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Speaker 1 (00:02):
KOA News Time five thirty on Colorado's Morning News eight
fifty AM ninety four to one FM, and on the
iHeartRadio app Good Morning, I'm Gina Gundeck alongside Chad Bauer,
Infram Marty Lens this Morning Fox thirty one Pinpoint. Weather
mostly sunny, a little warmer than what we saw yesterday.
High temperature will be closer to sixty degrees upper fifties
come tomorrow, mid sixties for your Saturday. Currently, Chile, we're
(00:25):
at twenty seven in Denver, More.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Than one hundred schools in Denver, Aurora. The Boulder Valley
School District in Adams County will be 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 3 (00:45):
And our teachers are tired of always and every year
balancing the budget on the backs of our students.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Several parents in high schoolers say they plan to join
their teachers at today's rally. The White House will act
today on something President and Trump has been planning since
he was elected, closing the Department of Education. He's already
laid off half the staff, plans to sign an executive
order today to dissolve the entire agency. Colorado is more
is one of more than a dozen states that's legally
(01:15):
challenging the closure. Maryland Governor Wes Moore says, the president's
executive actions go way too far.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
They really fall into three different categories.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
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 2 (01:33):
The President still needs Congress to sign off on dissolving
the Department.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Immigration, Customs and Enforcement, asking for the public's help. This morning,
finding two men who walked away from the detention facility
in Aurora, Gayway's data Kale joins his life with those details.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
The two were awaiting deportation.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Durinsky says a power outage at
the facility led to a door becoming unlocked, and the
two apparently were able to escape at that point. That
was at about nine to thirty Tuesday night. They were
discovered missing after a head count at midnight. Now there's
finger pointing between Ice and the city of Aurora.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
When it comes to what happened next.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
ICE is saying it contacted Aurora police for help in
finding the men, but that police declined that request. Aurora,
including Jurinsky, disputes that story, saying it would be involved
in a public safety emergency, but that it does not
enforce federal immigration laws. The Governor's office has issued a
standard notice to police across the state about the escapees.
(02:30):
ICE says the Venezuelan men 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 5 (02:41):
Reporting live David ko Kowa News.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
ICE agents defending this week's arrest of an immigration activist
who is in the country illegally. They say fifty three
year old jenefez Gara broke the law several times and
produced false documents when arrested.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
She has been ordered to port.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It back to Mexico, even though she's been here since
nineteen ninety seven and three children were born in the US.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
New legislation will require the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to
create a public dashboard tracking backlogs, DNA evidence, and.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Sexual assault kits.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The move follows 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. CBII Games to cut the backlog in half
by next year and reduce processing times to under ninety
days by twenty twenty seven. Arapaho County investigators are looking
(03:37):
for the Super Bowl scammer.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
A woman sold Super Bowl travel packages in both twenty
three and twenty four, claiming they'd include airfare, hotels, and
tickets to the Big Game.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
It was all a scam.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
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. Gig described
as a heavy set black woman with a gap between
her two front teeth. There may be other victims across
the metro area. Kathy Walker Kowa News.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
President Trump characterizing his phone call yesterday with the Ukrainian
president Zelensky as fantastic and productive, even as Russia continues
attack in that country. Ukraine says its air defenses shot
down seventy five out of more than one hundred and
seventy Russian drones overnight.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
You has a special envoy to Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Keith Kellock says ceasefire talks will continue this weekend.
Speaker 9 (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 a peace treaty.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
And we're only at day fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
During the phone call, President Zelensky agreed to halt attacks
on energy infrastructure, something Russian President Putin endorsed during his
call with President Trump, But unlike Zelensky, Putin has not
accepted a full ceasefire. Israel is moving ground troops in
Tagaza and continues air attacks as negotiators are trying to
re establish a seasfire. Palestinian medics say at least fifty
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eight people were killed in overnight attacks, raising the death
toll to more than five hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
March madness begins this morning across the country and in
downtown Denver.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
From far and wide, they have come to ball Arena.
It's a flurry of news conferences and walkthroughs for these teams.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
A curious decision for.
Speaker 10 (05:17):
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 for March Madness, except
for tiny sections of the hardwood. Those sections are purple,
so when you see purple on the court, you know
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you're watching games in Denver. From media day at the
NCAA Tournament, Rob DAWs at Kawait News.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Colorado State will play Memphis in Seattle tomorrow. Star guard
Nique Clifford from Colorado Springs is ready or stiller excited.
