Amenities. This is a great area to hang out in reporter but Shannon Foster says theres a growing danger. I had to buy mace. Reporter shes talking about an incident a couple weeks ago when she had to take her sick dog out in the middle of the night. A guy came out us from this side came at us and he started walking a little faster so i did too, he walked faster and it was just weird. Reporter then he nearly attacked her. He turned around and said su throwing a big fit. Reporter they said its becoming an extension of 16th street mall here. Foster says its out of control and she puts the blame squarely on the Mayors Office. Anybody the he cares how safe it is. Reporter we reached out to the Mayors Office tonight and we havent heard back. There are two neighborhood proposals on the table that wouldnt cost a lot one, water the lawn at night to keep the homeless out and number two, change out all these lights to highpowered led lights, making it brighter and also not conducive for sleeping at night. We will keep you posted. For now, live in comments park, Russell Haythorn denver seven denver7. This happened while they were trying to tear down an outbuilding. Th flew over the scene earlier today in the elizabeth county and deputies say the roof trapped the couple underneath. The man is in critical condition. His wife was also injuries were less severe. A man is in severe condition after being shot in the Aurora Town Center mall the suspect knew each other and there was some kind of dispute. New details, the jessup tiverton county coroner has identified the woman hit and killed by a train as 20year old amanda kirchner. She was walking near the tracks with her heads with her headphones on near watts and 10 fifth. And 105th. Looking for four people robbed at a Marijuana Dispensary at gunpoint today. This happened on east yale near south monaco. Three masked men and a woman not wearing a mask robs the dispensary and got away with some products in money. More trouble for the embattled Sheriffs Department in denver. We told you last night about three deputies fired for Excessive Force and now denver sevens denver 7s Jennifer Kovaleski is telling us more. Attorney who says its the root of the problem. There is no point in firing these officers reporter the narratives and busy videos are all too similar. Letter site the same reason for termination inappropriate force. These three denver deputies are just the latest to lose their jobs were going too far. When deputies say slammed an inmate into a metal table and another smashed and inmates finger and another punched an inmate in the face you can see very high levels of inappropriate force. He says while it appears these deputies should be fired its highly unlikely that their terminations will stick. Theres countless cases including the case of deputy ford reporter hes talking about this case captured on gillhouse surveillance video, where you can see jeopardy thomas for ford punch kyle atkins, knocking him to the ground. Whatsoever. Reporter deputy ford lost his job over the punch but 14 months later the Career Services board which oversees discipline for the department overturned his firing. He was also owed an entire year in back pay and benefits. The message is that even if you engage in the most egregious forms of Excessive Force, you will be fine and your jobs will be safe. He says any real change starts with the Career Service board. The Career Service rules and denver has a long history of not disciplining and terminating them. Basically what that means is the board wont allow a deputy to be firrd because another deputy wasnt fired for doing something similar in the past. Pretty Patrick Furman told us in a statement the department quote does not tolerate the use of Excessive Force by deputies. Live in the newsroom Jennifer Kovaleski denver7. Afghanistan. The u. S. Department of defense says Staff Sergeant Christopher Wilbur died. He was part of a mission called operation freedom sentinel, to drive down terrorist activity. The Sheriffs Office lifted all evacuation orders about two hours ago from the spring creek fire. Its grown slightly to 621 acres but its not threatening any homes. It has burned some tbldings, trailers and cars and crews have 840 contained. Desi in Larimer County, putting out in a 500 acre well fire. It was caused by the illegal burn. Fortunately no structures were damaged but the fireedid bbrn a bridge. And now Stacey Donaldson has your first alert forecast. Yes, time to be very aware and careful when you are burning anything outdoors. Its so dry across colorado and has been for so munding months for months now and really nothing helping it so here in denver its nice and quiet and clear out here with temperatures right around 90 degrees. They are now in the 70s after highs in the 90s. Up and in the hills we have 50s in evergreen and conifer. In the 50s for the front range, 30s and 40s for the mountains and 60s for the western slope, but we will talk about very interesting changes in the forecast in a few minutes. Four people have died from historic flooding in parts of louisiana and more than 18,000 people had to be rescued. The federal government has just declared a major disaster for the state and now the National Guard has moved in. They say more rain is in store for the area as well which will not help the situation. Yesterday afternoon by a black fleece Officer Police officer who caused riots. Four Police Officers were hurt. Ryan lochte showed his appreciation for the outpouring of support after he and other team usa swimmers were robbed at gunpoint in rio. He and three others were headed back to the Olympic Village after a nightclub morning when the incident happened. All four of the swimmers are now safe and cooperating with police. Its gotten mixed reviews from Business Owners but new bike lanes will open tomorrow in South Broadway on denver. Tomorrow they will have a two way lena hall touch it although themselves with steel poles some are upset that parking spots for customers are being taken away. Everybody has asked me can i park here, am i going to get a for three months before a Public Meeting to determine whether they will stay. Meanwhile the westbound lanes of arapahoe road are closed between i25 around i 25 as crews work on the bridge in that area. The