Children to school when she saw the flames. Its scary. I feel bad for the people who live here . Another day of erratic wind kicked up the fires. There is not a lot of moisture available once it dries out aint the time that we need people to be cautious sparks. 60 firefighters from 8 district has to act fast because, right down the hill sits the hill top neighborhood. Some the people that live right down this path here were watering down the vegetation behind their house. A few of the homes were evacuated as flames came within just a few yards of some of them. The entire hill behind hundreds of homes was either in flames or smoldering as residents could only stand and wait. Reporter ill tell you what. A scary situation now. Everything is out now but there occasionally you can see a few smokes and you can smell the smoke here. Firefighters will stay the night through the evening just in case the wind kicks up any hot spots right now. But ed green back in colorados weather center, the winds were whipping up in all kinds of Different Directions here. Its died down now but it goes to show you even if you dont have one of those red flag warnings in the area, when the with dwind is with with the wind is with us, if its dry, thats will start. Lets take a look at the snowfall and see how drywe are. We started january 4. 22 inches of snow for the month. Thats a little bit below normal by about two and a half inches. In february, we Dallas Fort Worth started great. We had almost a foot of snow in february 1st and february 2nd and then, as you take a look at not a drop of rain, not a flake of snow and get aload of. This load get a lot of this. Temperatures have been dry. Very warm. So you have warm temperatures, the lack of moisture. And we have the start of the fire season we want to get the moisture machine crank back up. And we may see some coming up this weekend. Now to anone date on efforts to reopen i70 glenwood canyon. Cdot closed the highway after two rock slides closed the road. Cdot hoped to reopen one lane some time tomorrow but they are not sure when that will happen. Once that happen, an escort will have to lead cars down that one lane down the interstate. Now, the woman on trial for cutting Michele Wilkins womb today, jurors her dynel lanes statement to police. She said she would be be testifying. The prosecutes wrapped its case today, playing the audio recording of that interview with Longmont Police detective. And while hearing her own explanation to police, she cried. For the last witness, prosecutors put detective stacy graham on the stand. She and another Longmont Police officer interviewed defendant dynel lane and prosecutors played a tape of that recording. Reporter lane tells detectives that on march 18th, Michel Wilkins came at her with a knife. For the First Time Since trial began, lane showed emotions while listening to the reporter lane goes on to tell police she thought she killed will kings and had to save her unborn baby. If i did something, i did something really bad. I need go to jail. Reporter now lanes lawyers have not tried to claim self defense in this but the prosecution likely played recording in an effort to convince the jury that lane planned what she was doing, that she act in tension fullly and took Great Lengths to try to cover it up. Next closing arguments stated to begin on monday, the defense will counter that what lane did was reckless, but not planned. Now to new information in the case of a former surgical tech from Swedish Medical Center accused of stealing pain killers ms for patients. Rocky allen pleaded not guilty swedish were told to get tested for possible exposure to hepatitis c and d. Weep learned more about allens past today, rick . Reporter we learned that rocky allen had a history of working with hospitals, getting fired for Drug Diversion around not reporting that on his risumi when he applies for the next job. An on racial was about to take place an operation was about to take place at Swedish Hospital but rocky allen was not even supposed to be in that room. F. D. A. Agents christie burg testified that allen was fired from four hospitals for drug theft and is under investigation at north. He said he left the jobs that he was fired from off his risumi. It was not revealed if Swedish Hospital did any preemployment drug screening. Efem banker is an attorney representing several of the potential victims from swedish. Looks like had he been lying on his risumi about where he had been. Facilities. Sound like there may vp been another incident in the Navy Reporter he was caught replacing a syringe by another employee after seeing another similar incident. A manager was called and allen said he was in the room to say hello but he was given a urinalysis which turned r rd turned up fentanyl and marijuana. Prosecutors argued for allen to be held behind bars until trial but the magistrate disagreed. Legal analyst karen steinhouseer said that the court had to consider several factors. Are there conditions under which somebody will be released that will guarantee their appearance in court and protect the commune. Allen can be released on a 25,000 bond to a halfway house. He is to undergo drug treatment medicine. Reporter swedish is not the only hospital that is recommending that its patients worked there. Live at federal court, rick salinger, cbs 4 news. Rick, thank you. A bill that would give colorado sex assault victims more time to report the crime cleared a major hurdle today. It passed the house 622. The bill would double the statute of limitation from 10 years to 20 years. The bill now heads to the senate. No information on a high end shoplifting ring. Police denver confirms they have been talking to investigators in new york city about thieves telling furs in den denver, boulder, aspen and vail. Howard, certainly similarities with these crimes . Reporter jim, a store owner here says that a female of this twosome shoplifters would find something on the rack, take at this time off, hold it up. The clerk is over here. Later in the Surveillance Video that you will see, he would take the item and place it behind his back. This is a chin chill ya a fur which sell it is for tens of thousands of dollars. These two suspected thieves had been caught on surveillance camera stealing furs among other expensive merchandise in vail, aspen, denver. He would shove it under his coat reporter max seal lost 20,000 in merchandise his Surveillance Video and video out of new york stores show a similar pattern of shoplifting. Aspen detective is confident and in new york. I would say 95. 