Sparks out the backside. They initiated a pursuit and tried to get this vehicle pulled over and the suspect fired shots at officers fortunately missing them. You can see the flashing lights. This is 50th and washington. The vehicle crashed and rolled over. The driver ran on foot to the north, and the other suspect inside the vehicle is listed in serious condition at a hospital. So right now the police are searching with Metro Task Force with a dog on the ground, helicopter in the air and washington is closed off at 50th all the way down to 47th. More with that is jason. Reporter we have a way to get around it, here. Daryl. Its going to be inconvenience 0. This is the area of Washington Closed down. A little to the west, broadway can get you over to 56th avenue over to franklin and continuing to 56th and 58th avenue. It can get you around it. There are ways around it, but its not see that on the cdot camera at i25 and evans. I see flashing lights at the exit ramp from north. Hurricane matthew was downgraded to a category 3 storm overnight, that but thats 120 mileperhour wind and it is expected to cause a lot of damage. Hitting florida right now after going through killing more thaa 280 people there. Reporter the rain and winds coming in here in jacksonville. Were several hours away from the hurricane actually coming to this arra. Most of the carolina coast feeling the impact of thi3 storm. Hundreds of thousands of people have evacuated, but because of the storm is upon us right now, authorities here are saying that if you havent left town, thats it. Youre staying here. You need to hunker down and ride out the storm. The floridas east coast bringing with it heavy rain. And more than 100 mileperhour winds. Its here. Its absolutely here. Officials saying the effects of matthew will be unlike any hurricane in decades and some places may quote become uninhabitable for weeks. Its a monster. Our number one priority is protecting every life in this state. Power lines are down across the state. Hundreds of thousands without power, but despite repeated calls to evacuate, and predictions of devastating storm surge 11 feet of storm surge. In your house, if youre close, you could have the storm surge and waves over your roof. Some people say theyre staying put. Were all scared and we all think were going to be okay, but nobody knows. Ive been through all the storm its here growing up, so another storm. This storm 5 miles off the coast of florida at this point. One of jacksonvilles nickname the bridge city are talking about having to shut down bridges because of the winds of this storm. Again, if youre in town in florida, you cant leave and youre going to be forced to ride out this storm. Reporting in florida, im diana gallagher. Well keep a close eye on rr if you have friends or loved ones along the east coast and download the free denver 7 app that way youll get alerts. Were going to deal with another cold morning here. If you thought it was cool yesterday, today is even cooler. Lets go to lisa. She has our freeze warnings. Temperatures 7 to 10 degrees colder this morning than yesterday. Youre going to feel the door. The freeze warning covers all of eastern colorado and a few frost advisories. Cold up and down the front range. 39 at city park. 32 in boulevard. 20 ncspin. Come 20s in the foothills. Parker and aurora around 34 at this point. Its a descent warmup. We have more sunshine today. By 11 00, midto upper 50s. And then our highs right around 65 today. Its nice. And closer to normal. This is nothing compared to the weekend. Its going to get prettier. Sunshine. Golden right now, 65. Thats where eric lufer is. I missed a phone call from you. Did you want to borrow my coat. What was it . Reporter i called you at 3 00 this morning and i wanted to know the temperatures around the front range. Lisa ignored my phone call. Not happy. I still love you. In golden, is chilly. Coat. I had to scrape off the windshield for the first time this season back at the station. But when i was driving to the station in my car, we were hovering around the thermostat at 37, 34 degrees. Check out this map. This is the average first freeze map in colorado. Colorful map. Ll the its a the first freeze happening in september and across the metro area, the darker and lighter shades of blue, the first freeze expected to happen between october 1st and october 20th. So were around that timeframe right now. As we come back here live, what i test for is when do i need to wear the gloves and the snow hat . It hasnt happened yet. Not cold enough. But when the the free speech wall on campus with graffiti. Spray painting some song lyrics that some find threatening. Jason is live at du this morning. Jason, is the school doing anything about this . Reporter were told that members of the faculty painted over that. This is a wall here on campus outside the discol student center. Students can paint something abo this. But some say it went too far. The chancellor put out a letter to students in response to this. Somebody wrote, white people do something hashtag black lives matter on a wall. This from a student group. Somebody came through and crossed out the word white and black. It read people do something, hashtag, lives matter. Some were not pleased with that. This isnt the first happened. Recently someone spray painted long lyrics by a band called minor threat. It says im sorry for something i didnt do. Lynch somebody but i didnt know who. Guilty of being white. Obviously we spoke to some students about this. Some