She stabbed it into my neck. I remember thinking of things and feeling like i really i just thought of her and i felt likeei wanted to survive also for her. Now, aurora is the name that ms. Wilkins intended to name the little girl. She told the court she felt extreme pain during the attack, looked down and saw a deep gash on her stomach. Once she was taken to the hospital, wilkins told the staff of the baby. But the baby was already dead. In boulder, lance hernandez, denver 7. So tough to hear. Thanks a lot, lance. One of the nurses who cared for the defendant at longmont hospital took the stand also. Investigators ssy lane showed up at the hospital with the victims unborn daughter, claiming it was her infant son. When i asked to examine her, might be bleeding, she said dont take care of me, just take care of him. Take care of thh baby. Tte nurse, arrstrong, says lane claimed she had given birth to the baby in her bathtub 15 minutes before arriving at the hospital but she was wearing dark pants so it was hard to tell what had happened. We talked to attorneys who tell us todays testimony from Michelle Wilkins is key for prosecutors. Brenda isshere and they say the testimony will resonate with the juror. The fact she remembers so many details will be crucial foo the states case. I just remember i kept asking her why she was doing that. Even for an experienced attorney like david beller, Michelle Wilkins testimony resonates more than most cases. It was something hat anybody watching and certainly the jury feels the emotion of what she went through. I just remember i kept askinn her why she was doing that. Watching how wilkins calmly described her attack. Beller says shes an extremely effective witness. All the details, its clearly very emotional, but shes able to get those details out and have the jury hear and understand what it is she was going through. He says hearing from her on `he first day of trial is key for prosecutors to prove their case against lane. The defense is going to be focusing on what it is that ms. Lane was thinking. The prosecution is going to be focusing on what ms. Wilkins was feeling. Lanes attorney only crossexamined wilkins for five minutes, mostly getting her to repeattparts of her testimony. Beller isnt surprised. The defense is going to be focusing on the very detailed occurred. Because they are ultimately going to be arguing in Closing Argument that this is a very sudden and a very immediate decision. Beller says one of the most powerful moments of wilkins testimony was when she described telling her attacker that she loved her. He says thats something that as ttis trial continues. Reporting live in the studio. A man trying to rob him and the homeowner wont face any charges. It happened in littleton when he man ssowee up craigslist ad. When they arrived, they tied up the man and robbed him. He was able to get loose and went after the man with a gun them. The other suspect was later arrested. Right now i70 is still closed in Glenwood Canyon following this massive rock slide that left large boulders strewn across the highway. The road is closed west of hanging lake tunnel. Cdot crews are bringing down any remaining debris on the mountain and installing a fence on the westbound lanes to catch falling rocks. I70 will remain closed until sometime on thursday. A warning about a closure on southbound i25 tonight. All southbound lanes to lincoln will be closed tonight starting the ramps are interest c470 to from c470 to southbound i75 will be shut down. All lanes and ramps will reopen tomoorow morning at 5 30. Now lets get to chief meteorologist mike nelson for your first alert forecast. The big story coming up is going to have high winds and high fire danger on the way in the next 24 hours. Ill run through all of that for you in just a few more minutes. Thanks, mike. School district budgets for next year are due all over the state and that means some teachers could be out of a job and not just as Denver Public schools. Were talking other districts all a cross our state. Denver 7 reporter mark is live. Some doubt the reasoning behind making these cuts. Thats right. Like some Teachers Union members who say that there arent like the district is saying there are. Yet the union tells us three teachers are being cut and one parttime administrator is being added. The district says its a staffing shuffle thats hitting schools in the northwest denver area hard. Today i need a snow man. This is a typical day in the 3yearold class at coal fax Elementary School in denver. Behind the scenes, district leaders are shuffling budgets to keep it this way. It is difficult to fund all the needs that are being requested, giien the low funding were seeing from the state. Faced with the need to make cuts nearing 20 million, the district says its slashing 157 full time educators from the district office. Of those, about 50 are expected to be rehired in schools. The rest are out of a job. There will be increases in some schools, decreases in others. Each school will have to deal with that with their community of how you balance as you see the district is blaming lower enrollment numbers because of a 2008 recession and high real estate prices that are driving low income families out of the district. But one union rep tells us at schools like beach court elementary, enrollment isnt decreasing. The union spec lats the union is scrapping as many teachers as possible. Cutting tens of millions of dollars has to impact classrooms like these. Some of those are vacant positions, but some of those are actual people who have lost their position. We checked with the five biggest districts in the state. They say no teachers will be cut because of a dip in enrollment. Douglas county says its still too early to tell and we didnt hear back from adams 12 as of news time. Sports authority announcing today it is closing 140 locations. That includes three right here in colorado. Castle location on tenth and broadway here in denver, another on 29th and boulder and the Greenwood Village store. Sports authority is planning to close three out of every ten stores. Its not clear just yet how many people will be out of a job. Tonight were hearing from tte lawyer representing two patients he says had had surgery at Swedish Medical Center and tested positive or hepatitis b. A worker