nights in jail for the next 2 years, during the day he can go to school, work, and on probation for at least 20 years. probation and work release, for rape. 2 years ago he promised to take a drunk college freshman back to her place and instead took her to his home and sexually assaulted her as she slept. the judge chose probation rather than an indeterminant sentence, 4 years to life. corrections officials would be the ones decidingn willkerson would have been released. attorney general kauffman said probation sentences like these send a terrible message. >> i have a genuine concern for what seems to be a pattern in sentencing and sex assault cases, where the viewpoint and impact on the perpetrator seems to be taking precedence over what has happend to the victim. >> what is the message sent by the sentence? >> we are saying that that

has more value to our society than that of the victim. i think that is wrong. >> do you think indeterminant censusing-- sentencing-- he was want willing to risk a decades long sentence. >> it is the judge's job to read the law and impose based on what the law says. then it goes into the hands of the correctional system and the experts there who deal can make those calls. that is the tough job of dawning that black robe and making that decision. is knowing you are going to impact someone's life and doing justice. if they made a choice when they committed the crime. >> our extended discussion with attorney general coffman is on the next facebook page. the judge, in this case, boulder judge butler declined to talk

is the a-line working? nope. not really. the train is having another tough day. so that was yesterday, and today it is the same story. rtd's a-line was down for more than 7 hours, like yesterday, people were buffed, began 10:00 this morning trains started operating normally a half hour ago. we get it, rtd is sick of us pointing this out. probably as sick of it train. since rtd is no longer returning our phone calls, we have limited information about the outage. donald trump is standing by his false claim that president obama was the founder of isis. in an interview with our brandon rittiman, trump's running mate defended the false statement. mike pence was asked why disgraced congressman mark foley was at a recent trump rally.

team trump? congressman, foley. >> i denounced congressman foley's behavior 10 years ago in the congress, i don't know why he was at that rally and we don't welcome his support. >> do you agree with trump's assertion that president obama is the founder of isis? >> there is no question that the failed leadership of barack obama and hillary clinton on the foreign stage created the vacuum in the wider middle east in which isis was able to spawn. offered donald trump the chance to say essentially what you just did, that what you mean here is that the obama administration created the circumstances that gave rise to isis, you don't actually mean he is the actual founder, do you? and trump essentially said, no, i mean he is the founder. that is factually incorrect, is it not? >> the one thing about donald trump is he doesn't go tip

around rules, everybody in this country knows what donald trump means. >> back to my original question, would you call president obama the founder of isis? are those words you would adopt? >> there is no question that president obama's policies in the wider middle east-- >> i heard you say that, i am asking-- >> in which isis was created, brandon. look, this is, again, this is-- donald trump doesn't tip toe around the rules of political correctness or what words people in the media thi not acceptable. >> you can see brandon's full interview with governor pence on our website. we are getting some feedback, a lot of it, actually, from next viewers who want to hear more from third party candidates for president. libertarian gary johnson, specifically, we hear you via e mail, twitteren with the eynext. one writes he needs more coverage. april said why aren't you talking about gary?

rally in denver saturday, it has been canceled. we have been trying to convince governor johnson to join us on next and the invitation still stands, apologize, the system has gone wonky, we are looking at the next story. >> look now at results from colorado's conruversial new standardize test-- controversial new standardized tests for students. that is gary johnson, not someone taking a standardized test. we could go to the district celebrating great results or with that boycotted the tests-- boycotted the tests is is proud. >> just because you don't have a score doesn't mean you don't have a school. >> we look good. >> principal don runs fairview high school, the last 2 years only about 2% of his students took the tests. >> 98% of the kids had their parents opt them out. >> when you look at their test

growth, fairview shows not applicable. >> i will meet my students friday. >> language arts teacher, sarah, said she doesn't need test scores to show her students are meeting standards. >> the law shows we are to demonstrate student progress and i can do that without the test scores. >> it is a dta point. we have uth-- data point, we have other data points to engage student progress, i think those are for lack of a better term, irrelevant. >> school ratings and teacher effectiveness. he doesn't care. just because you have a plan doesn't mean itill be followed. >> we are top 5 in the state for act scores, great. that doesn't define a school. what defines a school is how successful your kids be when they leave the doors. >> that is why they are

