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right now as this man is accused of performing surgeries on patients even though he does not have a medical license. and investigators believe there are more victims out there. >> some of those patients have had serious complications after the surgeries. the suspect ran a clinic in west denver not far from alameda and federal . >> reporter: fernandez sprinted into the courthouse, refusing to talk about the charges against him. >> reporter: the things-year-old denver man is facing 14 felony counts, accused of impersonating a doctor, and
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unsuspecting woman, also unwanted sexual contact and child abuse. >> he was holding himself out to be a licensed doctor, and is he wasn't, and he was performing surgery and procedures illegally without a license. >> reporter: in january of 2015 to august 4th this year, the suspect operated hernandez fernandez care clinic on south federal, performing cosmetic surgery. >> liposuction. >> reporter: a complaint by a woman some who suffered permanent damage. >> they suffer the serious deadly injury because of the procedures that she alleged to have performed. and there are allegations he touched two of them inappropriately. >> reporter: they arrested him on the spot while a procedure was being performed. lynn him bro says he targeted
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been able to come forward or didn't know how. >> reporter: as he left the courtroom surrounded by cameras, the district attorney's office says this may be far from over. >> the possibility for other victims is certainly there. >> reporter: he doid have a license to be a -- did have a license to be a surgical assistant at some hospitals. his passport has been taken away, and he's wearing an ankle tracker until his next court appearance. now an eye on that, the front range. and yes, that is snow on top of pike's peak! that's not the only mountain area that could see snow out of this one. ed green joins us in the denver area. temperatures going down. >> they are. cooler today, 93 yesterday, 87 today. and tomorrow we're in the 70s! this cool air drops down. here's where it sits. a cold front into a stationary front. high pressure to the south. it'll sink out of the way, and this
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tomorrow. still some showers and thunderstorms around the area. not over the greater metro area. almost like an invisible protective shield here, not much getting in there at all. maybe a few sprinkles, and that's it. here's the snoeshgs look at ledville, buena vista, and points in between. rain, rain mixed with snow, the pink is the rain mixed with snow, and the whitish blue in the middle, that's genuine snow, higher up above 11,000 feet. lake city, telluride, silverton, you and in some areas, near ledville, 3-7 inch was snow might fall! flood watch continues for southwestern colorado. showers and thunderstorms slow-moving, some not moving at all! a flood watch in one part of the state, and the other part of the state, a red flag warning for high fire danger, for portions of larimer,
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a warning for parents tonight in jefferson county. a 9-year-old girl says a man touched her shoulder and told her to come with him it. happened monday night on west grand avenue near kipling. the girl ran into her house and told her parents. he is described as white with tan skin, has tattoos on both arms with a red skull on the left deputies say the young man in this video is 18-year-old stanley stead ler of thornton. facing a misdemeanor charge of defacing property. we showed you the video a reporter took of the spray-painted rocks. investigators say he apologized to them and says the other person in the video had nothing to do with the crime. coming up, rick salinger reports on what
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a deadly crash in loveland, two drivers died on east eisenhower boulevard. investigators believe the man driving a pickup was headed the wrong way, and collided with a car, killing the 21-year-old victim from broomfield. the driver of the pickup is from greeley. investigators believe speed and alcohol or drugs played a role. a teeshlg riding his -- teenager riding his bike to the school was rushed to the hospital after colliding with a semi. he was riding his bike on the wrong side of hit that truck. his bike wound up underneath that rig. the victim has serious but not life-threatening injuries. this is the news in campaign 2016. hillary clinton is on the trail amid new questions about her e-mails from her time as secretary of state. in ohio donald trump said a special prosecutor should lead an expedited investigation into clinton's use of her private e-mail server, and also to see
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treatment while she was secretary of state. last night on the kimmel show, clinton said her e-mails are boring. the state department is revealing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed messages that were uncovered during an fbi investigation. meanwhile clinton's running mate tim kaine was in lakewood today. shaun boyd was at the event. >> reporter: republicans are often thought of business friendly. hillary clinton is clearly make an overture to small business owners. her running mate laid out a plan today that includes among other things, tax incentives and less regulation. >> the american economy really isn't best measured by what's going on on wall street. it's best measured by what's happening in small businesses >> reporter: as democratic vice presidential candidate tim kaine rolled out a plan to jump-start small business, colorado
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is higher incentives so we can invest more heavily in automation >> reporter: randy broski gave him a tour of his manufacturing plant in lakewood. it struggles to compete with low wage countries, from a lack of tax incentives to unqualified workers, regulations to gridlock, he says there is much they can do to help small businesses. >> we want to make is easier to >> reporter: the plan includes creating a standard tax deduction for small businesses, providing incentives to states to streamline regulations and licensing, improving access to capital from community banks and credit unions and expanding tax incentives to offset healthcare costs. what kaine didn't talk about is the cost of the plan and how it would be paid for. >> 2/3 of new jobs in this
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error and a moratorium on all new regulations, including those on fracking. coming up, a new study on energy production on federal land and that in colorado. colorado's secretary of state wants everyone to be registered to vote even if you don't have a home. they call it the "homeless not voiceless campaign." they sign up people today. homeless came by to get process started. >> it's important to be
