The victim, taken by four masked men. Over the next few days, the suspects called the victims father demanding ransom. That is according to this affidavit. The number kept going down from 500,000 according to the affidavit. The first ransoo pick up attempt was unsuccessful. The suspect couldnt find the money dropped off by the fbi. 20000 on september 3. The victim was returned to his family safe sleep. Safely. Three have been arrested and we are trying to figure out more about the timeline. At 11 30, police will be having a News Conference where we expect to learn more about this complicated case. We will get you that information on all our platforms. The over budget aurora va hospital is being ordered to hand over documents to provide clues on how a project moved from six mill . A 600 million to over 1 billion. The va hospital failed to hand the documents over, so they now legally have to turn found dead. William isaacs junior used to be an officer in texas. The 64yearold was serving a threeyear sentence here for sexually assaulting female inmates. It is not clear how he died. At 11 00, it is 70 degrees outside. A pretty nice day. We have a few of these nice warmest. A bunch of fog out on the planes, but if you look at our headlines the fog now clearing up. Were looking at mostly sunny skies in denver and a pretty nice start to the day. It will be a great and to the week. Take a look at akron. This was a spot that was pretty foggy this morning. Obviously now things have cleared up nicely. More sunshine out east. Same thing in denver where we have a mix of sun and cloud. Low 70s right now, 57 degrees warmer highs today in the mid to upper 80s by 3 00. Pretty nice this afternoon. Evening hours as the sun starts to set, you can feel the fall chill in the air, more so by the end of the week. Heres your first alert that today and tomorrow we are talking mid to upper 80s, 90s. Pueblo. On friday, were tracking two Business Owners are concerned for their safety. A man was stabbed in the third in West Highlands yesterday and the suspect got away. The Business Owner thinks this was a random act of violence. Reporter paul burke owns tte midstreet station along w. 32nd ave. He says yesterday afternoon a man walked in and started to attack a man at the bar. Came up from behind and stabbed the victim in the throat. Fortunately, missed major arteries. The big them is okay, he still recovering from the attack police are now looking at surveillance video. The suspect is being described as a black man, 6 foot three, weighing between 250300 pounds. The owner says the suspect had been at the bar and grill before. The man who was attacked is a regular. He doesnt believe it was premedittted. The bar owner and his staff are yesterday. Also talking about options for grief counseling. Ooce he gets approval from police, he will release a High Resolution photo of that suspect. Reporting live, amanda dell facility you. A colorado man accused of making threats to faculty and in new york college has admitted to doing it. Benjamin cold pled guilty to threatening to injure several people. He was suspended from the coolege for several argumenns with faculty members. Or a parolee behind bars after pulling a gun on Aurora Police officers. Officers were trying to arrest the suspect when he pulled out a gun. An officer opened fire but missed. They ended up subduing him with a taser. This man is spending the day in jail officers opened fire at scott while trying to arrest him. He is wanted in connection with several bank robberies. A woman in centennial is recovering after accidentally shooting herseef. The woman was testing a gun she was planning to buy at a gun club. A hot bullet case went down her shirt. When she went to get about, she accidentally shot herself in the hand. We are told she should or the Pitkin County sheriffs investigating how a longmont man died. A person in the area found the body of Matthew Barts last night near a campsite. Deputies say he had visible injuries. Thhy did not give more details about the death. Fire investigators have downgraded the acreage of the is 304 acres. Rradblocks have been lifted but some people are refusing to leave. Deputies are telling people to evacuate because the fire was getting close. The residents say they want to stay and fight. The fire has not burned any homes and no one has been in. It is 60 contained. The beach street fire is still burning. That one is also 6 contained. It could be completely contain by the middle of next mont destroyed. Investigators are not sure how it started. Or Global Warming is real. Thats what three professors at univerrity of colorado say. They sd an email saying climate hange is legit. Some students say the email told them to drop out if they disagreed. The faculty offered to discuss with students if they had questions or differing opinions. Much like a math teacher saying this is a course about algebra, were not going to be talking about geometry here. The professors say they only sent the email to explain the theme of the class. Noodles and company is facing a Class Action Lawsuit over a data breach. Several institutions save protect their systems. The breach likely started in january that the company didnt know about it until ma just over a month ago. A Cyber Security experts say there could be a positive outcome. It continues to put pressure on industries that i believe should be doing more to implement Cyber Security. Keep an eye on your bank statements. If you think your information has been compromised, consider calling your bank and getting into two homes. A 911 caller told police