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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Thursday Morning, Gina Gondak from Chad Bauer in Framarti
Lens on Colorado's Morning News eight fifty AM ninety four
to one FM, and on the iHeartRadio app Fox thirty one.
Pinpoint weather Plenty of sunshine today, warmer than yesterday. High
temperature nearing sixty degrees, upper fifties come tomorrow. Currently, we're
at twenty six in Denver Immigration.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And Customs enforcements searching for two detainees from Venezuela who
escaped a detention facility in Aurora this week.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Koa's David Kale joins US Live with the latest.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
The two Venezuelan men were able to slip out of
the facility when a power outage apparently unlocked a door
that was at about nine thirty Tuesday night, and authorities
didn't realize they had left until at midnight.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Head count.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Now Ice and Aurora Police are pointing fingers at one another,
with Ice saying they asked Aurora for help, the police
department saying they'd try to locate them in if there
was a public danger, but that state law prevents them
from actively enforcing federal immigration laws.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Some are in opposition to that situation.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Including twenty third District Attorney George Brockler, who says Colorado
laws are too lenient on the question of illegal immigration.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
To suggest that this isn't an issue is fake.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
It is a giant issue.
Speaker 7 (01:13):
It is a growing issue, and this sort of ignorance's
bliss approach.
Speaker 8 (01:17):
To the law and the sharing of information with ICE
only serves to make us less safe.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
ICE says the Venezuelan men won thirty two years old.
The other twenty four had been under arrest for theft,
violating terms of their admission to the US, and resisting arrest.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Reporting live David Koa News the two.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Men who walked out of the detention center and may
have been able to get lost in the crowd of
protesters that were surrounding the facility Tuesday night, dozens of
people were angry about their recent arrest of fifty three
year old Jeannette Visgera, who entered the country illegally back
in nineteen ninety seven. ICE agents say she is now
has a final order of deportation. MSU Immigrant rights professor
(01:57):
Robert Prece weighs in.
Speaker 9 (01:59):
The idea is to present a case to the public
that these are justified and when there is public sentiment
that might question and certainly some of the recent cases
and whether this is something that we ought to be
doing as a country, they're looking at a way to
kind of provide that counter messaging.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He tells Fox thirty one.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The fact that Vizgera has three children who were born
in the US will not help her status as an
immigrant who is here illegally.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Or a public schools now joining Adams County twelve, Boulder
Valley and some schools in Denver canceling classes.
Speaker 10 (02:32):
Today, thousands of teachers.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Are getting ready to rally at the state capitol. It's
all part of the Colorado Education Association's event called No
More Education Cuts. The association's president, Rob Golds says they
need to do something to prevent the state from cutting
another million dollars from the school's budgets.
Speaker 11 (02:48):
We finally got backed up to fully funded schools last year.
This was our first year in the last fifteen where
we've actually had fully funded schools. It feels like we
did all this work over these last few years, and
then all of a sudden, it's like, wait a minute,
we're rethinking the way that we did that.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
A number of parents and students also plan to attend
today's rally beginning at eleven thirty. Now this comes as
the White House is preparing to eliminate the Department of Education.
Speaker 12 (03:15):
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order today
aimed at shutting down the Department of Education. The administration
has already laid off half the department's staff. Sources say
the Education Secretary will now be directed to dissolve the
agency while keeping critical services and programs in place elsewhere.
The order comes after Trump vowed to return education authority to.
Speaker 10 (03:36):
The state at ABC's Andrea Fuji.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Eliminating the DOE will need congressional approval.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
President Trump is expressing outrage at the recent rash of
vandalism across the country aimed at Tesla dealerships, White House
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.
Speaker 10 (03:52):
Many of them are Democrats.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
By the way, Democrats were big supporters of Tesla and
of electric vehicles until Elon Musks decided to vote.
Speaker 10 (03:59):
For Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Wells and Loveland arrested a suspect earlier this month, accused
of vandalizing the Testa dealership there several times. Breckenridge Ski
Resort facing a lawsuit over a man's death. In twenty
twenty three, sixty year old John Peruko slid off a
chairlift at the resort, falling about twenty five feet and
landing on his head and neck.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
He died on the way to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
His wife claims the resort was negligent and not cleaning
snow and ice from the chairlift seats before he got on.
She issuing Breckinridge and its parent company, Veil Resorts for
unspecified damages.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Ukrainian President Zelenski says Moscow's support for a ceasefire is
not real after new missile attacks from Rush over nights
hit a hospital. State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce.
