Creek subdivision and on the east side of county road 59 between Cherokee Park road and the state line. We are told at least two engine air tankers have been called in to help battle that fire. Investigators believe it was sparked by lightning. We have a crew on the way to the scene and we will keep you posted. Firefighters have been busy this afternoon with another fire, this one near deer trail along i70 east of denver. Crews from several agencies are helping with this fire off highway 40. We havent heard structures lost or evacuations. No word on what started that fire. Were on the storm watch tonight. The weather is always a big factor with how fire crews battle those fires. Some areas have already seen rain. Tonight we could see more showers across the front range. Meteorologist Dave Aguilera is in the weather center. Any showers in the forecast . There are a few showers but the showers are very small, and a lot of it is just not making it to the ground. So the wind and the lightning are what is really getting going this afternoon. We take a look at the weather perhour gusts of wind are getting some of these fires going today. You can see now 30mileper hour gusts in morrison, 29 in greenwood village, 37 in centennial. So they are really kicking up. Its a combination of the jet stream and the thunderstorms. High base thunderstorms when you get dry and hot weather down on the ground. Some of these storms tend to create quite a bit in the way of gusty winds. Here is the doppler 4000 for denver. Lets take that full and i can show where you the storms are going. We have had a storms go through the denver metro area. Close to the city, the one thats producing rain is up in greeley. This one has rain, lightning, even small hail embedded, up to half an inch in diameter hail, probably pea to marble size in some locations. Then another big storm is going through fort morgan. Look at all the lightning. Theres wind sheer with that one. That will create some hail. But the Severe Thunderstorm Warnings have been out in eastern colorado. Theres a storm up there that could have pingpongballsize hail and up to 60mileperhour winds. Weve already had up to ping pongballsize hail from holyoke, alvin, even down in even down in idalia. Some folks are really rocking and rolling this afternoon, but at the moment over denver its windy here in town but the sun for the taste of colorado. And although their hair is messed up a little bit, theyre pretty safe for the moment. At least as they have a turkey leg. There you go. Hold on to that baby. Thanks dave. Developing now the investigation is on after a woman is found shot to death inside van apartment in westminster. The crime scene is near 70th place and stewart. Police were called to the apartment complex late last at the scene. We understand police just finished serving a washington. Reporter exactly. Investigators just left. We did see them going in and out of two apartments on the main floor. This one, though, is where neighbors say the shooting occurred late last night. Now, according to Westminster Police they were called to this area around 11 00 for reports of an injured person. Now when they got here they did find a woman in her 30s had been shot. Police are now looking for a Jared Michael strange. He is homicide. We did just get a photo of hit. He is described as 5 11, 215 pounds. He has brown hair and hazel eyes. He has several warrants out for his arrest. Right now police are saying he should be considered dangerous. Right now police are not releasing any information about the victim involved in this case, but again we should we will have more information on the suspect as well as this investigation coming up on cbs4 thank you karen. The latest on a Douglas County sheriffs deputy shot and critically injured. The Department Released this picture of detective dan bright. Doctors tell us they are seeing promising results in his treatment, which is great news. The detective was shot when he responded to reports of a suicidal man near parker middle school. The man was killed after continuing to fire. Melissa garcia is live in parker. A lot of folks are stepping up to help out deputy. Reporter and, tom, this is one of the local businesses stepping up to help and to raise money for detective dan bright. Right in front you can see that sign there that says pray. Well, his wife today acknowledging prayer in helping him fight for his life. The fundraiser here doesnt even start until next sunday, and already weve seen people coming by, opening up their hearts and their wallets. We have the greatest people in the world here. And we just want to show support. Reporter support from the in parker. If you ask, people will give. Reporter and the customers who are lending a havened. Thank you so much. Reporter wesley heard the devastating news of a Douglas County deputy critically injured in fridays shootout and knew he had to help. It is heartbreaking. I mean, you know, we all its any community. Its any community in the world. Reporter every indictment of every purchase at the coffee cabin next sunday, september 11th, will go to the family of detective dan bright. The violent rampage near an elementach of sermons across parker on sunday, and also the sacrifice of the Law Enforcement officers who put their lives on the line to intervene. It makes you feel proud there are people out there who are willing to step in harms way and do that for us. Reporter he says the gift back is but a small token for the First Responders who save, seven, and protect day in and day out. What i am doing is just a little thing compared to what we could be doing as a country. We need to get back to these support and we need to