i know people get angry. >> he will not just get out of the car. out of nowhere or even with a disagreement. he was not a violent person. >> two men, two husbands, two fathers, they're dead. police say it started as road rage. neither wife can believe it. here's 9wants to know reporter anastasiya bolton. >> reporter: life at the moment doesn't make sense to kathy johnson. >> it i just couldn't fathom that. i still don't. it's just very hard. >> reporter: it doesn't make sense how her husband of 40 years would be killed on his way to work when he stopped to help an injured man lying in the road. >> those are just things, you know, that he would do. he would give you the shirt off of his back if you needed it. >> reporter: september 8th

stopped at 56th and pena early in the morning to help a man lying in the road. police say juan perez was hurt by another driver. perez didn't like how the man was driving according to investigators, stopped in the middle of the road, got out and allegedly yelled at that driver. that man told police he accidentally hit perez while trying to get away, road rage police called it. >> my husband was not that person. >> reporter: none of this makes sense to perez's wife was, what a great man he was and everybody that knows him can tell you that. so it's a big loss for all of us. it's hard to get through, but i just want everyone to know he was a great man. >> reporter: police reports say another car hit lina's husband while johnson was trying to get him out of the road. neither could get out of the

it didn't have to happen. two people could be living right now. >> reporter: the widows say they feel for each other. life right now doesn't make sense. anastasiya bolton, 9news. >> no one was charged in in incident. there was -- in this incident. there was another good samaritan who stopped to help perez, but he was able to get out of the way of the oncoming car. the driver who hit and kill the two men stayed on the scene. the lights on the underpass were out d the man shot and killed by police on cu boulder campus was discharged from the u.s. marine corps this year. the suspect was identified as 28-year-old brandon simmons. simmons enlisted in 2006 and was discharged in may, but details were not provided why he was discharged. police say simmons threatened someone with a knife in the parking lot of the champion center near the football field wednesday. when officers arrived, they

knife and was shot. a cu police officer and boulder police officer both shot the suspect. one is a four year veteran of the force. the other has been with boulder police for three years. both officers are on paid administrative leave. hurricane matthew slammed florida today. the eye of the storm hugging the coastline moving north bringing with it heavy rain, violent winds and dangerous storm surge that could reach up to 11 feet. hundre without power now and at least two people in florida have been killed by the storm. the storm has been downgraded to a category 2 but still has sustained winds 110 miles per hour. in north carolina residents are packing up and getting to higher ground. >> right now we have to prepare to worst and the worst will be excess of 10 inches of rain and winds between 40 and 50 miles an hour when the trees and ground are so soaked.

there's no way to avoid those thing. >> storm shelters are already open in buford county. officials urge people to start leaving now. the storm hit haiti earlier this week and killed almost 300 people there and there are fears that hundreds more could be dead. thousands were displaced after the storm flattened home, uprooted trees and inundated whole neighborhoods earlier in the week. the haitian red cross says shelters are short on water, food, medicine and are traveling to the hurricane affected areas. the american red cross of colorado and wyoming are sending disaster volunteers to florida to help with evacuation efforts. four people were deployed tuesday helping get people evacuated and set up the shelter. nationally the red cross sent more than 1,800 volunteers to the area. there are also digital volunteers monitoring social media on a national level to provide information to volunteers in the field. when forecasting hurricanes the national weather service

to help track storm activity. >> we take the entire fleet of satellites worldwide that can measure rainfall launched by different nations operated by different agencies and we stitched them together and here's an example of an accumulation of hurricane matthew. >> so that purple blob near the bottom of the screen shows rainfall accumulation. the storm dropped a lot at first. then it dropped more as it intensified from a category 1 to information directly to the national weather service. it has been downgraded to a category 2. both the clinton and trump campaigns are under fire today. the washington post just released video from 2005 of a conversation between trump and today show host billy bush. they were talking about women. the conversation includes several lewd comments about women all recorded on a hot

foul language talking about kissing and groping women saying when you're a star, they let you do it. trump and bush were arriving on set of days of our lives in an access hollywood bus for a trump cameo in a soap opera. in a statement to the post trump said it was locker room banter and bill clinton has said far worse to him on a golf course. meanwhile newly released e- mails of hillary clinton show senior white house officials were in close contact with the clinton campaign last year about te handle that fallout. the candidates will face off in a town hall style debate sunday. the obama administration is formally blaming the russian government for recent hacks into american political organizations. a statement from the department of homeland security links the kremlin to the e-mail leaks. the leaks are from the national democratic committee and from former secretary of state colin powell among others. there have been attempts to hack election systems in at

a spokesperson for russian president vladimir putin calls this nonsense. a lawsuit was filed against a forensic pathologist in michigan saying that burke ramsey killed his little sister. jonbenet ramsey was 6 year old when she was killed in 1996. dr. warner spitz said in a september interview that 9-year- old burke bludgeoned jonbenet to death. her parents were cleared by prosecutors in 2008 who said dna on the girl's underwear did not h anyone in the family. the rest of the people evacuated by a wildfire that destroyed eight homes in southern colorado are allowed back home. because of progress made fighting the beulah hill fire, residents were allowed to start returning home around 1:00 this afternoon. the fire was likely started by a spark from a cdot worker's excavator doing routine maintenance work in the area monday.

