Denver. And a win for one of the mayors biggest initiatives. A 150million dollar proposal for more the City Council Monday night. Mayor Michael Hancocks plan will use property taxes and Development Fees to raise the money over the next ten years. This will be denvers first ever dedicated fund for Affordable Housing and aims to preserve or create 6thousand incomequalified units. The Council Approved the plan with a nine to four vote and called it a step in the right direction. After the ten years are up the city will review the plan. Southeast denver apartment monday afternoon. Six people were treated for smoke inhalation four of them firefighters. It happened at the reserve at hunters run near yale avenue and syracuse way just after 4 on monday afternoon. The blaze spread across three floors, eventually causing the roof to collapse. Crews are still investigating what caused the fire and exactly where it started. It took 75 firefighters about an hour and half to get that fire under cont
2 00 this morning. Police say the car went through a fence, hit a house, ended up in the backyard. There were three men in the saturn. The driver took off. Police are looking now for that driver of the suv. Police did find a gunman outside of the ford, which was stolen, a gun was also found. This is kind of a dream come true for me Denver Police officer john adsit is back on the job. Adsit, its been an incredible journey, he says with lots of up and downs, and hes really taking it day by day. I dont know what the next few years hold at this point, but i feel confident that the next couple of days and weeks the driver who hit officer adsit suffered a seizure, and was sentenced to six years probation for vehicular assault, and not disclosing his history of seizures. Were just hours away from september, and leaves in the high country are already turning. Temperatures have been cool an snow has already fallen at higher elevations. Not quite fall yet, but we in the 80s today across the metr
Pot edibles has found he can stand trial. Richard joins us live with the latest developments. Richard kirk pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the shooting death of his wife, chris. Court documents show he was allegedly hallucinating after eating marijuana laced candy. It showed weeks before the shooting, he changed his payroll deposit from a joint account to a personal account. There were to stand trial. The Court Received a report from the Colorado Mental Health institute in pueblo. Its not publicly available but we can assume hes competent because the court set a trial date of march 6th. Now, i spoke briefly with his slain wifes mother after todays hearing. We miss our daughter every day. The children miss their mother this over. She and a few others are in, to get this going. Were told the trial will last about two weeks. A special jury panel has been . Alled. This is a high profiled case. Reporting live in downtown denver, denver 7. Also breaking right now, two american si
Were in for a beautiful sunrise. Take a look. This is near pets from our wireless camera. Plenty of sunshine on the eastern plains. The western slope a different story. Storms and showers moving further east into the Central Mountains up along i70 by this afternoon. Our best chance for showers here in denver not until tomorrow. Today were find were still warm. Low 70s close to 80 by 3 00 and mid 70s around 5 00 to 6 00. Here in denver, eerie 81 and boulder 79. On our sevenday forecast, last day of 80s at least on this sevenday. Well talk about the cool down comiig up. The sun is rising and you can see the sliver of the moon which is beautiful this air tracker seven is looking at an accident on the north side of town off to the right side of town. Theres a bit of a traffic jam coming up from highway 36. No more than a five minute delay at most. You can see on the map coming down from the north side of town, theres an incident here and all the other freeways are getting busy. Its 6 02. D
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