Reporter matt renoux shot this shot of the changing leaves today. Meanwhile sunshine and meteorologist Becky Ditchfield is out in the 9news backyard. Wow, we live this little taste of snow, but its pretty stinking gorgeous right now here. Gorgeous, a little breeze, lot of sunshine, temperatures staying in the 70s for us. Well see even cooler temperatures tomorrow and then well warm back up for the got going on right now, a low breeze outside 9news, partly cloudy skies, no rain yet. We do have a chance for some light showers here in the denver metro area. Most of what i have seen has been out on the Eastern Plains where weve got a line of showers and thunderstorms that are stretching from sterling almost down into burlington including one Severe Thunderstorm Warning for portions of Kit Carson County. This is going to go until 4 45 hail 1 inch in diameter. Theyre expecting quarter size hail or bigger, possibly up to ping pong ball size and at times this cell has also shown signs that it might be rotating. Now there is no Tornado Warning with this. This is just a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, but if this storm is in your vicinity, make sure youre staying well away from windows. I would get closer to the center part of your home and just keep your eyes open for this to be well track it throughout the hour and then into this evening as well. Our Eastern Plains is really the place where were expecting a chance for Severe Weather today. Its marginal. The biggest threats are for large hail and damaging wind. Here in denver, fort collins and greeley a light shower is possible but only a couple places may see some of that rain. 72 now, 74 at dia, greeley at 78, so a little bit warmer, 72 for fort collins and weve got lower, middle and upper60s foothills. For the next several hours well see temperatures falling, 72 by 5 00, 70 at 6 00, 60s through 7 00 and 8 00 tonight. Overnight tonight looks clear, slightly better chance for some showers and thunderstorms will pop up tomorrow. I mentioned tomorrow a little bit cooler, but this weekend, oh, jonathan and kim, it looks fantastic were going to see lots of sunshine and temperatures creeping back up to the 80s, so i bet well smell a few barbecues going on. Oh, yeah. This is a weekend just to hold onto going to remember this one for a while. Thank you. Vice President Joe Biden is on his way to denver. Hes set to speak at the annual kordell dinner at the university of dinner around 7 00. He spoke in the aspens idea festival last july focusing on his cancer moon shot project. The party is at the hamilton gym from 5 to 8 p. M. We are expecting traffic because of the increased security. Plan ahead if youre going to be in the area. An unattended bag at dia this morning was not a threat. The dropoff location on level 6 west was closed while it was investigated, though. In turn that led to big backups. Police cleared the bag and the area around 10 00 this morning. Nothing suspicious was found. 12 emergency agencies in and around the western slope have filed complaints with state regulators over 911 the complaints were filed against several providers including centurylink. They list at least eight days over a three week period where at least one Communication Center experienced an outage and they say the Notification Centers werent notified quick enough about the outage. The agency wants providers to develop a plan to communicate to them during these outages. Hillary clinton is back on the campaign trail today. The polls are not in her favor. New voter surveys show donald and in some states passing clinton. Heres nbc reporter steve handelsman. Reporter back on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton still recovering from pneumonia but sounding as she said feeling better. Im doing great. Thank you so much. Reporter in North Carolina she said three days at home reminded her many working parents cant afford time off or child care. For millions of moms and dads if they get sick, theres no backup. Reporter donald trump was talking about his plan to make some child care tax deductible. The tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class taxpayer. Prepare low key specific, it might reporter low key specific, it might be working. Trump is virtually tying with clinton nationally in todays cbs New York Times poll. The new quinnipiac poll puts clinton five points over trump, but it was 10 points last month polls. Clintons illness and her not disclosing it could be a factor, but republicans are praising trump, less bombast, fewer tweets, more focus on voters issues. His message is clearer. People understand on a given day what hes trying to talk to them about. Reporter and clinton understands the race is close. Im steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. Donald trump has a camp springs later this weekend. The man accused of setting fire to a florida mosque says hes embarrassed. 32yearold Joseph Schreiber confessed to a judge today. The mosque was once attended by the gunman who killed 49 people at an orlando nightclub this summer. Detectives say schreiber admitted to setting the fire and said he had no intention of hurting anyone. The judge referred to seven pages of prior criminal history and called him a flight risk. There really is no condition of release that can reasonably risk of physical harm. Schreiber is facing 30 years to life in prison because of his prior record and because he is a prison release reoffender, he could still face federal charges in that case. 55 tobacco retailers around the country received letters today from the fad and drug administration, a first warning for selling products like e cigarettes, e liquids and cigars to minors. During compliance checks minors were seen purchasing those items. If the retailers dont times. Last year the rules were expanded to include e cigarettes, hookahs and cigars. Families in the u. S. Are doing whatever they can to get their hands epipens that deliver epinephrine in the event of a life threatening allergic