it just shows there is no particular fire season in colorado. we can get these wildfires that spark up just like that and you see them go because we've had gusty winds. the winds are finally backing off a little bit in portions of douglas county which is great news now that this fire is 100% contained. those winds have quieted down significantly in highlands ranch and littleton. unfortunately there is still a lot of smoke in the air. we do have health advisory in place until 9 a.m. tomorrow encompassing the entire denver county area as well as parts of jeffco and also into arapahoe counties, too. poor air quality will be happening if you have less than 5 miles visibility and all that smoke out there. the temperatures have been so warm this afternoon and truly this entire week. we've been sitting in the 70s and 80s this afternoon across eastern colorado, 50s and up in

country and yet again record breaking temperatures, back to back, 82 degrees. it's been a strange end to the month where typically a lot of folks have been waiting to put on the sweaters and kind of bundle up and think all right, fall. >> push fall back into winter. >> practically. >> we sort of want a little training before we jump into the next season. >> i feel like we'll be jumping in. both feet, it's going to happ >> hopefully in boots. it's also been a really dry month in our state all over our state. 9news mountain newsroom matt ra through is live in breck rim for us -- ra -- matt renoux is live in breckenridge for us. >> reporter: it could be an indication of what kind of winter we're in for. now as we head into november,

when you're hanging holiday lights -- >> putting up a ton of lights. >> reporter: -- and you have a lot of lights to hang -- >> off the top of my head it's 60 some thousand lights. >> reporter: -- griff gearing and his colorado crew say it's always nice when you get to work in nice weather. >> this has been really nice. >> reporter: which they've got right now without a speck of snow in sight during october that's seen half its normal amount of snow. >> meager october for snowfall. we're about 50% of average. >> reporter: and weather watcher rick bly says this october will be one of the dryest in 120 years of records. >> this is the 18th dryest october. >> reporter: which might not be a great sign for the season. >> doesn't bode well for the season. >> reporter: because 70% of the time october reflects the

snow season. above average october moisture often means above average snow. >> stake stickily over the years october is a good indicator for the amount of snow we'll get for the season, but it's not 100%. >> reporter: it's not set in stone. 2008 had a dry october, but then came a great snow season. >> probably 25% above. >> reporter: while last october was dry by early november griff and his crew were hanging ligh snow. >> the guys literally looked like they were climbing everest or something. >> reporter: one reason they got an earlier start this year. >> that's why we're here a couple weeks earlier this year. >> reporter: and you can see how dry it is out there. by the way, last october below average as far snow and moisture went and the season ended up right at average.

the lighting ceremony is december 3rd. i can pretty much guarantee you we'll have a little bit more snow here then than we have right now. >> maybe you will have a jacket by then. we know you will not be wearing a hat. >> reporter: no, no hat, maybe a light jacket in december. >> you're a hardy one, thank you. police are supposed to catch thieves, but 1 denver officer is accused of stealing a crash. officer julian archuleta was arrested today suspended without pay. earlier this month his body camera count him counting cash in a vehicle which included at least one $100 bill. the large bill never made it into evidence and was never mentioned in the written report. after being notified of an internal affairs instigation, archuleta told the detective it he found $12,100 bills which

recovering from injuries after a plane caught fire at o'hare international airport in chicago. the faa says american airlines flight 383 was preparing to take off for miami when it became engulfed in flames. one of the passengers or somebody on the ground took this video of flames and smoke. pilots aborted takeoff. passengers slid out using emergency chutes. american airline officials say there was an engine malfunction. the runway is still closed could cause delays if you've got a flight coming up. a bombshell, less than two week away from the election the fbi is looking into newly released e-mails linked to hillary clinton. the fbi director james comey sent a letter to members of congress saying the fbi should take appropriate investigative steps because investigators have learned of the existence of e-mails that may contain

were discovered during a separate investigation of huma abedin. donald trump commented today saying a miscarriage of justice is about to be corrected. >> hillary clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. >> hillary clinton's campaign chairman released a statement falling for the fbi director to immediately provide full details of what he is now examining. at focused her message on getting out the vote. >> more women voting, more young people voting, more people of color voting. >> there is no time line when the fbi review will be finished. donald trump will be making a campaign stop in colorado tomorrow and holding a rally in golden. we are 10 days from the election and we got a look

