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KMGH 7 News At 11 AM August 18, 2016

Olympic swimmers made up the story about being robbed by armed men in rio. The Police Officials say the three swimmers, including ryan lochte, were actually involved in a rowdy gas station confrontation that was caught on video. In fact, this morning a source there is telling abc news at least one of the swimmers was seen on footage breaking down a door to the bathroom at the station and fighting a Security Guard. Then the security apparently used a gun, demanding money for the damage. Two of the swimmers were pulled off their u. S. Flying for questions. Lochte was already back home in the u. S. A crash shut down colorado boulevard near i70 this morning. A car and semi apparently collided and fuel spilled onto the ground. One person had to be extricated and taken to the hospital. Colorado boulevard between vasquez and 48th was closed several hours but traffic is lets get your first alert forecast as we get closer to the weekend. Its nice now. About 5 degrees cooler than at the same point yesterday. A touch cooler this afternoon. Still 80s in store. Now denver at 78. Greeley 81. Some 50s in the central mountains. Weve been talking about tracking this cold front set to roll through tomorrow. It will bring with it a big change, especially when it comes to our temperatures. One moreewarm day, thats today. With the front hitting tomorr were expecting 70s through the weekend. Heres your first alert, its going to feel a lot more like fall. Now its gorgeous. Here in Denver Downtown a little bit warmer. Now 82 degrees. We have a few clouds starting to build there in the by this afternoon mid to upper 80s. Chance for a few more storms today. 3 well talk about that. Will be this afternoon and early evening, a better risk for Severe Weather tomorrow. To a house near carter lake last night. No homes were damaged. The fire burned 80 acres and was 65 contained. This is a look at the firefighters on the scene yesterday trying to protect those homes. Authorities tell us people had to be evacuated near bennett and del rio. While firefighters continue to work that blaze, there are some steps you can take to make lames dont get too close to your home. You can cut ba to 100 feet from your house. And use fire resistant materials when building your home. A fight ends with two people getting stabbed, two people in custody. One of the people arrested is also a victim. This happened near sheridan and 285. Both the men were stabbed but police say they should be okay. The attacks weve seen on the 16th street mall led to more concerns about going to that area and now theres feel safer. Jason gruenauer has been on the 16th street mall all morning. Youve noticed that presence there. Reporter yes, there is at least one private Security Guard here walking the beat from broadway to arapahoe and then back. Lease coming up the hes coming up the block noo here on the other side of the mall. We saw a pair earlier this morning. The question many are asking, is this enough and would it be in the case of an emergency . This is a 24 7 patrol. Security guards talking to people earlier on. They dont carry guns and dont have the authority to arrest people. Now that the Security Force is one day old officially, wee spoke to people here on the mall, got their opinions, do you feel safer . They had split opinions. I think anything that builds community and makes people feel like this is a public place and open for all is positive. I think a different level of security is important, but i security people, the rent a cop concept doesnt scare a bad guy. Reporter this is not meant in any way to replace dpd. In fact, we saw several Police Motorcycles and patrol cars doing rounds here earlier on this morning on he 16th street mall. If you have an emergency down here, you are asked to call police. Reporting live on the 16th street mall, im jason gruenauer, denver 7. We have new details on a carjacking we told you about yesterday morning near 5th and the suspect with the suspects for a drug deal. They stole her car. No one was hurt. Police found the vehicle abandoned a couple of blocks away. No one has been arrested yet. New at 11 00, two people were killed, two others injured when their atv crashed near silverton. The Sheriffs Office says there was an issue with the transmission and the driver pass. The brakes fell. The two killed in the crash have been identified as 26year old Bryson Atkinson and a bunch of College Students just moved into apartments and were forced to move out. Denver 7s eric lupher has been in eric, you just talked to the city about this. Reporter yeah, and theres good news. Im outside the Municipal Building now, and good news, most of the students are now being allowed back into that apartment complex because it now is up to code after a reevaluation. Lets take you to that apartment complex. Such a bizarre story weve been3 covering since last night. Here is the new information we covering. Apartment management saithey hoped to gettthem back inside this morning. That did happen. I met with two soccer players this morning, and their first game is tomorrow. Instead of focusing on the game, theyre dealing with this. Its frustrating because we practice twice a day, we wake up early toogo to practice, eat breakfast with the team and last night tell us we cant live there anymore. Rather teammates say swinging book shelves were installed in the units to make for four bedrooms. Thats a no no. Apparently the shelves are being nailed down now to comply with code. Its open now. They say its fixed, but its not fixed. Its one room, its like a dorm roll room. Reporter clearly you can seeefrustration even though the building is up to compliance. Was a temporary fix. I asked the city why would you allow these students to move into the apartment complex if you knew the building wasnt up to code . They say it was up to code during the original look