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[0:09] Happy Tina Peters release day to Governor Polis and to all who celebrate. Within hours she was [0:15] back on her bologna about stolen elections. A candidate for governor is ducking debates, [0:21] playing chicken on whether he'll show up on 9 news tomorrow night. Young voters just want him to [0:25] talk turkey. That's a bare minimum as a candidate for governor to be able to play out your policy [0:32] plan. Will the Broncos new stadium come with a new train stop? And people have been wanting this [0:37] for years and it's going to happen all aboard for next. Today marks one of the biggest wins in [0:45] President Trump's effort to discredit American elections. The win isn't evidence of his election [0:52] rigging claims. Still none of that. This win wasn't even delivered by the president or one of his [0:57] Republican allies. No, it's thanks to Colorado's Democratic Governor Jared Polis, who boosted [1:02] Trump's movement by freeing Tina Peters today. Less than two years into her nine year sentence for a [1:08] breach of Colorado's voting systems. Within hours Peters was back on mega media proclaiming that [1:14] elections are rigged by voting machines. I know that the Democrats are going to cheat and um and no one's [1:21] really addressing the problem that the basic that I that I spent my time in prison um as retribution for [1:30] and that was exposing the um the election machines that allow the um the votes to be flipped. [1:38] Peters did not uncover evidence of voting machines flipping boats. She's a convicted felon because [1:44] she got caught sneaking someone into Colorado's voting systems to turn over sensitive data to [1:48] fellow conspiracy theorists. Today Peters defended Governor Polis from the quote unquote horrible [1:55] media and the haters who are criticizing his decision to free her and her attorney and allies said their [2:01] next step is criminal charges against Colorado's top Democrats including Secretary of State Jenna Griswold. [2:06] I encourage Don Blanche if he doesn't do it I'll end up doing it if I get to be the AG but somebody [2:12] needs to charge this woman for her insurrection her sedition. When I'm governor we're going to work [2:17] very hard to make sure that she is uh brought to justice that she's indicted and hopefully put in jail [2:23] according and also with her accomplice in a lot of this which is Attorney General Weiser. Governor Polis is [2:30] lying low today after taking a carrot and shtick approach to the backlash for his clemency for Tina [2:36] Peters. Governor Polis munched on a carrot for nearly a full minute as reporters tried to ask him [2:42] questions about why he freed Peters and after Colorado Democrats voted overwhelmingly to ban [2:47] Polis from speaking at party events he showed up on a party zoom meeting with tape over his mouth. Vice [2:53] President J.D. Vance had suggested that Peters could get restitution from the 1.8 billion dollar [2:58] slush fund set up by President Trump to reward his allies who claimed to have been prosecuted unfairly [3:04] but today after strong bipartisan pushback and legal scrutiny the Trump administration said [3:08] it's dropping the idea of the slush fund. Denver metro area got its own slush fund today [3:14] spicy little hailstorm that rolled through some wannabe tornadoes got twisty on us too. [3:18] It's hailing like crazy at Aaron Johnson's place on west of City Park in Denver. Five points got [3:24] scoops of it two quarter sized stuff all over town. We're still watching some severe thunderstorm [3:28] activity tonight. Let's check in with meteorologist Corey Reppenhagen. I mean not the end all be all of [3:34] storms but a good little how you doing today. Yeah wow wake up call here in Denver for sure quite a [3:39] bit of large damaging hail one inch in diameter mostly but a few golf balls and it's not quite done yet. [3:45] It's out on the eastern plains. The city of Yuma just got popped by a pretty good storm here. [3:51] Down on the ground you can see some hail and quite a bit of rain that just got put down from that [3:55] thunderstorm. It actually carried a tornado warning as it get right up into the town and it diminished [4:01] the rotation but still got hit pretty hard with the uh hail. You can see that magenta color there [4:07] that just went through Yuma. That will catch a piece of Eckley. Might be able to stay north of Ray [4:13] before all this stuff exits the state here. We've watched a few attempts at additional storms to [4:19] develop in the metro. They failed. That's good news for us. Round two looks like it won't be too bad. [4:25] Tomorrow we will have thunderstorms again and they will include Denver but the severe threat [4:30] a little weaker and a little bit