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bringing in this change that we've been talking about all week long. at the moment, just a few sprinkles around denver. i think the rush hour is gonna be okay. we might have a little rain though later in the evening that may continue until midnight tonight. and that will have an effect on your morning commute tomorrow. i'll tell you how come hadding up. the latest on the investigation into an agented armed robbery in rio. police in brazil says ryan lochte d robbed at gunpoint. investigators are questioning three american swimmers who were with him that night. >> reporter: footage shows four olympic swimmers early sunday morning at a rio gas station. at one point, the men are seen leaving their taxi and sorry made to sit on the ground with their hands in the air. a brazilian official says this is a confrontation with a security guard over damage to a bathroom.
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information contradicts what ryan lochte claimed earlier this week. >> pulled out his gun, cocked it, put it to my forehead. >> reporter: rockety has already -- lochte has already left brazil. they were pulled off a plane wednesday night after a judge ruled she wanted to hear from them again. authorities began doubting the athletes apartment -- 38s' report when their story didn't match. and on wednesday, lochte changed his story to say there were two gunmen. >> they had fun, they made a mistake. it's part of life. >> reporter: a spokesperson says american athletes are cooperating with the investigation. >> the swimmers did not call police. lochte told his mother he was robbed, she told
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from there a big wildfire getting bigger in california. the blue cut fire has burned nearly 50 square miles, 40 last night. despite mandatory evacuation, some are choosing to stay. >> we have a trigger point. if we saw it getting into the trees, or the ground fire started coming t it's some of the biggest flames i've seen this 30 years. >> containment still at 34%. many homes have been destroyed. chicago's police superintendent recommends seven officers be fired for their part in the shooting death of a black teen. the inspector general found the officers filed false reports about what happened. mcdonald was shot 16 times at
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video released a year later showed mcdonald was not waving a knife, like the officers originally claimed. family in texas recovering after being struck by lightning while unloading their groceries from their car. surveillance video showing a flash of light, and the man falling to the ground unconscious. he ushered the two kids inside to safety. the victim doesn't remember any of it. >> i was being told what happened because i don't remember of one of those -- you want to see what happened so you can understand it. >> the family suffered some burns and bruises but is otherwise okay. their car is fried. the next time someone testimonies to you stop cracking -- tells you to stop cracking your comuk else, you can tell them it's good for you. researchers looked at the ultrasound to find out what is
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knuckles had increased flexibility, and there was no proof that crack your comukems did any -- knuckles did any damage. now you can use the denver public library to get free internet access at home. >> sehappy with that -- so happy with that knuckle story. a little rain moving across sexes of colorado tonight. rain and cooler temperatures headed our way. comingp next day, our temperatures are gonna be probably 10-15 degrees
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it from home. janine has battled rheumatoid arthritis since she was an infant. getting around can take a lot of effort, especially her trip to the tlosh access the internet. >> the only way i can get around is by bus >> reporter: you can imagine how happy she was to learn about a new program launched by denver public library which offers free unlimit hide-speed internet to its patrons using wi-fi hotspots. they can be checked out like a book. >> it has ery get onto the internet. >> reporter: the library has 50 of these hotspots available at five branches. ownership and internet use in colorado is some of the highest in the nation and some are getting left behind. >> some have lost their job, cuts in the budget, they may not
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from home. >> reporter: devices are already making a huge difference. >> it is going to allow me to go home and follow my church, because my church live-streams their sermons. so i'll be able to do that. i'll be able to skype my dearest friend in michigan, and i'll be able to skype her having to bundle up and try to make it to the library >> reporter: and the library says within minutes of offering the holl spots -- h were gone from people checking
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turkish media reports three officers were killed at an explosion at police headquarters. less than 100 were hurt. a car bomb exploded outside of a police station in the city. three people were killed there. investigators trying to figure out what sparked a fire on a ferry off the coast of puerto rico. more tha evacuate. the ship was in flames. many were dominican children headed to puerto rico for athletic competitions. >> a lot of smoke. six to eight feet it. wasn't easy but thank god it was success frl. >> according to the coast guard, inspectors found more than 100 defects on that ship since 2010. lightning out there,
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pike's peak. >> there we go. >> it's coming in. big change already taking place out there. don't think we'll have a lot of accumulation in the bigger passes. cold enough to see some of those flakes flying. here in denver, we're 74 degrees right now. cloudy. we had a good soaking rain go through earlier. now we just have some sprinkles here and there. and that's showing up on live doppler 4,000. across the state, rain down here, south pike's peak. the snow on the top. and it changes over to thunderstorms there. a lot of storms moving into veil, meeker, north of grand junction. intoe our area, a few sprinkles around denver, limon, sterling. we are really lucky. just over the state line in nebraska and kansas, and some of the areas like the airport, they have had 2 inch was rain, some of those
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and warnings going on through the next several hours. we really dodged a bum on severe weather today. tomorrow -- a bullet on severe weather today. tomorrow will be a different story. low pressure moving across wyoming. when that moves through eastern colorado, that's when we'll really start to see a change. and that happens tonight into tomorrow. cooler temperatures, coolest down to pueblo with the 70s. into wyoming, there's 60s and and all that cool air will just start oozing down in here. so we got a cooler day tomorrow, cool day on saturday. and we break back into summertime on sunday. a half and half weekend ahead. 90 detail was our high. that happened at 126. and then that front came through and dropped us like a rock out there. 87 was the downtown temperature. out there now, we're 73 degrees in the city with a northwest wind at 10 miles per hour.