Speaker 11 (05:52):
You know this is what you dream of as a kid,
planning March Madness and just getting to play at the
highest high stays.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
And compete at the highest level.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
We're so Rams are on a ten game winning streak
heading into tomorrow's game.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Money is now available for the state from the state
to prevent interactions between humans and.
Speaker 12 (06:10):
Bears, 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,
(06:32):
and individuals can apply. The deadline is May thirtieth, Tony
Maynis KOA News.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
First though, another check on traffic from the Koa Traffic Center.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, we're still in good shape out here.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Very light volume, kind of building in a few areas,
seeing some companies, certainly out on the roadways, but really
no drag on speech just yet. Twelve minutes in from
North Glenna hundred twentieth to downtown to Colfax, and still
about a ten minute commute between downtown and the Tech
Center C four seventy fifteen minutes two Highlands ranchets in
between Ken Carroll and I twenty five and I twenty
five coming north actually out of the Tech Center from
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C four seventy and then up towards Colfax about fifteen
minutes there.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Everything else could to go.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Just what accident that we had at gun Club and
Jewel I've tried to steal on Kwait eight fifty am
and night for one FM.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Is Pat Letard joining us with an update on business
and money news and pat it may be one and
done for the latest Wall Street rally.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Well, it's a wastetock.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
Futures are pointing this morning after the jump that we
saw yesterday.
Speaker 13 (07:32):
At the closing bell, the DELL gained three hundred eighty
three points, closing it forty one thou nine hundred and
sixty four. The S and P five hundred rose by
sixty points to fifty six seventy five, and the NaSTA
gain two hundred and forty six points, closing at seventeen thousand,
seven hundred and fifty.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
That surge we saw a came despite the federal reserves
not action on interest rates, so the head kept the
rights we pay for things like credit card loans and
car loans where they are. While fedcher Jerome Powell said
the economy and the job market are both in good shape.
Speaker 14 (08:08):
Recent indications, however, point to a moderation in consumer spending
following the rapid growth seen over the second half of
twenty twenty four. Surveys of households and businesses point to
heightened uncertainty about the economic outlook.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
And one of those uncertainties is tariffs. Powell says the
tariffs could boost inflation, but he doesn't think it'll be
a long term problem. That is hinting that will likely
cut interest rates twice this year. It's not clear if
the CEO of Amtrak was figuratively run out of town
on a rail, but he's leaving his job.
Speaker 15 (08:40):
Stephen Gardner said he was stepping down amid concerns from
the Trump administration. His resignation comes after Elon Musk suggested
earlier this month that Amtrak should become a privately owned company.
Amtrak later issued a statement pushing back against the idea,
claiming that passed efforts to privatize various Amtrak operations had
proven unsuccessful. Oh Michael Casson.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Recall alert two hundred thousand cans of green beans sold
at Target stores in a number of states, including Colorado.
They are sold under the Good and Gather brand. The
green beans are being recalled because of possible contamination by
a foreign object. Usually that means plastic or metal. This
update brought to you by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.
(09:21):
Our next update is at six oh eight. Pat Woodard
Koe Money News Time.
Speaker 15 (09:27):
In Koa.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Sports road losses for both the Nuggets and Avalanche. Last night,
the Avs lost to the Maple Leafs two to one
in Toronto.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Coach Jared Bednar is a tough loss.
Speaker 16 (09:39):
It's sort of, you know, disheartening a little bit, but
I still have to look at the way we played
for large persons in that game.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
We're pretty good.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
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 just didn't.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Think we had 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 in
the world, you get punching them out. Next thing you know,
you're just on your heels.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
The Nuggets have lost two of three and 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 affairs, the Diamondbacks beat
the Rockies one to nothing. Center Fielder Brentson Doyle had
two hits and a walk, hitting leadoff. Manager Bud Black.
Speaker 16 (10:36):
He'll grow accustomed to leading off, and you know, obviously
the on base percentage component is what we need.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
But you know, we want them to hit.
Speaker 16 (10:43):
We don't want them to you know, phil Azzoe has
to take walks, but it'll be in there because he's dangerous.
