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KMGH 7 News At 5 PM Saturday February 14, 2016

Person that will make things happen and make things happen on this issue that we aal really care about. ` hilary is tough. Hilary is courageous. She will fight to make our families safer. In the white house, she will stand up to the gun lobby. Thats why im voting for hilary. Now, hilary has slammed sanders for being wishy washy when it comes to gun legislation. Sanders has said hes in favor of common sense guu laws. Were at this rally to get both sides. Well see hat sanderr has to say here in a few minutes, butt3 you can see people are still ffling in to get into that room. There are thousands i would say, and also, talking about the justice that just passed, Bernie Sanders did release a statement saying, while i differed with Justice Scalias views and juris prudens, he was a brilliant, colorful and outspoken member of my thoughts and prayers with his family and colleagues on the court who mourn his passing. Sanders will begin the rally here in just a few minutes. Back to you. Thank you. Take a look at this. An artiss just finished up this mural in uptown denver. This is between grant and sherman. The local artist who painted it says hes inspired by sanders and plans to attend todays rally. The Just State Department just released more than 550 of Hilary Clintons workrelated emails today. They dateeback to when she was secretary of state. Parts of those emails were upgraded in classification to confidential. Thaas the lowest level of classification. None was top secret or confidential when they were sent. A federal judge wants the remaining emails to be released by the end of the month. Colorado Republican Committee chairman steve house is sounding off ahead of Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders visits. He slammed both candidates saying the fbi investigation into clintons email scandal is in poor standing with coloraao `voters. He also called sanders an avowed socialist who spent his honey republican president ial candidates are focussed on South Carolina right now. Six of them, including donald trump and ted cruz, will face off in another debate tonight. Well have more on the president ial race tonight on denvers 7 news at 10 00 and tomorrow at 4 00 on politics unplugged right here on denver 7. This is whats left of a mini cooper tboned by a denver fire truck this morning. The rig had its lights and sirens on when the crash happened as it went through the intersection there. This was at handon avenue and dayton street. The woman driving survived, and no firefighters were hurt. Denver police are now investigating the crash. A news alert now about two men pretending to be police `fficers in denver. Denver police say the fake cops pulled a victim over last night along north sheridan boulevard. They handcuffed him, slammed his head into the windshield and robbed him. The suspects are driving a car with blue and red flashing lights. They both had badges, guns, and handcuffs. If you knoo anything, call police. Silverton is closed in both directions because of an avalanche. Its been closed for several hours now. No word on whether anybody was hurt. Cdot tweeted theres noest mat as est no est mat as to when it will reopen. Some spectacular weather for us today. Afternoon highs in the mid 60s for uu this afternoon around denver. Some higher winds, though. Theyyve been gusting up across the front range and into the mountains. Our temperature now 59 degrees. Current conditions, as you see outside, beautiful clear skies with just a few high clouds. Now, the high winds along i25 corridor range between 20 and 35 miles an hour. Little more gusty up into wyoming around 40 to 60 miles an hour. Current terms are mostly in the 50s here around the denver area. Statewide, we have 30s and 40s for the mountains, and out west, 40 ddgrees for grand junction. So as we go into tonight, well have overnight lows in the low 30s with some gusty winds at times, partly cloudy skies. As we warm things up here around get snow in the mountains. Ill have details on that coming up ii few minutes. Youre getting a live look at i7 0 at georgetown hill. Its going to be a busy weekend along this road if you are heading up to the mountains for president s weekend. C dot says traffic will be heavy tonight and tomorrow night as people head back to the metro area. Right now, though, its moving along right nicely. Vail run resorts will pay eight workers a million dollars. This comes after a manager was accused of sexually harassing women and firinggthe workers who complained. Tte resorts Parent Company will also hire a monitor for five years to make sure that settlement is enforced. Despite this, the company didnt `admit wrong doing in that settlement agreement. The epa is making promises after that devastating mine spill. You remember this. Last summer. A letter sent to leaders in silverton pr if the epa proposed to set up a superfund. That means areas impacted by in the letter, the epa also promised to take locallfeedback when it comes to helping out that area. Putting the brakes on colorados big bike race. Organizers of the usa pro cycling challenge cancelled this summers race because of financial issues. Denver 7 reporter russell has reaction. Totally a bummer. Roger expressing a common sentiment. I mean, there were throngs of people down here on the pro challenge day. After five years, the usa pro challenge has been cancelled. The owners of the race lost 10 million in the first year, and although losses were decreasing, they still lost 2 illion last year. It certainly is a way to boost, you know, our sales. Sdpr the race itself wasnt profitable, but it was a boom for businesses along the race route. We took it to the next level. Made an event out of it, serving food and drinks, bringing in bleacher seating, even selling bikes and burgers, tshirts in honor of the race. At the number of people that actually came out. The wray i kind of describe it is denver is finally coming of age, and this is just one of those many elements that kind of made us world class. As