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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wednesday morning on Colorado's Morning News Gina Gondek and Chad Bauer,
Infra Marti Lens This Morning on eight fifty AM, ninety
four to one FM, and on the iHeartRadio app Fox
thirty one Pinpoint.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Weather a little overcast right.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Now, but we will see some partly Sunday skies later today.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Temperatures in the mid forties.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Pretty chilly, but we'll be back into the sixties tomorrow
and Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Plenty of sunshine. Currently we're at twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
In Denver, immigration activists are upset after learning a woman
who's been in the country for more than twenty five
years is now in an ICE detention facility in Aurora.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Her being taken seems to be a pattern that we're
seeing where ICE has taken high profile leaders within social
justice movements and put them in removal proceedings.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Leaders in Denver and across the state are criticizing the
Trump administration about Jeannette Vizgera's arrest.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Mayor Mike Johnston unleashed at the Trump administration.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
This is a mom of American citizens who a target
and has started meeting a profit.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
This is not something that makes our community safer.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
My mind.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
I think it makes our community.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Wallace viscara does have an arrest on her record in
two thousand and nine for a minor traffic violation and
falsified documents about he status, and has been finding deportation
through numerous appeals. In twenty seventeen, she took sanctuary in
a church during the president's first term. Senator Michael Bennett
says he's concerned about ICE's actions, and Senator John Hicklooper
says targeting Viscarett won't fix the immigration problem.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
Rob DAWs at Kaway News.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
The widow of a Denver police officer killed in two
thousand and five and fellow officers are speaking out after
learning the man convicted of killing officer Donnie Young could
become eligible for early parole.
Speaker 9 (01:43):
This was a young adult that came back and ambushed
this at the end of the night, unexpectedly.
Speaker 8 (01:49):
This is just a travesty of justice. If he's able
to get out after servant twenty years.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
That's a detective Jack Bishop who was wounded when Young
was shot and killed. Raoul will Gomez Garcia is eligible
for a parole program for those that were convicted of
crimes as teenagers Gomez Garcia was sent to eighty years
in prison for the death of Detective Young, but could
be eligible for parole in three years.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Denver Police Chief.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Ron Thomas criticized Gomez Garcia's eligibility for the program, calling
it preposterous.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
It was in the snow, but rather the wind causing
problems overnight to the metro area and along the Palmer Divide.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
The worse that that is over for that I twenty
five card are just some lingering.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Mostly light snow showers.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
There right now. National Weather Service meteorologists Bruno Rodriguez says
the eastern planes still seeing some white out conditions.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Albert County schools are closed today.
Speaker 10 (02:40):
Still looking at guts pushing fifty miles an hour for
a good portion of the planes today.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
By this evening it'll be considerably weaker.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And while the mountains are reporting three to four inches
of fresh powder, the metro area received only a dusting,
so the fire danger remains high this week, the storms
bringing us those strong winds now moving into the planes
and raising the threat for blizzards from kit Kansas to Wisconsin.
In fact, you could hear the wins when Denver's National
Women's soccer League franchise was announcing plans to build a
new stadium at the Santa Fe Yards.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
There are so many people that have their hands in
the work of today, and it's been in.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
A thoughtful process over the two.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Year period building up to this.
Speaker 11 (03:16):
So we had a lot of the foundation built, but
we still got a ton of work to do to
get to opening day next here.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Denver team owner Rob Cohen says the new stadium near
I twenty five and Broadway, we'll see fourteen and a
half thousand fans. Neighboring business owners are happy to see
something going up on that empty lots.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
We're very excited, you know, just we've been staring at
this pilot dirt for years here. It'll be great to
have it here and very convenient for people to get
to being close to the Broadway light rail station.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Others tell Fox thirty one that they worry about the
traffics such as a large stadium could bring.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
The other providing parking for where all the spectators would
be kind of, it'd be good.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
They've already got.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
It bad enough.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
There will be a parking lot, but no word on
if it will be large enough for all of the
vehicle The stadium should be complete by the spring of
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Ukrainian President Zelenski says he'll be speaking with President Trump
today following the discussion the President had yesterday with Vladimir Putin.
That phone call did not result in a ceasefire, but
it did lead to a promise that Russia would stop
bombing Ukraine's infrastructure.
Speaker 12 (04:21):
As far as Russia is concerned, this is a win
for Vladimir Putin. He is normalizing the relationship with the
United States now, and the White House hopes that they'll
be further talks this coming weekend in the Middle East.
They hope that this is a step on the road
to a full ceasefire.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
That's ABC's James Longman.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
A rare move by the Supreme Court's Chief Justice John Roberts,
who publicly rebuked President Trump for saying a federal judge
should be impeached for ruling against one of Trump's deportation orders.
