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keeping a close eye in colorado springs, jeff doed live with the mobile weather lab. they needen front loaders to clean up all that hail. >> reporter: yaeks they are still working. ps cu we are only a mile east of downtown colorado springs. they have been working for hours trying to clear the street. we talked to city employees saying it had rained before the hail hit this area and all the drainage ended up coming right here. we talked to the man who lives in this house. his entire basement was flooded.
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house. all this hail and water ended uptaking out the front fence that was supposed to actually protect this house. we talked to the man. he said he is not sure what he is going to do, but he feels lucky to be alive. talking to the neighbors, this rain started 1:30 and the hail came in around 2:00. one man said it seemed like it hailed for an entire hour. as we look at these front loaders neighborhood. the city said there are other issues, but this is the biggest one. we are live in colorado springs. >> from jeff jeff, let's head into the storm center. >> let's go back to noon and you can see that's when the showers and thunderstorms really take ahold and they grew and have gotten heavieren heavier
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that area from el paso county and some very heavy and as jeff said, it was followed by hail and that just complicated everything that was going on. to the north half and inch of rain well, but in the south 4 inches and 2.3 inches. the storms, result is flash flood warnings into the early evening hours and this one goes until tomorrow morning. as we take a look in denveo clear? as we take a look. here is another line of storms developing and now moving down to the metro area so we can see more showers and stat thunderstorms before it's all said anted done. and why is -- and done. bhie is it moving east to -- why is it moves east to west. i will tell you how many evening
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siemian, kubiak told them about his decision. the coach says siemian earned the job through hard work. >> that's right exactly right. if ufrp at the training camp practice -- if you were at the training camp practices you could see this is the direction it was going to go. mark sanchez didn't even play in the game against the los angeles rams. gary kubiak said mark sanchez didn't lose this job. plain and simple siemian won it. mark sanchez had those two turn overs arrange everybody started to think this was trevor's job, but gary told us it was tref vor's overall -- trevor's overall body of work that led to him being a starter.
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i note he watched peyton go about his business. once we started, it was time to see exactly where he was. every day we showed us i can do this. i'm going to be competitive in this situation and i believe in myself. and i think we just saw it grow throughout the course of the off season. >> reporter: now, of course, being the broncos starting quarterback brings added pressure, namely replacing a guy like peyton manning, what he is saying about having shoes of no. 18. guys. >> all right, thank you. and now a street racing crash that killed a man. 17-year-old driver left the scene, was later arrested. police say he does not have a driver's license, only a learners permit and they are now looking for a second driver. one man who lives nearby says racing is a constant problem. >> it's a big problem.
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and saturday night, sometimes sunday night. i think it's terrible because you need more protection out here. >> investigators are trying to get surveillance video from nearby businesses. the racers could face charges. the victim, we are learning more about him. we will share what we learned at 10:00. and investigating a death of an infant at police got a call about cpr being done. they found a 6 month old girl dead when they arrived. the parents were there. no word on how the baby died and no arrests are made. >> outdoor enthusiasts may pay more to go hunting and fishing, considering a price hike for licenses. matt, what do they think. >> reporter: well, karen, it starred arrangeg season up
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offen hunters are up here starting to be excited for the season. we talked to them and they said they are going to watch this fro sayses as -- process as it moves forward. being able to access the back country is worth it. >> this is the old-fashioned pack country hunting. >> hunting is big business in colorado peoli are trying to keep the generation going. >> wildlife managers are struggling with budget cuts. >> see a cut in licenses that are available to the public, less access to places where people have hunted and fished in the plasm. >> reporter: the problem -- in the past . >> everything is getting more expensive. i assume everything they are
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wildlife managers are asking oun for input. >> how much do they like the wildlife in colorado and how much to support the increases. >> it is a resource we have to take care of and without them here, we see a legal outfitters and a lot of things in the back country they need to be there to enforce on. >> reporter: as they set up theiren hunt hunting continues to be an issue. >> reporter: holding meetings where they areg to these outdoor enthusiasts asking what they would like to happen here for the funding issues. and docking contractors for recurring problems out to the new line out to the airport. since the a line, shutdowns and delays caused by mechanical problems, rick, now you have
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involved in this project. >> reporter: well, jim, most people know simply is rtd. the fact is the system was built and maintained by a consortium of companies and denver transit partners. instead of quick and reliable, the train to the plane has someti according to documents we received, the contractors consortium was docked tens of thousands of dollars for the first three months. was to be paid more than 10 million 768,000. it was less, rt assistant manager said it was for not
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margins are very tight on this. >> the document show it is first day the train for the media was late. so too was the train for the dig tears. later came the passengers having to be escorted across a bridge after lightning caused a outage. but regular commuters are getting over it. >> it was terrible. but other than that, they say they fixed it since then. other than that, it's been great. >> other power related issues, also pros the signaling system. the money being docked represents a small percentage of payment, but they insist it is significant. >> reporter: there is a message that goes with this figure. >> rtd is serious. it expects a level of performance. >> a performance that has not been on track. >> reporter: this line is sponsor bid the university of
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right now boulder wants living off campus to clean up their yards. beer pong tables left outside year round have become quite an eyesore. joining us live in boulder where the city in. >> you see them everywhere in the university hill of boulder. front yashd beer pong tables usually surrounded by red solo cups and bottles. considering an ordinance to bring the tables inside after a night of revelry. katie is not sure the tables should be a priority. >> there is definitely other
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should be more worried about than couches and beer pong tables. >> council member lives on the hill. >> i think for a lot of people it is a big issue. >> she says it is a small part of a bigger issue. >> we have noise issues, price issues and residents are concerned about all of those because they care about their homes and they want the students to cure as well. >> boulder has a so-called couch ordinance in p, yards. rather than changing the law, they believe they should do a better job informing their students. >> i see a lot of kids are great kids and they are oblivious bha they are doing in the neighborhood. >> katie says pass ago beer pong ordinance and getting students to obey may be easier said than done. >> a lot of them do this especially on the hill.