let them know that were behind them 100 . Reporter and again that fundraiser will be here at the coffee cabin on parker and ponderosa drive next sunday, september 11th from 7 30 a. M. Until 3 00 p. M. All of the product and even the taxes the owner said is going to come out of his own pocket. You can also make a donation to the family of detective dan bright directly. We have a linkup to his benefit account on our just go to cbsdenver. Com under links and info. Were live in parker, melissa garcia, cbs4 news. Great to see the Community Stepping up there. Happening now, hermine continues to stir up trouble along the east coast. Tonight the storm may become a hurricane once again. The heavy rains headed out to sea but as Wendy Gillette reports from belmar, new jersey, that threat isnt over. Reporter the dog days of summer are still hanging around lingering a few hundred miles offshore. The storm is bringing crashing waves to the jersey shore, and as far south as virginia. Only perfect conditions for surfers. Oh, you can be up to your knees, and if a wave knocks you off your feet and you get caught in a rip, you can be in trouble. Reporter thats why it is a red flag day warning of the dangers. Lifeguards are patrolling the beach along with Uniformed Police officers. Swimming is not allowed. Edgar rive his fiveyearold daughter sophia to wade up to her knees. Due feel the pull of the water . You do. You actually feel it. Youve got to be careful. Reporter the storm could also cause severe beach erosion. Workers in belmar built these sand berms. The storm has tracked east improving the forecast. It could wobble back west or wobble further east. All those things will decide reporter hermine is now expected to hang offshore until as long as wednesday. High tides sunday night and monday morning could cause the most problems because of storm surge, erasing the summer fun. We have an update on the effort by Denver Police to fight drug use in city parks and along bike paths. Park users have asked the city to do something about the problem for years. Starting last week anyone caught selling, buying, or using drugs can be suspended from the park to see if people are noticing a difference. Reporter denver park users say theyre already seeing a difference in some of their favorite areas. I have been running up here for the last three years. It certainly seems different. Thats for sure. Reporter on friday the city began enforcing a sweeping measure to clean up Drug Trafficking use, banning people from parks for 90 days if theyre caught using drugs there. I do think it has been little bit aggressively on the bike path. Reporter the ban order comes after more than 3500 needles were collected out in the open in denver parks just this year. The effort is trying to address a problem that has become a near permanent black eye for the city. Drug use in some of the citys parks like the cherry creek trail and commons park has become so rampant many people avoid the areas altogether. Natalie blogs about the state of denvers parks. There normally would have been a lot of dealers, so i think thats better, but if you look at the trash and debris, thats still there. Reporter the new program looks at people using drugs and also give Treatment Options for addiction. The aclu has criticized the program. Park users say they still dont expect the cleanup to last forever. More intense efforts need to be made to help the problem at its root cause instead of and its gone. Reporter stan bush, cbs4 news. We have a sad update on a beloved elephant at the denver zoo. The asian elephant dolly has been euthanized. She had been in declining health. The zoo believes dolly was at least 50 years old. She was born in Southeast Asia and transferred to the zoo in 1990. The zoo still has three other asian elephants. Coming up on cbs4 news at 5 00, nearly two decades after her death Mother Teresa is declared a sign. It will be a life changer for me. A freak injury at the ballpark exacerbated her exhaustion. How this woman is hoping a new surgery will help her sleep. Its dry and breezy right now in denver. There is your shot of the taste of colorado downtown. A lot of people enjoying the nice weather here. Not the case in northeastern colorado. Theres a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for a big area up there. I will show you who has had from pingpongballsize hail coming up. And we continue to follow breaking news tonight. Right now fire crews are battling at least two new wildfires along the front range. This fire is burning near the colorado wyoming border and it has led to homes being evacuate. So far it has burned 200 acres. Look, the wolf was huffing and puffing. Like you do sometimes, grandpa . Well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. 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Some homeowners near the colorado wyoming border near Larimer County have been evacuated as a wildfire grows near the mill Creek Subdivision near livermore in the area of county road 59 and starwood trail. That fire is at least 200 acres information as it comes in. Screw happening tomorrow a chance to get free dental care for families who cant afford a trip to the dentist. The fifth annual labor of love event runs from 8 00 a. M. To noon tomorrow. The company will offer free dental care including teeth cleanings, cavity filling and a complete exam with xrays. There are four locations. Find those locations by checking out the links and info section of cbsdenver. Com. A woman from Highlands Ranch had surgery recently to he she has tried other ways of correcting sleep apnea but a freak baseball injury has made those too painful. Now she has what some call a