Speaker 13 (04:50):
In a statement, Chief Justice John Roberts saying for more
than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is
not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.
The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose, Trump
responding to the Chief Justice saying Roberts never mentioned him
by name, though it was clear Roberts was responding to
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the President's statement.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
That's ABC's Mary Bruce, two.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Teenage paddle borders back home after a sixteen hour ordeal
off Florida's Gulf Coast.
Speaker 11 (05:19):
The girls, both sixteen, set out on a single paddle
board from Cedar Keet. Hours later, they still weren't back.
Authorities then launching a search lasting through the overnight hours.
Three fishermen heard about the search and sprang into action.
It was after eight am when they spotted something in
the water. The men, then carrying the girls over their
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shoulders to safety, turns out the tide and pushed them
fourteen miles off course. They were cold and had a
few scratches, but we're okay.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
At ABC's Rhiann and Alley and.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
An all female ski festival returns to glenn Wood Springs
next month. The fifth annual boot tan Fest will be
held at Sunlight Mountain Resort from April tenth through the twelfth.
The festival has grown to include live performances and workshops.
May be best known for inviting skiers to take a
naked lap down the slopes. More than eight hundred skiers
and snowboarders attended last year.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Big change coming for some Social Security recipients.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
We'll get more on that coming up in Business and
Money News.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
First, let's go to check on traffic from the Koa
Traffic Center.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Here's Jonathan Steel.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Yeah, the rush hour is just about over.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
It really kind of ended well before it started out
here this morning. Very light must be because of spring break.
I know there's been very little traffic on the roadways.
Eastpoun routes are completely wide open, like two eighty five,
C four seventy sixth Avenue I seventy, also at North
NI twenty five slightly sluggish as well as down to
and from the Tech Center.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
But we're not in a delay mode at all.
Speaker 10 (06:46):
The only real hold up is probably on that two
to seventy run out of Commerce City on the westbound
side heading up through Boscas, but that is about it.
Of course, we've been dealing with problems to the west,
to the east and down south. It is improving. Between
Cassero and Cholera Springs. It's still icy, but I'm seeing
where things are melting down a little bit or the
amount of traffic we've had has erased a lot of
(07:08):
these snow covered roadways down there. HIGHW eighty three south
of Franktown was also effected.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
We still have a closure out.
Speaker 10 (07:14):
To the eastern plains on I seventy and into the
foothills where I'm seeing slowing down Floyd Hill as well
as US six west of Golden Upclear Creek Canyon. A
little jam up there, and that's all construction related. Jonathan
Steel on KWA eight fifty am in ninety four one.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
FF pat Wit are joining us with another check of
business and money news and Pat, the next interest rate
cut looks like anyone's guests.
Speaker 14 (07:35):
And that seems to include the people who actually make
the decision. Later today, the Federal Reserve announces its latest move.
We're probably lack of the move on the interest rates
that we pay for things on credit cards and car loans.
Speaker 15 (07:47):
The Central Bank is largely expected to hold interest rates
steady at a range of four and a quarter to
four and a half percent amid uncertainty over the economy.
Inflation still remains stubbornly high and above the fedce target
of two percent, but at the same time, the labor
market remains relatively stable. Recently, FED officials, including chair Jerown Pal,
have indicated they're taking a wait and see approach to
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interest rates since so many economic policies are up in
the air. Hillary Barski Fox News there.
Speaker 14 (08:16):
Is a big change coming for some Social Security recipients
SSA says for new benefit applicants or for current recipients
who want to change their direct deposit information, a phone
call will no longer suffice for identity verification. If SSA
can't verify or ID through their SSA feature, you'll have
to do that in person at a field office that
(08:38):
moves designed to cut down on potential fraud.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
Last year, General Motors shutdown.
Speaker 14 (08:43):
It's autonomous vehicle division, known as Crews, but that doesn't
mean the company is completely giving up on self driving cars.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Vidia is announcing an expanded partnership with carmaker General Motors
to help with manufacturing and autonomous vehicle technology.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
This is really in Vidia basically building out GM self
driving efforts.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Mike Debaski eightys it's the best of times and the
worst of times for companies owned by Elon Musk.
Speaker 14 (09:09):
SpaceX got a big boost when it came to the
rescue of those two astronauts who needed a ride home
from the International Space Station. On the other hand, Tesla
has been the target of protests and vandalism in a
number of cities, and now the head of the Vancouver
Auto Show says Tesla vehicles will not be part of
the show because of possible threats to the safety of
people attending. Right now, on Wall Street, the DOW is
(09:30):
up two hundred and sixty five points, and ASDAK is
up one hundred and sixty The S and P is
up forty This update brought to you by the Denver
Metro Chamber of Commerce, Pat Woodard KOI Money News.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
In KOA Sports, the Dodgers have swept the Cubs in
MLB season opening two game series in Tokyo today. The
Dodgers won six to three behind home runs from three players,
including shohey Otani. Everybody else here in the US, though,
that's still playing spring train. The Rockies beat the Giants
last night three to one, as Chase Dolander struck out
(10:05):
seven in three and two thirds innings.
