Director of regulatory compliance. The students turned to her for help. We need answers. Reporter the school had shut its doors claiming financial problems. The students wondered about their education. And, their money. They were signing loans on monday. Knowing that they could not afford to keep those students, knowing that we didnt have clean bathrooms. We didnt have school supplies. Reporter kelly took it upon herself to try to assist the students with more than a website that i want you to reach out to the department of education. Reporter they welcomed their help. Then she told them of her plight. That she has cancer. I dont know about my coverage or. We know it is not necessarily your fault. Reporter the school which offered training in medical professions is now leaving students and staff in need. I know i dont have much longer. And, i begged them. Will go on my merry way. Reporter the students came looking for help. And an employee now out of work herself was the one to provide it. The Colorado Department of Higher Education told us it is working with officials from Heritage College to try to get the students their records and to try to place them with other career colleges. Live in lake side, rick sallinger, cbs4 news. Investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a brush fire in aurora. Burned ten acres near 25th and moline. The flames raced up the hill to the bluff lake naturer sent. New developments on a wild fire in nederland back in july. A woman will spend nine months probation and do 36 hours of Community Service for her role fire. 21yearold elizabeth bertshaw pled guilty to misdemeanor camping. She was camping with two others near nederland when it happened. The two men visiting from alabama did not do enough to put out the campfire. And, those flames spread to more than 500 acres and destroyed eight homes. Now, to the latest on a 25yearold eric prock was last seen in july. Today, still no sign of him. Cbs4s tom mustin live at the Green Mountain area tonight where he was last seen. And tom, his family is not giving up hope they will find him. Reporter karen, i spoke to erics father today. They are not giving up hope. They put up signs offering a 10,000 reward offering information at hayden park. Usually in cases like these, found a body. They say in the case of eric, he has simply vanished without a trace. The trail has gone cold in the disturbing disappearance of 25 yearold eric proct. It is like he just vanished. Reporter july 22, the park county emt left a party at his lakewood condo barefoot after an argument. He told his fiance he would be right back. He never came back. Reporter search crews scoured the nearby Green Mountain air y but came up after his disappearance, leads are still coming in daily. All have been deadends. As far north as cheyenne we had a tip. But so far, none of the tips have panned out. Reporter steve davis with lack wide pd says they are still working the case, but still have nothing to go on. No activity on his bank accounts, credit accounts, or phone. He left his car here. Our people are really at a dead up a reward for 10,000 reward. They are not offering theories that he may have wanted to disappear. Didnt take clothing or money or anything along with him that would make you think this person wanted to leave. Reporter and now, with nowhere to turn, procts family is hoping for a miracle. Flores are a lot of people missing you. Reporter it is a very again, detectives do not have a lot to go on and they are really counting on the publics help. An update on a story we told you about first on 4. The family of a woman who died in jail will get 2. 5 million. In a settlement with jefferson going through opioid wait withdrawal. Her family says her cries for help were ignored by the staff. Jefferson county released a statement saying the Sheriffs Office has changed the drug withdrawal evaluation. And, treatment processes in the jail. Well, if you have not mailed in your ballot, do not mail it now. Lit probably not make it in time. Denver has 26 boxes and 13 Voter Services and Polling Services with drive through dropoff sos they made it easy for you. You can go in person and vote on election day. You can find the closest Voting Center to you visiting our campaign 2016 section on cbsdenver. Com. You are right, so easy. No excuse not to vote. Here in colorado, it is actually illegal to post a selfie with your completed ballot and some people say it is past time to change that law. So, today, a judge addressed this story for us tonight. So matt, whats the problem . Reporter well karen, not entirely illegal to post a selfie with your ballot. If it is in its sealed envelope and doesnt show who you voted for. That has always remained legal, but what is not legal and definitely stirring up a lot of controversy is when you post a selfie with your ballot that shows who you voted for. It is an outdated prohibition. It is favor of removing the ban on the ballot selfie. He is a social media expert. He was one of more than a dozen called to the stand. It is very confusing for voters and it intimidates them like someone on social media. I have