noel brennan, 9news. >>> today we learned when it comes to hurricanes, fema doesn't just use satellite and other 10 to gauge the seriousness of -- technology to gauge the seriousness of the storm. it turns out they see what waffle house is doing. if the chain is serving its full menu, the storm severity is low. if only a limited menu is yellow. red is when the chain is closed. fema's top manager said if you get there and the waffle house is closed, that's really bad. >> who would have thought. >>> hey there, meteorologist danielle grant in the weather center. we've been watching that snowfall along the higher peaks, just stunning out there driving into work, blue skies and snowfall and kind of the icing on top of the flattops as well, larry pierce capturing this great shot out there, still a couple little pockets 40s and along i-25, about 54 in broomfield, 50 degrees in boulder, 30s in estes park, kremmling and silverthorne, too. on hd doppler 9 what you see is what you get. it's been quiet weatherwise in colorado, all eyes across the atlantic coast line as hurricane matthew continues

noel brennan reporting. >>> the university of denver is allegations of gender discrimination and unequal pay for women. law professor lucy march says the equal employment commission will file the suit. she has taught there since 1973. she found out male professors made about $16,000 more than women. within the school of law. marsh says that the eeoc got involved and conducted is own investigation and found a violation of the equal pay act. money. i'm doing it to make sure that this school complies with the law and can hold its head up. >> a du spokesperson says the school will not comment because it hasn't seen the lawsuit. however, in a statement issued last year, du defended its merit pay system and says marsh was paid less because she was "a sub standard professor." march doesn't think the argument will hold up for all nine female professors. litigation could take years. already have to register as a sex offender as part of a plea deal he exposed himself to shoppers in aurora. in june, aurora police arrested timothy plybon after he exposed himself inside the aurora town center. he wor

noel brennan takes us to a unique competitin >> reporter: it is game time at englewood high school. lucia is just trying to stay calm. >> i'm just neverrous. >> reporter: despite the distraction. >> i hate that buzzer. >> reporter: same goes for the coach in the stand. >> it is hard to watch. >> reporter: whose pink hat only makes sense when you see the matching miniature livestock on the playing field. >> one thing the teams can do, they can round up the pigs and put them in a pen. so, we are keeping with the robotics competition called front range best. >> we are excited to learn about stem. >> reporter: high school student haves been preparing six weeks for today. >> we have 20 teams we handed out kits to. 19 made it here today. >> reporter: 20 if you count the one with legs. >> come on over. >> reporter: the robots designed and built by students. >> theory here they come guys. drive forward a little bit. >> reporter: are put to the test [ cheers and applause ] >> let's! let's do it! that's one. >> get one in. got one. it is high energy. it is high intensity. it is just really co

. >> reporter: noel brennan, 9 going to be a firefighter when he grows up. yep. >> yep. riley said the best part of his day was using the fire hose. >>> viewers nationwide were fooled by the balloon boy hoax this day in 2009. everyone thought a 6 year old boy was inside because his and that landed his parents in jail. in the years since, it has been named the most memorable hoax. >>> for two months in a row, denver based frontier came in last for flight arrivals. the federal government in august ranked frontier last among 12 major carr. just below 6%. over the summer, frontier dealt with staffing issues with a contractor that provided ramp services at dia. it is now working with a new contractor. >>> the dog days of summer may be over, but welcome the dog days of fall. dachsunds -- pet nutrition and animal training. first and moment, the owners say today was about winning. the dogs competed in a contest with 5 different categories. >> for the scariest, i have maggie. where's little maggie? for most creative, sir bucks. where's he? >> this is so great. the best funniest w

noel brennan, 9 news. >> the shelter says the cayman is not up for adoption. it will be sent to the represent tile park. in the wild, they live near water in central and south america. they are usually night. >>> hurricane matthew has strengthened into a monster category 5 storm, the strongest in the atlantic ocean since 2007. the storm claimed its first victim when it roared past columbia. a 67 year old man drown in an area that was being battered by heavy rains and winds. many families have had to move might impact florida or the east coast. >>> it's been a warm day. could be warmer tomorrow. look at the shot of the mountains employ not much chance of rain for tonight or tomorrow, but that could change dramatically over the next couple of days. with all the information about what might change, here's danielle grant. >> today was fantastic. plenty of sunshine out there to boot. a couple of showers just beginning to rock pushing off into douglas, elbetter counties. the views you can just see for miles. soak it in while you can as we say hello to october. this

he was at last night's game when the house was burglarized. 9news reporter noel brennan is following this easy to pawn off. >> probably not. they're eyesy to recognize loaded with 2 -- he -- easy to recognize loaded with 212 diamonds and it has demarcus ware's name right on it. he posed with peyton manning the night the team received their custom super bowl l rings. ware tweeted a video showing that shiny ring up close. this morning ware tweeted after a great win came home to find me but my safety. thank god for hidden cameras and again here are those two guys denver police are looking for right now. crime stoppers is offering a $2,000 reward for information that might lead to an arrest. call 720-913-stop if you know anything and as always, you can remain anonymous. kyle, pictures are pretty good of those guys. >> yeah. that's year book quality, noel. me thinks these guys are in big trouble and might be trying to h >> thank you -- me thinks the same thing. >>> colorado state troopers spent part of the day near georgetown where a cattle truck rolled. the driver wasn't hurt. about 50 c

