Have accidentally left a backpack behind. Its a big tourist spot here, so its not out of the realm of possibilities, but once those . Fficers looked inside, they realized it was much more serious leading to the evacuation and the bomb squad was called in and it was destroyed. Also this morning, denver 7 talking to a Family Member who tells us ansberry had been living in Northern California until 1 year ago. He then left to travel through rockies. Again, the indictment could be released at any moment. Well keep you posted. Mark steward live in the news room. Denver 7. Thank you. Were on fire alert. People are warned they have to leave their homes immediately because of this wild fire. You can see the smoke here. This is burning west of wetmore and east of westcliffe. Its called the junctions fire. The office of emergency in the fires faith. No word how this fire started. The beulah area is under evacuation. People living near highway 65 from mckenzie wet more is closed right now. And highway 65 is also closed in as a result, evacuation shelters have been set up at valley bible in westcliffe and caber midschool anddthose with large animals can take them to the west fairgrounds. Officials are warning those about air quality because of this fire. Anyone with respiratory issues or asthma should stay inside. Crews are working to contain this wild fire burning in eagle the dry and windy conditions could make these fires worse. Lets go to Katie Lasalle can with your forecast . Theres a red flag warning in effect for the metro county and gusty conditions through this afternoon. The winds will pick up from the west. We could be seeing wind gust up to 40 to 50 milesperhour in the high country. 40 milesperhour down on the valley levels. Current wind gus and you can see Berthoud Pass at 60 milesperhour. Across the front range, mild conditions, but later on this afternoon, 11 00 until 9 00, that red flag warning is in effect, so just be aware that fire danger will remain high through the course of the afternoon into the early evening hours. Also though, our temperatures still above average. We had a very weekend. Highs today in the midto upperd clearing skies, and our normal right around 65 degrees. Well continue to see cooler conditions as we head through the rest of the week, but right now across the front range, 56 in well keep an eye on that red flag warning and ill show you the next best chance for snow in the forecast coming up. Mitch. All right, katie thank you. Were on top of some several shootings. One on the le, and another on udora and both . Uspects on the run. Police say someone was shot in the back and the leg just bbfore 6 00 this morning. This was on federal near vassar and yale avenue. Investigators say this may be tied to a pot robbery. The suspect got away. And police are looking for a pickup with a possible camper shell. This shooting happened right near mlk and dahlia. Two victims will survive. Shooting. All clear at thornton high school. The school was placed on lock out after someone reported that an adult male was threatening a teacher. Officials could not find the suspect and theyre searching for that man. I25 is running smooth now after this crash snarled traffic earlier this morning. This was just before i225 bellevue. The female driver was able to walk away. All lanes back open, but its not clear crash. New developments after someone was shot outside the airway motel over the weekend. Police believes this man, 26year old brent kelly is the man who pulled the trigger. Hes on the run and hes wanted the family identified the victim as 25year old ruusell. If you know about kellys whereabouts, call police immediately. Take a look at this man. Investigators releasing this photograph hoping you can help them catch this person. He got into the restaurant from the roof. Investigators say he wasnt alone. He had help from someone else. If you recognize him or know anything, call Aurora Police. Investigators say it may take time before you know if the smoke released from the refinery is dangerous. You may see smoke coming frommthe refinery there. It all restarted, reoperations over the weekend. After the power failure on friday. This called this large plume of orange spoke. This is what it looks like today. Officials say the white smoke, thats normal and thats all apart of the restarting process. . Today, a former Aurora Police chief dan oaks will stand trial. Hes accused of demoting a police chief in retaliation for disagreeing with him about how he disa mrined anothhr officer. In this lawsuit in violated his First Amendment rights and he claimed he was demoted after that demotion came with a pay cut. Murphy is seeking financial losses. Also today, this man, damon newman will find out how long hell spend behind bars. He assaulted a woman. His case went cold after he was identified as a he was arrested in california and found guilty. Hell be sentenced this afternoon. To the race house. In a new abc news poll has clinton leading trump nationally. Shes ahead by 4 points in this poll with 46 compaaed to trumps 43 . Libertarian johnson has 37 and2 and stooin has 17 points. A couple of days before the final president ial debate thats wednesday night, trump is challenging the election itself calling it quote rigged. Rivallclinton is quote getting pumped up with performance enhancing drugs and he challenged clinton to take a doctor test before the final debate on wednesday. We should take a drug test because i dont know whats going on with her. But at the beginning of her last debate, she was pumped up at the beginning and in thh end it was like take me down. Wednesdays night president ial debate bor electioo will air on denver 7 at 7 00 p. M. He admit to scare and intimidate people from volunteering. North Carolina RepublicanParty Leaders reacting to the news this morning after a gop party office was fire bombed over the weekend. Officials said someone throughha flammable substance into the office. A swastikas was painted on the he said animals representing clinton and the dims in North Carolina just fire bombed our office