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he has when that front came through, he had a peak of 31 miles per hour. it was hauling, really whipping through here between 1:00 and 2:00 today. bob lock harm has 63 deeks. and he says he's had to take it out there. and we could have showers and thunderstorms through tonight. 1:00 in the morning, tomorrow morning, fog, rain over the east. and a big swath of showers and thunderstorms during the some of those could be severe. eye couple of showers still possible tonight. 50s for the overnight low. much cooler tomorrow. only 73 for the high at dia. 75 downtown. and a 40% chance of showers and and thunderstorms late in day. 75 on saturday, cool start to the weekend. a few isolated storms. sunshine on sunday with 83, and
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the day to be outdoors. >> looks great. from classic rock to indie rock, saturday is a wise day for muse -- busy day for music lovers. >> saturday is going to be a great day for live music in the denver area. ? ? [ music ] ? ? >> journey, as well as the doobie brothers. that's a lot ofcl at red rock, it's the yonder mountain spring band from colorado and they're sharing their bill with one of the finest indie rock bands in the universe. that's at red rocks on saturday night. there's a lot of music happening saturday, and all weekend long, and you can find it all at kvco.com. two cellphone carriers are launching unlimited data plans. of course there's a catch. and the cost of weddings on the
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t-mobile's plan, all videos are streamed in standard definition. you have to pay extra for hd. sprint's plan limits video quality and music streaming. new information as the world's longest aircraft takes flight for the first time over london. the helium filled airlander 10 is roughly the length and width of a football field. to appreciate the modern flying machine, the pilot says you need to look past >> any pilot will feel right at home here. >> they call it a hybrid of a blimp and a cargo plane. volvo and uber are teaming up to develop driverless calls. it's a $300 million deal. uber is launching the trial of the fully self-driving cars in pittsburgh later this month. there will be six on the road.
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up their possessions after the sweep. civil rights attorneys says they violated constitutional rights including the 14th requiring due process. attorney jason florez williams says he needs five people out of this group of 50 at the downtown library to be his plaintiffs. >> reporter: matt kroschel. end of day 15 in the paige birgfeld murder today we heard testimony from several forensic specialists, talking about all the dna that was collected in this case. they also talked about some of the autopsies and some of the information they found with her skeletal remains. they won't be able to tell us how she died. the prosecution expected to rest their case on monday. the
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middle of september. >> reporter: andrea flores in boulder where cu classes begin monday. many students say they should be getting ready for the first day of school but most are looking to get out of the leases they say were too good to be true. hundreds were allowed back into their apartments thursday despite being forced out after the city of boulder deemed them unlivable wednesday afternoon. a call from a concerned parent revealed most of units were four bedrooms by installing bookcases designed to split the room in half against city code. it's not clear if the owners will face any violations. expenses will be reimbursed for the inconvenience, along with two days rent. >> it's stop here, but there's
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oh, here's a fun postal fact. the inside of our mailbox is under federal jurisdiction, so if you broke my right thumb, that's the pasadena city police. but if you broke my left thumb, that's the fbi. if i'm going to jail, i'm killing him, not breaking his thumb. yeah. ooh! i got a letter from my meemaw. (sniffing) mmm. smell this.
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uh, roses, bengay and dr. scholl's foot powder. yep. grandma by calvin klein. you know, the last time i got a handwritten letter was from someone who told me i park like a blind person. that someone has a name. uh, thank you. oh, meemaw got a new set of teeth. oh, but then she found her old ones. oh, so, now the new ones are just gonna be her church teeth. fun. r comic-con spock ears, and your around-the-house spock ears. i park fine. oh, my goodness, she's coming to visit! oh, it'll be nice to finally meet her. oh, you are going to love her. she is the kindest, sweetest woman you'll ever meet. yeah, unless you're a gopher digging up her vegetable garden. in that case, you can expect to have your head bashed in with a shovel.
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