This is 9news. She was londons golden girl, winning four gold medals in her first olympic games. Missy franklin struggled in rio and tonight Missy Franklin finished last. It is hard. I dont know. You know, i just i best. I worked as hard as i could. I am proud of that. Letting my team down never feels good. I gave it all that i had. That is all i could ask for, so. If game face was a sport Michael Phelps would have won gold tonight. When it came to the competition he was third going into the last third and finished second have been wondering about the welts on american athletes. It is from cupping. 9news reporter Victoria Sanchez went searching for answers on why it works and why athletes are doing it before the big events. Reporter people were seeing spots, lots of them on Michael Phelps. Doesnt feel like a doesnt hurt. Feel goods. It didnt slow him down. Reporter what causes the circles . Cupping. A chinese therapy that uses cups and suction to circulate blood and relieve muscle tension. It circs up the skin. The sucks up the skin. Reporter it loosens muscles and relieves pain. Athletes will use whatever tool necessary on the road to gold. She gets the treatment every few months and it doesnt hurt. When you put your hand on the end of the vacuum it feels like that but more intense. Reporter they have a center for alternative medicine. She says she used cupping for more than see athletes trying it out. Nice to get recognition that cupping is good for sports injuries and helping people move better. Reporter the spots might scare some people away but she says her patients rarely get them. Victoria sanchez, 9news. We should mention most Insurance Companies dont cover therapy. A family was taking shots of that iconic symbol. Innocent enough till a chunk of one of the rings fell off. What happened next coming up in a few. She was missing for 20 hours. Thousands of people were asked to keep an eye out after she and her dog never made it home. This afternoon she was found. She ended up found her. Reporter that woman recognized the teenager right away. The 14yearold tells police she took her dog for a walk in the park. The dog got away, she chased it, she fell and hurt her ankle and then got tired and fell asleep in the grass. Reporter it was in these fields at a dog park that 14 yearold alice caver took her disappeared. Alice cavers a autism and lives a few blocks east of the park. Her mother would allow her to walk the dog home. This time night fell and there was no sign of the girl. So her mother called police. The department issued a cold red, thousands of citizens were alerted, the girl was missing. There are some trails but it is open field. A area. Reporter officers were concerned. So were the volunteers that searched for the missing teen but then a 911 call came from this great clips hair salon. 6 miles from the park. It was where she was cutting hair. When i walked up and i seen her, i was like oh, my god she is in my salon. Reporter she came in and she kept her cool. I asked her did you come here by yourself. She said yeah, i walked. I made a call. Do you know mom . I was, like, i would want somebody to do the same thing for me. If i would have let her walk out the door what if something happened to her. Reporter she called 911 and was able to girl long enough for police to get her home. She says when she woke up she thought she was on her way home but ended up at the great clips hair salon instead. An balance took there the hospital and doctors say she will be okay. But her dog chip is still missing. 9news. Neroli half of us will nearly half of us will be life time. The cancer mune shot project moon shot project is designed to share chong from Research Knowledge from research. Reporter we have sent nene the moon, a rover men to the moon, a prevent, treat and cure cancer. At Cu Cancer Center researchers see the possibilities of a bigger plan. Because it is bigger than any one researcher. It is going to be a nationwide opportunity to change cancer care. I love my patients and love taking care of them but i want to tell them that it is going to be better tomorrow. Therapies that are more effective. I still lose patients to Breast Cancer and i want that to stop. Reporter genes and proteins can determine how a cancer responds. In the past doctors have only been able to get information about a few patients in their treatment. The power behindp the moon shot is behind the moon shot is g cancer. There are so many levels that we can explore across hundreds of thousands of patients, not hundreds or a thousand patients. Which is what any one institution can achieve. It is a small contribution. If everybody who has the chance does it can only help. Reporter it is only fitting an astronomer. He has Prostate Cancer and is the 500th patient in colorado to enroll that will provide details about his tumor with a dozen Cancer Centers across the country. The trouble with cancer is you dont necessarily feel ill. You are ill but you dont feel it. Reporter he is one of the many faces met by the team at cu. All joining this National Effort to information. People who had to hear the words you have cancer are willing to be a part of something bigger than themselves. Each individual person who signed up may never directly benefit from what we learn but they are realizing they want the next generation of people who hear the words you have cancer to have a better outcome than we might be able to do today. Reporter going deep into across the country. It is a moon shot but it will be out of this world if cancer is conquered. Kim christiansen, 9news. The project is still enrolling patients. A free show in tracking the storms. And the nfl Opening Night in den will draw crowds beyond mile high. A big concert. And it started with a family photo and turned into something else. And broncos head coach has a nfl Opening Night concert, civic park. We will have more information w 8. More medals moved the u. S. Further up the chart. 19, more than any other country. 