Of a landslide. This 15yearold girl from pueblo is missing and could be in danger. Sarah romero disappeared saturday with 19yearold raymond holt, last seen in a 1998 red ford mustang with the plate qsu222. If you know anything, call 911. It is cooler outside than this time yesterday. It is. Well continue to see a similar weather pattern as yesterday with an increasing chance of showers and storms later this afternoon. Take a look at the satellite and radar. We have a bit of moisture moving into places down south. Temperatures outside are feeling nice, 80 currently in denver, 60s and low 70s in the high country and mid tt upper 70s across the western slope. Loveland, well continue to see increasing clouds in the high country, a better chance of showers earlier this afternoon before they make their way on to the plains. In denver, picking up more cloud cover, 78 degrees downtown right now. This is your first alert for the isolated storms this afternoon and gusty winds. Highs in the upper 80s, but a cooldown is coming for the weekend. From the Denver Tech Center to downtown. We have a rollover crash here. That suv is right in the middle the only traffic is here to the its a monster traffic jam as you can see here. Its heavy all the way back to the tech center. Better way to get around that. Crews have rescued a man who got stuck on the second flat iron in whether or not you woulder. Boulder. Overnight in denver smoke from this fire could be seen for blocks in all directions. This is a Waste Management facility and employees there had to evacuate everyone is okay and firefighters got that under control. More than 550 acres burned in elbert county. Air tracker 7 flew over the scene last night. The fires were sparked by lightning and merged together but they are out right now. Firefighters are keeping an eye on hot spots. No buildings were destroyed. Denver police and the dea operation. We are getting clues this morning about what it could be all about. Reporter a press conference is expected start in about 30 minutes here. We are told the dea, attorney general, drug force and denver pd will be part of this press conference to talk about the successful operation. We dont know what this operation is source says it could be about a large heroin drug bust. We dont have that much information but that press conference is set to start in about 30 minutes. Well have more after that kicksoff. Safety upgrades are coming to the Railroad Crossing where five family members died earlier this year. The state will add flashing lights, bells and gates to the and Christine Miller and three of their daughters were killed just 12 days after the county sent in an application for safety upgrades. At the time the crossing only had a sign marking it. A 57yearold man is facingg a felony charge for an illegal burn in Larimer County that grew to more than 500 acres on sunday. New this morning, a Denver Police officer received a 16 crash while driving drunk. Thats according to newly obtained documents. Authorities say he crashed into a median while driving home from a bar this february. His blood alcohol content was. 165 and he didnt lose his license because the arresting officer didnt show up to the revocation hearing. An officer went to jail 42yearold dean dominguez is on leave from the Adams County Sheriffs Department and charged with several crimes. Arrested for Domestic Violence this year. Bob trujillo was arrested in march in mmerce city. Few details were released about his arrest. The parents of deputy nate carrigan, killed while serving a high risk eviction notice, are demanding answers. They are taking the first step to file a ws notice of suit to park county. It edge the department didnt follow policy because regular sheriffs deputies like carrigan do not remove a barricaded and dangerous 3 suspect. Especially after he knew he threatened to kill the deputies. What was the purpose . What was the point . The undersheriff says the information from the cbi report next week. If Hillary Clinton wins novembers election, a familiar face in cclorado politics will be helping guide her transition to her new role. Jason gruenauer has more. Reporter the former colorado senator and secretary of the interior was named to clintons Transition Team today. Help shape policy for a would be Clinton White house. He would also meet with president obama to prepare for a president ial handoff. He could then ecooe part of the administration in washington. He was a colorado senator from 2004 to 2009. Repubbican nominee donald trump has already picked his back in may. We tracked down the person who turned in some signatures the november minimum wage increase on the ballot. That person says he didnt forge the signatures, but one voter confirmed his name was forged even though the secretary of state counted his signature as valid. It would be nice if the secretary of state had the authority to scrub signatures that are not valid. State law does noal secretary of state to verify signatures like we did going door to door. The minimum wage increase will be on the ballot since more than the needed signatures were turned in. And voters will be asked if colorado should legalize the right to tie for terminally ill people, becoming the sixth state to allow aided dying. Voters will also see a the