chief's truck. the driver of the car was unconscious after the crash and was taken to a hospital but she is expected to survive. the chief was also treated but has since been released. it began at civic center park, then a crowd of nearly a thousand people made its way down the 16th street mall all with no shirts on. bare chested demonstrators celebrated with people around the world for what they're calling a women's equality movement. there's no law in denverha from going topless. as 9news reporter victoria sanchez explains, there was a spectrum of reactions. >> reporter: it might not be the most unusual thing to happen on the 16th street mall, but it was up there for a lot of people. >> i don't know what to think. >> i say what is going on? >> reporter: it's called go topless day, and from the looks of it, people figured that out pretty quick. you won't get the day off from

growing movement. >> we're not from the country and we've never seen something like this. what's it about? >> we've been asked, what's your purpose for this? you see males doing it all the time. this is all about equality. it shouldn't be sexualized. >> it doesn't make sense we can go shirtless and women can't. >> reporter: shoppers pulled out their phones, some even cheered. one woman took off her shirt and joined in. >> i'm not going to take off my shirt, but i'll walk with them. a shocked and surprised, but i haven't had any negative feedback. >> actually it's been really awesome. >> reporter: not everyone was too happy about the display. some parents shooed kids along and told youngsters to look away. >> cover your eyes. >> reporter: but another mom actually had her 8-year-old join in. >> in her generation i hope that it will become normal and that it will be desexualized. >> reporter: that's the main theme. but getting the rest of society

while longer. >> it's fun. only in colorado can this stuff happen. >> reporter: in denver, victoria sanchez, 9news. >> there were actually more than 40 demonstrations around the world today from australia and france and many here in the u.s. go topless day falls on the sunday closest to women's equality day which this year was on friday. she's not receiving nearly as much attention as donald trump and hillary clinton, but green party candidate dr. jill stein is one of the more prominent candidates for president behind the to a recent national poll. while touring colorado this weekend, she told 9news she blames a lack of media coverage for the low numbers. and she says her ideas deserve attention. she said she'd create 20 million jobs as part of an energy plan to address climate change and is part of an effort to lure bernie sanders supporters, she wants to eliminate all student loan debt by asking the federal reserve to

young people, that's a winning plurality of the vote. so just by mobilizing the vote to cancel student debt, we can actually win this election and completely change the political landscape. >> as for concerns that stein could take votes from hillary clinton, she says she wouldn't sleep well if either trump or clinton were elected. meanwhile, hillary clinton supporters are going after donald trump over issues of race and immigration. clinton's camp is accusing trump of having cities and trying to lure minority voters by speaking before audiences that are mostly white. >> donald trump has not held an event in the black community. he's not gone to a black church as hillary clinton has done. he's not gone to historical black colleges. >> my pledge to you and everybody who's watching that, those events are actually being planned and we're very excited about them. >> the trump team is on the

blasting clinton from taking donations from foreign governments while she was secretary of state. trump says his immigration plans have not changed and he's not softening on deporting 11 million illegal immigrants. his running mate governor mike pence says trump's detailed immigration policy will come out in the next two weeks. a fire chief in louisiana was killed this morning when a bus crashed in to his fire truck on a high way. the driver of the charter bus did not have a license and police say he was in the country illegally. the bus waar help with flood relief when the crash happened near new orleans. the chief was among three firefighters standing along the highway when the bus hit their ladder truck. it sent them flying over a guardrail and in to the water below. the chief died and the other two firefighters were critically hurt. two other vehicles then hit the bus, killing another person. 41 people were hurt. san francisco 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick has vowed to continue to sit through the national anthem at football

banner played at a preseason game, kaepernick did not stand in order to make a statement about racial injustice and police brutality. his decision brought criticism from people across the country. at a team practice today, the quarterback spoke out for the first time since that game. >> the fact that it has blown up like this i think is a good thing. it brings awareness. everybody knows what's going on and this sheds more light on it. >> kaepernic anthem until he feels injustices in the united states have been corrected. a legendary singer some call the mexican liberace has passed away. juan gabriel had just performed in los angeles on friday. he was known for his elaborate costumes, ballads, and unique dance moves. his career spans from pop and

performed to sold-out audiences around the world. juan gabriel was 66 years old. so far the cause of his death is not known. a desperate effort to pull a man off the railroad track with a commuter train fast approaching in new jersey. an officer, victor ortiz, put his life on the line to try to save the man lying on the tracks. surveillance footage shows ortiz trying to pull the man off the rails. he tries over and over again even as the man was resisting him. finally the officer was able to drag him just far comes, the commuter train zips by. amazingly no one was hurt. new jersey transit says it could not be more pud of its officer. most colorado kids are looking back on a summer full of things like camps, swimming, and family trips. >> for one young man it went a little more like this. >> in tonight's storytellers, a

