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this is the third one in a week. this is near sorority row. reporter: there is a lot of foot traffic and between these homes and apartment buildings and late-night businesses. the victims were all walking alone late-night when they were approached by a male who forcibly grouped them then took off running. reporter: it is unnerving targeting women walking home late at night. >> it is a little scary. we get the emails and the others. reporter: do you issued the- - du issued the latest one. this woman worries there may be other victims if the perpetrator is not caught soon. >> they should have a buddy system and they should be together and be with someone. reporter: safety officials say all three officials
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but not to a police >> it is the third time and they haven't been caught, they are going to keep getting more confident the more they get away with it. reporter: the first incident happened eight days ago, the second four days later january 24, and happened this morning on josephine and i live. -- iliff. reporting life near the du campus, lance hernandez we've reported several of these happening the last few years.
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behind in 2011, and in 2013 another woman was grouped-- campus. if you get attack to anything you can to fight back. biting, scratching, kicking, anything it takes to get out. the loud so people can come help . >> it's one of those things you replay in your mind. thii is the first responder describing the unthinkable when they got the call to pull three teenagers from an icy pond in parker and two of the boys died. >> this story played out two weeks ago. we heard from rescuers today and they are understandably still devastated by what happened that day. reporter: in the last few hours we've seen more than one dozen people add to this memorial in front of the pond
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teenagers would eventually die. if it was not for the quick thinking of a parker police officer and a nearby tree branch things could have ended up much worse. this man was the first on the scene after three teenagers fell through the ice. he used a tree branch that had been cut down to pull one of them that was still above the surface back to shore. he tried desperately to find the other two boys but they had slipped below the surface of the water. dive teams pulled them out later. one died that night and the other a few days later. >> it is difficult to process. i'm extremely happy that cole made it out for your heart is broken for not being able to help the other two. reporter: he says he is not a hero, just doing his job despite the risks of going into that pond to try to pull someone out of the water and
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what if the tree branch was not %- there? he said that if his department ordered 75 reps with throwable device is to make sure all of their officers are properly equipped in case something like this happens again. >> such a heartbreaking story, it is great they are being proactive. >> the more tools the better. thanks, jason. met-- matthew was taken off life support and his family-- max was taken off life support and his family has not announced funeral plans. springlike temperatures before the big snow. >> temperatures are in the 40s and 50s, mostly 30s but there -`is a winter storm watch in effect for northwestern colorado as a new storm moves in. already, rain and ssow over the
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more as we head to early next week. more details in a few minutes. the sheriff's office is looking for this man accused of first-degree assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, and menacing. rito david mendez is llnked to one assault in centennial. he may be driving a white 1997 chevy tahoe with plate 905 sxu. an autopsy on a woman from colorado is inconclusive in australia. suffocation. she was found dead in her apartment in austria and have been working there as a nanny. she was originally from mesa county. big changes for the sheriff's department including ways to get the public more access. these are the first changes
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the department will divided-- divided into two sections, operations and administration. more crisis management training will be provided and the public will be welcome to join. the changes help them focus more on the community. equal pay for equal work, a series of bills to get women on the same pay scale is men was in the house today. it would prevent potential employers from asking how much you made at a previous job. >> if my employer would not have known about previous employees there only basis of comparison would have been the existing employees they had which would have gotten closer to a no pay gap. >> colorado women make 20% less than men in a survey. california in just a few days. >> they were getting some practice time before they
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lionel, it was all business. >> back to practice, gary kubiak told us everybody came back focused on super bowl 50 and all eyes focus on peyton manning. last time we saw him he was telling the paariots coach this may be my last area. when we talk to him, the last rodeo thing came up, it will that be his last game? his response was classic. >> i don't know if that's been confirmed or not. what happened to private line? they don't exist anymore. [ laughter ] no confirmation whatsoever. we are on to carolina. >> he hasn't said anything to me. i know he's enjoying the playoffs and this opportunity and i can't speak for him but i know it is special to have him back leading the way and we're proud of his work getting back
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>> nobody is really focus on whether or not this is his last game. every player says he has not said anything to them, they are focused on winning the super bowl, the 50. >> he's pretty good at dodging the question. we found out the names for the referees and it could be good news for broncos fans. the broncos have never lost a game with blakeman as a referee and he has been in headlines. he was the one who could not toss a coin properly between the cardinals and packers. he had to submit twice because it did not actually flip the first time. >> i like the first part, we always win. the broncos just paid for all of their staff to go, including interns. it is not that easy for a lot of fans trying to get there. >> last year a meltdown left
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tickets. they talked to the major secondary party sites and they are cracking down on the practice that is known as shortselling. gambling on ticket prices to make the highest profit. after losing a lot of money, sites like stub hub put up policies in place to make sure all the listing have the tickets they are selling. they are only allowing tickets that include the zones and actual seat locations. in the past they allowed brokers to not include those until one week before the game. they are requiring sellers to visit the drop-off-- and drop off a hard copy by to say. a lot of brokers short sold tickets, sold them for a higher price a few weeks before the game. plans tt buy them closer at a lower price, and when prices did not fall there was no room to make a profit leaving a lot
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stub hub had to pay more than $5 million to make sure the tickets-- customers got the tickets they were promised. a lot of them only offered refunds as well.>> they are going to scrutinize much harder, we don't have to-- want to have to be spending that money every year to fulfill orders. >> there are no digital tickets, they are hard copies and often are not available until less than a week before the game. the one good thing is that there are guarantees. >> you need one if you are spending thousands of dollars. keep sending us your broncos paint pictures. this one shows to fans-- 2 fans. that little guy is too cute. poster pictures or tweak them
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you may end up seeing them here. >> they go for generations. everyone likes a good dog story as well, we see a lot of dog stories as well. after the break we will introduce you to scooter who is a k-9 drug dog. tt0wlq=[@u^!t& >-0 tt0wlq=[@u""tq lj\ tt0wlq=[@ug"t& q& tt0wlq=[@u$'4,@u^hh tt0wlq=[@ux't.@um d tt0wlq=[@ut&t2@u%k$ tt0wlq=[@uh't5@u*e$ tt0wlq=[@ud&t9@urxh tt0wlq=[@u8'4
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for those of you in douglas county you will see more k-9 officers out on the streets. the sheriff department has added new dogs and are pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars of drugs off the street. here in douglas county. each stop a k-9 use it makes choreographed. >> what thee do every stop is bring thh k-9 to the front of every vehicle.
