. enough is enough. >> this is a conspiracy against you, the american people. >> a fiery speech from the first lady and trump on the defense. all reaction to the republican nominee sexual assault allega dia employees coming together with questions about privatization seeking answers about their jobs. when you step outside today, you might not believe it. it's true. ski season around the corner. good morning everyone. marty is with us as well. those ski resorts are going to need a few cool days. that is not today. >> not this weekend.

loveland and a basin are, clear start for the day. no limits to visibility. no worries about fog. we have a high wind warning out for central valleys and mountain areas in wyoming today. humidity levels drop dramatically this afternoon. high fire danger going to be a problem in wyoming, nebraska, south dakota and in the san louise valley. extreme fire conditions in the afternoon and evenin to 7:00. for us, temperatures going to jump into the 80s. if we get to 85 today, we'll tie a record high. that is possible. yesterday sky 9 was unable to take out because of the fog. today they're up and over the morning commute at u.s. 36 and i-25. interchange is flowing smoothly for now. it's friday meaning lighter volume overall. we see the impact pick up around

you're a little south of where sky 9 is cruising. looking nice. city is weighing up. waking up at speeds 55 miles per hour. commerce city looking nice. we're in the yellow. we've dropped to 40 across the south and eastbound stretch. eight minute drive heading throughout the city. 6th avenue great between golden and downtown denver. toronto, 8 or 9 minutes on the stretch. >> quick commute. thank presidential candidates in a heated fight for several key battleground states. vetta, hillary clinton has a 4 point lead, donald trump in ohio. >> lashing back, donald trump heatedly rejected sexual assault allegations against him. he is hammering his female

donald trump flatly denied charges he groped, fondled, kissed women without their permission. several women said he made sexual advances. hillary clinton is dealing with leaked hacks another e-mail states hillary clinton's campaign wanted to delay the illinois presidential primary to a more politically appealing date. first lady michelle obama speaking out over donald trump's words about women while trump denies the accusations by the women unverified by nbc. >> i can't stop thinking about

it is cruel. it's frightening. the truth is, it hurts. >> i've never met these people. i don't know who they are. they're made up stories filed right before the election. >> this is a conspiracy against you, the american people. >> now toronto mentioned polls now showing trump trailing clinton in all but one of the toss up states. trump is visiting to visit colorado springs and grand junction nex week. >> a lot to keep track of. it's 6:04 now. fbi set up a hotline to find out who put a bomb outside the police department there was a backpack found outside the office tuesday morning. deputies had to detonate it. yesterday they found a suspicious vehicle. it turned out to not be a threat. they want to find the person that planted the bomb. if you know anything, call

there's a nationwide search this morning for the man who sexual assaulted a 16-year-old. westminster police say chavez attacked the girl last year and didn't show up to sentencing hearing. he's accused of kidnapping the, false imprisonment and sexual assault. call if you know where he could be. . it is 6:05 now. what's going on with the private company in the airport. employees at dia want employees want transparency about the long term privatization of jetson terminal. dia officials are in conversations with the company. workers have barely gotten information on how the change will affect them. today's rally starts at 2:00 p.m. arizona is one of nine states considering legalizing marijuana in this upcoming election. lawmakers are urging them to not

did. former mayor web. they both slammed. it came out of nowhere. that fire spread so ft. fast it scorched 30-acres in just minutes. it sent people fleeing from their homes. investigators believe workers were repairing a driveway gate. the fire started 3:00 yesterday afternoon. one person was taken to the hospital for minor smoke inhalation. firefighters took hours to get the fire under control. one of the workers thinks sparks

>> no charges were filed against the workers because the fire was ruled an accident. around here, windy conditions over the area will once again be a problem. very dry. current wind gusts up over the continental divide between 30 and 40 miles per hour. loveland and the pass during the day today. we jump into the morning. 70s before noon. mid 80s. in fact, close to 90 degrees over the eastern plains late in the day today. so gusty winds in central and western colorado as well as here in the front range plains and south eastern plains. windy in wyoming today. through the night tonight it gets windy up and down the front range mountains. see the highlighted area.

