For the third night in a row,
we are tracking storms across the metro area.
Tamer tonight for sure, with a k
from the hail and tornado warni.
Still, more than a day's worth
of rain is leaving its mark,
and Denver's wettest day in two
years isn't done with us yet.
S Adams firefighters help some
homeowners when their house
flooded part of the roof collap.
Today, roofs been patched up
and Red Cross help that family.
The worst flooding we've seen
today is on roads on the eastern
fringe of the metro area.
Adams and Arapahoe County closed
roads around Bennett and Strasbg
because the water got so high is
even washing things out in plac.
Fortunately, roads in the metro
area are in better shape tonigh,
but we're watching creeks
getting pretty intense.
First, let's get to Danielle
tracking the wet weather and ths
is going to stay with us until
the morning. Yeah, we have another 12
hours to go and it is coming do.
Just an absolute downpour
here in the nine backyard.
The good news is there is an end
insight if you're ready for a
little bit of sunshine after a
long past couple of days with al
this wet weather pushing throug.
Wow. Can we talk about the tota?
This storm has produced?
More than three inches of rain .
DIA, we have seen our entire
monthly average already.
It's only May 11th tonight.
The flash flood watch will conte
through tomorrow morning just because
we've seen so much water with an
additional one to two inches on the way.
That area of low pressure off
to the Eastern plains,
scooping up some moisture from e
Gulf and then spinning it back to the
Front Range mountains through the foothills.
It's almost like a sponge and
we're just ringing it out tonig.
Look down South toward Castle R,
Co Springs.
Heavy rain showers down there
here in downtown Denver.
We continue to see all of the
rain moving in up and down the
urban corridor and heavy snow up
in the high country where we hae
winter storm warnings in place.
The heavy rain is going to
continue overnight.
Might keep you up 6:00
o'clock tomorrow morning.
You're heading out the door.
You'll have to flip on
those windshield wipers.
This takes us to about lunchtime and we'll
still be looking at a little light rain.
However,
it will be backing off just a
bit by the late afternoon lookig
at our seven day forecast.
Wow, the weekend to come.
It's going to be soggy.
We'll go over the timing of alls
coming up in just a few minutes.
In the meantime, I want to get it out too.
My colleague Jennifer Meckles,
you have been out trying to loot
different areas around the metro area
and getting some flooding repor.
But really, you're in a hat.
You need a red umbrella.
I'm going to help you out.
I know.
I think my hair just dried
out from last night.
Last night and here we are,
just getting wet all over again.
I feel you. We're downtown.
Denver Confluence Park area So e
roads haven't been terrible tod,
but you can kind of get a sensef
light creeks and rivers and str.
Look at what's just raging down here tonight.
But that is by design.
Areas like this were literally t
so that whenever it got really,
really rainy and started to flo,
it could flood here.
So that doesn't flood out
into and around the city.
So that's on purpose we did.
We spent the day looking aroundn
trying to find out what the roas
looked like and what other kindf
trouble this rain's been causin.
A rain so relentless.
We were all basically swimming
today when Tommy Davis Park
flooded in Greenwood Village.
Our skin boarding on the fond.
I guess these three made use of the waters.
Yeah, we were at school, just saw flooding.
Probably like this would be a fun idea.
Water was very high and runningt
through the Cherry Creek Trail downtown,
the water is pretty high.
You know, we've been getting a w
days of pretty significant rain.
And a lot of the trails are underwater,
but that is by design. It's parf
a bigger flood management syste.
And so those reservoirs were actually
designed to actually hold back waters
to keep them from flooding the .
The city in the region from from floodwaters.
And Mother Nature sure gave it a workout.
Today, Scott Gilmore with Denver Parks
and Recreation says This is whye
streets aren't covered in floodwaters.
Water also covered roads
in Cherry Creek State Park.
And even claimed a few cars that
got stuck in Bennett and Strasb.
Scott also wants me to tell you,
and this may be obvious,
but if something is blocked off,
like the Cherry Creek Trail,
do not try to go down there.
We know how dangerous
water can be to a vehicle.
Imagine what it can do to a
person or somebody on a bike.
So you've heard you've heard his warning.
One last thing.
Scott says that they have a $4
million budget every year for
watering in and around Denver.
But the rain saves money for
them just like it does for us.
$30,000 They save a day when
they don't have to water,
guys, thanks to Mother Nature.
30K a day water bill.
That's, that's why.
KA day. Wow. All right.
Well, hey. Yep.
Taxpayers will take that,
Jenny. Thank you.
Out east in Strasburg, people
had to work through the rain
to clean up the damage from yesterday's hail.
Tennis ball sized tail fell in some spots,
cracking windows, destroying sig
and leaving just a big old mess.
