Some much needed rain headed toward Kansas

known conservative fighter and been delivering on his agenda in Kansas, and I'm not a gamble like the others. Masterson, appearing with Woodward Mouitt yesterday on KNSS. A groundbreaking for the Derby Shores Starbonds Project yesterday afternoon, the project promising a nearly four-acre man-made lagoon and sandy white beaches. It's a $160 million project approved by the Derby City Council four years ago. Some logistical issues did cause delays, but now work set to get underway. Derby Shores is planned as a mixed-use destination with recreation, entertainment, tourism, and community gathering spaces. Projects set to open in phases. Construction will begin with the lagoon, followed by the hotel and apartments. First phase, expected to open in about a year or a year and a half. The goal is to complete the entire project during the next two years. President Trump is meeting with his cabinet today. Fox's Jared Hoppern has more from the White House. Today's cabinet meeting comes as a tentative peace deal is negotiated to end the war with Iran. The president has warned attacks on Iran could resume if an agreement ending Iran's nuclear program is not reached. A White House official tells the Washington Post, President Trump and his team will also discuss the economy and the anti-fraud task force. President Trump had planned to hold this cabinet meeting at Camp David, the presidential retreat in rural Maryland, but scrapped those plans because of the possibility of inclement weather here. At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News. Why are some kiddos choosing to repeat eighth grade? And a professor fired at a university for criticizing Charlie Kirk online. It's a big settlement. And we will be taking a look at our in-depth forecast. Storm Team 12 chief meteorologist Ross Jansen will be telling us all we need to know with rain in the forecast for today and tomorrow. So it'll be good to check in with Ross. Coming up in just a few minutes. This is show number 100 with Woodward and Witt here on 987 and 1330, KNSS. On 709 here on KNSS. Some athletes in middle school are choosing to repeat eighth grade. They're trying to boost their chances of getting an athletic scholarship in college. Carter Cancelary is attending eighth grade a second time by choice. 15-year-old Carter is part of a growing trend of young athletes reclassing. It's for students that are currently in eighth grade and they get an additional year of middle school to delay their start of high school. Michael Hatcher started the elite performance academy at a public middle school in Orange County, California. After losing students to private schools, Hatcher decided to give parents what they wanted. So skeptics say, given the odds of making it, D1, or any college sports, kids are better off concentrate on academics. And that's Fox's William Laughness with that story.

So I guess they get older, they get bigger. Is that the whole point of that? So you just hold them back a year. Uh-huh. Okay. Hey, it's all about not having to pay for college. I guess. I guess. A woman fired from a university in Indiana for criticizing Charlie Kirk online following his assassination has received a hefty financial settlement from her former employer. Suzanne Swartz's attorneys from the ACLU say Ball State has agreed to fork over $225,000 to its ex-director of health promotion and advocacy. Ball State says Swartz's private Facebook post about the late conservative activist resulted in major disruptions on campus leading to her dismissal. The ACLU claimed that Swartz's termination violated her constitutional rights because she was speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern. Kirk was shot to death on September 10th while speaking on a Utah college campus. Tom Rigotti, Fox News. It's 7-Eleven here with Woodward and Witt on this Wednesday morning, May 27th. Traffic? Well, the volumes are picking up. I'm seeing quite a bit more traffic on the highways at this time. Not seeing it slowing down anywhere, but yeah, just heavier traffic out there. So something to be aware of this morning. Otherwise, the traffic conditions right now, still looking pretty good. Traffic update from 987 and 1330KNS. The Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Jed Chambers. And now it's time to get the in-depth forecast with rain. Oh, my gosh. Storm Team 12 chief meteorologist Ross Jansen. Hello, Ross. Well, good morning to you, Ted and John. Yeah, it's better be coming because May just shook her rope at me like this better be for real. So it's pressures on. I mean, we do need the rain. There's no doubt about that. And it comes, oddly enough, at a time when some farmers here in south central Kansas are getting ready to start harvesting the wheat, which is weeks early. I mean, this is kind of unusual to be harvesting wheat in late May. But it is early this year because it's been so warm so far. And it definitely looks like we're going to continue with some pretty mild weather over the next several days. Now, as far as the timing of the rain is concerned, scattered showers and a few thunders. storms will be possible after 5 o'clock today. So if you're trying to rush home and get the yard mode, that's what I'm thinking in terms of timing. We could begin to see some pop-up storms after 5 o'clock. Nothing severe over the next couple of days. And then rain and thunderstorms become more likely heading into the overnight hours tonight. And some of the rain is going to be moving from east.

