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hometown athlete, a woman who once worked as a waitress. >> but first we have details on what happened earlier that left people hurt in olympic park. >> reporter: good evening from a rainy, windy night in rio. first it was the winds ripping off siding on the swim venue, then the green water in the diving venue. now it's an overhead main olympic park. >> reporter: this was a camera flying over okay park on cables that somehow broke loose and fell -- olympic park on cables that somehow broke loose and fell. >> reporter: emma coburn becomes the first american woman to medal in this steam chase

coburn has a bronze medal. she grew up in crested butte, population 1,500. elevation 9,000 feet. >> it's definitely a big disconnect from growing up in a small ski town to being a medalist in the summer olympics. it's definitely an unexpected way to get there. >> reporter: emma's training partner and close friend jenny simpson trained together at cu boulder has the next sh medal in the 1,500. >> reporter: each year carnival brings millions to the streets of rio dejaneiro and right now teams are designing floats in that carnival. grande rio is one of the best teams in the float competition where clubs are judged to see

performance. >> reporter: they want a perfect 10. 9.8 is considered low. so they put a lot of time and money into these floats with the winner decided by the smallest detail. >> this year was one of the tightest. the winner gets 179.8 points and the second and third place get 179.7. >> reporter: six months to carnival, february 24th the big day. they got a lot of work to do. >> reporter: reporting from preheim, 9news. >> another athlete with colorado ties will compete in the final of the men's steeplechase. hillary borg is based in fort carson, a native kenyon who joined the u.s. army in 2013 and became a naturalized

he says that opportunity changed his mindset. tomorrow he will go for a medal. firefighters from across elbert county are being called to help in with a fire burning southeast of agate. the fire is east of i-70 where the interstate turns southward between byers and limon. several small departments are coordinating to stop the fire from different directions. it has not damaged any buildings. there are wind turbines in the area. denver police officer john adsit has faced over a dozen surgeries since he was hit and dragged by a driver 20 months ago. he has challenges ahead and he wants to help other officers with theirs. i spoke with 9news reporter victoria sanchez. >> is here are some of the boxes that i received.

boxes from the day of the accident. >> reporter: an almost unsurvivable crash. >> on every corner you can see that it says fatal accident. >> reporter: piece by piece adsit pulls out the uniform he was wearing, evidence of a day he nearly died but no memory of what happened. >> i felt that i was going to die. i didn't know why, but i also knew that i wasn't willing to die without a fight. >> reporter: december 3rd, 2014, adsit an officers escort high school students during a protest when the driver of a black mercedes hit him. his partner saw the whole thing. >> the car slowed down. i slid off the hood. then it dragged me underneath. >> reporter: he suffered a broken pelvis, collapsed artery, collapsed lung, damage to his eye and with 18 surgeries there's more to come. >> i was supposed to lose this

odds he says not by himself but with tremendous support from the community and his family. he knows not all critically injured first responders get the backing or media attention he's received. so he's paying it forward and started a nonprofit so he can help others get through a tough time physically, financially and mentally. >> for me there were many days and many weeks even that i wanted to give up. >> reporter: he goes through the items in the evidence boxes to give him hope that if day return to the denver streets he once patrolled. >> there's still my blood on there. it's just completely decimated. >> reporter: as for the driver who caused this, adsit says he's forgiven him. >> i wouldn't be surprised if someday we just want to chat and talk. >> last year john adsit's

expenses. this year he wants to do it again for other injured first responders. september 17th the adsit strong rise and run will benefit tony lopez, jr., the dpd officer shot multiple times during a traffic stop. >> he hasn't given up on the idea of rejoining the force. >> doctors have not cleared him to go back to work. it's been 20 months. he goes through physical therapy three times a week to get back on that bi county deputy killed in the line of duty are considering suing the county and its sheriff. almost six months ago corporal nate carrigan was shot. >> also part of the intent to sue today another deputy who was very badly hurt, their anger is palpable. the carrigans say their son should never have been sent

