injustice. -- a deputy was injured as he put himself between a shooter and the rest of us. >> we sit down and have an honest revealing conversation with the students of a class for [ indiscernible ] first to douglas county where the sheriff stepped to a microphone. sheriff tony spurlock is pretty plain about how it happened. the attack on officers last week right about this time. first the call of a suicidal man. detective dan brite was hit and he is still in critical condition. that detective may be alive because a swat medic was immediately by his side and a hospital was so close. a parker police officer killed the suspect. inside that hospital, doctors first worked to save detective brite and then had a chance to consider what all happened

about it, it's -- you know, you got your kids in the community and certainly these people take these bullets for our families and it's -- pretty substantial stuff. >> not much is being said about the detective's condition. serious questions about past contact the deputies had with the shooter. today the sheriff wouldn't say why the deputies had been to the home before, but we know they had been. we need to acknowledge what west metro firefighters did this morning. they found a girl hide nothing the closet of a burning house. the only reason she is alive is because of the firefighters' actions. >> when children are scared,

it almost looked like she had a fort set up in her closet. >> that is why firefighters beg parents to have fire drills at their home, so kids will learn to run outside instead of inside. coloradans gather to remember the terror attacks of september 11th. this year's high school freshman were all born after that date. the first class answers the 9/11. >> reporter: for these freshman, terror is a fact of life, not a shock. >> i can say that. i don't doubt it will happen again. >> reporter: a sense of fear and a sense of responsibility. >> it made me think about how children these days should be more alert and aware of what's happen nothing the world. >> reporter: they live in a

struggling with police relations. the word hero heard so often after 9/11 and hearder for them. >> if somebody walked into a class at random and said i think all police officers are heroes -- >> i think that a lot of people would disagree with that. >> like, they like see all the negative things about the police and some officers are trying to do their job. >> some police officers [ indiscernible ] everybody like they should. that does cause problems. >> reporter: a window to the world of [ indiscernible ] from the first freshman class born after 9/11. >> even though there are problems within america itself,

even more. >> freshman at manuel high, all members of the junior rotc. so the world -- every american state and dozens of other countries. it sits in memorials across colorado. a traveling memorial is being moved to civic center park for the colons the ceremony sunday afternoon at 1:00 is open to the public. -- told us there's actually a simple explanation.

sent, it was easier to put the note for flint residents in every kit being produced and some of those kits ended up in denver. if you get home in time to watch next, you are likely one of the lucky ones. live in the area, you've likely experienced it. the efforts to make it better will only temporarily fix the problem. >> reporter: traffic haters, feast your eyes the southern portion of i-25 through the metro area before and after a project called t- rex, transportation expansion. this $1.6 billion project added lanes and trains to i25 in an effort to ease congestion. >> the congestion it's go way down, but as soon as those

>> reporter: that's will with the southwest engineer efficienciy project. two years after t-rex was done, it was right back at the level before construction. >> it's this phenomenon of induced demand. when you widen the highway and all of a sudden this is excess capacity, not too surprisingly, people look at that and say i'm going to use it. >> reporter: now money or space to add more lanes. making a change to the metering system along the highways. you know, the red and green lights you've always wondered about whether or not they work, they're going to try a smart metering system. this system will monitor the flow of traffic through sensors embedded in the pavement.

used these smart meters, traffic flow is improved 20%. if you don't want to get stuck in it, we suggest you take the advice we found on this pedestrian bridge. both cdot and sweep say self driving cars will help all this problem since they can communicate with each other. they can drive closer together. they will also crash less. crashes cause 60% congestion problems we see today. broncos won last night. posted a photo of the game with a head line carolina beats denver, 23-2 in nfl opener. we never make an error around here. last night did belong to the broncos. broncos linebacker marshall's decision last night.

refusing to stand for the national anthem. >> reporter: when i saw marshall take a knee, i first thought now we in the media are going to spend a week talking about brandon marshall which is a shame. i don't think brandon marshall is trying to draw attention to himself. i take him at his word that he feels strongly about social justice and the football field is his only platform to make a statement. i just wish he made a stronger statement last the kind of statement colin kaepernick gave. i've read your emails, facebook posts saying we shouldn't give brandon marshall more attention. i agree. i think he would agree to that as well. what we should give attention, what we will continue to give attention to are the issues that he knelt down to raise up. one of colorado's more unconventional politicians makes an unconventional case

whistle, but someone who knows what it is. >> do you think he can find the whistle? >> yes. >> a rare look at colorado that is as beautiful as it is illegal. >> and bad news denver's parks. i think because it doesn't hit so close to home, if i didn't lose anybody really close to me -- get back on with your life and you don't really think about the true horrors of

well, it's starting to feel and look a little more like fall in the high country. great shots coming into us. today was a nice break from the heat. but we are going to be it's going to be down to the mid-40s. mostly clear sky tonight. the winds have been awfully gusty around town. those should be winding down around the next couple of hours. across north western colorado, we're going to be sitting under a freeze warning through tomorrow morning. if you have sensitive vegetation, you want to cover that up with temps overnight in the mid-20s. cold front pushing through the area.