reaction. Two pens that used to cost 100 now cost 600. One mother is considering regulations a single epipen in ontario costs about 88 american dollars. Its less than 190 for a two pack and in canada epipens can be bought over the counter, no prescription needed. An american citizen does require that medication, we can offer that to them at the same cost we would offer any ontario resident. We expect people to come and i think once word catches on that they can get it cheaper here, they problem will, but, you that people just dont know that they have the ability to try other places. American doctors say they absolutely understand why families are making the trim, just like the u. S. , canada trip. Just like the u. S. , canada gets their epipens from mylan, but doctors and patients know its the exact same product. Park managers at mesa verde are moving ahead in the process to decide whether to increase public comment. The proposal would increase fees from 8 to 10 per person during the Summer Season may to october. An annual pass would go up from 30 to 40. The park superintend. Hopes to use of the extra money superintendent hopes to use the extra money to offset maintenance costs. Theres a meeting to discuss public proposal and feedback. By a viewer. It looks like the fall colors are arriving a little early this year. 9news mountain newsroom reporter matt renoux took one for the team this afternoon reporting on leaves, yeah, tough gig. Reporter you bet, kim. It is a rough day to be sure at the office today. You know, last year our assistant news director, tim ryan, talked about taking his family on a leaf road trip on colorado and they wedge over day. Went over five mountain passes in one day. We did do three mountain passes on a drive i like to call the leaf loop and it is absolutely amazing. We started out this morning in georgetown and you can take that easy drive over genella pass where the leaves are just starting and drop over to highway 285 and pop right up on kenosha pass, a lot of places ll looking awesome. From there head into the small town of cuomo. The houses are as colorful as the landscape. Head up from there over borreus pass. This is the dirt part of the road and bumpy at times but worth it. We caught some pictures just as the photographers say the leaves are peaking. I think its a little early ahead, maybe five. Were coming over to cuomo right now to experience all the beauty of cuomo, the unique, the individualal it i. Thats what i really individuality. Thats what i really enjoy about cuomo. Reporter from there you head into breckenridge and from breckenridge you head over toyota 70 back to georgetown and the pass completing the loop. Its about 140 miles altogether, but it will take the better part of the day, several hours, beautiful scenery along the way, just incredible land escape. Right here were just outside breckenridge where you start to make your way back into the city after coming down off the mountain, just a spectacular day out here, condemn and jonathan, the leaves starts kim and jonathan, the leaves starting to peak for sure. Around glenmont springs the folks are telling us about a week or two you can expect the im googling all this right now. Reporter go to cuomo. Its beautiful there. Okay. All right. Thanks again, matt. We know it was a tough grueling day for you, no hat required. Youre going to be standing on the road telling us its snowing soon, so you just wait. He will be. Well have him out there every time it sending us your photos of these mountain drives. Keep end sending them our way. We love them. Use the beon9. We have compiled a list of hikes on 9news. Com as well. So peep and leaf away, leaf peeping. Its my favorite time of the year. Its great. People are already in line for that new iphone 7. Is it worth all the hype . I mean for some . Organization is giving women on the streets another shot at a stable life. The groups founder might y23eoy yvpy there is now a federal recall of Samsung Galaxy note 7 phone because it can catch fire or explode. Earlier this week samsung issued a voluntary recall of the devices. Today the u. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a formal recall. Samsung has confirmed a few dozen instances of the problem sole. Samsung has promised replacement sold. Samsung has promised replacement devices, but that was put on hold while regulators review the situation. Heres some video of what our priorities look like, folks waiting in line for the new iphone 7 that doesnt go on sale until tomorrow. This is video from australia and japan, people in line saying its as much about the experience as actually getting the phone itself. Uhhuh. The new model has a lot of new features, some more practical than others. We wanted to know if the the hype. 9news reporter nick mcgill dives in. Reporter for consumers like brett odell its all apple all the time. Apple is out, man, yeah. Latest and greatest everything. Got to have everything match and sync, got to have the latest and greatest for sure. Reporter which is why its no surprise when it comes to the release of the iphone 7 brett is counting down the minutes. We preordered ours. We got up at like 12 00 at midnight, made sure to order it for mine and my wifes. Reporter bretts for apples greatest and latest, but when it comes to performance, is it worth the hype . Iphone 7 is the best iphone apple has ever built. Is it revolutionary . Absolutely not. Reporter the new iphone has a new camera, better displays and waterproofing, but those same features can be found in other phones. Apples big secret, marketing. They spend all year fixating on how theyre going to release two, three years ago, but they set it up so they convince you now is the time. Now you need to upgrade. Reporter in fact, apple has been so good at marketing this product some versions of the iphone 7 have already sold out. So the answer to the question of is it worth it may change depending on who you ask. In denver nick mcgill. They can change one thing and i would still be