Weve also seen them working to keep the flames away from some homes and is structures up on this ridge. I spoke to one man who listens down the street, his home is not threatened at this point. He is concerned for the folks on this ridge. Apparently they dumped enough retardant around that that its not gonna be a problem for the homeowner. This is the fourth or fifth fire that ive seen within three miles of i mean, it could be way worse. It could be closer to my house. But its way worse for those folks. Reporter there are some voluntary evacuations in place right now. So far weve not heard any reports of damage. A renter fights to keep city. In the past. The city said stlald to arrest him now. His actions may cause sweeping changes in how the city deals with rental properties. Reporter ernie de herrera took matters into his own hands and is stood up against the city. I will know a martyr for the cause. Are you willing to go to jail . Yes, i am. Reporter after a week of fighting city hall, ernie got the break hes been hoping for. I kind of got pleasure out of ernie, a civilian, going up against the City Attorney and winning reporter nathan and his group watched de herrera take a stand. The city served a warrant after he refused to allow inspectors wearing bulletproof reporter wednesday a judge is dismissed a contempt of court case against him after a judge learned the warrant was served 17 days after its deadline. A second warrant for an inspection was issued minutes later. I think they just had a vendetta against him and want to go into his house and search it and videotape it and win. Reporter at a City Council Meeting tuesday, some city leaders thought the inspection of singlefamily homes like ernies sd in a statement to cbs4, the city manager said the city council directed staff to prepare an ordinance that removed singlefamily homes from the program, and as an option for a private inspector at the owners expense. While ernie says the wins a step in the right direction, he hopes the fight will soon be over. Reporter late today the city manager halted that warrant until the city council can make a new draft on that ordinance. We posted our other stores this matter on cbsdenver. Com. New details on dias plans to revamp the main terminal. Magic johnson wants his company to be involved in the big project. Ketty werthmann is kel in with the new developments at dia. It sounds like magic personally made a sales pitch to some of the concert members today. Reporter he did. But its very important to remember that the project that would revamp this terminal is in its very early stages. Today private companies gave their pitch for what they would like to do generally here with this project. Among the partners, Magic Johnson who says his stake in the project will also include connecting with the community. Special projects. And this is a special project. Reporter Denver International airports preparing for a major makeover, moving t. S. A. Checkpoints, adding more shop, and changing up baggage claims. Perhaps all it needs is the magic touch. What we want to do is work with a lot of the minority firms. Reporter Magic Johnson with Magic Johnson enterprises has been doing business in denver for a long time, starbucks locations with mayor webb years ago. Now he is among the Equity Partners looking to include dia. Youve already changed downtown. Now that movement is going toward the airport. And i want to be a part of that change. Reporter City Council Members learned of plea agreement plans for the overhaul. The airport known for its major and Controversial Team for the project. We can promise you, it will be something unlike youve seen at the airport. Reporter for Magic Johnson, this project is more than just an airport makeover. Its also about reaching out to inner city kids, teaching them the importance of education. Theres a lot of those kids who grew up like i did, poor. And i think they should understand how i got to this point. Reporter earlier today, the Business Committee did private public preagreement partnership. That means over the next six to eight month, theyll come up with a design and financial phase that will eventually be presented to city council. The train to the plane is running on time again after more we had some concerns with our gates. They were activating when the trains werent there. So we had to send someone out to troubleshoot that. The problem got fixed in the afternoon. Workers were placed on every crossing around the line. Sometimes the gates wouldnt rise or fall properly. Right now the dealt Denver Partnership is working to make the 16th street mall safer. Weve seen you videos recently of violence taking place on the mall. Security guas a man came in our store and demanded all the money. Theres no security around or anything. I ran out the store, asking for help, no one was to be found. And it was really scary. The city will also add 183 new lights to that section of the mall. Area safer. A shooting involving a Denver Police officer andsomed carjackers. It happened yesterday afternoon and suspected carjackers. Police