Speaker 10 (04:43):
As Secretary Rubio has said there is no military.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Solution to this war.
Speaker 12 (04:47):
All sides need to move to a ceasefire.
Speaker 10 (04:49):
President Trump has made this clear as well.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yesterday there was an hour's long conversation between President Trump
and Zelenski where Trump said he was confident an end
to the Rush of Ukraine war is Palestinian medics in
Gaza say Israeli airstrikes overnight killed at least forty people,
raising the death toll since Israel resumed the war this
week to around five hundred. Israel also moving ground troops
(05:13):
to northern Gaza.
Speaker 13 (05:14):
The goal is to retake part of a corridor that
cuts the territory in two. Defense Minister Israel Katz says
Palestinians will be told to evacuate from combat zone soon,
and warrens his forces will target Hamas with an intensity
they have not seen.
Speaker 10 (05:29):
Fox's Jonathan Savage.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Israel blames Moss for refusing to agree to the latest
ceasefire proposals.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
March Madness getting underway today across the country and in Denver.
When Virginia commonwealths Max Shulga takes the court at Ballerina
today for the NCAA tournament, he'll be thinking about basketball,
but away from the court, he's thinking about his homeland
of Ukraine.
Speaker 14 (05:50):
Head coach Ryan Odom has been with Max Schulga going
back to their days at Utah State and has been
with him since the start of the Rush of Ukraine War.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
He's going through at that time, staying up all hours
of the night, you know, you know, really stressed.
Speaker 14 (06:04):
Odem says. The VCU community has stepped up big as
for Sholga.
Speaker 13 (06:09):
You know, I fucking if I served as his inspiration
to you know the young kids in beg Hoom in Ukraine,
and there's something that I'm I'm definitely willing to do
and just put on.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
For my country.
Speaker 14 (06:20):
He says, it's an honor to be one of the
few Ukrainians if any, to compete at March Madness courtside
at Ball Arena.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Rob DAWs at Kowait.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
News, you're up to day on Colorado's Morning News, the
fastest growing job skills for new careers.
Speaker 10 (06:34):
Pat Witard will have that list coming up next.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Also in sports, not a great night for the Nuggets
and Alves right now, though. Let's get a check on
traffic from the Kawait Traffic Center.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Yeah, all right, chat, it's not too bad out here
this morning. Real quite dry for us. We're starting to
see a little more company out on the roadways. That
includes two seventy now coming off I seventy six there
through York. Just a little bit of a jam up,
but fairly smooth through Commerce City east side of I
seventy building west from Peoria. You got I twenty five
coming down from one hundred and fourth. In pockets, we're
seeing just some slight slow in coming into downtown through sphere.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
It's still ten minutes between downtown and Attach.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
You got two to five in from Parker, just a
busy er drive as well as C four seventy to
eighty five sixth Avenue. So we're in great shape out here.
No problem spots currently. Mountain roads look good. It's dry
from here all the way up to the tunnels. Jonathan
Stielo on KA eight fifty AM and ninety four one FM.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
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Speaker 1 (07:30):
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Speaker 10 (07:34):
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Speaker 7 (08:16):
Utility prices are on the rise in some parts of
the country, and that has some state lawmakers calling for
a cap on prices for both electricity and natural gas.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that is not his approach.
Speaker 16 (08:28):
All commodities are supply and demand. What we can do
is to everything we can to get barriers out of
the way to grow supply. If you grow supply, that's
the way you push prices down. And I think we've
seen prices come down a little bit already in anticipation
that it's going to be easier to produce energy in
the United States.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
And it's going to be lower risk from the whatever
happened to file about ten years ago in oil pipeline
being built across North Dakota was the target of high
profile demonstrators trying to stop it. Now a jury has
ordered Green Fees to pay six hundred and sixty million
dollars to the company building that pipeline.
Speaker 17 (09:03):
The environmental group is liable for defamation and for orchestrating
criminal behavior at the protests held nearly ten years ago
on the Standing Rock Reservation. Texas Pipeline company Energy Transfer
Partners successfully argued that Greenpeace incited people to protest by
using a misinformation campaign. Green Peace had denied the claims.
He said the loss it was aimed at destroying the
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rights to peaceful protest. I'm Tammy Trhio.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
After yesterday's Wall Street rally, stocks looked poised to come
back to earth today, futures point to losses. When we
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Money news time in.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
KOA sports road losses for both the Nuggets and Avalanche.
Last night, the Avs lost to the Maple Lease two
to one in Toronto. Coach Jared Bednar is a tough loss.
