hillary clinton? donald trump? the choice may be difficult but getting registered can be as easy as sending a text. ryan lochte said he was robbed at gunpoint but saying it's not quite true. how the olympic swimmer is changing the story and why two teammates were pulled from the plane on their way home. >> so we have a lot of school, a lot of kids. it impacts us all. it's not just to school but back to early mornings. the refresher course as district school starts today. tarhonda thomas is talked to police, parents and kids about

routine now. we know you've noticed a lot more congestion on the roads lately. amelia will have a look at the traffic impact for drivers. we'll start with becky ditchfield in the back yard. it's pretty appropriate that as the school year begins, changes in our weather do, too. >> reporter: we will feel more like fall, that's for sure. outside is still very nice with mostly sunny skies developing across the front range, not too many clouds out there for you. we'll see a chance for some showers and thunderstorms today and will come in ahead of the front as 70 come tomorrow. here's a look across the state, a couple of light showers in northwest colorado ahead of the front. most of the rain for this system is well to our north over the dakotas and montana, where we have severe thunderstorm warnings this morning. showers won't get going here in the city until after 2:00 or 3:00. we'll see them much earlier about 11:00 or so out to our west.

school day forecast? well, at the bus stop this morning, pretty nice, 67 degrees. at recess, have fun playing outside. we'll be in the 80s, a few more clouds out there, rain more possible as you're heading home today. we'll see some more showers and thunderstorm in the area as temperatures in the low 80s so you may want a rain coat just in case. amelia at least it's a fairly decent start for the first day of the school. yeah, really is, becky. we have a pretty good start overall. broadway. freeway and side streets are mostly okay, few minor incidents we'll talk about in a minute. as we come to the maps, we have school traffic and extra volume over the last couple of weeks as school have gone into session, including jeffco today. what we want to think about, besides slowing it down, is a second or third look. it would be nice to have a

school year. in fort collins, clear on college avenue and vine and alameda. a crash is at alameda and holly and near lakewood, kipling and alameda. freeways are doing great so far. the trip to the denver tech center, 15 minutes with no accidents on side streets. tarhonda thomas is live at bear creek k-8 school this morning >> reporter: it is so important and here's one thing that we're not used to all summer long, been cruising through this street at, what, 30 miles per hour, maybe? the sign now says 20 and lights will start flashing. you have to be mindful of the school zones. steve davis with the lakewood police department joins us. >> hey, tarhonda, how are you? >> reporter: doing good. adults will have to learn a

safety. >> yeah, and one of the most important things -- we hear it from neighbors and parents and everything else, speed. we have to be mindful of the speed we're driving in and like you said, we'll have signs flashing pretty quick. there are kids on foot, in crossing in crosswalks -- >> reporter: on bikes. >> reporter >> and sidewalks. yeah, on bikes. >> reporter: if you notice people are speeding, can that person contact police and say, "hey, i would like you to monitor this." >> oh, yeah, we get calls all time and people will be here and be mindful of your speed. it's all of a sudden one day we've got all these kids after three month of nothing going on around the schools and then today, first day of school, we have got 86,000 kids -- >> reporter: wow. >> -- in jefferson county. >> reporter: ? they're back ? let's talk to officer dave

school, particularly, dropoff and pickup was tricky. a lot of people experience that. >> absolutely. we have a great relationship with our schools and city and every school we help with but specifically bear creek, we worked with with developing a plan for dropoff and pickup to # ?nit a the first full year of that new plan so hopefully will pay attention, put your patience button on nice to other parents. be patient, take your time, get the kids, get homesafe. >> reporter:good advice, thanyo qv the carpool thro ?e??yyou're in line, don't honk that horn, be nice to everyone, because we're all trying to achieve the same goal with getting the kids back to school. >> a lesson for parents and those kids. thank you so much, tarhonda. well, the man who police said drunkenly crashed his pickup into the colorado convention center will have his plea today. he may have been drunk or on drugs when he left a big gaping

convention center in june. it hit two people inside and he faces dui charges and two counts of careless driving resulting in injury. an avon man who pleaded guilty to causing the death of his infant daughter will spend ten years in prison. a jury sentenced patrick wig yams on wednesday. his daughter paris died from pneumonia. she was underweight, dehydrated, and ffered several infection including e. coli. his fi and is sevenning six years in prison. >> six minutes after 6:00. firefighting home used at peterson air force base likely contaminated drinking water in el paso county. people in security and widefield and fountain switched to bottled water in june. filters and groundwater are being used. now, colorado health said that it is highly like lyceum cameras from firefighting foam got into that water.

