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KMGH 7 News Now At 6 AM August 12, 2016

Near alameda, santa fe. Rescue crews are there now, causing slight delays. The big problem is up to get north. Lets take a look from daryl orr. Daryl, we have unfortunately a fatal accident this morning. Reporter thats right. While we were showing the amber alert sign earlier, we were in a black jeep, and behind us, unfortunately, this is a fatal accident, a black jeep also. Was us involved and it wasnt. They continued down the road about a quarter mile from where we are. We have multiple police agencies, and also this is down the road from where that police chase ended earlier this morning with thornton p. D. Were going to zoom in and take a look at the scene. Fire crews are on scene. Plenty of police, and its definitely doing a little bit of traffic problem here on off here on the west side of i 25, right on the outer west road. If youre headed this way, from the ffederick exit, youre going to get turned around. 3 if youre coming from the north to the south, youll get turned around at tibble parkway. As we get more information well pass it to you. You can see from airtracker7, i25 is at least now unaffected. But i wouldnt be surprised if we start to see traffic delays on from the frontage road. Heres the activity and the jeep here, and i25 here. Near highway 52, ill keep you posted on all these trouble spots. Too busy on a friday morning. Heres your first alert that we are going to be in for a bit of a sunrise, a beautiful one. Live look from our viera wireless camera in burlington. And you can see some of the cloud cover this morning making for a pretty start. We had showers and storms rolll through limon and burlington, skies clearing up along i25. As youre planning out your friday, another cooler day. Mid to upper 70s by 12 00, with some sunshine. Then some scattered storms possible this afternoon. 82 by 3 00. And chance for even a little Severe Weather with these storms. Its a lot cooler. Heres your first alert that well be in the low to mid80s from denver north to fort collins at 83. Still hot out west, 91 in grand junction. Threat for a little Severe Weather out east today. Well show you what to expect comi from the first alert desk now, we are tracking a scary situation on board a Jetblue Airlines flight. 24 people were injured by some severe turbulence in the skies. The flight was heading from boston to sacramento. The pilot had to make an emergency stop in south dakota. One of the passengers on board told our afill in boston he heard a bang like the plane hit a wall, then the plane dropped straight down. You can see in some pictures a stretcher. Jetblue says its Care Team Members are headed to south dakota to talk to the passengers involved. People at home had travel troubles as well. Delays on the a line prevented some people from getting to their plane. This is the second consecutive day of delays and many weeks of delays as well. Denver7s Jason Gruenauer live on one of the trains now, or standinn there at stations. Any problems this morning . Reporter no major problems, dayle. We got here to the airport. Our train from union station, about 15 minutes delayed. Good news, heading back into town and into downtown, the trains appear to be running on time as of right now. Well keep an eye on that. Yesterday was the big news, seven hours of delays. Rtd tweeting out it was because of a power line or power cable things. Weve been dealing with these, as you mentioned, two straight days, and this is the 27th time rtd has tweeted out a delay. That takes into account traffic arm issues they had originally. But a lot of this power. Rtd says these are quote, unquote, isolated issues and its a different problem every time. So theyre not dealing with the same thing over and over. They say theyre running on time about 90 of the time. The other 10 are passengers like this woman. Craziness. Since the train hhs started, total craziness. You have to leave home, even at . Night time twhours early to get to your job. Craziness. Reporter ow, after the issue that we had back on wednesday, rtd decided to start offering people their next ride free. If you had a long kind of a delay, because you had to get off a train or a train wasnt ride free. We have all that information on our denver 7 app. What about those who missed their flightss rtd says they can do anything about those that missed their arrive times. Jason gruenauer, denver 7. Another child in colorado has drowned. Arapahoe county deputies found a 7yearold girl parker road anddflorida yesterdaa. They tried to perform cpr, but the girl dded at the hospital. It appeaas the child had been left alone swimming at the time. Deputies are talking to family members and say there is an open investigation. This comes days after two little girls and their teenage babysitter all drowned in a pool in pueblo. The coroners report released last night calls it an accidental drowning, but didnt to the drowning. Police are still investigates. A house fire does damage to a ome in littleton. Witnesses say they heard multiple explosions at the house. We spotted a truck with smashed out windows in front of that house. Firefighters are not talking about if the broken glass is related to the fire. All they will tell us is they are investigating. One of the class action lawsuits against Swedish Medical Center has been thrown out. Hes the surgical tech who stole painkillers and exposed patients to hiv. The lawsuit claimed emotional stress by patients having to undergo a tuberculosis test. Now while that lawsuit was dropped, denver learned the hospital is facing a larger class action suit filed by patients who may havebeen exposed to the virus. Robert dear, the planned parenthood shooter, will not go on trial soon. Still mentally incompetent to stand trial. Three people were killed in the shooting in november at the planned parenthood facility in colorado springs. This is the second time dear has been ruled incompetent. These hearings could continue for the rest of his life, and if he is never found competent, hell stay in a mental facility. This man pleaded no contest to charges he threatened to