Pitchers realize that he's got power and speed and they're gonna
come after them.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Tonight, the Rockies play the Rangers. You can hear that
game on KOA. Our coverage starts at six fifty five.
March Madness underway. After the first four games wrapped up yesterday,
the first round games get underway across the country, including
in Denver. Today's games at Ball Arena start at eleven
thirty with Wisconsin versus Montana, followed by BYU and VCU.
(11:14):
At five twenty five, Texas A and M and Yale play.
The day wraps up with Michigan and UC San Diego.
Second round games are Saturday. Our social media poll question
today is out of those four games. Which one are
you looking forward to the most? You can weigh in
on x or Facebook, ats Kowa Colorado, or go to
the iHeartRadio app and use the red Talkbuck talk back
(11:37):
button to send us a message. CSU's first round game
tomorrow in Seattle. They'll play Memphis at noon, and 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 KOW starting at six thirty.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I'm Chad Bauer on the.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Home of the Broncos, Buffs and Rockies, and KOA Sports
Today at three Colorado's morning.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
News Sayaway News sun by forty seven.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Two ICE detainees are on the run after escaping a
detention facility in Auror, up Called. Woman Danielle Durinski says
the power outage caused a door to unlock at the
facility Tuesday night, allowing the suspects to walk off the premises.
The two were arrested last month in Douglas County. ICE
says it notified local authorities about the escapees, but they
declined to assist in the search.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
A day after extensive air strikes.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Israel has launched a new ground operation in Gaza. More
than four hundred Palestinians were killed in the earlier air strikes.
After the two months ceasefire shattered, Israel blames Hamas for
the renewed fighting, saying they refused accepting new ceasefire terms,
while the militant group accused Prime Minister Netanyahu of upending
the truce and putting hostages at risk.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
The American astronauts who are stuck on the International Space
Station for nine months will be visiting the White House
once they've recovered. Twillmore and Sunny Williams returned to Earth
on Tuesday. White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovitt says President
Trump took action as soon as you return to office
to bring Wilmore and Williams back to Earth earlier than scheduled.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Today the first day of spring for Earth's northern hemisphere.
Speaker 17 (13:18):
At this point in the planet's annual orbit, the sun
appears directly over the equator, producing essentially the same amount
of time in daylight and darkness over today's twenty four hours.
Then for the northern half of the planet, daylight hours
steadily increase until the longest day of the year, the
summer solstice in June.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I'm Markneyfield.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I think I'll take sixty for a high on the
first day of spring.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
That's doable.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I love it better than having a foot of snow
on the ground that's been the case in some years
on the first day of spring.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I always enjoy having obviously the longer time of having
the sun later at night, YadA YadA, blah blah blah.
But when you work these hours sometimes it's even more
challenging to go to bed in your life. It's eight
o'clock at night and you're like, oh, and the sun
is still, especially when it takes so long for the
sun to set over the mountains in our area. We're like, oh, okay,
(14:08):
So it's a little bit more challenging, but a nice
day to kick off the spring equinox, for sure.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Absolutely coming up.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says the phone call
with President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenski was another step forward.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
We'll have a recap coming up next.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Let's take a look at your Thursday morning drive.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
First, we go to Jonathan Steele and the Kway Traffic Center.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah, still quiet ride force, guys, wide open on the
freeways posted speed livid almost anywhere you're traveling. Certainly a
little increase here and there, and that's mainly up to
the north coming down out of North Glint at Thornton
along I twenty five ice seventy six as you make
you wake from highwaighty five back into the two seventy interchange.
In fact, the ramp from west bent I seventy six
to southbound twenty five maybe a little slowe but really
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not in a delay mode. It looks like two seventies
about a seven minute commute out of Commerce City east
side looks good. West from I seventy Penya back to
I twenty five is ten minutes. Just getting word there
may be an accident in the area of Sable and
Smith Road. Jonathan Steel on KA eight fifty am and
not I for ONEFM.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
KOA News Time five point fifty Gina Gundeck and Chad
Bauer Inframarti Lenz on Colorado's Morning News. It was their
first conversation since that explosive meeting that took place at
the Oval Office several weeks ago. President Trump and Ukrainian
President Zelenski speaking about a partial ceasefire on energy infrastructure yesterday,
following Trump's call with Russia's President Vladimir Putin the day before.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
This comes amid broader efforts to end the Russia Ukraine War,
joining us now on the KOA Common Spirit Health hotline.
