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KMGH 7 News Now At 6 AM October 18, 2016

Significant amounts of graffiti found on campus. The be on the look out alert that went out to students via facebook and twitter includes he has a violent history. This individual is on the National Sex Offender list. Keep in mind this incident is separate from the incident that caused controversy on the du campus a week and a half ago on speech wall painted by students. Ttats student run and student led and meant to be painted. This individual not affiliated with the university. If you see him, call police. Im jason, denver 7. Its still fall. But if feels like summer especially in the south and the south eastern part of the u. S. Seasonable record highs could be broken today, even tomorrow. Are we going to be deal with this heat again. Lets check with lisa. Month, weve had sixdays where weve been in the 80s. 6 days where weve been in the 70s. Today, thank you jason, a little coolerr well be in the 60s this afternoon. The cold front that rolled through last night bringing our temperatures down, our winds were really gusty due to the front. Today youre going to find its calmer, still breezy, well be at 15 to 20mileperhour winds. Look at our highs. Denver, 63. Greeley, 64. Southern coloradom and dry. Relati danger is high down south as you get closer to trinidad. More 50s and 60s for . He central mounttins. Heres a look at the winds and right now this morning, calmer than what we saw 24 hours ago. Any chance for showers today, wwould love to see it down to the south. Looks like across Northern Colorado is where we could get a little rain and a rainsnow mix in the mountains. Heres your first alert, its cool and by first of all, were going to talk about the fire alert because of the high winds, lisa, today. Thats not helping a situation down in the southern part of our state. Were talking about its 0 ontain burning west of the whitmore. Evacuation orders in effect. Six structures have been destrod evacuees. We have gotten birth certificates and death certificates and licenses and all that stuff. Crews dont know what started the fire yesterday. For a list of evacuation shelters, you can head over to our free denver 7 app. Jason. We have traffic trouble spor medial north of longmont. You have the construction zone. Loog one. Several miles in fact on that northbound side as were creeping along. Theres another trouble spot. Take a look out to the east side of town. Air tracker 7. This is 225 at i70. Thats the east and westbound s0. I was hoping they were going to look on 225 because the northbound side, theres a new accident at colfax. Its heavy from alameda up to colfax. Take a look at the map. The north side is getting getting busier with the big trouble spots international news. Vietnamese military helicopter has disappeared. It happened during a training fight. Its right around that area. The helicopter lost control 15 minutes into the flight. It may have crashed into a mountain. A ilot and two trainers were onboard. Officials havent white house. Republican president ial candidate trump is making stops in colorado. Hes going to stop in Colorado Springs before heading to Grand Junction. Stay with denver 7 on details for each event. Well have you covered today. Trouble for the campaign trail. Donald trump jr. Under fire about a comment he made about the theater he made the comment the same day as the shooting in speaking about the trrgedy and responded saying quote, overall i give the movie two thumbs up. Morgan carol release a statement . Demanding an apology to the families and victims. She says quote the loss of life and horror faced by this community is no joke. He said our community has shown strength and hes under fire overcome enters he said about overweight people. Trump jr says he regrets not making fun of those who are overweight because he has to be political correct. Yesterday donald trump jr. Ran into issues when a campaign in boulder didnt go quite as planned. He was hoping to go to the sink, the restaurant on the hill. But the restaurant says thanks but no thanks. He ended up moving his rally and he had supporterssalong pearl ssreet at a house in boulder. On this morning saying the whole election system is rigged. Some say trump is preparing to lose the election. Amanda del castillo joins us live with what our secretary of States Office is saying about trumps claims. Good morning, amanda. Reporter good morning, the secretary of states communication director actually offering a rebuttal to trumps later tweets. Hes claiming that there is voter fraud, and that is a rigged election. Is actually happening. Now, we reached out to our secretary of state Wayne Williams who is republican and he responded to those claims saying quote, while there are occasional instances of voter fraud, colorados processes are good at catching attempts to commit voter fraud. Our partners at the denver post, they posted a poll asking should us. Vvters be concerned that this years election could be influenced by voter fraud, hacking or other illegal activity. More than 650 people took part in that poll. More than 54 say yes. Reporting live in downtown denver, im amanda del castillo, denver 7. Now to an exclusive story youll see on denver 7. One woman is facing a death threat. She says someone put up this political sign in our front yard without her permission so she took it down. Another one put up the next day. That one had touch this, ill shoot youuin the face. You have been warned and the sign was for initiative 300. The resident asked to be protested out of fear for retaliation. I removed it and called the police because i felt it was something that needed to be documented in case there was some sort of retaliation. Denver police are looking for whoever is responsible. We talked to an initiattve 300 supporter an wasnt placed there by anyone associated with the 300 campaign. A warning to parents about an app your kids could be using. It could lead your children to a criminals hands. This app is called whisper. Boulder police say a man used the app to lure a . 