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way to the back looking in any change in mannerisms. once they find that they know they have found drugs. reporter: scooter has been on the streets for a year and as you can see he loves to be at work. >> he is so excited, he knows we're going to do something that requires him to work. reporter: in the past year he has been busy. >> we took about $250,000 worth of drug mooey being used to buy drugs, they are taking across state liness reporter: 50 pounds of marijuana was taken off the streets and just today the two were called to help with a parker bank robbery. they are involved in just about
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suspicious car-- calls to a traffic stop. >> we will even do a soccer mom just so the dog knows that not every car has some minutes. reporter: just spending an hour on the job it is obvious there are few places he'd rather be than out patrolling the douglas county streets. it's a lot of work that you go to work with your best friend and hang out. reporter: the canines are actually donated by a local cattle. once they are retired, the handlers who they live with can buy them back four dollars. >> this canines can eat extra treats. great work, thank you mark. the x games are underway, i spin has some of the world's top winter athletes including a snowboarder that we introduced
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this is the second year he is getting teresa the games, his nickname is the flying spartan. jamie anderson one gold and learned he came in fifth place. >> you can check out more about him on www.thedenverchannel.com. we havv your forecast and it is feeling a little like spring. >> we will see weather conditions stay pretty nice but -- things will start to shift as we get into the early part of next week. i will show you what is going on across the front range. we have clear skies but we are going to see clouds on the increase as there is going to be a specific storm system moving our way. we will not see anything to my -- tonight or early tomorrow, probably nothing until late
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begin to pick up, light showers during the day. the extremes are 69 in 1888 and -22 in 1872. winds from the south at 11 %- and the roads are in great shape that already see some moisture moving in. that is the very first part of this storm system. there is a cold front and there's a pressure in command for the short-term but there's the timeframe. even tomorrow it can be a preliminary round, most of the action where they are continuing to get rain and snow for tomorrow. as far as weather conditions go, a couple of pockets of cold
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denver but notice a little bit of snow even minor accumulations . it stays dry and mostly sunny and warm with highs well into the 60s near 64 denver, a little bit cooler off to the north and east of us and 27 with clear skies and good air qualiiy. 60 degrees under mostly sunny skies, things start to shift. the snow develops on sunday, at least 6-12 inches for denver, sunday night through monday and probably 1-2 feet so the bright spot first and certainly a white spot monday.
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welcome to 7 sports extra. earlier we heard peyton manning saying his last rodeo has not been confirmed and he is on to carolina. the broncos were back onto the practice field ready for a crazy week ahead. nobody expects any trouble, any distractions. veteran leadership anywhere, peyton tells us he is in charge
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>> set the curfew basscally. i throughout :00 that didn't get a lot of positive reviews. to marcus williams said he would have to take some time to think about that and maybe there is a panel and we have the right kind of guys that understand what we have to do as far as ttking care of business. >> they been great all year and i will put that in the capt.'s hands. they have done a good job with this football team, accountability has been very good, obviously that is a tough environment but i trust them all year and i trust them again this week. >> tom davis is 100% sure the line record is playing in the super bowl. `e told everyone he is a huge fan of-- been a peyton manning idolizing the sheriff growing
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and for safe, wt three i'm donna ruko. in our newsroom. >> thanks so much. we begin at number three. >> demanded us to the ground. >> a terrifying scenario, but luckily for wisconsin darcy and bob, they had help. >> he is their 15-year-old levi who has three legs, after saving sharery's son while hiking. he wasn't done being the hero. he started barking at the burg lur. the bullet grazed and landed in the shoulder. bolted empty-handed. >> the feeling that you can't really express in words. >> wow, what a dog. he certainly deserves the treat
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