more east. I'm not too worried about the thunderstorms in Denver [4:35] tomorrow but we could see some heavy spurts of rain and maybe some small hail out of those storms [4:40] tomorrow in the Denver metro area. We'll carry a afternoon thunderstorm threat each of the next [4:45] couple of days Tuesday and Wednesday. It'll start to diminish on Thursday and that's when we change [4:51] from heat or from hail to heat. We go up to 89 on Friday and it looks like the 90s are inbound. We do have [5:00] 90 degree temperatures in the forecast for Saturday and Sunday and that heat will likely carry [5:06] into the early part of next week. Kyle. Thank you. This Tuesday and Thursday at 6 pm we will be [5:13] preempted for next presents the race for governor. The only televised debates where all of the candidates [5:19] are confirmed to appear. One of the five candidates for governor has been ducking debates but ministry [5:25] leader Victor Marks has committed to appearing on 9 news tomorrow night to debate state senator Barb [5:29] Kirkmeyer and state representative Scott Bottoms. Now Marks hinted at backing out last night putting up a [5:35] poll on his facebook page asking if he should drop out of the debate. Almost 90 percent of respondents [5:41] told him to keep his commitment and show up and he took down the poll after a few hours. That childish [5:47] drama aside, four young people from the University of Denver site of tomorrow's debate told our [5:52] Marshall Zellinger what they hope to hear out of the adults who want to lead our state. When you debate [5:58] on a college campus, you probably want to appeal to a younger crowd. What's going to help me? Will I ever [6:04] be able to afford a home? I would care most about their approach for education and workforce. Rose, [6:11] Taylor, Adeline and Jackson are students at the University of Denver where this week's 9 news [6:16] gubernatorial debates will take place. I'd definitely say I'm more interested in the Republican primary. [6:21] Jackson is from Douglas County and has a favorite in the Republican primary. Personally, I find Victor [6:26] Marks the most interesting. I think we know a lot about him as a person but I'd like to hear a little more [6:30] about his specific policy positions. When you don't know much about his policy, what makes him [6:38] interesting to follow? The Colorado Republican Party has been a losing party for a very long time now so [6:45] I think it could be beneficial to get an outsider in. Adeline would frankly like to see more youthful [6:51] candidates in the race. I think there are a lot of old people in politics right now. I mean nationally, [6:57] locally, statewide, we need some fresh ideas. Rose wants a candidate who can help make it easier for [7:05] college students to find jobs. What does workforce help after college mean for you? What would that [7:11] look like? It would look like not having to apply to 50,000 jobs to get three interviews. Taylor just [7:18] wants her paycheck to go farther. All of my money goes towards rent, so it's kind of hard to live when all [7:27] of my money is going to rent. Tuesday's Republican debate will reveal the policy differences between [7:32] State Senator Barb Kirkmeyer, State Representative Scott Bottoms and Ministry Leader Victor Marks, [7:37] who has backed out or avoided other debates ahead of the primary. If for some reason Victor Marks makes [7:42] it the entire way to the primary without participating in a debate where he has to answer policy questions, [7:48] would that disqualify him for you? Yeah, that would be pretty discouraging. I think that's [7:53] a bare minimum as a candidate for governor to be able to lay out your policy plan. I think we'll [8:01] definitely help Jackson out with the policy information. No question we asked though will [8:06] help Adeline's concern about the candidates being too old, Kyle. So again, we have this situation where [8:14] people desperately want to hear from the candidates and you've got candidates that want to debate each [8:19] other. But the question is, can you get the front runner in the room? Apparently we are, right? [8:23] That's what happened. That's what you tell me, Marshall. We'll find out this time tomorrow, [8:27] maybe seven, 23 hours and 53 minutes from now. Well, if there's something that everybody loves, [8:32] it's needless drama. So Marshall, thank you. Thursday, June 4th, 6pm. Nine News hosts the [8:37] Democratic primary debate for governor between Senator Michael Bennett and Attorney General Phil [8:41] Weiser. Both adults both promise to show up like tomorrow night. It is an hour long commercial free [8:46] debate live on Nine News. Then Monday, June 8th, 6pm. The only televised debate between the Democrats [8:52] vying for the chance to face Republican