We have an air Quality Health advisory for that wildfire smoke and that covers parts of northern Douglas County, far eastern arapahoe county, far excuse me, far western i should say arapahoe county, far eastern Jefferson County and all areas under Denver County. If you are in a spot where the smoke gets thick, stay inside. Otherwise this is going to be more of an advisory for folks who have respiratory problems, if you have very old or very young people in the home, you may want to be keeping them indoors as well. Out around the chatridge fire wind gusts are expected to die down a bit as we head into overnight tonight. Those winds will shift towards the south west out of the southwest and theyll be gusting to about 8 Miles Per Hour come early saturday morning. By saturday afternoon theyll shift more towards the hour. So hopefully that gives firefighters enough time to get more of the chatridge fire under control. This is something well watch very closely. We do not have any fire weather watches or any red flag warnings in place. Thats because our winds are not Strong Enough and were not dry enough. That being said, we havent had rain in a long time. So part of the front range under those moderate levels for drought. Women just havent had a lot of rain recently and it doesnt look like well see much any time soon. In fact, today we broke another record for highs temperatures. Were at 81 now in dia, 81 broomfield, greeley, fort collin 79, lower and middle 60s in the foothills and 50s and 60s over mountain areas. Mountain areas may be getting a tomorrow. Its pretty dry. Thats certainly the way we stay throughout the evening. At 6 00 tonight denver 74, 72 at 7 00 and at 8 00 well be at 68, very mild evening, a little cooler for the weekend. We arent expecting to set any more records around here. Winds are not expected to be a huge problem either. Well have more on that forecast coming up. The nicer temperatures, kind of a the American Airlines flight from chicago ohare to miami had an engine malfunction this afternoon causing a really big fire. The pilot aborted the takeoff and the passengers got off the plane using the chute. Three runways were closed this afternoon. No injuries have been reported. There were 161 passengers and nine crew members on that plane. For us. 10 days from the election and the fbi says its reviewing a new batch of emails potentially related to its investigation of Hillary Clintons private email server when she was secretary of state. The a. P. Reports the new emails came up in a sexting investigation of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner. You cant make it up. Fbi director james comey sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary committee with very fe the new emails are significant. Sources told nbc news the comey letter was sent to the hill in an abundance of caution and to be extra thorough. In a Campaign Speeches clinton didnt mention the story. Trump put it front and center. Inevitable. Its up to us how to guide and shape that change. I dont think people want the kind of change donald trump is offering. What ive Just Announced previously, it might not be as rigged as i thought, right . Right . The fbi, i think theyre going to right the ship, and theyre going to save their great reputation by doing so. The fbi said it doesnt know if it will be able to provide more details before election day. The new emails popped up investigating possible communications between Anthony Weiner and a 15yearold girl. Republican Vice President ial candidate mike pence is back on the campaign frail after his plane skid off Yorks Laguardia airport. Everyone is okay. Theres also a new pilot at the controls. A concrete section at the end of the runway stopped the plane from skidding too far. These are faa required installations at the end of runways to do exactly the purpose which they serve which is to slow down an aircraft that is approaching the end of the runway. Earlier this week a study the bureau of transportation statistics found laguardia is the most problem plagued airport in the country. Protesters of oil pipeline than two dozen protesters still on sited of 141 people were arrested yesterday because they wouldnt leave. The nearly completed pipe line 1,200 miles of pipe. The 3. 8 billion project is capable of transporting more than a half million gallons of oil a day. Native americans say that pipeline would taint Water Supplies and destroy their sacred grounds. 