Continue as well. Yesterday three helicopters and a single engine air tanker made multiple drops on the fire and those drops will resume when the sun comes up. Theyre expecting an additional 75 firefighters to join the already 400 or so on the ground. The Pueblo CountySheriffs Office is confirming or has confirmed as of late yesterday afternoon the eight homes an additional six out buildings lost in the fire. A news briefing frrm the Pueblo CountySheriffs Office and we hope to have updated information also in 45 minutes well be back with you and introduce you to evacuees who are hoping for the best for now live in Pueblo County russell hey thorn, back to you. Could get showers tomorrow lets get you out the door this morning and freezing in the foothills. City park warmmr and highs this afternoon in the mid up toer 60s. Similar to yesterday upper 60s. This morning were seeing a few on the western slope. Heres your first alert we could get more rain here in denver tomorrow and it will be details coming up. A coupleaccidents along 96th avenue right by the gmc dealership at i76. They have been calling out one around 88th avenue and thats the way it initially came out. Possible acciddnts up here and if it turns into Something Big ill let you know. 270 already congested heading to vas kez and i70. The north side otherwise very typical out to the south side. A news alert out of boulder now. This man has not been seen since monday. His family is worried because he has medical issues. He could be driving a white 1996 honda civic colorado license plate 455 uuz. Call 911 if you see anything. Thousands of people are missing power as a result of Hurricane Matthew. This is the most power atlantic storm in a decade. This is the damage in haiti. This hurricane has killed at least 11 people. Nicole has the developments happening now. 11 confirmed deaths in haiti and the do dominican once crews get a better count. Theres washed out bridges and mud slides. Communication has been almost completely cut off to some areas. The u. S. Navy has sent three ships including an Aircraft Carrier to haiti to help. Matthew is heading towards the bahamas. Tropical storm warnings are in effect for turks expected to hit florida tomorrow. Speed is a major problem on county line road southeast of auuora. Colorado state troopers theres no doubt that speed caused this deadly crash on sunday. Five teens were killed in the crash and the car was so badly burned as you can see. The road is your typical highway, well paved with rolling hills. The posted speed sign limit neighbors tell us they see people speeding on a regular basis. I was trying to whip down that road to get that feel you can get going up andddownhills. . Nearly 20 years ago in 199 a car full of teenagers crashed along a different stretch of road. . Wo girls died and several others injured. Troopers say the driver was speeding in the case. The safety of theealine is under the microscope this morning. Delays and closures. A new report is focusing on criminal activity. Jaaon gruenauer is live along the aline to break down the numbers. Yes, good morning, ww have been talking about the statistics all morning and the 55 crimes since april. But the question is, is crime really on the rise . How do the numbers compare to the year before while the a for example, we will give you central park station were about to pull up on the iversity of colorado aline heading back to the station. Something extreme as a Sexual Assault and six back in 2015, . Eople, aboot 18,000 peoplee arriving each and every day. What is rtd doing and local police doing to keep you safe . First of all only one issue is reported on the train itself. Coming up at 6 30 well dive into security protocols and ppocedures and what theyre doing to keep you safe. Reporting live on the aline im jason gruenauer, back to confrontation in centennial monday morning. He was wondering through a neighborhood slashing tires and yelling he owned the streets. A homeowner came outside to confront him. Both men fired at each other but only this man was hit. He faces a long list of charges including felony menacing. Police say they broke up a murder for hire plot the two people facing a judge in denver. The two men to hire a hit man who turned out to be an Undercover Police officer. Police say michael shot his neighbor for smoking in the stairway of an apartment building. Hes ffcing multiple charges now. Vote, the Republican Party won last nights Vice President ial debate. As of 3 00 this morning readers graded republican mike pence as a b minus. Tim kaine had a cminus. many posted that mike pence looked calmer and more president ial. When donald trump says mexicans are rapists and criminals and john mccain is not a hero, hes showing you who he is. Senator, you whipped out that mexican thing again. Can you defend it . There are criminal agentings in this country who have come in illegally thats. Many of them are good people both