to more states from something other than the winds. >> if free speech becomes the message of racially motivated messages on a college campus. >> last year at this time i couldn't imagine he wouldn't be here. >> cancer ends one man's life. however, his legacy lives on. >> and which bronco quarterback will it be in sunday's match-up with the falcons? 9news starts now. a conversation before a soap oprah cameo 11 years ago may change this year's presidential race. donald trump's own voice and own words are captured by a microphone during a crude and lewd exchange. trump was on a bus chatting with then access hollywood reporter billy bush. at the time trump talked about trying to seduce a married woman. here is that conversation which includes some offensive language and comments about groping women. >> nancy, no, no.

in fact, i took her out furniture shopping. i said i'll show you where they have some nice furniture. i took her out furniture. i moved on her like [ bleep ]. i couldn't get there and she was married and all of a sudden i see already she's now got the big phoney [ bleep ]. she's totally changed her looks. i've got to use some tictacs in case i start kissing her. i'm automatically attracted to beautiful women. i'm a magnet. i just ki anything, whatever you want, grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> in a statement tonight trump said, "this was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago. bill clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course, not even close. i apologize if anyone was offended." and meanwhile just moments ago congressman mike coffman issued a statement about trump calling him to step a side as republican presidential candidate. it reads for the good of the

clinton mr. trump should step aside. his defeat at this point seems almost certain and four years of hillary clinton is not what is best for this country. mr. trump should put the country first and do the right thing. >> republican national committee chairman reince priebus issued a statement tonight saying, "no woman should ever be described in these term or talked about in this manner ever." tonight house speaker paul ryan added he competition. hillary clinton took to twitter shortly after the washington post released the story and retweeted the story and said this is horrific. we cannot allow this man to become president. her running mate tim kaine said the comments made him sick to his stomach and added these thoughts. >> this is outrageous. i mean i'm sad to say that i'm

>> a reminder this is all happening with the next presidential debate set for this weekend. you can watch the debate sunday on channel 20 at 7 p.m. taking place the same time as sunday night football on 9news. turning now to hurricane matthew, the now category 2 storm is becoming a life threatening flood threat to georgia and south carolina. tonight the storm still has winds of 110 miles per hour. however, it is still expected to bring a dangerous storm surge and a foot of rain to communities along the co overnight into saturday. florida narrowly avoided a direct hit. at times math through's eye was only a short distance offshore -- matthew's eye was only a short distance offshore. it never made landfall. to the north of matthew a wall of water known as a storm surge has been building all day. >> reporter: this is what storm surge looks like. it's a fast moving fast rising

>> a large section of florida's east coast around daytona beach has lost power. nearly 1 million people around daytona beach are in the dark tonight. 100,000 others in orlando are also without electricity. the center of matthew is about 70 miles south of savannah, georgia, tonight. intense rain has soaked that city all evening. transformers have been exploding leaving those who did not evacuate in tornadoes tonight. in south carolina the water in charleston harbor is 3 feet higher than normal. that water will continue to rise as both the hurricane moves closer and high tide is reached at 1 a.m. it's expected the flooding along the coast of south carolina could be even worse than the catastrophic done during record setting storm last october. matthew is a very rare hurricane in many ways. it became the longest major hurricane to form after

5 on the all time list staying at least a category 3 for just over seven days. also matthew had a pressure so low only two named hurricanes to ever hit florida could match it. they were andrew and donna. hurricane experts are also looking at how matthew is following a similar path to a couple other storms, david in 1979 and floyd in 1999. 1979's hurricane david also hugged the florida coast similar to matthew. it hit th 5, then lowest most of its strength before hitting florida. >> matthew for a time wasn't the only hurricane in the atlantic. nicole is nearby and is back to being a tropical storm tonight. some wondered what would happen if hurricanes collided. we have that explanation on 9news.com and yes, it's happened before when wilma ran into alpha in 2005. coming up we'll introduce you to a colorado woman with

island dealing with the disaster. the university of denver free speech wall is meant to let students express themselves. now the university's chancellor is responding to students who say recent messages about race make them feel unsafe. the free speech wall is not maintained or managed by university staff. controversial messages began when someone crossed out the word black in black lives matter. them thursday a message written across several wall panels included lyrics to the song guilty of being whit threat that caught the university's attention. one lyric included the word lynched. in a statement du chancellor said the recent messages directly speaks to the racial tensions in our nation. >> it doesn't come with these simple dichotomy society likes to do, right? being pro black lives matter does not make you anti-white or anti-police. >> the chancellor urged the campus community to hold itself to a higher standard. her office says that it's

