Because the weather is one amazing story. Heres ashton and hes on it. We are on it, and we are tracking what will be an even warmer day today. We were in the upper 70s yesterday. Today well climb at least 5, 6, or 7 degrees over yesterday. Thats why i think todays record High Temperature could be in jeopardy. Now temperatures are in the 50s for most neighbors around denver neighborhoods around 30s in greeley. Heres the forecast, 85 degrees for the High Temperature later on today. If we get there, well tie the record set 54 years ago. Heres joe. Reporter ashton, good morning. Were sticking with highway 36 and i25 from copter 4. The traffic is moving along quite nicely, especially on and off the offramps. But of course as youre going eastbound on 270 expect the traffic to kind of pick up a little bit. Britt, though, we will have your complete metro area joe, thank you so much. Want to rip this off like a bandaid, the broncos have a lot of work ahead of them before taking on Brock Osweile
When we return, were pulling up stakes and heading to big bend, then to the great sand dunes, which are nowhere near the coast. After that, florida everglades, here we come. This is the coolest places on welcome back to the coolest places on earth. Brewster county, southwest along the rio grande, is where you find big bend, americas most isolated National Park. If youre taking a road trip to big bend, make sure you have plenty of gas, food, and water because its a long way between towns, miles and miles of dirt road. Youre virtually in the middle of nowhere. Who wouldve thought nowhere was so magical . Amazing desert land, Majestic Mountain ranges, blooming animals make big bend a mustsee. It may be remote, but it gets 300,000 tourists a year, and, while vegetation might be sparse, rock formations abound. Its a geologists dream come true. The two most common critters famous to this region are the turkey buzzard and the javelina, also known as the collared peccary, often mistaken often
Lets get right over to chris spears who joins us this morning. Chris, what are we dealing with this morning. More of this game of the same. High country travel is mostly in the 30s. 34 in the front range foothills. Breezy across the region and there is a chill if you step out this morning. You will need a jacket. 2 inches of fresh small fresh snow from our weather watcher down in your ray. It is light and will pick up. The other thing that will miles per hour. Gusty wind even out on the far eastern plains. We will check the forecast in just a minute, lets get a check of the weather first. We start with the drive around i70 as chris just mentioned. Those high passes will have tough driving conditions today. The east half of Loveland Pass is closed. There is one problem cause delays as we get later into the morning, theres a pothole in the right lane of eastbound i76 after the 270 evident exit. I feel your pain this morning. A sad loss for the broncos. The boys could not finish strong ag
Very Good Business around here. Now, its all locked up. Heres a look at his mug shot. Hes out on a 2,000 bond. That will likely be reset and much higher when he returns to court at 1 30 this afternoon. Records show he was a trucker before opening this clinic. He did Plastic Surgery procedures. We asked why bond was set to low in the first serious class 4 felonies and with the bond schedule require about a 2,000 bond initially. We are planning to be in court at 1 30. Well make sure you have all the information you need as this story develops between now and our early evening newscast, on social media and online. Live in denver, mark boyle, denver 7. This morning democratic kaine is in denver. . He toured a Small Business here. Tracking his trip and joins us now. Reporter that round table ended about five minutes ago. Before that, this morning the virginia senator took a tour of the facilities here at Primus Aerospace and met with some of the employees at the facility as well. According
Their school bus crashed at dia. The driver died. Wayne voorhees suffered a concussion and several fractures. It has been a long couple weeks but i feel pretty goodd reporter he says he doesnt remember a whole lot about the crash other than getting on the bus and waking up in the hospital. im just happy to be back. Reporter he says the tragedy brought the Team Closer Together will also changing his outlook on life. Friends and family and all that kind of stuff, you cherish that a little bit more than you previously did. Reporter he is still not well enough to go back to teaching fulltime but says right now he is focused on practice. We were a little choked up. The biigest thing is getting back to them. Reporter and leading his team again under the friday night lights. I am excited to see what we do this year. Reporter we got an update on the other injured coaches. Coach mcenroe per remains in the hospital but is doing better. Coach kyle rider is no longer in the hospital but has yet to