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KMGH 7 News Now At 6 AM August 10, 2016

Denver 7. They didnt find anyone inside during their search, but they did find broken glass in the back of the dispensary. I was able to sseak to the owner and was able to only ask her about cameras inside at the time of the burglary. All she was ableeto tell me was that the company is compliant regulations, which ive come to learn mean that there needs to be a Security Camera pointed at the register and security exits. Still, there are no suspects in custody. We dont have a suspect description either. Were working on getting that to you. Reporting live from outside the Health Center on south colorado boulevard, im amanda del castillo, denver 7. We have a news alert, police are now trying to track down a pair of armed robbers. It happened at 1 00 this morning at a Convenience Store near the corner of parker and florida. Two men showed a gun to the with cash. No one was hurt. The Arapahoe County sheriff is investigating and the store is back open. Lets give you a live look outside the official sunrise isnt for another couple of minutes, but we are looking at more 90degree heat thiss afternoon. Lisa is joining us with your first alert forecast. Going to be a warm one. Back in the 90s. Very similar to yesterday. Live look from our viera wireless camera east of the airport, nice start. Wind speeds at about 5 miles per hour. Well be at 67 by 7 00. And a good 20 degrees above that by noon. That pushes us into the low, mid, even a few upper 90s by this afternoon. So it is hot again. Low, mid90s covering northeastern colorado. This is where we had pretty good thunderstorms pop up yesterday. Today still a slight chance of a few storms in the afternoon. Heres your first alert that likely our threat for Severe Weather today is lower. Well talk about it coming up. Its why workers from cdot will be doing rock work. You can see the heavy stop and go here on the transition going across 270, past i76 going for york. I76 getting busier. I25 by the thornton parkway getting busier. You can see on the map its already the slowest areas, i 76, 270, i25, i70 starting to get busier. And that sunshine major factor. C470, 225 at least for now checking clear. Airtracker7, 270, i70 transition by central park. This was amess overnight. Take a look at this traffic jam on i70. Three lanes were closed at havanaanear stapleton, while crews cleaned up a major crash involving a semi. The semi was leaking fuel. They were able to reopen all there are no reports of serious injuries. New details just in on breaking news overseas. Police are now instituting a no fly zone over parts of denmark, where a man is threatening to blow himself up on the roof of a center for refugees. We have at least one report the man has been arrested. The area en evacuated. That man was an Asylum Seeker himself. He may have arrested. Aurora police say is a bank robber and want to track him down. He hit the u. S. Bank near i225 and parker road just before 4 00 yesterday. Police say he ran away on foot. Younger white man, 58 with a thin build. You can see the tattoo there on his arm. There is a 2,000 reward for information leading to his this caught fire last night and nearly caused two other homes nearby to go up in flames. The Fire Department says the fire started when peopll there tried to light a cigarette using a toaster with faulty wiring. Firefighters rescued a dog from inside the garage. Four people escaped. Two of thee ttken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. The house is badly damaged as well. The red cross is helping the victims. Family members tell us drowned in a pueblo pool monday night. Family members still have a lot of questions about how the girls drowned. Their grandfather tells our sister station in Colorado Springs said he went to the pool several times with the the deepened. The family is hoping to learn more from the coroners report. We were the first ones to Department Regarding Donald Trumps visit last month. Turns out when the republican nominee got stuck in a hotel elevator, his own people were to blame. The fire marshal wrote turns out someone, secret service or trumps entourage, had an elevator bypass key. One of them turned it off between floors and didnt know how to get it back on. Our folks went and fished them out. Elevator guys get there and say, what the crap . Turned it back on and voila. Boulder county prosecutors want a 22yearold man Austin Wilkerson to spend time in prisonn the student was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at a st. Patrick days party earlier this year. The incident happened in 2014. Our partners at the daily camera report the Defense Attorneys want probation saying responsibility for his actions. But prosecutors say because of high profile cases like the stanford rape case, they want rapists to spend time behind bars. An argument turns deadly. Police say a 95yearold woman died after she was pushed by another resident at the facility in denver. The facility says its staff followed protocol. The person who pushed the victim has moved. The invest hit and killed a man with her truck in a fort collins crosswalk will only have to pay a traffic ticket. Police said yesterday they will not press more serious charges. The crash happened back in june. The victim may have been homeless. No one ever came forward to claim his body. Police say this was nothing more than a tragic accident. Douglas county is getting stricter about growing pot. The commissioners have voted to reduce the number of plants home. Denver7s Jason Gruenauer is live in Highlands Ranch to tell us about the new rules. Jason. Reporter its from 99 down to 12. Its a big cut back. Voted on yesterday, the number of plants you can grow in your home both either rural or residential here in the county, voted on yesterday, and thats because the