welcome to the cbs4 news. it's friday and many are starting the labor day weekend. i'm britt moreno. thanks forni let's figure out what the forecast will look like. lauren whitney is tracking that. good morning. good morning, off to a nice start today. we have mild temperatures and heavy rainfall. thunderstorms out that way as well. here in the denver area on the dry side with clouds to start the day. let's zoom out west with rain some rain near the colburn area

county. decent rainfall moving slowly in the area. 64 in denver. 63 out in greeley. partly cloudy skies this morning for us a chance of rain in denver today so we'll talk more about that in a moment. let's check in with joel. it's the last morning before this weekend and maybe you took today off and took advantage of a four day weekend. i think you will like the drive this summer drive before we had classes and all that stuff going on in town. here we are across the denver metro area. construction ongoing along smith road to the south of i-70. see the icons downtown? the taste of colorado going on and road closures already in place until tuesday morning commute. thank you for that. breaking news now as hurricane hermine makes land fall along

to a tropical storm but it was a category 1 storm when it brought 80 miles per hour winds on shore. it was the first hurricane to hit florida in 11 years. >> reporter: hurricane hermine plum led florida's panhandle. late last night people tried board walk was indated with water. >> i'm here to play. >> this is life threatening. >> earlier in the day the state's governor warned people to take the storm seriously as hermine shredded up roads and eroded beaches. in the hard hit down of apalachicola some stocked up on knews. >> it's nerve wracking.

>> reporter: others boarded up their business and got out for the safety of our employees and business, we are closing up. >> reporter: in low lying areas hundreds of residents were told to evacuate ahead of the storm. >> my wife wants to get her valuables out and stuff from her mother that is irreplaceable. >> reporter: some chose to ride it out. >> my property will likely not flood but my neighbors around me will. >> reporter: hit with a hurricane in a decade. residents of hawaii's big island are dealing with aftermath of madeline. 0. >> the storm has passed but safety measures have to stay in place. hurricane lester, a category 3 storm is on track to affect the islands this weekend.

the spotlight is focused on the john benet murder mystery and now the boulder police department is flooded with interview requests as the 20th anniversary of her death approaches. we see how the police chief has released a statement on video. >> we are committed to finding justice for john >> her killer has still not been identified. >> publications and movies offer many theories on who is responsible for the kriep. facts have been surmised and often distorted. >> we want to get the truth out so she can rest in peace. >> cbs is airing a multipart series examining the murder case and the dr. phil show is airing an interview with her brother

you're the one that has never spoken. >> reporter: the boulder police statement showed pictures of their files and gave statistics including a thousand people interviewed in 18 states and 200 dna samples analyzed. >> we have not and will not give up. san francisco 49ers colin kaepernick is blaming the media for the confusion he surrounds his protests over racism. people reacted to his socks and how he refused to stand for the national anthem. in last night's game the quarterback took a knee refusing to stand during the national anthem. he was shown wearing socks with pigs wearing police hats. he came to the podium and spoke on the protest giving his reasons for why he's doing what

anti american and anti men and women of the military. that's not the case at all. i realize men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put themselves in harms way for my freedom of speech and in this country and my freedom to take a seat or knee. so i have the upmost respect for them and i think what i did was taken out of context and spun a will be donating a million dollars to charity but he didn't say which one. he was also joined in his kneeling protest by his teammate, eric reid. the guy they called sunshine may have won himself a spot on the receiving squad. juror dar taylor takes a short

he connected with him again in the second half for another half. the broncos lost 38-17. the regular season kicks off next week against the panthers. investors finish yesterday mixed with some gains. hena daniels is live at the new york stock exchange. happy friday. >> reporter: happy friday, good morning, stocked faded recovered. energy companies lost ground as oil prices slipped pr the fourth day in a row. the dow jones gained 18 and the nasdaq gained 13. strong job numbers were august can make it more likely the fed will decide to raise interest rates this year, possibly even this month. more americans are hitting the road this labor day weekend.

holiday travel is up ten spers. a majority are driving but plane travel is up 6% and where are americans headed? beach trips, city getaways and lake escapes and national parks. apple unveils changing in its new operating app. siri acts -- user can ask siri to book search photos. one of steve jobs signature black turtle necks is on the auction block. they specialize in celebrity clothing. it's valued between $1,000 and $3,000. his partible cd player and watch are also being sold. >> that's going to make someone

daniels. sports authority executives getting bonuses despite the company folding and not being able to pay creditors and leaving 14,000 people without work. a judge ruled they could pay three executives up to $1.5 million. the original bonus were $25 march and shut their doors in july. a son sent to the wrong city on the wrong flight is asking the faa to investigate what happened. we heard from the mother who says she feared the most. her son was supposed to travel on a jetblue flight from the do

he was traveling alone so his mother paid to have someone sit with him. hours passing before they realized he was sent to baltimore. >> when he came he had a lot of stomach pain, pain in his knee. >> he arrived back at jfk later that day. jetblue has apologized and flights. this explosion and the impact it had on facebook ceo mark zuckerberg.