candidates are being praised for sticking to the issues. Tim kaine got in a few jabs. She had a Clinton Foundation accepting funds from foreign governments. Our fact team stayed busy and you can read their fact checks on our free denver seven app. Right now looking at what is potential a chilly afternoon. Are cold, upper 30s and low 50s. In the mid to upper 60s by the time your kids home with more cloud cover. When you look at our highs today, mountains in the 40s and 50s. Across the plains close to normal today. Tomorrow a lot ooler so we go from 60s today to 50s tomorrow. Well talk about that coming up. As florida braces for Hurricane Matthew, food and Water Supplies are dwindling. Check out these empty store pretty upset about this situation. Well have more on the impact . Later this hourr we finally found the accident on the i76 ride. The right lane is blocked after 88th avenue. Most of the activity on the 3 right shoulder. Iis a monster traffic jam and ill show it to you coming up. The countrys most popular truck could have a serious brake problem. Well tell you what to look out for. right now, lets give you a live look outside. A little chilly. Thats not stopping kids from participating in National Back participating in National Back to school day. The power of the sun and the wind. It can fuel our lives and our economy, too. Over 10,000 jobs in colorado alone. But when washington gridlock was choking the industry, something had to be done. So, i teamed up with republicans and democrats to pass the new laws we needed and generating more for the future. Im michael bennet, and thats . At village inn, a good meal is about more than just how it tastes. Its about how it makes you feel. . Come in to village inn every wednesday for free pie wednesday and enjoy a free slice of pie with purchase. A live look from air tracker seven on westbound i76 before 74th avenue. Cars getting by on the should. Er. For the second time this year, video of a massive brawl at a chuck ee cheese is going viral. This restaurant is in miami. This started as a confrontation between two parents and adults. Witnesses say theres bumps and bruises and no arrests were made. Made. The galaxy note resuming sales in the u. S. A product page reassures customers this new version will not explooe. Its listed at the very bottom of the features phone sections on t mobile. Its available to buy and also now this morning, you could be in a commercial talking about your experience with the note 7. A chicago base casting agency has posted a casting call for former or current owners of the phone. A video application. Park rangers had to rescue three men last night. They got stranded on monday night. The three men were fine, just very cold and dehydrated. Who will be the first ski resort to open this season . Copper mountain hasnt made a specific announcement. If everything goes perfectly they could be open in less than a week thats a challenge. they have not announced an opening day but something to keep an eye on. You know how they love being the first on the list. Most of us were under a freeze warning last night and that could cause problems for your garden. Katie lasalle is live. Im here with our garden ambassador. Good morning, william to my chilly world. Reporter definitely feeling cool outside. What can we do as we head into the next season . We have frost in the forecast but also a lot of great weather after that. Its worth our effort top protect these things so im putting you to work. I gave you a poll over there. Were putting some things in here, some supports and try try to protect it from the frost. If you have things that are tind tender, take that pole and find a soft spot in the soil and make a support like we did for the others. Tent . Yes. All right. Backyard tent. These frost blankets are quite good. You can use a flannel sheet. This looks feivfor and then my favorite, good binder clips. Because we have the supports under here, we can clip it in place on a few areas and fingers crossed that we will be able to good mileage out of this next theres all kinds of things you can do with trying to make these look as good as they do. Now. Thank you so much for being with us and giving us tips. Can you tell us what the forecast is looking like for the rest of the week . I killed my stuff about a month ago so iidont have to worry about covering it up. You have to water it apparently. . Heres your ch its chilly this morning and a sunshine and 60s expected later this afternoon. As we approach the weekend, its gorgeous for the broncos game. Well get to that in a minute. Theres a freeze warning covering denver and fort collins. All the areas in tale and also here. And a frost advisory cold mornings and a chance for a few showers. From our wireless camera, clear skies and that means we lost a lot of heat thats radiating back up. Thats why we have such a cold morning. Uuper 30s to low 40s. City park at 42. Well see these nnmbers drop in the next 3040 minutes before the sunrise. In the mountains just above freezing. Estes park at 36. Highs this afternoon will be a good 2530 degrees warmer than where we are now. Denver at 67. 