Police responded to the Westwood Apartments to investigate a sex assault. A woman inside ran for help, calling the police from a neighbors house. I heard a loud knock on my door, like 4 30 in the morning, could have been my door, could have been loud enough it was somebody elses. I went out and looked to the people, didnt see anything. Reporter Police Arrived around 5 00 a. M. , the womans apartment was quiet, according to the police. The womans partner and children were still insidement in the apartment, unfortunately, they did find a 6yearold deceased, additionally, they found a 2yearold male unharmed. As well as an adult male with selfinflicted wounds. Reporter police say the man is the father of both children, the woman is the mother of the twoyearold child, but not the sixyearold child. Police are investigating both the sex assault and the death of the child. We know were working with a knife involved in the attempted Sexual Assault or the sexual appeared to be from the knife. Awful. Terrible. 6yearold child. Who does that . Reporter now, police say it is too early to determine who is the suspect in this homicide. As for that child, were told that the coroner will have to release the name and the manner of death. I do want to mention that a judge has now put a suppression on this case. Theyre not able to release more information to the public. Jennifer brice, cbs 4 news. Now, more on the deputy hurt in a crash while following an ambulance on the way to the hospital. The deputy is in critical condition. Cbs 4s Rick Sallinger continues our Team Coverage tonight from the scene of the accident. And ill live and valencia. How did this happen, rick. Reporter karen, an ambulance was travelling in this direction down illif, followed by the deputys car, a pickup truck was into valencia and struck the deputys vehicle. Unnoin how many vehicles. Reporter rescuing to save a life, the Arapahoe County deputy nearly lost his own. Driving west on illif behind a ambulance with lights flashing, he neared the intersection with valencia, terry was at work about a half minute later, you hear the big, huge pop. Like, bang. We came outside to see what it was. Reporter the red ford pickup truck going east on illif had turned towards valencia after the ambulance passed. It struck the deputys car. A short time later, these women, saw the frightening scene. The cop car was crashed into, a truck was turned pretty much sideways. Jaws for life was cutting the Police Officer out. Reporter the driver of the pickup, was not injured. But the deputy was taken to aurora south meddle cal center with serious injuries medical i hope its nobody i know and i said a quick prayer. Reporter fellow deputies came by the nopt their cruisers, and on motorcycle. After a morning with the horrifying crime scene. Now a deputy in distress. Reporter that deputy remains in critical condition, his name has not yet been released. The Colorado State patrol is investigating this accident, so far, no charges have been filed. Live in Arapahoe County, Rick Sallinger, cbs 4 news. Thanks, rick. New information now on a teenager accused of gravely wounding a mesa county sheriffs deputy, today, the Sheriffs Office identified that suspect as 17yearold austin holser, he is currently charged with attempted seconddegree murder. Investigators say holser shot Deputy Derek Geer during a monday. Deputy geer is now on life support, his family says, until organ donations are complete. The suspect ran away after the shooting, but was found a short he will likely be tried as an adult. And developing tonight, the investigation after two women are stabbed in fort collins. One has died. The Larimer County coroner says cathy died of stab wounds to her head and neck. The other victim, is in critical condition. It all happened before midnight tuesday, in a home on stover street. Then, several hours later, the Police Arrested one suspect, about a mile away. Afternoon. Kind of scary because you just dont know who is going to people. Its traumatic, its the neighbors and people in town. The suspects are now in the Larimer County jail, facing and attempted homicide. Now, to an update on a flight diverted to dia last night, due to an i rate passenger, the Alaska Airlines flight was supposed to fly from boston to san diego, fwut pilot decided to land in denver. Live from dia, and mark, we are learning that it was actually the pilots call to go ahead and land that plane. Reporter yeah, the pilot decided that this passenger was too drunk to fly. Authorities say he caused so much of a scene that that pilot made a detour to dia. 181 passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines flight bound for san diego, made a pit stop in denver. This after an alleged drunk man became disruptive a few hours after leaving boston, 8 30 p. M. The passenger in question became agitated and verbally abusive. He got up and moving towards another passenger on the plane. Reporter another passengers cell phone caught the passenger being escorted off the plane. The man was taken to detox but will not face charges because want to press captain. The captain decided to land at the nearest airport which was Denver International airport. What the Alaska Airlines crew did, i probably would have done the same thing. Reporter larry from the colorado pilots association, flew for Major Airline for 37 years. He