Right now hundreds of people are being allowed back to their homes after this wildfire in douglas county. Fire crews fully contained the chatridge fire just about an hour ago but at one point those flames were raging. In more than 850 homes were evacuated. Is it even closed highway 85 for a couple of hours. It burned south of highlands ranch. Cbs4 is live at the scene. Andrea, scary homeowners in that area. Reporter thats right. Certainly a scary afternoon for a lot of folks here. Hundreds of homes were evacuated in the back country subdivision. Residents have since been allowed back in. But if you take a look behind me you can see they are now getting a firsthand look at the burn area and how close those flames came to their neighborhood. The fire started at 10 acres just around noon but quickly grew to more than 200 acres by subdivision. The Sheriffs Office issued an evacuation notice for residents living within half a mile of the sundial House Rec Center in the back country neighborhood. One evacuee described seeing the burn area for the first time. Seeing my house right over that hill, its a little scary. Originally my first thoughts were who is in the house what do i need to get. It was a scary thank god that my house was saved. Thank god that no one got hurt. Just praying to god that everything gets cleared and no one is injured. Reporter now, south metro fire says no injuries have been reported, and no structures were destroyed. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Reporting live in douglas county, andrea floor remember, cbs4 news. Andrea, thanks. Well, these unusually warm temperatures certainly arent helping. Despite the clouds we hit meteorologist chris spears is live out there with the mobile weather lab. Reporter heres a stat four. I know will you like this. Since the first of august well, you wont like this but i know you are a stats guy. Since the 1st of august we have only had 11 days of measurable rain, and that has only totaled. 76. We are 80 below where we should be for that period. The result, this dry vegetation. I met a gentleman named kyle country neighborhood. Take a look at what he saw flying down his street as that fire broke out. The air crews were called in. Several helicopters and airplanes flying. They made a very quick attack of the flames protecting dozens and dozens of homes in the area. It was a very, very close call. They said could you feel the wind as those aircraft flew overhead and buzzed very lowly. They made eerie sounds from their engines and their water drops as they were picking up water and going through. Still see the scene. It is smoldering, and it will smolder all night long. Crews will stay out here and monitor it, and because of the smoldering and the smoke, we are going to have an air quality alert for the rest of the night for the denver metro area. Jim and karen, 71 degrees right now. Our normal high is 61 at this hour on october 28th we should be about 45, 50 degrees. Way above normal. No wonder we have this high fire danger. Chris, youre right. Developing no without pay after being arrested for theft. Julian archuleta is accused of take money from a crime scene. Investigators say a body camera reported officer archuleta taking 1200 in cash that belonged to a. New developments on the death of a 13monthold boy. Police arrested the moms boyfriend. The family is from wyoming. Investigators plan to search a authorities are not identifying the boy. Authorities say someone at the home told investigators the body had been dumped into a trash container at a local community college. We will update you on the search monday here on cbs4 news. One person is in the hospital after an ugly crash in denver. It was early this morning. Police say the red corvette was speeding when it crashed into a light pole on south santa shenango. A passenger was trapped that in wrecked corvette for nearly an hour before going to a hospital in critical condition. Police will determine if that driver was drunk or high. Back to politics, donald trump will be campaigning in colorado again tomorrow. He will hold a rally at the Jefferson County fairgrounds in golden. It is the third time he has visited colorado this month. New information now on a ballot measure in boulder. Billionaire and former new york mayor Michael Bloomberg has promoting a tax on sugary drinks. If it passed, an extra two cents per ounce tax would apply to soda. You may remember he banned larger sizes of so dayne new york. That ban was later tossed out. We are talking about a Staggering Amount of money. One out of state corporation alone has spent million on a colorado ballot measure. We usually hear about outside spending in our congressional races, but this year our ballot measures are also attracting big money from all over the country. Amendment 70s, it goes too far. From political ads to a trojan horse. Weve been touring colorado. Groups for and against colorados Ballot Initiatives are going for broke this election in more ways than one. On the measures and most of it is from out of state. And they are trying to rewrite our constitution. Josh with raise the bar, a Group Pushing amendment 71 which would make it more difficult to change the constitution. Most of its money, more than 13 million, coming from oil and Gas Companies that he says are disproportionately targeted. Colorado does have an easy constitution to am these groups view colorado as sort of a petition tree dish. Its not just about the policy, its about other states and other election cycles. So what happens is weve made ourselves a target. Take amendment 72 which would raise the tax on tobacco. Philip morris has spent more than 60 million to fight it. Amendment 70 funded almost entirely by groups outside colorado. They have spent nearly 4. 