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new tonight. the game will go on just two days after this horrific bus crash involving legacy high school football team the school has decided it will go ahead and ppay the homecoming game. russell is live with the game will be played. the udents in their happy? >> reporter: yes. they said this is all about the healing process. right now there is a soccer match happening air -- at north stadium. on friday it will be the football team taking the hit -- extract signs of strength and encouragement and an overall sense that playing the homecoming game is right move. a lot of talking in my classes in a but it was pretty excited to go to the game. i am ready to watch it. junior keith brenner plays tennis now but as a former football player he knows the
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this house close to them because i used to play. 63 coaches including the head coach remain in the hospital after suffering serious injuries. the driver of the bus was killed. the district said today after a collaborative discussion with district and school leadership, the. parents and students -- we decided to play on friday. at the varsity players were on that bus that crashed all of 3 them will need to be cleared by the team training staff before suiting up on friday. the jv game was canceled they were jv players on that bus that crashed as well. the defensive coordinator will take the reins as the interim head coach for this friday's game. we alive in 14 russell hawthorne. lakewood police tell us they have found a man who attacked a bus driver. anthony mantha is accused of attacking the driver and
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ticket. he was arrested on sunday after he was spotted on a different bus in westminster. breaking news the over there -- the aurora theatre shooting victims will not have to pay $700,000 in legal fees. cinemark dropped the suit. they sued the theater thing it did not do enough to protect people in july 2012. donald trump is coming back to colorado. will be taking the podium in colorado springs. the event starts at 7:30. if you want to go you must register online before him. i meteorologist stacy donelson with your first alert. we're finally seeing sunshine in the centennial where we have had scattered showers moving through. same for denver. this is downtown denver. clouds still sticking around the showers a gone mostly to the east of town. as you see there are still were
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moving over elizabeth now. nd - it has been chilly temperatures in the mid-60s. right now 50s and 60s but the question being -- will this chilly air and rain stick around for the next couple days? i have the complete forecast coming up. tragedy is that the best the people bbt it also brings out the worst. there are taking advantage of the shooting of the douglas county detective daniel bright who remains in critical condition. we re life -- we ar document is sickening thinking there are people trying to take advantage of those doing the oddest thinggbut the sheriff county's office says they have received a lot of report saying they have gotten a lot of phone calls from people asking for money. >> it is one of the most sickening situations you can imagine -- people praying ungenerous individuuls who meanwhile by trying to donate to the recovery of douglas county detective daniel bright.
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condition. the scammees are contacting citizens think there is a warrant for their arrest and identifying themselves and identifying themselves as detective dan brite. also tell you to go buy store- bought cards like itunes cards and read them the numbers in order to get out of the warrant. sergeant. ingles says this is not how the sheriff's office operatee. >> the douglas county sheriff's office is not going to solicit anybody to pay their any other sort of card. we may tell you and inform you that the is a warrant for your arrest. will not solicit money. >> sergeant. ingle says telling them it is very likely the scammers are from another country because of the accident. ask a lot of questions .. what is the name of your supervisor? what is this warrant for? what is the docket number? what is the warrant number? and start asking the individual
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of these -- to these scammers. this prevents people from opening up there wallets -- may not to open your wallet . these are stickers we were handed by -- handed to buy a deputy. they will sell these two fund raise for detective bright. if you would like to donate they are having a blood drive 23 . you can also donate straight to the sheriff's office to the fallen officers fund. take a look at this picture. this is jefferson county school custodian. he is accused of sexting a 13- year-old student. jacob deal work that that's creek elementary and he was just put oleave yesterday. there were seven molly hendrickson is -- denver7
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to watch what your kids are doing online. 3 according to this arrest affidavit deal met the girl was she was eight deal met the girl was she was 86 greater. he apparently left sticky notes in the victim and another girl's desks . the girls reported that but the school cannot figure out who did it. been in august one of the teenagers started receiving text messages from a random number. one girl and said i have been texting with this guy and it turned pictures of himself in the nude. deal is being charged with sexual expectation of a charger days of a child.>> -- exploitation of a child. we are thankful our students came in and we are prood of our staff are taking action including law enforcement
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truck. investigators are trying to figure out why this truck crashed into the aspen peak cellars winery. lance fernandez has the story. >> reporter: there is not much left. the owners had the equivalent of 25,000 bottles of wine in both barrels and bottles.>> it is a business marcel and julie fluky put their hearts and souls into. >> i gave my wife a winemaking kit for christmas. >> it started as a hobby. and we started the winery in 2009. a wednesday of the economy -- this was demolished in seconds. the owners are grateful the crash happened after minute. >> i cannot imagine what would have happened if it had happened on saturday afternoon when we had about 50 people in the afternoon. the truck driver suffered cuts and bruises any moderate head injury. >> any indication it was a
