Police investigators are asking for your help finding a man suspected
of killing two people along the South Platte bike trail.
Police think both victims were homeless.
And as reporter Brianna Fernandez is live in Denver and Brianna
police believe the shootings are related but they won't say why.
Yeah, good morning Corey.
So all police are saying right now is
that they believe that the victims were homeless.
Now, they're saying that the shootings did not happen near or at an encampment.
What I can't tell you what is confirmed from the Denver Police Department is that
both these shootings happened right near the South
Platte River right around the same time.
So last Wednesday, a woman was shot and killed under I 70. This happened near 45
Avenue in Washington Street and happened just before 12 30.
Now, three days later on Saturday,
a man was found shot near West Florida
Avenue in South Platte River Drive just after midnight
while police say the cases are connected and there's
no reason for the public to be concerned.
Some people who use this popular trail aren't convinced
I live just down right over there.
So probably I don't know, probably three or four times a week, I would say,
definitely doesn't make me feel great hearing that sort of information.
It always felt pretty safe, but I mean,
hearing something like that makes you question it for sure.
Denver police have added extra patrols.
Now, if you have any information about these two shootings,
you're asked to call crime stoppers,
we posted that number right on the bottom of your screen.
You can remain anonymous and you're eligible as well for a reward back to you guys.
Yeah, yeah, definitely stay alert if you're going to be out on that bike path.
For sure. Brianna, thank you.
Right now,
police in Boulder are trying to figure out whether a driver
accused of hitting two teenagers is responsible for another crash.
Just hours earlier, police say around 30 on Saturday morning,
Jordan Hemp Street made a U turn on Broadway near Regent just south of C US campus.
He then jumped the curb and hit two people walking on the sidewalk,
an 18 year old woman and a 19 year old man ended up in the hospital.
They were seriously hurt.
Now,
investigators are looking into whether Hemp Street
is also responsible for hitting a bunch
of parked cars near 15 th and cascade just about two hours earlier.
Hemp Street is already facing charges for dui
reckless driving, vehicular assault and driving with a suspended license.
It's 603 right now and new overnight,
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in
Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The two of them are likely going to talk about
weapons and an arms deal between the two countries.
Kim may also ask Putin for food and energy sources.
A Russian leader says that meeting could happen as soon as tomorrow. This morning.
Rescue crews in Morocco are working to find any survivors
three days after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit there.
So far
2800 people are confirmed to have died.
Another 2500 are hurt and there is not an estimate
just yet on how many people might be missing.
Search and rescue crews are having a pretty hard
time because so many roads are blocked or damaged.
The buildings in this area are historic made of stone and masonry.
They weren't built to hold up in disasters like earthquakes.
So far,
Morocco has only accepted help from four countries and some organizations
are also sending aid like the Red Cross World Central Kitchen
and doctors without borders
right now.
Kway is erupting in Hawaii spewing lava into the air.
The gasses will cause a volcanic smog in the area.
So people who live nearby are being told to stay inside.
But other than that, there's no major threat from this eruption.
Mount
Kway also erupted in June for a few weeks and no damage was reported back then.
Several states across New England are dealing with serious flooding this morning.
This is what it looks like in Providence, Rhode Island
roads, stores,
houses are totally under water.
One person said she had 26 inches of water in her basement.
Crews have rescued at least 25 people but so far no injuries have been reported.
It's a similar situation in Massachusetts where they got
2.5 inches of rain in just one hour,
people got stuck in their cars on roads this morning.
There's a state of emergency in
Leinster about an hour outside of Boston as that clean up begins.
Big weather disasters like these have been all too common.
In fact,
the US just set a record for the number of billion dollar disasters in one year.
Noaa counts 23 extreme weather events that have cost at least
$1 billion from the deadly wildfires in Maui and flooding from hurricane
Nadal. In total. It adds up to more than $57 billion and more than 250 deaths.
Scientists say human caused climate change is fueling these more intense
disasters and cutting planet warming emissions could reverse the trend.
The dream,
the impact from the 2013 floods is hard to fathom.
Thousands of families had to evacuate.
Some people returned to find their homes were no longer there.
The numbers help put into perspective. One of the state's worst natural disasters.
The flooding started with a few days of steady
rain but grew into something much worse on September.
11 th storms unleashed heavy rain that fell for hours.
This is one of those storms that just kind of came together in a way that
very rapidly just
came and kept
6 to 18 inches fell along parts of the front range
almost as much as typically falls in boulder each year.
By the time the storms cleared out, flooding covered 4500 square miles,
roughly equal to the size of 11 Rocky Mountain National Parks.
It stretched from the mountains to farms on the eastern plains.
Nine people died. The big Thompson is raging out of its banks tonight.
It would stay away from any kind of creek river
or tributary as creeks and streams turned into rivers,
water poured into homes, schools and businesses.
The flooding caused $4 billion in damage. 19,000 people had to leave home.
More than 3000 were rescued.
Some thanks to the heroics of the National Guard who airlifted
to safety.
The floods destroyed more than 2000 homes and damaged another 26,000
debris from mudslides and rushing rivers, washed away roads and bridges.
It cut off some towns like Jamestown, Estes Park and Lions. Sidot
says it had to repair 486 miles of roads, flooding and mudslides,
damaged 200 bridges and culverts.
There are
for public assistance in large disasters.
How many roads you've lost,
how many bridges you've lost and how many public structures
you've lost and we have apparently hit that threshold.
Repairing the roads took years.
C dot Finished the final project in November 2022 when they reopened highway seven,
connecting Lions and Raymond.
It cost C $0.750 million for permanent and emergency repairs
says it removed 150,000 cubic yards of debris.
That's enough to fill 46 Olympic swimming pools or
you could cover a football field with debris,
75 ft high.
The flood touched so many communities across Colorado and we will have coverage
all morning long right here on nine news mornings at 6 30.
A new waste,
scientists are starting to forecast floods like these to help keep people safe.
All right, we're making our way toward a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, sunny skies,
mild conditions, highs near 77 degrees in Denver this morning though,
we do have some patchy dense fog,
especially across central portions of the plains and front range.
Lauren. Thank you so much right now.
We want to show you what the graphics look like this morning.
A whole lot of green on our map for the most part.
So I want to give you a quick heads up if you're going to be taking RT D today,
especially the A line right now,
it's running on up to a 10 minute delay because of a mechanical problem.