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It is Colorado's Morning News eight fifty am ninety four
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in for Marty Today alongside Gina Gondek Box thirty one
pinpoint weather sunny, warmer today, high near sixty, upper fifties tomorrow,
mid sixties. On Saturday, it is twenty four in Denver.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Thousands of Colorado teachers ditching school today to protest funding cuts.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
At the state capitol.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Kayway's David Cale joins US Live with a preview of
today's rally.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
More than one hundred schools in Denver, the Boulder Valley
School District, Adams twelve, and Aurora won't have class today
because there won't be any teachers to hold class. They'll
be at the state capitol rallying for more school funding.
Rob Gould is president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
Back for the last twenty years, we've been cutting from
public education.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Gould says he expects two to three thousand teachers to protest.
The classroom closures will impact close to two hundred thousand students,
reporting live David Kale KOA News.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
The rally comes as President Trump is getting ready to
eliminate the Department of Education.
Speaker 8 (01:17):
President Trump plans to sign an executive order directing Education
Secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary steps permitted by
law to dissolve the department she oversees. It follows sweeping
cuts to the agency last week, slashing nearly half of
the DOE workforce. Curriculum decisions are already handled at state
and local levels. Critics say abolishing the Education Department will
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hurt underserved students and school at ABC's Michelle Phronsin.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Colorado, ice agents are searching for two men who they
say walked out of the detention facility in.
Speaker 9 (01:49):
Aurora this week.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The men apparently left during a power outage Tuesday night,
and their disappearance wasn't discovered until several hours later. Agents
called Aurora police, but they say that the officers who
took the report refuse to help. City councilwoman Daniel Jurinski
defends the officers.
Speaker 10 (02:06):
It is not a fair statement to say that we
refuse to get involved.
Speaker 9 (02:12):
This is completely on ice, she tells Fox thirty one.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
State law actually prohibits local police departments from getting involved
in immigration matters. Immigration authorities asking anyone with information about
the two men to call their tip line.
Speaker 9 (02:26):
US Attorney General Pam.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Bondi is defending President Trump's efforts to deport everyone that's
in the country illegally, insisting the president was right to
order last weekend's flights that transported trend de Aragua members
to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
Speaker 11 (02:41):
They are sending money not only throughout this.
Speaker 10 (02:43):
Country to each other, but back to Venezuela. They are
a terrorist organization and we are not going to have
that in our country.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
A federal judge ordered those flights to stop. A Texas
Republican congressman has now introduced impeachment articles to remove the
judge who ruled again against the deportation flights.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Denver police say a scooter rider has died after a
Tuesday crash near Regis University. Police say the unidentified victim
was hit by another vehicle while riding a stand up
scooter near Federal Boulevard in West fifty second Avenue. The
police department announced yesterday that the rider died at the hospital.
An update on an emaciated pup turned into the Denver
Animal Protection Area.
Speaker 12 (03:23):
Metro Denver crime Stoppers still looking for more information about
the eleven month old Boxer mix. The dog was dropped
off at the Denver Animal Shelters night drop by a
Good Samaritan. The male dog was found near Colfax and
Teller last Sunday evening. Kathy Walker Kowa News.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Ukraine hit with more Russian bombings overnight, just hours after
President Trump asshured President Zelenski at a cease fire was near.
Speaker 13 (03:50):
In a stunning development, Trump offered to take ownership of
Ukraine's electrical supply and nuclear power plants, saying America.
Speaker 9 (03:57):
Could offer the best protection.
Speaker 13 (03:58):
It could include Europe's largest nuclear plant at Zaparisha, which
Russia currently occupies. At least initially, Ukraine seems open to
the idea.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
They'll be further talks this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That's ABC's James Longman. More Israeli attacks in Gaza overnight.
The Hamas run Health Ministry says at least fifty eight people.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
Were killed in the latest ground attack.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
You know the bombardments are going to continue.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
We know that there's now boots on the ground.
Speaker 11 (04:23):
Does it turn into a full scale reinvasion of Gaza.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
We're not there yet, but the fact that you know
these troops are now back on the ground as a
significant escalation.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
It's ABC's Matt Rivers.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
It's time for the madness to begin.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
As sixty fourteen surviving for the NCAA Men's Championship title,
one of the teams that will be playing at Ballerina tonight,
celebrating its move to a Division one in style.
Speaker 14 (04:45):
In order to get to the Big Dan to need
the proper shoes to be in the NCAA's top division,
but the Tritons weren't for the longest time, and coach
Eric Olan remembers it.
Speaker 15 (04:55):
I can remember back twenty years ago when there weren't
a whole lot of people coming to the game.
Speaker 14 (05:00):
With Times are different now, and Olan loves how this
team is captured the hearts of the campus.
Speaker 15 (05:05):
If we put a really good products on the floor,
we felt like our campus and our community would support
great basketball, and so that's proven to be true.
Speaker 14 (05:13):
The Trentons have a tough task going up against Michigan,
but just to be here is an accomplishment.
Speaker 9 (05:19):
Itself at Ball Arena. Rob dos Keawait News.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
The Colorado State men's basketball team in Seattle getting ready
to face Memphis tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
CSU athletic director John Webber.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
We've got a whole bunch of Ram fans that are
traveling with us.
Speaker 16 (05:31):
We've got a bunch of alumni up in the Seattle area,
so we expect that arena to be packed with green
and gold.
Speaker 17 (05:35):
That's going to be a good time.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
The Rams, who are on a ten game winning streak,
will tip with Memphis at noon.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And today is the first official day of spring.
Speaker 18 (05:45):
The first day of spring represents the vernal equinox in
the Northern Hemisphere. Fun fact, vernal translates to new and fresh,
and equinox is derived from Latin for.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Equal and to night. The vernal equinox is.
Speaker 18 (05:57):
An astronomical event when the Sun aligns with the Earth.
It's one of only two times during the year that
the equator is not tilted toward or away from the Sun.
The other one is the autumnal equinox, which happens in
the fall.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Tanya Jay Powers Fox News.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Miley Cyrus facing a lawsuit over similarities between her song
Flowers and the Bruno Mars hit When I Was Your Man.
A district judge rejected the pop Stars argument that the
company bringing the lawsuit didn't have standing because it didn't
have exclusive rights to the song. Tempo Music Investments, bringing
the suit says it owns a share of the Socks
copyright but is unaffiliated with Mars.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
You're up to day Time Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
We'll get more reaction to the fed's latest interest rate
decision coming up in Business and money news.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
First, so let's get a check on traffic from the
Koa Traffic Center. Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 19 (06:44):
Yeah, we're still in great shape out here this morning.
Eastbound seventy. The ramp getting on to Pena still kind
of tying up a little bit there, a bit of
a slow spot. It does open up once you get fast.
Looks like Green Valley Ranch Boulevard. Heading into the terminal area,
it's smooth sailing. E four seventy looks real good for year.
Total Highway I twenty five building a little bit heavier
coming down out of North Glenn and Thornton through eighty fourth.
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We'll see some slowdowns there with the merge getting onto
the highway. I seventy six two seventy ramps. Also, maybe
backing up just a little bit, we had one crash
at Sable and Smith, a little bit of a factor
out there on the east side out of Auror up,
but everything else is pretty good right now. Foothills drive
no problems, and mount roads are mostly dry up to
the tunnels. Jonathan steel on KWA eight fifty am and
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not even for one of.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Outwit are joining us with more business and money news.
So no interest rate cuts for now, but the promise
for a couple down the road.
Speaker 20 (07:36):
How far down the road is the question that the
Federal Reserve won't answer right now, But maybe the questions
that really were on everyone's mind for FED shared Jerown Powell,
what about inflation and what about tariff?
Speaker 21 (07:47):
Some near term measures of inflation expectations have recently moved up.
We see this in both market and survey based measures,
and survey respondents, both consumers and businesses are mentioning tariffs
as a driving factor.
Speaker 20 (08:00):
But Powell didn't seem to be all that worried.
Speaker 22 (08:02):
Jerome Powell, the FED Share said a few things that
really got investors excited. Despite the fact that the Fed
believes that there's some uncertainty surrounding the economy. They still
are projecting two intrast rate cuts at some point this year,
and in fact Chairman Powell said that even though he
expects inflation to go up from here for a little bit,
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mostly due to those tariffs, he expects that to be transitory.
