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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Thursday Morning, Ginagndak and Chad Bauer in Framarti Lenz
on Colorado's Morning News eight thirty AM, ninety four to
one FM, and on the iHeartRadio app Fox thirty one pinpoint.
Weather warmer than yesterday, plenty of sunshine, high temperature nearing
sixty degrees upper fifties come tomorrow. Currently we're at twenty
seven in Denver.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
More than one.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hundred schools in Denver, Aurora, Boulder Valley, and Adams County
closed today as teachers head to the state capitol for
a protest against proposed budget cuts. Denver Classroom Teachers Association
President Rob Gould says he expects two to three thousand
teachers to come out to protest.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
And our teachers are tired of always and every year
balancing the budget on the backs of our students.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Several parents in high schoolers say they plan to join
their teachers at today's rally, which begins at eleven thirty.
The White House will act today on something President Trump
has been planning since he was elected, closing the Department
of Education.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
He's all right, they laid off half the staff.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Plans to sign an executive order today that will dissolve
the entire agency. Colorado one of more than a dozen
states that are legally challenging the closure. Maryland's Governor Wes
Moore says the president's executive actions go too far.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
They really fall into three different categories.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's either ineffective, it is performative, or it is illegal. Right,
those are the three buckets that all of these executive
actions are falling under.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Congressional approval is needed to dissolve the Department.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Immigration, Customs and Enforcement. Asking for the public's help this morning,
finding two men who walked away from a detention facility
in Aurora, Kway's David Cale joins US Life with those details.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
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. Head count
now Ice and Aurora police are pointing fingers at one another,
with Ice saying they asked Aurora for help, and the
police department saying they try to locate them in if
(02:01):
there was a public danger, but that state law prevents
them from actively enforcing federal immigration laws. Some are in
opposition to the situation, including twenty third District Attorney George Brockler,
who says Colorado laws are too lenient on the question
of illegal immigration.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
To suggest that this isn't an issue is fake.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It is a giant issue, It is a growing issue,
and this sort of ignorance's bliss.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Approach to the law and the sharing of information with
ICE only serves to make.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Us less safe.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
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 2 (02:41):
Reporting live. David kale koa.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
News ICE agent's defending this week's arrest of an immigration
activist who's in the country illegally. They say fifty three
year old Jeanette Vizgara broke the law several times, it
produced false documents.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
When she was arrested.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
She's been ordered to port it back to Mexico, even
though she has been here since nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Children who were born in the US.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
New legislation will require the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to
create a public dashboard tracking backlog DNA evidence and.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Sexual assault kits.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The move follows a legend misconduct by former CBI lab
analyst Missy Woods, who faces more than one hundred felony
charges for mishandling cases. Prosecutors estimate the errors cost the
state more than eleven million dollars. CBI aims to cut
the backlog in half by next year and reduce processing
times to under ninety days by twenty twenty seven. Our
(03:33):
Rappaho County investigators are looking for the Super Bowl scammer.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
A woman sold Super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Travel packages in both twenty three and twenty four, claiming
they'd include airfare, hotels, and tickets to the Big Game.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It was all a scam.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
The woman called herself Gigi Levi and claimed to be
a lawyer for Live Nation. She duped at least two
people out of at least ten thousand dollars. Gigi described
as a heavyset black woman the gap between her two
front teeth. There may be other victims across the metro area.
Kathy Walker Kowait News.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
President Trump characterizing his phone call yesterday with Ukrainian President
Zelensky is fantastic and productive, even as Russia continues attacking
that country. Ukraine says its air defenses shot down seventy
five out of more than one hundred and seventy Russian
drone oversights. US Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg says
ceasefire talks will continue this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
We're going to head the technical talks as a term
where you actually have to talks from both sides sitting
down to how we get to a comprehensive seasefire which
leads you to peace treaty.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And we're only a day fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
During the phone call, President Zelensky agreed to halt attacks
on energy infrastructure, something Russian President Putin echo endorsed during
his call with President Trump, But unlike Zelensky, Putin has
not accepted a full ceasefire. Israel moving ground troops in
Tagaza and continues its air attacks as negotiators try to
re establish a ceasfire. Palestinian medics say at least fIF
(05:00):
dy eight people were killed in overnight attacks, raising the
depth soul to more than five hundred.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
March madness begins this morning across the country, including in
downtown Denver.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
From far and why they've come to ball Arena. It's
a flurry of news conferences and walkthroughs for these teams.
