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years, the independent panels that review the job performance of judges named 10 that weren't good enough to stay on the bench. want to guess how many voters fired? only 3. on average, if your performance review says you shouldn't be a judge anymore, you win reelection with 54% of the vote. voters keep sending judges with failing reviews back to their 6-figure jobs paid with our tax dollars, jobs that decide who gets custody of kids, what works. if this surprises you, you are not alone. >> will it surprise you? >> yes, it does. i don't think that that is the way it should work. >> former state supreme court justice, rebecca, is an expert on reviewing judges. >> my suspicion is that those voters didn't even know that there was a do-not-retain recommendation or didn't care. >> this year's reviews come in repeatatizeself, they e-- repeats it won't make a difference. last year's judge vallerie hanes included a hostile environment in her courtroom, didn't understand her poor marks, leaving little reason to expect improvements. she is still a judge, voters sent her back with 62% of the vote. she is 1 of 3 judges that got a do-not-retain last election, only one lost his job, so why is voting for our judges and the vast majority of voters here say they don't know enough about judges to vote. >> we found that not very many people have looked at our information, like some 7 fib%. >> kent wagoner runs the performance review program. >> we need to increase that readership. >> one thing that doesn't help with readership, this stuff is hard to read. lets look at this actual write by the state's rules, the write-up on him has to tell you a bunch of nice things before it gets to the problems, like where he went to school, his old private practice, what he does in the community, like being an honorary member of the dancers, what is that? this. 4 paragraphs in total, and it is not until the last half of the last one that you see why he should lose his job. in the news world, we call this burying the lead. >> we are always trying to figure how to >> should they reexamine the rules? >> sure, i mean, i don't think it is perfect. i don't think any of these programs are perfect. >> to be honest, we in the news media could also do better. we don't tend to cover judge's races. lets fix that now. these are this year's do-not-retain judges, judge michael's review says he has poor legal writing, too chummy with people in the courtroom, and doesn't accept constructive district court judge jill allen strauss, concerns about her courtroom demeanor, below average grades on fairness and communication. 81% of attorneys said she is bias toward the prosecution. judge michael and judge jillen, the experts are begging you to fire them and chances are, you won't. for next, i am brandon rittiman. >> one thing that won't be in the state voter guide is the letter great each judge receives. we will put them out instead, click on the story on 9news.com and you judges up for reelection, listed by a letter grade. we will put the grades in our voter guide this fall. if you can believe it, a few judges got worse grades than the 2 they want you to vote out of office. the city of denver has a new point person in the suing and getting sued department. kristen brawnson is the city attorney, basically like leading a large lawfirm, 200 attorneys, paralegals and administrative staff. brawnson went to cu law school, settling lawsuits against the city for sheriff and police brutality. if you watch the news around here regularly, you know she will be busy. senator michael bennett had a good day, woke up to poll numbers showing a wide lead over his republican challenger, darryl glenn. 54-38%. bennett, a democrat, doing well when you dig into the numbers as well. there you see the break down. double-digit leads with independent voters, women among other groups. the pollsters behind the numbers know there is time for gle get back in it, and darryl glenn has an open invitation to join us on next. thank you to next viewer who climeed in to ask libertarian candidate gary johnson to come on the show. his team tweeted it is a go, you will see governor johnson right here the next time he is in denver. date to be announced. maybe more millennials would vote if they could register on their phones. colorado secretary of state is our dan grossman looks into why millennials look at it like the shrug emoticon. >> trying to come up to solutions to problems. >> for a generation hell-bent on the change... >> we want more transparency in politics. >>... they are doing nothing about it, that is if statistics are an indication. >> it is ironic, there is so much information available about the candat millennials, we don't always take the time to educate ourselves on the issues. >> john sandburg is 24 and will vote in november. but more than 62% of adults his age won't. that, from the u.s. census bureau. >> i think there is legitimacy that our voices aren't always heard. >> of every vote cast in the 3 most recent presidential elections in colorado, only 18% came from those ages 18-29. the lowest youth turn out rate in a federal