We are heading into another weekend
with a dangerous weather combination.
The potential for flash flooding in
areas scorched 2 summers ago and more of
this heat wave that we just can't shake
it can be dangerous for people who have
no choice but to work outside this summer.
9 news reporter Louis de Leon
shows us the push to protect them.
Hello, how's it going customer OK enjoy
those after customer alright ladies
well we got a typical Friday at Forte
fruits and the farmers markets are
so hot that they can come here and
get a little bit of break. Thank you.
That heat isn't stopping the Peaches
coming from their farm in Palisade.
See, I always see Peaches are
like your first love.
It doesn't come fast enough
and leaves too soon.
Jokes aside Colorado Peaches anyways,
Joe stole knows the toll that
heat takes on their farm workers.
And fortunately for us,
you know there are veterans over there.
They know what to do, he
says. As each summer gets hotter,
their workers start and
finish their days earlier
as early as even 4:00
o'clock in the morning.
But they have to finish by noon.
It's just too hot,
yeah, and it's not safe.
This year a state law took
effect meant to protect farm
workers who work long hours in
the heat. Because it's not about
getting employers in trouble,
it's about getting the shade
and the water to the workers to
prevent any illnesses or deaths.
Jennifer Rodriguez is managing
attorney for the Farm Workers
Division at Colorado Legal Services.
She's visited around 10 farms in
the last few weeks in the state to
see if employers are complying.
She says so far some are,
but like you said,
we have also talked to some
workers who have called us with
concerns about not having shade.
And water,
and but also are afraid to
make a formal complaint,
for fear of retaliation.
If somebody from Georgia tells you different,
they're lying, working to bring
awareness to new protections,
and if you don't have veteran workers,
or if you have an employer,
that's not. Up to speed,
then it could be very dangerous.
So this week the US Department of Labor
launched a heat awareness campaign to
highlight protections for farm workers.
But when we take big agencies
like OSHA for example,
they still do not have a nationwide standard
around heat safety for these workers.
Crafting those rules could take years.
Jeremy
yeah, and that one lady there.
Miss Rodriguez talked about
how some people may not come
forward out of fear of,
you know, retribution.
Very good points there.
Thank you for that report.
We're taking a live look outside on
this warm summer night in Denver.
We have another hot weekend ahead and
once again flooding another concern
in the burn scars. This weekend,
spring and Lauren Robinson to talk us to.
Kind of with this forecast looks like
and it it really is just more heat,
more heat. That's
right. We have another day with
another very hot day ahead,
but we do also have those flash flooding
concerns over burn scar areas and that
will start tomorrow and really go on and
off through the rest of the week. I think.
Let's go ahead and take a live look.
Outside the sudden setting
behind these beautiful buildings,
83 degrees, we have winds coming in
at around 10 mph from the Southwest,
but it's still pretty warm out there and
because of that we have a couple of alerts.
We do have an air quality alert for
high levels of ozone and this is
going to be over the usual areas.
Denver up north through Fort Collins,
but we also have a heat advisory.
In effect, it actually looks like
the one over
Denver has expired already, but
the one out West we're going to continue
to keep an eye out for that as temperatures
stay pretty warm right now we can see.
70s and 80s across the Front Range
and eastern plains, but still in
the 90s across the Western Slope,
60s and 70s across the high country.
So as we continue to monitor
our HD Doppler radar,
we saw some very isolated storms,
mostly across the high country and
Western slope and to the South.
All of that is starting to die out the
last couple of lightning strikes off
to the West starting to fizzle as well.
So as you go through the next couple
of days we have another very hot day
in store before temperatures cool
down a bit for my 7 day forecast,
so I'll have that information
for you just
ahead. All right, Lauren, thank you.
And if you're planning to visit.
Anywhere near Burnscar this
week and you really should have
a way to get emergency alerts.
People who signed up for Larimer
County's opt in alert system can ask to
get emails and calls for every flash
flood warning issued in the county.
You can also text Flood 2022 to 888777
that will give you a text message every time.
There's a warning.
Larimer County can also use the federal
wireless Emergency alert system to
send evacuation notices to every
cell phone in an in a certain area.
A lot of hiking or camping spots
we know are short.
On cell service, well,
you can get a NOAA rather radio
which will pick up flash flood
alerts without any service.
A judge is now telling the town of
Superior to put some of its new gun
laws on hold because of a lawsuit
by a far right gun rights group.
That lawsuit from Rocky Mountain gun
owners claims the town's new ban on
assault weapons and large capacity
magazines is unconstitutional.
A judge granted a temporary restraining
order today to block those bans.
