in this week's story teller, 36 dan grossman shows us the ones -- 9news reporter dan grossman shows us the ones who make it all possible. >> this is one of the few things the whole community does together. whether they are in the building or watching at home. >> the early morning sky is telling. >> you can mohammed feel the energy. >> reporter: reminding us what this day will bring. >> we get excited when it is football season. >> reporter: fans will wake, their hope will grow. >> it is nonstop. >> for those who have been up long few hours will bring little more than a persistent anxiety. >> make sure you get that front. >> reporter: this is as much as his game day -- >> 9th football season. >> reporter: as it is the players that will take his field. >> we go above and beyond with how we paint the field. >> reporter: it has to be. >> you don't want to hit the board, if you paint on it it drips off. >> reporter: this started on thursday and as simple as it may seem it involves questions, lots of questions. >> we know it will be a paint day. what does the weather look like? how are we go

the interstate is seeing more jams this year than ever before. 9news reporter dan grossman found out why. us what gives? what gives with this? for every minute there is a stop on i-25 there are six minutes of congestion building up behind it. bad news, yes, but the good news is cdot is working to fix it. you may be thinking -- >> we all lose our patience in traffic. >> reporter: -- this has to be an anomaly. >> accidents actually cause 60% of our congestion on colorado roads. >> reporter: through denver i- 25 is congested more times than sunset. >> i would say 20 to 40. >> reporter: that's a fact. >> a day. >> reporter: sergeant chris hoke knows the number of crash -- chris hogue knows the number of crashes his department deals with each day ball it's only grown larger each -- because it's only grown larger each day. an accident that each ones if will cause three hours of traffic jams. cdot is in the process of lane expansions and training the police force how to clear accidents more effectively and efficiently. for a more immediate fix we can all help ourselves. >> you actually can

reporting in saint augustine, florida, dan grossman, 9news. >> sometimes it does bring out the best. i have a sister in saint augustine. because of hurricane matthew, the deadline to register to vote in florida has been extended to next tuesday. >>> the national transportation safety board says the fbi is taking over the investigation into a small airplane crash in connecticut that killed one of the two pilots. nbc news aviation -- says this happened on a busy road near pratt & whitney. >> good afternoon. the situation on the ground in east hartford connecticut has been baffling throughout the day. but the fbi, the ntsb and the faa are saying that this on main street in east hartford, this plane, a twin engine private plane went down on main street yesterday killing the student pilot. now the instructor pilot says the two were arguing prior to the crash. and that the student pilot said he did not want to fly anymore. and according to the instructor pilot, intentionally crashed the plane. however, the fbi says there is no evidence of terrorism. the student pilot was a jordanian nation

in custer county dan grossman, 9news. >> we are keeping a close watch on levels both in southern colorado and here along the front range. >>> danielle grant is tracking all of it and will join us in a few minutes with a look at a big cooldown on the way in the next 48 hours. >>> firefighters in aurora had a fire that burned about four townhomes at about 3:00 this afternoon near the intersection of east louisiana and south tower road. flames heavily damaged four townhomes. high wind firefighters -- contain the fire because of the high wind firefighters said. >> you're just chasing it at that point. the wind just pushes it everywhere. >> charcoal from a grill thrown away in a plastic trash can started it. the briquettes take time to cool, which is why they always should be thrown in a metal trash can. no one was hurt in the fire. >>> when donald trump, jr. planned to hold a campaign a lot of people got the memo, but the restaurant did not. the sink says it did get a reservation for 50 people under a different name. when it learned via the news it was for a campaign event, managers told trum

in georgia dan grossman, 9news. >>> a missing 4-year-old girl in florida has been found. she was taken from her home by a long time family friend. the sheriff said rebecca lewis was taken saturday by a 31-year- old man who legally changed his name to west wild hogs. the sheriff said hogs is a friend of rebecca's family but had been asked to leave the family's home over two years ago after pulling a gun on them. a georgia gas station saturday. a ranger reported seeing them in tennessee last night. lewis and hogs were located in memphis, no word yet on charges. >>> hillary clinton's lead is growing. the latest nbc news wall street journal poll was taken after that video was released friday about trump making derogatory comments about women but before the debate last night. the poll has trump 11 points among likely voters up from clinton's six point lead last month. libertarian gary johnson is polling at 9%. green party candidate jill stein is polling at two. >>> there are still a lot of questions today about last night's debate, everything from word choice to body language

