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a colorado father accused of trying to kill his young son in a high speed confesses, tonight witnesses helped the boy until paramedics got there. >> at that point it was we got to get the kid out of the car. >> hail and heavy rain trap people in colorado spring, danielle's forecast calls for a gradual drying out. >> with the new rules coming into place we've had a lot of customers waiting. >> businesses can now get a license to legally fly a drone. the rush is on. >> he took us to a world of

rocky mountain showdown is anything but bad blood between cu and csu. the reason will make you smile. 9news starts now. it is heart breaking to hear what happened to 2-year- old isaiah. even before you hear that police think his father injured him on purpose, intentionally left his son unbuckled in a car, then crashed it more than a week ago. isaiah survived. police say that year-old nathan weitzel tried to kill his son in centennial. he admitted to police he did it because he wasn't man enough to raise a child. he also said he used cocaine that day. neighbors who heard the crash ran into the street to help not knowing the back story. 9news reporter vicente arenas spoke to some of them today. >> neighbors say they saw a tangled mess and were even more horrified when they saw the father strike his bleeding

eudora way aren't used to the noise they heard tearing through their neighborhood sunday morning. >> i was in the backyard and heard a loud engine noise and crash. there was no screeching of brakes at all, just the crash. >> reporter: this is what cindy rosas saw in her neighbor's front yard. >> just horrifying, not knowing now it happened, why it happened, what's going on, is the child okay, is the driver okay? >> reporter:it and her neighbors saw a 2-year- old boy in the car bleeding and crying. at first neighbors were concerned about smoke and the car catching fire. >> and then i see the dad hitting the child. it looked like an elbow, elbow jab because the child was right about here in relation to the father and it was just horrifying. >> from what i understand like ran straight into their parked car. >> reporter: sam schulte lives a few doors down.

terrible. at that point it was like we got to get the kid out of the car. >> reporter: the boy named isaiah was in more trouble than they realized. schulte and another man got to work. >> i pulled the door frame off and did as much as i could to create an opening and one of the other neighbors reached for the child and got him out of the car and hut him on the ground. >> reporter: schulte picked up isaiah and rubbed his back and held him hoping to calm hi not until today did most neighbors hear police say a father was trying to kill husband own son. neighbors say at first they didn't realize the child was so severely hurt. it was only after they saw the deep gashes in his head that they knew little isaiah needed help fast. >> so he's in good hands now at the hospital and it's encouraging to hear that he was in good hands from the moment after that crash when those neighbors responded. >> at first they didn't know he was in the car, so they all ran

then they saw him bleeding and you heard there they saw the father strike him, so just a terrible story from the start, but he's okay now. >> thank you. >> isaiah was released from children's hospital a few days ago. he'll be in a cast a while. his mother talked to us by phone. >> i don't understand why or how he could do something like this. but i'm hoping that isaiah recovers fast and that people pray for us and for my son to get better. >> the boy's parents are not married. isaiah's mother says she takes care of him during the week, but he spent weekends with his dad and the crash happened on a sunday. weitzel faces a list of charges that could add up to decades in prison. calm weather now across much of colorado compared to

flash flood warnings were in effect until 7:30 in el paso county and northeastern pueblo county. 1 man had to be rescued from his vehicle there. the storms have fizzled out and are expected to pick up again tomorrow the same time in the afternoon. we won't see severe storms here, mostly just rain. a southwest flight headed to denver from albuquerque was delayed before takeoff tonight after someone noticed a suspicious item in the cabin. passengers were evacuated and the plane moved to property. an airport spokesman didn't know what the item was but said it was eventually deemed safe. the flight was set to take off before 5:00 and departed over three hours late. denver police say a man arrested for assault on the high line canal this weekend could be connected to another attack the 25-year-old demarcus burkehart is accused of sawing a woman on friday.

the woman took a picture of him as he left. burkehart said he got into a fight with the woman when her dog tried to bite him. police say another assault happened on the trail about a week ago and said burkeheart could be connected to it. a teenager accused of a deadly hit and run only had a learners permit and was drag racing according to police. around 9:00 last night 26-year- old nicholas richling s by a dodge caliber. witnesses had seen the caliber and a black sedan at a red light earlier revving engines getting ready to race. police later arrested a 17-year- old boy from denver and booked him for investigation for vehicular homicide and hit and run. >> we simply want no. 1, good instruction while you are in the car. not only do you need to learn how to control the car but make wise decisions and not use poor judgment behind the wheel.