climbing in colorado is a whole differ beast. jeremy cadwell found himself stranded while climbing second flatiron. with darkness quickly approaching, heeded back but was stuck and didn't have an easy way to get down. he wanted to call for help but was worried it would cost money so he waited it out until morning and says things weren't all bad. >> it's a good experience in that i'll never forget it. i have kind of a fun at me, i'm an idiot" type of story to tell for the rest of my life but it was quite scary. i literally thought i was going to crap my pants a couple of times. >> that never when we hear it. >> tell it like it is, jeremy. >> oh, he did. >> eventually he called friend who called rocky mountain rescue and they got him. in the end, they did not charge him for that rescue. >> did he do that? do we know? >> don't think so. >> i hope not.

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memory, very soon. thank you. were they or weren't they robbed? the biggest story out of the olympics this week has nothing to do with the competition. >> questions this morning surrounding four u.s. swimmers' story about how they were robbed in rio. police say it just doesn't add up. all that going on but the united states' dominance continued on wednesday, adding nine medal for a total of 93 -- 30 gold, 32 silver, 31 bronze. in total medal and great britain has 50 and russia has 41. japan is back in the top five

>> welcome back. 67:12. two u.s. olympic swimmers were taken off their flight outside brazil as police are investigated a reported robbery involving ryan lochte and his teammate jack conger and hunter was removed. he was them and another

returned to the olympic village from partying. police have found little evidence to support their account so far. lochte is reportedly in the united states and changed up his story just a bit. >> it's really bizarre. i'm sure we will find out more as time goes on. that's a very big story in rio this morning. cheryl and matt decided to tour and get out of the city today. >> that's right. they're at sugarloaf mountain to tour one of brazil's natural wonders. i'm a little jeal >> every morning. that's true. >> reporter: absolutely. [ laughing ] when you come up here, you see why this is one of the most popular tourist destinations here in rio it is just spectacular. look at sugarloaf in the distance and i love how the cable cars just string up to the top and it's fun to watch those cars make their way to the very top, which is 1299 feet. >> reporter: 1299 feet. by the way, james bond fans,

familiar. roger moore fought jaws on the cable car. he's going down and the girl says, "who is that?" and roger moore says, "jaws. he kills people." and the fight starts, right there. we're talking kind of quiet, by the way, because this is a serene, beautiful landscape here and everyone is just trying to enjoy and it we -- we know i can be loud. >> reporter: what? >> reporter: yes. >> reporter: al >> reporter: you can see airplanes landing. >> reporter: give him a golf clap, everybody. he's using his inside voice. >> reporter: my wife is proud. >> reporter: i've been thinking of amelia all morning because you see the flights coming in over the water. they land on this tiny strip right off the bay, which is so neat. i think that would be a spectacular flight to be on where you just fly right next to sugarloaf and land right there in the water. becky, it is a spectacular day here.

ago -- deliver sugar in these loaves. they were hard loaves of sugar in that shape and people would chip off what they needed and- the name sugarloaf. it's a 600 million-year-old rock formation. we'll get on the cable car and take you to the top. we should be up there -- hmm -- hopefully in a half hour. >> fingers crossed on that. matt, thank you for telling us why you use your golf ance >> reporter [ whispering ] you're welcome. >> reporter: that was a beautiful par 3. >> we'll see you in a little bit. thank you so much. temperatures in rio are very high right now. there's a chance of rain showers right now. we'll stay in the 80s through saturday. our forecast is more of a roller coaster ride with partly

52 greeley,, eastern plain in the 50s and 60s so nice, mild start and a calm start. the only showers are in northeastern colorado and this afternoon, showers will become more widespread. after 2:00 p.m., we could see a couple of those pushing east of i-25. they will be isolated at first and may become scattered into the afternoon and by tonight, it is very possible we could see strong storms in northeast colorado. you could see storm that produce large hail and damaging winds. you're under the marginal risk of severe weather today. a cold front moves through late tonight be. behind that is the cool air so that settles in tomorrow and a big difference from today. today, 87. 88 greeley, 87 fort collins, much hotter on the eastern

wind will shift to 10 miles per hour. we will drop to 56 with evening storms, then partly cloudy skies. the front pushes through, 73 the high on friday with scattered showers. we're a bit drier for the weekend with isolated storms, cool saturday, high of 72. we'll return to the low 80s on sunday. >> thank you. we're northbound on the i- 25 stretch on near the larkspur exit. i think about this as the exit towards the renaissance festival. what we're looking at is the northbound accident to the far right shoulder. we have a tow truck on scene now, police as well, two vehicles involved in the crash in the northbound slowdown around the curb leading to larkspur. there's a curiosity factor. a couple of new crashes including alameda and holly drive. we have a crash out closer

