Over the weekend. Near frying pan road. It has burned 300 acres. At last check, crews had the fire 15 contained. No evacuations have been ordered. And to the east of that fire. Reopened earlier this morning. It closed late last night because of a fire that was burning right near the highway. The winds are so dangerous. Yeah, they are. Belen is in the backyard to talk more about that. Fall fires are how they can impact the fire danger. Exactly, and the weather in colorado has really been dry, so, you pick up those winds and you add in some warm temperatures and were talking about trouble. Lets take a look right now at those graphics. First stop, the view over the city is calm right now. We do have a red flag warning, but it doesnt go into effect until 11 00. Sunrise by the way happening at 7 15. We do have several wind happen in the mountains, we had peek wind gusts up to 40 and 50 Miles Per Hour in the high country and driving along these roads is going to be difficult at times, especi
Significant amounts of graffiti found on campus. The be on the look out alert that went out to students via facebook and twitter includes he has a violent history. This individual is on the National Sex Offender list. Keep in mind this incident is separate from the incident that caused controversy on the du campus a week and a half ago on speech wall painted by students. Ttats student run and student led and meant to be painted. This individual not affiliated with the university. If you see him, call police. Im jason, denver 7. Its still fall. But if feels like summer especially in the south and the south eastern part of the u. S. Seasonable record highs could be broken today, even tomorrow. Are we going to be deal with this heat again. Lets check with lisa. Month, weve had sixdays where weve been in the 80s. 6 days where weve been in the 70s. Today, thank you jason, a little coolerr well be in the 60s this afternoon. The cold front that rolled through last night bringing our temperatu
Knew that could be a problem. When she became secretary of state in 2009, a staffer says clintons aids asked him to see if he could get her and her staff secure blackberry phones. He found that would require an entirely new infrastructure so it never happened. We cant be sure thats why clinton kept using her personal email for work, but we did know she kept on blackberry. Several other staffers say she kept one in a secure Communications Room near her office even though cell phones werent supposed to be in there. Can you smell it in the air . The scent of heavy stock paper and envelopes, thats the smell of democracy in colorado. Mail in ballots went out today, finally a chance to turn your vote. This is the first election where each registered voter gets a ballot. You have until halloween to sign up to get a ballot. You can register the same day it has election if you can prove you were a colorado resident for 22 days and bring an identification. If youre not seeing your ballot and are
Belen de leon is in for marty this morning. A little cooler today, it sounds like. Yeah. A little cooler. The winds were wild yesterday. The winds not expected to be as strong today. Were tracking a chance for showers across colorado. First you want to show you what is happening to the south. The junkins fire, we will be talking about it a lot today. There were gusting up to 70 Miles Per Hour yesterday. Gusts up to 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour for today. The temperatures will be cooler. Our thoughts are with the firefighters who have a big fight against them today. The wind gusts are currently calmer in the city. Gusts up to 40 Miles Per Hour in the foothills. Down south near the junkins fire, the winds are calmer this morning. Currently were in the 30s and 40s around town. Some spots in the 20s. This afternoon, were going to have temperatures about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. And 50s closer to the foothills. Getting on the roads this morning, you wont have a problem. 42 degrees. This
Efforts. We start with jess cooh who is in centennial. Jessica, theyre battling that big fire in custard county. Reporter yeah. They declared a local emergency yesterday, which is why the state is getting involved. I would like to introduce you to mickey trove. I know you are here early becauser starting deployment early. Yes. Were starting from 6 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Our role is to get the resource the fire put out. The biggest part of that is securing a verbal declaration of disaster from the Governors Office yesterday. That also allows us funding through the Disaster Emergency Fund and the use of the Colorado National guard. Reporter and it sounds like you started deployment a few hours after the fire started yesterday. What sort of resources are there now. Right. We were notified by early in the morning. On 8 00, we had our field Emergency Operations center. As it went into pueblo, we had additional staff down in Pueblo County. You were mentioning yesterday too its obvio