in a small town like bailey a loss like this is enormous. >> i told john it wasn't our nate. it was our nate, the whole community. >> reporter: john and melissa carrigan's son park county sheriff's corporal nate carrigan was killed serving a high risk eviction. the subject martin werth was also killed. >> there's different levels of grief and i keep trying to figure out where i am and i go up again. >> reporter: records show werth had prior run-ins -ins with the law. they want to know why if werth was soddening russ, carrigan had no -- was so dangerous, carrigan had no s.w.a.t. team to back him up. friday john and me lisa notified the park county sheriff's office and sheriff fred wegener of their intent to

told deputies to enter werth's home even though werth threatened to harm any individual trying to evict him. they're asking for a settlement of $1 million. they say they've been forced to sue to know the truth. >> there's no healing that can begin. there's a lot of anger. >> reporter: the other deputy who is part of that intent to sue letter is kolby martin. he's asking for ma about 2. knife $5 million. we spoke with the -- $2.5 million. we spoke with the park county sheriff's office today. vandals did $10,000 worth of damage to a school in jefferson county over the

the jefferson county sheriff's office is asking people to come forward if they know who is responsible for the vandalism. an olympian is sent home for unsportsmanlike behavior. another olympic athlete loses his event and proceeds to eat everything he couldn't while training. >> there's a new country taking over third place in rio. >> a few scattered showers today. they'll return soon enough. kathy is next. >> a big blow for the broncos

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team usa is dominating the medal standings in rio. as of tonight they have a nearly 30 medal lead over china in second place. great britain moved into third. it was a moment of poor sportsmanship that stood in direct contrast to the spirit of the olympics. last week an egyptian athlete refused to shake the hand of his israeli opponent. today the international olympic committee handed down a severe reprimand. the egyptian olympic committee sent that israeli athlete won bronze. an australian who didn't win his competition went off the deep end gastrointestinally speaking. the athlete had been very careful about what he put into his body, but after losing his badminton match threw it all out the window. he made a beeline to mcdonald's and downed six-burghers, six

it wasn't pretty. a little ? ? and haze in the distance you can see -- a little smoke and lays in the distance you can see there -- haze in the distance you can see there, 92 degrees in today, average 87, 98 in pueblo, 94 degrees in grand junction. humidity values upper 60s at the airport. in the 9news backyard the winds have died down. we're almost 70 outside the studios. we've been tracking some weak thunderstorms rolling off the foothills from the northwest toward the south east. a beautiful morning is forecast for you, mid-60s at 8 a.m., close to 77, almost 80 degrees by the time you roll in at

limon area and burlington and quite the light show in lamar tonight. the big weather story continues in the gulf coast region across the southeast from corpus christi toward houston. this week long flood event is bringing devastating flooding catastrophic scenario with 1 to 3 feet of rain. in the last 12 to 24 hours we've had reports of 3 to 6 inches some of the totals are pretty amazing when you consider you have baton rouge with about 2 1/2 inches of rain on average, brownsfield with 27 inches of rain. you're probably saying those numbers don't mean anything. this is what 31 inches of rain looks like. that is a lot of water right there. that's what they're dealing with in this area after just three days. it's that remarkable. that moisture shield pushing inland and northward.

cincinnati in memphis down to dallas tomorrow. now how a lot of the tropical plume has pushed south by building high pressure. a front will focus that heavy rain from memphis into cincinnati tomorrow. we have a nice warming trend the next couple days, 110 in phoenix, 90 in denver. cool air to the north of us friday, not sure what it is with this friday cooldown the southeast tonight. they will move out, should be nonsevere, a good travel i-25, i-70. foothill storms will bring decent rain up over the higher terrain. we play see a decent shower hold together around limon late in the afternoon. 60s on the plains tonight and out west, cooler in the high country tonight. the warmest temperature

