this picture posted by twitter user, the fire is burning next to the common ground golf course. we have not heard of any evacuations. or structures threatened right now. we do is have a crew at the scene and we'll of course bring you new information as it comes in. any moisture would help the fire threat. >> justin mcheffey, you've seen light snow out there. >>reporter: yes, karen, but rooer not getting the moisture where we necessarily need it, up here in the phillies, foothills, but we need it on the eastern plain, we're got going to see any. in the foothills, this is probably the only night that we get any snow at a all. here's a look at satellite and doppler radar, you can see this upper level disturbance over wyoming which is producing more snow in that state, but in colorado, we're sort of on the southern margins of it. so it's grazing the northern foothills and the northern front

out on radar where the snow is falling north of i-70 along the continental divide and caterred rain in portions of -- scattered rain in portions of boulder and jefferson county this afternoon. in gilpin county, it's 27 degrees outside. winds out of the west and the southwest. and embedded within this wind flow, we've got that disturbance, that's up there in wyoming but it's producing just enough moisture and lift for us, where we have beneficial moisture up here at the higher elevations, coming up, ed greene will let you know how warm we stay this week, but for now, live in gilpin county, justin mcheffey. an suv with 7 children rolls over. now, authorities are investigating what the woman driving the vehicle was doing, just before that crash. they want to know if she'd been drinking. many of the child victims are in the hospital. the accident, just before 10:00 last night at west bowles after and south pierce street in jefferson county.

the latest and where is the driver now? >>reporter: well, karen, that driver, we're told is still in the hospital, colorado state police say that she may have been intoxicated and driving with 7 young children inside of her car before crashing it here, sending 6 to the hospital. the driver of this suv lost control of the car on west bowles avenue, flipped over the median, crashing into trees. all with 7 children inside. 6 people were taken to the hospital, two of the children can were hospitalized with serious injury, one child, a 1-year-old was in a car seat. colorado state patrol says the driver was 30-year-old angela may have been intoxicated. driving the car. he says all should make a full recovery and is thankful the crash wasn't worse. >> you know, i'm just real

okay and that they have bumps and bruises, when you see usually means something worse. >>reporter: once the driver is released from the hospital, likely face dui charges. it's not clear if some, or all driver. mark taylor, cbs4 news. thank you, mark. orders a mental competency evaluation for a man charged with his 11th dui. ramone corral faces 8 felony charges, including 4 counts of vehicular assault. near 48th, two people in the vehicle were seriously hurt. but he now remains in jail, on a $50,000 bond. and an update on the man who has confessed to the shooth

down in colorado springs last november. three people were killed. from jail, robert dear tells cbs4 he believes the judge and his lawyers want him found mentally incompetent to stand try. rick sallinger talked to dear in jail and we're awaiting the results of his competency exam. >>reporter: he told us he was at the state hospital for around 30 days and met with the doctor twice. for 15 minutes each. he told us about the questions he was asked and it turns out he did answer them. he is back in the el paso county jail after a month away for a competency a exam. we were not allowed to bring in a camera or recording device. in december, dear had told the court, he would not cooperate with psychiatrists. >> i'm not going to agree to their mental health evaluations. >>reporter: but today, he said during his stay at the state hospital in pueblo, he did

he claimed that the doctor asked him to count backwards from a in pictures. >> there are two parts to determine competency. are you able to understand the charges against you? there are 179. defense? and he said that would not be necessary. >>reporter: he insisted he still wants to plead guilty. but said his lawyers don't want that. if i plead not guilty by reason of insanity, dear said is, that would diminish my cause. one thing he was not asked about in the exam was the planned parenthood attack. which he told us about by phone last month. >> the goal was to stop babies from being slaughtered. >>reporter: i avenged him if he -- asked him if he had been motivated by the secret recordings of planned parenthood made by anti-abortion activists before the attack, he said he hadn't seen them, but that reenergized me in my mind.

