Good morning. Reporter good morning, steve and allison and you know ter liso the early riders riders here are the ones that have ithe the easest because things havena been moving pretty smoothly so far this morning despite the shutdown here between fortt totten and nomagallaudet. Galla. You can see plenty of signs s out here as well warning folksks of no through rail service on sn the red line, also shuttleo shtl buses and plenty of personnel handing out brochures lettingeti people know whats going on and directing them to where w this is going to last for some e 25 days all the way through november 22nd as they continuenn trying to do that intensive inti carey care repair work onror the red line that has had soo many troubles. Trouble the troubles may continueonnue budget wise. We know theyre in a kw th situation, a 275 million gap that needs to be closed andds t geneo rabel manager paul wiedefd late yesterday. The board will take a lookla ata it on thursday but some of the t items in
Everything. Sidebohing scary about out this morning but the colorutsher are perfect for halloween halloe right now at 7 oclock on thisnt monday morning. Morning. It is october 31st, 2016. T, 201. Well check in with weatherh wer and traffic in just fiveust five minutes. Sounds good to me. 7 01 right now. Soundow good monday morning to you,ou im Allison Seymour and. Mour and im steve chenevey. m welcome to fox5 news m sorning. Lets get to the latest on the campaign trail. Tra eight days to go untilil election a week from tomorrow. This is not the october is surprise the clintnoon campaigng was hoping for. For the fbi sifting throughbi hundreds of s thousands of ean o mate mls reopened investigation intoon io democratic president ialcr nominee Hillary Clinton. The latest round discovereatdicd during the sexting investigation into an thenn in weiner and the estranged estng good morning, annie. Aie hey, good morning, steveod m and allison. D allin. Well, youre right, electionelei day is nex
We have a track unit derailmentm affects the orange line outsidet done loring because of that t single track on the orange linen between west falls whichever church and vienna. Urch a vie the blue line shuttle bus b service replacing real servicels between Franconia Springfieldind and van dorn street. Tr that is also causing lot ofot delays on the yellow linen thein because of congestion on theio blue line. A lot of folks trying to avoidod the roads i think on thishi terrible traffic tuesday and take the rails. Take t rai unfortunately getting stuck in that. Unately fox5s g betob barnard is out at Franconia Springfield with thege very latest how this is unfolding. Reporter hey there, are rin g morning. Ng well there are shuttle buseshera going from this the start shu oe blue line Franconia Springfieldd to van dorn street but a lot ofo these shuttle buses are actually going to the pentagon because as metro officials here say most ot these people are working at thee pentagon some of the
Confidence in chief luis velez. Letts reased after the survey byoth the chief and the union each highlight a ne for more officers. Union president keh rh calculates the city would have to hire at least 100 new officers just tcatch up with avegetaffing levels at departments arnd thetate. Ty manager sam azad says every city departmenealing inneeds. Eigy to 85 percenur budget is penel cos and en you see a lot of vacancie and thatasappened througho the country, itnopeculiar here, you ze those vacancies and use that money to lanc the budget. Odes told us t union memrs will n formally ld a vote of no confidence because majority onity Council Backs th chie if youd like to rd up on al hek d forth over t o idcesu. U n nd tseocuments on our websitkoaa. Com colodo singsice departme. Is ring after arly 40 years of service. Commander Fletcher Howard of the stetn Hills Division joined the police force in 1977. He was promoted to commaer in 2008. Howard was also the sohern rado regional ordinator for
Customers of monument wat enterprise befo didinon much they will need to rse rates. As weve reported. Town oicials say because smanagnt. They have to dmatically hike the price of water next ye. And th keeincreasing rates percenper ye for the next 5 years. He callation for me for the fit year jump is probably about 4,200 on myater bl extra for thisext year. At the end o6 years, it most doubles. Ts gointo hitbably th poor the wst and our senior citize or fixed incomes. We have a hard decision before , but we need to me it, unfortunely. A vote on the rate hikes is set for march 7th. Therwill be an open house workop before th to hear co fm affeed customers. Well let you knhen ats scdule news5 uoveredew details abouthtension between City Management and the rank and file at the Pueblo Police department. A recent police ion suey found 94 out of 99 members suppora vote ono cfidence in chief luis velez. Letters reased afterhe survey by bothhehief and the union each higig a need for more officer