because we are winning. End quote. Clinton also reacting to the news referring it to as horrific. She says shes grateful everyone is safe. Meantime, wikileaks released hundreds of w mails to be stolen new emails to be stolen the transcripts are a private speeches that cli they havent been independently veeified by abc news. Critics say this is another reminder that the nominee is just too close to wall street to be effective in the white house. This 2016 election president ial election is kicking into high gear in our state. Ballots are being sent out today and land in your maim box soon. Amanda del castillo has details on making sure your vote count. Good morning. Reporter if you dont receivn the mail today, service says the ballot should arrive within the next week. Were in Arapahoe County this morning speaking with Election Officials about what you can do after receiving these balloos. We should mention that aside from the presidency and other races, colorado voters are facing nine ballot measures. Coloradans will get to change and chew how the state deals with tobacco taxes and suicide and minimum wage and health care. Thats why officials want to make sure youre doing necessary to make your vote county. In Arapahoe County, listen, youll receive a 2 card ballot. The First Time Since 2008. We want to make sure they have their two cards and get their ballot. We encourage them to get their ballot back early, make sure they sign their ballot envelope so the ballot gets counted. Now, crane says if you dont receive your ballot before or by the 24th and youre going to the u. S. Postal service, theyre saying if you dont get your ballot mailed by november 2nd, then you want to physically turn that ballot in your self. Reporting line in Arapahoe County, im amanda del castillo. Denver 7. Trump jr is campaigning for his father. Hes speaking at the Centennial Gun Club and hell take a trip to the boulder club and speak. Trump will be in colorado. Penn rosy the rose event center. Sanders was joined by warren. The two called for trumps defeat and asked progressives to step up. Dont doubt in anybodys mind that this country is going to reject that sexism, the racism, what kind of a man roots for an economic crash and for people to lose their homes, a small, insecure money grubber who cares about no one and nothing but himself. The pair theyre on a mission to un night democrats and progressive ors and thats one thing, to defend trump. Theyre focused on amendment 69. Police in alaska are se to a Police Officer and shot hi multiple times. Were looking at the dash cam video to see how ttis unfolded. A chicago Police Officer was getting beaten by a man. Why the officer said she wasnt going to fire her weapon. A fun day of voting gets dangerous after the boat before donald trump, there was mike coffman. Before trump said women should be punished for having an abortion, coffman wrote a bill to redefine rape, which could exclude before trump called for a ban of muslims, coffman pushed for a religious test of u. S. Soldiers. And on president obama . Trump he could have been born in kenya. Coffman hes just not an american. Stop mike coffman now before he gives trump more ideas. House majority pac is responsible get down. Get down on the ground. Get down. Get down on the ground. Im getting the taser. Thats new dash cam video of a chicago Police Officer getting beaten by a suspect she was trying to take down. She says she wasnt going to fire her weapon. Her and her partner detained the man and he fought back. He was high on pcp and the officer tells that suspect to stop resisting. Officers he takes down the female officer with him. [indiscernible]. Get down on the ground. The female officer who was being attacked there says she wasnt going to fire her gun because she feared community backlash. She says she did what the department or her family she didnt want her family or the department to go through that. Shre hospital with head injuries an officer was shot in the by a suspect. Doctors were able to remove the bullet from the officers head. They said if this wass1 centimeter in one directioo, it would have killed them. He fired on a man was acting strangely. When they got there, this suspect opened fire and he was shot and killed by police. Another attack on a california Police Officer over came at officer was a medal rake in santa cruz. There was a call that a man was knocking on the suspect went after officers with a rak and getting tased doesnt work so they shot and killed the attack and the investigation is under investigation. Another officerinvolved shooting. This caught on dash cam video. A man walks up to the patrol car as the officer is getting out and he fires his weapon multiple times and the suspect reportedly tries to the video shows the suspect ditching the cruiser and taking off. Hes on the run. The officer is . In serious condition in the hospital. More than a dozen people are recovering now. Four people dead after a pickup truck flew off an overpass and landed on a crowd of people in a park. This happened in san diego on saturday. The truck driver apparrntly lost control and the truck fell 60 below. Bikers from across california bring in the park for a motorcycl gathering. This is something were here and enjoy the atmosphere and then Something Like this happens. Its unbelievable. This morning, were learning the driver was a member of the u. S. Navy and was under the influence. Hes now been identified as 24year old richard sapola and hes face being dia and homicide. Good caesarians in florida rescued a guy to get him out of an suv burning. They formed a humannchain to reach down pull him oust of the suv that rolled down an embankment. When police got there, they joined as well and they pulled the driver out of the car and get him away from the flames. Rescuers did get scrapes and bruiseers, you about the driver expected to be okay. This is a boat off the coast of california capsizing after getting stuck in waves. The boat driving recklessly and surfers helped the fortunatell they were not hurt. The accident is under investigation. People