Cosbys victims are also backing this bill. Reporter and beth ferrier of denver and heidi thomas of castle rock say the famous comedian drugged and assaulted them more than 30 years ago. Now bill cosby is accused of doing the same thing to 58 women across the country. Hes been charged in pennsylvania, but because the alleged assaults in colorado occurred 30 some years ago they cant be prosecuted here because the statute of limitations expired. The colorado women say they didnt come forward earlier because they didnt think anyone would believe them, but now thats changing. I would have been accused of `eeding attention or going after money. I would have been sent in for coonseling. I am thankful that i have been flanked by these incredibly strong women and friends who are a support finally for this situation for us to get this bill introduced into the state of coloradd representative rhonda fields and senator john cook are sponsoring a bill to do away with the statute of limitations on felony Sexual Assault here in collrado. Both alleged victims and their attorney loria allred are testifying in favor of that proposal, but a criminal defense attorney is speaking out against it. She says that prosecutors will wait until the most powerful Defense Attorneys pass away before filing charges in connection with cases like this. She says theres always that danger. That case still being heard right now in the hous judiciary committee. At the State Capitol lance hernandez, denver7. Thank you, lance. House lawmakers are 3 listening to testimony today on a bill that would require Police Agencies to videotape interrogations in certain felony cases. Thissbill is one of five out there designed to increase Public Confidence in police. Others would ban chokeholds except in life threatening circumstances and ban racial profiling by police. Sad developments to report who was shot earlier this week. Deputy derek geer was taken off life support last night. Geer wasnt expected to recover but was kept on life support so his organs could be donated. This memorial to honor deputy geer issgoing up where he was shot monday night. The 15 year veteran leave behind a wife and two kids. Leaves behind a wife and two kid. His funeral will be in Grand Junction monday. This veteran may save several lives choosing to be an there are 2,700 people waiting in colorado for a life saving organ transplant. The deputy could be saving up to eight peoples lives. A spokesperson for the donor be a donor. Dont let your fears stop you. Its amazing to see the life saving gift that rgan and tissue donation can be and what it does for people. There are no age restrictions when it comes to if you cant donate blood, that exemption doesnt necessarily apply to organ donors. This is the teenager accused of shooting and killiig deputy geer. Prosecutors say 17yearold Austin Holzer was wanted on felony charges and had been on the run since september last year. Adult. ` right now jury selection is underway in the trial for danielle lane accused of cutting an unborn baby out of another womans womb. Next week. Shes accused of attacking last year. Her baby did not. The trial is expected to take up to two weeks. Thick smmke seen for miles filled the air over larkspurr this morning as another large fire destroyed another home. In the last few weeks weve seen a handful of fires like this and we waated to know what is going on. We went to larkspur today to we talked to the fire ccief about this rash of fires in such a small community. Reporter so many fires so intense and larkspuu typically reeiee on cities like castle rock here to respond to these fires with them. Numerous medical calls is responding to wildfire calls is something thats also normal. Whats not normall thouuh, is the string of structure fires theyve dealt with the past couple weeks because the chief tells me the fire rescue is just not built to handle that many calls around the same time. For louann landon and her husband the scenic small town of larkspur was reason enough to move from upstate new york. Its a very, very quiet area. Its a very small town and thats what attracted us to itt reporter a quiet area except for this lately. [ sirens ] probably the fire alarms going off is about all you hear is fire noisee reporter louann says shes been hearing them for quite some time since she lives not too far from the small yet busy i have been here for a total of 18 years and in my 18 years here ive never seen us have this many fires in this short amount of time. Reporter larkspur fire chief stuart mills said the recent rash of structure fires hes responded to has been unusual. This map here is for the fire rescue response. Its relatively small, but in the last six weeks chief mills says his firefighters responded to five structure homes, the latest one happening just this morning. Chief says none of the fires were set intentionnlly and they are not connected, but this is puuting stress on his small fire protectiin district. We do have obviously limited personnel. when we have a structure fire, it requires the majoriiy of our firefighters. Reporter thankfully, though, the chief says its mmtual aid froo nearby firefighters that keeps thhm pulling through. Rate. However, though, if they do, he says theyll just have to make do turning to the weather, another gorgeous day in mike nelson here. Everyone wants to know if that nice weather is sticking around. More or less, but there is a hourss temperatures aae grrat now, 62 at the top of the hour in city park, a little colder to the northeast and it is the nootheast weaver watching because thhres a band of colder air were watching because theees a band of colder air and snow in the dakotas pushing into colorado late tomorrrw night. Temperatures will be colder in tte denver area, could see areas f fog and maybe not even 40 degrees in the Northeast Corner of the state tomorrow afternoon, but then things get warmer again. Ill check it out for you in the sevenday in just a bit. We have a denver7 news alert, Police Impersonators seem to be n