look at this from casper to laramie, and down i-25. pretty good chance for some showers and thunderstorms. 90 today, 89 downtown. just where we were yesterday. 60 and 59 for the lows. this from our weather watchers. 82 and 84 right now. silver plume with the mountains. this from debbie, you can see the orange and gold. joey are you kidding man in vail -- ruckman in veil. 40s for the mountains, out waste 40s, 50s, 60 degrees. tomorrow mountains and west on the cool side with 60s and 70s. cooling won't be here until the next day. we'll see the 70s, 80s, low 90s over the for tonight, scattered showers, 63 and 61. for tomorrow, we'll see some morning showers, partly cloudy skies, afternoon shower as well, around that 80 degree tomorrow.ed this, friday -- look at saturday, look at sunday! low 60s! >> real football weather. and the broncos are in cincinnati. [ laughter ] >>> you could be throwing away your money depending on what gas . a blatant case of special interests buying influence in washington. a draft bill by scott tipton was largel

it was just after 2:00 in the morning where areas around laramie saw 2-4 inches of snowfall. our northern mountains continues under winter he advisories. these go until 11:00 this morning, mainly locations above 9,000 feet. those areas will see 2-6 inches of snowfall, light accumulation. certainly you're going to see snow flakes all the way down to 7500 feet, a lot of that melting as it hits the ground. the cold front that brought in this big change is now east of colorado. we're on the back side of this system. we'll continue to see showers continue over our northern and central mountains through this afternoon, and then it clears tonight. high pressure settles in tomorrow. completely but it's also going to help to keep some of that cooler air around. we do have rain and snow anticipated through our northern and central mountains, and even through our foothills through about 6:00 tonight and then a few clouds in and around the denver metro area. we're not expecting any kind of rain here, overall just a mild day. 68 degrees our high. 68 for greeley. warm spot will be the east

we're just west of highway 287 the way up to laramie, wyoming, we're sort of in between red feather lake, and the wyoming state line. again, they've put out 40 plus calls for evacuations. air support, and there is smoke in the area right now. we're trying to get to the scene. for nnw, live in larimer county, back to you. >>>>there is another fire burning heading east along i-70. these photos of the grass fire. it was sparked by an iron grinder. >>> and for firefighters on both of those scenes, wind is a big probably tonight. let's get over to katie lasalle for your first alert forecast. >> the story has been windy, gusty conditions we've seen across the state. let me show you where those two this is the star wood fire. wind gusts up to about 25 to 30 miles per hour. not helpful to the firefighters up there battling that blaze. also down to the south near deer trail, where this grass fire is burning. winds also very strong from the southwest. 10 to 15 miles per hour. gusty, 25 miles per hour te, %- sustained winds at dia. 24miles per hour in colorado springs. if you are having a barbeque

extra patrols on the highway on highway 287 between laramie and fort collins as well as i-25 between fort collins and cheyenne. >>> the broncos will take on tampa bay this weekend going to be an interesting quarterback matchup. winston, the quarterback for the bucs, me thumb one pick in 2015. in that same draft, trevor siemian went no. 250. this time trevor is looking to come out on top. bulks are 1-2 this season. they have struggled on defense. time. >>> out to the sky 9 view, they of arrived over the full closure of westbound i-70 at quebec where a society cycle crash as closed down i7. exiting the highway at quebec because the crash is still blocking all lanes of traffic. still pretty dark out here. basically what we can see is the backup and cars turning around. when we have a full cl westbound i-70 we know the impact will be massive. 225, i-70 as we come out to the c-dot cams. you can see here the flashing lights here in the distance. traffic moving through in the opposing lanes. couple alternates planned out for you. we have tweeted these outs so you can share them with your fr

a few 70s up there in laramie. and out west temperatures in the 80s to near 90 degrees. the denver forecast for tonight, partly cloudy skies, 57 and 58 the overnight lows. for tomorrow, increasing clouds, scattered thunderstorms, low 80s. and then for the next several day, temperatures will 87 on saturday. monday just about perfect, sunny and 86. >> good holiday weekend! >> ground to cloud, cloud to ground. >> ground. >> no ground to ground. >> right. [ laughter ] >>> denver public schools say students continue to improve on statewide assessment tests. the superintendent dropped by palmer elementary this morning. he says the state'smi measurement is showing denver is building on the progress it's shown over the past ten years. he says education those keep evolving. >> it's so important that education not be about memorization and rote learning or teaching how to test but teaching our kids to think. >> he gives the credit to the teachers, kids, and administrators. >>> does your child have an brian maws shows us why teachers not making the grade are still in classrooms. >>

most of colorado but southwest wyoming, we've got high fair danger, a d 8:00 including cheyenne and laramie, 40 mile an hour gusts, low relative humidity will contribute to the fire danger there this afternoon. long-term, i'm watching out for hurricane paine, because believe it or not, that could impact our forecast. paine right now, a category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds at 90 miles per hour, might gain a little bit of strength better it loses strength as it approaches the coast. takes a right hand turn and very rain chances here to colorado. the other thing that's going to contribute to our big changes later this week is the system that will be coming onshore, within the next 24 hours. you can see all of that green indicating cooler air that will be arriving with it. it's scheduled to push into colorado by friday, so thursday and into friday, it's going to bring us cooler weather, and it's also going to help to increase the rain chances. today's chances for rain, next to nothing. most of the state will be mostly sunny all the way through today get a few more clouds building in an

