Those of you headed up to the high country. We saw snow there the past couple of days and you may see more. Speer and arapaho are closed by the Convention Center downtown, a car hit a pedestrian and took off. The victim was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. Well let you know when its going to reopen. The area is busy this morning. Overnight, one person hurt this morning after a shooting in denver. Now police are on the hunt for whoever pulled e last night. One person was rushed to the hospital. If you know anything about it, call denver police. The deadly and destructive Hurricane Matthew is losing strength but the category 1 storm is still a threat, flooding towns and wiping out roads and producing massive storm surges. In South Carolina, i95 is closed after Hurricane Matthew washed out the road. Florida narrowly avoided a direct hit and at times the iowas only a short distance off damage, four people have been killed, and 1 million homes and businesses may not have power.
Protects government officials from liability for civil damages. Recommendations coming from the judge warning in this case time is of the essence. We spoke with the lead plaintiff in the case. He said he was away from the camp looking for a job when a sweep took away all of his belongings. He said he wants to be respected. Even the Homeless People. If they have a place they can go to where theyre not being asked to leave every few hours, they can actually for lack of better words make a home for themselves. Then they can stay warm, the elements, they can stay safe. A status conference is set for october 20th so the judge can figure out how exactly to move forward with this case. Reporting live outside the federal courthouss, denver 7. President ial nominee donald trump is ramping up his attacks on Leaders Within his own party. On fox news, trump called House Speaker paul ryan out, saying message from Trumps Campaign manager just hours ago on good morning america. Not pussy footing arou
Colorado Senate Debate, right here on 9news. Democratic incumbent senator Michael Bennet faced off against republican challenger darryl glenn. Darryl glenn declined to say if he still supports his partys president ial nominee donald trump. In the last four days hes said yes no and maybe. Senator michael regrets about supporting the Iran Nuclear Deal even though he thinks iran will try to cheat and develop nukes. Brandon rittiman comoderated tuesdays debate. He and some of our other colleagues spent the night fact made by candidates. The first. Darryl glenns war on coal. He claimed the obama adminstration is killing the coal industry with regulations. Our factcheckers found this claim is an incomplete explanation of whats happening in the coal industry. Glenn is not wrong that new regulations have hurt. Theyve made things harder for coal companies. But the other thing thats killing them is something glenn said hes in favor of competition from other kinds of energy. Glenn pushed bennet o
Threatening bags what about could be in the bag near 16th and lawrence in denver. 90 minute ago, the bomb squad was called in as a precautions. We checked in with police ten minutes ago. Police officers are still out there right now. Were working to get you more information and will update you as soon as we know. Anything good morning, a economically, drizzly start to your wednesday morning, and kind of nice out there. Marty joins us from the back reporter i did. I have it. But im sitting there, going, even from a half hour ago, the mist is much lighter than it was a half hour ago and thats what i think well see here the next couple of hours. Well see things progressively drier, slowly, but progressively drier, damp on the pavement, but i think the mist and drizzle will start small enough around here. Around Sports Authority field, water on the lens as more folks youll see them drive up. Theyre north of town near erie. Things are much better once you get north of the c470 northwest par
Sports authority field. Were getting better, visibility not spectacular with cloudy, foggy conditions and the worst of the visibility is in the metro and we begin to break things up, 50 to near 60 for the front range and late the afternoon, high clouds drift in from the west. They wont limit visibility the way were seeing now so for the early evening tonight, clouds later on and be a little careful because its a little slick. That is what were seeing and speeds are lightly reduced. Sky 9 will not take off this morning because of the low visibility and understandable, of course, safety first there and they launch out of the wards worth. To the south, 25 near ridgegate pretty good south of c470 but a touch of splashback near castle pines. Travel times doing okay for now and will see them expand a little greater towards that 6 30 mark. It will cost you 11 minutes between 25 and sixth avenue and a couple of crashes including a stall in am peek to the south side of 25, theres a minor crash