Danger. Windy across the high country. Were seeing wind gust from the south, southwest and eagle and aspen, 30 milesperhour. Across the plains, well gradually see the winds shift down and it will cause our fire conditton to increase. The denvermetro area, boulder, fort collins, and low humidity. Expect wind gust above timberline and here in the conditions this afternoon, but highs still above normal in the midto upper 70s before a big a rainsnow chance potentially if things become cool enough. A little further west, like in georgetown, i saw from the weather station, little cdot weether station that the wind gust are over 40 milesperhour. Its blowing strong. Dont be restrictions later today especially for the high profile vehicles with trailers. Be careful. I25, 20th wide open across the freeways as theyre picking up the overnight construction. A lot of green out there. North, south, east to dia, an easy drive for us. Its 5 00. Police in alaska are looking for the man you see in this video. They say you walked over into an officer in a patrol car and shot him several times and hopped into the cruiser and took off. Nearby, but no sign of the suspect. The officer is an 11year veteran. Hes expected to survive. This morning, were getting a first look at the man accused of shooting a california officer in the head. This suspect now dead. Officer kevin downs is in the hospital recovering right now. Doctors were able to remove a bullet from his head, but hes dealing with partial paralysis. This started on friday when officer downs and his partner responded to reports at a shopping mall. Police got into a shootout with the suspec3 who was killed. 053. 24 people are dead. 69 others injured after two busd in we pulled it up on the map. Several children, and college aid students are among those killed. Its not clear what caused the crash. Deadly road accidents are common in this area in pakistan. Th those are teaming up with rocky fighters to troops taking on 5,000 isis members holding that city of 1 million people. It could take months to win this one. This is likely the toughest battle our defense secretary says this is the chance o really bt isis while thats going on, the grrup is considering economic sanctions on the countries because of their cup duct in a lap hoe. Kerry says crimes against humanity happen everyday in syria. Keep a close eye on your mail because the ballots, they go out today. While the president ial election is very important, there are so many other measures that could impact you. Amanda del castillo joins us with what measures are on your ballot. Reporter well see a total of wage and tobacco and assisted death. Youll receive information these are from november 2014. So they wont look like this, but theyll have all the information that you need when it comes to voting. This year, theres also a . Potlight on health care. Amendment 69 was designed creatinghe t first universal country. Vermont sanders is making a stop it would allow you to vote in major party primaries. Well talk more about some of these manages you are in the next half hour. October 31st is the last day to register online or by mail. November 8th is an very . Important day because thats e day you can vote in person. Outside of the a amanda del castillo. Theres a new abc poll that trump if the theres a wall street journal that puts clinton 11 points ahead of trump. They were conducted the 10th and the 13th of this month. Thats maybe why Donald Trump Jr will be in denver hell be at the Centennial Gun Club and ole drumming up support for clinton. They spoke to a packed house in denverron saturday, they spoke about trump as well as the new democratic platform adopted during the convention in philadelphia. Were going to beat trump and beat him badly and were going to elect hillary clinton. Hillary gets up everyday and keeps on fighting. Fighting for children, fighting for women. Fighting for health care. Fighting for human rights, fighting for a field. Senator sanders and warren will make stops in fort collins and boulder today. 5 06. Gary johnson will be on the campaign trail in texas today. Over the weekend he was in new mexico showing hes the fittest candidate. He stressed why its important for voter to have an alternative here for the this is a twoparty system thattneeds crashing. He says he rode his bike to that rally to show hes physically fit and the healthest candidate. Hes the healthiest candidate. Firefighters in pittman county are working to put on the burning near ruddy reservoir. Meanwhile, the Elizabeth Fire Department has responded to 8 wild fires in the past week. Thats costing a lot. Thats why the Fire Department will ask voters to extend a tax to allow for new trucks and other capital projects. With the growing population out there, were running into an interface situation where homes are being built at the end of fires arras and its getting the ffont range has been dealing witt red flag warnings. Firefighters beat a 300 wild fire yesterday afternoon. This broke out near 144th and wind view after grass caught fire. Today, the good news, this one is 100 contained. You may coming