representative Gabe Evans in the super competitive [8:56] 8th congressional district, northern end of the metro area up to Weld County. That's former, [9:01] there's state rep Manny Rutnell and former state rep Shannon Byrd. The Denver Broncos want a train [9:06] station at their new stadium. The agency building Colorado's passenger rail line wants to give them [9:11] a stop. Just one catch. Voters haven't approved it. Here's our Spencer Sawyer with that. [9:16] A Bronco Express. Sounds like a great name for a franchise running back. A north-south runner who [9:29] refuses to go down. Racks up thousands of yards over the years. It'd be really cool if they had a guy like [9:35] that. But we may have to settle for the Broncos Express. This unfunded train going to an unbuilt [9:42] stadium in an unknown year. No, that's just an AI generated picture that I helped put together. [9:49] South Pace runs the Front Range passenger rail district, which is briefing city leaders this [9:53] week on plans for a Front Range passenger train, including a dedicated stop at the Broncos' new [10:00] stadium. They put it in their master plan, a station for Front Range passenger rail, [10:05] and it made a lot of sense. So we started conversations with them. The Broncos' planning [10:10] documents submitted to the city show the platform would go on the western edge of Burnham Yard. [10:15] Pace says public dollars would pay for all of it until you get off the platform. [10:20] A station and station amenities, that's going to fall on the Broncos themselves. [10:24] Denver to Fort Collins is already funded. Everything south and special event stops, [10:28] like the Broncos' one, need voter approval. You know, we're still buttoning up our financial [10:34] modeling, but right now we're modeling something around a third of a penny. It would be less than [10:42] four cents on a $10 purchase. There's also a planned stop near the Denver Summit Stadium on South [10:49] Broadway. People have been wanting this for years and it's going to happen. Who knows where this train's [10:53] headed? But it's got big plans before it's got big money. Well, we have to tell people what the voters [10:59] are going to be spending money on. Now, voters should know how much this will cost by August. The Broncos [11:07] did confirm to us that they're interested. Can you imagine if a couple years from now, the Broncos [11:14] cut somebody and we're like, yeah, they took him to the train station. This week marks six years of [11:21] your word of thanks generosity. You have not missed a week since we got rolling in June of 2020. Most [11:27] recently, last week raising $50,000 for Coal Creek Meals on Wheels. There's a new way to track the impact [11:34] of your 18 million dollars in giving and to see where all in Colorado that you've helped your [11:38] neighbors go to word of thanks.org. That's also where you can nominate a nonprofit that is making [11:43] an impact in Colorado. Somebody that you know of, perhaps somebody that you work with. I review every [11:48] one of those nominations personally. So swing by word of thanks.org and drop a good word for somebody [11:53] who is helping you do good in this state. To me, coming from what we experienced in the state, [12:00] it just feels very similar to that fear-mongering. These Coloradans moved halfway around the world to [12:05] protect their transgender child, only to stumble into a new political battle overseas. And they did [12:12] not have the typical high school experience, but an online school gave their grads the opportunity to [12:17] walk the stage alongside classmates they mostly see through a webcam. That's next. Ten months ago, [12:26] a family from Colorado moved across the world to protect their transgender daughter. Now their safe haven [12:32] is considering legislation that could negatively impact transgender people. Our Julissa Erzera explains. [12:38] A lot can change in a year. Exactly. Candace and her family may have traded time zones, but lately [12:44] not headlines. To me, coming from what we experienced in the state, it just feels very similar to that [12:51] fear-mongering of, you know, it's a global hot button issue. So I think my personal opinion is that's [12:58] sort of what they're trying to do. Candace is a Coloradan now living in New Zealand. She moved [13:02] her family there to protect her transgender child from the rhetoric and policies coming out of the [13:06] current administration. But the New Zealand parliament seems to be pulling a page out of [13:10] President Trump's book. Legislation definitions of women and men amendment bill first reading. [13:15] Last month, the bill looking to legally define the terms man and woman passed its first reading. [13:20] The legislation would define women in law as an adult