Consolidation, peace talks, and a parking garage that is no more

History That Doesn't Suck is a legit, heart-hitting American history podcast told through entertaining stories. Join me, Professor Greg Jackson, for History That Doesn't Suck, an Odyssey podcast, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ted Woodward and John Whitmire. This is Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNSS, Wichita's number one talk. Good morning. It is 6 o'clock. It is Tuesday, March 24th here on KNSS. Currently in Wichita, it is mostly cloudy as we await the sunrise. It is 45 degrees here on this Tuesday morning. Work continues under I-135 in North Wichita after a train derailed on Saturday, colliding with a couple of support pillars that hold the highway up over the rail yard. Approximately 10 rail cars derailed just after midnight Saturday, according to Union Pacific Railroad. Trains have continued to pass through the area while the Cancer Department of Transportation works to repair the bridge and the train tracks where the derailment happened. Braces have been installed where the pillars holding the bridge were knocked out. Wichita City Council member Joseph Shepard representing his district has been in contact with Union Pacific about the derailment. The first thing I want everyone to know is that there were no hazardous spills or materials involved in this derailment. I know that that was of a major concern given the 29th and Grove contamination issue that also is happening in District 1. Second thing that we can confirm is that there have been no reported injuries of individuals, which again, the safety and security of our people is of the highest importance. I-135 is open, but it is reduced to only one lane of traffic in the area of that incident. Southbound lanes are unaffected. They are normal. Israel and Iran continue to trade rocket fire as the conflict in the Middle East continues. The Iranians are continuing their attacks against Israel, launching a number of ballistic missile barrages against this country overnight. One of those missiles slammed into the heart of Tel Aviv. Black smoke was rising from the horizon where first responders were removing debris and rubble. This was a direct impact, according to police, and there was a 220-pound warhead on top of the missile. There were some interceptions overnight across central Israel, as Israel's advanced air defense system worked to shoot down the incoming fire. and the Americans are striking back, hitting the heart of the regime in Tehran and other locations, going after many of the storage facilities for these ballistic missiles. That was Fox's Trey Yinks from Tel Aviv.

One person critically injured after an explosion in Haysville yesterday. That was last evening at about 7.30 crews responding to a home in the 100 block of Sarah Lane. That's north of Seneca and Grand at the scene of fire from an oxygen tank exploded, critically injuring one person. The Wichita City Council will hold a consent agenda meeting and workshop today. Wichita Mayor Liliwu says there will be much discussion over the next budget at the workshop. Things are still challenging, as always, because every decision we make is a tradeoff. And the budget this year, just the adopted budget for the general fund, was $342,816,000. So it really is a large budget that we have to make decisions on. Five items on the list of the workshop agenda, including a hot button topic, paid parking in the downtown area at the city hall. Wichita Mayor Lily Wu spoke during Mondays with the mayor, Monday mornings at 7.30 on Woodward and Witt. Wesley Medical Center's parking garage is no more. A new one will take its place. The hospital's old parking garage was demolished on Monday as Wesley prepares to build a new $65 million parking garage. The new parking garage will offer 1,359 parking spaces plus 20 motorcycle-specific parking spaces, an increase of 466 parking spaces from the current garage. The project also includes the addition of a new atrium lobby and main hospital entrance that will provide access from both the parking garage and from its main entrance from hillside. All patients and visitors will enter the hospital through the hospital entrance nearest the central and rutan parking lot. The patient admissions department is located to the right of that entrance and an information desk just inside will offer assistance in locating patients and navigating the hospital. Phil Hildebrand, KNS News. The War Department announced recently that it is giving the nearly 8,000 service members who were forced out of the military for refusing the COVID vaccine more time to rejoin the service. Should those service members want to return to active duty, the deadline has now been extended by a year to April 1st, 27. War Secretary Pete Hegseth. Our obligations to make things right are not yet complete. Although thousands were discharged, only hundreds have returned to the military. Pete Hegseth is hoping those numbers increase, and he provided some further incentive for potential reconsideration. The active service obligation for individuals returning to service under this guidance is now reduced from four years to two years. Pete Hegseth said that change will also be grandfathered in for the service members who have already returned to duty. Kevin Ureske, Fox News.

