>> boy, that was really something, wasn't it? so we conclude here with a look at the medal count brought to you by mcdonald's supporting athletes on their journey toward olympic gold. the americans still have a sizable lead. meanwhile, kohei uchimura was part of a big day for the japanese. they won three gold medals, their most in a single day since 2004 in athens. you know, the very best overwhelmingly but sometimes what's needed is the knack for winning even when you don't have your a-game. last night we saw michael phelps swim an imperfect race in the 200-meter butterfly and yet still win by 0.004 of a second. today kohei uchimura was at less than his best today so he needed a sterling high bar. although this was the biggest

has another event remaining in rio, that's the floor exercise, but it won't end for him here as his final olympic bow will likely come four years from now in his home nation when tokyo hosts the 2020 olympics. as we say good night, the medal ceremony for uchimura, ukraine's oleg verniaiev who had gold in his sights until the final restation winds up with the silver and britain's max whitlock wears bronze. ? ? ? ?

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you tomorrow night from rio. nascar's infield is a place expressions, it has more flags than the opening ceremony, only

missy franklin - had a tough start - but is the consummate team player. she was cut from meter freestyle final. however - earlier today - she helped the u-s advance through the prelims. it was an easy win. after seeing tears from missy monday night, her trademark smile returned - after today's ra after seeing tears from missy monday night, her trademark smile returned today. >> the coaches are gonna put the best rally out there tonight

morning. >> in the final missy cheered on the four in the water as they claimed gold for her and the entire team. katie icate >> this goal was the first for miss nerio and bring hearse total count to five in the prelim tomorrow. the green water at the olympics spread from the diving pool to the water polo pool. the rio organizing committee blames a sudden change in the alkalinity of the water. other reports suggest it's an algae bloom caused by heat. the group is blaming rio organizers saying they just ran out of chemicals

>> we'll introduce you to the u.s. team trying to go from last in london to a medal in rio. another tough day for the train to the plane. power went out to a section of the a-line early this afternoon between dia and 61st and pe?a. service back to normal just >> some said the delays lasted up to an hour. at first rtd only reported an issue with a section of the westbound track. by 5:00, service had been restored but that wasn't the case. both sections were shut down. r, d clarified that in a tweet saying additional repairs were needed on the a-line. the train was running between union station

but passengers wanting to get to the airport had to hop on a bus. the same goes for those come hadding home. the bus bridge is no longer in place. train is running between union station and dia. earlier this evening, we stopped by the 61st and pe?a station. >> just getting through an airport. >> it's just raze, and is trying rail, and is airport. then we managed to find that. >> you're hoping thingsor schedule. hoping to get where we want to go. we'll make the best of it. >> that couple was visiting from new york. they hadn't heard of the recent glitches. there have been many. they include at least seven that were severe enough to get news attention like this evacuation of the

rtd said they'd refer us to denver transit partners. >> clearly a lot of people still are relying on the trien get to and from the airport. >> a lot are. and those we talked to say the latest issues are not gonna stop them. adams county owning up to a $1.8 million mistake. an program. it saved property owners a little money. but it cost the county revenue. >> $1.8 million is a hell of a typo. >> yes. a manual human mistake. for the average home in adams county, that tax pay are saved $7. >> you're not going back to the $7. >> statutorily we're not allowed to, and is we wouldn't

so we can absorb it with no disruption to services and no jobs impacted. >> i don't know that i could make a $1.8 million mistake and is keep my job. [ laughter ] >> it was a human mistake made by some very qualified people who have done great things for the county. it's an exclusion of the body of work the county manager discovered the mistake. adams county won't say if that error and the leave were related. that story first aired tonight on income it. airs at 6:00 pm on 9news. our news show featuring unique commentary, thals. find reports like that

he says he climbed the trump tower to get the attention of the building's name sake. he was on the side of the 68-story building for about three hours. he got about a third of the way up and police grabbed him and pulled him inside a window. according to a video, he said he wanted to meet with donald trump. >> that youtube video explains he was i will. >> the man was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation and expected to face charges of criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct. trump who was on tour in virginia was not there. they answer your call in the toughest moments. denver's dispatchers and emergency call

option and the pressure is high.,000 they say they'ring forced to work overtime with virtually no notice. >> reporter: you can't hear it in their voices, but the pressure behind the radio can force them to break down. >> some people just left to at work day, your last hope, 911 call operators and dispatchers take on tremendous stress. r now the city is ordering employees to work overtime with little notice. in some cases, working up to 14 hours a day several days in a row. this employee is exhausted. he agree -- we agreed to hide this

notice. sometimes just a couple hours. and most recently it's been eight minutes. >> reporter: the employee tells us extreme overtime is draining morale. city data shes it's also draining the covers. this year deserve spending with $75,000 per month on overtime. we took anger over forced overtime to atheena butler, the head of denver 911. >> we have good staff n trained is not as high as we'd like it to be >> reporter: the call load jumped 20% in the last two years. in 2013, the city employed 63 call operators and 44 dispatchers. july of this year, the city had 67 call operators and just 39 dispatchers. >> we just graduated our largest could that we've ever had, close to over 25 students.