share their opinions in constructive ways. a former marine shot and killed by police at cu boulder had been discharged five months earlier of 28-year-old brandon simmons was an active marine from 2006 until may. the marine corps gave no other details. simmons was shot wednesday inside cu's champion center near the football field. police say he threatened someone with a swordlike knife in the parking lot and then entered the building. police say he was shot after he refused orders to drop the weapon and investigators say two officers with the city of boulder and with campus police opened fire. they still want to hear from people who were in the area when it happened. for the first time the obama administration publicly blamed russia for trying to influence the election by hacking political targets in america. homeland security and director of national intelligence also claim only russia's most senior official could have approved the hacks. alleged targets include the democratic national committee,

contractor that revealed michelle obama's passport and e- mails by former secretary of state colin powell. tonight's statement does not blame russia for recent attacks on state voter registration databases but it does say most of them came from computer run by a russian company. cancer does not discriminate. sometimes it chooses the young and healthy and while cancer may take a life it can never take away the gift that some may choose to leave behind. here is 9news reporter noel could not have imagined that he wouldn't be here. >> reporter: how we live our lives does not always determine the legacy we leave behind. >> he was such an active, active person, riding, skiing, running, being outside. that was our life. >> reporter: suzie evans' husband jerry, the athlete, the pilot, the adventurer never expected to be a cancer patient. >> first x-ray they said we're

fluid. you've got stage 4 lung cancer. >> reporter: the diagnosis led them to the cancer center at university of colorado hospital and a trial study that worked at first. >> for whatever physiological reason he developed a resistance to the therapy. >> reporter: suzie is grateful her husband was home. >> jerry passed away on december 13th. >> reporter: they were together that day. >> >> reporter: suzie knew what jerry wanted and she didn't flinch. >> not at all, oh, not at all. >> reporter: reaching out to his oncologist with a question he was surprised to hear. >> would any of the cancer tissue be useful now even though, you know, jerry has passed on? could you learn something from that that might help others? and the short answer is yes. >> reporter: suzie allowed doctors to study jerry's body and how his cancer changed. >> if they don't have tissue

things to put under the microscope, it's trial and error, trial and error. >> reporter: what doctors learned from jerry's body could lead to new drugs for patients down the road. >> jerry didn't get an opportunity to benefit from that knowledge. he's contributing data that is absolutely going to help other people. >> reporter: it was a gift jerry couldn't give in life. >> it doesn't change any of the outcome, but understanding helps a whole lot. >> reporter: but in death it's the le in denver noel brennan, 9news. >> doctors at university hospital are hoping that tissue samples will help them learn more about resistance to certain cancer drugs. samples were also requested by doctors at md anderson cancer center in houston where jerry also received treatment. >> cancer treatment patients say creates a real financial hardship. so this weekend a group of breast cancer survivors will raise money to help other women fighting the disease by

survivor diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago and had a double mastectomy. since then she's become a triathlete and all this exercise will come in handy saturday night. she'll be one of six women in this year's dancing with survivors competition at the galleria stone. mcgeary also had cancer as a child and said learning to fight back has been tough. >> i think one of the scariest things for me was just starting to feel empty like i had nothing left to give had worked so hard at everything. that was really frightening for me and that's i think one of the things that made me realize i needed to do some adjustment and some rebalancing and it's absolutely a process for every survivor. >> mcgeary says there is now no evidence of the disease in her body. the money she's helping raise by the foxtrot will be used by other breast cancer patients going through treatment. we'll post information about the pink fund on our website

waiting for word from haiti, we're there as a colorado woman gets the call that she's been hoping to receive. >> danielle is tracking a perfect fall within along the front range. >> and the latest on hurricane matthew. >> then how fema used waffle house locations to tell how a serious storm threat is starting here. >> siemian or lynch, who will be the broncos qb? we'll ask head coach gary