With the latest ABC's White House correspondent Karen Travers and
Karen As, we mentioned that their last meeting did not go.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
So well in the White House.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Was this phone call a little bit better in terms of,
you know, people getting angry and things like that.
Speaker 18 (15:52):
Yeah, By all of the indications from the White House
with briefing yesterday, the readout that we received from the
Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor, this is
a very different conversation than the explosive, contentious one that
the President and Zelenski had in the Oval Office on
February twenty eighth. This was about an hour and they
(16:14):
agreed on many things, according to this readout, including Zolensky
agreeing to that pause on strikes on energy sites. This
is something that came up on Tuesday during the President's
phone call is Vladimir Putin, where he was trying to
get Putin to agree to a thirty day ceasefire with
no conditions as Ukraine did last week. That didn't happen.
(16:34):
Instead putin put on the table a pause on energy strikes.
So that's where they are at this point that the
White House says, conversations continue. There'll be meetings in Saudi
Arabia over the weekend early next week with the US
and Russia and the US and Ukraine. But these are
different conversations. These are not the US mediating together Russia
(16:56):
and Ukraine shuttle diplomacy, as the National Security Advisor put
in yesterday, of going back and forth between the two.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Sides, Yeah, Karen, talking about those Saudi Arabia talks that
will be coming in the coming days. They keep using
the term technical experts from the US, Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
What does that really mean when we talk about these talks.
Speaker 18 (17:13):
We've asked that of you know, why they keep calling
it that. It's like they're really trying to get down
to the nitty gritty of what this is going to
look like for the terms of a ceasefire. Right now,
they're talking about trying to extend this beyond the energy
sites into a pause on strikes in the Black Sea,
a maritime ceasefire that would be like the next big
step they're looking at then a partial seafire, ideally like
(17:36):
a thirty day period before getting to a full peace agreement.
I think another big thing with this, though, is that
even as the White House says they've never been closer
to peace, there are still some significant differences, even just
in the way that they're talking about the phone calls.
The Russian readout of the phone call with Vladimir Putin
said that Putin and Trump talked about Putin's demand for
(17:58):
countries to stop security. Its sense to Ukraine that this
is something he is pushing for as part of a
seafire agreement, you know, he wants them to stop being
able to rearm. The White House said that that didn't
come up in the conversation. There are a lot of
questions yesterday about how the two sides are framing even
these conversations very differently, and what that means about how
(18:18):
close they could possibly be to actually negotiating a ceasefire
if they kind of can't agree on what happened on
the phone call.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And during the Zelenski Trump call yesterday, I saw that
Zelensky is asking for more air defense systems. Is that
something that President Trump is likely to do.
Speaker 16 (18:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (18:37):
According to the White House, he agreed to work with
Zolenski to find what was available in terms of air
defense systems, particularly patriot missile systems, though the President said,
particularly in Europe. Now you know this is notable though,
because two and a half weeks ago, the President directed
his administration to pause all military aid to Ukraine after
that Oval Office meeting. That pause was lifted last week
(18:59):
when you officials and that was Eliskey in Saudi Arabia.
But the fact that now he's telling Zilinsky will help
you get some defensive weaponry, that's big, you know at
this point, because there had been such strained relations just
three weeks ago, and we obviously know how much the
President had talked to the candidate about trying to stop
all assistance to Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
From the White House, ABC White House Correspondent, It's Karen Travers.
Thanks Karen, thank you if your newscasts coming up next.
Taking a look at your drive. First, we go to
Jonathan Steele and the q Waight Traffic Center.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, we're hanging in there pretty well here, guys.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I'm just starting to see a little jamming on the
eastbound seventy ramp to Penya. Just as you get in
there through or maybe Green Valley Ranch Boulevard or so,
then it opens up beautifully. That's not a real big delight,
but it is kind of slow in that immediate area.
And we see this on a pretty much regular basis
every morning. Could be police monitoring speeds in that area.
Also two seventy looking east coming off I seventy six
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to York.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I'm just seeing a little more company there.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
But I twenty five still maintaining very good speech for
us out an Aurora should be clearing up on one
accident hopefully anyway, it's Sable and Smith Road. Jonathan Steelock
KWAIT eight fifty AM and ninety four ONEFM.
