today. and that wind out of the north, you'll need a light sweater if you're headed out later tonight. beautiful conditions looking east over the downtown denver skyline, off to the west, a few fairweather cumulus clouds on the horizon. snowing lightly way up high, in some of the higher peaks, over rocky mountain national park, temperatures in the 30s this afternoon. 32 at dia, and monitor the winds gusty out the northwest. this is a trend we'll follow ahead of the next weather system, moisture level pretty low. humidity value about 18% in denver. elevated fire concern, down to pueblo with a red flag warning out until 7:00. severe weather east of us. all the heavy weather is north. clouds move out with clear skies and light winds. a freeze

will need protection tonight. and a warmer weekend forecast for the broncos. fighter s getting a handle on a fire it has burned 7,800 acheers and seven homes. nearly 2,000 people are under evacuation orders. 400 firefighters are on the lines. high winds yesterday pushed it quickly, and crews help cooler weather today will help them gain ground on the fire. two helicopters were brought in this

cubance being evacuated because of hurricane matthew. the storm with winds close to 150 miles per hour, will target cuba, then head for the bahamas. next could be the southeastern u.s. three children have died in the dommin conrepublic, killed when the walls of their home collapsed. florida's governor has prepared people for a direct hit hurricane matthew made landfall this morning in haiti as a category 4 storm with 145 mile an hour winds. it is one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit that country. the storm came ashore in an area of haiti's southern peninsula, north of port-au-prince. maya rodriguez talked with friends and colleagues of the group who live

is matthew! >> reporter: the eye of the storm. a place that the most vulnerable and comofb risched nation in -- impov rishd nation in the americas finds itself in, with 145 mile per hour winds. >> they're not prepared for this wind. >> reporter: as a colorado haiti project in luciville, they work and wait for word on their friends and community of 30,000 people they work with, >> we have lost contact with a lot of our people. only this one program manager through facebook, he's been able to reach us >> reporter: and the situation he described is grim. >> he said there's lots of devastation to home, lots of trees are falling down. >> reporter: the nonprofit has been working in haiti for more

>> the area is very rural. only a few concrete buildings that have a second story. in an 80-mile radius. >> reporter: it's a school they built, and many have sought refuge from the storm. what comes after may be just as dangerous, including the destruction of crops and spread have gone disease. >> we're concerned about people's safety. >> the colorado haiti project has been postingpd website. if you'd like to help, we have a link on 9news.com. tonight will be the only debate between the vice presidential candidates, republican mike pence, democrat

>> mreerng toward trump. hopefully pence drives that home tonight. >> v p's even out the presidents' decisions. >> clinton leads trump in five battleground states. watch the debate near on 9news starting at 7:00. and donald trump says he will be live-tweeting the event. trump met with a group of oil executives to ease concerns more of what happened at that rounl at 6:00 -- roundtable at 6:00. a with us driver in boulder county behind the wheel when her bus crashed injuring four students will not get prison time. she was sentenced to one year unsupervised probation and a $300 fine this afternoon. investigators with kwol colstate patrol says -- colorado state patrol says eight were on the bus when she veered off to the right, overcorrected, and the

she had faced several charges, including vehicular assault and child abuse but took a plea deal in september and pled guilty to one count of careless driving. a little boy who died in 2014 after being raft in the backseat of his father's car topped the attention of the nation. his dad says it was a terrible accident. authorities say he did it on purpose. justin ross harris was back in a courtroom today, accused of child seat in his suv. cooper died a slow, painful death as the temperature outside reached 90 degrees. in court today, police video was shown. in it harris was crying after his son was found dead. he was also silent for long stretches of time. his trial is take place in alabama. a mystery virus that strikes with no warning and can

paralysis in children. >> it's a rare complication of an entero virus that appears like a common cold or respiratory illness but ends in paralysis. a teenager from thornton developed the illness. he is speaking out about first time with the hope so of spreading awareness. >> reporter: two years ago, dominic howard had big plans for senior year. >> i was really big into soccer. >> reporter: smed of spending all of his time in the classroom and on the field -- >> it was all how it started >> reporter: he was bound to a hospital bed for months with a condition still puzzling doctors around the country it. all started with a sore throat. >> one day i woke up and i couldn't swallow anymore >> reporter: doctors originally

