And we turn our direction back for the denver metro area, big thunderstorms coming together out there in jefferson county. The one in particular i want you to look at is the one north of genessee coming together around the golden area, that is going to produce heavy rain and even some hail out of golden, el dorado springs, moving to the east, broomfield, arvada, north denver may see the effects of that with heavy rain. Watch for that, its heading right at rush hour which could be problematic. The last 30 minutes. Thats kind of dangerous out there. Take a look at the storm report, one Inch Diameter in wellington, jake eight, 81 mile per hour wind at the greeley airport, one Inch Diameter hail in kersey, and in commerce city, wins gusts up to 65 miles per hour, word now of small tree limbs up to 2 inches in diameter have been snapped out there. Coming through that is really dropping the temperatures like a rock around here, that may even produce more light snow in the mountains tonight. Well talk about that coming up. Thank you. Now to some breaking news, look at the traffic mess along i70 near the evergreen exit. We are told several cars have been involved in the accident, only one westbound lane is able to get through right now, traffic heading up to the mountains as you can see from this live traffic camera, its going to be backed also new tonight, copter 4 showing us the result of a grass fire in brighton, this is on yosemite near 168, firefighters contents limbs before there was any damage, but they say the wind fanned the flames to about 10 acres. No word on what sparked it. Copter 4 also flew over a fire at an adams county warehouse, we can see damage to the side of the building on broadway. There were pellets inside. Firefighters put this one out in about six minutes, no word on what started that when either. Into a deadly hit and run when a woman crashed her car off of i76 near 136th early this morning. Police say a passerby found her body a halfmile away from where she actually crash. Cbs 4s Melissa Garcia is live at the scene off of i176 off of 135th, what do investigators say happened . Reporter police say after the woman cras off of i76, she got off and started walking along the interstate and was hit by another car. When you see the pole that she took down, it is hard to believe that she walked away from the first crash. Police are trying to figure out why the woman behind the wheel of this blue subaru drove off the interstate early friday morning. She was driving eastbound on i 76, just before 136 avenue, when she had a huge metal pole with this signposted, and quite literally took the next right, right off the road and into the brush, police say the woman, who was around 50 years old, got out of her car and started wandering down the interstate. We did not have any were original report of the accident, we had the report that 4 26 and 4 54 of a female walking along the roadway. Sent officers out twice and they were not able to locate her. Thats the only reason we believe she the roadway after an accident. Reporter another driver heading westbound on i76 saw a body lying on the side of the road one half mile away from the crash and called police. Officers did a search, walking along the road and grass, searching for evidence. Investigators believe the woman was struck by a car sometime between 5 and 6 20 a. M. And are searching for clues as to who hit and killed her and did not stop. If somebody struck her on the roadway, we would like to talk to her about what happened and we like to know who they are. Reporter police are asking anyone with any information Brighton Police department. Also, they do believe they know who the woman was, that they are not releasing her identity right now, pending notification of her family. Live in brighton, Melissa Garcia, cbs 4 news. We have new information on the search for a missing eldora ski worker from lafayette, the family of 21yearold Ryder Johnson is offering a 100,000 reward for information on his whereabouts. He was last seen leaving the ski area, his car but nothing else. Developing tonight, voters this november in denver will decide on issues that could provide more money for public schools. Jennifer brice is live outside one denver high school, today, supporters were rallying to get the word out. Reporter take a look at the sign outside West High School which shows the last time a bond was passed in 2012 and all the work done for the school thing it was completed. Signs in and around the metro area asking again for voters to fund schools. The district says on average they believe it will cost homeowners about 10 per month. Outside West High School in denver, students, parents, and staff asked voters to give dps schools more money. It would have to be passed by voters through a male levy and bond. Jess carol is a student. Students need a voice in the selection, we are the ones who are forced to learn in classr w reporter 3a will ask for 57,000, 3b last for 572 million. The school board says based on the average price of a home in denver, 330,000, the bond would increase property taxes by 10 per month. So, where will the money go . Dollars will go directly to school environments. And what that allows is school children. Reporter that money will improve and maintain some of the oldest buildings in the district, provide cooling systems to the hottest schools and add classrooms to reduce class sizes. It will expand technology and the districts Early Learning Literacy Program along with college and career programs for students. Denver voters and citizens have been amazing to public education. In denver. And, it is my belief that they will continue. Reporter colorado ranks 46th in public funding education. The district says not only are ey funding cuts, dbs has been reduced 100 million per year and needs the help of its