the 27-year-old victim was freed days after he was taken from lakewood. >> we don't see many kidnaps. they're very rare. particularly ransom kidnappings. >> reporter: it began last week with the report of a customer du the 31st the future suspect believed to be the planner remains at large. >> reporter: after one of the kidnappers grabbed the ransom money, he checked to see if the money was real. and if there was a tracking device with it. shortly after that the three were captured. a developing story where a man with a knife carjacked a driver and quickly crashed. so he stole another and still on the run tonight. andrea flores this all went down, right in the middle of the day! >> reporter: that's right. it all happened in less than a mile of this stretch. >> i was shopping to get a birthday present. and i guess i was interrupt the. >> reporte was cut short. this man was trying to steal a vehicle at this best buy. he attempted to stab an onlooker who called police before take off across the street. he carjacked the comiefr of this van at >> i hit my head. really dizzy afterward. and shook up. >> reporter: after processing, the suspect dumped the stolen van and fled to a nearby mcdonald's parking lot where he stole a 2015 white dodge pickup and drove off. >> i just had a feeling he was either inebriated or on drug to be driving so fast. >> reporter: the suspect is described as a white or hispanic male, 6'0", 150 pounds with a dark-colored mohawk. her biggest concern is shopping for her daughter's birthday. >> i don't know what i'm gonna do. [ laughter ] >> reporter: that suspect was last seen heading westbound here a couple is facing felony charges accused of abusing their teenaged son. that 17-year-old boy weighed only 88 pounds when he got to the hospital, with one doctor saying he looked like a concentration camp survivor. the boy is blind and autistic. police say he was surviving on seven to nine sodas per day and 500 calories of crackers and chips. investigators say they too are struggling with the case. >> we're human as well. like this. even as a police officer. >> the parents claim they thought their son had the flu and blamed his dangerously low weight on having skinny relatives and knowing a picky eater -- being a picky eater. a customer at main street station was stabbed in the neck in what appears to be a random anymore information about the person in custody. new developments in the case we've been following since december. a former valley school bus driver who rolled a bus pleaded guilty to careless driver. five students were hurt. the driver told investigators she was taking prescription drugs for fiber myalgia. you can't wait for the new season to start! >> broncos take on the panthers tomorrow night. michael, super bowl rematches is that right? season! this is gonna be good! >> this is the one that everybody has been waiting for. september 8th has been the day on the calendars. the old adage in football is that you take it one game at a time. this game just feels a little different. there is the heightened season opener, the hype of the super bowl rematch, all of that is it's only one. >> just game 1 of this season. automobile it's a big game, we're kwoon have to play -- gonna have to play special. that's what it's all aboutgonna have to play -- gonna have to play special. that's what it's all about. >> kickoff tomorrow at 6:30. coming up later in sports, emanuel sanders gets the contract extension he's been waiting for, smiling aai [ laughter ] civic center park has been transformed into the nfl's kickoff village. and a lot of broncos alums signing autographs. dirks bentley and one public will perform tomorrow for free. the concert gets going at 4:30. visitors to the kickoff clear bags. this is the news on the campaign trail. donald trump unveils a foreign policy plan that calls for a new wave of military spending. trump delivered his remarks to an invitation-only crowd in philadelphia today. to increase the size of the army to 540,000, adding 12 marine corps battalions, increase the navy fleet, and the number of air force fighter jets. >> immediately after taking office, i will ask my generals to present to me a plan within isis. >> reporter: trump says he will cut federal workers and eliminate defense contracts to pay for everything. he got some help on the campaign trail today from his son. shaun boyd talked with donald trump jr. >> reporter: trump has trailed hillary clinton in colorado by double diggids. but the latest washington post poll shows a big shift, putting clinton's lead here at less than 4 points . final stretch, donald trump jr. met with volunteers in denver signalling the campaign hasn't written off colorado. >> why hasn't he made more of an aggressive play for this state? >> i think he'll be here. i think he's obviously focused on a lot of places. this is a lot more difficult map for a republican than a democrat >> reporter: he's struggled with the latino population, gone back and forth on mass deboardation. >> does he suprt right now, that is the policy. that's what we have to do. you can't start a good faith negotiation with someone effectively committing fraud to make that happen. >> reporter: while trump has trouble connecting with minority voters, he's appealed to working class whites, making a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage here tricky. trump jr. says eliminating some taxes would be better. >> if you eliminated some of toward bridging some of that gap. >> reporter: he walked a careful line when it came to drilling on federal land which is clinton wants to ban. >> i'm a big hunter, big fisherman. i lived in this live to pursue those hobbies. there are places and ways where you can have the best of those worlds >> reporter: he told me the upcoming debates are significant but his dad isn't doing the typical mock debate prep. rather he says hillary clinton said tonight she will never send u.s. ground forces into syria or iraq if elected president. like trump she was at that forum on the military tonight. she said defeating isis is a top priority. >> we've got to do it with air power, we've got to do it with much more support for the air than the kurds will fight on the ground against isis. we have to squeeze them by continuing to >> she also promised to hold weekly oval office meetings with representatives from the pentagon and veterans' afrors stay on top of healthcare for veterans. new pressure on the v.a. because of its mistakes building that new hospital in aurora. the records mike coffman wants public. >> and the drastic change to the new iphone. >> and another first for colorado. the state's first hemp op >> and a family finally gets its wish. why was it so hard to get a former military pilot buried at arlington? 