car. colorado car requires a licensed driver over age 21 to be in the car with a driver who only has a learner's permit. they're looking for the black sedan and the driver and ask anyone with information to call denver police. midnight tonight marks 70 days until election day. today we learned from colorado's elections director our state has the highest percentage of registered voters in the country, 86% in the 2014 elections. progressivgr colorado focuses on registering young people, credits the state pore making registration more access -- for making reg registration more -- registration more accessible. you can do it over the phone, online or via text. this is a significant, more than $10 million in ads for the trump campaign across nine states including colorado. it highlights trump's economic while claiming hillary clinton

wages. trump had a busy day on twitter. first he lit into clinton for flunking the d.c. bar exam in her 20s. then the news came out her long time aide will separate from her husband, anthony weiner, who was disgraced in a sexting scandal. trump tied it back to clinton's private e-mail server saying clinton was negligent for allowing the ethically compromised former congressman to be in such close proximity to highly classified information. a finds trump nationally closed a 13 point deficit a few weeks ago to seven points. two brothers accused of shooting and killing a young mother are held without bail. the men are accused of shooting 32-year-old nikia aldridge, mother of four, who was dwyane wade's cousin. she was pushing her baby in her stroll are picking up -- stroller picking up her

the brothers were in court today for their first appearance on those charges. two united airlines pilots are free on bail tonight after being accused of showing up drunk for a flight from scotland to new jersey. the veteran pilots are believed to be americans. they were taken into custody at glasgow airport saturday. the flight took off 10 hours late. faa rules prohibit the consumption of alcohol within eight flight. thousands of business owners and employees were waiting for today. new rules for commercial drone pilots just kicked in making it legal to use the remote controlled aircraft. expect a line in colorado for people applying for licenses. 9news reporter victoria sanchez tells us about the rules and what it will take to put a drone to work. >> reporter: for something so hi-tech. >> using my no. 2 pencil and going through it. >> reporter: getting a commercial drone pilot's license starts out pretty basic.

federal aviation administration's test to get certified to fly one of these. >> it man -- has been a gray area if you're shooting footage with a drone and charging for it, do you have to have a license or is it just a hobby? >> reporter: as of monday, it's a gray area no more. if you want to use it for business, you have to follow the new rules. drones aren't new. the technology took off years ago, bu finally catching up. >> there's kind of an envelope of rules that are now in place. there's altitude limit of 400 feet. there's not flying outside of the range that you can visually see it. there is a number of things about not flying over people, for example. that's a biggy because things can go wrong and you don't want anyone to get hurt. no night flying is another one. >> reporter: until now commercial pilots could only fly legally with special faa permission. >> the faa doesn't have drone

the multi copter warehouse in castle rock says while someone isn't looking over your drone's every move, if someone files a complaint against the pilot or there's an accident, the faa will investigate. >> if you're not certified, you don't have that license in hand, you could face penalties up to about $50,000. >> reporter: the new regulations don't pertain to the hobbyist like if you use yours to take video or pictures of your kids, but businesses need to get used to the new rules as the faa kerry garrison took his test tonight and passed. the license is good for two years. more than 3,300 people registered to take their exam today nationwide. the faa estimates within one year the number of licensed drone pilots will exceed 170,000. >> that's a lot. thank you. after taking take lot of heat over a major price hike the company that sells epipens says it will launch a generic

epipen. some pharmacists say they'll believe it when they see the price go down. >> i'm glad they're potentially lowering the price, but even at $300 it's still very expensive. >> mylan's generic auto injector will be identical to the brand name. pharmacists will be able to swap in the generic if doctors write a prescription. that generic is expected to launch in a few for actor and comedian gene wilder. his nephew said monday that he died late sunday in stanford, connecticut, from complications from alzheimer's. he was the centerpiece of many of mel brooks' movies from frederick frankenstein to the boozey sharpshooter in blazing saddles. he's remembered as the charming candyman in willy wonka.

a jewelry heist totaling more than 100 grand at of all places dia. >> more rain for the next few days, we will start drying out. danielle has the timetable. >> unity isn't the word usually used in the same sentence as rocky mountain showdown, but there is an exception. >> reporter: and it's now or trevor for the broncos new

there won't be a lot of warm and fuzzies between csu and cu at the annual rocky mountain showdown later this week. that's then. this is now. students from each university teamed up with special olympics colorado for a unified football game. games like this, like theone in boulder help the athletes grow as leaders and showcases their strengths and abilities to find success on the playing field and in life.