the state's disaster emergency fund. right now we are continuing to track hurricane matthew's path along the southeastern united states as night comes along there. already the storm has been blamed for more than 300 deaths in the caribbean and at least two in florida. this is a live picture of myrtle beach, south carolina, where people are already evacuating ahead of the storm headed their way tonight. >> we'll keep tracki closer to home it was a cold morning in the denver metro area, but it will warm up in time for the weekend. we'll check in with danielle in a few minutes. >> also ahead a group of local high schoolers are preparing for their future and getting a leg up on their competition thanks to some hands on

a new report shows people are living longer, but there are still challenges when it comes to global health. data from nearly 2,0 sciences showed life expectancy to improvements with sanitation, pollution and immunizations. however, during the same time period obesity related diseases and substance abuse skyrocketed. while most of the children in the u.s. are getting vaccinate against potentially dangerous diseases there are still a lot of kids missing their shots. new numbers from the centers for disease control and prevention show about 2% of kindergarten students were not fully vaccinated and they were not legally exempt last year.

more likely not to get their vaccines. samsung galaxy note 7 owners may be able to get a new replacement for their replacements. the original phones had to be exchanged because there was a chance the battery could catch fire. remember that? now there are reports one of the replacement phones caught fire on a plane this week. sprint and t-mobile are allowing customers to exchange the replacement devices for any other type of smartphone. verizon an commented. we all depend on products that are manufactured, everything from refrigerators to cell phone and making all those things can also lead to jobs. 9news journalist byron reed went to a high school in fort collins to learn how they're working to meet the demand for future manufacturers. >> reporter: exploring ideas. >> we are in the high school metal shop. >> reporter: it's nothing new in this classroom. >> we've got sparks flying, robots being manufactured.

it won't move. >> reporter: and for senior olivia brett this classroom translates into opportunity. >> it's letting kids explore careers and ideas that may not have been presented otherwise. >> reporter: careers in high demand in northern colorado where manufacturing is a key part of their economy. >> there's so many job openings available right now that we can't fill the demand fast enough. >> and enter. >> reporter: that's one reason why the school received a $35,000 grant made possible initiative and local industries used by the school to help purchase manufacturing equipment giving students hands on experience just like the professionals in the field. >> to insure that students had access to the equipment that they would need to really get the right kind of skills and to understand the career and opportunities across a number of fields. >> reporter: opportunities to work in a career field in search of good employees. >> our business partners are coming to us saying there is a

level technicians. >> reporter: a school giving each student a chance to create their own career path and making it easier to plan for their future. >> we have so much technology available to the students really helps. >> you're surprised by what you're able to do. >> reporter: helping young people like olivia explore ideas and manufacture their own goals. fort collins byron reed, 9news. >> according to the colorado education initiative, the demand for stem professionals is expected to add 1 million new jobs in the united states. colorado is home to one of the fastest growing economies among all 50 states. freezing temperatures overnight followed by a slight warm-up today. >> tomorrow it will be even warmer. danielle is tracking a beautiful weekend forecast. we will check in with our

certainly a cooler start to the day, but the sunshine has come out and we're making our way to a beautiful weekend. >> i can see the weekend from here and it is mighty fine. mid-60s this afternoon after a lot of us early this morning saw our first widespread freeze early on. it was nice and chilly and frosty. this afternoon the sunshine popped out and now we're in the mid-60s across the metro area.

a gorgeous way to end the workweek. we're at 65 degrees downtown, upper 60s in longmont, 70s in greeley, 50s from estes park south through nederland and evergreen, 50s in steamboat spring and kremmling. at the airport hanging onto loads of sunshine, winds relatively quiet and the temps in the mid-60s. here in the 9news backyard our temperatures at about 65, feeling good for friday evening, light jacket if you're heading out but no rain, no snowfall to deal with evening. right now on hd doppler 9 it's been quiet for us around here, mostly clear conditions, no rain to speak of. out there across florida certainly a different story as we continue to watch hurricane matthew as it slowly tracks through the coastline affecting portions of atlanta as well as the carolinas. you can see those outside feeder bands pushing well inland across the region. right now it has been downgraded to a category 2. so

and it's slowly moving up to the north which now is looking more so like it's going to make impact on south carolina just to the south of charleston later on tonight and then starts to veer north and east making its way through parts of north carolina by tomorrow afternoon, evening and then it will take that curve off to the south and drop down to a tropical storm. it will be interesting to see if this system continues to kind of take that u-turn that we kind of anticipated last night and kind of florida. again the rainfall, the storm surge, the extremely powerful wind are still going to be a concern even -- winds are still going to be a concern even though florida has gotten out of the thick of it. we will watch for devastating impacts across the carolinas, easily up to a foot of water across the carolinas coastline and really damaging conditions out there. tonight about 38 degrees, clear, quiet, should be another cold one. we say in the 30s across the eastern plains, 20s in grand