relatives of a woman in north colorado were helping in haiti when hurricane matthew devastated that high land country this week -- island country this week. 9news reporter noel brennan was there when the call came through that brought the family a lot of relief. >> kind of been talking about how it was coming. >> reporter: a text message. >> that says all okay, love you, sis. >> reporter: means a lot. >> it was just okay at 9:30 this morning. >> reporter: especially >> once the weather was bad i started texting my sister. >> reporter: to hear back from the ones you love. >> i wasn't getting anything back in return. >> reporter: rochelle's sister stephanie is lindsey's mother. >> she's not safe in my mind until she's home. >> reporter: she and four other family members traveled to haiti last week. >> i don't think they figured it was going to be a category 4 hurricane. >> reporter: the family knew hurricane matthew was coming, but it didn't stop them from

nonprofit. >> the people are suffering down there and they have such loving souls that they didn't care. they wanted to get down there, give them the donations and maybe come back in return. >> reporter: losing cell phone connection may have been the hardest part. >> try not to think the worst, but you do. you definitely think the worst. i've had to kind of stop myself and just know that my mom is okay. >> reporter: two family members at home couldn't stand to wait get ahold of the wives, they decided to fly out. so now instead of five there's a total of seven that need to come back home. >> reporter: while a text message can say a lot. >> the last message monday at 4:30. >> reporter: there's nothing like finally hearing a voice. >> we're in port-au-prince. we have poor reception. >> reporter: on the other line. of course, the only thing that will beat a phone call will be that reunion.

>> i love you steph. >> i love you nana. >> reporter: at the airport. noel brennan, 9news. today we learned when it comes to hurricanes, fema doesn't just use satellite and other 10 to gauge the seriousness of -- technology to gauge the seriousness of the storm. it turns out they see what waffle house is doing. if the chain is serving its full menu, the storm severity is low. if only a limited menu is yellow. red is when the chain is closed. fema's top manager said if you get there and the waffle house is closed, that's really bad. >> who would have thought. hey there, meteorologist danielle grant in the weather center. we've been watching that snowfall along the higher peaks, just stunning out there driving into work, blue skies and snowfall and kind of the icing on top of the flattops as well, larry pierce capturing this great shot out there, still a couple little pockets

40s and along i-25, about 54 in broomfield, 50 degrees in boulder, 30s in estes park, kremmling and silverthorne, too. on hd doppler 9 what you see is what you get. it's been quiet weatherwise in colorado, all eyes across the atlantic coast line as hurricane matthew continues its track. it's just been riding parallel to the coastlines, but a bit of good news with this latest report out that the center of the storm system, the eye, is really beginning to br we are seeing signs that this system will start to weaken. the southeastern quadrant of this storm system is it really lacking afar as rainfall -- is really lacking as far as rainfall. however, the moisture is rolling inland along the i-95 corridor from charleston to savannah, extremely heavy amounts on the interstate. thus far only several hours into this event we're close to 4 inches in a lot of locations, about 1 1/2 inches in

up as the storm system potentially looks to barrel in within the next 12 hours or so right there along the coast line. still a cat 2. that means sustained winds 105 miles per hour. it's moving directly north as we speak, but it does look like it will take that hook pushing through north carolina as we go toward saturday evening dropping down to a cat 1 and then fully being offshore by sunday morning. it takes that turn, kind of that u-turn, so to speak, drops down to just a tropical storm still going to be something we'll keep a close eye on because the damage is not done yet. we're still not only anticipating some pretty incredible storm surge out there, some spots potentially seeing 11 feet of water coming in, just walls of water with this monstrous storm as well as the rain that's falling basically from wilmington south toward charleston into savannah looking easily at close to a foot of water. tonight in town much quieter,

last night, mostly clear skies, 30s for eastern colorado, 20s in the mountains. i'll show you futurecast, but there'sen a ton to look at. -- there's not a ton to look at. mostly sunny skies tomorrow, a few high level clouds drifting in across the san juans. through about 10 p.m. tomorrow evening we are clear statewide. temperatures should warm up, 72 by tomorrow afternoon after a somewhat cool start to the eastern plains, 50s and 60s in the foothills. if you're heading to the high country, it should be spectacular. you'll get to see some of the snowfall in the higher peaks and a couple spots with some gorgeous fall colors. this weekend we really warm up to the mid- to upper 70s by sunday, great for the broncos game. monday looks toasty. i am tracking that no storm system that pushes in tuesday. it looks like a weak one, if

