businesses. the clean-up began almost immediately following wednesday night's ef2 tornado in lancaster county. not stopping the work of an estimated 500 volunteers. the tornado damaged 50 buildings at a cost of $8 million. clean-up is expected to run into next week. >>> the warm before next week's storm for us. >> also ahead the plea deal in a fraud case

the big night for sanders and trump and shaping the white house, let's bring in our reporter, brandon rittiman. in a knife or it's difficult to get a hold of, they had a good night in new hampshire. >> they had a good night of picking the winners but also told us that trump and sanders would win big and they did, and, trump, who does not know the word, bashful, was very typically not bashful about propping up sanders just to take a swipe at him. >> congratulations to bernie, in all fairness. we have to congratulate him. we may not like it, but i heard parts of his speech, he wants to get our country, folks. he wants to give it away. we are not going to let it happen. i don't know where it's going with bernie. we wish him a lot of love but we are going to make america great again, but we are going to do it the old-fashioned way. we are going to be china, japan, we are going to beat mexico at trade. >> a couple of those are our allies. trump also showed strength in the polls in the next two nevada. marco rubio felt to third, some many attribute to his debate performance including himself. that l

brandon rittiman, 9news. >> again this involves patients who had surgery between august 17th last year and january 22nd this year in the same facility where this technician worked. swedish says it will contact >>> considering how cold it's been this week doctors at university of colorado hospital want to remind the public about the dangers of frostbite. so far this winter doctors at the burn clinic there have seen nearly two dozen cases and in the past 48 hours the hospital admitted three patients suffering from extreme frostbite. it can set in quickly when people are exposed to below freezing temperatures. >> it can happen within five minutes. it depends on the person. so if you have somebody who is not very l.y, maybe has some peripheral sack of -- healthy, make has some peripheral vascular disease, it can happen much more quicker. definitely quicker in kids. i think they get on the location rink and forget it's super cold out. >> fingers, toes, nose, ears, doctors say you have to stay covered when spending time outdoors and those are the areas most susceptible to frostbite. >>> we e

for the republicans it's donald trump versus everyone. 7news political reporter brandon rittiman has more on the last minute push from a trump rally in waterloo, iowa, that was a bit different from what we're used to seeing. >> reporter: bit of a surprise for the candidate turning out massive crowds wherever he goes. about half the seats here were empty when donald trump took the stage, could be bad weather weekday, but he still talked about the things that all of his supporters love, including one that sounds a bit like what we heard out of bernie sanders. >> they're spending all of this money that they're given by the special interests and the lobbyists and spending it. they have unlimited money for that and so do i, frankly. so far i'm very proud of something. i've spent less money than anybody else and i have the best results. i'm no. 1. it's great. >> that's something that really reelz natures with trump supporters. -- resonates with trump supporters. we heard it over and over again. they feel he's the more genuine candidate of the bunch. trump voters themselves are an interesti

the polls show her with a slim lead over sanders. 9 news political reporter, brandon rittiman is headed to iowa and will have a preview and votes tonight at 9:00 and 10:00 and will wrap up the results monday night and tuesday. >>> tomorrow the world health organization have hold an emergency meeting on the zika virus, could classify it as a national concern, that would require a global response. 2 dozen countries and territories conformed cases of zika, 31 americans who traveled to affected areas have been diagnosed with the virus. experts suspect the virus is blamed for birth defects seen in more than 4,000 newborns in brazil. it is spread through mosquitos and does not have a cure. >>> this week on 9 news, we pause to remember one of nasa's biggest disasters and we heard about an officer who tried to pull a scene from the ice. the team headed to the super bowl. our 9 listens report. >> take a moment of silence and recognize the sacrifice of all those crew members and how their spirit and their legacy lives on in our achievement in space. 9230 years have passed yet we will never forget