independent monitors office. A yes vote would make it a permanent part of the city. The Office Investigates police misconduct. Last night dozens rallied at city hall in support of the independent monitor. In 2009 alex was pulled over for whattpolice claimed was an illegal left turn. When officers began searching his car, he asked if he could their response was to beat me within inches of my life. Those officers were never disciplined but he did get a 795,000 settlemenn. Hes now one of the loudest voices pushing for the independent monitor to become permanent. This is not something you . Ant to see, headlights coming at you going the wrong direction. This happened to a denver 7 viewer on i70. Say they got a couple of calls about this wrongway driver but were not able to catch up to them. Today cdot is reminding people that seat belts save lives. Amanda del castillo is at their back to school press conference. Reporter we are learning car crashes are the leading cause of death for teens across colorado and today cdot wants to be sure teens understand they have a better chance of surviving a crash. In a back to school press conference, cdot explained the numbers of fatal crashes among teen have increased nearly 30 between 2009 and 2014. There are challenges but by law, teens must be buckled. Other volunteers that conduct sweeps across colorado, looking for people who are and are not wwaring seat belts. Right now the percentage is about 85 . That means 15 of people, over 700,000 in colorado, not buckling up. Thats a lot of room for improvement. We have a lot of work to do. Working with teenagers is vital. Reporter the press conference like this and educational seminars incite . People to use their seat belt and hopes that in the process they can save lives. Amanda del castillo, denver 7. More fallout from the king mine spill. Plus historic flooding in louisiana leading to a growing. F you have a meeting downtown and youre down in the Denver Tech Center, youre going to be late. We have a rollover crash. You can see the suv on its top here. They have a tow truck in here and almost looks like theyre going to hook it up upside down it will still take some time. The northbound and southbound side of i25 really messed up there at university. Northbound side, about a half hour, southbound side an extra thank you. New at 11 00, the Navajo Nation is suing the epa after more than 300 million gallons of wine waste water gushed into the gold king the lawsuit says they failed to compensate the farmers who rely on the river. The state of new mexico already sued the epa over damages. In nepal at least 30 people were killed when a passenger bus skidded off a hill. More than 35 were hurt and the death toll could rise as many passengers are still unaccounted for. Several men are missing after being kidnapped by men with guns at a restaurant in puerta vallarta, new mexico. The victims were eating at a restaurant at the time and investigators say the waitresses and women eating with them were not kidnapped. Authorities believe its a case of gang violence. In california, police have a suspect starting a fire that burned 175 people. Many cheered as the arrest was announced this morning. It is my pleasure to announce the arrest of even ashill. In the last hour, the flooding and 8,000 people spent the night in shelters last night. Reporter this view from above shows the widespread flood damage, the losses heartbreaking for the homeowners. Wondering whats left if anything. Everything i had is gone. Everything. Everything. Reporter hurricane katrina, and the devastation this time is even worse. It was nothing like this. It was a lot of displaced people, a big area. This is just a whole town washed away vernight. End of your life, end of your world, got to start over like that. We worked so hard for it. Reporter the flooding night sandbagging trying to help save whats left. More than 30 inches of rain fell in just three days. So far at least 30,000 people have been rescued. 12,000 are now homeless and packed in shelters. Were not going to were going to stay to the bloody end. If it knocks us down, were going to get back up and rebuild. One of the hardest areas hit is finally trying to recede but downstream they will be dealing with swollen rivers today. That is why Authorities Say they remain on high alert. Overnight the riviera came down on the las vegas strip. Movies like oceans 11 and austin powers. The citys Convention Authority bought the hotel last year and tore it down to create space for a Convention Center expansion. Today we are going to be seeing pretty similar weathe to what we saw yesterday, nothing severe in nature, which is good news. Still a chance of moisture here but nothing like louisiana. Today well have increasing clouds across the denver metro area. Through this afternoon, a chance of storms later this evening. If youre not loviig the 90s, well have 80s on the way and even 70s. 3 we are picking up aalittle moisture in the foothills. We could see scattered showers and storms in the afternoon. Moisture but downtown denver at a temperature of 78 degrees, mix of sun and clouds, 80 at the airport, humidity down to about 26 this hour. Well see winds pick up and if any of those isolated storms move in, expect gusty winds. For the moss part well have a mix