year veteran was transported with life threatening and a 21 year veteran had nonlife threatening injuries. we know the sheriff of clark county fred wagner is there now and we're hoping that at the press conference, so in about an hour here at this location in clark county, we'll know more on their condition. we know that the deputy who got killed was named nate kerrigan. he's been with clark county for 10 years. we understand that he is heavily involved in this community. he was involved in black canyon high school. he was involved in school sports. so people already are reaching out on twitter saying what a kind, wonderful man he was and how he will be missed. so this is what happened here this morning according to investigators. we know that after 9:00 this morning the three deputies including deputy kerrigan were serving an eviction notice at a residence which is about 5 miles from the fire department, but you're looking at that,

so they're serving this eviction notice and we're told that a suspect fired at the deputies with a rifle. so he struck deputy kerrigan hitting and killing him. then he struck the two other deputies. we understand that he was also killed in the exchange of gunfire. so this is, of course, all the preliminary information. we heard this earlier this afternoon. things may potentially change when we get an update here at 5:00 this afternoon, but we certainly have more from the folks from 9news team who is here. we have christine noel who is at the scene now and jeremy jojola who has more information on the suspect. we'll bring you the latest details at 5:00 as soon as the investigators come out to talk to us again. >> we'll hear from the sheriff and again deputy kerrigan is the one that passed away. the other two deputies were

we have seen law enforcement waiting there all afternoon, many showing up just to share their support. as anastasia mentioned, the one deputy has what they call life threatening injuries. he's been with clark county 11 years, maybe 12. the third deputy has nonlife threatening injuries. he's been with clark county 21 years. >> it is still a very busy scene, the scene of the shooting itself. 9news reporter christine notice l has been -- noel has been following that part of the storiful several agencies have been there all -- story. several agencies have been there all day gathering evidence as we speak. >> reporter: we right now are about 200 yards away from where this shooting took place this morning, as you mentioned, several different agencies, at least four out here investigating today. if you can look behind me, there is a white trailer. right next to that trailer is a brown porch that we're told is attached to martin wirth's house.

three clark county sheriff's deputies were shot at today and where the entire scene unfolded. in the past hour we saw a s.w.a.t. team enter in full gear wirth's home. we don'ten what they were looking for or what was found at the time. again, this is a very active investigation. we are learning more details by the hour. mean while i spoke with some neighbors in this friendship range community and this neighborhood is close-knit, fairly quiet, not a lot happening here. one resident who has lived here more than two decades says that she heard five gunshots fired this morning and she says her heart broke when she learned that there was an officer killed. >> i just hope i didn't know him. so yeah. i may know him. i heard two, the other one in critical condition that had been hit. i just hope he makes it so we don't have two. >> reporter: and i did speak with her before she knew that

the one who was killed here, but again still two other officers that are dealing with injuries. we did just see about five minutes ago this s.w.a.t. team that you saw entering the house, they have since left. it's an active scene. i imagine it will be here for the rest of the day, mark. >> difficult day for a lot of people, christine noel live in the friendship range, the scene of the shooting. the man shot and killed by sheriff's deputies was facing eviction after a long fight over foreclosure. 9wants to know found martin wirth tried suing fannie mae over foreclosure but lost. here is investigative reporter jeremy jojola with what he found. he was well known for his distrust of the government and law enforcement and other thing as well. he went online yesterday. >> yes. online he was quite outspoken against the government and police. he was described as an activist with occupy denver. wirth was 58 years old. online court records show he lost his home in bailey to

easefulled fannie mae in 20 -- he sued fannie mae in 2013 but lost that case in september last year. it was a long legal battle. then in the summer of 2014 the group called colorado foreclosure resistance coalition rallied around wirth when he faced eviction back then. we found a youtube video of wirth describing what he called his illegal foreclosure. then earlier this year fannie effort against him. the clark county sheriff's office was executing that second eviction against him this morning when the shooting happened. at one point it appears he tried to run for the legislature, too as a member of the green party, but that didn't go anywhere. from what we can see here wirth had no violent record. we found two arrests for driving under the influence. last month he was cited for driving under restraint and eluding police, but that case is still pending. obviously that case is not going anywhere now because of what happened, but that case