he woke up ann saw a man leaving his house. Travis murray and jonathan streets were arrested. The pair were hiding in the bushes near a retirement home. It was february 7, super bowl l. Bronco fans will never forget that day. Tomorrow night is the start of a new season. Everyone is hoping we do it again. Today, denver, they are in denver, there is he kickoff village opening. There will be three shows, a goodies. Jason ran our joins us with the goods. Jason . Reporter the official opening of the kickoff villages not until 3 00. Take a look at the amount of action. A small army of people are working on the stage where the concert is going to be tomorrow. Inside the park, they are just for that kickoff village. We want to run yoo through whatts going on inside. I have an obstacle course, a combine you can take part in, autographed session, meet some former bronco legends. You can not hold the Vince Lombardi trophy, buttit will be there. The broncos cheerleaders, the mascot, the mayor will kick things off at 3 15. It reopens in Civic Center Park tomorrow at 10 and runs through 6 00 that is when the concert and pregame festivities happen leading up to the broncos in the panthers. We spoke to somebody from the nfl and asked how big of an event this is. This is the book end of the super bowl. We have hundreds and hundreds of people working getting ready for the game. This is a big deal. Kick off each year keeps but it is worth it to celebrate with roncos broncos fans. Reporter there are pretty decent number of street closures here. You are not going to be able to drive through here. Keep in mind you cant walk through Civic Center Park. It is closed. Security has locked the place down until it opens to the public. You cant got through or even get to the city and county building unless you have all sorts of vigi the states. The times, 38 tonight, 106 tomorrow. It is free to the public. Shifting gears, a new poll looks at how voters feel about several valid issues ballot issues we will be voting on. Our partners at the post favor a minimum wage hike and re creating a president ial election primary. There is a look at some of those results. The state minimum wage hike to support receiving 55 . Voters appear to be skeptical about colorado care. Only 27 voted yes compared 65 who would vote no. Another big step for the cannabis . Industry in colorado. Today agriculture officials are expected to reveal the first hep cs. The department a bag has been working for years to produce seeds that have a low thc which would allow its qualifies him and not marijuana. Farmers who want to grow it must have a special certification to raise the crop. A disturbing sight of the text six at a texas elementary school. A teacher stealing prescriptions from a nurses speaking out. More fallout after fox news as a school superintendent, i saw how unnecessary regulations from washington made it more difficult for teachers and principals. And as a dad, i know we must empower those who spend every day with our kids. Thats why i worked with republicans and democrats to replace the no child left behind law and increase local control of schools. Im michael bennet. And our communities know whats best for our kids. Breaking news out of longmont. The parents of a 7yearold arrested for child abuse. David and vanessa halls son was hospitalized because he is in such poor health. A doctor compared his condition to a concentration camp survivor. He weighs only 88 pounds. We have a crew working the story and we will bring you updates at five and six. Finally we know. We know what the wetterling family and all of minnesota have longed to know since that awful night finally closure for he family of jacob wetterling. He went missing 27 years ago. Danny James Heinrich confessed it to sexually assaulting and murdering 11yearold in 1989. He had already een arrested child born when he led authorities to jacobs remains there are a lot of Lessons Learned and a lot more work to do to protect our worlds children. A lea deal means heinrich will not be charged with the boys death. He could serve up to 20 years forrthe child porn charges. Sentencing has been set for november. A texas teacher is under fire at the district after the caught ssealing prescriptions from the nurses office. The nurse found a key broken off in the lock in the cabinet. Its sad that they have to steal from the kids. The School District wants the teacher to be criminally charged. Prosecutors have not made a decision yet. Fox news agreed to pay 20 million to Gretchen Carlson to settle continues as another big star, greta van susteren, announces she will be leaving the channel. She supported ales when the allegations surfaced and she had a clause written into her contract that allowed her to leave if ales was not in charge. France has been the site of multiple terror attacks. We learned two people were detained in paris after a car was found abandoned near dame with seven gas canisters inside of it. The cars owner and another person were found and taken to jail. No detonator or materials that could have ignited the canisters were inside. A roadblock in washington. A roaablock in washington could halt the zika battle that is happening in florida. Democrats blocked a 1. 