Outage. That number was less than a thousand customers by 8 00 8 00 tonight. Team coverage tonight. We will show you how the winds are acting right now. First to check in with dave fraser for your forecast. Utility that the worst windward role in the late in the afternoon and tonight. It is still going out there. His downtown denver pick you notice it is not back here in the city to go to the north west look at the current wind speeds and gusts into the bloomfield area. Rest of pushing a 40 mouse an hour. This bulls eye on the sell side of town which is blasting out on the east side of town. I want to show you your future cast windspeeds for the metro pretty will see the the overall pattern here is for the wind to stick strong tonight and early tomorrow morning of the wins switch to the east and the strongest gust retreats of the foothills pick you got a long night of gusty wind ahead. Of the gust here. Bullseye out of the northeast plains and wind speeds are blowing better than 50 miles an hour and sterling and into the fort morgan area and across the state it has been a windy day, rolling over the mountains and now fanning out onto the Eastern Plains. One thing that we did was push the wind gusts in a lot of places like frisco and glen haven, that is hurricane strength when. Dia reported wanted it to the good news is we did break a record to date because the wind picked be at 73 degrees breaking the old record of 71 pick coming up in a few minutes, less wind and cooler temperatures, and the snow is back in your weather forecast. There were strong thats shutting down interstate 25 in both directions tonight and surrounding travelers. Feet up the area and damaged and the danger of falling pitiless parts that. Foxy when denver is live at the latest on that. I received a phone call from one of the stores employees. They noticed this was the right of the sign. Doesnt look like the panels were shaking in the 45mile an hour wind gusts. The Fire DepartmentTechnical Rescue Team got out there and they noticed the two of the far right foot panels became unsecure from the back of those ikea logos that is the. They asked Colorado State patrol to shut a highway and spend about 2. 5 hours fixing those panels. They drew holes the backside of the panels to the front side and then secured it in multiple places using wire to make sure that when, low spirit. So better had it been our crew of you to make sure that the panels are indeed secured we are good to go. The structure of the site is absolutely fine. As i 25 a shut down as well as the light rail, because some major backups and that buses. The highly did reopen at about 8 8 15 the safety itself after fires it but they are very there should be no for the problems even as the wind continues to gusts tonight. Reporting live in centennial, fox 31 denver. Remember to tune in tomorrow morning for the very latest on the high winds overnight and whether they will impact your drive to work in the morning. There on from 59 on good day colorado. Caught on camera shake and shot at a day care center. A little boy grabbed and dragged across the room. The worst day of a mothers life life. Im very upset. This is been the worst experience our family could have ever gone through. In that video you just saw probably best hitters to take action tonight. To wrap how county social services and police now and falter julie hayden a story you will see only on fox 31. The family from the wild losses as well. Police are still investigating and social services rep there is of the mother has a lot of questions about who knew what and when and what it took weeks for her to be notified. The day care video system that turned carrolls life upside down initially was something that gave the working with the comfort. Is apparent you want to make sure your child is safe. Her five drops today. Bit of the carefree rooming center since august and things seem fine and the november 23, november the owners owners husband mentioned an incident to her. He definitely downplayed it pretty said that something happened between him and then she heard from Arapahoe County social services pick up a call from the department of social services and they were brief with me. No one would tell her exactly what happened. Than she got an anonymous email at work with the video. In the video shows the owners husband sitting in a small table in the classroom with the kids into teachers produce he son start crying. One teacher pulled him on her lap. The teacher was consoling him and trying to get them to calm down, singing to him. Carols is what happened next was a horrible shock. He abruptly gets up and grabbed little boy under the arms and drags them to a corner map and you could hear him shouting at the little boy shot up. Give the kids turn to watch but the teachers dont do anything. That he pulls the five yearold up of begin at it drags him into an empty classroom pretty can hear the child sobbing as he continues drinking him until out of the cameras view. I go to work every day. And picking that everything is okay but nothing is happening to my seven i get this video. That they change my life their carols that would happen if your son was bad enough. Not the day care center, not social services told her what happened and to more than two weeks after the fact. 18 days, you took the power out of my hands of me being the. To take care of my child to get them out of that situation. The social services for minor neglect and carols he should not happen in the first place. Once it did she should have been told that day. Arapahoe county social services cannot comment on any specific is including this one but a spokeswoman told us that they tried to bring the a lot