A curious decision for Montana a fourteen seed to be here,
taking on Wisconsin A three. Probably easier for people in
Montana to get here, and their press conference was loaded
with people. Of course, some Wisconsin people in that room
as well. We don't get distinctive courts as much anymore
(05:31):
for March Madness, except for tiny sections of the hardwood.
Those sections are purple, so when you see purple on
the court, you know you're watching games in Denver. From
media Day at the NCAA Tournament, Rob DAWs at Kowa News, the.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Newscast sponsored by dounright home improvement reaction to the fed's
interest rate decision. CSU economics professor Stevin Wiler will be
joining us coming up next.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
First, those get a check on traffic from the KOA
Traffic Center.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
All right, thank you, and yeah, we've got an accident
one hundred twentieth in Maine out of Broomfield.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We've got some delays in there.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
This is going to be west of Sheridan or just
on the east side of US thirty six, but definitely
going to see backups in that area, and it looks
like right now two seventy is still pretty busy there
through Commerce City Bolt directions, and I twenty five up
north starting to drag a little bit on speeds around
one hundred and fourth, although it starts to pick up
from that point south as you get into downtown. You'll
see a little bunching two to five round parkers kind
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of tying up a little bit, as well as the
east side of my seventy coming west from tower, we're
looking at about twenty minutes heading back to I twenty five.
Jonathan Steel on KWA eighty am and not if we're
one of.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
M KAT, what are joining us with more business and
money news and pat What are the takeaways from the
Federal reserves decision to leave interest rates unchanged?
Speaker 9 (06:44):
Well, markets certainly like it yesterday today, things that have
kind of come back down to earth. So let's get
into the Fed's decision with CSU Professor of Economic Stepan
Wyler joining u Saw on the KOA Commons Spirit Health Hotline.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Good morning Steven, Good morning Pad.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
So yeah, no no.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Interest rate cut this time around?
Speaker 9 (07:02):
Then, what was it in the FED chair Powell's comments
that the markets found.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
To like so much.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
They were surprised at. I think that the projections. I mean,
there were two things. They made no rate cut. They
kept the schedule for rate cuts in twenty twenty five
at two cuts of fifty twenty five basis points thro
a quarter point in twenty twenty five, and that would
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get us to by the beginning of next year at
about three point nine percent in terms of interest rates.
But I think what the markets reacted to was they
were not as pessimistic about the economy as they predicted.
In particular, what I looked at was the GDP numbers
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or basically all of the economic activity that goes on
in the country, and it was two point eight percent
last year in twenty twenty four. They predicted one point
seven percent for next year. That I realized, that's lower.
That's definitely a slowdown, but it's not a recession, and
that I think is probably the big, big feature that
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they pulled away from them.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Of Course, a lot of people were waiting to hear
what the impact of terrorists on inflation was going to be.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Were you surprised?
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Powell didn't really He didn't soft pedal it, but he
didn't really seem all that concerned about it either.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
He didn't. I mean, so far the teriffs have been
the have been applied and withdrawn, applied and withdrawn, some
are contingent. So I mean the TERRFF situation in general
is is kind of murky. And until until you know,
they get the fact keep saying it's data driven, and
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until until they see something in the data that concerns them,
particularly in terms of inflation, I think that they are
going to sort of they're going to hang on to
what they've got. They do see inflation increasing over the
course of the y to two point eight percent, but
that's still that's still relatively and still within shouting distance
(09:05):
of that two percent market they want to shoot for.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
Well, speaking of which, what do they have to see
then before we do get another interest rate cut?
Speaker 10 (09:13):
Good question. I mean it's the same, it's the same forecast.
But obviously, since they're talking now in March as opposed
in January when they made these projections last, the interest
rate cuts are likely to be later in the year now.
And I think what they need to see is inflation,
core inflation in particular take a downward step rather than
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an upward step, and that may still be a few
months down the road. I think the other thing to
to to note is that all of these numbers are
in a context which he is. Probably his primary sentence
that he said was that uncertainty is remarkably high, and
that basically means they're they're operating with minimal lighting here there,
(09:59):
it's hazy, and they're just going to see what the
data says and go from there.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
All right, Well, we'll be holding our collective breath until
that next meeting sees.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You're Stephan Wilers. Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 10 (10:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Pat.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
This update brought to you by the Denver Metro Chamber
of Commerce. Our next update is at eight o eight.
Pat woodard KOA Money News.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
In KOA sports road losses for both the Nuggets and Avalanche.
