Well, this morning parts of Larimer
County are still on guard against
flooding after flash floods
killed two people yesterday and
there's a new delivery fee here in
Colorado charging you for every single
delivery or reviewing what the new
delivery charge means for local businesses.
Having enough trees
can make a huge difference to bearing
those hot summer days we've been having.
But not everyone has that kind of protection.
As Denver warms up.
But first, we're going to talk about
the threat of floods in Northwest
Larimer County this morning.
Flash flooding killed at
least two people yesterday.
Woman and girl in the Buckhorn area.
Some roads you still can't drive on
emerging emergency crews have been
working very fast to reach everyone
in the area and don't believe
anyone else is completely cut off.
Yeah, the area where that flooding
happened is around where the
Cameron peak fire burn score is.
And 9 news reporter Luis de
Leon is there with the latest.
Somewhere around 10 miles into the Canyon,
right next to us, here is where officials
still have some roads blocked off,
especially in the Crystal Mountain area.
After significant flooding,
officials told us just before
5:00 o'clock on Friday,
they started receiving calls
of flash flooding in that area,
there was significant flooding
in the Crystal Mountain area.
Officials say culverts were washed out.
Some private bridges washed out a portion of
one of the roads out there at around mile.
Marker 25 was completely washed out as well.
The river was several feet.
Higher in places than where it normally is,
not that high resources from the Larimer
County Sheriff's Office started going house
to house to make sure people were OK.
They did receive reports early on about
a camp trailer that had washed away
in the middle of the Buckhorn area.
They were told that there was an adult
female and a juvenile female in that trailer.
They said those two did not make it
and they found them at around 7:30 PM.
They also found one home destroyed
that was over on Granite Way.
Everyone there is accounted for.
In situations like this,
we see communities come together and they
really lean on each other and we certainly
expect that to be the case this time.
You know it's just one of those things.
You never know what mother nature's
gonna do. At last check there were
crews on their way out to that area to
start clearing the roads and hopefully
get them back open back to you.
Alright, Louise, thank you so much.
Well, if you live in part of
Larimer County with the flash flood
risk or you visit for hiking,
rafting or camping.
Tony is asking that you consider
signing up for these flash flood alerts.
People who are signed up for the
county's opt in alert system will
get messages when it's bad enough.
They need to get to higher ground if
you text flood 2022 the 888777 it'll
get texts every time that there is
a chance for some flash flooding.
I was just
looking at that map this morning
and there are still some areas that.
Are under that flood threat this morning,
and it it rained so quickly yesterday,
and I think the worry is could
that happen again today? Keely,
well, we are gonna see a little bit of
thunderstorm activity through the area.
The threat, however, is limited today,
especially in Larimer,
Grand Jackson counties.
We have a limited threat of flash flooding
and this threat for some of the more
severe thunderstorms out to the east.
Palmer divide South for us today,
but again, the threat is still there.
It is always.
Important to be aware,
get those alerts,
know what's going on out there so
that we you know obviously can can
be prepared for what could happen
with these thunderstorms that still
are forecast to move through today.
So here's a look at your forecast for today.
This is for the Denver metro area.
We are looking at a bit cooler
of a day than yesterday.
We topped out at 96 yesterday.
We'll make it up to about 9192 degrees,
mostly sunny skies.
We do have a few afternoon
thunderstorms rumbling.
Through,
here's a look at your hour
by hour forecast for today.
So we do have some clouds
out there this morning.
Those will clear as we head into
the middle part of the day.
Then we'll start to see some
increase in clouds as well,
and the chance for some thunderstorm
activity after about noon today,
I would say we'll likely get up
again to the low 90s ninety 192,
but cooling off quickly.
It will be a quick spike and then we'll
start to cool off into the mid 80s as
we head into the evening hours overnight.
Mostly clear the storms move out.
Again,
those storms move out fairly rapidly,
will drop down to about
64 for an overnight low.
We have likely a record high temperature
day and our seven day forecast.