confirm the suspect who was wound side a juvenile. Vrgs wounded is a juvenile. He and two other teams were in a stolen car and ran away. The driver went to the hospital. A man found a body in the home he just purchased. He bought the home at auction after it went into foreclosure. The owner hadnt paid the mortgage in months. He was checking out the home when he found the woman dead inside. Really sad and concerned. She was a great person. And we called the Police Department to go ahead and come on down and do an investigation. Reporter the neighbor says an officer did come by, knocked on the door but there was no investigating how that woman died. A homeowner cleaning up after an alleged drunk driver drove right through his backyard. It happened overnight near evans and furthermore. The driver hit a pole, took out a fence before hitting a trailer in the backyard. A small structure was destroyed. A popular Colorado Mountain biking trail appears to have booby trapped. Now investigators say the whole thing might be a misunderstanding. Rtd has found a new way to encourage people to ride the light rail. Temperatures right now are not too bad. Looking at the satellite radar, there is rain across the state. Keeping an eye on that breaking news. The fire in Larimer County south of carter lake, at least 80 acres have switch to centurylink and get up to 40 megs. Game. Connect on social media. Learn, shop and more with fast inhome wifi. So call 844565link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. Knew where it was and cut it down. Reporter he shared his cellphone video. The wire across this popular single track was about 3 feet off the ground. He says he hit it and went tumbling over his handle bars. You hear about it once a year but its usually not in your hometown. Reporter but they actually believe it was an old farmers official trail part of their marked system. It got shared million times and its all over the place reporter the video shared by several Online Publications and social media is real but taken out of context according to the blm. Reporter there were some other photos shared with this one from gunnis son of a bike trail there with a bunch of debris piled up on the stral. We have not been able to confirm if they are investigating this case yet either. But this is a trend dozens of canine teams putting their sniffing skills to the test this weekare seeing across the country. Dozens of canine teams putting their sniffing skills to the test this week. It tests them to recognize ten diff explosivodeors. Agency explosive odo scrapped a plan that would have raszed the lift ticket raised the lift ticket tax. The city wanted to use the extra money to create more parking. But after a public hearing on the idea, the town Council Voted 61 against that measure. Centennial is offering free it will run monday through fridays, 5 30 in the morning to 7 00 pm. Its hoped the rides to the station will convince more people to leave their cars and take public transit. Were looking to improve the quality of life for on the only our commuters, for our senior, for those that cant drive. And the first and last mile challenge has been a hindrance for folks being able to use this light rail station. The program is funded flew a public lets get over to lauren whitney. We have some changes coming bigger temperature changes coming our way on friday. Until then, we have one more warm day on tap 87 in denver, 90 in greeley. 71 in burlington. 77 in avon, 66 in aspen. Earlier today it was warmer, 90 degrees in denver. We spent a little time there this afternoon. 89 degrees from that. Its a little windy in some areas, gusty winds near eagle, and down near telluride. And the Eastern Plains have been breezy as well. You can tell by the colors. Eastern plains, more activity moving up direction. Temperatures have moved out near burlington. And heavier rainfall to our south, and scattered showers on the western slope. Those starting to ease on up just a bit. Ase south of vail, aspen, and close to telluride and grand junction, we have some rain showers right now. Here to the west side of estes park through frasier, we have some light rain as well. Futurecast for the rest of the evening, we have rain stick around, but it will ease up later into the evening hours. Well lose the heat of the day this tomorrow. We could have a couple pops through denver into the evening hours, and skies will clear overnight tomorrow morning. Sunshine, nice outside, and the chance of more rain, thunderstorms coming through tomorrow. An isolated chance for denver, the possibility is still out there. And temperatures tonight, mild tomorrow morning, nice outside. 59 for denver, 56 in fort collins. 60 in burlington tonight. 49 in eagle and 63 in grand junction. Tomorrow were looking at another fairly warm day for us. 87 in denver a burlington. 94 in ray. Eastern plain, youre still pretty toasty. High country gonna feel pretty nice tomorrow. 76 in steamboat. And 88 in grand junction. Isolated storms clearing out. 58 at dia. Tomorrow fairly warm. 88 downtown. 