back arrived and deputies entered, they found the man who had self inflicted knife wounds and a dead 6-year-old boy and a 2-year-old who was unharmed. the deceased boy is the man's son. the 2-year-old is the son of both the man and woman involved. neighbors say police come around often but never for something like this. >> my heart sunk. i have kids myself and my son is on his way to school and, all i can think about right now is, thank god. >> at this point investigators are calling the man a suspect only in the sexual assault case, not the death of the 6-year-old. a sheriff's deputy responding to that investigation was involved in a crash this morning at iliff and valentia, it injured 4 people ncluding the deputy. the deputy is in critical condition. think of it as starbucks,

cup of coffee. sounds ridiculous but every day colorado hospitals bill patients hundreds of dollars for things that probably cost less than what it took for starbucks to make that cup of coffee. 9 wants to know investigator, chris vanderveen started our buyer beware investigation. you are looking at something seemingly simple. >> as simple as this liter bag of saline, our dr. torres bought this sterile hospital bag of saline for less than $3. it is, after all, nothing more than salt water. a little more specialized than what you might find in the ocean. which makes a guy like dave even more upset when he looks at 10 lines on his hospital bill for 10 liter bags of saline, more than $3500 one colorado hospital billed him. nothing special about it, used to treat dehydration, for example. we received other bills showing hospitals make a habit of

but it is not like a patient can do a little shopping around in an effort to compare price. >> when you are a patient and you are laying in that bed, you are not thinking about prices, you are not concerned, you think you have insurance that will protect you at a time we can't fight back, go down the street to another hospital and check their prices. >> tonight at 10:00, we try to walk you through some of this and explain what the world i was doing when i showed up with a card board sign at a colorado hospital. not too long ago, the sign can likely speak for itself. so to speak. we are getting great responses to our next round of show us your bills on 9news.com. we would like to hear for what hospitals billed you for common items like the bag of saline, head to our website, 9news.com, and look for the buyer beware page. >> thanks a lot.

double stabbing that left one woman dead are in custody. orodano and another stabbed 2 women last night in the 1600 block of stoveer street. one woman died at the hospital. the other is getting treatment for multiple stab wounds. policed identified one a mile away, arrested him after a short stand off. they arrested the other a short time later. they are not sure of a motive. both face charges for first degree homicide and attempted momicide. both have lengthy criminal histories. the oldest cathlish perish in colorado is closed at our lady of guwad loupey in the valley. the fire appears to have started in the back of the church in an area added on to the original building. 90 years ago today another fire started at that same church. last fall 9 news profiled the

heritage series in october, the perish was founded 162 years ago and the priest spoke to us about the importance to the community. >> we need to keep our culture, we need to keep our traditions, because if you look at traditions, culture, if you lose those you lose your identity. >> the colorado bureau enough vestigation look-- investigation looked into the fire. both agencies believe it was a accidental electrical fire. new mexico's top environmental official is questioning the epa stance on last summer's gold king mine spill. environmental secretary flin believes federal officials are downplaying the long-term efoekts. in august more than 3 million gallons of toxic sludge spilled into the animas river in southwest colorado and contaminated water in new mexico. he says the epa plans to monitor

need to treat it as a human health issue. the epa did not respond. the state plans to sue the epa, the state of colorado and the owners of 2 colorado mines. this afternoon, state lawmakers rejected a plan to make it easier for juries to sentence convicted murderers to death. tom, who lost his son in the aurora theater shooting testified in support. it would have allowed the death penalty if 9 of 12 jurors voted in favorfelt currently it takes all 12 to impose it. the senate rejected the bill. republican chair roberts said it was an overreaction, and should not be changed because 2 jurors could not agree on the death penalty. what was once a very crowded gop field went by 2 today. fiorina and christie ended their bids. fiorina made a top in september but finished 7th. christie finished 6.

