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KMGH 7 News Now At 6 AM September 9, 2016

Cooler. Well be in the low 70s by noon. Walking out the door to 50s this morning. Id send the kids with a sweatshirt. 77 for a high by 3 00. Then 72 by 6 00, which means theres going to be a bit of a chill in the air tonight. Down south warmer. Pueblo 89. Heres your first alert that this is a dry system. We have a better chance of showers next week. A pretty smooth drive. We are starting to see more traffic on the freeways, and not seeing accidents or other this is the 120th drive here and theres southbound, the head light going south past Community Center drive and eventually to 104th avenue. Northbound side is wide open past 136th and eventually to loveland and longmont. Take a look at the drive on 225. Starting to get a little bit more crowded south of yosemite, but ovvrall not too bad. Five to six minutes coming down from parker road. 270 getting a little bit busier. Otherrise a smooth start. Breaking overnight, one person is dead and another in the hoopital after a crash on highway 105. Colorado state patrol says one car went off the road, this waa after 9 00 last night. They believe the driver was speeding. A man and his 5yearold girl, 5yearold daughter, rather, are in the hospital as a result of a fire in lakewood. This happened at a home near kipling and morrison road. West metro fire had to rescue the girl. Closet on the second floor. The back of the home is badly damaged. West metro fire is looking into how it started. Also breaking overnight, one person is dead after a house fire in Colorado Springs. Arson investigators are trying to figure out how the fire started and how the victim died. Well, this is the video the whole country is talking about this morning. Were talking broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall taking a knee during the National Anthem. He says he did it to protest teammates. But some have a problem with this form of protest. Denver 7s Jason Gruenauer is livv at Mile High Stadium with more on the fallout. Jason. Reporter yes, and we knew an nfl player would do this during the nfl regular season. It just so happened to be a member of the Denver Broncos on the first game of the 2016 season, on a nationally televised game. Colin kaepernick started this movement sitting on the bench, and taking a knee. Flag that oppresses black people. Marshall was a teammate of kaepernick at nevada and Fraternity Brother of his. Last night in front of basically the whole football watching country, taking that knee as a sign of protest. We spoke to marshall afterwards, really a swarm of reporters did, at his locker after the game. They werent talking about his hits on cam newton, it was all take a listen. Im not against the military, the police or america at all. Im against social injustice and i feel like this was the right thing tt do. I feel like this is the right platform this is our only platform to really be heard. Reporter marshall says he hopes that this will help in sparking that conversation. It definitely sparked a lot on social media. People tweeting really hhteful things against him. If you go through and just kind of look theyre pretty nasty stuff. And theres also people all about his rights, his freedom of speech and to protest. As for the Denver Broncos, they say that they encourage their players to stand during the National Anthem, but respect their decisions if they deeide not to. Marshall says he plans to continue not standing in future games. Live at Sports Authority field at mile high, Jason Gruenauer, denver 7. Many broncos fans are more interested in talking about this was a solid performance from quarterback trevor siemian. He threw two interceptions early, but calmed down in the Fourth Quarter and trusted the running game to bring home a win. Of course, in order to get that win, we have to talk about that missed field goal. Panthers kicker hit it on the first try, but it didnt count because coach kubiak just called timeout. On the second try, he shanked the ball to the left. The broncos beat the panthers months. Well have more on the game throughout our morning show. You can find the highlights on our free denver 7 app. A Douglas County sheriffs deputy, dan brite, shot in the line of duty a week ago is still in the hospital. Denver7s Katie Lasalle is live outside the hospital this morning. Today we are expecting an update on his condition. Reporter thats right, nicole. Good morning to you. At last check doctors have told condition was progressively getting better. But he was listed in very critical condiiion following tte shooting that happened last friday. Today we are expecting to learn more about his condition and exactly what happened here about a week ago. What we do know this morning is last friday detective brite responded to a suicidal suspect who was heavily armed at the time. Nearby schools went into lockdown and the 40yearold suspect died in that shootout. Since then detective brites family has received an outpouring of support from all around the parker community. Today the Douglas County sheriff and the District Attorney are expected to talk about the current status of this ongoing investigation. Also, the trauma medical director is expected to speak on the life saving care provided by the people at the hospital and talk about the detectives current condition. Finally, detective brites brother, steve, will speak on behalf of the family and thank the community for the outpouring of support they have shown. Active investigation. The press conference starts here at the hospital right at 8 30 this morning. Well be here to bring you more information as soon as we receive it about his condition and exactly whats happened