no word on how or extent of injuries. strong winds made it tough for the fires. the estimated size is now around 2 and a half acres, no word on a cause. for as much as we tell you about thieves using new technology to do wrong, it is bout time we shared a story of technology biting a thief in the back side. 9 news reporter ryan haarer tells of a woman in wheat ridge who didn't think she would see her purse or ipad again until she saw a selfie. >> i went in to the gas station to buy a soda, grabbed my wall sxt walked into the-- walked into the store for 2 minutes. i thought roll up your windy for a split second but didn't. >> someone took advantage of the cracked window. >> she reached in and unlocked it and opened the door, grabbed the purse. >> heather quillen's purse... >> my ipad, my phone and other things. >>... may be gone but the pictures continue popping up on

>> i think that she didn't realize what she was doing, i think she had a new toy and was playing with it and taking scelfies like we all do and didn't realize she hadn't logged out of my account. >> she is a possible suspect, we don't know if she is the thief but she took a selfie on heather's ipad the day after the purse was stolen. >> i can't explain, where was shocked. >> without surveillance video, heather had gibbon up but that-- given up but it changed. >> police have more to work with thanks to whoever this is pointing the lens at herself. in wheat ridge, ryan haarer, 9 news. >> police are not releasing more information, you know the drill, on going investigation. heather quillen said she learned her lesson, no more leave her purse in the car. the driver of an suv that

inside is us pected of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. there were 9 people in the vehicle that crashed in unincorporated jefferson county at the intersection of west bulls near the high school. the passengers and driver were taken to littleton hospital with moderate or serious injuries. a family member said it could have been much worse. >> i thought maybe somebody, i mean once you see something like that, man, you know you automatically think the worse, you know? but like i said i seen them first and barely came here and where am real thankful, man. >> colorado state patrol is investigating and says it does expect charges to be filed against the driver. governor hicken hooper today formerly requested a super fund designation to clean up 48 mining sites in southeastern colorado.

leaked into rivers in 3 states last summer. epa inadvertently triggered it during preliminary clean up work. rivers in colorado, new mexico, and utah were polluted. the environmental protection agency would over sea the clean up with san juan county and silverton endorsed last week, if they designate it as epa sight, it could be months and years away from clean up. america's largest retailer experiences theft, no surprise there, but it is the amount of theft and more importantly the total number of calls to police from our area walmart has attention from chris vanderveen, walmart is a busy spot for police. >> that the kind of thing on par with homeless shelter and drug deals, put that stigma aside, walmarterize busy, lots of volume-- walmarts are busy, lots of volume, they have low-level crime.

by adding the calls up, the walmart on west colfax, it averaged last year 3.7 police calls a day. that made it the busiest address for police in that entire city. we polled a lot of cities about walmarts and how often the police departments respond to the stores. lakewood told us after hearing about our data, it just might be time to sit down with walmart and come up with a better solution. >> definitely a concern, public safety is our number one and we want to make sure all businesses are good neighborhoods to our neighborhoods. >> do you think they could be a better neighbor? >> i think there are things we can work on with them. >> it is not just lakewood, we heard from a lot of other cities that have data that we will share with you at 9:00 and 10:00, we will tell you about the city that tried to declare walmart a public nuisance. a law that is historically used on places such as crack house s or brothels. >> so interesting, that is something i think a lot of

getting into the raw numbers tonight will be interesting. >> we surprised a lot of cities and departmentwise the data. >> thanks, chris. it has taken 4 years to complete and tomorrow the 18-mile back path between westminster and boulder will open tomorrow, providing a path between denver and boulder. it is a completion of the entire line. the first 11 mile phase opened in june between 8th and westminster and 88th and lewisville. the remaining miles will open. cyclists will be able to take the bike way from bold toor westminster and-- boulder to denver. c-dot says it gives commuters an option to get to and from work. >> we will be seeing people having more choices, it will be safer, and they will enjoy their ride in and they can be healthy and be outdoors during the ride. >> the bike path officially opens for cyclists tomorrow. there will likely be minor

we wait 4 years for an extra day and we end up with a monday. that is kind of lame. hope your leap day was a good one. for those who work with the atomic clock in boulder, today is all business. here is 9 news reporter maya rodriguez. >> the heart beat of time. the ticking off of seconds, the very definition of what a second is. >> we are in the time scale room. >> john low is part of a team at the national institute of sanders and technology in boulder, home of the nation's atomic clock. it is called an atomic clock because 1 second of time is based on how long it takes type of atom. >> so somebody has to say how much is a kilogram? how long is a meter? 1 second? >> it is a standard applied since 1967 to a clock whose function is to keep the rest of us, well, functional.