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we will find out if there is anything wrong with the vehicle . local residents are lining up to offer help . >> i would be more than happy to be the first one to volunteer aad help clean up and do whatever he has to do to get back on his feet. >> they have based in adversity before. we get knocked out and we got back up. their first wine business got up in smoke a few years ago. >> i want to make sure we have >> we checked and found the trucking company 353 cargo out of chicago has been inspected eight times in the last 24 months violations were found in five oo the inspection. a body was found near some train tracks here in denver now we are learning the person was hit by a freight train picked the mix loaded train was leaving denver heading south
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near broadway and i to five. we cannot idd person . brandon marshall meets with the denver police chief after taking any and not standing during the national anthem. >> if you are someone who smokes pot and tribes you definitely want to think twice. the new tool this will be using
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broncos linebacker brandon marshall take a police shooting scenaaio course and he will go on a ride along with denver pd. this came out of a meeting between marshall and denver
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teeth applies brandon for setting up this mmeting with him and says from speaking to brandon it does ot seem he has any ill feelings towards the military and police. the chief says he just wanted to understand how everything in america works and why so many officers are involved the controversial shootings were not punished. the chief explained to him that is not whether these officers were breaking the law rather if the actions were necessary . he said brandon did not come today with any suggestions but chiefly have suggestions for him. he asked brandon to participate in the shoes/don't shoot scenario that has officers train on as well as a ride along. >> i also suggested to him that what i thought would be very is always good to give money but to spend some of his time actually talking to young people about making the decisions -- not putting themselves in harm way and he agreed that he has done that and he get agree to continue to do that. chief white said branded except that all of these suggestions and plans to
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denver pollce department. >> a quick note tonight we mentioned donald trump coming to colorado. he will be in colorado springs saturday night at 730 not friday night extract marijuana is legal in one form of a or another in half the country. there are more opportunities to ddive while high innother is a better way to catch those that do. this is a portable marijuana breathalyzer. the company says it is the first to be tested by police and person's breath whether they smoked or eight marijuana. in breath thc only a brief period of time so unlike saliva or blood or urine were what you did last weekend will still show up in that, in breath it just does not . it only shows up for a few hours. they hope to have the breathalyzer available by next year .
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who really need it tte most. it is called the love matters most event. this is a daylong volunteer program put on by central denver hospital to help out low income families. different projects around the metro area -- they are out painting and retrofitting homes and even stopped at a local food bank and assembled kits to help reduce stress for students. > the mayor calls it tempers biggest pride -- affordable housing. now the city council is talking about two actions wanted to $50 million housing plan. one would highly -- higher property taxes the second would delay the fees and tax increase by year . both will be discussed next week. now this has been a long haul but firefighters are making progress on the beaver creek fire burning out near walden. that wild fire has burned over 38,000 acres pretty good news
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by the middle of october which will be over four months since the fire started. very interesting -- that is exactly what they were predicting. it would be contained by october. now here in denver we have had scattered showers moves through the area. a very interesting picture at the clouds receipt off to the east out of downtown denver. we still have clouds overhead but no rainfall at this point. mostly up to the east of town. sterling have had coverage all day. this picture has not changed too much and i do not think we will see a lot of rain moving to the area. pikes peak really socked in here now that we have the cloud cover and rain showers moving through and we have rain earlier today now these scattered showers are pushing past the i 25 corridor and they are moving off to the east. we still have rain moving towards east colorado.
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we saw earlier -- about two hours ago over downtown denver. it has moved off to the east. right around elizabeth is where the showers are showing up now. nothing in denver but cloud cover. you can see from elizabeth toward the deer trail some light showers moving their way through. towards the westerr portion of the state we have had started thunderstorms often on have gone away and we have late rain showing up near eagle and towards montross as well. it has been a cold day for us. temperatures in the mid-60s for us this afternoon 62 for commerce it -- commerce city. scattered rain showers through tonight. clouds will stick around to tomorrow. more sunshine showing up forr this weekend. it will be a cold bbq dinner for you if you are heading out to the course this evening 59 degrees. scattered showers still possible depending on where you are.