says its touch the discretion of the pilot to say if someone is too drunk to fly. As far a as when, what is too much. Theres no guidelines. Reporter now, because there will be no charges filed against this passenger, his identity will not be released. That Alaska Airlines flight continued on to san diego, and landed at about 10 30 last night. Live at dia, mark taylor, cbs 4 news. New video shows the aftermath of a house fire in boulder this afternoon at a home in the table mesa neighborhood. Firefighters put a ladder up to the second floor window to help a woman get out. Nick got a picture of that rescue. That woman is okay. Well, checking that weather, about the springlike temperatures, but there are some people dealing with very powerful wind gusts right now. Justin mcheffey in the mobile weather lab, checking in from boulder county, justin, we can thank that wind for the warmer temperatures. Reporter yeah, jim, the jet stream winds are positioned over the Northern Front range mountains. It made it warm outside. Downtown denver had a temperature of 68 degrees. Quick look at the wind while we have it. Gusting up to about 27, maybe 35, every couple of minutes, the fastest we have seen was 42 miles per hour. Back to the temperature in denver, 68 was the high. Average high this time of the year is 45. So were talking about temperatures about 25 degrees above average. So along with these gusty winds, snow, kicks off the Continental Divide there and for a time, these winds produced what we call a mountain wave cloud, over the front range mountains. Off a little bit later on tonight with colder temperatures moving into the picture for tomorrow. And for now, pretty breezy up here in boulder county, anything going on in re dar . The only moisture is the wave cloud that you talked about. We have that High Pressure ridge bringing the storms down over the eastern side of that ridge and back to the east where they continue to see snow. This continues for quite a while. How long, coming up. Also, coming up, as the number of cases of the soars, globally zika virus soars. The world war ii veteran reunited with his sweetheart. How this wonderful reunion happened. Im mark haas at the viewhouse centennial, later in sports, why the broncos will benefit by having young guys play this year. Will join us, including the guy who may have caught peytons final pass. ,,,,, the field of president ial candidates got smaller today, Chris Christie finished his campaign. And republican Carly Fiorina, is also out of the rashgs but in a post on facebook, the former business exec says shell continue to travel the country and fight more americans who want change. Among republicans, New Hampshire voters gave donald trump a big victory margin with john kasich second. Democrat Bernie Sanders thumped Hillary Clinton. Zika virus, the brain tissue of two babies who died in brazil. Thats the strongest link between the virus and the birth defect. Its still not definitive. Reported case of zika virus. And 17 states, five cases just added yesterday. Cbs 4 Health Specialist cathy walsh joins us now. Theres a lot of work to be done here, karen, the nations leading medical experts say it will spread to a significant number of cases in the united states. The experts are pressing for 1. 8 billion dollars in emergency aid. Theres the enemy. Reporter the nations Top Health Officials gave lawmakers a graphic description of the ver rashs mosquito behind the zika virus. It can bite four or five people in the course of one blood meal. Meaning it can spread disease quite quickly. Reporter 80 of people who get zika dont show symptoms, but the cdc director revealed the virus has been linked to the birth defect through brain tissue of two infants in brazil. Who died. This is the strongest evidence to date that zika is reporter he says the cdc is working around the clock to research, inform the public, and reduce the risk to pregnant women. Zika virus is new. Reporter president barack obama has asked for emergency funding of nearly 2 billion dollars to fight t zika. The head of the National Institute of allergieses and Infectious Disease called emerging disease the challenge. Talking about zika today, and next month, or next year, well be talking about Something Else in the same way as last year, we spoke about ebola. Now, theres novak seen for the zika virus, the cdc is warning pregnant women to avoid travel to caribbean countries and puerto rico. Women who are in those countries should protect themselves have mosquitoes, you use the spray or sleeves. In third world country, says no animal kills more humans than mosquitoes. West nile. Exactly. Thank you. A world war ii vet and his longlost girlfriend are back together in time for valentines day. A great story. 