Higher passes. Were tracking the winds which are gusty and erratic, that front due in here in a few hour or so. I dont think youll have issues with the drive tonight, but there is a slight chance of showers during the overnight period leading us into a foggy and potentially kind of a drizzle and cool start tomorrow to your day. Mid70s now, temperatures falling. Coming up in our main weather segment, yes, as adele mentioned, a 20degree cooldown tomorrow, but we have a lovely weekend warmer outlook that people will think at some of the numbers that we have in the extended forecast. Surprise us. We love surprises. Thanks. During the Campaign Season the colorado candidates for u. S. Senate will only debate one time on live television. 9news will host that debate between Democrat Michael bennet and republican darryl glenn tonight on channel 20 and online on 9news. Com. 9news reporter Nelson Garcia joins us from the history colorado center. Other debates were scheduled, worked out. Reporter
Visible flaring and noise. Denver fire says emissions from today are not hazardous. Yesterdays release did not pose any Immediate Release to the community. Air quality tests are on going. Record setting heat today in denver. We hit 85 degrees at dia breaking a record setback in 2014 by 2 degrees. The heat on top of dry conditions have the National Weather Service Warning of near critical wildfire for parts of colorado, wyoming. More in the full forecast coming up later. Right now crews in eagle count i are trying to fight a wildfire near the towns of meridith and thomasville. The Sheriffs Office says evacuations are possible and people should avoid that area. Well share updates as we learn them online at 9news. Com. Hillary clinton is taking a president ial debate today in new hampshire. Donald trump questioned her health. He also called for a drug test saying clinton might have taken a performance enhancing drug. At least 9 women have accused trump of inappropriately touching them. Tr
Wind definitely is not helping the firefighters. Red flag warnings are in effect for much of our state. Danielle grant is in the weather center. Some places have been gusts up to 60 mailings an hour. They have been unruly and unfortunately this is what we were imagining happening this afternoon with the strong winds out there and tinder dry conditions. We see wildfires spark up like that. Wind gusts 30 mileperhour in longmont, 60 mile the cheyenne ridge, fort morgan 62 mileperhour wind speeds and 20s and 30s in the denver metro area. These winds will weaken heading towards this afternoon further into this evening. Down across the southern section of our state you can see the winds in the 30 mile perhour range toward alamosa, 44 mileperhour speeds in trinidad. Relative humidity values picking up here in denver. You can see theyre still in the teens toward salida and pueblo, 8 in trinidad where until 9 p. M. Tonight for most of eastern colorado and you can see its going to take a while b
Pikes peak had a gust of nearly 90, monarch gust seeing gusts nearly 70 most of the day. The flags at csu give you an indication how fierce those winds have been. In the fort collins area the winds have been clocked at about 60 Miles Per Hour. Those gusts contributed to a small fire next to i25 in fort collins this afternoon. Fire crews got it out but not until after the fire ate up several acres. [ wind blowing ] thanks to linda wren for shooting this video from inside her frederick home, you can see those fall colors trying to hang onto the trees, plenty of yard work in lindas future. This is a fire in aurora, a difficult one to fight considering the winds in the metro area. Flames burned through four townhouses. Everyone got out okay. Well have more on that fire in just a minute. Now to what has become an emergency situation in southern colorado, Nathan Lundberg was on a flight out of colorado a raging monster. In a few hours it destroyed more than 10,000 acres and tonight that numb
Mid50s by 7 00. There is the chance some areas could zoo a brief shower overnight. Well talk about that, and look ahead to a warmer weekend outlook. Tomorrow night skies clear, winds are light, many areas may go into a freeze watch. Were expected to drop below freezing in denver. Wow yikes. Its time. The federal Emergency Management Agency Approved a grant to help colorado fight a fire. It has bunched tractors and two homes. Have been told to evacuate. Theres gonna be crews out working hard today. Were work as hard as we can to preserve the structure that are in place. No word on what started fire. A federal type 1 Management Team will officially take over at 6 00 tomorrow morning. Nine children, one of them just 14 years old has in the last week been rescued from the sex trade. The children were found during a 3day sting in colorado and wyoming. Dozens of local agencies helped the f. B. I. Take down hotels, street corners arrested pumps and johns. Social media makes it harder for poli