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into the 50s overnight. but we will warm it up a little bit more tomorrow. we with theesunshine and scattered shower chances into the afternoon and evening. on our bus top forecast will have 52 degrees to start out . you'll need jackets to send the kids out. 78 degrees coming home and chances for storms coming home. welcome you into tommrrow night . 49 degrees tonight. cloudy skies with passing showers. overnighlo 50s here for the eastern plains. sooe 40s as well . 50s for the western slope wind gust at 50 miles per hour today. still breezy tonight . 78 for us tomorrow in the enver metro . partly sunny skies with scattered afternoon thunderstorms. temperatures of 64 degrees tomorrow 79 for really and 78 for dy a 60s towards bailey and
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western slope mid-70s r you: things doon. also 70s for the front range and eastern plains. seven-day forecast -- it will be very interesting over the next few days. start to try things out a little bit more thursday and friday temperatures in the mid- 70s with slight chances of scattered thunderstorms during the day. lots of sunshine over the weekend. afternoon highs in the upper 70s. they are our bright spot days. monday 81 degrees and 84 on tuesday with high cloudiness. it looks like we are go just getting the sunshine going for the weekend warning of a little more into next week. a little taste of fall to get us used to it as a march on toward. >> it seems like it is getting difficult to . a bright spot. >> right. they are throughout . >> you still may want to head out to rocky mountain nation park. they are tracked to have another record-setting year for visitation.
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the park has welcomed more than 3 million visitoos this year. and 8% increase from last year that is in part from the growing popularity of the front range and lower gas prices. >> are you ready for the miracle at michigan part two strong and the call of the century. >> ? what if we made a paint that was so special that was such a jewel among paints that you had to seek it out. nope, even easier than that. more like taking a left on that street where you usually take a right that wasn't so hard. and if finding that paint made you and
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benjamin moore. paint like no other.
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welcome to seven sports extra. college football everybody.
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michigan wolverines. remember one time at the big house? 22 years ago in 1994 cornell stewart down 2620 last play of the game. steward with the hail mary attempt to the end zone and michael westbrook caught it. prayer answered. the miracle at michigan. debossed ooe 126-16 . >> michigan does not release date depth this is how they roll. >> clark, griswold, tight end. eric cartman left tackle. ellwood and jake blues wide receiver strong safely, lebowski and elmer five starting quarterback the odd man out -- >> pretty disappointed. i think it was a very comical
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i am disappointed but i will be behind them the whole way. >> broncos off today but the colorado rush uniforms for our thursday night over days october 14 bits and pieces of the uniform. the broncos word these uniforms from 1968 until 1996. the helmets will have the old d logo on that. now you have to see this. the most viral video of the day. rams/niners game was this was so good. apn ran out on the field and the radio announcer went with it.'s call is an instant classic. start somebody has been on the field. some goofball in a hat and a redshirt. now he takes up the shirt . he is running down the middle by the 50, at the 30, barr chested, banging his chest, runs the opposite way.
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is drug but there he goes, the 20. they are chasing him. they are not going to get him. waving his arms, bare chested. somebody stop that man. they got them. and a tackle him. he is damp extract you know what? the kid turned out to be a 16- year-old that was not drunk. he just decided to do it. and there he was.
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. "the list" starts right now. >> hey, i'm bradley. coming up on "the list." >> just like the stars without paying the big prices. >> skip the merlot. rose is making a comeback. >> what's the shape of your diamond saying about you? >> all that's ahead. first, here's what's trending now. if you have noticed your grocery bills are lower these days, you're not alone.
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supply, corn and cocoa have dipped more than 10%, and wheat has plunged 20%. thanks, gluten-free people. expect pork and beef prices to start falling soon as well. now, if you want even lower prices, a new app called basket may be the answer. think of it like ways for grocery shopping. they're doing it with food prices. just enter your shopping list, and you'll learn where to get it for less. >> that's not the only trending story we've got for you. >> yes. hope you're sitting down for this one. a new report out says, you know that expensivee ive truffle oil splurge on. >> yes. >> it doesn't have an ounce of truffle in it. not a drop, bradley. problem with truffle oil is trending now. >> truffle oil is everywhere. >> if you love truffle oil, it
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with. >> people jumped at infusing their food with one of the most expensive foods on the planet. the ones at your grocery are synthetically created and do not contain a scrape. it's a remarkably successful con. still -- >> truffle oil is good on a whole wide range of stufl. >> if you really love that earthy, pretend you never heard this, and bon appetit. truffle oil with no truffles? what is the worldcoming to? >> a whole new way to deal with bullying. >> it's all about accountability. >> they are fining the parents of the bullies. that's trending now. whether or not you have seen the award-winning documentary "bully," you know that bullying is a serious problem in american schools.

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