as far as what we can tell, he has no deep contacts with relatives at least here in the colorado area. lockheed martin. he claimed he was an engineer online at one point. >> a lot of frustration and anger it sounds like with law enforcement and as christine was saying, most of the people know all the deputies involved in clark county. most of the people probably know mr. wirth as well. thank you, jeremy. also today slightly warmer but windy this afternoon increase know especially across the eastern plains where a red flag warning once again is posted. danielle grant is in the weather center. once the heat rolls out the weather rolls in. >> we have a couple more days to kind of see our temperatures warm up, but it has been a pretty nice one out there today. you can see a little bit of a cold front diving through the area. that's what helped kick up

the eastern plains, a weak little system, dry one not bringing us any moisture, but look at our storm system from yesterday, mid atlantic states picking up on some very severe weather, possibly of seeing winds. meanwhile on the backside of the system we were talking about blizzard conditions. back at home winds in the 20 mile-per-hour range around the foothills. here in the metro area aurora, watkins, centennial about 23 miles per hour and those winds are still howling as they have been all day long in southern wyoming, nebraska and the northeastern corner of colorado, holyoke 308, 36 mile- per-hour speeds in scott's bluff and sydney. that red flag warning is posted until 5:00 and you could get a ton of snow from that system and how dry it's been is a perfect combination for high fire danger. hopefully everything winds down once the sun begins to set. satellite and radar picture showing a picturesque day truly across the entire state.

clouds, but that was about it. up and down the i-25 corridor with the sunshine we've warmed back up to the low 50s, a hair above our average, staying in the 20s and 30s in the high country. the rest of this evening looks pretty good, sunshine for the drive home or picking up the kids, mostly clear skies tonight with temperatures falling to the 40s by dinner time. still going to be gusty across the eastern plains and do we have any storms in sight? it was like a little blip on the radar and now it looks like a little drying trend coming up plus again you guys, the weekend, wow. so many things going on as we wind down the month of february, but we might do it with a bang. we might be looking at 70- degree temperatures again. >> how about that? that's nuts. i'm still worried about the paybacks. >> the way march comes in and goes out and all the old wives tales that go with it. denver public schools says it is talking to parents about a situation at john f. kennedy high school today.

backup for a fight that happened during the lunch hour. the school was placed on lockdown around 11 a.m. and moved to lockout status around noon. a separate weapons call was made to the high school. that call came from outside the school. police now say that everything is back to normal. a mental competency hearing for the man who admitted to killing three people and wounding nine others at a planned parenthood clinic in colorado springs has been continued until next month. court officials say the report was not ready today. a new hearing was set for march 23rd. a judge ordered the mental competency exam after the admitted shooter said he wanted to fire his public defenders and instead represent himself. the exam will show whether he is mentally capable of making that decision. he is charged with 179 counts including murder, attempted murder and assault. a national group of surgical techs believe their jobs require more regulation as

the association of surgical technologists is a national organization in littleton with 38,000 members. the group is working towards establishing rules for profession atmosphere accountability. they -- professional accountability. they say this is important as the case of the former swedish medical employee accused of stealing pain meds and put patient at risk of blood borne diseases is the reason why stricter rules are needed. >> it makes me angry somebody could do this. it also makes me angry there aren't more regulations for surgical technologists and things like this can happen because of a lack of regulation for our profession. >> there is a colorado law that mandates surgical techs register with the state. that law will sunset this summer unless it's continued. there will be no required legislation for surgical techs in colorado. the elbert county sheriff's department has security video of a man that they believe is a murderer and who they suspect may have murdered more than once and now they are looking

the victim is long time agate resident 68-year-old ed butler injured in january and these are pictures of the suspects in his trailer back in january. investigators believe the suspect has a psychosis in some sort that he repeats phrases in a series often in three's and often can be seen spinning in the video in three revolutions. they have very identifiable pictures of this suspect eating a candy bar and despite wide circulation of many of these photos no one has recognized him as yet. >> he could be anywhere. he appears to be hispanic of nature. so he could be -- maybe he's from mexico. maybe he went back. maybe he's an illegal person. maybe he's not. i don't know, but we haven't been able to find him in any of our databases. >> all along the i70 corridor there's -- i-70 corridor there's a lot of people knowing a lot of fear right now because this kind of stuff doesn't happen in our communities. until you see it you don't realize it's there.

