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the expert on the roads, amelia earhart. >> good morning. we are happy to have you here with us today. today it is chilly out there. probably going to use seat warmers if you have them. once you are out and about you'll cruise through. getting somewhere by 6:00 a.m. you'll probably make it on time. we have a watermain break across arapahoe east of i-25. with that in place they are not calling ate -- it a full closure. arapahoe is restricted other issue is in aurora. a transformer blew overnight. 27,000 people are affected by the outages. it will be a big problem. four-way stops are all stop-and- go. police are trying to help out. it would add time to your drive. >>i'm trying to get my mind around your seat warmers. >> modern technology. >>> one day after hickenlooper they roasted each other at a charity event. this time it was supposed to be for laughs. donald trump got boos. they attended the foundation dinner in new york city. candidates didn't greet each over at the start even though they were only one table apart. some of the jokes didn'

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. >> the famous aviator amelia earhart certainly agrees.id, "a single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees." so, i'll "leave" you with that thought. get it? "trees." "leave." anyway, for "teen kids news," i'm daniella. >> that's our show for this week. but be sure to tune in again next week for more "teen kids news." bye. for the first time ever, these truck chasers facing elimination and no better place to settle the score than taladega super speedway. taladega, a place where opportunity can easily turn into disappointment. >> sheer big one. down back straight away in taladega. >> that is crafton. >> where emotions too often turn into rage. things happen fast and trucks can find themselves upside down and backwards. where just finishing is a daunting challenge. >> she right behind him! they are rolling behind him!. johnny court gets the. statutory gets the win sauter advances. >> two drivers will be eliminated. for those on the cusp of not advancing, taladega is the most volatile an

let's check weather and traffic with amelia earhart and marty coniglio. >> back to georgetown. an accident on the i70 resident toward georgetown left a lot of cattle roaming around the area. he tried to wrangle them up. now crews are pulled up to the shoulder. you can see the flashing lights eating the last few cattle. if you see them today, call the georgetown county police department. let them know where they are so they can get them all wrangled up. tough. eastbound going to the mouse trap is slow. stretching back to areas like arvada. a tough on there. everything else is okay. >>> for us, the excitement has been the valley fog and cloud cover and some of the valleys. burning off as we speak. we end up with a sunny day around here. temperatures moving into the 50s and some of the higher mountain communities. and 60s and 70s to the west. mostly 70s in eastern colorado. seventy-four downtown with sunshine. very little wind. we are chasing or breaking records tomorrow and friday. the record high as 80 both days. we will be right there. >>> good morning, everybody. it's 8:30, it

. -- amelia earhart. >>i don't know how they will i wonder if there's going to be an additional delay. solid coverage on the radar. basically if you can see me, if you are watching me, it's raining outside. and it's very windy too. you probably heard the wind overnight. if you haven't, just step outside out there. it's howling in some places 30 and gusting at 40 miles an hour in downtown cleveland. look at the heavier rain. west side. from am herst and and mansfield heavy rain moving into ashland this morning. 71 and that continues now heaviest rain over towards stark carroll and tuscarawas moving towards the east and north and looking at solid coverage of rain on the east sidech this is not as heavy as the rain farther west. here's the motion of it. just filtering in. south to north. and big storm system it's shifting to the east. the backside of this is where cool side. -- are at. the cool side. sustained at 26. and gusting to 123 onester -- wooster gusting to 25 miles per hour 18-mile-an-hour wind gust

. >>> let's check the weather and traffic with amelia earhart and marty coniglio. >> we are going to start with the train to the plane delays because this is a popular time for folks to hit the roads, head out to the airport. today the train delayed by 30 minutes because a semitruck hit the crossing arm at holly. it's not an rtd issue whatsoever. they have actually doubled up trains to make them accommodate more passengers. so tack on 30 minutes. the details are on rtd's website. >>> dry roads are popping up across the city. we woke up with a tinny bit of flash -- tiny bit of splashback. mostly side street issues. one exception our eastbound c- 470 crash near wadsworth at the chatfield exit. >>> fog and mist early this morning. we will get midday clearing and afternoon but, frankly, these will be high, thin clouds over the state with no rain or snow. so we will be breaking up this overcast here by 9:30 to 10:00 this morning. cloudy here over the front range. we will thin those clouds out and but stay with cool readings with 50s and 60s for the mountains, front range and east into the

. >>> let's check our local weather and traffic with amelia earhart and belen deleon. >> good morning, tarhonda. >> a tough drive across the board. busy, one thing after the next. i think we will check in with sky 9 up over 36 and the exit at wadsworth. a little bit busy here but this is not the biggest concern. as we can see the c-dot cameras, they are impacted southbound and a slowdown at colfax with a crash central corridor back to 58th avenue. a five car crash eastbound c- 470 and wadsworth. and slowdowns to ken caryl. and all lanes are clear northbound at bellevue but the backups remain. >>> in the weather world, we are talking about wild winds. there could be a problem on the roads in the high country. and here on the front range, those winds will be increasing fire danger. wind gusts right now, in walden, up to 36 miles an hour. and we have had some strong winds. close to the divide. those winds are going to spread to the front range this warning, at 11:00 a.m. and in the high country, would very wind advisories and high wind warnings. and winds could potentially gust up to 60