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welcome back. el chapo could be going back to the prison he was in the maximum security prison in mexico city. guzman is awaiting extradition to the u.s. a former nfl star will learn how long he will spend in prison after pleading guilty or no contest to charges that he drugged and raped nine women in four states. there could be as many as 16 victims. as part of the plea deal, sharper agreed to testify against his co-defendants but could serve anywhere between 15

he won the super bowl with the new orleans saints and also played in minnesota and green bay. police in maine are investigating widespread hate crimes against muslims. notes urging violence against muslims were found. one said "all muslims are terrorists and should be killed." at least three other similar notes were found by muslim families living at the apartment complex. it's an amusement park staple but how often anyone really win at the claw machine? that's what one new jersey lawmaker wants to find out, saying he thinks the games are rigged against players. he is asking the state to consider more oversight over the game. critics say they're easy to rig and no one really wins the big prizes the game ever offers. >> you kind of grab an arm -- >> the bunny's ear. >> quit got it." >> always drops out. >> yeah. >> or if you get it, it

for you to click. i have wasted many a quarter on that but -- >> i find it so bizarre that's what they're doing, they're investigating, although i'm not saying it's not a big problem. >> it's a talker. >> oh, yeah, for sure. >> yeah, yeah. 6:23 right now. so before they face each other on the field saturday, they face each other in practice. the broncos and 49ers go against each other even in practice. it can get pretty testy. we'll have more on that coming up in just a weather and traffic. we're watching storms across colorado and other parts of the country. this morning, all of the activity hack up to our north over the dakotas where we have had very heavy rain, large hail, even some severe thunderstorm warnings. down across the south, we have a line of showers through arkansas through the tennessee valley as well. that's going to continue to produce heavy rain but no severe weather again. that severe weather is expected

graze through northeast colorado, certainly holy oak and julesburg could see damaging wind and hail. >> thank you, becky. 6:23. drive times across 270. our 40-mile-per-hour drive has driven drive types up southbound and eastbound to nine minutes so we're starting to bog down around commerce city and south towards larkspur, we certainly have delays heading northbound, leading to the crash that's on the right shoulder. the backup sit on the corner. they're a quarter-mile long and single digits. across the maps, not a lot happening.

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people who lived in their homes for a decade are seeing everything washed away after historic floods raver advantaged louisiana. >> in my 40 year of fighting fie i have never seen fire so extreme. the destruction continue in southern california this morning. some families are told they will come back >> we need to be aware school's back, the kids are back, and we need to adjust our driving habits. because of that. it's that time of year. 86,000 jeffco students are going back to school today. that means thousands more cars and kids that you need to be on the lookout for this morning. a lot happening at one south side school. tarhonda thomas is showing us how to keep kids safe. amelia will help you navigate

start with becky ditchfield in the 9news back yard. it has to feel good for those kids. a little cooler. it is. we'll be in the 60s at the bus stop. today, fall-like temperatures expected to settle in for tomorrow. high clouds will be over the horizon. more clouds will build in as storms form to our west. right now on the radar, not a whole lot's going on. northwest colorado but the front is well off to the north. still most of the activity has been in north dakota and montana. the front will drop this afternoon and evening and expect showers and thunderstorms. sterling, holyoke, julesburg will have a chance of large hail, damaging wind, and heavy

storms. storms will be possible in denver and may just come in, in time for those kids to be coming home from school so 67 at the bus stop, plenty of sunshine, a few more clouds at recess. 83. low 80s going home but you may want to bring a rain coat because of the chance of showers and thunderstorms out there this afternoon. that will be a little bit tougher but, amelia overall a pretty good day. >> i think you're saying grab ponchos. you know you have to get home from school. sky 9 sees problem on 25 and speer, a semi truck stalled on the southbound stretch. car in front so may be a minor accident, a couple of lanes to the right but will cause a backup. as we come to our maps, we want to talk about our side streets. over the summer, we get used to cruising through school zones and not seeing any students out and about but they're going to be on bikes, walking.