1 mac political. This included a provision that wouldve prevented funding for planned parenthood. We know we can save lives. It is not up in the air or debatable. Several republicans may lump is zika funding in with other measures. Or Tropical Storm new tucson after making landfall in mexicos mainland overnight. Both arizona and new mexico are bracing for more rain and flooding. New weakened newton weekend to attract weaken to a Tropical Storm. People along the coast of nantucket are worried about flooding and ssrong winds. Some beaches and especially in Massachusetts Closed for recurrence. Crazy weather. That thing again the coast all the way. It was a tough weekend. More to come. Take a look at the cheat sheet for the next couple of days. Were expecting really beautiful weather, lots of sunshine this weekend this weekend. 80s today and tomorrow. Cooler on friday. . All more fall like as we track 1 june him we have a mix of sun and clouds. We are seeing a few clouds along the southhrn front of colorado. You can see heavy rain showers from this Tropical Storm in through new mexico and arizona. Flooding rain there. We could get cloud cover across a lot of moisture will stay far south. Clouds near the south, here in denver, pretties pretty clear skies. Tomorrow morning, another pretty morning. Dense fog earlier today. By 7 00 tomorrow morning, you can still see some fog attentively out east, some cloud cover to start the day. Everybody is under a blue sky and its quite a bit sunnier tomorrow afternoon. Right around 6 00, some isolated storms dotting the eastern plains. Beautiful, clear skies, tomorrow, if not a couple of degrees warmer. Denver will top out at 85. Look how warm it is near pueblo. s to mid to upper 90s today and tomorrow. As you get on the western slope, pretty warm there, tuna. Estes park will be in the low to mid 90s today and tomorrow. Forecast. Today and tomorrow, pretty quiet. Thats good news for the broncos game. We have temperatures in the upper 80s for highs tomorrow, which means five 5 00 we are at 85. By 7 00, upper 60s or 70s. Then we are close to 70 by the end of the game, a few clouds for the most part. Its going to stay nice and sunny. On friday, thats 1 june him cold fronts, 10 degrees cooler, upper 70s, load upper 80s this weekend. He i by next tuesday were tracking a much stronger cold front, eyes only in the 60s. 60s . Oh my goodness. Wheeler county off until kickoff in tomorrows broncos game. Manning is still making a big ccx is anyone missing a wedding band . Money for the fill the Boot Campaign last weekend and they got this surprise, this wedding band was found in one of the boots. I dont know who it belongs to, so if you are missing a wedding3 band, call the fire department. Many bronco fans will no doubt be missing Payton Manning on the field, but the required retired quarterback is still making an impact in colorado. He made someones dream come true the other day. He reached out to a man in his battle with cancer. I for you and you are in my only weeks to live. His last wish was to meet manning. He was unable to speak, but he blew manning a kiss for the phone. Denver police are warning people to watch out for ticket scams for the broncos there were 14 reports of phony tickets last year and 32 victims. The Department Says your best bet is to use official ticket exchanges and avoid craigslist. A community is fed up with People Racing down there streets. What police are doing about the incidence. Incidents mac. Several were on top of breaking news. And nearly weeklong investigation coming to an end. These men are behind bars, accused of kidnapping andres florez, shopping at an adult store in lakewood. The kidnappers. The fbi got involved, played along, and gave the suspects an undisclosed amount of money. The victim was found safe on september 3. We know that three people have been arrested. There is a press conference about to begin. We are gathering all this information and we will have the very latest during this newscast and throughout the day. The walled county Sheriffs Office is asking for your help 3 finding a car similar to this for a chase. Theeperson driving the car was wanted by police but never stopped. The car has been spotted in greeley. It has a license plate of 781 the car has been spotted in greeley. It has a license plate of 781xpl. Overcast out there. Mixed sun and clouds. Hazy from a few angles. We will see sunshine throughout the day. Pretty dry higher cloud cover. Otherwise, things are pretty nice from denver from our building looking off to the west. We are right now at 76. Winds west southwest that 510. A nice start to our afternoon. Highs here in the next few hours right around 8586 with a little more sunshine. Overnight, a few clouds. Overnight well see some 50s and another big warmup tomorrow. Ilog 00 thursday, we are today its mid to upper 80s from fort collins to greeley to denver. 90s near pueblo and lomar. Here is your first alert that today and tomorrow our two of the warmest days on our forecast as we head into the weekend. We will show you how will he gets ride a coming up. A man is on the loose after stabbing another man in the throat and getting away. This happened at the main street station bar and grill along west 32nd. Amanda del police are looking for. Reporter pollce described the suspect as a black man around 6 foot three weighing between 200 man aroond 6 foot three weighing between 250300 pounds. It was terrifying yesterday afternoon that the owner. Paul berg says a man came in yesterday afternoon and attacked another man on behind, stabbing him in the throat a major artery. The victim is okay and police video. King at surveillance the owner tells us the suspect had been at the bar and grill before and adds the man it was attack is a regular there. Still, he doesnt believe the attack was premeditated. The businesses closed today part today, but the Business Owner is inside discussing whatt happened in talking about options