hour. thethe quarterback return didn't help come back from the latest loss. the broncos lost once again to chargers. it wasn't just having troubles on the field. jordan taylor and thomas fumbled the ball. this was the second loss in five day broncos get a break now. next game isn't until monday, october 24th here at mile high against houston. runners tie up your laces. denver rock-n-roll marathon this weekend. no full marathon this year. organizers decided to change the course after issues with permits and complaints from residents.

distances. they are adding a 5k sunday. they are expecting 14,000 runners. all events start and end at civic center park. still happening, just a few changes. a race of a different kind. man versus bear. boulder police had to chase a bear through the city yesterday. the bear ended up jumping into boulder creek and wandered back out to with momma bear. >> looks like a cub. momma is close by. >> maybe taking pictures with her cell phone. >> look at the baby. 6:09. one airline took matters into their own hands. alaska airlines booted someone off the plane for his behavior.

. isn't he sweet. that's snow blowing. the ski season count downturning to days instead of weeks.

. the man who police say fired those gunshots will have to get a psychiatric evaluation. officials order had the evaluation for john hernandez yesterday. the 26-year-old is accused of murdering two officers on saturday. hernandez pleaded not guilty in court yesterday. da says hernandez' motive was to kill police officers. also in court thursday, the man accused of setting off bombs in new york and new month. his court case thursday was only for the new jersey bombs. he is still in the hospital and appear in court through video from his bed and lawyers next to him. bombs injured more than 30 people. lass lass airlines appeared to not tolerate heckling on its flights. they removed one man for what he said. it happened before a flight from seattle to burr bank,

but answered by saying, quote, i'm just playing with you. the man was taken off the plane. it has become a hot topic on social media. some applaud the airline. some say the crew overreacted. we'll leave up to you to decide. nigeria's government and many families celebrate this morning. it's the first release since the militant's kidnapped nearly 300 girls two years ago. some they returned. the girls were released after negotiations between boko haram and nigerian government. all threats from hurricane nicole have ended except for dangerous surf and riff -- and rip currents. a category 3 storm at the time was the strongest hurricane to hit bermuda in 13 years. about 27,000 were left without

today and late in the day. we'll begin to see few high clouds drift in out of nevada and utah. texture to the sky early on. it's all sunshine around here. late in the afternoon, might see just a few clouds that drift in, hang around during the night tonight. temperatures are going to be extremely warm. lower to middle 80s. 85 is the current record high for today's date. i think we're going to be right up close to that in a lot of places with 60s windy conditions in the foothills. during the day today, 25 to 35 miles per hour gusts. pretty common. then tonight through tomorrow morning, the wind kicks up. we'll see 50 miles per hour gusts in the foothills tomorrow morning. across the state, whether you have clouds or not is really irrelevant to rain or snow. there won't be any today. we get clouds here after sunset tonight. it's too late to really affect temperatures at all.

here on the eastern plains. 85 would tie the record high temperature in 1962. it will be within a degrees or two this afternoon. clouds drift in late in the day. keep us up close to 50 for an overnight low. clouds stick around tomorrow. closer to 80 tomorrow, sunday and monday. wind really picks up here on monday. it's out of the south early in the day. north late in the day. cooler air moves in tuesday, wednesday. i wish i could say a lot moisture was coming with the cool front. it's not. >> all right. thank you marty. >> sky 9 today. too foggy yesterday to head up and over the commute. this morning, showing the view at 25 and bellevue. the entire denver tech center commute so far so good. sculpture there along bellevue as you track northbound on 25. we go ground level now. excellent conditions here across county line road.

