evacuations and things. this is west of parker. near the pinery. this is a brush fire. we don't know how it got started. we know south metro fire crews have responded. they are keeping us posted on their progress. a lot of people are concerned. >> and you see just how brown and dry that area surrounding that charred area is. we know how warm it was out today and has been for the past couple of weeks yesterday being the pt concern for the firefighters. good luck to them. police in westminster are asking for help finding a map that sexually assaulted a 16- year-old. he is wanted for sex assault. he was convicted -- he never showed up for his sentencing.

call metro denver crime stoppers. 710-913-stop. the fbi is looking into who left an explosive device outside of the nedder land police department. deputies did a sweep, didn't find reopened. they opened a bomb tipline. coming up at 5:00, we will check in with victoria sanchez that spent the day up in that mountain town. the legacy high school football keep has spent nearly a month, more than a month in the hospital is home again. the adams 12 school district confirmed that matt cooper was released yesterday. he is one of three coaches hurt after the bus they were in

coaches kyle rider andway and 15 students were hurt. the coroner's report also came out yesterday and there was no trace of drugs or alcohol in the driver's system. she died in the crash. she was the only person who was killed in the crash. temperatures in the 70s across the metro area. meteorologist belen de leon is -- becky ditchfield is in the 9 backyard. we are expecting it to be even warmer as we head into the day. >> reporter: when talking about the warm temperatures, we're also going to talk about dry, sunny conditions that we have here and our winds picking up steadily, becoming very windy as we get into the start of next week. we have seen wind gusts already today. some breezes out there. it hasn't been terrible for the denver metro area but some places seeing gusty conditions. we are very dry for the western

here's a look at the wind gusts. strongest gust will be at castle rock. not bad. out to our west is where they are the strongest. 18 miles per hour gusts around the red feather lakes and allens park is seeing 15 miles per hour gusts. now down to our way south, we have a red flag warning. this is going to be in effect from noon tomorrow through 7:00 p.m. tomorrow. er miles per hour gusts and relative humidity down to 13%. this area does not cover where we are seeing that fire up near that finery. this is in southern colorado. 77-degrees in broom 2350e8d.

we will drop into the 60s at 7:00-8:00 tonight. coming up whether talk in much more detail about that wind forecast, where we are expecting the strongest winds and we will be talking about a big warmup which is not great when we are talking about wild fires, kim and ryan. i know some people do like the warmer weather. so a little bit of a double edged sword. >> it's a catch 22 because we do enjoy the warm at the same time we forget how dry it gets. thank you becky. >> let's go back to that reminder. sky 9 over that brush fire in parker. pretty big one near the pinery. the sheriffs office says the homes on rain tree circle are being -- there is quite a bit of smoke in that area. there is a small evacuation

dare are neighborhood. >> and what we are looking at, we are seeing a lot of this brush that has burned, but you see that really green area. that is the golf course area. they have a couple very popular golf course in that area as well. we are watching south metro crews dousing it with fire. look at how close those homes are. right there. and they have to be pretty concerned. again, you know, any piece of property matters. yes, these are large homes. but any piece anybody loses anything, you lose an out building or something in a fire it can be devastating to anyone. so we will keep you posted on this and worry about those evacuations. it's kind of a touchy time of day. kids are coming home from school, people are trying to rush home. and a lot of people are saying i want to rush home and get my things. they don't want you to do that. >> kudos to west metro fire. they stopped that fire, at least on that property line right before it started to approach the house.

save property and hopefully they can save all the homes in that area. you can see there is quite a bit of smoke in that area. >> we still don't know how it got started. it doesn't seem like lightning in the area. it's hard to explain something like this. it takes very little and that is why they urge us to pay attention to what you are doing and be if you notice something, report it as soon as possible. southbound crow foot valley road is closed. they were telling you another way to get there. we want you to know about the evacuations. if anything changes, we will keep you posted. >> you do see some flamage there. we will keep you posted throughout the hour here. moving on now michelle obama says enough is enough. at a rally at southern new hampshire university today she condemned donald trump for what

she talked about that video from 2005 where trump can be heard bragging to billy bush about groping women. polls indicate trump has lost support in new hampshire since the release of that tape. >> and i know it's a campaign, but this isn't about politics. it's about basic human decencien be it's about right and wrong. and we simply cannot endure this or expose our children to this alone for four years. now is the time for all of us to stand up and say, enough is enough. >> the first lady has been a powerful supporter for hillary clinton. she's been working to mobilize the face of young people that was instrumental to barack obama's victory eight years ago. >> donald trump is refuting

assaulted women. at a rally in florida he said this is all part of a smear effort. he also claims to have substantial evidence against the accusations which he says he will make public at what he calls an appropriate time. he denied any inappropriate behavior with women and promised his supporters he will do whatever necessary it takes to change america. >> i will not lie to you. these false attacks absolutely hurtful. to be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly and before your family that you love, is very painful. what is going on is agregous. beyond any words. >> trump also continued to cite the content of the latest wikileak e-mails.