write-in votes are being tallied. there is a team of two people republican and democrat at each station helping to verify and count the votes and making sure the ballot shows what was intended. unaffiliated voters are also involved in the process. it's all about transparency, accountability and accuracy, counting, verifying and checking in votes. >> i've done this a long time. a lot of the elections voters working in this room are full- time staff and have done this long time. nobody cares more about a fair process than the folks that are working in this building. the computer can't be hacked from the outside. they don't have accessible usb ports. on election night the results will be downloaded on external drive and moved to a separate computer to upload. police arrested a 23-year- old man in the death of a 13-

arrested by laramie county sheriff's department. he faces charges of manslaughter and reckless child endangerment. investigators plan on searching this landfill in weld county monday morning hoping they may find the body of the little boy. investigators say the child was last seen saturday. his grandfather called police wednesday. detectives believe the boy was dumped in a trash bin at laramie county community college. after buying lottery tickets for the last several decades it ended up for one man in lakewood. >> greg mr. climbed his $9.9 million jackpot this morning at the 7-eleven near alameda and garrison street. he lives with his 70-year-old mom. he said last wednesday he got up, checked his numbers and had his mom double them. he said his strategy is pray and play. >> she provided for me when i

so i can do things for her that she wants to do and help other people. >> can't imagine double checking those numbers. greg says he's planning on trading in his camry for a lexus and is planning a trip to alaska with mom. he won 2 through $500 after buying a lottery ticket from that same store a few months ago. >> that store must be his lucky spot. >> i we let another record today. it's going to stay warm.

welcome back. the new fbi investigation back into hillary clinton's e-mails, the candidate just wrapping up a short news conference about that investigation. in des moines, iowa, clinton calledn the fbi to immediately release all the information it has on her e- mails. that echos the sentiment of several republicans and conservatives who have call mails as with. she says she is confident those new e-mails won't change the fbi's conclusion that she should have faced prosecution over this and her use of a private server to do government business. again, the fbi announcing earlier today in an unrelated case involving anthony weiner there are several e-mails they are now looking into for whether they may have contained confidential information. we'll update this story throughout the night for you.

smart pills, medication that is tech enhanced to let your doctor know whether you've taken it or not. it's a device about the size of a poppyseed of sensors track their patients' prescription intake of they're fda approved. -- intake. they're fda approved and activated by the acid in your stomach. >> the bandage is recording your rest, testimony and heart rate and is listening taken. >> now the company that developed the device is conducting a trial on it for pediatric patients at a dallas hospital. it involves young patients recovering from an organ transplant who generally have to be on a very regimented medication schedule. as 9news reporter maya

difference in the lives of some coloradans. >> reporter: 87-year-old donna tadlock is on a special journey at st. anthony hospital in lakewood. >> i've never heard anyone come out of it like i did. >> reporter: the fact that she's even walking now is a huge feat considering that earlier this week she had a potentially deadly stroke. >> my hand was very stiff. i couldn't move my right side of my body. i mean i felt like maybe i died >> reporter: strokes are the fifth leading cause of death in america, but donna's daughter recognized something was wrong and brought her to st. anthony, a hospital with something extra. >> did you ever think you'd be ab to e inside of your brain like that? >> reporter: dr. mark murray is the interventional neurologist at st. anthony who treated donna with a medical advancement called rapid. it's a software that helps doctors scan a stroke victim's brain to determine what parts

when stokes happen, we like to say brain cells start to die immediately. >> reporter: rapid allows doctors to see not only what parts of the brain have suffered damage, but which parts have been stunned by a stroke but can be saved. for donna that was the area seen in green. >> it takes the guesswork out of it and gives me a real quick go, no go, so we knew right away. >> reporter: the go was to clear an arterial blockage stopping the blood flow of her brain. they can't do that for every stroke patient, but rapid helps them figure out which ones they can. >> it's invasive and like all procedures there are risks. >> reporter: but for donna the effect was immediate. >> she was good right away. right away on the table she was good. so we're happy she's doing so well. >> i'm happy, too. >> reporter: maya rodriguez, 9news. >> looking good, donna.

hospital in colorado to get the technology to treat strokes. she's looking great up and walking. that's encouraging. it's awfully warm out there even though the clouds were a little bit deceiving earlier

welcome back, everyone. we're taking a live look at sky9. the brushfire is now 100% contained. nice to hear, but we still have plenty of smoke left just sitting across the metro areas and that will cause some problems for some folks throughout the next couple hours just because it's tough on your lungs when you're outside. if you don't have to be outside, i wouldn't. we do have a wildfire smoke health advisory in place. this will last us around the denver metro tomorrow morning. on top of the fire and winds we had we're talking about record breaking temperatures, too. that new record of 82 degrees crushing our old record last set back in 1994. this has been an extremely warm month. so far we're in the running for the fifth warmest october on record. a slew of 80s across eastern colorado this afternoon, about 70 degrees in eagle and 60s in rifle and grand junction. right now out at the airport we've cooled things on.

