About turning on the heat. Marty joins us now for the 9 news backyard. Are we going to see a warm up today . It is going to be slightly warmer today clouds not as thick, mist and drizzle. Not as thick around here in fact we see a you few breaks in the overcast in the predawn sky. Thats true around here. Visibility is okay around here and look at this foggy again near fort collins and loveland. Cant get out of the it down in the valley there, ill watch that carefully and also have limited visibility Monument Hill near Colorado Springs and up highway 24 into the lyme on area. Clouds hanging around with a few breaks in the overcast here or there, temperatures in the 50s and low 60s we have had some thunderstorms in southern colorado this morning and they would be going for the last three to four hours down toward ratone pass and also seen thunderstorms in northwestern colorado. Todays rain forecast puts the heaviest rain in the south especially from the central san san lewis valley and then here on the front range mountain and foothills areas kt august up into Northern Colorado late in the day. We do have a marginal risk for Severe Weather with storms this afternoon. Well have a brief round of storms around lunch time and moderate storms in the afternoon. Not everyone will see storms but hail is possible and the storms up and down along and east of i25 during the afternoon today. For us clouds hang we have an opportunity for storms around lunch time. A brief mid afternoon break and then more storms roll in later this afternoon. I hope everybody gets the rain they want. If you dont our chances start to decrease as we head into the weekend ill talk about that in our planning forecast. As we take a look out to the west side weve got one accident to report a new one out to the west. Right now sky 9 is over i25 and 6 where we are seeing one are getting closer to i70 but two this accident at sixth and sheridan lets head streetside, take a look at our cdot cameras. Barely in the distance flashing lights. That is due to an accident at sixth and sheridan that is blocking the right lane. It is going to be in the eastbound direction so for folks headed towards the city again blocking the right lane is that accident thats on the right hand si right now and neither is that construction theyre doing bridge repairs the closer you get to sixth avenue out towards i70 an eight to nine minute drive between i25 and golden with speeds on sixth avenue averaging between 5060 Miles Per Hour. Headed to the other side of town 225 is still looking very good with speeds averaging 66 Miles Per Hour, both ways thats a ten minute drive between i70 and i25 this morning. Youre lucky things are wood. Thank you. One person was badly injured after a truck slammed into a pillar under an i70 overpass and it happened tuesday night. You could see the front end of the truck smashed into the pillar of peoria and the truck appeared to be hauling some sort of equipment and were working to get an update on how the victim is doing this morning. Well two are now home one is still in the hospital. Legacy High School Football coach Wayne Voorhees and kyle rider have been released from the hospital. They are at home recovering. They were released after spending two days there recovering from that terrible School Bus Crash at dia. That crash killed the driver and injured more than a dozen students and coaches. A third coach on board the bus is still in the hospital being treated. Yesterday, the school announced that it willfully its homecoming Football Game on friday night. The teams defensive coordinator will be the interim head coach. Edward snowden will appear at a press conference in new video feed. The former nsa contractor is still in russia who fled thereafter leaking classified information about the u. S. Government. Today a campaign is being launched that urges president obama to pardon snowden. Those supporting his pardon include Amnesty International and human rights watch. Simone biles, Serena Williams play different sports but they have in common Russian Hackers stole their confidential medical records. A russian gr olympic athletes things like what banned substances the athletes are being allowed to use because they have a verified medical need. The ioc says none of the athletes have violated anti doping rules and the hack is meant to tarnish the reputation of clean athletes. Denver investigators are looking into a suspicious death in the montbello neighborhood. Its the second time is someone night after a woman was found dead. One neighbor says the womans husband is a fellow pastor. Denver police have not released details about a suspect at this time. It is six minutes after 6 00 right now. Its a top priority and a hot topic in the city of denver. Affordable housing now mayor Michael Hancock is asking for 5 million to address the rising cost of living in our city. One Affordable Housing complex opened three months ago in the lincoln the apartment complex sits in a cluster of relatively new residential buildings which are considered as Affordable Housing. The cities goal is to build or to observe some 6,000 more places that people can afford to rent or buy over the next 10 years. Once they qualify, they know they will be able to afford their rent and they wont be paying an excess amount of their paycheck every month to their money on. The mayors plan costs about 150 million that would be paid for through a tax hike and developers fees. There has been some opposition from developers about the cost but the city says other builders are now beginning to construct more Affordable Housing. The city is considering the mayors budget request for Affordable Housing may make a decision by november. More people than ever are