has been arrested, accused of switching out needles. He thinks swedish needs to be held accountabll. Were talking about something that occurred in a hospital environment where controls were supposed to be in place to protect pattents from this very sort of danger. Avery says there was a breach of protocol at swedish and looking into a class action lawsuit. That dylan red wines mother filed against his dad has been dismissed by a judge. The lawsuit was filed four days after the statute of limitations ran out. The little boy disappeared in `0012 while on a thhnksgiving trip to fathers house. His remains were found in june of 2013 and no one has been charged. A house bill that will help prosecute repeat Domestic Violence offenders is moving forward. They passed the bill unanimously this week. Two people are lucky to be alive tonnght. They were able to escape a house fire this morning with the help of north metro firefighters. The fire broke out in a home on la pan street in broomfield. One person was able to get out safely. The other was rescued by firefighters. They were both taken to the hospital to be checked out. Theecause of that fire is under investigation. Someone really wanted some booze overnight and didnt ant police are searching for burglars who brooe into a liquor store in lakewood this mooning. They stole an unknown amount of alcohol from the store on sseridan. Police say thh burglars tried to hit a place on wadsworth and florida first, but couldnt get in. The fbi is taking on apple. And the tech giant isnt giving up without a fight. Why theyre at odds. Why the fbi says apple could even dangee the security and ivacy of your phone. The warm weather is bad news forever green lake skaters. The lake close egg earlier thn usual. High wind watches, fire weather watches, red flag warnings for much of eastern colorado. Its called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. Most new wealth flows to the top 1 . Its a system held in place by corrupt politics where wall street banks and billionaires buy elections. My campaign is powered by millions of small contributions. People like you who want to fight back. The truth is you cant change a corrupt system by taking its money. Im Bernie Sanders. I approve this message. Join us for real change. Tragic scene in san bernardino, california, is leading fbi agents to take on apple. December terror attack. Now the fbi wants apple to help them crack the iphone used by one of the shooters. The fbi has been unable to get into syed farooks iphone. The phone would automatically erase key data and make it permanently inaccessible. Apple says creating a hack would danger all iphone users and create major privacy issues. The white house thinks apple should give in. They are not asking apple to redesign or create a back door. Theyre simply asking for something that would have an impact on this one device. Investigators want to get into the phone to see how involved isis was in the attack. Coming up, some of you agree that apple should not find a way around the pass woed. If apple should be forced to play ball. A new poll is out just ahead of the next primary in South Carolina. It shows republican candidate Donald Trump Holding on to his lead in that state. The latest cnn poll in South Carolina shows bush, rubio and cruz trailing trump. Hillary clinton has a nearly 20 point advantage. Both candidates appeared on Nevada Public Television last night. Democrats caucussd there this weekend. That race a really tight. Pope francis is wrapping up trip to mexico today. The pontiff arrived in the city of juarez, the final stop of his 5 day visit. The pope met with inmates in the citys prison, considered to be one of the most violent in latin america. Hes preparing to go to the Border Crossing to remember the thousands that have died crossing the u. S. mexico border. Pope francissis acceleeating an open air mass. One dead after being hit by a car in the sams club parking morning and the driver stayed on at this point, police have not said if that person will face any charges. One day maybe we wont have to report on thh deadly crashes. Denver mayor hancock outlined a new initiative aimed to end the deadly crashes. Its callld vision zero. It focuses on adding barriers or changing pedestrian zones. It will cost 750,000 to implement and paat of the mayors 2016 budget. I cant emphasize enough the initiative and the importance of us working together to do this. This Vision Zero Program was first iiplemented in sweden where its been a success so far. Deadly crashes are declining there,hitting an all time low a few years ago. People living in the Green Mountain neighborhoods are getting a chance tt talk about state and Government Agencies that are out searching their properties. The Army National guard and to search land on the mesa view. To search land on the mesa view. Theyre searching for military mu nigsz. They may have been left over are from ar until rooe practice on Green Mountain in warld war 2. A meeting starts in less than an hour from 6 to 8 tonight at Red Rocks Community college in lakewood. For the first time in a decade, more people seem to be buying cigarettes. 194 million packs of cigarettes were purchased in our state last year, up more than a million compared to 2014, 7 increase. State Officials Say sales plummeted in 2005 after the tobacco tax was raised. The jump is the first state has seen since then. Smoking rates are actually continuing to decline, just at a slower rate. The warm, ssring like weather is bringing an end to ice skating at evergreen lake. The last day you can visit the lake nd concession stand is officials will be now preparing for boat season which opens in may. Denver 7 needs your help supporting a Great Organization in colorado. We have a friendly competition between our morning and night crews to help raise money for Special Olympics colorado and this years polar plunge. You can join or donate tt my team, denver 7 on our facebook pages. Well be doing the plunge this weekend and jumping in at the denver zoo next weekend. ` folks, get your cameras ready. Were in for anothhr treat this evening. Beautiful, high clouds are turning gold and orange and pink coming up in the next 40 minutes or so. Its going to be a pretty one. Its a great day in denver. Currently holding at 59. Relative humidity is pretty low. Right now 26 . It will be lower tomorrow. The winds are going to be higher tomorrow as were going to start to see a strong band of jetstream winds come in ffom the west coast. See the red color, thats winds by omorrow, thatsscoming in from utah into colorado. Not a lot of moisttre. Maybe a few inches for the mountains, but very strong winds across the state. Thats going to raise the fire danger. Its also going to be downsloping westerly winds for uss thats oing to bring temperatures to record levels across the Eastern Plains of colorado tomorrow. Tonight, winds on the increase. Temperatures not all that cold. `n the upper 20s to low 30s in the mountains. 