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when i was 12 years old, i spent my summers playing baseball with friends or getting sunburned at the pool. in tonight's storytellers, photo journalist shows you a 12-year-old who did none of that. instead he did the past few months doing things someone his age rarely gets to do. >> welcome back to school. are we excited to be here? >> reporter: the first day of school invariably leads to that

firsthand-out. >> reporter: what did you do over summer vacation? >> i went camping. >> reporter: avi levin did something no other kid can claim. on stage and back stage. >> this is just a simple sign-in sheet so people know we're not missing and got kidnapped or something like that. >> reporter: avi spent all summer working for the colorado shakese of heirs. >> i did this because i can't have downtime. >> reporter: the ironic thing, theater productions are full of downtime. downtime for a fidgety 12-year-old kid, the only kid spending hours on end with adults like alesha baker. >> we just all kind of hang out and he fits right in. he's 12, yes. but he's a very mature kid. >> reporter: between scenes he

>> so it has to be a clean solid double high five. then we can move on and continue with the show. >> this and this and this. so i was never like -- >> reporter: and because he is surrounded by adults -- >> so i did have a curse wall of shame. >> reporter: avi wanted to curb the adult language from veteran actors. >> there's swearing that goes on sometimes. actors swear a lot. >> reporter: he says it's kind of working. >> and personally, honestly i >> reporter: but like the drama of the stage, somebody defaced his curse word wall. >> somebody, i actually don't know who. >> it had everyone's name and what they said. >> someone erased it. somebody put the comedy of poops. >> i said he had said poop three

>> reporter: what avi did like is learning in a real production from real professionals. >> it's not like he's just working with local actors. he's making connections with people that work all over the country. >> so shakespeare, i knew when i entered this, it will be hard for me. >> reporter: a midsummer night's dream of a summer vacation. >> everybody is like oh, hi, how has your summer been? so yeah, it's going to be interestingxp whole extravaganza to them. >> reporter: with photojournalist ann herbst, nelson garcia, 9news. >> avi is a 7th grader and theater major at the denver school of the arts. one of his next endeavors is performing in a musical in los angeles during the school year. i'm meteorologist danielle grant here in the 9 backyard. this weekend was pretty nice. temps in the mid 80s.

thunderstorms. but up in the high country it was nothing but blue skies and a lot of blue water too. look at that. this great shot at the stage coach reservoir near steamboat. all these folks out there. i think they had about 90 people powered crafts, paddle board canoes, kayaks enjoying the summer weekend. about 90 degrees in greeley, sterling, lamar this afternoon. hot out there. 60s in leadville. mid 70s in eagle. low 80s in rifle and grand junction. for now out athe cooling things off. mid 60s. mostly cloudy skies. the winds are picking up just a bit out of the east northeast at 16 miles per hour. here in the 9 backyard, temperatures feeling comfortable at this 10:00 hour. numbers in the mid 60s as well. still in hd doppler 9, watching the storm system that's sitting across parts of the 4orners slowly make its way across southeastern colorado by tomorrow morning. this is really triggering a lot of lightning. basically areas to the south of the metro area toward colorado

tracker. more than 450 strikes and really everything is centralized to the south of the denver metro area. couple light rain showers potentially coming down toward highlands ranch, parker, castle rock. the biggest story is going to be toward colorado springs where they're under a flash flood warning till 1 a.m. just because the thunderstorms are packed with so much moisture, they're steady. they haven't moved. the black forest will be watching for flash flooding concerns throughout the next several hours. also advisory in parts of el paso, pueblo counties until about 11:15. this evening in the metro area after midnight, we'll go with partly cloudy skies. upper 50s for overnight temperatures. we stay in the 50s and 60s along the eastern plains. 40s and 50s up in the mountains. this storm system will be slowly pushing across parts of southeastern colorado by tomorrow. today we've been watching the storms picking up from the southwest. everything switches tomorrow as this system pushes a little bit further to the east.