The Pope is talking about a place in Nebraska for some holy incidents. We'll talk about that. And we had that meteor over Cleveland not too long ago. Now we got meteors over Texas. And we'll get our full weather forecast on our up and down weather going on. We'll check in with Storm Team 12. Find out what's in store for the next day or two coming up. We're glad you're with us. We are off and running here on this Tuesday morning. It is 606 on 987 and 1330 KNSS. 609 here on this Tuesday morning with Woodward and Witt. Pope Leo is beginning the process of considering Father Flanagan of Nebraska's Boys Town fame for Sainthood. The Pope proclaiming the heroic virtues of Flanagan, whose work at Boys Town spawned an Oscar-winning movie in the church that makes Flanagan venerable. Later steps toward St. Hood are beautification and canonization. An Irish immigrant Flanagan made his mission mentoring boys in the juvenile justice system before turning a Nebraska farm into the campus known as Boys Town. Gary Baumgarten, Fox News. A meteor in the skies over Texas leaves some evidence on the ground. Saturday skies were alive across Texas. Houston was a boomtown. People reporting their houses shaking. NASA confirms a meteor streak to cross the Texas skies at 35,000 miles an hour and exploded over the BAML neighborhood north of Houston, causing a pressure wave that set off sonic booms, sent thousands of meteorites cascading through the skies. A Houston woman told Fox 26 one crashed through a roof. The ponderosa fire captain responded, saw the marbleized. veined rock was unusual and there was no construction or trees nearby. Scavengers still scouring for meteorites from a seven-ton fireball that exploded over Cleveland last Tuesday. Teresa Crowley, Fox News. 610 here with Woodward and Witt on this Tuesday, March 24th. And as we get your Tuesday morning traffic commute underway, Jad Chambers will keep you updated all morning long, Jad. That's right. And this morning, the traffic conditions once again. Pretty good. However, we've got some stalled out vehicles out there. Could be slowing things down when the traffic volumes pick up. We've got one southbound I-235, and it's right past the ramp from Kellogg. So watch out in that area. And we've got another one, this one, on K-254 eastbound, but it's very close to I-135. So watch out for that. Traffic update from 987 and 1330KNSS. The Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Chad Chambers.

And let's take a look at our weather forecast. Always something interesting. Storm Team 12 meteorologist Jake Dunn. Mostly sunny skies, breezy and warmer today, a high of 73. South winds 10 to 20 and gusty. Becoming clear and mild 51 is the overnight low. Sunny and hot on your Wednesday height 88. Mostly sunny and even hotter on Thursday, high 92. We'll see a few storms on Thursday night than turning much colder on Friday. Friday. That's your forecast from Storm Team 12. I'm meteorologist Jake Dunn. Currently in Wichita, we have a breeze out of the east-southeast. It is mostly cloudy as we await the sunrise. It is 45 degrees at Wichita's severe weather station, 98, 7 and 1330, KNSS. This week is such an illustration of Kansas. It's 45 right now. Friday, it's 92. It's very easy to remember the forecast. We just change by a decade every day. 70s today, 80s tomorrow, 90s on Thursday, 50s on Friday. Yeah, that's true. It's Kansas. It's, yeah. It is six. Is the weather changing? We didn't used to have this. We did not use to have this week after week after week. Day after day. No, it does seem like the, but, you know, there's no doubt the climate has changed. No doubt. We didn't used to have this. It didn't seem like it was this much. If the cold front came through fine, the temperature would drop. But if we do this, we go through this cycle now every three or four days. It is happening every week, every month. It does seem like there's definitely more fluctuation in it, daily fluctuation. The weather did not used to be this way. But, you know. It is now, apparently. Kansas has always been very fluid like this. Not like, not like this. I don't remember it not like this. I don't remember it not like this. No, you're right. It's different now. But, you know.

I guess it's the new norm. I have to get used to it. Yeah, I don't like it. That seems to be the way things are going now. I was telling you yesterday, my wife, I turned the AC on, then we turned it off. Boy, I've resisted. Now, tomorrow we're going to turn it back on again. When it's at 92, it's pretty tough to resist. No, we're turning it back on. And I've got to give a little bit of credit where credits do. You see art. My apartment complex has a central chiller that controls the air conditioning. They finally get it up and running? Well, here's the thing. I was concerned that they weren't, that they weren't going to get around to it or that there'd be some sort of delay or something. And, yeah, we kind of had to sit through and suffer Friday and it's 90-degree temperatures, but Friday night rolled around around 7 or 8 o'clock, and they got it finished, and they got it on. And I was like, okay, it's going to take a while for the, you know, thing to get up and running and going. It's going to take a while to chill things down. No, it was working pretty efficiently and very good. So, you know, they didn't quite get it done on time, but it was closer than many years that I've been there. Close enough for government work. Yeah, it was fine. And I've just, I've left it on. It's a central unit, so. You know, the only thing I'm paying for the electricity for on, that's a fan. So having a fan on is no big deal. So, yeah. That's, you know, I won't be surprised if it snows. I really won't. It doesn't seem like too long ago. We were talking about. anticipation of Girl Scout cookie season. Yes, yeah. And now here it is. It's just about done. Yeah, it is funny how that Girl Scout cookie season winding down, although I just saw somebody outside Dillon's the other day. She's still selling your cookies there. Yep. Not every box of Girl Scott cookies gets sold. No, of course not. I can't imagine. What happens? What happens with those leftover Girl Scott cookies? I saw them the next year. No, that or that or they maybe donate them to like homeless shelters or something like that. I don't know. What does happen to expire? Some of them get transferred between troops so they can continue selling even after the official season is over. Mostly they are, like you said, they get donated. Yeah. Mostly they get donated. That's what I would have thought. Girl Scouts are encouraged to work with local food pantries and charities so that the leftover cookies can be shared to people who will actually eat them and they won't sit there and somebody's cabinet forever and ever. Now, if any boxes remain after that, apparently the girls just eat it themselves. The troops just say, hey, here's your cookies. It gets a bunch of free cookies. That's not a bad deal. So if you don't sell them, your daughters are bringing home free cookies all the way through summer. Just kidding. Did you buy any this year? We didn't have any girls come to the house, so we didn't buy any this year. And we didn't have any come to the station, which surprised me. I would have thought that... Nobody comes to the station. Yeah, that didn't happen. We have a locked door. But I mean, like an employee, I would have thought that one of our salespeople would have had a, you know, a daughter or a granddaughter or somebody, and Tommy's got kids. I would have thought one of them would have brought a...