Last night, the Avs lost to the Maple Leafs two
to one in Toronto. Coach Jared Bednar it's a tough loss.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It's sort of disheartening a little bit, but I still
have to look at the way we played and for
large persons in that game, we're pretty good.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
The Avs in Ottawa tonight to play the Senators. The
shorthanded Nuggets lost to the Lakers one twenty to one
oh Eaight in Los Angeles, Nicola Jokic and Jamal Murray
missed the game due to injury. Aaron Gordon led Denver
with twenty six points. The Nuggets road trip continues tomorrow
night in Portland as they play the Blazers in Spring
training baseball, a low scoring affair. The Diamondbacks beat the
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Rockies one to nothing. Tonight, the Rockies play the You
can hear that game on KOA. Our coverage starts at
six fifty five. March Madness is underway. After the first
four games wrapped up yesterday and dayton the first round
games get underway across the country today, including in Denver.
Today's games at Ball Arena start at eleven thirty Wisconsin
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against Montana, followed by BYU and VCU in the evening
session at five twenty five features Texas A and m
and Yale, along with Michigan and UC San Diego. Second
round games are Saturday, CSU's first round game tomorrow and Seattle.
They'll play Memphis at noon, and the Colorado women's team
hosts Southeastern tonight in the first round of the WBIT.
(11:40):
You can hear that game on our sister station six
thirty K House starting at six thirty.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I'm Chad Bauer on the.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Home of the Broncos, Buffs and Rockies, and KOA Sports
Today at three Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
JOA News Time seven seven.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
A day after extensive airstrikes, Israel has launched a new
ground operation in Gaza. Around five hundred Palestinians were killed
in air strikes after the two months ceasefire shattered. Israel
blames OSS for the renewed fighting, saying they refused accepting
new seasfire terms, while the militant group accused Prime Minister
Benjamin at Yahoo of upending the truce and putting hostages
(12:18):
at risk.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
A pedestrian is dead after he was sit by downtown
Denver sixteenth Street Mall RTD bus. It happened shortly before
twelve thirty yesterday afternoon in the area of seventeenth and
Champas Streets. The fifty six year old man was taken
to the hospital, where he later died. RTD officials confirmed
it was the Mall Ride bus, but investigators say the
pedestrian may have been crossing the street against the signal.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Money is now available from the state to prevent interactions
between humans and bears.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Colorado Parks and Wildlife offering grants between fifty thousand and
a half million dollars to reduce human bear conflicts in
the state. They're looking for innovative solutions that could be
replicated all over Colorado. Local governments, homeowners associations, businesses, tribes,
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and individuals can apply. The deadline is May thirtieth. Tony
manis KOA News.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Coming up on Colorado's morning News.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
March madness an exciting time for players and broadcasters alike.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
We'll take you behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Next, let's go down to the Koa Traffic Center with
a look at your drive.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Here's Jonathan Steel. Yeah, we're still doing very well out here.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Just the one accident out of Broomfield on one hundred
and twentieth in Maine. For westbounders getting into Broomfield. It
looks like backups in there will cost you a little
bit of time.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Two two five.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It looks like it's jamming a little bit from Ilift
just past Parker, then kind of opens up back into
I twenty five. We are seeing a little more company.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
To and from the Tech center.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
East side of my seventy has been running hot and
cold for westbounders from Tower, getting past Penya and eventually
all the way by twenty five. We're looking at now
about twenty five minutes on that drive two seventy some
slow and go to deal with Boulder Turnpike, starting slow
a little bit into Broomfield and eventually getting into Boulder.
But right now it looks like about maybe thirty plus
minutes from Denver too Boulder, along us thirty six Jonathan
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Steel on KWA eight fifty AM and ninety four one offm.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
KOA News Time seven point fifty. It is Colorado's morning News.
Chad Bauer in for Marty Lenz today alongside Gina Gondek.
We've been talking all week about how much of a
thrill it is for the student athletes and coaches to
participate in the NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament at Ball Arena.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But sharing in that thrill are the student broadcasters for
each school's respective.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Student radio stations.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Kway's Grant Smith caught up with the student play by
playboys for the UC San Diego Tritons, and when I sat.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
Down with Marshall Almus from UCSD Man, you could feel
his passion for the program he helped start in the
sports broadcasting team with KSDT, a student broadcasting station. There
a couple of things that he mentioned, whereas dreams of
covering the international game and being a storytelling in sports.
So you're an Urban Planning and studies major, how did
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your love of basketball come about?
Speaker 12 (15:09):
I've loved basketball and geography for that matter, my whole life.
