south carolina continue to recovery from rains wind and cataclysmic flooding. ian slammed into south carolina just shy of category 5. the current death toll of at least 45 people likely to come in the days as search and rescue cruise go through blocked floodwaters, as of this morning, 1.3 million homes and businesses still in the dark. according to the latest estimate ian may have caused as much as $47 billion in insured losses which could make it the most expensive storm in the state history. the figure comes from core logic, that s a research firm that estimates losses from natural disasters. the estimates, combined ensured losses through private insurance, which typically covers wind damage. and fema s national flood insurance program that covers water damage. their estimates as of thursday, wind damage, $20 billion to $32 billion. flood damage, $6 billion to $16 billion. so the low end of the combined estimate would be $28 billion. before we spend, let s ask ourselves, is
are turning some of the cars around back east to get them onto the ramp to get out of this traffic mess, because the traffic is backed up quite a distance. accident investigators are on scene now, trying to figure out exactly what happened and how this motorcycle rider fell off his motorcycle. it s definitely causing a lot of traffic jams. to get around this we re going to send it in to jayson luber. the highway for some time. we re looking from the camera at 70 and 270 westbound. police pushing everybody off the ramp at quebec, it s where traffic is being diverted. most folks heading south to mlk and heading west to colorado boulevard and back closer to downtown. from there, they can go north. traffic lights at 35th aren t working right. this is the area here, we can expe a lot of traffic, gridlock almost situation in and around here because there s onto the surface streets that it s not able to handle a lot of that traffic. westbound backed up to peoria. it will affect 22
no word yet on a suspect description nor the condition of the victim. all new at 11:00, it seems the creepy clowns are continuing to haunt colorado. multiple threats appearing in the last 24 hours. jeffco public schools sent a letter home to parents saying they have found no credible threats of clowns coming to shoot up the schools. mesa county and say there is no direct threat to schools there. they also sent out an alert to paaents. fort collins police received reports of a possible clown at poudre high school. none of the claims are credibbe. and no one knows who is behind the claims. temperatures at this point both wednesday, hursday already in the 70s. now it s cooler. scattered showers, even a few farther north closer to fort collins. we have a bit of cloud cover now. here s a live look from the airport. mix of sun and clouds through the afternoon on most of our viera wireless cameras. dry in denver. mid- to upper 60s. we re about 5 degrees cooler estes park awe
the threats have been making the rounds. i believe it s just stupid. some kid just going around trying to scare kids. it s just a bunch of empty threats. reporter: in adams county, parents also received a letter saying the threats are taken seriously. there are watches on facebook pages. people say they people say they ve heard that clowns are gonna come shoot up the school. reporter: given the violence that has occurred in schools, each threat is being taken as if it is real. reporter: similar notices went out today to the parents of denver public school children. these threats are being taken very seriously. and is those who make the threats if charges. a woman is accused of faking cancer to get money out of a man in westminster. investigators say she took more than $39,000 from the 79-year-old victim. two years ago a bank employee noticed the victim writing thousands of dollars in checks and got suspicious. she has been charged exploitation of an at-risk elde
family and the community to give her council and support. and to help her find her path. reporter: prosecutors asked for four years, but the defendant got 90 days. he he cannot have access to the internet or children under 18 the prosecution feels what the pastor got was very little. this was a 13-year-old who said i felt vulnerable, and that s why i reached out to this guy. and this guy exploited that vulnerability. reporter: live in arapahoe deaths of two sisters at that luxury resort off africa. autopsy results show annie and robin korkki died from excess fluld in their lungs. annie lived in denver and was a competitive figure skater. our medical editor says pulmonary edema can be caused by any number ever things. a colorado woman is accused of preying on a much older man to get his money. she met a 79-year-old man from westminster on a dating service, told him she had cancer and needed money for treatment. he gave her $34,000 over two years and overseas. she admit