Hot zone as soldiers join the battle against the Deadly Wildfires in Washington Stated, we show you the front Line Technology to stop the flames. Plus, Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, superstar producer opens up about his extraordinary life of music. We begin with plunging oil prices in new fears of a Global Market crisis. Here the in United States wall street experienced its worst single day in more than a year and a half. Stocks are falling, and so is the price of oil. Whats driving both is chinas economic slowdown. Patty is here with that. Patty. John, this is about fear over the health of Global Economy and what the Federal Reserve will do about Interest Rates. Stocks around the globe were hammered thursday. Here in the u. S. The s p 500, a ga gauge for the health of your 401 k , erased all the gains for a year and the dow jones lost 350 points. It was set overnight in china. The shanghai composite index fell 3. 4 . Now, the recent turmoil in chinas stock market combined with th
Conifer or evergreen this afternoon. Denver 85. Closer to 90 across northeastern colorado. With a slightly better chance for a few storms. Thats what it looks like at about 4 00. The threat for Severe Weather today, it is going to be lower. Were expecting potentially rain, lightning and thunder through the evening. But by tomorrow thats the change. Were going to see more storms popping up and that threat for Severe Weather on friday afternoon. Heres your first alert its going to be some of the coolest air we have seen details coming up. So far, a pretty decent drive. Slowwng areas here and there. I25, 6th avenue, to alameda, santa fe, continuing on down to university that way, so so far so good, at least on this part of 6th avenue. Unusual slowing from alameda, 6th to colfax. Had several drivers tell me its just volume for some reason, folks are slowing down. Wait time of 15 minutes. 270 and drive to the north typical. Alameda and holly, an accident there. And south, a new accident rep
Olympic swimmers made up the story about being robbed by armed men in rio. The Police Officials say the three swimmers, including ryan lochte, were actually involved in a rowdy gas station confrontation that was caught on video. In fact, this morning a source there is telling abc news at least one of the swimmers was seen on footage breaking down a door to the bathroom at the station and fighting a Security Guard. Then the security apparently used a gun, demanding money for the damage. Two of the swimmers were pulled off their u. S. Flying for questions. Lochte was already back home in the u. S. A crash shut down colorado boulevard near i70 this morning. A car and semi apparently collided and fuel spilled onto the ground. One person had to be extricated and taken to the hospital. Colorado boulevard between vasquez and 48th was closed several hours but traffic is lets get your first alert forecast as we get closer to the weekend. Its nice now. About 5 degrees cooler than at the same poi
Beautiful start. A lot of sunshine this morning. As youre planning out your afternoon, though, starting to cool down a bit. Were tracking this next cold front. It will bring with it a cooldown this weekend. Today a chance for more storms this afternoon. Mid80s by 3 00. And dropping to about 80 by 6 00. Heres your first alert that were a little cooler today. Not by much. A few degrees. Its going to get a lot cooler this weekend. Details on tomorrows cold a happyfifth day of school for isla today. Nine days for jalyn and first day for a lot of other kids. Paving on the northbound side of i25 from hampden, yale to evans. One lane open to the left and traffic is getting by okay for now. Take a look at the overall map, a lot of green, not only here on i25, but 225, downtown, i this brush fire came close to a house near carter lake last night. Look at the flames and proximity. Firefighters were able to save this house and others. The fire burned about 80 acres so far. This is only 55 contain
Mid, upper 80s expected. In the foothills low to upper 70s. Estes park today a high of just 70. This is just the start of our cooldown. Chance for storms today. Theres even better chance tomorrow. Heres your first alert that our cold front will make its move friday, and jayson, this is one of the strongest fronts we have seen in months. Details crumb. I have a pretty strong front as well. Southbound 225 at parker road, its moving along fine, about five minutes now from the light center. That will be changing very quickly here next little bit. Were going to see a lot of congestion through yosemite. Take a look at the overall map. Couple of problems along alameda. One in lakewood at alameda and kipling. The other problem at alameda and holly on the east side of colorado boulevard. We do have a couple of problems along alameda. Looks nice. Attacks on 16th street mall, private security guards are roaming the area. Denver 7s Jason Gruenauer has details for us. Theyre supposed to be out ther