Reporter there are some emergency vehicles. They did a great job of reopening a lane to alleviate traffic they want to make sure they are better safe than sorry. We will talk to an official. Penguin air and plumbing what is the best thing that people can do because there i hope bunch of people jumping on that freeway right now. Reporter my advice is they have a single lane open and they had a closure. The traffic will start. If they are thinking about leaving the there is a 10 mile backup so i would delays 30 or and jerry will be with us throughout the newscast keeping us updated. Lets take you to the ground. Here is a viewer courtesy of our facebook page. Right here, he is stuck in traffic. Look at that lack black plume of smoke and so flames. This is the same information you can get right now if you pop open the mobile app. Westbound 10 through the tunnel in the downtown area this is typical of a friday look at the backup at Platte Canyon city. It stretches from 10 to 12 miles northbound 17 here is the good news. The high country at this point lets bring in Laura Douglas what can you tell us about the backup, i know we are being cautious but is there a hole on the freeway . I am part of the traffic going north this afternoon we we have been stuck for well over an hour we are starting to move we are north of the Coldwater Canyon road exit. We have made it past their and we are still south of that incident with the brush fire so were waiting to see how traffic goes and how quickly we thank you for doing double duty. You are grade of social media. You have a keeping our viewers informed. What is your best advice right now . Its 5 pm on a holiday weekend. The best advice right now on a friday what should they do . Speaking from someone who is stuck in it and i work situation every day. Just delay travel right now and tested later this evening or tomorrow morning. For those stuck in traffic, pack your patience and wait to see how fast he can get living. We are looking at a live picture from our helicopter. This is an opinion. If that freeway is damaged by a fire, how quickly could they hard to say at this point. I dont know if there is damage or the extent of the damage but the Traffic Operations center and the districts are monitoring the situation from the ground and the Traffic Operations center so were on top of it and the best advice for any driver is to stay the latest information about the roadway situations over the weekend. Not only working live for us the trying to get up to the high country to get on vacation. Laura douglas live in her car. We appreciate the advice that we will keep you updated about eyes on the road this holiday weekend. A brandnew message saying dumb drivers and smart phones never mix. Good advice. Lets look at the forecasts and its a good thing they have the fire out so quickly. As you can see with the Doppler Radar dry conditions to start off the holiday weekend. A lot of folks are heading up north to escape the heat thunderstorms along interstate 40. Here is the forecast in the valley. Temperatures below average. 104 for tomorrow the temperatures around 102 monday and average on labor day. There was a massive walkout support of the principal for the district might send her packing. A special meeting is set to take place in an hour. Reporter this meeting has one item on the agenda to accept the resignation of the principal. News of the personnel change came to light yesterday and it spread on social media. That sparked a movement on campus by hundreds of students. Reporter this is cell phone video taken by students to document the walk at a peaceful protest in support of their principal. She has tendered her resignation after three years as principal. We are protesting the resignation. We dont know she is resigning by choice. Reporter she was placed on paid administrative leave 2 parents were concerned because they heard a rumor she had not been on campus for close to two weeks. There is no email or nothing that has come home that she is resigning. The first i heard about it was last night. Reporter word at resignation of that led to the date actions and parents were left in the dark. I feel e school in fairness and she obeys the policies of the school and tries to be a good example. The kids are frustrated and appearance are frustrated because no one is communicating with us. Its secretive. Reporter the district refuses to tell us why she was placed on paid administrative leave and its unlikely we will find out because the board will go into executive sessions and public about what the decision is, if they are going to accept her resignation. We were unable to track her down. We just got an update from the penguin air and plumbing news chopper pilot, the picture telling the story. Both lanes of 17 northbound opened within a few minutes. There is a car that caught on fire an h both lanes are open we will keep you updated on the traffic we dont agree on everything. But we do agree that an honest days work deserves an honest days pay. Representative Kyrsten Sinema knows that. When congress refused to work and pass a budget, she said they shouldnt get a paycheck. Thats just common sense. Call representative Kyrsten Sinema we are taking you back to our top story, a massive backup on 17. Both lanes just now opened about two or three minutes ago. There is the car fire that caused the problems. They quickly moves that the side and checked the integrity of the freeway. Traffic is slow. A 10 to 12 mile backup at. If you dont do something about it, you will have taco trucks on every corner. That statement has turned into a social media storm he made that remark while arguing for tighter immigration policies. Dennis talks with food truck owners about other thoughts on reporter most truck owners thought this was a ridiculous statement that this is an example of the politics we are seeing that his leaving them with a bad taste in their mouth. This is the future at the founder of latinos for trump. My culture is dominant. If you dont do something about it, youre going to have a taco truck on every porn or. Reporter es idea that this Campaign Comes down to a choice between taco trucks and border walls. I am making tacos and i am black. Reporter even if taco trucks were not part on every corner, would this be a bad thing . As long as they are able to make money and pay their taxes and other comments made during the election has turned her off to both of the major party candidates. I think he is racist and everything i dont want in a president and taylorville he is not impressing me either. Reporter this is not an issue keeping owners of that night. Democrats trying to make political hate and of the spirit in colorado they are using a co voters. This driver was not evil. Thats tough to watch. 