i cannot say the same with carbondale in that area. let's show you on futurecast. it will take you through time and pause the clock at 5 pm. it should be entering the north central mountains of colorado with rain and snow developing in the high country into this evening. the precipitation will pick back up in the mountains. late tonight there could be a shower in the urban corridor. you can already see to the north it is colder with dia at 72 and 60 in aspen. we will top out in the mid to upper 70s this afternoon with a 20% chance for showers. coming up we will talk about our one fall-like date tomorrow and the warm up for the end of the week. >>> thanks a lot. a lot of anxious eyes on a dam in north carolina in danger breaching after hurricane matthew prompting a flash flood warning in three counties. 27 deaths are playing so far on matthew with four rivers near or above flood stage is prompting mandatory evacuations as they continue to rise in north carolina. >> there are a lot of people hurting in this region. i met with an 80-year-old woman sitting in a cafeter

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northwestern colorado this evening and will have snow anticipated snow in the west from aspen to carbondale springs and the yampa valley with a half inch or more. notice how dry it stays in the front range. >> thank you, marty. 5:32. >>> so far a picture perfect start. we have sunrise around 7:20 and our eastbound routes of 6 and c- 470 should load up. centra beautiful. we have a really easy beginning in 225, ten minutes northbound and southbound and across town, one accident to look out for in the form of a stall on the westbound i-70 stretch to i-25 and we will talk about this throughout the morning. mostly this afternoon, around 3:00 p.m., heavy traffic leads 70, 25, colfax and federal should be busy. >> yeah. you have to start tailgating at noon? >> why not start now. >> exactly. >>> firefighters in custard county are halfway there and are getting the fire contained, finally. the fire has burned 18,000 acres near the town of westcliffe and nine homes were destroyed. with the containment where it is at 50%, people should be able to return me who are coming back will want to stay on guard

. >>> a ton of rocks sitting in the middle of highway 133, now closed between carbondale and hotchkiss on the western slope. they felt late last night. once the mess is cleaned up, it will take a while. the worry is the damage that was caused to the road. story did you drive by this crash this morning in weld county? crash took off and may have gotten a ride by someone driving by. if he saw anything let police know. >>> who would do this? boards filled with nails down all along this bike trail in eagle county, days before high school mountain bikers are going to race down this trail. >> i don't know why it was a false positiie. >>reporter: this made national headlines. >> yes. >>reporter: hugo on the map. it is the pot in the water scare that mad tonight, what went wrong with these drug test kits. . >>> tony kovaleski's investigation into what went wrong in hugo. >> the water is contaminated with thc. >> the psychoaative agent found a marijuana. >>reporter: national headlines could not resist making jokes colorado's expense. >> sounds like we need a second hit on the story [ laughter ]

. >>> we learned a man from carbondale is undergoing several surgeries after being ten. attempted robbery. >>> we have a man recovering at the hospital tonight after shooting in centenniaa in east aberdeen drive. the sheriff's office is investigating this when trying to figure out how it started. >>> officers tell us two men -?were nvolved nor is so far. >>> a couple business deals, two outdoor stores rivals are joining rces. -?bass pro shop acquiring 5.5 billion dollars. colorado company just announced it's merging and janus capital group will e part of an asset management company. it's based in german -- denver and moved its -- will be known as janus henderson -- janice henderson global investors. >>> when you volunteer to be laid offf junction the city is so city cuts so it's first looking -- so it's first looking for volunteers to quit. they have until october 172 accept the agreement. >>> military makes history the surgery it will ppy for. e %- hurricane matthew barreling toward jamaica and k. the latest details after kim kardashian was tied up in a ?aris hotel bath

fog settles in at 7:30 in the lunchtime after a chilly start. 42 in carbondale, 37 the low in greeley, 40 in pueblo, cool out west and along the front range, temperatures below average for about all of eastern colorado tomorrow and downright chilly in blackhawk and a black lake, highs in the mid-50s. reports of light rain around the metro, cloudy, chilly, low 38. tomorrow the cloud, fog and drizzle give way midday clearing, chilly day, temperatures below average by about 10 degrees. tomorrow night lows in the 30s, clear, cool ahead of a nice warming trend, close to 80 friday, saturday, sunday. next front may offer some showers on monday and looking toward the end of next week i'm watching a storm, maybe just maybe we'll see denver's first snow. it's a long shot, but there's a potential. you heard it here first. up in steamboat beautiful fair mare's tail and get ready for the fish farm fish derby october 14th, 15th and 16th, although this is the way i prefer to spend my fall day. on the river is not bad either, but horseback. >> especially a pretty paint. >>> it's beginning to look a l