Speaker 20 (08:28):
ABC's electros christopherus so two rate cuts this year. Right
economist amer Con with Ardent Advisory Group says that is
a definite maybe, but if.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Anything changes, they're willing to change that into either more
rate cuts or are keeping it at two or maybe less.
Speaker 17 (08:44):
Right gutsy.
Speaker 23 (08:45):
In the meantime, the reaction from Wall Street stocks ending
higher after the FED announced that it would be holding
interest rates steady, the Dell winners Boeing, Goldman, Sachs in
American Express, the Dell decliners and jen Johnson and Johnson
and Sherwin Williams, the.
Speaker 24 (08:59):
Dell rising three one hundred and eighty three points, the
Nasdaq hired by two hundred and forty seven s, and
P five hundred up sixty one Hilary Barski, Fox News.
Speaker 20 (09:09):
The many and varied government relief programs during COVID nineteen
certainly did some good but they were also rich targets
of opportunity for fraud. The leaders of a nonprofit called
Feeding Our Future have been found guilty of what's being
called the largest known such fraud, two hundred forty million
dollars in taxpayer money for nearly one hundred thousand meals
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that turned out to be bogus. Two people now face
prison time for wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering. This
update brought to you by the Ever Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Our next update is at six thirty eight. Pat woodard
KOA Money News.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
In KOA Sports the Nuggets losing to the Lakers one
twenty to one oh eight in Los Angeles last night.
Denver was without Nikola Jokich, who has a bruised elbow,
and Jamal Murray, who has a sprained ankle. Lebron James
did not play for Aaron Gordon led the Nuggets with
twenty six points. Coach Michael Malone.
Speaker 25 (10:04):
We got a bus kicked over all nineteen turnovers for
thirty points. That's not going to allow you to win
many games, especially when you're listening to a couple of
key players. But just got to find a way to
try to get healthy and go up to Portland.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They will play the Blazers in Portland on Friday night.
The Avalanche failed to extend their winning streak to three games.
Colorado lost to the Maple Leafs twenty two to one
in Toronto.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Coach Jared Bednar he had some.
Speaker 17 (10:32):
Scoring chances to be able to win the hockey game.
There's only played good. We kept going at the glove
and it seemed like he just kind of dialed in
on that.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Yeahs visit the Ottawa Senators this evening.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
In spring training baseball, the Rockies lost to the Diamondbacks
one to nothing, and ain't pitchers duel Manager Bud Black.
Speaker 16 (10:50):
I thought everybody threw the ball well today I really
did you know? They hit their spots, they kept the
ball down, they moved the ball around, they changed speeds
apecially well.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
Pitch game by both sides.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Tonight the Rockies play the Rangers and you can hear
that game on KOA. Our coverage starts at six fifty five.
The first round of the NCAA Tournament starts today. There
are four games at Ball Arena, Wisconsin and Montana at
eleven thirty, followed by BYU and VCU. During the evening
session Texas A and M takes on Yale, followed by
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Michigan and UC San Diego. Second round games will be
played on Saturday. And our social media poll question today,
out of those four games at Ballerina, which one are
you looking forward to the most? You can weigh in
on X or Facebook, ats, KOA Colorado or go to
the iHeartRadio app and use that red talkback button you
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can send us a message. CSU's first round game is tomorrow.
They are in Seattle, will play fifth seeded Memphis at noon.
The Colorado women's team hosts Southeastern tonight. It's the first
round of the WBIT Tournament. You can hear that game
on our sister station six thirty k HOW starting at
six thirty. KOA Tournament updates presented by Exfinity stream Live
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Sports from the Best Seat in the House. And the
Broncos have signed a punter. A signed veteran Matt Hack
who played for the Giants last season.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
I'm Chad Bauer on.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
The home of the Broncos, Buffs and Rockies and KOA
Sports this afternoon at three.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
AOA News sign six sixteen.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says the phone call
with President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenski was another step forward.
The leaders agreed Ukraine and America will continue working together
to bring about a real end to the war and
that lasting piece under President Trump's leadership can be achieved
in a post untruth social Trump said the call was
focused on what he and Russian President Putin talked about,
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so they could align both Ukraine and Russian in terms
of what they're asking for. Earlier, Putin and Trump agreed
to a limited ceasefire, which includes halting attacks on Ukraine's
energy infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Israeli troops are back on the ground in Gaza.
Speaker 26 (13:02):
This comes a day after Israel broke a two month
ceasefire with extensive air strikes that have killed hundreds. Israeli
defense forces sent on Wednesday, a targeted ground operation was
focusing on the central and southern Gaza Strip. The Gaza
Health Ministry says the airstrikes have killed at least four
hundred people on Marknefield.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Ope Francis no longer in need of mechanical ventilation at night.
Last night's update said the Pontiff suspended non invasive mechanical
ventilation and also has less need of high flow oxygen therapy.
Hope Francis has been at Rome Hospitals since February fourteenth
after receiving treatment for bilateral pneumonia.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Once again the world's happiest country, it's Finland.
Speaker 27 (13:41):
The World Happiness Report is out with its annual list
of the Happiest countries on Earth, and for the eighth
year in row, Finland is ranked number one. Scandinavian countries
dominate the list this year, with Denmark, Iceland, Norway and
Sweden all making the top ten. The US once again
failed to make the top ten and actually fell this
year from number twenty three two twenty four on the list.
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I'm tammage forr.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Hio and the Giant Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs is
being named the.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Second best zoo in the US.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
The honors come from USA Today's ten Best Readers Choice
Awards for twenty twenty five. The top spot the Henry
Dorley Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
I've been to that one.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Oh, does it deserve the top spot.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
It's been a while, but it was very nice. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I mean I love the Shine Mountain Zoo so but
I haven't been to the one in Nebraska, So I
don't know if I can compare the two. But Giant
Mountain zo is also hilarious because not only are you
enjoying a zoo, but you're getting a hike in while
you're doing so, right, because it is just uphill climbs
all across that zoo.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
For sure.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Absolutely coming up.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
March Madness begins today in downtown Denver, and we'll talk
about that coming up.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Let's take a look at your Thursday morning drive. We
go to Jonathan Steele and the Kiawa Traffic Center.
Speaker 19 (14:51):
Yeah, steady build up this morning. It's still fairly light citywide.
The ramp EASTPOT seventy Depenya actually has improved, so no delays.
Fifteen minutes there too. DIA from I seventy to the terminal.
It looks like I seventy west around Peoria's kind of
bogging down a little bit. Got a little bit of
traffic on two seventy coming out of Commerce City on
the westbound side, and I twenty five out of Thornton
down towards eighty fourth is kind of jam not really jamming,
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I should say, just slowing a little bit through the area.
We're not seeing any kind of delays, at least on
the main thoroughfare. There was one accident at Sable and
Smith and that's still kind of in the clean up stages.
Jonathan Steel on KA eight fifty AM and ninety four ONEFM.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
KOA News Time six twenty, Ginagondek and Chad Bauer Infra
Marti Lenz on Colorado's Morning News. The first round of
the NCAA tournament in Denver kicks off today and crowds
are set to stir up some economic activity downtown.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Joining us now on the KOA Common Spirit Health Hotline
to talk more about it is Downtown Denver Partnerships Senior
vice president in Planning and Community Impact Andrew Iltis.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Andrew, thanks so much for joining us this morning.
Speaker 28 (15:56):
Hey, glad to be here.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And before we get to the basketball TI tournament, tell
us first of all, what exactly the Downtown Denver Partnership
is and what you guys do.
Speaker 28 (16:07):
Yeah, you know, we work with the community, with the
business community, with the neighborhoods, and with the city to
really bring great, great places in Downtown Denver to life.
Speaker 29 (16:19):
So you'll see us being.
Speaker 28 (16:21):
Involved with things like the Parade of Lights. We get
really involved with sixteenth Street activation and right now we're
talking with the city about planning for the future of
downtown in a twenty year horizon Downtown Area plan.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Well, when it comes to March Madness, Andrew Denver is,
this isn't.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Their first rodeo.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
We hosted the NCAA tournament back in twenty twenty three.
