@denverheadlines Friday

	Highs	Lows	Friday Sunny skies. High near 75F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Friday night Clear. Low 52F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
	75° F	52° F
	24 C	11 C
			Sunrise: 6:45 am    Sunset: 6:58 pm    Moonrise: 7:34 pm    Moonset: 8:03 am

• Trail Ridge Road, a primary route used to evacuate flooding victims from Rocky Mountain National Park and the nearby town of Estes Park over the past week, is back open after being closed Thursday morning due to overnight snow and freezing conditions.

• In a speech both defiant and urgent in tone, Gov. John Hickenlooper said the state is in a "race against winter" to fix the more than 200 miles of state highway that were damaged by last week's flood.

• Rushing floodwater loaded with heavy debris damaged oil and gas pipes and tanks and led to two of the largest of 10 spills state and federal regulators were tracking Thursday.

• A Denver district judge ruled Wednesday that the Denver City Council acted properly when rezoning three parcels of land in a West Highlands neighborhood, ending legal battle of more than one year

• Police seek public help identifying a Denver thrift store burglar.  Surveillance camera captured images of a man robbing a thrift store at 1331 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver on Sept.

• Local nonprofit My Baby Angel will launch the inaugural Wings of Heart & Hope Walk later this month to raise awareness and funding to support families who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss.

• A Boulder County jury on Thursday afternoon found a Longmont man guilty of three counts of attempted murder and one count of attempted arson in July 2012 fire at his neighbor's home.

• Boulder County Sheriff's Office confirms fourth flood fatality.  The Boulder County Sheriff's Office on Thursday confirmed that it has recovered a body in the St. Vrain River bed near Lyons.

• The Boulder County Farmers' Markets Longmont market will resume at the Boulder County Fairgrounds on Saturday, Sept. 21, but will start an hour later than usual, according to the county Parks and Open Space

• Woman survives 1976 Big Thompson Flood, loses home to 2013 flood.  The last time Libby Orr and her pets took a helicopter out of Big Thompson Canyon was in 1976.

• A Disaster Assistance Center opened Thursday in Colorado Springs for those impacted by recent flooding, providing things like cleanup kits, food boxes, tetanus shots, mental health counseling, tips on dealing with mold

• Both the City and County of Boulder are trying to make it easier on flood victims to rebuild and get their recovery effort underway. Some of those are free building permits and free curb-side pickup in the city scheduled to begin early next week.

• Denver police make arrest in attempted kidnapping of girl, 13.  Oscar Escobedo-Vasquez, 37, was arrested Thursday for the incident that occurred Tuesday in the 3300 block of North York Street, according to Denver police.

• It is going to be months before the infrastructure in the town of Lyons is ready to support residents, town and county administrators announced to a packed room during a town meeting Thursday night in Longmont.

• The district attorneys for Weld and Boulder counties, along with other authorities, are warning flood victims to beware of fraud and scams.

@denverheadlines Thursday

	Highs	Lows	Thursday Sunshine to start, then a few afternoon clouds. High 68F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph. Thursday night A few clouds. Low 51F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
	68° F	51° F
	20 C	11 C
			Sunrise: 6:44 am    Sunset: 7:00 pm    Moonrise: 7:00 pm    Moonset: 6:57 am

• Two flood-damaged storage tanks owned by Anadarko Petroleum Corp., one of Colorado’s biggest oil and gas companies working north of Denver, have spilled an estimated 125 barrels of oil, or about 5,250 gallons, into the South Platte River, according to the company and state officials.

• Property losses from deadly flooding in Colorado will total nearly $2 billion , about half from housing and half from the commercial and government sectors, catastrophe modelling firm Eqecat said on Wednesday in the first comprehensive estimate of the disaster's economic toll.

• Garbage day after the Colorado floods is turning apocalyptic. The potential volume of flood debris is mind-blowing, given preliminary estimates of more than 1,800 homes destroyed and more than 16,000 damaged and full of soggy ruins.

• Colorado businesses are stepping up in ways big and small to assist the community as it endures historic flooding and begins to look toward recovery and rebuilding.

• Because of the flooding Colorado Springs is now losing eight to 10 million gallons of water a day. That's water we use for drinking, for bathing, and for about everything else. So city utility workers are making flood damage repairs their top priority.

• Xcel Energy's most flood-impacted natural-gas service area in Longmont is Royal Mobile Home Park, where 62 natural gas customers are out of service, the utility company said Wednesday afternoon.
• Galvanize, the humming hub of Denver's tech startup world, will build a second location in the Platte River neighborhood and add a campus in Boulder, both of which it expects to open in 2014.
• Number of missing in Colorado floods drops  2013. As water recedes and flows east onto the Colorado plains, rescuers are shifting their focus from emergency airlifts to trying to find the hundreds of people still
• After a "soft opening" Monday with a minimum of services, the Longmont and Boulder County disaster assistance center went into full swing Wednesday.