. >>> aalook at the overbudgeted va hospital in aurora. how they seem to be defying congress about turning over records. z24qjz zvpz in colorado, we stand together, but congressman coffman stands with donald trump and will support trump for president. they've spread falsehoods about president obama. trump: oh, no. coffman: i don't know whether barack obama was born in the united states or not. coffman and trump are too dangerous for colorado. >>> 6:00 a.m. denver7 your source for breaking news on i-70 now. this live look. his backup on >> this wiil be a problem for some time, so let's go straight to denver 7's daryl orr live at the scene for us now. daryl. >> reporter: we're standing on the eastbound side of i-70. as you saw from the helicopter, traffic both direct backed up. what's happened out here is a motorcyclist was travelinn westbound on 70 here at the monaco exit, and the rider apparently fell off the motorcycle. the rider behind him ran over the rider of that motorcycle. the person has been transported to the hospital. serious inj

. >>> soon you can get aalook at colorado's largest gold mine. the company will provide an active public of its nearly 600 foot deep mining pit. from a safe vantage point onlookers will be able to see mining activitt as it happens and the equipment used to find gold. >>> recognition for a growing state. two of america's top four zip codes for the hottest real estate market the right here in colorado. the zip code 80233 and 80196 ranked number three and four in the study ranks the areas on the time it takes to sell properties and how frequently homes are viewed in each zip code. >> of suppressors not more. what a great place to live. >>> beautiful weather in steamboat at storm peak they got the very first snow. that came through that brought the snow brought some wind we still have a fair amount of color hanging on over including steamboat. good viewing this week. best viewing central and southwest mountains for the next couple of days. a spectacular day today in denver. 73 at the airport. winds are from the east northeast at six. 76 with the high

take aalook at this map and see where you are, all of those streets in red are closed today. they are -- there are alternatives, the bus, 60 street mall, light rail, those who streets in red will reopen tuesday morning. kickoff of the big bmx event at sculpture park in downtown denver. denver is the only city in the us to host this seriess it is an extreme competition. there will be skateboarding, bmx flatland, freestyle events, it will be pretty cool. this will last all through the holiday weekend. >>next on denver7, high wind and flooding. hurricane hermine makes landfall. we will take it to the east coast for what the storm has >>> colin kaepernick [ indiscernible ] and what a member of the broncos is saying. >>> a taco truck outside trumps denver office. >>> quite weather in denver. severe weather across the eastern plains. a tornado warning currently in effect for yuma county. colin kaepernick continues to protest the national anthem. last night the 49ers quarterback took a knee right behind 240 servicemembers wh are being honored on military appreciatioo night. adding t

jefferson county crook caught on camera after helping himself to items from a >>> as we head to break, aalook to repaint some crosswalk signals. it took city workers a couple hours to clean up the graffiti. they say anyone defacing a crosssalk sign will be prosecuted. >>> this is northbound side of i-25 by the wind sor exit, the left lane the is blocked temporarily. you can see the i-70. still pretty bright. there it is. >> okay in houston i'm more concerned that they're giving pedestrians 60 seconds to cross the street. >>> we have a nice start to our day here in denver. out east here's a live look from our wireless camera. in limon it's wet with drizzle anddpatchy fog. it's drier this afternoon across north eastern colorado. we will see a few storms pop up mainly in the mountains today the weekend. today here's your first alert -- we're in the mid 80s and right where we should be close to normal today. a few degrees above normal this weekend. we'll talk about it coming up. >>> a thief is caught on camera in jefferson county. there's the guy. tte family says the crook stole tools and golf cl

take aalook at the map and you see a lot of traffic already i've seen a lot of traffic from georgetown to the eisenhower tunnel. already starting to slow down there, as well as highway 285 heading up to fair play. a lot of traffic in and around downtown denver for a taste of colorado, where we have roads already closed down, including to broadway, can't do it. grant is a good option. colfax is closed down. by tonight at 7:00 lincoln street and more of colfax and 14th avenue will be closed down because of taste of colorado. we are very busy downtown. speaking of a taste, we have jason gruenauer down there near one of thhse stages and he's checking out the activities going on down there at taste of colorado. >> reporter: yes. we are officially open. it's a good reason to close down the streets. one of those, bacon. we're going to show you what we've got going on. things did just officially open. they're still putting the finishing touches on everything, including here at say cheese. baked potato nachos, bacon mac attack. we've been out here all morning. we talked to the lovely folks at l