You know, my daughter, my granddaughter's selling Girl Scout cookie. I fully expected that. Didn't happen. Didn't happen. No. So I got away with it. I didn't have to buy any this year. I fully expected it. Interestingly enough, as often as I, you know, go shopping at Dillons or, you know, Walmart or wherever, I only saw one time that there was anybody out there. Selling cookies. Yeah. I only got, I only got, harassed. Yeah, I don't want to say harassed or solicited or accosted, but I don't, somebody only offered to sell me cookies one time. I see, and typically we don't do that. I mean, I did see them every time we went to Dillon's or Walmart Market, but typically we don't buy them there because we fully expect someone to come to the house. or an employee, and I like to think, you know, I'm going to buy from somebody who I work with or someone I know. Exactly. And so I don't buy at the Dillons because I think I'm going to save it for somebody who, if I'm going to do that, I'll do that with a friend or a colleague or something. I just never got solicited. So I dodged the bullet this year, which is better for my waistline. Didn't happen this year, but they are tasty. They are good, yeah. You know, didn't have to buy any thin mince and then force myself not to eat them. Mmm, tasty. All right, it is 618 here with Woodward and Witt on this Tuesday morning. Let's see what's going on in sports. And the sports is brought to you by SertaPro Painters. Schedule your free estimate online at SertaPro.com. And we have some basketball to keep track of here. It's going to continue during the month of March. We are down to the NIT quarterfinals. Only eight teams remain, and one of them is Wichita State. And the Shockers play in the quarterfinals tonight on the road at Tulsa. So not a very far road swing if Shocker fans want to drive to go see the Shockers in Tulsa tonight, as these teams now meet for the fourth time this year. The Shockers have lost their last three trips to Tulsa, but the Shockers did win two of three against the Golden Hurricane this season. The loss at Tulsa, but the win here in Wichita and a win at the conference tournament in the semifinals. Here's shocker head coach, Paul Mills. It's a really, really fun environment. I do ask that the mayor would let everybody off in Wichita at 2 o'clock so everybody can make the 6 p.m. tip. But when we played there last time, we had a tremendous following today here at Oklahoma State. And for all of our shocker fans to come down, look forward to seeing all the shocker fans there in Tulsa on Tuesday night. Tulsa is 15 and 2 on home court this season, including a win over Wichita. The shockers are 8 and 4 on the road this season. They've had a good road record. The shockers are a 3.5 point underdog. Pretty much the same underdog status they had at Oklahoma State in Stillwater. They won that game.

Shocker basketball tonight in the NIT quarterfinals. Mike Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dave Dahl, and Bob Hull. We'll be on the air with you for pregame coverage at 5.30 p.m. The game will tip off at 6 o'clock this evening in Tulsa. Listen to Shocker Basketball this evening on 103.7, K-E-Y-N. Meanwhile, we've got junior college basketball going on as well. The big 81st annual National Jucco men's basketball tournament, as always, up at the sports arena in Hutchinson. And we have a second round to play today, including the number eight seed, Butler Community College, picking on the number nine seed, Snow, Utah. That game will tip off at noon today in Hutchinson. The Badgers are 29 and 4. Butler coming in at 24 and 9. Of course, Butler is pretty explosive. They are ranked number one in the nation in three-pointers. Number two in the nation, averaging 104 points a game, and number one in the nation in total turnover defense. They force more than 20 turnovers a game. How about that? So, we'll see if Snow can slow down Butler or if the Grizzlies just keep on or rolling. Once again, that is a noon tip-off in Hutchinson today for Butler Men's Basketball. Dennis Higgins will be on the air with live coverage of the Grizzlies beginning at 1145 this morning. Listen to Butler Basketball on 975 and 1240, KFH. And the women's Jucco National Tournament is hitting underway in Lake Charles, Louisiana. First round game this afternoon features Hutchinson Community College. The Hutchinson Ladies, the number 13 seed, taking on the number 20 seed, Williston State out of North Dakota. Blue Dragons and the Teton's going at it. Hutchinson, 12 and 1 in its last 13 games. Meanwhile, Williston is on a 28-game winning streak with a record of 32 and 1. Once again, that'll tip off at 2.30 this afternoon for the Hutchinson Women at the National Women's Jucco tournament. So we've got a lot of interesting hoops going on. Here as we get into the late portions of March. Sports with Woodward and Witt, brought to you by Wichita Brewing Company. Delano, Wichita Brewing Company Delano featuring live music this Sunday at 4 p.m. Send off your Sunday with live tunes, tasty treats, and good times at WBC Delano. It's your spot for spring Sundays. Visit Wichita Brew.com for more info. Wichita Brewing Company where groups gather. Traffic and weather update is on the way. And a reminder, you don't always have to take healthy habits to the extreme. Coming up on A Better Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. That's next on KNSSS. Wichita's number one talk. This is Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNSS. Good morning. It is 631 here on Tuesday, March 24th, Ted Woodward and John Whitmire. With you here on KNSS.

