Were running through an interface situation where homes are being built at the end of the wildland areas. Its a much higher risk of loss to our community because the homes are threatened on a regular basis. Smoke from the freeman fire is visible as far away as veil. The fire is roughly 300 acres in size in the newsroom i am russell south metro firefighters helped get an nearly 300 acre wildfire under control today. This was in the time of buyers. 144th in winter you had aafire breakout. The fire is 100 percent contained. It never threatened any structures. Is unknown what caused it. Lets check in with meteorologist Stacey Donaldson a cigarette butt out the car window can cause damage. Hour winds are definitely stronger to the west. 20 or 40 miles per hour. The front range Eastern Plains are not as intense week continues to hold onto high fire danger. The yellow shaded areas are to the west of 25 and high fire danger from denver through the Eastern Plains. Lows in the 50s, big chan the
The wind knocked a sign down, blocking the road to terminal one. Lets get right over to 13 first alert meteorologist greg bennett whos watching the wind right now. But also the cold its going to get chilly. Today, the winds will weaken along with high temperatures plummeting about 20 from wednesday. Morning lows on the mountain will be near 20 degrees and here in the valley, morning lows will drop in the 40s. With winds between 1020 mph and gusts around 30 mph, wind to feeling like 1 degree and is the coolest high we have seen since march 7th. Because morning lows will be so pipes should be wrapped and might by friday morning. By the weekend, High Pressure but only to the upper 60s and not all on the same page just yet. But this system will help keep our temperatures in the mid 60s. Right now power is out for 600 People Living near nellis and its because a car crashed right into a power pole overnight around 1 am its not causing any problems on our roadways. But lets get over to Yasmee
Abun dense of caution. Once they found out the man was unarmed and took him to the hospital they cleared the scene. No one was hurt. Were being told the man was taken to the hospital to be evaluated and will likely be charged with trespassing. Turning now to our other top story. The race for the white house. The Donald Trump Campaign taking over colorado. Running mate mike pence is in Colorado Springs and daughter son doctor donald jr. In grand juncture. The Trump Campaign is looking to boost spot in colorado a new National Poll Shows Hillary clinton is going into next weeks debate with a six point lead in the polls. Shes at 93 , donald trump with 37 . Libertarian gary johnson at 9 and jill stein has 2 . Participating monday. Mike pence will be in Colorado Springs today. He will host a town hall meeting. And donald trump jr. Is hosting a rally in Grand Junction. Hes expected to speak on having a president who understands the importance of wildlife conservation. Donald trump jr. Is figh
And now were hearing details about the hijackers motive. Nbcs Alistair Jameson joins us from london. What can you tell us . Good morning, dara. This was a routine flight, a short trip from alexandria to cairo. The flight takes around 30 minutes. Some point in that flight one of the passengers on board told the flight clue crue he had explosives on, a suicide vest and the flight was diverted across the mediterranean and landed at larnaca. Once on the ground, negotiations began to release almost all of the passengers. Its still not clear what motives lay behind this hijacking. The cyprus president said its nothing to do with terrorism and a highlevel source told nbc news that the hijackers motives seem to be a personal matter involving a woman and the hijacker asked to speak to someone, possibly his exwife. What we know is there are still around eight people on board that plane. Most of the passengers are off. But around eight people are still on board. That consists of the crew and thre
You. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Much of the nation held its breath this afternoon at first word of gunfire ringing out at the u. S. Capitol, wounding two people, sending tourists scurrying to safety and forcing government buildings into lockdown. It happened according to police after a tennessee man pulled out a weapon in the Capitol Visitors Center drawing fire from Capitol Police officers. Nbcs Peter Alexander has late details. Got to go. Shooting at the u. S. Capitol. Reporter terrifying moments at the capitol. Inside the Visitors Center panic. Capitol police with guns drawn as tourists flee. That way. Get out of here they said run. They told they told everybody to run. Reporter at the white house, entrances closed as a precaution in the middle. Annual easter egg roll. Police say the shooting happened shortly after 2 00 p. M. Here at the entrance to the Visitors Cente