The day after 2 Deans were
shot at East High School,
Denver Public Schools held a
5 hour closed door meeting.
Now they have to release that recording.
Governor polls declared
an emergency response after
this week's severe weather,
but one county is making claims
they're being left out over politics.
We take a look at the missing
context and more money is being
given to club few shooting victims
just days after they gathered at
City Hall saying donated money
is not being distributed fairly.
Thanks so much for joining us
on this Saturday morning.
Taking a live lookout by Coors
Field over downtown Denver.
With the sun up and the the blue skies,
that's what we like to see.
Everyone breathing.
A little bit of a sigh of
relief after this week,
so especially after the last couple days.
Oh my goodness, that was wild out there.
It was hail, rain, you name it, we had it.
I looked up at the sky Thursday and I go,
ooh, this is bad, this is bad.
It might be time to go in.
Hey, let's go into the basement everyone.
That was some scary stuff it really.
It really was. It really was.
Let's head out to Corey Reppenhagen
right now, joining us this morning.
My goodness, Corey,
the sunshine is such a
welcome sight right now.
Yeah, this is going to be a breath
of fresh air for a lot of people.
After a few busy days of
just active thunderstorms and
damaging thunderstorms, we have.
We're waking up this morning to blue skies
here in the North Arvada Weather Bureau,
also known as my front yard.
And we these blue skies will
stay like this all day long.
So we're going to get those temperatures
up into the mid 80s and I think
it might be warmer than it feels.
They'll feel a little bit warmer than the
temperature is because of the sunshine.
Now take a look at the city,
the webcam shooting back to the West here.
But you can see the rising sun glistening
off of the buildings in downtown Denver.
We got down to 50 degrees this morning,
that dew point.
Look at that 41.
That's one of the some of the driest
air we've woken up to in the morning
here in the Denver area in a while.
We've had the dew points in the
50s and 60s for several weeks now,
so a 41 is very welcome and refreshing.
Here's what your day looks like in Denver,
all sunshine.
Look at all those sunny logos there.
That's going to be a great breath
of fresh air heading up to about.
8485 degrees in the Denver metro area.
And that'll be the case for most
of the Front Range and the Eastern
Plains today as well.
All right, thanks so much for that, Cory.
A judge says Denver Public Schools
violated the state's open meetings law.
Yeah, the judge is ordering Denver Public
Schools to release a recording of a 5 hour
closed door meeting from back in March
where the school board decided to bring
back armed police officers to schools.
The school board met the day after 2
Deans were shot at East High School.
At the time, the board said it was going
into executive session to discuss,
quote specialized security arrangements.
The judge ruled the board did not
discuss those issues in the executive
session and they didn't give enough
public notice about the session.
9 News was among a group of media
organizations that sued after DPS
refused to release the recording.
The judge gave the board until
noon on Monday to make that public.
Now.
Denver Public Schools now says students
overwhelmingly want on Denver police
officers back on their campuses.
Top administrators told the school
board as many as four out of five
students surveyed want Sro's back.
Yeah, but Nine News reporter Cole
Sullivan is explaining that those numbers
don't actually tell the whole story.
The school board made their
choice to bring back SRO's,
but not before students had a say.
Survey results obtained by 9 News show
a majority of the kids who responded
want armed Denver officers on campus.
Their comments show why,
One North High School student wrote.
Quote, I want to be able to go
to school and be safe and ain't
got to worry about getting shot.
Another who voted against bringing
officers back said we should push
for longterm solutions that don't
involve getting more guns involved.
At MLK Early College,
one student said bringing back Sro's
will make things feel more like a jail.
At JFK, a child said the campus
needs armed officers because,
quote, to be completely honest,
I don't feel safe at school.
Elizabeth Borsiaga is an
organizer at Movemiento Poder,
an advocacy group opposed to Sro's.
She argues the survey results
in favor of Sro's are flawed.
A lot of our data, a lot of
experiences are being ignored.
Only about 20% of students actually voted.
Previous surveys underrepresented
students of color. Some
maybe didn't care to be honest.
And some maybe we're we're afraid to speak
their truth or the fear of retaliation.
With the board's decision already made,
the one in five students who voted
against armed officers in school
will still see them this fall.
And she says that may mean they
don't feel as safe on campus.
Here we're we're trying to strive
for safety as well, but ultimately
we have to look into what does
safety mean for a lot of folks.
Administrators told the school board
earlier this month that even high spot,
an even higher portion of staff and
parents voted to bring back Sro's.
The district's latest draft of its
safety plan is calling for them to be in
every school with Grade 6 through 12.
The final version of that
plan is due in a week.
The cleanup in Highlands Ranch
continues this weekend after an EF1
tornado ripped through neighborhoods.