6 ahead of china. The u. S. And china are tied with gold medals with 5 each. An apology. He suggested that simone biles parents are not really her parents. It made people angry. Simone biles will lead tomorrow in the Team Gymnastics competition. Images from the Beach Volleyball match. One photo showing different cultures and countries coming together. Egypt lost 20. They take on italy tomorrow. Tomorrow the u. S. Soccer team will play columbia. The game is in the afternoon on nbc sports network. Never want to be the person who breaks the olympic rings. They were in olympic park when a family lined up to take a picture with the rings and one of the kids had to give it a grab and off comes part of the ring. Family put it back quickly enough and parents ahandled it well parents handled it well. I have been in that situation. What did you do . A hot one today. Temperatures got to 91 degrees. That makes today day 39 of 90 degree temperatures this year so far. The record high 105 degrees set in 1878. That has been the highest temperature ever recorded in denver. Glad it wasnt that hot. Several reasons to look up into the sky. The sunset. Thank you for sending this in. This evening, well, we had a lightning show up northeast colorado. This storm could be seen 80 miles away over nebraska. Thank you very much for sending in the video. Quiet over most of the state. We still have that storm, that same one that made the Lightning Strike right there that has fizzled out into northeast colorado, light showers and a stronger cell through southeast colorado managed to make its way into area. 72 at dia. In the backyard it is nice, 70 degrees. The rest of the state, temperatures in the high country into the 50s. 70s on the western slope. 70s in the metro area and eastern planes. Around the city 70 degrees. Tonight temperatures drop to 63. Calm. Mild. Winds not bad coming in from the southwest. Tomorrow we will have another chance for storms. They 20 . Drier weather in store on wednesday. And then thursday and friday chance for rain increase chances for rain increase. Our weather pattern for tomorrow and wednesday, under an area of high pressure. Temperatures will continue to be hot. Thursday we will have cooler air approaching from the northeastern part of the country that will kick up winds on thursday and bring in cooler air and hire chances for rain. That cooler air mass will stay evennine add saturday. Your temperatures are going to feel like fall. 93 will be the high for tomorrow. Hot and sunny and we will watch out for gusty afternoon storms. Kids, headed back to school tomorrow, forecast is mild and sunny. 71 degrees. Around lunch. Hot on the playground, 90 degrees. And last bell mix of clouds and sun. Isolated storms. D elevations and out east. 7s for the mountains 70s for the mountains. Threat 70ss for the mountains. Threat for Severe Weather tomorrow is low. Dakotas, montana and minnesota we could see strong storms so here is a look at the rest of the week. The weekend already, 93 tomorrow. Wednesday 89. Thursday 86. Broncos take on the bears in with a chance for isolated storms and rain on friday, 81. And saturday the high of 80 degrees. Chicago will be hot and humid. From colorados sports the rockies two outs away from beating the best team tonight. But they blew it. Gonzales limped off the field before he got to swing the bat. Left ankle inflammation. Sounds painful. Back to back 30 homer seasons and 100 for his career. But the rangers rallied for three runs and the rockies lose 43. Talib will play for the broncos september 8 unless he is in jail. Two months after a nightclub incident in which he got shot by somebody else or accidentally shot himself, police are still investigating, he was back on the practice field making his Training Camp debut. Pretty impressive considering a bullet leg not lodge ago. Reporter [ inaudible question ] the situation is still under view and we have to respect that process. But i feel great. Felt good on the field. Broncos kickoff the exhibition schedule thursday night in chicago on channel 20. 9news reporter mike klis thinks on the pages of his notebook. Reporter it is not that there were surprises on the broncos chart that was released today as there were a series of ties. Start with the quarterback position where they were listed as conumber ones. It appears simian has the lead but it doesnt matter till they Start Playing games. The preseason chicago will at least determine the quarterback leader. Maybe even the starter. Other ties of note, jeff and virgil tied for starting tight end. Ronnie and devonte are tied for a back up running back. They are tied for starting nose tackle. Coaches will tell you depth charts are little more than names on paper. Lets see who actually plays on the field after the broncos take on the Chicago Bears on thursday and in what order. Mike klis, 9news. They are job sharing for now but as 9news reporter rod mackey shows us each of them is pretty confident about proving they are the one. Reporter Training Camp hasnt separated the two ar playing a game will. Both believe they should be the quarterback. On thursday night both plan to prove it. I think it is big time. Practice is one thing but you have to be able to do your job when it matters in the game. I know it is preseason but it is good to execute and carry over the things we have been working on. Anxious to get going. I think i am going to play great. Just, you know, cant wait for the game to get here. It is fun. Reporter gary kubiak said he will probably name thursdays starter tomorrow but as far as the season starter well, we will probably know more after thursday. Rod mackey, 9news. Still of the night, from rio de janeiro, 19 time olympic Gold MedalistMichael Phelps had a slip of the tongue. In the still [ music playing ] you cant just snap them on. You have to stretch your face out to make the suction get in there that is what he was doing [ talking at the same the meteor shower are happening right now. Check it out after the newscast is over. Best time is midnight through dawn. Peak days are thursday and friday, august 11 and 12. You can catch 200 meteors per hour. Pretty cool. Look at the forecast. We have one more hot day, a high of 93 tomorrow. After that we cool down. Wednesday 89. Thursday 86. And low 80s by friday and saturday. Keep going. [ laughter ] like the cooler weather at the same time ] [ laughter ] only 30 minutes till the meteor shower gets fired up. Lets stay up. Well, then. Head out to the back porch. You are welcome to watch olympic late night with ryan seacrest. We will see you here tomorrow . . . To amaze his audience. Great show. Here you go. Now hes added a new routine. Making depositing a check seem so effortless. Easy to use chase technology, for whatever youre trying to master. Isaac, are you ready . Yeah. Ryan seacrest here in rio de janeiro. If you didnt catch the action today, these are the three stories you need to know. Rio, day three. We start with the host nation game. Always a big moment. It was magnified when silva who grew up in the city became an olympic champion in one of brazils favorite sports. Judo. Emotion pouring out for one of rio de janeiros. At the olympic aquatic stadium, the United States had a huge night. Murphy stretching to the wall olympic gold, gets it