Hot. Its been an incredible above average kind of day today. Lets take a live look outside where weve got sunny skies about everywhere. Right now fort collins looking at mostly sunny skies, temperatures up and down the front range in the 70s and 80s. We are looking at temperatures in the 60s out to our west. Our record high for today, by the way, 82. That was set in 2014, so not that long ago and boy, we got close this afternoon. Winds also not a big deal today. Breezy side, still a little gusty in some spots, specifically out to the west 10 to 20 mileperhour gusts right now. As we head into the next couple hours, well keep that sunshine around here in denver with clear skies as we get into the night. Well be drop back out of the upper 70s into the low 70s by 6 p. M. Beautiful day out here at mile high. We couldnt have asked for better weather. Reporter i mean people are out there grilling and doing all those things theyve done do it right now in the middle of october. Were i know and
Fan has fallen back in september 2015 a drunk man fell several stories chasing after a friends had. He suffered serious injuries and in august 2013 a fan fell from an escalator and he survived. A fall was that deadly in 2011 when a 27 man fell while sliding down a rail. The Media Relations office is y the process of learning more about this incident on the Denver Police department. I also called the Denver Police department asking for more information about the victim and they have not been able to release anything to me. This is the second fatal than fault we have reported since 2011. We have more breaking news happening now a standoff in brighton thhir tent and bush. According to our crew police are trying to get to people to come out of a home. Brighton high school, Brighton Heritage Academy and the middle school are on lockout because of this and tent is cled. A semitruck carrying cattle crashes on i70 near georgetown. Some of the cattle got loose. Reporter is live on the scene wit
Broncos win after two diasppointing last nights game against the houston texans. It was of course a return to denver for former broncos quarterback brock osweiler. His welcome back to mile high. Wasnt exactly warm. And his peformance not even luke warm. Osweiler threw 41 times. For only 131 yards. And no touchdowns. Up. Both teams were four and two. Cj anderson got the broncos on the board in the second with a seven yard touchdown run. Then Demaryus Thomas and Devontae Booker running it in. The broncos were just loving the end zone. And walked away with a five and two record. After the game. Both sides stayed civil and said it was all just part of the game. It was also coach kubiaks return the the gameday sidline after spending time recovering from a complex migraine issue. After the game his players gave their in just two weeks. We will have a new president. Hillary clinton is holding onto her lead in most National Polls and donald trump argues that those polls are rigged. Nbcs tracie
Already weighing in on this years general election. Nearly 114 thousand ballots statewide have already been returned. Voters in denver, jefferson and arapahoe counties have turned in the most in the metro area. Those preliminary numbers come just as a lawsuit over taking selfies with ballots is filed. Ballot at a polling place. 9news reporter Andrew Sorensen is live at a polling station Near Civic Center park. Andrew. One lawmaker says thats not fair. Aside from the actual issues on the ballot. Theres a new issue coming up this year. People taking selfies of their ballot. Might be tempting. But its illegal. An 1891 law makes it illegal to share a filled out ballot. This goes back to a time when bartenders would bribe people to vote a certain way. Now theres a lawsuit to change that law filed by a colorado legislator and a du student. State senator owen hill says its silly that sharing your ballot is a misdemeanor. I saw a friend of mine post about how this was illegal in colorado, and
Increases that anxiety a notch or two. Last week a truck went all the way from fort collins to Colorado Springs without a driver at the wheel. Budweiser delivered 50,000 cans of beer with the help of a driverless tech company. 9news reporter dan grossman checked it out. It was the first of its kind. The truck drove without the driver having to touch the wheel once. The Company Technology shot the video. This was completely legal and cdot was nearby the entire tomatoes court the truck, but we were still time to escort the truck, but we were still curious how and why this technology was being used. In the future this is going to be the way forward. It performed flawlessly. Its like a train on software rails. Where we are now is right here. Anybody with a fleet will be consumption impacts. I mean this is a big deal. Reporter cdot executive director traveled five cars behind the Maiden Voyage thursday in the middle of the night. It was one of the more exciting and boring things ive ever do