hi, everybody. i'm alan gionet. good to have you with us in the cbs4 morning news. >> i'm britt moreno. thanks for joining us on this wednesday morning. this is the news breaking out of denver. a car smashes through a property and then takes off. imagine the people i unsuspecting about this. there's plenty of damage left behind in this area. >> just a pile of damage here. this happened in a backyard in the 3400-block of west evans west of evans and federal. that's where shawn chitnis is right now to bring the news right now. shawn, what's up. >>reporter: alan as you two were describing, that's almost how it happened. we know the homeowner was inside in bed and woke up suddenly to see what was happening.

heard anything. he came out to take a look to see what happened if the behind me there's a mess he's having to clean up this morning. let's look closer at the scene here with video that was shot earlier this morning that gives you a sense of the damage. it looks like some sort of storm came through. a car driving on evans. it hit a pole. then it hit the fence, went into the backyard, hit a trailer and then hit this detached shed police tells us the driver left the scene and they were able to catch up with the driver and take that driver to the hospital to get treated for injuries. we don't know anything else about the driver or their condition. back here at this location, we know there's going to be quite a lot to cleanup here. a lot of damage as we can see from that fence as well as the shed there. we're told that city officials will have to come in later this morning to take a look at that

condition is like and whether it can still stand. the homeowner is doing what he can to cleanup that mess. we can see no one was injured. we're going to remain on scene because we need to collect details from police and fire and bring more video from this location. live in denver, shawn chitnis, cbs4 morning news. >> shawn, a rude awakening. thank goodness the homeowner is okay. it was a dark and stormy night. here's a look at the lightning show we had across the metro a it's awesome. the storms rolled in during yesterday evening. >> weather delayed the rockies game with the nationals. this is tw the rockies twitter page. the lightning was just coming down right there. a little rain, a little electricity and chris spears in this morning to tell you about your weather picture today. good morning, chris. >> good morning, alan. nice to see some rain. my goodness. we really need a good dose of moisture across the state, and

you're waking up in the 50s and 60s around metropolitan denver. 53 in evergreen and con see. 64 at dia for the warmer spots in the metropolitan area. we have a couple of weather watchers checking in this morning. look at this. 38 degrees. this is pretty typical though up on the north side of breckenridge. gary checking in this morning for us. good morning to you. doppler 4000 tracking light shoy slope. they're probably sprinkles, but we'll track more storms through the day. bad ozone through 4:00. we have an ozone alert for denver. once the sun comes up, it's a jump into the 70s and joel, we'll cruise through the 80s and watching the radar for thunderstorms. >> that's better than the 90s. this is from arapahoe road. make your way through the tech center. look how many cars are

seems to be the morning where we have the most volume. you saw where shawn was near knox and evans there, watch out for police activity. slowing northbound along i-225 passed i-70 along c-470, you can expect slowing due to ongoing roadway. >> thank you so much. right now, there's some 82,000 people in san bernardino, california forcedut homes by a massive fire. the fire has zero containment right now and has burned roughly 2300 square miles and destroyed a dozen buildings. erica nockland have the latest. >>reporter: flames tore through san bernardino, california reducing structures to rubble. fire crews worked into the night to keep the blaze from reaching more homes ordering residents in

we have seen erratic fire be behavior. >> the bluecut fire ignited in the cajon pass. despite trying to contain the fire, the fire expanded in size and intensity in hours. in the high desert along highway 138, you can see home after home charred to their foundation. officials are hoping lighter win temperatures will help them get the bluecut fire under control. >> in northern california, fire crews have gained some ground against the clayton fire saying it has burned 4,000 acres and is now 35% contained. that fire started over the weekend and lr destroyed 175 homes and businesses. a warning to families in englewood. he's trying to get

was recently back at a park. >>reporter: this is the face of a man police believe is trying to lure kids into his van. it happened after school monday as elementary students were dropped off by their school bus near baker park in englewood. the man with brown hair and glasses approached them making disturbing and inappropriate comments according to police. person. he's described white, 20 to 30-year old with brown hair driving a black and gray astro van. 1 man who lives next to the park decided not to talk to cbs4 on camera. he said you saw the man in a gray-colored man writing something in a notebook and as he was approached, sped away from the year. >> kelly werthmann reporting.

might be or if you see him. 1 person dead in a crash at 53rd and quebec around midnight last night. it involved a motorcycle and a car. doctors are treating 1 person with serious injuries. let's turn to business news. markets hit a bump and investors want to get back on the positive track. >> a lot of good stuff going on in the markets. jill wagner joining us on the floor of the morning. >> good morning. stocks have been pulling back after record highs. the d oshgs w fell 81 points and the nasdaq fell 54. today, investors are waiting for the feds to release minutes from its last meeting. they were looking for clues -- increase in september is the able. ford has self-driving cars on the road in the next 5 years. they won't have steering wheels or gas or

designed for ride sharing services. ford says they'll rollout self-driving cars later. the underground mall will have 100 stores and 60 are opened like apple and forever 21. three times as many people live in the area and visited by millions of tourist each year. it's a few blocks from are at the stock exchange. alan and britt. >> there has to be foot traffic there. >> jill, thank you very much. >> it's always packed. tonight, larimer county employees are going to spray for mosquito. the health department are seeing a high number of infected mosquitos. >> we try not to spray.