can do. we have really strict guidelines as to who we can hire. >> reporter: waiting for new recruits may be more like waiting for a tragedy. >> mistakes can be made because you're so tired that -- we're just so tired. >> the head of denver 911 says it's been difficult keeping up with the growing population of the city but she says the performance hasn't dropped off. we haven't done many stories on street racing this summer. >> reporter: getting a ford focus ready to race at more than

that's >> i'm guessing just the whole adren lynn. >> reporter: he's trying to break his record of 103 miles an hour in his modified caraline. >> reporter: he's trying to break his record of 103 miles an hour in his modified car. >> reporter: we watched as he it's where the colorado state patrol has invited racers to the take it to the track competition. the goal is to get racers off the streets. street racing has become such a big problem in denver, extra officers have been posted along federal boulevard. colorado state patrol believes the program is helping save lives. >> wean that people like to -- we know that people like to drive fast. so we put on this

>> on the track instead of in the streets >> reporter: kevin has been here since take it to the tracks started 12 years ago. >> it lets them know the limit of their car so they're not doing the stupid things out on the streets >> reporter: chafb he wasn't able to break his record in the first couple of tries. he'll be back. >> cps says while it doesn't have empirical d program is working, they know these types of programs have an knack. on average about 200 people attend this event every wednesday night. >> it was so much fun. i'm not even a racing fan but my heart was pumping out this! [ laughter ] america is pulling away in the medal race. the u.s. rugby

they have to beat the top ranked team in the world. >> the team that had a chance to go from last in london to gold in rio. and temperatures start cool by the weekend. >> reporter: tafd dahl does it

david dahl does it again. so do the rockies. team usa became the first of 30 medals at the games tonight. the u.s. is slightly ahead of where they were at this point during the london games

maryland took 24 athletes to the olympics f. it was its own country, it would be near the top of the standings. u.s. m nearly beat the top-ranked team in short losing to fiji. fiji's favorites win the gold. >> if everyone does love the underdog, the u.s. women's field hockey team has a lot of undefeated so far in the games. they have beaten two of the top three teams in the fwhorld rio -- in the world in rio.

9news.com and choose the underdog countries they thought would do the best in the games. we talk about the summer monsoon in colorado all the time. anybody that lives in phoenix, arizona, or anywhere around tucson, they really understand what the monsoon is all about. and this picture shows a typic yeah, we see rain like that here in colorado but down there wow. those storms mean business! our storms, not so much. moving out, leaving us with a beautiful sunset tonight. on our way to a cooler day. in wyoming, the sunset was spectacular. 95 degrees in denver today. the average is 89. triple digits

the strend for cooler wea down to 67 at the airport at this hour. a lot of people sending in cloud pictures today. this time of year, it's so much fun to see them. jessica on twitter sent in this picture. gravity wave clouds. what the heck is that! they're formed by the yoop draft in thunderstorms thunderstorms this time of year. we're tracking clouds producing winds and lightning on the northeastern plains tonight. dropping some hail, 1.5 inches of rain near stratton. all that active weather is moving east away from the area. tropical push come hadding in from the southwest. one more relatively quiet day before the pattern shifts here. it's finally on the

the rain shield will cover about five states tomorrow and include areas like houston, memphis, atlanta. areas that could see another 3-5 inches of rain. tropical moisture from the south. isolated storms expected here. with the arrival of this front late in the day thursday into early friday, the weather gets a little more interesting. we'll see a wind shift with the arrival of the front. the cooler air to the north starting to drop south. high press south and east of us. under 90 degrees in denver for the first time in a while. thunderstorms on the plain, ferocious around burlington and north platte. they go away tonight. thunderstorms in the foothills tomorrow. wind and lightning, nothing severe. not a super active day tomorrow. 62 in denver. 51 vail. 62 grand junction.

west. the heat and nt south will stay for one more day. we see that trend for denver, greeley, and is fort collins. tonight in denver, we are calling for fair skies, light winds. a nice quiet night. a lot lightning off to the distance and the east again. stormy days now are friday and saturday. cooler days with highs near 80 both days. heading into the weeke close to 90 on sunday. back into the 90s we go for the start of next week of the perseid meteor shower peaks thursday night into friday morning. up to 200

david dahl dramatically tied a team record. the rockies lost again anyway. rocks were beaten by the texas rangers. colorado tail trailed by 2 runs in the 8th until dahl broke the game-tying triple extending his career-opening hitting streak to 15, equalling best. for the third day in a row, the rangers roll rallied to steal it. beltre ripped a bases loaded think. rocks lose their fourth straight. >> are you aware of where nur history? >> yeah, i've seen people tag me on twitter and stuff. i try not to think about it. i just want to come out and help the team win. the pirates got shut out

the game wasn't unevent. for a fan who tried to catch a foul ball with a beer in one hand and a full plate of nachos in the other. [ laughter ] nachos win. broncos kick off the exhibition summer night against the biers channel 20. rod mackey and mike cliff are in chicago >> reporter: thank you. we're coming to you from the windy city. we've got the l background, chicago area native mike next to me, and i think you can make the argument more people are excite in order preseason game because it's all about who's gonna be the q.b.! >> gotta find out who your quarterback is for the 2016 search. you can -- season. can you make a leap that this game will determine the success of

mark sanchez gets the first crack, siemian gets the quarter, and listen gets this development. i think you're gonna see a lot of passes from the broncos. they've got to see sanchez pass, siemian pass. >> we've seen those guys go neck and neck in training camp. at running back during training camp, big booker. >> cj anderson will start the game. in the 2nd half with paxton lynch, i think the broncos have to try to establish the running game again the bear. and that's where booker can come in. can't wait for him.

and never knew any of them were come hadding. carmelo anthony scored 31 points in a victory over australia. scorer in u.s. olympic history. >> an extremely rare double bobble from 2003. >> i noticed that too.