Sheriffs Office had some concerns, because you could grow up to 99 plants in vote, the larger grows may have been feeding out of state illegal marijuana sales. The other worry is that marijuana odor in nnighborhoods. Many residents complained about it, including near schools. We saw a real estate listiig advertising a home great for a marijuana grow. And thats not all. With either illegal activity and or the unintended consequencesscomes crime. The Public Safety. Reporter again, these are residential grows both within homes, including areas like this Highlands Ranch neighborhood. At least one house was targeted by the Douglas County sheriffs as having a larger grow. How do they get it back down from 99 to 12 . Door to door. Theyll be asking people to limit their grows from 99 as the max, down using fines. Hefty fines, actually. Up to a thousand dollars a day. Live in Highlands Ranch,im Jason Gruenauer, denver 7. The broncos have now picked a qb. At least for now. A colorado girl sets an olympic record. Delta airlines is still recovering from the massive system outage monday. Thereewill be more cancellationless today. Right now were looking at wednesday morning drive. Fast forward to about 2 30 this afternoon, well start to see a few thunderstorms. Heres your first alert that we can see more by the end of the week. Details coming up. You can see the building traffic along 225 by mississsppi, down to iliff. So far so good on this section of 225. However, theres an accident being reported on the narrator 2010. Shortsighted budget cuts in washington threatened to close the colorado facility that oversees the nations response to insectspread diseases. But Michael Bennet steps in to keep the lab open. Six years later. Reporter the global fight against zika begins here, at the cdcs Research Center in fort collins. Narrator now Michael Bennets working to make sure we continue to lead the fight against zika, im Michael Bennet it is 6 13. We have the broncos sunrise this morning. 90degree temperatures expected today. Speaking of broncos,s official, mark sanchez will be the starting quarterback tomorrow for the game against the bears. Our broncos insider troy renck was the first person to break the news. First quarter. Trevor siemian will play the second quarter. Rookie paxton lynch will play for the entire second half. A lot of people think lynch will eventually start for the broncos. He tells us hes just excited to get on the field. Excited ttht we all get the opportunity to go out there and kind of show what weve been working on through camp so far. The broncos are traveling to chicago today and our sports team is heading to chicago as well. Make sure to tune in tonight for our report, download the free denver 7 app. Some of the biggest stars. Always fun to see that first game. I really cannot wait. Are you excited . . I love basebbll, but football just as much. Close. Neck and neck. Right now gorgeous. Take a look at from loveland. Off to the east a lot of sunshine. Beautiful, dry start to our day. We had a few thunderstorms overnight near limon. You can see a little Activity Still there in fact. Few minutes. Youre going to find out west a little more rain near telluride and montrose. Were getting more showers from the southwest. Not quite as heavy as what theyre seeing. A number of flash flood watches and advisories as you go farther south, new mexico into arizona. Could get flooding in and through the Desert Southwest. Our futurecast more active this afternoon. Increasing clouds in denver, between midafternoon and early evening. Our threat for Severe Weather today is going to be a lot lower. And by early tomorrow morning were waking up to more sunshine on thursday. But then a change. We are tracking a cold front. Heres your first alert that today is our last day of 90s. Well, mid, upper 90s for the week. Tomorrow its going to get a little cooler. More so by friday. Incrudsis by this afternoon and early evening, with a high in denver of 93. Castle rock today, youre at 88. Likely low 80s to upper 70s near estes park, allenspark and evergreen. Closer to 100 near pueblo and lamar. A hot one statewide. But a cool down on the way. Chance for more storms and showers by friday. Today 93. Tomorrow it looks to be about 3, maybe 5 deees cooler. Upper 80s to near 90. By friday storms are likely. Were going to see more cloud better chance for rain, will help out with the grass. A lot of kids going back to school tomorrow. So theyve got cooler, fall like weather ending the week. This weekend looks pretty good. Low 80s saturday. Mid80s on sunday. Cherry creek schools back. Tomorrow . Tomorrow. And this is jaly. Nns third day. Were looking at aabad accident southbound side of i25. Three vehicles involved. Significant damage to that vehicle. Theyre off to the shoulder, which is the way they should have done it, which is good news for us. Move the accident. You can move the accident, the out of traffic, and thats what they did. Southbound side of 225 before yosemite, adding to some of the slowdowns were seeing back to parker road. Take a look at the map. The other trouble spots the no minutes into downtown from the north side. Typical start. C470 quiet. I70 closed down at 9 00 this morning between Glenwood Springs and dodd. Theyll putting up the rock fence posts and they have to close down the highway until 3 00, today and tomorrow. Traffic moving along just fine, if youre flying today, deltaais planning to cancel about 90 flights, but they think theyll have things back to normal this afternoon. A massive power outage monday forced them to cancel more than a thousand flights, just over the last three days. Theyve been forced to give out tens of thousands of ree flights and hotel vouchers. Weve confirmed a man has just been arrested for threatening to blow himself up at a center for refugees denmark. It led to a no fly zone over that town. People