87 at dia with the chance for evening thunderstorms. For the 5day, areas on saturday could get some rainfall on friday and saturday morning. Starting to feel pretty good. Its so nice outside. [ laughter ] the broncos quarterbacks are competing for one job. And coors field was friendly our son caleb was born with a rare form of cystic fibrosis. It means every day mucus builds up on his lungs, making it very hard for caleb to breathe. Was about 35 years of age. But then a new medication was invented that not only treated the symptoms of cystic fibrosis, but targeted the disease. The only problem was is that it wasnt approved to be used in the united states. But Michael Bennet changed that. Working with republicans, Michael Bennet wrote a law to get medicine and treatments approved quicker. Caleb just celebrated 5 years being hospitalfree. He doesnt have to think about his disease every day. Im able to see him in the future getting married, graduating from college. Those were dreams that we hoped for, but now i see them as a reality. I feel very fortunate to have somebody representing us that cares so much. Im Michael Bennet, michael is here. At this point this camp, serve a little on edge. Always some fighting. Right theyre tired of hitting one another. Now finally fight with the 49ers. Today the first of two join practices between the broncos and san francisco. Both preparing for saturdays preseason game. Good crowd on hand they didnt keep score f. They did, the broncos would have won. And im not sure saying that because were in denver. The defense was dominant, the offense was pretty good. Things did get a little chippy more than once. Most of the guys told does not. I dont. Why not . Theres always a fight here and there. For no reason. Thats how injuries happen and stuff like that. Were gonna get the work in. Itll be over soon. But im not a big fan of it. Usually the linemen that start the fisttokufrs. Which team would you like to see practice with the broncos . Patriots . Cowboys . Packers or steelers . We know about the quarterback competition, and with the 49ers in town, it was a reminder of what could have been reporter there was a time a few months ago when it seemed Colin Kaepernick was destined to be the broncos starting quarterback this year. But that never happened. And today he was just a spectator. He didnt even shoulder. Were battling it out, and itll be a big week for them. We moved on, feel really good about our guy reporter three weeks into camp, kubiak doesnt feel good enough about one of them to name a starter. Its a good competition. Theyre both really good players, and its eye tough decision for us and thats a good thing. Reporter despite the fact theyre fighting for a job and their careers, the q. B. s insist its within a friendly fight. I think were roong its hard for people on the outside to see that. Its an awesome group. Leading the circus, so to speak. Its been fun, and i think serve helping each other out. And its a good group to be a part of. Reporter a circus, the rest of the team will be happy to see come to an end. The ball is moving. Reporter and just when will he make that decision . We dont know coach hasnt named the starter for the preseason. The rockies going for a series win against the nationals today. Basesclearing double, 40 rockies lead. Later in the inning, the walkers had a great day. He was 3 for 4 including this solo home run in the 5th. Typical day at coors field. The two teams combined for 24 runs and 22 hits. Line up against one of the best teams in the game, best purchases in the game. Closer is down. One of our best players is and we found a way to win the game and win the series. Its not how we drew it up. Its a great win. Matt was never the best subject. 1210, rockies. [ laughter ] a wins a win. [ laughter ] coming up, the feds examining a local Police Department. And a raging wildfire east of l. A. Is pushing fire crews toth california with an update on,, all in crystalclear hd. 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Voluntary evacuations, 70 acres have burned, containment at 50 . Well continue to bring you new information as we get it. The u. S. Justice Department Investigating the Commerce CityPolice Department. This follows several cases of misconduct by officers within the department. Rick salinge serlive in Commerce City tonight with the top story. And the city reporter yes, it did. The city realized it had Serious Problems with the Police Department. You might say it called the cops thats the u. S. Justice department acroanymore for Community Orient acrodwltd nym for Community Oriented policing services. Kevin lord was convict have had making up a report. Another officer resigned of sex tin messages were sexting messages were found sent from his home. Another Commerce City preliminary was fired and policeman was fired and he sued. Now the city has taken action. Yes, we heard from our community. And they werent happy. And a few of these incidents, they were embarrassed for Commerce City. Reporter at the city and departments own request, the u. S. Department of of justice is