for grieffcounseling. Once denver pd gives him the go ahead to release a photo of suspect, he will do so. I am amanda del castillo. Who could forget this video . Hundreds of bikers shutting down i25. Three of the riders are behind bars. Its thanks to videos posted on social media. Police arrested the three months three writers and have seized their bikes. Organizers of the rally said ttey did this to raise in the chaos. There are a lot of different ways to gain publicity and bring that to the attention of the legislature to have laws changed for more . Strict enforcement. Those motorcycles that were seized could be impounded or even crushed and police say more arrests are likely. Denver Police Officers will meet with the council tomorrow to stop south denver. Hundreds of cars racing in the streets, doing doughnuts. One man says this happens pretty much every sunday night. I feel defeated. I dont know what else to do. Except reach out to you guys. We reached out to police in the city. They both say they know about the problem. Denver police says it has 10 getting rid of nuisance prairie dogs is not easy. Activists are calling out a developer saying its method is inhumane. Most developers either remove them or put them to sleep in the. In this case, they are excavating the land with the prairie dogs still there. 3 most likely they are hanging in the bottom of their burrows, digging to get away from the vibrations of the missionary and theyre going to eventually be sealed in concrete or killed. We tried heard back. The town of parker says they dont regulate how to deal with prairie dogs. The race to the white house continues with both candidates trying to say they have the upper hand when it comes to keeping the country safe. This as we near 60 days until election day. Reporter National Security now dominating the campaign trail. In philadelphia, donald trump laying ouu plans and deep the sequester that went into effect in 2013. Trump said his if he is elected, his gerals will have a critical assignment. They will have 30 days to submit a plan for soundly and quuckly defeating isis. We have no choice. Reporter clinton using the issue to smear her arrival. The seeret is he has no plan. Reporter Trumps Campaign showing a list of support of generals. Clinton brushed it up. I think were up to 89, but whos counting . Reporter Clintons Campaign is counting, showing 95 generals that support her. Plus a surprise endorsement from an unlikely source. The dallas news backing the president ial ballot in . November. We recommend hillary clinton. Tonight, trump and clinton on the same stage but not at the same time. They will both participate in a forum in new york on National Security. Aaron travers, abc news. You can see a drilling rig near an entrance to rocky mount the bureau of Land Management is considering leasing land for oil and the land up for consideration is in the green be area near the Western Entrance to Rocky Mountain national park. Commissioners are set to consider this this proposal this week. Some people from denver traveled to north dakota to protest a pipeline. Last saturday, protesters including some from colorado asssulted security guards on the scene. The protesters a security guards threat this them with police dogs. Threatened them with police dog dogs. A jumping jack warmup turned into a dance party. . Eople jumping around, having fun. That is part of the nfl kickoff today, kickoff village opens, and thats where we gran hour with all the details. The broncos and the panthers play tomorrow night. All of this activity is going on outside the civic center. You can see workers working on the stage. Inside the park, they are finishing up there preparations on the kickoff villagg, the disneyland for the nfl fans. Lombardi trophy, on obstacle course, combine, everything to get people back, amped, and ready for football season. It is finally year. Its free and open to the public between three this afternoon and 8 00 at night. Tomorrow, from 10 am6 pm. Thats when the concert and other activity will be going on. Keep in mind, 14 street will be closed. Until it is open and when it is not open there will be restrictions were just walk through or cut hours. Outside those regular keep that in mind. Reporting downtown, i am jason gran hour. The Boulder Boulder is so popular the race is now expanded to fort collins. Every memorial day, roughly 50,000 people run the race. You will be able to run it on labor day as well but with a about how fort collins plans to handle this new were Boulder Boulder. The organizers are trying to keep this hushhush. We have found out that csus new stadium is going to play a role. Interesting. Fortitude in fort collins . I have no idea. One boulder bbsinesses brewing your pot of coffee with actual pot and it. The idea came for devon jam rose after he injured his back. After months of washing down his oil with coffee, he decided to team up with a Coffee Roaster to infuse coffee with him asked rack. We spent two years to figure out how to infuse the beans without ruining flavor and preserve the integrity offthe help extract. Him extract hemp extract. A ballot measure will be on in the ballot to add it to cents tax to drinks. Frontier will offer flights to a new country in a few months. The Mylan Company announced ttey will launch a generic version of their epipens. They are also under investigation for something else. A single mom pulls of mr. Mom. Three months since the pulsed light clued nightclub shooting, there have been 776 gun sales are poised to have a record year. The fbi says it process more than 1. 