23yearold logan rogers has been arrested by the Larimer County Sheriffs Department in wy manslaughter and reckless child endangerment charges. Investigators are saying roger is not the biological father of the baby this that died but arent saying how the baby died. Detectives believe the child was dumped in a trash bin at Laramie County community college. Broncos running back cj anderson is out of surgery but doesnt know what he might be able to come back to the team. Procedure to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee yesterday in california. Hes going to stay in vallejo another week and then return to denver on their flight back from the raiders game sunday. The broncos placed him on injured reserve. Anderson says hes not ruling out a possible return as soon as the final two regular season games. Emergency work will continue to cause heavy backups on one of denvers mo streets. You may have noticed a lot of traffic and equipment along speer boulevard the last couple of days. Excel said its fussing xcel said its fixing a problem that could become a bigger danger to drivers at any point. Whats the issue, jessica, and how long are delays expected to last . Reporter the city of denver actually has about 200 concrete steel vaults underground. Replaced. It is, of course, causing a big problem for drivers as x sell continues to make these xcel continues to make these repairs. Check out these delays that are now reaching speer and logan. This iscreating an interesting challenge for this firehouse behind me. Weve seen firefighters have to take at alternate routes because they have to avoid all the traffic. Xcel said this is nothing compared to all of the issues theyre experiencing under the surface right now. That changed two days ago for drivers heading downtown on speer boulevard. It has been worked. Quite a few coworkers were talking about just backed up on speer and how long it took them doubling and tripling in some places, the already busy road causing even more delays all because of whats happening underground. Makes their commute much longer. Reporter xcel said an old concrete steam bolt desperately needs replaced. Crews closed two lanes on speer, crews saying this is an emergency. That vault would collapse and there would be a bigger hole in that ground that could possibly injure drivers. Its good to hear it ill be with over so with over soon. It will be over soon. Reporter that depends who you ask. Crews have to basically build a massive new building underground. Xcel said this is standard work. They built about 10 vaults every year, but this one happens to be bigger. Excel says those who dont want to deal with the delays should find other ways around town. Window, but i take the light rail in. Reporter just to reiterate, xcel said these delays will last until next wednesday. They are saying that they will be complete at that time. Crews will be also working throughout the weekend to speed up the progress. Keep in find that we have so many events happening in and around the metro area this weekend and one of our journalists was saying it took her an hour to get from speer and logan down to the la of the delays that you could expect this weekend. Xcel says keep xcel says keep that in find and plan ahead. Did xcel warn anyone . Reporter here the thing, kim. Xcel said this was such an emergency situation that by the time they found out this problem was happening and got crews there it was just too started putting up signs letsing them know to take alternate routes. We know now. Thank you. The Denver School of science and technology is continuing to change education for thousands of dps students. 9news journalist byron reed says dsst is hitting marks some thought were never possible. Reporter a few years ago neighborhood schools like this one in by some in need of change. Traditionally we have not served students from limited backgrounds as well in this city. Reporter a change bill kurtz felt was necessary. We want to be in communities that need high quality schools. Closing that achievement gap is very, very important to us and we see that all students can succeed when we give them the opportunity. Reporter succeed is what they did. Recently ranked in the top five high schools across the city giving top honors to College View High school campus, a ranking that did not seem possible in these neighborhoods just a few years ago. Making sure we do everything we can each day to help each student learn i think is a key to our success. Reporter a strategy that seems to be working with a little help from home. The opportunity for to us go to those communities and partner with the students schools is something were very excited about. Just a great Supportive Community that will help them accomplish their academic goals and become the best person to themselves. Reporter and celebrate a ranking they hope will never change. We are seeing our young people getting a world class education in our schools. In just a few hours history will be made in chicago. We have a live look at wrigley field. Oh, my. Look at all the people out there. For the first ti 71 ars thcubs willho a world series game. Its been 176 games between the two teams, the cubs and indians, since their last title. So cleveland and chicago, pretty darn excited. I think people