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Thats near rampart reservoir. There are evacuations due to a Massive Wildfire in southern colorado called the junkins fire. Already more than 13,000 acres have burned there. Hundreds of homes are threatened. Its burning near west cliff, southwest of pueblo. That shows you right there, we have Team Coverage at 5 00. Meteorologist Lauren Whitney tracking the dangerous fire conditions. Want to start though with matt. Those flames really t this morning. In a matter of 12 hours we went from a grass fire about an acre to 13,300 acres. It exploded here behind me outside of the town of west cliff. Evacuations in place. And more people are getting ready to evacuate. Reporter evacuees grabbing what they can a getting out. Beyond scary. I keep praying the wind will die down. They said it was a small grass by the time they called 9 ....
Get down to the south. You see monarch pass weve got 64 mileperhour gusts. They get a little bit less the closer you get to pueblo but even canyon city seeing 29 mile perhour gusts at this hour. Its those kind of gusts that well see well into the evening hours. Its making for some incredible pictures all across the front range there. You can see what the winds are doing to the flags fort collins. Youve likely noticed the wind shift behind it and cooler air starting to move in. That front is bringing the winds and a little bit of rain and snow. You can see some of that snow right up along our northern mountains, but it just completely dies out, dries off as soon as it hits that dry air once you get to the foothills east of i25. Temperatures now, 66 degrees in denver. We got into the 70s today. Its 62 in greeley, 63 in fort and 60s through the foothills. The next civil hours well continue to cool off. Several hours well continue to cool off and keep you clear. Well be at 62 and 58 at 8 p ....
Wind definitely is not helping the firefighters. Red flag warnings are in effect for much of our state. Danielle grant is in the weather center. Some places have been gusts up to 60 mailings an hour. They have been unruly and unfortunately this is what we were imagining happening this afternoon with the strong winds out there and tinder dry conditions. We see wildfires spark up like that. Wind gusts 30 mileperhour in longmont, 60 mile the cheyenne ridge, fort morgan 62 mileperhour wind speeds and 20s and 30s in the denver metro area. These winds will weaken heading towards this afternoon further into this evening. Down across the southern section of our state you can see the winds in the 30 mile perhour range toward alamosa, 44 mileperhour speeds in trinidad. Relative humidity values picking up here in denver. You can see theyre still in the teens toward salida and pueblo, 8 in trinidad where until 9 p. M. Tonight for most of eastern colorado and you can see its going to take a while b ....
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Deplorables. First at 10 00, the man arrested for allegedly planting a bomb outside the Nederland Police station. Tonight weve learned David Ansberry has ties to a radical hippy group that tormented people in boulder 40 years ago. Lauren dispirito has been looking in to his past and how Police Tracked him down. That part of the story took you to that king soopers. He was spotted surveillance video, one of two locations where investigators say he bought cell phones used in making the bomb and at 3 feet 6 inches tall, using crutches to get around, they say he was easily recognized in the video. Reporter cell phone purchases helped investigators track down the man they say planted a bomb outside the Nederland Police department. He was very quiet. Did not ask very m ....