voters. And, traditionally, colorado has been against tax hikes in the state. We did talk with the independent institute, the Organization Says they are not taking a position on this issue right now. To see all other bond measures with schools that are going to be on the november ballot, go to our website, cbsdenver. Com. Live in denver, jennifer brice, cbs 4 news. Now to the latest on the president obama will visit communities hit hard by the flooding next week. There have been some criticism of the president not cutting short his vacation to visit the devastated communities. Fema already started working to help those in need but the flooding has damaged 40,000 homes and at least 13 people have died. The louisiana flooding has become a focus on the campaign trail. Hilly trail says she talked to louisiana governor John Bell Edwards over the phone and is urging people to reach out to the red cross. Meanwhile, donald trump and mike pence went to louisiana to talk with the people in person. Reporter donald trump promised to help flood victims in baton rouge, louisiana where he spent the morning looking at damage. You have never had floods before . Never. Reporter trump did not bring up the ongoing shakeup of his staff, Campaign Chairman Paul Manaford resigned as investigators in ukraine are to lobbyists. He released a statement calling manaford a true professional. His son, eric trump, had this to say. I think my father did not want to be distracted by whatever things paul was dealing with. Reporter earlier this week, trump hired a new ceo and campaign manager, stephen bannon, and kelly ann conway, they may be responsible for an apparently softer trump who does not backpedal for comments. I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused reporter the Clinton Campaign dismissed his comments as insincere and criticized his first general election add. Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay. Reporter the Clinton Campaign issued a statement about Paul Manaford and his resignation calling it a disturbing connection between trump and quote criminal elements in ukraine. If Hillary Clinton becomes president , the clinton corporations or foreign countries. Keeping an eye on storms today, we have seen heavy rain and hail in parts of the area, davis tracking it all. Doppler 4000 is lit up, we have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for adams and arapahoe county. We will outline that and much cooler air is oozing in, producing all of this weather, 57 degrees in boulder, 54 in fort collins and there is more coming up from wyoming. And, coming up we have an idea of how many homes have burned in the raging fire in southern califor the progress is being made. 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Connect on social media. Learn, shop and more with fast inhome wifi. So call 844565link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. Developing now, california firefighters are slowly gaining ground on the file of on the wildfire burning east of los angeles. The grass fire is 26 contained and has burned 50 square miles is a 100 homes antigo other structures. Now some 82,000 people forced to evacuate our returning to see whats left. All these people you see about that you care about, you live close to have been gone in an instant and was for so many people. So you know, just feeling very blessed. We still dont know what started the fire. New details as ryan lochte breaks his silence about the lie of getting robbed at gunpoint in rio. Brazil police say never actually happened, and today he apologized on twitter. He wrote, i want to apologize for my behavior last weekend and for my role in taking the athletes fulfilling paralympic dreams of participating in the olympics. An incredible moment for a call about a pregnant woman, a gift to her dying mother. Cbs 4s Andrea Flores joins us tonight, a really emotional story. Thats right, there are certain milestones that moms never want to miss, or one westminster woman, learning the gender of her unborn baby days before her mothers death was at the top of her list. You have a daughter. No way. Yes, you have a da maserati, says learning she was having a baby girl in the same hospital bed as her terminally ill mother is something she will never forget. I just looked at her and everything kind of flashed. It hit me more that she would not be there. Reporter battling stage iv brain and lung cancer, doctors at Longmont United Hospital knew her moms time was coming to an end. I could not picture myself going through all of this without her. Reporter the hospital arranged for taylor to have an ultrasound lying next to her mom before it was too late. She reached over and patted my cheek which is something that she has always done. Moment is when i kind of knew she was still fighting, but kind of ready to go as well. Reporter taylors mom passed away three days later. While the moment will always be bittersweet, taylor said she is happy knowing her mother met her baby girl before she was even born. She will know the love that my mom had for her, even without seeing her, my mom left her a lot already. Reporter taylor says her mom and daughter will share the same middle name and hopes this mantra will help her moms legacy live on forever. Keep an eye on the storms for us at this hour. Where are they . Over the front range, heres whats going on, the cold wave that came through yesterday and secondary search coming through pulling and a lot of lift with it. Once it runs into the warm, moist air coming across the rockies. Here we go, two big areas of thunderstorms, when a jefferson county, foothills up to Boulder County and out here near leeder. Lets start with this one, Severe Thunderstorm Warning now extended until 6 15, chance, adams, arapahoe, lincoln, washington county. You can see the big storm that just went