from the refinery in commerce city. The problem fire which caused this orange smoke. This was friday. State officials are trying to sf the smoke is hazardous. The white smoke youll see today happening when you refire up or restart a refinery. Rosenburgs bagel is closed today after today is the shops normal day open. It will be open today. Destroyed the apartment above the shop causing major damage to the kitchen of rosenburgs. But the owners opened yesterday. I set my alarm to see how big the line is. Its crazy. Im happy for them. Ive bees day for a long time, so here we are. Rosenburgs is open everyday from 6 00 in the morning until 3 00 except on mondays. A killer this morning after the break who police are looking for. A man is alive thanks to brave strangers. What they did to save his life . Its a cool start. 74 degrees downtown. Clear skies, did you see the full moon rising in the sky . Absolutely beautiful, but well see windy conditions this afternoon. A red flag warning is in effect for denver. Ill have the break down on how gusty its going to get coming up this afternoon. The high country. Take a look near bakersfield, the camera is before donald trump, there was mike coffman. Before trump said women should be punished for having an abortion, coffman wrote a bill to redefine rape, which could exclude women who were drugged. Before trump called coffman pushed for a religious test of u. S. Soldiers. And on president obama . Trump he could have been born in kenya. Coffman hes just not an american. Stop mike coffman now before he gives trump more ideas. House majority pac is responsible right now, denver list were looking for this man. Brent kelly. They say he shot and killed a man near colfax and this is early saturday morning. If you see him and anything about what happened, youre asked to call police. Denver 7 first alert. Were following the latest development in syria. Aeared five children were among the casualties a lep hoecash it demolished entire buildings. A boy in florida has bragging rights this morning. Hes officially a jedi knight. Hes 7 and he had his dream come true thanks to makeawishfoundation. Friend he saved the city from evil. West palm beach leaders gave him a key to the city as a thanks. It doesnt open any doors. How does it feel . It feels great. It does not open any doors. You cant tell if h that as a matter of fact or disappointment. Before facing dark vader, he got fighting tips. He was getting that, like, i dont get it. How about a football or chocolate or something. It was nice. Ekend. Warm and the wind picked up yesterday afternoon through the not as hot. We broke a record on saturday. Still well above normal, but the winns are going to be an issue later this afternoon. This afternoon, gusty condition in the mountains, but throuuh the day today in the front range and on the plains, well see the breeze pick up. We have elevated fire danger throughout this afternoon until 9 00 this morning. But tomorrow, a lot cooler, so were back in the low 60s. We saw 80s this weekend. 70s today. And then a lot cooler as we head into midweek. Watc red flag warning. This will encompass the eastern half of the state. Low humidity and be careful out there today. For the high country, gusty winds for muuh of the mountains. Wind gust up to 60 to 80 milesperhour. Portions above timberline and thelains, 25 to 30 miles from the west. Today well be around 77 in the plenty of and then clear skies overnight. Highs today, elsewhere, evergreen at 70 degrees. Highlands ranch, 79. Midto upper 70s across the eastern plains. 60s for the mountains. 50 degrees in leadville and warm down to the northeast. Lamar expecting a high of 92 degreee. And colorado at 80. A big change will come. A cold front expected to move into the state heading into tomorrow. Seeing a few denver and well clear things up and increased cloud cover comes tuesday. This is tuesday at 8 00. A better chance for showers and overnight tonight, a little ccillier. By wednesday, were in the mid50s. Chilly overnight. In the midto things warmup by the weekend. D sunshine is back. Wind conditions continue in the high country. No problems yet. We did see gust near 50 milesanhour near jansey near the eisenhower tunnel. If you look at the map, im not seeing slowdowns near 270 and c470. The winds will kick up. I havent seen restrictions. Hd 96 to boulder looks nice. Take a look at the denver tec thank you, jason. We have video to show out of florida. A dozen Good Samaritans saved a man who got stuck inside of an suv. They formed a human chain to pull him out after the car went down the embankment. They pulled the driver out from the car and got him away from the flames and hes recovering. A retailer took clown mask we have targets decision. Reporter in the gma first look this Surveillance Video up loaded showing a this clown caught clinging to the back offa detroit bus. With halloween only 2 weeks away, these clown encounters seem to help scary clown mask fly off the shelf. Says its clown costume sells are up 239 this year. This morning, one of the countrys largest retailers isnt clowning around anymore. Target telling