of factors could impact how long it takes. The complied with all parties social service requirements. Julie hayden, foxy when denver. Such a disturbing story. That deadline has come and gone. Lynwood kamman did not open at all pretty will be saturday before the highway is back open down on monday. Sequence were hoping to have one lane of the bike today. High winds say that their efforts im able to saturday is the new timetable for when they hope to reopen the highway. I at designer duo may have struck again this time it up for boutique shop there we first told you that about them after they were caught on camera slipping thousands of dollars in luxury items from the max Clothing Store injury creek and in boulder. Known for skaters have reason to believe that the perils of gossip for coach valued at 30,000 on valentines day. Similar to the cherry creek scene, the two and distracted store employees while they stole the price of goods to be sure to call police if you know who they are at. Some big news involving the help of teenagers and colorado. The Health Report card is out and they find some risky behavior are dropping. According to survey, 23 percent that is the lowest weight in the nation. Its down by nearly half to 23 per 1,000 girls but in the percentage of teens binge drink is 16. 6 percent, almost half of what it was a decade ago. Pope francis making headlines today say contraceptives may be used to help the spread of that virus. Despite the ban on most forms of birth control. While abortion is an evil, writing progress is not. They took to a more controversial issue. The pope is asked froms plan to build a wall along the mexico border and foxy when Denver Kent Erdahl joins us to buy nobody said a why it triggered a fiery response. He did not mention from find mainly with liquid to tell anyone who to vote four. He said if trump plans to build a walk for that is not christian christian. As a mocking up here, mr. Mr. Trump of the boat made a i said the pope. Yes, pope francis did respond to a question about donald trump today after his recent trip to mexico. The pope was asked about his approach to build a wall along the length of the mexico border. If you think only about building walls wherever they may be and now to build the a christian. Religious leader to question a persons faith is disgraceful. The gospel message actually questions or braces questions about how im a slap. Martha fernandez is a directors medications for his. At the archdiocese of denver pictures of the pope sports simply remind all christians up the gospel pits without the key was tried to meddle into political issues. He was reminding us we are to be questions, if we are to follow the gospel mandates can we have some mandates that no matter which side polls and public to pin it takes on this issue if and when the vatican is attacked by isis, which is everyone knows is isis ultimate trophy, i can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that donald trump would have been president. Can sometimes be in public to speak the gospel truth about love. Love stretches us. Live forces us to the outside of ourselves, to open our hearts to build bridges. Pope francis went on to say he would be willing to give trumps benefit of the doubt intel he finds out what is immigration plan as. Trump said he didnt like the fight against the popes comments were nicer than the media originally made it sound. Fox 31 denver. A bait and switch and a time of morning. That is relative say happen to them when they cremated a family member. Natalie back of the ashes were held hostage. The problem solvers are on the case. Got wrenching transition. And did you catch our 5 00 5 00 newscast. We did the rin the middle of a time when senior povertyt is increasing. Republicans and some democratsp came up with a brilliant idea for cutting costofliving adjustments for Social Security. We said, it will be over our dead bodies if you cut Social Security. As president , i will do everything i can to extend the solvency of Social Security and expand benefits for people who desperately need them. Im Bernie Sanders, only a on fox 31, medical mystery you probably have never seen before. A colorado childhood is literally turning into stone before his family size. It is a debilitating an extremely rare condition, so were only 40 other cases have ever been reported in the world for tonight jake rogers and his family are sharing their story, hoping someone out there might be able to help. My hands are cold. For as many doctors is jaden rogers is visited, you would help him. People dont get it, mainly because they dont know what it is. Nobody is ever heard of a. Three years goes to his parents noticed some spots in the skimmer heartening. Its almost a few put your finger and suppercaseletter arm, it is almost like tapping in a countertop on a hard surface. The spots of sprint to his legs, back, and hits, and has been walking difficult. He just matteroffactly said i need a wheelchair. And i was he said my links dont work anymore. I need a wheelchair. Doctors eventually determined it is stiff skin syndrome. It is kind of outrageous sounding when you set up boy turning to stone. People cant get that through their mind. Happening. And this area was pretty much the same to me. With every passing day, the symptoms get worse. He will tell you what hurts. I dont know if he can describe how it feels. There is no humor and really no treatment. I kind of exhaustive exhaust of the to find something myself. Inspectors continue to track everything, including his latest round of chemotherapy drugs, usually used to treat cancer. It seems to be slowing the spreading. The fortunate thing is that is once the skin is done