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theirst alert e this week about the rising fire danger...and that came to fruition in northern colorad is grass fire broke out in a ruraarea of weld counnortheast of denver. fire crews from multiple agenes rponded as wi whipped the flames quickly througthe dry grass. one structure was lost. don't have a word on l acreage burn, yet. and quick work by firefighters in pueblo west....kept a small grass fire from buing out of control. several small fires broke t...and re pushed by the gusting wind. one four-acre blaze late this afternn ca dangerouslylose to t hous, but firefighters were ae to get it under control before anyamage was used. other fire bned 20 acres juutside canon cit-no major damage there. it's n justhe fireange usinproblems tod. e wind gusts proved to b deructive throughout the regi, we saw toppled trees and trucks.
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along highway 24 today and found a lot destructbi wi was coming down a off thuns. it came down the pass it hit with damaging fo wind whipping......and gusting. so hard.. itushes a vertical chime.....to a horizontal clang " the wind bng that 's so strong..thathe unusual part." lileust clouds bwn fro ground to air. trash in flight. and damage...... a stump where a tree blo down by wind was ockig one lane of highway 24. the c-dot cr that just moved it....haning on to hard hats in the wind. the ee now othe side of the road. "nothnu can do about it." you can't st wind....but is foes stoand go skills by state patrol. trooper dicts traffic on highway 24 whe stop signals are out. the power t in thea ompting some business to teorily close and it it ou "i've never seen winlike this
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e been her18 years now and this is the rst wind conditioni've ever seen." the poof....in the cleaup at the wis of colodo shop. shortly after a gustut-off por.anher porfust shattered glass. three slidg glasdoor the simultaneously. "well it just ened so quic haened. mean iwas ju boom,llf gu owi i didn't s any rocks or anything tt nt through the windows or anying." we saw more trees knocked down, garbe canslown or, trh in the air f ns fi thisind was alsolowing mbleweeds ba into town. ile our crews were driving down i-25, they found those pey tumbleweeds were moving across t highway a day. fences on the east side of i-25
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cityerinunted wi t eds. seeminglping up wi each gust of nd thfirst alert weather team gave y the first alert on today'high wd and fire danger elier in week. yocan cot on them to alws ke you ahead of our changing weather, tck it alongside docom. there you'll find updated recasts and our live interacte doppler. colorado sprinolice are instiging a bomb thrt at rorion elemey scho. he's whawe kno the threatas cled just before 10:30 thimorning. the school w on shelter in place stat while officers came in to investigatethey tell uthey did not find anything tt leth to believe the threas credie. no word t toght on any specinformation. students and stat mfield hi school in the denver aa had to evacuate this morning after a bomb threat there. li say it was called in at 10:15--while police we on
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was ved to the football field. the alclr was given around noon andveyrone nt bk class. police continuto investi. one colodo springs neighborhoods on edge after they learned that a neighbor is growing medical marijuan but springpolice say t law are in place and it'too late to stop the grow. the newest membeof the news5 team...investigati vreporter ieroves found out it's a enario that's reinitself acro the city... rememberhoug...it's legal you ha the proper permits and are foowing althe regutis..snow, neighbo are fighting for stricter laws. ok rq 24 45 you go osi and you can tte it that'sow neighrs alongow avenue describe the pungent odorf the marijuana growinin their neigorhood....a nd sait'seeking havoc on eir home suzanne burkle concerned neighbor 13-17 it has infiltrated our house, oubedding, our clothing. it is unreal.
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owing ...and sheays her esworry is that her ye old daugerwindow is th a stones tow. it gives us alrrific headaches, we can't sleep at night. but its all legal. under amendment 20 youan have up to plants in residti home. whenmendment 20 passed,...it went inteffect almost immediely. colorado springs police dept. one we didn't understand the uninteedonsequences and we didn't ha the time framto corol these types of things. and the catch up game habecome a problem all acrosshe city. wee suffing but yet we have no support or any recourse of anhing. st rtly the hool bus pip near suzannes use moved over a block because of thearijuana grow. my ks go to school smelling like pot. but it's nt the smell that s ighbors ee. right now, cy col and e lawmakers are woing on limiting the number of plants
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retion its r mel use anm all for th, buwhcan't it be prsein a different facility. we did reach o to the homeowner o refused to speak with us, but has recently nt processed in a different facility. we did reach out tthe homeowner who refused to speak th us, but hasecently sent out ceasand sistetters to a ndful of t nghbors who are complaing. have every confidence that the majuana task force is going to the clinton's are coming to soutrn colorado. ahead at 6:30, we'll tell you where thform preside and ent presidential candidate wie weekend. and cos soing--thelosuof-7tern loonger initially though wehave an updaten the rockslide cleanup--coming . i'm mike daniels. i'll have ur extend first
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together to rember a flen coach. how the ol is honoring his
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view veo of ter blin erheueblo da lorocaras o areheres whitbeen so ndy to a stng dtuancelig nortand creating strg we . area blo dusll coinue tight whighire danger. recordighs tay coradoings and 81 in pueblo current temperatures over soutrn coloradflarningonties f ouar with ve higfire dang. a high wind rning coue l m for the areas we've shaded. gustfr5 to 7mp the stronger win will be found in the higher elevations west of 25. high tperatures tomorrow will be a little cooler with much less wind. winds morrow ofrom 10 to 20 mph. high temperatures the 50's, 60's and 70's. dafost for theprings, high tomorrow 64. sunny an62 on satuay. mu cler aisuay with increasing clouds. late monday inotsd a few showers possible.