of sun and clouds throughout the afternoon. Grand junction getting degrees, 83 in eagle, leadville only getting up to 62 degrees today, much cooler there. Across the northeastern plainn upper 80s and low 90s. Places like lamar still getting up into the mid90s. Today colorado is looking okay as far as severe weather, not expecting any of these storms throughout the morning. We could see a threat for heavy precipitation south of i70. Fort collins and dia could be picking up showers that will move east overnight and clear out. Tomorrow it will be similar, High Pressure bringing us daytime warmth and dryness. Overnight were in the 60s in the westernnslope, 40s and 50s for the mountains, and upper 50s to low 60s across the eastern side of the state. Tonight 58 in denver, and a few storms may pass through but partly cloudy conditions. Tomorrow 89 degrees, right around average. Expect that warm and dry morning followed by a chance for a few afternoon storms. Into the state west to east, dropping temperatures by friday back into the lower 70s. More cloud cover, showers in the area. By saturday a few afternoon storms and temperatures in the 70s. Overnight lows in the 50s but well warm back up heading into next week. 20 days into broncos training camp, and bad news for the team this morning. Whos now out for the season, coming ccx we have update. This 15yearold girl, sarah romero, has been found safe. She disappeared on saturday and that missing person alert has been deactivated. We dont know where she was found. Last day to catch the broncos in action, their final open practice being tomorrow. Yesterday starting defensive end vance walker tore his acl. He is now out for the year. Never good news when you hear one of your brothers going down. I pray that hes okay. And jared crick will take over for walker. As far as quarterbacks go, we dont know who will start in saturdays preseason game at mile high against the 49ers. A duck and a dog n tennessee are showing our differences on the outside george the dog lost his best friend two years go and his owner says hed gotten depressed, wasnt eating well. One day she noticed a duck on the back porch, who now refuses to leave georges side. Since the duck showed up, hes been fine. Hes not wanted in the house, not whined, not meeting you at the car looking sad. His bed and even allows him to rest its bill on him. Coming up, aajudge involved in a rape case back in the headlines this morning. Details on how people are trying to remove him from the bench. And an actor killed in an accident involving his jeep, and a colorado woman now suing over the same problem. And donald trump proposing a over a million ears of corn are picked a day here in olathe, colorado. And im glad we have a senator who uses his ears to listen to whats most important to colorado farmers. Michael bennet asked what he could do to help, and then worked with republicans to make a farm bill thats making a difference to all farmers in colorado. We dont always agree, but he values our input. And i do trust Michael Bennet to look out for us. We continue to follow breaking news with a rollover crash at i25 and university. This jeep on the northbound side has been on its top for the last 40 minutes. They are just getting that on the truck and getting that absorbent swept up there. Once theyre done cleaning up, they will open the lanes. Right now just two lanes of northbound i25 are open at university, about delay. All lanes should be open in less than 10 minutes. At least its a little cooler than yesterday. Well continue to see the upper 80s for daytime highs today but 70s are back in the forecast by friday. Satellite and radar, we have some shower activity, isolated storms moving west of i25. Well conto pick up a slight chance for a few afternoon isolated showers. In the mid70s across the western slope, low 70s and mid 80s across the high country. Right now we have increasing cloud cover and a chance for widely scattered showers, some isolated storms, and later tonight we are anticipating storms rolling through. Right now blue skies, mix of sun and clouds and upper 70s and low 80s. Highs today across the front range are around average for this time of year, evergreen 78, denver 88, castle rock 84. We have a chance of storms but the biggest threat is gusty winds, up to about 35 miles an hour. Ill have what you can expect coming up in the next 48 hours, in a few minutes. To impeach boulder judge patrick butler, who gave a light sentence to a convicted rapest. He sentenced Austin Wilkerson to 20 years probation and work release. Judge butler is up for reelection in four years. A denver 7 viewer had their dash cam rolling as a driver went by them on i70 in the wrong direction. Trpe up with that driver and they want drivers to be more alert and careful on the road. Amanda del castillo has more on the departments efforts. Reporter the video is justt one alarming reminder that we cant control the drivers around us. We can make changes for ourselves to improve our chances or surviving a crash. That includes wearing your seat safety at a press conference today, explaining the number of fatal crashes with teens increased nearly 30 between 2009 and 2014. There are challenges in maintaining a high use rate in a state where teens must be buckled. Buckling up is