Morning. James fletcher is here with your forecast. james after a very busy day yesterday with multiple storm cells and lightning, we are starting out the day on a quiet note. Radar shows that the only cells still going are off the coast. The combination of instability, moisture, plus daytime heating will lead to at least a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms through tonight. Rainfall amounts will be generally light under a tenth . The system giving us this weather will track farther to the northeast on wednesday which could shift the focus of the rain. Outside of the risk for rain, a noticeable cooling trend will start no major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. darya and this morning we are getting a look at even more lightning strikes that happened across the bay area. Plus some new reports of damage. mark Tiffany Mcelroy is here with some of the best video this tiffany. tiffany we saw lightning in virtually every part of the bay area. This i
Thornton and we do have a big cool down on the way for tomorrow. Right now lets check on the traffic with a major problem this morning. We have copter 4 over a Traffic Alert ncdot crews are trying to lay down something onto the fuel spill. They have to put salt down on it to soak up the fuel. This means the northbound direction near sixth avenue. The a and b lines are running again after Early Morning problems today. Jamie leary live at Union Station to explain what happened earlier. Reporter exactly. Rtd took precautionary measures with 30 buses ready to go looking pretty bleak this morning with people waiting a showing people these trains are departing. These trains a and b lines departing on time every 15 minutes with one departing in 13 minutes. Officials Still Holding their breath. I want to explain why. They had the server that was down and it is located at i70 and i25 write off of fox. So rtd officials couldnt see any of the train tracks on that Computer System for the a and b l
For the legal lead, even telling pot shops on the 16th street mall not to sell individual joints. Why did you come to denver . For the best wed ever. Seriously . Yeah, for the weed. Reporter this man left louisiana three weeks ago. Do you meet other people who say that . Every day. Reporter states will vote on legalizing recreational marijuana. Arizona, california, nevada, maine and massachusetts. I think its they legalize it elsewhere, they will go to those areas. Its hard to say how many people moved here for the weed but the city of denver believes 20 to 30 of Homeless People are here in part due to legalization or to find jobs in the industry. A spokesperson with the Colorado Coalition for the homeless says were seeing more marijuana use. Factor but i dont believe that it is the cause of homelessness. I think the cause of homelessness in the denver area is a lack of affordable housing. Reporter so if other states say yes to the green, will people follow . It gets cold here. In ariz
Extended sentences. After that sentencing, huer read a statement saying he chose to she told peoples magazine she disagreed with that sentencing, but has moved on. Hear her story later on at 6 00. Im jason gruenauer, denver 7. New this morning, from the first alert desk, the chicago celebrating. The violence in that city makes headlines people have been shot sense thursday morning after the cubs win. Thats according to a story all new this morning in the chicago tribune. Two men were killed in those shootings and 16 others were wounded in shootings that happened in the north, west, and southern part of the city. Its now 5 31. We have another dry start. Youre going to find clear skies across eastern colorado. Southwest, were looking at rain developing southwest of telluride. More snow expected there. A good 3 to 8inch and that snow developing later today. Highs near 70 degrees. Heres your first alert. It will get cooler this weekend. Jason we could see a few showers roll into denver tom
Back live. Our coverage of election 2016 continues. Tonight. The president ial election is still a toss up. At this late hour. Its a close one. Trump in the lead. This point its all eyes on michigan. And it looks like at this point. Could be the spoilers there. It could be the difference here. Keeping clinton from claiming a victory in the state. What we can say is trump certainly having a better than expected evening. Thus far. Standing by with the two political analyst ts right now. Clinton is still alive. Right now, lets face it. It looks pretty good for trump. And its not just the a message has been sent. They want something different. Thp is clinton headquarters. You may see people crying. We have been seeing a lot of that. Millions of tweets. All over the country. All over the world really. What are you seeing right now. Millions. You can see them stacking up behind me. Just the emotion. People some people say they are sick to their stomach. Other people are saying the silent maj