to west, and that is opposite of how things traditionally go around here. That's just because the low pressure system coming up from Oklahoma is going to be forcing the rain east to west. So it'll rain overnight. It'll be raining for most of tomorrow, kind of off and on. And I do feel like there's a pretty good chance we could wind up with about an inch to maybe an inch and a half before this is all said and done. And the potential of scattered storms will carry over into Friday. But if everything holds up the way that we're looking at it right now, The sundown parade 6.30 Friday evening in downtown Wichita is in good shape. 79 degrees at parade time 76 when things wrap up. And other than some clouds, I really don't think there's going to be much threat of any kind of rain around here. That's mostly going to be Friday morning. Now, there will be some other chances for rain coming up on Saturday, which might interfere with a few of the Riverfest activities, but the parade Friday evening should be in pretty good shape. 82 on the high today will drop to 64 overnight, 77 tomorrow. And then we'll look for a high once again in the 70s on Friday. Right now in Wichita, we've got 66 degrees. That's your Storm Team 12 forecast. I'm chief meteorologist, Ross Jansen. So, you know, looks like we finally might see some precipitation on a regular bay. We haven't seen much here in the month of May. It sure seems like every time we get close to these events, they kind of start to fizzle out. This one, however, didn't really look like it was going to be very much early on. And now as we've gotten closer, the models are more excited about the rain and the potential, the amounts that we're looking at look a whole lot better than they did four or five days ago. So this one's a little bit different for us. We're ramping up and it's now looking like we're going to get some decent rain out of this before it's all over with. All right, I won't shake my leash at you. I'll leave that to May the weather, Doug. She means business. She's got a rope, and it's like a threatening look. I better come through on the rain, or I'm going to be in trouble. Yeah, we know who's boss. All right, that's good stuff. That is the in-depth forecast. Here was Storm Team 12 Chief Meteorologist Ross Jansen, right here with Woodward and Witt on KNSSS. So, Ted, you know, sometimes a TV character's death is telegraphed, you know, weeks in advance. You know, people see them coming. And sometimes you never saw it coming. Chad, you may, some of these I'm sure you'll recognize. The Hollywood reporter has put together a list of the most shocking character deaths in TV history. You're going to recognize some of these. Ted, you've been a big TV watcher. Yes, no, maybe kind of sort of. I was. So, Jed, you will recognize some of these. So the number one, most shocking TV death in TV history. According to the Hollywood reporter, Logan Roy from Brian Cox from Succession, they say was the number one. I didn't see that. Charlie Sheen, Charlie Harper from two and a half men.

Number two. Didn't watch that. Didn't watch. No, I didn't watch that one. I did watch Succession. And that was a shocker. Glenn from the Walking Dead when he had his head bashed in. That was a shocker. I'd already stopped watching. When that happened. Walking Dead by that happened. I think I only made it to like... That was a significant. I mean, when Negan bashes his head in with the baseball bat. I think I only made it to season three, and then I just gave up on it. It wasn't very good. Next few are Game of Thrones. Jeffrey Barathean from Game of Thrones. Joffrey. Yeah. That was a biggie when he gets poisoned. I'd already stopped watching it at that point. Let's see here. Dexter, Rita from Dexter when she dies. Joel from The Last of Us. And I didn't bother watching The Last of Us. I didn't play the video games. And The Last of Us, everybody who plays the game knows that Joel is going to die in The Last of Us. But still seeing it on screen, it's a major, major shock for people. Gus Fring, Giancarlo Esposito. First one we've got to that I've seen. From Breaking Bad. That was a biggie and a great scene. Yeah. Really well done. Ned Stark dying on Game of Thrones. Yeah, I had watched it. I watched the first two seasons, so I saw that. And frankly, and I would add an honorable mention on this one, which would be the entire Red Wedding from Game of Thrones was a major moment. I watched it that far. And of course, I think another honorable mention, and they agree here, is anytime Kenny dies on South Park should be mentioned. I just, you know, because Kenny dies. Almost every episode. Almost every episode, yeah. So I would say they kind of gave up on that gag after a while, though. They did. But, you know, I think, I think he should be mentioned. Let's see. And the last one that they mentioned here is Derek Patrick Dempsey from Gray's Anatomy, which I never watched the show. But. Apparently, that's a top 10 of theirs. Is the one that falls down the elevator shaft? I think so, yes. Okay. Which I never watched. I've heard of it. I just never watched it. I've heard of it as well. So that was their top 10, according to the Hollywood Reporter, most shocking character deaths in TV history. So there you go. I'd say that list is stupid because it doesn't have the obvious number one. Which is... Colonel Blake on MASH. Exactly. And that's the one that I was expecting to see. If that's not even on the list, and that list is worthless. Crumple it up and throw it away. I was fully expecting to see that on there as well, was Colonel Blake from MASH from MASH. And not even in the top 10. That's just dumb then. Yeah. Because that's a no-brainer. I was expecting to see Colonel Blake from MASH on here didn't even make the top 10.