>> everything from power grids to gps devices rely on the accuracy of the atomic clock. >> so what we do is we base our time on the atomic technology and then periodically have to throw in a leap second, which keeps us in sync with the rotation of the earth. >> staying in sync is everything here. multiple atomic clocks work together to keep the atomic clock on time. so it is given the choice, how would these time keepers choose to spend their leap day? >> you are given an extra day, so spend it wisely, spend it by doing something you normally don't get a chance to do, spend it by doing something nice for someone, or spend it doing something that you have always wanted to do. >> because on this leap day, like all other days, time marches on. maya rodriguez, 9 news. >> improvements in technology helped improve the accuracy of the atomic clock over the years

300 million years to lose a second. a family in lakewood has the hang of this leap day birthday thing, jennifer gill gave birth to her second leap day baby, sharing a birthday with his older brother, giovanni, age 12. >> every time on the 29th, we get to celebrate 2 of our son's birthdays, that is so cool. that is just really cool. >> and giovanni is stoked because until now he has been the youngest in a family of 6 kids. now he will have somebody to boss around and share birthday wake with. a-- cake with. a 9-year-old boy from denver raised $10,000 for a good cause. colorado is redesigning drivers licenses, some features will change, our photos will remain terrible.

colorado's drivers licenses are getting a make over, they will be made out of a heavier material, photos black and white told to accentuate facial features, they will use the design, littleton starting tomorrow. the department of revenue says there is no need to get a new license or id card until the one you have expires. it is not exactly the corp slur but unique and in full bloom at the denver botanic garden, same family as the titeanem called the voodoo lily, it can be grown as a house plant, it is smaller than the

smell according to a hort culturist at the gardens. >> it does smell a bit in green house 1, the green house it is in, it is a lot stronger the closer you get to it. outside where you can see it on display in the public, um, there is no smell for me and probably little to snow smell for the general people. >> and just like the corpse flower, it is fast, voodoo lily bloomed yesterday afternoon and it will likely be done and start wilting tomorrow or wednesday. 9-year-old tristin is a special kid, we have been following since last year, he had his first cocoa stand to raise money to fight cancer because his friend was sick. he has had many fundraisers. cade is in remission and he and tristin presented $10,000 check to children's hospital. >> he was just so brave and, um, yeah.

cade and, yeah. that is why i am doing this. >> tristin says he is not done and wants to keep fund raising until he raises $1 million to fight cancer. we have no reason to believe that won't happen so we will update you. >> it will happen. >> yep. strunger wind-- stronger winds for lower elevations. >> kathy sabine is next to tell

the winds picking up a little in the 9 news backyard, part of a cool front dropping south along the front range. i am meteorologist kathy sabine outside we go. we do have cloudy skies, there is the potential for a brief rain or snow shower around the area yet tonight. but the atmosphere, pretty dry and actually fairly stable with the weak front coming through. it may be hard to get the moisture on the ground. 63 for a monday, the last monday in february, 70s eastern plainss, 20-- plains, 20 degrees warmer. winds west-northwest to 22. windinize creased-- winds have increased at the 9 backyard. this front coming has brought snow to the higher terrain and

peak gusts over 40 miles an hour, berthoud, vail, shifting east-northeast once it drops to the south. fou light showers in the eastern plains, snow in the foothills and blowing snow over i-70 and passes in the high country. main course system is making its way into the midwest where we have winter storm warnings outside of chicago and winter weather advisories to the north and east of new york platte. you can see the moisture coming mainly in the form of high clouds for southeastern colorado with the rain/snow mix across the northern plains and midwest. we will have high pressure as our dominant weather feature for the next few days. actually, once the front drops and things kind of calm down and quiet for us a little bit. the cold air retreating to the north now. we see a 10-degree drop in temperature tomorrow, but this front initially bringing a brief rain or snow shower will move out quickly leading us into a quieter overnight period with clear skies, no winter weather or travel advisory in effect for