excellent speeds on the high side in the 60s. we get out across the maps. closer look at 270 commute. south and eastbounders getting sluggish there on york street. backups up to 24 miles per hour. once you get past the exit back in the 60s on the approach to 270. if headed to rock-n-roll marathon or live between downtown and city park, keep in mind, closures heading through saturday. marathon goes downtown through trying to say, civic center park. the closures already getting set up. a lot of cones out this morning. >> half marathon, 5k, 10k going to be busy. >> i'll be eating brunch the whole time. not running. >> congrats to all people that do it. it's not for me. >> i'll cheer you on as you pass by. good job. 6:17 now. lots of us caught up in the

area. it's homecoming for cu boulder. a preview of the game straight

. the former pharmaceutical ceo will be in court today for a pretrial conference. he's facing allegations of securities fraud in connection

these charges are different from him hiking up the price from a life saving medicine from $14 to $750. the trial is set for june 26, 2017. it's 6:21 is now. walk past cold crush on 27thand lairimer. it's going to look quieter now. now a sign posted to the front door. officers have been many times before. the shooting was the final straw monday morning outside no one has been arrested. three years ago thanksgiving named best new bar in denver area. owners posted on facebook, they're going to fight to get it back open. supporters questioned the decision to close this bar. who knows why you need office supplies on thanksgiving? if you do, too bad. office depot is latest retail tore announce hit will be closed -- retailer to announce it will be closed for thanksgiving.

for a list of stores closing unanimously on the holiday, head to 9news.com. >> eat extra turkey. don't worry about the paper clips. they'll be there friday. you're okay. >> be with your family. these hot temperatures don't scream ski seasons, but some say otherwise. >> the basin operators say the season could snow guns have covered one run. they may need one or two more cold nights before they're ready to go. >> the mountain dog has been dressed up in bronco orange making the rounds. he is adorable. >> he's really cute. >> i saw this sunday night football. it was very cute. a basin in loveland are the two that always open first. usually competing for that first

>> it's always close. last year both opened up on on october 29th. that means ski season is just 15 days away. >> oh my goodness. this weekend is not going to help at all. going to be so warm. >> i was looking at upper air temperatures over the weekend. more typical of what you would see in july not october. so snow making going to be a challenge this weekend. 50s now, 60s by the end of the rush hour on our way i and 70s in mountain areas. even though it's warm, you know it's going to snow this year. you should plan ahead. don't wait until it snows to say hey, i need to announce a closure. get in our system now. e-mail us at closings @9news.com. tell us who you are, your best contact name. we'll get you in the system, get you an id and pen.

>> wise words marty. you're going to end up sitting on hold the morning storms roll in. do it ahead of time and get it out of the way. 225 commute at i-25, view from sky 9. best seat in the house. dry conditions and more visibility than yesterday. across the i-70 drive, at the exit of central park, stapleton commute is flying through. drive to the airport is doing just fine. out across the maps, green conditions. one exception a

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car. today the man who is accused of doing it is in court facing charges for the heinous crime. >> a lot of self-inflicted wounds. those are tough to overcome. >> broncos fans feel the wound this is morning. second loss in five days for the broncos. maybe this will lift your spirits. going to be a nice warm day. inching towards breaking records

good morning. gary and cheryl have the day off. marty is here with us. marty, could we really see 80 degrees today? >> oh yeah. 80 plus around here today. beautiful predawn sky over metro denver. visibility fantastic in the area. no issues with fog in the state. high winds going in wyoming this morning. high wind warning there. humidity levels that are going to dive here duringhe working outside. any spark could set off the fire around here. we're particularly concerned with em -- with these places. red flag warnings extreme fire danger today noon to 7:00. low humidity and extremely gusty winds. for us, we go from near 50 to into the lower and middle 80s. 85 is your record high.