93yearold Norwood Thomas and 88yearold joyce morris hugged for the first time in nearly 70 years. They met in london, shortly before dday, then when the war ended, he went back to the u. S. , she moved to australia. Well, thanks to the internet and social media, morriss son was able to track down her longlost love. About the most wonderful thing that could have happened to me. Yes, good. To find somebody who loves you, you love them, the latter years of your life, it would rather be special, wouldnt it . They reunited in australia yesterday, thomas is scheduled to stay two week, but of course that could change, karen. With this torrent romance. Sure could. On the warm weather. We had a nice day today. If we didnt have the clouds, how warm we might have gotten today. As we take a look at the big picture, the same old situation, High Pressure here in the east and we have this low pressure trough in the east. In the west, we are the High Pressure. That takes all of those storms down and feeds the snow in there, thats whats continuing to do. On the futurecast, the hourbyhour, and you can see that circulation of that snow, now, watch how this snow comes down into and feeds right into it and just enhances the snow once again. The ridge shows just a few signs of breaking down, heres why. See this little line of storms, watch how they start to come through, they dont make it. But it is getting closer and closer to our area. Now, the ridge will build back up, and well warm back up again, youll see that in the five day forecast. Not too much to worry about. The 80s, 65 in billings, 66 today in 63 in albuquerque, 71 in wichita, but back east, the return flow shows those single digits, teens, 20s, all the way down to atlanta, miami, today. Only 64 degrees. Cold for them. 66, we were warmer than miami today. 66 degrees officially, 68 downtown. 45 is normal. Thats where we should be. And look at the lows, 35 and 37, shoulgd be at should be at 18. 71 and 14 below are the records. High temperatures from the weather watchers, south aurora, 67 degrees. Pueblo, 76 degrees, set a record high today. The old record was 75. 62 and 55. West 12 for the winds. 24 humidity a great day to go Cross Country skiing, this from larry pierce and this one from pete, you can see a little guy looking at you up in the tree in in the 20s, 30s in the front range. Single digits and teens above and below 0 for the high country. Then tomorrow, little bit cooler, still well above normal for this time of the year. 40s, 50s, 60s for the east. Looking at 20s, 30s, 40s for the mountains. 30s, 40s out west. Now, lets take a look at your denver forecast and for tonight. Well find temperatures to be mild again, 35 and 33 with mostly clear skies. Winds will become light. Then for tomorrow. Partly sunny skies. 60 degree mark downtown. As we take a look at the next several days, little up and down on the temperature. 55 friday. 59 on saturday. 51 sunday. But the president s day holiday, 56 and partly sunny. Very nice. Yeah. Thanks, ed. Denver taxpayers have paid a city worker more than 200,000 to sit at home for more than a year and hey half. Cbs 4 investigator brian mosz. Reporter he sits at home, day after day. Day. Reporter denver taxpayers have been forking out 143,000 a year for him to stay home. And this has been going on since 2014. Were looking for answers. Well over 200 grand to stay home and the clock is still ticking still flowing. The buck stops with you, but youre not going to answer any of my questions . Brian looks for answers in home. We hope youll join us tonight at 10 00. We know our broncos are good at football, but today a few of them showed off their other talents. ,,,,,, and welcome back to the viewhouse centennial, excited to have bennie and shaq barrett joining us later tonight. They played a role in the Denver Broncos super bowl run. You think about shaq, he stepped in when Demarcus Ware had an injury. Tied for most on the team. Fowler had big catches in the playoff, including catching what may have been peytons final pass on the 2point conversion in the super bowl. Gary kubiak knows moments like that for the young guys will help the team in the long run. Theyve got a lot of games under their belt now, snaps under their belt, even though theyre very Young Players, year 23, when we come back and go to work, theyre going to be very seasoned. Not many guys go off the playoff the Young Players got so much better. It should make us more competitive as a team every day we hit the practice field. Handful of broncos sfent day at spent the day at espn headquarters. Showing off the blocking skills, we know hes a good blocker and danny showsing off his basketball spinning skills, love the perks of being the champs. Nascar, a smart move by Furniture Row racing, a while back, they scheduled their denver media day for yesterday, but with the contingency plan they would move it to today if there was a broncos parade. Media day, for the team, theyve added Bass Pro Shops as a sponsor and switching to shef is i have. 78 car looking for better ways of competing with the big boys of nascar, an under dog story last year, making it to the championship race and raising the expectations for 2016. Definitely a little bit more anticipation this winter, i new things coming, coming off the season last year, were really all itching to get on the racetrack and see what we need to do and see what its going to take to have a season as good or better than last year. Looking forward to the challenge. Finally, check this out, german soccer fans were upset about high ticket prices, they showed up 20 minutes late to a game and threw tennis balls on the field, a lot of tennis balls, all at once, it was raining tennis balls, had to stop p the match, and the players had to help pick them up. Im hoping that the fans here at the viewhouse dont throw tennis balls at me if they get upset with how im doing the show tonight. 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