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KOA News Time five thirty on Colorado's Morning News eight
fifty AM ninety four to one FM, and on the
iHeartRadio app Good Morning, I'm Gina Gundeck alongside Chad Bauer,
Infram Marty Lens this Morning Fox thirty one Pinpoint. Weather
mostly sunny, a little warmer than what we saw yesterday.
High temperature will be closer to sixty degrees upper fifties
come tomorrow, mid sixties for your Saturday. Currently, Chile, we're
(00:25):
at twenty seven in Denver, More.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Than one hundred schools in Denver, Aurora. The Boulder Valley
School District in Adams County will be 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 3 (00:45):
And our teachers are tired of always and every year
balancing the budget on the backs of our students.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Several parents in high schoolers say they plan to join
their teachers at today's rally. The White House will act
today on something President and Trump has been planning since
he was elected, closing the Department of Education. He's already
laid off half the staff, plans to sign an executive
order today to dissolve the entire agency. Colorado is more
is one of more than a dozen states that's legally
(01:15):
challenging the closure. Maryland Governor Wes Moore says, the president's
executive actions go way too far.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
They really fall into three different categories.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
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 2 (01:33):
The President still needs Congress to sign off on dissolving
the Department.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Immigration, Customs and Enforcement, asking for the public's help. This morning,
finding two men who walked away from the detention facility
in Aurora, Gayway's data Kale joins his life with those details.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
The two were awaiting deportation.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Durinsky says a power outage at
the facility led to a door becoming unlocked, and the
two apparently were able to escape at that point. That
was at about nine to thirty Tuesday night. They were
discovered missing after a head count at midnight. Now there's
finger pointing between Ice and the city of Aurora.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
When it comes to what happened next.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
ICE is saying it contacted Aurora police for help in
finding the men, but that police declined that request. Aurora,
including Jurinsky, disputes that story, saying it would be involved
in a public safety emergency, but that it does not
enforce federal immigration laws. The Governor's office has issued a
standard notice to police across the state about the escapees.
(02:30):
ICE says the Venezuelan men 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 5 (02:41):
Reporting live David ko Kowa News.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
ICE agents defending this week's arrest of an immigration activist
who is in the country illegally. They say fifty three
year old jenefez Gara broke the law several times and
produced false documents when arrested.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
She has been ordered to port.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It back to Mexico, even though she's been here since
nineteen ninety seven and three children were born in the US.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
New legislation will require the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to
create a public dashboard tracking backlogs, DNA evidence, and.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Sexual assault kits.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The move follows 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. CBII Games to cut the backlog in half
by next year and reduce processing times to under ninety
days by twenty twenty seven. Arapaho County investigators are looking
(03:37):
for the Super Bowl scammer.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
A woman sold Super Bowl travel packages in both twenty
three and twenty four, claiming they'd include airfare, hotels, and
tickets to the Big Game.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
It was all a scam.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
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. Gig described
as a heavy set black woman with a gap between
her two front teeth. There may be other victims across
the metro area. Kathy Walker Kowa News.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
President Trump characterizing his phone call yesterday with the Ukrainian
president Zelensky as fantastic and productive, even as Russia continues
attack in that country. Ukraine says its air defenses shot
down seventy five out of more than one hundred and
seventy Russian drones overnight.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
You has a special envoy to Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Keith Kellock says ceasefire talks will continue this weekend.
Speaker 9 (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 a peace treaty.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
And we're only at day fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
During the phone call, President Zelensky agreed to halt attacks
on energy infrastructure, something Russian President Putin endorsed during his
call with President Trump, But unlike Zelensky, Putin has not
accepted a full ceasefire. Israel is moving ground troops in
Tagaza and continues air attacks as negotiators are trying to
re establish a seasfire. Palestinian medics say at least fifty
(04:59):
eight people were killed in overnight attacks, raising the death
toll to more than five hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
March madness begins this morning across the country and in
downtown Denver.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
From far and wide, they have come to ball Arena.
It's a flurry of news conferences and walkthroughs for these teams.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
A curious decision for.
Speaker 10 (05:17):
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 for March Madness, except
for tiny sections of the hardwood. Those sections are purple,
so when you see purple on the court, you know
(05:38):
you're watching games in Denver. From media day at the
NCAA Tournament, Rob DAWs at Kawait News.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Colorado State will play Memphis in Seattle tomorrow. Star guard
Nique Clifford from Colorado Springs is ready or stiller excited.