ouray. i'll fast forward through the futurecast of tomorrow morning you wake up to plenty of sunshine, perhaps a few high level clouds stream in across portions of the san juans, but that's about it. temps tomorrow warmer, 72, certainly a cool start to the morning, but by afternoon we'll have tons of sunshine out there. it should be gorgeous, a great afternoon to maybe head up to the high country and enjoy maybe some of that fresh snowfall on the peaks. mid- to upper 70s across the eastern plains foothills. we're at 73 degrees in boulder, arvada and aurora. tomorrow afternoon and in northern colorado another nice little warm-up with temperatures running about 5 degrees above our average. look at that. the rest of the weekend into the start of next week glorious and then perhaps a couple of light little showers on tuesday, a change of pace and then the 70s are back in no time. >> beautiful weekend. we're talking about this pumpkin chucking or chucking

our nine things to do on 9news.com. are you doing that? >> why not? it sounds fun. is that when you get to launch the pumpkins? >> it explodes and we all love stocks are slightly lower on wall street giving the market its first weekly decline in a month. the dow fell 28 points, s&p dropped seven points and nasdaq

from colorado's sports leader here's rod mackey. >> so who is going to be the qb? the question we've asked throughout offseason and training camp and now we're asking it yet again about broncos. trevor siemian is the best of the broncos when healthy, is he? siemian is still sore after being slammed in tampa listed as questionable for sunday and

the questions to coach kubiak today. >> want to know how trevor was today? he did a little bit more, took more reps in practice and we'll continue to see how he comes out of it and we've got 48 hours here. we'll see how he come out of it tomorrow, took a lot more today. we'll see where he's at. we moved him around a little bit today, something we didn't do yesterday. so just go back and look at the big picture what's going on little more tomorrow than normal, but he's made progress every day. time for the prep pigskin portion of the program. thomas jefferson and kennedy take to the field in their first conference game of the season tonight. taylor temby is live at all city stadium with a look at new and improved tj. taylor. >> reporter: that's right. thomas jefferson hasn't had a winning season since 2009, but this year they're off to a 4-1 start, have their eyes set on

overall much better attitude. all this starts with their new head coach. the rise of sparta looks a little something like this. >> once you get that into your blood and start winning you don't want to lose. >> reporter: on this battlefield there's a new confidence. >> he brought like a whole different attitude. >> reporter: a new approach to thomas jefferson football. >> he's not really used to losing, so he's going to help us win. >> reporter: it's not really a homecoming because darrick martin never left. >> he just popp like be at volleyball games, basketball games, anywhere. you'll just see him around at school sometime. >> reporter: but the former spartan standout is now here to stay as the leader of these troops. >> went to the nfl, won two super bowls. i guess we were all in shock that he would come back and give back to his school like that. >> reporter: after martin walked these halls he stopped in wyoming. a few year later the safety was helping both the packers and giants win world championships. >> they stillen the platform i

platform i played on and i tell them to build a stage we want to perform on. >> reporter: thomas jefferson has already surpassed its win total from last season. martin is determined to keep that trend going while also bringing the spartans heritage to the forefront. >> we had such a great tradition and it did so much for me as a youth growing up and i thought if i could bring this back to the kids, they would enjoy it as much as i did. >> reporter: it started with the little things like the return of joe spartan on th a new brown and gold we're seeing on the field. >> how about lead me in a new direct and help me get where i need to go. >> reporter: after all sparta runs in derek martin's veins. >> he's a tj. >> reporter: should be a great rivalry. the baseball playoffs in full swing today, four games. everyone is in action. cubs and giants play later

books. two on the jays up two games to none othe rangers thanks to that 2nd inning home run, two run home run. toronto wins back to back on the road. the final score today was 5-3. we finish with my highlight of the week, having von miller on the broncos huddle which as it turns out wasn'this highlight. >> people always ask me about the highlight of my offseason. was it the white house? was it meeting this y, guy? i don't really have an answer for the highlight, but i can tell you that the emmanuel sanders show is the low light. i can tell you right now. >> what's up with that. i tell you what, thank you for coming on. >> i love that. >> the show was technically called the bronco huddle, but as long as von is taking shots at it, the emanuel sanders show

it's looking awesome sunday. >> it might be toasty on the sidelines. >> von should wear that little hat, then? >> von can do whatever von wants to do as long as we keep winning. we'll be in the mid-70s sunday, warmer monday and a shot at a few showers tuesday to cool us off and then wham, bam, thank you, ma'am, we're back to the 70s. >> got it.

tonight, breaking news on several fronts as we come on the air. storm surge, slamming the florida coast. cities under water and tonight forecasters are warning the worst may be yet to come as hurricane matthew takes aim at georgia and the carolinas. trump tape bombshell. donald trump caught on a hot mike months melania, making vulgar commen about groping women. saying, when you're a star, they let you do it, you can do anything. we have the tape. more breaking news, the u.s. publicly accuses russia of trying to interfere with the election, blaming putin's government for political hacks and e-mails exposed. and cries for help from a little girl in -- trapped in aleppo. captivating the world