When we look at those numbers, what type of economic
activity did we see for the city.
Speaker 28 (16:50):
Yeah, it's so cool to have something to look back
at and get excited for what's to come. Yeah, in
twenty twenty three, we were able to see a twelve
and a half percent jump in our overnight stays. We
saw bumps in our overall visitation to downtown. You know,
typically we have about one hundred and twenty five people
in downtown. When when the NCAA comes to town, we
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see that jump by about fifty thousand people immediately. And
the cool thing is is those people, those are people
that you know, maybe they're local visitors, but local tourists,
but they're also coming from the region too.
Speaker 17 (17:25):
They're coming, you.
Speaker 28 (17:26):
Know, to the to the Mile High City to really
experience this you know, kind of big sporting event together
with the with the City of.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Denver, which is cool, and Andrew. When we think about
economic impact, the things that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Immediately come to mind are lodging, you know, bars and restaurants.
But what are some of the other impacts that we
may not think as much about that are still very important.
Speaker 28 (17:47):
Yeah, you know, I think you know, we've been seeing
and we hear from the community as we're going through
this planning process. Actually, we hear a lot from the
community about wanting to have more invitations downtown, wanting to
have more and to come and visit restaurants, bars, you know,
the retail shops, reasons to pick up that jersey on
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Sixteenth Street. And I think, you know, this is such
a great opportunity for people to really, you know, if
they haven't been downtown for a while, come see all
the cool new stuff that's that's really emerging in this
new era.
Speaker 29 (18:21):
For the city.
Speaker 28 (18:23):
You know, sixteenth Street itself is you know, really blossoming
with some new The reconstructed blocks are coming to completion.
You know, we're about halfway through the project now by
the spring will be most of the way through the project.
So I think there's a lot to explore for people
who haven't been beyond just the entertainment things that they
would expect to see.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I know this may go above the Downtown Denver partnership,
but how does the downtown area get ready for the
increase of crowds and what about any safety concerns that
people may have.
Speaker 28 (18:51):
Yeah, definitely, I mean I think it's it starts off
with strong coordination. We've got We've got our teams working
within the business proven district to do you know, additional
make sure that we've got the streets looking looking their best.
Make sure that you know, all the litter and things
like that are all tidied up and you'll notice that
when you come down, you know, making sure that we've
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got the our micromobility devices are are what We've been
working closely with those companies to make sure that they're
really thinking about how to keep people safe on the sidewalks,
really do their best to educate people to be you know,
riding around safely in the bike lanes because we know
a lot of people use use those devices during these
types of events. And then, as you mentioned safety, we've
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got a really great coordination with the city Police Department.
We've got additional security forces that are really working together
to you know, have that that presence, that that visual presence,
but also just being able to be responsive to what
people need because you know, we see a variety of
people's needs on the streets and we just want to
be able to be out there for.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Form and broadening this out just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Andrew, the mayor and city Council have expressed to how
important it is for them to you know, revitalize and
focus on downtown.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
Are is your.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Group satisfied with the way things are going and what
else would you like to see the city do to
make things even better?
Speaker 28 (20:13):
Yeah, you know, I think we've got really good momentum
right now. You know, I think this this uh, this
ability to leverage actually an existing financial tool to bring
a half billion dollars in the next several years to
downtown for private and public investment. You know, I think
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having this plan as a as a guiding document where
we've heard from you know, thousands in the public about
what they want to see. You know, I think the
next step really is to see some of those things
come to light. We need to show people that, you know,
public dollars, private dollars are going to going to building
a better downtown with with that new vision, we need
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to see more neighborhoods, you know, growth with residential and
that kind of thing, neighborhood supporting services like childcare. That's
what we've heard a lot in this planning process. So
that's what we're you know, we're really excited about it.
And again, you know, we've got the momentum to do it,
we've got the tools to do it. We just need
to come together and get done with.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
The Downtown Denver Partnership. It's Andrew Iltas, Thanks Andrew, Yeah,
thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
The news is coming up right after we get a
check on traffic from the KOA Traffic Center.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 19 (21:24):
Yeah, a little busier on the drive, guys, We're still
pretty quiet for the most part. Sable and Smith's still
trying to wrap up on one early morning crash out
in Aurora. The I seventy six drive coming in from
ninety six starting to tie up just back into the
two seventy INTERCHANGEES two seventy is also a little busy
through Vosquez and York both directions there. I twenty five
a little increase coming down from Northland Thornton.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
No drag on the speech.
Speaker 19 (21:45):
Just yet, as you make your way to downtown, We're
still ten minutes between downtown and the Tech Center. Jonathan
Steel on KWA eight fifty am and not I from ONEFM.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Good Thursday Morning, Gina Gondak from Chad Bauer in fram
Mariti Lenz on Colorado's Morning News eight 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 3 (22:32):
And Customs enforcements searching for two detainees from Venezuela who
escaped a detention facility in Aurora this week.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
Kaway's David Kale joins US Live with the latest.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
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 9 (22:54):
Head count.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
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 9 (23:09):
Some are in opposition to that situation.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Including twenty third District Attorney George Brockler, who says Colorado
laws are too lenient on the question of illegal immigration.
Speaker 29 (23:20):
To suggest that this isn't an issue is fake.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
It is a giant issue, It is a growing issue.
Speaker 30 (23:25):
And this sort of ignorance's bliss approach to the law
and the sharing of information with ICE only serves to
make us less safe.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
ICE says the Venezuelan men, one 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 9 (23:42):
Reporting live David Koa News the two.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Men who walked out of the detention center and may
have been able to get lost in the crowd of
protesters that were surroundings facility Tuesday night. Dozens of people
were angry about their recent arrest of fifty three year
old Janette 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 Robert
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Price ways.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
In the idea is to present a case to the
public that these are justified.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
And when there is public sentiment.
Speaker 31 (24:17):
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.
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He tells Fox thirty one.
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Schools now joining Adams County, twelve, Boulder Valley, and some
schools in Denver canceling classes.
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Today, thousands of teachers are.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
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 7 (24:58):
We finally got back the 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 hard 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 4 (25:16):
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 32 (25:25):
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order today
aimed at shutting down.
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The Department of Education.
Speaker 32 (25:31):
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 the state.
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At ABC's Andrea Fuji. Eliminating the DOE will need congressional approval.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
President Trump is expressing outrage at the recent rash of
vandalism across the country aimed at Tesla dealerships, White House
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.
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Many of them are Democrats.
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By the way, Democrats were big supporters of Tesla and
of electric vehicles until Elon Musk decided.
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To vote for Donald Trump.
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Police in Loveland arrested a suspect earlier this month, accused
of vandalizing the Tesla dealership there several times. Breckenridge Ski
Resort facing a lawsuit over a man's death. In twenty
twenty three, sixty year old John Peruco slid off a
chairlift at the resort, falling about twenty five feet and
landing on his head and neck. He died on the
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way to the hospital. His wife claims the resort was
negligent and not cleaning snow and ice from the chairlift
seats before he got on.
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She is suing.
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Breckinridge and its parent company, Vail Resorts, for unspecified damages.
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Ukrainian President Zelenski says Moscow's support for a ceasefire is
not real after new missile attacks from Rush over Knights
hit a hospital.
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State Department spokesman.
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Tammy Bruce As Secretary Rubio has said there is no
military solution to this war.
Speaker 12 (26:57):
All sides need to move to a ceasefire.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
President Trump has made this clear as well.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
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 near 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
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to northern Gaza.
Speaker 33 (27:24):
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.
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Fox, says Jonathan Savage.
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Israel blames Moss for refusing to agree to the latest
ceasefire proposals.
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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 (28:01):
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 the
Ukraine War.
Speaker 30 (28:09):
He's going through it at that time, staying up all
hours of the night, you know, you know, really stressed.
Speaker 14 (28:15):
Odom says, the VCU community has stepped up big as
for Sholga.
Speaker 17 (28:19):
You know, fucking if I served as an inspiration to
you know, the young kids back home in Ukraine, and
there's something that I'm definitely willing to do and just
put on for my country. He says.