40s to low 40s through the central mountains. Few scattered rain and snow showers possible up across nnrthwestern colorado where theres sunshine and 70s down to the southeast. Some clouds were seeing today are clearing out by mid morning. . A few showers developing and its mainly north of i70 in the mountains. Here in denver, an increase in clouds this afternoon. Chance for a few showers here looks like later tonight and again tomorrow. 12 00 on thursday. Scattered storms and showers across North Eastern colorado. This next storm were tracking could bring the snnw level down a bit. Temperatures will be too warm for it to get that low but might drop closer to 10,000 feet by early thursday. Were watching and tracking 50s today and a gradual warm up heading into the weekend. Broncos came on sunday is beautiful. For the start of the game we will see temperatures around 73 and staying in the 70s next week. So if you can protect the plants another warm week is coming up. An easy drive. However, if youre on i76 its not so easy. The back ups are tremendous. Look at all the folks waiting to this is the westbound side. You saw thats a split to go across commerce city. Helicopters all over the place now. Let me show you what were talking about. This accident is closer right about here, just before you get to 74th avenue with one lane open. Up back to 96th avenue. Highway two might be a better option for you. Side streets might be a better the worse drive so far whethee 3 its 270 up to the north, we do have a problem where someone was conked out at colfax and monnco. The rest of the ride building up but i76 is the hot spot. Today is National Walk to school day and thousands getting involved. Amanda is live for schmitt elementary school. Reporter yeah, not just for kids, theyre inviting parents and teachers and city leaders to participate in walk to school day 2016. Cdot wants everyone involved in the push for an active lifestyle and safer streets. 0 when communities support walk to school day it sends a strong messsge that fitness and safe will be speaking live with an ooganizer also with c dot. Reporting live at Ruby Hill Park this morning, im amanda de castillo, denver seven. The country are dealing with clown thrrats. In colorado, we stand together, theyve spread falsehoods about president obama. Trump oh, no. Coffman i dont know whether barack obama was born in the United States or not. Coffman and trump are too dangerous for colorado. Dccc is responsible for the content of this advertising. Dry roads here in denver. Its drier at the tunnel this morning. More snow on the way for the high country. This afternoon in the mid to upper 60s. It looks like we could see some showers here in denver tomorrow. Two new problems including not only the westbound i76 crash at 64th avenue but this one is eastbound at i70 right before i25. Southbound i25 after thornton parkway, right lane blocked with a brand new crash. 626 testimony tim now. The ford f150 is the best selling vehicle innnorth but it the national Highway SafetyTraffic Administration says complete loss of reaks. N and no njuries or accidents have been reported yet. 282,000 trucks are involved all the from the model year 2015 and 2016 and all have a 3. 5 liter engine. Older f150s were recalled for a similar brake issue. Who is the richest person in colorado . We have the answer coming up nnxt. Denvers culinary was gunned at 6 30 the federal government is investigating a town connected to handled the 2013 floods. Well explain in a moment. A life look outside, lisa hidalgo is calling this is coldest morring of the season so far. She joins us now. Its pretty chilly. We have really cold air. We also have a frost advisory beautiful across North Eastern colorado and chilly. Sunshine in town today and well go from 30s and 40s this morning. Then well see an increase in cloud cover. Another cold front so temperatures tomorrow dropping even more so. 50s this afternoon with the sunshine. I dont know whats going on but in the last 15 minutes we have had 1055 accidents. Well maybe not that many. But a few. The right lane still blocks here at 76th avenue. A new accident on the streaming camera, the southbound side of i25 after the thornton parkway ramp. The fire crews are getting here take a look to the west side of town. Problems on i70 on the eastbound side near 825 to the right side. Theres an accident and the newest is on the west side of town. Right before highway 58 before you get to ward and kipling, the eft said of the highway is blked and big long delays out there this morning. Quite a few problems along the aline. Jason gruenauer is the question this morning of crime on the aline. Good morning. Reporter as for the delays, we rode the train to and from the airport. No delays. Here on the flat form, he safety tips are clearly posted but despite rtds best efforts crime is still happening here on the train and along the platform specifically along the university offcoloraao aline for example, 28th and blake one stop up from where we are at union station. That was the one that saw the most crime. The statistics that denver seven received is from april to september this year. 20 incidents occurred including five cases of assault. Another one of the stations 11 central park 13 and at the denver airport, flat form Transportation Center have dealt with a dozen incidents including one of assault. Are those numbers up . Yes but mainly due to increased foot traffic. 