14year old girl and sexually assault her in his home. Whisper lets you share your anonymously. Perhaps the most troubling part of the app, it requires users to share their locations. When youre allowing someone to see your exact location, its like opening the up front door to your house and leaving it open for anyone to enter. So how do you find out if your child is on this app. Harris says turn on the Parental Controls on your childs phone. So, that way the next ttme think download an app, you are notified. That makes you having to approve that can buy t. Its 6 09. We have a cooler day today. What a warm weekend. We had 80s through the weekend. Today, were about 20 degrees cooler from what we saw on sunday. Denver today, a high of 63. Long mont, 67. 40s and 50s in the mountains. S your first alert, were likely going to stay dry there in denver, but up across Northern Colorado, a little closer to fort collins, and greeley, well see cloud through the evening commute. If you hear theres its crowded but no accident. Theres one further to the north near medial. Well detail the problems coming up. Its the cell phone video enraging people. A white officer arrested a black man for walking in the road. That video plus what authority was now saying. As candidates prepare for . At village inn, a good meal is about more than just how it tastes. Its about how it makes you feel. About a year ago, 30 ethiopians were killed by isis. Reporter mass execution of ethiopian christians. Mike coffman was the only one that reached out to our community. He went to every ethiopian church. He was there, and he was sharing the sadness that we were actually experiencing at the time. He says what he means, and he does what he says. And to me. Im mike coffman, and i approve this message. Im mike coffman, 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. . It is now 6 13. Developing overseas, the fight started against isis to take by mosul, iraq. Its the last isis strong hold in the country. Biggest the iraqi forces says roads. Ieds are all over the they have support from american troops. The group claimed 12 suicide bombings yesterday. Two officers ambushed in 24 hours. Were going to start in alaska where a manhunt is underway for the suspect. As you can see, caught on camera from this dash cam, stealing the officers patrol car. Investigators say the officer was responding to shots fired. When you see the men, he opens fire, that officer is now in serious condition. Now the california where a man is in custody after reportedly trying to attack officers at a starbucks there. He has a rifle and an ambush at a starbucks carrying a rifle. The officers say the suspect adam powell who you see here was wearing armor and he was armed with an adult rifle. Thankfully the gun jammed as he ran toward the officers. Officers shot and for the shooting of his 2 year old son. Its scary to say, these incidents are getting more and more common. Police shooting deaths are up 50 than llst year. Aastory mmking headlines out of minnesota. No charges for this Police Officer. Take a look at the video. You cant put your hands on me like this. You can see thomas walking in the street because the sidewalk is closed for construction. Well, the Police Officer approaches, con fronts him and he ends up in handcuffs and the officer claims thomas was impeding the traffic by walking into the street and another officer gets there and cites thomas for disorderly the citation dismissed and the mayor says the officer does follow boat coal, but thats under review. The search continues in North Carolina for whoever tried the damage discovered hours later. Only a couch burned. The fire just went out on its own. The next door, someone sprayed graffiti calling them nazi republicans. Donald trump has blamed clinton supporters and clinic condemns the attack. Just yesterday, a bombb3 threat rattled the Arizona Republican Party Headquarters in phoenix. Police say nonspecific threat was left on at the building. Authorities gave the all clear. No other details were given. 6 16. Election day still 3 weeks away and ballots were mailed out yesterday to voters in colorado. Early voting is underway in some states right now. Theres issues already. We have a look at the line in at an atlanta area area. Those waited three hours to cast their ballots. Our affiliate clapgseddfrom exhaustion they collapsed from exhaustion. The snow is heading into the metro area. Theres a cool down on the way. Bring it to the slopes. Its good its down here. Down here, just rain. If we get showers, were going to see a little rain today. Theenorthern mountains closer to estes park, well see snow on the peaks, but its nice. Heres your cheat sheet on this tuesday. It is going to be about 10 to degrees cooler today. If we see showers its likely across Northern Colorado. Ill show that in our future cast in a minute. Were seeing a hint of our sun rhine this morning from our vero camera in lineman. Beautiful, clear skies and sunshine is an issue for the morning drive. City park at 42. 10 degrees cooler in evergreen. N boulder right now, youre walking out the door to 40s. Its a little chilly early on. It will be cool through the day today. Were likely going to so i take some layers with you, a light sweater today. Denver at 63 by 4 00. Castle rock, 61. Parking, 63. 3 mid to upper 50s in the foothil. Evergreen about 58 today. Its still warm across southern colorado. The problem was yesterday, we had temperatures closer to 80, even 85 degrees mixed with gusty winds, low relative humidity. So fire danger pretty high still to the south, even though today. Youll find not nearly as many red flag warnings as yesterday. On radar, snow showers popping above 10,000 feet as you get west the divide. In denver, dry conditions today. Likely youre going to find more red flag warnings covering southern colorado through the afternoon as we get wind speeds up to 30, 35 milesperhour. Denver at 63. Were going to be under a mix of and sun and clouds this afternoon. A chance tomorrow, were at 58. Its a little cooler tomorrow. And heres your first alert, its the coolest day on our 7day forecast. Well beeback in the low 60s on thursday. And then a good 10 degrees warmer on friday. Beautiful weekend. Again, we were talking about thn our show. Well get on a 5 to 6 day day cycle in colorado and thats happening. Our