southbound onramp is also closed until about five in the morning. Take a look at the mess a water main break caused today. Colorado springs utility says an 8 inch cast pipe failed causing the sinkhole to just open up. The road wont be open tomorrow. Republican president ial nominee donald trump is blaming the media for his tumbling poll numbers. Trump says that moment the media is put trading him incorrectly anhes actually running them against them and not hillary clinton. The latest poll showed him trailing clinton by 14 percent. His camp is having mike pence reach out to the top recovered republicans who are meanwhile clinton is working to open colorado opening new Campaign Offices and today he she opened in organizing office today she opened in organizing office an organizing office in durango. All over a Stapleton Park has many people concerned and upset. A denver7 viewer tips us off about the images at this park and we are blurring out a lot of them because they are too bad to show on tv. The people who vandalized the area targeted several groups and painted racist, anti semitic pictures. We called police to see if the images have been covered up and if they have a suspect but were still waiting on the call back. A warning for your kids tonight after lead was found in the water at a Jefferson County element your school. Tonight we hear from the district Jefferson County elementary school. Tonight we hear from the district. And situations like this turning into a trend in one part of denver . Jefferson county schools are in the process of testing lead levels at all schools for high lead levels in the water. Students and staff could be at risk here. Reporter thats right, there are seats like this scenes like this all of the classrooms in the midterm it area. A lot of people use these used sinks like this. And now the district says this will not be a quick fix. Fewer sinks are turning on during the school day as the district tries to target those levels. The concern is kids and Staff Members drink from these faucets everyday and some parents say their kids have complained about the water before. That it tasted terrible, but it was a funny color, and the teachers evening knowledge to the fact that the water didnt taste right. I dont know his daughter attends red this email. The school even asked students to bring their own water to school with them. The district his lead in the water is the result of aging buildings while about 150 water samples at 91 schools came back with lead levels over the recommended mark set by the epa. Were really concerned about our kids health so we went and tested all the sources and so far 92 of what we tested is perfectly fine. The remaining 8 weve shut down and nobody can use reporter parents like we were have said they are concerned about the help of staff too. There can be teachers that are pregnant or parents themselves. Reporterr the district is now warning it wont be a quick process. It will take a while to fix all of the problems. It could be as small as a narrator or it could be as an aerator or it could be a pipe. Reporter the epa recommends the district says they dont think there will be any lead poisoning out of the situation, although they do say if you are worry about your child, make sure to have them checked out by a doctor. Mark boyle, denver7 news. Theres nothing left of a house and Steamboat Springs after this monster fire overnight. It was so big because it was being fueled by natural gas. Crews were able to get it gas off but not before the fire ignited some nearby trees. Major damage outside a denver walgreens. Take a look, dumpster at colfax and race caught fire this morning and denver put denver fire put out the flames before it went to a building but the cause is still under investigation. A campsite in Larimer County had a stabbing and one man arrested. Travis nelson was arrested for stabbing the woman he was camping with. He tried to stab her twice and she suffered minor injuries. Caught in the act. It shows his stealing from a denver garage in the middle of the afternoon and the homeowner and his fiancie were inside the home. This is becoming all too common in the neighborhood where this happened on the homeowner says neighbors are doing what they can to stay safe. We would all like to keep our stuff and folks are really trying to come together to help. It appears to be a crime of opportunity. Doors so Something Like this doesnt happen. The owners of a st. Bernard who went missing during the cold fire are holding out hope to find him. He disappeared when his home burned in the fire on july 9. She says she gets calls daily from people who have seen st. Bernard but so far not geno. She wants everyone on the front range to keep an eye out for him saaing he could be anywhere. Fire crews were busy today in the mud. Evergreen fire rescue tweeted out these pictures and said the horse is doing all right tonight. Check out this video showing a tornado ripping through philippine capital manila today. This was captured on the 39th floor of an apartment in the city. An apartment complex ii the city. Stacey donaldson has y thats some crazy video right there. You dont see that too often with a tornado like that coming right over downtown. Here in denver we have nice, quiet conditions and no fear of that happening tonight. Partly cloudy skies and its been a very nice, dry day for us here across the front range, and continues to be tonight. A big area of High Pressure is settling in and that will settle in for a couple days kipnis warm and dry so our satellite radar picture here over denver is more quiet than weve seen in quite some time so its going to be dry tonight and then warmer into tomorrow headed our way into next week. By the end of the week we will have highs around 80 degrees versus around 90 degrees like we had today. Our normal high is 88, so we were right where we should be. The recorddwas 100 back in 1962 and overnight overnight lows have been in the uppee 50s and i think we will have that again tonight. Right now we are in the 70s from Commerce City to city park. Its 60 b for bennett. Parker is at 78 68 and that big area of High Pressure is settling in over colorado. This range of High Pressure blocks everything out and keeps moisture from coming our way, at least any big massive