18,000 people a day ride the university of colorado aline. Because the train runs on federal tracks, they have to have an armed guard in the train. Thats why theres only been one incident. As for the flat forms private security along with police is an issue that they have worked out along even previously always, Law Enforcement is urging you if you see something, say something. Reporting live at union station, im jason gruenauer, denver7 news. A bomb threat at a strain station in brussels has shut down the area. The station and a government building have been evacuated according to various media reports. Incoming trains have been stopped and this comes two days after another threat at a similar train station there after a suspicious package was found on a train car. Well continue to updates on this and bring you new information. 6 34 now. People in enver are stunned about the murder of nick louis. A 33year old chef shot in englewood. The black bird public house in denver is where he worked. Im terrified. Where he worked described him as an inspiring chef. Englewood police are asking any witnesses to come forward. A Steamboat Springs restaurant is accused of scamming several orkers from mexico and latin america. Now the restaurant has to pay 50 50,000 in back wages. The restaurant admitted they lied about tips, didnt pay overtime and lied about how many hours they wwrked. One employee said they were not federal agents were in lions to look at the way the town hired contractors for Flood Recovery work in 2013. The mayor says the town is cooperating with the feds and no further comments. We are learning more about the death of a man at a south western colorado hot springs. The coroner says the 54year old drowned by accident. Pool near the pe go sa hot springs resort last weekend. Another colorado teenager is now facing charges for making a clown related threat against the school. Police say this 15year old threatened a district school. We have seen half a dozen of weird clown threats in colorado over the past few weeks. Professional clowns are angry about this because theyre getting a bad name. Last week one of you sent us a picture of a creepy clown in the park. We got an email from that clown. Her real name is kathy shook good ones. Real clowns are very kind people. They have the biggest hearts. All they want to do is bring joy. Joy. Shook tells us stories about creepy clowns that are alarming shes reluctant to accept a job within three weeks of halloween. Heres colorados most live lively residents. Thousaads of coloradans had their power knocked out and it was not because of high wind. Well explain what happened. This one is hard to believe. A mess say fire in southern colorado doubles in size over a 24hour period. Katie lasalle is in centennial this morning with tips on how to protect your plants. Reporter good morning, yes, were expecting the first frost of the season by the enn of the week. What you can do to save your gardening you work into this season. I love getting up early in the morning. We have talked about the best thing to do to protect your plants is cover them. 3 frost blankets are great because they can giveyou a seven degrees difference. You can use an old sheet or blanket. Plastic traps the cold in so thats a last resort. This is not a ghost. No, its been ppotecting as we go. Clips. Theres some tips to pay it forward. Kale and cabbage stand up to the cold and you dont need to do anything to protect them. They get more enhanced as time goes on. Great time to plan. They need tt be in the ground over the winter and get that winter chill to get color like that next spring. Pansies are indestructible. They will bloom and hang out under the snow of winter and of the first things you see. One thing i like to emphasize people are still heavily invested in tomatoes. We have a lot of possibilities f. You have a tomato, this guy is getting color. If you bring him inside, set him in a place out of the sun. Doesnt need to be in the sun, just cool steady place to wash him off. He will continue to ripen. If you have a plant full of tomattes like this, thee are a let the plant focus on trying to ripen the fruit. Thats great advice. And you want to cover up especially with the frost and freeze and what about perennials. They are meant to die back with the cold. Water them well and get them as bulked up and healthy as you can going in the winter season. If you have plant disease the ground. Great advice. Thank you for being with us. I know it wont be cold forever. Lisa has the forecast. It will be nice this weekend. Yeah, looks gorgeous. A great weekend to plant some bulbs. 