dan grossman of nbc's denver affiliate kusa was courtroom for opening statements. >> the room was packed. you have ashley's parents who are there, a lot of family members, aunts, uncles, and even just people from the public were interested in this case. >> reporter: the prosecution's allegation was perfectly clear. tom fallis argued with his wife and in a fit of rage, shot and killed her. >> at the conclusion of this case after you've received all of the evidence, you will be convinced, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it is him who pulled the trigger. >> reporter: prosecution witnesses said ashley was in >> she was happy the whole night laughing, smiling. >> she was dancing with her children, interacting with all the guests. >> reporter: tom, though? ashley's uncle john testified about tom's sudden blowup when he discovered ashley asked him for a joint. >> and i was sort of taken aback by it, because everything was fine that night and then all of a sudden, >> reporter: a neighbor said ashley told her how tom got physical with her. >> she told me how he had pushed her around before. he ha

. >> reporter: kusa's dan grossman settled in for a bit of a wait. >> this is almost a three-week triala lot of evidence. you thought that you were looking at coming back the next day to hear the verdict. >> reporter: but, no. less than four hours later, a verdict. >> "we the jury find the defendant, thomas fallis, not guilty of murder in the second degree and all lesser included offenses, signed by the jury foreperson." >> reporter: not guilty. not murder. after four long years of living under a cloud of suspicion, tom fallis was acquitted of all charges. >> he stayed straight-faced. his -- his defense attorney, iris eytan, was very emotional. but ashley's parents, they -- they left the courtroom fairly quickly. >> reporter: ashley's parents declined to talk with dateline after the verdict, but their legal battles are far from over. in 2015, they filed a civil lawsuit against several employees of the evans police department and the weld county sheriff's office who they believe falsified, altered, and omitted key evidence to make ashley's death look like a suicide. and despite the verdi

budweiser delivered 50,000 cans of beer with the help of a driverless tech company. 9news reporter dan grossman checked it out. it was the first of its kind. >> the truck drove without the driver having to touch the wheel once. the company technology shot the video. this was completely legal and cdot was nearby the entire tomatoes court the truck, but we were still -- time to escort the truck, but we were still curious how and why this technology was being used. in the future this is going to be the way forward. >> it performed flawlessly. >> it's like a train on software rails. >> where we are now is right here. anybody with a fleet will be consumption impacts. i mean this is a big deal. >> reporter: cdot executive director traveled five cars behind the maiden voyage thursday in the middle of the night. >> it was one of the more exciting and boring things i've ever done. >> reporter: but to understand how this works in the future you need to understand how the technology works. it only takes three systems, the first is gps which tracks your location. the second monitors changing dynamic road c

reporting in custer county dan grossman, 9news. >> no doubt fire officials have their hands busy this afternoon. they will brief the media >>> wind definitely is not helping the firefighters. red flag warnings are in effect for much of our state. danielle grant is in the weather center. some places have been gusts up to 60 mailings an hour. >> they have been unruly and unfortunately this is what we were imagining happening this afternoon with the strong winds out there and tinder dry conditions. we see wildfires spark up like that. wind gusts 30 mile-per-hour in longmont, 60 mile- the cheyenne ridge, fort morgan 62 mile-per-hour wind speeds and 20s and 30s in the denver metro area. these winds will weaken heading towards this afternoon further into this evening. down across the southern section of our state you can see the winds in the 30 mile- per-hour range toward alamosa, 44 mile-per-hour speeds in trinidad. relative humidity values picking up here in denver. you can see they're still in the teens toward salida and pueblo, 8% in trinidad where until 9 p.m. tonight for most of easte

dan grossman is looking into the new debate over how much they should offer. >> so the tax incentives are an agreement between the movie companies and the state. the amount changes every year as it's a part of colorado's budget. in 2012 they bassed a -- passioned a house -- passed a house bill allowing $5 million it's $3 billion. a new film is going to utah with just under 7 million dollars to offer, but new mexico is offering $50 million, and they're currently looking at cutting the number in half, but the colorado office of film, television and media is lobbying for more money to keep the film makers interested. >> i mean, we would have loved to have got ten the -- gotten is steven soderbergh movie because we're terning away a substantial -- turning away a substantial amount of business. >> reporter: there have been questions about how much the incentives actually do for the state, and some legislators suggested cutting the program all together as the money could go to other things like legislation and transportation. the hateful 8 was filmed in telluride in 2014, and it's estimated