, ahead of this year's ski season, how ski lifts >>> now let's check weather and traffic with amelia earhart and marty coniglio. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning, tarhonda. we need to go right up to sky9. they are still over a crash involving a car and a bike at 52nd and wadsworth and the eastbound lanes of 52nd remain open, wadsworth remains open in the northbound stretch but 52nd westbound is still blocked off, southbound wads is closed as well and this is all in arvada. this is taking place just to the north of the i-70 corridor. i would say it's one of the huge shopping area nearby. so we are going to make a call, find out the condition of the rider but avoid the intersection if you can. the rest of our drive, busy, 25 and yale is a perfect example here but across the maps it's actually not too bad on the highways. volume is light, a crash at colfax and monaco and another westbound 70 at havana. >>> for us, we drove in in rain this morning about 2:00 or 3:00. that has moved off to the east. we will see that continue to track into nebraska with very, very light showers on th

. >>> let's check weather and traffic now with amelia earhart and marty coniglio. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning, tarhonda. it's not very often that i get to say this, it looks fantastic out there. >> awesome. >> take a look at this. >> especially this time of day. >> this is i-25 at arapahoe, even through the construction zone where the middle of the highway is undergoing some massive changes. speeds are in the 60s. up north you got plenty of of e-470 and out across the maps we are clearing out, 70 westbound right around peoria, that wreck is just about to get moved from the right shoulder so no lawns are blocked. this one downtown 27th remains closed for a police investigation between lawrence and larimer street. >>> for us we start with warm, dry conditions. we finish with a few thunderstorms getting going in the mountains, especially parts of the san juans and then over toward the southern side of the during the afternoon. those are going to hug mostly ridge lines and mountain passes, not really do so much in the valleys except spread some cloud

. >>> let's check the weather and traffic now for amelia earhart and marty coniglio. good morning, guys. >> good morning. >> good morning, cheryl. today's drive has been easy and it's really -- it seems to be going that so i don't want to jinx it but be safe out there. we are going to get out to our drive now and take a look at our cdot cameras. i do believe we are still -- yep, still having an issue there, but across the maps we do know that the data here is accurate. 270 runs heavy leading up towards vasquez, 70 crowds up between the stapleton ride, between there and about aurora. you do lighten up once you get to havana and peoria, central corridor is busy near colorado but even the stall you see, not an issue. all across this monday commute. >> excellent to hear. >>> for us today, a warm day ahead, dry for most of the state during the day, we will begin to see a few showers nibble into western colorado during the afternoon and a big push of rain for the evening and then overnight tonight. in fact, generous rain of half an inch or more in parts of western colorado

and most drivers are looking >> let's check weather and traffic with amelia earhart and martyco nick lo. >> i just ran over -- coniglio. >>> there could be a rollover crash on southbound 25 near the 225 interchange. if this proves to be true, this is going to be a major impact to the second half of our morning rush and the early part of our midday drive. i know this is a terrible camera. it's the closest one i could find to the scene. i don't see yet but we're going to look into it and all the details will be available on channel 20. a northbound crash on colorado and 11. it's been easy up to now and it's starting to pick up. >>> around here, we have a few mountain wave clouds we call them as the wind comes crashing over the front range mountains. it's been gusty down there,, calm down here. front range. 85, if dia managed to get that, we would tie our record high set in 1962. most of us will fall in between 80 and 85 degrees today. the next three days looking at highs near 80. saturday, sunday, monday, very windy in the mountains and foothills over the course of the weekend. and the

i know amelia earhart helps me with that, doesn't she, belen? >> she is very helpful. >>> i try. i try. let's get to you work today. today, nice and easy. 25 and castle pines and castle rock down to the springs, fantastic. very sunshiney and i like it that way. it will be dry conditions throughout the day and it looks really, really nice. one on yale east of i-25 and northbound 270 at vasquez just cleared and now that is gone, you are loosening up to stapleton. >>> and that's why we like you, you get us around that. >> oh, thank you. >>> the winds, they won't be as wild as yesterday. we have gusts to the divide up to 40 miles per hour and we're tracking the wildfires to the south and the winds are calmer could get up to 20 and miles per hour miles per hour and yesterday, we had gusts up to 70 miles per hour. the fire danger will still be high where a red flag warning goes into effect at 1:00 p.m. and last until 7:00 p.m. highs in the mid-60s around town. in the mountains, we could see rain and snow and a cool down, another one headed our way for >>> it's 8:30 now on a tuesday mor