Reporter one of the Fastest Growing voter blocks and colorado, latino nails, less support for obama care and raising the minimum wage also harder to get millennial latinos to fill out the ballot. 15 coloradans is latino. The census estimates it will be closer to one in three. Soon we will no longer be the minority and people need to know t accept that fact. Reporter esmeralda rodriguez, latino millennials. We dont care about what party were we are sick of the twoparty system. What they think likely will decide who winds in colorado this year and beyond. How is latino electric going to act in the selection. Reporter the latino data project survey 2000 latinos including 400 between the ages of 18 and 33. Get this, less than half of registered democrat. They are not identifying with the party, they are not identifying with the candidate. They are identifying with issues. Reporter more likely to take part in a protest or rally than actually voting. They dont necessarily see voting is the mechanism to create the change they want in our society. That is our challenge to figure out how to move them. Reporter it turns out celebrities are not the best political messengers. Reaching out to the mother or aunt or grandmother in the family is equally as as perhaps an and or radio spot. Anymore educated, learning about politics and we are a force to be recconed with. Reporter one more surprising staff from the Research Nearly three in five latino voters dont realize we use the vote by mail system. I know others who also fit that category so please check your mail for your ballot. Illegal selfies, you may season, tonight we are asking if you can get in trouble for snapping a picture. Liz gelardi joins us live downtown. Reporter i cant believe we have to ask this but if you are ttinking about taking a selfie before you turn your ballot in, you might be breaking the law but you probably are alone. Most people do it now to say how proud they are. Reporter call it the modern day version of the i voted sticker. Selfie. Did you know it was illegal to take a selfie with your ballot . No. Really . I did not know that. Reporter if that sounds ridiculous to you, you can take a selfie as long as it is not filled out. Once you color in the dots it is another story. It is true, you are not supposed to show your completed ballot to anyone, even online. The law is so old it dates back is literally falling apart. The legislature has to decide is this one of those strange, old laws to get rid of, it doesnt keep up with technology. Reporter even lawmakers are breaking the law. Representative Polly Lawrence posted this photo. There is no threat of prosecution. Reporter activist say the law is simply out of date and violates free speech. They have a right to tell reporter for the past two years a local representative has been trying to change this. He wants to remove the part where you cant show anyone your ballot but so far it has been unsuccessful. You know a couple other states turned over bands on taking selfies with your ballot. Recent court cases in New Hampshire and indiana support the right of voters to take selfies. Time dropping off his ballot today reminding you to get yours filled out. The denver7 app is your best rrsource before election day. The sevenday seven hings proposition 106. About takk a look at this orange smoke billowing out of the suncor plant last week. The Health Department says you dont need to worry it was a power failure the cause the odd colored smoke and the problem was fixed. A beautiful weekend ahead that wont last long. A cold front headed our way and th looks like r2d2. The new best friend. Reporter have this new robot is making hospital safer for patient. A colorado town mistakenly warns of thc in the water. Denver seven investigates why they are still using the same test that cause so much embarrassment. Reporter do you remember the volkswagen diesel emission scandal . 61 million from vws settlement. That can mean big things for electric cars. We were fundamentally outraged and we remain outraged. He ought this 2011 jetta for it high efficiency and low pollution features. As soon as we found out about the problem we swore we were going to drive it and we got the leaf. Impacted by volkswagens emission scandal but some good is coming from those dirty cars. I think it is a really positive opportunity for the state. Reporter colorado will likely cash in on 61 million of vws settlement, more than 35 other states. We will find a way to use this money to get the maximum airquality benefit. Reporter the state department of health in charge of giving up the funds which can only be used to reduce transportation emissions. One thing are looking at is electronic electric charging systems. That would allow electric car without fear of running out of range. We definitely want these to be put in places that make sense where people would actually use them. If we were take a longer trip no way we could do it. Reporter it could also be heavy forklifts and airport generators. A Good Opportunity for us. Reporter he thinks the money could help shift the state to more 0 emissions cars. Charging your car can be like buying gas, no p reporter this is not a done deal. The judge is expected to sign up on the settlement next week. In the meantime, they want to know how you think you should spend this money. Let them know online, also holding a public hearing next month. ,. We have looked into charging stations across the denver area to see if they are being used. Last fall six stations across which is about two times a day. Reporter not the first time a man charged for shooting two teenagers in denver. Turns out Keith Hammack allegedly shot another teenager last year. Police say in both cases it is believed they were breaking into his backyard where he grows pot. An elderly man has his nose broken inside the Jefferson County government administrative building. To find a couple you see on the screen. Not because they are suspects that they may have seen something. A ton of rocks sitting in the middle of highway 133, now closed between carbondale and hotchkiss on the western slope. They felt late last night. Once the mess is cleaned up, it will take a while. The worry is the damage that was caused to the road. Story did you drive by this crash this morning in weld