Currently in Wichita, we do have a mostly cloudy sky as we await the sunrise. It is 46 degrees here on this Tuesday morning. One person has been taken into custody after making threats against Wichita Mayor Lily Wu. The suspect in this case who has been arrested is 50-year-old Kyle Cornejo. Wichita Police Department says it's aware of threats made against the mayor. Investigators are in contact with her and working with her and her staff. That suspect has now been booked into jail on a charge of criminal threat. Iran calls the idea of peace talks fake news while the White House says the situation is fluid. One man rumored to be the key Iranian in talks with the United States insists no negotiations have taken place. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the powerful speaker of Iran's parliament, says President Trump's announcement of productive conversations is just fake news to manipulate the markets. Iran's Revolutionary Guards also dismissing what they call psychological operations. But an Iranian foreign ministry official admits his country has at least reviewed points from the U.S. as a... precursor to talks. The White House says the situation is fluid. Reuters reports Pakistan could host substantive peace talks as soon as this week. Jonathan Savage, Fox News. Drivers had to avoid a mess on highway K-96 in northeast Wichita yesterday morning. A truck spilled cement across about 1,000 feet of roadway in the eastbound lanes of K-96 between rock and web late yesterday morning, so traffic had to be diverted onto the shoulder. The Kansas Department of Transportation and the concrete company worked to clean up the mess. It took about two hours. Two vehicles did sustain damage, according to KDOT. The Kansas House of Representatives has passed a Senate bill cutting the red tape, making it easier to build homes. Kansas House Majority Whip Nick Hoheisel of Wichita worked the bill through committee. It really is just getting government out of the way and letting builders build. Right now we have a lot of government regulations that are driving up the cost of building these homes, these 2,000 square foot, 15,000 square foot starter homes. And it's getting government out of the way and let builders do what they do best, which is build homes. So it was a good bill and we're glad to get across the finish line. House Majority Whip Ho Heisel appeared on the Under the Dome Update Mondays with Woodward and Witt here on KNSSS.

The National Weather Service starting to wrap up its annual live presentations for Storm Fury on the Plains. As meteorologists from the National Weather Service Office in Wichita present information, helping prepare storm spotters and residents for the upcoming storm season. This evening, there are two presentations. There's a free presentation at 6.30 this evening in Winfield in Cali County at Cali Cinema 8. And Sedgwick County Emergency Management has a free weather class, also at 6.30 this evening. That's at the Bel Air City Building on East Central Park Avenue. President Trump wants a voter ID bill attached to another bill needed to reopen DHS. The president wants Republicans to stand firm six weeks into a funding shortfall for the Department of Homeland Security. You don't have to take a fast vote. Don't worry about Easter going home. In fact... Make this one for Jesus, okay? Make this one for Jesus. That's what I tell him. President Trump says the DHS funding bill should be merged with the Save America Act legislation that would require proof of citizenship and ID to vote, as well as curb mail-in voting. You can't have Homeland Security without voter ID or proof of citizenship, so we're tying them together. That bill lacks the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate. At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News. A suspect in the state of Washington with nearly 100 arrests, guess what? He's back behind bars. Lawrence Hatch finds himself at a familiar setting. He's in jail. He was arrested for the 98th time Sunday. Hatch and another suspect are accused in a retail theft spree in Washington State. Law enforcement spotted his vehicle in Interstate 5 near Olympia. He then led officers on a chase through several counties before being busted. Hey, show me your hands. Show me your hands. Turn around. The Thurston County Sheriff's Office captured the arrest on dash cam. Hatch's latest charges include DUI, attempting to flee from police and drug possession. Tom Graham, Fox News. Imagine getting a check just for having a child. The Michigan program has doled out a million dollars for that so far. Have a baby in Detroit? By the time you get home from the hospital, the check may already be in the mail. The program is called RX Kids, which has paid more than a million bucks to more than a thousand families in just its first month of operation. Three dozen Michigan cities are part of the Michigan State University program designed to help parents during the weeks surrounding a baby's arrival.