xafrp is due to be given to the court in late march. jim. >> rick sallinger, thanks very much. right now, more on to breaking news that led this newscast, we have a live look for you, firefighters battle that grass fire it's burning near alameda and dayton, next to the common ground golf course. we know that there are crews from both aurora and denver working that scene. you can see some of the flashing lights in the background there and some of the smoke that's coming up. we have not heard of any evacuations or structures threatened by this fire. we don't have an acreage on it yet. we do they that westbound alameda at dayton is closed. a memorial service now scheduled for the park county sheriff's deputy shot can killed in the line of duty. nate carrigan died last week, law enforcement from across the state expected to attend a service planned for march 14th. it's at faith bible chapel in arvada. carrigan was shot while trying to serve an eviction notice at a home in bailey, two other deputies heard before that

latest now on a virginia police officer killed during her first shift, ashley guindon died this weekend. two other police officers shot. those officers responding to a domestic violence call at a home. investigators say the suspect had already killed his wife before officers arrived. a suspect is an active duty staff sergeant a signed at the pentagon. new information for you as a driver is cited for careless driving after this accident in denver this morning. look at that pickup truck. wound up hanging off i-25 near 6th avenue. copter 4 was overhead. just that tree kept the truck from going all the way down into the south platt river. can investigators say the truck driver might have been trying to avoid a collision with another vehicle when he lost control. new tonight, on this rare day, february 29th, colorado joined an international campaign to recognize rare diseases.

leap day to raise awareness of the rare disease have on people's lives. cbs4 health specialist cathy walsh joins us now. >>reporter: karen, a rare disease is any disorder that affects a small percentage of the population, in the united states, that means fewer than 200,000 people. one teenager's syndrome is so rare it took 16 years to diagnose her. >> perry sylvan syndrome. >>reporter: two years ago, ellen ruble had never heard of it. for 16 years, jenny ruble had no idea she had it. >> it's very, very rare. >>reporter: ellen was delighted when jenny was born. she already had twin boys, and now a seemingly healthy baby girl. >> but within about one week, she stopped eating. >>reporter: jenny was on a feeding tube for 18 month, she learned to chew and swallow. she fell behind in school.

know, come home and do home work and then having kids, sit there and make fun of you for not being at the level that they were at. >>reporter: two years ago, an mri led to a specialist and finally, the perry sylvan syndrome diagnosis. >> it's not curable. but it gave us and jenny, something to say this is what i have. and i'm okay. >>reporter: it's a brain disorder. ellen says there are just 1200 cases in the world. 7 are in colorado. the rubles joined in rare disease day at the state capitol, to share their challenges and let jenny speak for many who can't. >> to this day, i'm the person that i want to be and i love who i turned out to be. >> there are some 7,000 known rare diseases, this day, was designed to push for help in diagnosing them and for more research and support for patients and their families.

>> thanks, cathy. once again, we are following that breaking news at 5:00, a brush fire burning near the lourie neighborhood and common ground golf course. firefighters from both denver and aurora are on scene right now, westbound alameda is closed, at dayton due to the fire fight. ed greene, it is dry. >> yeah, sit dry and it is pretty windy this afternoon, winds are gusting to 44 miles per hour, out at the airport. it's all ahead of this push from the moisture to the west of us, fortunately, it doesn't look like that will get into our area. we do have the high pressure over in the west and this is going to give us a pretty nice week, how nice, coming up. . coming up, hundreds of thousands of americans targeted by hackers, who broke into the irs, now, we're learning more about who might be at risk. >> and a boy had to wait for an hour while rescuers tried to get his arm unstuck from a vending machine.

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back right now, i want to give you different views of that grass fire that is burning by lourie between aurora and denver, fire crews from both cities have been on scene. no structures which r tlened but we also -- threatened, but we also know it's been a difficult one to get a handle on. it is bone triechlt firefighters are making some progress, but at this point, we have not heard about containment, so it's still a very active scene out near alameda and dayton, we do know westbound alameda, is closed at dayton so the fire teams can do their work without the rush hour traffic. protesters interrupt a campaign 2016 speech. dozens of black lives matter protesters interrupted donald trump.

police led them out the building in virginia. a dozen states, including colorado for the presidential candidates in both parties. >> and a navy seal who risked his life receives the nation's highest military honor. >> president barack obama making the award today. >> part of a raid in 2012, it rescued him from the taliban. he threw himself on the hostage to protect him from gunfire. >> going to continue doing my job in the navy, and continue to being a seal, and doing the thing i love. >> he also lost a close friend in that raid. buyers is the sixth navy seal to receive the medal of honor. the latest on the massive data breach at the irs, we learned over the weekend, many more americans might be at risk

now we've learned more about how the hackers were able to against the information. they were using an online irs program that allows people check their tax history. >>reporter: not even virginia tech's attorney was protected from hackers. >> someone was trying to claim a refund using my social security number and i knew something was wrong. >>reporter: the irs's data dump is the latest in a series of disclosures, in may of 2015, the agency reported cyber criminals accessed some 114,000 taxpayer accounts. three months later, that number jumped to 334,000. and this month, the irs says there might be as many as 724,000 victims. >> the irs is frankly not doing enough to protect us. >>reporter: the irs said hackers used personal information gathered from other online sources. like bank accounts.