Speaker 18 (09:55):
It's sort of disheartening a little bit, but I still
to look at the way we played.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
For large persons in that game.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
We're pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
The Avs are in Ottawa tonight to play the Senators.
The shorthanded Nuggets lost to the Lakers one twenty to
one oh eight in Los Angeles. Nicola Jokic and Jamal
Murray missed the game due to injury. Aaron Gordon led
Denver with twenty six points. Coach Michael Malone, we.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Just didn't think we have the same like urgency that
we had to start that Golden State game. You know,
like to me, it was noticeable, and they jumped us
and kind of like, you know you're gonna have any
game plan on the world, you get punched in your mouth.
Next thing you know, you're just on your heels.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
The Nuggets have lost two of three, fall to fourth
place in the Western Conference. Their road trip continues tomorrow
night in Portland as they play the Blazers in spring
training baseball, a low scoring affair as the Diamondbacks meet
the Rockies one to nothing. Center Fielder Brenton Doyle had
two hits and a walk, hitting leadoff.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Manager Bud Black.
Speaker 18 (10:54):
He'll grow accustomed to leading off, and you know, obviously
the on base percentage component is what we need. But
you know, we want them to hit. We don't want
them to you know, Phil Zoeasa take walks, but it'll
be in there because he's dangerous. Pitchers realize that he's
got power and speed. They're gonna come after him.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Tonight the Rockies play the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You can hear that game here on KOA with our
coverage starting at six fifty five.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
March Madness is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Underway after the first four games wrapped up yesterday in Dayton.
The first round games getting underway across the country today,
including in Denver. Today's games at ball Arena start at
eleven thirty with the Wisconsin and Montana, followed by.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
BYU VERSUS VCU.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
The evening session starts at five twenty five with Texas
A and M and Yale wrapping up the day with
Michigan and U see San Diego.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
The second round games are Saturday.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
In our social media poll question today, out of those
four games in Denver, which one are you looking forward
to the most?
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hit that red talkback button and leave us a message.
CSU's first round game is tomorrow there in Seattle to
play fifth seeded Memphis, tip off at noon, and the
Colorado women's team hosts Southeastern tonight in the first round
of the WBIT Tournament. You can hear that game on
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our sister station six thirty KOW starting at six point thirty.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
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Speaker 2 (12:17):
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today at threeses.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Some local districts canceling classes today.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
We'll have more on why coming up next. Let's take
a look at your drive. We go to Jonathan Steele
on the KWA Traffic Center.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah, we're still do it pretty well out here.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
We had what appeared maybe to be a stall southbound
twenty five just down past I seventy six in the
area fifty eighth. It just took off a few minutes
ago because I don't see a lane blocked in there.
But it's jamming just in that immediate area. Of course,
we're a little busy coming out of Northland anyway from
one hundred and fourth make it your way to downtown,
but just slightly sluggish.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
We're still wide open to the Tech Center.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
We've got two two five building up fairly heavily as
you make your way north up to ICE seventy as
well as in from Parker I seventy between Pori and
Havana slow and two seventy has been jamming a little
bit along with I seventy six as you're coming in
west from ninety sixth Avenue, but no big delay and
see you on it and I even wanted.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
News Time six forty nine It is Colorado's Morning News.
Chad Bauer in for Marty Lenz today alongside Gina Gondek.
The Colorado Education Association holding a rally today at the
Capitol to demand no more cuts to education and to
call for fully funded public schools in the state.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Joining us now on the KWA Common Spirit Health Hotline
to talk more about it is the president of the
Colorado Education Association, Kevin Vick. Kevin, thank you so much
for your time this morning.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Oh, it's a.
Speaker 19 (13:43):
Pleasure to be here. I'm still trying to wake up
a little bit, but we'll have a we'll have a
great time.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, we appreciate you joining us early this morning. As
we're talking about this, we continue to talk about how
they're pushing for no funding cuts to schools.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
Can you further elaborate on that.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I know it's a very convoluted, complicated situation we have
here in the state, but explain a little bit of
the why the protests are taking place today.
Speaker 19 (14:08):
Sure. I think in order to understand those full context
you kind of have to go back quite a few years.
