Were running through an interface situation where homes are being built at the end of the wildland areas. Its a much higher risk of loss to our community because the homes are threatened on a regular basis. Smoke from the freeman fire is visible as far away as veil. The fire is roughly 300 acres in size in the newsroom i am russell south metro firefighters helped get an nearly 300 acre wildfire under control today. This was in the time of buyers. 144th in winter you had aafire breakout. The fire is 100 percent contained. It never threatened any structures. Is unknown what caused it. Lets check in with meteorologist Stacey Donaldson a cigarette butt out the car window can cause damage. Hour winds are definitely stronger to the west. 20 or 40 miles per hour. The front range Eastern Plains are not as intense week continues to hold onto high fire danger. The yellow shaded areas are to the west of 25 and high fire danger from denver through the Eastern Plains. Lows in the 50s, big chan the sevenday coming up in a few minutes. The Pacific Northwest continues to clean up remnants of a typhoon. Washington state norgaard has lots of trees and heavy rain and winds. The storm system is going to make its way here in colorado dropping temperatures later this week where less than one month away from the president ial election by all indications colorado will play to denver and mark boyle is like. He knows how the fire of a crowd. Feeling the burn, it wont ople surprise you Bernie Sanders had been lined around the building and chasing his motorcade when he left. Senators are asking voters for everyone to defeat donald trump. Where senator Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren went right at donald trump. No doubt in anybodys mind that this country is going to reject that sexism. The racism. The xenophobia of the trump campaign. Reporter they say they are on a mission to unite democrats and progressives to do one thing, beat trump hillary gets up every day at keeps on fighting. She fights for children, women, healthcare, human rights, fighting for a level playing field. Reporter those we poke . Ith said the message and platform adopted by the party in philadelphia is impactful and effective. I have read a lot of those platforms and i think they conversation. A represent different parts of our government and a half different grounds. I dont agree 100 percent on every issue, but thats what makes them a good team. They will also make stops in forr collins and boulder during their trip. This close to an election almost no political parents goes withouttprofessors. We had a couple people hanging banners over the rafters tonight. They were escorted out of the everybody was on then to safely finished the evening. The republican president ial race is coming to colorado. Donald trump jr will sub in for his dad tomorrow campaigning at Centennial Gun Club at 10 30 am and then had to boulder for campaign stop. On tuesday donald trump will be back here the day after the ballots go out. He will rally Colorado Springs in grand junction. He rally in colo these last few weeks are form for both candidates. And and abc poll has clinton 4 points ahead of drum. Another poll has clinton 11 perccnt ahead. You can expect your ballot in the mail soon. They go out to registered voters tomorrow. To be counted you must turn your ballot into the county clerk i 7 pm election day which you may still be seeing smoke coming from the refinery in culver city. It restarted operations after friday. It caused a large plume of orange smoke. State officials are trying to figure if the smoke was hazardous. The white smoke today is normal. A welcome sight today in a five points neighborhood of denver, rosenberg bagels is back open for business. In may a fire in the apartment above the restaurant threatened to shut it down for good. You can see there was quite a line outside the bagel shop today as people were excited to get their bagels back. We set our lord to come out i am very happy than discrete business. It has been months and we have been waiting for this day, here we are. If you want to check out rosenbergs you can go any day besides monday. Pm. Deborah police are looking for a man who shot and killed women in denver. They believe this is their man, 20 60 brett kelly, wanted for firstdegree murder. Family members identified the victim as 23yearold miss russell. This happened yesterday morning. If you have any information please call the police. Aurora police are looking for this man. They say carrabbas italian grill. He apparently got into the restaurant from the roof. Investigators say he was not alone he has helped with another man. If you recognize and please call the Police Arkansas wildlife refuse is rescuing de caster bears in a zoo closing near Colorado Springs. Surrenders serenity springs posted this message, they were it. The Wildlife Center has about 100 3b katz and 11 bears. In arkansas a refuge will take 32 cats and try to find homes for the others. Traffic alerts for you that could cause a major headache for your commute in the morning. There are no merge lanes on southbound e 470 from south on harper. Interstate 25 ridge gate will have overnight reductions. And finally u. S. 0. 