Gary Baumgarten, Fox News. So just in the time that that story ran, I googled Michigan budget. And sure enough, Michigan faces a projected budget shortfall of roughly $1.1 billion for the upcoming fiscal cycle. Big surprise. You know, I wonder why it faces a budget shortfall. Stuff like that. Yeah, just giving away money. You know, I mean, and you wonder why. these states face budget shortfalls ideas like that and have to raise tax and have to raise taxes yeah because we're paying people to have babies which is great i mean we just fantastic we love we love having babies but you're facing a one point one billion dollar budget shortfall who cares ah you're right yeah that's you know that's a great idea yeah Until people start moving away. Right. That's when things really start hitting the road. Yeah. Okay. You know, this is, I'm being too political. I'll stop. It is 637 here with Woodward and Witt on this Tuesday morning. Let's check our weather forecast. Storm Team 12 meteorologist Jake Dunn. Mostly sunny skies, breezy and warmer today, a high of 73. South winds 10 to 20 and gusty. Becoming clear and mild, 51 is the overnight low. Sunny and hot on your Wednesday, high 88. Mostly sunny and even hotter on Thursday, high 92. We'll see a few storms on Thursday night than turning much colder on Friday. That's your forecast from Storm Team 12. I'm meteorologist Jake Dunn. And currently in Wichita, we have a breeze out of the east-southeast. It is mostly cloudy as we await the sunrise. It is 46 degrees here at Wichita's severe weather station, 987 and 1330, KNSS. 638 here with Woodward and Witt, and now it's time to check in and get the commodities update. It's Tom Kelly Loeffler of Kelly Loeffler Commodities. Good morning, Tom. Well, good morning, Ted and John. The live cattle and the feeder cattle trade had mixed yesterday, but mostly on the higher side with most contracts seeing three-session highs. Now, the exception was the June live cattle, which actually saw an 11-session high. The closes were all positive with mostly triple-digit gains. Now, the cash cattle trade last week in Kansas, average price, $2.35.05 was up $0.0.000, while Nebraska was $2.34.79 down $0.16. Lean hogs made new lows for the current slot. with some having their lowest trade since mid-January. At the close, April live cattle, $1.25 higher, $2.353.30, April feeder cattle, $1.30 higher, $352.47, and April lean hogs down $0.97 at $0.80. Now, only the soybean and soy oil features were able to bounce and close slightly positive Monday. As where you remember, the grain and the soy complex all traded higher Sunday evening and then crashed along with the crude oil at about 6 o'clock yesterday. morning on the news that President Trump was delaying a strike on Iran's power plants and energy infrastructure for five days. Now, the trading overnight has been much, much quieter, but we have traded two-sided in our grain complex. Right now, May C. Wheat's down a quarter of a penny at 603. May corn's up three quarters of a penny at $4.60 and a quarter. May soybeans down seven and a quarter cents at $11.56. And a quarter. May crude oil is $2.35 higher, $90, $0.48.

April gold up $18, make that $19 at $4,426. The May Silver is a dollar higher at $70.34. June S&P, down nine and a half points at $6,625. June dollar index, 36 cents higher at 9908. In June Dow Jay Jones' futures, 75 points lower at 46,447. For commodity trading ag marketing or managed trading programs, contact love for commodities on the phone or on the web by using 866. Go to Tom. All right, Tom, are you a Big Mac fan? We're talking about McDonald's? Yes, yes, we're talking about McDonald's. Not really. Not really. If I have to go to McDonald's, I'll eat their double quarter pounder. Okay, well, there's a guy named Don Gorski. He's a Big Mac fan who says he's eating more than 35,000. Big Macs, by the way. He's even 30. Guys are walking hard at that. Yes, he's even 35,000 Big Macs. But he weighed in. Apparently, there's a new survey out on America's favorite items. And Don Gorski disagrees with this. But they've got this new survey out saying America's favorite items and includes the ideal fast food. plate. Don Gorski disagrees here, by the way. But according to this new survey, there are four different fast food restaurants combine to make the ideal plate. Okay. So if you're going to, this is the ideal fast food plate. Are you ready for it? You bet. It begins with a Burger King hamburger. That's why Don Gorski disagrees. It's a Burger King hamburger, a Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich, McDonald's fries and chicken nuggets, washed down with a drink or shake from Dairy Queen. So there you go. You've got to stop at four places, but that's the ideal fast food restaurant meal. So I'm curious what your thoughts are. Do you agree? with that meal or are you Don Gorski guy and you got to start with the Big Mac? Obviously not, apparently. I don't agree with them entirely. But the problem is the one I like the best is not a national change. It's more regional, and that's Brahms. I like everything about Brahms, from their ice cream to their burgers to their fries. See, I kind of agree, but I like Freddy's. I, Freddy's makes a pretty good shake. I do like Freddy's shake. I also like, I got to say, I'm a fan of the Chick-fil-A. chicken sandwich so i'm with them on that one but the rest of it i could take her to leave it i'm not i'm also not going to bother to go to four different places to make a freaking meal that's what i was going to say i was going to say you replace you replace all four of those with something like sonic or brahms and you can get all of that same stuff in one place and you don't have to go to four different places who's going to take the time to drive to four different places to get one meal