election ever. >> a lot of the time, candidates don't market toward our age group as much. they know we don't vote. vicious cycle. >> it is a lot easier not to vote than to vote for somebody who might have opinions or said something you are totally against from a values perspective. >> over the last 50 years, turn out among youth voters only decreased and stutitians say it looks like that will happen once again this november. >> appealing candidates. >> so wonderful. >> for a generation that demands change... >> i will be voting, i don't know if i will vote in the presidential election or not. >>... maybe it time to look in the mirror in relation to voting habits. >> we live in a country where everybody has a vote and i think that is special. >> for next, this is dan grossman. >> there are local signs millennials are engaged in politics and policy if not voting, enrollment in du's political science program has towards something that isn't ours but is awesome. new york's times article, 36 hours in bolder reflects the sentiment we hear from a lot of next viewers, linda e mails what a shame that so many coloradans leave the state for their vacations, this times story, 36 hours in bolder, celebrates that one spot as an exceptionally easy-going place to hang out. they suggest farm to table dining, renting bikes, hiking, there are beer suggestions. you can find the article next's facebook page. share your recommendations. for our next recommendation, and do that anywhere with #heynext. lock up the bikes, though, or you will contribute to the booming bike theft business, so far thieves have stolen more than 1700 bikes in the city. a lot aren't cheap. jeremy pierre from our 9 wants to know team looked at which bike racks to avoid if you want your like to still be there. >> day or night, doesn't matter, bike thieves continue to profit. the street. >> a few years back we caught some thieves in the act with our own fake bike. >> what would you say if i told you that is my bike? >> have it. >> we figured it is time to look at the problem again with a massive database of reported bike thefts. >> the data base is big. >> yeah, 10,000 thefts since 13 and our data wizard, katie, was able to find something interesting in all of that. >> very, very slim chances you will get your bike back. >> very slim. 2011 an average of 2700 bikes a year are jacked, 7 per day in denver, only 200 are recovered, that is 7% of stolen bikes. there is a reason for that. >> about 3/4, 75%, had their serial number registered with police. >> katie narrowed down the top 5 worst bike theft locations in the city. counting backwards at number 5, blocks north, douglas apartment complex in lodo, number 3. nearby, the burke shire complex at number 2. the number 1 location for bike thefts rei on platte street, 42 reported thefts since 2013. why? bikes everywhere, many with cable locks that can be cut like butter with the right kind of pliers. >> cut like butter, says jeremy pierre. before your bike gets stolen department, with a manufacturer if you can, if the number doesn't get scraped you may get your bike back. you next viewers, all 6 of you, really are observant, you saw this thing, whatever this thing is, over my shoulder. hillary circled it for us, e mails my family and i notice the strange martian-looking thing, can you explain? brucine on twitter, creepy face is seen, cannot be unseen. the airport, of course, is a secret base from which the new world order plots to put us in camps. back to the face, alum naughty spokesman heath e mails to say it is an alien or the hoist used to reach the top for maintenance. we will let you decide. mechanical pulley? or incontrovertible proof of nexus between new world order and aliens? either way, on with the show. this weekend's weather forecast calls for weather words we are discussing donald trump's plan for the more than 100,000 people in the u.s. illegally and living in colorado. >> people live in the shadows here in colorado. steve staeger has 60 seconds to make this make sense, a radar image this afternoon, here is kathy sabine. >> all that high-tech weather the higher peaks saturday morning, the clouds over denver bringing rain, heavy rain, thunder, lightning, and wind around the area. it may obscure the just-past-full sturgeon moon, apparently you can catch lot more sturgeon during the sturgeon full moon. it is also called grain moon and corn moon. let me know. the rain forecast, something really that we are interested in because some of the measurable precipitation falling west and south of town could be heavy at times with the arrival of a cool front tomorrow that will take heading into the weekend. feeling like fall a lit around here. definitely summer tonight, summer storms moving in, moving-- moving in, and moving outism tomorrow temperatures a lot cooler, 76 the afternoon high, isolated severe storms are possible, may affect the rockies game tomorrow night but i think the broncos, who play in town saturday, will like the fall-like forecast. warmer and drier sunday and back to almost 90 degrees on monday. >> thanks, kathy . we return now to our conversation with donald trump's immigration plan, as