weekends have been perfect. Again, youve got saturday and sunday. Some low to mid 70s. Often jason, we get where its n who wants that. You want the weekend to be perfect. You do want the weekend, but you want monday and tuesday to be good because if its gloomy monday and tuesday, it makes work sink. We have trouble spots. This is the i25 drive near mead north of longmont. You can see the northbound side creeping. You can see one lane is opened on the southbound side. We had an accident, it was a 4car accident in the thats also hampering traffic. This is the frontage road. If youre going you get off at 66th and take the frontage road all the way up towards johns town and it goes faster than the folks thats on the highway right now. You can see another problem for us this morning, its going to be to the east side of town. The accident is cleared from traffic off to the right shoulder after colfax. You can see how heavy it is from alameda. April extra 10 minutes the south side is quiet and air tracker 7 is in the Denver Tech Center at orchard and i25. Theres orchard going under i25. So far good for you. Check oot this picture. Thr on top of or rather inside of a house in atlanta georgia. There was a teenager driving ann it was stolen. That teen was thrown now taken toicle. the hospital. We dont know the police havent announced. The crash did knockout power for that neighborhood in atlanta. A shipment of carbo is on its way. They launched in virginia. This is carrying 5,000 pounds of food and supplies and science experiences and its going arrive at the space station sunday. Its 6 21. People take over the rhino shouldnt be held responsibll for a shooting. One student kicked out of a Boulder High School because of and con would punish women. And coffman tried to redefine rape to mean only forcible rape. In coffmans bill, victims who were drugged, even minors, victims of statutory rape, would not be considered rape victims. Coffman and trump are too dangerous for colorado. Dccc is responsible for the content of this advertising. Its beautiful out side. I broke my sunglasses. A bad commute with broken sunglasses. A live look in sterling. You can see how pretty it is. Were expecting a few showers ask cloud cover across Northern Colorado. Likely dry here in denver. Highs today, heres your first alert. Cooler, 58, jason by noon. Low to mid 60s by 4 00. The hits keeps come ongoing 225. A second accident in the backup. Youre seeing heavy stop and go traffic. It start with an accident after colfax, moved off to the side. Theres an accident close to 6th avenue sitting in the center lane. Theres your accident by 6th avenue. Not good. 6 25. Pretty soon, youre going to see psas on tv for a local bar for cold crush. That popular nightclub was shot down. Denver police call going a public nuisance. Last night the bars owner asked supporters to come out so they can give ttstimonials to keep the bar open. They put a public nuisance. Were far from nascence. And happiness. You know, its just unfortunate that we have to take the black eye for that. That man says the bar is mourning with the community over the shooting death of a rapper. More news coming in our next half hour including what were learn beginning the mannwho planted that bomb outside of Nederland Police station according it investigators, how his phone and appearance tipped off investigators and led to his arrest. Were 21 day day. Are you registered to vet. Is that an option. Well talk options next. Melanie trump is speaking out. What shes saying about a man attacked me in a parking garage. Tried to stab me with an 8inch knife. But i carry a pistol. I fight back. Thats why im still here. Every woman has a right to defend herself with a gun if she chooses. Hillary clinton disagrees with that. Dont let politicians take away your right to own a gun. From a ranchers perspective, we feel that often washington is removed from what we need. Senator bennet is different. Michael bennet has been at the ready and always willing to listen. When the federal government wanted to increase grazing fees, senator bennet stepped up and helped put a stop that. He commits to his word, and that means a lot to a guy like me. Im a republican, but i know that Michael Bennet trusts us and we trust him. Im Michael Bennet it is 6 30. Denver 7 is on fire watch. Nult approximately wild fires burning across our state. Heres the three were junkins fire burning in cuss tar county. No word on a cause. Now this one is 50 contained burning near rampart reservoir. Crews expected to begin the mop up process. No word how thhs started. We have the fremont fire. Its 40 contained and it scorched 330 acre and it started on saturday along the eagle county line near the town of meredith there. In aurora, four investigators say smoldering charcoal not thrown away properly is to blame. The fire happened on zena way. Scary because it was so windy and fast. It went up fast. The whole side of the building t up and spread. A lot of damage, but no one hurt. People are looking for a 6 30. To live. heres your first alert, fire danger is not as high as yesterday. Look across afternoon. Relative humidity is going to drop below 15 and we have wind gust to 20 to 35 milesperhour. Further north, closer to akron. Beautiful shot. You can see how bright and clear it is this morning. Sunny skies, but its a lot cooler. We felt the cold front roll through last night and now our temperatures are going to be a good 15, about 10 to 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. So youve got 40s as 00 to 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. So youve got 40s as you walk out the door this morning. By 0 and low to mid 53 by 10 00 and low mid 40s. Erie, 65. . Astle rock at 61. Heres your first alert. We ha3 days jason where our temperatures are going to be cooler than what weve seen. We warm back up for the weekend. Well talk about it coming up. Its going to be a long drive on 225. Weve had two separate problems and well start with the first one which is a multi car accident. This large police response. In the backups, theres anotherrcrash moved out of traffic closer to 6th avenue. As you can see on the map, the drub

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