deliveries to 75 addresses in westcliffe and 30 in beulah because of the fire. that mail is being held at the local post offices. crews are still trying to figure out what caused the fire. we have a full list of evacuation orders posted on 9news dot com and the 9news mobile app. a red flag warning is still in effect for southern colorado. meteorologist becky ditchfield is in the 9backyard. becky, it's still breezy and dry in the metro area, as well. thanks, becky! just over 24 hours >> and most of us -- and throughout the next few days. when we look across the region though, there's one good thing

warnings are confined to southern colorado, until tonight. we're expecting 35 miles per hour gust, relative humidity as low as 13%. across the rest of the state, the humidity is up . >> a little further to the west, we've got 26 miles per hour. further down south, this is good, 7 miles per hour. right now reporting in that area, you

actually see some rain and snow. might see an isolated shower late tonight and into early tomorrow morning. most of that rain stays up across the foothill, which is barely even showing up on the radar screen there in the form of rain and snow. let's go ahead and talk about the forecast as we head into the rest of this afternoon and the evening. we're gonna be dropping 5:00 and 6:00. by 8:00, we'll be in the 50s, heading into this afternoon this evening. it's just gonna be isolated, quick-hitting, very light. it's not gonna make up for what we have not gotten over the last several months. we don't have much of a rain either.

coming up, we'll look at how winds will fair in the west tomorrow. donald trump is campaigning here in colorado. he stopped in colorado springs earlier today >> they even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths where so many cities are corrupt. voter fraud is all over the place. and they criticize us for saying that. take a look at philadelphia what's been going

you see things happening that are horrendous. >> vuchl's v-- trump's vp nom me is struggling to defend claims about the election being rigged. he said there have been documented instance was voter fraud in the past but he suggested that donald trump is encouraging his supporters to respectfully participate only. president obama responded to trump's claims today s republican nominee needs to "stop whining and go make his case to voters." a new poll shows clinton 8 points ahead of donald trump in

clinton's kwachl is dealing with documents that show an official pressured the f.b.i. into declassifying one of clinton's e-mails. insiders say it was like an apparent attempt to make it look like clinton didn't have that much classified info on her server in. exchange the f.b.i. request to send more agents overseas. during a joint news conference with the italian prime minister today at the white house, president obama downplayed reports of the state department's official request. >> some of the more sensational implications or paeshss as you stated them aren't based on actual events, and based on what actually happened.

derived from overall broad accusations of interactions between the state department and the f.b.i. that happened , and happened between agencies. >> the presidential debate airs tomorrow night at 7:00. a new poll out has michael bennett leading the senate race in colorado. it has him leading darryl glen 56% to 40%. they debated last week in the only televised state senate debated. the state focused on several issues including the race for the white house, immigration, iran nuclear deal, and the possibility of republicans and is democrats working together. voters are receiving ballots in the mail this week. 9news is offering a voter guide. take a closer look at the

channel 20, and thursday night at 7:00. we'll host a debate between the six congressional district candidates, mike coffman and morgan carol. a pentagon spokesman says more than 100 u.s. troops are embedded with iraqi forces as they advance toward moz deliberation ul. pushing toward larger villages and encountering civilian populations. >> reporter: there wasn't a lot of advancement on the battlefield yesterday. they managed to take about

very kaushsz approach, a medieval approach, and helps to reserve the lives of a lot of the iraqi soldiers and can extend the battle for weeks or months. a little of the battle they were almost entirely devoid of civilians. that's not going to be the case when they move into mosill, the second largest city in iraq. for the last two weeks isis has uped the city, and they'll have more than a million civilians to use as human shields.

successful. the man who admitted to killing three people at a planned parenthood clinic last year appeared in court. attorneys discussed which records should be released from the mental facility. the defendant has been staying there since may when he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial. there is a civil case going the judge is will decide which records to release if any. nine child sex slaves have been rescued from criminals and

f.b.i.. >> children don't know how to escape, and the life expectancy once involved is approximately seven years. >> 11 pimps and 32 customers were arrested. the f.b.i. with the help of dozens of local agencies targeted hotels, truck stops, street corners and social media sites to catch them. it was part of a national operation nationwide, 82 children being trafficked for sex were rescued during the 3-day sting. you may have heard of an high schoolers to earn college credit. how about early high school? as nelson garcia shows us, littleton wants to give 8th graders a chance to take a full load of high school courses on campus. >> this is a big part >> reporter: every year gretchen sees something in her freshman language arts class. she cease 9th graders who need more academically.