still have clouds out there and the winds out of the east. in the 9news backyard it's comfortable, 77. not a lot going on in colorado, but you can see a storm system pushing into parts of the west now in the inner mountain west bringing light snowfall to areas above 10,000 feet and a little rain, too. i wish i could say this storm system is coming in our direct, but i don't think we'll see a -- direction, but i don't think we'll see a ton of precipio i think the high country might find a little precip, but that's about it. that cool front drops into eastern colorado by tomorrow afternoon and take our temperatures down a bit, but once again it's still above average this weekend. tonight we cool off to about 51, mostly cloudy skies, sunrise at 7:24 tomorrow. we're in the 40s and 50s, extremely comfortable with the blanket of clouds overhead. i think it keeps our temperatures very mild tonight. we're only dropping into the 40s for a lot of our friends in

the rest of this evening you can see the cloud sitting across the i-25 corridor around 11:00, midnight tonight. tomorrow morning a bit of sunshine. in denver the clouds push off across the north eastern plains and there it is, a little bit of light rain and snowfall for ounorthe and ra untas and like th f??" p.m. we clear thing out. that front ;

stocks closed mostly lower today. some of this follows uncertainty regarding the presidential race and the events regarding the e-mail server and hillary clinton.

from colorado's sports leader here's rod mackey. >> last time the broncos played the chargers they had to do it without their without their starting running back. in fact, they'll be without cj anderson the rest of the season. the broncos placed their leading rusher on ir, but cj hopes to be back for the playoffs perhaps. around southern tweeted out -- anderson tweeted out surgery on his meniscus tear was super successful, but the rest of the season his role will be to root

>> obviously we're trying to prepare juwan. we got some decisions to make there, but they've had a good week. rapids will be in l.a. sunday for game one of their two game series again the galaxy. they're not through yet. >> what i've said to the guys is listen, we have two games left in our season. we dictate if there's more to follow, but it's two games. leave nothing on the table. play your guts out. most importantly en hard to get here. tonight the avs host winnipeg, puck drop at 7:00. also tonight plenty of prep pig skin. taylor temby joins us live where chatfield chatfield plays tonight. >> reporter: they've gotten our attention by really taking it to other teams and they've gotten some of the national

out the crazy in a crucial game tonight against dakota ridge. both teams are undefeated in league play. the chargers may have to go psycho. that's the famous formation chatfield has run this season where every offensive player breaks huddle and goes into a straight line before ultimately splitting out to run a particular play. it worked to perfection earlier this season when the chargers were playing wheat ridge. in fact, it worked so well the formation got combed by the no. 2 college football team makes, the michigan wolverines. the copyright doesn't exactly bother the players or the coach who came up with it. >> i wasn't upset or anything. i thought it was pretty cool. they gave us credit for it, really put us on the map. >> it was exciting to see. i'm waiting for my royals. they haven't come in yet. it's cool that they -- royalties. they haven't come in yet. it's cool that they gave me the

national championship run, you know. >> reporter: not sure if we'll see that formation tonight, but we'll have highlights tonight at 9:00 and 10:00. >> thank you very much. go blue. finally cubs fans have been coming out of the woodwork, many with false claims of being lifelong die hards, but not this guy. to prove it i dug deal into the mackey air i coulds and pulled out my freshman -- archives and pulled out fraternity picture. one goofball wearing a cubs hat. >> no way. >> real fan or real fun or perhaps both. >> oh, my. >> no comment there. >> i'm so glad you did that, though, because people had doubted you in this building. >> they know the truth. they're just trying to get under my skin and it worked, so i had to do that. >> why doesn't he have the hat all the way down? it's like sitting.

face. >> kind of fashion faux passish. >> have you not met me? we had sunshine, warm temperatures this weekend for the game, should be fantastic, warmer weather out there, finally some 60s. we'll wait till next week to see those. >> almost like fall.

breaking news tonight -- a bombshell from the fbi director, 11 days until the election, the feds investigating newly discovered emails related to the hillary clinton private server case. found during a separate probe into sexting allegations against her top aide's husband, anthony new information still coming in. donald trump szing on a stunning turn of events. more breaking news, emergency at o'hare, an american airlines jet burst into flames on the runway. panic on board, smoke billowing from the plane as passengers race to escape with their lives. and baby powder and cancer -- a jury awards a woman $70 million after she claimed it caused her ovarian cancer. did johnson & johnson fail to warn the public about a possible link?