So for the last fifteen years at least, Colorado has
had a system where they have been borrowing from education
to frond the rest of the budget, and that has
created an overall deficit, an actual debt of about nearly
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eleven billion dollars over the last fifteen years. And so
when we finally came last year to a point where
the state wasn't borrowing from education anymore, we were happy
and thrilled the educators that we were going to have
an opportunity to start building some foundational funding that we
(14:58):
could that we can prove our schools with. And then
we come this year and given the state's budget challenges,
we're here and all over again that we were going
to start this cycle of cuts again. And so I
think educators by this point are incredibly frustrated and we're
not standing for it any longer, and we're going to
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raise our voices as loud as we can to make
sure that education isn't on the shopping block again.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Hey, Kevin, what exactly is going to be happening today?
Is there going to be demonstrations, will there be meetings
with legislators or what all is going to be going
on at the Capitol today.
Speaker 19 (15:37):
Yeah, we're so we're putting together a rally on the
west steps of the Capitol. People are gathering at eleven
thirty and then we have a series of educators and
education leaders that are going to speak, and then we
are encouraging people to get into much with their legislators
(16:01):
and actually go in and try and get a meeting
with legislators this afternoon to explain the difficulty that that
education has been facing for a number of years now
and we just can't continue this way, It's not sustainable.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
What can be done in order to address the funding
cuts that schools are facing. Is there something on the
legislative standpoint that's already on the table that could help
better fund schools?
Speaker 19 (16:28):
Well, I think part of what we're what we're talking
about is like, let's let's get through this year without
any cuts, and then let's let's talk about that exactly.
Let's talk about how we can build for the future,
and you know, maybe maybe do some things like tangent
(16:48):
our tax structure in such a way that we're not
sacrificing our quality of life here in Colorado so that
just a few can can get a big PA break
and so let's start thinking about different ways that we
can do that to make our system more fair for
everybody overall and improve our quality of life here than Kevin.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Some organizations have come out and criticized today's rally because
some schools are calling off class because they don't have
the staffing, And what is your response to those criticisms.
Speaker 19 (17:23):
So I'd say there's actually a few things. One, this
was not a secret. We have been saying and talking
with districts and the states for a number of weeks
now that we were planning to come on this day
here to the capital, so this shouldn't be a surprise.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Two.
Speaker 19 (17:43):
Educators are incredible professionals, and they have adjusted their planning
in such a way that learning overall won't be disrupted.
And then third, I think it's important.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
To really.
Speaker 19 (17:58):
Highlight that coming and doing your civic duty and exercising
your rights is an incredibly great educational experience. And you
know this isn't just for educators today. We're asking students,
for usk and community members. Anybody who's really concerned about
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the state of public education here in Colorado and wants
to see things get better, certainly welcome to come down
and help us, help us put that message forward to
the legislature.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Hea then real quick with the minute we have left.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Obviously, things are also taking place on the national level
today as the White House is preparing its process to
eliminate the Department of Education.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Your reaction to.
Speaker 19 (18:43):
That, Well, it's kind of hard to get the full
understanding of what may be happening at the federal level.
There's just so much uncertainty. I think what we're trying
to do is make sure we hear of the state
are as prepared as possible for any eventuality. And I
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think that's another reason why here in our state we
can't be losing funds in any district because we're just
really not sure what the future may hold.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Colorado Education Association President Kevin Vick, thanks so much for
taking the time to talk with us this morning.
Speaker 19 (19:27):
I really appreciate it. Great being with you.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Two ICE detainees at large. Well more on their escapes
coming up next. Let's take a look at your drive.
We go to the KWA Traffic Center. Here's Jonathan Steel. Yeah,
still nice quiet drive out here for us. We're seeing
an increase in volume certainly, but no big problem. Spots
haven't had any accidents on the freeways. One earlier stable
at Smith should be wrapped up to seventy maybe a
little bit slower there out of Commerce City Bull directions
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I twenty five up north, coming down from North Glenn
and Thornton.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
We're seeing pockets are slowing.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
That takes you into downtown through about Spear, but we're
still wide open to and from the Tech Center with
two two five.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Just getting a little bit busier.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Also, Jonathan Steel on KA eight fifty AM and ninety
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Speaker 19 (20:08):
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Speaker 6 (20:17):
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Good Thursday Morning, Gina Gondak from Chad Bauer in Framarti
Lens on Colorado's Morning News eight fifty AM ninety four
to one FM, and on the iHeartRadio app Fox thirty one.