Speaker 14 (28:30):
It's an honor to be one of the few Ukrainians,
if any, to compete in March Madness.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Courtside at Ball Arena. Rob Das at Kowait.
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Speaker 19 (28:55):
Yeah, all right, chat, it's not too bad out here
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two to seventy now coming off I seventy six there
through York. Just a little bit of a jam up,
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seventy building west from Peoria. You got I twenty five
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seeing just some slight slowing coming into downtown through Spear.
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It's still ten minutes between downtown and Attach.
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You got two to five in from Parker, just a
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Utility prices are on the rise in some parts of
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a cap on prices for both electricity and natural gas.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that is not his approach.
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Barriers out of the way to grow supply.
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And I think we've seen prices come down a little
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Risk from the Whatever Happened to file. About ten years ago,
an oil pipeline being built across North Dakota was the
target of high profile demonstrators trying to stop it. Now,
a jury has ordered green Piece to pay six hundred
and sixty million dollars to the company building that pipeline.
Speaker 27 (31:32):
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
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using a misinformation campaign. Green Peace had denied the claims,
said the laws it was aimed at destroying the rights
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Sports road losses for both the Nuggets and Avalanche. Last night,
the Avs lost to the Maple Leafs two to one
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Coach Jared Bednar.
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It's a tough loss. It sort of, you know, disheartening
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We're pretty good.
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The Avs are in Ottawa tonight to play the Senators.
The shorthanded Nuggets lost to the Lakers one twenty to
one O 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 25 (32:48):
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
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thing you know, you're just on your heels.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
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 beat
the Rockies one to nothing. Center fielder Brenton Doyle had
two hits and a walk, hitting leadoff. Manager Bud Black.
Speaker 16 (33:24):
He'll grow accustomed to leading off, and you know, obviously
the on base percentage component is what we need.
Speaker 17 (33:30):
But you know, we want them to hit.
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We don't want them to you know, Phil Zoeasa take walks,
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Tonight, the Rockies play the Rangers.
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March Madness is underway.
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eleven thirty with the Wisconsin and Mintana, followed by BYU
versus VCU. The evening session starts at five twenty five
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We'll have more on why coming up next. Let's take
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Speaker 9 (40:07):
Yeah, we're still do it pretty well out here.
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We had what appeared maybe to be a stall southbound
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It just took off a few minutes ago.
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Because I don't see a lane blocked in there, but
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We're still wide open to the Tech Center.
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Away News Time six forty nine. It is Colorado's morning News.
Chad Bauer in for Marty Lens today alongside Gina Gandek.
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 4 (41:24):
Joining us now on the KWA Common Spirit Health Hotline
to talk more about it is the president of the
Colorado Education Association, Kevin Dick.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
Kevin, thank you so much for your time this morning.
Speaker 29 (41:34):
Oh, it's a pleasure to be here. I'm still trying
to wake up a little bit, but we'll we'll have
a great time.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Well, we appreciate you joining us early this morning.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
As we're talking about this, we continue to talk about
how they're pushing for no funding cuts to schools.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
Can you further elaborate on that. I know it's a very.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Convoluted, complicated situation we have here in the state, but
explain a little bit of the why the protests are
taking place today.
Speaker 29 (42:00):
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 fund 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 as educators that we were going to have
an opportunity to start building some foundational funding that that
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we could improve our schools with. And then we come
this year and given the state's budget challenges were 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 gonna We're going to
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raise our voices as as loud as we can to
make sure that education isn't on the shopping block again.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Hey, Kevin, what exactly is going to be happening today?
Is are going to be demonstrations, Will there be meetings
with legislators or what all is going to be going
on at the Capitol today?
Speaker 29 (43:29):
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 in touch with their legislators
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and actually go in and try and get a meeting
with legislators this afternoon and to to explain the difficulty
that education has been facing for a number of years
now and we just can't continue this way. It's not sustainable.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
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 29 (44:20):
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 changing
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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 tax break.
And so let's let's start thinking about different ways that
we can do that to make our system more there
for everybody overall and improve our quality of life here.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
And Kevin, 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 29 (45:15):
So I'd say there's actually a few things. One, this
was not a secret. We've 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. Two,
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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 to really highlight
that coming and doing your civic duty and exercising your
rights is an incredibly great educational experience. And you know
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this isn't just for educators. Today, we're asking students, we're
asking community members. Anybody who's really concerned about the state
of public education here in Colorado and wants to see
things get better, certainly welcome to come down and help us,
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help us put that message forward to the legislature.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
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Speaker 4 (46:27):
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 5 (46:35):
Your reaction to.
Speaker 29 (46:35):
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 here as a state
are as prepared as possible for any event. 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 3 (47:13):
Colorado Education Association President Kevin Vick, thanks so much for
taking the time to talk with us this morning.
Speaker 29 (47:20):
I really appreciate it great being with you.
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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.
Speaker 19 (51:28):
We're seeing an increase in volumes, certainly, but no big
problem spots.
Speaker 9 (51:32):
Haven't had any accidents on the freeways.
Speaker 19 (51:34):
One earlier stable at Smith should be wrapped up two
seventy Maybe a little bit slower there out of commerce
City bul directions I twenty five up north coming down
from North Glenn and Thornton. We're seeing pockets a slowing
that takes you into downtown through about Spear, but we're
still wide open to and from the Tech center with
two two five. Just getting a little bit busier. Also
Jonathan Steel at KA eight fifty Am and ninety four
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Today alongside Gina Gondeck Fox thirty one pinpoint weather sunny,
warmer today, high near sixty, upper fifties tomorrow, mid sixties
on Saturday. It is twenty nine now in Denver.
Speaker 4 (52:53):
I searching for two men who escaped from the Aurora
detention facility this week. They say the men walked out
Tuesday night during a power outage which disabled several locks
at the facility. The men's disappearance wasn't noticed until about
five hours later during a head count. Agents notifying Aurora police,
but say the department refused to help. The Aurora City
councilwoman Danielle Durinski says their hands are tied.
Speaker 10 (53:15):
There is a state law here that supersedes the jurisdiction
of the Aurora Police Department. ICE knows that it is
not a fair statement to say that we refuse to
get involved.
Speaker 5 (53:28):
She tells Fox thirty one.
Speaker 4 (53:29):
The men were being held on civil charges, not criminal ones.
An ICE spokesman asks anyone with more information about the
escapees to call.
Speaker 5 (53:37):
Their tip line.
Speaker 4 (53:38):
ICE also blaming the protesters who are outside the detention
center for the distraction that allowed the men to escape.
Doesn't surrounded the facility Tuesday to protest the arrest of
immigration activists Jeanette Zghera, who has been ordered to port
it to Mexico twenty eight years after she entered the
country from Mexico. Immigration attorney Matthew Baringer says Bizgara maybe
out of luck.
Speaker 44 (54:00):
They come across the border without inspection is what we're
called entered without inspection or others would call illegal. What
can or cannot be done for that person goes down marketedly.
Speaker 4 (54:11):
Her background includes a conviction for forged documents, striving without
a license, and failure to depart the US. As area
does have three children who were born in the US.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
Thousands of Colorado students won't be in school today as
their teachers head to the state capitols to protest school
funding cuts. Gaoway's David Kale joining us Live with a preview.
Speaker 6 (54:31):
More than one hundred schools in Denver, the Boulder Valley
School District, Adams twelve and Aurora won't have class today
because there won't be any teachers to hold class. They'll
be at the state capitol rallying for more school funding.
Joan Merriconnell has two kids in Denver public schools.
Speaker 9 (54:48):
I support the teachers. You know, this are the people
who take care of my daughters every day.
Speaker 6 (54:54):
Rob Gould is president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association.
Speaker 7 (54:58):
Back for the last twenty years we've been cutting from
public education.
Speaker 6 (55:03):
Gould says he expects two to three thousand teachers to protest.
Speaker 9 (55:06):
The classroom closures will impact it close to
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pinpoint weather sunny, warmer today, high near sixty, upper fifties tomorrow,
mid sixties. On Saturday, it is twenty four in Denver.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Thousands of Colorado teachers ditching school today to protest funding cuts.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
At the state capitol.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Kayway's David Cale joins US Live with a preview of
today's rally.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
More than one hundred schools in Denver, the Boulder Valley
School District, Adams twelve, and Aurora won't have class today
because there won't be any teachers to hold class. They'll
be at the state capitol rallying for more school funding.