county . Crash took off and may have gotten a ride by someone driving by. If he saw anything let police know. Who would do this . Boards filled with nails down all along this bike trail in eagle county, days before High School Mountain bikers are going to race down this trail. I dont know why it was a false positiie. Reporter this made National Headlines. Yes. Reporter hugo on the map. It is the pot in the water scare that mad tonight, what went wrong with these drug test kits. Tony kovaleskis investigation into what went wrong in hugo. The water is contaminated with thc. The psychoaative agent found a marijuana. Reporter National Headlines could not resist making jokes colorados expense. Sounds like we need a second hit on the story [ laughter ]. Marijuana is legal, even tap water can get you high. More to that story. Reporter Law Enforcement in hugo wasnt laughing. Is a thc, another compound causing a false positive. Until we know that we will take safety precautions fullbore. I was a bit surprised that it was taken that far so quickly. Department of human services. This made National Headlines. Yes. Put hugo on the map. Yes. This whole embarrassing episode started in her office. I dont know why it was a false positive. Reporter philip says the 3 confusion stemmed around these 12 saliva screening test, used by the department to monitor parents reported for abuse and neglect, parents using drugss a second line on the test means it is negative but sometimes the second line is extremely faint so caseworkers decided to test the tapwater. With the caseworkers wanted was a clear, definitive picture of what a negative, total negative would look like. Reporter they assumed tapwater. Would give that negative. Reporter even though the test needs saliva, not tapwater. Right. Reporter the foundation of reporter town officials decided to run the same saliva test on water samples from each well. When one well tested positive consistently, officials issued the water advisory. Without confirming those results with a lab. That decision proved to be costly. County records show taxpayers met spent more than 4000 during that two day scare trucking and water for hugos 700 residents. Why have you not lost confidence and accuracy of these kids after what happened in the water . I think that would be based on the premise that testing kits kits, there is something wrong with them. We dont believe in that premise. We found that they have been accurate through double checking them with lab tests, hair tests or urine test. In a public records request asking for records showing positive tests using the screen he gets consequences for families like parents was in the kids but the county refused to release that information citing privacy concerns in a quote very small county where individuals could be identified just based on the situation. We are just trying to clarify that if this test kit produces a positive result in fact has consequences. I understand that. Reporter can you answer the question . No, i cant. Reporter new testing showed no thc in the water, given the all clear. We detected literally everywhere else in the state [ laughter ]. Reporter despite all the headlines, joking aboot pot so plentiful it is seeping into could be driving decisions about whether families stay together. As you sit there now, are you confident these kids are producing accurate results . Yes, i am. Reporter Lincoln County says positive screening drug tests are confirmed with the lab if the client argues the test results are right that those lab tests have a turnaround time of up to four weeks. The Department Also says no one has come forward to question prior test results after this incident with the pot in the water. The county department is finishing up what they are calling an after action report and are expecting that to come out in the next couple weeks. A lot f headline. Fascinating. Big mistake. Tough questions and good work thanks. You remember the beaver creek fire, the 38,000acre fire near the wyoming border, still burning tonight and just we spoke with firefighters waiting for the first snow to help put that fire out. Good news in custer county, some evacuees were allowed to go home ttday. The nearly 17,000acre fire is only 3 contained tonight. Look at this guy right here, he must not have seen the closed signs. Landscapers working on repairs right there, stuck near the top so this air could finish his hike. The most in shape barron hall in colorado. Reporter weather quiet but a lot going on the stites these are called killed and clouds, they are caused by different densities warm air aloft you get different speeds going on with like waves in the ocean raking and creating wavy looking clouds. Learn more on my Facebook Page mike nelson 7 news. Night by vincent van gogh. The orion meteor shower. This one is actually from the earth passing through cosmic dust left from halleys comet. Happens every october as the orbit takes us to that dust. The size of small grains of sand traveling that burned 60 miles but there. Normally a fairly decent show you get about 1020 per hhur. Best viewing between midnight and 4 00 a. M. Look toward the constellation orion. But tonight, the moon will be bright so it might limit it a little bit despite the fact the skies are clear. Denver right now 45 downtown, 47 at dia. Winds gusting at the moment, southwest 14 miles perrhour. The high today 63, 25 below early this morning only four above the record low set back in 1995. Big highpressure system weather for tte next several days keeping storms away. Overnight lows cool and temperatures will drop down below freezing at some point east of denver. Catchy ffost. Along the front range mostly holding upper 30s to low 40s on the i25 corridor. Tomorrow highs in the 70s, bright sunshine throughout thh day. 50s and 60s expected are there west. In the mountains across the state nifty eight leadville, 73, denver, greeley, a heading into the weekend. Tonight, clear. Patchy frost to these 38 below. High temperatures 73 tomorrow beautiful, warm, dry day. Dry a bit of a problem. We could use moisture but certainly not coming up in this forecast. 