Pinpoint weather Plenty of sunshine today, warmer than yesterday. High
temperature nearing sixty degrees, upper fifties come tomorrow. Currently, we're
at twenty six in Denver Immigration.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And Customs enforcements searching for two detainees from Venezuela who
escaped a detention facility in Aurora this week.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Koa's David Kale joins US Live with the latest.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
The two Venezuelan men were able to slip out of
the facility when a power outage apparently unlocked a door
that was at about nine thirty Tuesday night, and authorities
didn't realize they had left until at midnight.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Head count.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Now Ice and Aurora Police are pointing fingers at one another,
with Ice saying they asked Aurora for help, the police
department saying they'd try to locate them in if there
was a public danger, but that state law prevents them
from actively enforcing federal immigration laws.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Some are in opposition to that situation.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Including twenty third District Attorney George Brockler, who says Colorado
laws are too lenient on the question of illegal immigration.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
To suggest that this isn't an issue is fake.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
It is a giant issue.
Speaker 7 (01:13):
It is a growing issue, and this sort of ignorance's
bliss approach.
Speaker 8 (01:17):
To the law and the sharing of information with ICE
only serves to make us less safe.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
ICE says the Venezuelan men won thirty two years old.
The other twenty four had been under arrest for theft,
violating terms of their admission to the US, and resisting arrest.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Reporting live David Koa News the two.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Men who walked out of the detention center and may
have been able to get lost in the crowd of
protesters that were surrounding the facility Tuesday night, dozens of
people were angry about their recent arrest of fifty three
year old Jeannette Visgera, who entered the country illegally back
in nineteen ninety seven. ICE agents say she is now
has a final order of deportation. MSU Immigrant rights professor
(01:57):
Robert Prece weighs in.
Speaker 9 (01:59):
The idea is to present a case to the public
that these are justified and when there is public sentiment
that might question and certainly some of the recent cases
and whether this is something that we ought to be
doing as a country, they're looking at a way to
kind of provide that counter messaging.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He tells Fox thirty one.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The fact that Vizgera has three children who were born
in the US will not help her status as an
immigrant who is here illegally.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Or a public schools now joining Adams County twelve, Boulder
Valley and some schools in Denver canceling classes.
Speaker 10 (02:32):
Today, thousands of teachers.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Are getting ready to rally at the state capitol. It's
all part of the Colorado Education Association's event called No
More Education Cuts. The association's president, Rob Golds says they
need to do something to prevent the state from cutting
another million dollars from the school's budgets.
Speaker 11 (02:48):
We finally got backed up to fully funded schools last year.
This was our first year in the last fifteen where
we've actually had fully funded schools. It feels like we
did all this work over these last few years, and
then all of a sudden, it's like, wait a minute,
we're rethinking the way that we did that.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
A number of parents and students also plan to attend
today's rally beginning at eleven thirty. Now this comes as
the White House is preparing to eliminate the Department of Education.
Speaker 12 (03:15):
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order today
aimed at shutting down the Department of Education. The administration
has already laid off half the department's staff. Sources say
the Education Secretary will now be directed to dissolve the
agency while keeping critical services and programs in place elsewhere.
The order comes after Trump vowed to return education authority to.
Speaker 10 (03:36):
The state at ABC's Andrea Fuji.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Eliminating the DOE will need congressional approval.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
President Trump is expressing outrage at the recent rash of
vandalism across the country aimed at Tesla dealerships, White House
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.
Speaker 10 (03:52):
Many of them are Democrats.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
By the way, Democrats were big supporters of Tesla and
of electric vehicles until Elon Musks decided to vote.
Speaker 10 (03:59):
For Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Wells and Loveland arrested a suspect earlier this month, accused
of vandalizing the Testa dealership there several times. Breckenridge Ski
Resort facing a lawsuit over a man's death. In twenty
twenty three, sixty year old John Peruko slid off a
chairlift at the resort, falling about twenty five feet and
landing on his head and neck.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
He died on the way to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
His wife claims the resort was negligent and not cleaning
snow and ice from the chairlift seats before he got on.
She issuing Breckinridge and its parent company, Veil Resorts for
unspecified damages.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Ukrainian President Zelenski says Moscow's support for a ceasefire is
not real after new missile attacks from Rush over nights
hit a hospital. State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce.
Speaker 10 (04:43):
As Secretary Rubio has said there is no military.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Solution to this war.
Speaker 12 (04:47):
All sides need to move to a ceasefire.
Speaker 10 (04:49):
President Trump has made this clear as well.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yesterday there was an hour's long conversation between President Trump
and Zelenski where Trump said he was confident an end
to the Rush of Ukraine war is Palestinian medics in
Gaza say Israeli airstrikes overnight killed at least forty people,
raising the death toll since Israel resumed the war this
week to around five hundred. Israel also moving ground troops
(05:13):
to northern Gaza.
