emotionally charged game on both sides. >> he cared more about everything else than himself. >> the bodies of two young colorado natives who died fighting isis in syria came home to their families. and one woman learned the hard way about thieves posing as water workers. 9news starts now. >> a thunderstorm has rolled off the foothills tonight and caused a lot of problems. it delayed tonigh red rocks and delayed the rockies game at coors field. danielle grant joins us now. this storm got stronger as it moved toward the city. quite the light show out there. >> i know. it crept up out of nowhere slowly moving off the foothills and exploding once it pushed into downtown denver, a lot of folks capturing great shots for us. this one at the rockies game. you can see the rain as well as reports of hail down there as well. just retweeted this one from

delay. right now, you can see the brunt of the cell right over the city. about 57 strikes within the past 20 minutes lightning. it is such a small cell, but it is creating quite the wild friday evening for a lot of folks. pea to marble sized hail within this storm system. as it is tracking to the north and to the east. a couple of rain showers out there across greenwood village, also, down to the parker area. these should be winding down within the next hour or there's the view looking at coors field. a couple of rain drops on the camera lens. we have been treated to quite the lightning show. the good new is christine, the weather should be quiets down quite a bit for the weekend. sunshine is back. warmer temperatures. you won't want to miss that extended forecast. >> a lot of folks wanting to see the fall colors this weekend. good news. thanks danielle. well, denver police have lifted orders for people to shelter in place on the campus of rose medical center and surrounding buildings.

since then, police have been searching for a person of interest after reports of a man seen with a rifle. 9news reporter vicente arenas says it has been a stressful few hours for a lot of people. >> reporter: a few minutes after reports that shots were fired at rose medical center, the hospital was put on lockdown. everyone inside the building, staff, and patients were told to shelter in place. george maloni's wife had just checked herself in. >> i'm scared of real soon. >> that wouldn't be the case. for hours police would follow protocol checking every room. looking for a possible shooter. there were reports a man had been seen carrying a rifle on the complex grounds at rose medical. police made it clear there was no confirmation that shots had actually been fired or that anyone had been injured. still, streets were blocked off. one of them right in front of

program director jessica was worried. >> you hear about tragedies occurring all throughout the country. active shooters. and, you just don't know what is going to happen. the extent they are going to take it to. >> i keep my camera with me all the time. >> reporter: back at the hospital, dan's wife was locked down in a room in the neo natal intensive care unit. >> not normal picture to put in the baby book. >> reporter: with his newborn baby. >> i want to go see my wife and hungry and worried but it seems like the police have everything under control and they feel like they are safe. >> reporter: he was able to talk to his wife on the phone who said she was okay. a new hours after we spoke with him, streets in the neighborhood were reopened. and the lockdown was lifted. >> that large plume of smoke rising above the north metro area during rush hour this afternoon was coming from a

firefighters contained the flames this evening and kept it from spreading to a subdivision. it burned brush across an area about half a mile and a quarter mile wide. thornton and north metro wild land crews say they will stay on scene through the night watching for hot spots. less than a week ago, members of the legacy high school football team were involved in a deadly school bus crash at dia. their bus driver carrie chopper died players were injured. despite all of that, the team decided to take the field tonight for their homecoming came. 9news reporter jonathan gonzalez says there was a special tribute held before the game. >> reporter: all day, legacy high school talked about community. the sense of support they have seen from communities across colorado and across the nation. they said that today's football game was what they needed after such an unthinkable tragedy. it was by far, the biggest

happen. >> it was the hardest of the days monday. but most of this week has been around uniting the school as a hole. >> reporter: josh and clarissa reflected about a bus crash that shook their team, their school, and more cigarette has been incredible to see the way the community has come together and the school has united together to make it an incredible week. >> we really have been focused on keeping everyone's spirits up >> reporter: they did it the only way they knew how. by taking the field. by playing. despite thoughts of one coach who is still in the hospital. they were surrounded by support in the air. the town, fellow football players. >> we appreciate the care, and effort our bus drivers provide.