is corrupt. trump is in ohio campaigning this afternoon and this evening. bernie sanders is asking president obama to stop construction of the dakota access pipeline. the request comes after a federal appeals court denied the standing rock sioux motion. a new environmental review would likely delay the pipeline which developers hoped to complete by the end of the year. the white house has not commented yet. police in boston say a 33 shooting at 11 officer. police shot and killed him late last night. he was wearing a body armor and had an assault rifle. the two officers, two various critical juice. nine others treated for minor injuries. investigators say the gunman was sworn in as a constable for the city of boston.

officers use of deadly force. which of course is standard. lego land in florida believes a threat made against the park today was a hoax. the theme park and hotel was evacuated around lunchtime because of a bomb threat. it came in as a note found in the park. no word as to how many guests were effected. they will assist hotel guests if they choose to move. regardless of the hoax they threats seriously. let's get back to that fire. >> let's do that. as we've been speaking, we have seen quite a bit of flames pop

the broncos will wear orangier sis, orange participants and orange shoes it's a whole lot of orange. the team is looking forward to the uniform switchup. the fans want you to tell us what you think. >> yeah. it's a lot of orange. if orange is your color, you might love it. head over to 9news.com/votenow. your choice is i love them, i hate them, or don't care just win.

welcome back everybody. >> all right. we're getting excited for the

game. the broncos in white. >> joe will take over for head coaching responsibilities today. he is good at managing that game clock. let's check in with rod mackey who is in sunny san diego. can you hear us now, guys? >> can we hear you? >> we can hear you. can you hear us? >> we've got you. >> okay. the magic i said insightful stuff. i think the tv god said rod, we need another take. >> i did babble on there. what we were talking about is this is far from a give me game for the broncos even though they have won five in a wow against san diego against the chargers and done great. 15 straight divisional games on the road. this san diego team is a pretty good team. all four of those losses have been by a combined 14 touches. >> i've got a theory why the

lost twice in that same span to san diego at home. phillip rivers loves the role of the villain. he is bert on the road. he is bert on the -- he is better on the road. here he is loved. he doesn't know how to be loved. he likes to be the villain. and so this is where the broncos also bring the heat. they've always been able to -- phillip rivers is a top ten quarterback in the league. but when he is pressured, he's one pressure bothers him more than any other quarterback. vaughn miller it's important he gets in his kitchen tonight. >> and vaughn has had a lot of success against phillip in the past. you look at the broncos verses phillip. rivers has been the one constant going against the broncos. he's gone against seven different denver coordinators. siemian will be the eighth quarterback he has gone head to head with. the broncos are the team that is always changing. >> this streak started with

it's amazing. tebow. who else? manning. manning, brock osweiler. phillip rivers has been the constant. and defense is generally where they win the games here. verses the quarterbacks, sometimes there has been low scoring games and they won. brock didn't play particularly well here last year. broncos won the game. so that is going to be the key. phillip rivers is the x-factor. and of course rod, can this team hang in there? because the chargers, more than likely, are going to gag. >> they found ways to lose in the past. the broncos find ways to win. that has been the big difference. the big thing tonight is green being back. stevenson being back. >> they won the ball well in the opener against carolina.

since stevenson went down. and yeah cj anderson way over due for those fantasy league. so they do hope to get that running game going tonight. i know rick dennison the play caller tonight. he prefers the running game a little more than the passing tonight. >> how 5:00? >> yeah. >> okay. >> get in the kitchen. that is a good one. we like that, mike. >> very nice. thanks guys. talk to you at 5:00. >> heat, we're talking heat. >> i know. bring on the heat. let's get a check at stocks. the stocks ended the day lower on wall street. the dow fell 45 points. down as much as 184 points earlier.

