is an investigation into a deadly dog attack in jefferson county. why did two pitbulls kill a woman they knew well? the animals were euthanized in the past half hour. >> thanks for being with us tonight. melisa garcia is live in the foothills anima where the animals were taken. you have new developments >> reporter: we do. the dogs just here within the last hour have been put down at this facility. authorities say richard shaw was issued a warning citation back in 2008 after a neighbor reported that those dogs had gotten loose and were acting aggressively. and authorities also say that he agreed to have them put down here at this facility after they

couldn't hardly believe that >> reporter: bonnie bogart was shocked to learn that her next door neighbor had been killed by the dogs in her own home. >> this is a dog mauling two, pitbulls >> reporter: jefferson county deputies responded to the home in conifer around 7:00 pm monday after a friend got call of a gruesome attack. >> we got a nine one one call from a male saying he needed help, screaming in the background >> reporter: the caller in his 30s alerted them the family's two pitt bulls w his home. >> she's gonna be in the hallway, she's barely conscious >> reporter: deputies arrived to find the two dogs on the loose in the home and the woman critically injured. she died at the scene. her son was taken to swedish where the staff treated and released him for nonlife-threatening injuries. >> i feel really bad for rich junior. i hope he's gonna be okay. >> reporter: neighbors say the dogs spent much of their time

they were never running loose. >> okay. never any issues that you knew of? >> i never had any issues with the dogs. they bark a lot. >> reporter: animal control took them from the scene to an insert golden where they're court ordered under quarantine. >> reporter: it's unclear if richard shawl will be facing any charges. that investigation is ongoing. family friends told us the woman who was last month. so for this family, clearly a tragedy all the way around. >> adams county had 67. denver 62 pitbull bites. even though pit bulls are banned in denver, 575 have been impounded since

multiple government buildings in colorado and across the country. the e-mails threatened violence and were sent to workers at the usda, u.s. forest service, and is natural resource conservation service. the threat spanned across five states. the offices will be closed until further notice. a united airlines employee is under arrest stealing nearly $130,000 worth of jewelry from a passenger's luggage. that passenger this is woman, christie ferrer. she took a flight from aspen to denver this month, noticed her cosmetics case was missing from her luggage. inside nearly $130,000 worth of jewelry. she the chief executive of a company in new york and once worked with mayor bloomberg on the rebuilding of the world trade

agent for united airlines. surveillance video from dia shows him slippings victim's cosmetics case into a paper bag and take off with it. a mother's fight for her son, upset with the denver aareaium and a staff member there who would not let the boy onto a ride. tom mustin is live downtown. the smother taking this one to court. >> reporter: her son has cerebral palsy and confined to a wheel chair bhe do anything any other 10-year-old boy can do, that's why she was furious when they were refused a ride here in the aareaium. abbey left the denver courtroom wednesday with her son willy. >> no apology, no compensation, nothing. >> reporter: he is 10 years old, has cerebral palsy and confined to a wheelchair. he family is suing for discrimination and outrageous

had taken willy to the aareaium and they waited outside in the snow for 45 minutes to visit the 4d theater ride. when she got to the front of the line, the ticket person who no longer works for the company uterd offensive remarks and denied them access. >> she asked what we were going to do with "this" and i pointed to, this my son sfshgs, and she said yeah, that. >> reporter: she said her son has gone on roller coasters, and she was stunned. >> words furious. and no thoughts for compassion, no intervention from management, and nothing was given. >> reporter: they gave her a refund but would not return her calls and emails. they admit he should have been aloud inside, and they're calling the case a "misunderstanding." now a judge will decide who's right. abbey says her goal is to send a message that people with disabilities deserve respect. >> willie being admitted to

further their understanding it's not okay to treat people this way. >> reporter: attorneys tell me judge gonzalez is expected to take a week before making her decision. landries just sent me a statement saying they are committed to providing an inclusive environment and there was no discrimination. you can read their entire statement on our website. a man who tried to his wife is one of the first to face a felony charge for that crime after a recent charge to colorado law. the victim told police he hit her in the mouth and started choking her. she escaped. a new law went into effect that makes nonfatal strangulation a felony instead of a lesser charge. >> we now have a strangulation bill passed in colorado, the law

crime of strangulation, which is impeding the breathing of another person or restricting their airways by grabbing their throat. it enables prosecutors to have another tool in order to make sure that in particular domestic violence perpetrators are most aggressively prosecuted. >> the new law high pressure system victims prove domestic violence in cases like this one. survivors of strangulation do not usually have visible injuries. emotional day for the denver police department as badly injured officer john adsit returns to work. he nearly died after being hit by a driver while he was escorting protesting students to east high school on his bicycle. it happened two years ago this december. the officer has already had 18 surgeries. and needs more. you can see how he's been recovering since that crash