denver, fort collins and greeley on a tuesday afternoon. nice drive into lakewood and grand lake with temperatures in the mid-70s. city of forecast tonight, fair skies, light winds, big beautiful moon over the fence. wind are northeast shifting southwest overnight, sunny, warm, 82 by lunchtime. wind and lightning more than rain. tower rain chance increases friday with a nice cooldown heading into the weekend. don't your weekend looking good, not too hot or stormy, just a nice summer pattern the next nine days or so. sunrise and sunset shots around the area spectacular and the sun did come out. >> the sun will come out

from colorado's sports leader here's rod mackey. >> it's the no. 1 goal of training camping come out of it healthy, a goal the broncos will not receive. another torn acl will cost another bronco the season. it's happened to knowshon moreno, ryan clady, jordan norwood, jeff hireman and now vance walker. he was expected to bigger wall with malik jackson. so now the pressure is on jarrett crick. said gary kubiak he was having a great camp. we'll support him through his recovery and he'll come back stronger than over. on wednesday the broncos welcome the 49ers to town. they'll have two practices and a game saturday night. mike klis has more on the broncos on the pages of his notebook. >> reporter: back on saturday gary kubiak gathered the

meeting. the head coach was miffed at his offense for not getting anything going against its defense. who can? but in particular kubiak was mad at the receivers and quarterbacks. so here today on monday the offense got the message. trevor simeon's first pass a deep ball to emmanuel sanders for a touchdown. a few plays later simeon connected on another deep pass to jordan norwood for a touchdown. a few minutes later sand into a huge tussle. >> they're tired of going at each other, but got to keep our composure. guys are going to get upset and battle each other, but there's some things they won't let you do on the field, so we can't do those at practice. >> reporter: kubiak told sanders and harris to take the rest of practice off. meanwhile did we mention simeon threw two deep ball touchdowns? if life were fair, simeon would

49ers after mark sanchez just started at chicago. i will warn, notice, life sent always fair in football. mike klis, 9news. the rockies return home tonight looking to get back to track before it's too late if it's not already too late. colorado came in having lost seven of their last eight, six games in the wild cart spot five teams ahead of them. the rox jumped out to a inning lead, but it didn't last. bryce harper completing the comeback with an r.b.i. double. the rockies have lost 10 of their last 12. we saved the best story for last. emma coburn's run for bronze, the former cu runner and crested butte native with her first olympic medal, the first

>> she believes no one in this race is unbeatable. >> now they're off, 7 1/2 laps around the track, seven water jumps. >> after two laps about 500 meters in i took the race because it was too slow. >> she needs it to be a very crisp tempo from the get go. >> from then >> the u.s. record holder out of the university of colorado. >> i was running all out obviously. i was running personal best pace. i was very tired, but i wasn't really paying that much attention to the clock after a certain point in the race. when i was starting to get into contact that i could get into the medals, i stopped looking at the clock. >> coburn moves into third

did pass her. i capital looking back. >> final lap -- kept looking back. >> final lap, coburn wins the bronze. >> winning an olympic medal, to have it happen is just so unreal. i get to keep this forever, that this is mine for the rest of my life. i'm so happy and nine. >> many took to twitter to congratulate coburn including cu head coach mike macintyre who tweeted out you inspired the football team as they all watched you compete. we are all proud of you. the biggest star on the cu campus is a track star, how about that.

30 more minutes and we say good night to monday.

highs near 90, looks like a good week for anything you might want to do with your kid before they go back to school, better chance of rain friday, a nice cooldown heading into what will be another fabulous weekend. >> we like that. it's goldilocks, not too hot, not too cool, not too stormy, not too anything. olympic late night is next with ryan seacrest, more beach volleyball, finalists from canoe and kayak. if you had to choose the two? >> kayak. >> i'm a canoe guy. emma coburn will be on the today show tomorrow morning

ryan seacrest here at copacabana beach. if you missed any of today's actions, these are the three things you need to know. rio day ten. let's go. >> here we go. >> this afternoon in gymnastics, simone biles missed out on a fourth gold b u.s. teammate laurie hernandez took silver. >> new jersey is up and roaring at the possibilities here for laurie hernandez. >> tonight at olympic stadium, david rude eeisha defended his . >> then clayton murray will take the bronze for the united