Speaker 11 (05:52):
You know this is what you dream of as a kid,
planning March Madness and just getting to play at the
highest high stays.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
And compete at the highest level.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
We're so Rams are on a ten game winning streak
heading into tomorrow's game.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Money is now available for the state from the state
to prevent interactions between humans and.
Speaker 12 (06:10):
Bears, 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,
(06:32):
and individuals can apply. The deadline is May thirtieth, Tony
Maynis KOA News.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
First though, another check on traffic from the Koa Traffic Center.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Here's Jonathan Steele.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, we're still in good shape out here.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Very light volume, kind of building in a few areas,
seeing some companies, certainly out on the roadways, but really
no drag on speech just yet. Twelve minutes in from
North Glenna hundred twentieth to downtown to Colfax, and still
about a ten minute commute between downtown and the Tech
Center C four seventy fifteen minutes two Highlands ranchets in
between Ken Carroll and I twenty five and I twenty
five coming north actually out of the Tech Center from
(07:06):
C four seventy and then up towards Colfax about fifteen
minutes there.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Everything else could to go.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Just what accident that we had at gun Club and
Jewel I've tried to steal on Kwait eight fifty am
and night for one FM.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Is Pat Letard joining us with an update on business
and money news and pat it may be one and
done for the latest Wall Street rally.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Well, it's a wastetock.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
Futures are pointing this morning after the jump that we
saw yesterday.
Speaker 13 (07:32):
At the closing bell, the DELL gained three hundred eighty
three points, closing it forty one thou nine hundred and
sixty four. The S and P five hundred rose by
sixty points to fifty six seventy five, and the NaSTA
gain two hundred and forty six points, closing at seventeen thousand,
seven hundred and fifty.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
That surge we saw a came despite the federal reserves
not action on interest rates, so the head kept the
rights we pay for things like credit card loans and
car loans where they are. While fedcher Jerome Powell said
the economy and the job market are both in good shape.
Speaker 14 (08:08):
Recent indications, however, point to a moderation in consumer spending
following the rapid growth seen over the second half of
twenty twenty four. Surveys of households and businesses point to
heightened uncertainty about the economic outlook.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
And one of those uncertainties is tariffs. Powell says the
tariffs could boost inflation, but he doesn't think it'll be
a long term problem. That is hinting that will likely
cut interest rates twice this year. It's not clear if
the CEO of Amtrak was figuratively run out of town
on a rail, but he's leaving his job.
Speaker 15 (08:40):
Stephen Gardner said he was stepping down amid concerns from
the Trump administration. His resignation comes after Elon Musk suggested
earlier this month that Amtrak should become a privately owned company.
Amtrak later issued a statement pushing back against the idea,
claiming that passed efforts to privatize various Amtrak operations had
proven unsuccessful. Oh Michael Casson.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Recall alert two hundred thousand cans of green beans sold
at Target stores in a number of states, including Colorado.
They are sold under the Good and Gather brand. The
green beans are being recalled because of possible contamination by
a foreign object. Usually that means plastic or metal. This
update brought to you by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.
(09:21):
Our next update is at six oh eight. Pat Woodard
Koe Money News Time.
Speaker 15 (09:27):
In Koa.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Sports road losses for both the Nuggets and Avalanche. Last night,
the Avs lost to the Maple Leafs two to one
in Toronto.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Coach Jared Bednar is a tough loss.
Speaker 16 (09:39):
It's sort of, you know, disheartening a little bit, but
I still have to look at the way we played
for large persons in that game.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
We're pretty good.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
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 just didn't.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Think we had 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 in
the world, you get punching them out. Next thing you know,
you're just on your heels.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
The Nuggets have lost two of three and 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 affairs, the Diamondbacks beat
the Rockies one to nothing. Center Fielder Brentson Doyle had
two hits and a walk, hitting leadoff. Manager Bud Black.
Speaker 16 (10:36):
He'll grow accustomed to leading off, and you know, obviously
the on base percentage component is what we need.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
But you know, we want them to hit.
Speaker 16 (10:43):
We don't want them to you know, phil Azzoe has
to take walks, but it'll be in there because he's dangerous.