he's had his uniform laid out on his bed. >> i think it's a great opportunity for players to be involved with special olympics. i know i'm involved with it and i love it. >> both schools are competing online holding a pledge battle to see which school can raise the most money for special olympics colorado. the jewelry heist investigated at the airport appears to be an inside job involving diamonds stuffed the united airlines employee named rafael mogana is accused of felony theft. he was supposed to be holding onto a jewelry case for a passenger from aspen. heed had onto it all right. he was caught on airport cameras taking diamond earrings, bracelets and other expensive shiny thing worth $129,000 and dumping them into a paper sack and skedaddling. when he was confronted, police say he confessed.

island. two workers were in the bucket of the yellow truck when the vehicle tipped over against the guardrail. the bucket had a cage, so the workers were protected if they didn't fall out. the bridge was closed both directions while emergency teams rescued them. they were not hurt. they're still trying to find out why the truck tipped over. it's been a rainy 24 hours for southwestern parts of colorado. this is red mountain pass yesterday taken along the ruby beautiful and kind of terrifying dropoff. january 2014 rock slides in that area forced cdot to close the pass a few months for repairs. that video came to us from silverton grocery. clearly folks who know how to drive the pass are familiar with it because at that point i'm like shut it down. shut down the video. >> pump the brakes, peace out, get they out of here. man, they are braver than all of us, i guess.

snowfall at pikes peak, severe thunderstorms, hail, flooding rain 30 miles away in parts of colorado springs. around town light rain showers and that pushed out making way for a spectacular sunset, this awesome one with the corpuscular rays near loveland. it was warm, hit 84 at the airport, pretty seasonal for this time of year, warmer in greeley, cooler in burlington, ray, limon 70s, 58 and gunnison. at the airport 63, mostly cloudy skies. the winds have quieted down still coming out of the north, northeast around 7 miles per hour. in the 9news backyard our temperatures cooling off. we're sitting around 60 degrees heading toward the mid-50s overnight. the storm system has been a slow mover. it will slowly track across parts of southeastern colorado tomorrow once again with that counterclockwise flow pushing in up to the north and east and wrapping around right back here

too. so it's a bit of a one-two- punch. tonight things are quieting down. you can see hardly any rain showers around here, a couple along i-76, keenesburg and toward lochbuie and downtown denver mostly cloudy skies and in el paso county things are winding down after a pretty wild afternoon. this was out there from our sister station. you can see all this hail piling up. we had some reports the city plow truck actually got stuck because there was so mu measuring it in inches. similar setup at the summit at pikes peak. in fact, this was the shot, a winter wonderland tail end of the month of august, pretty wild. 56 our overnight low, storms pushing out, left with mostly cloudy skies and some folks along the eastern plains might wake up to a bit of patchy fog tomorrow morning. overnight lows 50s for us, 30s and 40s in the high country. there's that storm. it's really not going anywhere soon till about wednesday when

temperatures and drier conditions move in. once again we'll hit the repeat button as far as rain goes for tomorrow afternoon. this evening, overnight into tomorrow morning you can see mostly cloudy skies for eastern colorado. by 8 or 9 a.m. dry start to the day out to the western slope. that changes by early afternoon and evening as once again we watch those showers and thunderstorms pushing in from the northwest tracking south and west. by 4 or 5 p.m. scattered showers, darker clouds and at 10:00 or eye south of the city. it looks like a similar setup compared to what we saw today. a little cooler by a couple degrees, 80 with that early morning fog. that should burn off a glimpse of sunshine to help warm us up a hair and then we'll watch those showers and thunderstorms pushing in i'm thinking around 3 or 4 p.m. we stay in the 80s across sterling and ray, 60s in frisco, close to 90 in grand

arvada, boulder, littleton, 81 in wellington and low 70s in estes park. light showers on tap tomorrow afternoon. this system finally starts pushing out by wednesday afternoon, still going to low in an isolated shower here and there, but temps start to warm un, mid- to upper 80s as we head toward the weekend and the weekend not looking all that bad. a taste of colorado going on as well as the broncos health and wellness fair and labor day. slightly cooler, but still lo don't go anywhere.

