8 00 this morning. By noon were at 87. This afternoon a high of 93. Slight chance well see a few storms after about 3 00. Denver today at 93. Castle rock in the upper 80s. Fort collins and greeley both in the mid90s. Another hot day today. There is a change. Here is your first alert that by the end of the week should be about 15 degrees cooler. Now we have a pretty smooth ride in most areas. However, a little places like here, i25 coming up through hampden and yale. Theyre about to pick up the cones. Other areas of road work, but nothing of the huge delays on the freeways. We have this construction project that is closing down this section of 104th Avenue Little bit west oo colorado boulevard for work on the Railroad Tracks. To get around it. If youll be on the southbound side of town, nice and easy. From the first alert desk, if youre flying out on Delta Airlines this morning, still delays and cancellations. They just tweeted about half hour ago theyre canceling nearly 250 flights this morning as they try to reset operations in denver. We have flight delay out of dia on delta to detroit. A flight to atlanta canceled. Check your flight. Delta had to thousand flights world wide monday and about 29hundred were delayed because of that Computer System malfunction. Check your status if youre flying out this morning. This photograph the result of the latest and violent attack near denvers 16th with a skate board and his wallet stolen. Jason gruenauer has an interview with that victim. Reporter you can now add knocked unconscious with a skate board to the list of Violent Attacks weve already seen here this summer, including that homeless man hitting people with a pipe, and the other video of a man running up to another man and randomly knocking him out unconscious. Denver7 spoke to the latest here. Its stephen stern. He is homeless, but says attacked friday night, hit in the head with a skate board that tore off part of his ear. He says he just remembers waking up in the hospital after also being robbed at commons park. Stern says he spends a lot of time at the mall and blames the problems on one thing. If im getting offered, like, heroin or crystal meth, around town, its probably not that safe. Reporter youre going to hear more from stern as well as the returning denver city councilman in charge of the 16th street mall as part of his district. Jason gruenauer, back to you. Were learning more about Denver Police departments plan to gather racial data during stops, to officers are profiling. Now there will be extra check boxes including race and gender and age and things like that. Chief white says the recent recent officer involved shootings around the country have helps fast track this effort. Speaks to transparency. I cant say as a result of this were going to get a better outcome. Hopefully the information will of profiling. The Data Collected and results could be back as early as the first of the year. But the chief is aware that may take longer. Commerce city police need your help to find a robbery suspect we told you about yesterday. The suspect tied up a clerk and held her at gunpoint. Now all we know is the guy was wearing a surgical mask and rubber gloves. Police are going through surveillance video. A denver 7 investigation helped lead to schools investigation. Aurora schools then spent almost 19,000 investigating one of its board members. In june denver 7 helped uncover discrepancies in his resume, including fake degrees. The investigation confirmed what we had been reported, but because nelson is an elected representative he can not be fired. District spent the money to investigate. Heres what they said. F0 the teenager from westminster is home after going missing nearly a full day. She was with her dog at a dog park and never came home. She told police the dog got off her leash and went to look for him. And she hurt her ankle an lost. Yesterday she was found in a hair salon in superior and the dog has not been found. In pueblo two children and their babysitter are dead after drowning in a pool at a mobile home park. Police say a 17yearold was watching the two sisters, they were 3 and 5 years old. More than aier after joe keller disappeared while jogging, police have confirmed the teen from tennessee. The report says he died after falling off a cliff. New information on the woman killed during the Ironman Boulder competition over the weekend. Her parents say the course isnt safe. Michelle walters rode outside of the coned areas and collided with a truck during her first competition. Her parents say they dont think highway 36 is place for a race. How many times have you pulled away from someone weaving in and out of traffic to find their face in their cell phone . This is a video of a driver with her leg up while shes texting. Denver7s amanda del castillo joins us with more on the accident waking to happen. Reporter you said it best, an accident waiting to happen. Distracted driving is something doing. Were