That's been something that's been an integral part of me
since I gained consciousness. I grew up primarily an NBA fan,
as a Lakers fan, but then in twenty fourteen, my
parents took me to my first March Madness game in Anaheim, California.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
For the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 12 (15:26):
It was San Diego State against Arizona. Arizona one seventy
to sixty four, but I sat in the San Diego
State fan section and the crowd was incredible.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It was nothing like I'd.
Speaker 12 (15:36):
Ever seen at an NBA game, and I think that was
the seed that was planted for me to realize that
college sports is another beast in the scene of American
sports because of the connection and community has with its team.
That's why my major Urban Studies in Planning helped my broadcast,
because I became an urban cities in planning. My sophomore
year that major. That's also when I started broadcasting. It
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was kind of a very weird where the student radio
station was not broadcasting games. We're barely just started in
D one and the student radio station just wanted to
see if.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Anyone was interested.
Speaker 12 (16:08):
So they just put out a form and I filled
it out because I was like, why not? My parents
have always told me that it'd be good at this.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Take a chance.
Speaker 12 (16:13):
Yeah, And then I showed enough potential with my leadership
ability and broadcasting ability that starting in my junior year,
they created a director position within the station along with
all the other directors, to be a stipended leader of
a sports broadcasting injury or I set that up my
junior year and we've grown what is.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Now known as KSTD Sports ever since then. It's just
two years.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
How much pride do you feel that you have kind
of built this entire thing from the ground up and
who knows what it will turn into, you know, fifteen
twenty fifty years down the road, because you put in
the hard work that it's become this this growing living
organism of sports broadcasting at the school that didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Have it before. There's immense pride.
Speaker 12 (16:53):
The significant part of what I think about in terms
of how you live life is legacy. What legacy need
to you leave in a place that meant something to you?
You usually San Diego means so much to me because
it's given me opportunities that I could have never dreamed of.
It's in a beautiful location as one of the best
public schools in the nation, one of the best schools
in the nation period for that matter.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I've received a great education. You don't pay to.
Speaker 12 (17:17):
Go to university without doing something more, in my opinion,
and trying to leave some form of legacy, even if
it's small, even if it's big.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And there's immense pride in.
Speaker 12 (17:27):
The fact that this is now what living organisms that's
going to grow with time, and there's a really unique
joy to building something that could have legacy in a
long term at some point, and knowing that all of
us were here at the beginning.
Speaker 11 (17:42):
It's got to feel surreal now that you're here, you know,
covering the team, and now you guys are in it
in your first year of eligibility. Has it sunk in
that you're here covering march madness as a student broadcaster?
Speaker 12 (17:57):
I think I've pro mentally prepared myself for it to
happen ever since we beat Utah State on the road
in December. Yeah, I realized that when we won that
game that there was a legitimate shot of this happening.
And once I got here, I was like, oh, yeah,
I'm ready to go as a media member like this
is this is a huge moment for me, and I
feel very prepared.
Speaker 11 (18:18):
And yet when Koas robbed us and walked with Marshall
to the ball Arena court to watch the Trydon's practice,
he teared up a little.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
First time coming to the court right now, this is.
Speaker 12 (18:27):
Actually my second time, but my first time seeing with
our players and.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Our band here. This is surreal.
Speaker 13 (18:35):
That our team and our band is in an arena
like Ball Arena, And uh, you know, I could have
never dreamed that when I came to this school that
he would be on the big stage like this. And
you see the March Madness logo, Yeah, it's it's just surreal.
The first March Madness game I went to was in
twenty fourteen at Honda Center in Anaheim. It was a
Sweet sixteen game between San Diego State and Arizona.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
And I've been hooked.
Speaker 12 (18:59):
Ever since I sent on March Madness, since I started.
Speaker 13 (19:01):
Calling games, I've been hooked on college basketball as a whole.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And this is a pinnacle that, my friends, is the
beauty of March Madness.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
Covering the NCAA Tournament at Ball Arena, Grant Smith Kawait News.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Just take a look at your drive. We go to
Jonathan Steel in the KWA Traffic Center.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Accident's popping up. One on the turnpike near Wadsworth getting
into Broomfield. I'm not seeing a real solid jam. I'm
not sure about a lane though. It is kind of
heavy from Sheridan anyway, coming through that stretch. It looks
like I seventy westbound around p Ore on an accent
that one might be in the center lane.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It is running a little heavy. From Tower.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
We're looking at heavy traffic on two seventy and just
about every other route out here. One off freeway Craft
still causing some delays out of Broomfield along one hundred
and twentieth westbound at Main Street. Jonathan Steele at KWAH
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Good Thursday Morning, Ginagndak and Chad Bauer in Framarti Lenz
on Colorado's Morning News eight thirty AM, ninety four to
one FM, and on the iHeartRadio app Fox thirty one pinpoint.
