a breaking news in charlotte, north carolina. riot farris second night after police shot and killed a man. from the ground you can see the scuffles take place between officers and the protestors as the teargas flies. you can see the huge wall of police there trying to do their best to control the crowd. in the middle of the chaos one person was shot and now on life support. >> a few minutes ago the governor declared a state of emergency. this is the second night [ crowd noise ] >> come back to me! >> reporter: the crowd that gathered outside the city's omni hotel when a loud bang was heard. >> things have escalated in the last 10 seconds. >> reporter: police started hurling teargas, and the protestors threw the cans back. within minutes, word spread a

they just shot him. they tried to cover up his blood remember >> reporter: police shot and killed 43-year-old keith scott. they came across him searching for another man. they say he clearly had a gun and refused to drop it. >> a weapon was seized, a handgun. we did not find a book. >> reporter: the family members and the woman who recorded this video s say scott, a father of seven, was reading in his car when officers approached. >> i saw the book fall off his lap. >> reporter: tonight the protestors and a peaceful prayer service. one moment, it was chaos. >> things are getting dicey out here. >> reporter: another live look at downtown charlotte right .

police did not fire a shot. we'll continue waupg following this situation throughout the newscast the hunt for a teenaged hitchhiker believed to have violently attacked a 71-year-old woman. jeffrey collins is now wanted for attempted murder. the victim is still in the icu. >> reporter: we're learning her condition is improving but she will likely remain here in icu the suspect in this case is still on the run. we did speak with his grand father earlier this after. he didn't want to go on camera but says he saw collins shortly after the attack and had no idea that anything had happened. >> reporter: a community in shock after a teenagera, s accused of attacking one of their son. >> we don't have this type of

she invited them into her mountain cab attain wait for a ride. once inside and without warning, collins attacked her with a fire poker. >> at one point there was some talk between the suspect possibly stealing her car. the others did not like that idea. it came as a surprise, the suspect out bluff struck her in the head. >> reporter: he ran and believed to have hitched a ride. the suspect's grand father picked him up monday night but was unaware of what happened. the remaining two teenagers didn't go after collins but went to get help. >> the other two were the ones that went to the neighbor's house and called the sheriff's office. >> reporter: according to family collins grew up here in colorado and has been in and out of trouble with police. an arrest resulted in his having to wear an inkel monitor.

dangerous. and we're gonna find him. >> reporter: investigators are trying to track down that driver that took him in. if you have any information that might help in this case, call the boulder sheriff's office. the sound of gunfire in northeast denver. these shots are being fired by police to test out what's called the shot-spotter system. live in the montbello neighborhood. >> reporter: think of this as calibrating the system, using different bullets and live ammunition, not blanks. the system can tell the difference. when a shooting k. they to know -- when a shooting occur, they want to know when the sensors work. this area suspiciouses some of the most gunfire in the

>> yes. maybe a couple times. >> reporter: she watches as officers tested the sound detection program called shot-spotter, saying their planning to use the technology in neighborhood, and it makes her feel safer. system relies on acoustic sensors that pick up when and where a shot was fired. victims, suspects on occasion. as well as the evidence, the cases that are history on-scene. >> reporter: denver police are already using shot-spotter in parts of the city where aaron sanchez says it's helped officers get to scenes in under a minute. much master than if they were to rely only on calls from neighbors. >> generally they're about a block and a half off of the

>> reporter: >> reporter: tonight's tests police say have been successful and will continue through midnight. they're not showing what the sensors look like or where they have been placed. reports of real shots fire forward three denver schools on lockdown this new details in a deadly shootout in a denver gas station in the middle of the day with a family a few feet away. stan bush is live tonight where the shooter learned his sentence. >> reporter: a plea deal was reached months ago. today the justice department released this video in part to schott complete

see that children were nearlicate in the cross-fire. the deadly shootout at a car wash in five points last year finally made public. this video released by the justice department shows members of two rival gangs confronting each other in the parking lot, then they start shooting. just feet away, two children were standing exposed to the gunfire. they duck into the backseat as the firing continues. day after sentencing this shooter. 39-year-old dietrich mayfield. a second angle shows his getaway driver who was shot in the chest, bleeding from his wound and struggling to start the car. after leaving the scene, the twaes-year-old was dropped off a block away from denver health's emergency room where he died. sanders also died in the shooting. the video shows mayfield firing multiple times

the case, even after a federal grand jury reviewed the case. investigators found nine millimeter cases littering the scene but the weapon was never recovered. mayfield was sentenced to just under five years in prison for pyring that weapon. developing tonight the sear caused the death of a cyclist. that accident happened yesterday near the entrance to carter lake in larimer county. the driver of a white sedan or small suv bumped 43-year-old jason holden, causing him to fall off his bike and into the oncoming lane. holden was hit by another car and died. the cyclists who ride near carter lake say this area is beautiful but dangerous.

much room to stay on the side of the road. and we have to ride that white line or just to the left. >> investigators searching for the first driver who did leave the scene. the second driver stayed and has not been cited. a scathing report demands for a criminal investigation. the internal wauchl dog for the veterans diameter released a report saying the disastrous v.a. hospital project in aurora is the result of gross mismanagement. project at least four years behind schedule, and it will end up costing nearly $1.7 billion, triple the initial estimate. a report shaz a new retired senior official knew the project was overbudget but didn't tell congress. the report doesn't

keep pressing for one. breaking news in charlotte, north carolina tonight. one person has been shot during a second night of riots following a deadly police shooting yesterday. we'll show you how svlians in this crowd -- civilians in this crowd tried to protect police in the chaos. the massive search for explosives in a neighborhood. >> and the search for two people who about the manhattan bombing. >> controversial banned vanity plates in colorado. >> it's a violation of our government's freedom of speech. >> why some think the state is going too far. >> still some lightning strikes in montrose county. vacca county, loaded up with lightning! nothing else going on. this cold front is gonna come through, give us a chill for the weekend and bring us