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why do we want to go down red mountain pass. posting this video yesterday, heavy rain pushed debris and some drivers hit by rocks. >> i know you have driven that road and it can be interesting on a sunny day. >> and the little waterfalls coming down, it's a problem. here you see the levy -- heavy thunderstorms come in, into
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comes another line of showers and thunderstorms coming down from the north. we have a little bit of a break, but these could push through and give us rain a little later on. also flash flood warnings until the early evening hours and this goes until late tomorrow morning. you see everything going from east to west, which is the unusual way. usually everything goes from west to east, but low pressure system counterclockwise flow wushing all that moist -- pushing all that moist forecast. and you can see it begins to die down and tomorrow tho shower -- showers and thunderstorms return. you can see those showers and thunderstorms continuing, die down once again and roll into wednesday. here come the showers and thunderstorms once again and they hang around into the nighttime hours and thursday the same as the showers and thunderstorms push through. this is 3:30 in the afternoon
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the fornormal of 85, mild at 55 would be normal, 41% humidity and a rising barometer. tonight mostly 50s and 60s in the lower plains. tomorrow another day kind of like today, those showers and thunderstorms, temperatures only in the 70s and 80s over the eastern plains and here near 90 storms and go to partly cloudy skies, mid-50s by the morning and participantly cloudy scattered storms and back in the 80s, not a whole lot of change, maybe a few degrees warmer, but a chance for those afternoon showers and thunderstorms, some heavy into the weekend. >> all right. thank you. and our starting quarterback, let's send it out to michael. >> yeah, enough of the questions, enough of the
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will be the starter against the carolina panthers. he said, quote, he was excited about the opportunity. of course being a bronco quarterback, he has to follow that guy, peyton manning. it's unfair to compare a guy from one that's just starting. he is only worried about what he can control and what he can do moving >> i'm not trying to be peyton. i will probably get in a lot of trouble against a hall of famer. those are too big shoes to fill. i'm going to be the best teammate and take it from there. >> i don't want him to fill shoes. i thought he made a great comment. nobody is going to fill those shoes. this is a start of tref skror's career. great things can happen hand i
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seventh round pick, came here hurt. he was the starting quarterback for the denver broncos, that's pretty good stuff. >> reporter: poll question, how long do you k he can take the broncos, playoffs? maybe afc game, interesting to watch. make sure you log on to the sports page to cast your vote. one thing about siemian, he hadn't anybody. his parents found out online and they sent him a text message congratulations. and mccaffrey waved by the raiders. they got to trim their roster down to 75 by 2 p.m. mountain time tomorrow night. and live from xfinity monday live it is the rocky mountain showdown edition, representatives from both schools will be with us here
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the former congressman. she is the top aid to clinton. the new york post reported weiner traded selfies with an unknown woman, even posting one with his 4 years old son in the background. he quit congress after another sectioning scandal. >> you can see drones flying above your head. xhishl use of drones rules go into eff under these rules may not fly under 400 feet and the pilot has to be able to see it at all times. operators will now need to pass an exam. theme parks are giving away free bug juice. it's all part of the fight for zika, so far zika has not spread in the u.s. beyond two areas in south florida. walt disney world, university studios and sea world all now
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it started over the weekend as a precaution. coming up, fans remembering wilder. and colorado springs had drivers dealing with mountains of hail and washed out roads. >> quite the scene down there and over a million ears of corn are picked a day here in olathe, colorado. 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
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