And I was a little surprised to see Succession as the number one. But this is modern. This is very current. Oh, and they should stipulate that when they make the list. But that's, you know, they're obviously going off of what's been streaming lately, what's been on fairly recently. And, you know, Colonel Blake from MASH is an older show. And yet I would say that's very, I mean, that was so significant. People saw that. Blue people away. People cried over that. But, you know, it's also an older show. I still cry when we get to that scene when we see that episode. I was trying to think if maybe that list was like people whose deaths were on screen as opposed to Henry Blake's who, you know, you're just told that it happened. And here's another one that Adriana from Sopranos was a major one. Yeah. That didn't make the list. For that matter, Tony Sopranos' death. I mean, granted, he doesn't necessarily die, but... Look, folks, when the music stops and the screen goes black, Tony Sopranos dead. I would have thought that that would make the list. That's one of the best endings of a series in television history. I would think Tony Sopranos' death would make the list. But the... The one that made me think that maybe that wasn't the cutoff for the list was the elevator shaft one. Right. That wasn't on screen. That was several hundred feet below the screen. Yeah. And I thought Tony Soprano would make that one. Adriana as well, two great deaths from that TV series, neither of them made the list. So it's an interesting list from the Hollywood Reporter. No, it's really not. Okay. All we can come up with is exceptions, and it's not a good way. There we go. We'll throw that away. It was worth the try. It is 720 here with Woodward and Witt on this Wednesday morning, May 27th. Let's see what's going on in sports. Track and field. We got college track and field action at the NCAA West prelims in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Lots of college athletes trying to qualify for the national championship. The shockers have a dozen athletes at the prelims, including the Parrish brothers, the Parrish twins. As the men get underway with competition today, Wichita State's Jason Parrish, is a top five seed in the 400 hurdles, and his twin brother, Josh, is in the top five seed in the long jump. K State has 27 athletes and three relay teams at the prelims, and KU has 33 athletes there. So a lot of goings on there. Good luck to everybody at the college track and field, West Prelimbs in Fayetteville, starting today. Major League Baseball, the Cincinnati Reds, went on the road in New York, beat the Mets 7 to 2. In the cleanup spot for the Reds, former Wichita Wind Surge infielder, first baseman Spencer Steer. He was 2 for 5 on base. He's got a 3.40 on base percentage this season. The Reds win their third in a row. Kansas City Royals are struggling right now, needless to say, and they're playing a team that they have a lot of trouble with. The New York Yankees. More trouble for the Royals last night against New York. You heard the game on 975 and 1240, KFH.

