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back. democratic mail ballots coming in strong in colorado, they could be in good shape. we ve been getting your questions about ballots. we took your questions straight to the top. colorado secretary of state stopped by to talk to steve staeger. here with secretary of stave wayne williams in the 9 news mail room. this is the first time i ve ever been in the 9 room. this is exciting. reporter: let s get to questions people have about their ballots. which of colorado s 64 counties still hand count election results? jackson county is the only one that hand counts election results. we do use a hand count to cam pair to machines in the other counties. reporter: we have gotten so many questions from people it in the mail and forget a stamp? the easiest way is to throw it into a 24-7 ballot box. otherwise, put a forever stamp on it. you don t want it delayed. reporter: how often are the ballot boxes emptied? ballot boxes are emptied they have to be emptied ....
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 they ll be gusting to about 8 miles per hour come early saturday morning. by saturday afternoon they ll shift more towards the hour. so hopefully that gives firefighters enough time to get more of the chatridge fire under control. this is something we ll watch very closely. we do not ....
country and yet again record breaking temperatures, back to back, 82 degrees. it s been a strange end to the month where typically a lot of folks have been waiting to put on the sweaters and kind of bundle up and think all right, fall. push fall back into winter. practically. we sort of want a little training before we jump into the next season. i feel like we ll be jumping in. both feet, it s going to happ hopefully in boots. it s also been a really dry month in our state all over our state. 9news mountain newsroom matt ra through is live in breck rim for us ra matt renoux is live in breckenridge for us. reporter: it could be an indication of what kind of winter we re in for. now as we head into november, when you re hanging holiday lights putting up a ton of lights. reporter: and you have a lot of lights to hang off the top of my head it s 60 some thousand lights. reporter: griff gearing and his colorado crew say it s always nice when ....
with detectives just an hour before his hearing. criminal defense attorney dan rex says that means one of two things. that he wants to tell what really happened and who the real perpetrator is, or that he has been promised some kind of leniency. reporter: during the search of the home detectives detected buy lodge biological evidence. i just want my baby back. and i m like oh my god. reporter: but child s body it could be difficult to prove how the little boy died. how it happened would be more problematic for them without a body. reporter: a sheriff department official told me i m not sure where this is going to lead, but we are still making plans to search the garbage dump on monday. forensic experts worry as precious time continues to pass. look our world in forensic investigation turns upon trace evidence, contact dna, these sorts of things. because of the environment that this child s body has been subjected to, that will all, but be lost. reporte ....
not much. there s justin yoon warming up on the side lines. you want a conservative call that gives you an opportunity. you don t want to risk it. you would like to take shot at dan: how gref do you get? this is letting the clock run and we ll call a time-out probably. dan: so that stops the clock with 2:11 left. doug: so not the classic rivalry. it goes right down to the wire. dan: it is still fun football. doug: miami taking the lead. 27 unanswered points. then you get up off the mat and tie it up. so many momentum swings. now you come down to a third and three situations. you ve been running the ball well. dan: not as much at stake obvioubu games to be bowl eligible. so they drop this one. they have to run the table or they ll be without it for the first time in the brian kelly era. then you have mark richt who lost three in a row. he spent 15 years in georgia. never in his playing career, his assistant coaching career, and his head coaching career at geo ....