Our elections, that undermines democracy. Trumps claim on not conceding to clinton if he loses has been rejected by some fellow republicans. John mccain said he didnt like the outcome of the 2008 race but conceded defeat without reluctant. No ballot selfies. State law prohibits voters from showing their completed ballots to others. That includes posting a picture of a media. Colorado is one of many states that bans ballot selfyes. Its a selfies. Its a misdemeanor meant to guard against voter fraud. There are exceptions such as senior and people who need help and nonenglish speaking voters. Tonight the debate between republican congressman mike coffman and democratic challenger morgan carroll, the suburbs around denver to the north, east and south. That debate starts at 7 00 airing on channel 20 and well stream it on 9news. Com and the 9news mobile app. Iraqi and kurdish troops say theyve advanced more quickly than expected to take the isis stronghold of mosul. However, not all the news is encouraging, particularly for u. S. Forces working with the iraqi military. Reporter the pentagon announced today that an american soldier was it appears to be the First American casualty in this offensive to drive isis out of mosul. Mostly americans are on their bases, but some are Forward Deployed advising iraqi and kurdish troops which puts them in harms way. We went to the front line today and we saw iraqi forces have reached right to the outskirts of the city of mosul. We also found that isis has dug in. We saw some of their tunnels. We saw some of their bunkers where they were preparing theres a very big fight in store when troops arrive inside the city of mosul. Well have a full report tonight on nbcs nightly news with lester holt. Back at home Boulder County investigators believe a truck driver checking the back tires of his big rig got caught in the tires when the truck began to roll forward just before 6 30 this morning along highway 128 and el dorado boulevard in superior. The truck rolled to a feet. It took firefighters roughly an hour to free him. The 35yearold man from thornton died at a denver area hospital about a half hour later. Witnesses who saw this are asked to contact the Boulder County sheriffs office. Americans spend an average of more than 50 hours a year sitting in traffic. For commuters who use i25 in the denver area that estimate may feel a little low. The interstate is seeing more jams this year than ever before. 9news reporter dan grossman found out why. Us what gives . What gives with this . For every minute there is a stop on i25 there are six minutes of congestion building up behind it. Bad news, yes, but the good news is cdot is working to fix it. You may be thinking we all lose our patience in traffic. Reporter this has to be an anomaly. Accidents actually cause 60 of our congestion on colorado roads. Reporter through denver i 25 is congested more times than sunset. I would say 20 to 40. Reporter thats a fact. A day. Reporter Sergeant Chris hoke knows the number of crash chris hogue knows the number of crashes his department deals with each day ball its only grown larger each because its only grown larger each day. An accident that each ones if will cause three hours of traffic jams. Cdot is in the process of lane expansions and training the police force how to clear accidents more effectively and efficiently. For a more immediate fix we can all help ourselves. You actually can do your part in help ago void some congestion if you avoid your crashes, drive safely and no. 2, if you are in a crash, get your car off the quickly as possible. Reporter its a natural by product of the growth our state is seeing. If we do our part, we can hopefully get this number a little bit lower. In denver im dan grossman, 9news. Its estimated a quarter Million People travel i25 each day. Cd says it will take at least until cdot says it will take at least until saturday to open the highway glenwood springs. Deal tours can add up to detours canned up to three extra hours of drive can add up to three extra hours of drive time. A rockslide damaged the road and a concrete barrier. No vehicles were damaged. Crews will do rock scaling to prevent hopefully any future slides. A new survey from the centers for Disease Control shows there were more reported cases of sexually transmitted cases in the u. S. Last year chlamydia in 2015 affected 1. 5 Million People. Rates of syphilis and gonorrhea have gone up by 19 and 13 respectively. The cdc says gay and bisexual men accounted for manufacture the new cases in addition many of the new cases in addition to older teens and young adults. Less funding has left fewer military people from across the country are spending time in a place a little outside their country zone. Well go to a ranch on the Eastern Plains where horses are helping to heal. Reporter at the end of the winding roads near the Pawnee National grasslands is a place where hope springs eternal. Actually i was looking for healing. May, you ready to go . Reporter its a certain hey, you ready to go . Reporter its that brought 20 people to a dude ranch in weld county spending the week here doing what cowboys normally do with lots of hours in the saddle every day. There we go. Id like to take him home with me, if i could. Reporter what karen and others here share, though, is more than just an outdoors experience. Im peopling it today. Reporter they also share a tremendous heartbreak. Everyone here has lost a loved one due to military service. Some of them have lost a child. Some have lost a spouse. Reporter for kylynn it was her husband nathan, for karen, her son jeffrey and for kevin graves, his son joseph. All are here because of the nonprofit groups called taps, the Tragedy Assistance Program for survivors. Its just not an