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pulo high tomorrow 71. 68n saturdayith n. much cooler sunday with dry skies. a light shower possible late mondaynto tuday. dry skies wednesay and thursday. canon city and woodland park, less wind tomoow with mildemperares. turd wl hearmest d of the weekend witdry skie a w showers ssibleonday into t especially over the hier elevaons tellerounty.
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check out thespictures just to news fiverom canon city. some powerful wind gusts knocked hu pine onta home. david snped the picturesnd ll us this happened on rudd avenue--not far from down. the home does not appear to be badly damaged--and thankfully no one rt when the tree came crashi down. ondy days keoday, espeally iortant tbe mindful the fire danger. weith colo spring cef today he sthare thincan all o prevt s res fr srtin. first,seemobvious,ut
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extish cigarettside. so avoid out rning. since red flag wng is in fethe fire deptment more crews on ha and there's increase in response level. e colorado department ofuman rvicesirtor visited the bitafor humanity's "re- store" in colorado springs is morni e ore partatesn "re-hire corado",...a prram that's pting people struggling find a job back to work local businessesthe hiring d sala are subsidized for the first ree months, bumany who go thrgh the program.. get hire full time. "ihink the program works bes becae it giv you to oppounity to make ney d at e same time show what you have and what youan do and have employers get excited abou having you work for them this program has helped more jobstatewide.. t fundfor thog pires this yr.. the legislure will csider extendg it. an uate on canup and repai
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week's massive rockslide cing up. and concerni stiics gardg smokin o state. mu cigarette sales have
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covering colado togh a bill that uld double t statute of limitationsn seal assaults from to 20 years... has won initial approval in e state house. all comes after two women in ourte who claim ty were assalulted by biosby years ago... testified that the bill would empower viims by givinthem mo timto come forward after trauma. after one more vote ofpproval in the house,...it'll move to the senate. one person is dead---a police ficer injured aftea crash early this morning in westminster. police say the patl car was gog through an intersection th lights and sirensn... when the driver of another car turn i front the prol r. the driverat second car was killed. e ofcewas reonding to an emergency call, their condition hanobeen released. c-dot crews noestiting i-70 glenwood canyono rema os through the weend after a massivrockslide. the slide happed on monday in glenwood cyong ulders the size of sll cs litted othe ad.
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ady d barriers. c-dot says todayhe cleanup and repas turning out to be a major undertaking--that'll cost between 2 and 5 millioby the time everything is backnormal it coulde wes before two lanes are back opeto traffic. c-dot also consiring a federal disaster declaration--to allow the state to get back some of theost. a lorado house committ will start debating ts week about how to regulate orgac bels within the pot indusy. it's necessaryauseht now organistandards are gulated deray,... and because t is still illegal at the federal leve-- there's no way r consumers to tell whether mariana at'sabeled rgic" i our state is the first to regulate organic labels wiin thmarijana industry. thiss concerningews for our state---cigarett sas in 20-15 increased for the first me in nearly a decade! but this also comes as the reported nber of adu tobacco users continue to decline. the corado department of
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than 194-milli packs cigarrettes were bout last year. at's an inea of e-miion over 2014.... and enough for every person in the state to have 36 packs.it's estimed 16 peent of adults in our state are tobacco users. cayou believe it's almt baselll season!??! the rocks e already in cp - granhamore coming up sports and from wind whipped grass fires-indows being blown t--an active weather dayrohe sta 'll ve complete coverage
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firsnight at 6:30---it's weather alt dawith high fi danger not only in colorado but across the region. checout thisasvess firehat bre out nearhe kansas- missouri border. the state al deali with red flag conditions like we're seng re. it's warm, dry and windy. the fire dtroyed at leastwo oldebarns -- and scored several acresf land. a fire weather warning is in effect through tomorrow moing. grass fis also breaking out in colorado today... the biggesin weld county northeast of denver, whicbued several ndreacre one structe burnedn a fairly rural area crews fromll over the region were cald into hp. the flames being fanned by today's wind. and fire crews in pueblo west