You know, Tom, another advantage that Brahms has is wait times in the drive-thru lane. I live right near McDonald's, and there's always 14 or 15 cars there, and you go block away to Brahms, nobody is in line there. Yeah, yeah. And you're basically, you're getting the same fast food. Basically, yes. And it's one stop as opposed to four. I mean, this would take you, by the time you got through one place, you got to four places, everything else is going to, three meals are cold. So, we'll see. All right, well, there you go, Tom. Let's see. If you want to take the time, by the way, that meal, I'm looking here for the estimate here, $27. There you go, for that meal. Well, we got to add a little bit more to it because probably he wasn't looking at the fact the price of gas has went up, so that's going to have to be added. There you go. See, Tom Kelly Loeffler always relative. Very practical. Very practical, Tom Kelly Loeffler. There you go. Tom, we appreciate it. Thanks for giving us your expert opinion and all your great information. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning. Thank you. You got it. That's Tom Kelly Loeffler of Kelly Loeffler Commodities every weekday morning with this. 35,000 big bags. Right here. Can you imagine? Woodward and Witt. Yeah, well, that's right. Hey, we do have Money Tracker, Don Grant. He'll be dropping by. filling us in on what he's got going on in his brain today. It's coming up. The money tracker right here with Woodward and Witt on KNSSS. At 648 with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire on 987 and 1330 KNSS. Keep it here for the money tracker with Don Grant's CFP. Now it's time for three big things. Trump pauses Iran strike hours before deadline opens five-day window for military buildup. To continue. Two. Another No Kings Day protest planned for this Saturday at Douglas and Broadway. One. Douglas County judge sets hearing over Kansas bathroom bill for September 29th. That's three big things with Woodward Witt on KMSS. Let's take a look at traffic with Jad Chambers. noticeably heavier traffic on the highways out there. You can definitely see that on the traffic cameras. And one of the things that we're seeing is some heavier traffic headed into the road construction, northbound on K-15, approaching I-135, down there in South Wichita, and some traffic already starting to back up northbound on I-135 up by the North Junction, where we had all those slowdowns yesterday do the work on the... Trained to Railman area there. Traffic update from 987 and 1330 KNSSS. The accident recovery team traffic center. I'm Jed Chambers. Mostly sunny, breezy, and warmer today with a high of 73 degrees. Tonight, becoming clear, low of 51 degrees. Tomorrow, sunny and hot, high of 88 degrees. Right now in Wichita, it's clear and 45 degrees at Wichita's severe weather station. 987 and 1330 KNSSS. 650 here with Woodward and Witt coming up on the money tracker with Don Grant. We'll talk about the price of oil and everything else. Coming up shortly with the money tracker. Oh, it was a big day on the stock market yesterday.

Following last week's sell-off, markets streaked higher today, some folks calling it the mother-of-all-by-the-dip trading sessions. At their peak today, the major index is surging more than 2%. The news fueling the bullish appetites, of course, Trump delaying strikes on Iranian energy structures after what he described as good and productive talks at the close. The Dow higher by 631 points. The S&P up by 74 of the NASDAQ higher by 299. Oil prices fell, though, giving up some of the downward momentum that we saw earlier in the day. Brent down 11% at 9982 per barrel, West Texas Intermediate, down 9% at 8879 per barrel. And that is your update from the stock market yesterday. Hey, the price of oil and just about everything else. Let's find out what's going on. It is live in studio with the money tracker, Don Grant, CFP. Hello, Don. Well, good morning, Ted and John and Chad, too. You're running aboard there. You know, when the price of oil is up a bit, I'm generally happy, particularly for my friends in the oil industry. I got a lot of them. However, there's a balance to be made. There's a sweet spot for oil prices whereby producers do well and consumers can afford it. And it's, you know, we've been around that amount. For every producer, it's a little bit different because they have different investments in what it takes for them to drill for oil. But oil prices affect far more than just gasoline, as you can imagine. You've probably been hearing about some of this. Energy. is woven into almost everything in the economy. From transportation to manufacturing to agriculture, so when oil prices rise significantly, the effects can ripple through many parts of our financial lives, even your mortgage, believe it or not. Higher oil prices can contribute to inflation because businesses face higher costs for fuel and transportation. When inflation rises, interest rates often follow. Since mortgage rates tend to move along with long-term interest rates and... As inflation expectations, a sustained rise in oil prices can eventually translate into higher borrowing costs for homeowners. Now, food prices can be well affected as well because farming depends heavily, as we find out from Tom Kelly Loeffler, heavily on energy. He's talked about that. Diesel fuels, tractors, and harvest equipment, natural gas is used to produce fertilizer, which is having a hard time getting into the country now, and trucks move food. from farms to processing plants and then eventually to grocery stores, where we buy it. When fuel costs climb, those expenses often work their way through the supply chain and show up in higher grocery bills. Well, how about your retirement investments? Higher oil prices can boost profits for energy companies, which may lift stocks in that oil and gas sector.