We'll let you know when
that happens. Coming up
in just a bit. Alright,
thanks so much for that.
Keely well, right now a part
of eastbound I-70 is closed.
Washington Street is closed
till 270 until Monday morning.
There is of course a detour
if you're headed that way.
This is the second to last lane
shift for drivers which will then
complete the Central 70 project.
This is really one of the last big
things that we need to do
so traffic will switch onto
eastbound I-70 and within the next couple
of months we're going to switch traffic
on the westbound I-70 lanes
and to its final configuration.
As well, and then you can
basically consider I-70 completes,
so eastbound I-70 will be reopening
at 5:00 in the morning Monday.
CDOT expecting the westbound lane closures
will be happening sometime this fall.
Well, the older sister of one of
the teenagers charged in a deadly
Orson is going to spend more
than a decade in prison herself.
Investigators looking into the
fire discovered the woman's
crimes all by accident.
Last year, investigators connected
Tanya Bowie's younger brother Kevin,
and two other teenagers to a fire
at a home in Green Valley Ranch.
Five members of the Joel.
And we sadly died.
Court documents that investigators got
a search warrant for Kevin's phone,
which was registered to Tonya.
Police say they found evidence tying
the teenager to the fire and showing
Tanya's involvement in gun and drug sales.
She pleaded guilty to gun and
drug charges back in February.
Today,
a federal court in Denver sentenced
her to more than 10 years in prison.
A father charged with trying to
kill his five year old son pleaded
not guilty by reason of insanity.
This week, Michael Ninomiya
is facing multiple charges,
including attempted murder.
Child abuse after his son fell through ice
in January along the Cherry Creek Trail.
His son suffered head injuries and was
taken to the hospital in critical condition.
At the time, the boy's mother said that
she never thought that Ninomiya would
hurt their son his he is being sent to
a behavioral facility for evaluation
and is due back in court in September.
A judge says. Mesa County clerk
Tina Peters is a flight risk,
a flight risk with access to a private jet.
However, yesterday the judge decided
that Peters should not go back to jail.
Violating her bond by traveling
out of state without permission.
The Republican County clerk went
to Las Vegas this week for an
election deniers conference while
on bond for felony charges of
tampering with voting equipment.
Peters says hired profile defense
attorney Harvey Steinberg,
who told the judge it was his fault,
Peters was not informed of an
order she could not travel because
he's not computer literate.
The judge says Peters is a flight
risk with access to a private
plane and financial resources,
but he believes in second chances.
A longtime criminal defense.
Attorney says in her decades of experience,
that's a chance that most of
her clients don't get.
Many people who are too poor to
hire private counsel are certainly
too poor to have access to
private jets, or even, you know,
Southwest Airlines don't.
Receive the same kind of
consideration when they break.
When they ignore a judge's order,
Peters got caught out of state
because she actually sent a letter
to the Secretary of State's office,
demanding a recount in her
Secretary of State primary.
That letter was notarized into Nevada Peters,
Republican Senate candidate Ron Hanks
had until today to pay for the recount.
They did not,
so Peter Peters got caught like Jordan
was explaining is because the Colorado
Secretary of State's office was.
Got caught because she sent that
letter to the Colorado Secretary of
State's office demanding that recount
and it was notarized in Nevada.
Now we wanted to get to a little more
details about the recount itself.
If a statewide race is closed,
the state actually pays for that recount.
If you lose, but still want a recount,
you actually have to pay for it.
So Hanks and Peters faced a bill of $236,000,
and that was due yesterday.
That is more money than Peters
raised in her race.
She lost to Pam Anderson by more than 88.
Thousand votes and more money than Hanks
raised in his losing effort against Joe
O'Day where he fell 57,000 votes short.
It is 608 now on your Saturday
morning in the San Luis Valley
is facing a backlog of cases and
a shortage of lawyers along with
the loss of its top prosecutor,
Democratic District Attorney
Alonzo Payne resigned this week
less than two years in office.