enrolling at Colorado State university. Csu set a new record for enrollment this ll more than 33,000 students. The school also had a record setting fall for freshmen enrollment with mower than 5,000 students up nearly 6 from the class size one year ago. By the way cu boulder also set a new record for freshman enrollment this year too more than 6400 freshmen on campus thats about 3 more than last year. Season changing is showing up very clearly here in theory from could. Colors are reaching up to about 70 of peak. We should hit our peak some time next week. This weekend will be a good weekend to look. We would like to see how things look where you are or where youve been. Post them to my Facebook Page or twitter and of course always upload imagery and video to your take at 9 news. Com. Showers middle of the day around lunch time and then again this afternoon and evening. We could see a few thunderstorms over the area. For du theres two periods of storms that looks to me the second one might be slightly heavier and as always is the case. The storms are relatively small so not all of us will get rain. Wait a few minutes and it will move. Marty thank you. Shes lived there for nearly a quarter century but a florida woman is being told to fix her house up or get out. Her house is in a tree by the way. Oh, a tree house. So diet soda could soon be think it should still be banned. Get out your phones, your Tablets Computers and get ready we do have a bit of fog around fort collins and north of Monument Hill visibility is way better than yesterday. We had had showers overnight thunderstorms continue this morning in southern colorado and in parts of northwest earn colorado out toward utah as well, we seen pretty good thunderstorms go through that part of the region this morning. The clouds break up during the morning and they arent going to stick around or be as thick as they were yesterday but by lunch time, there is a chance for a few showers moving through the area and then we get a midday break so the middle of late this after anyone and this evening another shot at some showers there will be pockets of moderate to heavy rain and a few hail shafts during the afternoon today so that means you could get marbel sized hail in a couple storms today. Temperatures in the 70s for us 60s in the mountains and foothills storms down south will move out on to the plains we get a few here in the front range and they stretch from afternoon which is an area we could see decent rain as well as here in the front range and in southern colorado some pockets of moderate to heavy rain. 80s for the east and west, 60s in the mountains and it will be warmer today because we get a bit more sun, 76 today and breaks in the overcast in between rounds of showers that wrap up this evening and we are clear overnight. Tomorrow is a good looking day 74 degrees and a small chance for a light rain shower late in the afternoon isolated storm possible coming up friday afternoon and then things start drying out progressively more and more dry from saturday through monday of next week. Marty sky 9 is up over i70 and sixth avenue you where you can actually see some of the lane closures that are in place. This is going to be in place through most of the day due to bridge work going on theyre doing bridge repairs after an accident happened over the weekend. Everybody is pushed off to that expecting some pretty big delays because of this and if you you want to take an alternate route and avoid any kind of delays coal fax will be an option and so is i70 itself. Lets take another look also at what else weve got going on today. Weve got delays through rtd lanes h, f, and e. They were doing emergency repairs along the h line between yale and colorado. Those repairs are finished but rtd is expecting delays for at least the next half also u. S. 6th and sheridan that on ramp eastbound sixth avenue right at sheridan weve got an accident off to the right hand side and might be causing some minor delays but a lot of green on this map through the area so i dont think the delays are building up too much just yet. Another update is coming up. Sounds good becky thank you. Should colorado High Schoolers be able to buy diet soda at school . Its a question that gets a lot of debate and we want to hear colorado High Schoolers be able to sell diet soda to students or at all and so were taking that debate right now. Im interested to see how this comes out. The state board of education trying to answer that question today. The board is going to vote on this issue i think this morning . Yeah, this morning they absolutely will. It a vote that could change the options at your Childs School for better or worse depending on who you ask. The group live well colorado completely against soda ban. They say diet soda has now place in schools but the Colorado SchoolNutrition Association is not completely against the vote. Neither is the Colorado Association of School Boards in fact they say the state board needs to vote because it would help clarify the regulations. Right now School Boards have to comply with both state and federal rules and those regulations are different. Colorado began its ban on diet soda in high schools nine years ago before the federal government did. The Colorado School nutrition lifting the ban will cause an overload of diet soda at high schools but reps with live well say bringing diet soda back to high school can lead to poor nutrition choices and more. If we allow our schools to sell diet soda, it opens up the opportunity for marketing in our schools of these unhealthy products. Every district is required to have a wellness policy and in that wellness policy they can make that decision still to not sell diet soda in their school. So