you can see even holds an artists rendering of its property from grocer or the race were here. Someone had a vision. youve got a bike race going up and down. A dream, a reality, and, now,3 a thing of the past. Going to be a real financial russell, denver 7. Organizers plan to put together a nee ownership grrup and relaunch the race in 2017. They may also expand outside of colorado into otter states. Broncos reserve free safety shilo keo is in trouble tonight. He was arrested for drunk driving nnar oise, idaho early ttis morning. He recently tweeted he was leaving denver to spend time in his Office Season at his home in idaho. He played in four regularseason games with one interception. If you see this man, call 911. Hes a parolee on the run from colorado springs. Ankleemonitor. He has a connection to the White Supremacy gang. Two other parolees also on the run with him were safely arrested earlier today. Coming up on denver 7, isis going after our kids, and its working. Well show you the tools they are usinn to get kids to leave their families and join the radical fight in syria. Nd researchers in fort collins are taking a closer look at the zika virus. What they have to say about the threat it poses to colorado. Then the National Guard is expanding its search for old explosives buried in lakewood neighborhoods. Welcome back. You might remember the story of arvada teen shannon and the three girls from aurora. All were recruited by isis and now, denver 7 invessigates the explosive growth of isis recruiting on the internet. Investigative reporter tony shows us its a problem across the country. They are aggressive, tactical, nd convincing, the result alarming numbers of americans getting on planes headed for syria. Now, we take you inside the social strategies as denver 7 investigates. We are men honored with islam who climbed its peaks to perffrm jihad. Sometimes its a wellcrafted video. Answering the call to unite under one flag. Other times its a seriee of messages on twitter, tactics selling a radical message and `luring hundreds of americans to the middle east. Its an aggressive threat because it can reach into any home in the united states. And its an aggressive threat that successfully recruited four colorado teenagers. How long were they recruiting your daughter and her teenage friends . I believe its a year. Back in october of 2014, his 15yearold daughter and two of her teenaged friends skipped school and boarded a plane on their way to syria, but Law Enforcement stopped them in germany before they got to the they told them how to do it, how to get to the airport. They taught them the way. Nd earlier in 2014, another denverarea teenager, shanon conley was allo on her way to syria. Fbi agents arrested her at before she boarded. It still is a bit of a shook `when anybody, an american, wants to go overseas to basically join our enemies. Adam croft serves as a supervisory special agent forr3 the fbi in denver. Since probably early 2014, weve had about 80 people or so that weve interjected traveling over to the iraq area to join the jih ad. And those numbers are even the program on extremism at George Washington university, citing federal sources, thee3 Study Reports as of last fall, 250 americans have traveled or attempted to travel to syria and iraq to join isis. The report says social media plays a crucial role in the radicalization and american isis sympattizers are parttcularly active on twitter. ` do you see this as a tactical effort to recruit . I do. You know, its almost like setting the hook. Sources tell denver 7 the gateway to isis and syria many times starts on twitter and then progresses to chat rooms and Message Boards like ask fm. Continue kinn of this process until he can really get an understanding about what her real intentions are o or how he can get her to the intention of wanting to come travel. We asked the fbi to analyze a social media discussion investigates. It appears to show communication between an isis recruiter and a teenage girl. How old do you want to get married at . As soon as possiile. God willing. In a way, theyre selling marriage. Yeah. I ean, in this particular example, absolutely. Further down in this conversation is he startt to compliment her and says, you knoww youre beautiful, i would do anything to marry a girl like you. Experts say in many cases, isis recruiters lure females with marriage and males with the opportunity to join the jihad. Fair to say thats a red flag . Absolutely a red flag. Other common recruiting themes include appealing to emotions, creating a sense of belonging, identifying personal conflicts with family, friends, school, or society, and creating a sense of purpose. Its very akin to what pedophiles do when theyre groooing kids online. Its not something thats goinn we are facing eally big challenges with the fact that terrorist organizations and other bad actors are using these free platforms to spread their message. An enormous amount of resource to this. Colorados u. S. Attorney john walsh says attemmts to block isis recruiting are complicated, complicated by the fact that communications that start on twitter the chat rooms with servvrs based overseas or thats a problem. If that continues to develop, we have to find ways to address it. Colorado jury convicted shannon conleyy shes now serving a fouryear sentence in an alabama federal prison. The three aurora teenagers, all questioned but not chashlged charged. And one final note, if you are looking for a potential red flag, one of the aurora teens was a big music fan. Her family noticed she suddenly stopped listening to music, and it turns out, isis recruiters said listening to music was to stop. With denver 7 investigates, im tony. A local hero of iwojima died this week. 94yearold led the charge. He didnt make it to the tap. Japanese gunner shot him several times, but he directed his men to keep going. They planted the first flag on the mountain. Today, local artist, dean, presented this painting to wells family. Systematically took out some 25 pill boxes and placements did it. Wow we were very proud to have been dean paint