WHBY Morning News 4-28-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now the latest from the w Hby Omni Glass and
Payne News Center.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, it's fifty one degrees at five oh four,
I landed more. Green Bay City leaders say it took
a great deal of teamwork to pull off the historic
twenty twenty five NFL Draft. Green Bay Mayor Eric Gedrich
tells Whby's Hilly ten Pass it paid off in hosting
more than six hundred thousand football fans with very few glitches.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
First and foremost, Mark Murphy and the Green Bay Packers
understanding what was possible here, along with discover green Bay
and of course the city here, but the village, the county,
the state of Wisconsin and their assistance. Really, you know,
takes a ton of folks to pull off an event
of this scale.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Mayor Genrick also says he's gotten very positive reaction from
visitors about the draft and goodwill from Green Bay residents.
Since the NFL Draft was not a ticketed event and
not all attendees had to scan their one pass app
to get in, how does the league come up with
its intendants numbers? Vice President of Events John Barkers, as
they use a system at all of the gates.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
First, you can do mapping. Understand what your footprint is.
You do it by square footage. But what we do
is we employ camera systems at all of our entry gates.
They will count as people come through the entry gates,
and that's the most accurate way you can do it.
We've moved a long way away from hand clickers and
people standing there and now use technology to.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Help us good again. The NFL put the final attendance
for the Green Bay Draft at six hundred thousand. Cleanup
continues around lambeau Field, though getting around the stadium district
will still be limited for a bit longer. The dismantling
process on the draft theater is underweight and will likely
take a week or two to finish. Theater materials, however,
will be repurposed. Packer spokesman Aaron Popke tells Action to

(01:41):
News the NFL's resource recovery program makes reducing a draft's
carbon footprint a priority.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
So next week we're going to have some opportunities to
see these companies that will come in and take a
lot of these items and get reused in other ways.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
You know, there's a lot of carpeting that.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Was used and would and other types of pieces that
definitely has a life beyond the NFL draft.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Here in Green Bay, leftover food items that didn't sell
during the draft are donated to various organizations and distributed
to those indeed drivers In the stadium district, we'll see
portions of Mike McCarthy Way Home, grind Way, Brett far Pass,
and Tony Kennedo Run reopening. The South Anita Street and
Armed Forces Drive will stay closed until May sixth. Supporters
of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan Rallied outside FBI headquarters

(02:28):
in suburban Saint Francis on Saturday. Judge Dugan was arrested
by the FBI Friday and charged in federal court for
allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest by ICE agency
a week earlier, but state Representative Ryan Clancy said Dugan
was upholding the law.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
They did not have an actual warrant signed by an
actuable judge. They had what they call an administrative warrent,
which is a piece of paper which ICE makes themselves,
which says they can do what they want. It has
no power.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
To go into private space, investigators said plain closed. Federal
agents went to Dugan's court room on April eighteenth, with
the intention of arresting Edward of Flores Ruiz, who was
in court for a misdemeanor domestic abuse case. Dugan allegedly
allowed the illegal immigrant and his attorney to exit the courthouse,
although ICE agents did take him into custody a short

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time later. Judge Dugan is due back in federal court
next month. Area lawmakers are sounding off on last Friday's
arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge Hannah Dugan. State
Representative Leased Nograss of Appleton says, in part in a
written statement, quote, I am alarmed and shared deep concern
regarding reports of the FBI arrest of a sitting judge
in Milwaukee. Since his election, President Trump and his administration

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have chosen to weaponize the legal system for political ends.
I hold a deep commitment to protecting the independence of
our judiciary and the rule of law. End quote. Congressman
Glenn Grolfman of Sheboyken County said in part in a
written statement, quote, it is shameful, though sadly no longer shocking,
that a liberal judge would go so far as to
obstruct federal law enforcement in order to protect a violent
illegal immigrant from arrest. If these allegations are true, this

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judge violated the trust of the people she was elected
to serve. Far too many public officials today seem either
unable or unwilling to understand why our immigration laws must
be enforced.