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afternn several smaller fires. onburned four acres--and ce daerously close to a couple of homes, butire crews were able to get it out before any dame was caused. another fi burned 20cr outside canon city--no major ge tre today's ing winds using more problems than just the rising fire nger check out the hugeree toppled by a gust near academy and austin bluffs. it's also made for hazardous driving conditons with some high-profile vehicles being blown over,.... this truckan into trouble near walsenburg. news five's bill folsom---picks up our team coverage. bil-- you found quite a bit of damage up highway 24 this afternoon? inome ars it was hd to hat a deawith messeup hair.... then there's stretches like highway 24 from nitou springs up to woodlandarwhere the ndnock out power and caed some r damage. this s is what's left eelown ove...andt e point was blocking one lane of
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c-docrews madeuickork of getting it out of the way...still it was work where they had to hold o their hard hats. because the wind knoedut por....stoplightre out a ltiple intersections on the highway. at t turn to pikeseak...a state trooper to dict traff. owner of t wines colorado shop.....says th've been icascade 18 years and heoesn't ever rember gust like today. they lost powe.and serve cme.b suddnely still had a major clean- job. a gust sttered all threeet of slidinglass doorsn the front of the sho "well it just happened squic we just didn't know what happened. i me it wajust boom, all of a suen. st of wind. i dn't see any rocks or anyt that went rouge winds or anything because the power was out.there were sev oth small s in the area that simply put up sis saying ty had to close damage....also a mess...we'v seen more trees knocked down..and a lot of garbage
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taken awaygust. inolorado springs bill fol ws 5 ntinuing our team coverage -- the powerful winds made for a difficult drive fosome on the highway day. let'check in wh news five' lena hla south of pueblo i colorado cit lena--hoare the roads looking right now? en at this hour, we still seeing semi trucks being pushed ross the highy because of these powerful wds. ny of those trucivers have actuly pulleer here at the colorado ciest op -- just toatch a break from the wind. but just south otown towards walsenburg, we found the wind only g stronger. hwy nats :0 "bad, bad winds!" a daunting task to tow this mobile home more than 80 feet long frowaco, texas upo montrose. robert baay
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:12 "ireal windyt's ngers ere fothe public a f the load so safety is our first concern and we just ne to sh do in winds ke this" robertaajoined at ast a dozen otr semi's pulled over at a walsenburtruck stop because of the wind. :12 "it's ttero shut down for the safetyf the public a for the safety of the roadather than he to make phcalls saying that it flipped over and it could hursomeone" other drivers out toy could tell th were struggling. harry phillips driver 9 "sem i have seenhem wave ound a little bit and i'm sure it would be pretty hard for them to steer theitruc" phlihills driver :07 "a we've seen a t rucks that start crabbing sidewayswith the winblowing on you" bue wind didn'stop drivers like phyllis hil -- whmoved forward with her drive from new meco with a little extra
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"treo ice or sw t wind gusts come out anyou ally have to hold onto the wheel because it can blow you when you're not ready for it" :03 his is probablthe windiest it'seen on my trip!" harry phillips is making his way south to arizona coming l e way from chicago. but parely... brought the windy city with m! :1 "i'm driving a smaller prius... and holds onto hat and 's a little windy!! so wh it gusts it's pretty bad!" evenoting this wind is the worst he see :08 "we don't haves muchd as this in wheri live so it's not too bad, th is t more compared to chicago" right now we're ng about xx
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colorado cy rest stop -- taking a break frothe wind. some even taking a break for the night. asne of the drivers we spoke with todayaid --t definitely a day'll want to hold onto that wheel tht with twhand ven corado cy, lena hoand, news the fialatteam ga you the fst alert on today's high wind and fire dang earli ithe week. u n counonheto always keepouhead of our changing weather,nd t ialgse them witthe ols at ka- dot-co there you'll fupdated recasts anour live interactive doppler. stimony cos in the trial ongmt woman---acd cuttina stranger's unborn baby fr her womb today, a surgeon says the victim, michelle wilkinsprobly lt more than half bfter the atck wiinsurved---h bd prutors say e ect dyl ne wasbsessed with pregnancy and li abo herse being pregnant. they say she luredkins to
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r baby cloth. la has pleaded notuilty to chars of attemptedirst- degree murder---asuland ncy. the legal battle continu between apple and thf-b-i over the privofouphon-and nati security. applis chaenging a federal judge's rdering th company to helthe fbeak to a locked i-phonusedy beardino terrist attacks two mohs. mark barger reports. tech giant ale's fding support from onets fiercest rivals, le.... it fights a judge's ordeto help the fbi ack aniphone used of th bernado shooters. thompani cte theove wod set a dangerous predent. sot / oren falwitz -eo, area 1 security16 - : "ihinkhat apple is suggesting is that this little kethat the gov't is offering, or asking for eates slippery slo t d potentially be made vulnerabilities for the miions ofhos that are depye around." the fbi wants ape to cree