were really not happy for the first part of that message. They say thats silencing those groups and some say they feel threatened by the song admission of a guilt or privilege is something we should be doing because it helps basically start this difficult conversation, but then therrs the other part, that students feel threatened and we spoke to one on camera. Were going to show you his response coming up in a few minutes about 5 30 or so. Again, that has been painted, but well see if or when this happens again. A very tough issue, racial tensions, du campus. On the du campus, jason. This denver mom killed her baby boy. Candice will spend 25 years in prison for that unthinkable crime. Johnson was a month shy of turning 2 when he died last july. Doctors said he had burns on his body. His mom pleaded guilty and her boyfriend is accused i this crime. His trial happens next year. Were working to get a pi his name is Brandon Simon and hes from thornton. 28 year old. Police say simons got into a fight before this happened and followed a patient inside the Sports Medicine facility on the cu campus. A Northern Colorado police to killing a man during a suspected road rage crash. This is a look at the scene from the incident back in june. Investigators say alt Police Officer jackson was off duty mans pickup trucc south of greeley. Witnesses say both drivers were cutting each other off before the crash. A fire was from a spark of a machinery that cdot was using. The fire has grown and destroyed 8 homes. It has burned than 52 acres. Some have been able to return home from being evacuated. 10 minutes after 5 00 on this friday. Maybe this guy shouldnt have been given a Company Credit card. How his spending spree cost him his job. Its not necessarily how much he spent, but where. Predicting the weather is getting easier thanks to scientist here in colorado. Theyre helping lisa and the rest of the country. That means we have to be another really cold morning. Youre going to find temperatures near freezing. City park at 38. Heres your first alert. Its not going to be as cold. As we get into the weekend and the first of next week its going to feel nice. Details in a few. It looks damp and maybe even a touch foggy in the north side. This is i25 near loveland, highway 34. You can see it in the lights there. Were not . At village inn, a good meal is about more than just how it tastes. Its about how it makes you feel. . Come in to village inn every wednesday im mike coffman, and i approve this message. Service. It started with my dad. He fought in world war two, was wounded in korea. Hes the reason i joined at 17, fought in two iraq wars, and still serve today. The va scandal is an outrage, failing to care for our wounded warriors. Va to get our veterans the care and respect they deserve. Because i understand the sacrifices they made, and ill never stop fighting for those who fought for us. It 5 14. Were taking a live look at sunny aisles beach in florida which is probably normally a lot sunnier. Right now, feeling the effects of Hurricane Matthew. This is in Miami Dade County near the ohio area. And right now, millions of people in florida, South Carolina and georgia are being the largest mandatory evacuation in the u. S. Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. 3 mitch is looking at what this means for the east coast. In florida alone around 1. 5 Million People are under evacuation orders right now with 2500 National Guard members helping people get to safety. We have another 4,000 members on standby. Ii georgia, 500,000 people are under mandatory evacuation. The georgia coast hasnt been hurricane since floyd in 1999. The Florida Governor theyre under evacuation orders in four counties and city leaders in charleston says the city ran out of sand bags. They gave out 15,000 and they ran out. They say predicting new weather not easy, but any cole is looking into how those in our state are making this easier. Wouldnt that be great for those in lochte mountain built a satellite that should help meteorologist build their forecast. The satellite is scheduled to launch into space in less than a month. To put into terms, it will give the National Weather servicc the equivalent of going from black and white to ultra hd color tv and it did deliver images of Severe Weather every 30seconds scanning the the 5 times faster than the satellites we currently have. It wont be rdy it launching. Testing in space will take a year. Heres the problem. Its sit nothing its sitting in florid. They dont want dust to get on it. It can sustain winds of hurricane category 4, forced winds, but theyre nervous right now. Remember when nassau would have to think will rolling out fingers. Its ironic in the Weather Satellite is the victim of this. A launch of november 4th. Well keep an eye on that. Freezing coll. Sunshine state wide. Temperatures in the 60s today. 70s tomorrow. We have a gorgeous looking 7da. After yesterdays little blip of small storm that rolled through, were seeing skies clear. Temperatures dropping this morning. So from fort collins to denver down to pueblo, were under a freeze warning. It covers all of east it is cold out there this morning. So as youre sending the kids out the door, theyre likely going to be standing in the bus stop at upper 30s to near 40 degrees. A jacket, hat, gloves, theyll need it if theyre out there for more than five, 10 minutes. Make sure they come home with all of that gear. Midto upper 60s between 3 00 and 5 00. Overnight tonight, not quite as cold. But we likely ould see upper 30s highlands ranch, 67. Longmont, 67. Golden 65. And at the tech center, 64. Ita nice afternoon. Were edging closer to normal. 