hi, everybody, good to have you with us. 4:30 right now. this is cbs 4 news, the 8th of september and this is the opening day for the football season. i'm alan gionet, good to have you with us. lauren is standing by right now. let's fine out what the broncos an panthers go at it at mile shy. high. >> a great night for football. if you're going to prefan fest, kicks off at 3:00, warm and sunny out there. definitely grab the sunglasses and bring some water. 56 degrees in denver, 58 in limon, 58 out in burlington. lots of 30s in the high country, 35 in leadville and 35 in gunson and 59 in grand junction. we do still have some fog out on the eastern plains right

burlington as well. satellite and radar, we do have some thunderstorms early, early this morning. those are fizzling on out for the eastern plains. for the rest of us a little bit more sunshine, clear skies, i should say to start the day. hour-by-hour forecast, 85 by 2:00 and a warm afternoon in store. should be a great night, though, for the broncos game. let's check in with joel. good morning. >>reporter: good morning. a great drive across the denver metro area this morning. of course overnight construction. that's what always gets in your way, right? not hb hampden, looks like the cones are a little farther down the road this morning. here we are across the denver metro area, lights malfunctions colfax and clarkson. treat that as a four-way stock. i'm taking you in, civic center park, oh, man, it is going to be a rockin' place, a couple of fantastic headliners for that nfl kickoff concert. expect closures between bannick and 14th. we have the 9/11 remembrance going to be going on this weekend, so these road closures will remain in place for the weekend

for ransom is free in a rare case in colorado. the 27-year-old victim is going to be fine. now investigators are looking to figure out the motive and to fine the people behind it. our rick sallinger explains how a fight over horses may have played a crucial part: >>reporter: $200,000 cash was left at this gate, the ransom that had finally obtained the release of the kidnapped victim. and that's where he was found, here on his family's ranch. >> there was past couple years of -- between, i guess one family and another family of their horses. >>reporter: but investigators are looking deeper to see if those horses may have been fronted a lot of money. federal, state and local authorities announced the results of the case. >> we don't see many kidnappings. they're very rare, particularly ransom kidnappings. >>reporter: it began last week with the report of a customer abducted here. >> early the next morning on

identify a victim based on credit card information. >>reporter: it was later learned the victim had been taken to this apartment in brighton where he was held for several days. megan chain lives in the same building and saw something suspicious. >> close the door [ indiscernable ] so it's not my business. >>reporter: three arrests have been made, but the fourth suspect believed to be planner remains at large. >> rick sallinger reporting there. after receiving the cash, the kidnappers checked the money for a tracking device and shortly after that they were arrested. a couple from longmont is in jail right now accused of abuse after a 17-year-old boy was brought in weighing about 88 pounds when he got to the hospital. a doctor describe the boy as looking like a concentration camp survivor. the boy is blind and autistic.

calories of crackers and chips. investigators say this one is a frustrating case. >> we're human as well, and it's tough to investigate a case like this, even as a police officer. it's a tough case. >> you can bet. vanessa and david hall say they thought their son just had the flu and blamed his dangerously low weight on having skinny relativeses and being a picky eater. mplet both candidates in the race for president stated their cases on why they ought to commander in chief last night. hillary clinton and donald trump shared the same stage at different times in new york. here's our henna daniels with the latest. >> the main thing is i have great judgment. >>reporter: donald trump sought to win over voters, including service men and women last night, maintaining he was against the war in iraq. >> he was totally against the war in iraq. >>reporter: and hinting at a private plan to defeat isis. >> if i win, i don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is. >>reporter: republican nominee

veteran who questioned his immigration policy for military members. >> do you believe that an undocumented person who serves -- who wants to serve in the u.s. armed forces deserves to stay in this country legally? >> that's a very spicial situation -- that's a very special situation and i could see myself working that out, absolutely. >>reporter: trump grew defensive when questioned by moderator matt lauer about his relationship with russia's president. >> if he says great things about me, i'm going to say great things about him. >> an absolute rock steadiness. >>reporter: hillary clinton who appeared on touted her temperment while drawing a line in the middle east. >> we are not putting ground troops into iraq ever again, and we're not putting ground troops into syria. >>reporter: the democratic nominee spent much of the night defending herself against her e- mail scandal. >> i communicated about classified material on a wholly separate system. i took it very seriously. >>reporter: the two candidates go head to head in their first