nasdaq dropped 25. samsung seems to be bouncing back after stopping production and sales of its strongest smart phone ever. company shares were up for the first time today since they announced recalls. but the bigger question is what is causing those devices to catch fire. nbc's jeff rossen. >> reporter: i'm jeff rossen. coming we have a dramatic and rare investigation for you. we are talking about the samsung galaxy note 7 phones. so many of them keep catching fire. over 100 across the country. some of them exploding and smoking. we have seen the aftermath photos of the phones charred up. we really don't know what it looks like up close when one of those explosions happen. we have come here to ul. you probably recognize the

work on the products. we are in their special battery lab where they test lithium icon batteries. we going to put pressure on these batteries, we are going to over charge them. you are going to see exactly what happens. our camera is getting rare access. full access right up on top of the batteries. to see the fire and the explosion. we have tips on you with how to avoid becoming a we hope you join us tonight on nbc nightly news. the u.s. energy department says most people will be paying more to heat their homes this winter. it's because cold weather is predicted. the energy department says household bills from october to through march are likely to be higher for all four main heating fuels. natural gas, electricity, heating, oil and propane. experts say they got a break because it was warmer than usual in some areas.

the forecast. news about teen drivers. aaa study shows the majority of teenagers are holding off on getting a driver's license. 44% got their license within a year of turning the minimum wage to get one in their home state. money appears to be one of the biggest factors for getting a license. young adults were more likely to get one if they lived in a house where the family made more than $60,000 a year. 60% got one wi more than 70% got a license before they were 18. but if those teens live in a home making less than $20,000, only a quarter would get one before turning 18. even fewer within a year of becoming eligible for one. some parents of students with special needs in boulder are upset with the school district after news their children will be moved to a new location next year. as nelson garcia shows us, the plan that boulder valley

families by surprise. >> reporter: for regina and her nine-year-old son lockland snap >> it's a wonderful environment. >> reporter: mesa elementary is a great place for a boy that suffers adhd. he is part of the intensive learning center for students with effective needs program. >> for kids that have high emotional needs. >> reporter: lockland is mixed in with the rest of the kids in an inclusive parents received this letter stating that ican will be moved to a new facility. part of a new campus constructed with bond money. >> to move him to a completely different school after everything we've been through, and with no familiar kids, none of his friends, his last year of grade school, it's awful. >> reporter: and it's a 45

>> and after the fact we are being told we can come to a meeting and hear what is going to happen. >> reporter: with the opening of a new school in erie next school year after an analysis of student needs, the erie school was determined to be the best location for the program. the district states it will minimize future transitions for these special needs kids. >> how do you explain to your child that and removed from his school and none of the others are? it's complete discrimination. there is no other way to frame that. >> reporter: the district calls it progress. she calls it unfair. in boulder nelson garcia, 9 news. >> and the district will meal with parents about the -- will meet with parents about the changes. sports are about a whole lot more than just a game. >> next the colorado coach responsible for generations of

let's get another look at this fire from sky nine. that is the neighborhood has been asked to evacuate. south metro firefighters trying

are sending five engine strike team to assist with that brush fire in parker. we have seen this fire creep up to property lines and homes. a small ranch in that area. the sheriff says they have asked everyone southbound. it does appear that we don't see any new flames which is encouraging. >> we will keep an eye on this one in the next half hour. colorado has welcomed runners to train in altitude but many people may not realize how much al moe is a may have

colorado legacy. >> reporter: great stories often start when nobody is looking. in al moe is a stories are written on the pavement. >> it's a small community. >> i've lived my whole life there. at the place where great story begin. adam state university. >> you take a lot of pride adam state. >> when i got hired, i got hired as an assistant line coach. >> dr. joe. >> but they told me i could start cross country. >> went from coaching on the football field to coaching a few yards away on the track. all while teaching at the college full-time. starting in 1965.

i was getting tired of getting beaten. so i started developing a cultural running in the community. >> reporter: the community was less accepting of latinos. >> i just had to work harder. study more. learn more than anybody else. that was the drive i had. >> that drive soon paid off. he helped train american olympic games in 1968. >> they announced the mexico city olympics were going to be in mexico city. the same altitude as alamo is

>> reporter: from 1965 to 1993, 28 years he helped win 19 championships. >> my team scored a perfect score in the national collegiate championship. they came in one, two, three, four, five. it has never been done before. >> reporter: his legacy has led to more championships after leaving adam state. >> winning was not my forte. improvement in my runners was. >> reporter: most people will tell you coach's best attribute was his ability to teach. >> they don't compete against somebody else, they compete against themselves. >> reporter: the next time you see adam state runner, you will see his spirit, competition,

them. >> we hardly ever mention winning. or losing. but what did you learn about yourself? >> reporter: jonathan gonzalez 9 news. >> he attended this years olympics in rio. >> and in 2015 he was honored as a legend coach by usa track and field. only the second person ever to receive that honor. >> out >> developed a lot of good runners out there. get off the sofa, take a run this weekend because the forecast is just begging you to do something. >> it is pretty sweet. becky is back next with when we