the prowl now in a couple communities. The weld county sheriffs residents claiming to be lieutenant ross orra captain davenpprt with the grand jury of the county. They were asking people to go to king soopers and wire them money. The Denver Sheriffs Department also says it has an impersonator telling people they owe money for missing jury duty. These scammers are claiming to be a lieutenant mark sprinker. The Leadville Police department is under handling evidence. Both the lake county da and the bureau of investigation are looking into how the department handles and stores some of its evidence and financial improprieties. In december the Leadville Police ccief resigned over a personnel matter. Its unclear if that was connected to this investigation. Massive protests turning into riots, now the city of ferguson, missouri, is being sued by the Justice Department for how it handled these scenes. The lawsuit comes after city counselors voted this week to push back the settlement the city reached with the Justice Department. City leaders said the city agreement, but attorneyygeneral Loretta Lynch isnt buying that argument. They made enforcement decisions based on the way individuals expressed themselves and they unnecessarily escalated nonlife threatening ituations. These violations were not only egregious, they ere routine. Lynch said city leaders have no other choice to protect the rights of residents being treated up fairly by ppoice and a profit driven unfairly by police and a profit driven court system. The remaining armed militia who took over a wildlife refuge turned themselves into federal agents today. Three of the four still holed up in the refuge surrendered to agents after negotiations. The last man stayed barricaded in the refuge another hour `before he finally gave up and peacefully surrendered. All four are to appear in ourt tomorrow. Chickees in our kids preschools, the new learning experience was starting to gain traction in colorado. Put a halt to that practtce, why they dont want your preschool kids around this farm fowl. Plus the race is getting heated for the democratic rin the middle of a time when senior povertyt is increasing. Republicans and some democratsp came up with a brilliant idea adjustments for Social Security. We said, it will be over our dead bodies if you cut Social Security. As president , i will do everything i can to extend the solvency of Social Security and expand benefits for people who desperately need them. Im Bernie Sanders, and i approve this message. donkey sound elephant sound between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Wwlcome back. While epublican candidates for President Campaign for the next president ial hopefuls are hunkered down getting ready for tonights high stakes debate. Tonights debate in wisconsin `s the first since Hillary Clintons huge loss to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire and the last before voters hit the polls in south carolina. Is around admits his slam dunk in the New Hampshire primary wont be easy o repeat in the next primaries. If the election were tomorroo, do you think you nevada . No. Fortunately for us the election is not tomorrow. The race is just as heated on the gop side. John kasich attracted larger crowds after his second place finish in New Hampshire. Trumps campaign is changing gears and pulling attack ads in positive messages there. Both clinton and Bernie Sanders will be here this weekend. Both candidates are scheduled `to be at the democratic annual dinner saturday. Sanderr Campaign Says he will also speak at a rally in deever on saturdayyafternoon. Next week clintons daughter chelsea will be in boulder and mother. The colorado caucus by the way is less than a month away on march 1st. We all knew they wwuld be coming and now the first commercials in the president ial race have hit tvs here in our state. Bernie sanders ads are now airing here on denver7. In the middle of a time when senior poverty is increasing, republicans and some democrats came up with the brilliant idea for cutting cost of living adjustments for Social Security. We said it will be over our dead bodies. Well, tonight at 10 00 political reporter Marshall Zelinger puts these new ads to the test to see if sanders is sticking to the facts. This week on politics unplugged president ial race since both president ial candidates will be in colorado this week. Well be looking at whee their campaigns mean to our tate. Be sure and join me and Marshall Zelinger right here on denver7 sunday aa 4 p. M. New at 5 00 chickens in preschool . Are children getting in touch with nature or getting in touch with a Health Danger . Yeah. Ive not heard of this, but `pparently a lot of schools have chickens and now there a new state rule that says kids cant go near them. We have the ssory live from a boulder preschool where chickens may have to move out soon. Reporter right here cinnamon and java have just until august before these new statewide regulations kick in. This may be a controversy that surprises you, but now parents and teachers are all working together to keep these chickens in schools. At New Horizons Preschool heading outside for recess. All right. Lets be gentle with them. Hey, chicken reporter not only are there chickens to feed these are scraps from our snacks this morning. Goats. You want to feed the goats . [ little kid laughing ] its always a great deal of fun and its not dangerous. Reporter buttaccording to the Colorado Health department, it is dangerous and now bannedd kids 5 and under are no longer allowed near live poultry at child cares because of the risk of infections transmitted from hand to mouth. Some bread . Reporter ssgns reminding teachers to have kids wash their hands after feeding the animals aryanna patrick doesnt want her kids to pick out. This morning they got to hand pick two fresh eggs. `the spokesperson for the Health Department said field trips tt the risk of aachild getting sick from poultry is like 000. 