close to homes you can see the homeowners using garden hoses property. 60 firefighters from different departments raced to the scene. forth. dave aguilera is live on the ground for us. scary to see the smoke from your backyard, dave. >> it was rough afternoon up here, i'll tell you. now it's 100% contained now but take a look at what 27 acres look like after it's all been burned. this hillside is a pretty expansive hill but what's scary about this is how close the live. homes. and the flames came close close to the trail and then, it was a few feet from the homes. as soon as we get to the ridge, we saw the flares.

children to school when she saw the flames. >> it's 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 ain't' 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: i'll 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 colorado's weather center, the winds were whipping up in all kinds of different directions here. it's died down now but it goes to show you even if you don't have one of those red flag warnings in the area, when the with dwind is with ---with the wind is with us, if it's dry, that's will start. >> let's take a look at the snowfall and see how drywe are. we started january 4.22 inches of snow for the month. that's 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 i-70 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 lane's 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 lane's 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 allen's 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 62-2. 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 two-some 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 small-time shoplifters. we believe that they have the goods stashed away or they've 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 high-end store near you. reporting live in den very, howard nathan, cbs 4 news.

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by to pay their respects today. all the current justices attended a private ceremony led catholic priest. the president and first lady also met with scalia's family offering their condelences and they took time to view his caskets to kill a mockingbird is a classic novel, a favorite of readers for decades. >> now fans are mourning the loss of its author, harper lee. the publisher for the -89s-year-old writer died peacefully. to kill a mockingbird was published in 1949. go set a watch man was written before to kill a mockingbird and discovered in a safe box. 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 don't 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 it's still february here in denver. >> it's 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 cough-inducing

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. >> it's 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 you'll 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. we'll 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. that's a changing forecast. we'll 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

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>> thanks for watching colorado news channel. >> the hunt for the person who stole a stake from a front range pet store coming up. cbs evening news coming up right now. >> pelley: pax romana. >> i think he's a terrific person. >> pelley: trump makes peace on with the pope on the eve of a critical weekend for both parties in the presidential race. also tonight, law enforcement's battle for access to the cell phones of criminal suspects. remembering author harper lee, and her american classic. >> it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. >> pelley: and steve hartman, when a young boy summoned the police, they responded in force. >> i didn't know it was going to be this big, really. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. e

turning point in the race for the white house. democrat hillary clinton, who squeaked by in iowa, only to be buried in a new hampshire landslide, faces even odds against bernie sanders in nevada. ted cruz is closing on republican donald trump, is looking to south carolina for a second win. the rest of the g.o.p. candidates are struggling to keep their campaigns alive. we're going to start with the democrats tonight. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: with time running out in nevada, clinton courted union workers in las vegas-- >> i did not just wake up one day and say, "oh, my goodness, workers are being mistreated!" >> reporter: while sanders stumped in rural nevada. >> let us go forward together. >> reporter: the state will be be the first test of their appeal to minority voters. nevada is more than a quarter o latino. clinton has tried to blunt sanders' momentum here by portraying him as one

income inequality. what do you think of secretary clinton calling you a one-issue candidate? >> obviously, she has not been listening to my hour and a half speech. where i go over about 15 or 20 issues. >> reporter: both are campaigning with one eye on the larger south carolina primary ju democrats will hold a week from tomorrow. >> she worked to reform juvenile justice in south carolina, exposed racism in alabama schools. >> reporter: clinton released a new ad today narrated by morgan freeman, and she won the endorsement of the highest ranking african american in congress, south carolina's james clyburn. >> and i believe that the future of the democratic party and the united states of america will be best served with the experiences and knowhow of hillary clinton as our 45th president. >> reporter: clyburn had been planning to remain publicly neutral in the primary, but he