there has been debate as to how many people attended yesterday's broncos super bowl parade by some estimates, a million crammed into civic center park. along the parade route too. others don't believe it is correct. nick mcgill is joining us from the newsroom with our attempt to figure the math. thank goodness we found a math wizard in you. >> i am by no means a mathematician and this is no way a precise measurement of yesterday's crowd side. we do, however, feel this is a fairly accurate estimate based on some simple math. experts say in densely packed crowds like yesterday, you can imagine 2.5 square feet of space for every single person. using google earth here, we estimated the square footage of civic center park and we were generous with this, we included all the streets here that were closed off, any nook and cranny, really we saw people standing

estimate of 1.2 million square feet. so you divide that by 2.5, and that total equals 480,000 people. half a million people crammed in to this space right here. now, we have to do the same thing for the sidewalks using google earth, estimated that this portion of the sidewalk along broadway here was about 40 feet wide. again, we are being generous, we allowed that for the entire length of the parade rowd, 1.-- route, 1.3 miles, multiply by 2 to include both sides of the street, divide by 2.5 and arrived at 2119,19,685 people. 699,648 is the grand total. not a million but very impressive. for those who may criticize my math a little bit, i am not a

which is why we have the million. who knew? people. but you never know. >> there you go. that is hard. thanks. we know a lot were at the parade yesterday, no doubt about it. a lot of kids weren't at school. more than 24,000 kids had an excused or unexcused absence tuesday, about 27% of dps's 90,000 students. tonight, be sure to tune into the tonight show, by the way, starring jimmy fallon, peyton manning will be his guest and he will play a game called egg russian roulette with fallon and magic johnson after 9 news at 10:00. dangerous game. >> i know, fun to watch, though. one of colorado's other sports teams made it to the championships last year coming just short of winning it all.

>> exclamation mark on the question, is this a legit team? are they really competing for wins and championship? can they compete for a championship realistically? >> what you are seeing now is video of driver martin, he spent part of his off season, we have more on that and his opinion of civilian drivers on 9 news at 9:00 and 10:00. as we were trying to explain, the new season is number 78 car now has not a twin, exactly but there will be 2 cars for furniture row racing, the 78 car, but bass pro-shops is joining with 9 of the 38 seasons. it was the best season ever for martin truex, jr., they had the point we are here, for real, and will be a factor. >> one car is red, i found surprising. >> kind of orangey, black, with

>> love it. love the sport. the celebration ended for to next season. dia is one of the country's busiest airports, another fliers. a colorado woman had a chance to be apart of the

dia is one of the busiest airports in the nation, out of the top busiest, it is the cheapest, the numbers from the bureau of transportation statistics. the average air fare for the third quarter of 2015 was $324.

international had the post expense fsh at $431-- expensive at $431. the bureau says that is more than a 19% drop from 2000. there are hundreds of galaxies beyond ours. a regular telescope has not been able to capture images beyond the milky way because of the haze. they used radio telescopes to go past it. >> i took a telescope and pointed it at parts of the sky, basically mapping a big chunk of the sky. normally telescopes will look at a small patch, so when they do this survey they are able to see what is in that substantially larger patch of sky and through the survey they are able to find

>> it is a major step in figuring why our galaxy is being pulled by some mass in a certain direction. it could help scientists figure if other galaxies are causing the attraction. she has a small business in denver and somehow the oscars promotions folks found her, wanted her product for the oscars swag bag, and she had the nerve to say no, it is true, actually. kathy lee from modern gingham preserve said no for business reasons, lee says she sells her jam in only special to stores and questioned the likelihood her product would get attention at the cost of thousands to participate. >> is it right for my product? can i afford, even if i am wrong, and it isn't right for my product, could i afford taking that chance on potentially getting exposure, publicity? >> i don't think it is appropriate for my product, at all.

not sure why she was asked to participate in the first place. you can find her products in small specialty stores up and down the front range and online.