remember the loss of bus driver carrie chopper. what followed was the appreciation for carrie and the rest of the transportation team. [ cheers and applause ] >> i think the fact that the football team were the ones who decided to play the game tonight was to me the most incredible aspect of that. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: so play on they did. by all accounts, it was still a football game. but the last thing that maed >> i don't think anything is going to break down the unity of the school. >> reporter: legacy high school released a statement that reads in part this accident reminds us there are more important things than winning and losing football games. know your letters, cards, e- mails, texts, and posts have meant a great deal to the football family. the coach remains in the hospital. they sent an autographed football signed by emmanuel

crash. reporting in westminster, jonathan gonzalez, 9news. >> thank you jonathan. we will have the score of that game coming up later in sports. meanwhile, funeral services for the bus driver will be on monday 6:00 monday ianing. ? the public is invited to attend, but seating will be limited. chopper worked for five star schools for four years. her husband says she was "perfect two men pretending to be utility workers robbed an elderly woman in denver. the 84-year-old victim didn't want to be identified but she said the men showed up needing to check her water for lead. one of the men took her to the backyard. while she was with him, the other man stole from her. the items taken included her jewelry. >> got as far as the kitchen. then when i was going toward the bathroom, the other man

out to the door. i didn't see his face. just his back. and, he zoomed out. and then i looked like this. and he got in that van. and went and picked up the other man and they left in the alley. >> denver police are investigating. the victim says she is speaking out to keep others from falling victim to this scheme. the bodies of two young men from colorado who died fighting isis in syria returned home to their families. the bodies came back in simple gray caskets pulled from an amtrak train as denver's union station. relatives of levi shirley and jordan mac taggart huddled together as the congressman presented them with folded flags. a sign of respect for the men who never joined the u.s. military, but felt a need to serve. the men died separately in combat this summer after joining the people's protection units. the main kurdish groups battling isis in syria.

caring person. yeah. he just cared more about everything else than himself. like we are all should be. if we could ask for anything, it would be that everybody doesn't lose sight of what is happening over there. >> he was a very, very brave man. that is bravery. if you know what could happen, and yet, because the stakes are so high, because isis is so evil, he couldn't stay here. he had to go. >> the body fighter, 27-year-old william savage is also being returned to the u.s. and will be transported to north carolina where his father lives. after five years of promoting a lie about president obama's birthplace, donald trump today reversed course and acknowledged the fact that the president was born in america. at the end of a campaign event today in washington, trump declared that president obama was born in the u.s. at the same time, he accused hillary clinton of starting the birther

true. >> we have other business to attend to. >> hillary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. i finished it. i finished it. you know what i mean. president barack obama was born in the united states, period. >> clinton responded toda twitter calling trump's news conference a disgrace that showed zero regret for years of "pushing a racist conspiracy theory." clinton and trump will be the only two candidates at the first presidential debate. that announcement came from the commission on presidential debates. libertarian gary johnson and the green party's jill stein did not meet the minimum polling thresholds. it applies to the first presidential debate on september 26 and the only vice

support in a selection of five national polls to get in. during a shift at work, firefighters respond to all kinds of emergencies and sometimes, they get to see the results of their work months later. also ahead, a street party tonight celebrating what is thought to be the world's first major pipeline built to move beer. >> and, a giant night light that is bigger and brighter than usual. >> and later in sports, it is all crashing down on top of the

>> tonight is the night for what is called a harvest moon. it is in the eastern sky. it is the full moon closest to the start of autumn kicking off on thursday. tonight's full moon is the moon is closer to earth making it appear much bigger. the best time to see a harvest moon is at sunset. a heartwarming reunion today between the parents of a newborn baby and the firefighters arrived just in the nick of time to bring the little one into the world. just before sunrise march 27, easter sunday, brenna trim woke up with contractions. when she was in the closet

her husband called 911 and members of the west fire rescue showed up in lakewood. they knew there wasn't enough time to get her to the hospital so they helped deliver baby christian right there in the closet. this afternoon, they got to reunite with the fire and rescue crew who helped deliver baby christian. >> it is so great. we rarely get to meet people again under calm nonemergency circumstances. and it is really nice to meet you buddy. >> he was really a big baby. early. >> brenna and her husband are grateful for the swift action of the metro firefighters. christian was born nine pounds and is a healthy bouncing baby boy. well, the inauguration of a new beer pipeline in brussels belgium came with a big party this evening. it replaces hundreds of trucks that for years had been traveling cobblestone streets to transport beer to a brewery