completely, 100% safe, 2016-17 school year. we'll have details with tarhonda coming up. 270, 12 minutes across your 270 commute through commerce city, backups dropping into the yellow, meaning 30s. we're clearing out northbound 25 but a couple cars to the right shoulderrer the larkspur crash and we have the stall to the north end, new downtown activity. we'll talk about that in just a few. top of mind for people, including the lakewood police department. tarhonda thomas joins us. a lot of things for people to be aware of today as kids head back to school. >> reporter: so many things we have forgotten over the summer but as in jefferson county, 86,000 children go back to school. you've got to get back in the habit of following these rule in the school zone. we have officer dave hoover with the lakewood police department. >> good morning, how are you? >> reporter: great, thanks.

let's start with rules for drivers when we talk about the cross walk. what's the law? >> behind us is a lighted crosswalk so you have to pay attention. you need to make sure the light is on, working, operating. the driver, if it's not a controlled intersection, be -- the pedestrian always has the right away. if you work off the pretense the pedestrian has the right-of- way, you won't run someone over. >> reporter: as soon as i prepared to stop. >> you should be prepared for somebody to cross. >> children don't always stop at the crosswalk. >> very excited the first day of school. it's not like the last day of school when they run away. today they will run to the school because they're excited to see their feds, excited to get to teachers and new classes. when they hit the crosswalk, stop. >> okay, good advice. >> reporter: wait for the next one. >> reporter: that's true

>> reporter: it's important to teach kids to cross safely. what should pedestrians know about crossing the street safely on the crosswalk? >> pedestrians have an obligation to use that crosswalk and to watch for the light that tells you it's okay to cross. >> reporter: don't jump that light. >> don't jump the light, don't change your speed while you're driving or walk. you don't cross in the middle of the block. go down to a crosswalk or to an intersection so thou midblock and running across the street. >> reporter: you definitely don't want that. steve, thank you for the reminder. we appreciate that. we have seen those situations where people cross in the middle of the crosswalk or a driver doesn't pause for a pedestrian so it's up to both sides to really put safety at top of mind since so many kids are going back to school for jefferson county. other schools in session. denver public schools going back monday. a lot of us need to be remindedded of these things. >> a nice refresher for sure. tarhonda, thank you.

signatures supporting former state representative kaiser lobby arraigned today. she said she did it to keep her job and faces 34 count of forgery. kaiser didn't win and said he had nothing to do with forged signatures. the driver accused of hitting and killing a father of three while he was riding his bike will be arraigned he -- she hit bill davis and was driving drunk. she was already on probation for drunk driving in march. we know name of the worker killed in an industrial accident at a denver aluminum plant. he died on august 9 at kbp coil corridors. he was caught in a piece of machinery. the investigation is expected to last month. flood waters are receding a bit in southern louisiana, but

apparent now. some 6,000 people stayed in shelters overnight. 13 people have been killed. more than 40,000 homes are damaged. some of the families are finding their homes are unlivable. >> we just remodeled and moved inside so we finally got it decent-looking and then now we have to start all over again with three kids. >> man, you just feel so bad for those people. the secretary of homeland security will look at the damage. he will meet with city leaders in baton rouge and review the response and recovery efforts in the area. >> really disastrous on opposite ends of the spectrum. we know it's a very dangerous combination, dry heat and fires. some families will go home to absolutely nothing. more than 25,000 acres have burned and 35,000 homes are in

fast that firefighters cannot fight the containment. they can only work to protect homes. >> there is no way to safely engage a fire that has that much anger and energy. >> about 1500 firefighters have been fighting the fire and at this point, it's only 4% contained. >> grew so fast. here at home, firefighters spent the night putting out hot spots near lair in county. the 70-acre fire started wednesday afternoon and homes near berhtoud and carter lake were affected. one fire never spread to a home. big thanks to firefighters there. yeah. you know what? we're looking at a big chance of rain across cross the state. a cold front will push through and will be widespread for northern and mountains than along and east of 25 and will

morning. by noon, it will look dark to our west. clouds will be on the increase in denver and after 2:00, we'll see a chance of showers and thunderstorms around. storms are not expected to be severe until they reach northeast colorado after 7:00 tonight. behind that, a big drop in temperature. over the last few days, we have been in the upper 80 and low 90s. i would expect highs in the low 70s tomorrow so good 20-degree temperature drop here from yesterday all the way this is a pretty powerful system that's going to be with us for a couple of days. >> big change, that's for sure. becky, thank you. his teammates have been stopped from leaving brazil and his story is starting to change. >> we'll talk about why police said ryan lochte's story of being robbed at gunpoint with his swimming teammates doesn't add up. and i'm sorry, mom. pretty appropriate response from getting a haircut like

it's a nice, mild start to our morning with temperatures currently at 58 in fort collins. free let, -- greeley, 54. cool in the mountain, 30s and 40s here.