30s on the plainn. Colorado. Tomorrow, as this storm system comes through with that strong jetstream, its not going to be much of a snow maker. A little bit of snow in the mountains, but strong winds coming up across the plains and very warm temperatures. 40s in the mountains. Highest elevations will have snow and rain showers. 80s over southeastern colorado. Record high, eclipsing the mark tomorrow of 71 set n 1930. 72 for downtown and brooofield maybe 74. Highlands ranch 60s and 70s. 3 very low humidity. Strong winds, especially right through the foothills where we might have gusts to 77 miles an hour for tomorrow. Tonight winds start to increase. 35 to 37 for a low along the front range. Tomorrow 72 and the fire danger high on the plains. Looking ahead, the extended forecast, the temperatures start 62. On saturday. Lighter winds, sunny skies, comfortable temperatures. And cooling into the weekend and early next week. A few inches of snow coming up on monday maybe for the here. Little school on the prairie, not really. Little ton today, i was at a ellmentary. She was our kid cam kid for look at her steady camera work here. 650 students at this huge school at wilder elementary. They were great, all packed into the gym. Had had a chance to do hail juggling to explain the different sizes of hail. Didnt drop that softball on any i posted still pictures of as well. Mike nelson 7 news. Just want to thank everybody as laura ingils wilder elementary. Ashley nelson a teacher, no relation, she ame up to me and said i remember when you came and spoke to my first grade class. Love it. Check out this house on fourth street. It could be yours if you winnthe Childrens Hospital colorado mighty millions raffle. `oure looking inside the nearly 2 million show home. You can take a look inside tomorrow. There are over 6,000 prizes thii yyar including luxury vehicles, even vacation packages. The catch here is you have to buy a raffle ticket which will theyve been married so long theyve almost set a record. We talked to a colorado couple about how they have kept their love strong after 77 in a brooklyn tenement. He went to public schools, then college, where the work of his life began fighting injustice and inequality, speaking truth to power. He moved to vermont, won election and praise as one of americas best mayors. In congress, he stood up for working families and for principle, opposing the iraq war, supporting veterans. Now hes taking on wall street and a corrupt political system funded by millions of contributions, tackling Climate Change to create cleanenergy jobs, fighting for living wages, equal pay, and tuitionfree public colleges. People are sick and tired of establishment politics, and they want real change [ cheers and applause ] Bernie Sanders husband, father, grandfather, an honest leader building a movement with you to give us a future to believe in. Im Bernie Sanders,. When it comes to having a baby, there is so much to think about before women give birth. In our basics of baby segment, we want to hhlp make the experience a little easier. Our partners at Saint Joseph Hospital say one thing becoming more popular is a birth plan, significant other want during labor and delivery covering Pain Management to the music they want playing during the babys birth. I say its an opportunity for new parents to think through what they want from their experience ann convey that with their provider. There are plenty of plans online. Well have a link ppsted on the denver channel. Com under our basics of babies segment. Women, if youre waiting to hhve a baby, you may not want to wait too long. New Research Shows women who get pregnant of 40 have a greater risk of stroke and heart diseaae. Researchers looked at mmre than 70,000 women, found that those who waited until 40 or later to get pregnant for the first time had a 60 increase in the risk of a brain bleed. Also discovered hints of an increase in Heart Disease and non bleeding strokes. A colorado couple is showing us how strong their love is. The couple celebrated their just shy of the record, 81 years. This is the picture of their wedding day, february 17th, 1939. Mildred is 93 years old, howard, 99. They had five children and are now great, great grandparents. They have trouble believing its been so we were married that long . Wow. Unbelievable. The couple says one of the important secrets to a long lasting marriage is maintaining its called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. Most new wealth flows to the top 1 . Its a system held in place by corrupt politics where wall street banks and billionaires buy elections. My campaign is powered by millions of small contributions. People like you who want to fight back. The truth is you cant change a corrupt system by taking its money. Im Bernie Sanders. I approve this message. 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. And shes the one wholl make a real difference for you. Ihilly clton d i prov thimesse. Breaking news tonight. The new national poll. Is donald trump no longer the frontrunner . Also, late today, the South Carolina surprise. Just three days before the high stakes republican primary, the major endorsement. Could it sway the race . Governor haley is not for donald trump. Also developing, the fbi standoff with apple. After the terror attack in san bernardino, the fbi desperate to break into the gunmans iphone. A judge now demanding apple help the fbi. Apple refusing. Under fire. The two officers trying to arrest this man. He pulls out a gun. Their quick action in the moments that follow. The alleged imposter accused
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