shoot people at a fort collins college. Moscow is a former student at Front Range Community college. Allegedly he told a psychologist he planned to shoot people at the college. A day camp operated six years without a valid license. The county shut it ddww saying its feet on the earth day camp. Health leaders are most they say it may have contaminated the ground water. Its a real Health Hazard to have that kind of outhouse and inappropriite drinking water. The camps director told us they didnt know they had to be liceesed and thought they were being safe. Theyre planning to make changes and hope to reopen, but dont know how long it will take. The broncos are back here in denver and they have plenty nights shutout win over the bears. Listen to what kubiak to the team afterwards. One step, but its a damn good step. Seven sacks, moved the ball. Threw and caught preety good. Need to eliminate some of the penalties. The broncos may have won the game, but its not clear who is winning the quarterback competition. Denver7s broncos insider troy renck joins us. Reporter mark sanchez shows you dont get a Second Chance he came out with urgency. First drive, 7 for 8, leads the broncos to a touchdown. How significant is that . Last year they didnt score a touchdown on the opening drive until november 22nd here, with osweiler. Sanchez finished 10 for 13, threw a pick, but a strong first performance. I thought that was important for us to score on that first drive and not just field goal, but to get 6 points, to stand hit. Its nice to pop up from a hit like that, and they never feel good, but feel a little better when your guy is in the end zone with the ball. Reporter the defense botched the ears of the bears. Scored in all three phases, seven sacks. Well talk more about that defense later this morning. Dont forget to download the free denver 7 app for extended coverage of the broncos. Troy has a complete list of last nights game as well as now facing the broncos this preseason. Also in sports news, two months until the puck drops for the avalanche and now the team is in the market for a new head coach. Patrick roy turned in his resignation yesterday. He played goalie for the avs in their stanley cup runs. He says hes not on the same page with team management. Well have much more on royss departure later this morning. The americans continue to lead the medal count olympic highlights when we come back. It is going to take some big bucks to clean up from that big hail storm a couple of weeks ago in northern colorado. Were going to tell you just how much this will cost. And speaking of hail, we could see more today. There is a slight risk for a little Severe Weather here along i25. Look how cool it is this morning. 39 in estes park. 55 at city park. Jayson, its cool now, but heres your first alert we are going to warm up by the weekend. We have a lot of accidents, northbound side of i25 under alameda. Extra five minutes there. Also a rollover crash in at 6 15, we have all kinds of traffic trouble spots and well get to the rollover crash on the southbound side of monaco right at mississippi. It is leetsdale. That is basically closed down now. You can see from our live picture the southbound side, the lanes are blocked. Holly is being used now as the alternate route. The northbound side of monaco is open coming up from lets iliff. But it will be some delays obviously. We have an accident northbound i25 right under alameda. Its really affecting northbound santa fe. The big trouble spot to the north, fatal accident on the frontage road. This is the west side on the west side of i25. Thats the southbound lanes of i25. You see that jeep involved in the accident there, as police are investigating this just north of highway 52. From the ground shot you can see the activity going on. It will be going on for some time. Well keep you posted. Southbound i25 is starting to get a little bit slower in the area. A couple of extra minutes from longmont highway 119 now. Wants more people to use public transportation. Starting next wednesday theyll pay for your ride to a light rail station. You call a lyft to the dry creek station. The city will cover your ride thanks to money from a grant. This is only a sixmonth grant. This 58yearold aspen woman will face a felony charge. Police say she was arrested for if convicted, this would be her fifth dui. According to our partners at the aspen times, Police Caught her using a right turn ignal trying to get into the left lane. They also spotted her swerving. She is in jail this morning. . A return to the olympics has been worth it. American alley rice man broke down in tears. Gold goes to her teammate simone biles. I dont know if you follow her, but shes unreal. Shes crazy good. She has minor weaknesses on . Hen, incredible to watch. Clear skies. 56 in denver now. Winds out of the northeast at about 5 to 10 miles per hour. Winds shifting once that cold front rolled through. It will usher in cooler air. It will be the coolest day of the week, with a high of 82 by 4 00. Well see mostly sunny skies this morning. A few clouds this afternoon. The threat for storms not extremely impressive, but we are going to see a few pop up. Denver today 82. Look at mid70s. Youre at 71 in bailey today. 70 in grand lake, and 72 in estes park. More low to mid80s covering northeastern colorado. Same thing to the southeast. Where we had temperatures near 100 on wednesday, were going to be in the mid to upper 80s. Heres that threat for Severe Weather today. Yyull find it along i25 from denver south to thsprings. Across the eastern plains, near threat for storms. Here in denver again were activity. Let me show you what that looks like on futurecast by early afternoon, early to midafternoon, you can see just how spotty it is. And along the palmer divide, north to castle rock looks like we could see a few storms there. And skies will clear out tonight, at least here in town. Look at the bigger picture, youre going to find more of those storms again to the south, and even southeast overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. Its going to be a threat for a little Severe Weather today an afternoon storms. Fast forward through the weekend. Today and tomorrow its low 80s. By sunday were mostly sunny and 85. The bright spot there looks like a beautiful end to the week. Keep in mind that our normal high this time of year is in the upper 80s. 88 the normal high today. Were going to be at least 5 to about 7 degrees below it through sunday. By monday things warm right 90 monday. And 91 tuesday with some storms by the middle of next week. Our states minimum wage will be up for a vote in november. A petition to put the issue on the ballot was just approved by the secretary of state. The plan would increase the minimum from 8. 