sanders trounced clinton in new hampshire and pulled even with an her here in nevada. >> pelley: the nevada vote tomorrow. nancy cordes, thanks very much. today, major garrett talked with donald trump and asked him the same question that we asked n clinton yesterday, does he subscribe to the truth-telling standard that jimmy carter set in the 1976 campaign when he said, "i will never lie to you?" n >> i would be very, very satisfied just to say i don't lie, and, you know, she sort of fudged it a little bit. which i didn't love, but i understood what she was saying. i would much rather say i don't r lie. you know, one of my problems is i'm straight. i tell it straight. i tell it like it is. >> reporter: we interviewed donald trump before a noon rally in myrtle beach. the crowd of more than 5,000 began arriving at 6:00 a.m. do you ever worry if you're elected president, you'll let them down? >> i will be so disappointed in myself. there are so many things to do. our country is so far behind. we owe $19 trillion. we're going to start chopping

oppi people down. a burden, though, if you become president? >> it's a burden. i don't want to let these people down. >> reporter: a day after calling the pope disgraceful for suggesting trump was not a christian because he supported a wall on the mexican border, trump softened his criticism. >> well, i think it wasn't as severe as the media let it be known, because i saw his statement somewhat later. but this morning he was so nice ng >> reporter: is this an issue for the papacy to get involved in any way, illegal immigration. >> look, mexico is ripping off this country, they're ripping us . off between the drug trade and all of the illegal immigration f and they said to the pope something and he went out with it. but he didn't know the united states' stand. no he didn't know where we are or our people, but he was terrific. >> reporter: we also asked about a september 2002 radio interview where trump said he backed the r war with iraq despite saying the opposite on the campaign trail. >> you could see that was a very

person that ever asked me about the war. i'm a businessperson, so they're not asking me about the war. m then shortly after that, i en s started saying-- i started really studying it and looking at it. i didn't like it because you're going to ruin the balance in the middle east, which is what happened. >> reporter: trump also said he does not believe the most recent poll here showing the race tightening with ted cruz. ng scott, trump said he expects to win and if the republican field shrinks in the aftermath, intends to pick up a good portion of the vote those who quit leave behind. >> pelley: and the republican vote in south carolina is tomorrow, as well. major garrett, thanks very much. that poll major mentioned shows trump with only a five-point lead over cruz, but other polls show a wider margin for trump. so the real battle is for second place, the trump alternative. and with some insight into that, john dickerson is joining us, the anchor of "face the nation." john. >> scott, ted cruz has been second in the polls to be the first trump alternative.

carolina looks like iowa, the state where he won, with about the same number of people who identify as very conservative and evangelical christians. marco rubio, trying to come in second after his fifth-place finish in new hampshire, needs , either to come in second or to come in a close third to make his case that he's the mainstream answer to donald trump. for jeb bush and ben carson, this is a make-or-break. bush brought out his mother and his brother to campaign for him to this week, and if he has a lackluster showing the curtain will start to come down. that's true, also, for carson. c john kasich is not expected to do well. his game plan relies on midwestern states like michigan. he just has to hope his rivals don't do too well in south carolina which would make it hard for him to stay in the conversation. >> pelley: the winnowing continues. john dickerson, our political director. ow thank you. in another story tonight, the justice department asked a federal judge today to force apple to unlock an iphone that

bernardino terrorists. apple says that if it did, all is of its customers would lose their right to privacy. r ri jim axelrod has discovered there are many more of these battles than you might think. >> reporter: the battle over access to the san bernardino na shooters' cell phone is far from an isolated case. the manhattan d.a.'s office said it's investigating cases involving 175 apple products with encryption similar to syed farook's phone, cases ranging from homicide to child sexual abuse. manhattan's d.a. cyrus vance jr. >> it is very difficult to explain to a victim of crime that we cannot get the evidence that may identify the individual who committed the crime because the cell phone company and designer has decided that they know better. >> reporter: apple c.e.o. tim cook says he's fighting the order to devise a way past the iphone's encryption system to keep his consumers safe. >> but the reality is if you put a backdoor in, that backdoor is ac