Weather warmer than yesterday, plenty of sunshine, high temperature nearing
sixty degrees upper fifties come tomorrow. Currently we're at twenty
seven in Denver.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
More than one.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hundred schools in Denver, Aurora, Boulder Valley, and Adams County
closed today as teachers head to the state capitol for
a protest against proposed budget cuts. Denver Classroom Teachers Association
President Rob Gould says he expects two to three thousand
teachers to come out to protest.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
And our teachers are tired of always and every year
balancing the budget on the backs of our students.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Several parents in high schoolers say they plan to join
their teachers at today's rally, which begins at eleven thirty.
The White House will act today on something President Trump
has been planning since he was elected, closing the Department
of Education.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
He's all right, they laid off half the staff.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Plans to sign an executive order today that will dissolve
the entire agency. Colorado one of more than a dozen
states that are legally challenging the closure. Maryland's Governor Wes
Moore says the president's executive actions go too far.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
They really fall into three different categories.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's either ineffective, it is performative, or it is illegal. Right,
those are the three buckets that all of these executive
actions are falling under.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Congressional approval is needed to dissolve the Department.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Immigration, Customs and Enforcement. Asking for the public's help this morning,
finding two men who walked away from a detention facility
in Aurora, Kway's David Cale joins US Life with those details.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
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. Head count
now Ice and Aurora police are pointing fingers at one another,
with Ice saying they asked Aurora for help, and the
police department saying they try to locate them in if
(02:01):
there was a public danger, but that state law prevents
them from actively enforcing federal immigration laws. Some are in
opposition to the situation, including twenty third District Attorney George Brockler,
who says Colorado laws are too lenient on the question
of illegal immigration.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
To suggest that this isn't an issue is fake.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It is a giant issue, It is a growing issue,
and this sort of ignorance's bliss.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Approach to the law and the sharing of information with
ICE only serves to make.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Us less safe.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
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 2 (02:41):
Reporting live. David kale koa.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
News ICE agent's defending this week's arrest of an immigration
activist who's in the country illegally. They say fifty three
year old Jeanette Vizgara broke the law several times, it
produced false documents.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
When she was arrested.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
She's been ordered to port it back to Mexico, even
though she has been here since nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Children who were born in the US.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
New legislation will require the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to
create a public dashboard tracking backlog DNA evidence and.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Sexual assault kits.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The move follows a legend misconduct by former CBI lab
analyst Missy Woods, who faces more than one hundred felony
charges for mishandling cases. Prosecutors estimate the errors cost the
state more than eleven million dollars. CBI aims to cut
the backlog in half by next year and reduce processing
times to under ninety days by twenty twenty seven. Our
(03:33):
Rappaho County investigators are looking for the Super Bowl scammer.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
A woman sold Super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Travel packages in both twenty three and twenty four, claiming
they'd include airfare, hotels, and tickets to the Big Game.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It was all a scam.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
The woman called herself Gigi Levi and claimed to be
a lawyer for Live Nation. She duped at least two
people out of at least ten thousand dollars. Gigi described
as a heavyset black woman the gap between her two
front teeth. There may be other victims across the metro area.
Kathy Walker Kowait News.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
President Trump characterizing his phone call yesterday with Ukrainian President
Zelensky is fantastic and productive, even as Russia continues attacking
that country. Ukraine says its air defenses shot down seventy
five out of more than one hundred and seventy Russian
drone oversights. US Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg says
ceasefire talks will continue this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
We're going to head the technical talks as a term
where you actually have to talks from both sides sitting
down to how we get to a comprehensive seasefire which
leads you to peace treaty.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And we're only a day fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
During the phone call, President Zelensky agreed to halt attacks
on energy infrastructure, something Russian President Putin echo endorsed during
his call with President Trump, But unlike Zelensky, Putin has
not accepted a full ceasefire. Israel moving ground troops in
Tagaza and continues its air attacks as negotiators try to
re establish a ceasfire. Palestinian medics say at least fIF
(05:00):
dy eight people were killed in overnight attacks, raising the
depth soul to more than five hundred.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
March madness begins this morning across the country, including in
downtown Denver.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
From far and why they've come to ball Arena. It's
a flurry of news conferences and walkthroughs for these teams.
A curious decision for Montana a fourteen seed to be here,
taking on Wisconsin A three. Probably easier for people in
Montana to get here, and their press conference was loaded
with people. Of course, some Wisconsin people in that room
as well. We don't get distinctive courts as much anymore
(05:31):
for March Madness, except for tiny sections of the hardwood.