online preordering it, yeah, for sure. Reporter 9news. Its all mind games. Some people just dont care. Jonathan. Another reason he says for apples success, customer satisfaction. The company far outperforms all the competition. If you listen to music, chances are youre duesing spotify. It now has 40 million maybed subscribers. It added 10 paid subscribers. It added 10 million paid subscribers last year. Spotify hasnt confirmed how but back in june it said it had 100 million total subscribers paid and unpaid. There is a new way to watch thursday night football. Twitter is going to start streaming live games. The site has been struggling recently. Twitter users can watch using the twitter app on apple tv, amazon fire tv and Microsofts Xbox one. The company says it wants to give cord cutters another sports watching option. The game is on buff bills. Another excuse for buffalo bills. Northerly excuse for me to sit there and another excuse for me to sit there and say no, honey, im not watching football. Lets watch dancing with the stars. A new home for pieces of American History is about to open in washington d. C. Next some of what youll find inside the National Museum today the law was talked about causing the country to continue to talk about North Carolina. All the championships are being moved out of North Carolina this Academic School year because of h. B. 2. The law requires transgenders to use bathrooms at schools and government buildings corresponding with the sex on their birth certificates. Ncaa is reef locating seven championships because of that relocating seven law. Governor mccrory is saying they are seeing a state that doesnt exist. No one worried about this. It was only until your mayor and city council created a solution to a problem that didnt exist. Mccrory is down in the polls about six points depending on the survey you look at. Some say he framed the debate over North Carolinas law as one of common sense, safety and privacy. In washington d. C. The open. The 400,000 square foot building has been in the works for 13 years. It sits on 5 acres adjacent to the washington monument. Many of the nearly 4,000 artifacts in the museum came from families across the country. The museum is centered around the African American experience in the united states, but the director says it is really for everyone. So we say this is a story for us all. This is a story that helps all of us, white, whether our families have been here 200 years or got here 20 minutes ago. This is a story that helps us better understand who we are as americans. There is a vintage open cockpit plane on display that was once used by the Tuskegee Airmen and visitors to the slavery and freedom exhibit hall will also see a one story cabin once home to slaves on a the point of pines plantation on pedestal island in south carolina. Three years ago crews dismantled it piece by piece to transfer it to the smithsonian collection. Its believed to have been built in 1853 inhabited up to 1980 because the home was also in use after slavery ended. A door on the backside helps illustrate the transition from slavery to freedom. Too often when people study slavery, they study slavery either just as a brutal institution we really want to focus on is the Human Experience. And when you think about yourself as a human being, you arent just a person who works. Youre also a person who loves. Youre a person who takes care of their family and youre a person who takes pride in the work that they do and so we really try to focus on these three beats of the Human Experience so that people can understand really the enormous strengths and vitality of those who endured slavery. Exhibition hall focuses on the role slavery played in americas history and its impact on those who were enslaved. To see Something Like that changes your whole perception and understanding. Thats great. We could see a little bit of rain tonight, but its moving out in time for that weekend. Yes. Becky is back next with the taking a cloudy look over the flatirons in boulder, one of the best cameras we have, such a gorgeous shot. Theyre full of bests in boulder. Yeah. Tell us about one you just learned. Ncaa ranked the best mascot entrances in college football. You dont say . And we came in no. 1, no. They do some great entrances. Theyre showing Great College football entrances, you know, and oregon has a good one. But they dont have a buffalo. They dont have ralphie that tears on down there with the wranglers. Becky, please say we have a lot of buffs talking on the show today. Talk about weather. Really . I didnt notice. Its just kind of cool to see that. Congratulations. Thats awesome. Im telling you, its the handlers and ralphie just fires up fun time. This is good weather if youre a buffalo out there roaming on the range. It is. Its good weather for everybody. Its also a great transition. Hey, becky. Tell you what. Everybody should be out and enjoying what weve got going on today. We have a little bit more sunshine than we have now, a few more cloud starting to roll in. I would clouds starting to roll in. I would not be surprised to see a shower or two before the evening is up. Take a live look outside. To the west over the foothills, but sunny skies over the csu campus now. We managed to get up to 76 degrees today officially at dia just under our average high of 79, nowhere close to record setting. That record high still holds at 92 degrees set back in 2000. Were at 74 now out at dia, 73 at greeley, fort collins. The hotspot is lamar, 91. 80 currently for burlington, 50s ans mountains. Here outside the 9news backyard a few more clouds, no rain and a little breezy. Were in a very mild 76 degrees, gorgeous, gorgeous day out here today. Now across the state as we take a look, we have one, a very new severe thunderstorm watch that has been issued for the far Eastern Plains. This comes after a couple of severe thunderstorms have popped up out there. Were going to start you off with the storm thats just northwest of burlington pushing warnin