at the complex and the apartments were modified after the fact. More on that coming up at 11 30. Im eric lupher, denver 7. Comes as the university put in a request for a new dorm at williams village. It would cost million. House nearly 600 freshman. The University Still needs to run the plan by its board of regents. A ulr man accused of posing as a teenager to lure girls. And its not the first time hes been accused of this. 25yearold brett butler was arrested earlier this week, hes accused of doing something similar in the past. This time he used social media to send and receive sexually explicit messages from girls. Wants to pull out of denver based marley coffee. Theyre suing the son of bob marley, claiming he violated a 15year licensing agreement. The family says the company failed to do several things they promised, including making royalty payments. A new poll of colorado voters is out this morning, falls in line with our states rather independent reputation. In the race for president , Hillary Clinton leads with 41 in colorado. Donald trump is at 33 . 16 , thats above the National Average in the national polls. Green Party Candidate jill stein is at 7 . If you havent registered to vote, you can do it now. All you do is text the word colorado to 2vote, which is 28683. Then you get a link to register to vote. You have until september 20th to register for the november election. Laws could change because of our reporting on forged signatures. Now crafting a bill that would require the state to verify any signatures on a petition belong to the actual voters. Reporter is the legiature going to do something about forged signatures . I certainly hope they do. You know as well as anyone, interviewing people firsthand that have their signatures forged, we need to make a change and i plan to move that forward. There is a Conference Call planned for today to discuss what is needed to moving. Another School District faces claims of Racial Discrimination, coming from two adams 14th School District is facing a pair of Racial Discrimination lawsuits. Dr. Robyn mondragon says she was hired to clean up discrimination and fired when she started asking questions. Was incredibly alarming. It was like nothing i had ever seen. I know you mentioned the word quagmire, i think that was quagmire. Our investigators contacted district administrators and they say they wont comment on pending litigation, but sent a statement the district has always complied with all laws applicable to our work and well vigorously defend the district and board of education. Mondragon had a lot to say, you our free denver 7 app. Iew on ttacks in turkey left wounded. A south florida home in ashes after fire ripped through the building. One Incident Commander says he has never seen fire behavior so extreme in 40 years. F0 welcome back. In turkey the latest violence is targeting police. Twca stations in separate cities today hours apart, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 200 others. Officials are blaming kurdish rebels. Last week a leader of the group threatened increased attacks on police. The man who climbed trump tower last week was arraigned today, he is still in jail. This 19yearold waited until his lawyer says hes Getting Mental Health treatment while in jail. Take a look at this, little to nothing left of this south florida home after it caught fire. Guess what caused it . A hover board. The homeowner says it was plugged in when t caught on fire. The flames quickly spread. Now the house is a total loss. 29 wildfires are now burning in the western u. S. But the most threatening of all now is the bluecut fire, forcing more than 80,000 people from their homes. Heres the latest from one of the hardest bernardino county. Reporter the flames are relentless. This is the biggest flareup weve seen so far this morning. Reporter the fire still out of control. Once again coming dangerously closeeto homes and a major freeway, fueled by intense winds, crews are still trying to keep the fire from devouring more dry brush. Get the line stretched out from here. Shelter behind this building. Eporter now cal fire 20,000 acres. 40,000 homes still in jeopardy. In san diego, firefighters attacked another wildfire by air. Roughly two minutes to get out of the house. That was it. Two minutes to grab whatever you can. You have to go. Sheriffs are screaming at us. Reporter that one around 50 ontained. To the north, the clayton fire is also slowing down. Around 4,000 people in the area north of san no word when the evacuation orders will be lifted, but when it is, many people hoping this isnt what they come home to. The death toll continues to rise after louisianas historic flooding. 13 people are now confirmed dead. The survivors are left with massive destruction there. At least 40,000 homes are damaged. Its believed there will result in louisianas biggest housing check out this Lightning Strike that looks like a trex. The National Parks Service Posted this on their facebook page. That is scary. It was captured in arizonas Petrified Forest national park. Thats quite the strike and looks just like a trex. Coming down to fight you there. Juut when i got my kids not to be afraid of it. Weve got a nice start to day. Could get more lightning this ternoon, and again, up the mountains any hikers, you have to do it early, because today well see a few more storms early on. Our threat for Severe Weather today will be there in green. It just clips northeastern colorado. Not expecting the storms to roll through denver to be that strong. To the north, on the leading edge of the cold front were tracking. Here within the next hour or so, more widely scattered storms in the mountains, which then roll east by midafternoon. Push through town. Rain, lightning, thunder, all a possibility for us here in denver this afternoon. Better chance for storms today. Youll notice again just to the nebraska and wyoming, a few stronger storms. Chance for wet