seen dozens and dozens of my personal friends in my network say we would post ballot selfie or a picture but i have heard that we actually cant. So now i am not going to. Reporter the 1 shun 25year people from selling their votes but this is all about free speech. The groups being sued. The attorney generals office. District attorney, and secretary of state, all promised the judge they will not enforce the law. Meaning if you post a photo of your mailin ballot and it shows who you voted for, you will not be punished but they want the judge to put an injunction in place so people can be 100 sure they wont get in trouble for posting that selfie. Social media specifically, theres a reason ballot. Maybe not just their face or the envelope. Because it carries a lot of weight. Reporter testimony continues tomorrow on the major issue facing colorado this election cycle. That is the selfie and the ballot. Very important the judge will be deciding this one. We expect that possibly on friday. The state senator that brought this all to the judge on this case says next session, it will be addressing it with the state matt kroschel, cbs4 mountain news room. Thank you matt. You are looking live now at a republican rally in loveland. Mike pence is speaking right there azure look. Our political specialist shaun boyd is there now. She will bringtous highlights coming up new at 6 30 tonight. Governor hickenlooper proposing a budget with cuts to Road Construction and healthcare and education. It totals 28. 5 billion. The governor has to make up a half Million Dollars shortfall. His budget does set as million in marijuana sales tax revenue for affordable housing, housing for those with Behavioral Health issues and programs for the homeless. A major hotel chain is helping the homeless get jobs in denver. How many this program has employed after just one day. And a cat gets stuck in something a lot higher than a tree. We have new video of this feline rescue. Scattered showers over portions of the high country. Now, just ending up. But come saturday, just to a chance for some scattered showers pushing up from a system coming from the south. Lauren and i will ,, my name is charity salazar, and im an air force veteran. Every election, nancy pelosi and her washington friends launch vicious attacks against mike coffman. This year is no different. They say hes waging a war against women. Thats just not true. He believes in equal pay and making sure pregnant women arent discriminated against at work. Time and again mike has stood up for women. I know, because he stood up for me. Im mike coffman, and i approve this message. Im mike coffman, to keep our communities safe, we need a District Attorney like jake lilly tough, smart, and determined to keep us safe. As a former special assistant u. S. Attorney and iraq war veteran, jake lilly is an experienced prosecutor who will be tough on violent crime, and he has a smart plan to provide treatment for nonviolent offenders, including veterans suffering from Mental Illness or addiction. Jake lilly for District Attorney this is the colorado none of us want to lose. Im Gail Schwartz, and im running for congress to stop the sale of our public lands. Coloradans should have the freedom to use this land for ranching, hunting and fishing, not watch it sold off to the highest bidder. Scott tipton wants to cut off our access to these lands for generations to come, killing thousands of jobs. I approved this message have more time to iron out some pesky problems with the a line to the airport. A threemonth extension has been granted by the federal Railroad Administration to operate. And rtd contractors are working to update the software that works the crossing gate. The city of denver launches a program to help the homeless get jobs. Denver day works already found work for more than a dozen people just today. Our Kelly Werthmann live the story from Civic Center Park tonight. This seems like a really great idea. Reporter well, karen, the city really does want to help the homeless find a place to call home. And that all starts with finding a good job. And today, that was something as simple as planting a tree here in Civic Center Park. Instead of sweeping moves to push out the homeless, the city of denver is now trying to put them to work. Moves we as a city can make when it comes to serving our homeless. Reporter denver day works is a new Pilot Program aimed at providing day jobs to the homeless. Is that cut . Reporter the goal is to then connect these workers to more permanent jobs with city agencies. They help you get a job. Reporter funded through a city partnership. The 400,000 Yearlong Program offers full or half day shifts to hour like the 17 men and women who helped to plant trees in Civic Center Park. I did it a lot of time in prison. It is kind of hard for me to get a job. This is helping out a lot. Reporter Embassy Suites is taking part. General manager ed blair says hiring the homeless has elevated business at many of his hotels. I want to challenge all of the employers to be a part of the solution to ending homelessness and providing these opportunities to individuals. Regret