photos of the suspect including a large watch that he wears. is in a suspicion that he may have kill -- there is a suspicion that he may have killed before, is a practiced killer and that he is armed and very dangerous. we have a complete slide show with more pictures of this victim on 9news.com. you're being asked if you see this man, call police immediately and you can also call the elbert county sheriff's department. colorado's health officials say a mumps outbreak has prompted alerts to healthcare providers across the state. there are at least four confirmed cases in denver and two other probable cases under investigation. all the cases right now are in the denver metro area. 9news health reporter dr. john torres is following this story for us. so we talk about mumps. the state really wants everyone not to be alarmed here but aware is what they're saying, dr. john. >> that's right. a lot of people are concerned. they don't want people alarmed, just aware of what's going on. in these cases all the patients

the much vaccine is only 90% effective -- the mumps vaccine is only 90% effective, that's better than zero. >> everybody should make sure that they, their family members and friends are all vaccinated for mumps. >> that's the important thing to make sure everyone gets vaccinated. symptoms include fever, headache and muscle aches. that goes with about any virus, but with mumps there's a telltale sign of very swollen glads underneath the jaw -- glands underneath the jawbone. this is what it looks like. it's not sort of swollen. patients. sometimes it's on one side. side. a lot of times people they think have throat glands that are swollen and scratchy throats, but in this case you can see them swollen. definitely get the vaccine because some cases can be deadly and it's important to be

>> does in vaccine have a term limit? if you were vaccinated years and years ago, are you still okay? >> this is the mmr vaccine children get at 12 months and again at 6 years. one of the things we know is we're looking at now it does seem ting 0en over the -- seem to weak over the years, so they're trying to despite if you should get boosters, but the -- to decide if you should get boosters, but the main thing is to have the vaccinations. >> whooping cough has come back again and again and boy, you get really sick. >> we're seeing more of that happen. vaccinated. some people are very adamant against it, but it can protect people and the community. >> when you look at that image, mumps. >> it's one of those things you cannot miss it. crews working to remove a giant sandbar at lake loveland because it is starting to the lake.

the floods back in 2013. it's become a place where residents now hang out. the irrigation district says it decided to hire an excavating company after seeing a drop in water levels from summer use. the company says there is an estimated 18,000 tons of sand in the lake. the work is expected to last at least two weeks. the sand will be used to fill mining pits. mesa verde national park officials are closing the spruce reach house because they're worried about rock falls. a park spokesman says the sandstone there is just unstable. so they'll be working on stabilizing it. from now visitors will only be able to see the spruce treehouse from the overlook. it's the third largest cliff dwelling house in the park and the most visited. it's amid to reopen the ancestral site in a couple years. broncos head coach gary this year's scouting combine and got a lot of questions as

team's quarterback decision. peyton manning has less than two weeks to make a decision about his future. kubiak said john elway has talked to manning in recent days and kubiak himself said he and the winning super bowl quarterback will talk this afternoon. they would also like to resign quarterback brock osweiler before the nfl free agent tampering window opens on the 7th of march. free agency officially begins on the 9th of march. >> brock has a bright future obviously, did a heck of a job for us, started seven games for us, played against really good people and some tough situations, played really well. i think he has a bright future. we think the world of him and want him to be part of our football team. he's been really special with the job he's done this year and i think he's grown a great deal. >> manning must decide no later

9th his salary becomes fully guaranteed. broncos have the final pick of the 1st round which is the 31st pick. as part of the deflategate punishment the patriots lost their first pick this year, so there are only 31 1st round picks this year. avalanche fans are all atwitter about this, a familiar face returns to the net during practice. patrick roy showed up. he's still got some moves. he's in an unmarked jersey here. he still looks good. the colorado avalanche posted account. their caption was we needed mother goalie for practice, so -- >> we suited up the big guy. >> he knows a little thing or two about that being behind the net. >> you could probably throw him in today and he'd be as good as any goalie on the ice. >> might get into a fight or two. >> he's got some fire. >> he does have some fire. >> love patrick roy. television.