Speaker 16 (10:07):
I'm constantly learning every time I go out, So it's
been a lot of fun, you know, just being around
these guys and learning from them and learning from the
coaches and yeah, I mean, i feel like I'm in
a great spot and I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
As the rookie tries to make his case to be
on the starting staff once they break camp, manager Bud
Black says one thing Dolander can work on is being
more efficient.
Speaker 17 (10:28):
The best scenario is that throws the least amount of
pitches as you can right over the course of a game.
Get on the strike zone, stand the attack, and I
think he's gonna be cabled out. I mean again, I
think he's he's in a good spot overall. I think
he's pitching with some confidence, especially his last two outings.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Today, the Rockies played the Diamondbacks, a pair of schools
advancing to the first round of the South Region and
the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Alabama State and North Carolina
secured victories in the first four games yesterday in Dayton, Ohio.
Alabama States will play number one overall Auburn in round one.
(11:04):
That is, after they won on a last second shot
thanks to Amar Knox.
Speaker 18 (11:09):
You land to me and not the rebound mate, Layo,
but could have done it with my whole team. Institute
the play that we press on all day and practice
all game plan, and it worked.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
The first four wraps up today with Xavier against Texas
and Mount Saint Mary's plays American. The first round games
in Denver get underway tomorrow at Ball Arena. Our social
media question today with March madness, have you or will
you be filling out a bracket? And if so, which
team did you pick to win it all? Weigh in
(11:43):
on x or Facebook at Kawai, Colorado. You can also
send us a talk back by going to the iHeartRadio
app and hitting that red button. With the NCAA tournament
in Denver this week, the Aves and Nuggets are on
the road tonight, the Aves in Torontozo and the Nuggets
in LA.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
They will play the Lakers. I'm Chad Bauer on the
home of.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
The Broncos, Buffs and Rockies, and KOI Sports this afternoon
at three Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
JOA News Time A forty eight.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The strong, gusty winds the big weather story for the
Denver metro area this morning, but to the east and west,
even parts of the South, blizzard conditions creating some difficulties
on the roadways as you.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Go out onto the eastern plains.
Speaker 19 (12:29):
The chance for snow is a little better, with two
to four inches possible, So parts of I seventy from
Limemen to the eastern border, and parts of northeast Colorado
are under a blizzard warning where winds could go forty
to forty five miles per hour combined with the snow
creating reduced visibility.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Fox thirty one Chief meteorologists Dave Fraser adds that the
eastern Plains may see some of those white out conditions.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
A man has died while skiing at Winter Park Resort.
Investigators say the twenty year old from Kansas hit a
tree on a trail mint for intermediate and advanced skiers.
The man was reportedly wearing a helmet at the time
of the crash.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Doctors say it may be only a matter of time
before Colorado sees its first measles cases. Over three hundred
cases have been reported nationwide, that includes in New Mexico, Oklahoma,
and Kansas. Officials are urging unvaccinated residents to get their
MMR vaccine, noting that measles return is due to declining
immunization rates.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
After an unexpected nine months stay at the International Space Station,
two NASA astronauts are back on Earth.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And splashdown Curnine back on Earth.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Sunny Williams and which will Moore had to stay far
longer than planned after issues with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft.
They returned home in a SpaceX capsule yesterday afternoon, splashing
down off the coast of Florida.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Posting on the White House X page depicts presumed illegal
immigrants being handcuffed by Border patrol agents and then going
up the steps to board an airplane as closing time
is playing in the background. In a statement to The
Rolling Stone, the band said that we do not authorize
or condone the White House's use of our song in
any way, adding that no, they didn't ask, and.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Of course that has the lyric you don't have to
go home, but you can't stay here.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Exactly, and it plays in every domb bar as they
are closing every single time.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I actually saw a semi sonic right when the song
was being released at a radio convention. They're playing in
like some little bar as part of this convention.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
That was kind of.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Cool to see them that up close whang just as
it was being released.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
So it wasn't a huge hit, and now, like what
thirty years.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Later everywhere, everybody, every bar in America place.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Let's go now to the KWA Traffic Center. But the
check of your Wednesday morning drive. Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Okay, and it's been a good drive here in the city.
