around 2:00, 3:00 we should start to see decent showers there and temperatures will really drop. a good 15 degrees below normal today. 70s, low 70s both today and tomorrow. we've been watching this, tracking this cold front all week long. here's your first alert we could get some rain, thunderstorms for tonight's rockies game. here's what futurecast looks like, with the storms again first developing near fort collins and greeley. then by 5:00 here in denver, scattered storms, rain, lightning, thunder. potentially even larger hail jayson, that's what it looks like at 7:00, right after the rockies game is supposed to start. we'll see. i'm supposed to be at that one. you are going to have to bring an umbrella. >> do i have to ronounce it like that? >> yes, you do. umbrella, and go like that. southbound side of i-25, northbound wide open. no delays here this morning on the north side. fridays are typically lighter than normal, at least the early part. it's what we're seeinn now. a lot of green, including security wait time at most 15 minutes. c-470 drive is okay, and wrapped up the closure on arapahoe road at i-25. they'll have a full closure of both sides of arapahoe sunday night into monday morning. do you ever wonder who answerthe how's my driving phone numbers you see on the back of a truck? you would hope it's a company trying tt make sure their drivers are behaving. one local man called and got the driver himself. >> he said, did you get a number? i said, yeah, it was 5280. he said that was me and you can go [bleep] yourself you piece of [bleep]. >> nnt the reaction you would want. he said he was driving to dia wednesday and a truck started tailgating him and swerving in traffic. he got the number off the truck and called it. andrew says the driver also started to send him vulgar text messages after he made that call. you can read those texts and find a link to complain about 7 app. now car thefts are up in our state. thieves took off with nearly 15,000 vehicles last year state- wide. that's up 30% from 2014. denver had an average of 286 car thefts a week. colorado springs ranked second. honda civics and accords are the most common. for ttese women in these pictures. police want to talk about an unsolved attempted merchandise case back -- homicide case back in may. police say the gun used in that case could be linked to five other unsolved crimes. this gang member will spend the next 20 years in prison for beating a 2-year-old girl to death. hassan jones was dating the toddler's mother at the time. this happened in 2015 when jones was caring for that sue the city. a group of homeless people met with an attorney to sign onto a possible class action suit. jason gruenauer has looked into this. they're planning to file this suit pretty oon, about 10 days from now? >> reporter: yeah, within the next two weeks and then it would be up to a judge to decide if public places like this, if the city and police can continue their enforcement and basically kicking homeless people off of public property and public sidewalks. this is all part of the enforcement of denver's urban camping ban that basically says homeless people can't set up shop and live on the sidewalks or in public parks or in public places. that started, the enforcement of it, rather, in march. since then parks and other places have also seen sweeps, in many cases property left over has been thrown out. we've even seen arrests. a local lawyer wants an monetary damages. >> the city is hacking unconstitutionally -- acting unconstitutionally and not respecting the rights of american citizens who are homeless. >> reporter: the city has long defended its policy and its enforcement saying the camps % are unsanitary and in many cases unsafe, saying they are well within the law, and their enforcement has been well already having several homeless people signing on as plaintiffs, it's expected to be presented into federal court in the next 10 days and we'll see where things go from there. live along lawrence street downtown, i'm jason gruenauer, denver 7. this may sown strange -- sound strange, but it's serious. a woman was hospitallzed after smelling something on an rtd bus. denver police say a male cell phone. she had trouble breathing and was taken to the hospital. a woman is alive today thanks to the gift from not one, or two, but more than 300 strangers. four years ago cassidy smith had severe complications giving birth to her daughter. shred to undergo six surgery, an hour of cpr and received more than 270 units of blood product. this week she finally got to say thank you to the more than 30 of those >> the real gift or miracle is that i just get to be me, imperfect me, but a friend, a daughter, and a mother of a smart beautiful girl with dark curly hair. it's an honor to have this opportunity to meet you all and thank you. >> smith hopes her story encourages all of us to donate blood. school is bbck in session now for students in jeffco, and for students and staff, it may be one of their last in some of the buildings. kendrick lakes elementary is one of the buildings identified in the master plan as having major issues inside and outside. there are other schools that could be totally rebuilt or at least upgraded if voters pass a bond issue in november worth more than $500 million. >> the voters in jeffco realize that we have a significant investment in the 154 facilities that we have. in order to sustain the property values we have provide a quality education as jeffco has done for 60 years, we need to have the facilities that can do that. >> to give you an idea of some of the need there, of the 239 portable buildings the district uses for classes, only five of them were built after 1988. >> been around for a while. >> yeah. this hour of the day, who doesn't need a cup of coffee? if you don't, i need to know your secret. we have coffee for free. vitamins you take. denver7's eric lupher is out live inside the king soopers now. don't eat all our doughnuts. >> reporter: they're not here yet. what just happened? oh, they're setting up now. we've got coupons for you, dollar off on west rock coffee. they're always out here with us for free coffee friday. things get going at 6:00. we are on littleton boulevard and broadway we got the sugar, creamer. really is a perfect time for coffee. little bit cooler outside. i would say probably a little early for the halloween decor to go on sale. hey, king soopers is doing it. if you want a free cup of coffee and ghost for your front yyrd, head over to king soopers. 