one very popular item. >> and jd power is out with a list of the most dependable cars. as we head to a break, we're

this is going to be a very popular day for our real estate line. volunteers are here from the denver bar. the real estate council of the denver bar, the number to call 303-698-0999. lines are open until 5:30 tonight. you can call these guys and ask if you can get an attorney to help with closing a sale on your house and maybe a way to potentially save some money, one question you might ask. >> they're busy right now. take your time. be patient. the nevada republican party reports attendance at its caucus last night set a new record. more than 75,000 voters attended the caucus. that's more than twice the 33,000 who caucused in 2012. caucus organizers say nevada typically has low numbers, so this is a big deal. democrats reported more than 84,000 caucusgoers in their caucus saturday. donald trump won the caucus for the gop last night. hillary clinton won saturday. dozens of people hurt, as many as three dead in the gulf states after severe storms in

overnight tornadoes caught many people off guard. 150 mobile homes in louisiana were destroyed. to the east in pensacola, florida, a pop lated neighborhood took a direct hit. look at this damage. more than a dozen tornadoes were reported across the region destroying homes and overturning semi trucks and ripping apart even brick buildings. you can't buy a hover board through amazon any more. amazon has pulled it off their website, the decision coming after a consumer product safety commission deemed all hover boards unsafe earlier this week. a study found they pose an unreasonable risk of fire if they don't meet voluntary safety standards. target and toys r us do not sell hover boards online either. the most dependable car in america, lexus, porsche, buick, toyota and gmc break down the

jd power polled more than 33,000 owners. the study found a 3% decline in the reliability of cars and trucks after three years of ownership with the average of 152 problems her 100 vehicles. the worst performers with the -- per 100 vehicles. the worst performers with the most problems per vehicle reported were dodge, ford, the smart cars, land recovery ever and jeep. now -- land rover and jeep. now you know. there are a lot of questions for johnson & johnson today after a lawsuit out of alabama. >> one family says baby powder caused ovarian cancer.

family of a woman from alabama whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of johnson & johnson talc-based powders won a lawsuit against the health giant. jackie fox's family will receive $72 million from the company. talcum powder is a mineral found in many fell nine hygiene

feminine hygiene products and baby powder. johnson & johnson failed to warn for decades the talc-based product could cause cancer. this diet significantly cuts the risk of getting alzheimer's disease. researchers followed study participants more than four years and people who followed this diet were 53% less likely to develop alzheimer's. folks who approached it more casually still reduce 3rd risk by a total -- reduced their risk by a total of 35%. here's your bottom line on what is called the mine diet. the mine diet -- mind diet. the mind diet includes brain healthy foods. doctors formed the diet by taking the best from the mediterranean diet and dash diet, leafy greens like kale, spinach, nuts and beans, whole grains, berries, fish and poultry. >> we selected the foods and

good body of evidence to show that they protect the brain and different nutrients have different effects on the brain. so, for example, vitamin e is one of the nutrients that is highlighted in the foods that we recommend for the mind diet and vitamin e is both an antioxidants and anti- inflammatory and it's one of the more important nutrients in the brain. >> if you drink alcohol, this diet allows a glass of wine a day, redwine in particular which is high in flavonoids and other brain protecting chemicals. some foods to limit include red meat, cheese, butter and margarine, processed foods and sweets. all of these foods increase the risk for alzheimer's. that's the bottom line on the diet that cuts the risk of memory decline. bacon, cheese and sweets, bad. that's bad news.

you have to move over to redwine, though. >> well, is it too late, mark? is it too late? >> never too late they said. for more on what makes these foods help your brain function and more on the mind diet which has a lot of fruits and to 9news.com. we have an excellent story there to help you get started on the road to better mental health. i'm putting my mind towards the weekend right now because we're going to talk about the weekend and the weather on the weekend. it's all good, right? extended forecast. there's our pretty city. >> and a show playing at the denver center for the performing arts has love, murder and pretty much everything else you could want in a play, but that's not why people are talking about this play.