Really no delays. You got maybe a little bit of
company here and there, but really nothing that's going to
hold you up. No excuses for being late to work
on these highways here in town. That we're still dealing
with some winter driving in the high country partial snowpacked.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
All the way to Veil.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
In fact, east pout seventy west Vale remains closed due
to a crash that's had traffic backed up for about.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Four to five miles.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
Unfortunately, the detour is not an easy one coming out
of Minturn and eventually all the way down towards Leadville
and back up towards Copper Mountain. I would just ride
it out for anyone that's coming back east on I seventy.
Of course, out on the Eastern Plains, we still have
the closure there between Kansas and here and down south
is improving greatly.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
The road conditions are much better, even though it's still icy.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
Between Castle Rock and Colorado Springs and highw eighty three
south of Franktown, so there will be some delays related
to that, but no problems anyway. Jonathan Steel on Kawait
eight fifty am and ninety four one.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
AFM, KOA News Time eight fifty two.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Gina Gandak and Chad Bauer in for Marty Lens this
morning on Colorado's Morning News. Chad, did you ever read
the book or watch the movie Life of Pie?
Speaker 8 (15:49):
I did see the movie, very good movie.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I think it was Oscar nominated for Best Picture if
I remember right.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It does have eighty six percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It
was released in twenty two twelve. I don't have the
uh list of what it might have been nominated or
winning for. But a fabulous book, fabulous movie, and an
even better play.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
So they made it into a play. So how did
they address the tiger? I'm assuming there's no live tiger.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I sure looked like it though.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's going on now at the Buele Theater for the
Denver Center for Performing Arts now until March thirtieth, and
last night was the opening night, and it is absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It was so well.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Done and all the animals that they use in it,
including the Bengal Tiger are puppets innocence. And you want
to say puppets, you think of like, you know, somebody
with a hand controlling the puppets. Sure, but I'm talking
they use their entire bodies to control these animals.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
So the Bengal Tiger was a poor guy.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Bless his soul, because on all fours the entire.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Play at plus right, Yeah, and then.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
There is somebody controlling the head and somebody controlling the
tail of it, and the way that they can move
is so incredible. In fact, Kaway's Kathy Walker is going
to get it behind the scenes, look at it today,
talking a little bit more of how they do it Lifebye.
I would highly recommend it. I took some videos and
a little review of it. I'll try to get that
together on our social media pages. Because I actually never
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saw the movie or read the book.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I know some people even read it in school at
the time.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So I went into it completely blind, and I won't
give any spoilers in case you've never seen it or
read it. But I had no idea what to expect,
and I was pleasantly surprised. The production value of it
was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's one that I would highly recommend. Go chick cash.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
You didn't even know there was a tiger, No, no.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
No, no, I mean I guess I saw the photo of
it when I was walking in, and that's pretty much
all I knew was it was a guy named by
and there was a tiger involved, and that's it.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
So I was.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I was pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That is like a Tony Award winning musical and whatever.
So Denvercenter dot org you can find information, you can
get tickets. It's now at the Buele until March thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Highly recommend. It was a ton of on.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Portions of the following program were pre recorded Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Chad Bauer in for Marty Today alongside Gina Gandak as
we wrap things up and hand over the rains to Jimmy, what.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Do you have coming up today? Filling in for Ross.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
There is a controversy about a program called You Guys
had him on this show t on THHC from the
Colorado School of Public Health and former Bronco Brandon Lloyd
I know.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Was on the program about it.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
And there's a controversy because a CU regent named Wanda James,
who has a pot shop of her own, is trying
to get the money cut completely for that, and it
has garnered some inquiries from CU regents. So the chair
and vice chair have launched a review of her actions,
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and we will have Vice Chair Ken Monterra on the
program to talk about what's going on with that and
get some understanding as to why they would want to
look into this.
Speaker 11 (18:58):
Cherry.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Jimmy Sang filling in for Ross Kaminski here and we
will have a look at traffic first, and your news
coming up in just a minute. Here we go to
the KA Traffic Center. Here's Jonathan Steel all.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Right, tikes. Looks like a pretty darn good drive this morning.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
Really no big issues, no weather to contend with at
least here in town, and volume has been very very light.
Now we are still seeing wintry driving in the high
country higher elevations to Vale on I seventy and I
seventy eastbound in West Vale remains closed with about a
four to five mile back up there out to the
east course. I seventy on the plains is still closed
between here and Kansas. Will update motorists through the morning
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and afternoon when they reopen.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Down south.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
We did have a late crash down at near Toma.
