then another scare after that. >> he received a bronze star and purple heart. now a soldier from fort carson has made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in afghanistan. >> three very big and very expensive rvs stolen, account exactly easy to hide. maybe you can help find them. >> and the eve of america's biggest beer celebration here in denver. so why are some local breweries taking a pass on the great american beer festival? 9news starts now. by this time tomorrow night the u.s. could be hours away from a direct hit of a major hurricane in 4,000 days. hurricane matthew is a category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 115 miles per hour moving over the bahamas tonight. hurricane warnings are out for the northeast coast of florida. jacksonville has its first hurricane warning in 17 years.

the eye which is very small, only 15 miles wide or the distance from denver to golden. however, the overall size of this storm is massive, about the size of texas, and it will be the strongest hurricane to threaten the southeast since 2005. it has devastated the islands it has hit so far. roads have washed away in haiti making it impossible for rescue teams to reached towns which are believed to be destroyed. the eastern most city in cuba is barely recognizable after taking a direct hit. in the u.s. t leave the coast. the big concern is this storm surge expected compounded by up to a foot of rain. in just a few minutes we'll update the storm path which continues to change and look at why matthew is so unusual. investigators believe a man shot and killed by police on the cu boulder campus today was a recently discharged marine in his early 20s. 9wants to know spoke with the source familiar with the

marine walked up to a woman's car in the champion center this morning. he wrote reference to the 10 commandments on one of the car's windows. the man went inside the building and threatened people with a long blade. our source said it was more like a sword and not like a machete as police described today. police confronted him in a stairwell. when he refused to drop the weapon, the officers >> given the weapon the suspect was armed with, the statements made to the victim and the nature of how he was maneuvering through the champion center, we believed it was in the best interest of the university and it was a deadly force situation. >> the coroner's office is not identifying the man killed yet and we don't know his intentions. the shooting was a prelude to more chaos on campus today. several hours later two more alert went out about a potential threat on the cu

that led to hundreds of students fleeing the university memorial center. those reports turned out to be false. 9news reporter noel brennan spoke with students at the university today. lots of rumors played it tough for the university and -- made it tough for the university and police to do their jobs. >> reporter: dealing with all those rumors have clearly been a challenge for the university, so much so they went to facebook and addressed each rumor one by one, rumors that someone heard ot ammunition had been found and even rumors that someone somehow hacked into the university text message alert system. cu says none of that stuff happened, but as all the rumors spread this afternoon hundreds of people waited outside the umc to get back inside and retrieve their stuff after that false report of a shooter. >> cookies, cookies. >> reporter: free cookies, a

try to ease everybody's mine here. >> reporter: for the crowd of -- mind here. >> reporter: for the crowd of c ostents and staff outside the memorial -- cu students and staff outside the memorial center. >> we've been out here two hours and the cops weren't even telling us anything. >> it's a little chaotic right now, so it's understandable, but a little frustrating. >> reporter: there was a report of an active shooter this afternoon. >> you saw all these people other. she grabbed me and we ran. >> reporter: the university called this incident and others reported on campus a hoax and gave the all clear at the umc. except police and security weren't ready to let people back inside. >> we have stuff that's hidden underneath tables. >> reporter: to collect what they've left behind. >> all of our notes, all my homework, yeah. i want to go back to my homework and be productive. i just want to get out of the

announcement. >> the building is closed to the public for tonight. >> reporter: it just wasn't worth waiting any longer. >> i'm going to walk home, hope one of my roommates are there and i can get in and eat. >> reporter: it will take more than a good cookie to make up for this kind of day. >> chaotic, unorthodox. >> reporter: starting at 7:00 tonight the university did let students back in the building. they escorted them in to get their belongings and cu said police had to building so that they could sweep it and make sure everything was safe. >> they had no choice there, thank you. it is not exactly an easy steal to hide, so an rv dealer hopes you might be able to help find three rvs worth nearly 2 million bucks. trans west truck trailer rv is on the east side of i-25 and frederick. the general manager said around 9:30 last night three luxury rvs were stolen from the lot