be seeing changes move in to the state. showers and thunderstorms will begin to develop just after 2:00 p.m. so for this morning, while we wait, showers and thunderstorms at by a with 70s. a lot to talk about coming up. >> sounds like it. did you crash into something? >> i hit the a big mess, 84th avenue and it's in the center lane, lots of damage done to vehicles and on the cdot cameras, a ground- level view. the far left lane is blocked, so is the center lane. everybody is scooping right as they progress and we thought we would look at drive times. southbound from e-470, 25 minutes leading to the scene of the crash there in federal height so today is one of those

25, huron will be an excellent way to get around these backups. in thank you so much, amelia. three olympic swimmers are expected to give statements to brazilian police about the story they told how they were robbed at gunpoint sunday morning. rio police took conger and another swimmer off the plane. right now a third swimmer's whereabouts are unknown. ryan lochte is at home and change his story, saying they weren't pulled over were at a gas station when they were robbed and detail about a gun put on his forehead -- he said that's not exactly what quite true, it was just pointed at him. we know olympic athletes are break records to take us to new heights. so are cheryl and matt outside rio to take, taking us nearly 13,000 feet to the tops of sugarloaf mountain. guys? >> reporter: we made it to the top. we took the second cable car to

most spectacular view of this part of the city. >> reporter: high five. >> reporter: we made it. >> reporter: this is 1299 feet above sea level and you can see all of rio right there. you can see the bay, the boats, the city. the cable car. and everywhere we've been all for the past couple weeks. >> reporter: so that white beach you stretch -- see stretch over there is copapa ban that so we were on the beach for the show [ indistinct ] >> reporter: the beach where we started our reports this morning way down there -- look at that. they're bringing -- >> reporter: breakfast. >> reporter: we're going to get that. oh, we found a delicacy already. >> reporter: oranges. that looks good.

packed with 65 people for sure. roger moore -- in "moonraker" >> reporter: that's christ the redeem statue. [ audio cutting out ] >> reporter: this is as iconic as it gets. you can see it is going up the mountain -- this city has so much wealth and so much poverty, so much beauty. it's just showing you everything this country and city is about, absolutely spectacular up here, cheryl. know what? when we have talked to athletes after competition, there are two places they want to get. christ the redeemer is one and sugarloaf is the other and can understand why. >> it is wonderful. >> some days have not been clear but you can see. >> thanks, guys.

good chance to be on top of the podium today. adeline gray is wrestling in the 75 kg and is already a world champ and heavy favorite to take gold. she'll start out facing a colombian wrestler around 7:00 our time. wrestling, swimming, gymnastics, little girls and boys are playing out daydreams in hopes of being like idols. as many as 50 ne joined up at a gym last week, inspired by team usa and veterans like 13-year-old james "j.j." marshall have gold in their eyes while watching the game. >> i want to become a 2020 olympian because i just put what it takes in my gymnastics, and i stay confident and i just push myself because i know i can do it. >> did you see what she just did? >> i'm telling you, you saw her

and practices twice a day, totaling 34 hours week. tiger is now making plans to add even more classes. you can see why they're inspired. >> that's for sure. we love the olympicses and broncos. more broncos football around the corner this weekend. denver will host san francisco at the stadium on sunday night. that's not before the two teams get together to hit each other in practice. they have been working out together and they will for it's meant to be a productive opportunity to practice against someone new. it's gotten pretty real a couple of times. some fights broke out yesterday -- two of them, as a matter of fact. and with three days left before saturday's game, things will get more visible.