they will pump 880 gallons of beer an hour over two miles. it costs $4.5 million. 10% of that came from crowd funding. >> i find this is a very sympathetic way of thinking thoughts and something special. having a pipeline of beer ... we never heard of it. anywhere. so, we live, we like the beer. interesting. >> folks who donated at least $1,300 get free beer on their birthday for the rest of their lives. we do want to switch gears, check in with meteorologist danielle grant. you are outside! i'm surprised with the thunderstorming out there! thunderstorming like whoa out there! >> reporter: like whoa. exactly. that storm ripped through downtown. caused delays. red rocks. now, it is off headed toward

little glimpse of some clearing skies and the hope that maybe we can capture that gorgeous harvest moon. look at this one. downtown denver all lit up. still a couple of rain drops on the camera lens, but the storm is gone. the sunset was spectacular. just to the west of longmont. and then, around to the east for moon rise. and, that moon is just stunning out there. a day in the low 70s across the front range. warmer along the eastern plains. 50s , 60s pretty comfortable along the western slope. temperatures only warming up as we head toward the weekend. right now, out at the airport, there's the thunderstorm. temperatures have cooled off a little bit into the upper 50s . the winds out of the southeast at just six miles an hour. here in the nine backyard, our temperatures also right there at 59. very nice evening. love that smell of some fresh rain. you can see on hd doppler 9, this is the only storm cell pretty much that is in colorado right now. and it is just smack dab right

to the north and to the east of town over the stapleton area. close to about 90 lightning strikes or so. you can see it is going to be a fast mover over to dia which might slow down air traffic just a bit. but it should be fairly brief. we will be watching the skies clearing after midnight. so, if you are still up, a great capture of that harvest moon. we would love to see your shots. light wind, quiet and calm once we get rid of that storm cell. 40s and 50s . certainly a chilly one up kind of cold especially for the north western side. and south western side of the state as they are sitting under a freeze warning until 9:00 tomorrow morning. upper 20s , lower 30s . you can feel the change out there. these storms starting to move out tomorrow morning. we are back in business with all that sunshine. 8:00 a.m., we are looking good across the state. until the afternoon when a few clouds start pushing into the city. i really am not anticipating any wet weather for your saturday. so things are looking good. however, if you are down there

thunderstorms. they move off into kansas and nebraska. some of those might turn severe. this will be the area we are looking for trouble tomorrow. the biggest threats, large hail as well as damaging winds. winds 60 to 70 miles an hour with the worst of it southeast colorado. into the panhandles of oklahoma and texas. so, tomorrow, here in denver, fantastic. seasonal. right where we should be. with those storms bubbling up just to the east of the corridor. low 80s we stay in the 60s from the foothills tall way up to the mountains. grand lake, 64. it should be a fantastic day if you want to take an adventure up in the mountains. now is the time to look at the leaves. mid to upper 70s in the i-25 corey rose looking good. it should be fantastic going with mostly clear skies around 7:00 p.m. as the rapids take the field out at dick's. 73 degrees.

leon singing the national anthem. we hanging onto the summer heat

>> from colorado's sports leader, here is aaron matas. >> good evening. it was one of those nights at coors field. the first pitch off the wall in right. a couple of pitches later over the wall in back. d.j. lemahieu had two hit ins the game including a bases loaded double in the 2nd inning that scored three runs and gave the rockies a 4-3 lead. but it is one of those nights. alex dickerson drove in two runs to tie the game in the 3rd inning. rockies were already down in the 9th inning. and then this. they got hailed on, gerardo parra wants off the field. 7-9 padres in the 9th inning after a short weather delay.

host their new nemesis, the indianapolis colts. and key players are banged up. derek wolf and demaryius thomas are listed as questionable. sounds like they could play. and even help head coach gary kubiak make the decision. >> they both played without practicing. and they are going to shoot straight with me. you know. so, as a coach, you just want a play tore tell you the truth. and hey, i can get it done today. or you know, i'm not sure can. so, suiting up 46, you have to have everybody ready to go. but i trust those two. they have done it before. >> i think guys like me and dt have earned that. our work ethic and toughness shows him we are going to play. if we can play, we are going to play. if we can't, we will tell him we can't. i have a lot of respect for him and he has a lot of respect for us. >> first official team appearance for new avalanche head coach. he was more of an observer than a coach at rookie camp. our best look at him was