she went home. >> i made some chicken noodle soup, and it came out of his nose. >> reporter: within a few days. >> it just fell apart >> reporter: dominic's condition worsened. >> i woke up and i had difficulty moving my neck and my arm >> reporter: his mom rushed him to children's hospital colorado. during the next eight weeks, dominic was placed on a ventilator and feeding tubes. parts of his body went numb. >> it was scary. >> didn't know what was happening. >> reporter: he was diagnosed with what's >> there is evidence of inflammation >> reporter: doctors are worried the same polio-like illness may be circulating again. >> my concern is that we're seeing a trend now in 2016 that mirrors what we saw in 2014. >> reporter: in 2014, 120 cases of asm were reported. just 21 cases in 2015. but so far this year, there have already been 50 reported cases. as doctors continue to search for the exact

a vaccine. >> i can lift my arm up and down. >> reporter: patients like dominic hope for a full recovery. >> doctor s believe it is a rare complication from intero virus d68, more needs to be done to link the two together >> so they're saying obviously wash your hands. that will frekt you from any sort of virus. and get your vaccinations up to date. lesley mentioned to me off-camera, this happenod a tuesday. and by the weekend he was going downhill really quickly.

that this is very, very rare. but do not ignore it. a california teen suffered that same paralyzing illness who became friends with dominic at rehab is giving back to the program. >> and facebook delivers a new

fooshgs rolled out -- facebook read out the new feature yesterday but didn't go as planned. some places were able to post drugs, animals, adult soefshs, weapons and -- services, weapons and body parts which violates facebook's commerce policy and community standards. facebook's director of management apologized saying a technical issue prevented the

there's a classroom full of 1st graders in douglas county making a big difference for some of their classmates. hailey has a disorder that affects the heart. she's not verbal, can't read on her own but she does enjoy reading. so sage canyon elementary school came up with a solution that involves class . >> grace had been accepted to the berkeley college of music in boston. she spent seven months at craig in a music therapy

the piano and record music using an ipad. so she started the grace fisher foundation. today that foundation gave $1,500 to craig hospital's music therapy program. >> such an amazing program. it's been so instrumental. [ laughter ] >> in my recovery. and i know this will benefit people like me. >> the money will help buy instruments so other patients can learn to play instruments. >> big smile. >> absolutely. cooler temperatures today. it's going to stay cool all week long. >> freeze warnings are in place for parts of the metro, and kathy and tracking a storm due

we wore long sleeves! >> yeah, it was a beautiful day but that wind out of the north, you felt that. it's pretty chilly on the backside of a front which took temperatures into the 80s yesterday, 60s today. the wind has not taken the leaves down off the trees, and the southern mountains, manny patelo up there jonathan gonzalez, the leaves near peak, you've got another week to check them out. spectacular color up there. and just a beautiful scene, thanks so much for that. in denver, not too shabby! it is breeze and he is cool out there. clear in the ridgeway area, spectacular afternoon, southern mountains where temperatures held in the 50s. 65 at dia today. we're down to 62, dry, humidity at 18%. and

60 outside the studios downtown. not a lot to show you on the radar across the region. we'll talk about the wind that continues to shift out of the west northwest and blow pretty good, something we'll see s&l sunset tonight. and so as the winds begin to pick up in advance of the next cool front, we're basically in between two storm systems with the low pressure system sitting near rapid city, bringing a severe weather trek to minneapolis and omaha. winds in dallas and the memphis area. a pocket of cool air coming in with t front that will be here on wednesday night. hurricane matthew has turned deadly. this is a storm that will bring catastrophic rainfall, storage surge 7-10 feet, and it looks like it's taking aim at cuba and the mainland u.s. here by the end of the week. this storm saturday longest lasting category 4 or 5 storm in the atlantic in the month of october. so a storm to be reckoned with it. appears to side-swipe strm florida --