of the month. henna daniels, cbs news. >> trump will be in cleveland, ohio today. the clinton campaign will head to north carolina and missouri. a late push yesterday on wall street helped end a mixed day, and now investors are hoping the gains will return. jill wagner live this morning on the floor of the new york stock exchange with your money watch. hey, jill. >>reporter: good morning, alan. it was another record-setting day on wall street. the dow fell 12 points, the nasdaq rose 8 closing at a new record high. futures now pointing higher open. walt disney world is now requiring children between the ages of 3-9 had their fingers scanned before entering the theme park as a way to prevent people from sharing tickets. older guests have already been scanning their fingers. apple didn't really wow investors with its new iphone and products launch. shares rose, but only by a fraction. the iphone 7 is water resistent with a longer battery life and a better camera. there is no headphone jack is. apple isn't put ago converter for people who aren't ready to

or customers can also buy wireless ear buds down the line. investors are concerned, though, that there are not enough upgrades to spur sales. and carpool karaoke can is coming to apple. tim cook kicked off the launch yesterday with a carpool karaoke skit. he thinks "sweet home alabama" and other tunes. the new series will start next year with 16 episodes. alan. >> all right. thanks a lot, jill. great football fans waited 215 days for today. they come in as champions of super bowl 50. the broncos do. and tonight they get a chance to go up against cam newton and the carolina panthers once again. >> newton in the pocket. he's hit and sacked inside the 5. the ball is smoke free! >> it can't just be another game for you guys. >> it's not which makes it the most important game. >> you have a bit of revenge.

>> well, our broncos insiders are here now with a look at what to expect when the broncos and panthers hit the field tonight at mile high. >>reporter: well, don't call it a rematch of super bowl 50, the broncos and panthers set to kick off the 2016 season later today. hello, everyone. all eyes this yoafs on the bronco's offense, especially that quarterback situation. >> a lot of pressure on trevor simeon making his first stasht and i think that puts the pressure on the other 10 guys. the offense needs to play well, they need ankerson, get the running game going. if that can happen, it's going to allow trevor to have more time to throw an get more comfortable in his first game. >>reporter: defensively for the broncos, it's important they get to carolina's quarterback and cam newton an i think if they can do that tonight, then they'll have a good shot at winning this game. >>reporter: vaughan miller says he knows this week carolina is out there, he knows it's -- not going to call it easy in the super bowl, but

february. >>reporter: so broncos need to execute better as well. >>reporter: the brine is i think everybody is happy football is back and certainly mile high will be rocking later tonight. well, there's not an easy task getting this big guy away from a high school, really big. we'll tell you how much this alligator weighed once they had

,, what makes a lipton meal? well, first you start with this. then add this. and this face... wait, we can do better. yeah... that's the one. and of course fresh brewed lipton iced tea.

and definitely more of this. ah, that can wait. but not you buddy. huh what's this? ah... i like it. what makes a lipton meal? what you bring to it. and the bright refreshing taste of lipton iced tea. lipton. be more tea. exercise will reduce your risk of heart attacks and diabetes, it'll also save awe little bit of money. this morning there's some new info into how weight may have

strokings. here's don champion with today's health watch. >>reporter: overweight or obese women may be at higher risk of having the most common kind of stroke, called ischemic stroke. the university of oxford finds overweight women may be at lower risk of hemorrhagic stroke which is also deadly. marijuana use continues to rise among college students, but use of narcotics and amfet means are also both on the decline. an annual survey from the university of michigan also marijuana use is at the highest level in more than three decades, and heart patients who meet weekly exercise guidelines spend an average of $2,500 less on healthcare costs. that's according to new research in the journal of the american heart association, people without cardiovascular disease who exercised regularly also saw healthcare cost savings. that's a look at some of the day's top health stories. don champion, cbs news, dallas.

this. police in florida caught up with an 11-foot long, 450-pound alligator wandering close to a middle school. it happened yesterday morning in the town of dabee. police say they received calls about this particular suspect before they couldn't drag it down until now, though, and you can see why. they trapped this big reptile with the help from experts from florida fish and wildlife conservation commission, and now they don't know what with that big alligator. they don't know if they'll put it down, release it somewhere else. it's a tough decision. lauren right now on your weather. we have some wind tonight, lauren. >> i think it will be okay in the wind department. we're going to talk about our broncos forecast in just a moment. it will be a little bit windy in parts of the high country today. that's where we would have some wind concerns. let's take a look at our temperatures right now, 56 in denver, 57 in boulder, 61 out in burlington, 35 in leadville, 43 in steamboat, 40 in craig and 59 over in grand junction. now, visibility is better than