or may not be able to offer a huge variety of opportunities for those students >> reporter: so instead of seeing the same frustrated faces, principal amy oaks developed an idea. why not let 8th graders start high school early? >> an extra year of high school early lets you take care of so many of the things that sometimes get in the way for older students. >> reporter: oaks wants to create an early high school program for 8th graders taking full-time classes at while still technically remaining in 8th grade. >> having that rigor and being able to participate in high school for five years would be a wonderful opportunity for a lot of students. >> we see state of mind who is don't have enough room in their schedules, 11th and 12th grade, to do what they really want. >> all that to talk about psychiatry. >> reporter: the 8th graders would have a closed campus but they would meet with upper class students. they do not anticipate

difference. >> this is where it comes into students knowing and parents knowing. >> you have to have confidence buff you don't have to be a straight-a student. >> reporter: this could work for any motivated student, including those who want to go into a vocation instead of college. >> the earlier they can get that, they'll have a better sense of who they want to be and where they want to go at >> reporter: little toon has already sent letters to current 7th graders about the current high school program next year. soon million was people will be heading to ski areas and loading onto lifts across the

expensive inspections. matt joins us from breckenridge. we got an inside look at what's into the inspections. >> reporter: it is a lot of work! they're inspecting everything from how they start to how they stop, the brakes, electronics, they're testing it. and the inspectors sometimes also do full load tests where they fill up treasure cans with water, hundreds lifts and gondolas and push them as hard as they can. larry smith, engineer, with the colorado department of regulatory agencies are in their busy time of year. >> starting before labor day, it gets busy. >> reporter: when the temperature gets cold but there's a schedule, doing around 8 hundred inspections on lifts

the scenes inside six chairs motor room. where a new electric motor capable of running more people is being put to the test by filling hundreds of trash cans with water around 200 pounds of water each to see if the lift can handle the load. >> 1 seventy pounds per passenger, plus 10%. >> reporter: they also do starts and stop tests, check the electronmh hundreds of safety switches on these lifts work to stop the chair if the cable comes loose or starts to roll backward. >> worst case scenario is a rollback. >> reporter: even state of the art newer lifteds are put to the test to keep millions safe. each year there are about 100 million rides on colorado lift, and the last failure accidents were in

>> two incidents in the last 51 years. >> reporter: chair lifts are tested unlike any other place in the country. >> colorado is the only one that requires professional engineering licenses. >> reporter: just ask larry. after 40 years in the business, all he has to do is touch a lift to found its flaws. >> you can feel the vibrations. >> reporter: if you see larry on a lift, you know it's a safe ride. >> i have no w >> reporter: they also do a lot ever operator safety checks starting christmas, they're going to do surprise inspections! they show up unannounced and make sure

how many of us have not sat on a ski lift and it's a little windy and you're like ah! hope this is really safe! it's scary! >> reporter: it is ! rocking back and forth on those things! and something i learned today because they were doing a full load test on that chair, they had hundreds of trash cans on that chair and didn't have the bars down, and is they would run it as fast as they could and stop it. and it doesn't stop right away. but still and you think don't those cans ever fall off? and no, most of the people they're rooted into the chairs. >> itch es to get back on the slopes. >> i know! >> reporter: can't wait. can't wait. >> suffer er boy has never -- surfer boy has never tried

you could teach him. he already knows how to surf and it would be really fun. >> mainly she wants to see me fall on my butt for a couple hours >> reporter: we'll both be doing that because i'm not much of a snowboarder either. [ laughter ] >> it'll be fun. [ laughter ] >> kipicture these two together. it'll be great. families in michigan, are suing the school district. >> and bill belichick is done using tablets! that's it. look at him.

families in flint, michigan, are sue the state and the school district. they say nothing has been done academically to help students afghaned by the water crisis --

the families in the lawsuit believe students' performances and behaviors have become worse since drinking from the contaminated water fountains in schools. >> there's been nothing done to help the schools themselves. children from 3 to 18 have been screened. we know that the district has had to cut teaching staff, speech therapists. and there's just been -- they're operating under terrible circumstances, and the state has done nothing to help. >> earlier this month, the senate passed a spending bill that includes money to help flint but leaders they say haven't seen that money yet. opening statements starting today in a defamation la filed against rolling stone

the magazine and author defamed the name of a former university of virginia dean of students. >> in the article, a uva member described being gang raped. details of the article did not hold up under scrutiny. an investigation found no evidence to bac the article. rolling stone retracted the article and apologized. former dween of students says -- dean of students says the article unfairly targeted her. she is seeking $7.5 million in damages. earlier this month when bill belichick took out his frustration pie slamming down

today he said he's done with the tablets all together saying they're just too undependable. instead he and the patriots will return to the paper pictures he's used to. he says it's a personal decision and the process didn't work for him. what a curmudgeon. [ laughter ] >> he refuses to use the tablets, the best technology the nfl has. microsoft makes surface, it released a statement saying they respect the coach's choice but they have received mostly positive reactions. microsoft paid $400 million to the nfl to be the league's official sideline tablet provider.