the single best thing they can do to prevent injury or death in a traffic crash. Anybody that knows, nature. You dont think about it. Once you form that habit, you dont even think about it. I think the message is about safety. Reporter cdot wants more people to use seat belts and save lives in the process. Amanda del castillo, denver 7. The man shot and killed by Lakewood Police on saturday has terry heightman. We learned heightman had a long criminal history including several convictions for burglary and shoplifting. Police say he had a gun during a standoff and when he reached for his weapon, s. W. A. T. Officers opened fire. A 31yearold in brighton, jamie silaa was sentenced to 20 years after a crime that according to documents, he assaulted a 4 or 6 week old infant he was babysitting and texted pictures of it to his friends. Police say this 35yearold man assaulted another man on Christmas Eve while dressed as santa claus. Brian delorme will spend 8 years behind bars. The victim did survive his derby called a woman a racial clarify before punching her earlier this year. He did apologize to the victim in court yesterday. Jefferson county deputies are looking for two teenagers who caused 10,000 in damage to the Montessori Peaks Academy off kipling and bowls. Deputies say the teens snuck inside saturday morning and used 6 more than 20 windows and glass doors. While riding a favorite bike route over the weekend, many cyclists were alarmed to see hateful messages spray painted along Black Mountain drive in jeffco, including one that said, cars should kill you. I dont think theres any place for threats, graffiti on the highway. Its dumb. Its disheartening and more and more. If the vandals are found, they could face jail time. A colorado woman is saying her Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled into her, the same thing that killed actor Anton Yelchin in june. A recall was issued for this model because so many drivers have been confused by the gear shift. The woman thought her jeep was in park and the lawsuit claims her jeep hit her and she was details on a tragic drowning. A 3 and 6yearold, with their 17yearold babysitter, all drowned in their mobile home complex pool earlier this month. Police say all three jumped into the deep end of the pool. An adult noticed something was wrong a short time later and tried to save the girl but it was too late. Donald trumps plan of critics. Hes calling for tests for people entering the country. Reporter Donald Trumps selfproclaimed extreme immigration plan to defend against terrorism. The time is overdue to develop a new Screening Test 3 for the threats we face today. I call it extreme vetting. Today getting extreme criticism. Only those we expect to flourish in our country and to embrace a tolerant American Society should be issued visas. Reporter the use of the president ial power would be a first and the Supreme Court quickly called the plan a cynical ploy to ban an entire religion. Vice President Biden spent his day on the campaign trail with clinton. Trumps ideas are not only wrong but they are very dangerous and very unamerican. Reporter president obama on Marthas Vineyard yesterday to attend a democratic fundraiser. Chipotle keeps trying to win you over and they are doing it with a new special, and its not food. More people are coming forward with Serious Health problems linked to 9 11. Google announces its versioo of a video calling feature. And increasing clouds throughout the day across the despite two decades of warnings, the american aaademy of pediatrics says many parents are still putting babies to sleep in an unsafe ways. Researchers looked at hundreds of videos of parents putting down little ones on their sides and stomach, as well as loose bedding, bumper pads and putting stuffed animals in the crib. Doctors say always put them on their back without any extras in the crib. Aetna is going to stop offering policies in 11 of 15 states it currently operates, including colorado. It will only sell obamacare products in four states after and policy holders are turning out to be sicker and costlier than expected. 15 years after the terror attacks in new york, people are still finding out they have Health Problems from working at ground zero. 5400 people have cancer linked to 9 11 and that is just the number of people who have signed up for the federal health program. Today we are looking at ways to protect our homes from thieves. August is one of the highest me lot of people go on vacation. There are more than 2. 