2 kids hit by vehicles in 2 separate incidences. In both cases the students have just gotten off the school bus to cross the street. There is the stop sign. That is tough to watch if you bumps and bruises both of them are going to be all right. The drivers stopped at the scene and both were cited. A driver sped into a river after suffering from a medical emergency. The truck plunged right into the water up in maine. The man got out on his own and had minor injuries as for the truck, was destroyed. With Overdose Deaths on the rise walgreens was to take unused and expired drugs back for they have set up safe medication disposal kiosks and 300 other pharmacies. In arizona we have 18. People can dispose of unwanted or expired prescriptions in the boxes to avoid any accidents at home. Arizonans can dispose of their medications with the peace of mind that those drugs will not have unintended the kiosks are open during normal Pharmacy Hours and some are available 24 hours a day. Happy friday. Quiet conditions after an active weather pattern. Nice to see the conditions. You can see the valley pinpoints radar pretty calm Perfect Timing for the weekend dew point not as muggy as yesterday. Give us a relative 18 . All eyes are on florida last night and the carolinas we will zoom in closer. Hilton head and North Carolina you can see all of that out there. 80 of people in the city of tallahassee without power last you can see some activity north and south of the grand canyon out towards window rock seeing some showers but it looks like a pretty calm night expected across the valley. The next few days, things are looking good. Clear skies for tomorrow morning at we will see plenty of sunshine in the afternoon with temperatures starting to drop over the weekend. Saturday 104, cooler on sunday and monday we will get up to 102 and if you have outdoor plans, looks great for labor day and barbecues. Lights went and plenty of sunshine. 102 x 5 p. M. And a chance of showers next week with temperatures dropping in the mid90s on wednesday. For many the labor day linked to cancer. John champion has answers on what this means for you and your family. Reporter mark wilson is celebrating his wifes birthday with a barbecue. Grilling is a perfect way to prepare meat. Reporter grilling too much may be bad for your health. Oncologists say chemicals can form when it meets and fish occurs to high temperatures and smoke from the fact heavily to colin, and breast cancer. People that consume me said have been grilled only high heat may be at an increase for cancer. Reporter there are some things you can do to reduce your risk. Start with a clean grill and marinating increases the moisture. Reporter wilson and his wife tried to keep that in mind whenever they grill. Experts say gas grills are safer because they click evenly and fruits and vegetables can be grown with no health risk. The walkman gets a makeover but it will cost you. Why the price tag is thousands of dollars. One of the hottest phones on the market, not in a good way. By the Samsung Galaxy note 7 this catching fire. An update on the northbound 17 lanes that were closed north paul babeu exposed in a damning home video. Extreme discipline used on special needs kids at a boarding school he used to run. Widespread cases of physical and sexual abuse. Students were also stripped down supported the abusive practices and even bragged about them. Theyre there for a reason. Because theyre hopeless. Because theyre hopeless. A long history of abuse, the students may never recover. And ice cream for everyone including but. Combining the flavors are swirled together in a camouflage pattern. And a flashback friday a new walkman out for sony priced at 3200. Its meant for high tech junkies who have a thing for superclean sound. The wiring is gold and copper in a has 250 gigs of storage and the exterior is plated in a warning for anyone who has the Samsung Galaxy seven. The company recalling smart phones after a report that they can catch on fire. A Youtube Video posted claims this new Samsung Galaxy note 7 caught on fire after charging. At a press conferen samsung announced its recalling 2 1 2 million devices they confirmed dozens of cases with the phones cant fire and blames the problem on a faulty battery. Samsung has to recall all the phones because theres no way to figure out which ones have a defective battery. I cant imagine how expensive and timeconsuming to replace all of these phones. The water resistant devices were experiencing strong sales to the recall comes days before apple is expected to announce the iphone seven. They had a hit on their hands and they were going to out to match apple and look what happened. Reporter samsung said it replacement phones will be available in a few weeks. Save money. Our top story, traffic moving close after a car fire. Go to Jerry Ferguson and the penguin Arrow Plumbing news chopper. Both lanes are open but this will take a while. We are looking at a live shot of the backup let me show getting by in both lanes. How far is the slow down . How far south down the freeway . Reporter all the way back behind us so we may catch part of the helicopter but it says back as far as we can see it stretches as far as we can see, probably 10 miles. If people havent left maybe give it 20 or 30 minutes to let it ease out. That would be good advice. Both lanes now open on 17 we are going to keep you updated on this traffic slow down on this long labor day holiday
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