. 800 e. Near hugo, Victoria Sanchez, 9news. One person dead after g. The equipment involved iswr. . A aluminum splitr,infoation about how the person died has not been released. The building is in the 3600 blk of east 44thnue near i70. Thse website says independen . Et buyeof steel . Happened. A former illinois goveor will continue his stay at a federal prison near demmer, a judge upheld his isonence on co sentenced in 2011, there has been a dramatic change in his looks. He was convicted on 18 corruption counts over two trials. The ruling stated prosecutors did not prove he broke the law Barack Obamas old senate seat. He has maintained his innocence for years, he has been in the federal prison since 2012. You know it is hot out, good news it is likely to be the colorado forecast, for w we are dealing with showers and thunderstos ok at this cool cam the storms that we have right now are closer to the foothills, frequent lightning out there, a very ominous looking shot, it is ominous because we do have thunderstorms driving some rain and the lightning is causing problems out near winter park and parts of the . Odivide in some areas t areal flood advisories. Those storms are moving northeast, that is why they are bypassing the city and we are staying mostly dry. The lightning count within the past half hour, well over 1000 lightning strikes just in colorado border. We continue to see monsoon winds bringing moisture into colorado, that is the reason why we will keep a chance for storms in the forecast, into the afternoon and evening there are chances of storms to the northeast of the that could turn severe although the stronger storms are yet to develop to the north of us in montana and into the dakotas. The temperatures now, 95, it feels like 95, temperatures in the 90s for most of the front range, close to triple digits in sterling. In the foothills 60s and 70s, making today day number 40 of temperatures in the 90s or hotter. Really close to the yearly average of 41 days and we are this afternoon we will have clouds increasing bringing a chance for an isolated storm and then after that the skies were clear. Mperatures will drop to 62 degrees, coming up in your forecast, we are not done with the summer heat, one more hot day and then we will see changes. I will also have more information on the meteor shower happening right now, we will let you know when they will be at their peak coming up. All the serious when we get all right, we will talk to you soon, belen. Live to the county fair after three people fell from a ferris wheel last night, police in Greene County say one person has head injuries, photos from a witness as well. The three fell when the car flipped over, the oldest a 16 yearold girl. Reports that the ferris wheel was rocking before flipping. The death of a 10yearold boy over the weekend is raising questions about how heavily the water park . . Was regulated. At least two people have ridden the waterslide say that shoulder straps snapped or popped off during the ride. An autopsy showed caleb schwab died from an unspecified neck injury at the end of the 168 foot tall slide, neither investigators or park officials have released specifics about what happened. A man from shoulder strap came loose during the ride, he told workers about the strap, the nbc affiliate in kansas city says the park is now overseen by a federal agency, it is tentatively scheduled to reopen tomorrow. The waterslide is still close, schwabs father is a state representative. In 90 days the political ads will be over. President ial election. A new nbc news poll Shows Hillary clinton widening her lead over donald trump by 10 points, up from an eight point gap last week. The biggest spread in the poll since the general election matchup was compared in may. Clinton holds a sixpoint advantage when you count all the major candidates, gary johnson and jill stein. The chum campaign is yet to spend money on Clintons Campaign has spent more than 52 million by comparison. Tonight you could be at midnight the proud owner of up to 110 gallons of rainwater, house bill 1005 goes into effect allowing households of up to four able to harvest rainwater. You can use it outdoors, watering plants, cars and pets, washing dishes or using it for toilets is not okay. Be careful not to drink the and may contain things like lead or mercury. Conservation agencies say this is a big step. People are excited about rain barrels being legalized, one of the most exciting and engaging issues we have worked on as an organization. People are really ready to have the flexibility. The rain barrels must be covered to prevent mosquitoes from gathering and to 30 days. Another big closure of i70 in Glenwood Canyon tomorrow and thursday, cdot says the highway will be closer medical exam until 3 30 p. M. , hes been closure points star at glenwood springs, the west because of boulders falling on the highway, mitigation work has all right, mark sanchez the man, planning to start sanchez against the Chicago Bears in the first preseason game thursday. We have been hearing about the battle between the three quarterbacks. Are broncos insider is at broncos headquarters. Reporter yes, sanchez gets the first crack in this quarterback competition, it has been a two someone had to start and i think he has played a tad better through training camp, i made the point on twitter that even though sanchez is starting against the Chicago Bears in the preseason open, he may be leading the competition, i wouldnt be surprised if siemian starts next week mark sanchez makes sense because he is the only guy that the broncos have who has experience. He has a lot of experience with the jets and the philadelphia