this, that area is kind of done. We are not going to be up to bring back normal skin to that area. What i am hopeful up is that this treatment helps prevent the spread of it. Holds it in its tracks. It would be a win. It would be a win for future victims of this terrible disease disease. Maybe we are a little bit too late to really make a huge for jay, but the next patient that gets diagnosed with stiff skin syndrome can start of this medicine on day one of diagnosis and stop at that point in time. For now jadens appearance a physical therapy is one of the only things they can do. They have learned the community in their small tall them. Colorado. We wanted to be up to use your around because that is where he does his water therapy. They did a fundraiser for us and very quickly and like six hours raised 80,000 to build us a there are people that is in close. It is a swim spa. They say they will explore every option. He loved him so much you dont know what to do it you cant fight for everything that to find in his case. You just dont know what to fight four. His appearance at the jaden is a survivor end of the skin may be tough, he has a soft spot in his heart. Hes got a big heart like me. What a sweet boy. His periods are considering going to europe four different drug therapies are available. They have a fundraising with a live link to that on our website website, kdvr. Com. Now. Weather with chief meteorologist dave fraser. It felt that the wind today and since 19 minutes ago, wind speeds north northwest of downtown denver have picked up again and are halls be howling more than 60 miles an hour. The nose of that wind is going to blast back through the denver area and its going to be along a long night of wind. So strong gust so cute north and east and you can see the speed up to 50 in Denver International it is coming in and out. Watch the future cast windspeed. Of discipline up until early tomorrow morning. Even then Eastern Plains south of town are going to be dealing with that and as we get the sense come up with a strong retreat back into the high country. It will be a breezy day and you will notice that going to be the width that we dealt with today. The high wind warning which stays in play for the foothills until noon tomorrow. Weve had the wind down here and theres been a little bit of rain skipped into the tech center for a brief brief. Temperatures things went for hybrid recordsetting at denver 73. Almost 9 00 p. M. Lamarr. 62 in grand junction. An hour we are in the 40s from denver at the airport and still the 50s as rock and again we have a strong wind at night that holds the temperatures up. The snow in the mountains is going to shrink them come to an and. You wake up with plenty of sunshine and missed the south and east. Another injured to and it will quickly come to an end. The lows can be in the teens and 20s in the mountains and the wins was above freezing. And then tomorrow are drop off of ten or more degrees, still great for this time of year. 70 selfies door into the 40s and 50s in the mountains and well be flying up and down the front range game. These are fantastic numbers but i think these are one of days people will step up for lunch and a come back for the rest of the day picked up for the 70s of today. Still 63 downtown and lifted and on the sell side of town looking pretty good. Upper 50s and larkspur. Gusty winds through the day. 36. Windy in the morning and then it lets up as we get to late morning. It will be a plus avenue at 62. Saturday at 61. I like said the 51. It gets until coming back monday night into tuesday could be a little bit of accumulation tuesday morning. Keep your eye on that and it is quite in the 50s. 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Im Bernie Sanders, the wind knocking out power in denver today including right here foxy one. We are to power surges that not just off the air and pride are it, before airtime. We wanted to give you a behindthescenes look at the this old say mtv news. News never happens in the newsroom. Not so earlier today. What a catastrophic power failure to say. Most of our equipment just minutes before fox 31 denver news at five for set to start. Are going to start with whether it have that is how i coming up the less than a plan. We were prepared to the entire his guests online. We got a playbyplay and were prepared to prepare for a newscast on facebook only. Our producers put together a list of stories with no videos since our videos server crashed while our assignment desk doctor crews had to get their information on the air. We even brought out a dry erase marker board for the sevenday forecast. No camera control in the studio. Our usual chemist it works we improvised and are darker newsroom. Did manage to get on the year. The power went out of her sturdiest was just before the 5 00 news knocked up most of our equipment. Funny how you can have hundreds and thousands of dollars with equipment and sometimes a marker and some paper does the same job job. This is a nofrills as we get. We dont normally celebrate our newscast, but a acklam everyone a fox 31 when i say we couldnt wait for todays 5 00 p. M. Showed to finally and. We are out. [applause]. We have a system of the supposed keep us on the air during power outages. It is called an Uninterruptible Power supply. It is apparently interested today. We found out the manufacturer installed run we are doing something about right now. We never usually get applause at the end of this. We should at them are often. We have an entire career that is absolutely amazing. Tool to help parents keep uptodate with everything they using online and on their phone. 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