it. Reporter and for workers like rita, this new job is elevating her confidence to stay off the streets and to work hard for her community. It makes me feel good to be able to help other people. And then, help myself too. Reporter and, Denver Day Works Program officially launched yesterday. It will run through the end of next october. And to get the word out about this program, there are outreach teams that will be visiting with the homeless during the week we are live in denver, Kelly Werthmann, cbs4 news. Hope the program really expands. Thats great. New information now on how rescue teams were able to save a stranded kitten today. Got stuck 85 feet up an old water tower in lasalle near greeley. The cat had been up there since sunday. People could hear the scared animal from the ground. They called in a technical rescue company to get the cat down. And the company uses drone watching to help in its business. Then, i have to admit, we were not sure what was going to happen. We didnt know whether this cat was going to be, you know, really agitated or if it was going to launch. It turned out to be a fairly small kitten. And, actually. Was quite anxious to be rescued. The kitten was taken to a local vet for a checkup. Very cute. Lets get to ed. We have been waiting for a cooldown. That black was annoyed she missed hallowe we had a couple of scattered snow showers. Lightning strikes. Telluride, they are just ending now. Not much going on around the state. We have a lot of sunshine on the Eastern Plains. You saw that. Off a few Early Morning showers. Theres the cool front that went on by. That cooled us down. Now things will begin to change. The cooler air has slid down over colorado. So, 62 degrees today. Ahead of it though, still 80s and 90s. Lets take a look at the past 24 hours. We are six degrees cooler than this time yesterday. Things cooler than yesterday, so, as we go into the Colorado Weather Center where we find lauren whitney, yeah, a cooler day today. But it will not last long. It is not going to last long. Temperatures were warm earlier this week. We remember our warm record tying halloween. 79. Today, 62. Tomorrow, back up to the upper 60s. We warm up. We will not be near the record breaking temperatures but it is certainly above our average temperature this time of year. We have a this area love low pressure will continue to build the next couple of days and into thursday. Bring some showers down into parts of arizona. Then it movers on up toward the four corner states and will swing up moisture toward our southern mountains from gulf of mexico bringing some wet heavy snowfall to some of the areas really high up. So third season for hunting starts this weekend. Some showers could head toward the front range on saturday. We may get a little bit of rain from that. Maybe mostly out on the Eastern Plains but here in denver, way. Most of the moisture stay to the south. We could use it so it will be a welcome sign coming our way. And we would really like to see a little rain. We would like to see a little rain. Our two teams finished tied at the end of the day with 62 both locations. 58 would be normal. Though it was cooler still four degrees above what we should have. 78 the record. 42 and 45 where we started. And six below. Coldest ever got this date 1951. 55 now as they keep pace. 38 humidity. A pretty shot here. Look at the elk along devils gulch road. The fresh snow on the mountains and the fog. So a pretty colorado shot there in estes park. Temperatures tonight, mostly in the 30s over the Eastern Plains. Higher up. Mostly 20s with a few low 30s. Out west, temperatures in the 20s , 30s , to 40 degrees. Then tomorrow, here comes that 50s and 60s for the mountains. Out west, temperature ins the 50s and the 60s. And here is your forecast. For tonight. Clear skies. 37. And 35 by morning. Then for tomorrow, we will look for mostly sunny skies. A bit warmer than today. We will do it again friday as we hit 69. 67 on saturday. Theres the chance for an isolated shower. Thats the best i could do for you. Put your clocks back before you go to bed on saturday night. Sunday, we are at 68. Monday and again, only an isolated shower. If we cant get rain, we can get an extra hour of sleep. Well, mark haas is here talking about the raiders. I would think you would want to say nice things about the broncos defense. No reason to make the denver defense madder. Derek carr with high praise. But the compliments not exactly returned from the broncos. We do not seem too concerned , scott tipton our congressman . Or is he a realestate agent for bigmoney Campaign Contributors . Tipton sponsored a bill to give away our public lands to his outofstate donors. Over 30 colorado Business Leaders called tiptons plans, a serious threat to the Outdoor Recreation industry Gail Schwartz will defend our public lands and wont put colorados future up for sale. House majority pac is responsible time for the ford sports desk brought to you by the best selling trucks for 39 years straight. Ford f series. The official trucks of the nfl. Today, gary kubiak said comes to the rivalry with the raiders. T. J. Ward