so a little windy today which makes all of my female colleagues very unhappy, but on the up side we are expecting dry weather into the weekend. >> dry and warm. in fact, they are a little worried about the ice there at coors field. backyard. people are going to need sunscreen and the hockey players will have to try to get through soft ice. guys? i'm sure when they planned this thinking oh, end of february, nice, cold temperatures. not in the cards. last saturday it was in the 60s, this saturday possibly another record breaker. where do we live? this has just been a wild, wild month and so far we're on track for looking at the warmest february on record ever here in denver, pretty wild. let's take a pretty look tour outside so you can get a good idea what we're dealing with. what we have on our hands, nothing but beautiful blue skies. in downtown denver and boulder

some of that fresh snow is sitting there toward the flatirons with the clouds in the far off distance. today was just a hair above where we should be this time of year sitting about 50 degrees out at the airport, low 50s in fort collins, greeley, eastern plains not too bad and 60 degrees in pueblo. in the high country cooler, in the 20s and 30s. right now out at the airport we're at 47, mostly clear skies. winds out of the east, northeast are picking up a bit, about 18 miles per hour. here in the 9news backyard it has been quiet and calm. we love that, temps now about 46 degrees, a nice breeze. it's just right. out to the foothills and into the high country we have seen a couple of occasional 30 to 40 mile-per-hour speeds mainly toward berthoud pass, loveland pass, estes park, allenspark, relatively quiet when we compare it to nebraska, wyoming and eastern northeastern colorado have been dealing with. these winds have been going

hour range scott's bluff, sydney, holyoke and wray. it's going to be tough. the next hour or so we still are looking at this red flag warning continuing, gusts up to 40 miles per hour, humidity less than 15%. it has been so dry around here, in the denver metro area, 21 days without measurable precipitation. we had that little storm system push through. i don't know about you. at my house we got just a little bit, only a trace at dia, so we can't even count that as any kind of precip around here. it stays dry the next couple days. you can see out west where usually our storm systems are coming from, nothing. everything is pushing out there across parts of the midwest into new england where they're looking at kind of a rain/snow mix, into maine behind this storm system wrapping around the colder air and snowfall cincinnati, detroit. that's where they're looking at blizzardlike warnings and

further, new york, d.c., pittsburgh and down there toward raleigh tornado watches until 11:00 tonight. this will be covering most of the eastern seaboard, too, as that really is going to be the bull's eye for trouble today. you can see throughout the carolinas into virginia where we have the best shot at seeing those isolated tornadoes, damaging winds, possibly even hail, but the risk will extend up through new york and all the way south. so again something to keep our eyes on, that storm a glancing blow for us but a big deal for them. around here quiet, tomorrow morning wake up to a little sunshine and that's just the trend as we wind down the workweek. 2:00, 3:00 grab a friend, head outside and enjoy some of the sunshine, the nice mild temperatures and the lack of wind, too. not looking that bad tonight, cool off to the tenges, kind of right where we should be this -- teens, kind of right where we should be this kind of year, teens for the vail valley and leadville in.

clouds, we'll call it a night. tomorrow morning, temperatures once again in the upper 40s, low 50s around here. for the front range, the eastern plains looking just a bit cooler as we had a front push through this afternoon and that's what's kind of helping stir up those winds and bringing us relatively cooler temperatures from what we had experienced last week. 30s in nederland, low 40s in idaho springs tomorrow, a handful of 50s around the heart of the city. it should be a nice day with loads of sunshine. with the winds not as gusty, it should be perfect. light jacket and you should be good all day long. by friday we're close to 60 degrees. saturday we're close to 70. the wind will pick up. that's the only caveat on saturday's forecast. we'll have a few clouds out there sunday, storm system pushing into the state. however, it mainly stays up in the mountains and it won't affect us as far as temperatures go. we start off next week in the mid-60s and then we have another storm system.