country that some of the breweries closest to the action around participating at all 9news reporter dan grossman explains. >> it's fantastic. >> reporter: call it . >> there's over 4 miles of beer lines here. >> reporter: -- a maze you wouldn't late to get stuck in, 750 breweries tapping more beer than we probably should mention, but if this is where the action should be, you can find call to arms brewer chris bell happily telling jokes to >> it's mostly keeping a focus on our local neighborhood and local patrons. >> all of our beer is delivered in my little blue subaru. there's a lot of breweries and it's also costly with product and everything else. >> reporter: neither will be tapping at this year's festival, a place that will land their beers in front of the eyes and lips of 60,000 people. >> a brewery focused on staying local and pouring out of the it's hard to afford and doesn't align with their vision. entry to the festival is $250 and you need to supply all the beer free of charge. >> return on investment is something we had to look at. we're a small brewery. we have a small production w

however, the aclu wants clarification on how police plan to use it. 9news reporter dan grossman joins us now. through this is a previous abuse of power case involving dpd. >> it traces back to 2003 when the aclu sued dp of these accusations. back then officers tracked people who attended peaceful protests and labeled them as criminal extremist even though they were participating in peaceful pres. denver settled the lawsuit and agreed -- protests. den settled the lawsuit and agreed they would -- denver settled the lawsuit and agreed they would only put people under surveillance if they committed a crime. violence once in her lifetime, yet in 2002 she found herself hooked to a piece of paper labeling her as a criminal extremist. >> there's a considerable amount of misinformation in these files. >> reporter: according to the aclu all she did was attend a protest. >> people are going to be more hesitant to express their first amendment rights. >> reporter: mark silverstein filed a class action suit then. he's curious if he'll have to do the same with denver's newest investigative software

however, the aclu wants clarification on how police plan to use it. 9news reporter dan grossman joins us now. through this is a previous dpd. >> it traces back to 2003 when the aclu sued dpd based on some of these accusations. back then officers tracked people who attended peaceful protests and labeled them as criminal extremist even though they were participating in peaceful pres. denver settled the lawsuit and agreed -- protests. den settled the lawsuit and agreed they would -- denver settled the lawsuit and agreed they would only put people under surveillance if they comm 73-year-old nunn antonia anthony never advocated violence once in her lifetime, yet in 2002 she found herself hooked to a piece of paper labeling her as a criminal extremist. >> there's a considerable amount of misinformation in these files. >> reporter: according to the aclu all she did was attend a protest. >> people are going to be more hesitant to express their first amendment rights. >> reporter: mark silverstein filed a class action suit then. do the same with denver's newest investigative software now. >> d

in flagler beach, florida, dan grossman, 9news. >>> seattle looks a little bit like denver today. city and state law enforcement have been clearing out a homeless encampment known as the jungle notorious for criminal activity and drug use. police say that people living there were warned they needed to leave by today. there were 13 who hadn't cleared out when the sweep started. at one point last year 350 people called this area home just like denver, there were protests today. the residents were forced to move to an adjacent field near safeco field as part of the the state. the city transportation and parks department says it will work to reunite belongings with its owners. >>> a fuel spill in denver closed a stretch of i-25 to one lane at the worst time this morning on northbound i-25 near alameda and santa fe around rush hour. denver fire is not sure yet exactly how much fuel was spilled, but everything should be clear for your evening commute. >>> let's get back to the big showdown tonight, the senate debate at 7:00 on political reports. thank you for joining us. we we appreciat

reporting in custer county dan grossman, 9news. >> no doubt fire officials have their hands busy this afternoon. they will brief the media

dan grossman, 9news. . >> i'm never going to look at dan the same again. >> i didn't know that a man could scream that high. oh, dan. >> we need to have a talk. >> i need it sounds fascinating. >>> 7:37 now. here's something not scary. picture pert temperatures in the 70s today. great for tailgating and hopefully followed by a broncos win later on. >> should be a good time at sports authority field at mile high. we need to get through this fog first. belen de leon has more on the dense fog advisory and when it might break . >>> welcome back. a live look at fort collins where you can see the dense fog advisory in full effect up there as it is down here in denver. let's check in with meteorologist belen de leon with a look at the forecast. belen, it is easy to see -- difficult to there today. >> it is. and i'll show you the area that's under that dense fog advisory. you know those lower clouds, that fog, and those high clouds have allowed for pretty pictures. thank you so much to our viewers for sending them in. this one is from hartley, he says go broncos, and here's another orange-lo