we begin with new developments in the case of two men accused of breaking in to a bronco player's home. mccaslin andanother suspect are accused of stealing from ware including his super bowl ring. >> dillon thomas live at the county jail. at the pawnshop. >> when it comes down to the pawnshop, a lot of the people who work there are just some of the many who helped locate the suspects who allegedly broke in to demarcus ware's home. for demarcus ware, he's happy because he has his super bowl ring back, and the police department says a lot of the thanks can actually go out to those who helped provide tips. >> reporter: thursday afternoon 31-year-old sergio irezza and

crimestoppers line helped them track down the duo who were seen in surveillance video at ware's home. >> i knew they were going to find him because of the fact he's such high profile. >> reporter: she works at mister money, a pawnshop which police say mccaslin frequented. >> i wouldn't say very often but he was in here. >> reporter: police compared images to ware's home on surveillance video to those at the pawnshop which helped them positively identifyhe you wonder if it's because somebody knew he wasn't going to be there. >> reporter: carl wallace has been a season ticket holder since 1976. >> it's good to see people supporting him. >> reporter: he says he wasn't shocked to hear broncos nation came together to catch the suspected thieves. >> it's impressive. people are basically good and people are going to help somebody to support him, especially somebody they follow and respect like demarcus ware.

and players can come together to be united in orange. >> he worked too hard to get that ring. >> as for those suspects, they remain behind bars behind me. billy mccaslin has a little bit of a background including child abuse charges. as for the other man, his charges are limited to traffic offenses. happening now, crews searching a landfill for the bodyf he was reported missing from cheyenne, wyoming over the weekend after the mother gave the boy to a man so he could go fishing. police say the child died at the home, was later dumped in the trash bin. the trash has been dumped north of greeley where police are working to find the boy's body. newly released video takes us inside the chaos when parker police came under fire. moments earlier a sheriff's

wounded. parker officer ronnie dorrell running toward the gunman, then taking cover by a car door of a witness. dorrell fired one shot and that hit the suspect randy rodick in the head. minutes earlier he shot and wounded deputy dan brite. brite was seriously hurt but is now recovering. today the officer who killed the gunman was commended for his professionalism under fire. >> to know that there's an officer down, to know that people are being shot at and to know that this guy is armed to the hilt and yourself, take in that sight picture, slow your breathing, and pull that trigger one time and end this thing. >> d.a. brauchler cleared the officer involved in the shooting and thanked the suspect's wife for calling 911 to report he was drunk and heavily armed. he had an arson of guns and ammo in his suv.

homeless are camped out. the city is actually facing a lawsuit for a similar cleanup that took place back in march. cbs4's rick sallinger explains how this one today was different. >> good evening. in america's largest city, park avenue is considered a place of distinction and wealth. here it's a last resort for the down and out. another reminder of that today. >> reporter: their life possessions i their home is a sidewalk. the landlord arrived today, not to kick them out but to clean up what's been turned a health hazard. crystal was tidying it up on her own. >> why are you here after they cleaned everybody out and moved them away? >> there's no place to go. >> reporter: she called the

>> just -- so you get kicked out or you say something stupid to somebody one day. get kicked out forever. >> reporter: the area is beginning to look a lot like it did last march when the city of denver moved the homeless out and cleaned the place up. people who work around here are not happy. >> garbage, people using the building like a bathroom and things like that. we certainly were hoping that was going to stop. >> but the people who come here say it's because they feel the problem with outreach workers and compassion. >> it's not right for people to be livingant ostreets, particularly if we can address it with these services. >> reporter: while we were there the police arrived after a paramedic reported a homeless man had threatened him with knives. sometimes even trying to help can be hard. the city of denver released a statement today saying even with increased outreach, the people

refusing services. this cannot continue. we firmly believe people are best served indoors. but the homeless remain. on broadway and park avenue west, rick sallinger, cbs4 news. right now new information after a car plowed in to a building in denver. copter 4 was over the scene on 17th and downing. the car hit the atrium of a now vacant restaurant. the driver campaign trail. a plane that slid off the runway in new york is carrying vice presidential candidate mike pence. live picture for you from the scene. heavy rain at laguardia airport in new york right now. there are reports that governor pence made sure everyone onboard was okay. we just watched people walk off the plane, get in to waiting suburbans there. we know of no injuries. we'll keep you posted on this. >> white knuckle landing. eric trump is back in

holding a rally at colorado university. as of this morning, more than 572,000 coloradoans have turned in their ballots, about 1/6th of the ballots that have gone out. almost 225,000 registered democrats, 196,000 registered republicans have sent in their ballots so far. andrea flores is live at a drop-off location with what you need to know if you've not votee ways to vote in colorado. and today we got a behind the scenes look at how your ballot is counted. >> reporter: early voting has begun in all 64 counties across colorado. secretary of state wayne williams says bipartisan judges, both democrat and republican are working together to make sure your vote stays safe. >> one vote can make a difference. >> reporter: with the highest