from colorado's sports leader here's drew soicher. >> hi, everybody. trevor siemian is about to become the answer to an obscure trivia question. who is the first nfl with zero career passes to start the season for a defending super bowl champion? nearly six months after peyton manning announced his retirement and just 10 begins with a super bowl rematch against the carolina panthers siemian officially won the job. ?e?o >> i'm not trying to be peyton. i could probably get in a lot of trouble trying to be a hall of famer. those shoes are way too big to fill. i'm just trying to be the best man i can be every day, the best teammate and take it from

he's probably got some commercials to shoot or something. >> i don't want him to try to fill shoes. it's the start of trevor's career. i want him to have a good career. i told the young players this morning the guy was a seventh round pick, came in here last year hurt. he's the starting quarterback for the denver broncos. that's pretty good stuff. >> john elway had never thrown a pass before when he started opening day seemed to work out pretty well, not that game, john played terribly, but, you know, his career. 9news broncos insider mike klis said siemian won the gig the old-fashioned way. >> reporter: in the broncos great let's call it above average quarterback competition, mark sanchez and paxton lynch drew all the buzz. trevor siemian just became the starter against carolina. lynch was the exciting first

starter. siemian was just there. >> i could see that. i mean, you know, coming out, but again i wasn't thinking about that too much, try to stay, you know, inside the building, so to speak, and take it one day at a time and improve and take coaching and be a good teammate. >> reporter: that's about as provocative as siemian gets. he's a down to earth sort who doesn't want to make headlines through what he says and don't expect him to become a more forceful vocal he is the guy. >> i don't think i want to change who i am or who i am in the locker room. >> reporter: know why siemian is the starter? he earned it. mike klis, 9news. rockies second baseman dj lemahieu took over the national league hitting lead tonight. lemahieu singled in the 1st inning to move within one point

couple runs raising his batting average to .345. roccos win 8-1. still of the night comes from flushing, new york, where dustin brown celebrated the 20th anniversary of his last hair-cut but lost his first u.s. open match in straight sets in the still of the night. >> that's awesome. >> mom last took him barbershop when he was 11 years old. must have had such a miserable experience. >> never went back. >> we've all been there. he's decided never to go again. >> good barber when he was 11.

kind of a stormy start to the workweek, scattered showers and thunderstorms pushing into the metro area, northern

and flooding rains and snowfall in the mountains, kind of a taste of all the seasons. 80s on tap tomorrow, a couple degrees cooler for, similar setup across the eastern plains, too, 60s and 70s in the mountains and close to 90 to the west. foothills in the 60s and is. s. it will -- and 70s. it will be about 80 degrees in arvada and littleton and we'll watch temperatures cooling to the 60s and 70s in the high country areas. the next couple days 'l watching the showers like clockwork, wednesday afternoon not quite as bad and we head toward the holiday weekend and it's looking pretty good. can't completely ruling out seeing one or two saturday afternoon, storms, but look at that, labor day not too shabby, close to 80 degrees, lots of sun balls. >> are we catching up drying out for august? >> ish. >> what's going on with the tonight show? you know. i don't. >> kevin bacon, megan treanor.

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his 28-year marriage and perfect vacation selfie. >> you hold it. no, i'm hold it. no, you do it. now "extra" from hollywood, the entertainment capital of l.a. hey, everyone, welcome to "extra" at the vortex at the lake here in las vegas. larry king fires back on twitter, blasting rumors his wife had an affair. also, mario, gwen over blake shelton's charity concert. plus breaking down the moments from last night's vmas, kim and kanye, beyonce and diddy. the wild after party. >> she stole the show. ? >> her return to the stage. ? >> their wild night out. after two stolen kisses and his drop the mike moments.

>> full of kim and kanye pda after the rapper six-minute plus all over the place rant. >> i'm a talker. >> kanye talking taylor. >> that's why i called her. >> calling out his ex, amber rose. >> i see you, amber. >> and himself. >> might lose to beyonce but i can't be mad. i'm always wishing for beyonce to win so -- >> even good friend, diddy >> what do you think kanye is going to do tonight? >> i think -- i hope -- i mean, i don't even know. >> kim spotted on the red carpet wearing a giant new diamond ring, still sporting the stunner and that sheer black mini dress, leaving a star-packed big apple party after kanye gave her this shout out. >> my wife is a g. not a lot of people's wives let them say that.