eastern plains from wray to burlington, and it's not as bad right now as it was yesterday at this time. we did have a couple of thunderstorms roll through the eastern plains this morning. those are wrapping up, and the rest of us a little bit more sunshine or clear skies this morning to start off. we had some pretty thick cloud cover the last couple of days, not as much this morning. now, again, we'll still have some fog out on the eastern plains, but for the rest of us, mostly sunny skies today, again, a little bit windy in the high country, and we don't have red-flag warnings today because the winds aren't quite be cautious outside. a couple of thunderstorms possible out on the eastern plains, but here in denver and the rest of the state, we are dry. so when you watch the broncos tonight, whether you're in the high country, western slope, everything should be clear and dry. you can grill before the game here in denver, it's going to be rockin' later on. and then overnight tonight skies are clear. tomorrow morning we wake up to sunshine and then tomorrow is a really nice day. we do have a front that's going to work its way through. that's going to bring us some cooler temperatures and it will get a little bit windier as well tomorrow, but we don't get

89 in denver, 83 in fort collins, 83 in grand junction. 76 in eagle and 90 over in grand junction. now, if you're going to fan fest, the kickoff village, it's going to be warm out there today, temperatures about 88 degrees most of the mid-to late afternoon. kickoff at 6:30, 85 degrees and by half time we'll be in the mid-70s. so it's really a perfect night for football. 75 tomorrow, that will be our high with those windy conditions with that front. and then we start to recover this weekend. let's check in with joel. there's going to be a lot of absolutely. downtown, it's just going to be a tough drive. i'll show you those closures here in just a moment. i want to show you we've got the volume picking up already southbound coming from bridges down into the tech center. this is from our cbs 4 tech center cam. look at all these headlights that we have this morning. take a look across the denver metro area, colfax and clarkson, lights malfunctioning. we've got continuing road work along c-470 and work on the ramp as well as you get to 285, and that's why we're seeing the slowing in the westbound

along there. i'm going to take you into these closures that lauren was mentioning because we got civic center park, we have a taste of colorado, that's all picked up, now we have great concerts that are going on, the nfl kickoff concert, cloud closures along bannick and 14th. it's going to be a mess tonight. i would recommend paying to park beforehand, using an app or coming down on public transportation. >> public transportation always a good option and safer one too. congress still deadlocked about emergency funding to yesterday florida republican congressman david scwroly brought a canister of mosquitoes to the house floor to condemn the lack of action by his fellow members of congress on zika. aerial spraying for mosquitoes scheduled for today over miami beach has been postponed until tomorrow because of concern about that spraying. a world war ii pilot with a congressional gold medal had a final wish to be buried at arlington national cemetery, but when elaine harmon passed

honor. until yesterday. here's our david martin with the story. plct playing taps." >>reporter: it took an act of congress for elaine harmon's ashes to be allowed into arlington national cemetery, even though she was a member of the women's air force service pilots during world war ii. >> my grandmother an the other members of the wasp were the first women to fly military aircraft for the united states military. >>reporter: erin miller was proud of her grandmother's service, training the men went into combat. >> my grandmother's last wishes were to have her ashes at arlington national cemetery. >>reporter: but women in the wasp did not qualify for entry into arlington, so she had to store her grandmother's ashes in a closet. that's not a very good resting place. >> no, it certainly is not a very dignified resting place, but we really didn't know what else to do. >>reporter: congressman martha mcsally, one of the first women to fly combat aircraft

wasps into arlington. >> the fact that they were told they couldn't had me thinking this is one last slap in the face, you know, sexism, i thought it was over, and it was just this one last element of not being treated fairly. >>reporter: mcsally's bill was passed an signed into law in five months. -- and signed into law in five months. i see a tatoo on your forearm there. is that the bill? >> this is the bill number, yeah. >> that's pretty intense. i mean, this is so important and so meaningful to her, that this was made right for her grandmother that she chose to memorialize her that way. >>reporter: the ashes come off the shelf and transferred by erin and her mother into a hand- carved earned. only 100 wasps are eligible and -- are alive and eligible to be inured at washington. >> they are still with us. >>reporter: a year and a half after she passed away in '95, elaine harmon was granted her

she hadn't asked for. a flyover by world war ii vintage planes. david martin, cbs news, arlington cemetery >> that is beautiful. farmers are now harvesting the first certified hemp crop. they were grown on the western slope. it's to grow hemp plant with a low thc ton content, it wouldn't make you high. that way it can be classified as industrial hemp. federal research shows 00 big business for colorado producers. >> how many of those in colorado, i think the economics are in play, it's a large industry. >> advocates for years have touted industrial hemp in food, clothing and a whole lot more. here's sports. emanuel sanders got his money. the broncos and sanders agreeing to a three-year