human biological female [13:24] and man as an adult human biological male. While the wording sounds similar to a Trump executive [13:28] order targeting transgender people, Candace says the feeling it brings isn't. [13:33] Not even close. It's an election year and people like to stir things up. But everything that I have [13:38] heard, it does not seem likely to pass. And like that, that genuine fear in our gut is not there this [13:44] time. But this is not the New Zealand government's first move targeting transgender people. In November, [13:49] the country's health minister announced they'd stop new puberty blocker prescriptions for transgender [13:53] reminders. But despite all that, Candace stands by her family's decision to leave. No regrets. It's been a [14:00] whirlwind, but like in the best possible way. The kids especially, they are the most adaptable [14:06] children. They have not skipped a beat since we've been here. There is where Candace and her family will [14:12] remain. She says her daughter has been able to create a life with friends that know about her transition [14:17] and don't care. She believes no headline can change that. We've been able to just live, which was the [14:23] whole point. Now the bill is currently being reviewed by a select committee right now. The public is also [14:29] allowed to submit feedback until July 1st, which is something Candace says she plans to do. Kyle. [14:35] Interesting that they've decided that they're going to keep their roots there at this point, [14:39] as New Zealand wrestles with this kind of culture war issue that a lot of American states specifically [14:43] dealt with years ago. Yeah, exactly. And this bill specifically actually replaces [14:47] their own form of a bathroom bill. They were going to fine people if they use a bathroom that [14:52] wasn't part of their designated sex, they would have been fined 2000 US dollars for that. Kyle [14:57] Julie Sarah Zari. Thank you. After four years together in high school, [15:02] these classmates are meeting for the first time at graduation. Next, there's no one size fits all [15:11] approach to high school. And for a variety of reasons, some students choose to complete their studies [15:15] online. This graduation season, one online school made sure their students got at least one [15:20] face to face experience. It's just an amazing day. I love it. It's my one of my favorite days of the [15:29] whole year. We're here for graduation for our Colorado Preparatory Academy. We're a free online [15:37] public school that services everybody in the state of Colorado. I have taught a lot of them and I get [15:42] to see the kids in person that I have seen on a camera. I've heard their voices or I've read their [15:48] work. They are online all the time. This is like one of those chances that they get to come [15:52] in and be in person, meet each other, meet their teachers and really celebrate. Each kid is coming [16:00] in with a different story. You know, they're online for all sorts of different reasons. It's all online [16:05] because I'm a professional figure skater competing for Team USA on the junior level. I've had Jane in [16:11] class, but I didn't know her super secret. She kept that under wraps. I start my training day at [16:18] eight in the morning and I finish at five. So I would have no way of going to school in person. [16:24] So that's why online school was pretty much a necessity. I'm very excited and kind of nervous. [16:38] I can get out like on the ice and do something. I'm not nervous for that, but like getting out on [16:43] stage is a little nerve wracking. They've worked hard for all these years and now they can come [16:51] together and have a in-person graduation, walk across the stage and get their diploma like everyone else does. [16:57] She's a figure skater's fee. How about that, huh? Back with your feedback next. [17:08] Feedback tonight from email in relation to the Tina Peters letter of contrition to Governor Polis, [17:14] the governor alluded to receiving it, publish it for all of us other Colorado citizens to see. [17:19] You know, that's a good point. I don't know that we ever have made that letter public, [17:22] but I know that we've obtained a copy of it. So I'll put it up on my social media platforms tonight [17:26] for anybody who's interested in reading the letter where she wrote into the governor about how [17:29] super sorry she was until today. This from Henry and Conifer says, love the Yellowstone reference [17:36] that you snuck into the show tonight. It was a pretty good show, at least like the first season [17:39] or two. My favorite character is Rip. He's really interesting, even if even if he does kill people, [17:47] which generally speaking is not a great thing to do. We'll see you next time.