one hit wonder. it rolls in and out. tuesday we might have a little rain and snow, certainly cooler temperatures of then we warm thing back up once again -- temperatures. then we warm things back up once again nearing that 70- degree mark. all eyes toward saturday as we go to coors field, the avs taking on the red wing. they can do all right in this -- wings. they can do all right in this kind of weather. upper 50s when the puck drop and all the fun beginning at 6:00 on saturday. still we've been having a little fun around here, too mark and i. we were at the theater last week capturing a very fun play, a gentleman's guide to love and murder. mark, what are those main characters? just a riot. and i think he's in the studio. >> the star of the show, the most often murdered person in all of theater and there are just a few more days to see this at the denver center for the performing arts. everybody is talking about the

it has nothing to do about the twisted turns in the plot line. john has the most wonderful part. you play one of eight parts, all of whom die. >> they sure do. >> death by bees, death by ice skates. >> drowning. falling. >> a whole bunch. the priest was far and away the best. >> thank you. >> i was telling john because he plays so many characters at least three of his costume changes in he was before i knew it was actually the same guy. >> the design of the show is so extraordinary. they put together these costumes, that you know, are basically zippers, velcro, magnets and how they come out making me look like a completely different person. it's a lot of fun. >> in some scenes he changes costumes actually in about 16 seconds. >> 16 is the fastest. this one is a little bit slower, but still pretty fast. >> here are the people backstage.

there's one of those zippers. >> that's how that works. >> they pull this up and i become a beautiful lady and we use the word beautiful very loosely in a particular sense. >> yes. it actually took her some time to die i should point out. >> yes. absolutely. she's one of the tougher ones which isn't a surprise when you look at her. she's kind of a battle tank of a woman there, but yeah. that's literally as long as it takes. >> that is amazing. >> you grab a prop and go on. it's interesting because you see that my dresser is responsible for so much of my show because during that particular time i kind of have to get my head around the fact i'm going to be somebody else. >> you have to change characters so fast. >> absolutely. >> in one of those pieces of video it was happening so fast there were almost as many people changing you out of entire play. >> sometimes there's more than are on stage at the particular time. >> it's remarkable and as this plot line follows along, it's

you pretty much figure out that all of the characters are going to die. >> absolutely. ways. >> in preparing for that it's difficult. >> right. >> was it a big leap trying to get into eight different mindsets, eight different people? >> it was, but the script is so funny and is so well put together that there is -- the work is on the page for you and once i learned how to kind of inhabit them how each one of them walked and talked, the jokes are so good and the audience reception especially in cities like -- this is an extraordinary incredible theater city. it's true. denver center is one of the best places we play. i mean when you get that feedback from the audience, it's the greatest thing in the world. it's a gift of a part. it really is. >> where i was sitting in the over.

it was so up if to watch. it moves so fast. you must go see john ransom. actually kevin does a good job, too the other lead in the play, show. if you haven't seen it, you must. >> thank you very much for having me. >> i can't believe he can change that quickly. it's fun to watch. facebook is giving users more options. the like button, you can now do a lot more with it. we're going to explain that. we'll get your feedback, also. we want you to join us and again we're going to do. this this is a fun way to vote, people. log onto 9news.com/votenow. get ready to vote.

we've all faced this. you're on facebook and see something that evokes an what's appropriate. so now there are new options. today facebook introduced a new feature that allows users to click on different reactions. >> here's how it works. you click and hold the like button just as you would

going on mobile devices or hovering over it on a desktop. you can add love, humor, anger, wow and sad now. frankly, just doing it today it took a lot of time to figure out first of all, what my emotion was and secondly trying to pick the right one, yeah. >> so here's what we asked you to vote on and tell us what you think. it sounds like -- i'm looking to see where people fall. >> i love this post. >> this makes me sad and this makes me angry. >> most people are really into the i love. which one will you use is the i think people will probably find a way to use most, but sometimes you do just want to just like. >> yeah. >> so this makes me angry, not so much. this makes me sad. they're about there at the same. we'll see how this goes. >> i love the instant polling. everybody is out there voting. that's pretty cool.

>> i thought i love this post traffic. >> sometimes then you take the no duh. to say. this kind of sums it up. >> yes. you have just about the entire range of emotions there to click on to pick your emotion when reading a post. for example, in that moment and it looks like final post i love this post. the most. >> which is how we feel when we see slacker or steve on facebook or anywhere else. we love this post! >> or wow. >> yeah, it's those guys. important. you know why? because it's like when somebody announces i'm going to be buzz kill, but when somebody announces a death on facebook and you have to be like -- >> and you can't like. it's hard to like. >> we always have to click like. i said my dog passed away and everybody is like like and i'm like you like this? >> yeah. >> it's an awkward thing.