5 . Reporter theres now an rule. The benefits definitely outweigh that tiny, tiny, tiny risk. Reporter the Health Department reports five salmonella from interacting with baby chicks last year. They cant, though, say whether or not that was related to any child careefacility. Lets talk house pets ow. A colorado teen and her best friend are going to the big time. Carissa groves who lives in elizabeth ii just 11 years old and she will show her bloodhound sebastian at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in new york city this weekend. How cool is that . Carissa and sebaatian go back a few year. She started showing hhm when she was just 9 years old. 3 somebody in the castle rock area is obviously not a bronccs star. Half the lights are out there you can see. the Fire Department posted on facebook that the departmenn sharrs the communitys disappointment, but they are not letting it dampen their mood saying whoever did it cannot kill our town spirit. Go broncos only on denver 7news youve heard of the gold rush bringing adventures to colorado. Well, now theres something new. Its the marijuana migration and denver7 reporter jaclyn allen explored the socalled green rush. This all came o light after the investigation into the planned parenthood shooting . Reporter right. The admitted shooter had moved out to colorado for marijuana and to be left alone, but when park county detectives had to searrh his rv, they looked around and noticed rvs everywhere and tough sheds and tents, People Living off the grid with no water, sewer or power. To be clear, there have always been People Living like this in park county drawn by cheap land and little regulation, but first responderr tell me the numbers have grown exponentially in the last 18 `at last count the fire chief estimated 287 nonconforming homes in just one fire district. `the real concern is that in this extremely harsh but beautiful climate, were talking temperatures of negative 51 degrees, these People Living in campers could be one storm or one freezing cold day from a crisis. You can see the chimney from here. There. Reporter so whats the danger . Theyll die of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Theyll burn the place down. Tonnght at 10 00 we go way, way off the beaten path to meet the People Living off the grid and see the impact of this green rush. Its definitely an eye opening tour and while first responderss `are concerned about safety, people in park county are also worried about Property Values in. Well tell you how county officials are responding. Denver7. A lot of folks will be thanks. Its being called one of the biggest discoveries of the decade. Physicists have confirmed theyve been working for a century to prove the exxstence of these waves first predicted by Albert Einstein in his theory of relative it i published relativity published almost exactly 100 years ago. In you go. Get your cameras ready and share those pictures with us. A warm day today, highs across theestate 74 pueblo, 71 degrees coming ii at both lamar andd trinidad. We had 64 in den and right now denver and right now we are still very comfortable, 64 degrees, the record, though, 73 in 1951. With that sunset coming on strong 55 right now downtown, 47 at the airporare east at 14 Miles Per Hour winds are east at 14 Miles Per Hour. Some cold air, teens for current temperatures minneapolis, chicago, toronto and 25 at bismarck. Denver. It will just nudge the eastern some cooler weather, all the brunt of the cold off to the east of us with some of the coldest air of the season coming into the great lakes and the northeast in the next day or two. Overnight tonight our low temperatures will drop down to about 28 at akron, 22 at greeeey, 30 in denver and a couple cold pockets like craig at 1 and 7 below at gunnison, butttomorrow youll nottce theres more cloud cover here and ive also shown you the winds. You can just see these wind vectors here. 3 weve got an easterly flow coming in across northeastern colorado. Thats the colder air. We catch a bit of it. Highs will only be in the 40s and 30s up toward north platte, 53 at denver, but on the northeass side of town it will be a colder day with temperatures there holding in the 40s. This still if we werent so spoilee by the great weather weve had recently is really warm for the middle of february, but it will feel noticeably cooler tomorrow last couple days. High clouds toniggt, 28 for a low temperature. Tomorrow a partly cloudy day and a little cooler, 53 for the high and with that easterly 3 flow at the urface youll have poor air quality tomorrrw because youll push all the air pollutants up against the mountains, kind of trap them there, but on the ssvenday, back to the upper 50s saturday, mid to upper 50s ssnday and monday and check this out next week. 60 on tuesday, 65 on wednesday and 62 on thursday. You thought maybe this was the end of it . No. We still have more of these nice days to come. If you get he car washed, its going to stay clean a while. I did it just today honest. 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As president , i will do everything i can to extend the solvency of Social Security and expand benefits for people who desperately need them. Im Bernie Sanders, and i approve this message. A foot chase in london comes to an abrupt end when one literally. He put out his foot aad tripped jefferson Elementary Students got a little extra help making valentines today. A few dozen 3rd Grade Student here at green ridge place in westminster near 34th and church ranch. They worked alongside people with alzheimers and dementia after making some new friends the students took the valentines home to their families and the adults have cards foo their kids and grandkids. Who doesnt like craft time . Thats up if. Very nice. Wwre really fun. Very nice. Were really liking the sevenday. It really looks good and behind us beautiful sunset once again. Weve been getting colorful skies mornnng and night. Its a good time in colorado. We need your pictures. Send them to us since we cant go outside. 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