6:00to 9:00. mitch, nicole, jayson, everybody at the station will be here also once the show is full of melons. one day you may call and find no driver behind the wheel. plus, an apple leak reveals changes for the next iphone. if you shop at eddie bauer, the company was hii by malware. what it means for you shoppers. i saw the halloween stuff at king soopers. my guess is it's the holiday. low, mid-70s. denver 72. low, mid-60s in the foothills. we have a pretty good chance for storms and showers along i- 25. we'll talk about it coming up. the candy aisle is all stocked up, too. plenty of halloween candy to get there at king soopers. northbound side of i-25, yesterday i saw heavy ? ? ava, your bike is fixed. thanks mom! ? ? dad to captain ava: don't go too far! remember when we were children, and we believed any dream was possible? was it because there was always someone there protecting us? giving us the confidence to believe. and the dreams you pursue, today. insure carefully, welcome back to denver 7. a live look over denver. it's friday. that means if you're lucky we'll broadcast the rest of the day in color. fire jet crashes into las vegas. but the pilot got out before it went down. this happened yesterday near the air force base, but it was a civilian pilot. officials aren't saying if the the pilot was a litt banged up but expected to be okay. this video a little uncomfortable for some folks. some naked statues of donald trump are popping up around the country. they weigh about 80-pound each. they were created by ginger, a las vegas artist. they say once -- they once considered voting for trump, but decided against it after the candidat people with disabilitiee, they say. metallica is releasing their first album in nearly a decade, scheduled to come out november 18th. it will be out in formats including digital as well as cd's and vinyl. check out the mini mile week, tomorrow night. it will be free to check out if you wish. 165 original stadium seats from the original mile high that was sitting in that spot once upon a time. new video from von miller is going viral. >> the super bowl mvp iss channeling his inner pop star and making a pitch to madden players. ? change your roster up and just start me ? pick me downs ? try and try, but won't gain no ground ? >> he borrowed all those outfits from jayson luber. thii video is the promo for madden 17. >> that is a lot of von millers. >> can you imagine how good we'd be if we had 15 of them out there? teammates say. >> brings a lot of attention to them. chance for showers tomorrow, but not likely to mess with the game. probably early afternoon. this morning partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. from this morning through id- morning, until about 9:00 we'll start to see clearing anthen sunshine through midday. storms aad showers developing by early afternoon, around 3:00 to 4:00. scattered storms north near weld county, laaimer, boulder counties, you'll start to pick up storms and showers by early afternoon. this afternoon and evening. y %- for the commutt we're expecting rain, thunder, lightning, potentially gustier winds and pockets of heavy rain. then skies clear out. so still a few storms lasting through tonight, even by midnight. by early tomorrow morning we'll see sunshine. then tomorrow afternoon likely again just spotty storms and south across the southern edge of our state. i think we're going to be okay tomorrow night for the game. it is going to be cooler, though. you're going to find today the covering most of our front range, along i-25 from fort collins down to trinidad. we'll watch for stronger storms by late afternoon. 50s this morning as you step out the door, it's one of the coolest mornings we've seen. you'll be in the 60s by about 9:00. then only a good 10-degree up by 1:00. low to mid-70s this afternoon. a good 10, 15 degrees below normal. chance for more scattered showers and thunderstorms and showers through the evening, and clearing early tomorrow. parker 73, highlands ranch 74. i'm wearing the cowboy boots. i'm channeling my inner fall outfit today. deckers today 71. out west it's still warm near grand junction. but southern colorado cooling 80s. tomorrow slight chance for a few storms. about 10% chance. 70 degrees saturday. and sunday we're in the upper 70s to low 80s. it is beautiful sunday. monday, low, mid-80s. monday and tuesday look to be a little bit warmer. i want mitch to recreate that dance move. this. was doing something like >> von miller stylish. pretty smooth ride around town. look at 28 in boulder. most of the students have moved in, ready for the school week starting next week. easy driving brighton boulevard, past the coliseum, national western complex, moving along fine to dia. really a lot of green out there. one accident not too far from windy point along 285 that might slow you down a little bit. i haven't seen significant slowing yet. into castle rook, the latest issue of driving you crazy is around this area here, about the outlets at i-25 andd founders. you'll read all about it on thedenverchannel.com. look for the traffic page. >> reportee: hey, guys, 2nd and detroit at the cherry creek shopping district, ire department called out to this because of a fire side. they had a piece of construction equipment that they're not sure ho on fire. it did very minimal damage, but it did set out of the sprinkler systems here. so the garage is flooded. probably a good 2 to 3 inches of water inside. firefighters have shut off the sprinkler system inside this building and are trying to investigate. they have arson coming out now to try to determine how this started. 