75 saturday and sunday, maybe a Little Mountain snow tuesday and rain showers down here, cooler weather middle of next week that we will have to wait a probably a good eight to tee days out. We are waiting. Look at that weekend. Looks fabulous. Weather and art history tonight. That will help someone in trivia. Thank you so much. This little robot looks like r2d2 but is actually used to 3 keep you safer at Porter Adventist Hospital by killing spores or bacteria in hospital rooms. How cool is that. This guy pretty powerful too. Ultraviolet light 100 ti that, which means dangerous germs dont stand a chance. We need to a standard cleaning process in the room you can leave 5065 of spores still left even bleaching is a doing a thorough cleaning. When youring the robot in 5 10 minutes of ultraviolet radiation spores tela vanished. Its important, but not chief. Each robot cost 120,000 but is worth it when you dont have to after reaching an deal with denver club cold creche back open tonight. And crowded. Early this week it was shut down after police callee it a nuisance following a murder near the bar us weekend. Regulars rallied to say it is not as bad as police make it sound. Lakewood, 10 million richer. Lotto winnings here, especially if you got your ticket at the 711 on west alameda and lakewood. The ticket with all six matching brock is coming back and the broncos cant wait to see him again. You can bet the fans will be reaching out for highfives at mile high this time around. We will hear from brock coming up. And what a night for att donald trump and congressman coffman would punish women. And coffman tried to redefine rape to mean only forcible rape. In coffmans bill, victims who were drugged, even minors, victims of statutory rape, would not be considered rape victims. Coffman and trump are too dangerous for colorado. About a year ago, 30 ethiopians were killed by isis. Reporter mass execution of ethiopian christians. Mike coffman was the only one that reached out to our community. He went to every ethiopian church. He was there, and he was sharing the sadness that we were actually experiencing at the time. That means a lot to us and to me. Im mike coffman, welcome to 7sports xtra. Brock osweiler shouldve could have been the quarterback of the future but a lot of people in broncos country happy, thankful he took the money and ran off to houston. Iisider troy renck has the latest on texans and broncos. Nfl offense but in this way you cant look like a draft just up top merrygoround. Need balance. Trevor siemian said on thursday that it if the team improves how secondaries defend them. Quite a bit two deep safeties, part of that issthe product of being down on the game, coordinators and defense arent stupid they wont let one play affect the game. Once you get to that point. We will try to stay balanced, keep working, keep chipping away we will get the. Reporter how tooimprove the game if you are the broncos cj anderson likes they have been backed into a corner. Want to change the results cj said they need to change their anything this week is execution , definitely playing harder. We havent been playing as hard as we want to. We havent been playing as physical as we want to. Reporter but about brock . Brock osweiler told reporters today he thinks the broncos miss him. He was joking in reference to the bronco player saying they would like to kill him on monday night. I know how talented the defensee. I am not blind to that. They were the super bowl champions for a reason and i going into mile high, owing against that great defense, trying to move the ball and score poinns. Our guys think the world of brock ttey shared a locker with them three years, four years, they won a championship witt brock so they have a lot of respect for him. Obviously i learned a ton from brock as well. The situation he was in. So brock is a good friend and i wish him really well. Reporter broncos are focused game losing streak since 20111 all right. Make sure to check the denver7 app and thedenverchannel. Com. Troy has an exclusive conversation with von miller today. Read all about it right now on a mobile device. Avalanche in tampa lightning struck in the form of matt duchene. He stole the puck, split to get the vendors, shot once, twice the net for the first time the season. He also endured a brutal collision with a teammate. But he was all right because he shot, a threepoint night, two goals, and assist. Avs. 40 now 3 1 to start the season. For the ladies, wnba championship, the sparks three seconds tt go, that is the game winner and the series clincher. They won the title. Magic johnson there accepting the trophy. We show you every champagne celebration we can on 7sports xtra and the sparks will enjoy that one tonight. Thursday night football. Thursday night football. Nelson and all those from when i became governor, i knew we had to protect our colorado way of life. Its why i need a good team in the state senate. Like rachel zenzinger, a former teacher whos fought for equal pay for equal work. Daniel kagan championed property tax rebates to help seniors afford their utility bills. Jenise may worked to cut taxes ,000 small businesses. And tom sullivan is a veteran who believes in an open and transparent government. A state trooper dashcam caught a bald wrote picked up the bird put it in his car and took it to a center for birds of prey. Just under ten hours until you can hit the slopes. The first lip will go up in arapahoe basin. The first result to open in north america for the season. Denver7 will be live on the ssopes tomorrow. Not me but someone will be there. You will have their now. Start driving. A good day, start out cold around 20 degrees and warm up sunscreen. True. Indeed. We have a lot of sunshine coming up. Beautiful. Tried to stab me with an 8inch knife. But i carry a pistol. I fight back. Thats why im still here. Every woman has a right to defend herself with a gun if she chooses. Hillary clinton disagrees with that. Dont let politicians take away your right to own a gun. Jimmy kimmel live tonight, Benedict Cumberbatch isla fisher this week in unnecessary censorship and music from flatbush zombies. And now, heres jimmy kimmel . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you. Thank you. Very nice of you. Hi, everybody. Thank you. Im jimmy. Im the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thanks to all of you for coming. Wow, thats very nice. Im glad youre with us. You know, we have a good one tonight