New Today, a judge granted
bond for the Aurora dentist accd
of poisoning and killing his wi.
The price? $10 million. Cash only. And
that cash only stipulation means that James
Craig cannot go to a bondsman for help.
He's accused of murdering his w,
Angela, back in March.
The arrest affidavit says Craigd
potassium cyanide, which he had shipped
to his dentist office in Aurora.
Now, if Craig cannot come up
with the $10 million cash,
he will remain in jail.
But should he bond out,
he would still be monitored by G PS:.
Tracking couldn't leave the state and
would have to surrender his passport.
The bond was forced by Colorado
Supreme Court's decision last w,
which instructed judges to grant bond for
every person accused of first degree murder.
The Aurora DA says that setting the bond
terms is proving to be a challe.
We're all in a bit of uncharted
territory right now.
We're trying to establish bondst
ensure people facing that maxim,
most serious penalty under the .
Actually show up for these proceedings now.
Before last week's ruling,
people accused a first degree
murder could be denied bond.
That's because state lawmakers
repealed the death penalty in 2.
The state Supreme Court thus ruled that
first degree murder is bail eligible.
Craig is expected back in courtr
a preliminary hearing on July 1.
A Mountain police chief has
asked for an investigation into
a suburban Police Department.
After an officer she hired was indicted
for sexual assault in his former job,
we learned that today in a new
affidavit detailing charges agat
Officer Officer Nathan Gerdis,
who is already indicted on chars
of unlawful sexual conduct.
He's accused of groping and sexy
assaulting a female officer at an Edgewater
City Christmas party back in 20.
An affidavit says Gerdis resignd
from his job at Edgewater PD bee
he could face discipline for
the sexual assault allegations.
Then it accuses him of lying abt
that internal affairs investigan
into the assault when he applied for a
new job at other police departm.
The chief of the department that
ultimately hired him, Blackhawk,
asked the first Judicial distrit
DA to investigate Edgewater's PD
handling of that sexual assault case.
Steve Stagger will have much moe
on this case coming up at 5:00.
The EPA is shelling out $1,000,0
to the Denver Housing Authority,
and that money will be helped ud
to help clean up contamination e
asbestos on an old industrial property.
And 9 News reporter to Lisa
Arazari shares more about the
site that's expected to become
home for hundreds of families,
with promises of transforming
a part of the city
a lot along Bryant St.
may look empty to some,
but it's filled with dangers we can't see,
yes. That's correct.
Stacy Erickson works for the
Environmental Protection Agency.
The group handed $1,000,000
grant over to the Denver Housing
Authority as they turn this forr
industrial lot in the Sun Valley
neighborhood into something
more. It needs some additional
cleanup in order to make it safe
for residents in the public.
The Zuni tank farm was torn down back
in March to make room for new affordable
housing units in a riverfront p,
According to the EPA,
the tanks held diesel fuel that
were part of the backup generatn
for the old Zuni power plant.
The EPA says the area was
cleaned up to a certain extent.
The site has some residual contamination
left, including some asbestos a.
And those are things that you you know,
you don't want children in a par
something plain putting things n
their mouth, those sorts of thi.
Children are guaranteed to be nearby.
While the elementary school
in the neighborhood closes,
more families are moving in.
Denver Housing Authority just
welcomed more than 260 families
with their latest apartments bu,
one just across the street from
the tank site, Erickson says.
Those families shouldn't have to
worry about exposure as they clean up
the contaminated site that the e
is fenced off.
Also, when they do the cleanup,
they'll be, you know,
doing dust suppression techniqus
and things to make sure that tht
that anything that may be left
there doesn't become airborne,
Erickson admits. This neighborhd
has been impacted by a lot more
contaminants than what they usually see.
The first step in fixing that is moving out.
But shouldn't be there so that,
you know, they get to live in
a great neighborhood that's
that's clean and that's safe.
Erickson says the cleanup
is mostly soil related.
They'll come in and haul the bad
soil away and do additional tesg
before they start any constructn
on the property, she says.
The Denver Housing Authority is
already starting some of the cleanup,
but should have the grant
by August or September.
You mentioned it in the piece tt
this is an area that's already
had some tough times. Yeah,
it definitely has.
You know, we covered a lot aboue
Fairview Elementary School closing and
what that did for a lot of families there.
But all the transition, right,
all the construction projects gg
on and families having to leave,
new families coming in, some soe
former families coming back as .
But they have gone through a
lot environmentally as well.
They Erickson had mentioned that
that not only are they dealing h
the stuff that was inside that ,
they're right by a highway, rig.
A lot of air pollution.
There.
So she says,
hopefully having a park nearby
will will help that as well. Ye,
it'll be something to keep following.
And no, you will. Thanks to Lis.
Well, outside today, we got up around 90.
Again, a lot of blue sky as wel.
But the Kathy's with us now talg
about what we did see today and
what might be coming our way.
It's been a great break, you gu,
from the severe thunderstorms,
hasn't it? Yeah, yeah.
And today was another beautiful summer day,
Thomas, you mentioned.
But if you stepped outside at all today,
you may have felt the moisture.
Did you feel it in the air toda?
Oh, yeah. But all I'm doing is sitting
with the lady Was at Red Rocks last week.
Yeah. Oh, I want to hear all
anything's better than that. I.