Speaker 13 (05:14):
The goal is to retake part of a corridor that
cuts the territory in two. Defense Minister Israel Katz says
Palestinians will be told to evacuate from combat zone soon,
and warrens his forces will target Hamas with an intensity
they have not seen.
Speaker 10 (05:29):
Fox's Jonathan Savage.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Israel blames Moss for refusing to agree to the latest
ceasefire proposals.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
March Madness getting underway today across the country and in Denver.
When Virginia commonwealths Max Shulga takes the court at Ballerina
today for the NCAA tournament, he'll be thinking about basketball,
but away from the court, he's thinking about his homeland
of Ukraine.
Speaker 14 (05:50):
Head coach Ryan Odom has been with Max Schulga going
back to their days at Utah State and has been
with him since the start of the Rush of Ukraine War.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
He's going through at that time, staying up all hours
of the night, you know, you know, really stressed.
Speaker 14 (06:04):
Odem says. The VCU community has stepped up big as
for Sholga.
Speaker 13 (06:09):
You know, I fucking if I served as his inspiration
to you know the young kids in beg Hoom in Ukraine,
and there's something that I'm I'm definitely willing to do
and just put on.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
For my country.
Speaker 14 (06:20):
He says, it's an honor to be one of the
few Ukrainians if any, to compete at March Madness courtside
at Ball Arena.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Rob DAWs at Kowait.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
News, you're up to day on Colorado's Morning News, the
fastest growing job skills for new careers.
Speaker 10 (06:34):
Pat Witard will have that list coming up next.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Also in sports, not a great night for the Nuggets
and Alves right now, though. Let's get a check on
traffic from the Kawait Traffic Center.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Yeah, all right, chat, it's not too bad out here
this morning. Real quite dry for us. We're starting to
see a little more company out on the roadways. That
includes two seventy now coming off I seventy six there
through York. Just a little bit of a jam up,
but fairly smooth through Commerce City east side of I
seventy building west from Peoria. You got I twenty five
coming down from one hundred and fourth. In pockets, we're
seeing just some slight slow in coming into downtown through sphere.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
It's still ten minutes between downtown and Attach.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
You got two to five in from Parker, just a
busy er drive as well as C four seventy to
eighty five sixth Avenue. So we're in great shape out here.
No problem spots currently. Mountain roads look good. It's dry
from here all the way up to the tunnels. Jonathan
Stielo on KA eight fifty AM and ninety four one FM.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Business and Money News sponsored by Blue Hair and Capital LLC.
Speaker 10 (07:29):
Pat Water joining us in pat.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
If you want to keep working into the next decade,
well hopefully you don't.
Speaker 10 (07:34):
Chances are you'll need to learn some new job skills.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
I wanted to quit last decade. Jobs changes, technology advances,
and LinkedIn is out with its list of the fastest
growing skills needed in several career categories.
Speaker 15 (07:47):
In the top three, adaptability the most common job titles teacher,
administrative assistant, project manager. At number two, conflict mitigation. In
this current atmosphere, no explanation needed the most common job
titles customer service representative, administrative assistant, and project manager, and
at number one AI literacy. The most common job titles
(08:10):
software engineer, product manager.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Chief, executive officer. I'm Michael kassm.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Utility prices are on the rise in some parts of
the country, and that has some state lawmakers calling for
a cap on prices for both electricity and natural gas.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that is not his approach.
Speaker 16 (08:28):
All commodities are supply and demand. What we can do
is to everything we can to get barriers out of
the way to grow supply. If you grow supply, that's
the way you push prices down. And I think we've
seen prices come down a little bit already in anticipation
that it's going to be easier to produce energy in
the United States.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
And it's going to be lower risk from the whatever
happened to file about ten years ago in oil pipeline
being built across North Dakota was the target of high
profile demonstrators trying to stop it. Now a jury has
ordered Green Fees to pay six hundred and sixty million
dollars to the company building that pipeline.
Speaker 17 (09:03):
The environmental group is liable for defamation and for orchestrating
criminal behavior at the protests held nearly ten years ago
on the Standing Rock Reservation. Texas Pipeline company Energy Transfer
Partners successfully argued that Greenpeace incited people to protest by
using a misinformation campaign. Green Peace had denied the claims.
He said the loss it was aimed at destroying the
(09:24):
rights to peaceful protest. I'm Tammy Trhio.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
After yesterday's Wall Street rally, stocks looked poised to come
back to earth today, futures point to losses. When we
hear the opening bell, it's seven thirty. This update brought
to you by the Damma Metro Chamber of Commerce. Our
next update is at seven oh eight. Pat watered Koa
Money news time in.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
KOA sports road losses for both the Nuggets and Avalanche.