are scrambling to make repairs and to cleanup the mess of the pacific in the west after they got battered with storms over the weekend. You can see oneeof the videos right here. The wind knocked down trees and downed power lines. Its a mess there and all the folks spending today assessing the damage. We were starting to see the effects of that storm get into r friday. The pacific in the west got hammered with rain and rain. Today were going to see windy sparking up the fires, so very high fire danger through the afternoon. A red flag warning just went into effect and it will last all the way until 9 tl tonight. So just be aware tt well see low humidity, gusty winds throughout the afternoon. Please be careful because the small sparks could start a fire and they can spread rapidly. However, well get a relief. A cool down is coming and a chance watches and warnings in effect. Red flag warning as you can see encompassing the eastern half of the state. Denvermetro area including a wind advisory. We could see wind gust up to 60 milesperhour at Higher Elevations above timberline. These are your sustained winds outside of 22 miles in eagle. Same in gunnison. Fort collins, 18 milesanhour. Trinidad at 41. Sterling in the 35mileperhour range. Were picking up moisture. Were staying dry across most of the front range, but a rainsnow mix for red feathers park and estes. Windy this afternoon. Greeley, youre at a high of 69 degrees. Boulder at 72. Already breezy up there, and well see 70s for the most part in the front range, but cooler. 72 in grand junction. 60s for the mountains. 70 degrees is our expected high in gunnison, and then down to the southeast, temperatures expected in the low 90s in spots like lamar and la junta. Our future showing us what to expect through the day, still that slight chance were sseing rain and snow showers in the Northern Front range mountains, but we should stay dry across the plains today. Very windy by tonight. Cleer skies as we head into tuesday. Mostly sunny for a start of our tuesday. And then a cold front it will drop our temperatures and increase the chances for showers across the mountains. Snow expected there. Rain throughout the snow showers late tuesday into wednesday mainly for the foothills. Breezy and partly cloudy. By 9 00,well see things decrease. By tomorrow, 62 is our expected high. Closer to seasonable values, but still very, very cool as we head into tuesday and wednesday. Big change from this weekend, were in the mid80s and through the rest of the week, well see things a little it closer to normal value. So wednesday, the forecast. Overnight lows, dropping near freezing values into thursday morning. Partly cloudy skies for thursday and then sunny skies friday, saturday, sunday. High temperatures in the 70s. Guys. All right, thanks katie. N all out battle to take back mosul. A rocky forces have picked up small but significant gains as they move closer and closer to their ultimate outside of mosul armed with machine gun and heavy artillery. Theres a wild fire in custer county. Well have the latest. At village inn, the brightest ideas are always the best. Like making the best pie in america free. On free pie wednesday. Come in and enjoy a free slice of classic fruit or featured pie. And sweetin up wednesday. . At village inn, a good meal is about more than just how it tastes. Its about how it makes you feel. . We have breaking news at the top of the hour. We told you Donald Trump Jr will make a trip to boulder to campaign at the sink restaurant. But just in, the [indiscernible] says they never knew about this and the Trump Campaign never asked permission to use the facilities at the restaurant. They just released did not organize or encourage this event to happen, so well see if it goes on. Meanwhile if you live up in boulder, heres a heads up for you. Your Drinking Water may look different and it may smell funny. Two water sources are working together and they have different chemistry. The city its normal and safe but it could happen periodically over the next few months. Gary kubiak back ator today. He took last week off after getting hospitalized with flulike symptoms and he has were happy to report the scans came back normal. Rosenburgs bagels are back in business although closed today which is its day off. The shop reopened yesterday after a fire destroyed an aparrment above it in may. Fans lined up before the doors opened. Alarm to this morning to see how big the line is. Im happy for them. It has been a bunch of months and i have been waiting for a long time, so here we are. Theyre open tuesday through sunday trump and clinton taking a break from the campaign trail to prepare for wednesdays night how out what gary before donald trump, there was mike coffman. Before trump sai women should be punished for having an abortion, coffman wrote a bill to redefine rape, which could exclude women who were drugged. Before trump called for a ban of muslims, coffman pushed for a religious test of u. S. Soldiers. And on president obama . Trump he could have been born in kenya. Coffman hes just not an american. Stop mike coffman now before he gives trump more ideas. Were on top of breaking news at 11 30. Police arrested a man after explosive device was found in nederland last week. Were learning heres a california man and hes identified as 64year old david asnberry and he was arrested in chicago over the weekend. The homemade explo found in a backpack. An officer picked it up, but once they found out what it was, the whole department evacuated. No one was hurt. Theres a wild fire burning in custer fire. Its called the junction fire. This is west of the wet morr and east of westcliffe. We know more than 125 homes are being threatened and preevacuation warnings have been sent out to those living in the area. And people with large animals are allowed to take them to the westcliffe fairgrounds and just in, weve learned the red cross has set up another shelter at the Colorado State fairgrounds. Firefighters were able to get a handle on this 300acre wild fire yesterday afternoon. This broke out n