Pretty much everybody's house is out here.
The West side of the houses are damaged.
I've got windows damaged,
and then the roofs are gone.
All here says she's lived in
Strasburg for nearly 30 years,
and this is the worst storm she can remember,
even worse than the damage theyd
from a tornado back in the 90s.
It is a good week to be in
the glass repair business.
Glass repair places up in Northn
Colorado are still working throh
calls from the first storms of the week.
On Tuesday night,
you roll out of bed and you're ,
I don't even get a chance to get a cup
of coffee and you know you're heading
down to your shop because you want to
help people who are in distresst
just cars. Mountain View Fire Re
is trying to fix up emergency vehicles
damaged while first responders e
out helping others in the storm.
When they went to Pomona High
School to beat up a student,
2 suspects just walked right
in the school's front door.
Jeffco School's leaders insist
that their security system work.
9 News reporter Cole Sullivan shows us
new video of what happened last month.
This is the attack 2 suspects
beat up a student inside the
cafeteria at Pomona High School.
They aren't supposed to be inside the school,
not because they're beating a kid up,
but because they don't go there.
Surveillance video shows they
walked in through the front doo.
Is that something parents
should be concerned about?
That's able to happen.
I think we're always concerned
with the open environment.
Jeff Pearson is the executive director
of school safety at Jeffco scho.
He says the surveillance video
shows the security system worke.
A campus security officer confrs
the two suspects as they arrived
and far to those two kind of disregarded
that camp supervisor at that pot
and proceeded to go elsewhere a.
Our camp supervisor did exactlyt
they're trying to do and that'st
on the radio and ask for backup.
The Arvada police officer assigned to the
school comes running in seconds later,
but by then the suspects are aly
in the cafeteria attacking a stt
police say they knew and target.
We were able to stop it within
about a minute from it starting.
Pomona didn't go into lockdown,
Pearson says, because the
issue was resolved so fast.
But he says it shows a dilemma
the district faces balancing hih
schoolers ability to go to and
from lunch on an open campus.
With the need to keep them safe,
I don't want to take
some of that away, right?
And I think it's important thate
find the balance of what still allows
them to do be high school stude,
but not at the risk of not
having a safe environment.
The victim is OK.
Police say he only had minor injuries and
they were able to catch the suspects.
But the district says all of ths
has prompted a discussion about
whether they need to require students
to wear ID's or carry key fobs o
get into the doors of the schoo.
Reporting from Jefferson County,
I'm Cole Sullivan, 9 News.
Police say a deadly shooting in
an apartment complex in southeat
Denver last night started
with a beating there.
Police say the person was attacd
then came back with other peopl.
Got into a shootout at the
apartments near Hamden and Dayt.
One person is dead.
Four others are hurt,
including a 17 year old boy.
That's the gunfire.
13 seconds worth of it captureda
neighbor security video last ni.
Police say they have not arrested anyone.
The other four people hurt
are expected to survive.
Police in Lakewood say they've arrested
a 12 year old boy accused of threatening
a school shooting on social med.
Students told police about socil
media posts discussing a planned
shooting at Crichton Middle School on
Tuesday and Wednesday with picts
of what looked like a handgun.
Today police tracked the threats
to a 12 year old in Denver.
Police say they found a fake gu.
The boy was arrested on investigation of
interference with schools and harassment.
The school stayed open today,
but principal told parents they
had Lakewood police officers ard
just in case Colorado mother wil
not see her own children grow as
she heads to prison for dealing
fentanyl that killed a teenage .
Alexis Wilkins was sentenced to 20 years.
Today she admitted to selling
fentanyl that caused a teenage
girl to fatally overdose in cla.
At Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs,
the overdose happened in December 2021.
Prosecutor said Wilkins was prod
of her drug money earnings.
She told the court she's sorry
for what happened.
The woman accused of carrying out Colorado's
biggest casino heist is out of .
A judge agreed to let Sabrina Ee
out on a personal recognizance .
She's been in since March,
when investigators say she walked out of
her job at Monarch Casino in Blackhawk
with boxes full of bricks of ca.
Half $1,000,000 total.
And rest affidavit says Eddie td
police if she got a call from
somebody she thought was casino
management told her to take the boxes
of cash and deliver them to a g.
She said she dropped the cash
with a man outside the hospital,
then just went back to the casi.
Judge in Gilpin County originaly
refused to decrease her bond,
saying in a case with half
$1,000,000 missing,
he did not trust she would come back.
On Monday,
the judge said he changed his
mind after a private meeting wih
prosecutors and Eddie's attorne.
So she's out of jail wearing a GPS monitor.
In strict orders not to go back
to the casino.