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curityeature that erasesll data after ten wrong password attempts the governmentays the help's ly needed on this one vice. sot / al shipp - fmr. apple vp on securi :39 -:43 "the sliery slope is that teloou exi and how do you sp people from aski for ." a sthave be assisng thebi buthat e latest request goes far. in an openteceo tim cook says.. eating a quote "back door" to byryption omething he says theydo not have, and something consider too dangerouto create." the manhattan districtttorney disagrees.. saying it isriticafor prosecutorto be able tgain access tdata stored hones. sot cyrus e jr. nhn diricttorney 1:07 1: "this is a decion where to the line between public safety and privacy that needs to be made iepenntla, e legislure anthe courts. the fbi says it is runng out of optionss it tries t recover potential evidence stored on thphone. mark braer, nbc news. in its support oapple.. google's caythey give w enforcement access to data based on legal
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compans to enae hacking is a whole ent scenario. in your election wch cerage: we've arneformer predentbilllion wl in both colorado springs and pueblo this weekend campaiing alongside s wifelary as e makes her n run thwhite. clinton'will be in pblo saturday ening andn rings sunday, thvents en to the public. we don't have detas t locationjust yet, will ep you updatere and koaa- docom. some of eblo's best and brightest michoolers praring today test their knowledge ainskids from al overolorad we wer sai ts umann ddle sinhe s c y as thes practiced fo the "brainow state competition. the kiresked questio about just about erything,o they have to be preped to k onheir fee. e of theids we talked to ys... ves the competition foa number of ason. aireav 8tgradstudent nal mpetitt s menfidcen neral, iw lot of randomac that one else
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sot's just aeagrt experien." the ste competition will b held thiweekend in denver. good lk to of our southern coradoompetitors! ste options d be anng on some rles--e'll tell you what may reace ovhe bins, ahead at 6:30. first, l's checkack in with mi in the weather center. i'm mike daniels. i'll have your extended firs ert five forecast next at
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,,,,,,,,,, . a look from cameras in our area. here is why its en so wind today. a strong disturbance is lifting north and creating song we wi. areas blowi dust will continueight with gh fire nger. record highs today3 in colorado singsnd 81 in pueblo. current temperures all ove sohern colorado. red flarngontinues for our ea with veryigh fire daer. a high wind warning continues l 5am for the eas we'v shaded. stfrom 55 to 75 h. e strongerinds wl be found in the higr elevationsest i-25. high tratures rrowl be a little cooler with much less wind. winds torrow only from 10 to 20 mph. high temperatures in the 50's, 60's and0's. 7 daforecastor the springs, high tomorrow 64. sunny and 62 oturday.
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increasing cuds. la moninot tuesday a f showers poible. back to dry wa air next thursd. pueb high tomorrow 71. 68 osaturday with sun. much cooler sunday with dry skies. a light shower possible late mondaynto tuesday. dry skies wednes and thursday. canon city and woodland park less wind tomorrow with mi tempetu saturday will be tarstay the weeke with dry skies. few showers possible monday into tuesday especially ov thigh evations teller county. drand mild thursda
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bigg game tonight in the s whthame matters so much -
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,,,,,,,,,,,,,, gotta throw outhe records when denver comes ttownpl colodo clege.... althe focus is on tuays game at cofield but tonight even morerucial for the tige matt prichard live at world arena with a preview nighs game the gers c to ge d of tmselves. both tseesst d are st-wc-as the play are othe rizon. it'ssecret thes have hathstruggles this year, but
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break....c-c haseen playing better, moreonsistent hockey and piing up speed at the right time. which makethese ne two games ainst d-u all e mo imrtant...ach havind and his plays know, 's not ing to be easy. a te tt's got a pretty pote offensive tm and think we havto take that ay from them and really play a eadensive type ogame. we disli those gs there st as muchs theyislikes. 's kinoforraing rits across the state and so anime yoget to play them ifront of yours, is ing h nsity. e rse yet to win against u thiseason, two loes against the pioneers....they'll be looking fomeevenge ohome ice ght. we are going to here l nit, with ghlights on ws-5 at 10.olwitis eyeaupor bioutdoor ga oay night.
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breaking news tonit six: a live look at i-25 in south denver--completely emp night---shut dowbetween dry eek and countye roads... because of a dgerous tuatio south meo fiays the rge ikea sign that's rht next to e inrstaas been dad in today's wind and could fall at y time. r-t-d s also clod light ra in the are the ste patrol says th continued gusting winds its an unpricble situation. theris no estimated timeor openin. we will trackg this all night for you and have the ver latest through the evening online----and tonight at ten.
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