of restoring power to 6 million people, getting gasoline back in these ports. jim and david, going to be a big story in port tampa bay later on today, which handles 37 million tons of cargo a year a third of all cargo that comes in and out of florida, 5,000 acres, the largest port in the state, in physical size. we re going to talk to the president of port tampa bay, paul anderson later in thelogis airlines and fdr saying specialty retail, 10% of their coverage universe is affected by irma versus only 2% in harvey. one more indication how large the wind field was in this storm. guys carl, thank you of course, carl s down there all weekend monitoring the storm, and going to be fully part of the show as he always is. right but bring us up to date on all the things he just mentioned, jim i guess in some ways a sigh of relief, strangely enough. right, right. could seemingly have been worse. yeah. i mean seemingly could have been a lot worse. it is strange on the
front range later on. now we have 30s in the mountains. 57 at dia. 52 in boulder. 37 in greeley and 45 in fort collins. mostly clear skies throughout the state. almost a full moon outside this morning. by 9:00 a.m., 58. and lunchtime 77. i m going with 85 for a high this afternoon. that s significant because the record for this date is 85, we could at least tie, maybe break that record later today. we ll talk more about this and have your weekend outlook coming up. let s get a check on the traffic. joe is here for joel this morning. good morning. this is a look from our cbs4 mile high cam. this is around i-25 and park avenue. just construction that will be tying up that ramp from i-70 as you re going through park avenue to i-25, so expect that can see nice and wide open on both sides. as we re looking at the rest of the picture, southbound c-470 at ken caryl road is really your only trouble spot. thank you for that. let s address the elephant in the room. a road loss for
it s on i-25. castle rock to the dtc. the bridges have some delays northbound between 225 and university. but the bridges to downtown are looking nice and wide open for now. i ll give you your full look at the denver metro traffic picture coming up. let s talk about the dark cloud looming over us this morning. a road loss for the broncos as the team could not get anything going until later on in the game. plus, we have another injury to talk about to an offensive struggling to keep their quarterback safe. we learned overnight russell okung was taken to the hospital after that game due to a concussion. he did tweet out, though, thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. all good . chargers beat the broncos 21-13. here s a look at the plays of the game as denver falls to 4-2 and out of first place in the rivers takes the pass, throws to the end zone. caught, touchdown san diego. the chargers on their 12th play will go ahead and score first here. during the play, holdi
because the weather is one amazing story. here s ashton and he s on it. we are on it, and we are tracking what will be an even warmer day today. we were in the upper 70s yesterday. today we ll climb at least 5, 6, or 7 degrees over yesterday. that s why i think today s record high temperature could be in jeopardy. now temperatures are in the 50s for most neighbors around denver neighborhoods around 30s in greeley. here s the forecast, 85 degrees for the high temperature later on today. if we get there, we ll tie the record set 54 years ago. here s joe. reporter: ashton, good morning. we re sticking with highway 36 and i-25 from copter 4. the traffic is moving along quite nicely, especially on and off the offramps. but of course as you re going eastbound on 270 expect the traffic to kind of pick up a little bit. britt, though, we will have your complete metro area joe, thank you so much. want to rip this off like a band-aid, the broncos have a lot of work ahead of th
like general electric that were important to the broader averages. dow only dipping 17 points. s&p falling 0.01%. nasdaq gaining 0.3%. but the day ended up being dominated by takeover talk, and that s precisely where i want to start my game plan for next week, with a potential deal, namely at&t buying time warner, something that david faber said could happen as soon as monday morning. judging by the huge leap in time warner stock, it s entirely possible this monumental possibly $80 billion deal could be announced 48 hours from now. that might be followed by another expected deal, qualcomm potentially buying nxpi for $110. if these deals occur it will be a wild monday that might distract us from the biggest earnings week of the year. they could send up everything. cbs as well as all the semiconductor stocks that are small enough to get a bid, and i m talking about everybody from skyworks to micron. consolidation is a way of getting the bullish juices flowing. but let s not ice