The only thing to do is to turn the page to tomorrow. That's all the Royals can control at this point is tomorrow. Now this is the 22nd time in the last 23 regular season series. The Royals have faced the Yankees and lost. But there are losses and there are losses. And this would be the latter. The Yankees have put up 15 runs on 24 hits. The Yankees 15 Royals won. It's the final score last night, as the Royals have now lost 13 times in a row to the Yankees. We've got to try it again tonight. KC. and New York, live coverage of the Royals and the Yankees at 6 o'clock this evening. That's over on 97-5 and 1240, KFH. High school boys golf in class 3A. We are done with round one of competition. They'll finish it up today. After round one in class 3A up at Lake Shawnee, Wichita Collegiate in first place with a 12-stroke lead. And in the individual lead is Landon Langston. He shot an even par 70 from Collegiate as we have the final round of the boys' golf tournaments today. High school girls softball in class 5A. Bishop Carroll beating Spring Hill 10 to 4. The Carroll softball team is into the final four with the record of 26 and 3. And in high school baseball in class 6A, the number one seed May is winning yesterday in the quarterfinals beat Gardner Edgerton 3 to 1. The Mays baseball team into the final 4 with the record of 27 and 2 on the year. That is Sports with Woodward and Witt. Sports is brought to you by Wichita Brewing Company, now featuring the Cheeseburger in Pizza Dice Pizza. Beef, American, and Monterey Jack Cheese, onion, burger seasoning, drizzled with tangy burger sauce. Cheeseburger in pizza dice at WBC, your summertime pizza made here. 724 with Woodward and Witt. We've got traffic and weather coming your way and the FDA issuing a recall for a soup at Whole Foods. We'll find out more about that on House Call for Health. Next on KNSSS. Good morning. It is 731 here on this Wednesday, May 27th. Ted Woodward and John Whitmire with you on our 100th show, Woodward and Whitford. Currently in Wichita, we have 93% humidity. It's partly cloudy, 66 degrees. One victim in critical condition. This, after a multi-vehicle crash in East Wichita, this happened late last night. At the intersection of Douglas and Rock, three vehicles involved in that crash. A top Cuban official pushes back as President Trump increases pressure on the Caribbean island country. Cuba's foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez sat down with us for his first ever interview with Fox News. It was one of the harshest attacks on the Trump administration by a senior Cuban official we have seen to date. In it, he accused Marco Rubio of being a liar and a profiteer.

The foreign minister dismissed the DOJ's indictment last week of former Cuban president, Raul Castro, saying it was a politically motivated movement as more pretext for the president to launch military intervention potentially inside Cuba. He also appealed directly to Congress, asking them to intervene to prevent President Trump from taking any further military action inside Cuba. That was Fox's Jillian Turner from Washington. Sedgwick County Commission Chairman, Jeff Blubaw, says Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is in Wichita today. The governor's coming into town along with Scott Bruner from the Deputy Secretary Department of Aging and Disability Services for the state of Kansas. And we're going to do a walk-through tour on the mental health facility that's down there in southwest, Wichita, and kind of see where they're at. Blue ball making his weekly appearance on Tuesdays with the chair with Woodward and Witt here on KNSS. Kansas City Chief's quarterback Patrick Mahomes has participated in the first voluntary workout of the off-season program. This comes just over five months after surgery on his left knee. The practice on Tuesday was closed to reporters, but the chief shared a clip of Mahomes making throws with a knee brace. Mahomes injured his knee last December and had surgery the following day. The team hopes he will be ready for week one against the Denver Broncos on September 14th. All Kansas City Chiefs games are broadcast live. Mitch Holstess with the call of the games right here on 987 and 1330 KNSS. American farmers are hoping a deal between the United States and Iran would lead to a deal to lower fertilizer prices. Just like oil, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has limited fertilizer supply, causing its price to skyrocket. Over the past month, the price of nitrogen-based urea fertilizer has fallen some 27% from its peak, but it's still nearly 10% higher than a year ago. A survey last month by the American Farm Bureau Federation found the vast majority of farmers can't afford the fertilizer they need to get through this planning season. The Agriculture Department is taking steps to try to mitigate higher prices, like waiving the Jay Jones Act, loosening import restrictions, and meeting with companies. And that's Fox Businesses Grady Trimble with that report from Maple Park, Illinois, as farm diesel prices have increased 46% since February. The Trump administration wants all federal workers to sign NDAs. Under a proposed rule from the Office of Personnel Management, all federal workers will need to agree to a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting the sharing of any non-public, confidential, or proprietary information. A draft of deregulation points to recent unauthorized disclosures of planned immigration enforcement actions and a leak about the secret military raid in Venezuela. The non-disclosure agreement, the OPM says, is intended to promote consistency across government and protect... confidential information. Federal law does limit the use of NDAs in government to protect whistleblowers. At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News. A group of House Republicans announcing an investigation into California's Prisoner Digital Tablet Program. For about the last three years, nearly all California state prison inmates are given a digital tablet for things like messaging, music, books, and educational content. No social media or open Internet.