nice blue skies out there. not too many clouds. let's check in with becky ditchfield. she is in the 9 backyard. >> that is the -- i have the greatest job today. >> yes. everybody is talking about it. >> when compared to yesterday, we got up to 48 degrees. today's high around 77. that is nearly 30-degrees

either. let's take a live look outside where we have lots of sunshine. dry conditions. not too breezy in denver. winds are not our friend. they almost contribute to fire danger so we will have to watch that closely. highs got up to 77 degrees. that is well above our average high of 66. wind gusts expected to be stronger if you live out west over the foothills. you will notice winds pick up just a bit down to morning with places like parker, castle rock, aurora will see wind gusts around 10- 15 miles per hour. notice out to the west from red feather lakes down to nederland, we have much stronger gust in the 25-35 miles per hour range. those will continue throughout our friday. as will the breezy conditions across the front range. not gusty but breezy conditions. and extremely windy conditions

over the san louis valley we have red flag warnings in effect through tomorrow. 35 miles per hour gusts and relative humidity down to 13% will contribute to fire danger. you are also noticing the same color in southeast wyoming. red flag warning in effect for you tomorrow. temperatures also contributing to some of that fire danger. 77-degrees 78 for fort collins. in eastern colorado we are close to 80. springfield with warmer spot in the 80s right now. we have 50s and 60s in our mountains. outside of 9 news lots of sunshine. we are dry. we're at 74-degrees. let's take a look at the dry conditions all across the state. we don't have much going on for rain. and that combined with the winds out of the west, southwest have made us 33 degrees warmer right now than

32 degrees warmer in greeley. 28 degrees warmer in lineman. 21 degrees warmer around lamar. so huge, huge difference between today and yesterday. there is that radar screen. like i said not a lot going on. head down to the southeast to pick up on showers in north texas and central oklahoma. that is on the tail end of a cool front. same system that brought us cool temperatures yesterday that will push east. out to just the north west of there we have more rain and that is from our next system that is our winds as we head into the weekend and there is another one even behind this. so this one will bring in the breezy conditions we've got expected will as we get into the weekend. the one behind that one is going to cool us off even more for next week and it's also going to make us very windy come monday afternoon. we will get into all of those details in a minute. i also want to talk about nicole.

storm. that is a major hurricane. now nicole is considered a category two storm and pushing north, northeast of bermuda. maximum sustained winds at 110 miles per hour. it's going to continue to push out over cooler waters. as it does so, it will lose its strength, becoming a tropical depression as we get into late saturday and also into sunday. if you want to check out 9news.com, or also if you want to check out the facebook posts from earlier, we had a web camera going as th hurricane nicole passed over bermuda earlier. this is great place to watch it because we are safe and out of the winds that they are experiencing there. we will see as i mentioned winds pick up but they will not be associated with rain or thunderstorms. we have a very dry forecast from the western slope to the eastern plains all the way through friday evening. temperatures tonight drop together 30s and 40s. eastern plains you will be in the middle 40s for lows. in the mountain areas we're

40s. and then upper 40s out across the western slope. tonight here in denver we are calling for mostly clear skies. it will be gusty in our foothills. breezy down to the south where we have the fire near the pinery. winds out of the south will be around 10-20 miles per hour. tomorrow 85 the high. a breezy afternoon in store and it will be sunny, warm and dry. winds will be out of the southwest at 5-15 miles per hour. a little cooler 78 degrees our high. back to the low 80s on sunday. monday will be windy. we'll climb to 83 for a high. again, dry weather expected. a cold front is going to be pushing through monday night. that will cool us off for tuesday but you will notice the one thing that is missing in all of these forecasts is rain. we need it, we just don't have is a lot of it coming our way. even over the next several days we looking at pretty dry and

so we need to get a good system that brings good showers. >> we need that moisture. and you consider that fire out there in parker right now. it's just perfect evidence of why we need that moisture. >> for sure. >> all right we will check in with you later. let's check in on that fire sky 9 over that brush fire in parker and the pre dare are neighborhood. it's being called the crow foot valley fire. it's now been contained we are hearing from south metro fire. it burned 30 acres. no longer threatening homes so the fire lines. to the property lines. no longer threatening homes. homes were being threatened. douglas county notified 44 residents to evacuate. what started this all, we just don't know right now. they are just getting these hot spots taken care of and then i'm sure a heavy investigation will begin by south metro fire. >> we have been watching the view from sky 9. it's so interesting to see how they have gone in with the trucks and firefighters and then on