450 to $778,000. they got some surveillance video of the theft. these rvs you can entering and then leaving the lot. >> there was obviously a plan. this was a well thought over plan. it wasn't someone that just came in in the night and decided to steal a motor home. >> the rv store has filed a police report with frederick police. anyone with information is asked to call them. a semi hit a woman on i-70 several hours this afternoon and evening near watkins. this accident happened around 3:30 this afternoon near the manila road exit between watkins and bennett. the colorado state patrol said the woman pulled over to switch places with her passenger. that's when the semi hit her and her vehicle. the woman was airlifted to the hospital where she died. the westbound lanes were closed several hours. a highly decorated fort

staff sergeant adam thomas was killed yesterday by an ied. he was assigned to company b second battalion 10th special forces group airborne. staff sergeant thomas joined the army in 2008 and was a bronze star and purple heart recipient. received multiple army commendation medals, national defense service medal and others. a good amount of progress that destroyed eight home earlier this week -- homes this week in southern colorado. the beulah fire is now 50% contained. it started monday and burned more than 5,000 acres. plenty of you called and e- mailed us today to ask what all the smoke in the metro area was about. the prescribed burn at the rocky mountain national wildlife refuge led to bad air quality. two areas near 56th and peoria and another area south of lake

of smoking skies and burning eyes, there are some positive effects. it will help generate native grasses, reduce weeds and improve the area for animals. hurricane matthew will continue to be a headline for the rest of the week. since records started in the mid-1800s a category 4 or 5 has never come ashore on the east coast of florida north of the georgia border. the only major hurricane to hit the east coast of 1950. matthew would be the first hurricane to strike the u.s. mainland in over a decade and it comes late in the season. we talked to one of csu's ahead meteorologists about the reason this storm is getting so much attention. >> reporter: matthew is moving more west toward florida, what we've seen the last couple days. that warning from florida's governor as hurricane matthew, a unique late season storm, threatens the sunshine state.

meteorology project has been watching closely. >> i think the thing that's unusual about this storm is typically storms that hit florida during october tend to hit the west coast, the most recent example hurricane wilma in 2005. >> reporter: that was the last year a major hurricane category 3 or above struck the u.s. mainland. matthew could be the first since dennis, katrina, rita and wilma. there have been no major strikes in the pass 11 years. that's >> the projected eye of the storm is extremely close to florida now. >> there's been storms out in the atlantic. it just hasn't come ashore. the seasons have been about average. 1 benefit we have had is we tend to have an area of low pressure along the east coast which helps take storms that are approaching and steering them out to sea. >> reporter: matthew's current path sun predictable, but

but already it's wreaked havoc on the islands. >> the caribbean season is very warm and if you can get the wind sheers and pressures and other patterns correct, you can get these types of very intense storms. >> hurricane activity tends to drop dramatically after about october 20th. one thing he says he's also watching is the possibility that after matthew moves up the coast the storm could loop around and move florida. lots of concern tonight. this is thank-- >> thank you, vicente. firefighters were called to put out a fire on a southwest plane caused by a replacement phone, one of the millions samsung sent to customers because some of the original phones were catching fire. the owner of the galaxy note 7

and heard a pop and saw smoke coming from it. airlines recall telling people to turn off the phones before takeoff. there are events happening all over denver ahead of tomorrow's official start of the great american beer festival. there is a full slate outside the convention hall each day. the main event will feature four sexes during the next three days with more than -- sessions during the next three days breweries in the colorado convention center. the brews will compete in hundreds of categories. each session lasts about four hours. if you want to try to drink 1 ounce of each beer, you'd need to drink one four seconds. that doesn't work. breweries figured outside events are catching on because they give people more time to sip and save. the director believes more -- and savor.