Those sections are purple, so when you see purple on
the court, you know you're watching games in Denver. From
media Day at the NCAA Tournament, Rob DAWs at Kowa News, the.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Newscast sponsored by dounright home improvement reaction to the fed's
interest rate decision. CSU economics professor Stevin Wiler will be
joining us coming up next.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
First, those get a check on traffic from the KOA
Traffic Center.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
All right, thank you, and yeah, we've got an accident
one hundred twentieth in Maine out of Broomfield.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We've got some delays in there.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
This is going to be west of Sheridan or just
on the east side of US thirty six, but definitely
going to see backups in that area, and it looks
like right now two seventy is still pretty busy there
through Commerce City Bolt directions, and I twenty five up
north starting to drag a little bit on speeds around
one hundred and fourth, although it starts to pick up
from that point south as you get into downtown. You'll
see a little bunching two to five round parkers kind
(06:25):
of tying up a little bit, as well as the
east side of my seventy coming west from tower, we're
looking at about twenty minutes heading back to I twenty five.
Jonathan Steel on KWA eighty am and not if we're
one of.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
M KAT, what are joining us with more business and
money news and pat What are the takeaways from the
Federal reserves decision to leave interest rates unchanged?
Speaker 9 (06:44):
Well, markets certainly like it yesterday today, things that have
kind of come back down to earth. So let's get
into the Fed's decision with CSU Professor of Economic Stepan
Wyler joining u Saw on the KOA Commons Spirit Health Hotline.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Good morning Steven, Good morning Pad.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
So yeah, no no.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Interest rate cut this time around?
Speaker 9 (07:02):
Then, what was it in the FED chair Powell's comments
that the markets found.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
To like so much.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
They were surprised at. I think that the projections. I mean,
there were two things. They made no rate cut. They
kept the schedule for rate cuts in twenty twenty five
at two cuts of fifty twenty five basis points thro
a quarter point in twenty twenty five, and that would
(07:28):
get us to by the beginning of next year at
about three point nine percent in terms of interest rates.
But I think what the markets reacted to was they
were not as pessimistic about the economy as they predicted.
In particular, what I looked at was the GDP numbers
(07:49):
or basically all of the economic activity that goes on
in the country, and it was two point eight percent
last year in twenty twenty four. They predicted one point
seven percent for next year. That I realized, that's lower.
That's definitely a slowdown, but it's not a recession, and
that I think is probably the big, big feature that
(08:11):
they pulled away from them.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Of Course, a lot of people were waiting to hear
what the impact of terrorists on inflation was going to be.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Were you surprised?
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Powell didn't really He didn't soft pedal it, but he
didn't really seem all that concerned about it either.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
He didn't. I mean, so far the teriffs have been
the have been applied and withdrawn, applied and withdrawn, some
are contingent. So I mean the TERRFF situation in general
is is kind of murky. And until until you know,
they get the fact keep saying it's data driven, and
(08:45):
until until they see something in the data that concerns them,
particularly in terms of inflation, I think that they are
going to sort of they're going to hang on to
what they've got. They do see inflation increasing over the
course of the y to two point eight percent, but
that's still that's still relatively and still within shouting distance
(09:05):
of that two percent market they want to shoot for.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
Well, speaking of which, what do they have to see
then before we do get another interest rate cut?
Speaker 10 (09:13):
Good question. I mean it's the same, it's the same forecast.
But obviously, since they're talking now in March as opposed
in January when they made these projections last, the interest
rate cuts are likely to be later in the year now.
And I think what they need to see is inflation,
core inflation in particular take a downward step rather than
(09:35):
an upward step, and that may still be a few
months down the road. I think the other thing to
to to note is that all of these numbers are
in a context which he is. Probably his primary sentence
that he said was that uncertainty is remarkably high, and
that basically means they're they're operating with minimal lighting here there,
(09:59):
it's hazy, and they're just going to see what the
data says and go from there.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
All right, Well, we'll be holding our collective breath until
that next meeting sees.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You're Stephan Wilers. Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 10 (10:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Pat.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
This update brought to you by the Denver Metro Chamber
of Commerce. Our next update is at eight o eight.
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Speaker 3 (10:18):
In KOA sports road losses for both the Nuggets and Avalanche.