for next, i am nelson garcia. >> the state department of education will tell you that kids in grades 3-5 made gains in math, it is true. here is what they are not highlighting. less than 20% of 8th grade boys met expectations in math. less than 20% of all 7th graders hit proficiency mark in social studies. 11% of all black and hispanic students ranked proficient in high school science. only 7% of black and hispanic 7th graders in colorado met proficiency standards in social studies. clair, the answer is here. >> i was wondering why the light to turn left on to colorado from colfax is so short. it is disheartening to me. >> any time a left turn light turns green, it is a mad dash, especially here. wow. that was fast.

that is the only green you get to turn on to eastbound colfax from colorado. seems short, but not to denver public works. >> you have a cycle length of 120 seconds, so in that 2 minutes, all the different movements of the intersection are happening, whether people are walking, going through the intersection, or turning. all that is happening in a 2-minute period. >> a lot of stuff to cram into 2 minutes at a busy intersection, and believe it or nat you are getting more time to turn left here than a lot >> typically in denver left turns vary between 2 and 5 seconds. it doesn't sound like what is happening there is unusual. >> if you are cursing at the steering wheel over a light you just missed, thank pedestrians these days, americans are walking slower than they used to, and denver public works has to follow new federal guidelines. >> we used to time at the rate of 4 feet per second, now that has been reduced to 3 and a half feet per second. it is taking them long toor

time to that clock. pedestrians. >> that was steve staeger. the broncos are playing their first pre-season game on channel 20. don't flip! please don't flip. we are doing okay with viewers these days, we are not desperate. we are doing okay, not great, not bad. just saying, if you switch to the broncos right now, there is a chance ratings go down, next gets canceled, i am forced to mc middle school talent shows and move to a cabin grow a beard that not even danielle grant loves and she loves beards. think of the rest of the next team l the smart and beautiful people out of work, struggling to eke out careers as professional tweet writers, just yesterday our visual producer, cody, had a baby. a baby. are you really going to switch to the broncos game? people, think of the baby. >> stay for the children, please. i will keep you updated on the beginning of the broncos game and in the spirit of pre-season

up to lead the team on the field for the next quarter and i will be back in a bit. a next viewer wants to know what olympians are handed in lieu of flowers. a tip of the cap for the rockies for an off had field win. steve staeger tries not to

heat and isolated storms, must be summer in colorado, right, kathy? >> i know you enjoy things sulestial, the perseid meteor shower may be effected by the thunderstorms, dark clouds, skies over denver threatening with a bit of rain and lightning around the area. the clouds are expected to move out after about 1:00 in the morning or so. we may catch a glimpse of what could be one of the more impressive meteor showers since probably 2009. double the meteors, double time, and the moon set is 1:02, that is when we expect a burst. there is a lot of moisture coming into the state tonight and cloud cover as well. that will be a factor, at least between now and 1:00 a.m. we will track isolated storms which will move out overnight but things are looking good-- things are looking good as we wake up to clear skies tomorrow and a nice cool friday. tonight, temperatures dropping into the lower 50s around much of the front range and eastern plains. denver about 56. tomorrow, we start off with sunshine, clouds build in the

day. the big story is the cool down, low 80s expected both friday and saturday. sunday looks to be the drier of the 2 days but it is still the weekend and i think that is a decent weekend, back to you. >> i think the is decent. patrick retired from the avalanche today, he has been the coach and vp of hockey operations for the past 3 seasons and won couple legendary fights with goalies from the team, the state, shaped like a mitten. patrick said he is leaving on good terms. next question from viewer, lisa, she wanted to know what is given to olympians with the medal in the ceremony, small, colorful, what is it? great question, we found the answer, according to the rio 2016 website, each is given a