This is approaching Larkspur. It is icy down there between
Castlerocka and Colora Springs. It's going to be blocking up
a lane with a bit of a delay, but it's
slow down there just because of road conditions. Jonathan steal
on Ka eight fifty am and not if were one
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Wednesday morning on Colorado's Morning News Gina Gondek and Chad Bauer,
Infra Marti Lens This Morning on eight fifty AM, ninety
four to one FM, and on the iHeartRadio app Fox
thirty one Pinpoint.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Weather a little overcast right.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Now, but we will see some partly Sunday skies later today.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Temperatures in the mid forties.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Pretty chilly, but we'll be back into the sixties tomorrow
and Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Plenty of sunshine. Currently we're at twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
In Denver, immigration activists are upset after learning a woman
who's been in the country for more than twenty five
years is now in an ICE detention facility in Aurora.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Her being taken seems to be a pattern that we're
seeing where ICE has taken high profile leaders within social
justice movements and put them in removal proceedings.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Leaders in Denver and across the state are criticizing the
Trump administration about Jeannette Vizgera's arrest.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Mayor Mike Johnston unleashed at the Trump administration.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
This is a mom of American citizens who a target
and has started meeting a profit.
Speaker 7 (01:02):
This is not something that makes our community safer.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
My mind.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
I think it makes our community.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Wallace viscara does have an arrest on her record in
two thousand and nine for a minor traffic violation and
falsified documents about he status, and has been finding deportation
through numerous appeals. In twenty seventeen, she took sanctuary in
a church during the president's first term. Senator Michael Bennett
says he's concerned about ICE's actions, and Senator John Hicklooper
says targeting Viscarett won't fix the immigration problem.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
Rob DAWs at Kaway News.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
The widow of a Denver police officer killed in two
thousand and five and fellow officers are speaking out after
learning the man convicted of killing officer Donnie Young could
become eligible for early parole.
Speaker 9 (01:43):
This was a young adult that came back and ambushed
this at the end of the night, unexpectedly.
Speaker 8 (01:49):
This is just a travesty of justice. If he's able
to get out after servant twenty years.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
That's a detective Jack Bishop who was wounded when Young
was shot and killed. Raoul will Gomez Garcia is eligible
for a parole program for those that were convicted of
crimes as teenagers Gomez Garcia was sent to eighty years
in prison for the death of Detective Young, but could
be eligible for parole in three years.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Denver Police Chief.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Ron Thomas criticized Gomez Garcia's eligibility for the program, calling
it preposterous.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
It was in the snow, but rather the wind causing
problems overnight to the metro area and along the Palmer Divide.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
The worse that that is over for that I twenty
five card are just some lingering.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Mostly light snow showers.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
There right now. National Weather Service meteorologists Bruno Rodriguez says
the eastern planes still seeing some white out conditions.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Albert County schools are closed today.
Speaker 10 (02:40):
Still looking at guts pushing fifty miles an hour for
a good portion of the planes today.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
By this evening it'll be considerably weaker.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And while the mountains are reporting three to four inches
of fresh powder, the metro area received only a dusting,
so the fire danger remains high this week, the storms
bringing us those strong winds now moving into the planes
and raising the threat for blizzards from kit Kansas to Wisconsin.
In fact, you could hear the wins when Denver's National
Women's soccer League franchise was announcing plans to build a
new stadium at the Santa Fe Yards.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
There are so many people that have their hands in
the work of today, and it's been in.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
A thoughtful process over the two.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Year period building up to this.
Speaker 11 (03:16):
So we had a lot of the foundation built, but
we still got a ton of work to do to
get to opening day next here.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Denver team owner Rob Cohen says the new stadium near
I twenty five and Broadway, we'll see fourteen and a
half thousand fans. Neighboring business owners are happy to see
something going up on that empty lots.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
We're very excited, you know, just we've been staring at
this pilot dirt for years here. It'll be great to
have it here and very convenient for people to get
to being close to the Broadway light rail station.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Others tell Fox thirty one that they worry about the
traffics such as a large stadium could bring.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
The other providing parking for where all the spectators would
be kind of, it'd be good.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
They've already got.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
It bad enough.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
There will be a parking lot, but no word on
if it will be large enough for all of the
vehicle The stadium should be complete by the spring of
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Ukrainian President Zelenski says he'll be speaking with President Trump
today following the discussion the President had yesterday with Vladimir Putin.
That phone call did not result in a ceasefire, but
it did lead to a promise that Russia would stop
bombing Ukraine's infrastructure.
Speaker 12 (04:21):
As far as Russia is concerned, this is a win
for Vladimir Putin. He is normalizing the relationship with the
United States now, and the White House hopes that they'll
be further talks this coming weekend in the Middle East.
They hope that this is a step on the road
to a full ceasefire.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
That's ABC's James Longman.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
A rare move by the Supreme Court's Chief Justice John Roberts,
who publicly rebuked President Trump for saying a federal judge
should be impeached for ruling against one of Trump's deportation orders.