here this past week. Reporting live in parker this morning, Katie Lasalle, denver 7. A bombshell in the scientific community. The cu board of regents revokes a phd for a pharmaceutical researcher who graduated in 2013. Investigators times in his thesis. They say 10 of his published papers should be retracted. The University Spokesman tells the denver post he can not remember anyone having their phd revoked in recent years. The daughter of a Good Samaritan killed says she is not surprised her dad tried to help after a road rage incident. We told you about this incident3 yesterday morning. A driver got out of a car and started banging on anotherr drivers window. The other driver tried to get angry man. Thats when the Good Samaritan, help. Both le and the road rage instigator were hit by an oncoming car and both died. That was so like him to get out of the car and help somebody who needed something. He was a great guy. The driver who hit the two men stayed on the scene to help. The d. A. Has said no one will face charges in this case. Come take a good look at this video. Look on the left. Youre going to see a man walk this same man they say was caught looking into the window of a 17yearold girl in arvada, into ler bedroom. At one point he approaches the front door, but decides not to walk in. This video was taken about a month ago. But the creep is still out there. If you want to take a closer look, we have this video on our web site, thedenverchannel. Com. Campus police at cu boulder released this surveillance picture of the man accused of the victim says she was grabbed inappropriately from behind when she was walking along an underpass at broadway and college avenue. The person of interest is described as a white man with a reddish beard. This next story might make you reconsider where you bank. Wells fargo is getting fined 185 million for scamming its own customers. They opened fake accounts and cashed in account. 5300 former employees have been fired for their part in this scheme. And wells fargo will have to Pay Back Customers who were charged for these phony accounts. This weekend marks 15 years since the september 11th traggdy. More than 3,000 people lost their lives that day, and tens of thousands of people risked their lives to pull people out of the debris. Our city will honor those emergency workers on sunday in will boeing be there. Roads all around Civic Center Park are going to be closed for that ceremony. Jayson luber joins us now. Seems like weve been talking about a lot of closures and we had them in place for taste of colorado and for the nfl kickoff village yesterday. Now well have them also for that september 11th Remembrance Program that will happen here at civic ceeter park. So right now we still have 14th closed and theyll remain closed throughout sunday. The one change is broadway, from 16th or colfax or so down tt about 13th. That is going to be the major one that will be closed down sunday. Also restrictions on colfax and lincoln street, because there will be a lot of pedesttian traffic. Be aware of that, but they should be lifted and moved out of the way by monday morning. The cu campus had a special visitor yesterday. A black bear. Lake along the edge of campus at university. Marks and wild parks and wildlife were going to leave him alone. He was just hanging out in that ravine and he climbed up into a3 tree. It is now 6 11. A 5 5yearold girl suspended for brrnging a bubble maker to school. Scary developments overseas. North korea claims it has built a nuclear war head. How the u. S. Is responding this morning. Almost 6 15. Weve got a beautiful start to our day. Look at our bus stop planner. The kids will need a sweatshirt early on. By this afternoon, heading home, a cooler day. Cold front is rolling through as a school superintendent, i saw how unnecessary regulations from washington made it more difficult for teachers and principals. 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A denver 7 investigation leads to policy changes and new training at the brighton 27 j School District. Our station was the first to tell you about a 5yearold girl suspended because she brought a bubble maker to class. This may. At first the School District cited its weapons poli. Now the district says it has updated that policy to better define weapons. This summer the district trained administrators in using . Iscretion for weapons relattd discipline. We appreciate denver 7 bringing the parents concerns to our attention so we could address those. We talked to the mother of the girl suspended. She said the training is a step in the right direction and her daughters record no longer says she brought a weapon to check her out. 101yearold gladys brown from louisville just crossed hot air ballooning off her bucket list. Lease a cool lady and a u. S. Navy veteran. Last year she spent her 100th birthday in a world war ii fighter plane. What is she going to do next year, jump out of an airplane . 