it is part of sustainability effort by the olympic organizers, the silver medals are made 30% recycled material. next first string anchor, kyle clark with a couple coors deep at a rockies game and had a thought about the state of baseball in colorado and a recommendation for all of you at home. >> a quick word about baseball and about making the best of any situation. when i moved to colorado 9 years ago this market for a new baseball cap, new baseball team. grew up in yankees country and never loved the fact the team bought its best players, and here i sit hopeing the rockies buy players. they are playing meaningful baseball and this is an organization willing to take a joke, even in the toughest of times. this is the part of the show where we point you towards something that isn't ours, but

follow the rockies twitter handle. they engage fans in the best of times and the worst of times during the season and in the off season. always with good humor and always with a great love of the game. so, rockies, to the folks who run your twitter account and the folks who run the organization, we wish you the best of luck down the stretch run. >> rockies twitter almost as often as that hat. do you have a recommendation? something we should read or follow on twitter? story idea? get at us with #heynext, or perhaps you recommend i sub in for kyle more often? perhaps a suggestion, he will be back. jeremy jojola thinks he is being followed. he is not wrong. next is inspiring the leaders of tomorrow to shake

it is 7-0 broncos in the first, you have plenty of time to stay with us. we love to spotlight coloradans who have a good sense of humor, even when down in the dumps, like a truck, truck, truck, darren had a healthy outlook, a dump truck took out a healthy chunk of his yard, the driver told darren his brakes weren't working and he could slam into

yard. he chose yard, darren chose humor. >> you know, instead of running into a bunch of cars, he, you know, chose the less of 2 evils and took out the yard. landscaping. it will put a damper on the labor day party. >> dpd hasn't said if the driver will get a ticket, he works for a construction company that specializes in among other things, demolition. the web is a wash and videos that people never hea watch, silently staring at our phones spoon fed one line of text at a time. we are getting our information and stories in that smattering of text. what are we missing in this world of web words without depth or context? our jeremy jojola wants to lead a textual liberation movement. >> hi, everyone, i want to talk about-- what is this? can we get rid of this for a

to talk to people about. this text over video thing, can we just like take a break from it? i don't know, i just think something like this makes people lazier. is this how we are going to like consume news now? gosh. maybe i should just keep my mouth shut. okay, yeah, okay. i'm going home. i just-- i just need to reevaluate am things. will you just like leave? all right. i think that thing is gone. okay. i like text and video too, but for the sake of us reporters and

intelligence, read the articles too. you will get so much more out of it. >> jeremy is working some stuff out, it will be fine. backane moment with proof

appreciate all your feedback on the first full week of next,

occasionally in the form of rhythmic dance. meet lex, a viewer moved by our program. ? ? ? ? >> that is right, lex and i have the same taste in theme music, thanks, buddy. few quick comments, appearing with the broncos game on the other channel, that approximately 6 of you are watching tonight. but 5 of you are really enjoying it.i people who apparently like me are children of the 90s and got the reference to cisco's thong song. gina, what are you doing? watching the braupgose game. honestly, appreciate it. nwolf, on the honesty train, maybe we hit something, honestly goes a long way, brandon rittiman, killing it on the political beat. i agree. maybe we will have him back,

tonight on the "olympic zone," behind many great athletes is a coach who believes in them. >> it's awesome to know that someone has my back. >> one coach gave up his career to help a track star make her olympic debut. the youngest gold medalist in women's shooting. now kim rhode he takes aim at history in rio. and we see and hear the highs of being the parent of an olympian, next on the "olympic zone." >> i'm aaron matas, team usa made impressive games -- -- a major victory in women's judo.

for the first time in over a century. we're about to recap highlights including a big spoiler, about women's gymnastics. so if you don't want to know, now is the time to mute us and turn away for the next minute or so. ready? here we go. to bar a cliche, bread and butter. this is repent, this is the event she first broke a world >> missy franklin has a chance to defend her london gold in the 200-meter backstroke. she placed 11th overall and safely advanced to the semifinals. >> trying to stay as positive as i can. this team has been incredible. they have seriously been my support system this whole time. >> maya dirado placed third overall and will also swimming tonight some eyes. simone biles carried the torch as the fourth consecutive american to win gold in the women's gymnastics all-around.