in the country, williams says 95% of coloradoans vote by mail. >> every vote counts the same so no election is final until all those ballots are counted. >> reporter: in arapahoe county election workers are keeping tabs of your ballot the second it's received. from counting ballots to verifying signatures, williams says decisions you've made are validated every step of the way. >> if you've returned your mail ballot, you're going to be ed voted. if you show up to try to vote in person, we'll say ma'am, it appears you've already voted. sir, you can't vote two times. >> reporter: williams says surveillance cameras and secured networks ensure safety so machines and scanners can tally your party affiliation but won't reveal who you voted for. >> we test before and after for each machine to make sure it's counted accurately. >> reporter: the secretary of state says votes remain in the system until results are

button on election day. >> officials want to stress the importance of signing these return envelopes. every county is different. these two ballot envelopes look a little bit different but they're essentially going to have the same purpose and they'll use those signatures to verify your identification. if you don't sign these return envelopes, you will have eight days after election day to fix it. if you don't sign it again, then you'll have won't count. reporting live in denver, andrea flores, cbs4 news. former colorado cop sentenced for killing a man. how much time he'll spend in a prison for a shooting that he says was self-defense. >> a new piece of art unveiled up in summit county. we'll show you how hundreds of paper cranes are helping artists behind bars. >> just a few more clouds drifting across the state but that didn't stop a record high from occurring. did one today. could do another one tomorrow.

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he shot 27-year-old jack jaquez in the back. happened while ashby was on duty. he maintained the shooting was self-defense. a simple art program is changing the lives of inmates doing hard time. >> they've created colorful origami cranes that are filling the holes of the summit county justice center. here's matt new with the story at 6:00. >> people mak humanize those mistakes a little bit. >> reporter: carefully placing delicate wings. >> this is something different. >> reporter: art has no limits. jail cells do. >> this is part of the whole healing. >> reporter: in 2014, quietly inmates serving time inside this jail started creating. >> around mental health, substance abuse to help inmates. >> reporter: the demons dealt within such a simplistic yet moving way. >> have to work together in

it taught them to work with each other. >> reporter: the piles of these colorful cranes stacking up until the art installation could take shape. >> there are years of work and many, many, many people. >> these origami cranes have so much symbolism to them but when you fold them open, each one has a message inside. this one says be humble. it's what the inmates are thinking and feeling that's on the paper that you're seeing. >> there is a lot behind all these cranes. >> reporter: this restorative justice might seem a little silly to some but inmates like the one patiently gluing on this ladder here know the project is doing something special inside. >> these were made by inmates but most importantly these are still members of the community. these are still people. >> we want people to have better lives and be part of our community. >> reporter: folded paper sending a message of hope and

needs it most. >> it's more of some type of internal reflection. >> thanks, matt. the art installation will be dedicated tomorrow afternoon. new at 6:00, a major business merger may be on the horizon. centurylink and level 3 communications are in advanced talk to be one company. the deal would combine level 3 enterprise services and centurylink's consumer internet and telephone. both companies declined to comment. ed greene, how hot was it? >> 83 degrees today. that broke the old record by 3 degrees. that's pretty good this time of year. as we take a look, sunny skies over the eastern plains. clouds drifting in from the west. no moisture with those clouds. let's take a look at the hour by hour forecast. you see the clouds off and on around the state. not much moisture. we'll run it friday in to saturday. saturday morning we have a

elevations. but they don't last long and the skies clear once again. as we run it in to sunday, a few clouds around here. partly cloudy skies, 2:00 sunday, just in time for the bronco game and the temperatures are staying in the 70s. you'll see that in the 5-day forecast. we do have warm air continuing to push over our area and cool air down in to the northeast, so much so that's where the snow is. we've got rain changing to snow in portions of canada, western new york state, vermont, pretty good snow at that. but the jet stream goes up to the north and down as you push to the east and that lets a lot of the cool air in but in our area, let's a lot of the warm air up in to colorado and the warm air and dry conditions, not too good. let's go to lauren whitney in the colorado weather center. the new drought monitor came out today. >> it did. there's actually a big increase in our area. you can see a lot more yellow if you've been paying attention in to parts of the northeast. they've had a lot of dry

we have the drought expanding in to the northeastern corner and we still have it pretty much the same as last month. last week it was at about 50-ish percent across the state in the drought. now it's expanded to 65%. weld county, larimer county, a little bit in to weld county and down south in to the denver area for our moderate drought so some dry conditions are expanding across the state and again a real area of concern is out on the eastern plains where they have seen some conditions. we've also had very warm temperatures as well this week and actually record breaking today and could be more of that tomorrow. >> that's right, as we add the dry conditions, now we add record heat. not a good thing. 83 today at d.i.a. 80 was the old record for this day. also 83 downtown. start off in the mid 40s. 61 and 33 are normal for this time of year. as we take a look at the weather