99 that the gentleman with the puffy jacket and even down to the gray scarf he has on is the exact same person that stole the fur in vail. Bags like this on the elbow reporter on tuesday aspen Police Tracked the couple to a hotel in vail. The couple invited the vail police right in. Said, sure. Go ahead, take a look around. We are totally unassuming. We are not interested in seeing the warrants. They were not worried, obviously. And we did nod locate any furs in their room. No furs found meant no arrest, from yours trading seal. They are not smalltime shoplifters. We believe that they have the goods stashed away or theyve shipped them out already. Reporter now, the store owner here says that he has spoken to about a dozen stores over in new york. They seem to think that, in new york, the shoplifters might be russian or Eastern European and they have been operating here and in colorado or rather, colorado and in new york since object better of last year. Either way, they may be coming to a highend store near you. Reporting live in den very, howard nathan, cbs 4 news. Coming umm, coming up, they were one of the hottest Holiday Gifts of the year, now, there is a new warning for those hover boards. And the sniffling may not be allergy after all. An can see the next system heading our way. This will probably come our way on sunday but take a look at this one. This may drop the temperatures well below normal and bring rain or snow. You will see the forecast next. , donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. There are two democratic visions for regulating wall street. One says its okay to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do. 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And manufacturers of hover boards may soon get hit by recalls. They are prone to catching fire, even exploding. There are concerns about those lithium batteries inside now says it will recall the products if they dont meet recently released safety requites. Time for our healthwatch on this friday. A warm weather has sparked spring allergies. They are really coming out early. The i shall is not just the warmth but the winds, too. Winter is the time of year when nagging cold and congestion can take over so cold air can irritate your airwaves if you have asthma or other respiratory conditions. While its still february here in denver. Its beautiful out. Sure does not feel like win center. And all this unseasonably warm winter means that your cough might be different than just a cold. We are seeing what we are usually seeing later in the spring now. Health experts are starting to see allergies, running noses, great coughinducing wind has started to kick up everything and that can be very irritating reporter officials at National Denver jush health say that now is the time to start on your antihistamine regiment because no end is in sight. Its expected to get worse. Got a warm start and everything is starting to bloom so we have to get prepared. We are sure hoping that the nice weather at least holds up for the weekend, ed. I think it will hold for part of the weekend. Sunday is not going to be all that bad. In the meantime, we have cloudy to partly cloudy to even clear skies across the state. Not much in the way of moisture around us. You have to go all the way to the pacific northwest. That will come on through and youll feel it on sunday. Behind that, we have another system that one looks a little stronger than we first thought. So maybe on tuesday, we may not get out of the 30s. Well show you that, too. Came through yesterday. Still pretty nice, felt better because there was no strong gusty winds. You can seat rain showers to the south of us, even a few thunderstorms just north of chicago. And then to the north of da in the colder air, it is all snow, right into the Great Lakes Region and lots of sunshine down to the southeast. And they are starting to see a mill bit of a warmup. Temperature change, 6 degrees warmer than we were at this hour yesterday. 6 degrees cooler, that is. And then you can see in the northeast, ringing the eastern plains, much cooler than we were yesterday at this time. And, of course, 64 and 66 what is we did, still well above normal, 47 an though we were cooler than record 73 we saw yesterday. 71 the record for this date. 33 and 39 are the lows. Very mild because we should be at about 20 and 4 below is the record for this day. Third day in a row we had that record low. 58 in greeley. 67 degrees, everybody above normal. Of 2 and 63 right now. Pretty pleasant. Winds north at 7. 15 humidity and we do have a steady barometer. Temperatures for tonight in the 20s and 30s into the eastern plains, teen, 20s, Higher Elevations out west, temperatures in the 20s and 30s for some, pretty nice day around here, kind of like today. 40s, 50s, 60s, maybe a 70 degree reading down in the southeast, 30s and 40s. Temperatures in the 40s and 50s here is that denver forecast. Thats a changing forecast. Well look for mostly clear skies with 36 and 34 the overnight lows. Tomorrow, partly cloudy skies, 65 and 63. So still very nice and still well above the norm. That begins to change a little. 49 on sunday. Still partly sunny. Monday, 56 degrees. And look at tuesday, 39 degrees, maybe rain or snow showers, 10 degrees warmer by wednesday and then warmer as you had the so you had the glasses on and then you dont have the glasses on. Are you tricking us . 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