In the wind. Not going to hang off or fall we saw something was up and not safe. Reporter 2040 mile an hour winds. We were fearful that winds continue to blow and pull it further loose the panels could come off. Now ekea is looking at what went wrong. Is there something wrong with your sign that it could not handle the winds. No, strong winds that happened in a loss of places here. Loosened it. We are working with the fire company and it will be takee care of. Now, the wind gusts we saw uncommon during windstorms in colorado that ikea spokes woman said they will have a team out here to take a look at the sign. In the meantime, they said they are confident it is safe. Upon reporting live, jacqueline allen, denver 7. High and 52 feet across. Each of panels, 6 by 10. They are all steel. The size caused controversy in biggest sign. Eveetually it comphraoeupbed it complied with the sign size. A homeowner told us this sound was familiar. I grew up in tornado alley. The howling of the big storms is whht it sounded like. Now, knockinggdown the big tree that knocked out power to a few people in that area today. Look at this. Maybe the driver who was behind the wheel of this semitweeting semi truck on itself side. Now, it was not just semi trucks turning over. Wind caused this suv to flip on its side near the airport. There were minor injuries. Now, look at this one, i saw this one on twitter. Abby burk took this picture of a tree. Knocked over to a beautiful 3 house in canyon city. It is nasty out there. Might be tracking the high winds in the forecast. Like then wind, brought rain to the metro area 50 to nearly 1miles per hour. In the mountain passes and the metro area as well. We still have the high Wind Warnings in effect for tonight. They will continue into early tomorrow as well. This is the air of rain showers here. Not much but here the areas are under the high Wind Warnings. They cover much of the northeastern plains, and the i 25 corridor. Meantime, the wind advisory Central Mountains and winter storm arnings for the forth western part of the state. Core of 150 mileanhour jet stream winds going over colorado right now. High winds helped fuel wildfires across the state. This one probably the biggest at 4,000 acres in tphogtern weld county. A homeowner told us that she started burning trash before the winds kicked up. The fire destroyed her barn and damaged several fences. Look at this. this gas fire whipped up fire nados. It was sparked boy a lawn mower. Acres. The prosecution in the lane trial could ref up tomorrow. We watchee two days of emotional testimony. Wilkins retelling through tears how she was attacked and cut. All she wanted was to buy now, we are monitoring the details, they are almost too hard to stphaobl and it is when you listen to the testimony in court you will likely be stunned and the second day it is no exception. ` dont know why you are doing this. I love you. She said if you love me you will let me do this and stab today in my neck. Reporter one day after this emotional testimony, michelle was not in the courtroom. But the horror was felt once again today. A detective showed the jury `what the weapon prosecutors say was used in the attack. 3 they also saw this lava lamp, investigators say lane used to hurt wilkins before lane removed wilkins baby from the womb. Upon entry you can see drops of blood leading downstairs and upstairs. Reporter from the start, lane has been painted as a liar. Prosecutors showing the jury `these pictures that she took of a fake pregnancy. The doctor, an obgyn. The nurse introduced him to lane and her husband thinking she gave me a quick story that she had delivered a pretomorrow baby at home and they already pronounced the baby dead. When i arrived she and a man were sitting in chairs facing theeback wall and the man was holding the baby, weeping. Reporter her baby did not survive the rampage. Today, the doctors told us they are not sure if she will ever be able to get pregnant again. We are live in the news room, back to you. Thank you, mark. Detective testify Immediate Court today about celllphone records, pace book records and internet searches. A spokes erson for boulders District Attorneys Office tells us there say chance prosecution could rest the case on friday. And then lanes defense team will take over. You can follow updates from the courtroom on our live blog 3 tomorrow. Tracking developing stories the tech rocky allens alleged actions at Swedish Hospital safety in the operating room. Denver 7 found the surgical techs are not qualified to be certified. They have to be registered and fill out the paperwork with the state. According to this he was a noncertified tech. If you have surgery you can request a certified surgical tech. We talked to a patient with hernia surgery. The pain he felt was worse than when he lost his leg in vietnam. He believes because hisstech swapped out his pain 3 medication. It was where you are relieved at least ittgives you `n answer. And then she mentiooed the hiv and the heptightis b c and i looked that up and the relief went away. Brown had his free blood test yesterday. He will know if he was infected with anything in a few weeks. We are still monittring developments from a crash in westminster. This is around 1 00 this morning. Killing the driver of the malibu and sending the officer to the hospital. Westminster police say an officer was in a marked patrol car at the time of the crash. An Accident Team is doing the investigation. We do the not yet know the identity of the driver killed and Westminster Police have not condition. This county deputy is still in critical condition. He was on his way to a call when he was hit by another driver. That happened last week. `the Sheriffs Office says he has a long road ahead of them and they are collecting donations for his family. The truck driver was not hurt. That