special edition of "broncos tonight"." a rookie quarterback got a special haircut on wednesday. we don't even know what to call this other than maybe hideous. it's so bad, in fact, he apologized to his mom in a tweet he sent out. thankfully, paxton lynch wears a helmet on game days because, yeah, that doesn't look so good. >> he will need to walk around a with a helmet on hazing. the broncos call it tradition. >> they call it love. a little welcome love. >> how do they get so creative with it and make it look so bad? >> terrible. kiddo in jefferson county go back to school today joining many in colorado to celebrate and since it's throwback thursday, we're sharing our old yearbook pictures. >> they're posted on facebook and twitter. we want you to do the same. share your best shot using

eon9. >> oh, sweet. >> we have taken time to record our best and most embarrassing -- in my case, my kids, really embarrassing -- moment in school. here's one from little miss organized. >> the first day back to school for me was all about the well- organized backpack. i wanted perfectly sharpened pencils, all my notebooks labeled, and all my ok paper grocery bags. does anybody remember doing that? covering up the textbook perfectly, perfect label. so i guess the point is first day of school, amelia is similar to modern day amelia,

sunshine to start our day. we'll have more clouds and isolated showers and thunderstorms will develop ahead of a cold front that changes everything for us. outside right now, you can see pretty good conditions, 58 currently in fort collins. greeley, 54. eastern plain, 50s nice cool 30 and 40 for the mountain and middle 60ds. i'm watching rain in northwest colorado, very light showers pushing into that part of the state just along the front that's going to expand rain through northern and southern mountains. showers and thunderstorms there, isolated storms east of i-25 after 2:00 p.m., and the chance for those showers is going to go to about 7:00, 8:00, 9:00. by 7:00, isolated storms will

these are stronger so sterling, holyoke, jewels purring, you can see storms that produce large hail, damage wind, heavy rain and lightning. everybody is expect topped see thunderstorms. the biggest threat for denver, a lot of rain and lightning. a cool front will arrive tonight, late tonight. tomorrow, all that cool air settles in. that's when we'll feel the difference in these temperatures. a than yesterday, 87 in denver, 88 greeley, 87 fort collins. eastern plain, middle 90s, 60ds and 70s for the mountains. winds will shift north as the front approaches and moves through. storms develop. they last through the evening and mostly cloudy skies take over tonight, 56 will be the low. 73 with showers tomorrow. little drier for the weekend with isolated storms. we're still in the low 70s on saturday. sunday, amelia we'll be back to

thank you. 6:55, an ongoing problem on 25 at 84th avenue near federal heights. sky 9 above this crash which has so much damage. there's fluid across the roads. they have to pull these cars apart before they can get a tow truck in to move them out of the way. there's an ambulance and an additional police officer. fire crew have been helping out for a while. here's what it looks like on the ground level view. this is just terrible. these backups crawling through the two right lanes and the two left la activity. the fire crews, two trucks now protecting the left side of the highway. now, what's this stack up to driver thyme-wise? southbound 25, 40 minute and just from i--470 to the scene of the crash. use washington or huron as an alternate it parallels 25. 225, 23 minutes but no additional wrecks stand in your way, another heavy commute i-70 both sides between 270 at the

stuff is trekking westbound. >> okay, thank you much for that info. a man is going to have a plea for crash into the convention center. randolph blazen may have been drunk or high when he left a big hole in the convention center in june. debris did hit some people inside and he faces dui charges and careless driving resulting in injury. a woman cu former state representative will be in court today. maureen moss committed forgery, she said, to keep her job. she was collecting signatures for jouncesser's senate run and had to keep a quo that. he didn't win. it went to darryl glen. he said it didn't have to do with the scandal. moss faces forgery charges. a pile of wood in someone's

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to school. we're at bear creek k-8, where student will arrive shortly. it's a reminder as police begin enforcement to make sure people are following school zone speed speed limits pedestrians are crossing safely and giving parents safety tips on walking children to school, all deferent remindedders as denver public schools get ready to return monday and many students are in school. let's talk about weather with becky. good morning, as everybody is heading home from school. another chance of showers storm and much cooler, highs in the middle 80s. we'll be in the low 70s friday and saturday and will start to bounce back, drier for the weekend, isolated storms, temperatures returning to 80 by sunday, and we'll stay until wednesday of next week so it looks like we'll get a small taste of fall friday and saturday. >> all right. what happened to summer, though? >> what happened to the 90s? they're not on there.

making snow. we're going to channel 20 and hope you will join us. if you're daying with the "today" show, have a good day. this morning a clean swept of of gold, silver and bronze in the hurdles. plus, rallies in a dramatic fashion in bronze in beach volleyball. and hot water? two of ryan's teammates pulled from a team as they were on there way home from rio. officials now questioning the accounts of four swimmers that say that they were victims of a robbery. does the story hold up.