Proposed solution. The Downtown Denver Partnership wont say how much it is paying for the guards, part of a 1 million safety plan. You can expect a few uniformed guards at a time. Viewers wondered if the guards are the right answer, we took your questions directly to Downtown Business leaders. Tony asks, what Real Authority will they have . Ticket . Detain . Will they be out 24 7 . Armed . Our private s will be on the mall 24 7. They will not be armed. Their role is one of, again, providing an extra set of eyes and ears, addressing issues where laws are being broken and asking for voluntary compliance. The guards will have pepper spray, that is for self defense. They will have handcuffs, handcuffs . What are they doing with handcuffs . It turns out they can make a or me. Fun fact, didnt know that until today. Colorado gives citizens wide powers to make an arrest, the court of appeals wrote a private citizen may arrest another when the arrested party has committed a crime in the presence of the paern making an person making an arrest, just as a peace officer is justified in reasonable force, a private citizen may use force upon another to affect an arrest. We are not encouraging you to go the law and know why those security guards have cuffs. The most powerful weapon may actually be hidden in plain sight, the power of visual deterrents, Steve Staeger sees it. Reporter before you take a shot at denvers version of paul blart consider this, if it looks like a cop, it may work almost as well as a cop. Visual deterrents can work as laura is an expert in psychology and professor at regius university, she couldnt join us in person, you kill only hear her talk will only hear her talking about deterrent s. Crimes are crimes of student. People are looking for where there arent cameras, where the doors and windows are unlocked. Think about it. How many of these have you seen . These people may not have a Security System but if a crook is looking for a place to break in, chances are he will go see a cop car on the side of the road, people just automatically start slowing down. Just because of that police deterrent, it is already effecting the driving pattern. Visual deterrents are all over and work pretty well. I am not knocking on this guys door or throwing trash in here, this parking is for tenants only, a news crew would never park here. All right, the experts say they cut the rentacops some slack. I am Steve Staeger. Good for him, keeping the city safe. We dont refer to the university of colorado aline by its full sponsored name that much anymore, seems unfair to the university. It is not cus fault that the train to the plane continues to be plagued by problems, today issues at crossing gates caused delays for about 6 hours. Rtd is clearly throwing everything at the situation, money, staff, try magic . Sadly, Magic Johnson wasnt in denver to crawl underneath an rtd car with a wrench, he was at city hall, he is in the money making business to redevelop the great hall at the airport. An Equity Partner in the group of developers chosen for the job. Magic expects to be working on marketing angle, a famous face for a bigtime project. Things have really changed in growing cities in america right now. So as you see, you have already changed downtown and now that movement is going out toward the airport. I want to be really a part of that change. Magic likes us, that is cool. City Council Approved 9 million to plan this project. It would move the tsa check point out of the great hall in favor of shops and restaurant, a long, longterm project, might not be completeed for 25 years and city council did have concerns over that. Commerce city Police Department, the feds will come in and figure out what is wrong with the Police Department that cant seem to stay on the right side of the law. An officer was accused of inappropriately touching women during traffic stops, another charged with faking his own shooting while on duty. Commerce city pd is the first in colorado, in the region, to ask for federal help with reform. That is before the feds come in knocking for an investigation. City leaders say they have tried and failed to reform the department from within. Now the Justice Department will months. Takes a lifetime to earn an olympic medal, takes 48 hours to make one. With all the medals being handed out in rio, artists spent years preparing them. Cheryl preheim is along from rio, they are making medals now for competitions that havent even happened yet. Reporter it is a 24hour operation, happening an hours drive from olympic park, it is a given you know athletes work hard to earn a medal, we dont think about the hard to make them. It has been around for 320 years and going strong. Brazilian. But it isnt the most impressive thing about this braziliant mint, not according to the artisans here, anyway. They