Scare. How the bill will come together is a work in progress, but one big challenge is in fact the cost, in whats already shaping up to be a tight budget year. Last year all surgical techs were required to be fingerprinted after being hired in response to rocky allen who exposed thousands of patients to hiv while stealing drugs, and he was also accused of stealing doctor ughs in other states before colorado to work. And new tonight a warning for parents about a powerful drug responsible for the deaths of two teens in neighboring utah. Its called pink. Heres more. Reporter two innocent lives were cut short. I feel lucky our last words were i love you. Overdosed on pink. Its stronger than morphine. Reporter the drug was discovered back in the 70s, but never went into Clinical Trials or sold in the market. The patent for that saturday around and the form sat around and the formula has app parentally fallen into the hands of chemists around the world. Reporter pink is mainly coming in from
Happy friday all. Meteorologist Marty Coniglio joins us. Marty not a badar pretty nice last summer weekend. High school. But at rival schools as well are showing they are legacy strong. Legacy high school in broomfield is facing Prairie View High school for their homecoming game tonight. While three of their football coaches are still recovering from a deadly bus crash. A bus driver crashed the school bus sunday at dia. The driver died on scene. Two of the coaches theyre using the hashtag legacy strong. Even students from paririe view showed their support for the rival team. The game tonight is at 7 p. M. At north stadium. This morning a special ceremony for two men killed fighting along Kurdish Forces in syria earlier this year. Levi shirley and jordan mactaggart were not part of the us military. They went to help fight isis on their own. Shirley is from arvada. Mactaggart is from castle rock. They died about a month apart this summer. Today their bodies will finally return to colorad
Bend the arc of history just a little bit and we can set a course for the world for the next generation or more. Political reporter Brandon Rittiman is sitting down one on one with the Vice President tonight. We will have their conversation tomorrow on 9news. Donald trump comes back to colorado this weekend. Hell be in Colorado Spring saturday night at a rally at the jet setter near the airport. The doors open at 5 30. The Program Begins two hours later. You can sign up for tickets at trumps kin website. Its best to get there campaign website. Its best to get there early. Hillary clinton said her time off recovering from pneumonia gave her time to think about her campaign and her goals. She talked about that in North Carolina. It was her first appearance since her doctor put her on bedrest nearly a week ago. She said she will never give up clinton compared her style with donald trump saying she will never be a showman. She also brought up North Carolinas controversial bathroom law. Im
Spoke with chief white. After that one on one between him and marshall today. Why the chief says he agreed to meet ining in the first place. Told us liked marshall wants to move the ball tpard. Having that conversation is just one of many opportunities to do strengthening community relations. He says hes not against the military. Hes not against the phres police or america. In a picture posted on his social 3450ed media page. He says hes against social injustice. He displayed that before last thursdays game. When he followed former college teammate. Taking a knee. During the national anthem. Its totally irrelevant whether i agree or disagree. Sitting face to face today with marshall. Denver police chief called it an opportunity. We can never address the issues that were faced wd in this country. If we dont have respect for the we reached out to them. But havent heard back. We have not haefrd heard back from marshall. Chief whaot saying he doesnt know if marshall will again take a knee.
Platform, if you will. Absolutely. You heard the chief say it. The reason that he wanted to talk with Brandon Marshall and he said he would do that for anybody who wanted to speak with him is because he has such a platform to really effect change. Thank you. A local colorado winery is destroyed after a vehicle drove into it overnight. This is at the aspen peak cellulars in bailey. Cellars in the crash caused broken water pipes and damage to a gas line. Wine was flowing into the platte river. The driver is expected to be okay. 25,000 bottles were inside that winery, though. The owner tells us hes just not sure how many of those were lost. We are expecting rain in the metro area tonight. Its already sprinkling in some spots. The cold front is bringing much cooler temperatures. Dont adjust your screen for this next video if we have it. The top of the peak was blanketed in snow this morning. Temperatures were in the 20s on the mountain. Meteorologist belen deleon is in the 9news backyard.