45 in denver. This morning we hit a low of 44. Just above freezing in denver. Winds are southwest at about 10 15 miles per hour. Twhas making it feel like its cooler. Wind chill this morning down in to upper 60s. A lot of sunshine now but some of the clouds we see in the under a partly cloudy sky tonight and a chance for showers tomorrow. Its also gettinggcooler from 60s today to 50s tomorrow. Heres your first alert, colder by friday morning. Its a busy drive on the freeways. Looking at the accident you see on i70 at the eastbound side before highway 58. 3 left side of the highway is delays from coming in out west. Southbound i25 very slow traffic unfortunately from 104th and partially from an accident at the thornton parkway. Take a look at the map. Heavy stop and go traffic on i 76. Still to the right and heavy ssop and go getting to i25 from an accident there and then 225 and 25 to the south, quiet but busy. Well get you caught up in the big stories of the day. 1900 people evacuated in southern colorado. Several of thhm are sharing their stories with us here at denver7 news. Youll here from them next. A judge hands down a punishment for the bus driver who crashed last december injuring six people. The beullh hill fire has forced 1900 people to evacuate russell spoke to one of the good morning. Morning, this gives you an idea or a snapshot of the kind of terrain thats burning down here in pueblo. In some areas its low grass and sage brush like this and in other areas its heavily forested and the fire is of our location. Th and west right now there are 400 firefighters on the ground and arrive here today. A lot of air support, water drops from three helicopters and at least one heavy air tanker. There are 1900 evacuees. Overnight we got a tour from from the Colorado State fairgrounds. Dozens are set up in the event center there. Sherry grigs is trying to remain optimistic on day three of being displ the flames have not hit in the valley itself. Its the surrounding mountains that are up in flames. Its grass fire thats going out in the plains. Ours is safe right now. Its set in the middle of the valley. Our home is safe. So coming up at 10 00 this morning, the pueblo couuty Sheriffs Office is holding a were expecting to ggt new information about the size of this fire and how maay homes have been lost at this point. As of last night eight omes were destroyed and six out buildings destroyed as well. Live in pueblo, russell hey thorn denver7 news. In court yesttrday a corrections officer testified hes encouraging other inmates to hate the police. The testimony continues today in the case. This video shows the moment five inmates overdosed on drugs in the denver jail. Investigators believe it was crack cocaine. The Surveillance Video shows deputies calling for help and bringing an inmaae who is sick and down the stairs in pain. Four others walk out. The sheriffs think the drugs were smuggled in there. Deputies are saying about a bomb threat at papa johns. The bomb sniffing dogs investigated and no bomb was found. Deputies are trying to track the person who called it in. Florida and carolinas are preparing for an impact from matthew. We have been seeing pictures of store shelves in the state. Some people posting that . Heyre upset about this situation. Yesterday south carolinas governor ordered the evacuation of a mi ccast. One model has matthew making land fall in the West Palm Beach area tomorrow. I can show you where that is. Theres a warning issued of life threatening indags nondags. Parts of georgia always feeling the affect. Effect. From love land the snow guns are out this morning. More from Mother Nature in the next 2448 hours. Winter weather advisories for parts of northwestern colorado, above 10,000 feet getting 36 inches of snow tonight. Out across the plains, the teal color is a freeze warning and frost advisories out east. 30s early on and 60s this afternoon and tomorrow cooler. For the mountains and chance for rain in denver. Futurecast is pretty quiet today. Its more so this afternoon that well start to see a few showers popping up, mainly in the northern and central mountains. Still very dry across parts of southern colorado. Denver will see an increase in cloud cover today. Chance for a few showers late tonight into tomorrow morning and then some scattered storms and showers throughout the day tomorrow in the morning and also in the afternoon. Will pick up rain on thursday and its a lot cooler with this next cold front. This morning pretty cold. So far 34 our low officially in denver. Upper noits 30s near bennett. 