Traffic with joe. Here is a look at the drive from the east side of town into denver. North and southbound 225 and eastbound i70 are looking nice and wide open. I will have your full report coming up. The battle to retake control of the iraqi city of trenton is underway looking to push the Islamic State 4000 troops are said to be involved with Terror Forces working closely with American Special operations commandos on this long awaited military action. The population now is 1. 5 million under isis control for two years. The final push begins with supporters of both candidates in colorado as ballots get sent to voters across the state. It is a big day here with shawn good morning, shawn. Reporter good morning. Certainly there will be millions of ballots mailed out to those registered voters here in colorado. This comes as both campaigns have major circuits in town trying to get out the vote and built support as we get closer to the election. Let us start off with the republicans and don
This fire worse today. Lets go to katie la sell. Reporter windy condition, he will valted fire danger through today. And a red flag warning will be in effect from 11 00 to 9 00 tonight. Gusty winds, low humidity. Right now, our state, very dry after recordbreaking temperatures over the weekend. We will start to cool things down this week, but today, high temperatures will stay in the 70s, but heres your red flag warning and it encompasses the denvermetro area, and ford collins 30 to 45 milesperhour winds. Hold to on your hats and any spark could start a fire. Downtown denver, mild start to the day. Southeast at 7 milesperhour. Heres our high temperatures. Still above average. Midto upper 70s for the denvermetro. 50s ann 60s is back. Jason is back. My hair was blowing in ways i didnt know it could blow around. We have a good drive. A situatn at 20th you can see i25 at raven is wide open. The highways are open. Anywhere you want to go, north, south, east west getting out to dia. We have
Danger. Windy across the high country. Were seeing wind gust from the south, southwest and eagle and aspen, 30 milesperhour. Across the plains, well gradually see the winds shift down and it will cause our fire conditton to increase. The denvermetro area, boulder, fort collins, and low humidity. Expect wind gust above timberline and here in the conditions this afternoon, but highs still above normal in the midto upper 70s before a big a rainsnow chance potentially if things become cool enough. A little further west, like in georgetown, i saw from the weather station, little cdot weether station that the wind gust are over 40 milesperhour. Its blowing strong. Dont be restrictions later today especially for the high profile vehicles with trailers. Be careful. I25, 20th wide open across the freeways as theyre picking up the overnight construction. A lot of green out there. North, south, east to dia, an easy drive for us. Its 5 00. Police in alaska are looking for the man you see in this v
Have accidentally left a backpack behind. Its a big tourist spot here, so its not out of the realm of possibilities, but once those . Fficers looked inside, they realized it was much more serious leading to the evacuation and the bomb squad was called in and it was destroyed. Also this morning, denver 7 talking to a Family Member who tells us ansberry had been living in Northern California until 1 year ago. He then left to travel through rockies. Again, the indictment could be released at any moment. Well keep you posted. Mark steward live in the news room. Denver 7. Thank you. Were on fire alert. People are warned they have to leave their homes immediately because of this wild fire. You can see the smoke here. This is burning west of wetmore and east of westcliffe. Its called the junctions fire. The office of emergency in the fires faith. No word how this fire started. The beulah area is under evacuation. People living near highway 65 from mckenzie wet more is closed right now. And hi
She has had to pack up like this. We have gone through papers and gotten the birth certificates and death certificates, insurance papers and all that kind of stuff. The north very family loaded up there all packets and got out as quickly as possible. We got them loaded up along with some personal items and were heading into town. The smoke and ash is so intense it forced schools to close because of p quality. Kathy west expressing confidence and firefighting efforts. They will get it. At this hour, this fire is 0 contained. The cause is unknown but there were no thunderror lightning last night. Your own conclusions. Again the trouble with this is the dry timber. Unlike the beulah fire a couple of weeks ago that was grass and shrubs and went down after a couple dayss thissone is in denseetimber and it could be weeks before they get this fire out. Ve in custer county, denver7. We have breaking news at rampart reservoir. The wildfire is forcing evacuations. Nearly 40 people so far had to