But rising energy costs can also squeeze profit margins for other industries like airline, transportation companies, and manufacturers. For example, oil prices can rise enough to slow the economy or push inflation higher than broader stock markets can become volatile as well. Oil prices don't just influence what we... buy what we pay at the pump. They can affect interest rates, the cost of everyday goods, and even how our investment portfolios perform. We just need to find that darn sweet spot again. And I think we're not too far away from it. I think we're floating a little high right now. But if they come down just say, I don't know, 20%, we might be in a good spot where everybody can be happy. Come by ya. And if you got any questions, you can give me a call over at Sabre Wealth. I'm sorry, I was getting swept away in the moment. You were. It was good by yawn. I was imagining all of us roasting marshmallows around the fireplace. Goomba, yeah. Anyway, so you can reach me at 2,600 over at Sabre Wealth. If you want to talk about this. Don, you have at times over the years been a very outspoken proponent of the hot dogs at Costco here on our program. Hell yeah. Well, did you see the ad that the CEO at Costco did, Ron? He did his own version of when the McDonald's CEO ate some of his company's product. Did you see that horrid bite he took with that? Yeah. Okay. So now Ron, the Costco CEO is enjoying being on the air and eating one of his $1.50 hot dogs. $1.50 for this hot dog, the hot dog price will not change as long as I'm around. Amazing. Amazing quality, amazing value. That's $1.50 well spent. Are you going to have another one at your next building you go to? Absolutely. Wow. He loves his product. As he should, they are amazing. And don't get me wrong, it is a good product. But I tell you, the Scotsman in me, and John and I share this, likes the price. Because it's a loss leader. You go to a shocker game, it's five bucks. Well, the good thing is you can sneak in without being seduced by buying a 95-inch TV and a pair of dickies and, you know, and some frozen shrimp. Because you can walk by, it's not like going to get a chicken. Going to get a chicken, you've got to go all the way of the back, and then you walk out $300 lighter. You know, so they're pretty smart with that. But now they're, oh, I love me a Costco hot dog. Now, how he could do more than one, I don't know. They're massive. Oh. They've got to be a 10 pounds. Well, that's even better.

There's more of your money there. All right, I'm going to have to try one. You haven't had a Costco? I've never had a Costco. Do you go to Sam's or Costco? You go Sam's or Costco? We go to Walmart markets. We don't have a membership at Costco. We've thought about it. You know, I'll take you in there, son. I'll treat. Lunch is on me, boys. Lunch is hot dog. Wow. He is a Scotsland. He's spending big of the $1.50 hot dog. Well, I might even, you know what? I might even get you a chicken to go, too. Whoa, here we go, Ted. I think, look at that. We're, we're, wow, we spent it all of three bucks. This is the best day ever. That's funny. Now, that's, that's great to know. I think, I think, so he was doing that just as sort of a reaction to that, that horrible ad by the guy with the new big, that extra big Mac or whatever. Yeah. Oh, that's funny. So it's pretty funny, pretty clever. Yeah. Very clever. All right, Don, thanks for being with us here today. Thanks for having me. And who knows what our topic of conversation will be tomorrow, but we'll find out. Can I tell you what it's going to be? Well, sure. I'll tell you. Carnac, the magnificent, here is going to determine it's going to be. About food. Oh, okay. All right. All right. And we'll see if it'll also include $1.50 hot dogs. So, you know, I'm already hungry. Tune in tomorrow. There we go. That is the money tracker. Don Grant, CFP, you're right here with Woodward and Witt on KNSS. Hey, that's 6 o'clock hours in the books. Now it's time for the 7 o'clock out. Yep. We'll have our Sedgwick County Commission Chairman Jeff Blueball. We'll be with us to bring us our every Tuesday. Tuesdays with the chair. The Sedgwick County Update coming up. That is Woodward and Witt 987 and 1330, KNSSS. Securities offered through Kestra Investment Services LLC. Member Fenra SIPC Investment Advisory Services offered through Kestra Advisory Services LLC. An affiliate of Kestra IS, Saber Wealth is not affiliated with Kestra IS or Kestra AS. Ted Woodward and John Whitmire. This is Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNSS, Wichita's number one talk. Good morning. It is 702 here on this Tuesday, March 24th. Currently in Wichita, it is partly cloudy and 45 degrees on this Tuesday morning. As states that already ban abortion look to further restrict access this year, much of the focus is on pills sent by out-of-state providers. The estimated increase in mailing pills comes as estimates also suggest that fewer women are traveling to states like Kansas and Colorado for abortions. Multiple states have court challenges to the federal rules that allow the abortion pill. Mifapristone to be prescribed via telehealth. Among them, Kansas and Missouri, who are making their cases in a court in Missouri. Federal aviation authorities are investigating a crash between a plane and a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Air Canada Flight 8646 from Montreal, operated by Jazz Airlines, had just touched down on runway 4 at 1145 Sunday night when a ground controller gave a Port Authority fire truck permission to cross the active runway. A security camera caught the moment the regional CRJ jets slammed into the truck, killing the two male pilots and sending at least 41 of the 72 passengers to the hospital. The truck had requested permission to cross the runway in order to head to another. a plane that had declared an emergency because of an odor on board. Air traffic control recordings show the controller giving the truck the go ahead and then ordering it to stop, but it was too late. That was Fox's Madeline Rivera with that story. A convicted child rapist reached a plea deal. This for a shooting that injured a 62-year-old man last year in south central Wichita. 44-year-old Anthony Irby pleading no contest to an amended count of aggravated battery. It was last September, Wichita Police said a 62-year-old man walked into a fire station near Lincoln and Broadway. The man had been shot in the leg in the 1,300 block of South Topeka. The victim hospitalized. Officers quickly located Irby nearby. He was trying to ride away on a bicycle. He was taken into custody. The investigation revealing that the suspect and victim were involved in an argument over property that led to the shooting. Mayor Lily Wu joined us yesterday with the Mondays with the mayor, rather. Monday mornings at 7.30 here on Woodward and Witt. Mayor Wu said that it's important to engage with local government and highlighted her acceptance of the District 2 advisory breakfast. Get to know which district you live in. Attend either a DAV meeting or a breakfast so that you can get to know the issues of your own district. District 2 had the city manager attend Saturday's breakfast. Mayor Wu also gave us a preview of the upcoming Wichita City Council Consent Agenda Meeting and Workshop. Changes are coming for a popular attraction in northeast Wichita, the Great Plains Nature Center, near 29th in Woodlawn, which recently celebrated 25 years of operation, discovering that its building needs major foundation repairs. Construction will begin this summer. The building will be closed for about two years. Foundation repairs will take about a year, and then the exhibit installation and renovations will take another year. The animals, in the meantime, will be cared for offsite by staff until that work is finished. Chisholm Creek Park will remain open to the public during all that construction. A congressional investigation is now underway in California after explosive allegations that millions in taxpayer dollars were siphoned through a web of ghost hospice providers. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has launched a sweeping probe into Medicare fraud following a California post report that sham hospice agencies billed the government from vacant buildings, fake addresses, and even auto shops. Committee Chair James Comer says the state has a well-documented history of abuse, estimating losses topping $100 million in Los Angeles County alone.