temperatures. then you can kind of see those numbers keep ticking right on up. is that it gets warm, cool and then up to 80 degrees all over again. >> by the middle of october. it's amazing. >> thank you. back now to our top story, minutes ago donald trump released a video message. it's an apology after a recording from 11 years ago revealed he made crude and vulgar comments about women. >> i never said i'm a perfect person nor en i've said and done thing i regret and the words released today on this more than a decade old video are one of them. anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who i am. i said it. i was wrong and i apologize. i travel the country talking about change for america, but my travels have also changed me. i've spent time with grieving mothers who lost their

countries and people -- jobs have gone to other countries and people from all walks of life who just want a better future. i have gotten to know the great people of our country and i've been humbled by the faith they place in me. i pledge to be a better man tomorrow and will never ever let you down. let's be honest. we're living in the real world. this is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we are facing today. we are losing our jobs. we're less safe than we were is totally broken. hillary clinton and her kind have run our country into the ground. i've said some foolish things, but there's a big difference between the words and actions of other people. bill clinton has actually abused women and hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims. we will discuss this morning in the coming days.

from colorado's sports leader here's rod mackey. >> a quarterback question seems to supersede all with the broncos. so who will be the qb? trevor siemian is the best of the broncos when he's healthy. siemian, though, was still sore

he's listed as questionable sunday and that was, of course, the angle of most of the questions to gary kubiak today. >> you want to know how trevor was today? [ laughter ] >> they did a little bit more, took more reps in practice and like i said, we'll continue to see how he comes out of it. we got 48 hours here. we'll see how he's feeling tomorrow, but took a lot more today, so we'll see where he's at. we moved him around a bit today. so just go back big picture what's going on. we'll probably work him more tomorrow than we normally would just to take a look, but he's made progress every day. >> first time since 2005cu will have a ranking next to their name when they play in a game. tomorrow's game is against ufc, the 10th time the buffs played the trojans and let's just say

well. >> we have to -- series hasn't gone so well. >> we have to earn their respect, who doubt about it. it's fun to do something that's never been done. hopefully we can do that. i think that is something that i think you always need a little bit of chip on your shoulder whatever you do. i think it gives you anwarded advantage. csu will -- an added advantage. csu will host utah state tomorrow. du pion tonight against ohio state at hope and they'd like to start over. -- at home and they'd like to start over. the buckeyes won the opener. final score 3-2. as usual the rockies are not in the playoffs, but some of their former players are. they always seem to get better when they leave except tulo.

the cubs were the best team in the regular season but will that translate to the postseason? so far so good. only one run scored in tonight's game against the giants. javier baez got it with a solo shot in the 8th. cubs win, final score 1-0. time now for the high school portion of the program and for that we turn to taylor temby who, by the way, was wearing a winter jacket when e she returned to the information have in a regular jacket. >> with the new conference alignment many teams are getting a chance to see new opponents, but others have been fortunate enough to keep the rivalry games intact. in den tonight thomas jefferson and kennedy. the spartans extending their lead in the 3rd quarter. ball is loose in the end zone and nichols comes up with it. ultimately he goes and takes it 100 yards the other way for the

the final -- in the 4th, 41-0 the final. cherry creek hosting fossil ridge. 1st quarter the ball is tipped before the pick. appleton takes it back to the end zone. cherry creek wins big 42-7. finally a conference match- up between george washington and wheat ridge. the farmers going to the air to take down anthony tate's pass to thomas is good for six points. wheat ridge wins this one 34- 14. we'll have much more on the prep rally. set your dvr right now if you can't wake up for those 7 or 8:00 shows. >> thank you, taylor. we finish with my highlight of the week having von miller on the broncos huddle which as it turns out was not his highlight. >> people always ask me about

house? was it meeting this guy, this guy? i don't ever really have an answer for the highlight, but i can tell you the emmanuel sanders show is the low light. tell you that right now. >> what's up with that? tell you what. thank you for coming on, man. >> he was kidding. he loves our show. he'll be back and do it again

recapping our top story tonight, donald trump released an apology for a recording of him making crude comments about women in 2005. mike coffman called on trump to step a side as a republican presidential candidate, much more on this developing story on 9news. >> at 6:00 we'll be on channel

south carolina overnight. we do appreciate you watching tonight.