driver was ticketed for the crash. We all know rock slidee happen in colorado. Our weather is causing big mess. Weekend beeore i70 will reopen this road is clearly closed. This is a high passes that gets attention. It is almost a blizzard right now. Now, cdot closes it for the winter of the problem is with the i70 rock slide closure, some Gps Technology is sending drivers this route any way much to their rustration. Reporter even with dozens of road signs warning of the closures. we came out from chicago. Reporter those like this, nice family frrm chicago were just following their rental cars gps. We wanted to do a scenic road trip. We arr here. Now we can not go further. Now we will go back and see the other part of colorado, i guess. Has hundreds of drivers turning to gps or google maps that is recruits many aspenbound drivers to independence pass. Little do tourists know that this road is closed all wiiter because of snow. They are not from here and did not know this road was independence pass. They needed a sign that says Something Like the road is closed do not get to aspen in this direction. They will impact more than 50 of the bookings this weekend. They are recommending amtrak for guests coming and going through denver. Adding insult to injury. He had options. We could of flown intos aspen which we have done before and hotel has a shuttle but we went to denner and got a rental car to make it a road trip. Now it is quite the road trip. This is a problem on the other side of the pass as well. The aspen side. The newspaper reporting several 3 truckers tried to take the pass and when they get to this they have to unhitch just to turn it around. Hours sometimes. as for this famiiy here. A tht poept right here if this point would have been open they would have been 20 or 30 minutes as of right now, if this was open they would hhve been 20 or 30 minutes from aspen but now they are about five hours away from aspen. On the campaign trail tonight, republican candidate ted cruz is in the lead barely beating out donald trump. This a cording to a new wall street journal poll. Cruz is ahead with 28 and truup has 26 . Bush is at the bottom with 4 support. To not have trump leading since late december. It is trumps lowest support in a National Poll since late november. Donald trump had words today for pope francis after hearing the pope say a person is not christiannfor wanting to build a wall like the one trump proposed for the border of mexico with the u. S. Trump calls the popes comments a disgraae. If and when the vatican is attacked by isis, which is everyone knows isiss ultimate trophy, i can promise you that the pope would have only wissed and prayed that donald trump would have been president. The pope made the comments as he was wrapping up his visit to mexico. We will see political heavyweights in colorado in the coming days. We will tell you when, coming up. This is scary. That is a train nearly hitting a school bus. A group of people walked away ffom this helicopter crash. We are hearing from a man who that was real. A 16yearold boy ends up critically hurt after that crash. 3 five people were on the helicopter when it crashed into pearl harbor today. Witnesses jumped into the water to help those people who were on board and one of the oo the helicopter when he got there. ing somebody said someone was in there. I dove through from the pilots side and the backseat and saw him and saw the seat. It was twisted. Just instant. Tonight it is not clear what caused the helicopter on end up in the helicopter. In australia, people are used to fires and floods. `his is different. Tumble weeds are pilinggup. Look at that. They said they seen it llke this before but not like this. They think the tumble wed invasion is a result of a dry dry field. Now neighbors are left with a this is scary forrany parent to see. That is a train flying passed houston. Train. It looks like it was just inches away from crashing into the back of tte bus. The School District says that bus driver was fired for driving too close to the train. The feds want them to crack the encryption on the iphone belonginggto the San Bernardino terrorist. Now we are hearing from loved ones killed, apple should cooperate. If they comply with it we will maybe get justice. It will not bring my daughter back. Microsoft and google are standing behind apple. They said the fbi has not ruled on a third militant in the mas shooting e. We are learning more numbers about the taxes. Americans are going to get 330 billion. Half of the people will put it in savings and 35 will use it to pay down debt. Chelsea clinton is visiting denver with actress america ferara. They are campaigning for hillary. Travel delays caused them to former president bill clintonn is campaigning for hillary this weekend pueblo and in colorado springs. This is the first time president clinton has campaigned in our state during this election cycle. We expect to get more details about those events tomorrow. You might not need transponders for hovvlaaes per much longer. They passed a bill that would let anyone use the laaes for free. Switchable transponder and change it to hov to avoid being charged. They cost 35. A bill doubling thh statue of limitations to sexual assaults to 20 years passed througg the house. The bill comes following the sex assault scandal following bill cosby. Two women claimeddhe assaulted him decades ago was supporting the bill. I know you know it was windy today. It will stay windy overnight. No morr signs and coming down, hopefully not. The winds in copper mountain. Early this afternoon to late afternoon. The ccmera bouncing around. This camera is really secure up there. The winds so strong. 80 miles an hour. It really stirred things up. Now, another story today. The temperatures, look at the highs across the state. 87 degrees at lamar. The warmest for any day if february. The city of lamar. 