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>> >> charlotte is under a study of emergency after a second night rivots. protestors are angry after police shot and killed a man yesterday.

civiliance forming a wall in front of police officers. they're trying to keep the protestors away from them. >> black power, that's what side i'm on, black power. [ all talking ] >> earlier in the night a man sheriff's office and in critical condition. still unknown who pulled the trigger but police say they did not fire the f.b.i. wants to speak with two people evidence connected to saturday's bombing in new york city. video show fwos men removing an -- shows two men removing the pressure cooker and taking the suitcase. they are only considered witnesses. cruisers searching neighborhoods near green mountain for old military explosives. munitions are from

the state has been working to clean them up for the past five years. this is the first time they're going into people's yards. >> the vast majority of the houses are not going to have any munition material. we may find some munitions related material. i really do not believe we're going to find anything that poses an explosive hazard. >> the dwoment contracted crews marking yards before dig further possible explosives. and new video shows a woman getting hit by one of those famous duck boats in boston. the woman walks in front of it without looking, ouch! good news she wasn't seriously hurt. wait for it, wait for it. [ laughter ] >> it's coming! just not tomorrow. >> that's right. the first day

a couple showers and noefrmz delta county and -- thunderstorms in delta county, a couple strikes over vacca county. 81 strikes in just the last 15 minutes. a cold front into a stationary front into a cold front! this cold front being held back by high pressure. it's gonna be an at an or two before it gets here, and we'll probably stay in showers and thunderstorms still over the southeast. that tropical system continues to circulate over the carolinas and virginia. virginia, as much as 16 inches of rain out of this over the past several days. you can see how we have this frontal system, it's gonna hang out there, and slowly it'll move as that high pressure gets out of the way, and that'll bring the

see some scattered showers move through the city, and we've got some showers and thunderstorms coming in from the west. that's gonna be the situation for the next couple of afternoons around here. we take it into saturday, and look at this, genuine snow, and i mean 2, 3, 4 inches of snow here. it's gonna hang around for the saturday morning hours, and continue with showers of rain, snow, for the high country. but out here, we'll see mostly sunny skies. it's gonna be much chillier. 84s today, both locations. 60 and the lows. 89 in 2015 was the record high. before, that the record low, 27 degrees. weather watchers, 66 in bailey. buena vivida has 70. 65 in genesee, and andrew, our junior weather watch frer aurora, 90 degrees today. 65 and 60 now, a south breeze at 9 miles an hour. this is a drone photo over

holbert, pretty color there and one from suzanne looking toward the sky through an aspen tree. and what a good boy! dustin schafer's dog toby near georgetown. temperatures tonight, 50s, 60s over the eastern plains. tomorrow much like today. 80s and 90s over the eastern plains. out west, temperatures in the 70s and lower 80s. the denver forecast for tonight, and 57 the overnight lows. and for tomorrow, increasing clouds, isolated storms, low to mid-60s. and here comes the change, 81 on friday, just 66 on saturday. sunday just 59 with a chance ever showers. monday we pull out of it, and late summer weather comes back by the end of the week. >> thank you. pot is legal in colorado but not necessarily on your license plate.

letters and numbers that are banned from those vanity plates. some people are telling our investigator their free speech rights are being violated. >> reporter: every car must have a plate. if you want to pay extra, you can have a personalized one. be a guru, or claim your ethnic identity or support your favorite team, but there's a list of 10,000 combinations you cannot put on one of them is 420, a reference to marijuana. >> does it seem odd to you that marijuana is legal and you can't refer to it on a license plate? >> yes, it's a violation of our government's freedom of speech. >> reporter: miguel lopez is the organizer of the annual 420 marijuana event at civic center park. >> some might ask what's wrong with 420? now that we have

determine it to be obscene, offensive, if it's offensive in any way. >> reporter: the list and ban includes thousands of others, especially sexual references, obscenity, and references to guns. also forbidden are the letters spelling aids. with the lgbt center of denver. >> i can see why somebody might want to be able to put a p aids message in support of fighting against aids >> reporter: but he says he understands how other might try to use it negatively. a committee reviews questionable requests not already on their list. >> aids is one of the banned combinations, what's wrong with that? >> again it's all in the determination made by the committee of whether it could be considered offensive to some

turn it upside down, it takes a whole new meaning. >> people get creative, and is so sometimes when you read it backward, says this or upside down it says this. >> reporter: the ban on some marijuana related plates has lopez wanting to fight. >> i would like to encourage people to use this opportunity to sue the government. >> reporter: it turns out they already have. in texas, all the way to the u.s. it's government, not priefrt speech that is involved in -- private speech that is involved in this ban of the banners. >> and whether broncos top

you've probably heard of running out of space on your iphone wile your dog. the broncos have first place problems. not everybody is getting the small as much as they'd like. frustrated at their starts to the season, when it comes to their personal production. nierpth has had a 100-yard game and neither has scored a touchdown. they don't want to complain too much considering they are winning but they want the offense to do more to help the cause. >> i would like to have my hilts run on espn, yeah, that would be great.

and 0. so-so i go out every single day, and is we know it's gonna come. >> it's the second start remember it's gonna take time. and that's with everybody. i don't know why the ball is not coming my bay way, but it's not a big deal at the end ofidate. the defense scored more touchdowns against the colts than the offense. vonre sacks. one of the reasons he was named afc defensive player of the week today, the third such honor of his career. >> in my eye, he's definitely by far the defensive player in the league he want impact the game more than any other player

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