Newsroom here this morning. Guess what, its friday. Lets check the forecast with lisa. She has your first alert. I love fridays, dont you . Feels really good. Temperaturewise its a little chilly. Walking out the door to 40s, 50s, and you can see a few of the light showers, mainly a lot of what were seeing on radar in denver now is low lying cloud cover. Were also getting a few light sprinkles. This cloud cover will clear out. So to 10 30 more sunshine in town and thunderstorms popping up this afternoon. Scattered activity again today and temperatures that are still about 7 to 10 degrees below normal. Denver 78. Erie 77. Heres your first alert well have more 60s in the foothills. Coming up a look at the weekend. It will get warmer and drier. Well show you how hot. Unfortunately im showing you a crash on the aurora drive thats caused onlookers to go what is going on . South on 225, the long loop ramp. Somebody was hurt and taken in the ambulance to the hospital. But the Fire Department w
Cummings, local Allstate Insurance agent, youre behind this. 1300 motorcycle crashes in denver last year, 28 fatalities. Why is this so important . Because there are three motorcyclists a day killed nationwide. Were trying to get the word out to watch out for motorcycles. Its why were putting the signs out here. This is re trying to get the word out to protect us from drivers who may be distracted for whatever reason. Reporter and obviously we want to cut down on fatalities number one, but then just accidents in general, because then people, if they look twice maybe they dont get into that fenderbender and dont have to see you on the insurance side. Absolutely. We do everything we can typically as motorcyclists to we wear the Safety Equipment and all that. We are doing everything we can. There is no such thing as a minor motorcycle accident. Were vulnerable out there. And weere trying to get the word to cars to be aware of us. Reporter these people will be out here on these bikes for m
But there are close to, were going to say close to 15 fire trucks out here from littleton fire department, and now its looking pretty good that they do have this fire pretty much out. So well update you as soon as we get further information. Lets send it into lisa hidalgo with your first alert forecast. Were in the low to mid50s . Ere along were going to have to have a lesson in my last name later when daryl gets back. 55 at city park. Mid to upper 40s foothills. Conifer closer to 40 this morning. Another chilly start. Close to 60 pueblo and lamar. Kids will need a sweatshirt. I dont know necessarily you need fur lined levi jacket this morning, but it will get chilly in the mountains this weekend. Upper 70s in denver this afternoon. Upper 70s today and a chance for a few storms. Well be under more sunshineeby noon. By noon were at 72. And closer to 80 today. Warmer and drier for the weekend. Heres your first alert we well talk about that coming up. I guess i could call you hilly for sh
Upon Arrival Police werent able to locate this person. Witnesses gave a description. They set up a perimeter and believed he was inside a couple . Of mobile homes down of i believe its milwaukee and baseline here. They ended up firing tear gas into the mobile home, clearing it with robots. Unsuccessful of finding the person. But they did find what they said a significant amount of blood on the bed inside one of the mobile homes. Th towards us, towards the north on baseline, and then it took a northerly turn onto Foothills Parkway onto a bike path. Theyve been working right around behind us here. In fact, weve got swat team guys that are checking the building off to our left right now. This is covering almost a 10 block area in this neighborhood right now. They were at morgan and baseline. Im going to step out of the way. You can see one of e swat theyre headed south here on baseline. These guys are all over the place, trying to find this guy. They do believe he is still alive. In fact,
Was inside. Once they did get inside to investigate to see maybe if he was hiding under a bed or something, they found significant amounts of blood on the bed and a trail leading back out of the rv. Police have been scouring a 10 block area down from manhattan to baseline, and they are now behind me up here at morgan, where they have another concentrated area where theyre sending a k9 in. They have swat people surrounding this area. This is also the same area where police had pinged them in the last 40 minutes. Now just right behind us the swat guys do have the house surrounded around the 800 block of more begun. They say there is more blood in that area. Theyve spoken with the resident of that home. They are now outside allowing the police go into the back yard to investigate more. Bizarre situation going on this morning. As for if anybody shot this person or he selfinflicted the shots himself is yet remains information from Boulder Police as the morning goes on. As soon as we get it