anticipated this longer than we imagined, quite the matchup thissier. Baseball fans are happy. Online brokers say by the time its all over this world series could set the record for the highest average ticket price in some tickets are going for 10,000. That guy is not paying 10 grand im just saying right now. Or is he . Well, yeah. And somebody in his house is finding out afterwards and saying what . Hey, its history. It is history. I cant picture that money. If you can watch it at home. If youre a cubs fan, you have a lot saved up. With voting underway, some decide. If you dont like donald trump or clinton, should you Vote Third Party or what some less the lesser or what some say is the lesser of two evils. We have several event ideas on things you can do for than Hillary Clinton or donald trump just throwing away your vote . Go to 9news. Com votenow. We are taking your votes live. We want to hear what you have count or matter . Go. In my opinion they really do matter. If you vote for a third party, one of the minor candidates, your vote will show in the final tally how much that candidate has attracted in the strength of his or her party. So it is not a wasted vote. It really counts. It matters a whole lot to the libertarian party, for example, so even if that person doesnt win, youve made your statement is what youre saying . Yes. The message has been received. So the same goes for if you choose not to vote for president but you vote all the way down the ticket. Yes. That says to the analyst later running the numbers that theres a lot of people out there who did not like their choice for president. Any of them. Any of them, but you have to vote down the senator because and ballot questions and on down the line. They will look at the numbers and see whether there are fewer votes for president than the other candidates, than the other races. You view that as totally valid. Im going to skip the president ial race outright if youre really fed up with your country that you feel these choices were the good. There are some people who would say practically speaking even though theres 20s some odd candidates out there its a twoparty system. We know historically one of these two major parties are going to win. How do you convince someone theyre not sitting it out if they decide to pick that lesser of two evils choice if they feel that way . I recommend we all take a years and its not just one election in isolation and your vote in isolation from all the other votes. Its the whole population and how they vote. So a party that is small but growing way back when in the 1930s and 40s, the socialist party was racking up millions of votes and people actually listened even though theyd american but their credit selfs of the american system were heard by both parties and both republican and democratic parties adjusted their platforms and their laws in accord answer and then the socialist party collapsed. I can picture a voter sitting out there scared of one or the other of the two Major Party Candidates the third partte oy vovoting for the one they think has a shot at clinton, doesnt matter which one. How would you tell them to weigh the difference between a protest vote and trying to keep the one theyre actually scared of out of office . Oh, i think dont vote for either one. Dont go the protest route its not well received by our current balloting system. If we had a preferential ballot these things would become clear where you rank all the candidates, but for whatever reason, mostly tradition, we dont do that here, so protest votes are lost. If you favor hillary lets say or oppose donald trump and you hillary, let me put it that way and even worse, you dont like trump, voting for hillary sounds like you support her, but actually you dont. If you really dont support either candidate, dont vote for them. Vote for a senator instead. And vote down the ticket, but vote is what your message is. Absolutely. Because if you dont vote the people who have been angered and frustrated, dont not vote. That message says you dont care. Statistics tell us how many choose to vote. Were looking at result on screen with people saying yes, they think it is throwing away your vote. Obviously someone everyone has to make their own decision on. Theres a word out there wasted science that has a very strict definition. Unfortunately its not really wasted. Its just excess. Calling it a wasted vote makes it a value judgment and i regret that anybody ever made thanks so much for your time. Thank you. Weve got a few days left. A woman is getting 70 million from Johnson Johnson after a court determined talcum powder caused her Ovarian Cancer. Attorneys say she was diagnosed with stage 4 Ovarian Cancer and had to have her colon, ovaries, spleen and uterus removed. Earlier this year two similar lawsuits ended with verdicts awarding the plaintiffs combined 127 million. A