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 tens
At least 100 flights nationwide today. As the Airline Tries to recover from were canceled monday. And tens of thousands of passengers were left stranded. Delta says a power outage in atlanta caused the systemwide failure. The airline put out a statement saying Critical Systems didnt switch over to the backup. Providing electricity to delta says the problem was deltas equipment not the power outage. In the next half hour well hear from deltas ceo and more on the airlines plans to make things right for stranded passengers. Your ballot could look very different come november. Eight more initiatives are in the approval process. Including ones looking at local fracking and oil and gas development. 9news reporter Colleen Ferreira joins us. Colleen colorado voters always have something to say about these two topics. Gary they sure do. But now its in the hands of the the secretary of state. Their office has until sept. 7 to verify signatures and determine whether these initiatives qualify for
Happening. Ranchers are taking a financial hit with each cow thats killed. But theyre pulling together 10,000 as a reward to find the person or people responsible for th think lots of people say its just a cow. Ben was the first rancher to lose cattle. Two in the same day. Its disheartening. I equate it to someone who lives in the city and someone breaks intheir home. Youve it cost 8,000 the peace of mind that rf his livestock was safe grazing on cows were kille three more died the same way. Gunshot wounds from a . Bhunting rifle. Unfortunately, thats a call wed received before. County Sheriffs Office says in 2013 and 14 antelope were killed. Then the shooter turned cows. This is our livelihood. And when somebody chooses to do this, and it is a choice, it angers us. Reporter all the shootings happened ws . 9ithin ten miles o each other down country roads. Every one of these have been shot, killed and left. This is not a case of someone poaching to feed their family. He hopes the reward
2 30 in atlanta , that was a. M. It could take days to get the schedule back to normal. Commerce city police are looking for a man who robbed a romantics store at gunpoint near 48th and pontiac. When police got there, an employee said a man came to the store with a gun, tied them up and robbed them. The suspect description is vague, black man about 5 11 wearing a mask and rubber glove. He ran off after threat to the public. At this point its an isolated incident. We dont have any other similar calls in this area, havent had calls in some time in this area. They did get a call to that area a few months back when a man was carjacked in that stores parking lot. In that case the suspect never went into the store. Nobody missed todays deadline to turn in signatures which means that you could have up to 11 different statewide this november. Two measures to limit fracking were the last to turn in their petitions just before the deadline this afternoon. The state has to verify there are enough
Knew he was struggling. He was an amazing athlete. He played varsity hockey as a freshman. I felt total shame, total guilt. I went back to when he was little and, you know, maybe i let him cry too long in his crib. What was it that caused him to turn to this . Reporter brendans death is one example of the heroin problem reaching into seemingly every community in colorado. This has been a 12 today the head of the dea in denver announced a major heroin bust and said the numbers are astounding. In the last five years the number of heroin overdoses has increased almost 350 and were not talking nation wide. Were talking here in colorado. This epidemic with heroin is not discriminating against anyone. Reporter gross is finding a way to heal by launching a program called beauty from his ashes. She and her husband meet with families to help them navigate had we have had someone that had been in our shoes, it would have been so much easier for us. So thats what we want to offer to other parents