Rob Gould is president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
Back for the last twenty years, we've been cutting from
public education.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Gould says he expects two to three thousand teachers to protest.
The classroom closures will impact close to two hundred thousand students,
reporting live David Kale KOA News.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
The rally comes as President Trump is getting ready to
eliminate the Department of Education.
Speaker 8 (01:17):
President Trump plans to sign an executive order directing Education
Secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary steps permitted by
law to dissolve the department she oversees. It follows sweeping
cuts to the agency last week, slashing nearly half of
the DOE workforce. Curriculum decisions are already handled at state
and local levels. Critics say abolishing the Education Department will
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hurt underserved students and school at ABC's Michelle Phronsin.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Colorado, ice agents are searching for two men who they
say walked out of the detention facility in.
Speaker 9 (01:49):
Aurora this week.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The men apparently left during a power outage Tuesday night,
and their disappearance wasn't discovered until several hours later. Agents
called Aurora police, but they say that the officers who
took the report refuse to help. City councilwoman Daniel Jurinski
defends the officers.
Speaker 10 (02:06):
It is not a fair statement to say that we
refuse to get involved.
Speaker 9 (02:12):
This is completely on ice, she tells Fox thirty one.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
State law actually prohibits local police departments from getting involved
in immigration matters. Immigration authorities asking anyone with information about
the two men to call their tip line.
Speaker 9 (02:26):
US Attorney General Pam.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Bondi is defending President Trump's efforts to deport everyone that's
in the country illegally, insisting the president was right to
order last weekend's flights that transported trend de Aragua members
to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
Speaker 11 (02:41):
They are sending money not only throughout this.
Speaker 10 (02:43):
Country to each other, but back to Venezuela. They are
a terrorist organization and we are not going to have
that in our country.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
A federal judge ordered those flights to stop. A Texas
Republican congressman has now introduced impeachment articles to remove the
judge who ruled again against the deportation flights.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Denver police say a scooter rider has died after a
Tuesday crash near Regis University. Police say the unidentified victim
was hit by another vehicle while riding a stand up
scooter near Federal Boulevard in West fifty second Avenue. The
police department announced yesterday that the rider died at the hospital.
An update on an emaciated pup turned into the Denver
Animal Protection Area.
Speaker 12 (03:23):
Metro Denver crime Stoppers still looking for more information about
the eleven month old Boxer mix. The dog was dropped
off at the Denver Animal Shelters night drop by a
Good Samaritan. The male dog was found near Colfax and
Teller last Sunday evening. Kathy Walker Kowa News.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Ukraine hit with more Russian bombings overnight, just hours after
President Trump asshured President Zelenski at a cease fire was near.
Speaker 13 (03:50):
In a stunning development, Trump offered to take ownership of
Ukraine's electrical supply and nuclear power plants, saying America.
Speaker 9 (03:57):
Could offer the best protection.
Speaker 13 (03:58):
It could include Europe's largest nuclear plant at Zaparisha, which
Russia currently occupies. At least initially, Ukraine seems open to
the idea.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
They'll be further talks this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That's ABC's James Longman. More Israeli attacks in Gaza overnight.
The Hamas run Health Ministry says at least fifty eight people.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
Were killed in the latest ground attack.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
You know the bombardments are going to continue.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
We know that there's now boots on the ground.
Speaker 11 (04:23):
Does it turn into a full scale reinvasion of Gaza.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
We're not there yet, but the fact that you know
these troops are now back on the ground as a
significant escalation.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
It's ABC's Matt Rivers.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
It's time for the madness to begin.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
As sixty fourteen surviving for the NCAA Men's Championship title,
one of the teams that will be playing at Ballerina tonight,
celebrating its move to a Division one in style.
Speaker 14 (04:45):
In order to get to the Big Dan to need
the proper shoes to be in the NCAA's top division,
but the Tritons weren't for the longest time, and coach
Eric Olan remembers it.
Speaker 15 (04:55):
I can remember back twenty years ago when there weren't
a whole lot of people coming to the game.
Speaker 14 (05:00):
With Times are different now, and Olan loves how this
team is captured the hearts of the campus.
Speaker 15 (05:05):
If we put a really good products on the floor,
we felt like our campus and our community would support
great basketball, and so that's proven to be true.
Speaker 14 (05:13):
The Trentons have a tough task going up against Michigan,
but just to be here is an accomplishment.
Speaker 9 (05:19):
Itself at Ball Arena. Rob dos Keawait News.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
The Colorado State men's basketball team in Seattle getting ready
to face Memphis tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
CSU athletic director John Webber.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
We've got a whole bunch of Ram fans that are
traveling with us.
Speaker 16 (05:31):
We've got a bunch of alumni up in the Seattle area,
so we expect that arena to be packed with green
and gold.
Speaker 17 (05:35):
That's going to be a good time.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
The Rams, who are on a ten game winning streak,
will tip with Memphis at noon.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And today is the first official day of spring.
Speaker 18 (05:45):
The first day of spring represents the vernal equinox in
the Northern Hemisphere. Fun fact, vernal translates to new and fresh,
and equinox is derived from Latin for.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Equal and to night. The vernal equinox is.
Speaker 18 (05:57):
An astronomical event when the Sun aligns with the Earth.
It's one of only two times during the year that
the equator is not tilted toward or away from the Sun.
The other one is the autumnal equinox, which happens in
the fall.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Tanya Jay Powers Fox News.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Miley Cyrus facing a lawsuit over similarities between her song
Flowers and the Bruno Mars hit When I Was Your Man.
A district judge rejected the pop Stars argument that the
company bringing the lawsuit didn't have standing because it didn't
have exclusive rights to the song. Tempo Music Investments, bringing
the suit says it owns a share of the Socks
copyright but is unaffiliated with Mars.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
You're up to day Time Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
We'll get more reaction to the fed's latest interest rate
decision coming up in Business and money news.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
First, so let's get a check on traffic from the
Koa Traffic Center. Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 19 (06:44):
Yeah, we're still in great shape out here this morning.
Eastbound seventy. The ramp getting on to Pena still kind
of tying up a little bit there, a bit of
a slow spot. It does open up once you get fast.
Looks like Green Valley Ranch Boulevard. Heading into the terminal area,
it's smooth sailing. E four seventy looks real good for year.
Total Highway I twenty five building a little bit heavier
coming down out of North Glenn and Thornton through eighty fourth.
(07:05):
We'll see some slowdowns there with the merge getting onto
the highway. I seventy six two seventy ramps. Also, maybe
backing up just a little bit, we had one crash
at Sable and Smith, a little bit of a factor
out there on the east side out of Auror up,
but everything else is pretty good right now. Foothills drive
no problems, and mount roads are mostly dry up to
the tunnels. Jonathan steel on KWA eight fifty am and
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not even for one of.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Outwit are joining us with more business and money news.
So no interest rate cuts for now, but the promise
for a couple down the road.
Speaker 20 (07:36):
How far down the road is the question that the
Federal Reserve won't answer right now, But maybe the questions
that really were on everyone's mind for FED shared Jerown Powell,
what about inflation and what about tariff?
Speaker 21 (07:47):
Some near term measures of inflation expectations have recently moved up.
We see this in both market and survey based measures,
and survey respondents, both consumers and businesses are mentioning tariffs
as a driving factor.
Speaker 20 (08:00):
But Powell didn't seem to be all that worried.
Speaker 22 (08:02):
Jerome Powell, the FED Share said a few things that
really got investors excited. Despite the fact that the Fed
believes that there's some uncertainty surrounding the economy. They still
are projecting two intrast rate cuts at some point this year,
and in fact Chairman Powell said that even though he
expects inflation to go up from here for a little bit,
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mostly due to those tariffs, he expects that to be transitory.
Speaker 20 (08:28):
ABC's electros christopherus so two rate cuts this year. Right
economist amer Con with Ardent Advisory Group says that is
a definite maybe, but if.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Anything changes, they're willing to change that into either more
rate cuts or are keeping it at two or maybe less.