eagles. Siemian has one kneel down last year, lynch is a rookie. Lynch will play the whole second half which kind of goes along with what they have done in camp. You have got siemian and sanchez assuring reps going for number one and th practice snaps on another field to develop. It will be interesting on thursday. It is big because it will help determine who the broncos starting quarterback will be in 2016. Mike, tell us exactly what you see that siemian is doing better at this moment. Making less mistakes. Sanchez has had a couple more interceptions i would say. More passes, he has had better balls, when the guy is open he gets the ball in the. He has a nice ball passing wise. Sanchez i think has more of those identify a leadership characteristics that you look for in a quarterback. He has more of a presence about him, he knows how to command the huddle. He knows how to get the other 10 guys on offense to Pay Attention to what he is saying, where Trevor Siemian laidback, the broncos want sanchez to emerge as the starter because of all the experience, but right now i think siemian has slightly outplayed him. Well, mike is usually right about everything, so mark sanchez better step up his game. Thank you, mike. He will have to step it up just a bit. The defending super bowl champions will play the bears in chicago for the first preseason game on thursday. We will carry the game live on channel 20, pregame starting at 5 30, kickoff at 6 00. Okay, this goes to show it doesnt matter the background, the olympics rings people together. This photo has over 20,000 likes, a north korean gymnast and a south korean gymnast taking a selfie together during practice sessions be even with political issues the athletes prove that the olympics bring people together. Putting you love to see more of that in our world . Events being played all over reel for the lipids, yesterday our team gave us a look at the main olympic park. I hope they recover. They just didnt stop, they at copacabana beach showing us where Beach Volleyball is being played. Welcome to the famous copacabana beach in Rio De Janeiro, a suburb about one hour bus ride from the main olympic park. One of the most iconic beaches in the world. 2. 5 miles of sandy beautiful landscape. What is going on here. So, this spot in the morning is like work out heaven. We saw people first thing in the morning playing Beach Volleyball, there is little workout tents, you can do workouts. A lot of joggers. One thing that was interesting, people jogged in flipflops. Everyone does everything in their flipflops. Surfing section, we have seen surfers enjoying the waves already today. There are about 160,000 people who live in this area of rio on copacabana, 25 are retired, it is becoming a bit of a retirement community, during the olympics there has been a big boost in sales around the beach. You can hear the helier part of the coverage you get to enjoy at home. They have aerial cameras going over the Beach Volleyball venue, there is a match going on right now. A great venue, everyone is talking about it. The design built out of a company from denver called populace. If youre watching at home, a great denver connection. This beach goes on about the water quality, one thing we want to tell you, it does not even phase the locals, they love to swim in the beaches and surfing the beaches. These are very popular beaches for tourists as well. A popular place for us, we hope you enjoyed the tour, we are going to spend as much time here as we can. Dont tell the boss. They deserve it after yesterday, they are about seconds for that shot. That was it. New years celebrations typically bring 2 Million People to copacabana beach. We will be joined live in a s. Dive team. We will talk about missy franin d how she is doing so far. Some long lines after a sys the course histord stocks closing almost glad on wall street the dow points. Nasdaq gained 12 point. S p up one point. A day and have after Delta Air Lines was hit with a computer outage customers are cingulate flights. Nearly 400 more flights have been canceled today, more than 700 others have been delayed. The airline struggling to recover, from the global system meltdown affecting booking and communications at its atla an american in japan took to facebook to what became a 20 hour delay outside of tokyo. And the ripple affects. This is the line at mcdonalds. So, yeah. This delta delay is very big and restaurants. Those french fries are no joke. Pretty good. Delta is offering refunds and 200 in travel vouchers to people whose flights were canceled or delayed at least three hours. The gaming world often dominated by men and boys, not anymore. Girls making games as a summer camp trying to introduce gross to opportunities in an industry that has been dominated by males, offered in cities across the cotr summers the campus taught more than 300 girls the fundamentals of programming and design, the camp founder says it is a chance to dispel the misconception that women arent interested in video games as well as fostering talent. They want more ideas and more voices, this is how they will get a. We want to augment our female staff because they bring in a perspective writing and experience especially as we girls. The global video gaming industry is poised to hit 90 billion in 2020, a 10 job growth projected over the next few years. Programming skills go far beyond video games. Pretty cool. Graphics design also. New pressure to find a vaccine for the zika virus after a death in the u. S. The best reason to remind doctors in houston have connected and infants death to the zika virus. The state Health Department says the internet was born with a birth defect