it relates to deporting people who are in the country illeg el. estimate-- illegally. estimates are a group of 160-180,000 strong in colorado. >> all together, the third largest city in the state, larger than fort collins, lets talk how mr. trump would plan to deport the city of fort collins. >> well, he doesn't have a plan to deport the city of fort collins. >> the population of that s asking people to come here legally, and to become citizens legally. those people are the people who live in the shadows here in colorado. mr. trump would like to have the people who are here illegally participate fully in our economy, participate fully as citizens, but do it the right way. >> he wants them to leave and to get in the back of the line, not do a touch back. remove a portion of the population larger than the city of fort collins, practically speaking? a military operation? police operation? >> i don't think it is military operation t is following the laws we have on the books now. >> is he okay with them staying in colorado the whole time they go through the process? >> i don't think that is determined. >> mr. trump made illusions recently to claims about hillary clinton's health. this is stuff floating around on had internet, conspiracy websites and intermet memes and news. trump has been warned about picking bogus theories off the internet. is it appropriate for him to insinuate that hillary clinton is in grave health? >> i think if it is obvious to the american people, the things that he refers to, like mrs. clinton's health, then it is fair game for him to raise it. >> you are saying if it can is conspiracy websites and intermet fair game for him to hint at that? >> if it is out in popular media, to raise the question. >> we dive in next with olympian emily van dykeen who said she hasn't had this much fun since her accident. 6-time olympic gold medalist amy dyken competed this week against ecpectations, went water skiing at boulder reservoir, part of a program called expand beyond. it has been around since 1983, people have disabilities go water skiing with the help of volunteers. she injured her spinal cord and she told the program she hasn't had this much funce speaking of olympics, you see synchronized swimming, you watch a little. like 30 seconds or so, it is mesmerizing, and kind of baffling. we asked our steve staeger to make it interesting in 60 seconds. >> reporter: it may just look like fancy water dancing, but it takes a lot more than choreography. ask audrey mcman, coach of the rocky mountain splash youth synchronized. >> compared to running while to take it look easy. >> try that for 30 seconds. you wonder, how do they keep the beat wlen they spend so-- when they spend so much time under water? >> we have an under water speaker. >> want to know something else i had no clue about in >> we are wearing gelatin in our hair, just like the jello for desert but unflavored and we mix it up and paint it into our hair and that is what holds your hair in place. >> kind of likey few months of training to do a routine. i asked if i would be able to pull it off. their response cracked me up. >> i-- he would have a high float level. >> oh. high float level. >> is she saying i am a little-- >> she was very sweet about it. >> very sweet. >> it is very hard. >> super hard, the way you can tell if you are ready to synchronize swim is if you can run 30 seconds holding your the commercial break on the 9 news facebook page on the next facebook page, join us at the very end, the very close of your experiment. >> i will start stretching. back with the end of steve's running experiment. there is your 30. it is not easy? do you-- >> i am out of breath. i don't know if i have air left. >> i don't think i could do it. >> float level. >> synchronized goodbye, see you tonight on the "olympic zone," every sport has its daredevils. and for u.s. bmx, her name is elise post. plus bob costas doesn't just report on olympic athletes. he knows a thing or two about playing like one. and why team paralympic. next on the "olympic zone." hi, everybody and welcome to the "olympic zone." i'm drew soicher. denver's adeline gray arrived in rio as the heavy favorite to become the first american to win gold in women's wrestling. instead, the three-time world champion was upset early. >> the three-time world champ looking to become the third day. >> gray breezed into the 75- kilogram quarterfinals where she faced an opponent from belarus who pulled off the shocker. defeating the 25-year-old gray and snapping her two-year winning streak. >> best in the world last two years, those dreams of gold go by the wayside. >> the fact that i'm done after just two matches is a bit of a heartbreak. but i'm a know that i can definitely hang with these girls. i just didn't prove it today. >> olympic history was still made by team usa's helen maroulis, she beat the defending champ to claim gold in the 53-kilogram division. >> they drop the stick. >> all seemed lost when allyson felix dropped the baton in the four by 100-meter relay but the judges agreed, she was bumped giving team usa one more chance

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