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pounds is more likely to develop abnormal blood glucose. a nerve stim lay inhibitor is bringing help to people with sleep apnea. it occurs when the brain fails to control breathing during sleep. the new device works like a pacemaker and significantly improves apnea symptoms. a multi million dollars set back for spacex when the nine rocket exploded at cape canaveral. in an attempt to expand internet access facebook had a one # $5 million satellite that went up in flames. he's in africa right now and responded saying on his facebook page he was deeply disappointed about the failure. time now for a check on weather and traffic and lauren, it's friday. it's friday and heading towards a three day weekend for

fairly mild start. we have heavy rainfall to the west. slowly moving storms and here across the eastern plains we are on the dry side. let's zoom in. heavy pockets of rain near colburn and carbondale and rainfall near grand junction. this is chugging its way through. it's been heavy throughout the morning hours. futurecast we stick around. most of this stays to the high country and off to the west and by lunch some of the rain in the foothills and heads to denver around 1:00 we may get rain showers and thunderstorms to pop up and hopefully it will move out quickly although these can be slow movers because a lot o is going on with the taste of colorado and the denver show down and rockies game. we may get heavy rainfall and

should wake up to sunshine in denver and a chance for more isolated storms to roll through and a bit of that on the western slope. 64 in denver and 64 in akron and 61 in boulder. today temperatures are in the mid to low 80s. 81 in greeley. 79 in burlington and 66 in frisco and 68 in aspen. for your hour by hour forecas have a chance for storms to start to fire up and for your five day forecast tomorrow, warm through the weekend and much drier on sunday and monday and storms come back on tuesday. take a look from our mousetrap cam, great road conditions as we. looking southbound coming into town, you will have company but nothing that's slowing you down. here's a look at the broader map

i-25 santa fe nice and wide open and maybe seeing some slowing along c-470 as they do repaving work as you get past king carol to kipling. the road work is along smith as you head southbound there. i wanted to show you taste of colorado. looks like it's not happening. those are around civic center park, some road closures in place that will be in place until tuesday morning. if you're heading into town it should be a great drive. chide to have a good teacher but we have learned some teachers judged below the barbie their districts. >> reporter: for ten years she taught kindergarten at colfax elementary in denver until she received low evacuations.

tenure. tenure is a system that provides teachers protections making it hard to fire them. >> i put so much into my work that it was hard to swallow. >> reporter: the senate bill 191 forces teachers to put teachers into one of four categories. two consecutive years of being partially or ineffective and the teacher losesur >> it's important in teacher as in other professions that we have a clear bar. >> reporter: 47 dps teachers were under the bar. >> we do have great teachers. is every one of the teachers great? no. >> reporter: in douglas county 24 teachers lost tenure and 11 in aurora. just one in the cherry creek

teachers union concerned. >> why does jeff co have 0 and we have 47. there's something wrong with the evaluation system the teacher effect at thisness law was sponsored. >> any parent that's had more than one teacher knows like any profession some are great and some are decent and some are >> teachers who were rated less effective two years in a row are back in classrooms in denver and other districts. >> they are back with us but back with us without the tenure status. >> if i were a principle i would want to know who else was on the applicant board. >> i am a great teacher and my students and parents and my community can back me up on

appeal but she quit anyway and started teaching in westminster. do parents have the right to know if teachers are deemed ineffective? the district we contacted refused to release the information citing privacy. if you want to see how your teacher is ranked go to cbsdenver.com. let the countdown begin, six officially kicks off in denver. the broncos have roster decisions to make between now and then. last night meant a whole lot and also we got to see paxton lynch. the defense was hanging out and probably enjoying what they saw from the rookie on his first position. the guy they call sunshine would do the race. a 57-yard touchdown but the broncos up 7-0.

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friday, september 2nd. we have breaking news from overnight. hurricane hermine makes land fall in florida. the latest on the storm coming up. the latest on the investigation of a shooting death in an adams county neighborhood. happy friday, everyone. starting a long labor day weekend. hope your coffee is morning joining us. lauren is tracking the forecast. good morning, off to a rainy start and thunderstorms rolling through the western slope. a nice slow moving system in that direction. we'll talk about storm chances in denver coming up. there's a lot happening today. rocky mountain show down plus the taste of colorado. joel, what's it like on the