spokeswoman released a statement saying in part, we deeply sympathize with the women and families impacted by Ovarian Cancer. We will appeal the verdict because we are guided by science which supports the safety of our product. The American Cancer Society says any risk from talcum powder is quite small if there is, in fact, any real risk. They say its important for researchers to continue to investigate the issue. May have turned to cranberry juice. Researchers at yale asked a group of older women to take two cranberry capsules or dummy pills for one year. Doctors say there is no difference in uti related hospital stays or deaths. Researchers dont recommend doctors prescribe cranberry juice or pills and antibiotic is the most effective treatment. Anyone can be a hero. You can schedule your day to say im going to save the 19th annual drive for life is happening at mile high. The only thing that matters is that you give. In 2009 i went into the hospital for a routine surgery and things became not so routine. So l ting the surgery i required so following the surgery i required 33 units of blood to save my life and without one of those units i would have died. Donors who selflessly went to bonfils, gave units of blood and it ended up saving my life. Danielle knows all too well that donating blood can save a life. Now she encourages others to donate. You can and even save a life at bonfils drive for life next tuesday at Sports Authority field from 8 a. M. Till 5 p. M. We are expecting more hot and dry weather this weekend. Yes, absolutely. Might it actually start to feel like fall . I dont know, ever. Going into a new month. Y25kky yvpy want to check in again on the large fire thats been burning on the east side of highway 85 south of titan road. Were looking at live pictures here from sky9. We just watched a heavy air retardant and water. A helicopter is out there as well. We dont see any flames at this point. We definitely saw some flames a short time ago actually. This one seems to have flared up quickly, saying 30 contained, but it doesnt look like theres an active head of flame on this fire. Youll know theyll want to continue to button this thing up and take care of any hotspots so it stays that way. Helicopter coming in with a water drop. The way the land is rolling and lots of scrub brush and grasses and homes close by. Knocking these things down quickly and it looks like theyre on the winning side of this one. We have just seen so many of these lately ball its been so warm and dry, this because its been so warm and dry, this ditchfield is in the 9news backyard. Do we get to fall at some point . Youd think eventually. Our problem has really been lack of rain and lack of rain and snow across our mountains. Thats why were in moderate Drought Conditions around the denver metro area. That said we do not have red flag warnings or fire weather watches in effect across the state because our humidity is are not Strong Enough today to warrant either of those. Well keep you updated if we do see any issue by the National Weather service. If youre in and around town, youre noticing partly cloudy skies and if youre outside, youre noticing smoke. It doesnt look too hazy around the denver metro area, but you can smell smoke and all of Denver County is under a wildfire smoke Health Advisory through 9 a. M. Saturday. Eastern Jefferson County, western arapahoe county, and northern Douglas County. If youre in an area where the smoke is thick, you need to stay inside. Otherwise this is mostly going to impact those folks who have respiratory problems, heart conditions or the very young and the very old. Those folks maybe need to spend more time inside than out until some of this smoke starts to clear around the denver metro area. Gusts fortunately not that bad. Lets look at that wind gust range. Tonight wind gusts die down. Tomorrow breezy conditions pick back up. To the west of our foothills Idaho Springs through feather lakes, those guys will have wind 35 to 45 Miles Per Hour while we just have breezy conditions off and on around town. Winds today despite the clouds we reached 82 for a high at dia breaking our high of 80 last set in 1984. Weve got upper 70s, lower to middle 80s on our eastern plains. Mountain areas, youre in the 50s and 60s with middle 60s across the western slope. Here outside the 9news backyard i can smell the smoke out here, doesnt look too hazy overhead. We have sunshine and sitting at 79 degrees. So its a all across the state you can see were very dry. Showers are out to our west. Early tomorrow morning i wouldnt be surprised if we saw an isolated shower or two. Now most of the activity remains around the great lakes and off to the west where our next storm system is approaching. Thats a cold front that will sweep through the state tomorrow. It will visit our winds. Unfortunately it looks like all of that rain