after that as her son was awaiting trial hendersons bomb was found dead off the side of the road in laramie wyoming. the man who raped her and left her to die was 28-year-old dennis menefee. he pled guilty to the crime and was sentenced to 4 to 7 years behind bars. 17 years later police say that same man released more than a decade ago struck again. the kidnapping and rape of a nine-year old massillon girl. he was the driver of the >>> that massillon parents were scouring for. they knew to look for the ford f1 50 with the school stickers on the side. she was taken in front of the smithland church. tonight please tell channel 3 they know about his past but are trying to get caught up on his present. victim in 1998 completely at random. he did not know that she was the mother of one of matthew shepard's killers. he pled guilty to manslaughter and that's why he was given the 4 to 7 year sentence. as for how he was picked up today somebody saw that picture of that truck with the schools and they called him in on police. when we broke the story earlier tonight a lot of folks were up in arms away

they just kicked off about 1 minute ago, lightning delay in laramie. this game will go well into the night. play of the day comes from matt houston -- comes from out of houston, watch this upset. brandon wilson catches it deep 160 yards -- 106 yards, the biggest played for sure. houston and a shocker against the sooners as number 3 goes down 33-23. wow! since the start of the football season, the rockies figure they order -- date had better put up pigskin kind of numbers. they scored 14 last night. they didn't have quite so much firepower tonight. arizona did. six runs in innings against tyler chatwood. jack lamb makes it 6-0. the rockies lose with a final score of 9-4. bad news for the rapids as well as good news for the bed is they lost their last game in the good is they always bounce back. almost always, against the revolution they were not able to do so. colorado has now lost back-to- back games for the first time, the final score 2-0. >> you need to bring me better news. >> that's true. [ overlapping speakers ] [ laughter ] >> he is ready. [ laug

forcing dozens of people near between fort collins and laramie, wyoming. candace stewart was one of them, she had to pack up in a hurry leaviig three horses behind. >> i don't even want to talk about it. they did tell me that the cruise that they have coming from cheyenne, and loveland, i think, they are coming in specifically for the structures here, and the firemen are all aware of our horses, in the so, they will try to save the horses. >> we are expecting to learn more about the fire at a 9 o'clock press conference. download our free denver 7 apt to get the very latest into your phone. he also have a crew on the way. >>> another wildfire to talk about this morning, fortunately cruise from around the eastern plains were able to come together, get this 200-acre fire under control right near the town of deer trail. bob higgins sent us these the fire did burn some corrals, no one was injured. an iron grinder spark this fire. >>> overly mother nature will cooperate today and help out a little bit when it comes to that firefight. we have cooler temperatures,

they'll we doing some extra patrol on highway 287 between laramie and fort collins. >>> donald trump will host not one but two different rallies in colorado on monday. he's going to start down in pueblo at the convention center in the afternoon. then later in the day, trump will be in loveland at the budweiser event center in a rally at 6:00. the republican nominee has already held three different rallies in colorado, which is still a tossup state. >>> in the 34-year history of the newspaper "usa today," the edit sides in a presidential race until now. they unanimously decided to publish an article saying donald trump is not fit to be president. the article says that he lacks the temperament, knowledge, steadiness and honesty america needs from a president. the board says the article is not an endorsement for hillary clinton, they say he is not without flaws, but says she is far less likely to threaten constitutional crisis in this country. >> donald trump's running mate spawned. mike pence wrote saying trump is ready to lead and the american people have then opportunity to the elect

the other question is, i am actually a volunteer from fort laramie. i was there -- >> you know what? we're getting feedback on your call. we will take your first one. why doesn't the park service advertise more frequently? >> hopefully, we're doing a better job of doing that. it's difficult for us to take out time on media to be able to put things out there. we do our best. we rely -- not exclusively but a lot on social media, try to get people to love the park -- a lot of the sites have facebook pages or twitter accounts. we do -- we work with our local media. we certainly have, i would say, around the centennial, done a huge push both internally but through the park service to get the word out there. if you have access to the facebook, you can learn more about the park events there. if you go most -- almost all websites for national park services, they have news and events, you can click on a calendar and find out what's going on almost every weekend in that park. >> we would be remiss if we were not to commend c-span for its coverage of the nationa

so my son brad and i drove to laramie. i caught him at the office after everyone else had left which was normal for flip. i said, flip, i need you to come to washington and be my chief of staff. he said, i never went to washington, i don't like washington, i don't want to go to washington, i won't go to washington. so we visited about our families and then as brad and i left to drive home, when we got to the car, brad said, i think you got him. in disbelief i said, what part of absolutely no do you think was yes? but brad turned out to be right. i got a call the next day from flip who said, if that job is still open sheila and i talked it over and we might be interested. well, i got the answers and he and sheila came to washington and he and i were a team again for the next 20 years. flip knew the importance of working with everyone and found that the bipartisan chiefs of staff organization. he organized and managed a team that helped pass a record number of bills. flip is also the best planning, meeting facilitator in the

they'll be doing be extra drunk driving patrol on highway 287 between laramie and fort collins... as well as o25 collins and cheyenne. becky ditchfield joins us.. a beautiful weekend ahead. ? >>> they are the undisputed superstar, wwe couple with millions of fans around the world. john cena and nikki bella, fierce wrestling competitors, but when nikki got a serious neck injury, requiring surgery, she was out of commission for th m little extra help. >> so what else do you do? you invite your sister. nikki'sbri and husband, to live with them. you can imagine the results of the new reality tv show has us in stitches. "total bella" and john is particular about his home. >> uptight. >> this table looks so beautiful. >> it does. >> so nice. >> i think it's so nice to dress up for each other. >> it is fun. >> on you're right. >> we don't need to do that right now. >> i do. got to get on it immediately. >> oh, man, it goes on from there. >> yeah, it does. >> is uptight fair? >> i think -- i just like -- >> super clean. >> what are the psychological issues that are at the root of john's e