the colorado board of education will take up morning we do expect to see a final vote in the meantime were seeing a vote on our screens. We have seeing a vote that looks like there are a lot of diet soda fans out there. But if you look at it 50 say yes allow it but 50 say keep the ban or dont have any soda at all. And ban all soda which we see that in different schools as we see the numbers continue to move for some parents the issue is about letting them be the ones to teach their kids everything thats unhealthy how will they know how to choose between healthy and unhealthy if you dont have to make that choice. Other parents say i dont give my kids soda at home you shouldnt at school so its a big deal. It is and you know its about time if you look at all that added together. Banning all soda and allowing the choice. So definite opinions. Like Everything Else in our country kind of split down the middle. No longer able to teach after a very long battle with cancer, t a terrible crime caught on camera at a phoenix gas station before we show you this video we want to warn you it is graphic but everyone did survive. Security cameras were rolling as the driver plowed into a trio of Police Officers outside the gas station and he hit two officers one of them was sent flying several feet in the air. The receipt the victim who now faces attempted murder charges and Police Believe le was targeting the police. Both officers were badly hurt but will survive. A pennsylvania teacher was arrested and lost her job for what she left in the bath rom at her school because she left a fully loaded pistol on the toilet tank. A student found it and instead of grabbing it they told someone. The teacher faces a number of charges including wreckless endangerment. A woman in florida is in a lived in for decades. Her home is a tree house by the way. Miamidade county says its gotten complaints from the neighbors who say shes running a commune out of the tree house she lived in for a quarter of a century. At least eight people live in the house featuring its own fountain and a pool and the county says it all needs to come down. They have come in and want to pretty much take down whole place. Yeah everything is up to code but she has been cited for multiple permit violations like substandard construction and improper electricity and plumbing. She has about 110 days left to bring the house up to code or shes out of there. No more tree house. Although if it comes to that she plans to chain herself to the tree house and well see how that works out. 6 21 right now you dont often expect to be taught a some High Schoolers in tennessee did for their teacher could teach us all a thing or two the story behind the viral sensation but first lets check win marty and becky. Thunderstorms have been out west and down south today up near utah and in southern colorado. During the morning well get clearing and it comes earlier than it did yesterday and storms reform in the Southwest Corner of the state through the valley up through central colorado, well get a midday shower and more storms come in late evening. Several areas over the front range and through the Central Mountains well be seeing rain during the day today. Tomorrow, rain chances go down, well amp them up slightly on friday and then saturday we begin to dry things out so that by sunday, broncos just must be living well because the weather couldnt be more cooperative temperatures in the low 80s at Mile High Stadium on sunday as the colts come to town marty avenue in that west side sky 9 up over i70 and sixth avenue westbound basically closed off to all but one lane, again one lynn that far right shoulder is getting bias crews do repair work on that bridge. This is going to be the case throughout the day and we are expecting major delays because of it. If you want to take an alternate route and avoid all of that, you could take coalfax or take i70. Those will be your best two options. Lets ta avenue still watching an accident in the eat bound lanes as that camera shuffles around a bit at sixth and sheridan and thats as everybody is getting on to eastbound 6 so that get to watch it again. And again. Okay, ba bill murray comedy groundhog day will get to watch it again and again and again. Thats because its coming to broadway. The musical based on the movie about a jaded weather man forced to live the same day over and over is going to make a leap from london and open this spring at the August Wilson theatre. The musical script was written by danny ruben, who cowrote the film. The cast hasnt been announced yet im guessing the music includes ive got you babe. It already has blowing reviews. So you know youve done Something Big when youve caught the attention of Country Singer tim mcgraw, right . And when you do something as awesome as students at nashvilles crist Presbyterian Academy did you are bound to turn a few hats. 400 students gathered outside the home of a teacher whose battling an aggressive form of cancer. He cant teach or come to school so they decided to come to him to lift his spirit ups. Ever since mcgraw posted this video its been viewed more than 26 million types. He going through chemotherapy so they wanted to come to hem and he is singing in it and teenagers High Schoolers to think of that. Its pretty incredible. Absolutely. Ive shared that on my page too. Its 6 28 lots more coming up in the next half hour. Good morning. Denver police are investigating a death in one montbello neighborhood. Im going to tell you what this case. Her husband was shot and killed by his fellow officer in the loin of duty and you now the widow of officer james davies reached a huge settlement with the city of lakewood. 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