The judge did not block superiors.
New rules prohibiting open carry.
This lawsuit by Rocky Mountain gun
owners says the stricter limits are
unconstitutional and they are basing
that argument on a Supreme Court
decision that came down this summer,
striking down a New York concealed carry law.
Boulder, Lafayette and Louisville.
They all passed similar rules at
the same time, superior did,
but superior is the only one getting sued.
A constitutional law attorney based in
Denver told us if the courts decide
that superiors rules are unconstitutional,
follow up,
lawsuits could strike down the
other cities laws as well.
The man shot
by Denver. Police officers last weekend
after he pulled out a gun is facing charges
for assault and having a weapon illegally.
6 bystanders were hurt when
officers shot at the man.
Police say they saw 21 year
old Jordan Wadi start.
A fight outside Larimer Beer Hall.
Early Sunday morning officers approached him.
That's when they say he pulled
out his gun but didn't fire.
Officers shot him multiple times.
Waddy is still in the hospital.
The Denver District Attorney's Office
is charging him with third degree
assault and possession of a weapon.
By a previous offender,
court records show Waddy was
charged with murder in 2017 but
pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
Denver police are still investigating
what the officers did that night.
The DA will decide whether
their actions were justified.
The Denver police also said this week.
The officers who fired their guns
said they feared for their lives or
the lives of their fellow officers,
but the department admits
something went wrong.
Firefighters say a child started this
fire at an apartment complex in Lakewood.
Five people can't go home
because of the fire.
Last night,
West metro firefighters say it
started in the bushes and spread to
one apartment and then the attic.
Firefighters say the child was
playing with fire and didn't mean
for it to spread to the building.
They're working with other agencies
on how to handle this case.
A husband and a wife rescued after
tumbling more than 1000 feet down
a Northern Colorado mountain are
now recovering in a hospital.
They suffered from broken bones but know
the accident could have been deadly.
9 news reporter Mark Sellinger takes
us inside the rehabilitation hospital,
helping them get back on the mountain.
How you feeling?
OK, I can definitely tell.
I've done a lot of walking
with this league today
for a man used to climbing mountains.
I mean you're doing amazing with The Walking.
The steps are small now. You
wouldn't think walking 100 feet
would be tiring, but it is.
I think I'm ready to be done with walking.
Recovery is difficult.
I still can't actually believe that it
happened. Will tour knows just
how lucky he is to be here.
It's one of those things where there's
still a sense of unreality to it.
A day of mountaineering with his wife
in Rocky Mountain National Park,
it seems like I mean your pain
has been fairly well managed.
Given the circumstances,
lead well to the Northern
Colorado Rehabilitation Hospital.
I just remember the sense of
acceleration and again sort
of this very clear sense that,
like this, is how it ends.
We fell right?
There in between the two cornices,
so we think that it was about
1000 feet because it was from the
very top to you know it looked to
me like we were maybe 8000 feet
above the bottom of the snow.
The snow gave out from underneath
will as he reached the summit
and there's there's my wife.
Before it got super steep,
the two climbers lay injured
at the bottom of the mountain.
Next thing I remember is
being at the bottom and.
My wife saying, well,
I've gotta leave you and go get help.
She went back to look for help.
Bushwhacking a mile and a
half with 9 broken ribs,
3 thoracic vertebrae,
fractures a fractured
sternum and a broken wrist
will lay in the snow with a
broken femur and cuts on his hand.
Got colder and colder and sort of once again.
Had that sense? OK, I'm probably
going to die here because I'm going
into hypothermia when I saw those.
You guys walking up there was definitely
one of the best sites in my life.
3 climbers stayed with will
as rescue crews climbed up,
a helicopter eventually evacuated him.
It sounds cliched,
but right now I mean,
my primary sense is just one of.
Damn, you know I was.
We were both so lucky and
there were so many people
who who were pulling for us.
Every step, even the smallest one,
people will have to do some climbing
a few months from now. Yeah,
is a step back towards where he was headed.
My hope is that we'll be back in
time for Backcountry ski season
in Johnstown. I'm Mark Sallinger 9 news.
Will also happens to be the head
of the state's energy office and
the former mayor of Boulder,
he says, without the hikers,
who stopped to call for help and all
the rescue teams that responded.
He doesn't know if he would have survived.
He's had one surgery already and he
expects he'll make a full recovery.
If we could find a cure,
then that that would be excellent
because nobody should ever have
to to deal with this, he's
taken a long hike this summer
on the Colorado Trail,
raising money to cure a disease that
is not just touched his family,
but so many others.