are crafting the pieces of art that reward the pinnacle of sport. Fill honor when we see feel honor when we see the medal on going to the best athletes in the world. The process started 2 years before any olympian ever traveled to rio. First the original design. Cool, they got the shape of the brazilian woman. A 3d printer scan and mold made. 6 rounds of gold. 3 stripes in all. Hydraulic. With 500 tons of pressure for detail. A full years work with teams, 80 per shift, running 24 hours a day. They have needed every 1 of those hours to make the 5,200 medals. Of 3 centuries of projects, they say nothing prepared to the history they are crafting now. Reporter i picked up a little something, a plastic version, but i wanted you to athlete on the podium, think about the ribbon, 50 recycled soda bottles, i thought that was interesting. The other thing that is interesting is if you shake the olympic medals, the rio ones, they have a different tone depending on color, so if an athlete is blind, they would be able to distinguish one color from the other. Kyle, you will be relieved to know this is not the souvenir i am bringing you home from rio. Yeah, i had a feeling i was going to get why. No, that is fine. That is fine. Miss you, seen you soon, Cheryl Preheim in rio. If i got fired on my 9year anniversary at 9 news, it is all good because of 9 coloradans i are been privileged to meet along the way. Thanks to all these people. That time of year, time for a bogus shortage story to end up on tv newscasts. A mystery solved, with a the weekend forecast is the top story on our website and app. If you prefer not to log on, here is kathy sabine. Lucky me you are watching, thank you. I am meteorologist kathy sabine tracking summer storms, but the sun flowers, the pictures coming in with the storms, amazing on facebook and twitter tonight. The dark clouds bringing a brief heavy rain shower, Little Thunder and lightning, a lot of people checking out forecast because changes are coming. 90 in denver today, but we could be 20 degrees cooler on saturday. Storms tonight, nonsevere but there is potential for a Little Thunder, lightning, brief shower, especially over southern colorado. When all of that moisture pushes into the front range interacting with the cool front in about 36 hours time, it will feel like fall for a couple of days. Tonight, the storms move in early and they move out late. We will drop to upper 50s, which is where we start tomorrow morning. Morning sunshine, afternoon again, but it is friday. We see a 50 chance of rain from storms and cooler readings into the weekend. Saturdays high, 70, sunday, the drier of the 2 days with highs near 80 degrees. A welcomeed change for some, hopefully for you. Thank you, kathy. As we go in search of interesting people and their stories on next, a quick look back, because i mark 9 years at 9 news, here are 9 coloradans i met along the way and the life lessons they have shared. I am the janitor, i should be fired. Dean gave me perspective on journalism, he runs one of the last newspaper in america, it only prints good news, he figures you can get the bad news everywhere else, a bit like what we are trying to do on next. Like 20. Cole showed us how to push past lifes excuses, no indoor snow chasing a chance to swim in college. The problems with funerals, if you ask ted, is you never get to enjoy yours, knowing his time was short, he gathered family and friends for one last goodbye. You were dear to my heart. I dont know how many were inspired to imitate teds celebration of life, but the party i put together for my grandfather was the perfect cap stone to a life well lived. Thank you, ted. To let a young reporter tag for his final game and offered graciousinous, always willing to stop and talk with fan s, share a moment, snap a photo, it was never an imposition to him, always an honor. No one would mistake mark for a broncos fan, we watched the Green Bay Packers play from seats on his frozen front yard in colorado. I dont think it is the same game inside a dome. Or inside a home, for that matter. Problem with the state, they provide color and character. Our 9 news colleague, Andy Schaffer brought summer sunshine with him year around, i wish you could have met him before he was gone. Andy taught us that by attitude alone, you can change the world around you and make it better for everyone else. Thanks to all these people. Charley showed how coloradans care for those who serve and sacrifice, his brother, joe, grew up a migrant w home town until colorado adopted them both. What i feel here, there was a time kr couldnt go an hour without a drink or drug. Determination was the lesson from the Sober Souls Motorcycle Club in lakewood, determined to stay clean despire the smell of the pot shop that moved in next door. Like a party in the old days. One last coloradoan, i never met, just saw a photo of alex shooting and knew we probably crossed paths, his parents taught us that someone elses evil can unleash a force for good in this world. That is what alex would have wanted. 