8 million background checks, 6 more than the same time period last year. Its also the eighth month in a row to set a record. Background checks dont automatically mean a gun is sold, but its a good indicator of interest in buying one. Smith wesson and rueger reported a 20 40 shop in sales. Frontier airlines is launching Daily Service to havana. You will first have to fly to miami, then you will the flights begin december 1. The airline is planning to offer service to cuba from loss biggess, one of eight airlines selected to provide air service to havana. General motors settled two wsuits over faulty ignition switches, which killed at least rrcall in 2014. The company that makes epipens could be in serious trouble. The new york atty. Gen. Is looking into whether or not island pharmaceutics olated antitrust laws. He said mylan might have occluded potentially anti competitive terms into the sales contract of local schools . A school systems. The Company Recently made National Headlines after hiking the drugs price 400 over years. The single mom is being called mom of the year for pulling off a mr. Mom act. She dressed up like a dad so her son could enjoy doughnuts with dad day. You bet vazquez says Single Parents are applauding her online. She says this is prrbably not going to be her last. Or two younger sons want her to do the same thing when its grandparents are lucky enough to step in. If they are in a location where thats not an option, you dont want your kid to be the only one with no one there. She looks cute. She did. [ laughter ] fog now clearing out across the sunny and denver right now. A beautiful start to the afternoon. . Ou will find a hazy sunshine with some of those clouds, 80s today, 70s by ride. As you look at our first alert had headlines, were tracking changes. The first will come friday. Today and tomorrow, beautiful. You can see from our wireless camera, a little cloud cover. Same things from pikes peak looking down on colorado springs. It is a beautiful and pretty warm day. We will be in the mid to upper platteville, 87. Foothill spots, close to 80 degrees today. As you get a little farther west, grand lake at 71. It is warm statewide. Grand junction near 90. More mid90s near pueblo and lomar. Its warm toy and temperature wise tomorrow looks a lot like it. We have been watching a few clouds across the plains, but youre going to find by 3 00 it is d southern and even Northern Colorado overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. We have been tracking whats left of Tropical Storm it in and its bringing heavy rain down in through the Desert Southwest and new mexico. Were not expecting much of anything from it except clouds. Early tomorrow, 7 00, we could see a few spots of patchy fog burlington foggy conditions. Could see again. Tomorrow afternoon, things are nice. We have the broncos game tomorrow, so tailgating gets going tomorrow afternoon. Why theestart of the game, we might have a few isolated storms out east. Otherwise, clear skies and beautiful weather for tomorrow nights game. We will be in the 80s for the start of it, the dropping into the 70s. Denver today, mid, upper 80s both today and tomorrow. Friday, things start to friday, low 80s on saturday. This is the first of two cold fronts on our forecast. Its not going to do as much friday and saturday, pretty dry system. Were expecting a lot of sunshine, pretty perfect temperatures. Sunday will be the warmer of the two days, 87, nd watch that second cold front. We wwlllwatch this a little closer, could see some snow in the mountains on tuesday and some rain and 60s in denver. World word. We have already seen snow. Its not even a surprise anymore. A day a lot of this to see what apple is going to do to the next generation of iphones. What they are putting in place of the headphone jack. Apple unveiling several new products including the iphone seven. The biggest change may be to the headphones. Apple is planning to ditch the headphone jack to make room for another speaker or a battery. It is also going to be water resistant. A lot of people are jumping up and down for that one. The big question is how much is it going to cost . That has not been released yet. Looking for breaking weather and news coverage, watch the now at 4 pm today. The way we buy cars is changing. Why you could get less money for your traded. Working in retirement. After that age but its not just about making money. The other big reason may surprise you. Make the now part of your weekday afternoons. Good news for humpback whales. Us authorities havv taken most of them off the endangered species list yesterday. There numbers have recovered through international efforts. The National Marine fisheries serviie is nine of 14 populations have recovered. They have been in danger 1970. Speaking of whales, take a look at this. Great drone video. This is off the coast of australia. That is a rare white baby whale playing with his mother. Scientists are working in the area to track the large mammals. They are undisturbed in their national habitat. Its nice for them to do this with drones. Babies, its all a nice afternoon. Were in the low to mid 70s. We will be near 85 by 3 00, . Announcer today were fulfilling your fantastic food fantasies. Marios making chicken parm with the amazing justin bartha. And michaels taking us to donut paradise. The deliciousness starts right now, on the chew. . [ cheers and applause ] oh, hello. Welcome to the chew. I was just fantasizing about my perfect day. Obviously it starts with a big kiss from my main girl mary. 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