31 on hour to 12 an hour by the year 2020. It would be an incremental increase. Donald trump may be closing the gap when it comes to the possible whole Hillary Clinton there at 40 . Trump coming in at 35 . Libertarian gary johnson has just 7 . And jill stein at 4 . Trump, though, may need to worry about his own party. Nearly 100 republicans have written a letter to the rnc asking them to stop funding trump. For the first time last night, trump acknowledged the fact he has been falling behind in the polls. Its either going to work or im going to, you know, im long vacation. Late last night we learned trump plans to hold a fundraiser in aspen. That will be august 25th. This will cost 2,700 for a Single Person to get in. V. I. P. Tickets 25,000. Donald trump will not be at the red state gathering, a conservative conference that kicks off today here in denver. Traditionally the top reppblicans across the coun attend this event, along with big donors. Last year trump was not invited because of comments he made about fox anchor megyn kelly. We want to take a look from air traffic 7 over the scene of over a million ears of corn are picked a day 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. It is 6 24. Live look outside, its friday do you remember the huge hail storm that hit weld county a couple of weeks ago . We now know this is going to cost more than 25 million to repair all the damage. Our partners at the Greeley Tribune say insurance adjustor are calling that storm a catastrophic event. That means its caused at least 25 million in damage. The payout could be much larger. Looking for a repeat today . Threated for large hail with a but theyll be pretty isolated. Temperaturewise, were below normal. Cooler. Normal high today is 88. Well be likely in the low 80s here in denver this afternoon. Everybody gets a nice break from the heat. Longmont 85. Denver 82. Its going to be quite a bit cooler. Heres your first alert that from here it warms up. Its still going to feel a lot like summer by the first of next week. Unfortunately we have this monaco is closed at mississippi. You see police doing the investigation. Oneida, holly good alternates to use. Heavy stop and go traffic on the 270 drive, i76, north side into downtown. Other big trouble spot is the auto pedestrian accident here on the frontage road on southbound i25 near highway 52 and the highway is starting to slow down as folks are at the activity. Its 626. I25 shut down overnight after a lengthy police chase. Were going to explain why there were 15 police cars at the scene. Sixhour long standoff at a colorado motel. Police are thankful they have it is almost 6 30. Airtracker7 is over the scene of breaking news. A pedestrian hit and killed road there. Our Team Coverage begins with daryl orr who was among of this accident with the ene latest out there. Daryl. Reporter yeah, we were literally just down the street from here. We were showing the amber alert sign earlier this morning and the call came out and we had police pass us and stopped and asked us if we were okay, because the report of a vehicle that hit a pedestrian was a black jeep, and we were in a black jeep. It was not us, but about a quarter of road, sad situation where a jeep did hit a pedestrian and it is a fatal accident. The driver remained on scene, the driver and vehicle still here. Police are trying to investigate what happened and why there was a pedestrian walking along the outer road. According to state patrol, its not very normal for someone to be walking along this road, knowing speeds are 50 miles per hour. Now southbound traffic is kind of getting a little snarled as people are taking a look at the road, weld county road 16, this is where it is closed off, and also closed off on the south side at the frederick exit aa mile marker, i believe 253. So if youre headed in this area, try to preplan, because traffic is starting to be a problem out here. Guys. As you saw from that air tracker shot, getting a little bit congested. Southbound side at 235 where the frederic so its the southbound side thats going to be maybe affected. Now its not too bad. Im not calling for an alternate, at least on i25 at this point. Other big problem is southeast denver with the southbound side of monaco closed down a little bit after leetsdale near mississippi for a rollover crash. You can see from the camera we have set up, that truck is on its side and will take some time to get cleared up. We dont have tow trucks just closed side. Oneida, holly good ways to get around it. We have an update to breaking news weve been following all night. The girl here, 5yearold annalee keller, has been found. It is all clear now. The woman accused of taking the girl, Lauren Perotti montgomery, has now been arrested. Police reopened i25 near mile thats where a police chase came to an end a couple of hours ago. Authorities had to shut down two lanes of traffic because they were worried the guys in the car had a gun. At one point we counted 15 police cars. Turned out the gun was a bb gun, and the officers were never in real danger. The two men in the car are now both in custody. More breaking news overnight, a sixhour standoff shuts down part of a neighborhood. This is in loveland. It happened along frontage road this is at the budget host motel. Things ended around 11 00 last night after police shot pepper balls into the room where the suspect was hiding out. He is now in jail this morning. As we take a look at the sun coming up, things are pretty calm. A lot of kids

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