net. the team is going with a new format this weekend. it is not just the avalanche rookies and prospects. san jose and anaheim have their young players in town. the three teams will play a small round robin tournament. >> it is fun for us and to see what we can do with this team. i think we have a good group and we can win both games. that's what i thought. i think it is nice to play against anaheim and san jose, too. playing against each other. it is is going to be fun. school football with several homecoming games on the line with a look around the state, 9news prep reporter taylor joins me from the information center. >> reporter: an emotional night at north stadium as legacy football took the field against prairie view. the entire area came out homecoming show their support. the lightning felt the love after jumping out to an early lead, this. anthony lyle back for the punt

the house. legacy gets the win. 29-6 is your final. the hawks rule past the mountain ranges thanks in part to this guy. this long touchdown run. it was his third score of the night. they go onto win it. then thomas jefferson looking to stay undefeated on the season taking on alameda. spartans wasted no time getting to work. quarterback dane washington is going to send th floats it right into the hands of adrian chambers. t.j. pulls ahead in the second half to win it 29-14. of course, we will have more from these games and others starting tomorrow morning on the 9news prep rally at 6:45. aaron, for you i will say maybe just set your dvr when you go home tonight. >> it is already set taylor. thank you very much. true freshman colin hill will start for colorado state tomorrow when the rams host northern coloro. he is the team's third starter

the rams are coming off a win over ut san antonio. but aren't exactly feeling great about themselves after another lackluster offensive performance. the bears meanwhile are 2-0. and colorado state does not care that unc is an fcs opponent. >> we have a long way to go as i said after the game last week. and, you know, for us to even act like that we can show up, we will be sadly mistaken. it would be embarrassing. we are going to go to work. we are about to play that's got some skill. if we don't improve in the ability to throw the football, it is going to be another long day. >> rams and bears haven't played since 2011. so it has been a few years. but not quite this long ago. [ cheers and applause ] >> cordell stewart back to throw. four, three seconds too. this will be the last play of the game. he is going the heave it as far as he can! down deep into michigan territory! juggled in the air!

touchdown, colorado. >> the miracle in michigan, 1994. as the buffs get ready to return to the big house and take on fourth ranked michigan on saturday. >> it is fact to me he threw it that far. i mean ... not many people can do that at all. most teams, you can't do it. you are having to throw the ball around or that type of thing. he could heave it 70 something yards. >> hopefully it doesn't come do if it does, i will get the ball in the end zone. >> one of the most iconic moments in cu football history. and they are trying to hope to make new memories tomorrow. >> one of the craziest for our university of michigan football team as well. >> they don't want to talk about it. >> no. yeah. absolutely. well, hopefully, they can make t work. good stuff. thank you aaron. hey, coming up next, darth vader in search of trash, guys.

>> that one pesky little storm moved right through downtown denver. but now it is out of here pushing across the northeast side of the state. we are going to look at a fantastic weekend the mountains. soak your eyes on that. >> uh-huh. >> plenty of golden colors out there in dillon. capturing that great shot. your forecast, slightly warmer temperature ins the upper 70s . we will have a few storms that will be across the eastern plains. a warmup for the start of next week. can you believe it guys? close to 90 degrees. >> hmm. >> wild. the summer heat isn't going anywhere. and then, fall. officially. next thursday.

that next weekend. still, looks pretty sunny. no major storms in sight. i'm liking what i'm seeing. >> you like sunday? >> 85 degrees? >> for a football game? absolutely. >> there you go. >> perfect. >> a little hot on the sidelines. >> a little bit. a little bit. black may not be the safest color to wear when you are working along the highway picking up trash, but black is necessary for a man in virginia who dresses as darth vader and wields a gripper to pi garbage. the man behind the mask is henry wakely. he adopted this mile-and-a-half of route 60 and agreed to keep it clean. >> i like to get out here and dress up. it makes people smile going by. the lack of cleanliness disrupts me. we need to end this destructive behavior to restore the galaxy. >> someone told police batman was walking along the highway. no, sir, officers cleared up

was darth vader cleaning up. >> okay. [ laughter ] >> he's cleaning up. he's cleaning up. >> all right, hey, we will update you on 9news tomorrow morning starting at 6:00. thanks for watching. have a wonderful night! you guys don't like that story?