abc news its removing clown masks from its stores saying this decision was made out of the sensitivity to tte issue at hand. Well have the latest on the clown controversy live at 7 00 a. M. With your gma first look. Im [indiscernible] employees. Theyre cutting 4,000 jobs over the next 3 years. They employed 50,000 around the world. It should save the company 300 million. Hewitt has when was the last time you had a real invest cajun. Dale is looking into a trend thats happening where people are letting their paid time off go to waste. This may shock a lot of people. Theres a new report that says we through away 220 this adds up to 61 billion in unused benefits. Project time law ound half of employees dont use all of the vacation given to them. On average, the typical person uses about 16 days off a year. Thats now. But 15 years ago, the average pk 20 days off. Why is that . 37 of us are worried about coming 30 cant afford a vacation. 22 want to show how dedicated they are tootheir job. But theres a reason we working all the time, it runs the risk of burn out and losing productivity. 91 of Senior Business leaders believes that employees return from vacation recharged and renewed, but onny 39 of employees feel supported when it comes to taking those days off. 20 minutes after 5 00. Theres a deadline you need to know b. Someone fire bombed a just about 5 23. Welcome back to denver 7. A live look over downtown denver fm the top of the denver 7 studios. And today, a chilling missing child case is getting a second turn before 37 years after the first grader vanished. Opening statements begins today. He disappeared while walking to his School Bus Stop in 1979. He was on a milling carton. He worked at a corner store in the little boys neighborhood. Most of the train stations in new jersey are back and open after the deadly derailment. They got back in operations early this morning. Theyll reduce their speed from 10 milesanhour to 5 milesanhour. If you filed you need to they are to the post office today so they can be postmarked by october 17th so theyll not late. Dozens of organizations coming together to finish up their mural. This is on the its a giant paint by number project. A professional artist drew told volunteers which colors to use. When firefighters tell you to stay out of thhewater its dangerous you need to listen. A man found out the hard way. He goes under water although there was strong wind from a typhoon. Hes been wind suffering for 30 years and he thought the waves would be perfect. When he was done having fun, he couldnt get out of the water. Two people had to go in and help pull him out. They putting themselves in danger in order onto do that. Theyre great waves, but you can get stuck in powerful. Today the winds are going to pick up. Were seeing windy winds in the high country and that will roll into the plains this afternoon. Oh boy. Sustained winds right now in eagle and aspen around 21 to 22 milesperhour. In denver right now, calm start and a cool start to the morning. But things will change come this afternoon. Heres your cheat sheet. Winds will pick up. But by tonight, well start to e things cool down. Tuesday, cooler ir approach for a cold front and that brings us a chance for a rainsnow mix comes wednesday. Highs for today, above average in denver. 77 degrees. 80 in colorado spring. And 60sn the mountains. Slight chance of shower further to the north like steamboat later today. Down to the south, 90. A warm day today before things cool down bouncing around. Well keep an eye on that. Boulder, nice for those walking along the sidewalk. Take a look at the overall map. The issue is in capital hill. An accident at colfax and york. A hazard on the east side of downtown. 5 26. Its Rolling Stone magazine verses the university of virginia. Whats happening now after that magazine raa a flawed story about rape damaging the schools reputation. Daryl glen is making his . At village inn, a good meal is about more than just how it tastes. Its about how it makes you feel. At village inn, the brightest ideas are always the best. Like making the best pie in america free. On free pie wednesday. Come in and enjoy a free slice of classic fruit or featured pie. And sweetin up wednesday. . It is 5 30. A local club isnt going down without a fight. What you can do to help save cold crush after the city of denver shuts them down. And other races, colorado voters are faciig 9 ballot measures. Well talk details next. Trump says he knows who spray paint good morning, thanks for waking up with denver 7 00. Ale dayle cedars with katie lasalle. Another warm day, not quite as hot as saturday and sunday. But yes, temperatures in the midto upper 50s. The big concern today is the wind. Know theres a fire burning in pick ton county. Unfortunately any Fire Fighting efforts will be limited. Theres Higher Elevations for later this afternoon. We have elevated fire danger for the eastern part of the state. High Wind Warnings to the west. This week, a cold front is coming into coloradd. That will cool things down as we head into tuesddy. Our watches and warnings will be in effect all day today