we're lucky enough that the city of fort collins does preventive -- usually that covers our season. some years are worse than others. >> it will be done by midnight. you can track the trucks as they go through your neighborhood and you can do that by going to kns and clicking kbs and clicking on the links. there's a home eastbound to city field to tie the game at 2 in the bottom of the third. after the rain delay, dalse smacks a -- dj score, but carlos gonzalez is thrown out at the plate. the rockies end up winning by the final of 6-2.

rockies in the past 10 games and the teams play again at 1:10 this afternoon and of course we want that winning streak to carryon. a little play at the play. >> 61 degrees in denver. his wife struck by lightning right outside their home. we're going to look at the video. coming up, why the dad says it could have been worse for his

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welcome back, everyone. in our cbs4 morning news health watch, the latest numbers on stroller safety. about two children every hour are injured

accident according to a new study in academic pediatrics. it happens when the child falls or it tips over. a growing number of babies are being treated for concussions. a study suggests the longer that a woman is overweight or obese, the likely she is to get cancer. the world organization looked at 74,000 women and found for every decade, a woman is overweight or obese, her risk of obesity related cancer goes up by 7%. researcher in scotland say both genetic factors increase that risk. runners are going to notice changes this year. here's mark haas. >> should i be the guy who takes a run seriously. >> you should have fun. >>reporter: we're a strange group that puts fun and run in

a small group of us did during the denver neighborhood. what is exciting about this year's race. >> we're adding a new saturday 5k which is creating a remix. >> you can do the 10k on saturday. for that, you get this sweet remix medal. >> we have a going to run passed their headquarters and they have a big cheer station waiting. >> they can expect the rock experience with bands along the rock. >> the rock and roll denver half marathon weekend is october 15th and 16th. there's still time to train. mark haas, cbs4 morning news. >> that's awesome. me love, g love.

cbsdenver.com. new video of an east texas man hit by lightning. you can see the flash and then tim pow goes down while he and his wife were unloading groceries. it happened during a storm in bronson 160 miles northeast of houston. tim and his wife were hit by the lightning strike and much when -- they were the porch when they were hit. >> my children are my main concern and seeing the video of how close and how much worse it could have been, just a few seconds, the lightning would have hit a few second later, it would have gotten my youngest son. >> pow says he did not feel his legs an hour after the strike.

patients recover so fast from being struck by lightning. >> you can see the kid was holding his ears and the concussion from that, chris, is remarkable when the lightning strikes like that. >> just a great example of we all are guilty of standing on a porch and trying to look at a storm and take a picture, but open-air shelters are not safe. temperatures around the state, 50s and 60s. lineman leading the pack 40s and 50s in the higher elevation and 50s to mid-60s on the western slope. 58 from mitch and sandy in northwest arvada. sudan roth in broomfield had a quarter inches of -- there's a couple of sprinkles down here in the san juans around telluride. they're sprinkles. later today, we'll get showers and storms. here's the big weather story and this

us. a ridge of high pressure building up the western coast. it's going to drag cooler air into the northern and central rockies expecting a cool front probably this time friday morning. it could shift a couple of showers. we'll watch that. boy, is it going to bring changes. on the future cast, a handful of clouds and a few sprinkles here and there. they'll go away. as we go into the afternoon hours, wide spread showers and storms pop up over the higher most stay in the higher elevations, but later in the afternoon and evening, a few could rollout here in the front range. we have a very small chance of seeing a storm. maybe a 10% chance. the chances do go up as we go into the future here. so today the last of a very warm stretch of days, we've been seeing here on the front range, we'll be around the 90 degrees mark. upper 80s to lower 90s. 70s in the higher

changes with the front. afternn storms, joel, look at friday. 75. 46 friday night. some of those higher mountains d get a snow shower when this is set and done. >> it's that time of year. taking a look from our ohio camera. a couple of issues and one on the ramp from 6th avenue to northbound i-225. there's construction work typical around colfax. i know this looks like an accident. we accident at evans and knox. that's where shawn chitnis is. heavy -- expect delays if you're traveling in that area. rtd is calling it severe delays along the a-line due to crossing operational difficulty is what they're saying. i would avoid the a-line today. >> i'm trying to figure out how

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good morning, everyone. i'm britt moreno. >> i'm alan gionet. this is the news on cbs4. shawn is live this morning. shawn. >>reporter: a car crashes into a pole, fence, trailer and garage. while have a live report coming from the scene. crews in california are hoping to try and get some control of a fire burning through homes in san bernardino county. ahead, the latest on the bluecut fire. we had quite a lightning show last night.