stays with off to our north. All we get is the cooler weather. Well get closer to record setting sunday with highs forecast in the upper 70s. The record holds at 80. As we get into next week well have even cooler forecasts. Lets talk about the rain. An isolated shower possible in mountains tonight. Then tomorrow morning a front rushing through. That will generate rain and slow above 10,000, so mostly mountain areas north of i70. Denver, fort collins and greeley were dry. Temperatures are going to be cooler than today but still way above average. Tonights low 51, 48 greeley, lows in the 30s and 40s in the mountains with low 50s across the western slope. Tomorrow afternoon 70s for highs in both denver and greeley, 74 fort collins, mountain areas will be in the 50s and 60s, low 70s near grand junction. Mostly cloudy skies re breeze, high 75 and partly sunny size. Were breedy on sunday, then breezy on sunday, then tuesday low 70s and middle 60s on wednesday, actually looked like the system that pushes through wednesday would make us cooler, bright bring us some rain. Models have completely backed off of that. Forecast for wednesday. Its still going to be mild with highs in the middle 60s. A lot of folks are wondering specifically what the trickor treat forecast looks like. Mild night. Its going to be dry around town in the denver metro area, a few clouds, middle 50s into the low 60s. It looks like a perfect evening, but we are really hoping for a little bit of rain around here, so promising. We need the rain to get any humid it i in this state. The thank you, becky. It is a weekend before halloween and lots of things to do, lots of places to show off your costumes and stock up on treats. We have them and a nine things 9news. Com and the 9news mobile app. You get a bonus weekend on a monday full of fun. You can take the entire family to boo at the zoo tomorrow and sunday 9 00 to 5 00. There will be trick or treating stations and people friendly events. Theres also boo after dark tomorrow night 6 30 till 9 00. Tickets are 17 bucks. And space museum in lowry noon until 4 00. Visitors have access to open cockpits, pedal planes, a bounce house and Scavenger Hunt and can check out the star wars x ring. Admission ranges from 6 to 12. 50. Other options if you arent necessarily wanting to dress up but want to get outside, this show. Theyre beautiful. The proceeds go to an organization that helps young people learn respect and leadership through horsemanship in Jefferson County. On a horse show where you go judge horses its where people put on a performance to please the crowd. Its music. Its colorful costumes and fast paced action for about two hours, a great show. Horsecapades is their only ra one sunday. Tickets are 10 bucks at the box office at the national western. This sound fun. If youre carving pumpkins over the weekend, weve got some tips by the pros and we mean surgeons. They say you might not believe how common pumpkin carving injuries are. Creepy music not in a good way because this is kind of scary. Its a little enlightening, too. Emergency rooms see a carving injuries at this time of year. A hand surgeon has seen everything from finger lacerations to tendons cut. Remember Jimmy Fallons hand injury . It didnt have anything to do with pumpkin carving, but he was in a bandage for months. Thats what can happen when a hand laceration or a tendon actually gets cut. It can result in the loss of feeling and hand function, even if surgeons are able it. Weve seen where every finger gets a laceration and cut to the tendon. Youre talking several months to half a year before you get the return of function in the hand. The doctor says problems arise when people exert force on the pumpkin and their hands slip because the pumpkin is wet and especially if they use a really big knife. He said dont overlook the tools made for pumpkin carving. Theyre designed to thin out the inside of the pumpkin that theyre wonderful. Rather than the sharpest knife you have lying around. Yeah. He says every season has something when it comes to injuries. Sports in the summer, winter its snowblowers and fall pumpkin carving and also turkey carving. People carve a little too much. A little too close. Be careful. It can happen any time you get out one of those knives. Big night in prep sports and weve got football and soccer for you. Sports reporter yl will be live at jeffco stadium. A fan in arvada got some its like an expresso shot, isnt it . It feels like summer outside, but it is fall and its coming to the end for the fall sports. Its been great fan weather. Not too bad out there. Tonight. Hey, taylor. Reporter hey, guys, a lot going on right now. We have soccer playoffs, football playoffs, a big game tonight between chatfield and dakota ridge at 7 30, but the state soccer playoffs also got underway this week. We met one player who is trying to give his team