As Michael Phelps and ryan lochte go headtohead with a photo finish now heading for the finals and Carmelo Anthony setting a u. S. Olympic scoring record as they edge out australia in a nailbiter. Were live in rio for all the action. Good morning, america. Usa, usa. How about Katie Ledecky, pushing team usa to yet another gold medal in the pool. And look at her teammates, reach out, grab her hand at the end. Another gold for team usa. Big day ahead. Amys tracking all the excitement in rio. It is so exciting here, guys. Team usa dominating in the water and on the bike. Gold medalist Kristin Armstrong who turns 43 today, by the way, finishing strong, celebrating okay, amy. Well get back to you. But first, we want to get to that breaking news, a massive fire in maryland taking down an apartment complex. Firefighters rushing to save survivors. More than two dozen people taken to the hospital. Abcs Gloria Rivera is on the scene in silver spring, maryland. Good morning, gloria. Reporter good
But average its midoctober. On the right, its carter lake, a wildfire burning there, now 75 contained. It may take fire crews a couple of more days to get that thing wrapped up. Despite rain weve had recently, the past several weeks of dry weather has led to this. Colorado back on the National Drought map. The yellow including the metro area, dry. And the brown area, its moderate drought situation. Our longterm Water Supplies look good, but the drought is putting a strain on farmers. Were expecting more rain today. We are expecting a little bit of rain and a big cooldown. Look at some of our temperatures this morning. Estes park youre waking upto 40. 44 ii conifer. Much cooler starto our day. Only in the 70s. We promised you low 70s and heres what were expecting by 3 00, denver 72, greeley 74. Even cooler air farther south. That cold front diving pretty far south into new mexico. It will bring our temperatures down, keep things unsettled. We have a little cloud cover this morning. Well
Cooler. Low to mid60s this morning. 70s this afternoon. Denver a high of just 72 with more scattered storms. Will be a much cooler afternoon and about 15 degrees below normal. Weve got no, thats wrong. Fort collins 71. Greeley 74. And in denver again 72. Out on the western slope its still warm, close to 90 degrees there. Heres your netter that cooler first alert that cooler air is we have details on the weekend temps coming up in a few minutes. A smoooh drive, smooth as glass on i25 as they finish the paving up from hampden through yale and evans. Southbound side a little bit rough, but wide open to the denver tech center. A lot of green out there. We still have the eastbound side of arapahoe road closed down under i25 now. So that eastbound side going you can go up to orchard, dry creek to get around it. Westbound side, both sides actually, that get it sunday. Thanks, jayson. Its only been a month since this young man was hit and killed by an elderly driver near yale and colorado boul
Checking on your traffic, lets take a look at the map, couple of issues, especially on the side roads here this morning. Well start with eastbound 6th avenue at corona before downing. Its closed down now because of an accident. Denver fire and Denver Police are rerouting traffic through the neighborhood and that will cause delays. Auto pedestrian accident closing down this section of westbound florida right after havana, trying to get over to parker road, right at dayton. Thats oing to be an issue well have to worry about. We also have windy point on highway 285, a car deer accident that way. Rest of the ride looks nice, north, south, east or west, a pretty smooth ride to dia as well. If were heading out there, security wait time at most is 15 minutes. Thats good to hear. That cold front is now moving through the state, bringing our temperatures now. Youre walking out the door to upper 50s, low 60s. A good 15 degrees below normal. Mostly sunny skies at noon. Scattered storms and shower
Cooler. Well be in the low 70s by noon. Walking out the door to 50s this morning. Id send the kids with a sweatshirt. 77 for a high by 3 00. Then 72 by 6 00, which means theres going to be a bit of a chill in the air tonight. Down south warmer. Pueblo 89. Heres your first alert that this is a dry system. We have a better chance of showers next week. A pretty smooth drive. We are starting to see more traffic on the freeways, and not seeing accidents or other this is the 120th drive here and theres southbound, the head light going south past Community Center drive and eventually to 104th avenue. Northbound side is wide open past 136th and eventually to loveland and longmont. Take a look at the drive on 225. Starting to get a little bit more crowded south of yosemite, but ovvrall not too bad. Five to six minutes coming down from parker road. 270 getting a little bit busier. Otherrise a smooth start. Breaking overnight, one person is dead and another in the hoopital after a crash on highwa