To be fair, I didn't get hit with hail.
I just met dozens of people
who got hit with you,
went out to cover the story.
And I just remember watching you thinking,
oh, my goodness, this is miserae
for all those people. And Jenni,
yeah, I survived. I'll be fine.d
they're not going to
reschedule that concert right
now. Louie Tomlinson and Red
Rocks can't figure that out.
So those people, well,
they'll get, they'll will get
refunded and hopefully some.
Yeah, for the bruises
people wanted that concert.
So disappointing all the way ar.
Well, nothing like that coming, thankfully,
but if you did step outside tod,
this morning, it was a little bit cloudy.
Humidity values are up.
These are all ingredients for thunderstorms.
So we're going to be tracking aw
across northeastern Colorado tonight just
because the ingredients are in place.
For that to happen, it needs to
get warm enough for that to hap.
And so far we have not really gotten beyond
the low to mid 80s in downtown Denver,
but you can see that moisture out there.
82 in Denver, 97 in Pueblo,
91 in Grand Junction.
Needed to be a little warmer to
do what we call breaking the ca,
which would give us a little bit
of thunderstorm activity. So wa.
The winds coming in out of the t
and northeast humidity values.
This is interesting.
Look how low they are in southeastern
Colorado. But notice Denver,
Greeley, Sterling, Ray.
There's moisture out there with heating
of the day if thunderstorm is possible.
Also concerns for high fire
danger across the western slope.
Of course we're tracking the fie
in and around the parachute are.
Winds are gusty,
is very dry and very warm in that area.
Severe thunderstorm watch outsie
the Colorado border for now.
Cheyenne points northward.
Hail producing thunderstorms.
Couple of storms popping up
in southeastern Colorado?
Non severe,
but we just want to keep an eye
right on that Denver and I-76
corridor over the next two hour.
Kind of watch for any developme.
Storm Prediction Center has Wyog
and Nebraska in the outlook are.
Slight risk for wind and hail.
Denver of course not included,
but some of the models picking n
the potential for a storm or tws
we move through the overnight period.
Chance for storms tomorrow.
Temperatures in the mid 80s now
dropping into the 70s after sun.
Coming up, we'll check the radar again.
Look ahead to the holiday weeked
forecast and thunderstorms are back in
the forecast both Thursday and Friday.
We'll break down the timing Coming up.
Thank you, Kathy. Starting tomo,
deputies in Douglas County will start
going around to formally calculate the
damage from last week's tornado.
We saw it all on people's ring cameras.
Now they're going to get a real tally.
After the storm of course ripped up trees,
tore up homes along an estimate6
mile stretch through Highlands Ranch,
the Sheriff's Office has to do an official
damage assessment to get help from FEMA.
So deputies will be going door to door trying
to tally up all that damage from the storm.
We just heard Kathy talking abot
the forecast and the winds theye
been seeing out in western Colo.
But there is some good news tody
regarding the Spring Creek fire,
which is now 20% contained but t
fires burned more than 2800 acrs
southwest of Parachute right near I-70.
It did grow significantly
on Monday due to the hot,
dry conditions and those strong
winds burning more than 3000 ac.
Red flag warnings were in effect
today for most of western
and southwestern Colorado,
but fire officials say no strucs
have been threatened by the
fire at this point and there
are no evacuations in place.
Travel woes continued for United
Airlines passengers out at DIA today.
The airline is continuing
to cancel and delay flights.
United cancelled 104 flights delayed,
245 all in and out of Denver just today.
Those delayed flights made-up 4f
all the company's scheduled fli.
United told us these issues wert
because of local staffing issue,
rather severe weather in the
Northeast over the weekend that
kicked off a chain reaction of s
then being out of position.
Nationwide,
United cancelled more than 500 flights
and delayed almost 1000 today.
Some sports
for you now. The NHL Draft is
tonight and the ABS have been
very busy dealing away this wee.
Yesterday they sent forward
Alex New hook to Montreal,
primarily for draft picks. Well,
today they cashed in one of those picks,
the 37th overall tonight,
sending it to Tampa Bay for that man,
forward Ross Colton.
In three NHL seasons,
he scored 47 goals for the Lightning.
He's already garnered a lot of
playoff experience with Tampa B.
That includes the Stanley Cup
winning goal two years ago.
Colton certainly adds depth
to the ABS upfront.
We'll see if the ABS make any more deals.
As it stands,
they have two picks late in the first round,
numbers 27 and 31,
some new numbers and
something to celebrate today.
Coloradans have been so generou.
During our nine Cares
Colorado shares Spring Drive,
you helped us raise $259,000.
Plus. That's actually enough
money to provide more than 779,0
meals to Coloradans in need.
Thank you so much to everybody
who's been helping our communit.
One of the longtime icons of the
Denver business community and te
advertising world has passed aw.
After serving in the Army durine
Korean War, Tom Hagen left Detr,
came to Colorado, and it was he.
In 1977, he started what is now Carsh Hagen,
a company that became so influel
in messaging for some of the
largest companies in the region,
as well as the state of Colorado itself.
His daughter, Kathy Hagen,
now runs the company.
She says that her father alwaysd
time for everyone who called hi.
She also said that he maintained
his sense of humor until the en.
Tom Hagan was 92 years old.