wrote an op ed for cnn today talking about america's next chapter, exploring mars. 9news reporter noel brennan talked with lockheed martin this afternoon about the goal of getting people to mars in the next 14 years. >> you can either be an astronaut or you can design and build the things that allow the astronauts to do what they do. choice for rob chambers of lockheed martin. >> it's been developed for the very beginning for carrying humans out past the moon to mars. >> reporter: rob has been working on orion, the vehicle that one day will take astronauts to mars. >> exploring mars and putting boots first on mars is a vision that most of us have kept deep in our hearts since we were born. >> i got to make water and grow food on a planet where nothing grows. >> reporter: for many it's still just a vision, what we see in animations, but today president obama called the vision a goal, send humans to mars by the 2030s and return them safely back to earth. >> it's great to wake up in the morning and the first thing you see is an e-mail from the president of the united states discussing his persona

department of homeland security are working to figure out who is behind these attacks. 9news reporter noel brennan has been following this attack. this attack affected uses in at least six countries. >> it does. there was more than one attack today. it started in waves. reaching twitter, amazon, netflix, paypal and even colorado.gov today. this afternoon we talked to some experts about how this hack happened. pick a busy road in denver like this one. >> i had to drive on colorado boulevard a lot and it seems like that all the time. >> now overload it with a billion cars all at once. >> nothing gets through. that's what would happen. >> jbholston -- >> call it distributed de access to twitter, netflix and amazon today -- >> a traffic jam is similar, a peak load problem. >> reporter: -- was a forced traffic jam on the colorado boulevard of the internet, a company called din. >> that one company was flooded with so much traffic it couldn't deal with it and essentially shut down. >> reporter: the jam was caused by a half million affected viruses in appliances that we use every day like dvrs sending a

suspended its liquor license after a man was shot and killed there earlier this month. 9news reporter noel brennan is there at cold crush. the bar reached an agreement with the city. >> reporter: they did and this police had a notice right on the front of the door. back on october 10th there was a man who was shot and killed right outside of the bar and denver police have been called here hundreds of times over the past year. the city says it felt like it needed to take some action after when they call the pattern of violence here, but on tuesday the owners of cold crush met with several city leaders and denver police and talked about the issues of violence and came up with a security plan. today the city reissued the conditions. cold crush will have to make some changes especially when it comes to security. guards will have to pat down customers at the door, use metal detector wands and from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. depending on the time of year the bar will need four to six security guards. the bar has to add better outdoor lighting around three sides of the building. last call will be announced at 1 a.

those reports turned out to be false. 9news reporter noel brennan spoke with students at the university today. lots of rumors played it tough for the university and -- made it tough for the university and police to do their jobs. >> reporter: dealing with all those rumors have clearly been a challenge for the university, so much so they went to facebook and addressed each rumor one by one, rumors that someone heard ot ammunition had been found and even rumors that someone somehow hacked into the university text message alert system. cu says none of that stuff happened, but as all the rumors spread this afternoon hundreds of people waited outside the umc to get back inside and retrieve their stuff after that false report of a shooter. >> cookies, cookies. >> reporter: free cookies, a try to ease everybody's mine here. >> reporter: for the crowd of -- mind here. >> reporter: for the crowd of c ostents and staff outside the memorial -- cu students and staff outside the memorial center. >> we've been out here two hours and the cops weren't even telling us anything. >> it's a little chaotic

gate actually started the fire in one of the workers started with -- chatted with 9news reporter noel brennan. >> here's the cut will. >> reporter: after three decades on the job -- >> when you use and you have to be really careful -- >> reporter: and experienced welder -- >> i've been in the industry now for 32 years -- >> reporter: like can garcia knows to carry the right tools. unfortunately, >> i think the sparks here probably top the field on fire. the tools to carry -- to put out a fire. >> we were called out to a small brush -- brushfire. >> reporter: dry grass, warm weather and a little breeze were all that the flames needed. >> it came out of nowhere. i don't know where it came from. it just spread so fast. >> reporter: so fast that evacuations were ordered inside the pit area subdivision -- padera subdivision. >> look at that smoldering out there . i'm not going as long as that thing is smoldering. we have to put that fire out. >> at the fire that investigators believe started as a spark. >> when we were cutting the steel there was definitely some sparks. i've been doing this 32 yea

in jefferson county, noel brennan, 9 news. >> donald trump has stops in phoenix, and las vegas. then it's right back to colorado. he will rally in greeley tomorrow at 4:00 inside the colorado arena inside the hammered away at hillary clinton over the latest fbi bomb shell that the agency found more emails. a source tells nbc news, the fbi found emails on a computer belonging to anthony wiener and his former wife. >> it's pretty strange to put something like that such little information right before an election. in fact, it's not just strange. it's unprecedented and it is deeply troubling. >> this is the biggest political scandal since watergate. >> attorney general loretta lynch objected to comey's decision. a source close to lynch told usa today the attorney general policy. it states they should not interfere with an election. >>> denver police canceled an amber alert overnight. it was issued last night after a witness called 911 to report a girl being attacked in a van in stapleton. they determined no crime was committed. >>> rtd has one week federal deadline and make progress

. >> noel brennan reporting. president obama talked about the next step of working with private companies to develop missions. lockheed martin is working to build that kind of habitat. they let eventually be tested in lunar orbit and ultimately could be the habitat that we see on the surface of mars. that is just so interesting to think about, marty, and you know what? my daughter was reading "magic treehouse" book and they willed have that. >> that's great to think we have big ambitions. >>> around here, we're on top of the four seasons. it here while clear at the continental divide it will be cloudy but the mist will slowly dry up with sun by lunchtime, cool but pleasant to go out and about and will move in the upper 50s later today. i haven't talked much about hurricane nicole but is now a to make landfall or pass nearby bermuda tonight or tomorrow as a category 2 her sane so we may have more tropical weather damage coming up in the atlantic. >>> the drive is picking up. we have a problem with the university o