About it, its you know, you got your kids in the community and certainly these people take these bullets for our families and its pretty substantial stuff. Not much is being said about the detectives condition. Serious questions about past contact the deputies had with the shooter. Today the sheriff wouldnt say why the deputies had been to the home before, but we know they had been. We need to acknowledge what west metro firefighters did this morning. They found a girl hide nothing the closet of a burning house. The only reason she is alive is because of the firefighters actions. When children are scared, it almost looked like she had a fort set up in her closet. That is why firefighters beg parents to have fire drills at their home, so kids will learn to run outside instead of inside. Coloradans gather to remember the terror attacks of september 11th. This Years High School freshman were all born after that date. The first class answers the 9 11. Reporter for these freshman, terror is a fact of life, not a shock. I can say that. I dont doubt it will happen again. Reporter a sense of fear and a sense of responsibility. It made me think about how children these days should be more alert and aware of whats happen nothing the world. Reporter they live in a struggling with police relations. The word hero heard so often after 9 11 and hearder for them. If somebody walked into a class at random and said i think all Police Officers are heroes i think that a lot of people would disagree with that. Like, they like see all the negative things about the police and some officers are trying to do their job. Some Police Officers [ indiscernible ] everybody like they should. That does cause problems. Reporter a window to the world of [ indiscernible ] from the first freshman class born after 9 11. Even though there are problems within america itself, even more. Freshman at manuel high, all members of the junior rotc. So the world every american state and dozens of other countries. It sits in memorials across colorado. A traveling memorial is being moved to Civic Center Park for the colons the ceremony sunday afternoon at 1 00 is open to the public. Told us theres actually a simple explanation. Sent, it was easier to put the note for Flint Residents in every kit being produced and some of those kits ended up in denver. If you get home in time to watch next, you are likely one of the lucky ones. Live in the area, youve likely experienced it. The efforts to make it better will only temporarily fix the problem. Reporter traffic haters, feast your eyes the southern portion of i25 through the metro area before and after a project called t rex, transportation expansion. This 1. 6 billion project added lanes and trains to i25 in an effort to ease congestion. The congestion its go way down, but as soon as those reporter thats will with the southwest engineer efficienciy project. Two years after trex was done, it was right back at the level before construction. Its this phenomenon of induced demand. When you widen the highway and all of a sudden this is excess capacity, not too surprisingly, people look at that and say im going to use it. Reporter now money or space to add more lanes. Making a change to the metering system along the highways. You know, the red and green lights youve always wondered about whether or not they work, theyre going to try a Smart Metering system. This system will monitor the flow of traffic through sensors embedded in the pavement. Used these smart meters, traffic flow is improved 20 . If you dont want to get stuck in it, we suggest you take the advice we found on this pedestrian bridge. Both cdot and sweep say self driving cars will help all this problem since they can communicate with each other. They can drive closer together. They will also crash less. Crashes cause 60 congestion problems we see today. Broncos won last night. Posted a photo of the game with a head line carolina beats denver, 232 in nfl opener. We never make an error around here. Last night did belong to the broncos. Broncos linebacker marshalls decision last night. Refusing to stand for the national anthem. Reporter when i saw marshall take a knee, i first thought now we in the media are going to spend a week talking about Brandon Marshall which is a shame. I dont think Brandon Marshall is trying to draw attention to himself. I take him at his word that he feels strongly about social justice and the football field is his only platform to make a statement. I just wish he made a stronger Statement Last the kind of statement Colin Kaepernick gave. Ive read your emails, facebook posts saying we shouldnt give Brandon Marshall more attention. I agree. I think he would agree to that as well. What we should give attention, what we will continue to give attention to are the issues that he knelt down to raise up. One of colorados more unconventional politicians makes an unconventional case whistle, but someone who knows what it is. Do you think he can find the whistle . Yes. A rare look at colorado that is as beautiful as it is illegal. And bad news denvers parks. I think because it doesnt hit so close to home, if i didnt lose anybody really close to me get back on with your life and you dont really think about the true horrors of well, its starting to feel and look a little more like fall in the high country. Great shots coming into us. Today was a nice break from the heat. But we are going to be its going to be down to the mid40s. Mostly clear sky tonight. The winds have been awfully gusty around town. Those should be winding down around the next couple of hours. Across North Western colorado, were going to be sitting under a freeze warning through tomorrow morning. If you have sensitive vegetation, you want to cover that up with temps overnight in the mid20s. Cold front pushing through the area. Temperatures. It scoots out making way for high pressure. Were in store for a warm weekend. Daytime highs tomorrow returning to the low 80s across the front range, 70s in the mountains. A great weekend to go into the high country, check out the fall colors out there. 