House Republicans James Comer, Tim Burchett, and Brandon Gill are requesting information about the program and whether it uses federal funds. After a report two weeks ago by the Manhattan Institute's City Journal magazine, it says some prisoners are getting around restrictions and watching pornography. One inmate is accused of exploiting a 12-year-old girl. A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation tells Fox News Digital, the report is a sensationalized mashup of falsehood, speculation, and quotes from convicted murderers presented as fact. Chris Foster, Fox News. A Florida man sues carnival cruise lines for $5 million after suffering second-degree burns on a ship's hot pool deck. The lawsuit claims two other people have received similar burns cruising with Carnival resulting in amputations. Jorge Luis Elverio Nunes claims he got out of the pool and was walking to his shoes when the Scott Bottoms of his feet started to sizzle, claiming Carnival knew of the danger and failed to put up warning signs. No immediate comment from Carnival. Gary Baumgarten. Fox News. It is 737 here with Woodward and Witt. Let's check our weather forecast. Storm Team 12 meteorologist Halen Wilhide. Good morning, Halen. Good Wednesday morning. We're kicking off the day on the muggy side with wake up temperatures in the low 60s. But later today, high of 82 with those increasing clouds. Watching for scattered showers and thunderstorms arriving early this afternoon into the evening. Definitely want those umbrellas before you head out the door this morning. Looking at more scattered storms on and off tonight. A low of 64 degrees. Heading to Thursday, more scattered thunderstorms expected throughout the day. A high of 77 degrees. We'll continue to see more on and off chances of storm. Friday as well as into Saturday, but those chances remain widely scattered. That's your forecast from Storm Team 12. I'm meteorologist, Halen Wilhelm. And currently in Wichita, we do have 93% humidity, a breeze out of the east. It's partly cloudy, 66 degrees, here on our 100th show, Woodward and Witt, here on Wichita's severe weather station, 98, 7 and 1330, KNSS. Every other Wednesday, we sit down and get an oil and gas update with Warren Martin from Kansas Strong. It's a pleasure to have you back with us this morning, although Warren, we're used to having you here in studio this morning. We've got you remote, but either way, it's a pleasure to have you with us, my friend.

It's great to be with you. Yes, I'm remote. I'm in great Ben and I'm about to speak to a whole bunch of homeschool students and teach them a little bit about the oil and gas industry and our history. So basically what you're saying is the intellectual level is about the same if you're talking to homeschoolers or Ted and I. Well, I think one of them is higher because y'all been talking about the 100 days, this is y'all's 100 day, but I haven't heard an 100-day update as far as this is what we've accomplished in the first 100 days. We've stayed on the air. Yeah. I mean, the president has to give one out, so I expected that from y'all as well. Yeah, that would require effort. Yeah, we kept our jobs. Warren, I wanted to ask you, Iran strikes have... have caused a rare occurrence from when I was reading an article about basically oil prices. Brent crude went up in price, while another metric went down. It showed a shift in global supply. How exactly did that work? Yeah, that's an interesting thing that happened earlier this week when the United States carried out its attacks on the beginning of this week. What we've seen in the war up to this point is every time there's an attack or there's a threat of attack, then the oil price goes up any time we're talking about peace negotiations and the oil price goes down. And you have the WTI, which is really relevant to us here in the United States, and then you have your Brent crude, and they both have gone up and gone down pretty much the same. What was interesting was when these strikes happened, you actually had Brent crude oil that went up, which is much more important for Europe and Asia markets. And you had WTI that went down. Both of them, one went up $4, one went down $4. And that's really unusual because they generally parallel with each other going in the same direction. And it really showed as it showed how strong our supply is here in the United States. in the fact that all of last year, even when we were producing more oil than we really needed at that point, we were oversupplying on the oil. We filled up our stockpiles and we had a good load of stockpiled oil as we came into this conflict. And what it really shows is that a lot of financial people believe that the United States is more well positioned. to be able to come out of this conflict on better footing than the rest of the world. And that divergent. It's kind of a unique thing. It doesn't happen very often. And it'll be interesting to kind of watch it going forward if it happens again, if it continues in that direction. But it really kind of alluded to the strength of the American oil and gas sector. Warren, you know, I've observed a couple of times.