this painting representing my dad in spirit on the faumous flag raising. Wells won the navy cross for his heroism in the war. Now, how about this weather. Afternoon highs in the 50s and 60s the last few days. This is a live look up Copper Mountain. Believe it or not, we are going to expect snow up in the Higher Elevations as we go through this weekend while things will be heating up here across the front range and the Eastern Plains. At this point, we have gusty windses. Theyll be sticking around for our area chl more sunshine into the metro, but we will have the snow showing up for the Higher Elevations. We already have a Winter Weather advisory that has been issued. Now, today, 63 was our afternoon high. Normally we should be around 46 degrees. our low last night, 27, and our normal overnight low 18 degrees. At this point, were at 59 degrees. Our winds at about 16 miles an hour, and we are going to experience some warmer weather into the next few days. Nice warmup on the way as we go ttrough the rest of our weee, buttlook at some of these wind gusts. They are much higher as we get closer to wyoming, but fort collins, 28 mile an hour gust, 32 at colorado springs. Weve seen most of the higher wind gusts here. Those have been between 20 and 30 miles an hour for today. Our 24hour planner, though, taking our temperatures, dipping them down into the 30s tonight in the overnight hours, anddthen well have lots of sunshine tomorrow, but highs will only be in the mid 50s. Theres a system rollinn through. Its actually going to be moving down across colorado as we go in through the next 24 hours, so heres the colder air coming down into the state. A little lowpressure area, as well. Well kind of mix things up, bring that snowfall to the higher elevatiins, and then across the plains, well continue to have the gusty winds. So for our future cast, you see that snow showing up here for the northern and Central Mountains into sunday afternoon and eeening and even into monday. So we have a Winter Weather advisory in effect for this area. We could see a few light showers sunday night across the northeastern part of colorado, but for now, we have a Winter Weather advisory for sunday morning through monday evening for the purple shaded areas here includes steam boat, eagle, aspen for about 3 to 8 inches of snowfall. As you see here, will puul in that moisture in through sunday monday. So keep that in mind, especially if you are traveling. The high winds with the blowing snow could make for low visibilities at times. So our lows tonight in the teens degrees. 25 for grand junction. Well have 30s along the i25 corridor and across the Eastern Plains temperatures mostly in the 20s as well. Here right round denver, low 30s for you, right around freeziig and keeping an eye out for the foo just like we saw early this morning. Very dense in many areas. Highs tomorrow only in the mid 50s, but thennwe have a nice warming trend coming for the rest of next week. 31 degrees will be our overnight low tonight. Partly cloudy skies, still a little windy at times, and those winds stick around tomorrow, as well, with a high of about 565 55. So youll feel the difference tomorrow during the day, but then this is the difference i like to feel. Once we get up into the 60s here by tuesday, and even some 70s are possible by the high potentially around 69 to 74 degrees. So some beautifullooking yeah. I was quite certain i was goong to ccme in today, and you were going to drop the snow bomb on me, but i will take thaa forecast. 70s. I am so excited that theres more sunshine on the way, andd3 all the melting thats taking place so far, too, has just been amazing. We still need some of those big ice chunks. Oh, yeah. And no more snow bombs. No more snow bombs. Well, nexx on denver 7, the zika virus isnt in colorado, but we take you inside the lab ii our state studying it. Next, researchers tell us why you shouldnt be too worried about getting a mosquito bite in our state. And a disturbing discovery in lakewood. Why the National Guard is the son of a polish immigrant who grew up in a brooklyn tenement. He went to public schools, then college, where the work of his life began fighting injustice and inequality, speaking truth to power. He moved to vermont, won election and praise as one of americas best mayors. In congress, he stood up for working families and for principle, opposing the iraq war, supporting veterans. Now hes taking on wall street and a corrupt political system funded by millions of contributions, tackling Climate Change to create cleanenergy jobs, fighting for living wages, equal pay, and tuitionfree public colleges. People are sick and tired of establishment politics, and they want real change [ cheers and applause ] Bernie Sanders husband, father, grandfather, building a movement with you to give us a future to believe in. Im Bernie Sanders, welcome back. While the zika virus is not in colorado, the cdc is researching it in fort collins. Toured the fort collins cdc diseeses like zika virus. That mosquito did not have ziia, but they can infect it with zika to research the virus, which theyve been doiig since 2007. We found out why we should be overly worriee about getting zika from a colorado mosquito bite. We have a number of features here that would keep them from sur vooefing. We are extremely dry. These are mosquitossused to living in the tropics. For a number of reasons, we of infestation by by these mosquitos. Who might have zika are sending samples to the fort collins cdc for testing. Well, here is something you probably never thought of. Do you have explosives buried in for some folks in lakewood, the alarming answer is yes. Theyre unexploded left over from an old artilleey range buried near haden park. The National Guard has been looking in the park since last summer and found military ammunitions and unexploded shells, but now they think the probllm may go into the nearby neighborhoods. Investigators have notified more than a hundred homeowners of the potential danger and requested to search their yards. Well, we

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