campaign 2016. a lifelong republican and ceo of a major company is openly campaigning for presidential candidate hillary clinton here in colorado. our political specialist talked to hewlett-packard's leader about why. >> reporter: meg whitman among a growing number of republican defectors this election. but she's not just voting for hillary clinton. she's all in. e the most prominent republican yet to hit the campaign trail for clintorn starting here in denver. >> i have been a lifelong republican remember >> reporter: she says it's not easy to cross party lines. >> have you taken a lot of flack? >> i've taken some flack, of course. >> reporter: once the republican candidate for governor in california, whitman admits she doesn't agree with clinton on all policies. like free trade. but she says clint son far better for trump for the economy and jobs. >> we need to comheet globally

industries with the right training, centers of excellence, and leadership. >> reporter: a ceo with considerable ties, whitman held a breakfast with local business leaders in denver looking for recruits. ceo of finest aerospace, the lone conservative to show up. >> what's a republican doing at a rally for a democratic presidential candidate? >> it's a great question. i do think hillary is going to provide the m probability put the most focus on the economy short-term. and i don't believe the markets can afford to be disrupted. >> reporter: governor hick hickenlooper, a democrat whose pro-accident record has long earned him republican crossovers suggest this election for all its shallow moments has caused people to look deeper. >> i think it is making people question, is it always the party first? >> reporter: whitman says it's country first. but she's not abandoning her party.

>> reporter: whitman has supported other democratic candidates in the past. a billionaire business woman, she is not only committed to contributing significant cash of her own to clinton's campaign but says she will tap her vast network of republican donors to solicit funds as well. repairs on a major water main break loongz evans slowing -- along evans slowing down that drive plus -- >> she calls herself a lab rat. i'll tell you about the experimental cancer drug that's worked for her, and the research institute in denver that she calls a blessing. >> none of those hail storms that we saw yesterday. hour by

as a school superintendent, i saw how unnecessary regulations from washington made it more difficult for teachers and principals. and as a dad, i know we must empower those who spend every day with our kids. to replace the no child left behind law and increase local control of schools. i'm michael bennet. i approve this message because i believe parents and our communities

>> how are you! [ laughter ] >> everybody loves seeing irma. today it's to check her vital signs and draw some blood. in july of 2015, here scared. >> oh, yeah. that's not a word i hear. >> reporter: the word of cancer. after months of three months of radiation, it was back and had spread. >> went to the hip, the lungs, the stomach. >> reporter: irma was sent to the sarah cannon research center in denver. it offers the latest, yet to be approved, treatments.

stimulate our own immune system to fight the cancer. >> i'm just a lab rat >> reporter: she got it through an iv drip. her only side effect was fatigue. >> in the first eight weeks, the tumors were getting smaller. >> reporter: at a year, they were gone. >> you know i'm gonna cry. thank you. [ crying ] >> reporter: in 18 month, he has enread 180 patients in clinical trials. they offer hope for many people. fora, miracle. >> the institute has treated patients from all over the rocky mountain region and from as far away as florida. it was named for sarah cannon. you might know that name. also nashville's minnie pearl. she died of breast cancer. a traffic alert for drivers, westbound evans closed between santa fe and south platte river drive, crewing

the pipe was 67 years old. expect detours until tomorrow afternoon. people still cleaning up mountains of hail after a severe thunderstorm in colorado springs. it flooded neighborhoods, stranded drivers and damaged a lot of homes. >> the door flew open, the water came in, and my feet went out from underneath me. >> i wasn't expecting broken doors, five feet of hail, water line past my window. the area is getting some relief tonight. >> i couldn't recall seeing that much hail in one neighborhood in colorado. how about you? >> not in a long time. we have had a few storms that have done that same sort of thing, but this was so concentrated, and 24 hours later, today they still have hail 3 feet deep down there there! we have a flash flood

deserve, not much going on around here. a little storm near aurora, and is not much became of it. and castle rock, showers and thunderstorms going through the area right now. all the storms around the state, and is there aren't many of them, all beginning to die down. lightning lessening, so are the storms. nothing like of the! the hour by hour forecast, all the storms die down. tomorrow they come back, widel today. thursday the same. friday, more moisture moving into the west, comes against the front range by 1:30 in the afternoon and pushes across the front range. that's our better day for showers and thunderstorms, friday. high pressure holding it back, stay on the warm side of it. temperatures not terribly warm, about where they should be for this time of year. a few degrees cooler maybe. here other hawaiian islands, honolulu, this is hurricane madeline, just