Speaker 13 (04:50):
In a statement, Chief Justice John Roberts saying for more
than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is
not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.
The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose, Trump
responding to the Chief Justice saying Roberts never mentioned him
by name, though it was clear Roberts was responding to
(05:10):
the President's statement.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
That's ABC's Mary Bruce, two.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Teenage paddle borders back home after a sixteen hour ordeal
off Florida's Gulf Coast.
Speaker 11 (05:19):
The girls, both sixteen, set out on a single paddle
board from Cedar Keet. Hours later, they still weren't back.
Authorities then launching a search lasting through the overnight hours.
Three fishermen heard about the search and sprang into action.
It was after eight am when they spotted something in
the water. The men, then carrying the girls over their
(05:39):
shoulders to safety, turns out the tide and pushed them
fourteen miles off course. They were cold and had a
few scratches, but we're okay.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
At ABC's Rhiann and Alley and.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
An all female ski festival returns to glenn Wood Springs
next month. The fifth annual boot tan Fest will be
held at Sunlight Mountain Resort from April tenth through the twelfth.
The festival has grown to include live performances and workshops.
May be best known for inviting skiers to take a
naked lap down the slopes. More than eight hundred skiers
and snowboarders attended last year.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Big change coming for some Social Security recipients.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
We'll get more on that coming up in Business and
Money News.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
First, let's go to check on traffic from the Koa
Traffic Center.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Here's Jonathan Steel.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Yeah, the rush hour is just about over.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
It really kind of ended well before it started out
here this morning. Very light must be because of spring break.
I know there's been very little traffic on the roadways.
Eastpoun routes are completely wide open, like two eighty five,
C four seventy sixth Avenue I seventy, also at North
NI twenty five slightly sluggish as well as down to
and from the Tech Center.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
But we're not in a delay mode at all.
Speaker 10 (06:46):
The only real hold up is probably on that two
to seventy run out of Commerce City on the westbound
side heading up through Boscas, but that is about it.
Of course, we've been dealing with problems to the west,
to the east and down south. It is improving. Between
Cassero and Cholera Springs. It's still icy, but I'm seeing
where things are melting down a little bit or the
amount of traffic we've had has erased a lot of
(07:08):
these snow covered roadways down there. HIGHW eighty three south
of Franktown was also effected.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
We still have a closure out.
Speaker 10 (07:14):
To the eastern plains on I seventy and into the
foothills where I'm seeing slowing down Floyd Hill as well
as US six west of Golden Upclear Creek Canyon. A
little jam up there, and that's all construction related. Jonathan
Steel on KWA eight fifty am in ninety four one.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
FF pat Wit are joining us with another check of
business and money news and Pat, the next interest rate
cut looks like anyone's guests.
Speaker 14 (07:35):
And that seems to include the people who actually make
the decision. Later today, the Federal Reserve announces its latest move.
We're probably lack of the move on the interest rates
that we pay for things on credit cards and car loans.
Speaker 15 (07:47):
The Central Bank is largely expected to hold interest rates
steady at a range of four and a quarter to
four and a half percent amid uncertainty over the economy.
Inflation still remains stubbornly high and above the fedce target
of two percent, but at the same time, the labor
market remains relatively stable. Recently, FED officials, including chair Jerown Pal,
have indicated they're taking a wait and see approach to
(08:09):
interest rates since so many economic policies are up in
the air. Hillary Barski Fox News there.
Speaker 14 (08:16):
Is a big change coming for some Social Security recipients
SSA says for new benefit applicants or for current recipients
who want to change their direct deposit information, a phone
call will no longer suffice for identity verification. If SSA
can't verify or ID through their SSA feature, you'll have
to do that in person at a field office that
(08:38):
moves designed to cut down on potential fraud.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
Last year, General Motors shutdown.
Speaker 14 (08:43):
It's autonomous vehicle division, known as Crews, but that doesn't
mean the company is completely giving up on self driving cars.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Vidia is announcing an expanded partnership with carmaker General Motors
to help with manufacturing and autonomous vehicle technology.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
This is really in Vidia basically building out GM self
driving efforts.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Mike Debaski eightys it's the best of times and the
worst of times for companies owned by Elon Musk.
Speaker 14 (09:09):
SpaceX got a big boost when it came to the
rescue of those two astronauts who needed a ride home
from the International Space Station. On the other hand, Tesla
has been the target of protests and vandalism in a
number of cities, and now the head of the Vancouver
Auto Show says Tesla vehicles will not be part of
the show because of possible threats to the safety of
people attending. Right now, on Wall Street, the DOW is
(09:30):
up two hundred and sixty five points, and ASDAK is
up one hundred and sixty The S and P is
up forty This update brought to you by the Denver
Metro Chamber of Commerce, Pat Woodard KOI Money News.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
In KOA Sports, the Dodgers have swept the Cubs in
MLB season opening two game series in Tokyo today. The
Dodgers won six to three behind home runs from three players,
including shohey Otani. Everybody else here in the US, though,
that's still playing spring train. The Rockies beat the Giants
last night three to one, as Chase Dolander struck out
(10:05):
seven in three and two thirds innings.