this afternoon. . sky 9 has been zipping around town. so far, haven't seen many issues until now. at i-70, i-25 interchange here. going to work on the exact direction of where this sits on the left shoulder. new problem blocking that left lane, part of the left shoulder. minor delay on the ramp. better detailed bit of information on which lane is blocked coming up in a few minutes. i'll put it up on burger the drive times denver and colorado springs. just over an hour. an hour and five minutes this morning. crash wise across the city, not much going on. speeds between downtown and tech center on the high side. in the mid-60s and take you 15 minutes to head southbound. amelia, thank you. this man who police say killed a man who's body was found inside a burning car will be in court

arson. jefferson county deputies say jason's body was found september 2015. he has an arrest record dating back 25 years. the investigation into who put a bomb outside the police department isn't just worrying authorities. people who live and work in that area are concerned too. partly because whoever did it is still out there. colleen is live outside the field office in denver. the fbi is helping case. >> they are. you know what, they need your help too. they have set up a hotline. they're asking anyone. sometime before they found it tuesday morning. retrace your steps if you were in that area near the netherland police station tuesday morning. were you anywhere in that area? they need your help to find your suspect, suspects who left the backpack outside.

specifically asking people to come forward. if they saw or heard anything. they found the ied outside the netherland police department tuesday morning. deputies had to detonate it. on thursday, they found the suspicious vehicle. thank goodness, that turned out not to be a threat. they're asking if you know anything, call the hotline. 441-3677. at first, a lot of people thought it was a joke. we spoke to neighbors yesterday. people around the shopping nt they're saying we thought it was a backpack of laundry. when we found out this was a legitimate device, they started thinking, hey, we should be concerned. if this happened in your neighborhood, you would of course want answers. these people that live here deserve answers too. use the hotline number. if you see something, say something. we always say that. in this case, we've got to find

backpack. >> thank you. it is now 6:34. everyone involved in the high school bus crash at dia is officially home the last person has been released from the hospital. legacy football coach went home wednesday. the coaches were also hurt when the crash happened. 15 students were hurt as the bus crashed into a pillar near dia. the team was headed home from a football game the only person that died was alcohol in her system. with just over three weeks until the presidential election t nominees are turning focus to the swing states. that includes colorado. trump and hillary clinton's campaigns are marred by controversies. trump is now commenting on women that accuse him of sexual assaulting them. >> donald trump is on the attack this morning claiming the woman who accused him of misconduct are lying.

with hillary clinton's campaign to doom his chances of winning. answering the growing number of women accusing him of inappropriate behavior, donald trump calls himself a victim in the smear campaign. hillary clinton is weathering her own crisis. wikileaks e-mail one claiming her e-mails. first lady michelle obama hitting the campaign trail speaking out audio tapes. >> i can't stop thinking about this. it has shaken me to my core. it is cruel. it's frightening. the truth is, it hurts. >> i never met these people. i don't know who they are. they're made up stories. filed right before the election. right before the election. >> this is a conspiracy against you, the american people. >> trump says he has evidence

at what he calls appropriate time. the wall street journal poll shows clinton ahead by 4 points in north carolina. ohio is tied. >> a tight race. thank you. clinton and you have trump are not the only ones talking about controversies. you heard from michelle obama. donald trump's daughter ivanka also. reacting with different responses. the first lady's speech she spoke to supporters in new hampshire yesterday. she said trump's comments have shaken her to her core. she called on americans to say, quote, enough is enough. >> this wasn't just a lewd conversation. informs not just locker room ban tore. this was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior.

attack on her father. >> the whole thing is bizarre and vicious, vicious. >> all right. time now for sports. 4-2 the broncos tack on another loss to their record. denver lost to san diego last night. it waive and give it up just the quarterback that had troubles. taylor and thomas fumbled the ball final was 21-13. will join us to break down the game, look ahead to the matchup against the texans. more football in colorado this weekend. cu boulder homecoming game. playing tomorrow at home, kicks off at 6:00 at folsom field. same record as the broncos 4-2. not bad. >> the grand marshals for the game, 91-year-old twin sisters.