34 down and picked Thompson Canyon until may. If youre going to estes park there is a detour through lyons. Were Getting Started at denver news at 7, we see it every day the president ial election seems to take over our lives. Coming up, how many people say is making them unproductive at work. Bystanders jumping in to save a man from a burning checking in and Aurora Office without surrounding businesses the state department of corrections is trying to explain how this happened. Tony kovaleski tells us how. Your questions prompted change. Reporter change because our sources sent us an internal memo showing the state trying to hide the truth. Complicit in a scheme mislead building tenants neighboring residents and aurora. [ music ] i am not a population that i would want my children or any one elses children being into. Of our hidden cameras hat some discovered outside this our guys. Reporter this is a veteran employee of the state department of corrections. We have an obligation to be transparent with the public. Reporter he asked us to alter his voice and disguise his identity because he wants to keep his job. The email was troubling. Reporter hes talking about this internal email, it was said the state Parole Officers by up to manager. It states i tenants in the building do not know exactly what we do email ask state employees to conceal the truth. As our camera showed, hundreds of parolees. s exoffenders, gang members. Reporter they now report to this building. They are a risk potentially to play our row. Reporter the parole manager . Emo includes design, those tenants who asked were told by Property Managers that we are a reporter is that office a state Advocacy Group or Parole Office . Office. Reporter so that memo is not transparent. I do not think so at all. Reporter more than 1000 employees started parolees started reporting in july. Sources told us in documents confirmed on the days our hidden cameras were in the parking lot nearly 5 dozens ex offenders reported each day. Based on email, the information given out, it comes disingenuous, this honest dishonest. It has been uncomfortable. Reporter her office treats Young Children and sits just above this new Parole Office. The state of colorado is jeopardizing students, families, and children just for their business, that is sad. With kids in the building and they should have let us know who is going to be share the memo. I have been informed do not know exactly what we do. Reporter i feel like i was lied to, they were not honest. Estate has a duty to be honest with us. Reporter our investigation learn theestate also failed to disclose the full office was opening across the treet from this playground. Department managers received no notification, playground were unsupervised Children Play nearly every day. On the smash . It scares the hell out of me. Reporter wimpole officers got this do they take of an old to be honest . Theyre supposed to tell the truth . That is my expectation. No sir. Reporter i anticipate the truth will be revealed at some point but i would like the stress to stress we remain as loki as possible. As low key as possible. And maybe this is why the signs say state of colorado on the doors. Patrol officers are outraged that therr was a game to fold the i think its interesting that our conversations get to a point where my staff are outraged and call you and they dont call me. Thats a problem reporter your office took a credibility hit with the memo. Is that fair . I would understand the perception of that. Reporter robbers said she was unaware of the memo written by top mmnagers, she lost an internal why. Reporter in hindsight that memo had had a different tone in different information . I think in hindsight what we should have done is been a little more reporter honest . Forthright. I think we need to use this as a lesson. Reporter emailed comprehensive plan to denver7 that included meetings 3 with Property Owners and managers, the Community Around the Parole Office in meetings with other staff. She tells us she is committed to fixing this problem. There are also tough questions for the city of aurora. Why did it fail to notify the community . Those answers in the days ahead. With denver7 investigates i am tony kovaleski. If you ever have something we should the number is on your screen or you can contact us on thedenverchannel. Com. Beautiful weather for us today afternoon highs once again in the 80s way above where we should be this time of year. We should be at 65 degrees for normal afternoon hike but we were in the mid to upper 80s. At this point over denver it is mostly clear. Are temperatures in the 50s now 54 downtown wins about 6 miles per hour. The winds are more gusty and will continue to get more gusty . Through tomorrow. Tonight temperatures in the 50s across the front range. 55 city park. 51 our banner 59 lakewood. Our cheat sheet for tonight winds will pick up and cooler air moving it in the next few days we have raines no chance in the forecast. Has been warmer in colorado and we have a small front coming through help push through the south tomorrow. It outside the state early tomorrow but windy conditions come from the jet stream in that front pushes over colorado. Tomorrow going to the bus stop, 55 degrees miles in breezy with sunshine. Warm in the afternoon 75 degrees. Mild statewide. As they are strong at this point, and for the Eastern Plains intoo tomorrow they will continue to strengthen. We have high wind warning tonight through tomorrow evening all along the foothills up into the higher elevatio above timberline we expect winds of 85 miles per hour. That increases our chance for high fire danger across eastern humidity levels. As for our front range, temperatures tonight mostly 40s to around 50 degrees. A mild evening for us. Tomorrow morning the winds will be gusty, temperatures in the 70s, tomorrow afternoon it will slightly cool down. Futurecast, scattered rains into nnrthwestern colorado it will be dry in the front range. Of toward fort collins night, and the snow showers in the high country, will see moisture tuesday night into wednesday and we have our chance for the front range of showers. Mostly clear and mild tonight. Temperatures in the 40s and 50s in the plains. 