9 exceptional coloradans, 9 lessons learned, looking forward to who we meet next. You cant unsee it, can you . Not since we told you what shows up on colorado license plates again and again. A surprisingly of next viewers are not watching at home. Grab another round, we will be turn on the tv news and you are likely to hear a vaguely familiar story about a pumpkin shortage. In fact, the same story sounded familiar to us last year. Roll the tape. Where the people who produce pumpkins want news anchors across america to intone about a pumpkin shortage, in time for halloween, you are too smart to fall for that, not again, not of 2013, 2014, 2011, 2009 and 2008. Yes, libbys, the maker of canned pumpkin said reduced harvest will increase prices. Based on the widespread coverage, that will not be this year. Except maybe we should take it seriously this year, cnbc said it might affect pumpkin beer. Do nck if it is on the shelf, dont buy it, it is old. New batches wont hold well over time. We are getting feedback about Steve Staegers story explaining why colorado license plates are covered in qs these days, because of a change in the license plate font to make qs, os and 0s easier to read. Qs on plates, a lot. We have been inundated with q plate photos since last night. 3 of his audis with q license plates, seems like he just wanted to show that he has 3 audis, but we dont judge, not when you share your world with us with hashtag heynext. Solving a mystery. I have been get aglot of e mails but this was different, a guy shopping on e bay found this, a zipo lighter with the name steve on it and a of letters and numbers, wa8tcl. He found it registered to a Steve Staeger in southfield, michigan. He googled that name and found me. I am a Steve Staeger from southfield, michigan. But the guy he is talking about is my dad. He was a ham Radio Operator until i probably ruined his equipment. That lighter was a gift from my mom a long time ago. I am pretty proud of my dad but i probably would say i have never been more proud of him turkey, one day 10 years ago. When he kicked that habit, he kicked Everything Else involved to the curb, he was sure he threw that lighter away. The seller told me he found it at a flee market, get this, in denver where his son is now a tv reporter, some 1200 miles away from the spot my dad last had it. Mom told me to buy it so we could regift it. I did, and since dad is a friend of next and watches every night from michigan, weur here. I am looking forward to hearing about this and the adventures when he comes to town for the Great American beer festival in october. Speaking of beer, we know you we get that next is like a restaurant that just opened and we appreciate your ideas on how to tweak the menu, arrange the tables, but it appears a lot is coming from the bar end of the restaurant. E bars and breweries, this is from the hornet on broadway down the street in denver, way up the hill on bon fire brewing, we are told no other channels are allowed. And park and Company Uptown denver, next is top shelf. Let us know where you are watching and how we can serve up something worth your time. Couple perspectives, text and e mail love that you go in depth on lead stories. Martha said i would like each and john says there are far more important issues confronting denver, you can do better. John, we will endeavor do, next time. Tonight on the olympic zone, as a child, denvers at lynn gray got her start wrestling with the boys. How it helped prepare her for her for her shot at olympic gold. Plus, she is one of the worlds best but rio offers this golfer a set of new challenges she hasnt faced yet. It has sam, annette, and you use your feet. Gets another popular brazilian sport, next on the olympic zone. Hi and welcome to the olympic zone. Im drew soicher. Just a day after emma coburn meddled in the steeplechase and made olympic history, fellow see you but Jenny Simpson became the First American to earn a spot on the womens 1500 meter podium. And Jenny Simpson is here. Really been focused on that last lap. Three and threequarter laps of the track here for the 1500 meters. The metric mile. A very, very slow first lap. It went so slow. And i just thought, thats okay, thats okay. You dont have to make anything happen tonight. Simpson at 29 has great experience this olympic games, her third by her sister, emily who is in the u. S. Army, who basically all told her to run with the mantra of, be brave. The 1500 meters is unbelievably hard. So dibaba with the lead. Keep the egg and in second, now simpson comes and forth. Kimpyegon. Simpson could sprint. My coaches told me just be a