>> we love that people do create that pressure valve and we have rock star brewers all over the country. people love to talk to them. they're doing events at restaurants around town, restaurants in boulder, fort collins and i think it's great for the city. i think it's great for the state. >> it's hard to believe with the hundreds of breweries in denver from across the country that some of the breweries closest to the action around participating at all 9news reporter dan grossman explains. >> it's fantastic. >> reporter: call it . >> there's over 4 miles of beer lines here. >> reporter: -- a maze you wouldn't late to get stuck in, 750 breweries tapping more beer than we probably should mention, but if this is where the action should be, you can find call to arms brewer chris bell happily telling jokes to

>> it's mostly keeping a focus on our local neighborhood and local patrons. >> all of our beer is delivered in my little blue subaru. there's a lot of breweries and it's also costly with product and everything else. >> reporter: neither will be tapping at this year's festival, a place that will land their beers in front of the eyes and lips of 60,000 people. >> a brewery focused on staying local and pouring out of the it's hard to afford and doesn't align with their vision. entry to the festival is $250 and you need to supply all the beer free of charge. >> return on investment is something we had to look at. we're a small brewery. we have a small production with a real busy tap room. >> reporter: for some the big stage isn't necessary.

>> reporter: only good company with a good attitude. so the great american beer festival is the granddaddy, but if you aren't going, there are more than 100 other events that you can go to. we were able to find this aggregated list. there's a link on 9news.com. there's more than 100 things to go to here from punk rock tastings. >> thank you, dan. those tickets sold out so far for gabf. >> an hour all the 60,000 tickets were gone, so definitely a hot event. >> thank you. i wonder what kind of beer pairs with kailua pig. how much one apartment complex sold for broke colorado records and even stunned the experts.

two big announcements came in today. bon jovi is one of them. >> snow levels will be dropping before weekend. >> and what happened when a butterfly tried to share a baby koala's big introduction? >> reporter: and aqib talib moves he's better at dodging

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an apartment complex in denver has sold for a record price, perhaps an indicator of where we stand in terms of hot real estate in the country. the breakers resort sold for $350 million, the most ever for an apartment complex in the state. our partners at the denver business journal say the comple is the second most expensive complex in the country to be sold this year. the only one to top it is in manhattan. experts say 15 years ago no investment group would have invested 100 million on a single property in denver let alone 350 million. the breakers sold then for $230,000 for each unit. >> unbelievable. two big shows headed to denver won't hit the stage until well into next year. still coloradans are getting

jovi will be at pepsi center march 14th. tickets will be on sale next week. faith hill is going back on tour with tim mcgraw august 1st at pepsi center. those tickets, too, go on sale next week. hey, ryan, i can still smell the haze and smoke in the air kind of evident over the city from that prescribed burn in commerce city today at rocky mountain arsenal. i'm meteorologist kathy sabine. we're tracking the wind which took most of the afternoon to disperse that smoke and haze out of the area. as a matter of fact, we do have a picture of that controlled burn up there in the commerce city area that did create a poor air quality scenario for us for a while. starting to see clouds lift over denver in advance of a cool front that will take temperatures into the mid-50s tomorrow. snow level about 7,500 feet with rain in the forecast

is september 8th and the average date october 7th. time to call your landscape company and get those sprinkler systems blown out. winds are northeast at 10, calm in the backyard, outside the studios mid-50s downtown. we're tracking an area of low pressure spinning north of us. it will bring in a cool front to add to the snowpack in the northern mountains where they've made snow fast and furious the past week or so. we could see another 2 to 5 inches of snow from steamboat, aspen crested butte. most of the precip and energy stays to the north of us. this front does have some cool air. we'll see the snow level hover around 7,500 feet tomorrow. the cool air will follow through and quite the severe weather event is likely outside of chicago in omaha down to the dallas area. hurricane matthew, a dangerous category 3 storm, expected to strengthen to category 4 status east of jacksonville, wind to 115 now. storm surge possibilities in