Speaker 17 (08:44):
Right gutsy.
Speaker 23 (08:45):
In the meantime, the reaction from Wall Street stocks ending
higher after the FED announced that it would be holding
interest rates steady, the Dell winners Boeing, Goldman, Sachs in
American Express, the Dell decliners and jen Johnson and Johnson
and Sherwin Williams, the.
Speaker 24 (08:59):
Dell rising three one hundred and eighty three points, the
Nasdaq hired by two hundred and forty seven s, and
P five hundred up sixty one Hilary Barski, Fox News.
Speaker 20 (09:09):
The many and varied government relief programs during COVID nineteen
certainly did some good but they were also rich targets
of opportunity for fraud. The leaders of a nonprofit called
Feeding Our Future have been found guilty of what's being
called the largest known such fraud, two hundred forty million
dollars in taxpayer money for nearly one hundred thousand meals
(09:30):
that turned out to be bogus. Two people now face
prison time for wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering. This
update brought to you by the Ever Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Our next update is at six thirty eight. Pat woodard
KOA Money News.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
In KOA Sports the Nuggets losing to the Lakers one
twenty to one oh eight in Los Angeles last night.
Denver was without Nikola Jokich, who has a bruised elbow,
and Jamal Murray, who has a sprained ankle. Lebron James
did not play for Aaron Gordon led the Nuggets with
twenty six points. Coach Michael Malone.
Speaker 25 (10:04):
We got a bus kicked over all nineteen turnovers for
thirty points. That's not going to allow you to win
many games, especially when you're listening to a couple of
key players. But just got to find a way to
try to get healthy and go up to Portland.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They will play the Blazers in Portland on Friday night.
The Avalanche failed to extend their winning streak to three games.
Colorado lost to the Maple Leafs twenty two to one
in Toronto.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Coach Jared Bednar he had some.
Speaker 17 (10:32):
Scoring chances to be able to win the hockey game.
There's only played good. We kept going at the glove
and it seemed like he just kind of dialed in
on that.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Yeahs visit the Ottawa Senators this evening.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
In spring training baseball, the Rockies lost to the Diamondbacks
one to nothing, and ain't pitchers duel Manager Bud Black.
Speaker 16 (10:50):
I thought everybody threw the ball well today I really
did you know? They hit their spots, they kept the
ball down, they moved the ball around, they changed speeds
apecially well.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
Pitch game by both sides.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Tonight the Rockies play the Rangers and you can hear
that game on KOA. Our coverage starts at six fifty five.
The first round of the NCAA Tournament starts today. There
are four games at Ball Arena, Wisconsin and Montana at
eleven thirty, followed by BYU and VCU. During the evening
session Texas A and M takes on Yale, followed by
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Michigan and UC San Diego. Second round games will be
played on Saturday. And our social media poll question today,
out of those four games at Ballerina, which one are
you looking forward to the most? You can weigh in
on X or Facebook, ats, KOA Colorado or go to
the iHeartRadio app and use that red talkback button you
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can send us a message. CSU's first round game is tomorrow.
They are in Seattle, will play fifth seeded Memphis at noon.
The Colorado women's team hosts Southeastern tonight. It's the first
round of the WBIT Tournament. You can hear that game
on our sister station six thirty k HOW starting at
six thirty. KOA Tournament updates presented by Exfinity stream Live
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Sports from the Best Seat in the House. And the
Broncos have signed a punter. A signed veteran Matt Hack
who played for the Giants last season.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
I'm Chad Bauer on.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
The home of the Broncos, Buffs and Rockies and KOA
Sports this afternoon at three.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
AOA News sign six sixteen.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says the phone call
with President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenski was another step forward.
The leaders agreed Ukraine and America will continue working together
to bring about a real end to the war and
that lasting piece under President Trump's leadership can be achieved
in a post untruth social Trump said the call was
focused on what he and Russian President Putin talked about,
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so they could align both Ukraine and Russian in terms
of what they're asking for. Earlier, Putin and Trump agreed
to a limited ceasefire, which includes halting attacks on Ukraine's
energy infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Israeli troops are back on the ground in Gaza.
Speaker 26 (13:02):
This comes a day after Israel broke a two month
ceasefire with extensive air strikes that have killed hundreds. Israeli
defense forces sent on Wednesday, a targeted ground operation was
focusing on the central and southern Gaza Strip. The Gaza
Health Ministry says the airstrikes have killed at least four
hundred people on Marknefield.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Ope Francis no longer in need of mechanical ventilation at night.
Last night's update said the Pontiff suspended non invasive mechanical
ventilation and also has less need of high flow oxygen therapy.
Hope Francis has been at Rome Hospitals since February fourteenth
after receiving treatment for bilateral pneumonia.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Once again the world's happiest country, it's Finland.
Speaker 27 (13:41):
The World Happiness Report is out with its annual list
of the Happiest countries on Earth, and for the eighth
year in row, Finland is ranked number one. Scandinavian countries
dominate the list this year, with Denmark, Iceland, Norway and
Sweden all making the top ten. The US once again
failed to make the top ten and actually fell this
year from number twenty three two twenty four on the list.
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I'm tammage forr.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Hio and the Giant Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs is
being named the.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Second best zoo in the US.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
The honors come from USA Today's ten Best Readers Choice
Awards for twenty twenty five. The top spot the Henry
Dorley Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
I've been to that one.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Oh, does it deserve the top spot.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
It's been a while, but it was very nice. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I mean I love the Shine Mountain Zoo so but
I haven't been to the one in Nebraska, So I
don't know if I can compare the two. But Giant
Mountain zo is also hilarious because not only are you
enjoying a zoo, but you're getting a hike in while
you're doing so, right, because it is just uphill climbs
all across that zoo.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
For sure.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Absolutely coming up.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
March Madness begins today in downtown Denver, and we'll talk
about that coming up.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Let's take a look at your Thursday morning drive. We
go to Jonathan Steele and the Kiawa Traffic Center.
Speaker 19 (14:51):
Yeah, steady build up this morning. It's still fairly light citywide.
The ramp EASTPOT seventy Depenya actually has improved, so no delays.
Fifteen minutes there too. DIA from I seventy to the terminal.
It looks like I seventy west around Peoria's kind of
bogging down a little bit. Got a little bit of
traffic on two seventy coming out of Commerce City on
the westbound side, and I twenty five out of Thornton
down towards eighty fourth is kind of jam not really jamming,
(15:14):
I should say, just slowing a little bit through the area.
We're not seeing any kind of delays, at least on
the main thoroughfare. There was one accident at Sable and
Smith and that's still kind of in the clean up stages.
Jonathan Steel on KA eight fifty AM and ninety four ONEFM.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
KOA News Time six twenty, Ginagondek and Chad Bauer Infra
Marti Lenz on Colorado's Morning News. The first round of
the NCAA tournament in Denver kicks off today and crowds
are set to stir up some economic activity downtown.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Joining us now on the KOA Common Spirit Health Hotline
to talk more about it is Downtown Denver Partnerships Senior
vice president in Planning and Community Impact Andrew Iltis.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Andrew, thanks so much for joining us this morning.
Speaker 28 (15:56):
Hey, glad to be here.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And before we get to the basketball TI tournament, tell
us first of all, what exactly the Downtown Denver Partnership
is and what you guys do.
Speaker 28 (16:07):
Yeah, you know, we work with the community, with the
business community, with the neighborhoods, and with the city to
really bring great, great places in Downtown Denver to life.
Speaker 29 (16:19):
So you'll see us being.
Speaker 28 (16:21):
Involved with things like the Parade of Lights. We get
really involved with sixteenth Street activation and right now we're
talking with the city about planning for the future of
downtown in a twenty year horizon Downtown Area plan.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Well, when it comes to March Madness, Andrew Denver is,
this isn't.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Their first rodeo.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
We hosted the NCAA tournament back in twenty twenty three.
When we look at those numbers, what type of economic
activity did we see for the city.
