Another Service Disruption along rtd train to the plane and the reasons from the delays today. Today the Drug Enforcement administration announced it will leave marijuana on the list of scheduled one drugs meaning the government considers it to have no medical value. Heroin and lsd are reporter two physicians not from colorado asked the dea to reclassify marijuana and make it a schedule 2 drugs. Drugs on that list can be prescribed by doctors and they do have medicinal values. Meg and cocaine are scheduled ii along with oxycodone and ritalin and not marijuana. Promarijuana people say it is other federal policies that impact pot users and growers. The Marijuana Industry struggles to use banks and making pot a schedule 2 drug would not change that. The dea did not make that decision. The fda looked at the research. The fda looked at what was valuable and did not find enough evidence that marijuana has an accepted is necessary and says the feds have high potential for abuse. Today we hear
Centennial will unveil the app next week. A forme university of colorado student convicted of rape will not spend anytime in prison. According to the daily cameron. Austin wilkerson was sentenced to two years of work or School Release and 20 years to life of beige. He was convicted earlier this year an sexually assaulting a female student that had too much to drink. He told her friends he would take care of her at a st. Patricks day in 2014. The charges carried up to 12 years in prison. But the judge ultimately decided the sentence. I see a lot of talk about da didnt do this and that. They had no choice. Fda would have to decide. It is unfortunate that the dea is lagging so far behind on the science and the public opinion. The Drug Enforcement administration is not eyes but it did cave on letting marijuana be grown from outside the authorized facility in mississippi and thats a shift. Here is anastasia bolton. The dea not taking marijuana out of the scheduled one act flies in the face
Thats 246 times higher than the governments limit of 15. Did your child drink out of that sink . I asked her and she said yes, we all did. Reporter lead poisoning can cause severe problems with childrens bodies and brains. These are young kids with developing brains. We dont want them exposed to any lead to be honest with you. As soon as we find out, we start putting into place how do we fix this. Reporter jeffco news. Just over 90 of the samples taken at 90 schools so far are below federal limits and when high lead levels are found, its usually from sinks that are rarely used. We havent had any complaints about Peoples Health because of our water, but why take that risk . Reporter when high levels are found, the district said it immediately shuts down water sources and replaces faucets and pipes. Costs are expected to exceed hundreds of thousands of dollars. This was not a budgeted item. We felt it was so important to our kids health. Reporter we noticed how transparent and efficient
Alt eclipsed the world record that she had set. 2nd place finished 12 seconds behind her. 2nd place finish, 12 seconds behind her. Michael phelps won his 27th medal and is 3way tie forward silver in the mens 100 Joseph School fresingapore won the gold in that race. This was phelps last individual event. He has another relay tomorrow. After tonights race, he said he is ready to retire. The keeper for the u. S. Womens soccer team, hope solo. Today she went on a rant about the swedish team, called them a bunch of cowards after the u. S. Went down in the first ever u. S. Womens olympic the best team did not win today. I strongly believe that. I think you saw american heart. Sweden dropped off. They didnt want to open play. They didnt want to pass the ball. They didnt want to play great soccer. They also have not beaten their former coach in four matches since she took over the swedish team. She coached coming up in sports, recap the efforts by two colorado players under the u. S. Team. Ano
Colorado state patrol officers, Fort Collins Police officers, and a lot of construction on this part of 287. They have the highway shut down. This incident happened a mile down the road as people are familiar with this area. Theres a Jackson Ranch nearby where this officerinvolved shooting happened. Fort Collins Police say this happened around 8 00 tonight. As of right now,s there is a multiagency Response Team that has come to this area and investigating this incident. So far we dont know if the officer that was involved is injured or what kind of shape the suspect is in. Well bring you more information hopefully in this newscast. New developments in a case weve been following for many years. This is a new picture of 7yearold daughter in aurora in 1984. Another daughter survived. Karen morfitt is at Aurora Police headquarters. Reporter far beyond a sketch, this image is generated using the suspects actual dna. Its fairly now technology. And the Aurora Police department is the first in