at the carolinas. a storm that we need to monitor closely because it is moving, churning so slowly. a lot of water and a lot of wind! cool air to the north of colorado. mild temperatures here for one more day before that cool air follows that front through. tonight the winds will die down under clear skies and light winds. we have a freeze warning posted. a few light rain and showers on the i-70 corridor for those of you travelling late tonight and tomorrow. we'll cal f on the plains. the freeze warning in the area including?? denver. temperatures expected in the mid-20s and 30s. winter plant, vej takz will need some protection tonight. close to 70 in denver tomorrow. cool conditions over the higher terrain and higher slopes. 49 grand lake tomorrow, 58 in bailey. wind in denver. when the

skies, freeze warning, temperatures in the city should stay above freezing. low-lying areas will dip down to 32 or below. clouds increasing late in the day, and we'll see those clouds bring some scattered showers tomorrow night. looks like the snow level will be higher than the city but wouldn't be a surprise by an early morning mix on thursday. highs in the low 50s, 50s ahead of a nice warming trend that will get intou the weekend, with highs in the low to mid-70s. beautifuwe the broncos taking the field this weekend. and in the high country, the color of the leaves and the northern mountains, past peak but still spectacular. hard to take a bad picture even if you're not great with the camera like me. i don't know how you could go wrong this time of year. >> here's a pod of gold along with the really cold leaves. >> thank you. the

in lower downtown. stocks climbed across the board today. bond prices dropped.

the rockies began their search are in a new manager today. and they might just find him in the first state coach's box at coors field. team will consider a couple of in-house candidates before looking elsewhere, everett young sr., a former rocks favorite during his playing days who spent the past three seasons on the team's coaching staff. as will glen

league afilliate the past few seasons. >> having a shared vision and being able to commit to that, and being able to challenge each other on it and make sure that we're holding each other accountable to that vision is extremely important. it's not like there's some magical person that already has all those things. in the intvi process, a lot of phobes will be on -- the discussion will be on that. broncos try to make it a perfect 10 in a row on sunday against the falcons. despite the fact he got body-slammed and suffered a shoulder injury, trevor siemian is still kubiak's choice over pack to know lynch to start at quarterback. even so

>> he's sticking with siemian but you think lynch might make his first start this weekend? >> when they left the locker room on sunday night, paxton lynch was going to start the next game or two. trevor siemian was going to sit out a week or two. there's that shortened week in the schedule, with the following thursday night game against san diego. it almost made sense for the broncos to take a long look at their 1st round rookie quarterback, get him some experience. now as of monday morning, gary kubiak realized that it's just a sprained shoulder on the nonthrowing shoulder, and they think trevor siemian is going to be able to play, and i think heel. he's going to do all he can to play this week against atlanta. >> thanks, mike.

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>> and running back dante johnson trucks through a defender in route to the end zone for the first four of the day. note to self, stay out of his way. now it's your turn! go vote for your favorite play. strange but true. a cute detroit redwings fan picture in front of the penalty box when bad boy steve ott and bill largen who were both in the box for starting trouble on the ice photo-bombed her! strange but true. you'd expect between the three of them, double digits for sure. at least 10 missing teeth? >> yes. >> she should have had at least

>> but permanent teeth or replacement teeth? [ laughter ] >> i loved when she got them to smile and they were in big trouble. [ laughter ] >> we have no idea most of the time. lows out there tonight, winds will die down, freeze warning!

breaking news tonight, large-scale emergency evacuations. plans to urge over a million people to flee the south carolina coast as a deadly monster hurricane barrels towards the eastern seaboard. critical clash. the vp candidates face off as trump's poll numbers slide. can a big moment tonight turn the tide? spying on your e-mails. a stunning report that yahoo secretly searched hundreds of millions of accounts snooping on its own customers for the government. getting out alive. residents escape before a dramatic neighborhood blast. the warning signs that every family should know. and life-saving cancer test. hollywood star ben stiller goes public with his private health battle.