40s 50s for the central mountains, but more 60s, close to 70 near montrose and grand junction. A lot of sunshine today. Our future cast is pretty clear. We could get a little patchy fog across the central plains. That clears out by 12 30. Blue skies state wide. A beautiful its going to get chill chilly e ello its going to get chilly with the sunset. 72 saturday. 75 on sunday. Perfect afternoo. Great for that Football Game on sunday. Youre going to find overnight e in the low to mid40s. Its not going to be nearly as cold. If you can protect the plants today and for the next couple of days. Enjoy it. Weekend, jason, 75 for the broncos game. Its going to be nice. It doesnt ook so nice up to the north. Take a look at the limited visibility not too far from johnstown. You can see the fog. Slower speed is recommended if you start coming across the foggy areas this morning where youre not sure whats ahead of you. Take a look at the overall drive. You can see a lot of green including on and the same on i25 down on this section of e470. We had this closure of 50th and i70. Well be on scene as Police Investigate that flipped over car. That short police chase. Broadway to the east can get you around that and you can use brighton boulevard towards franklin. But be mindful it is closed. Loss of this officer. This is snider. He leaves behind a wife and a 2year old son. Only 33year old. And we have a look at the 18year old accused of killing him. Foster is his name. Hes charged with murder. This happened yesterday mornings responding to a disturbance call when investigators say foster shot him in the chin. Back up officers shot the 18year old. Hes expected to survive. Right now, its not clear why the shooting happene aide to defense secretary carter should have known better. Ronald lewis was fired for using his Government Credit card at strip clubs. During a trip to south korea, report shows he charged more than 1,000 at one club where he left an 81 tip. 20 minutes after 5 00. Take a good look at this man. 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We have a live look in just lost that shot. Well try to get it back up for you to show you what the winds are look. Because the winds itts going in and out. Lots of wind as Hurricane Matthew bares down on florida. Well keep an eye on that for you. Back at home, police in aurora are looking for a person who shot a man to death. The story is strange. It started yesterday morning wit a manikin with a weapon. Well, when officers burkely air force base, they discover it had was a real person. You can get a 2,000 rewwrd for tips leading to an arrest in this case. Take a look at your screen. Police want to find this man. His name is chavez. Denver police say hes armed and dangerous and hes accused of shooting two people in the front yard of a house in wheat ridge early sunday morning. One of them was his girl friend who says he was holding her against her will. She got out of this, pounded on a strangers door for help and police say chavez shot them both. They survived, but chavez is on the run. The aclu is going after the Denver Police department for tracking what you post on social meeia. Dpd signed a 30,000 contract with jeo fedia and they could use this in a protest. They want to know how theyre using the data because they say it could go against your First Amendment rights. To learn that Denver Police brought this tool without public discussion, without any opportunities for public input, without even it going in their annual budget, without it going to the city council, thats another cause for concern. Denvee police say they used the software to prevent violence and help identify criminal activity. Long they keep the data or what happens once its collected. 5 25. Lets check our forecast because theres a freeze warning going on here. We have a situation along the east coast. Exactly. Were going to watch both in the next couple of hours. This morning, weve seen temperatures drop to near freezing in denver. Youre going to need a jacket, hat and gloves at the bus stop. Mid60s. So its a warmer afternoon. Today, clear skies here. Across the region, we denver. Estes park, 55. Grand lake, 51. Aurora today ah of 65. And in high lands ranch, 67. Its a nice afternoon. Skies have cleared, jason. Herr future castt3 looks like at 2 00. Not much to show. After yesterdays cloud cover, its nice to see. We have the fog cover northeast of e470. Look at the drive at highway 66 south of johnsons corner, north of long mont. You have conditions and limited visibility for not only us here at i25, but also for 285. Be mindful of that especially at the higher speeds. At 50 in at 5 30. Theyre fighting the suspectt them. Daryl is live at 15th and washington. Daryl, have police told you who theyre looking for exactly . Reporter right now, mitch, police are looking for one suspect described as a black male, 6 feet tall, blue jeans and no shoes and a underneath. This started around 3 30 when police saw a vehicle driving withh they tried to initiate a stop and the vehicle refused to. They pursued the vehicle and shots were fired at officers from this vehicle. A short time after this pursuit started at 15th and washington, the vehicle crashed and rolled over. The driver got out and ran northbound from the scene. The other person in the vehicle was injured severely. Hes been transported to the hospital