western colorado and some of that will be nice, upwards of a half inch or better in grand mesa and carbondale and steamboat springs really get hung up on the contl 3 inches of snowfall. that is this evening to leave us with another warm day ahead, 70s, east and west, 60s in the mountains with morning sun. we'll thicken up the clouds later this afternoon. i'll go 78 for a daytime high, then dropping to 30 degrees for tomorrow morning, clouds, a light sprinkle possible early tomorrow morning and then just clearing on out during the afternoon. the rest of the week remains >> thank you, marty. 6:54. mostly 25 near 84th avenue because of the crash blocking center lane coming in from thornton and northland, huge backups forming and the traffic is intense. as you make your plans, i would say tack on an extra minutes. everywhere else has been nice and quiet but this is the exception. southbounders leading to the wreck, right now 25 minutes is your drive time for washington, huron, u.s. 46 or e-470. the backups drop to 6 miles per hour. >> amelia thanks for that. >>> polling centers are open across co

while southern illinois university at carbondale was down five-percent. lawmakers say along with the are encouraging students to apply out of state because of illinois' financial uncertainty. bass pro shops is "reeling" in cabela's in a five and a half billion dollar deal announced today. if approved ,the deal could be finalized in early 2017. the founder of bass pro shop is vowing customers will not feel any immediate impact at the stores. there's no word yet if any locations will close or if any employees will be let go. the closest cabela's in the milwaukee area is in richfield. up for a special lesson in manufacturing. they'll visit rockwell automation in mequon on friday. it's an event called m-f-g day. teams of local high school students will create a product that meets certain specifications. next -- they will learn and attempt to create a plan to fill an order for a million units of their product. event coordinators say the goal is to help students learn more technical skills as the demand in wisconsin increases for more skilled workers. now to so

propelled him to the individual state title and the falcons to second-place team a gorgeous scene in carbondale for the championship and the individual crown was decided in two playoff holes. it was luke who outlasted the competition. he finished four under with a huge congrats to the thunder who claimed the team title, the first championship, ever, for discovery canyon. the competition, two former championsun leaderboard. kent denver jr., oliver jack, led after day one and defended competitors through every hole and kept his one-stroke lead and a short pot for the par and then ivan richman from estes park, and 17 with a shot to the green that would set him up for a birdie putt and we are tied with a bogey on 18 into the playoffs. jack came back and the chip put him next to the pen and he finished off the following play the 19th title, overall. >> it means a lot. coach austin does everything for us. it's nice to see him smile when we win and it feels great. i've wanted to do this since freshman year and even beyond that, middle school. it feels great and definitely the biggest win of my career,

it will slowly clued -- cooldown by 7 pm. 80 in carbondale. 77 brooksville. these are very comfortable temperatures. yes, they are warmer then maybe we expect but with the breeze in the lower humidity it is still really comfortable. right now windsor 14 miles-per- hour in brooksville. we even have some to 20, 23 mile per hour mark so you will feel that breeze making a choppy up -- off our waters . high thin clouds are out there but notice all of the rain stays across south florida. the breeze continues. things don't change much. clouds overnight so once again it will be above average tonight because clouds overnight trap the heat so we don't lose it as we would've we have clear skies. 85 sunday and it looks like halloween 85 degrees should feel pretty nice guys. >> contractors are repaving the streets of davis islands again as mark douglas tells us in our you paid for report, some t better result than the last paving job. >> paving crews you have paid for have started a $1.3 million job to repave streets on davis islands. it is a final phase of a three-step p

. >> todd graham is with us, debate director at southern university-carbondale.d, let's begin with -- i know you gave kradz. we'll put the full screen up, in different aspects of the debate. let's begin with, this was a town hall, so americans were in the audience asking their own questions and how hillary clinton would get up and walk toward them. did you like that? >> oh, i loved that. i think that's exactly what you should do in a town hall format. that's why they give them the microphone so they're mobile. she was clearly on her "a" game on that. two of the things i teach my debaters are to use their name, try to remember their name, and she did that quite a lot, and to use part of their question in her answer. that shows she's more personable, more warm. as you and i know, one of the critiques of her is she's been too robotic. i think the town hall fixed that last night. >> you give them grades, humor, nonverbal, clinton a-plus, trump, c-minus. it was almost like a cage match, sort of walking around one another and it points -- trump sometimes looking menaci

so todd graham, back with us, debate director at southern illinois university carbondale, he has coachedtional championship teams so, todd, the question predebate, when they say hellos and do the walkout, will they shake hands? >> my running bet is no. my running bet is they'll do it like they did the last debate. they'll keep their distance and shake hands at the end. end of the debate is the more traditional, at least for the debates i coach so not at the beginning but yes at the end. >> is it so wrong that all i do is think of "snl" and they did this and that? that was hysterical. >> it was a good bit. >> what about -- it's different, we're away from the town hall, back to the podiums and sprit p split screen, perhaps more of the back and forth. how do you think donald trump will be? you want him to be, what? less fighter and more substantive? >> i do. i want him to fix what ails him and right now he has too much hyperbole and falsehoods in debates so when everything is the greatest disaster in the history of free trade or the biggest trojan horse of all time, combine that with the fa