Pitchers realize that he's got power and speed and they're gonna
come after them.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Tonight, the Rockies play the Rangers. You can hear that
game on KOA. Our coverage starts at six fifty five.
March Madness underway. After the first four games wrapped up yesterday,
the first round games get underway across the country, including
in Denver. Today's games at Ball Arena start at eleven
thirty with Wisconsin versus Montana, followed by BYU and VCU.
(11:14):
At five twenty five, Texas A and M and Yale play.
The day wraps up with Michigan and UC San Diego.
Second round games are Saturday. Our social media poll question
today is out of those four games. Which one are
you looking forward to the most? You can weigh in
on x or Facebook, ats Kowa Colorado, or go to
the iHeartRadio app and use the red Talkbuck talk back
(11:37):
button to send us a message. CSU's first round game
tomorrow in Seattle. They'll play Memphis at noon, and 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 KOW starting at six thirty.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I'm Chad Bauer on the.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Home of the Broncos, Buffs and Rockies, and KOA Sports
Today at three Colorado's morning.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
News Sayaway News sun by forty seven.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Two ICE detainees are on the run after escaping a
detention facility in Auror, up Called. Woman Danielle Durinski says
the power outage caused a door to unlock at the
facility Tuesday night, allowing the suspects to walk off the premises.
The two were arrested last month in Douglas County. ICE
says it notified local authorities about the escapees, but they
declined to assist in the search.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
A day after extensive air strikes.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Israel has launched a new ground operation in Gaza. More
than four hundred Palestinians were killed in the earlier air strikes.
After the two months ceasefire shattered, Israel blames Hamas for
the renewed fighting, saying they refused accepting new ceasefire terms,
while the militant group accused Prime Minister Netanyahu of upending
the truce and putting hostages at risk.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
The American astronauts who are stuck on the International Space
Station for nine months will be visiting the White House
once they've recovered. Twillmore and Sunny Williams returned to Earth
on Tuesday. White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovitt says President
Trump took action as soon as you return to office
to bring Wilmore and Williams back to Earth earlier than scheduled.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Today the first day of spring for Earth's northern hemisphere.
Speaker 17 (13:18):
At this point in the planet's annual orbit, the sun
appears directly over the equator, producing essentially the same amount
of time in daylight and darkness over today's twenty four hours.
Then for the northern half of the planet, daylight hours
steadily increase until the longest day of the year, the
summer solstice in June.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I'm Markneyfield.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I think I'll take sixty for a high on the
first day of spring.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
That's doable.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I love it better than having a foot of snow
on the ground that's been the case in some years
on the first day of spring.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I always enjoy having obviously the longer time of having
the sun later at night, YadA YadA, blah blah blah.
But when you work these hours sometimes it's even more
challenging to go to bed in your life. It's eight
o'clock at night and you're like, oh, and the sun
is still, especially when it takes so long for the
sun to set over the mountains in our area. We're like, oh, okay,
(14:08):
So it's a little bit more challenging, but a nice
day to kick off the spring equinox, for sure.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Absolutely coming up.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says the phone call
with President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenski was another step forward.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
We'll have a recap coming up next.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Let's take a look at your Thursday morning drive.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
First, we go to Jonathan Steele and the Kway Traffic Center.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah, still quiet ride force, guys, wide open on the
freeways posted speed livid almost anywhere you're traveling. Certainly a
little increase here and there, and that's mainly up to
the north coming down out of North Glint at Thornton
along I twenty five ice seventy six as you make
you wake from highwaighty five back into the two seventy interchange.
In fact, the ramp from west bent I seventy six
to southbound twenty five maybe a little slowe but really
(14:51):
not in a delay mode. It looks like two seventies
about a seven minute commute out of Commerce City east
side looks good. West from I seventy Penya back to
I twenty five is ten minutes. Just getting word there
may be an accident in the area of Sable and
Smith Road. Jonathan Steel on KA eight fifty am and
not I for ONEFM.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
KOA News Time five point fifty Gina Gundeck and Chad
Bauer Inframarti Lenz on Colorado's Morning News. It was their
first conversation since that explosive meeting that took place at
the Oval Office several weeks ago. President Trump and Ukrainian
President Zelenski speaking about a partial ceasefire on energy infrastructure yesterday,
following Trump's call with Russia's President Vladimir Putin the day before.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
This comes amid broader efforts to end the Russia Ukraine War,
joining us now on the KOA Common Spirit Health hotline.