40s for the Higher Elevations in tomorrow 77 degrees compared to upper 80s today. Sunny and windy and those gusts will be 20 to 30 miles per hour. Most of 70s in the metro area. Winter park. 90s down around plumbum. We have another shot of cold air coming in for wednesday and tuesday night we will have mountain snow for the metro area. Wednesday morning we clear out the 60s and thursday friday and 70s in the saturday and sunday. I think what youll notice most is the high winds. They will be very gusty tomorrow during the day. Just wa it will be a colorado day. The drink vending machine at work they be more dangerous than you think one local fire before donald trump, there was mike coffman. Before trump said women should be punished for having an abortion, coffman wrote a bill to redefine rape, which could exclude uslims, coffman pushed for a religious test of u. S. Soldiers. And on president obama . Trump he could have been born in kenya. Coffman hes just not an american. Stop mike coffman now before he gives trump more ideas. House majority pac is responsible and his kids capsized in a wave after coming dangerously close to stuffers in california. It happened yesterday near ventura beach. 1 surfer look almost hit, he quickly turned into a hero saving the family. The debt and one child came up kind of quick, then the 2nd kid did not. Pushed the boat down so the side would come up and he came up and put him on my board. The coast guard is looking into charges of reckless driving for the bad. For a dozen peeple helped a man in florida after an suv plunged down in an date met in 1st into flames. The Police Arrived on scene to help in the rescue they made a human change to bring the man away from the crash. He was taken to the hospital for injuries. You probably have noticed on facebook or even in your own relationships, the president ial our lives. Many americans feel more stress because of political discussions at work. The Business Insider has some advice. Its not wrong to express your views in the workplace but its not advisable. If youre talking about the election at work, dont use of to the tory language and keep conversation short. Do not distract you from your job. Tomorrow is the income taxes in colorado. Sure you get them in the mail the october 70 postmark is what counts starting tomorrow in boulder you might notice a change in your drinking water. Including the way it looks, smells and tastes. To water facilities are working together and water sources have different chemistry. The city says its normal but it will happen periodically for the next couple months. Tomorrow you can help a Denver Public nuisance notice and have license suspended. This was after a rapper was shot outside. They are holding of press conference anyone to get testimonials to help them stay open. Denver fire is launching a campaign to make sure soda machines do not kill people. Soda dispensing machines and. Apps are connected tanks that cant and occasionally do leak. When the Carbon Dioxide weeks, it can be deadly. For the 1st on ember denver plans to inspect all tanks in the city this year. It has never been regulated from a safety perspective. We will and get them upgraded we will go in and get them upgraded. Inspections begin next year in accordance with this week our everyday hero helps tiny citizens. She comforts those who others may not notice reporter ducked away in a small strip mall a group of volunteers work to make new colorado 1st votes of life positive. I do this because of the babies. Reporter lenda is a nonprofit warm heart scott moore babies. They provide clothing, blankets and essential items were premature newborns and newborns in crisis. Is not their fault that they were poor into the situation they are in. Reporter were parts more babies provides close to 6000 items every month to babies and their mothers. Anyone having a baby that doesnt have anything or doesnt have the ability to someone cares. Reporter they have 7 workers like this with more than 400 volunteers baking, making in preparing blankets and bags of love. Our event has a toy, bottle, toiletries, socks, hats and booties. Reporter they do it because they feel someone needs to care. It is needed because there are so many unwed mothers. Surprise all you have done this organization. Denver7 and trusted choice the independent Insurance Agents would like to honor you as a 7 everyday hero work [ applause ] to learn more about warm hearts more babies go to our website and then community section. 1 sheriff deputy getting into formation in from a ranchers perspective, we feel that often washington is removed from what we need. Senator bennet is different. Michael bennet has been at the ready and always willing to listen. When the federal government wanted to increase grazing fees, senator bennet stepped up and helped put a stop that. He commits to his word, and that means a lot to a guy like me. Im a republican, and we trust him. Im Michael Bennet a sheriffs deputy in virginia got students all excited when he decided to dance beyoncis song during a takes is the first openly gay deputy to surf with the Stafford County sheriff department. He has served the Department Since 2008. I would find that terrifying to do in front of an assembly. He did good. And they were all behind it. That was cool. The moon is nice next few days it will be very windy. We will cool down to the 50s by wednesday. We are live 60s and 70s to round out the weekend into next week with lots of sunshine. Do not wear a dress tomorrow. The broncos get back to work tomorrow but while no, we in troy are here tonight talking about the broncos struggling running game in a