could change because of the accusations of rape against bill cosby. 9 news political reporter brandon rittiman shows us choof cosby's-- 2 of cosby's accusers in colorado want in the statute of limitations. >> 2 colorado women said they carried a weight for a long, long time. >> i am a survivor of sexual assault, being drugged and sexually assaulted by bill cosby in 1986 in denver, colorado. statute of limitations for sexual assault does them no justice. it took them more than 3 decades to feel safe coming forward. >> at the time i felt very alone. no one would have believed that mr. jello pudding pop, dr. huxtable was capable of rape and sexual assault. i would have been laughed off the planet. >> i prefer to abolish based thon stories we heard. >> democrat rhonda field sponsored a bill to do that in the house with republican help in the senate. >> not everybody is on board, defense attorneys like having a statute of limitations on the books and argue with good reason. >> you have witnesses that, their memories are fresh, and it is easier to prosecute and defend with the evidence being close i

for more, we turn to political reporter brandon rittiman. >> reporter: we're going to hear here in colorado for the first time from both democratic candidates, what they have to say about this news coming out of the supreme court with scalia's death. bernie sanders said while i delivered with his views and jurist prudence, he was a brilliant, colorful and outspoken member of the supreme court. we're still waiting to hear what hillary clinton has to say about it. obviously some big national headlines dominating as we get visits from both hillary clinton and bernie sanders, both of whom were out in nevada. nevada has caucuses on the 20th of this month. colorado caucuses not far away democrats will be picking a statewide winner. republicans will not be tallying up votes for a statewide winner on march 1st, helps the visit from the democratic side of the ticket and not so much from the gop. they're going to be focused on the convention come april. both campaigns have their own events going on in colorado today. earlier today at emmanuel high school hillary clinton campaign had gabrielle gifford

where our strengths with african american voters she hopes will carry the day. interview with brandon rittiman and insights on what to expect on super tuesday at 8:45 a.m. sunday just before meet the press. >>> home brewers who unknowingly violated state law are now closer to being legal. current law says only a head of family is allowed to make beer or wine at home and only for family use and that would suggest a married couple couldn't brew together, maybe single people can't brew at all and nobody can give a bottle of home brew to a friend, but today the state senate voted for a bill changing language from head of family to adult. the update has passed the house and now heads to the governor's desk. >>> we're looking for it. i think we're going to be talking about this dog that tangled with a porcupine. canelo the dog got into a mess thing is the dog has had a kind of tough past with some abuse and other things. they hooked the dog up with an animal behaviorist. she is working with him, deb mann. oh, my memory is coming back. she says this dog is ready for adoption. >> the fact that he surv

. >> as today's usa bureau chief susan page and here's brandon rittiman. >> susan, thanks for taking the time. >> it's great to be with you. >> a lot of people, up to me and say have you ever seen such a crazy year in the presidential race? long as you have. has there been such a crazy year? >> this is the 10th campaign i have covered and there are days when i feel like i should pay usa for the privilege of covering it. while i covered them aging collections like ronald reagan in 1980 was my first election, the election that wooden and in 2000 when the count went on for all the extra days and the first african-american president . this has been a remarkable year in both parties . both parties wreaked havoc contest that have made our heads spin. >> talk to me about the culture of the outsider because we see it now on both sides with trump and sanders on the democratic side. >> it tells us about the mood of americans. americans are fed up with politics in washington. the rise of tea party and elections in colorado have shown us that. people feel like the recession has never ended. the

clinton and donald trump holding narrow leads in their respective races. 9news political reporter brandon rittiman is in iowa - and he'll be bringing you updates throughout the day - on the networks of 9news. today - asian markets have uneven results... and european shares are also it's all pointing u-s stock futures lower. all markets in the u-s are less than half-a-percent lower before opening bell. u.s. stock markets posted their biggest gains in about five months on friday, but ended january with losses. the chipotle nightmare may be over. today... the centers for disease control is expected to declare an end to the restaurant chain's e-coli outbreak. more than 50 customers of the denver-based chain got sick in 9 states last year... it's been two months since anyone has gotten sick. the wall street journal reports investigators haven't been able to pinpoint the ingredient responsible for the contamination. today the world health organization will hold an emergency meeting to talk about the zika virus. they could classify the outbreak as a "public health emergency". this would require a coordin