tongue pacemaker. Im watching the game and i didnt ever see it coming. I didnt have time to duck. It was a todd helton foul ball. June 18th, 2011. This was diane shay about 10 days after the speeding baseball smacked her in the face. Diane needed stitches. Problems in my face. It sort of started happening years later. Diane says she often feels sharp pain in her right cheek at the top of her gum. That pain has created new issues for an old problem. I did not get good sleep, and its gotten worse over the last five years. Diane has severe obstructive sleep apnea. She says she cant tolerate a cpap mouth. A custom mouthpiece it fits up here, and it rubs rate against the area that is sore. But diane is hoping she has found a way to finally sleep. Its called inspire. A sort of tongue pacemaker. It is implanted in the chest and sends mild pulses to the tongue to move it out of the airway. It actually sends a little zip. The doctor will do the surgery in fort collins. It will be a life changer grandkids and maybe later hit a rockies game, all thanks toe a good nights sleep. It takes about a month before they actually activate and calibrate that inspire device. Day an will turn it on at night with a handheld remote and turn it off in the morning. That is really pretty amazing. Lets check in with meteorologist Dave Aguilera. Were on storm watch. We know those storm crews in larimer could use that moisture. Theres not much in the way of moisture unfortunately. Kind of just a few gusty storms to the northeast and down to the southeast but not a lot of green. Green would be good because we need the rain. In denver we had some gusty storms move through, a lot of wind, a few sprinkles of rain and some lightning. Thats it. What is making it to the ground are these fast moving storms that just came through the greeley area. Also up at altitude there is a strong jest that is kicking these along. The greeley area. Theres a lot of wind sheer showing up. You see those arrows that are swirling. There might be a little turn in some of the clouds up there. Were watching that one carefully. No tornadoes reported yet but hail is really like well some of these storms. Severe thunderstorm warning for this one going through phillips and Sedgwick County until 5 30. Weve already seen House Windows broken out with the hail near julesburg as they have golf ball size golf ball size hail in holyoke and al vicinity. Thats not it. In fort morgan they have had over half Inch Diameter hail. Golf ball size hail in kimble, idalia as well picking up big hailstones. Denver is not included in the severe thunderstorm watch. We will probably just see the wind kicking up. Today. 87 downtown. Another day of abovenormal temperatures. 82 out there now. The wind is kicking up. It is out of the southwest at 25. But we have seen gusts up over 35 Miles Per Hour out of some of these storms. Jim bruce up in risk canyon had over a quarter of an inch of rain. Larry in brush got almost three quarters of an inch of rain from those storms yesterday. Tomorrow morning we will clear out, mostly sunny. By after the southeast but almost the entire state will be high and dry. So a very dry and sunny labor day for a lot of folks tomorrow. There is a slight chance we could see some severe thunderstorms here in the extreme Northeast Corner of the state. Now for tonight, we could have some gusty storms early. Partly cloudy otherwise and breezy. We will be in the 50s for the overnight low. Your labor day forecast, breezy at times. We will be near 90 again tomorrow. A hot Holiday Weekend still going on. As we look ahead, we cool off a and wednesday, maybe some isolated storms tuesday, then thursday and friday we keep it in the 80s. But overall, with the exception of some of these storms that are here and there a drying trend for a lot of folks over the next several days. We have the broncos at home on thursday. I think it will be a good night. Temperatures not too bad. No storms in the forecast. It will be good. Thank you dave. Coming up in sports, speaking of the broncos theyre now preparing for a familiar foe. Coach gary kubiak talks coach gary kubiak talks about the su , dont. Ill just tell you clean, renewable energy. Cool, right . Fact is, xcel energy is the nations number one provider of wind energy, and has been for over a decade. Whoa thats wind for ya. . Wind, wind, wind, wiiind. . When it comes to clean energy, were always delivering. Xcel energy. Eric joins us with sports. Seems like just yesterday the broncos were winning the super bowl. Now it is time to defend. The last month has been full of meaningless football. Any coach will tell you that. But not any more. Leave it to Wade Phillips to sum what broncos country is thinking. Its time. Time for the broncos to defend their super bowl championship. It is time for Trevor Siemian to take his first meaningful snaps in the nfl. Offensive line to run the ball the way gary kubiak wants to. It is time for the defense to pressure the quarterback and stop the run and create those Timely Turnovers and score every once in awhile. It is time to start the 2016 season against the same team the broncos beat in the super bowl. It is time for the rematch. You let all that go. It is a new team, a new year, a new season. Were studying what theyve done this year. Im sure theyre doing the same thing. Weve got to this time around. We dont talk about that at all to be honest. Extra be trigger shy playing quarterback. Especially with our group. The players we have. So i have a Good Opportunity to get those guys involved with ct or emanuel, whoever it is. Touchdown denver on our shoulder each year. The fact that we are the dog, or that everybody is counting us ou