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the unemployment rate for people with disabilities is roughly double of that everyone else. october is employment and disability awareness month. a new study finds invitro fertilization produces more boys than girls. this is the first large-scale study to follow conception. the amount of male

the same. but the number of live births were significantly skewed toward the male. what's happening from a genetic point of view to favor male implantation? sorry about that, we can't hear from her. unlike other specialists ccrn does not allow gender selection so they only transfer the healthiest embryos. those are equal amounts of male and female transfers. the study this and they hope they learn something long-term for why male embryos might be stronger or genetically there's something going on in the process. and that's why they're more likely to lead to a live birth. narcotic ics don't work the same way for everyone. some say pain is worse with them than without because they can make you so sick. anesthesiologist joseph myers practices in the dc

the narcotic pyramid. there are many cases where doctors don't have to go far up the pyramid to make sure a patient is comfortable without the side effects of narcotics. the alternatives to provide relief from vomiting and nausea and falling blood problem and doesn't use drugs that can lead to addiction. >> overdose is the no. 1 cause of accidental death, and we're a factor addiction caused by doctor. and whatever we can do to avoid narcotics in that regard is a big deal. patients say in method dramatically changed their recovery process. one breast cancer survive says it would a better outcome for her after having a double mastectomy. it feels more like fall this week. >> we're expecting a

i they're just practicing. this is what the broncos call optional workouts that really aren't optional. this technog track birds and reindeer. some are now wearing transmitters so farmers and researchers know where they are in dense forests. this is a competition. this year's fall reindeer roundup is already underway. >> my brother visited finland lately.

moving into some cooler weather across colorado. not quite as cold as the north pole. >> no! [ laughter ] >> temperatures today in the 60s. tomorrow cooler. we're not talking north pole kind of weather. we're only gonna be in the 50s tomorrow ubelow average for us. brief cool-off, then we'll warm it up for the weekend. i do want to talk about thin jumping spire. we're expecting die guys to remain strong through tonight and into tomorrow morning. it's gonna take until after lunchtime on wednesday. so afternoon for those winds to start to calm down. we'll shift to the north at that time, ushering in some cooler air and calmer winds, good news for firefighters through that area tomorrow afternoon. meanwhile we're going to see some breezy if not gusty conditions through tomorrow.

just a little breezy around the denver metro area. off to our west in the mountains, 25 miles per hour around eagle, and is colorado springs 29 miles per hour. strongest winds and the driest conditions in far southern colorado where a red flag warning remains in effect until 7:00 tonight. la trinidad, kim. the humidity everywhere else across the state a little higher. that's why the red flag warning is just confined to southern parts of our state. highs today, 64 degrees. exactly average! the record high on this date, 84 degrees set in 2009. we're still at 64 right now out at dia. 64

here in the backyard, lots of sunshine, calmer winds. current temperature is 63. a little rain and snow in far northern colorado, barely picking up there on radar. it's going to try and push east, believe it or not, late tonight into early tomorrow morning, might b area. this is exciting for us because this is our only chance for rain that we have over the next at least five to six days. all of that is coming by way of this little dip in the jet stream. it's going to push quick lie across colorado, bringing in some more of those breezy conditions, that very small chance for rain, then it quickly moves out, and we're gonna see

the wind gusts across town, late this evening, and overnight tonight, we're gonna die down just a little bit through denver, fort collins, and greeley. into temperature afternoon, we're expecting those -- tomorrow afternoon, we're expecting those wind gusts to pick up again. 20 to 30 mile per hour gusts out to our foothills. rain is gonna be extremely limited like i was talking about. we've got it right now in our northern and central mountains, not quite making its way to our foothil tonight, 9:00, 10:00, we could see an isolated shower through here in denver, fort collins and greeley, but it quickly moves out. very dry air on our eastern plains. then fizzles out completely. most of the state will be under partly cloudy skies tomorrow afternoon, and we'll be cooler than what we saw

greeley, 36 for fort collins. eastern plains upper 30s and low 40s. 20s and 30s for lows up across those northern, central, and southern mountains. 36 our low tonight in the denver metro area. winds out of the northwest at 5-10 miles per hour. tomorrow night across southeast colorado, we're looking at chilly temperatures settling in. highs tomorrow for denver, app watch in effect from colorado springs through trinidad for tomorrow night. wednesday night into thursday morning, temperatures in the 20s and 30s. we're gonna see overnight lows in the low 30s around here but don't have any watches or warnings in effect for the denver metro area. friday and