Speaker 28 (16:50):
Yeah, it's so cool to have something to look back
at and get excited for what's to come. Yeah, in
twenty twenty three, we were able to see a twelve
and a half percent jump in our overnight stays. We
saw bumps in our overall visitation to downtown. You know,
typically we have about one hundred and twenty five people
in downtown. When when the NCAA comes to town, we
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see that jump by about fifty thousand people immediately. And
the cool thing is is those people, those are people
that you know, maybe they're local visitors, but local tourists,
but they're also coming from the region too.
Speaker 17 (17:25):
They're coming, you.
Speaker 28 (17:26):
Know, to the to the Mile High City to really
experience this you know, kind of big sporting event together
with the with the City of.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Denver, which is cool, and Andrew. When we think about
economic impact, the things that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Immediately come to mind are lodging, you know, bars and restaurants.
But what are some of the other impacts that we
may not think as much about that are still very important.
Speaker 28 (17:47):
Yeah, you know, I think you know, we've been seeing
and we hear from the community as we're going through
this planning process. Actually, we hear a lot from the
community about wanting to have more invitations downtown, wanting to
have more and to come and visit restaurants, bars, you know,
the retail shops, reasons to pick up that jersey on
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Sixteenth Street. And I think, you know, this is such
a great opportunity for people to really, you know, if
they haven't been downtown for a while, come see all
the cool new stuff that's that's really emerging in this
new era.
Speaker 29 (18:21):
For the city.
Speaker 28 (18:23):
You know, sixteenth Street itself is you know, really blossoming
with some new The reconstructed blocks are coming to completion.
You know, we're about halfway through the project now by
the spring will be most of the way through the project.
So I think there's a lot to explore for people
who haven't been beyond just the entertainment things that they
would expect to see.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I know this may go above the Downtown Denver partnership,
but how does the downtown area get ready for the
increase of crowds and what about any safety concerns that
people may have.
Speaker 28 (18:51):
Yeah, definitely, I mean I think it's it starts off
with strong coordination. We've got We've got our teams working
within the business proven district to do you know, additional
make sure that we've got the streets looking looking their best.
Make sure that you know, all the litter and things
like that are all tidied up and you'll notice that
when you come down, you know, making sure that we've
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got the our micromobility devices are are what We've been
working closely with those companies to make sure that they're
really thinking about how to keep people safe on the sidewalks,
really do their best to educate people to be you know,
riding around safely in the bike lanes because we know
a lot of people use use those devices during these
types of events. And then, as you mentioned safety, we've
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got a really great coordination with the city Police Department.
We've got additional security forces that are really working together
to you know, have that that presence, that that visual presence,
but also just being able to be responsive to what
people need because you know, we see a variety of
people's needs on the streets and we just want to
be able to be out there for.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Form and broadening this out just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Andrew, the mayor and city Council have expressed to how
important it is for them to you know, revitalize and
focus on downtown.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
Are is your.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Group satisfied with the way things are going and what
else would you like to see the city do to
make things even better?
Speaker 28 (20:13):
Yeah, you know, I think we've got really good momentum
right now. You know, I think this this uh, this
ability to leverage actually an existing financial tool to bring
a half billion dollars in the next several years to
downtown for private and public investment. You know, I think
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having this plan as a as a guiding document where
we've heard from you know, thousands in the public about
what they want to see. You know, I think the
next step really is to see some of those things
come to light. We need to show people that, you know,
public dollars, private dollars are going to going to building
a better downtown with with that new vision, we need
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to see more neighborhoods, you know, growth with residential and
that kind of thing, neighborhood supporting services like childcare. That's
what we've heard a lot in this planning process. So
that's what we're you know, we're really excited about it.
And again, you know, we've got the momentum to do it,
we've got the tools to do it. We just need
to come together and get done with.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
The Downtown Denver Partnership. It's Andrew Iltas, Thanks Andrew, Yeah,
thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
The news is coming up right after we get a
check on traffic from the KOA Traffic Center.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 19 (21:24):
Yeah, a little busier on the drive, guys, We're still
pretty quiet for the most part. Sable and Smith's still
trying to wrap up on one early morning crash out
in Aurora. The I seventy six drive coming in from
ninety six starting to tie up just back into the
two seventy INTERCHANGEES two seventy is also a little busy
through Vosquez and York both directions there. I twenty five
a little increase coming down from Northland Thornton.
Speaker 9 (21:44):
No drag on the speech.
Speaker 19 (21:45):
Just yet, as you make your way to downtown, We're
still ten minutes between downtown and the Tech Center. Jonathan
Steel on KWA eight fifty am and not I from ONEFM.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Good Thursday Morning, Gina Gondak from Chad Bauer in fram
Mariti Lenz on Colorado's Morning News eight 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 3 (22:32):
And Customs enforcements searching for two detainees from Venezuela who
escaped a detention facility in Aurora this week.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
Kaway's David Kale joins US Live with the latest.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
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 9 (22:54):
Head count.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
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 9 (23:09):
Some are in opposition to that situation.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Including twenty third District Attorney George Brockler, who says Colorado
laws are too lenient on the question of illegal immigration.
Speaker 29 (23:20):
To suggest that this isn't an issue is fake.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
It is a giant issue, It is a growing issue.
Speaker 30 (23:25):
And this sort of ignorance's bliss approach to the law
and the sharing of information with ICE only serves to
make us less safe.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
ICE says the Venezuelan men, one 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 9 (23:42):
Reporting live David Koa News the two.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Men who walked out of the detention center and may
have been able to get lost in the crowd of
protesters that were surroundings facility Tuesday night. Dozens of people
were angry about their recent arrest of fifty three year
old Janette 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 Robert
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Price ways.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
In the idea is to present a case to the
public that these are justified.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
And when there is public sentiment.
Speaker 31 (24:17):
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 9 (24:26):
He tells Fox thirty one.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The fact that Visgera has three children who were born
in the US will not help her status as an
immigrant who is here illegally for a republic.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Schools now joining Adams County, twelve, Boulder Valley, and some
schools in Denver canceling classes.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Today, thousands of teachers are.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
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 7 (24:58):
We finally got back the 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 hard 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 4 (25:16):
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 32 (25:25):
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order today
aimed at shutting down.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
The Department of Education.
Speaker 32 (25:31):
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 the state.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
At ABC's Andrea Fuji. Eliminating the DOE will need congressional approval.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
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 5 (26:02):
Many of them are Democrats.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
By the way, Democrats were big supporters of Tesla and
of electric vehicles until Elon Musk decided.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
To vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Police in Loveland arrested a suspect earlier this month, accused
of vandalizing the Tesla dealership there several times. Breckenridge Ski
Resort facing a lawsuit over a man's death. In twenty
twenty three, sixty year old John Peruco slid off a
chairlift at the resort, falling about twenty five feet and
landing on his head and neck. He died on the
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way to the hospital. His wife claims the resort was
negligent and not cleaning snow and ice from the chairlift
seats before he got on.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
She is suing.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Breckinridge and its parent company, Vail Resorts, for unspecified damages.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Ukrainian President Zelenski says Moscow's support for a ceasefire is
not real after new missile attacks from Rush over Knights
hit a hospital.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
State Department spokesman.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Tammy Bruce As Secretary Rubio has said there is no
military solution to this war.
Speaker 12 (26:57):
All sides need to move to a ceasefire.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
President Trump has made this clear as well.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
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 near 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
(27:23):
to northern Gaza.
Speaker 33 (27:24):
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 5 (27:39):
Fox, says Jonathan Savage.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Israel blames Moss for refusing to agree to the latest
ceasefire proposals.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
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 (28:01):
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 the
Ukraine War.
Speaker 30 (28:09):
He's going through it at that time, staying up all
hours of the night, you know, you know, really stressed.
Speaker 14 (28:15):
Odom says, the VCU community has stepped up big as
for Sholga.
Speaker 17 (28:19):
You know, fucking if I served as an inspiration to
you know, the young kids back home in Ukraine, and
there's something that I'm definitely willing to do and just
put on for my country. He says.