Ted and I've commented on the fact that as I come into work, I live on the west side of town, and I notice, you know, I'll pass a jump start on West Kellogg, and I'll notice that their price is sometimes 50, if not 70 cents a gallon cheaper than, for example, some other stations on my drive-in. And often, literally, I think this morning, it was 60 cents cheaper. And I know part of that is because, you know, they have an ethanol blend. You know, some people I think are, oh, you can't use that. It's bad for your engine or something like that. But, you know, I think that's just misconceptions. If it was bad for your engine, it would be people's engines to be dropping out of their cars on the side of the road. But is that just misperception? I mean, if ethanol was bad for... For cars, they wouldn't be selling out. They wouldn't be building all these jumpstarts, right? Well, there's a lot of politics that goes into the conversation that goes around ethanol and gasoline. You can produce the same octane with gasoline as you do with ethanol. But there's a lot of politics that goes into that whole debate that's much more overshadows the conversation than the actual practical application. It kind of goes back to, if you go back into the 1950s and 1960s, Every oil company out there was trying to come up with some unique additive that they could throw into the gasoline so that their gasoline would oversell another competitor's gasoline. And a lot of that's the same type of conversation that happened then as the same conversation that happens between ethanol and whether you should use ethanol or not use ethanol. And a lot of it depends on your agricultural community that's around you and whether they're a part of that ethanol community or they're not. And so, you know, definitely I think both of them are, when it comes to driving down the road, you're never going to be able to tell the difference between using one over the other, driving down the road in your car. Bottom line is it's safe, though, right? I mean, because it's not damaging your car's engine is really the question. Right, no, it's really not damaging your engine car unless you have a very specific engine that, you know, advises you not to utilize specific gasoline types. Just ethanol being added to it doesn't really impact your engine in any way, shape, or form. What it does is the higher octane levels of it. We've always had a ban on how much ethanol could be put in at certain times of the year, especially during the summer, because ethanol will evaporate. at a much higher rapidity, and that can add to smog and congested areas and that kind of stuff. And so, you know, it really has more to do with that than anything else as far as the restrictions that are being placed on it. Gotcha. Well, you know, that's good to know. And again, it's for the price right now when the price of oil and price of gas goes up the way it is, you sure can't beat that 50 to 70 cents off.

You know, one thing I did notice, and I know I've got to let you run, but I didn't realize, and I saw you've shared this with me, that oil and gas are so vital to the economy, I didn't know that 89 of 105 counties produce oil and gas in Kansas. Is that right? That's right. 89 out of 105 counties in Kansas produce oil and natural gas, one or the other or both. And what's even a bigger deal than that is in those counties, $11 million a year goes into those counties. In 13 counties in the state of Kansas, over 20% of their tax revenue comes from the oil and gas industry. And so what that means is we have in those 13 counties, The equivalent of revenue going into that county is the equivalent of paying over $1,000 per person living in the county into those coffers. And so especially in western Kansas, it is vital to our county communities. It's vital to the county as a whole. Well, Warren, we appreciate you joining us as we do every Wednesday, every other Wednesday with our Oil and Gas Minute. And if folks want information, if they want to follow up with you, they can find you at Kansas Strong.com, correct? That's correct. Thank you for having me on. Appreciate you. Have fun with the homeschoolers this morning. Yeah. You bet you. That was our friend Warren Martin with our oil and gas minute brought to you by Kansas Strong. I think, you know, I don't want to insult those homeschoolers. Yeah. They're probably much more on the ball than I am. You know, yeah, but they haven't been on the air for 100 days. So, you know, 100 episodes. It is 746 here with Woodward and Witt. We do have a local business update from editor Kirk Semenoff from the Wichita Business Journal coming up. He'll tell us more about the Big Derby Shores Project. That is there. Shovels are in the ground. KNSS News Time is 747. It's 751 with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire on 987 and 1330 KNS. Coming up our Wichita Business Journal update with editor Kirk Seminoff. Now it's time for three big things. Three. City of Derby breaks ground on 100. $60 million Derby Shores Starbonds Entertainment Project expected to create up to 800 jobs. Two. Ukraine commander warns a critical six-month window to regain momentum as British intelligence raises alarms over growing Russian cyber threats across Europe. One. The Las Vegas Golden Knights sweep the Colorado Avalanche. advance to the Stanley Cup finals. That's three big things with Lubbord Witt, 98, 71330 KMSS. Jad, how things looking in traffic.