Last night, the Avs lost to the Maple Lease two
to one in Toronto. Coach Jared Bednar is a tough loss.
Speaker 18 (09:55):
It's sort of disheartening a little bit, but I still
to look at the way we played.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
For large persons in that game.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
We're pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
The Avs are in Ottawa tonight to play the Senators.
The shorthanded Nuggets lost to the Lakers one twenty to
one oh eight in Los Angeles. Nicola Jokic and Jamal
Murray missed the game due to injury. Aaron Gordon led
Denver with twenty six points. Coach Michael Malone, we.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Just didn't think we have the same like urgency that
we had to start that Golden State game. You know,
like to me, it was noticeable, and they jumped us
and kind of like, you know you're gonna have any
game plan on the world, you get punched in your mouth.
Next thing you know, you're just on your heels.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
The Nuggets have lost two of three, fall to fourth
place in the Western Conference. Their road trip continues tomorrow
night in Portland as they play the Blazers in spring
training baseball, a low scoring affair as the Diamondbacks meet
the Rockies one to nothing. Center Fielder Brenton Doyle had
two hits and a walk, hitting leadoff.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Manager Bud Black.
Speaker 18 (10:54):
He'll grow accustomed to leading off, and you know, obviously
the on base percentage component is what we need. But
you know, we want them to hit. We don't want
them to you know, Phil Zoeasa take walks, but it'll
be in there because he's dangerous. Pitchers realize that he's
got power and speed. They're gonna come after him.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Tonight the Rockies play the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You can hear that game here on KOA with our
coverage starting at six fifty five.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
March Madness is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Underway after the first four games wrapped up yesterday in Dayton.
The first round games getting underway across the country today,
including in Denver. Today's games at ball Arena start at
eleven thirty with the Wisconsin and Montana, followed by.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
BYU VERSUS VCU.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
The evening session starts at five twenty five with Texas
A and M and Yale wrapping up the day with
Michigan and U see San Diego.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
The second round games are Saturday.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
In our social media poll question today, out of those
four games in Denver, which one are you looking forward
to the most?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You can weigh in on x or.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Facebook, at KOA, Colorado, or go to the iHeartRadio app,
hit that red talkback button and leave us a message.
CSU's first round game is tomorrow there in Seattle to
play fifth seeded Memphis, tip off at noon, and the
Colorado women's team hosts Southeastern tonight in the first round
of the WBIT Tournament. You can hear that game on
(12:12):
our sister station six thirty KOW starting at six point thirty.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I'm Chad Bauer on the.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Home of the Broncos, Bus and Rockies and Kowa Sports
today at threeses.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Some local districts canceling classes today.
Speaker 10 (12:26):
We'll have more on why coming up next. Let's take
a look at your drive. We go to Jonathan Steele
on the KWA Traffic Center.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah, we're still do it pretty well out here.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
We had what appeared maybe to be a stall southbound
twenty five just down past I seventy six in the
area fifty eighth. It just took off a few minutes
ago because I don't see a lane blocked in there.
But it's jamming just in that immediate area. Of course,
we're a little busy coming out of Northland anyway from
one hundred and fourth make it your way to downtown,
but just slightly sluggish.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
We're still wide open to the Tech Center.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
We've got two two five building up fairly heavily as
you make your way north up to ICE seventy as
well as in from Parker I seventy between Pori and
Havana slow and two seventy has been jamming a little
bit along with I seventy six as you're coming in
west from ninety sixth Avenue, but no big delay and
see you on it and I even wanted.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
News Time six forty nine It is Colorado's Morning News.
Chad Bauer in for Marty Lenz today alongside Gina Gondek.
The Colorado Education Association holding a rally today at the
Capitol to demand no more cuts to education and to
call for fully funded public schools in the state.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Joining us now on the KWA Common Spirit Health Hotline
to talk more about it is the president of the
Colorado Education Association, Kevin Vick. Kevin, thank you so much
for your time this morning.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Oh, it's a.
Speaker 19 (13:43):
Pleasure to be here. I'm still trying to wake up
a little bit, but we'll have a we'll have a
great time.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, we appreciate you joining us early this morning. As
we're talking about this, we continue to talk about how
they're pushing for no funding cuts to schools.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
Can you further elaborate on that.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I know it's a very convoluted, complicated situation we have
here in the state, but explain a little bit of
the why the protests are taking place today.