not as politically correct as his coach saying he hates the team from oakland. Raiders team is underway. Wade phillips taking that huge hit on the sidelines during the win over the chargers. Bradley roby had the pick six on sunday. He was the player of the week. He was the only member of the no fly zone as harris, stewart, and wa and aqib talib is recovering. They will try to slow down derek karr and company on sunday. Broncos dont seem worried. The bucs make it hard to watch with their secondary. [ laughter ] , but, i mean, they threw the ball everywhere man. He had so much confidence. And he will just throw it to up them. We have a lot of chances to get picks. He will give us some chances to they are two good receivers. I wouldnt put them in the lead category, you know. We have guys with the elite receiver and the one good receiver. I feel like they have two good receivers, not elite. We have two elite corners and three elite corners. Thats their job. I think lit be all right. Broncos also have a pass rusher. In the same motion with the ball right out of his hands. I think one of the best playerers that we have ever had, the pass rusher. It is so funny. You are in the division, you played them so many times. You watched nondivisional teams. You see their game plans run at them. And trying to do certain blocks and it doesnt matter what you try to do. Eventually he is going to make a play. It is just fun to watch him play. It is fun to compete against him because he is one of the he is a special talent man. Century link poll question. When healthy, who is the best in the west when it comes to starting qb . Vote on cbsdenver. Com. Hockey, eight games into the season. The avalanche are 44. They have had impressive wins but hep they have lost, irrelevant has been ugly. Case in point, last night. At home against nashville as the avalanche got blown out and the predators got their an embarrassing loss. Vowed to come to work with a better attitude. Something im sure the coach would appreciate. We are trying to make sure we are getting certain things out of our group every night. And when we get them, we give ourselves a good chance to win. When we dont get them, it is almost a guaranteed loss. So. If you look at the games we have lost over the course of the season, we havent come to compete hard enough. Are playing really well. Reporter you may have noticed i started my hockey beared for november. You can check out my november page on facebook. We will see how it works out. You have is a whole month. A whole month to try. A Mysterious Illness similar to polio is affecting children in 33 states. Why doctors here at Childrens Hospital colorado might know what is causing it. The man hunt over for suspect accused of ambushing two both killed. Why police say they were already familiar with the already familiar with the suspect before this im michael bennet, and i approve this message. Narrator what do you really know about darryl glenn, the fringe republican candidate for senate . Darryl glenn doesnt believe in climate change. Hes for eliminating the department of education. Of rape and incest. Reporter glenn says if hes fortunate enough to go to capitol hill, he has no interest in working across the aisle. Darryl glenn im running against democrats. Im running against evil. Narrator darryl glenn is wrong for colorado. Woman after all donald trump has said and done. She ate like a pig. You can do anything. I moved on her like a b h woman trumps just so disgusting and degrading. Hes bragged about assaulting women, and hes the republican nominee for president and congressman mike coffman said he didnt know if Donald Trumps a sexual predator. Come on. Look, we just cant vote for coffman or trump. House majority pac is responsible a man in the des moines area in custody now in the shooting deaths of two officers. Happened overnight. The suspects capture ended an hours long man cbss danielle knotting ham has the latest from iowa. Reporter the man hunt for scott Greene Police say gunned down two Iowa Police Officers overnight andid quietly along this rural road when he gave himself up to the state employee of the department of natural resources. He flagged down an employee of the dnr. Presented his id to that called 911. Reporter greene was wanted for killing two police officers. The first, just after 1 00 a. M. In greenes hometown. The second, 20 minutes later and two miles away in des moines. Police say they were ambushed. Definitely was no opportunity for the officers to defend themselves. They were seated this their cars. And, were shot while they were sitting. Reporter the officers were identified as des Moines SergeantAnthony Beminio and urbandale officer justin martin. Greene was no stranger enforcement. He was issued a warning for waving a Confederate Flag during the National Anthem at his daughters game. He wavered it in front of people of color. There were people who felt that was offensive. Reporter police took greene to a hospital after he complained of a medical condition. Charges have not yet been announced. Danielle nottingham, cbs news, urbandale, iowa. Police dont yet know how