College and east horse tooth. The drivers are expected to be okay. The van involved in the crash was heading to the situation at the mouth of the big thompson canyon. People reported a man in the area shooting a gun highway 34 was shut down. A little bit before 8 oclock this morning, a man was taken into custody without anyone getting hurt. Professors are using a different message to capture violent criminals called forensic botany using plants to link criminals two crimes. In one case, they challenged a suspect alibi and proved how old a body was by studying sunflowers laying on top of it. They have now share their knowledge with the world. They have proven fresh sunflowers and we put them in our greenhouse on campus and matched conditions as best we could in the summertime. And we were able to determine about how long the body had the sunflowers before it was discovered. Investigators can also look at the stomach content of deceased victims which can help them pinpoint the time of de
The capital. The government has deployed 150 thousand security personnel to safeguard churches, airports and other public places. No one has claimed responsiblity for todays attacks yet. Good morning. Meteorologist Marty Coniglio and traffic reporter Amelia Earhart join us. Martylast warm day before the cold gets here new overnight. 5 people are out of their home. After a house fire in their home. After a house fire in denver. Neighbors told 9news reporter noel brennan that they heard 2 loud explosions. Came outside. And saw the home in flames. It took denver fire 30 minutes to get this fire under control. It destroyed the home. One person was taken to the hospital as a precaution. Investigators say it looks like the fire may have started in the theyre still looking into the cause. Thousands of people waited for hours. Stuck in dias security line. In the days after christmas. Some. Missed their flights. And today. Tsa is fessing up. And saying it made a mistake. In the middle of the ma
Remembers in a photo of mirror lake in mt. Hood, part of the mt. Hood wilderness within the mt. Hood National Forest in my home state of oregon. And mt. Hood, madam president , is an oregon icon. Ahave a and William Wyden are twins, pictures vaibl pictures y iphone after this discussion. They ski this and theyve already recognized at a very young age that mt. Hood is an icon. And wilderness, there and across america, has been called the Gold Standard of conservation. Keeping areas under the strongest level of protection the law provides ensures that they remain wild for future generations to appreciate and enjoy. And by identifying what places deserve wilderness protection in an open, inclusive fashion, the country ensures full public debate, opportunities to bring people together, to build a consensus, sensitivity to rural traditions and local economic needs, with an end product being wilderness areas that all americans can be proud of. Creating wilderness, madam president and perhaps
Captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for wednesday, september 18th, 2013. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, a troubled portrait is emerging this morning of a man who opened fire at the Washington Navy yard early monday morning killing 12 people. The behavior of aaron alexis had come to the attention of authorities a number of times over the years and even before the shooting. He had struggled with reports of Mental Illness. Reports say just two days before the attack, the former Navy Reservist tried to buy an Assault Rifle from a gun store in virginia, but a state law prevented the purchase because he lived out of state. Instead alexis bought the shotgun he used in the attack. The navy yard is two blocks from the capitol. Senator harry reid said he would like to see new gun support law measuring including one that would keep guns from the mentally ill. Anything we can do to focus attention on the senseless killings th
That damascus will not fulfill the proposed initiative unless threats to bomb his country are stopped. That is the very latest from that interview. The question of what to do about syria has now shifted to switzerland. Secretary of state john kerry arrived in geneva this morning. Their aim is to work out details of a plan to have syria surrender its chemical weapons. So the plan, right, phil, is to see if this plan is workable. But if they even come to an agreement then there is the logistics to execute the plan. How much can they accomplish in this short period of time. Yeah, its a lot on the menu. Not only do they have to figure out whether this is something that all sides will sign on to, but then they have to figure out how to simply lay out the plan if it can be done logistically and scientifically. Sa there are members on both delegations who have been brought in to answer those questions. But there will be some sort of resolution that all parties can agree to . And thats still a