Not as hot as yesterdays 92, but well be near normal. 73 at 9 00 a. M. And partly cloudy skies. A chance of seeing a late day thunderstorm in the city. A cool down by the end of the week. Its time to talk traffic with joel hillan watching things. Good morning, dave. Looking from our cbs4 mouse tram. This is lights lane blocked off. This morning, a joint task force is going to announce a big heroin best as they go after a drug thats more common and has addicts becoming a plague in their own in places like the cherry creek bike path. Jaime leary has a closer look at whats happening. Jaime. Reporter good morning, alan. This is a really big deal this morning. The Colorado Attorney generals office, the dea and Denver Police among other agencies are going to announce down of everybody from street level dealers to high level distributors. According to the denver coroners office, four people have died. Rick salinger has been documenting this problem for years and he visited the cherry creek bi
Thornton police and weld sheriff deputy and state patrol as well as fire rescue on the frontage road. This is between monroe where we were earlier and colorado 52 just on the east frontage road off 52 just on the east frontage road off i25 southbound right now. Colorado state patrol tell us this is a car verses pedestrian. But at this point in time, we do not know the extent there, but quite a large response for this heavy front end sdaj to a Jeep Wrangler which is the only car involved from my perspective. There was an ambulance on scene earlier, but that has left. No word on injuries by the person struck by the car. Were going to keep an eye on this. Live in weld county, jaime leary. Thank you for that. New this morning, another deputies found a 7year old girl at south parker. They tried cpr, but the chide didnt survive. Investigators say it doesnt appear adults were around the girl when she drowned and they dont know how long the 7year old was in the water before someone called 911.
Block yesterday. The devastation is hitting lake county hard. Theyre calling it the clayton fire. Its tearing through lower lake. Firefighters are working tirelessly to save those homes in the fires path. The hardest hit is that lower lake area. Historic businesses have been reduced to ash. The community of clear lake is threatened at this hour. Last update we received said 3,000 acres are burned. Fire Officials Say thats a conservative estimate. Its unclear how many homes have been destroyed. Fire Officials Say at least ten. The number is expected to rise dramatically. 6,000 people have been forced to evacuate. So far several local strike teams are on the lines helping battle the flames. There are several strike teams from the bay area that have been deployed to help fight the clayton fire. Leading the group is a firefighter who deployed to a similar area last year to battle rocky fire. Were prepared to do whatever they would like us to do. We focus on structure defense but assist in
Well. The approach no problems toward the bay bridge plaza. We take a look at the toll plaza and live camera from emoriville shows you the back up because the meetering lights. We have a more serious and more recent development. Look at this. This is a clayton fire. Its an update to breaking news weve been tracking all morning. Well continue to track for some time. In is the clayton fire completely burning out of control to the north in lake county. Here is the latest numbers we received overnight. At least 10 homes and businesses are completely destroyed. More than 3,000 acres have burned. And that number is actually expected to jump drastically. Some 6,000 people have been evacuated so far. Those numbers could go up as well. And actually strike teams from the bay area are there on the front lines. We have multiple reports this morning. Kari hall joins us in one minute with how the winds can impact this fire. Lets begin with pete. Live here in the near the fire lines. How is it lookin
Afternoon at the inland locations. 90s there. 80s around the inner bay. 70s for places like oakland and palo alto and 60s for San Francisco. So a wide spread of temperatures coming our way. Lets talk to mike and track that morning commute. Good morning. Good morning. We have our second incident for the morning reported for the trivalley. As we look at your map you dont see any major problems for the speed sensors. I zoom in toward 880 just before you gel to el chara heading westbound. We do have reports of debris in your left two lanes toward the center divide. Well watch as chp gives us more details. Live look around the same area. El charr over there westbound. No flashing lights. Well track this. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. Developing in Southern California, firefighters battling a fire the likes of which they say they have never experienced. This is a. Weve been communicating with people that are off the hill that have to leave and letting them know that, you know, its