73 in denver. Setting a record. The temperatures are above normal in the 40s and the 50s. Our high temperature, officially it was 73. Now, beating the old mark at 71. Set back in 1930. The normal high is 47. So, it is about where we are right now. Miidle 40s, lock at the winds from the westnorthwest. 33 miles an hour. A couppe rrin showers ending. Still light snowfalling uppnnr it will not be a lot. Having it by morning with the mountains, not active with the precipitationn that is why the winds have shifted now. They have been southwesterly most of the ddy. Look how qqickly the precipitation disappears. I am showing you the wind that comes across here. You see that is all gone shortly after midnight. The winds coming out strong, even tomorrow morning from the northwest. We still have a strong jet stream moving ahead over head across colorado. 17 leadville, 20s and 30s over northeast colorado. Tomorrow morning, warm. A cool front rather than a cold front. `still above average for this time of the year. 70s to the southeast. Metro numbers tomorrow, a breezy day. Not nearly as windy as today. 40s in the mountains and low to middle 60s expected on the pllins. For tonight,en windy, cooler, skies clearing, 35 for a low temperature. Thhn, tomorrow, the high, getting up to right around 62. But, still, gusting northwest looking ahead to the extended forecast. I like sidd the best. Sunny, lighter winds, 60. A bit of a cooling trend over the week skpepbd neet week. Light snow weekend next week. Light snow. The National Weather service will clarify the wind gusts, but the wind vain is gone. Yes, nearly hurricaneforced winds. That is crazy. Check it out. A phofrpgy caught on video armed with a knife. Wait until you hear how this a monkey caught on video armed with a knife. When you get one gig internet from centurylink and prism tv and theyre both delivered on a superfast Fiber Network directly to your home, its amazing. It is amazing, but do you think his delivery was a little flat on that one . Just yeah. Um, paul, i think its a little bit more like, its amazing oh, wow. Oh, mom, that was really good. Thank you. Wow. [ sighs ] feel like a hollywood insider. Okay, ill work on it. A pest can be doing damage to your tree. The ash bore is expected to that is a ash borer is expected to spread here o metro denver. It targets ash trees. Mans best friend getting a helping hand. The deputy saved a golden retriever from a icy pond. Cinnamon is shown here with the deputy who rescued the retriever. She fell through the ice and struggling for her life. The deputy walked into the going through the ice. He said he grabbed it and wrapped her to a blanket and raced her to a clippic saving her life. We hear a lot about clinic saving her life. You hear about belligerent people in bars but how about monkeys . The monkey downed a tkpwhrafs rum and got glass of rum and then picked up a knife. Wow, angry drunk. Yes. Aalot to talk about shopping for an suv . Well, this is the time. And your ford dealer is the place, to get 0 financing for 60 thats right. Just announced. Ford explorer. Edge. Escape. And expedition. Are available with 0 financing for 60 months. Ford suvs. Designed to help you be unstoppable. No wonder ford is americas best selling brand. But hurry, 0 financing for 60 months on ford suvs is a limited time offer. Now, before we get started i want to wish happy birth to mr. B. He got a great gift, a third trophy that was hoisted by john elway. He said this one is for pat. We wish pat and the ntire the best in the future. Tte broncos all over Network Sports tv again. Now, brock. The running back, the first product of the snoop dogg system to win a super bowl. Crazy. He was asked about brock as quarterback of this team in the future. Standard answer. What is he going to say, he is terrible. He came in he did a great job, you know, he did what he had to do for the teem and winning when peyton was hurt. I feel like he can go in there and get it done. It will beea great week of hockey at coors field. Friday, next friday, the alumni series. Mmve of the guys herein cluing patrick roy right there will be back on the ice. We will not see this again but we can only hope, no, joe, patty, suiting up for the game. Practicing working out. Seriously. Ourselves. Obviously we will not be at peak conditioning and our abilities hawe once ere. we are going to want on to make sure we dont embar as ourselves and put on a descent show. It will be a great event. I mean, going, i mean, outdoor and playing and i mean with the guys who retired it is special to me. All right, du and cc down in the springs tonight. The shot, rebound, back hepbd, backhand. He is a doityourselfer. He will take it in for the goal for the ffeshman. Now, they celebrate a 41 win coming back to denver for a battle against cc at coors field. Now, daytona tonight, nascar team, furniture row, no, mark, in the bas pro shop. 78. Jimmie johnson got sideways. Martin went 15th to 14th. Now back up car ready and he will have to start at the back of the field in sundays day tona 500. So far, bad luck to start the season for our denver team. It could all turnnon sunday. The world a president has to grapple with. Sometimes you cant even imagine. Thats the job. And shes the one whos proven she can get it done. Securing a massive reduction in nuclear weapons. Standing up against the abuse of women. Protecting social security. Expanding benefits for the national guard. And Winning Health care for 8 million children. The presidency is the toughest job in the world and shes the one wholl make a real difference for you. Dicky from hollywood its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight, kerry washington, nikolaj costerwaldau, this week in unnecessary censorship and music from jason derulo with cleto and the cletones. And now, nobody move, heres