worth a reported $33 million, $27 of which is guarantee. so you know emanuel going to be hyped to play tonight. tonight's game probably going to be unlike anything any of these players have experienced. there's always a lot of emotion surrounding a season opener, and when you factor in it's the first game since the super bowl and it's a super bowl rematch, you know the broncos are going to be fired up, but that is a good thing. >> i want them emotionally. they worked hard to be emotional. they paid the price all week play, and our guyles are guys that usually turn out talk ago little bit. >> everybody is going to be hyped, of course, but you gotta contain it. you gotta keep them down because it's going to be going so fast in the beginning, we just gotta get them calmed down and everybody as a whole team has gotta get calmed down so we can play ball. >> the rockies knocked off winners last night, hopefully a good omen for the rockies and the city of denver.

at 6:30. ,, which you are you? be the you who doesn't cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. oriasis with stelara? just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara? may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before starting stelara? tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have symptoms such as: fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. always tell your doctor if you have any signs of infection, have had cancer, if you develop any new skin growths or if anyone in your house needs or has

these may be signs of a rare, potentially fatal brain condition. some serious allergic reactions can occur. do not take stelara? if you are allergic to stelara? or any of its ingredients. most people using stelara? saw 75% clearer skin and the majority were rated as cleared or minimal at 12 weeks. be the you who talks to your dermatologist about stelara?. the average age of a homeless person is 9 years old.

charles what's up man? -whoa! how can we help? -ah man! wait, is that a basketball player? yes! -wow! my heart's about to jump out my chest man. charles you ought to be proud man. i'm just extremely grateful they were here giving them some encouragement- that's something that these kids are going to remember for a lifetime. did you see his big old feet? look. whoa. taste the many sides of brookside. smooth dark chocolate outside. exotic fruit flavor inside. brookside.

apple's big announcement of its latest iphone may have a lot of people piling on about a big change our jeanne moose talks about the lack of a plug for headphones and maybe the cords are tangled alive. >>reporter: if apple has its way, you can kiss your heade >>reporter: of the telephone because the new iphone 7 has no headphone jack. >> we believe in a wireless future. >>reporter: meet air pods, wired said they look like a tiny space fisherman hooked to your lobes. >> at a price of just $159. >>reporter: no more dancing with sloppy wires like in the old ipod ads. >> are you ready? >>reporter: do you want to say

ages. >> i am going to miss the headphone jack. >> it's not broken. >> i find the wireless a pain in the neck because you gotta charge them. >>reporter: but the new air pods supply five hours of listening on a single charge. those watching the iphone 7 unveiling got a charge out of james corden singing carpool karaoke while pretending to transport apple ceo tim cook to the event. presenters extolled everything better cameras to water resistance. it allows the new iphone to survive a dunk in the toilet while jokesters mocked apple for its air pods and created parody products like the apple pencil. it writes on things, instant recharging. this is no parody. apple introduced two new iphone colors. >> there's a second new black we call simply black.

kids will remember. >> detects when each air pod is in your ear >> one more thing to worry about. >>reporter: the apple event ended with a performance by the shy to show her face seia and unfortunately we couldn't see whether or not she was wearing air pods. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> some bow. "the late show's" stephen "sulley" sullenberger. they talked about the real lanking in the hudson river as the movie is set to come out >> in our flight simulators, it was not possible for us to practice water landings because they are programmed for it. the only training we'd ever gotten is the theoretical classroom discussion. >> so just chalkbother? >> yes. and so we had to dig deep, take what we did know, adapt it in a plight in a new way to a problem we've never seen before. >> did you ever think in a

water land sng >> no, or bein,, everyone complains about millennials. nonsense. millennials, i salute you. you save money like no other generation. you share cars, wifi passwords, canoes, deodorants. today's his pants day. no baby boomer ever shared a pair of pants with me.

these pants always smelled like yoga-aroma. i'd wash them, and it'd be back before i even got to class. finally, i discovered new tide odor defense. it eliminates the yoga aroma. so i can breathe easy hummmmm. don't just mask odors. eliminate them with new tide odor defense.

football is back. good morning, everybody, i'm alan gionet. this is the news on cbs 4. thursday, the 8th of september. here's what's happening right now. von miller and the broncos are done with practice and will get to start the new season defending super bowl champs. what we can expect tonight. plus jane is live this morning at civic center park. >>reporter: we are counting down the moments to kickoff. we've got details on all the action happening right here ahead of the big game. >> we'll see you soon. police want to find a carjacking suspect who left a mess behind a north -- left a mess in northglenn. ahead how he got away.