building. officers with boulder and campus police arrived on scene. they repeateddedly demanded that the man put down the weapon. he did not. two officers, one from each responding agency fired shots. that man was killed. nobody else on campus was injured. we don t know the identity of that suspect. now to what police are calling an active harmer situation that happened around 1:00 this afternoon. campus police evacuated the umc building on campus officials deemed that to be a hoax. 20 minutes later cu tweeted there were uncommuted folks. hundreds of students and staff and visitors were evacuate maryland were evacuated. we looked up and these three huge guys ran in. police officers. yeah. and they had these huge guns and started screaming everyone and they screamed everyone get out of the building. i was headed to the umc and i saw a lot, practically every kids coming from every building running in different directions away from campus all at once. reporter: polic
now.to the race for the white house.. allegations from women who say he groped them. including one woman who lives in florida and says she was a victim years ago. trump is denying any involvement. a number of women are throwing accusations at trump. saying his actions were unwelcomed. on the democratic side: the latest wikileaks documents show conversations trump calls anti- catholic. the clinton campain says it s fact. and likely backed by russian hackers. a hot congressional race just got hotter. you ve probably seen the commercials saying congressional candidate morgan welfare recipients to access a-t-ms at strip clubs. political reporter brandon rittiman has the truth test. if that s not an attention-grabbing ad, i don t know what is. it comes from national republicans trying to help mike coffman hold his seat in congress. this line of attack comes from a vote by democratic challenger morgan carroll in the state senate last year. this is true, but it also needs a bit o
monitoring to make sure that it s safe. reporter: now there were no injuries reported with this incident, but we can tell you that local and environmental federal officials are here to figure out what exactly went wrong today. we had a lot of calls this afternoon about that smoke. nice to hear it s not toxic. thanks, maya. and the wind, of course, it s had an impact as that smoke into many areas. it s also really drying thing out. meteorologist belen deleon is in the backyard. the warm weather is coming along and then we ve got the wind, the smell of smoke and even to help it s going to be really nice outside. compact and even though it s going to be really nice outside. exactly. it s been so dry. speaking of those winds, earlier those winds were causing a bit of a mountain wave cloud. now we have clouds breaking up the sky, but to the south we have gusts up to 12 miles per hour in castle rock. in the foothills we have the strongest winds and near the divide gusti
repairs xcel was working on repairs and the power outage happened. that led to the yellowish smoke. a suncor spokesperson told us it was a claylike material they use as a catalyst that was actually released, but again the colorado department of public health and environment says they do not have enough information yet to determine whether it was hazardous, but they add it does not appear to pose an immediate risk to the an automated emergency call to people within 2 miles of the refinery advising them to shelter in place. when we get an unusual event, you have your everyday normal operations at refineries, other businesses. when something goes wrong, we never know how far that chain of events will go. so we want to stay ahead of it and we take actions so that we can confine the area until we re absolutely sure what is reporter: now investigators with local, state and federal agencies are on scene as they investigate what happened here. by the way, there were no injuries
get down to the south. you see monarch pass we ve got 64 mile-per-hour gusts. they get a little bit less the closer you get to pueblo but even canyon city seeing 29 mile- per-hour gusts at this hour. it s those kind of gusts that we ll see well into the evening hours. it s making for some incredible pictures all across the front range there. you can see what the winds are doing to the flags fort collins. you ve likely noticed the wind shift behind it and cooler air starting to move in. that front is bringing the winds and a little bit of rain and snow. you can see some of that snow right up along our northern mountains, but it just completely dies out, dries off as soon as it hits that dry air once you get to the foothills east of i-25. temperatures now, 66 degrees in denver. we got into the 70s today. it s 62 in greeley, 63 in fort and 60s through the foothills. the next civil hours we ll continue to cool off. several hours we ll continue to cool off and keep you clear. we
mid-50s by 7:00. there is the chance some areas could zoo a brief shower overnight. we ll talk about that, and look ahead to a warmer weekend outlook. tomorrow night skies clear, winds are light, many areas may go into a freeze watch. we re expected to drop below freezing in denver. wow! yikes. it s time. the federal emergency management agency approved a grant to help colorado fight a fire. it has bunched tractors and two homes. have been told to evacuate. there s gonna be crews out working hard today. we re work as hard as we can to preserve the structure that are in place. no word on what started fire. a federal type 1 management team will officially take over at 6:00 tomorrow morning. nine children, one of them just 14 years old has in the last week been rescued from the sex trade. the children were found during a 3-day sting in colorado and wyoming. dozens of local agencies helped the f.b.i. take down hotels, street corners arrested pumps and johns. social me
our elections, that undermines democracy. trump s claim on not conceding to clinton if he loses has been rejected by some fellow republicans. john mccain said he didn t like the outcome of the 2008 race but conceded defeat without reluctant. no ballot selfies. state law prohibits voters from showing their completed ballots to others. that includes posting a picture of a media. colorado is one of many states that bans ballot self-yes. it s a selfies. it s a misdemeanor meant to guard against voter fraud. there are exceptions such as senior and people who need help and nonenglish speaking voters. tonight the debate between republican congressman mike coffman and democratic challenger morgan carroll, the suburbs around denver to the north, east and south. that debate starts at 7:00 airing on channel 20 and we ll stream it on 9news.com and the 9news mobile app. iraqi and kurdish troops say they ve advanced more quickly than expected to take the isis stronghold of mosul.
causing an outage. it affected nearly 27,000 customers mostly in aurora and east denver, still no word yet how the raccoon got into this substation. it may seem unusual for an animal to cause a power outage, it happens more often than you d think. animal caused outages are one of our top four causes of outages in the state of colorado, so it s not uncommon for it to happen. what is, however, unusual is the outage was so wi power to just a couple of customers. if you tried but failed to date on access, you re not alone. that s because an internet company is being hit by cyber attacks. outages soon spread from the northeastern united states into the midwest. a security expert tell the associated press the attacks appear to be someone trying to probe for weaknesses of internet services. affected sites say they have managed to get back online oregon working to as quickly as possible or are working to as quickly as possible. police hope eight of the most violent bloods g
today. it is fantastic. we have the fall colors that are just gorgeous in the metro area. and we have nothing but sunshine so it has been a fantastic start to the week. you know what guys? last saturday, we broke a record, today, we were so close. just a couple of degrees shy. that current record high, last set back in 2003 at 84. and, today s high, just 82 degrees so across town right now at this 5:00 hour, upper 70s , low 80s i-76. a little cooler up in the mountains. cooler in silverthorn. 60s in idaho springs ands nederland. winds have picked up in the boulder area. broomfield, around 31. as we get further to the south, the winds will be picking up as well. you can see on hd doppler 9 that we have plenty of dry conditions across the state. and, that is the way that we are going to keep it the next building in though we will be watching a cold front rolling through the area tomorrow. that means that we will be watching the temperatures dropping by about five degrees. but
reporter: von miller and the broncos d will have to do some major work to make that happen. let s talk strategy. rod mackey, mike klis inside. guys, this is a big game coming off of two losses. what needs to happen tonight in this primetime match-up? reporter: the broncos definitely need to bounce back. they haven t lost three straight games since back in 2011 and ryan was talking to some of those fans. they have some ill will towards brock and the players try to put on the straight face, but there s no question they en the quarterback left this team behind for what he thought were greener pastures in houston. reporter: there s no maybe about it. he is getting booed tonight and he s getting booed hard. he will get bad all game long. it s unusual. usually the backup quarterback is the most popular guy on the team, not this guy. he was a backup quarterback here four years. he is going to get the business. he did say, one comment he made, he thought he could have the guys