twins. everyone knows them as the twins. they graduated from boulder high school, enrolled at university of colorado. the twins have attended almost every cu football and basketball game since 1940. >> we did a great story on them. you can probably still find it on 9news.com. very funny. >> they're a hoot. hoping homecoming has a better outcome than last year. going to win last year. arizona handed them a loss with a few back to back touchdowns. cats won it 38-31. the chicago cubs know who they'll fight against in the l action championship tla dodgers. dodgers had a one run lead in the ninth with two on and two out. in a clinch, he closed the game. what he came to do. 4-3, dodgers take the series and

pretty exciting. as for the american league, game one in the championship series is today. cleveland indians and blue jays face off in cleveland tonight the game kicks offer at 6:00. lots of sports to be had this weekend. >> clear conditions now. top of the first season looking down. couple day this is week, we couldn't see down to street level no problem like that this morning. sunshine throughout most of the day.mi sunset tonight. lower to middle 80s during the day today. hovering near 80 over the weekend. windy conditions for the mountains in the weekend. wind gets down here for a big way on monday. 9 neighborhood is taking you to denver's capitol hill neighborhood this week. according to the denver business journal, it's called the ten most beautiful neighborhoods in the country.

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but first -- >> it's a shame. you get a chance to tie the game thereupon at the end.

. welcome back. broncos weren't able to redeem themselves. this time at the hands of san diego chargers. broncos now 4 and 2. >> smh. ron is here with this morning. broncos did not look good last night. >> that concerns me. i can live with lieuing at home to atlanta -- losing at atlanta. this is a division loss. this frames the next month of the season. broncos right now have a ton of problems. you saw it right here. they took the first drive of the game, took them nine minutes, 75 yards. broncos have given up a touchdown on the first drive. five of six games, melvin gordon runs 39 yards. up a field goal. still in the game. throws to jordan taylor.

kick another field goal, 16-3. broncos fighting back in the fourth. 21-10. he hits thomas. they're still in the game. he fumbles. they came down, kicked the field goal, kicked on side kick, recovered it. first thing about a hail mary, got to get in the end zone. they knocked it down. that was it. here's the deal. broncos offense is in big trouble. starts with offensive line. it's been poor the las weeks. because the offensive line is poor, you can't run the football. you have problems because a young quarterback's best friend is run the football. you take that away, and you're asking too much of trevor or paxton. >> on the other hand, the defense. two veteran quarterbacks said we're not going to throw to talib and chris harris. we're going to put people in the middle of the field.

will continue to do that. broncos have 12 days now to get their head coach back, really kind of self-evaluate what they're doing and decide what kind of team do you want to be this year. do you want to be one of many that came back next year just kind of -- or do you want to be something special? it's up to coaching staff and players. >> we want to talk next hour about looking ahead. we're facing texans we'll have that at the 7:00 hour. as always, thank you for stopping by. >> let's talk to amelia about the traffic. >> good morning. quite perfect up until now. problem popped up across the ramp eastbound 70 to i-25. this was the crash over sky 9 earlier. they returned. right now the backups are pretty light getting onto the ramp. i would tack on extra two to three minutes here. overall, rest of the drive is

congestion. 25 near colorado boulevard here. lots of headlines coming through. we may have a southbound issue coming up through evans and yale. i'll look into that. 2:25 travel times. 19 minutes with average speeds 16 miles per hour. >> gusty winds over the continental divide continuing to be an issue. we move into the 80s around here during the day today.hu just dive this afternoon into the low teens even single figures in some places. this is just going to be extremely dangerous with regards to fire danger today. especially north of the boarder in wyoming and nebraska. we're going to have strong wind and combination of low humidity and high temperatures during the day today. so red flag warnings out in wyoming, nebraska and south dakota. as well as the sand louise

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her dad use to print off puzzles and put them on a white board. they would do them together. it paid off this girl is brilliant. she's building cars and we're going to learn more about her in the 8:30 half hour when we do this edition of super stars. >> mind you, southeast a high schooler building cars. >> these kids make me feel number one inspired inspired and >> absolutely. >> that's a combination, yes. >> that's impressive. we're looking at possible record high temperatures today. is it really october? i know a lot of people are thinking hard to believe.

. clear now. high clouds move in later in the day today. we have the major storm system in the pacific northwest. it will be dry around the area through the day. sunshine over much of the area. again, just high clouds drifting in. mostly at or after sunset which means you can't do much to your temperatures. low tore if we touch 85 degrees, we are looking at tying a record high. very windy in the foothills. 25 to 35. after midnight tonight wind gusts up close to 50 miles per hour in the foothills. really busy saturday morning for foothills locations. showers stay off in utah over the next couple days. we'll get high clouds. it may look promising at times.

