Latest Headlines | Colorado Republican Party members vote to oust Dave Williams

Published: Aug 24, 2024 Duration: 00:03:45 Category: News & Politics

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Good evening. Hope your weekend is off to a great start. We begin at five o'clock with a live look outside over Coors Field tonight. Beautiful evening out there another hot summer day and yet another day where we hit 90 degrees. But tonight there could be some scattered storms across the state. Nothing like what we're seeing to our west. Take a look at this in Moab, Utah. They are getting a ton of rain this weekend. This video shows some flash flooding there last night that nearly crested the bridge downstream right there. The city had to close down a lot of roads that were flooded or were covered in. But thankfully, nothing like that here tonight, Lauren Robinson with the nine news weather impact team joins us now and Lauren some showers but certainly nothing like what we saw in Utah. You know, that's exactly right. Evan, we're going to see some very scattered showers and storms across the state becoming more isolated across the front range in eastern plains. We did see a quick shower push its way through downtown Denver. Now moving toward the northeast, approaching Greeley, that's just going to bring a couple of rain drops, not too much to really worry about there. Now, if you are planning the rest of your Saturday night, of course, those temperatures are gonna continue to drop through the rest of the evening. So by the time maybe you're going out and having some fun, we're gonna be in the seventies, anywhere between eight o'clock and around 10 o'clock, then we're gonna drop into the sixties overnight. I'll have more details on what the rest of your weekend will look like. Plus a cooler seven day forecast ahead. You'll certainly wanna stay tuned. Sounds good. Thanks, Lauren. We start tonight with some big news in Colorado politics. The state's Republican party chairman is out Dave Williams and other party leaders were voted out as leadership of the Colorado go op today. But those party leaders have said they consider today's meeting and vote fake. The meeting started at noon and is still going right now. Republican party members are voting on who will now lead the state party. Nine news reporter reporter Lauren Scafidi has been there all day. It's 2.5 months until election day and Colorado Republican party members are still fighting their own leader. And to those who say you don't change a writer in the middle of a race, that's a valid argument unless of course the rider is trying to kill the horse. El Paso County. Republican vice chairman Todd Watkins finally got the vote. He's been trying to get for two months a vote to remove party chairman Dave Williams. And we are having zero confidence in the ability of the current leadership. Party members at this church in Brighton voted to remove Williams as leader. Current party leadership say they won't recognize the results of this meeting. A meeting that also resulted in the removal of the vice chair and secretary. The only reason for a political party to exist. The only reason to have a political party is to get your people into policy making positions. The current leadership of this party is not going to get anybody in any position and they've really taken no effort to do that. In fact, they spent money to attack their own during the primaries. I can't fathom that. Thanks Lauren. All eyes are now on the meeting next Saturday. That's Labor Day weekend. People there today voted to cancel that meeting, but current ousted leadership still thinks there will be a meeting to talk about what was voted on today. It's likely this all ends up in court again. It was a busy morning for South Adams firefighters as they dealt with a warehouse fire in Commerce City. You can see that huge plume of brown smoke around seven o'clock this morning at a warehouse at 60th and Vasquez Boulevard, firefighters responded and did have that fire out. A couple of hours later, around 930. They did stay on scene to monitor hot spots. No reports of any injuries?

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