warning for high fire danger has been canceled but maybe reinstated again tomorrow. clear and 18 in hayden tonight, 19 aspen, 25 greeley and 31, your low in colorado springs. we do have high temperatures above average tomorrow but about 10 degrees cooler than the numbers we reported to you for today. along the front range foothills, we will look for temperatures anywhere from 46 in idaho springs to 44 in black hawk. city forecast for you for tonight, windy, yep. verify that. cloudy, 25. rain or snow shower, mainly a foothill snow shower, hard to get moisture on the ground, we are so dry at the surface and the wind is taking a lut of the moisture away. start off 25 with sunshine, 6:00 a.m. 49 by noon, 56 by about 4:00 in the afternoon. so, a decent day with temperatures in the mid 50s, temperatures will slowly warm heading into the middle part of the week and the upcoming weekend looks amazing. i have mid 60s saturday, close to 70 on sunday and then our

in monday into tuesday of next week. cloud cover makes for a pretty sunrise and sun set shot. don't forget to keep sending those in. hi, everybody, pay me now or later. by 2:00 tomorrow afternoon the broncos have to either sign super bowl mvp von muller to one of the richest defensive contracts in nfl history, perhaps excess of miami dolphin lineman's $19 million per season or use the franchise tag on him. >> the best bet is probably that von miller will get the franchise tag, which will be 1 year, $14 million. he is hoping for an excess of $20 million a year. the broncos don't want to go over $19 million. they want to stay below sue's contract and von miller and his agent want to go above it to become the highest paid defensive player. i think there are too big a gap,

broncos have no choice but to franchise tag. avalanche made a bunch of afternoon. they made 3 deals, one for speedy forwort mickle-- there is, lets-- there we go. there he is, the arizona coyote in exchange for alex and a couple prospects, another for defenseman, eric jellna. pick. >> we expect to make the playoffs and, you know, that is what the moveerize for is trying to help-- moves are for is trying to help your team get better. we were, quiet day. >> ralfy won't be the only beast on cu's campus soon. as noous prep reporter, taylor shows us, they got a commitment

>> charging, it is what you do. >> takes a lot of faith to commit now. >> when you are known as john "the beast" vandid he say. >> i started to take the process in my own hands. >> cherry creek's outside line backer defensive end is storming forward to boulder. >> cu was my first offer to begin with and that, initially offer. and then what can i get more of? >> a sophomore at the time, the offers pulled in, csu, nebraska, washington state, others. but each time... >> cu was still up there. >>... the bucs sacked the competition. >> at cu i could make a difference and my family in colorado, my friends, i could make a name for myself here. >> in the past couple years cu has lost some big in state recruits. >> i am coming to michigan. >> he, too, would leave colorado but vandees hopes it is a trend

him. >> i want to keep good colorado players in state, it kind of builds colorado to a more competitive state. >> he is determined to help the gold and black return to winning ways. >> i love being a part of something bigger than myself. >> one hoof at a time. taylor tenby, 9 news. >> he may beat ralfy to the cage. strange but drew, the baltimore orioles have banned celebration. over the past several years out fielder jones popped a mascot or fan in the face with a pie but citing safety reasons they are ending the practice immediately. strange but drew. not sure what injuries they are afraid of. perhaps from the aluminum foil pan. a chipped tooth. >> sounds delicious. >> a broken nose, perhaps but it

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about as exciting as it will get. weak cool front tonight, windy, cooler, maybe an isolated shower tonight. look at that. sun balls and 60s after tomorrow and 70 next sunday. >> you are february employee of the month at 9 news. >> wow. >> no one else should even apply or be considered. >> leap year. >> on this extra day of the month. >> what a month you had. fabulous. don't screw up march, now. >> are you being sarcastic?

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