Speaker 19 (14:08):
Sure. I think in order to understand those full context
you kind of have to go back quite a few years.
So for the last fifteen years at least, Colorado has
had a system where they have been borrowing from education
to frond the rest of the budget, and that has
created an overall deficit, an actual debt of about nearly
(14:34):
eleven billion dollars over the last fifteen years. And so
when we finally came last year to a point where
the state wasn't borrowing from education anymore, we were happy
and thrilled the educators that we were going to have
an opportunity to start building some foundational funding that we
(14:58):
could that we can prove our schools with. And then
we come this year and given the state's budget challenges,
we're here and all over again that we were going
to start this cycle of cuts again. And so I
think educators by this point are incredibly frustrated and we're
not standing for it any longer, and we're going to
(15:22):
raise our voices as loud as we can to make
sure that education isn't on the shopping block again.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Hey, Kevin, what exactly is going to be happening today?
Is there going to be demonstrations, will there be meetings
with legislators or what all is going to be going
on at the Capitol today.
Speaker 19 (15:37):
Yeah, we're so we're putting together a rally on the
west steps of the Capitol. People are gathering at eleven
thirty and then we have a series of educators and
education leaders that are going to speak, and then we
are encouraging people to get into much with their legislators
(16:01):
and actually go in and try and get a meeting
with legislators this afternoon to explain the difficulty that that
education has been facing for a number of years now
and we just can't continue this way, It's not sustainable.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
What can be done in order to address the funding
cuts that schools are facing. Is there something on the
legislative standpoint that's already on the table that could help
better fund schools?
Speaker 19 (16:28):
Well, I think part of what we're what we're talking
about is like, let's let's get through this year without
any cuts, and then let's let's talk about that exactly.
Let's talk about how we can build for the future,
and you know, maybe maybe do some things like tangent
(16:48):
our tax structure in such a way that we're not
sacrificing our quality of life here in Colorado so that
just a few can can get a big PA break
and so let's start thinking about different ways that we
can do that to make our system more fair for
everybody overall and improve our quality of life here than Kevin.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Some organizations have come out and criticized today's rally because
some schools are calling off class because they don't have
the staffing, And what is your response to those criticisms.
Speaker 19 (17:23):
So I'd say there's actually a few things. One, this
was not a secret. We have been saying and talking
with districts and the states for a number of weeks
now that we were planning to come on this day
here to the capital, so this shouldn't be a surprise.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Two.
Speaker 19 (17:43):
Educators are incredible professionals, and they have adjusted their planning
in such a way that learning overall won't be disrupted.
And then third, I think it's important.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
To really.
Speaker 19 (17:58):
Highlight that coming and doing your civic duty and exercising
your rights is an incredibly great educational experience. And you
know this isn't just for educators today. We're asking students,
for usk and community members. Anybody who's really concerned about
(18:21):
the state of public education here in Colorado and wants
to see things get better, certainly welcome to come down
and help us, help us put that message forward to
the legislature.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Hea then real quick with the minute we have left.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Obviously, things are also taking place on the national level
today as the White House is preparing its process to
eliminate the Department of Education.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Your reaction to.
Speaker 19 (18:43):
That, Well, it's kind of hard to get the full
understanding of what may be happening at the federal level.
There's just so much uncertainty. I think what we're trying
to do is make sure we hear of the state
are as prepared as possible for any eventuality. And I
(19:08):
think that's another reason why here in our state we
can't be losing funds in any district because we're just
really not sure what the future may hold.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Colorado Education Association President Kevin Vick, thanks so much for
taking the time to talk with us this morning.
Speaker 19 (19:27):
I really appreciate it. Great being with you.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Two ICE detainees at large. Well more on their escapes
coming up next. Let's take a look at your drive.
We go to the KWA Traffic Center. Here's Jonathan Steel. Yeah,
still nice quiet drive out here for us. We're seeing
an increase in volume certainly, but no big problem. Spots
haven't had any accidents on the freeways. One earlier stable
at Smith should be wrapped up to seventy maybe a
little bit slower there out of Commerce City Bull directions
(19:54):
I twenty five up north, coming down from North Glenn
and Thornton.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
We're seeing pockets are slowing.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
That takes you into downtown through about Spear, but we're
still wide open to and from the Tech Center with
two two five.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Just getting a little bit busier.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Also, Jonathan Steel on KA eight fifty AM and ninety
four one OFM.
Speaker 19 (20:08):
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