at 8th and lincoln this morning. In the last 10 minutes as the lights have turned yellow, ive seen drivers reaching for their phones and texting before coming to a complete stop. In colorado its illegal to be texting while driving or even inputting any type of data. Now, that can result in a class a traffic infraction and fine of 50 and it could cost you more in the case of a serious accident. Well look into the statistics and hear from next half hour. Live in denver, amanda del castillo, denver 7. A close call for the Estes Park Police chief. He was in a plane in alaska when it crashed. The group was oo their way back from a fishing trip. The plane had just taken off and slammed into the ground. All are okay. They got on board of a boat then to get to the nearest town. Broncos super fans get your stadium is having a job fair. Goes from 10 00 this morning until 2 00 this afternoon. A variety of positions are up for grabs. They need to fill more than 600 positions. As the broncos prepare for their first preseason game this fans top of mind. L keeping the Matthew Stanwood got to meet the team. He has Cerebral Palsy surgeries on his leg. His mommed a denver 7s Lionel Bienvenu to introduce him to his favorite player. They brought the family all the way from fountain to dove valley. He loves sports so much he hosts a sports radio show at childrens hospital. What a day for him. How fun, von signing new shoes for the kid. I wouldnt wear those shoes now. I tnk those go in the display case. A wwter park in kansas. Another day of fun turning into a terrifying experience. Children falling from a ferris wheel. Parents before you scold your kids for playing too many video games, theres a study out. How often did you hear yesterday was jaysons first day of school . About a million times. Today is her cond day. Shes going 70s this morning. Is trying to head home. As she . . Ava, your bike is fixed. Thanks mom . . Dad to captain ava dont go too far remember when we were children, and we believed any dream was possible . Was it because there was always someone there giving us the confidence to believe. S . At American Family insurance, insure carefully, new details in the tragic death of a boy at a kansas city water park. Investigators say he died of neck injury. It happened on a 17 story slide. Caleb is the son of a state representative there. The ride has had multiple problems in the past. Its opening was delayed three times because of technical glitches. The park has plans to reopen today, but the slide will remain closed during the investigation. Police in tennessee are trying figure out why three children fell from a ferris wheel. The basket seemed to get basket tipped over and the children fell information to 40 feet 30 to 40 are expected to survive. 3 the whole entire world knows what a pathetic, puny, weak piece of filth that you are. Strong words from the mother of a murdered jogger to the killer still on the loose this morning in new her daughter was found dead along her usual jogging path in queens last week. Detectives say she was sexually assaulted and strangleed. Authorities believe she was listening to music and possibly texting a friend. They also say the attack appears to be random. Police near boston also dealing with the murder of a jogger. A google executive visiting froo new york was found dead visiting off the road. The victim was visiting her mother when she left for a if this was a random act. Later today on Good Morning America what you can do to protect yourself and look out for while jogging. This home abandoned after Hurricane Katrina may become a museum. There are plans to preserve it. The home was flooded to the rafters when the canal nearby burst in the 2005 storm. The project still needs city council approval. No word when it would to the public. Its 4 45. Its 68 degrees. Some people saw rain showers yesterday, but not everyone. Few sprinkles here. Heavier rain east of i25. Today it will be another hot day and few storms. Its actually going to be hot till thursday. 20 chance for storms each afternoon this week. You might luck out and get rain today too. Advisory til 9 00 this morning. Nothing looks to thick now. Otherwise, temperatures are very mild. Were in the 60s now. Were expecting low to mid90s this afternoon. Greeley 95. Parker 90. As you get up into the mountains some upper 70s to low 80s. So its about 5 degrees above normal today. Even warmer near pueblo and lamar, upper 90s there. Upper 80s in montrose and in craig this afternoon 3 00. Now, our futurecast shows as you can see out east, sterling, akron, burlington that chance for dense fog this morning. It will clear up by mid morning, and then by about 12 00 most of us looking at just plenty of sunshine. 