florida and georgia where hurricane warnings have been posted. it may clip the carolinas over the weekend and then move back out to shore, all the models coming into agreement. instead of sideswiping florida now it may move inland near the jacksonville area friday. we'll watch those closely. this is the first hurricane to strike florida since wilma in 2005 and it's now churning over the bahamas moving so slowly out of the northwest it continues to bring a heavy flooding rain threat to much of we have a few light showers expected in the morning and afternoon under mostly cloudy skies. we will see temperatures hold in the 50s. it will be a cool unsettled day with periods of snow over the i- 70 corridor and northern mountains. in the morning it will be cloudy. the snow line moves in through evergreen west of boulder, light showers in the city at 10 a.m. and return later in the day. cold in the mountains tonight, lows in the 20s, no freeze or

aren't that warm,39 in leadville, 50s in denver and front range foothill temperatures are cooler than average tomorrow, about 43 in grand lake, 41 in nederland. tonight cloudy skies, isolated showers, low 38. a cloudy cooler day with a few showers early and then again in the afternoon, temperatures hovering between 50 and 56 degrees. we clear out, drop to freezing tomorrow night and then we ne. sunny, warmer friday, beautiful weekend. a warm weather trend continues into next week, a beautiful fall weather forecast shaping up. snow capped peaks, you may be able to ski on some of that snow over those higher peaks in the next couple days. it will be amazing to see how much snow those northern mountains get with the system coming in while down here, snow

pansies that survived last night. if you don't think this is cute, you may be hopeless on the cute animal video front. one more piece of video, a wildlife park in australia wanted video of this new koala. only problem this little photo bomber right here bright orange on the koala's nose. he doesn't even it move.

from colorado's sports leader here's drew soicher. >> hi, everybody. broncos quarterback trevor siemian has his cell phone calendar set on that layout where you can only see one day at a time. weeks, months and years are so overrated. siemian was dressed for practice today di any passes. he suffered a left shoulder injury during last weekend's victory over the buccaneers and expects to be ready for sunday's game with the atlanta falcons, but for now he's simply dealing with 24 hour increments. >> i'm better than i was yesterday, so just taking it 1 day at a time just doing what they tell me and take it one day at a time. feel pretty good right now, taking it one day at a time. taking it one day at a time and see how i feel in the morning.

really have to be ready today. getting better which is encouraging day by day and taking it from there. >> peyton manning is not on the broncos anymore. corner aqib talib is bulletproof. 9news broncos insider mike klis gets rudely interrupted on the pages of his notebook. >> reporter: bronco fans want to know will commissioner roger goodell free aqib? dallas police apparently did. a police investigation into aqib talib's shooting in june is finished. the police determined talib accidentally shot himself. that's what we at 9news reported four months ago. i was in the middle of asking talib about what he thought when he heard about the report yesterday when he cut me of off. i heard the report yesterday. >> when i heard that report yesterday, i immediately got on my ipad and started watching julio jones.

i got my hands full with enough already. like i said, it's still under review, i'm not really going to talk about that right now. >> reporter: once dallas finishes its police report, goodell will be free to determine whether talib was in violation of the league's personal conduct policy. i still wouldn't expect any discipline to come down for a little while yet. at the very least, we will see the nfl's best corner back in talib taking on the nfl's receiver in julio jones sunday. mike klis, 9news. with great power comes great responsible and that's why the rockies might name spider-man their next manager. rox minor league skipper glenn alan hill is certain to get one of the first interviews. hill earned the nickname spider- man in his playing days because he suffers from arachnophobia

nightmare. he lacks rated both elbows, several toes and -- he lacerated both elbows, several toes and landed on the disabled list. he played for eight teams. giants beat the mets tonight in the wildcard playoff game. connor gillaspie broke an 8th inning scoreless tie with a home run. giants win 3-0 and advance to the division series against the cubs. still of the night comes from dallas where the avalanche beat the stars in an game and goaltender calvin pickard stopped all 28 shots he faced. a's win 1-0 in the still of the night. >> patrick roy's birth take today in 19-- birth date today in 1965 which means he's as old as two of us in this studio.

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