>> i've made it even more awkward, haven't i? >> a little. >> thanks for that. >> i try and keep emotion just out of facebook, period. why are we injecting so much emotion? >> you're right. how about exasperation? can i put down that? >> you need to spend more time on the page. >> they're not dumb. >> we were just showing steve how to use a visa better. what is this? people are making cookies out of the emoticons that you click on. >> he's too close to it. >> he's swiping? that's why. >> he's swiping left and right. something he's passionate about i found out is cereal. >> oh, yes. >> there's a new list of the top cereals of all time and i don't know. >> there's a health one on there. >> there's kashi go lean on there. >> oh. i love kashi go lean. it's good. did you see where millennials

want to wash the bowl? >> what? what? >> don't want to wash the bowl. >> a new level, drinking the milk is the most important part. >> isn't that the most ridiculous thing? >> yeah. they don't have time to wash the bowl. they can't eat it on the go. >> they have cereal, not the healthy kind in, those little couples. >> that makes me really sad. >> -- cups. >> that makes me really sad. >> i have an emoticon right now. exasperation. raisin bran. >> that's not on the list, by the way. >> yeah, yeah, whatever. all bran, i bet that's not on there either. off. >> frosted flakes? 1. >> nicely done. >> if it's got sugar, we give it a like. i love this post. have a good day?

>> doesn't that make you hungry. >> that kashi go lean is good, too. >> frosted flakes. thousands of foster care children looking for their own families. >> next some of the unique challenges orlando children are

every year the colorado department of human services provides resources for more than 20,000 children. as those kids get older, they face some real challenges about what to do next. 9news anchor cheryl preheim introduces us to one of the young women who says she is among the lucky. >> it's always been important to do things together. >> reporter: every experience shapes our life's direction. >> we do it together. >> reporter: if it wasn't for experiences like this --

>> reporter: -- haley fears she would have no direction at all. >> she saved me from a really bad situation and she's still there today. so it's amazing. >> reporter: grandma phyllis has been a teacher, encourager and the parent. >> i could put my chin on your head. >> i know. >> reporter: haley was 12 when her mom placed her in foster care. >> this is my favorite one. >> reporter: after a difficult three years at many different foster homes grandma phyllis stepped in to adopt and raise her. >> she was always there. >> i'm just thankful that she's where she's at. >> reporter: haley understands that she is one of the lucky ones. the foster system is set up to support until a child is 18. then many find themselves alone. >> everybody deserves a chance to live their life happily and not have to struggle with those issues of like homelessness and finance difficulties and like

having any resources. >> reporter: having a home has helped set the course for the years ahead, even a career. >> i know what it's like to be one of those kids and i want to can. >> reporter: a purpose for all of her experiences. >> that's awesome. oh, my gosh, family for a child growing up is very important. family doesn't have to be somebody that you're related to. it can be somebody that cares about you. >> isn't that the truth, how you define family? >> yup. >> we need to broaden our definition in many ways. >> yeah. >> that was cheryl preheim reporting. if you're interested in becoming a foster parent or adoption, we have more information and resources posted on 9news.com and the

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all right. that's going to do it for us. 9news at 5:00 is next. next at 5:00 a clark county deputy is killed in the line of duty. a shootout with a suspect puts two more deputies in the hospital. >> also a rare outbreak of in denver. >> and tornadoes kill at least five in the southeast, the extent of damage just now becoming clear next on 9news. >> this is 9news. attention now, fire respond on a possible gunshot wound to 36 iris drive. one person is on scene that

that the suspect is down, possible three patients. chopper has been put on stand- by. >> a clark county sheriff's deputy was shot to death serving an eviction notice this morning at a bailey home. a man opened him on him and two other deputies who were wounded. the suspect was killed. 9news crime and justice reporter anastasiya bolton joins us now live from bailey. >> reporter: let's join the press conference that's going on live. it just started. susan medina, public information for the colorado department of investigation, is talking. >> he's had a lot on his plate today. he's spent the majority of it at the hospital with the family of one of the members of his agency that was in surgery for most of the afternoon and with the family of the other deputy who was transported to st. anthony's for treatment. he wanted to stay with that family, both families by their side throughout the entire afternoon. that was his priority and as we move forward through the day