15 million burglaries in the u. S. Every year. More than 65 of those are home burglaries. Denver 7 is teaming up with aaa to help you avoid getting burglarized. The key is to think like a thief. If youre on vacation, turn off the ringer of the home phone. Now with access to the innernet can connect addresses to names and connect those to phone numbers. Its very easy to call someones home and hear it ringing off the hack and confirm they are not there. And if burglars think it will take more than four or five minutes to break in, they will likely move on. Chipotle is serving up something new to drum up business, now offering happy hour. All the locati with a liquor llcense are . Articipating. Ccipotle already tried to give away burritos and started a Loyalty Program in hopes of winning back customers after the e. Coli outbreak. Denver Public Library is bringing wifi to low iicome neighborhoods. Its part of a program allowing families to check out high Speed Internet like they would check out a book. There are 10 wifi spots at five different branches and we thedenverchannel. Com. Google launched its own free Video Service called duo. People can use it to call people between ios and android devices, something face time cant do. It opens with a split screen view of your front facing camera and a group of recently dialed contacts pops up. There could be a dedicated Text Messages app in a few weeks. Audi is introducing an Industry First with a new tells drivers how long it will take for a traffic light to turn from red to green. Drivers can see a countdown on the dash and once four seconds are left before the light turns green, the timer stops so the driver remembers to look up. Im curious about that one. Car. Today throughout the day we can expect a mix of sun and clouds with a chance of storms. Right now most of the activity is west of i25, Eastern Plains ann much of the metro area staying very dry. Well have increasing cloud cover across the metro area throughout the day today, a slight chance of a few isolated storms rolling on to the plains this afternoon. The 70s are back come friday. Take a look we are picking up activity in the foothills. Down further south near colorado springs, another cell moving through. Partly cloudy skies in downtown denver, 81 degrees right now, 80 at dia. Our biggest threat for severe thunderstorms is not very high today. But we do have a chance for gusty winds associated with any gusts about 30 to 35 miles an hour possible. So what we can expect heading throughout the afternoon, right now models show activity in the high country, in the foothills. The best chance forrseeing rain will be further north in fort collins around dia. Really further down to the south, could be picking up more will be moving off the plains by ttnight and well see partly cloudy skies and dry conditions as we start wednesday before a cold front moves in thursday. Pretty similar weather pattern over the next few days, 93 in Grand Junction and 70s and 80s across the mountains. Upper 80s to lower 90s across the northEastern Plains. Passing through, 58 for the overnight low. Tomorrow more sunshine and temperatures in the upper 80s. Thursday we have another change in store. So today and tomorrow, highs in the upper 80s. Well start to cool down thursday. Friday take a look, cooler shower weather with us. Mostly cloudy skies and it will feel like fall on friday, highs only in the lower 70s. Mid70s saturday, and sunday up into the 80s on monday. The u. S. Is still in the lead in the medal count. We have good news, all lanes of northbound i25 now open here at university. You can see traffic is thinned out. We had a rolled over jeep but now all lanes northbound i25 open again. Very good. To the olympics now, team usas Allison Felix becoming the most decorated u. S. Womens track . And field star of all time. Reporter the photo finish in rio. In the womens 400 meters, the favorite, american Allison Felix, ran a rousing race with a heartstopping finish. Felix came from behind and had gold within her grasp. The sprint ended with a photo finish. Across the line for gold, edging out felix by. 7 seconds. That dive got swift reaction, many questioning the tactic. The team usa star settled for silver, her 7th olympic medal. The 30yearold is now the most decorated female track athlete in u. S. History. And it was a tough night on the beam for american simone biles, this. The wobble seen round the world, and just like that the gold medal was out of reach. Biles earned bronze. Lori hernandez had a near flawless showing. Earlier in the day biles posted this throwback photo of the congratulated her teammate with a huge hug. Other big drama of the night outside the arena. Mother nature strikes the olympics on monday, heavy rain flooding the racetrack and delayed races. Wildfires burned just 10 miles from rios field hockey field and strong winds hurt mens a trex skull is going for 1. 8 million. It says this specimen is one of the most complete trex skulls ever discovered. It was discovered in montana last interesting gift to get. Dont see that every day. Today well have a similar weather pattern to the last couple days, sunny throughout the morning with a 10 to 20 chance of afternoon storms between about 3 00 and 7 00 tonight. Partly cloudy overnight, lows dropping down into the upper 50s, then as we head into the end of the week, a cold front moves back into colorado, the weekend. Thank you for joining us. If you like it hot, hot, hot, then weve got an hour of television you wont want to miss. Its time to spice up your summer. Clintons teaming up with someone who knows a thing or two about spice. Its the fabulous mel b. And theyre whipping up a meal thatll make you zigazigah. Then, daphnes got a delicious dish thats not only familyfriendly, its glitterrific. Plus, marios making a fiery feast with the stars of feed the beast, David Schwimmer and jim sturgess. Its all about spice, spice, baby, right now, here on the chew. . [ cheers and applause ] hello. You startled me there. 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