He would have been facing a recall election,
but that an investigation by the
state found that Payne had ignored
and mistreated crime victims.
Our partners at the Denver Gazette
report that the office now just has
one full time and one part time
attorney trying to manage the work
meant for half a dozen lawyers.
So district attorneys in Denver and Boulder,
Adams, Broomfield and Jefferson
counties are all loaning prosecutors
to help the governor also appointed
Democratic Attorney General Phil
Wiser to act as DA for the San Luis
Valley while looking for a replacement
Denver's program to send mental health
professionals instead of police to
certain calls could now become a
nationwide model Democratic senator.
Go Bennett introduced a bill this
week that would pay for similar
programs all across the country.
Denver started the star
program in summer of 2020.
Since then the team has responded
to more than 4600 calls.
Now those calls required extra help
from police researchers at Stanford
found low level crimes dropped by
more than a third in neighborhoods
initially covered by the star teams,
their analysis found there were
fewer citations and people were
less likely reoffended if if
passed the new bill in Congress,
would dedicate funding.
Create similar programs in other places.
Well, he spent a night alone
lost in the mountains.
Not exactly what 14 year old
Spencer Hallman had in mind
for his first backpacking trip.
It was almost 24 hours later that
rescue crews found him brought him
safely back to his family in Berthod,
and now the teen and his mom
are sharing their story.
Here's Jennifer beckles. A day after
his rescue, I'm just tired
after a full night of sleep.
Yeah, Spencer Holman is still
pretty exhausted from his
unexpected night alone in the woods.
Yeah, absolutely. With mom Tammy's help.
He shared a story.
I was just a backpacking trip. It was
a high adventure camp
out so they backpacked
66.2 miles in a group of young
campers and their leaders,
from Spencer's church left Monday for
Rawah Wilderness Wednesday afternoon.
Are you going to take a bath in the Creek you
just went to the Creek to wash
up and then to come right back.
Then what happened while you were at
the Creek? I took a wrong turn, a wrong
turn turned into one very long night.
Yeah, I slept for about an hour.
His church leader said that he
tried to flag the helicopters
down that he used his knife and
was trying to do reflection off
of the sun for the helicopter,
but it must have been too wooded.
I had trouble mixing Gatorade,
I was just scared
when something traumatic like this happens.
We just turned to our faith
and say God has a plan.
He's going to show us the way.
And we go with it. The
bugs bit him up pretty good and
he was very tired and thirsty.
But when rescuers found Spencer
Thursday afternoon, he was OK.
Even got a ride out of the
mountains on horseback.
I was just happy to be
leaving the mountains.
You feel a little numb at first,
just kind of. I really didn't have
a lot of emotion until I got the
phone call that he was safe and
then it was like, OK, we're good
after all that Spencer is ready
to rest and mom she can. Exhale,
I feel blessed or, you know, we're
just grateful for his safe return.
I I was holding my breath
I'm about to say they gave me a little
bit of anxiety listening to that story
that's so terrifying, Spencer says.
The campers had just learned some survival
skills the day before he got lost.
He remembered most of it,
but then had a few hard lessons in the
woods that feels like an understatement,
right? Absolutely, Larimer County
had teams in the air on the ground.
Even a dog looking for Spencer.
And of course, his church group
was also part of that effort.
But, you know,
he was a little bit smarter than even.
I would have been in that situation.
That's terrifying you.
That's that's a big fear of mine
that you take a wrong turn, right?
You can't find your way up,
but he said he was trying to
find use his knife to reflect
light to the helicopters.
Everything like that
and thank goodness they found him that quick.
Well, we were just talking
about all the events that were
happening around that time too.
In Larimer County and and some of the
unfortunate stories that we cover,
you know, mountain lions flooding things
like that and I think as a parent
that's where my mind would have been.
It's freaking out that
something could have happened
or how long it would take to
kind of pinpoint where he's at.
So we are just so glad that yeah.
Very thankful, safe and sound well in grams.