easy thing to live through and adventures like this help you realize that you can. You can survive. Reporter an adventure thanks to each horse a survivor is paired up with. Tom carr is the ra ill tell you its been a really heart warming experience for us. For us to be able to give back to them for the sacrifice that they have made and there is no greater sacrifice. Reporter its a form of equine therapy thats part challenge we have disagreements. Reporter but all fun, a special bond between rider and horse. So we have come to an understanding and i think he still thinks hes the boss. Dont tell him. Themselves in more ways than one. Thats been the biggest enjoyment for me is to see the beautiful landscape. Im taking back a whole new family. Reporter maya rodriguez, 9news. For more information about the work that the group taps does or if youd like more information about their programs, we put it a link on 9news. Com. What the elephants do about a giant pu denver zoo. A warning for homeowners about a costly problem usually not covered by Homeowners Insurance. And a lakewood 7eleven sells a lotto ticket worth a 7eleven in lakewood sold a lotto ticket worth nearly 10 million. The Colorado Lottery said someone purchased the ticket last night at the 7eleven at 9200 west alameda avenue. It matched all six numbers, 3, 4, 5, 9, 14, 36. The unusually large lotto grand prize is the re consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner. That winner has 180 days to claim the prize. Lotto is one of colorados in state jackpot games with a starting jackpot of 1 million bucks. Drawings are every wednesday and saturday at 7 35 p. M. A warning for homeowners, there are hundreds, potentially thousands of homes in this country that are crumbling at the foundation. Homeowners are watching their concrete basement walls crack and buckle because of a mineral in the concrete and its they have no option but to come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix them. Homeowners insurance policies do not cover the damage. Its a wakeup call for all those who own a home. To be very clear about what is and not covered in their Homeowners Insurance policy. You look at a Homeowners Insurance policy not as a warranty. This is not really an insurance issue of insurance policies list whats covered and whats not. Unfortunately in this case why is the loss occurring . The loss is occurring because of defective materials and or shoddy workmanship and no matter what state you go to a Homeowners Insurance claim will not be paid if that is the cause of the loss. More on this story tonight on nbc nightly news. Tesla has made a major announcement about the future of its driverless cars. Ceo elon musk says all new tesla vehicles will come with hardware to make them fully selfdriving so theyre ready to be autonomous once online. The selfdriving hardware includes eight cameras, a dozen sensors and improved radar. A photo op at the denver zoo today didnt go quite as planned. Billy, the youngest elephant, got two 600pound pumpkins and zookeepers thought hed do his Smashing Pumpkins impression. He instead did his run away impression. He sniffed one, looked it over and didnt want anything to do with them. So body, e elephant, got his chance, a 12 yearold male. He was a little scared or maybe just didnt want to do it today. So we brought out a different elephant and he is really enjoying it. He smashed them both and is eating it and loving it. Okay, there. Ere we go. Todays pumpkin smashing was the zoos way of promoting its boo at the zoo event this weekend. Demonstrations and animal demonstrations. Everything is included in the cost of admission. We dont know if theyll smash the pumpkins again. Temperatures rebounding quickly from the midweek cold snap. I kind of like this time of year because its that surprise morning. You stick your nose out the door and its chilly and the weekend comes up and its going to be like summer again. My first indication it was chilly outside, i saw frost on the ground and a layer of ice on the horses water trough this morning. First time for the season and the barn cat didnt want anything to do with me this morning. Usually she runs outside and kind of spends time with me in the barn but not today. Mid20s in denver this morning. It wont be as cold tonight and over the city right now, clear skies, light winds and way up high a pristine view of our southern mountains. This will be a great weekend to head into denver or head into the high country. With the clear skies tonight theres a meteor shower. It will peak tonight 10 to 15 meteors per hour, midnight to sunrise your best viewing opportunity. Check that out if you get a chance. Well have much more on 9news. Com. 62 degrees in denver today, 59 in springfield, 50 in leadville, 62 in grand junction. Nothing but up headed into the 70s tomorrow. Well stay there the next three to five days. Winds light out of the east, dry, humidity 17 . Here in the 9news backyard its clear and comfortable, 63 degrees and nice not to have all the wind weve dealt with all week long. In between storm systems, one moving onshore in the pacific northwest, another one bringing showers and storms from the Central Plains states right up into the midwest where travel delays are expected due to rain, win this area will see beneficial precipitation that our state is lacking, fourth dryest october on record, no signs thats changing. High pressure is our dominant weather feature, cool front to the north, most youre in the northwest, mild dry air invading the southwest and our state. With that west to southwest flow a warming trend, mid70s forecast here tomorrow, cool air retreating into the midwest and 90s on the map across Southern California and arizona, not overly unusual for light clouds that might