by, potential of up to two Inch Diameter hail, slightly larger than pingpong size. Get those balls in the garage if you are out there. We have one near golden, one near boulder in one near jefferson county. Lets concentrate on whats going to affect the metro area for the rushhour. Dissuade moving into boulder will move along the told her burned height ash boulder turnpike, could have heavy pockets of rain, this one in will move into the city. As it gets bigger, there is the potential there may have some hail in it, right now, small hail right along sweet goals, sweet goals road, i should say, just along i70, north of genesee and pushing out to golden, that will be pushing for on the west side of town. Pretty big thunderstorm on the areas of el paso county. And a few gardenvariety thunderstorms in some western mountains. Now, into the evening tonight, there is a chance of severe storms from weld county, denver, colorado springs, pueblo, all the way down into trinidad as these storms continued to roll across the east. In nederland, Matt Reynolds from our weather watcher had some small hail covering the greenery. There is a closer look, and mike, are either watching bailey, marble sized hail, theres his ruler as he mentions that, beat up the flowers a everything got going, 81 at the airport, 80 at the buttondown town, a below normal day. A little warmer than we were thinking. We were thinking we would lock into the 70s, that may happen tomorrow. 63 tomorrow with a north northeast wind at 26, as we have seen, the costs with these thunderstorms are kicking up to 60, 70 miles per hour. Storms congregating down to the southeast tonight,st tomorrow afternoon. Isolated thunderstorms, real small chance from denver down into southern colorado during the afternoon tomorrow. A little bit drier the way things look. Tonight, chilly night, lots of 40s showing up including denver. Tomorrow, well be in the 70s for most areas with the exception of grand junction. I think youll make it to 90. Showers and storms, 45 for the low tomorrow, afternoon storms, 10 chance or less for most of us tomorrow and 75 tomorrow. I think tomorrow will be the then we get back into the 80s sunday, monday and tuesday, another cooling trend with 76 wednesday but each day just a slight chance of isolated storms. In the next couple of hours as the school air rose through, we are going to be rocking and rolling. , over a million ears of corn are picked a day here in olathe, colorado. And im glad we have a senator who uses his ears to listen to whats most important to colorado farmers. Michael bennet asked what he could do to help, and then worked with republicans to make a farm bill thats making a difference to all farmers in colorado. The thing that impresses me most about Michael Bennet we dont always agree, but he values our input. And i do trust Michael Bennet and i approve this message. Rockies just got bigger as the earth set to call up top pitching prospect jeff hoffman to make his majorleague debut tomorrow night against the nl bleeding chicago cubs. He has the pressure of being one of the main pieces of the toy tulowitzki toronto trade, the blue jays gave him many of their top prospects, most notably, hoffman. Now hell make his debut at hitter friendly coors field. Right into the fire, but we feel like jeff can handle it. Hes got plenty plus stuff, even at the major league level. I feel like he is ready for this. You know . Youve got to start your career at some point. His is going to be tomorrow. Started to the nfl, the espn release preseason power rankings, the broncos, eighth. Common factor of the seven teams ahead of them . They all have pro bowl even have a starter. The nfl is a Quarterback League and so, as National Season predictions come out, dont expect to see many people picking the broncos to repeat, mainly because of their lack of star power at the power position. Roncos best player is von miller, and even if he gets asked to the broncos best player is von miller and even he gets asked to weigh in on the cornerback position. Adjuvant much as i would like to say as much as i would like to staff got all the quarterback knowledge, i really dont. Theres not much i can say. The arms look gat looks nice. Pretty tight spirals. Yeah, i like all of them. I feel like we could win with all three. Started finally, we have seen the rookies get their haircuts throughout the week, some pretty entertaining once and some that are so bad that the rookie has already shaved it all off. But, will park says he will keep his through the first game, even if you sometimes again when i walked over here and a couple of people were staring at my head. I was, like, whats wrong . Then i realized again my cut was messed up. Its all good. I feel the breeze on my head, i feel it in certain spots that i normally dont. I have a crazy cut. But im kind of, switch to centurylink and get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month. Thats the speed you need to stream. Game. Connect on social media. So call 844565link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. Still a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for last chance out there near deer trail, quincy, 1 to 2 Inch Diameter hail and a pelley zika breaks out of the containment zone. A new cluster turns up, this time in a major tourist destination. From the sun and fun capital of the world, miami beach pelley also tonight, trumpti dumps his Campaign Chairman. Ru and tries something new humility. And i do regret it. Particularly, where it may have caused personal pain. Pelley regrets, too, from ryan lochte. He apologizes for the behavior that got him branded the ugly american. And Steve Hartman when marge harlan recreated history, she reopened old wounds. No, i dont like it. Just brings back thoughts of,
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