Things are actually looking pretty good in traffic. Really, this morning, there hasn't been too many issues. The traffic volumes have picked up, but it looks like, for the most part, everybody's playing nice, and the biggest problems that we're seeing out there are still some of those road construction areas, like southbound and I-135 up by the North Junction. Traffic update from 987 and 1330 KNSS. In the Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center, I'm Chad Chambers. Mostly cloudy with afternoon scattered storms today at a high of 82 degrees. This evening, scattered storms will continue with a low of 64 degrees and closely the same tomorrow. Cloudy with scattered storms throughout the day and a high of 77 degrees. Right now in Wichita, it's clear and 66 degrees. At Wichita, Severe Weather Station, 987, 1330, KMSS. Let's take a look back and see what happened on the stock market yesterday. Stocks ending mixed. 100-notch new record closes as investors monitor the situation in the Middle East, while AI optimism is fueling a rally in chip and memory stocks. Folling oil prices also lifted market sentiment with West Texas intermediate crude at a five-week low and at around $94 a barrel. Tech stocks were the best performers among the 11 S&P 500 sectors, while energy and consumer staples lagged. The Dow winners Caterpillar Honeywell and Sherwin-Williams, the Dow decliner's United Health Group, Chevron and Goldman Sachs. The Dow falling 118 points, the NASDAQ up 312, S&P 500 up 46. Hillary Barski, Fox News. Big project going on in Derby, among other business items, and let's get more on that. It's a local business update with Kirk Semenoff. Editor at the Wichita Business Journal. Good morning, Kirk. Good morning, Ted. As John mentioned, the long-planned Derby Shores Project held a groundbreaking on Tuesday, drumming up interest in the $135 million development. But the Clear Lagoon, apartments, hotels, sandy beaches, restaurants, and entertainment spaces can't yet go vertical without final approval on the Starbond District that's been proposed for the development. Derby City leaders are optimistic, though, with the mayor telling the Business Journal, that success breeds success, meaning he sees Derby Shores leading to more development along Rock Road. Speaking of Derby, an aerospace supplier there is planning a major expansion to support its growing operations. Mid-continent controls will add about 22,000 square feet to its facility, nearly doubling its footprint in the West End Business Park. The city sold the land for $1 to help retain the company and encourage further development. The project is expected to create new jobs as the company continues to grow its aircraft electronics business. And the construction company that's building the first two phases of Cessna Stadium's replacement on the Wichita State campus will have its name on the finished product. Wichita State announced Tuesday that Crossland Stadium will be the name of the track and field facility that will have other uses. Crossland Construction. made a lead gift to the project, though the university won't say how much the donation was. This is the 80th year for an athletic facility on that spot, which will again host the state high school track and field championships this weekend. It's been Veterans Field, Cessna Stadium, and briefly University Stadium, and now Crossland. Demolition of the West Stans is scheduled to begin after the track meet.

Local breaking business news every day on KNSS and at Wichita Business Journal.com. For the Wichita Business Journal, I'm Kirk Semenoff. Well, Kirk, you know the TV show Jersey Shore has, you know, Snooky and Jaywow. I'm hoping that the Derby Shores Project, hope we can scare up Cookie and DeWau. Just a reason to hang out on the sandy beaches of Derby Shores. Exactly. Just what we need, our own local version of Snooky. Why not? Hey, are you auditioning? Not me, you know. I'm not walking around shirtless over there. I can see Kirk Semenoff, you know, hanging out on a thong or something. There's an image. That's something that the Stephen brothers, I'm sure, would not wish upon their development. I'm sure that's not on the game plan. I'm sure that was not proposed as part of the Starbond project. That would be one way to get it. No approval for that thing. All right. Hey, Kirk, good stuff. We'll talk to you again one hour from now. That is editor Kirk Seminoff at the Wichita Business Journal. We'll get another local business update from Kirk in one hour. Hey, the 7 o'clock hour, check. is done. Now we move on to the 8 o'clock hour. Yeah, Tanya Powers from Fox News Radio will join us. We had a major Texas GOP Senate runoff yesterday, and she'll bring us all the latest results from that. A number of other races that occurred yesterday. It was another big primary day. And the 8 o'clock hour also includes entertainment news in the blur coming up at 835 this morning. Glad you're with us as we move on. It is 757. Big 8 o'clock hour on the way here on the 100th show today for Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330, KNS.