set up over the northern mountains and a bit of a northern wave cloud early in the day. Enough sunshine and winds out of the west southwest that well see a big temperature jump tomorrow. It will be chilly tonight, not as cold as last night, 32 in vail, 20 gunnison, 31 lamar with high temperatures tomorrow above average after a chilly start. Freeze warning for pueblo, frost advisory on the extreme Eastern Plains, but again denver not included in the advisory. Look at these highs heg almost 80 in pueblo, mid70s in denver, comfortable weather in the high country and just good travel weather. I25 and i70, thats what you want after a long week back to work and school. City forecast tonight, no freeze advisories for the city, mid30s, light winds, chilly enough when you step out tomorrow morning. Low 60s in the morning, mid70s in the afternoon, a good looking forecast coming up as we take you into the weekend come close to 80 both saturday and sunday with our next chance for moisture tuesday, slight chance of a few light showers with slightly cooler temperatures. Hey, big Football Game in town monday when our guys take the field right around sunset. Temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. It will be a beautiful game time forecast. We do not want weather to be a factor. These guys need that win. Nice kickoff time, right . It is perfect. Thanks, kathy. Coming up next in rod mackey introduces you to the biggest cubs fan on the broncos. And the lowdown on why Brock Osweiler is no longer a bronco. Stocks finished the day lower on wall street getting back the modest gains they made the day before. The dow fell 40 points, s p lost nearly three and the from colorados sports leader heres rod mackey. Let me clarify the name. Theyre the houston texans, not brock and the texans. It seems all anyone wants to talk about is the broncos qb turned texans qb. Most were disappointed when osweiler left but not trevor siemian. After all, siemian would likely still be sitting on the bench had osweiler chosen to resign here. You know, i learned a ton learned a ton from brock as well and the situation that he was in. So brock is a good friend and i wish him really well. We talk time to time whether its texts or whatever. Obviously i think a lot of him, had a lot of nice battles with him on the football field last year. We won some big games. You never forget that. Thats part of football. So yes, we got a lot of respect for each other i think. Brock called kub after the ambulance incident to make sure key player from the broncos opponent and in week the player was Brock Osweiler. Mike klis was part of that conversation. He joins us live now from broncos headquarters. We get to finally catch up with the old qb, didnt we, mike . Reporter we did. I was impressed by how he handled all the questions that came his way. Most of the questions went back to his decision to leave previous four years, had been developed by the Coaching Staff here. He was ready to become the heir apparent to peyton manning, take over the defending super bowl champs. Instead he leave for houston where he thought he had a better chance to succeed and brock didnt dodge any questions. I thought he might say ive moved on, guys. That was then. Im now a houston texan. He didnt do that. He explained all his decisions. Two things of note. He did indicate that the extending an offer. That was one and two, he also reconfirmed that he preferred the bill obrien often which comes from the patriots which the broncos used in the Adam Gase Peyton Manning heyday versus the gary kubiak offense which is a little more run oriented. Looking forward what do you expect to see from no. 17 on monday night, mike . Reporter i expect him to try to get rid of the ball quick just did last thursday, just like matt ryan did. That seem to be the blueprint. Hell try to hit his tight ends. Im not sure hell go as much to his receiver Deandre Hopkins like he likes to. Theyll try to neutralize the pass rush, but i think the broncos have this game. Its hard for me to believe theyre losing to brock and the texans on monday night. Mike, its the houston texans. Its not brock and the texans. I just clarified that. And i disagree, not this week. Its brock and the texans. Mike. Thank you for talking about brock and the texans. Finally we are all about the broncos here, but everywhere else everyone else seems to be focused on the cubs, even broncos running back kapri bibbs who actually flew back from chicago to watch one of their playoff games. I didnt really have a choice. Now you got the cub games. She would take me to all i was seeing sammy sosa and i was like all right. This was the team my mom was a fan of. Im a cubs fan. Tonight it will be interesting to see what happens, john lester, the cubs ace on the mound. Its funny, looking stuff up now. Like 100 bucks you can go to the cubs game in l. A. , triple if its cubs indians, forget it. Are you going with the sentimental favorite . Im going cubs. Im going dodgers because im not jinxing them. Nbc nightly news is next. After that next with kyle clark at 6 00 and well all see you back here at 9 00 and 10 00. We hope to anyway. Tonight, refuse to lose. Donald trumps defiant new message, doubling down on his refusal to say hell accept the results of the election. Ill keep you in suspense. New fallout from a nasty debate. No puppet. No puppet. Youre the puppet. Such a nasty woman. Tunnels. Richard engel inside the underground bunkers in iraq where isis fighters lived before they fled for their lives. Hunt for a serial killer. Chilling new 911 calls as police ask for help in an unsolved murder spree. Who is the sniper targeting victims that include children . And crumbling nightmares. A billion dollar disaster for families watching their houses crack apart