Speaker 16 (10:07):
I'm constantly learning every time I go out, So it's
been a lot of fun, you know, just being around
these guys and learning from them and learning from the
coaches and yeah, I mean, i feel like I'm in
a great spot and I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
As the rookie tries to make his case to be
on the starting staff once they break camp, manager Bud
Black says one thing Dolander can work on is being
more efficient.
Speaker 17 (10:28):
The best scenario is that throws the least amount of
pitches as you can right over the course of a game.
Get on the strike zone, stand the attack, and I
think he's gonna be cabled out. I mean again, I
think he's he's in a good spot overall. I think
he's pitching with some confidence, especially his last two outings.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Today, the Rockies played the Diamondbacks, a pair of schools
advancing to the first round of the South Region and
the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Alabama State and North Carolina
secured victories in the first four games yesterday in Dayton, Ohio.
Alabama States will play number one overall Auburn in round one.
(11:04):
That is, after they won on a last second shot
thanks to Amar Knox.
Speaker 18 (11:09):
You land to me and not the rebound mate, Layo,
but could have done it with my whole team. Institute
the play that we press on all day and practice
all game plan, and it worked.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
The first four wraps up today with Xavier against Texas
and Mount Saint Mary's plays American. The first round games
in Denver get underway tomorrow at Ball Arena. Our social
media question today with March madness, have you or will
you be filling out a bracket? And if so, which
team did you pick to win it all? Weigh in
(11:43):
on x or Facebook at Kawai, Colorado. You can also
send us a talk back by going to the iHeartRadio
app and hitting that red button. With the NCAA tournament
in Denver this week, the Aves and Nuggets are on
the road tonight, the Aves in Torontozo and the Nuggets
in LA.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
They will play the Lakers. I'm Chad Bauer on the
home of.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
The Broncos, Buffs and Rockies, and KOI Sports this afternoon
at three Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
JOA News Time A forty eight.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The strong, gusty winds the big weather story for the
Denver metro area this morning, but to the east and west,
even parts of the South, blizzard conditions creating some difficulties
on the roadways as you.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Go out onto the eastern plains.
Speaker 19 (12:29):
The chance for snow is a little better, with two
to four inches possible, So parts of I seventy from
Limemen to the eastern border, and parts of northeast Colorado
are under a blizzard warning where winds could go forty
to forty five miles per hour combined with the snow
creating reduced visibility.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Fox thirty one Chief meteorologists Dave Fraser adds that the
eastern Plains may see some of those white out conditions.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
A man has died while skiing at Winter Park Resort.
Investigators say the twenty year old from Kansas hit a
tree on a trail mint for intermediate and advanced skiers.
The man was reportedly wearing a helmet at the time
of the crash.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Doctors say it may be only a matter of time
before Colorado sees its first measles cases. Over three hundred
cases have been reported nationwide, that includes in New Mexico, Oklahoma,
and Kansas. Officials are urging unvaccinated residents to get their
MMR vaccine, noting that measles return is due to declining
immunization rates.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
After an unexpected nine months stay at the International Space Station,
two NASA astronauts are back on Earth.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And splashdown Curnine back on Earth.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Sunny Williams and which will Moore had to stay far
longer than planned after issues with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft.
They returned home in a SpaceX capsule yesterday afternoon, splashing
down off the coast of Florida.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Posting on the White House X page depicts presumed illegal
immigrants being handcuffed by Border patrol agents and then going
up the steps to board an airplane as closing time
is playing in the background. In a statement to The
Rolling Stone, the band said that we do not authorize
or condone the White House's use of our song in
any way, adding that no, they didn't ask, and.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Of course that has the lyric you don't have to
go home, but you can't stay here.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Exactly, and it plays in every domb bar as they
are closing every single time.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I actually saw a semi sonic right when the song
was being released at a radio convention. They're playing in
like some little bar as part of this convention.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
That was kind of.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Cool to see them that up close whang just as
it was being released.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
So it wasn't a huge hit, and now, like what
thirty years.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Later everywhere, everybody, every bar in America place.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Let's go now to the KWA Traffic Center. But the
check of your Wednesday morning drive. Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Okay, and it's been a good drive here in the city.
