Kind of looks like fog until
you realize just how long it's
stuck around For us today,
air quality alerts are in place
until 4:00 tomorrow afternoon,
thanks to smoke from
wildfires burning in Canada.
Yep, that the red dots mean that you're
breathing with a spoon and fork today.
The haze did have some fog mixed in.
Which look nasty and and Danielle actually
made the air quality a little bit worse.
Yeah, I know you guys.
It was just a day, right?
Good news is we're going to see the
shifting in the winds as we look ahead
toward tomorrow afternoon into the evening.
We'll get a couple of thunderstorms
in here and that should help us out.
But we're going to be left
with this kind of smoky soup,
so to speak of overnight
and into tomorrow morning.
It's already lowering visibility quite
a bit down to 2-3 miles out there around
the heart of the Denver metro area.
And you can see the air quality
forecast through tomorrow
afternoon will remain unhealthy.
You can kind of see the scale out there.
It's bad and it's bad for everyone.
As we look at the air quality alert,
it's not just here in the city,
the Eastern plains also dealing with this.
And again,
this is going to continue until
4:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
We have a Ridge of high pressure
up to the north that's allowing
all the smoke from the wildfires
in Canada to kind of hop into that
wind and then immediately push
back down here to the Front Range,
those northerly winds helping to kind
of push it back into our backyard.
Here we are at 8:00 AM tomorrow morning,
can see just by the coloring
contours for the urban corridor.
Just how thick,
how dense that smoke will be,
and then stretching off to
the eastern side of the state,
we'll get some reprieve in the
afternoon into the evening as we
find a little bit of rain with a
couple of thunderstorms out there.
Again,
most of the action tonight
is up in the high country,
but we will tap into a few
more isolated storms tomorrow
afternoon and into the evening.
Plus I have some warmer days to come.
Today we couldn't get out of the 50s,
sixties,
70s and even some 80s in
that extended forecast.
I'll show you in about 10 minutes.
All right.
Thank you, Danielle.
Terrible air quality, terrible. Timing. Yeah,
springtime. In Colorado,
people have plans this weekend that
don't mix well with staying indoors.
Here's 9 News reporter Jennifer Meckels.
We talked about the weather throughout the
day. We are weather people all the time.
Plant people tend to be weather people.
It has been an unusual season,
and yet it is. Gardeners galore
at City Floral in Denver, despite
this gloomy, smoky afternoon, you
know, had a very cold winter.
Everybody's ready to do something,
and we're just trying to get out of this.
We enjoy those 70 degree weather. We
just like a little sunshine. No
sunshine today. Just smoke. I
could smell it when I left
my house this morning.
Dr. Mary Laird Warner is a pulmonary
critical care specialist and Chief Medical
Officer at North Suburban Medical Center.
It's not great. In fact, we're
between the orange and the red levels
right now of the air quality index.
At that level, it is not good
for anyone to inhale this stuff,
especially anyone high risk,
the smaller. Particulates are
getting deep into your lungs.
So you may perceive shortness of breath.
You may perceive tightness in your chest.
You may hear a funny
musical sound coming out.
We call that a wheeze.
Or you may feel just frank difficulty
taking breath and chest pain.
Terrible timing for fun plans
outside this weekend, like the 10s
of thousands of runners lining up
for the Colfax races Sunday morning.
So I'm going to be on leg of four,
the screaming downhill.
So you know I got my.
I got my babe. I got my shirt.
Doctor David Buther is a pulmonologist
at National Jewish Health and running
the relay with some fellow doctors.
You know, set your
expectations appropriately.
There's a There's a higher than normal
chance that maybe you don't feel so great,
or maybe you don't get your best time.
And for those of us that are healthy,
I wouldn't be surprised if we
have a little scratchy throat,
runny nose, a little bit of a cough.
But we shouldn't suffer any
longterm side effects from this.
Both of these doctors say
listen to your body. And Dr.
Buther says maybe don't count on setting
any personal records Sunday. Yeah,
I know I would appeared,
but you know, it's the air quality,
it's all Canada's fault. So
you can still smell smoke in the air
at this hour guys. And to be clear,
neither of these doctors are saying, hey,
go outside and breathe this air all weekend.
They're just saying we recognize that
maybe you've trained months for this
race or you got to go to your kids
soccer game and you don't have a choice.
So just be thoughtful and be
careful about it, right?
Air quality is supposed to get better
by Sunday, but you can check it online.
If you're the kind of folks who
rely on an inhaler,
have that with you at all times.
And just just be mindful.
Be smart about it. Yep,
Yep. Be be aware that the the tightness
in the chest might not just be your
exertion from running or shouting
for your kids or whatever. All right.
Thank you, Jenny. So, smokes.
Obviously coming down from Canada,
Canada has had an especially
active start to the fire season.
More than 225 fires are burning
their *** of tonight.
86 are classified as out of control.
The US is sending more than 600 federal,
state and local firefighters up to help.
The Alpine Hotshot crew based out of Rocky
Mountain National Park is already there.
A 12 year old's father says
his son made a bad decision,
but he doesn't think it should
have cost him his life.
6th grader Elias Armstrong was killed
in a shootout over a stolen car.
February 5th,
a 35 year old man reported his car stolen
from the Northfield shopping Center.
He tracked his car with an app.
And newly released audio from 911 calls.
The man told police that he planned to
chase down the suspects with a weapon.
Police told him to stay where he was,
Can even pull a gun on the suspect.
Video captures the encounter
between the man and the 6th grader.
You can see a car pull up.
Man runs out there. Smoke from gunfire.
The man claims that he did not shoot first.
Armstrong, the 6th grader,
all of 74 pounds,
died of a gunshot wound to the arm and chest.