out what was a very spring-like february day. i am meteorologist kathy sabine outside in the 9 backyard where the wind is picking up just a little bit. winds have been increasing along the front range foothills blowing from 25-50 miles an hour, no wind advisory in effect. dia the winds are finally laying down. 53 at the airport. temperatures outside the studio have been running very mild. we are close to 60 in downtown denver compliments of the wind. taking a look at our temperature profile, how about 70s across the southeastern plains, typically mid 40s this time of year. as you can see by our february preview, the average high is 46, the average low is 19. we will see the numbers far exceed those numbers as we move through the rest of this week and this month with above-average temperature trend expected across the western u.s., midwest, and northeast, in charge of our weather picture, pushing the storm track to the north.

trough of low pressure has been carved out with cold air, snow, and wind and we are on the western fringe of cold arctic air staying west of us for now. winter weather and travel advisories extend across the great lakeinize to the northeast as-- lakes into the northeast as carolinas. mild weather in the west, another system moving on shore in california, temperatures will provide us with just an unusually warm and dry weather pattern for this time of year. close to 60 tomorrow. other than the high clouds around the area which will help to keep temperatures up tonight, should be a relatively quiet day. there is a weak front coming in friday that will bring temperatures down a little bit but the trend is for above-average reading s between now and the end of next week. look for 30s on the plains tonight, 20s in the high country. close to 60 in denver, mid 60s in southeastern colorado. we may be a smidge cooler due to lack of wind along the

beautiful february day coming up. tonight, fair skies, less wind, low at 30. tomorrow, temperatures jump into the mid 50s by lunchtime, come close to 60. we will be a little cooler heading into the friday time period but still dry. second front may bring a few flurries to us north and east of denver sunday for valentine's day but look at the numbers jump up for the middle part of next week with sunshine. we have high temperatures close to 70 to the middle of next week. hi, everybody, this wasn't on kubiak's mind when he collapsed at half time of a houston texans game in 2013, and certainly not a month later when they fired him. but here we are, just 2 seasons later and kubiak is hoisting the vince lombardi trophy as the head coach of the super bowl champion denver broncos. >> i dreamed i would get back in that position, you know, did i think i would end up here a

i can't say that. it is a blessing. as a coach you understand the business i have a lot of confidence in myself throughout my career, not just now. >> the broncos just won the super bowl but for general manager john elway, that was so yesterday. 9 news sports reporter rod mackey is looking ahead. >> the broncos just won the super bowl and celebrated with about a million of their closest friends, but now what? who do you bring back? john elway emphasized that budget is only so big. but the key is the "d." >> that is our goal-to keep it together. the first step was get derek signedism we got that done. so danny, malik, and the 2 i can think of now that we will try to work to keep it together. >> von miller will be back, what about the other big name? what about manning? most expect he is done, but what if peyton still wants to play? >> it is always hard.

crossing the line and taking the final step and saying, i am moving on, that is a very-- even if the first 99% is easy, the last 1% is as hard as the first 99%. that is why he will have the time he needs and, you know, it is basically going to be up to him. >> not completely. if 18 comes back, you know 17 won't and the broncos believe brock is their future. should be an interesting off season. rod mackey, 9 news. >> broncos huddle begins in about 40 minutes, this is kind of cool. we are debuting new fancy technology which allows you to interact with the program. go to 9news.com/votenow and wait for rod to ask for your opinion. something he has never done with me. nuggets are playing the last game before the all star break tonight. they are trailing the detroit pistons 34-31 in the second quarter. one of the most beautiful baseball stadiums is being transformed into a hockey arena. rink construction is under way

avalanche play the red wings in the stadium series 2 weeks from saturday. we are going to play drew's clues. clue number 1, born february 10, 1991 in california, he is celebrating his 25th birth day tonight. his grandmother taught him how to bowl and he is so good and carries a 267 average. number 3, just gained a hundred yards of total offense and

an early rally on the stock market was mostly gone with a mixed finish.

all right, entertainment tonight is next, the huddle is on later, and rod might actually ask drew's opinion. we don't know.

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