Really no delays. You got maybe a little bit of
company here and there, but really nothing that's going to
hold you up. No excuses for being late to work
on these highways here in town. That we're still dealing
with some winter driving in the high country partial snowpacked.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
All the way to Veil.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
In fact, east pout seventy west Vale remains closed due
to a crash that's had traffic backed up for about.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Four to five miles.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
Unfortunately, the detour is not an easy one coming out
of Minturn and eventually all the way down towards Leadville
and back up towards Copper Mountain. I would just ride
it out for anyone that's coming back east on I seventy.
Of course, out on the Eastern Plains, we still have
the closure there between Kansas and here and down south
is improving greatly.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
The road conditions are much better, even though it's still icy.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
Between Castle Rock and Colorado Springs and highw eighty three
south of Franktown, so there will be some delays related
to that, but no problems anyway. Jonathan Steel on Kawait
eight fifty am and ninety four one.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
AFM, KOA News Time eight fifty two.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Gina Gandak and Chad Bauer in for Marty Lens this
morning on Colorado's Morning News. Chad, did you ever read
the book or watch the movie Life of Pie?
Speaker 8 (15:49):
I did see the movie, very good movie.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I think it was Oscar nominated for Best Picture if
I remember right.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
It does have eighty six percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It
was released in twenty two twelve. I don't have the
uh list of what it might have been nominated or
winning for. But a fabulous book, fabulous movie, and an
even better play.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
So they made it into a play. So how did
they address the tiger? I'm assuming there's no live tiger.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I sure looked like it though.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's going on now at the Buele Theater for the
Denver Center for Performing Arts now until March thirtieth, and
last night was the opening night, and it is absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It was so well.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Done and all the animals that they use in it,
including the Bengal Tiger are puppets innocence. And you want
to say puppets, you think of like, you know, somebody
with a hand controlling the puppets. Sure, but I'm talking
they use their entire bodies to control these animals.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
So the Bengal Tiger was a poor guy.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Bless his soul, because on all fours the entire.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Play at plus right, Yeah, and then.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
There is somebody controlling the head and somebody controlling the
tail of it, and the way that they can move
is so incredible. In fact, Kaway's Kathy Walker is going
to get it behind the scenes, look at it today,
talking a little bit more of how they do it Lifebye.
I would highly recommend it. I took some videos and
a little review of it. I'll try to get that
together on our social media pages. Because I actually never
(17:16):
saw the movie or read the book.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I know some people even read it in school at
the time.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So I went into it completely blind, and I won't
give any spoilers in case you've never seen it or
read it. But I had no idea what to expect,
and I was pleasantly surprised. The production value of it
was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's one that I would highly recommend. Go chick cash.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
You didn't even know there was a tiger, No, no.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
No, no, I mean I guess I saw the photo of
it when I was walking in, and that's pretty much
all I knew was it was a guy named by
and there was a tiger involved, and that's it.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
So I was.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I was pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That is like a Tony Award winning musical and whatever.
So Denvercenter dot org you can find information, you can
get tickets. It's now at the Buele until March thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Highly recommend. It was a ton of on.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Portions of the following program were pre recorded Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Chad Bauer in for Marty Today alongside Gina Gandak as
we wrap things up and hand over the rains to Jimmy, what.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Do you have coming up today? Filling in for Ross.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
There is a controversy about a program called You Guys
had him on this show t on THHC from the
Colorado School of Public Health and former Bronco Brandon Lloyd
I know.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Was on the program about it.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
And there's a controversy because a CU regent named Wanda James,
who has a pot shop of her own, is trying
to get the money cut completely for that, and it
has garnered some inquiries from CU regents. So the chair
and vice chair have launched a review of her actions,
(18:50):
and we will have Vice Chair Ken Monterra on the
program to talk about what's going on with that and
get some understanding as to why they would want to
look into this.
Speaker 11 (18:58):
Cherry.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Jimmy Sang filling in for Ross Kaminski here and we
will have a look at traffic first, and your news
coming up in just a minute. Here we go to
the KA Traffic Center. Here's Jonathan Steel all.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Right, tikes. Looks like a pretty darn good drive this morning.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
Really no big issues, no weather to contend with at
least here in town, and volume has been very very light.
Now we are still seeing wintry driving in the high
country higher elevations to Vale on I seventy and I
seventy eastbound in West Vale remains closed with about a
four to five mile back up there out to the
east course. I seventy on the plains is still closed
between here and Kansas. Will update motorists through the morning
(19:35):
and afternoon when they reopen.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Down south.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
We did have a late crash down at near Toma.
This is approaching Larkspur. It is icy down there between
Castlerocka and Colora Springs. It's going to be blocking up
a lane with a bit of a delay, but it's
slow down there just because of road conditions. Jonathan steal
on Ka eight fifty am and not if were one
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