top of every ridge there. double checking every spot. they are aware how quickly these things can move. and they certainly found the fuel with the trees. but those homes that was close by and ranch property and fences and everything else. you though there was horses and other things and the golf course off to the side. scary stuff and 30 acres. now we get a number on that. 30-acres that burned. it started at 3:40. >> kudos to the south metro they responded. you could see as we watch this develop, they did their best to find those property lines where that fire was encroaching and the golf courses as well. and sent their crews right there to tamp down some of the approaching fire lines. and they did a great job. they are still take care of some of those hot spots there. quite a few crews on the road. a heavy presence there, but they got it all contained. good news out of parker.

because we've got the dry weather coming up. be aware and good job on all of our fire crews.

she was one of the early east soap opera stars. trisha barry passed away at the age of 93. over the course of her career she worked with everyone from doris day to mickey mantle. she also served as the

and new york. the prize in literature for 2016 is awarded to bob dylan for having created new poetic expressions with american song tradition. >> how about that? big news for bob dylan. he has been mentioned in the nobel speculation for many years but they are surprised that the award was genera. in 2008, dylan won a poetic surprise. >> very poetic. >> president obama tweeted

favorite poets, bob dylan. the link included a play list of his songs. >> well deserved. we asked what you think of the broncos uniform tonight. all orange, orange jerseys, orange pants, orange shoes. >> your choices are love them, hate them, so ugly, don't care just win. let get your answers. >> it looks like about half the people love them and about a quarter each say don't care or i hate them. don't care seems like a good one to me. i kind of like the uniforms. i like when they change it up. >> yeah. remember those throw back the one time and some of the teams it was cleveland that has these really brown and orange. orange is bright. we like it. >> the steelers this year have already worn their bumblebee throw back.

orange tonight. >> they look like a cone all

people don't often associate sweet moments with the football field. >> there is no other way to describe what happened in westminster on a youth football team and what they did for a

9 news viewer -- after their game in lafayette last saturday marty is the grandmother of the kings quarterback logan. the first boy to give her a pink rose. i'm going to cry. other team members did the same in honor of her beating stage two breast cancer. she was diagnosed last year after several bouts of chemo she is cancer free. she plans to be on the sidelines for the team's last regular season game this saturday. >> how sweet it looks like they are all wearing pink socks. i love the roses thing. how cool is that? perfect and good for her. beating cancer. i love that. >> and at the game cheering them on. we have a cute kitty in the backyard. oh in the newsroom. sorry.

all right it's pet time. i want to introduce you to a little guy named heathcliff. he comes to us from the rocky mountain sea lion rescue. he is five months old. he is checking out lawrence gibbs right now. one of our directors. if he looks like he just wants to be super, super curious and get into everything, it's because he is five months old and they describe him as believe it or not one of the chill cats that they have at the rescue. he gets along great with other cats so we do good in a family with other cats. he just needs a lot of love and attention. his adoption fee will cover everything his shots, which he already has and he's been neutered so he would be great for a family that wants to play with him. lauren walked away. that is the problem.

we're good. so we need to find heathcliff a good home. you can find the number on the bottom of your screen to call. >> lauren has the touch. >> love this little guy. >> he has been sitting there patiently like a two-year-old. [ laughter ] i've got to move now. i'm ready to go. >> for sure. >> thanks. that's going to do it for us. maybe lawrence has a new friend 9 news at 5:00 is next. next at 5:00 a second shut down of security sweep tied to the fbi's investigation of an

department. >> also ahead donald trump lashes out at the media and did not have kind things to sayn't the women who accuses him of unwanted sexual advances. >> these people are horrible people. they are horrible, horrible liars. >> and the broncos are coming up a loss on sunday. they will change quarterbacks for tonight's game against the chargers. next on 9 news. yes a brush fire has been fully contained. these are images from earlier when the flames were going up and down the hills. roughly 30 acres burned in parker. douglas county told 44 people to evacuate. it was getting very close to homes. the fire being called the crow foot valley fire.

maine dish a parkway. no word yet what started that fire. nederland has gotten more than its fair share of news coverage this year to a fire to a bomb found in front of the police department this week. victoria sanchez talked with residents who say they are trying to get back to normal as they search for the person that left that device. >> reporter: small colorado unique about them. and it's especially true in nederland. stressed out? don't forget to meditate. walking around town? use the pedestrian crossing. small piece of life here was shaken up after a bomb was found in a backpack in front of the police department. >> we were joking that it was someone's dirty laundry. >> reporter: melissa freeman