90 degrees on sunday. Huge cool off monday and tuesday as another storm comes our way. Donald trumps Colorado Coalition is missing a lot of big name republicans. Republicans that t the job of rangling falls to our next guest. Former candidate for governor, former state senator, political consultant, what am i leaving out . Avid cyclist. Reporter still drive the prius . I do drive the prius and it has an i heart fracking sticker on the bumper too. The timeve republican that could sit this year out or the reality is this is a binary choice. One of these two people, donald trump or hillary clinton, will be the next president of the united states. I like the policies that come with a republican president and all of the people that a republican president surrounds him or herself with. Reporter where are you on trump the man at this point . I dont know him. I mean, the things i he really is in business, how he really is around a table, make me feel very comfortable about it. The stuff on tv, its just different than you get from any politician ever before. Hes talking like the guys that i know out in eastern colorado who you run into at corn harvest driving trucks or who you spend time at with in the shop. Theres no such thing as Political Correctness out there. Reporter what would that mean to the presidency . What it would mean to the presidency i think is rather than telling us what you know, the politicians, the consultant class thinks we need to hear so that he can win his next election or help other people maybe hell actually tell us the truth, which would be refreshing and unusual mi after your time in state politics, you went to work in dc. Have you been able to watch that off of you . It took a lot of scrubbing. Reporter what was it you didnt think it was going to be . Well, i didnt realize how much i would hate being away from my family and my farm. Corrupt the place is. It really is run by a handful of people for the benefit of a handful of people. A connected class runs the city for the benefit of themselves. Its bad. And, you know, we face a choice in the president ial election where we get more of the same or we can try something new. Why not give it a chance . This is why we cant have nice things and why the city denver wont let people play with this anymore. And what to do when the beer is called hey pumpkin and no pumpkins are around to answer the call. I was working for [ indiscernible ] company of america. I worked in the Compliance Office and i was on a phone call with tower 2 when they got a plane just hit us the other tower 5 minutes ago. And somebody said oh, my god, look out the window and the phone went dead. I lost quite a few people i worked with for almost 20 years. I ended up leaving the company i was working for. I basically became a stay at home dad. On the bright side, a chance to get ton my children and better my marriage. On the z23eoz zvpz sorry to crush your dreams, but youre not going to get the goose tonight. This weekend denver was looking for volunteers goose nator. Parks and rick told us it cant keep up with the repair costs caused by amateur goosenating. A boulder native has created a soaring tribute to his home town. Cal flew his video drone over some of boulders best known spots. He knew this video was going to town from a fresh perspective. Theres one thing that really made an impact on him from above. I was amazed by the flat iron views. I was expected those to be some very great pictures, but when i saw the light that was sitting there in the sunrise and jesse fisher up on the top of the first flat iron, i was pretty amazed by how the picture looked. Here is where we tell you do not while cal didnt realize it at the time, he was breaking rules just about everywhere he flew the drone. Cu boulder restricts where drones can be flown or launched. Drone pilots need to learn those rules before they fly. Like the struggle, the pumpkin shortage is real. This year, at least. So we care now. The Denver Beer Company uses pumpkin to make a seasonal ale called hey, pumpkin. His flyer this year, fresh out. Fortunately, [ indiscernible ] had left over cooked and packaged pumpkin from last season. I know we were told if we wanted to buy more this year, that we wouldnt have any available for the end of september, early october. And the season being over in octobe weeks to a month to produce didnt really help us out. He says as a brewer, this is the first time hes ever had to deal with a pumpkin shortage and hes been brewing professionally for about a decade. Were back with a reason to we wont leave you down at the end of a week. Were always out talking to just make you smile. Like the sisters we ran into at Civic Center Park. I like going to chuck e cheese. I like rabbits. I dont like playing [ indiscernible ] . Give thanks untoo the lord . Good . . Oh, give thanks unto the loader, for me is good, yes he is good . . For he is worthy, worthy . . For he is worthy, worthy . Try not to smile after . A network news moms new alcoholic revelation. The binge drinking that tore her familyyapart. Why are you drinking two bottles of chardonnay every night . Ignoring her husband and her career, were her kids in danger . Then Jonbenet Ramseys brother. What he knows about the murder. Dr. Phil on the buzzer first interview. When hes talking about dark content, hes smiling. I remember viewing the casket. It was small. Just for you. Then meg ryan and tom hanks on their big screen reunion. I will work with her till the cows come home. And chris pratt marriage confessions. Dress up like a little cowboy for the old lady. She likes it. Now for september 9th, 2016, this is entertainment tonight. We were shocked yesterday by the revelations of network news anchor Elizabeth Vargas about her struggle with alcohol. But we had no idea of her addiction until now. Yeah, it is heartbreaking when she talks family with diane sawyer on tonights 20 20. What impact did elizabeths alcoholism have on her famous husband, and more importantly, their two young boys . Did you ever endanger them . No. Are you sure . I dont think so, no. I never drove under the influence