that counterclockwise flow bringing in a bit more of an up slope flow tomorrow afternoon. you can see overnight the showers and thunderstorms still will be rocking and rolling just to the south of i-70. by morning we'll go with mostly cloudy skies here in the metro area. lunchtime, not too bad, but you can see those storms beginning to form across the eastern plains, gaining momentum as they push in to the front range, foothills, and up in the mountains by 5:00, 6:00. it's going to be a little more widespread than what we saw this afternoon. so keep drive home might be a bit slow. 10:00, we're still watching the showers and thunderstorms in eastern colorado but you can see drier air pushing in from parts of the west. if you're heading off from the east coast, parts of florida, we have tropical depression 8 just turning outside the outskirts of north carolina. it will be pushing in to the outer banks by tomorrow, becoming a tropical storm, similar setup with tropical depression 9 as it heads toward the gulf coast, and hurricane gaston now a cat 3 making it the

tomorrow about 82. a little cooler. 80s across the eastern plains. 60s and 70s up in the mountains. the foothills, much of the same. they'll stay in the mid 80s with partly to mostly cloudy skies. thunderstorms firing up by tomorrow afternoon. lateftnoon, early ening. stay in the low 80s the next couple days. finally the heat, sunshine, and drier weather return thursday

from colorado's sports leader, here's rod mackey. >> in 2015 he was the 7th and final quarterback to be drafted. 249 players were picked before the broncos selected trevor siemian. looks like siemian will start this season as the starter. only did that 14 times in four

gary kubiak hasn't officially announced he'll be the starter yet but he will. trevor made his second straight start against the rams last night. he began slowly then looked great late. good enough to hold on to the top spot. after that, paxton played. sanchez, however, never did. >> bottom line, i talked to mark this morning. i told mark i'm going to play trevor for a half or maybe more. after that i'm going to play paxton. i wasn't going to put mark in the game the last four, five i've got two young kids i need to see play a little bit more. >> do you feel confident about what you've shown the coaches and this team? >> not reading too much in to anng reps tonight and play. and there are things we need to work on and things we're doing really well right now. >> obviously i think i can play. i don't think where i'm going to be later on down the road when i have a full grasp of the offense and understand it well, but if i needed to play, i'm going to do

to keep us rolling. >> youth may win out over experience at punter as well. in this case it's all about the money. in the minds of the broncos, britton colquitt is making too much. riley dixon may be the man. according to mike klis the broncos are shopping the longest tenured bronco around. more on the punters and quarterbacks and more on broncos tonight, the season debut. mike and chad brown will join me tonight about 11:00 now. it's a good thing the broncos didn't trade forin than a few wished brock osweiler stuck around. he looked good tonight, 11-13, 146 yards, and that touchdown. houston's 34-24 win over arizona. the same cardinals team the broncos will face on thursday. the rockies are sure a tough team to figure out. they can't beat the bad teams, yet they get the better of the best teams. won the season series against the cubs and the nationals.

washington, thanks to nolan arenado. rocks' 3rd baseman, 4-4, a triple, and this h 35th home run of the season. rockies win another series on the road thanks to back-to-back wins over the nationals. final score was 5-3. good and bad news for the rapids. the bad, they'll be without their five best players including tim howard. the good news, that's because all five were called up for international world cup qualifier. congrats to those guys. and congrats to the league world series team from new york. they beat south korea 2-1 today, becoming the first u.s. team to win the little league world series since 2011. and we finish with even more baseball/hockey. blue jay josh donaldson with not one, not two, but three home runs today against minnesota. i get you could call that a home n hat trick. in canada, that's definitely what they call it and act on it, as the toronto faithful treat it

diamond. absolutely love it. >> they're not getting those back. [ laughter ] >> unbelievable. >> impressive.

a lot of folks try to make it to all 50 states in their lifetimes, mainly to see the most famous sights in each one. for one colorado man, the reason >> he just finished a trip to every state in the country to play miniature golf. he started two and a half months ago. >> drove south to albuquerque, then i drove to oklahoma city, then dallas, and all the way around america. of all the sort of kitcheny americana distractions, it's really the one that allows each state to express itself. >> you go, dan. dan is a blogger and plans to rank the mini golf courses and eventually write a book.

we do have a link to his blog at 9news.com and the only state he's yet to visit is hawaii, which he will wednesday. 9news does continue next with our first broncos tonight segment of the new season.