weather today and tonight. Early tomorrow morning at about 7 00 well see more cloud cover across the plains. It will be a mix of sun and clouds early tomorrow, as we fartheso tomorrow afternoon its a lot cooler, its pretty unstable. Weve got between 4 00 and 5 00 quite a few scattered storms and showers covering Northern Colorado and risk for Severe Weather tomorrow. We have a better chance for the storms tomorrow here in denver. Thats our Severe Weather outlook for friday. It covers the entire metro area, all of eastern colorado, and again portions of our northern mountains, with damaging winds, also larger storms. Temperatures today still pretty mild. Were just 2 degrees cooler than normal. Mid80s today. Overnight tonight still pretty nice. Upper 50s to low 60s. Youll notice what this front does. We dont warm up nearly as fast. By 9 00 tomorrow were at 65. And by 11 00 upper 60s to low 70s. Its going to be a lot cooler tomorrow. Enjoy today. Summer heat hopefully getting out to the pool before the storms hit. Highlandra in parker 82. Youre going to find more 60s and 70s in the mountains today. 90s still across pueblo and lamar. But that front is going to dive pretty far south through friday and saturday. Its going to bring a lot of cool air to most of the state, especially down across the southeastern corner and here in town. 72 friday. And 70 on saturday. Of the two daas, friday and saturday, were ikely going to see more storms tomorrow. Because weve got the broncos game saturday night. It is going to be cool. Were going to take a look at those temperatures coming up in a little bit. Heading into the first of next week, more sunshine. Sunday will be a really very nice day, mostly sunny, upper 70s to low 80s. Then were back in the 80s monday and tuesday. Jayson and i have a bet going. I think wevv got a granola bar on this. He thinks were done with 90s, i say no. Thank you. I think i would, too. Pop tart. The university of colorado a line, thats the train to the plane. Its seven hours worth of issues yesterday. Its the same problem weve heard about in the past, the crossing gate issues. Officials say they were only delayed 15 to 20 minutes. Theyre trying to fix the crossings now. Coming up, our local olympian returning home to a great surprise. Plus, the broncos heading weekend. But we still dont know who will be the starting hi, guys this is so sweet. Oh, my gosh. Plenty of love waiting for colorados own Missy Franklin as she return home from the olympics. Little paper hearts all over her front lawn. Nice show of support for the swimmer who had a disappointing run. She was pulled from the team for the relay final and didnt make it to the final round of any of her individual events. She ld was the hardest thing ive ever had to go through. Obviously everyone still rooting for her. She said shell be back for the next games. Csu, the rams are getting a makeover in time for the Rocky Mountain showdown against the buffs september 2nd. They unveiled new jerseys yesterday. This is part of a partnership with underarmor. The cu buffs got new uniforms last year. The broncos return to Mile High Stadium this weekend, though we still dont know who quarterback. Coach kubiak says its a three man race. Denver 7 broncos insider troy renck sat ddwn with sanchez yesterday. He started the first preseason game and says the competition i think its just part of the competition at this point. I have to go play. When your number is called, play one or play 30, it doesnt matter. You have to get in there and give it your bbst shot, and down the field. The broncos are opening the mini Mile High Stadium in the parking lot, just in time for the preseason opener. The home opener. It holds about 200 people. The newest members of the team meanwhile got new haircuts yesterday. The veterans gave the rookies this is lars hansen sporting the same do they gave tim tebow a few years ago. Variation of this. Thats awful. George clooney wouldnt even look good with thht thing. Finding an affordable place to live in denver is difficult. New information about what the city is doing about it. Toxic chemicals found in the water in some colorado david was proud to be an american soldier. And i know im prejudiced because he was my son, when i saw donald trump attack another gold star mother, i felt such a sense of outrage. She was standing there, she had nothing to say. If donald trump cannot respect a gold star family, then why would anyone in america think he would respect them. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Over a million ears of corn are picked a day here in olathe, colorado. And im glad we have a senator who uses his ears to listen to whats most important to colorado farmers. Michael bennet asked what he could do to help, and then worked with republicans to make a farm bill thats making a difference to all farmers in colorado. The thing that impresses me most about Michael Bennet we dont always agree, but he values our input. And i do trust Michael Bennet to look out for us. We are following breaking news. Englewood police say they have identified a person of interest who they believe tried to lure kids into a vehicle near a bus stop monday. They have not released a game. Name. Were getting a look at new video out of brazil, after police say the u. S. Olympic swimmers were not robbed after all, they believe, rather they were in a gas station confrontation. Heres some of the that station. A source says the swimmers were seen breaking down a bathroom door. A Security Guard confronted them. He hhd a gun, but sources say he neeer pulled it on them. The investigation is continuing, but the swimmers could be punished under the olympics code of conduct. Lisa is talking about a cold front heading our way. Now its 82 degrees. When do we get this thing . Later tonight, early tomorrow morning. Ahead of it will be unstable at normal high is 87. So far were in the lo

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