5 to defeat amendment 71 which opponents call a trojan horse. They are going to destroy the Citizen Initiative process. So it is only going to be available to the wealthiest private interests. Ironically, the horse is funded by, you guessed it, an out of state special ask group. If you support the change of policy, it doesnt belong in the constitution. More over, why should an out of state group be able to broader input process from the entire state . National unions among the biggest sectors. They have largely bank rolled the minimum wage issue. The secretary of state doesnt track who has spent the most on ballot measures but as far as i can tell the title goes to a Rhode Island Company that wanted to bring casino gambling to the metro area in 2014. It spent more than 18 million, and the ballot measure, it failed. Any Campaign Cycle just because of all the ads. Exactly. Tens of millions of dollars pouring into our state. Thanks, shaun. And we will have more of our breaking news about Hillary Clintons response to that e mail scandal coming up on cbs4 news at 6 30. Ahead at 6 00, new developments after contaminated water was found in southern colorado. It may have been caused by Firefighting Foam at Peterson Air Force base. In a moment what that base is doing to prevent more contamination. Police force. The other issues facing this Tiny Mountain town. And lots of cloudiness across the statement didnt keep us from getting another record high but thats about to change as we have a cool front off to the north so well talk ,, scott tipton our congressman . To give away our public lands to his outofstate donors. Over 30 colorado Business Leaders called tiptons plans, a serious threat to the Outdoor Recreation industry and. Thousands of jobs. Gail schwartz will defend our public lands and wont put colorados future up for sale. House majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. When i became governor, i knew we had to protect like rachel zenzinger, a former teacher whos fought for equal pay for equal work. Daniel kagan championed property tax rebates to help seniors afford their utility bills. Jenise may worked to cut taxes for 30,000 Small Businesses. And tom sullivan is a veteran who believes in an open and transparent government. Theyd be a great team in the state senate. New developments on chemicals found in wells near Peterson Air Force base. The base says hat started drilling for soil samples. As we reported, levels more than 18 times higher than epa limits were found in water in landfills and fountains. Inadvertently released the pfcs when using Firefighting Foam. Soil samples will be tested to make sure the drink water is safe. Money problems forcing one of the oldest Police Departments in our state to disband. Cbs4 was the first to report on the budget problems in central city earlier this year. Our Matt Kroschel is in that Mountain Town with a followup on that story you saw first on 4 00. The locals tell you, hey, its a sign has always been boom and bust. It was the mining back in the 1800s, then those casinos moved in, in the 90s, but now the town has fallen on real hard times, and theyve been having to make some hard cuts. Theyre hoping, though, they might be able to reinvent themselves again. Its sad, because we really need the local cities. Reporter the two remaining Central City Police officers walking these streets for the its sad that we wont have that. Reporter the Gilpin CountySheriffs Office taking over patrols here because the city couldnt afford their own force any more. Gambling has good and bad. Reporter boarded up storefronts tell the story. Nearby black hawk stealing the big crowds and the casinos. Thats bad news. It will take forever anybody to gipt here if something happens. Reporter local artist sandy blames years of what she calls mismanagement for the problems. The town has always been broke. They dont know how to manage it right. Reporter allen martin sees this as a Pivotal Point l. Central city be able to bam again . One of the things that were trying to do is change so we can bring some of those Small Businesses back. Reporter the city is spending millions to renovate this old theater into a new community center. Too. But the boom isnt happening fast enough to save the pd. Gilpin county, they wont be around as much, so that leaves it open for more theft and crime. Reporter Gilpin County sheriff officials tell us they will be reusing the police cars that central city already has, and they plan on staging one of their sheriffs deputies in the town, and so hopefully their response times will be about e Matt Kroschel, cbs4 mountain newsroom. Loveland police have two new partners on patrol, both canines. Jojo is a female from hungary, and paco is from holland. They will help with explosive detection and search and rescue. The k9s should complete their training next year. Degrees. So would you think with the clouds we would be a little cooler, and we were, by one degree. The record high today, also 80. Set another record at 8 2. Couple of showers, even a Lightning Strike in Pitkin County over to the west and farther to the west. We also have a cool front thats slowly meandering our way. Thats going to mix with the warm air we have down here and thats going to start to moderate our temperatures. The record high streak will be over. Back to the east the snow they had in the northeast that is they are done with that but very warm over the south. You see those temperatures. 9 3 . Eu7 phoenix, dallas at 86, 90 in brownsville, denver was warmer than miami today, and almost as warm as las vegas. Thats how warm its been around here. But thats going to change. 82 at both dia and the downtown location. The record was 80 set back in 1968. 61 and 32 would be normal. From our weather watchers, 67 in buena vista. West of leader was 88 degrees today. We do have a rising barometer. A nice shot here from phil curry. Look at these lenticular clouds how they swirl around. He is our weather watcher who is also a pilot, so this is west of rocky look at this one, lake dillon just as the sun is going down. You can see the mountains and you can also see the reflection. Kind of a dramatic shot. Temperatures tonight in the 40s and 50s over the eastern plains, 30s and 40s for the mountains out west. For tomorrow a little bit cooler around here but look at how much cooler to the north. 