linked to the virus. The childs mother traveled to latin america during the pregnancy and she contracted the virus. The baby acquired the infection in the womb. Doctors perform tests, linking two infants in harris county, texas were born with the disease. Workers the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases has been developing a vaccine. Which is similar to the one for west nile. I remember the first time i got my mammogram. And, it was not a very pleasant experience, but i am glad i have done it. And i will continue to do today is the day we urge you to assess your own breast health, start by doing a self breast exam and remind a friend to do the same. Denvers first lady spoke about the fear of regular checkups and also the lifesaving importance of good breast health. It is so important to get screened, i know a lot of women think it is a fear. They have a fear it will hurt. It is more important to do that for that split many of a little bit of uncomfortable. Mary louise will be singing the National Anthem for the third time at the race for the cure. It is on september 25. There is plenty of time to register for the race. Doctors recommend you get an annual mammogram every year they are covered by most health insurance. Another reason to do a self breast exam today just think of this birthday. Meet wanda and her brother bill. They just celebrated their 70th birthday, posing with their mom, wanda in the yellow shade nearly one year out from her Breast Cancer diagnosis. Her granddaughter sent us this photo, telling us she got the mammogram after watching a body check reminder and she listened to the little voice in her head triplets celebrating 70 years old. Her mom used to get questions are you taking fertility drugs . Triplets, that is unusual. Sunshine sticking around for a little while longer, but more rain headed our way. Belen is back with how that that was a huge bug that went in front of the camera. The camera in fort . . Collins. Lets about the you for safely that picture and sending it to us as the storms were on the eastern plains, here in the metro area. On the front range we enjoyed a golden sunset. Rick bowman send this in from parker. That is gorgeous. Find me on social media and send those pictures. If you have questions you can find me on social media as well. Highs today into the mid to upper 90s from the metro area into the eastern plains. The high country temperatures temperature in grand junction. Currently we are at 95 at dia. Here in the backyard are temperatures are at 94 degrees. Lets check the weather for the rest of the state, maybe some pokimon hunting looks okay but you need to drink plenty of water and put on that sunscreen. 90s from Northern Colorado into the metro area close to triple digits out east, currently in the high country a few 60 and 70 degree clouds moving into the city along the i25 corridor as the temperatures remain toasty with a chance for isolated storms, the chance for storms is pretty low. As far as the storms turning severe here in the city, here is an awesome shot from thornton overlooking the metro area, you can see the clouds because of the storms in the foothills. I have got this map, i know it well, a lot of things are going on in the forecast across the country. We have that to jetstream kind of anchored over the Northern Tier of the u. S. Allowing the temperatures to remain pretty hot. An area of High Pressure over the central part of the country causing heat advisories in texas, arkansas, louisiana, oklahoma. Meanwhile monsoon winds coming from the southwest causing moisture to push into the foreclosure four corners. That moisture is moving into colorado that is the reason we have a few stores to the northwest, red flag warnings for neighbors to the north in wyoming a red flag warning in effect until 8 00 this evening. No warnings or watches across the state but there are storms scattered in the mountains, lightning just within the past halfhour almost 900 lightning strikes mainly in the high country, lets zoom in some very light rain falling in areas closer to the foothills, causing problems for places near lake city. Also near areas like fair plank because of the heavy rain, into the evening a possibility of moisture working its way into i 25 and northeast colorado, 6 00 isolated storms darker clouds, stronger storms to the south near the palmer divide around 9 00 p. M. , strong storms to the southeast, overnight the skies gradually clear, tomorrow morning we are waking up with sunshine as we start f the forecast for this evening showing mostly clear skies, the meteor shower currently happening, the best views from midnight until don. But to get more bang for your buck the peak days are august 11 and 12th you can see 150 up to 200 meteors per hour. Tonight 62 the overnight low, skies are clearing overnight lows in the 60s and 50s and 50s in the foothills, tomorrow you a high of 92, mostly sunny with an isolated storm in the foothills and high country. Severe weather across colorado tomorrow looking kind of low in some areas in the mountains you will see a better chance for rain. I did promise a cooldown. Here is a look, not tomorrow, but thursday a high of 89 degrees with storms in the foothills, you will feel cooler temperatures friday and saturday with temperatures possibility that you will need the umbrella, and sunday 83 degrees, we have been watching and enjoying the olympics. In Rio De Janeiro it is 73 degrees with winds not that bad. We have had problems with winds out there being strong delaying some events. Tomorrow there could be a chance of showers, temperatures in the 70s with more 70s taking them all the way through the weekend. All