Last night, the Avs lost to the Maple Leafs two
to one in Toronto. Coach Jared Bednar it's a tough loss.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It's sort of disheartening a little bit, but I still
have to look at the way we played and for
large persons in that game, we're pretty good.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
The Avs in Ottawa tonight to play the Senators. The
shorthanded Nuggets lost to the Lakers one twenty to one
oh Eaight in Los Angeles, Nicola Jokic and Jamal Murray
missed the game due to injury. Aaron Gordon led Denver
with twenty six points. The Nuggets road trip continues tomorrow
night in Portland as they play the Blazers in Spring
training baseball, a low scoring affair. The Diamondbacks beat the
(10:57):
Rockies one to nothing. Tonight, the Rockies play the You
can hear that game on KOA. Our coverage starts at
six fifty five. March Madness is underway. After the first
four games wrapped up yesterday and dayton the first round
games get underway across the country today, including in Denver.
Today's games at Ball Arena start at eleven thirty Wisconsin
(11:18):
against Montana, followed by BYU and VCU in the evening
session at five twenty five features Texas A and m
and Yale, along with Michigan and UC San Diego. Second
round games are Saturday, CSU's first round game tomorrow and Seattle.
They'll play Memphis at noon, and the Colorado women's team
hosts Southeastern tonight in the first round of the WBIT.
(11:40):
You can hear that game on our sister station six
thirty K House starting at six thirty.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I'm Chad Bauer on the.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Home of the Broncos, Buffs and Rockies, and KOA Sports
Today at three Colorado's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
JOA News Time seven seven.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
A day after extensive airstrikes, Israel has launched a new
ground operation in Gaza. Around five hundred Palestinians were killed
in air strikes after the two months ceasefire shattered. Israel
blames OSS for the renewed fighting, saying they refused accepting
new seasfire terms, while the militant group accused Prime Minister
Benjamin at Yahoo of upending the truce and putting hostages
(12:18):
at risk.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
A pedestrian is dead after he was sit by downtown
Denver sixteenth Street Mall RTD bus. It happened shortly before
twelve thirty yesterday afternoon in the area of seventeenth and
Champas Streets. The fifty six year old man was taken
to the hospital, where he later died. RTD officials confirmed
it was the Mall Ride bus, but investigators say the
pedestrian may have been crossing the street against the signal.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Money is now available from the state to prevent interactions
between humans and bears.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Colorado Parks and Wildlife offering grants between fifty thousand and
a half million dollars to reduce human bear conflicts in
the state. They're looking for innovative solutions that could be
replicated all over Colorado. Local governments, homeowners associations, businesses, tribes,
(13:08):
and individuals can apply. The deadline is May thirtieth. Tony
manis KOA News.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Coming up on Colorado's morning News.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
March madness an exciting time for players and broadcasters alike.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
We'll take you behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Next, let's go down to the Koa Traffic Center with
a look at your drive.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Here's Jonathan Steel. Yeah, we're still doing very well out here.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Just the one accident out of Broomfield on one hundred
and twentieth in Maine. For westbounders getting into Broomfield. It
looks like backups in there will cost you a little
bit of time.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Two two five.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It looks like it's jamming a little bit from Ilift
just past Parker, then kind of opens up back into
I twenty five. We are seeing a little more company.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
To and from the Tech center.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
East side of my seventy has been running hot and
cold for westbounders from Tower, getting past Penya and eventually
all the way by twenty five. We're looking at now
about twenty five minutes on that drive two seventy some
slow and go to deal with Boulder Turnpike, starting slow
a little bit into Broomfield and eventually getting into Boulder.
But right now it looks like about maybe thirty plus
minutes from Denver too Boulder, along us thirty six Jonathan
(14:08):
Steel on KWA eight fifty AM and ninety four one offm.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
KOA News Time seven point fifty. It is Colorado's morning News.
Chad Bauer in for Marty Lenz today alongside Gina Gondek.
We've been talking all week about how much of a
thrill it is for the student athletes and coaches to
participate in the NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament at Ball Arena.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But sharing in that thrill are the student broadcasters for
each school's respective.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Student radio stations.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Kway's Grant Smith caught up with the student play by
playboys for the UC San Diego Tritons, and when I sat.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
Down with Marshall Almus from UCSD Man, you could feel
his passion for the program he helped start in the
sports broadcasting team with KSDT, a student broadcasting station. There
a couple of things that he mentioned, whereas dreams of
covering the international game and being a storytelling in sports.
So you're an Urban Planning and studies major, how did
(15:07):
your love of basketball come about?
Speaker 12 (15:09):
I've loved basketball and geography for that matter, my whole life.