He has no business being able to
cross the line and act like an
officer and be able to track his
car down and with a firearm.
I'm missing and I'm so sorry and how
much I'm going to fight to try to get
him the justice that he deserves.
We are not naming the car owner
involved in this because Denver's
District Attorney said that that
car owner will not be charged,
Said prosecutor said conviction is unlikely.
The investigation into Armstrong's
death is still open.
More than 10,000 migrants come to Denver.
The majority don't want to stay here.
This is just an in between for many.
Many, like John, who he met last week,
bought their own tickets
here, but he's leaving Denver
with help from the city.
Since December,
Denver has bought 5300 bus tickets.
Gustavo made it here from Texas alone,
separated from his wife and family,
and it wasn't until he borrowed someone's
phone to learn that his family was in Dallas.
He's holding on to the little he has
left to buy another bus ticket to
go back to the state where he left
from Mazento muyor buoys la verda
porque asse que esta muy pronto
con ayos dia vidar les una braso
puer masqueto porque que beniamos
jueno.
The city spent more than
$360,000 on little more than
1000 bus tickets in one week.
The majority of tickets are going to
Chicago and New York. All the adults
in charge that are supposed to make
school safe failed. My brother Luis
Garcia's family says they want answers,
accountability and action.
Someone shot and killed that 16 year old
in front of East High School February 13th.
Today, Santos Garcia, Luis's dad,
stood outside that school for the
first time since his son's death.
He noticed the DPD car parked in
front of the school, pointed it out,
said that security like that
may have saved his son's life.
At the time of Luis's death,
DPD did not have school resource
officers posted up at schools.
Look, Sierra OK, I'll get
mas to hear the stronger. I
wouldn't want anybody
else to be in our place.
The family has filed a notice of claim,
intending to sue the school district
and the school board for Louis's death.
Denver police have not arrested
anyone for his killing.
After the two shootings at East,
DPS Superintendent Alex Marrero released a
proposed safety plan for next school year.
Sunday will be the last day community
members can give input on the first version.
You can do that on the D PS:.
Website. The second draft will
be released next Friday.
They hope to put the final version in
front of the board at the end of June.
National movement to ban guns state by
state is starting here in Colorado.
Here for the kids promises 25,000
moms will show up at the Capitol on
June 5th and demand Governor Polis ban
guns and implement A buyback program.
Gun lobbyists say these efforts are
on the radar, and they're ready
with a lawsuit to keep any level
of gun ban from happening.
A leisurely Tuesday afternoon
spent shopping for your next
assault rifle Is this man's right?
Yours too, but not if these
women have anything to say about
it. So what we need is a
federal ban on guns, right?
We know state legislation is not working.
Since Columbine, we've had more
and more state legislation,
and we have more and more mass death. That's
why here for the kids is bypassing the
Colorado legislature to achieve their
goal of banning guns in the state. On
the eve of Columbine anniversary
a couple of weeks ago,
the Democratic state legislature
killed the assault weapons ban bill.
They're not going to do anything.
A big reason Bill 1230 didn't pass. This guy,
of course, we took that seriously.
We engaged over, I think it
was almost 200,000 members in
that fight across Colorado,
which was we believe was the
catalyst killing that Bill
Taylor Rhodes, the executive director
of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners,
a no compromise group that
has become the most powerful
gun lobbyist in the state.
Says here for the kids is
being taken seriously too.
When our members hear
about an assault weapons ban,
we have to fight back.
That's it's our obligation.
But Rhodes is skeptical here for the kids,
has the numbers, they say or has
even chosen the right guy. Governor
Polis you know, aside from our efforts,
he was one of the largest opponents of
the bill and was ultimately one of the
reason that leadership sent it to a
committee that it was going to be killed.
So it's almost laughable to think that
a group. Is going to,
you know, demand Governor Polis
to do something that he wouldn't
do in the legislative session,
Cyber Rowe, the cofounder
of Here for the Kids, says.
The collective grief of 25,000
moms is a powerful tool.
When people ask,
is Jared Polis going to sign it?
I have to believe that anybody,
when they see thousands and
thousands of moms begging,
begging, please save my children,
protect my children.
Any decent human being will do it.
I believe that Jared Pulse
is going to say yes because
he's never seen this before.
This has never happened before.
We stopped by bristlecone shooting range
in Lakewood and talked to several of
these folks about here for the kids plans.
Nobody was keen to share their
view on camera, but we heard the
word unconstitutional a lot. Yeah.
So regardless of what happens,
if there's an assault weapons ban
in Colorado, we will, we will sue.
We know that it's unconstitutional.
And whether that be through an executive
order or through the legislative process,
we will make sure that that is
never on the books in Colorado.
And you're saying assault weapons,
this is all guns, right.
Planning to ban all guns, right?
Right. Correct.
Yeah. We would say
lawsuits are no deterrent for
a group who says they have the
ultimate weapon on their side.
This is our America.
June 5th is our America.
Jared Polis and the rest of
the world is going to see that
the people have power and
we're we're, we're coming,
we're coming for the guns.
We're also curious why June
5th at 5:00 AM specifically.
And the group tells us they want
to shut down the city before rush
hour and they say they will remain
there on the steps of the Capitol,
sitting peacefully till
they get what they want.
They violated almost
every single landlord tenant law
that that there is cockroaches,
bed bugs, more nasty business.
Former tenants are bringing
their landlord to court and
they want more to join them.
Two men spent nearly a whole
day lost in the woods,
trapped by conditions.
Rescue finally came but
took one of them to jail.
They have not been seen in more than a
decade, but the Badgers are back in Boulder.