storm systems. We could have a little bit of moisture sneak under this high as we go into tomorrow for the Eastern Plains but it looks like as that stable layer sits over us, it will try to knock those out in so temperatures will be in the 60s overnight tonight and then we wwll have those highs in the low to mid90s tomorrow afternoon and stiil comfortable in the evening. The monday morning bus stop forecast, 64 degrees as you are heading to school. Mostly sunny skies and a hot day tomorrow coming home with a temperature of about 90 degrees. Tomorrow afternoon as i mentioned we will have the potential for a few isolated storms but for the most part it will fall apart as its pushing eastward into 8 00 evening tomorrow, really quieting things down some into tuesday we also have a slight ance for scattered showers but once again its going to be across the Eastern Plains. It partly cloudy skies and nice this evening, tomorrow afternoon a high of 93. Sunny and warm for the afternoon. Its still comfortable in the mountains with temperatures in the 70s and 80s, a little cooler in leadville at 69 and through the northeastern part of our state. We are in the 90s for tomorrow and then upper 80s for tuesday and wednesday. We have about a 20 chance of scattered showers each day but then on thursday a pretty powerful cold front will come through dropping is from the upper 80s to low 80s with partly cloudy skies and chance for showers. Thursday is our first alert weather day so i think we will see better chances for rain on thursday and then slight chances with those cooler temperatures settling in for the weekend, saturday and sunday,highs around 80 degrees with overnight lows in the 50s so not a bad forecast all in all. The Community Came together in a colorful way in denver. How they are using street art to connect the neighborhood. And we will introduce you the Community Came together in quite the colorful way today in denver as llcal artists worked with the Refugee Community to paint a mural on east colfax. Its part of the connecting the community with art project for people in the neighborhood to come out and better it. Its fantastic at activating the street and neighborhood and showing people care about the neighborhoods right off of colfax avenue. It includes the state of denver columbine as well as flags from several other countries that belong to refugee populations in the neighborhood. The restaurant chain to denver. The new one will be in the old beside building at 17th and humboldt. The popular lgbt hamburger chain which started in San Francisco used to be on 11th and washington but those owners rebranded it to m town after failing to read that contract. Its on track for a september opening. The town of birth it is hoping to prevent more west nile cases by spring tomorrow and tuesday night. The spring will happen between 8 pm and midnight both nights. So far this year one person has died from west nile and 15 other people have contracted the virus. Navajo nation is once again wanting the federal government to reimburse farmers for damage caused by the massive Gold King Mine waste spill in the the 445,000 the epa gave the tribe they say only covers about a quarter of what it will cost what it is cost them so far. It was triggered last summer. Keep in mind epa has spent more than 28 million on the response to the spill. The payout to navajos is a small percentage of that total. The Denver Center for the performing arts is the Worlds Largest performance facility under work one roof covering 12 acres and has Mitch Jelniker this is from a 1950s version of taming of the shrew. Each month barbara thoren grinned pulls back the curtain on the denvvr center for the performing arts. You get a preview of the said before anybody else sees it. She volunteers to get backstage tours. I am a tour ambassador. They are truly the historians. Its another form of teaching. Of magic behind each local production. After it comes in they are going to take about 68 measurements so they know exactly how that act is put together. Just past the sewing machines through the crops department. Into the massive set shop. They complete three sets at a time here. Buell theatre. How does it feel . It sounds fun. Is fun. Its very fun. I wouldnt keep doing it if it werent. No two tours were the same but a favorite spot is actors alley. While the show was on, the poster gets painted on the wall , and then the cast and crew sign it during the show. And there to document it all our volunteer tour guide like Barbara Thornberry i volunteered because i want to promote the things i love. Denver7 and the independent Insurance Agents of colorado want to make you a 7everyday hero for colorado. Oh my gosh, thank you backstage tours of the tcpa cost 12 and the last 90 minutes and begin each monday can sign up online. Just go to Denver Center. Org. Who needs the rio olympics adele has turned down an offer to perform at the next super bowl in february. She announced it last night at an la concert saying shes not beyonci and she cant dance. She said the super bowl halftime show is not about music but instead about the performance. It will be held in houston on 3 5 next year. On february 5 next year. I dont think any olympian is as determined as this one. 101yearold fred winter joined more tha senior games. He competed in the 50 m dash, 100 m dash and several field events including the high jump. One of his training rituals is doing pushups. I am up to 100 pushups right now. They are like bangbang bang bang. You have to do them fast. If you do them slowly, you wont make it. [laughter] good advice. He can do more pushups than lionel. [laughter] the 2017 National Senior games. 100 thats impressive. I know i could do maybe two or three. [laughter] maybe thats the secret, doing them fast. We have 90s expected in denver tomorrow with drier air moving in. Just like today we arent expecting many thunderstorms have upper 70s showing up friday and saturday. Thats a little break. It will feel kind of cold. Im going to need a jacket for upper 70s. [laughter] coming up, what is the broncos quarterback situation after the first preseason game . Woody paige is in the studio to help answer that question. The rockies are fading fast in the layoff race.
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