right, that sounds pretty good. Storm could change the course of history. We are following breaking news, we have been flying over this brushfire for at least 15 minutes or so, this is in strasburg. The area is in adams and arapahoe county. We really dont know how many acres are burning, but the wind is moving. The wind is picking up, we have seen the fire grow over the last 10 minutes. You can see crews on the ground, a resident in the area told us they believe the fire is on county road 157. They noticed smoke appearing around 4 00 or so. They be around 40 minutes. The good news in the area not very many homes. Good clip. You hope there is a natural fire break or a road or something. We will keep an eye on it and keep you posted. You may have heard of the cuban missile crisis. Another cold war crisis that almost also brought us to the brink of war, 1967 the incident is detailed in a new study from cu boulder. Maya rodriguez the threat wasnt coming from the soviets but rather a threat from beyond earth which nearly created deadly consequences. It may sound like the start of a scifi story, but it really happened. In the 1960s. An unprecedented release in terms of a burst. The burst tied into a massive solar storm in may 1967, solar flares so strong they jammed u. S. Military Radar Systems nearly leading to union. It was a near miss. A Research Professor of Aerospace Engineering sciences at cu boulder published a study detailing how the 1967 sandstorm nearly led the u. S. Military to actively attack the soviets. As far as we can tell, it got to position at the end of the roadway and hold. Our view of how something might develop was the jamming would a retaliatory action. At recently formed space forecast unit spotted the solar storm notifying higher ups it wasnt the soviets, it was the son. We know the decisions went to the highest levels of government and, we are still here. Part of the reason forecasting space weather took on greater urgency and it is still portant to this day. Colleagues will look into their side of the story maybe they thought we were the ones jamming their signals. They first got wind of the story from military commanders at a fom in washington dc and then they decided . To look into unclassified documents on the study. As you get sucked into synchronized diving, know that colorado help to some of the athletes get ready for the games. We are also checking in with colorados golden girl and her struggle at the games so far. Programming first introduced at the 1904 games in st. Louis. Synchronized diving was added to competition, synchronized diving requires exact precision between partners and incorporates several gymnastic maneuvers in the span of two mexicans. In synchronized diving a total of 11 judges are used during the competition. Scores are awarded based on execution and five judges monitor synchronization. The score takes into consideration the approach, the flight and the entry by the teams pack so a degree difficulty of 2. 5, diving diver a received seven, 7. 5 and eight. After eliminating the high and low he received a 7. 5, his partner receives scores of 6. 5, seven and 7. 5, he scores a seven and the total execution score is 14. 5. The synchronization judge awards scores of 6. 5, seven, 7. 5, eight and 8. 5 throwing out the high and low gives the team of 22. 5. The execution score, 14. 5 and the synchronization score 22. 5 are added together for a total of 37 then multiplied by the degree of difficulty for the dive, 2. 5. The total 92. 5. The score of 92. 5 is then multiplied by. 6 for a total score of 55. 5 points. The total score for each round are added together and the highest score wins. The United States has won three synchronized diving medals at the olympics while china has dominated the sport winning 15 of the 16 gold medals ever now shes here in colorado looking for her mile high forever home. She has one eye thats been removed. She had a bad infection. But this strong girl is doing great. Shes recovered and ready to go home lap kitty. Its really important. Shes ready to snuggle with you. Shes white and gray. Shes six months old. Shes got r whole life ahead of her. Ready to be part of someones family. If you want to adopt her, contact Rocky Mountain li rescue 303 7446076. Jonathan and kim. Shes sweet. I love it. We have the medal count. U. S. Has 22 total. 8 bronze, 8 silver, and 6 gold medals as we mentioned earlier the u. S. Gymnastics team won gold for the second consecutive olympics. Were going to watch any way no matter what. Thats going to do it for us. 9news at 5 00 is coming up next. Ranchers offer 10,000 in reward money to catch whoevers killing their cattle and wild antelope. Its the first day that colorado officially recognizes e legal use of rain barrels. A reminder of where to find, how to install and use them. And its a party, the nfl announces plans for a free two day festival in denver for fans to start the new season rit. This is 9news. Several agencies are working a brush fire burning near the town of strasbourg east of denver. Burned out 100acres. Its . K a resident tells us the fire is about a half mile from county road 157. He says he noticed smoke around 4 00 this afternoon. Then the winds picked up. And others are using heavy equipment, farm equipment, fire Officials Say no structures are threatened. This was called in about 15 till 4 00 this afternoon. We will continue to monitor this brush fire and we will give you updates as we get them. Its happened again, someone has been shooting cattle in Lincoln County near hugo. Ranchers are fed up. Over the past three years, five with wild antelope. 9news reporter Victoria Sanchez went to Lincoln County and