That's been something that's been an integral part of me
since I gained consciousness. I grew up primarily an NBA fan,
as a Lakers fan, but then in twenty fourteen, my
parents took me to my first March Madness game in Anaheim, California.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
For the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 12 (15:26):
It was San Diego State against Arizona. Arizona one seventy
to sixty four, but I sat in the San Diego
State fan section and the crowd was incredible.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It was nothing like I'd.
Speaker 12 (15:36):
Ever seen at an NBA game, and I think that was
the seed that was planted for me to realize that
college sports is another beast in the scene of American
sports because of the connection and community has with its team.
That's why my major Urban Studies in Planning helped my broadcast,
because I became an urban cities in planning. My sophomore
year that major. That's also when I started broadcasting. It
(15:57):
was kind of a very weird where the student radio
station was not broadcasting games. We're barely just started in
D one and the student radio station just wanted to
see if.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Anyone was interested.
Speaker 12 (16:08):
So they just put out a form and I filled
it out because I was like, why not? My parents
have always told me that it'd be good at this.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Take a chance.
Speaker 12 (16:13):
Yeah, And then I showed enough potential with my leadership
ability and broadcasting ability that starting in my junior year,
they created a director position within the station along with
all the other directors, to be a stipended leader of
a sports broadcasting injury or I set that up my
junior year and we've grown what is.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Now known as KSTD Sports ever since then. It's just
two years.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
How much pride do you feel that you have kind
of built this entire thing from the ground up and
who knows what it will turn into, you know, fifteen
twenty fifty years down the road, because you put in
the hard work that it's become this this growing living
organism of sports broadcasting at the school that didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Have it before. There's immense pride.
Speaker 12 (16:53):
The significant part of what I think about in terms
of how you live life is legacy. What legacy need
to you leave in a place that meant something to you?
You usually San Diego means so much to me because
it's given me opportunities that I could have never dreamed of.
It's in a beautiful location as one of the best
public schools in the nation, one of the best schools
in the nation period for that matter.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I've received a great education. You don't pay to.
Speaker 12 (17:17):
Go to university without doing something more, in my opinion,
and trying to leave some form of legacy, even if
it's small, even if it's big.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And there's immense pride in.
Speaker 12 (17:27):
The fact that this is now what living organisms that's
going to grow with time, and there's a really unique
joy to building something that could have legacy in a
long term at some point, and knowing that all of
us were here at the beginning.
Speaker 11 (17:42):
It's got to feel surreal now that you're here, you know,
covering the team, and now you guys are in it
in your first year of eligibility. Has it sunk in
that you're here covering march madness as a student broadcaster?
Speaker 12 (17:57):
I think I've pro mentally prepared myself for it to
happen ever since we beat Utah State on the road
in December. Yeah, I realized that when we won that
game that there was a legitimate shot of this happening.
And once I got here, I was like, oh, yeah,
I'm ready to go as a media member like this
is this is a huge moment for me, and I
feel very prepared.
Speaker 11 (18:18):
And yet when Koas robbed us and walked with Marshall
to the ball Arena court to watch the Trydon's practice,
he teared up a little.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
First time coming to the court right now, this is.
Speaker 12 (18:27):
Actually my second time, but my first time seeing with
our players and.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Our band here. This is surreal.
Speaker 13 (18:35):
That our team and our band is in an arena
like Ball Arena, And uh, you know, I could have
never dreamed that when I came to this school that
he would be on the big stage like this. And
you see the March Madness logo, Yeah, it's it's just surreal.
The first March Madness game I went to was in
twenty fourteen at Honda Center in Anaheim. It was a
Sweet sixteen game between San Diego State and Arizona.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
And I've been hooked.
Speaker 12 (18:59):
Ever since I sent on March Madness, since I started.
Speaker 13 (19:01):
Calling games, I've been hooked on college basketball as a whole.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And this is a pinnacle that, my friends, is the
beauty of March Madness.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
Covering the NCAA Tournament at Ball Arena, Grant Smith Kawait News.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Just take a look at your drive. We go to
Jonathan Steel in the KWA Traffic Center.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Accident's popping up. One on the turnpike near Wadsworth getting
into Broomfield. I'm not seeing a real solid jam. I'm
not sure about a lane though. It is kind of
heavy from Sheridan anyway, coming through that stretch. It looks
like I seventy westbound around p Ore on an accent
that one might be in the center lane.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It is running a little heavy. From Tower.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
We're looking at heavy traffic on two seventy and just
about every other route out here. One off freeway Craft
still causing some delays out of Broomfield along one hundred
and twentieth westbound at Main Street. Jonathan Steele at KWAH
fifty am and not for one FM.
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