49 in laramie. We wont be that bad. 70s and 80s for the eastern plains. 50s and 60s for the mountains. Out west temperatures in the six and 70s. And your forecast, becoming overnight lows. For tomorrow a pretty nice day. Partly sunny. We will be in the lower 70s. Then for the next couple of days 73 on saturday, 75 for the broncos on sunday. Theres halloween at 73 degrees. Now, i remember halloween, that signaled the first snow. Not the case any more. Lets go to Lauren Whitney in the colorado weather center. A whole lot better now. Oh yes. Were going to be warm and dry which is great for your ghosts and goblins. Everyone always says, it was snowing is like crazy, wear my show pants to go trick or treating. But 56 degrees in 2013. 13, 1, and 11 we did have snow on the ground but it wasnt actually snowing on the actual day. We got over a foot in the foothills one year. 2002 our coldest halloween, 19 degrees, and there was snow on halloween this year looking great. Not spooky at all. Tells in the sick and low 50s. Ed. Thank you lauren. So 73 on halloween, and then as we get on into tuesday and wednesday we get into the 60s. Thats more like it. Still mild. Broncos fans, we know have been holding out hope for c. J. But it doesnt look good. It certainly does not. This has been an ongoing thing going back to monday night. Really we didnt know he was injured but he had surgery today. We will be out. That is coming up. That is coming up. Plus, its no secret. Donald trump isnt for us. And unfortunately, congressman coffman isnt, either. Y for equal work 11 times. It gets worse. Coffman said he would support donald trump for president. And thats all we really need to know. Dccc is responsible for the content of this advertising. Mike coffman, endorsed by the denver post. Hes a consistent warrior who took action against his partys president ial nominee, donald trump, and has urged republicans to stop stalling on immigration reform. Ke coffman. Reliable. A leader. Unlike morgan carroll, who the post calls disingenuous and partisan. If were ever to see gridlock reduced in congress, we need more representatives like coffman. Mike coffman. Endorsed by the denver post for congress. Im mike coffman, of we knew c. J. Anderson would miss time. We just didnt know how long until today. The broncos have put c. J. On injured reserve meaning he will miss at least eight weeks. Key be back for the postseason. It appears the broncos have picked have fixed their issues with slow starts. Broncos forced the texans into back to back three and outs to opening drive in san diego two weeks ago. They have been searching for answers and it turns out they need to play better. Were all pros. We all are grown men. We all know our job and we all know what is expected out of us. We all know our roles. Its just energy. I feel like coming out there with the type of energy that we know we can have and the type of energy we know we can bring and just playing the type of football that weve been playing for two if we can go out there and do that we will be all right. Centurylink poll question. How concerned are you with c. J. Anderson heading to the ir . Maybe not at all, maybe you think the season is over. Go to cbsdenver. Com, sports page, to vote. After a nearly twoweek hiatus hockey is because at the pepsi center. The avs havent been back at home since they started the season on the 15th of this month. They havent played a game in their best season since the 201112 season. They havent had trouble scoring goals but the fact that they have given up more than two goals a game is a problem. Theyre hoping the long week off will help fix that. Were able to continue with all of our system work, and spend some time with special teams, power play and penalty kill. We actually went through almost everything in our system. We had the power plays out a lot of good coming out of this week. The mls playoffs getting underway tomorrow. The rapids traveling to l. A. For game one of a twogame set with the l. A. Galaxy. The first trip to the postseason for the rapids since 2013. After finishing last just a seasoning a theyre out to prove their success was no fluke. After struggling the last couple of years i think the pain weve felt, and i think weve proven over the course of 10 months that were for real and were continuing to build. I think the future is bright for this club. Its not by any fluke that were here in this position. We had a great season. They put together a great team coming into the season, great tactics. And, you know, its something that we need to go to l. A. And believe in ourselves. Hows this for good fortune . Mission viejo high school in illinois, that is where mike lee predict win the world series in 2016. Recently a High School Classmate rediscovered the prediction. It was mikes yearbook quote from that year. He said it came to him in a dream. He wasnt much of a word smith, so he decided, thats what ill put. But a typical fan, theyre not like, were going to win it this year, were going wynn 23 flames on the runway. And the Hillary Clinton e mail scandal. Mail scandal. What will it mean to the course, mail scandal. What will it mean to the course, with 40 megs of Internet Speed from centurylink, a family of four can all be online at the same time. Streaming, gaming, or downloading movies. All you need is highspeed internet from centurylink. Get up to 40 megs for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. Speed may not be available in your area. No, thats okay. Im not hungry. Dont worry about me. Okay. . This is the colorado none of us want to lose. 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