2nd and detroit closed east and westbound. thanks for the update. uber is launching self-driving cars this month, doing it in pittsburgh. volvo and uber teamed up in a deal to create the vehiiles. >> uber drivers may not be so happy. as part of this deal, the company has a million uber drivers. but if the self-driving vehicles catch on, uber plans to have 100 driverless cars on the road by the end of this year. t-mobile and sprint are gunning for customers who want unlimited data. both have announced new with a catch. starting today sprint's unlimited freedom plan will give unlimited talk, text and high speed data. the new t-mobile one plan as they call it, starts september 6th, is similar. the catch, all videos are streamed in standard definition. you have to pay extra per line if you want high def. sprint also limits music streaming quality. apple may be dealing with an information leak. of the iphone 7. it does not show a head phone jack like you see here. instead, apple is supposedly going to put a second speaker ?rille in that spot. where will the jack be? apple hasn't commented on this report. eddie bauer says all its u.s. stores were targeted by credit card thieves. the company has it happened in about 350 of their stores. they suspect some cards used in stores between january and july 17th this year were compromised. online purchases were not affected. they're not saying how many customers might have hit. future brides and grooms,, you might want to take the big leap duuing the week. now a growing number of couples are saying i do on thursdays. next month. it's cheaper than booking on high demand weekends. nearly 6% of couples got married on thursday last year. this family geeting the shock of their life, literally. a lightning strike hits right next to a family in texas, and we've got the video. plus an officer thank you. with the united mileageplus explorer card, you'll get a free checked bag, 2 united club passes... priority boarding... and 30,000 bonus miles. everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. the united mileageplus explorer card. take a look at this video. a texas family is recovering after lightning struck their their car. thit was again. the flash of the strike. that family got to the ground, clutching their ears. they suffered minor burns, but everyone is apparently okay thii morning. wow. check this out, this lightning strike looks like a t- rex. the national parks service posted this picture on their facebook page. they got this shots in arizona's petrified forest >> very ominous. -?crazy. dark skies there. likely we'll see dark skies watch for more storms. :00. >> wow. >> you have outdoor evening plans tonight. >> it's supposed to be under a tent. >> that's good. a tent will keep you dry. >> i'll wear my cowboy boots. yes. 70s expected both today and tomorrow. we're looking at the chance or rain for tonight's rockies game. scattered storms and showers springs you're going to find storms. here's your first alert we say cool through the weekend. details coming up at 6:00. a bunch of problems around cherry creek north 2nd and detroit. building fire, so 6th and corona closed. also westbound florida here near dayton closed down. that's because of an auto/pedestrian accident before you can get to parker road. we also have this accident at turkey creek by windy car/deer accident. active morning. few problems on the freeways. thanks, jayson. a close encounter for kayakers in canada. they came face to face with hump back whales. >> about a dozen were on a five- day expedition and heard there was a mother whale and her calf in the area. they paddled over to see and the whale family didn't disappoint. >> they do it when they're excited. you can see in the video, they they're happy. baby got everything she needed, or he, and so then the baby comes shooting out of the water and mom is just as excited. >> the kayakers have been criticized in the past for getting too close. but these particular ones said they were trying to give the whales some space, this is why they were in this spot and the whales came to them. everybody is okay. a virginia cop an internet move during a back to school event. ? >> just when you thought the routine couldn't get better, yeah, he did it. a split. >> oh. in that uniform. >> didn't even ook like it hurt. he said he watched beyonce's video 20 or 30 times the night before and emorized it. >> he did a good job. >> that's a good point. those pants look constrictive. >> he's good. next on denver 7 at 6:00 a.m., a suspected drunk driver slams into a family's front porch. now the family is facing tens of thousands in repairs. and the latest on this deadly bus crash, just this z22xez zvpz if you home is in the lane on the bench or on the range there's only one place to go. come to cabela's all week for great deals and more. save big on all your favorite trusted brands. get 20% off all walker's hearing protection plus join us this weekend for free safety education, training, demos and seminars. because responsible ownership starts at cabela's. stop in and save all week long at cabela's and remember to own responsibly. welcome to denver 7 at 6:000 a.m. want to get out to breaking news we've been tracking this morning in the cherry creek area. our daryl orr live on scene. >> reporter: thanks, mitch. we're here at apparently this was under construction, and some equipment inside set on fire. arson investigators are just arriving on scene. they did extinguish a small fire that was inside, but it did set off sprinklers, so there are 2 to 3 inches of water in the parking garage area. the fireechief said there was very minimal damage done inside, but the fire is suspicious at this time. detroit and 2nd are now open at

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