were able to talk him down from the centers roof. We have new video from the scene. Early reports are indicating the man is a 22yearold iranian national. He was allegedly holding something in his hand during all of this. But no word if it was actually a bomb or not. Police now say the man told them he had love worries, thats what may have led to this. Police say this 19yearold Grand Junction home. When his 17yearold ggrlfriend, the cats owner, tried to stop him, he strangled her. The kitten and woman both survived. Big changes are coming for Littleton Police department. The chief has increased training and changed the way they respond to Domestic Violence calls. Earlier this year denver exposed documents showing Police Responded to a domestic call but one sentence report for the suspect, and hours later he shot and killed his girlfriend and then himself. There was another case in which schmit failed to follow up on a Domestic Violence call. Now he is under investigation. Bennetts two teenaged son 12 hours later she was murdered. Corporal schmit is responsible for this failure. Whats to say about corporal schmit . Well, i guess we have an open investigation. Were looking at corporal schmits actions in this case. Hes a good officer. He tries hard. We all make mistakes. You can find our full investigation on the free denver 7 app. Weve also posted a detailed list of the changes coming from Littleton Police. A swat team took longmont neighborhood for almost seven hours yesterday. It didnt wrap up until about 10 00 last night. This picture tweeted out by our partners at the longmont times shows a man surrendering to police. Im sorry, it was 26 in the morning. He is ethan gonzalez. This is the second time in two weeks police have been brought in to deal with the same family after jordan mack mactaggart is killed in syria. He served two tours of duty in syria. His parents released a statement which read in part without regard or remorse, he was in syria to do his best to help the kurds. The second man in colorado to s die the past month in syria. The two families have reached out to each other for democrats are angry about some recent comments from donald trump. But was the republican nominee really trying to incite violence . Its the quote everyone is talking about. And as we head to break, we want to give you a live lookk opportunity is in the back yes, it is. Colorados own mallory pugh is now the youngest woman to score an olympic goal for the u. S. Womens soccer team. The 18yearold went to mount vista high school. Her goal put the u. S. Ahead 2 1, but the match ended in a 22 draw. Im amazeed at the amount of pressures put on these young kids and how they persevere. Ghoul start to our day beautiful start well be above our normal high of 88. Clear skies from our viera wireless camera. Beautiful start. For the kiddos heading off to school, especially jaylnn, its day three for jasons daughter. Ive decided to change the planner tomorrow when she goes back to school. Signicant damage to that vehicle and that as well, as theyre dealing with that accident on the southbound side waiting for police. You can see the other trouble spot to the north side, heavy stop and go traffic. It was a busy night for law enforcement. An Armed Robbery and a dispensary burglary both under investigation this morning. Plus, police say your tips helped them catch the woman inn it is 6 30. Now police are trying track down a pair of armed robbers. They stole cash from a Convenience Store near the corner of parker and florida about 1 00 this morning. No one was hurt. Call crimestoppers in you have information. These are pictures youll only see here on denver 7. We were the first on the scene of a dispensary burglary near colorado and yale. Police havent arrested the scene there all morning. Amanda, whats the latest . Reporter it all happened at 2 45 this morning, when the alarms at the Health Center dispensary here on south colorado boulevard went off. Its across the street from the 24 hour fitness. Police were nearby and responded fairly quickly. They set up a perimeter and waited for a Metro Task Force to arve. When they did get here, drawn and k9s. Video youe only going to see here on denver 7. They didnt find anyone as they were searching this morning. But they did find broken glass toward the back of the dispensary. Im told this just follows a string of dispensary burglaries that have hit the metro area in the last week alone. . We know that the owner inside of the dispensary, i spoke with whether they have them placedd inside. She said they are compliant with city and state regulations, which include having a Security Camera pointed at the register, as well as having Security Cameras recording the entrances and exits of the building. Were still working to learn what type of suspect or who . Heyre looking for at this hour. We dont know that information yet. Reporting live outside the Health Center on south colorado boulevard, im amanda del Broomfield Police say the church thief in this video is now in custody. We showed you this video yesterday. You see the woman right there walking into a baptist church, wine in hand, stealing a laptop. Broomfield police say she is 34yearold cheryl merrill. They released her mug shot last night. They say they caught her with help from tips from the community. We know a lot of you saw liihtning in the sky last night. Started a fire at a house in castle pines. First alert meteorologist lisa hidalgo joins us now. Will things be calmer this afternoon . Well see fewer storms likely today, but more tomorrow. This morning were starting off with a beautiful start. Sunshine, live near sterling from our viera wireless camera. Had a nice shot of the back side of eddie there. Thats eddie our awesome roving cameraman. Temperatures in the upper 80s by noon. By 3 00

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