With the latest ABC's White House correspondent Karen Travers and
Karen As, we mentioned that their last meeting did not go.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
So well in the White House.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Was this phone call a little bit better in terms of,
you know, people getting angry and things like that.
Speaker 18 (15:52):
Yeah, By all of the indications from the White House
with briefing yesterday, the readout that we received from the
Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor, this is
a very different conversation than the explosive, contentious one that
the President and Zelenski had in the Oval Office on
February twenty eighth. This was about an hour and they
(16:14):
agreed on many things, according to this readout, including Zolensky
agreeing to that pause on strikes on energy sites. This
is something that came up on Tuesday during the President's
phone call is Vladimir Putin, where he was trying to
get Putin to agree to a thirty day ceasefire with
no conditions as Ukraine did last week. That didn't happen.
(16:34):
Instead putin put on the table a pause on energy strikes.
So that's where they are at this point that the
White House says, conversations continue. There'll be meetings in Saudi
Arabia over the weekend early next week with the US
and Russia and the US and Ukraine. But these are
different conversations. These are not the US mediating together Russia
(16:56):
and Ukraine shuttle diplomacy, as the National Security Advisor put
in yesterday, of going back and forth between the two.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Sides, Yeah, Karen, talking about those Saudi Arabia talks that
will be coming in the coming days. They keep using
the term technical experts from the US, Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
What does that really mean when we talk about these talks.
Speaker 18 (17:13):
We've asked that of you know, why they keep calling
it that. It's like they're really trying to get down
to the nitty gritty of what this is going to
look like for the terms of a ceasefire. Right now,
they're talking about trying to extend this beyond the energy
sites into a pause on strikes in the Black Sea,
a maritime ceasefire that would be like the next big
step they're looking at then a partial seafire, ideally like
(17:36):
a thirty day period before getting to a full peace agreement.
I think another big thing with this, though, is that
even as the White House says they've never been closer
to peace, there are still some significant differences, even just
in the way that they're talking about the phone calls.
The Russian readout of the phone call with Vladimir Putin
said that Putin and Trump talked about Putin's demand for
(17:58):
countries to stop security. Its sense to Ukraine that this
is something he is pushing for as part of a
seafire agreement, you know, he wants them to stop being
able to rearm. The White House said that that didn't
come up in the conversation. There are a lot of
questions yesterday about how the two sides are framing even
these conversations very differently, and what that means about how
(18:18):
close they could possibly be to actually negotiating a ceasefire
if they kind of can't agree on what happened on
the phone call.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And during the Zelenski Trump call yesterday, I saw that
Zelensky is asking for more air defense systems. Is that
something that President Trump is likely to do.
Speaker 16 (18:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (18:37):
According to the White House, he agreed to work with
Zolenski to find what was available in terms of air
defense systems, particularly patriot missile systems, though the President said,
particularly in Europe. Now you know this is notable though,
because two and a half weeks ago, the President directed
his administration to pause all military aid to Ukraine after
that Oval Office meeting. That pause was lifted last week
(18:59):
when you officials and that was Eliskey in Saudi Arabia.
But the fact that now he's telling Zilinsky will help
you get some defensive weaponry, that's big, you know at
this point, because there had been such strained relations just
three weeks ago, and we obviously know how much the
President had talked to the candidate about trying to stop
all assistance to Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
From the White House, ABC White House Correspondent, It's Karen Travers.
Thanks Karen, thank you if your newscasts coming up next.
Taking a look at your drive. First, we go to
Jonathan Steele and the q Waight Traffic Center.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, we're hanging in there pretty well here, guys.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I'm just starting to see a little jamming on the
eastbound seventy ramp to Penya. Just as you get in
there through or maybe Green Valley Ranch Boulevard or so,
then it opens up beautifully. That's not a real big delight,
but it is kind of slow in that immediate area.
And we see this on a pretty much regular basis
every morning. Could be police monitoring speeds in that area.
Also two seventy looking east coming off I seventy six
(19:58):
to York.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I'm just seeing a little more company there.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
But I twenty five still maintaining very good speech for
us out an Aurora should be clearing up on one
accident hopefully anyway, it's Sable and Smith Road. Jonathan Steelock
KWAIT eight fifty AM and ninety four ONEFM.
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