80s here, close to 09 north eastern colorado with 70s in the mountains. looking at sunshine today. early on. clouds drift in. 85 the forecast. record high in 1962. clouds hang around tonight. 50 for overnight low. average lows usually mid-30s this time of year. windy in the foothills. hovering near 80 next two or three days with 50s and tuesday and wednesday of next week. >> thank you marty. getting up with sky 9 over the 225 stretch in the northbound direction. there's a crash blocking the shoulder. one car left over the tow truck arrived. with the police on scene, flashing lighted in the dusk or dawn hour i should say. let's be clear. northbound, it's still catching folks off guard. backups look like this.

slammed in there. northbound backups going to begin between parker and eye lift. once you get up there, approaching the interchange. the drive could tack on 5 to 10. 225 drive times, 14 minutes north bounders. it's rare we drop to 40s without a crash. prepare for delays today. we've got a couple problems including this 225 official speeds 31 miles per hour approaching the scene of the wreck. earlier problem across 70 stall near 25 is clear. we'd end on a beautiful view of wolf creek pass. colorado colorado springs, gorgeous conditions down there in the southern and western part of our state. >> that is beautiful. thank you. 6:55. here are top story this is

leaving a person inside a burning car. a body was found in september 2015. he has had an arrest record dating back 28 years including convictions for theft, burglary, domestic violence and drugs. the school district says the legendary football coach is now home. he was the last treated in the school bus crash. coaches along with 15 students were hurt when the school bus crash into the the only person that died was the bus driver. the autopsy report says there was no trace of drugs or alcohol in her system. . while campaigning for hillary clinton, first lady michelle obama gave a speech to supporters in new hampshire thursday. she said comments like the ones trump made on women need to stop. she said enough is enough. >> i can't stop thinking about this. it has shaken me to my core.

it is -- it's frightening. truth is, it hurts. >> now there are also five women coming out saying trump sexual assaulted them. trump is denying those allegations. >> never met these people. i don't know who they are. they're made up stories filed right before the election. right before the election. this is a conspiracy against you, the american people. >> clinton is dealing with fallout of her own. a new round of hacked e-mails one is raising questions about the conflict of interest with the department of justice in regards to lawsuits over clinton's e-mail issues. workers at dictiona want to know what happens to them. dia is in associations with the company. food and retail workers are worried because they haven't been told how it will affect them. employees want more transparency. they plan to hold a rally to show discontent.

. when you look, it's one thing here, and one thing there. we're real close. again, i think it showed a lot of resilience there. too little too late, too much to overcome. >> even with trevor back on the field, broncos fell to san diego chargers last night. he didn't play his best, but neither did anyone else. jordan taylor and thomas fumbled mb they lost. next game at home in may high stadium against houston. around here, looking at sunshine over the course of the day today. temperatures in the mid 80s. near 80 over the weekend. then cooling next week. it will feel more like fall. i'd love, love, love to have water along with that. i don't think we can squeeze a lot of rain out of these. >> we're of dry and so warm right now. >> we're going to knock it down

>> kerry is not here. we're going to say it together. congratulations. you made it through the week. have a good weekend everyone. >> i have hiccups. >> that was too good. >> pretty good. . you can hear it outside your window. what was the sound hit made gary?

good morning. one-two punch. first lady michelle obama delivers a stinging and emotional takedown of donald trump over his alleged treatment of women. >> it is cruel. it's frightening. and the truth is, it hurts. republicans blaming them for trump's rise. >> they've been feeding their base all kinds of crazy for years. >> trump now lashing out at the women who claim they were targets of his unwanted advances. >> they're horrible, horrible liars. >> can the trump ticket bounce back from what's become an avalanche of accusations? we'll ask his running mate, governor mike pence, when he joins us live.