peetz. longmont, 82. 76 now. 12% humidity with a falling barometer. pretty shot here from rod mckinney. sunrise at red rocks park. take a look at the crimson leaves with the colorado blue skies behind them in arvada. 40s in the eastern plains. another mild night. 30s and 40s for the high country. couple 20s thrown in as well. 40s and 50s out west. for tomorrow another warm day around here. 70s, 80s, nearing 90 degrees for the eastern plains. 60s for the mountains and out west tempere 70s. here's your forecast. some high clouds tonight. otherwise mostly clear with 50 and 49 the overnight lows. for tomorrow, partly sunny skies. we're right back in the low 80s. if we get to 81, we break another record. and then we get to 75 on saturday. broncos sunday, 77 degrees. halloween, 71. then slightly cooler on tuesday with a high of 65 and maybe a few showers show up as we get in to next week. >> quite the streak. >> really has been.

bad it is. >> if you watched the game monday night you never would have guessed it be this severe, just when it seemed like the broncos' running game was back on track, a big blow to the backfield as the injury to anderson more severe than it originally looked. now the broncos,,

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looks can be deceiving when it comes to sports injuries. we've seen that look awful then the guy is back out there the next week. kind of the opposite with cj anderson. he hurt his knee monday night but finished the game and ran for today anderson having surgery on a torn meniscus and that's when they determined how bad it is. best case is he's out several weeks, couple months. worst case, he's done for the season. unfortunately for the broncos, dealing with injuries, just part of the business in the nfl. >> everybody has to battle some time of injury throughout their career and overcome it, and cj, he'll do that. he'll be right back for us. what injury does, it gives

their career. >> of course we're going to miss cj. great leader, great guy to be around. coach will have those guys ready to go. it's not trying to do more on offense as receivers, it's doing your job and letting those guys do their job. >> poll question, how should the broncos replace cj? sign a free agent, make a trade, or stick with the guys as mentioned that they already have? vote at cbsdenver.com. hockey. in case season is underway. just five games in, they were scheduled with a week-long break. their season will resume against the winnipeg jets. it will have been 13 days since the avs last played at the pepsi center when they won their home opener against the stars before going on the road for the next four games followed by a full five days off. >> one home opener was a bit of a tease for us. getting in to the pepsi can and

summer playing in front of home fans. they go on the road and have a week off. we're really excited to get back in the pepsi center to play in front of the fans again, continue our strong hold play that we had throughout the preseason and the first games. du hockey, seven-time national champs. you probably know about du lacrosse. but did you know du has a men's team that's a top five program? talk about the team. they're currently ranked third or fourth in the nation depending on the poll. they also have a 33-match regular season unbeaten streak that goes back to october 2014. du heads to omaha this weekend where it will be winner take all for the regular season summit league title. three-time regular season defending champs. they hope a win saturday will be the start of a longer postseason run this year. >> we want to try to get in as

time comes and that's why they've competed for the past two years, to play in knock-out style games. so what better way than to have a regular season one for the conference championship. >> we haven't won anything yet. this game will give us a title, give us a trophy to put in our locker room. and that to us is really what we're going for, trophies. speaking of trophies, rockies in line for some hardware as they have three finalists for gold glove awards. nolan arenado, gonzalez, dj. nolan, starting his career with four gold gloves. decent start to his career. a dangerous stunt ends in a near death experience. we'll tell you why this base jumper only blames himself. >> scam that's tricked hundreds of victims in to giving up their hard earned cash takes a big

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back to our breaking news from the campaign trail. a plane carrying republican vice presidential candidate mike pence slid off the runway at

rough impact when it landed. the pilot slammed the brakes. it skidded right off the runway. everyone we're told is okay. trump is now on his way to a campaign event. today first lady michelle obama campaigned with hillary clinton in north carolina. mrs. obama has become a powerful ally for the democratic nominee. >> it's a level of generosity of spirit to do what hillary has done in her career, in her more of clinton's hacked e-mails. a former aide to bill clinton said he pushed donations to also provide in-kind services for the president and his family. the trump campaign immediately called the e-mail proof of a pay to play attitude. >> mr. bend called the arrangement unorthodox. the rest of us call it outright

for early voting. voters in 34 states including colorado already casting ballots. here in colorado a new ad accuses congressional candidate morgan carroll of being soft on sex offenders. carroll is challenging mike coffman in the district. shaun boyd gives the ad a reality check. >> reporter: you may remember the ad about welfare for strip clubs. the same group that brought you that, the national republi claims democrat morgan carroll supports leniency for sex offenders. >> the only senator to vote against tougher penalties for child penalties using the internet. >> that's true but this one needs context. at issue is a 2009 bill that made internet sexual exploitation of a child a felony in colorado. carroll voted for the bill in committee. it's after it was amended that she voted against it on the