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(vo) want to be happy with your next vehicle purchase? at enterprise, we guarantee it. head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales .. this grass fire burned about 20 acres this afternoon. firefighters were able to save a shed, that guy, and $3,000 worth of hay inside. it's what's missing from the iphone 7 that's making news tonight. the new phone does away with the analog headphone jack. you'll have to use >> a deliver an apple magical experience. when you try it, you're going to be blown away. >> there's also an adapter provided to connect corded head phones. with the new veterans hospital project in aurora extremely behind schedule and overbudget, mike kaufman is department of veterans affairs. the cost has ballooned to more than $1.6 billion, triple the original budget. lawmakers. to see thousands of pages of documents related to construction costs. >> i believe this committee and the american people are entitled to review all the documents associated with the aurora aib and draw their own conclusions as to what went wrong and who should be held accountable. >> the d.a. says making those documents public could chilling effect on future internal investigations. a female world war ii pilot finally got her wish to be laid to rest at arlington national cemetery. female pilots were barred from arlington. but her family fought an emotional battle to change that. >> reporter: teri harman was handed the flag as her mother she was a member of the women air force service pilot, also known as wasps. she earned her pilot wings in world war ii in noncombat mipgzs. >> this is something that my mother worked hard to earn >> reporter: when she died more than a year ago, they found out they could not make good on her final wish to be buried at arlington. >> it's not an easy thing to have to ask congress to p grandmother. >> reporter: martha mcsally is the first woman to fly in combat. >> these women were amazing pisdmeers is opened up doors -- pioneers and opened up doors for women like me. >> reporter: she joined the be. >> the army banned women pilots from arlington because there was a concern about limited space. a national park in california is getting its biggest expansion in 67 years. it is adding 400 acres of wetlands and meadow habitat. a conservation group bought that property from private owners and donated it to the park. the country's first ever western slope. the goal is producing hemp plants with such a low thc content, users can't get high. that way it can still be classified as industrial hemp. that indicates more than 25,000 uses for hemp. and that would mean big business for colorado producers. >> i think this will play out in colorado, the economics are still in play. it's an emerging industry, and is a lot more will >> industrial hemp can be used in health food, organic body care, clothing, and is a lot more. let's find out more about our forecast this week. >> 5:00 this afternoon, a little cloudiness and a little low storm just wandered around all evening long. now it has just died down. that one little storm, we do have the high clouds, and that is from what was hurricane newton. now it just a post-tropical cyclone. lots of rain moving up. will this get into colorado? lots of clouds get in. every once in a few, a shower or thunderstorm over the eastern plains. nothing really comes into the metro area. friday and saturday, here is saturday at 6:00 in the evening, couple of scattered showers over the southern mountains otherwise clear across the state. and a pretty nice weekend ahead. coming up, we tomorrow under the influence of the warm front. back in the 80s. then a surge of cooler air that pushes into the state. and that's gonna drop us by about a dozen degrees by friday. today 88 and 87. 52 and 57 were the starts. normal of 82 and 52. 71 and 67 right fall colors near eclow lake. and a sunset from franktown. pretty sunsets and sunrises all this week. 50s and 60s for the overnight lows tonight. 40s, 30s in the higher elevations, 40s and 50s out west. and for tomorrow, another 70s for the mountains, out west temperatures in the 80s and lower 90s as well. here is that denver forecast for tonight: we'll see some clearing skies, also could see some patchy fog, especially northeast, low to mid-50s for the overnight lows. for tomorrow, we'll have a day much like today. fair, warm, high temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. and for the next several days, there is the cool-down. warming up for the weekend, another cold front 73, cooler on tuesday, 69 degrees! then we stay in the pleasant 70s, a few storms as the rest of the week goes on. >> september is pretty nice around here. >> it really is! a popular colorado race expanded to another city today. organizers started the fortitude >> you gotta have some sort of boldness to be able to run and we have both. >> the race will start on the southwest part of town and end at the new football field. sanders 20, 15, shows the football, touchdown denver! >> sanders with the catch, it's a footrace to the end zone! 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[ laughter ] >> how do you spell trevor siemian? >> simeone. >> sienion? >> semoe ne. >> hopefully after tomorrow night, everyone will know. [ laughter ] >> and how to spell his name. z23eqz zvpz >> on the plains you're treated to some interesting skies. >> this is a cool picture. a severe thunderstorm on the kansas border. and you can see it lighting up the clouds at night. great shot. >> looks like a brush fire! >> coming to from hollywood, almost live, it's "comics unleashed." with your host, byron allen. tonight byron welcomes jeff, ruben, monique, and andrew. and now, a man who once told a woman, i like long walks on byron allen! [ cheers and applause ] >> yes. thank you. thank you. all right. welcome to "comics unleashed."