questions on the get transcript forms, one possible culprit, irs approved tax preparers. one audit found 6 out of 13 irs approved companies failed to provide adequate security to customers. >> we're often our own worst enemies, there are times we don't use proper passwords or proper security. >>reporter: hacked taxpayers will be notified by mail. and the irs is offering free identity protection for a year. >> the irs has previously stated it believes the hackers are part of a sophisticated crime ring in russia. new video shows an unusual rescue, in australia, a 4-year-old boy got his arm stuck in a vending machine in the anti-theft mechanism of it, took crews nearly 5 hours to free the boy from inside a melbourne hotel. his dad says curiosity got the best of him. rescuers say it is high-tech and a challenge to get him out.

that could have been me. >> i remember those machines. >> yeah. >> hey, this is a situation we have right now, clear skies and a lot of sunshine. it is snow in the higher foothills. we might get a sprinkle over the eastern plains. a system from wyoming into the dakotas is pushing as cross. we're on the southern fringes of it. we have high pressure in the west and that will be dominant for our week and into the weekend. things look good around here. you can see we have a little bit of cool their will nudge into colorado, so tomorrow we go from the 60 os food to the 50s tomorrow. -- 60s today to the 50s tomorrow. so as we take a look at the south, a lot of sunshine, blue skies, not much if the way of problems there. here's the high today. 63 at the airport. 64 degrees downtown.

38 and 39 were the lows. should be at 22. we have the northwest wind at 28, gusting to 44 miles per hour, so they're a little brisk out there right now. 38% humidity. we have a rising barometer. a nice shot here, this is sunrise over denver. with the stadium in the foreground. look at this from shannon, denver from the air, there is our mile-high city, right there. and then you can just look off very dramatic shot. speaking of dramatic, look at this guy here from mark, cherry creek reservoir what a pretty shot, sand stone ranch in longmont. temperatures for tonight, mostly in the 20s, couple of deens and 30s over the eastern plains. single tijts and -- digits and teens for the high country. 40s and 50s for the eastern plains. we're looking at mostly sunnyly 30s for the mountains and out west. for tonight, we'll see partly

winds, though, 30 and 28 are the overnight lows. for tomorrow, partly sunny skies, we'll be in the mid 50s. little bit of abnormal for this time of the year. 63 on thursday. 66 friday. 64 saturday. and i can tell you right now, sunday might be near 70 degrees. but then we do see a change coming, next week. >> we'll need it. in sports, the avs say so long to a fan favorite.

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and welcome back, colorado avalanche barely holding on to the final playoff spot right now, but based on the moves they made today, they view themselves as contenders, making a couple of trades that they help with the playoff push. alex tanguay, to arizona, with conner and kyle wood. he was a member of the 2001 stanley cup team can played 9 of the 16 games in colorado. he did score on saturday has just four goals this season. in return, the avs -- from arizona. 26-year-old known for his speed as 13 golds and 26 assists this year. he will be an unrestricted free agent this summer, so he may be a short-term rental. >> we're in the last playoff spot right now, and we've got to keep playing and keep playing well. so we feel with boedker, you're

and a guy that can score goals and so we think it's going to compliment nathan well. we expect to make the playoffs and that's what the moves are better. >> avs also got defense manner rick from new jersey. rockies has been 7 months since the team traded troy, but he's still upset about it. saying he would never talk to g.m. jeff -- again. he also had comments about how he felt he always had to carry the load in colorado. he was even critical of the team's spring training facility. come parg it to a country club where players get too comfortable. >> yeah, i think it's the

we have a nice place here and proud of it. our guys are mentally tough can they compete -- and they compete, yeah, i have no issue with our guys being soft. or country club-ish. our guys are the opposite of that. >> broncos safety david bruton our guest, talking about his upcoming free agency. >> good guy on, and off the field, hey,,,

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news tonight, near the lourie at alameda and dayton. firefighters may be getting the upper hand on this, not as much smoke visible. we have >> pelley: on the eve of super tuesday, trump clashes with black lives matter protesters. >> get 'em out. get 'em out. out, out, out. ut >> pelley: also tonight, a cop is gunned down on her first day do on the job. the big cheese at a food company pleads guilty to selling parmesan that had no parmesan. es and david martin with an american hero. >> that's five bronze stars, two purple hearts? >> that's correct. >> pelley: and now the highest s? military honor of all. ta captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.