Speaker 14 (28:30):
It's an honor to be one of the few Ukrainians,
if any, to compete in March Madness.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Courtside at Ball Arena. Rob Das at Kowait.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
News, you're up to day on Colorado's Morning News, the
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Pat Witard will have that list coming up next.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Also in sports, not a great night for the Nuggets
and Aves right now, though, Let's get a check on
traffic from the Kowa Traffic Center.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 19 (28:55):
Yeah, all right, chat, it's not too bad out here
this morning. Real quite dry for us. I can see
a little more company out on the roadways. That includes
two to 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 slowing coming into downtown through Spear.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
It's still ten minutes between downtown and Attach.
Speaker 19 (29:19):
You got two to five in from Parker, just a
busy or drive as well as C four seventy two
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
steel O on KWA eight fifty AM and ninety four
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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 35 (30:57):
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Barriers out of the way to grow supply.
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If you grow supply, that's the way you push prices down.
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And I think we've seen prices come down a little
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Risk from the Whatever Happened to file. About ten years ago,
an oil pipeline being built across North Dakota was the
target of high profile demonstrators trying to stop it. Now,
a jury has ordered green Piece to pay six hundred
and sixty million dollars to the company building that pipeline.
Speaker 27 (31:32):
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
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After yesterday's Wall Street rally. Stocks look poised to come
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Time in KOA.
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Sports road losses for both the Nuggets and Avalanche. Last night,
the Avs lost to the Maple Leafs two to one
in Toronto.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
Coach Jared Bednar.
Speaker 17 (32:24):
It's a tough loss. It sort of, you know, disheartening
a little bit, But I still have to look at
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We're pretty good.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
The Avs are in Ottawa tonight to play the Senators.
The shorthanded Nuggets lost to the Lakers one twenty to
one O 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 25 (32:48):
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 you get punching them out. Next
thing you know, you're just on your heels.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
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 beat
the Rockies one to nothing. Center fielder Brenton Doyle had
two hits and a walk, hitting leadoff. Manager Bud Black.
Speaker 16 (33:24):
He'll grow accustomed to leading off, and you know, obviously
the on base percentage component is what we need.
Speaker 17 (33:30):
But you know, we want them to hit.
Speaker 16 (33:31):
We don't want them to you know, Phil Zoeasa take walks,
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that he's got power and speed. They're going to come
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Speaker 9 (33:40):
Tonight, the Rockies play the Rangers.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
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Speaker 9 (33:46):
March Madness is underway.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
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 Mintana, followed by BYU
versus VCU. The evening session starts at five twenty five
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games are Saturday. In our social media poll question today,
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CSU's first round game is tomorrow. They're in Seattle to
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We'll have more on why coming up next. Let's take
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and the Kway traffic Center.
Speaker 9 (40:07):
Yeah, we're still do it pretty well out here.
Speaker 19 (40:09):
We had what appeared maybe to be a stall southbound
twenty five just down past I seventy six in the
area of fifty eighth.
Speaker 9 (40:15):
It just took off a few minutes ago.
Speaker 19 (40:17):
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 9 (40:27):
We're still wide open to the Tech Center.
Speaker 19 (40:28):
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 Peori and
Havana slow and two seventy's been jamming a little bit
along with I seventy six as you're coming in west
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Away News Time six forty nine. It is Colorado's morning News.
Chad Bauer in for Marty Lens today alongside Gina Gandek.
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 4 (41:24):
Joining us now on the KWA Common Spirit Health Hotline
to talk more about it is the president of the
Colorado Education Association, Kevin Dick.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
Kevin, thank you so much for your time this morning.
Speaker 29 (41:34):
Oh, it's a pleasure to be here. I'm still trying
to wake up a little bit, but we'll we'll have
a great time.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Well, we appreciate you joining us early this morning.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
As we're talking about this, we continue to talk about
how they're pushing for no funding cuts to schools.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
Can you further elaborate on that. I know it's a very.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Convoluted, complicated situation we have here in the state, but
explain a little bit of the why the protests are
taking place today.
Speaker 29 (42:00):
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 fund the rest of the budget, and that has
created an overall deficit, an actual debt of about nearly
(42:26):
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 as educators that we were going to have
an opportunity to start building some foundational funding that that
(42:51):
we could improve our schools with. And then we come
this year and given the state's budget challenges were 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 gonna We're going to
(43:14):
raise our voices as as loud as we can to
make sure that education isn't on the shopping block again.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Hey, Kevin, what exactly is going to be happening today?
Is are going to be demonstrations, Will there be meetings
with legislators or what all is going to be going
on at the Capitol today?
Speaker 29 (43:29):
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 in touch with their legislators
(43:53):
and actually go in and try and get a meeting
with legislators this afternoon and to to explain the difficulty
that education has been facing for a number of years
now and we just can't continue this way. It's not sustainable.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
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 29 (44:20):
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 changing
(44:41):
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 tax break.
And so let's let's start thinking about different ways that
we can do that to make our system more there
for everybody overall and improve our quality of life here.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
And Kevin, 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 29 (45:15):
So I'd say there's actually a few things. One, this
was not a secret. We've 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. Two,
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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 to really highlight
that coming and doing your civic duty and exercising your
rights is an incredibly great educational experience. And you know
(46:02):
this isn't just for educators. Today, we're asking students, we're
asking community members. Anybody who's really concerned about the state
of public education here in Colorado and wants to see
things get better, certainly welcome to come down and help us,
(46:22):
help us put that message forward to the legislature.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
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Speaker 4 (46:27):
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 5 (46:35):
Your reaction to.
Speaker 29 (46:35):
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 here as a state
are as prepared as possible for any event. And I
(47:01):
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 3 (47:13):
Colorado Education Association President Kevin Vick, thanks so much for
taking the time to talk with us this morning.
Speaker 29 (47:20):
I really appreciate it great being with you.
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still nice quiet drive out here for us.
Speaker 19 (51:28):
We're seeing an increase in volumes, certainly, but no big
problem spots.
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Haven't had any accidents on the freeways.
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One earlier stable at Smith should be wrapped up two
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City bul directions I twenty five up north coming down
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that takes you into downtown through about Spear, but we're
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Speaker 4 (52:53):
I searching for two men who escaped from the Aurora
detention facility this week. They say the men walked out
Tuesday night during a power outage which disabled several locks
at the facility. The men's disappearance wasn't noticed until about
five hours later during a head count. Agents notifying Aurora police,
but say the department refused to help. The Aurora City
councilwoman Danielle Durinski says their hands are tied.
Speaker 10 (53:15):
There is a state law here that supersedes the jurisdiction
of the Aurora Police Department. ICE knows that it is
not a fair statement to say that we refuse to
get involved.
Speaker 5 (53:28):
She tells Fox thirty one.
Speaker 4 (53:29):
The men were being held on civil charges, not criminal ones.
An ICE spokesman asks anyone with more information about the
escapees to call.
Speaker 5 (53:37):
Their tip line.
Speaker 4 (53:38):
ICE also blaming the protesters who are outside the detention
center for the distraction that allowed the men to escape.
Doesn't surrounded the facility Tuesday to protest the arrest of
immigration activists Jeanette Zghera, who has been ordered to port
it to Mexico twenty eight years after she entered the
country from Mexico. Immigration attorney Matthew Baringer says Bizgara maybe
out of luck.
Speaker 44 (54:00):
They come across the border without inspection is what we're
called entered without inspection or others would call illegal. What
can or cannot be done for that person goes down marketedly.
Speaker 4 (54:11):
Her background includes a conviction for forged documents, striving without
a license, and failure to depart the US. As area
does have three children who were born in the US.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
Thousands of Colorado students won't be in school today as
their teachers head to the state capitols to protest school
funding cuts. Gaoway's David Kale joining us Live with a preview.
Speaker 6 (54:31):
More than one hundred schools in Denver, the Boulder Valley
School District, Adams twelve and Aurora won't have class today
because there won't be any teachers to hold class. They'll
be at the state capitol rallying for more school funding.
Joan Merriconnell has two kids in Denver public schools.
Speaker 9 (54:48):
I support the teachers. You know, this are the people
who take care of my daughters every day.
Speaker 6 (54:54):
Rob Gould is president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association.
Speaker 7 (54:58):
Back for the last twenty years we've been cutting from
public education.
Speaker 6 (55:03):
Gould says he expects two to three thousand teachers to protest.
Speaker 9 (55:06):
The classroom closures will impact it close to
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