temperatures. it scoots out making way for high pressure. we're in store for a warm weekend. daytime highs tomorrow returning to the low 80s across the front range, 70s in the mountains. a great weekend to go into the high country, check out the fall colors out there. 90 degrees on sunday. huge cool off monday and tuesday as another storm comes our way. donald trump's colorado coalition is missing a lot of big name republicans. republicans that t the job of rangling -- falls to our next guest. >> former candidate for governor, former state senator, political consultant, what am i leaving out? >> avid cyclist. >> reporter: still drive the prius? >> i do drive the prius and it has an i heart fracking sticker on the bumper too.

the time've republican that could sit this year out or -- >> the reality is this is a binary choice. one of these two people, donald trump or hillary clinton, will be the next president of the united states. i like the policies that come with a republican president and all of the people that a republican president surrounds him or herself with. >> reporter: where are you on trump the man at this point? >> i don't know him. i mean, the things i he really is in business, how he really is around a table, make me feel very comfortable about it. the stuff on tv, it's just different than you get from any politician ever before. he's talking like the guys that i know out in eastern colorado who you run into at corn harvest driving trucks or who you spend time at with in the

shop. there's no such thing as political correctness out there. >> reporter: what would that mean to the presidency? >> what it would mean to the presidency i think is rather than telling us what -- you know, the politicians, the consultant class thinks we need to hear so that he can win his next election or help other people -- maybe he'll actually tell us the truth, which would be refreshing and unusual mi >> after your time in state politics, you went to work in dc. have you been able to watch that off of you? >> it took a lot of scrubbing. >> reporter: what was it you didn't think it was going to be? >> well, i didn't realize how much i would hate being away from my family and my farm.

corrupt the place is. it really is run by a handful of people for the benefit of a handful of people. a connected class runs the city for the benefit of themselves. it's bad. and, you know, we face a choice in the presidential election where we get more of the same or we can try something new. why not give it a chance? this is why we can't have nice things and why the city denver won't let people play with this anymore. and what to do when the beer is called hey pumpkin and no pumpkins are around to answer the call. i was working for [ indiscernible ] company of america. i worked in the compliance office and i was on a phone call with tower 2 when they got

a plane just hit us -- the other tower 5 minutes ago. and somebody said oh, my god, look out the window and the phone went dead. i lost quite a few people i worked with for almost 20 years. i ended up leaving the company i was working for. i basically became a stay at home dad. on the bright side, a chance to get ton my children and better my marriage. on the

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sorry to crush your dreams, but you're not going to get the goose tonight. this weekend denver was looking for volunteers goose nator. parks and rick told us it can't keep up with the repair costs caused by amateur goosenating. a boulder native has created a soaring tribute to his home town. cal flew his video drone over some of boulder's best known spots. he knew this video was going to

town from a fresh perspective. there's one thing that really made an impact on him from above. >> i was amazed by the flat iron views. i was expected those to be some very great pictures, but when i saw the light that was sitting there in the sunrise and jesse fisher up on the top of the first flat iron, i was pretty amazed by how the picture looked. >> here is where we tell you do not while cal didn't realize it at the time, he was breaking rules just about everywhere he flew the drone. cu boulder restricts where drones can be flown or launched. drone pilots need to learn those rules before they fly. like the struggle, the pumpkin shortage is real. this year, at least.

so we care now. the denver beer company uses pumpkin to make a seasonal ale called hey, pumpkin. his flyer this year, fresh out. fortunately, [ indiscernible ] had left over cooked and packaged pumpkin from last season. >> i know we were told if we wanted to buy more this year, that we wouldn't have any available for the end of september, early october. and the season being over in octobe weeks to a month to produce didn't really help us out. >> he says as a brewer, this is the first time he's ever had to deal with a pumpkin shortage and he's been brewing professionally for about a decade. we're back with a reason to

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? a network news mom's new alcoholic revelation. the binge drinking that tore her familyyapart. >> why are you drinking two bottles of chardonnay every night? >> ignoring her husband and her career, were her kids in danger? then jonbenet ramsey's brother. what he knows about the murder. dr. phil on the buzzer first interview. >> when he's talking about dark content, he's smiling. >> i remember viewing the casket. it was small.

>> just for you. then meg ryan and tom hanks on their big screen reunion. >> i will work with her till the cows come home. and -- chris pratt marriage confessions. >> dress up like a little cowboy for the old lady. she likes it. now for september 9th, 2016, this is "entertainment tonight." we were shocked yesterday by the revelations of network news anchor elizabeth vargas about her struggle with alcohol. but we had no idea of her addiction until now. >> yeah, it is heartbreaking when she talks family with diane sawyer on tonight's "20/20." what impact did elizabeth's alcoholism have on her famous husband, and more importantly, their two young boys? >> did you ever endanger them? >> no. >> are you sure? >> i don't think so, no. i never drove under the influence.