high surf, strong winds and rain. and behind it, this is hurricane lester, stronger hurricane just to the north of hawaii and do the same thing. high winds, a lot of rain. and a lot of surf around there as well. we do have a little system sitting off here, tropical depression 8, doesn't look like it's gonna do much. this looks a little stronger. it could become a tropical storm, and go right across northern florida. so we're watching the southeast as well. 82 and 83 sand dunes, if you voluntary been down, there you should go! lindsey sent us these, mountains of sand! very impressive. lows tonight, mostly in the 50s and 60s over the eastern lanes. 30s and 40s for the mountains. 40s, 50s, 60s out west. and 70s and 80s over the eastern plains. 70s for the mountains. out west

degrees. denver tonight, an isolated storm, gone, clearing skies, mid-50s by morning. tomorrow, partly cloudy, similaritied storms, back in the lower 80s. and not a lot of changes into the weekend. a greater chance for storms on friday. the weekend, only isolated, mid to upper 80s. >> good weekend! >> good summer weekend. a well known bronco part of the team's first-cut list. >> and a bitter pill sanchez. >> and bonnie raitt performs

michael is here with the size of the sanchez contract when we figured he couldn't be a starter he want might be gone but he hangs around. >> he's hanging around for a little bit. if the broncos are gonna cut him, they're at least gonna wait until after thursday. despite naming trevor siemian the starter and saying paxton

arizona -- will play thursday in arizona, mark safrn says is still on the roster >> reporter: sanchez said today as a competitor he was disappointed to not win the job but he added he's trying to put his emotions aside and trying to help this team. >> if things don't work out the way you want, you can't just act like a crybaby, that's not right. it could be a lot worse. >> reporter: sanchez's situation and status with the broncos, stip and he knows it. >> all that stuff, whether it's contracts i've been hit up a lot about, questions about contract or trades, and there is a business side to this thing. but i'm just focused on playing. that's why you hire an agent. they handle all that stuff. >> reporter: if given the choice, sanchez says he wants to be a bronco. >> i want to be here. i love being here. i've gotten to know these guys and embrace community. and i've had a great

for pret season game -- preseason game. the broncos did cut colquittt. he was the longest tenured player on the roster. this was a deal all about money. he was the highest paid punter in the league and was scheduled to make more than $3 million. riley dixon will assume the punting broncos regret pinching pennies and cutting colquitt? the rockies have won three straight, colorado with an 8-1 win over los angeles last night. but they always seem to play well against the good teams and poorly against the bad teams! the rockies, 23 and 28 against teams below poise, but they're

even walt weiss can't figure it out! >> i don't have any explanation. i think the main thing is we're gonna focus on what's ahead of us, not what's already happened. keep going out there and playing well, regardless of who it is. indianapolis, who needs a glove? apparently not dixon machado. how about that the detroit tigers' prospect was playing shortstop, made this grab out in center field, caught the pop bare-handed to end the game. he gets the highlight and probably a sore hand too. dee dallas has died after a car crash in south carolina. he was 48 years old. he took over the air force offense as a sophomore. he rush forward an ncaa single season record, 1315 yards.

he was the fifth player in ncaa history to run the pass for more than 1,000 yards in a season. he finished 6th in the heisman trophy voting in 1989. >> i did the sports reporting in the '80s, and is dee came up to me at a charity luncheon. he's like 5'8", 150 pound, and is running all over everybody! >> that's what his former coach said. they'd bring him in the room and they'd sashgs this is the guy? he was a star. >> very classy. thousands to make sure the victims of the aurora theater shooting are remembered. >> war of words between the california sheriff and colin california sheriff and colin kaepernick after the,, california sheriff and colin kaepernick after the,, with prism on the go from centurylink, you can get your favorite shows right on your devices pretty much everywhere you go. um, paul, that was great.

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the memorial will be a place to remember the lives taken by a gunman at the theater complex in aurora. rick salinger has an update on the story he broke earlier today. >> reporter: good evening. an aurora church reached out to members of its congregation ask them to open their pocket books to donate and help build a memorial here to the theater shooting victims.

with overwhelm generosity -- overwhelming generosity. >> colorado community church, after one month, we needed $90,000, you have given over $95,000. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: last month on the fourth anniversary of the massacre, organizers announced they needed to reach $200,000 for the memorial. itville a garden with benches for ef the victims killed. the church responded with 600 people giving donations. like kathy mosley. >> there were so many people that were impacted remember not only the ones that were at that theater but other people that are related or had friends within that situation >> reporter: 12 people were killed, a 13th was an unborn child. heather deerman is a cousin of ashley moser, who was paralyzed, lost her 6-year-old daughter veronica, and a