30s. Highlands ranch this afternoon, a high of 68 so more 50s for the phillies and ft. Chilly foothills. Lets skip ahead to the weekend. Cooler with a chance oo showers. Low to mid 70s on sunday. So for that broncos game, tailgaaing at noon we should be around 68 degrees and mostly sunny and temperatures topping out in the low 70s during the game. Beautiful football weather and jason, more 70s next week. We have a lot of traffic on the freeways. Some prrblems on the west side, 70 from the 32nd camera. By highway 58 traffic is just stopped now. Everyone is trying to get to the right to get around it. From denver west basically all the way over, take a look at the map here this morning. Heavy stop and go traffic to the west side and also on i76 its heavy. Highway 85 oining i761 lane open and now all the activity is mostly on the right shoulder still with one lane open, its a huge horrible were looking at over half an hour on i76. You can see the drive on i70. This accident near i25 causing delays for us. Down to the south side its quiet and air tracker seven was down here south of parker road. Thats crowded for the folks trying to get past the golf course and into the denver tech center. I want to update you quickly on a bomb square in brussels. A train station that was open. We have information from the scene saying people are allowed back into that station but does not appear to be a threat. The bus driver involved in a crash is only spending a year on probation. She wont have to complete mmunity service. Didnt have enough evidence t support her dui charge. She took a plea deal and apologized later. Our fellow abc tv station in dallas says aqib talib will not face charges for a shooting police say he shot himself se after a night of drinking. The broncos and aqib tallb had no comment yesterday. He could still face a disciplinary action from the nfl in accord dance in ance a snake knocked out power for 3,000 people. Xcel energy says it slithered 3 into a box and caused the outage. Denvers atm fees are the fifth highest in the country. On average you pay 4 dollars and 4. 8 to use an out of network atm. Phoenix has the high egs atm i first met mike on a fundraising event i was an aurora scholar this year. At his birthday party. Mike is a very nice guy. Hes a really nice guy. He can do 62 pushups. Mike is a great friend to the ethiopian community. Mikes not like other politicians. Hes not like other republicans. I think hes better. Mikes one of us. Hes one of us. Mike coffman es uno de nosotros. Mike is one of us. Im mike coffman, and i approve this message. The selfties shoes are here. Nike is raffling off 89 pairs of these shoes worn by michael j. Fox in the back to the future movie in 1989. J. Fox down dags to fight parken parkinsons. Clear skies this morning. Live look at from the airport. You can see our wireless camera. Sunny across the plains. Increasing clouds this afternoon early on upper 30s and low 50s. 40s. 67 this afternoon. Tomorroo low to mid 50s and thursday but beautiful this weekend. I76 is a mess. Over half an hour from that drive near 74th avenue and i25 and 270 extremely heavy. The crash near i25 causing huge delays t. South side is quiet. Take b a look at the cdot camera. Westbound side of i70 messed up from wheat ridge to this crash at highway 58. Live at Ruby Hill Park this to school day 2016. Leslie is with us this morning. I think the biggest reason to have them involved is because parents areeoften the ones who make the decisions about a child walking and biking to school. We want to provide them with opportunities to have them see how much fun and how safe it is to walk and bike. This morning at schmitt theyre doing a Walking School bus. Theyre meeting as a Group Walking with adult leaders to the school this morning and that way the kids are safe walking to school and the parents get to come along and see the excitement. We will be joining those kids walking from here at Ruby Hill Park to schmitt elementary as the morning progresses. This is the 20th year colorado has held the National Walk to school day inviting more than 150 schools this year and more than 90 mayors. Reporting live at ruby hill good morning, america. Two major stories breaking overnight. This is matthew. Pray for us trail of destruction. At least 11 killed as Hurricane Matthew tears through the caribbean sweeping away town, unleashing raging floods. The deadly storm taking aim at the u. S. Now. A hurricane warning in florida. Destruction could be catastrophic. States of emergency up through north carolina. Millions of americans on alert preparing to evacuate. Gas going fast, stations sold out. Stores running out of supplies. Our team tracking the monster storm right now. And a fiery faceoff. Insults and interruptions at the Vice President ial debate. And you are Donald Trumps apprentice. Let me talk about senator, i think im still on my time. Mike pence and tim kaine