New video shows a tree
getting completely uprooted.
You can see just how strong
that wind is there.
That happened on Thursday.
Just look at that.
Just tearing up the grass and knocking
over the fence like it's nothing.
Oh my goodness. Wow.
You can find that kind of destruction
all over the area in Highlands Ranch.
Alison Stewart, who lives there, told us.
She went to her basement as soon
as the wind and rain got really
intense as her family huddled there.
This is what happened outside her house.
Basketball hoop fell down,
patio furniture tossed
around like it was toys.
The trampoline from three
houses over flew into her yard.
Stewart says it felt surreal
when she finally got outside
to see all the damage.
Well, we came out of the basement and I
turned right and I saw probably
a 30 foot pine
tree up against my
windows in the house.
And I just said, Oh my God.
And as I kept walking
through the house, just Oh my
gosh, Oh my gosh, that tree that was
up against her house that you see
there that wasn't even hers, was her
neighbors flew in from across the yard.
Wow, goodness, this is the National Weather
Service's preliminary tornado path.
6.3 miles through Highlands
Ranch in a part of Lone Tree.
The EF1 tornado had a peak
wind speed of 97 miles an hour.
It was 1/4 of a mile wide and
was on the ground for 20 minutes.
Just not the type of thing
that we see very often here.
The cleanup is just beginning when
Republican leaders in Douglas County
began making misleading claims accusing
Democratic Governor Jared Polis of
withholding help for political reasons.
Douglas County Commissioner Laura Thomas
Castle Pines Councilman Roger Hudson.
Former state GOP chair Christy Burton
Brown suggested the governor Polis
did not include Doug Coe on a disaster
declaration with other counties.
Because it's a conservative county.
That's not true.
The fact is, the disaster declaration
was for damage from Wednesday's storm,
not on Thursday.
That hasn't happened yet.
That on Thursday was when Douglas
County was actually hit by the storm.
And As for the politics,
three of the counties in the governor's
declaration they have a higher percentage
of Republican voters than Doug Coe,
and the 4th,
El Paso County has the largest number
of Republicans in the entire state.
Now the state Office of Emergency
Management pointed out Doug Coe's
Republican leaders that disaster
declarations are issued once the damage
has actually been surveyed and totaled,
and all tallied up.
And that process is still
underway in Douglas County.
The Colorado Healing Fund is giving more
donation money to Club Q shooting victims.
This is 3 days after a group said
they weren't getting enough funds.
The nonprofit announced it was
dispersing more than 800,000
more dollars to the victims,
saying they've now given out $2.9 million.
Tuesday, a group of Club Q
survivors gathered in front of
City Hall in Colorado Springs,
saying money is not being
distributed fairly and that they're
struggling to buy basic necessities.
The Colorado Healing Fund says they
distribute the money based on a model
from trauma experts and said that they
save some money for longterm expenses
instead of giving it out out at once.
I get to some important news
across the world right now,
new this morning, there's a potential
coup attempt underway in Russia.
The head of the Wagner mercenary
group claims the Kremlin killed 2000
of its troops and is encouraging
the rest of their private army to
punish Russia's military leadership.
The Kremlin is accusing the leader of
the Wagner group of a military coup.
President Putin has vowed decisive
action against the mercenary group
that has now said they've taken
control of the key military facility.
The leader of the group has been
critical of Russia's military leadership
for months and says his fighters are
done fighting for Russia and Ukraine.
They've also crossed.
They've also actually crossed borders
back into Russia to stop fighting.
It's been posting audio messages
on the social media app Telegram.
That's also where he.
Made the claim,
without evidence that the Kremlin ordered
a strike that killed 2000 Wagner troops.
Security has been reportedly
been increased in Moscow,
and Russia's state military
and TV says there's a criminal
investigation now underway.
Two Republican congresswoman
are trying to have the impeachments of
former President Donald Trump expunged.
Elise Stefanik of New York and Marjorie
Taylor Greene of Georgia both introduced
resolutions to formally expunge the two
impeachments of former President Trump.
Both resolutions assert that the
articles of impeachment did not meet
the burden of proving that Trump
committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
Stefanik's resolution also listed
what the congresswoman believes to be
issues surrounding the impeachment
process or the former president,
while Representative Greens resolution.
Says Trump was wrongfully accused of
misconduct in its first impeachment.
The special counsel is asking for
December trial date for the Mar a lot of
documents case against President Trump.
Federal judge in South Florida
had previously put the trial
on the calendar for mid August.
Special Counsel Jack Smith's office
has also produced a list of 84
witnesses that former President
Trump may not contact about the case.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to
37 charges related to the alleged
mishandling of classified documents.