12 30here in denver its going to be hot and dry for lunch. Well see a few thunderstooms pop up by mid to Late Afternoon and timingwise, likely between about 4 00 and 7 00, theres going to be a chance for a few storms over slim chance of seeing severe weather. Overnight tonight skies clear out. Same scenario tomorrow. Pretty hot and dry. A few lateday storms with highs in the low to mid90s on wednesday. Week, heres your first alert that things are likely going to change. We get another strong cold front and the timing of this very similar to what we saw last week thursday into friday. Its just not quite as cool as what we saw with the 70s last . Eek. Well be actually pretty pleasant end to the week. Saturday and sunday low to upper 80s. Bright spot, sunday and monday back to 90. Typical pattern to see low 80s back to around 90 pretty much every day this week. Do you know what im looking forward to today . Your daughters second day of school . Yes, thats exactly right. Day number two of school for a lot of folks. We haae this paving that continues on c470 by morrison hampden, yale, up to evans. Take a look at the overall drive. A lot offgreen, including the north side of town. Still have this section of 104th closed down for work on the Railroad Tracks a little bit west of colorado boulevard. 100th avenue can get you around. Drive through parker, lone tree the east side of town wide open spaces now. All right. Thanks, jayson. U. S. Medal count showing more gold. Big story of the night was 19 yearold swimmer lilly king beating russias swimmer in the breast stroke. This shot of king wagging her finger sunday went crazy on social media there. She criticized the russian swimmer over her reported past views of a now banned drug. King said last night, im here to compete clean for the u. S. Do. She took gold with a time of 1. 49 a new record. The number of adults who smoke weed has nearly doubled in the past three years in the u. S. 13 of adults currently smoke the drug, while 43 have tried it. About a third of those who regularly use marijuana reported addiction symptoms. . He report says the increase may be because more states are willing to legalize pot. California, massachusetts, maine, arizona and nevada are all voting on legalization this winter. Crystal pepsi has returned, 23 years after pepsi discontinued the product. Pepsi says it will be available at hundreds of retailers across Martha Stewart will join forces in the kitchen this fall. We cannot make this stuff up. Theyll cohost a cooking show. Its called martha and snoops dinner party. It will feature two stars preparing meals for their celebrity friends. This is not their first collaboration. They first teamed up in 2008. That is bizarre. Ill have to tune in at least once for that the Bad Reputation of video games may be unfair. 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While he was out, his fellow Council Members elected him as president , giving him a boost in the hospital. Itssawesome to go through that near death experience and get to purpose and calling. He said he was encouraged by all the messages and flowers from denver residents. He wants to use the experience to teach others to listen to their body. A lion attacks a woman at a zoo. We have details after the break. Police have a terrible time trying to catch these escapees. Trying to catch these escapees. How this herd of sheep clean food. Words you dont often hear. Words we at panera live by. With no artificial flavors, preservatives, sweeteners, and no colors from artificial sources. We think clean food tastes better, feels better, does better. 100 of our food will be clean by years end. Every bite will be food as it should be. . Good is in every blue diamond almond. Good is a catalyst, good is contagious. And once it gets going there is no stopping what you can do. Get your good going. 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Overnight construction on c 470, you can see it here on i 25, continuing to sweep up. One lane open here. Drive on 6th avenue, wide open waiting for some of that sunshine to slow us down on the eastbound drive. Heres what were working officer involved shooting that turned into a hostage situation in one town. This suspected thief leaving us all with our jaw on the floor, stealing while having what appears to be a glass of wine. And you wont believe who shes stealing from. Thank you. Imagine if the things you bought every day earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. With the united mileageplus explorer card, youll get a free checked bag, 2 united club passes. Priority boarding. And 30,000 bonus miles. Everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. The united mileageplus explorer card. It is 5 00 a. M. Look at this, istracted driving to the max. You shouldnt be doing this anywhere, much less on an interstate. Tragedy in pueblo, two young girls and their teenage babysitter drown in a pool. A ear at 16th street mall. Today could be the day you land a jab and put you close to the broncos. Were looking at a mild, nice start to our day. For the kiddos heading back for day two today, low 70s. Under a mostly sunny sky. By the time theyre heading home, low to mid90s