the best shot at going far. Theres no reward i cant give up on it. Reporter if you never take the shot. If anyone is showing you how its done, mohammad randolphs soccer Mohammad Ahmed is never one to pass on an opportunity. Reporter how are you on time . Im like i dont know. He plays to play. Reporter the striker finished the regular season with the most points and goal says out of anyone in the goals out of anyone in the entire state. Hes trying to pick up his guys intensity during the game. Hes one of the most vocal guys on the field which is crazy to three years. Mohammad was born and raised in ethiopia. We dont play basketball or baseball. Its only soccer. Reporter the rules were the same. The game is not. There were no organized sports in school, no refs, no he coes. Kids were forced to create coaches. Kids were forced to create their own team. In 2014 mohammads family took a chance and left. This was the dream we waited for like a long time. Reporter now on the verge with the grizzlies further in the 3a playoffs than theyve ever been, but the odds are looking pretty good this time around. I have a couple friends that kind of come from like the same place. Its good to see a fellow athlete and friend, you know, succeed in life. Reporter because there will be plenty of shots that count. Mohammad and his team are playing right now. It is a gorgeous night. Chatfield dakota ridge game coming up at 5 00. You got to think there are a lot of parents that are happy not to have to bundle up. Reporter the only reason you need a blanket is for extra cushion. Other than that its short sleeves weather tonight. Its good for prep Sports Reporters as well. Reporter im not complaining. I know. Youve been out on some very cold ones. Reporter were just waiting. Thank you. Every day especially on moment. This 1 proves all good things happen in arvada. It comes to us courtesy of jacks bar and grill in arvada where people of all abilities are hired, those with Developmental Disabilities are trained. Theyre the fabric of this place. On 1 one employee surprised the other with a ticket to sundays bronco game. Oh snow how about that. Elsa how about that. Elsa will be going to the game. She is so excited. Thats just so nice. Just once in a while you see somebody do Something Really Nice and you hear about it. Pure joy, thats what i call it. So the broncos are playing the chargers game day live sunday morning at 9 a. M. And locker room coverage on 9news at 5 p. M. On channel 20. This time were going to get the upper hand with the hey, we told you it was looking good and now weve got good news, the fire in Douglas County, fully contained. Yeah. Weve seen the airdrops. They hit it from the air and ground. A couple subdivisions evacuated. Its so dry out there. Its all good. This was on the east side of highway 85 south of titan road. It gave crews a bit of trouble, theres a nice big charred area, but no active head of flames, so good news. The white house goes all out for the holidays, halloween not an exception. Rather than regular ghosts and goblins tourists got to meet special ghosts of president s past. As tourists walked through the white house today they were greeted by actors playing former president s. Abraham lincoln told stories about days when he each room had some signs with creepy details about the white house. I wonder if the tourists knew they got that experience. It would be worth it to go on that specific day that. Does it for us. 9news at 5 00 is coming up next. Thanks for joining us. This is 9news. People now able to go brushfire in Douglas County. It burned dangerously e to some homes there, took about five hours to get a handle on the thing east of highway 85 south of five tan road. We just learned titan road. We just learned moments ago the fire is now 100 contained and hopefully people can get back home soon. Meteorologist danielle grant is joining us now. Its been so warm and so dry. The weather is not helping. It just shows there is no particular fire season in colorado. We can get these wildfires that spark up just like that and you see them go because weve had gusty winds. The winds are finally backing off a little bit in portions of Douglas County which is great news now that this fire is 100 contained. Those winds have quieted down significantly in Highlands Ranch and littleton. Unfortunately there is still a lot of smoke in the air. We do have Health Advisory in place until 9 a. M. Tomorrow encompassing the entire Denver County area as well as parts of jeffco and also into arapahoe counties, too. Poor air quality will be happening if you have less than 5 miles visibility and all that smoke out there. The temperatures have been so warm this afternoon and truly this entire week. Weve been sitting in the 70s and 80s this afternoon across eastern colorado, 50s and up in
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.