3 i wonder if shes doing sky diving yet. You go, girl. Awesome. Theres a cold front yesterday near 90. Today cooler. Mid, upper 70s by this afternoon. Very falllike. Good looking stuff. I like it. Good football weather today. Last night it was great, too. But a lot warmer than normal. From 90s to 70s, heres your first alert headlines. It is going to get warmer this weekend. Low to upper 80s. Then wereracking a stronger cold front. Next week there ill be a better chance for some rain. From our viera wireless camera in limon, beautiful start. Cover. Some beautiful colors. Then if you get farther east, on i70, there in burlington you can see some of the fog. It is patchy out east. Winds are starting to shift direction, anywhere from about 10 to 15 mileser hour, coming out of the north with this front moving through. Were going to see skies clear out east and the front itself is a pretty dry system. At least for us here in town, youre going to find by 12 00, clear skies, a lot of sunshine. Even aafew spotty storms and to akron. If this cold front was rolling through colorado this afternoon, we would see a chance for Severe Weather. But its going to be in through the middle of the country as it shifts farther east this afternoon. Thats where theyre going to get the stronger storms. Early tomorrow morning, 9 00, 9 30, chilly but sunny. Temperatures today in the low 70s by noon. Upper 70s betweennabout 2 00 and 4 00. By 8 00 were at 62. Clear skies into early tomorrow morning. Thats going to ead to upper 40s, low 50s saturday. Today boulder, youre topping out at 75. Highlaads ranch 79. And in bennett 76. If youre heading to the mountains, a lot of sunshine expected there this weekend, with highs in the 60s and 70s. Still really hot. In pueblo and lamar, upper 80s this afternoon. 77 today. Were a few degrees warmer saturday. Low 80s saturday. Heres you bit warmer. Were closer to 90 on sunday, and this is the next cold front were tracking. This one is going to bring more storms, more showers and our temperatures will feel preety falllike all next week. Potentially some 60s on tuesday. Well keep an eye on that. But do look for a better chance of rain. Pretty smooth driving. Latest accident in aurora, westbound side of alameda before sable. You can see i70, were waiting airtracker7 is at 36, by mccaslin getting into boulder, looking pretty nice. There is an issue in boulder. Let me show you whats going on. Now 270 is one of the slowest drive around york, typical. Tte rest of the ride on 36 looks pretty nice. Not too far from 19th and iris we have a Police Situation in the neighborhood through here. Thats where airtracker7 will be checking out whats going on. Sounds fairly residential. Not going to be fe drive too much there in north boulder. Well give you an idea of what happens in a little bit. Rest of the ride to the south side looks pretty nice. The drive in the high country, i70 at georgetown, it is wide open, looking great. We will see an increase of traffic, not like for the holiday weekend, but more traffic later on today into the high country. Well, we are all enjoying yet another victory over the carolina panthers. This morning a lot of you probably going to need an extra cup of coffee. Or two, or three. Win, moving forward . Our sports team, woody paige and Lionel Bienvenu are breaking down the matchup. Reporter it was a glorious it started with a championship celebration, Peyton Manning coming out holding the trophy, john elway holding the trophy agaii, celebrating the win over the panthers seven months ago. It ended wiih a celebration. Trevor siemian running off the field with his hands held high, just like payton came in. They beat the panthers again for months and 10 to start the season. Reporter i think if i were the panthers, id say enough of this, we dont want to play them anymore. Next year they wont have to play them, wont come around for another three or four years. Theyre probably happy about that. They saw what happened in the super bowl and the situation when they did get in the situation at the end of the game, the field goal. They kicked it and it was successful. Buttgary kubiak called a timee ill tell you what i told the guys, im proud of them. Close game, we won because we continued to battle and battle and believe at the same time we had so many mistakes and i will not let up on them. We survived tonight. Reporter the broncos knock off the Number One Team in just about everybodys power rankings. Reporter not anymore. Reporter not a lot of win, but i think trevor siemian, baptism under firegainst a good defense. Got the turnovers out of the way early. What do you look for him to do in game two . Reporter i think well see the advancement that you always want out of a young quarterback. This is going to be nothing but another confidence builder for this team. The defense will be saying, we . Old you guys. And the offense will say, were better than what you think. Good for all us. Happy. Back to you guys in the studio. Coming up later this morning, were the panthers playing dirty . This is a denver 7 exclusive as a broncos star calls out the performance. A colorado couple arrested after their child passes out. Doctors say the teen was so malnourished, he looked like he welcome back. Governor John Hickenlooper says he is afraid of heights, but yesterday he still decided to in downtown denver. Wow. In his broncos jersey, of course. And more people will bb rappeling down the building over the weekend, all to raise awareness for Cancer League of colorado. The group has already raised about 350,000 from this. But i wanted audio on that. Yes. How this is really going down. A beautiful start. Look at this shot. This is from loveland ski area. A lot of sunshine this morning. You are going to feel the heres your cheat sheet on this friday. A cold front is rolling through as we speak. So were going to see temperatures only in the 70s today versus yesterdays 90s. But it will get warmer this weekend. Were back in the 80s this weekend. Take a look at this, were well into the 70s today and thats nice. Well below normal. A viewer just told me on my facebook page, said the accident here on the westbound side of alameda at sable, we reported the accident a little bit ago, before you would get right over here, the westbound side. She says its pretty serious, right after the big aurora Municipal Building there. Theyre saying there are even lanes blocked and theyre being rerouted through a

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