This is the news in campaign 2016, people getting ready to rally behind republican Vice President ial candidate mike pence. Hell be talking to supporters at the top of the hour at an event in colorado springs. Political specialist shaun boyd is here. A lot of surrogates have been passing through. Colorado is still in play . Reporter really only four states left that are tossups. Cbs news Battleground Tracker shows florida, North Carolina, iowa, and colorado. The states that could decide the president ial race. Maybe even control of the u. S. Senate. It is entirely possible 13 days from today that control of the senate will come down to the state of colorado. Reporter republicans chances of winning the presidency shrinking, their focus has turned to maintaining control of the u. S. Senate. I want to do everything i president whoever that president may be. Reporter ted cruz campaigned in loveland for Republican Senate candidate Donald Darryl Glenn who is trailing Michael Bennett by doubl
And the citizen response. Reporter its one of colorados scenic highways. Now squaw pass road is being tarnished by illegal dumping. You think what a beautiful road. Until you go over the side of a parking area and you look down over the embankment. And you see all the garbage. Reporter tim deegan noticed the problem a few weeks ago when he and his wife pulled over to look at the view on the way to echo lake. Looked over and embankment. And it was full of garbage. Lie. Reporter wednesday he and fellow rotary members organized a cleanup along with dozens of volunteers and police, fire and Forest Service members. They collected truckloads of debris. We had a refrigerator we retrieved out of there. Sofas, shutters from the house. Remnants of carpeting. You name it. Reporter chamber of commerce president betsy hayes says the people caught dumping on Forest Service land face a heavily a heavy penalty. This is not okay. Once you cross the line its 1000 fine. Reporter it can also include up to
Directions on wadsworth. Anybody that drives wadsworth is going to experience some traffic. They do every morning during rush hour and this is just going to make it that much more difficult. Now what were working to figure out is exactly how long the cones have been up. This looks like a temporary solution. They cheer have more work clearly have more work to do. Its a long section of roadway blocked off, on th lane, both directions of wadsworth. As traffic builds up youll want to make extra time getting to work. Were going to continue to look into this and figure out how long this blockage will be here. Live in lakewood, jamie leary, cbs4 morning news. Thanks a lot. Were also dealing with the possibility of hitting record breaking heat. Unbelievable considering its october, right . This october is incredible. Ashton has been telling us now. Today and tomorrow. The record High Temperature is 80 both days. That record will be challenged both days. Its relatively mild outside now for a la
Lets check in with joel hillan. Good morning. Good morning. They have to lay down the asphalt before they can put cars back on, so those closures will be in place for a while. I think you might prefer this drive, take kipling to 6th, i think the lights are timeed better along there anyway. You could take alameda to sheridan trying to access 6th. In the next quarter hour or so, were really see traffic stack up in that northbound direction of wadsworth, so id avoid it. Going to be a tough situation on the west side of town. A beautiful shot of our waning Crescent Moon this morning with clear skies over denver and the front range. Our temperature outside now is in the mid40s. Later today were going for 81, which would be a record for this date. Another record high on the way for tomorrow and a warm weekend ahead as well. All the details are coming up. Thank you. Police combed the scene of a deadly motorcycle crash late last night, and you can see the mangled motorcycle on the road here at
Suicidal man. That man opened fire, critically injuring a deputy. The District Attorney has cleared the officer who fired the fatal shot. Jamie leary joins us live from the Parker Police department. We really see how chaotic that shooting scene was in this video. Reporter very chaotic. You can see officers running towards the shooting suspect. The video youre about to see is from the perspective of Parker Police officer ronnie durell. He fired killed suspect randy roddick, bringing his shooting spree to a halt. Where is he at . Front seat. I got him, hes down. Reporter that brief muffleed pop was the fatal shot. Its force the District Attorneys office determined was justified. To know there is an officer down, to know people are being shot at and this guy is armed picture, slow your breathing and pull that trigger one time and end this thing, that is an amazing shot. Reporter investigators say roddick was using a fully automatic ak47, firing shots at officers and bystanders, all unfold