>> reporter: john miller is deputy commissioner of the n.y.p.d. he says apple could develop a s code to break into the phone, get the information it needs, then destroy it. >> tim cook says, "i'm doing this for the safety of my customers," meaning so that we have an impregnable phone. i have to ask-- how many people who died on the floor in san bernardino or in paris had iphones in their pockets as they were being killed by the terrorists? they are tim cook's customers, too. >> reporter: today, a senior apple executive told cbs news, but why is apple's cooperation necessary at all? mike morrell is the former number two at the c.i.a. isn't there somebody who currently works for the c.i.a. or the n.s.a. who could do what the government wants apple to do? >> there's been so much advance

the ability to protect information in these kind of devices, that the government has h capabilities. >> reporter: the next chapter in or the legal battle in this case will unfold march 22. that is when a judge will hear arguments from both sides in a >> pelley: jim, thanks very much. american warplanes bombed an isis camp in libya overnight. about 40 people were killed, described by the u.s. as isis recruits. likely among the dead, a tunisian suspected of planning major terrorist attacks in tunisia last year. a limited cease-fire was supposed to quiet the guns today i in syria. t it didn't. the five-year-old civil war is even more chaotic because some rebel groups backed by the ec united states are now attacking each other. holly williams has our report. >> reporter: this is the first video evidence that u.s.-backed

in syria. it appears to show syrian rebels using an american-supplied missile against kurdish fighters, who are also supported sh by the u.s. the two groups are now battling for the same territory in northern syria. meanwhile, a car bomb in the i turkish capital, ankara, on wednesday has brought tensions between the u.s. and its close ally turkey to a breaking point. the attack on a military convoy killed 28 people and turkey's blaming a kurdish group. the same group that america's backing in syria in the fight against isis. today, the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan, demanded s that america declare the kurdish group a terrorist organization. the kurdish group denies any involvement in the bombing, but turkey's anger with the u.s. could have big ramifications for

scott, the u.s.-led coalition uses a turkish airbase to launch strikes against isis in syria. a >> pelley: holly williams, thanks. the show of respect was unanimous today for supreme court associate justice antonin scalia. hour after hour, mourners filed past his casket in the great hall of the court. prayers were led by his own son, a catholic priest. here's our chief legal correspondent jan crawford. >> reporter: justice scalia arrived at the court for a final time with his former law clerks l there to see him up the steps of the institution he served for 30 years. his family looking on. waiting inside the great hall e were his fellow justices. >> my brothers and sisters. >> reporter: the service was brief and moving.

scalia, led the prayers as his wife, maureen, and their eight other children and most of their 36 grandchildren flanked the casket. >> we ask this through christ our lord. l >> reporter: the justices and their spouses stood silently, their faces etched in grief. none of the eight justices have j served on the court without the larger-than-life scalia. his sudden death will upend the court's dynamics and some of his decisions. as the president gets ready to nominate his successor, he took time away from politicking friday afternoon to pay his respects with the first lady. the couple paused as they left the great hall to stand before a painting of scalia. earlier in the afternoon, two of the leading candidates to replace scalia, federal appeals court judges patricia millett, and sri srinivasan, also paid respects. and throughout the day, long lines formed as members of the public waited to go inside, a quiet moment far removed from the brewing battle over the nomination.

>> reporter: scalia's death leaves the court divided 4-4, its future hanging in the balance, a family without its patriarch. now, the president and the first lady also met privately with some members of scalia's family. he will not be attending the funeral tomorrow, scott. t instead. >> pelley: jan crawford at the court for us tonight. jan, thank you. well, emotions ran high at a hearing for the teen who used an fo affluenza defense for drunk driving. and president obama says she changed america for the better. we'll remember harper lee when the cbs evening news continues. ev you're young or old. no matter who you are a heart attack can happen without warning. if you've had a heart attack, a bayer aspirin regimen another one. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. bayer aspirin. life. so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece

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son, sergio, she feels pain. gi the 18-year-old was left a quadraplegic after riding in a a truck driven by ethan couch. couch crashed the vehicle into sh another stranded vehicle. th >> it's not easy seeing sergio this way when he was a soccer player. and now you see him in one place. it's not easy. >> reporter: outings are rare, but today lemus wanted ethan couch to see her son in a te so alex is her oldest son. >> can you try to smile and tell them no matter what happened, you're still here, that you still got dreams of playing soccer, man? >> reporter: it appeared sergio lifted his leg. the family insists he was trying to speak for himself. >> i just want him back. i don't care about money. i don't care about anything. i just want my son back. k. >> reporter: scott, the sheriff said today he's noticed ever

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>> reporter: set in depression- era alabama, it's a story seen through the eyes of young scout finch, whose father atticus, defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. >> what happened to you on the evening of august 21 of last year? >> reporter: nelle harper lee grew up in scout's world in monroeville, alabama. as she described on wqxr radio in 1964. >> reporter: that was the last extended interview lee ever gave. >> she is the most private woman p i have ever known. >> reporter: friend wayne flint said lee's next project was helping her neighbor, truman capote, research a kansas murder for his 1966 book. >> and i think you could make a very good case for the fact there would be no "in cold blood" were it not for the se

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well, it's happened, and steve got an invitation from the party of the first part to the party in the second part of "on the road." >> reporter: it's not unusual for police to get called to a party, but what was unusual about this party in lansing, michigan, is that it was in their honor, a police thank you party, put on by this most- unlikely host. why did you want to do this? >> so i'm throwing them the thank you party to show them i still appreciate them. >> reporter: last year, in the midst of all those police protests, 11-year-old jeremie bordua, who had always wanted to be a police officer, asked his mom, marcella, if he picked the wrong profession. >> he goes, "mom, the cops are still the good guys, right?" i said, "yup, there are some bad police officers and there are still the good ones who are trying to protect themselves." >> reporter: jeremie got that but he still didn't like the

with the bad, so to rectify the situation, he told his mom for the next birthday all he wanted d was to throw a thank you party for police, assuming they would come. i mean, i thought maybe there would be three or four guys here. >> yeah, me, too. >> reporter: you, too? >> i didn't know it was going to be this big, really. >> happy birthday to you. >> reporter: once word got out, more than 100 officers responded. >> how are you! >> reporter: and not just from lansing, but from all over the state of michigan. he >> thanks again. >> deputy james revell drove here from georgia. >> i just want to say thank you for doing all that you do for us. >> you're welcome. >> because he saw not every police officer is bad. >> thank you. >> we're human beings and that's what he sees in us. ni >> there's one person that really recognizes what we truly are out here to do. g >> there just aren't kids like that. >> reporter: gary hall flew in from los angeles. >> i have to tell you, jeremie, how much this really means to us, and how... how humble you are. >> reporter: the kid had no idea the depth of their gratitude. >> thank you. >> reporter: but he was about to find out.

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ning sponsored by cbs . swedish hospital told nearly 3000 people to get tested for hepatitis a and c and also hiv. cbs4 investigator rick sallinger is on the top story tonight from the federal courthouse in denver. you learned an awful lot more in that court today. >> reporter: federal prosecutors revealed that rockey allen had a history of being fired from hospitals for drug-related incidents. here is a letter that was written to him by a hospital in san diego where he was accused of stealing fentanol.

syringe, you pulled it out of your sock and put it on the table. apparently, swedish hospital was not aware of this. an operation was about to take place at swedish hospital, but the court was told the surgical technician rockey allen wasn't even supposed to be in that room. fda agent christie berg testified that allen was fired from four hospitals for drug theft and is under investigation at another. she said he left the jobs that he was fired from off his resume. it was not revealed if swedish hospital did any preemployment drug screening. the attorney representing several of the potential victims from swedish spoke today. >> looks like he was lying about his resume where he had been. we know he had been fired for the same things at other facilities and sounds like there might have been a similar incident from his time in the navy. >> reporter: allen was discovered replacing a syringe of fentanyl by an employee in