mild forecast for the broncos game on monday. not seeing any chance for rain. tonight is the only chance we got. it's not gonna be a lot. we are so-so dry, we desperately need the moisture. we're keeping our fingers crossed this this changes significantly. >> you can tell there's so much dense, dry brush. and we've seen all of these brush fires pop up recently. we need some water. >> yeah, and i wish i could tell that y it just doesn't look like it at this point. but as soon as it change, we'll be passing that along to you! >> that's why we all need to be careful where we go. the nominees are out, too artists on the lists for the rock and roll hall of fame haven't been able to be nominate before. >> and leave a little early the

handcrafted toys with muse and privately collected vintage pieces. it is open from october through december. right there in the terminal level before the a bridge security. >> get all that? you'll find it. [ laughter ] today the rock and roll hall of fame unveiled its

five to seven for chosen. to be eligible, artists must have released their first recording at least 25 years ago. it is the first year for pearl jam. last week the big announcement came out that bob dylan won the nobel prize in literature. the academy says they're having some trouble tracking him down. >> the academy says it hasn't been he was named the recipient of the award five days ago! they have spoken to close associates of his but not the winner himself. the academy says they aren't planning to make any further attempts to contact him but they're hoping he will accept the invitation to raft

is the first american to be awarded that accolade since, oni morrison in 1993. >> like when a lottery winner doesn't come forward. a $930,000 prize? >> he doesn't need the money. >> but might as well claim it. [ laughter ] with us the last few weekends. >> sure. [ laughter ] >> we'll go get him. >> get bob back. >> we're talking about '90s tv show catch praises. >> whoa! >> that's one of them. >> thank you. >> the catch phrases from shows that caught on. and i think reddis did a thing. doh! from homer simpson. >> that's huge. >> was the no. 1 most-used

the whoa is -- what? >> joey lawrence. blossom! >> okay, good talking to you guys. we're gonna go with the seinfeld one. >> that's my favorite. >> every sgl one? >> i'm sorry , that's boy tv. i didn't. [ laughter ] >> but that joey one would probably -- from friends. there's a lot of good ones.

>> and save a life. >> join the broncos in the drive for life tuesday november 1st. get a chance to meet some of the broncos, make a day of it it. one of thent planes is getting another chance to fly. >> and it has a pilot who relevance one of the first

serving in world war ii. yesterday he experienced this plane in a different way. >> i was drafted in 1943. i asked the captain can i transfer out? where do you want to go? i have no idea. i come up wit paratroopers. >> what are you thinking seeing these and i enjoy looking at 'em. when i was at fort bliss i was close to 'em and never got in one of 'em. this'll be the first time i flew a b15. >> he can go out there where when he wants to, right? >> my son gave it to me as a christmas present. >> ready to take that ride? >> ready to go. >> i'm real excited. he told me

i said i'd like to see one! he says i know where there's some at, we're gonna go down there. >> are you surprised? >> yeah . >> it's gonna be something you always remember. >> and i'm gonna take him up on it! i'm floon fly it -- gonna fly it. and i'll tell you after whether i like it or not. >> he's 92, help him out. >> what's your secret? >> it ain't women. [ laughter ] >> i'm still looking to ride it, and i know >> i never realized it'd be that good but it was wonderful! i appreciate it. really do appreciate it. >> awesome . you'd fly again? >> i sure would.

rode is one of eight still mying in the united states -- flying in the united states. >> he served as a paratrooper after being drafted in 1943. double the fun for pet line 9 today. >> becky is in the backyard with two dogs looking for a new

our nd place have brought us right next to me is luna. and foxy. yes. they are both chihuahua mixes. they are friendly and outgoing. great with people, other dogs and cats. they're both about a year old. we'd love to get them in a family. kids would need to be a little older than toddler

together. luna has been with the shelter for about a year. she really needs a great home. she has the cute evaluate little cleft palate. so she needs a home that's smoke-free with loving owners. these two ladies are spayed and up-to-date on their shots. their adoption fee is $75. creek animal shelter. luna and foxy. we need to find them great homes. aren't they adorable. >> good cuddle buddy there.

a cold front bringing flurries to the high country will push the temperature down tomorrow. we'll truth test anti-hillary clinton message appearing in a new adspiez from the nfl -- ad it is feeling like winter is on the way. a cold front has brought snow flurries to the high country and cooler temperatures in the denver area. cool-down will be more noticeable tomorrow when the high in denver may not get out of the 50s. it would be good to see some rain or snow.

and we certainly could use some rain or snow in any form. the front that's coming in overnight tonight has limited precipitation with it. temperatures in the mid-60s this hour, and we are tracking that cool air to the north. the really cold air will stay north of picking up over some of the higher passes, and fire managers are monitor the fire zones because the winds will shift and become erratic with the overnight cool front slipping in from the northwest. not a lot on the radar though. a little light rain and snow in the northern mountains. that's why we anticipate the heaviest accumulation, maybe 2-6 inches of snow in the northern