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get the ballot had of time -- ahead of time,. >> those who registered still need an i.d. card. president obama got a look at the dwefb station today in -- devastation today in baton rouge. flood waters destroyed about 60,000 homes. >> americans stay focused on this, if you're watching this today, make sure that you find out how you have registered for emergency federal aid. a small earthquake rattled the colorado/new mexico boarder today. the quake southwest of trinidad had a 3.9 magnitude, hit just before 11:00 am. no reports of damage. three children among the victims after a fire at a
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>> and one man's attempt to impress a woman with a flying leap did not end as planned. >> and not much going on over northeastern colorado. close to the metro area, not much going on. to the southwest, showers and thunderstorms, some are heavy, and some higher up contain some snow. >> reporter: a young mother learned she had breast cancer when she was pregnant with her second child. hear about her struggle, and child. >> reporter: a lake, a jet pack, and an extreme sport like
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-- an incredible follow-up story on a boy who was the first to get a double hand transplant last year. zion harvey suffered an infection when he was two, which caused him to lose both hands and feet. a little more than a year later, he can wiggle his fingers and throw a baseball. he has his heart set on football. >> she won't let me try out for football. >> no. [ laughter ] >> we're gonna start with ba >> too dangerous. [ laughter ] >> he went through hundreds of hours of occupational therapy. his new hands are designed to grow as he does. a young couple is overjoyed with the birth of their second daughter, thankful for baby and mom. >> she was at leasted for breast cancer while she was pregnant. kathy walsh is here to talk about the struggle. >> imagine worrying about your
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has been ative cult time for tess and her family. difficult time for tess and her family. >> reporter: excited to have a sibling for zoey. eight weeks into her pregnancy, the doctor found a lump in tess's breast. very aggressive cancer. >> it was really awful. i was scared. >> reporter: and things got worse. tess says a surgeon recommended she abort. >> i was horrified. yeah. and i just left and in my mind that wasn't an option. >> reporter: 30-year-old tess
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student tried to jump from a shorter building to a taller one in pittsburgh. he didn't make it. he fell three stories, became wedged between those two buildings right there. crew his to cut a hole into the wall of a restaurant to get him out. he did break an ankle. as he was taken away, he gave a thumbs up to the girl that he was trying to impress. >> wonder if she was yesz impressed. >> i don't think so. [ laughter ] >> a cool change coming our way a little of it today, a little a flash flood watch out until 10:00 tonight for the southwestern corner of the state, and also a high fire danger, a fire weather warning until 6:00 for portions of larimer and weld and logan counties. that goes until 6:00 tonight. here's our radar. some of the showers and thunderstorms look like they're coming up here, they begin to dry out as we get to denver. we haven't seen much going on in the city. out to the west, higher
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mixed with snow is the pink color, but the blue inside it is the snow going on! they could get 3 inches or more around ledville, telluride, lake city, also see something rain mixed with snow today! and this is from telluride helitrax. already the peaks are turning white. you can see the heavy showers, slowly beginning to dissipate as the evening goes on. the s and tomorrow morning, we could get an early start stothese showers. 11 -- to these showers. rain in the metro area, 11:30. then it dice down. by the afternoon, a few showers and thunderst then some could be heavy tlushth metro area, and more mooch over the southwest. right now this is
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and you see it, just all socked in at this hour. you see our high, 87 and 85. 61 and 62 is where we started out. close to normal for this time of year. 77 and 79 right now as the temperatures begin to cool, 21 for the southwest winds. and a little brisk out at the airport. stwae% humidity -- 23% humidity, steady barometer. sunrise from june reservoir, there's a shot. temperatures tonight in the 50s and 60s. 30s and 40s out west. cooler air comes in tomorrow. 60s, 70s, lower 80s on the eastern plains. 60s for the mountains. out west, temperatures in the 70s to mid-80s. here's your denver forecast for tonight. could see
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over a million ears of corn are picked a day and i'm glad we have a senator who uses his ears to listen to what's most important to colorado farmers. michael bennet asked what he could do to help, and then worked with republicans to make a farm bill that's making a difference to all farmers in colorado. the thing that impresses me most about michael bennet: we don't always agree, but he values our input. and i do trust michael bennet to look out for us.
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yesterday siemian was named the starting quarterback, and today he couldn't even throw a pass in practice. he hurt his shoulder attempting a missed tackle on a pick six from saturday's game. mark sanchez and paxton lynch got all the throwing reps. no word on who will be the no. 2 quarterback on saturday. cube kubiak saying he demarcus ware on the field for the first time taken, taken off the injure list and went through a walkthrough yest afternoon. he did do drills today. >> if we get to carolina, and he's playing, that has been the plan all along.
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ready for the regular season. and that's what i'm looking forward to, making sure i'm 100%. >> you could put like a john elway jerzo and drop back at quarterback, and ask me if i can sack you right now, i probably can do that. >> most important thing. [ laughter ] after scoring a lot of runs and beating the best team in the majors on sunday, the rockies went on the road to mill walk and he is left all their offense at home. colorado managed just 2 runs last night in a 4-2 loss. only the eighth all-star break they have scored 2 or fewer. they seem stoplay well against the good teams and bad against the bad teams like the brewers! >> whenever we're facing the good team, there's a lot a little more excitement, a little more -- juices flow, i guess na way, and when you face a team that's not so much in the playoffs, you don't get so fired up for them in a way. and we
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