The investigation targets oversight failures under Governor Gavin Newsom, though state officials say hundreds of licenses have already been revoked and new providers blocked. Federal Health Chief Dr. Oz adds the scale is staggering, warning a large share of the nation's hospices are clustered in Los Angeles, raising serious questions about legitimacy. Ted Lindner, Fox News. A coin might be saying farewell in one U.S. state. And we might have two new pro basketball teams out there somewhere. So we'll talk about that. And, of course, we will get our live weather forecast. Storm Team 12, Chief Meteorologist Ross Jansen. What's going on with the weather? That's all coming up. It is 707 here on KNSS. 710 here with Woodward and Witt on KNSS on this Tuesday morning. Legislators in Florida moving to shelve the penny. The bill passed by Florida state lawmakers would let businesses round cash purchases to the nearest nickel. This comes after the U.S. mint halted penny production last year. ultimately cost more to produce pennies than the pennies were worth. Abigail Hall is an associate professor of economics at the University of Tampa. Not to pick on the penny, although its days at the cash register could be numbered, which could create a bit of a learning curve for customers. Florida has well over 9,000 convenience stores, according to Jeff Leonard with the National Association of Convenience Stores. Some stores are already rounding in favor of their customers. time, Leonard believes rounding up or down should balance out. That's Fox 13 Tampa's Blake Devine with that report. The NBA is taking the first steps in what could be the birth of two new franchises. Get ready for a possible supersonic boom in Seattle. 18 years since the NBA Supersonics left the Emerald City and moved to Oklahoma City to become the thunder. The city of Seattle awaits news that could bolster hopes of having an NBA team again. And one major American city that 10 years ago did not have any pro sports teams could soon land its final piece to be home to teams in the NFL, MLB, the NHL, and the NBA. Las Vegas, Nevada. Today, the NBA Board of Governors is meeting to discuss whether to move forward on accepting bids for franchises in Las Vegas and Seattle, potentially to begin play in the 2028-29 season. Still early in the expansion process, a final vote would come later this year. Jared Max Fox News. 712 here with Woodward and Witt on this Tuesday morning. Traffic right now in Wichita looking pretty good, not really seeing too many issues out there. We do have a stalled out vehicle causing a bit of a traffic hazard right in a high traffic area. Westbound Kellogg right at Seneca. So watch for a bit of a slowdown there. Those traffic volumes really getting high right now. Traffic update from 987 at 1330KNSS and the accident recovery team Traffic Center. I'm Jed Chambers.

And let's check in, get the live forecast with Storm Team 12 Chief Meteorologist Ross Jansen. Hello, Ross. Well, happy Tuesday to you. As we gear up for what should be some more summer-like weather headed our way for the middle of the week. Still feels weird to be saying summer in the month of March. But that's the pattern that we're in right now. Big dome of high pressure kind of sprawling across Arizona and New Mexico as it was last week. And that's allowing the temperatures and the heat to just continue to sit here and hang over the central and southern plains. We have a lot of record highs that will fall tomorrow and again on Thursday as were some 30 degrees warm. than average. Now, we're headed for a high today of 73, which is obviously a big jump over what we had yesterday. We'll have a wind out of the south gusting up to about 25 miles an hour, so fire danger is elevated today. We'll drop back to 53 overnight, and then 88 tomorrow would put us near record high of 89. That is the number to beat heading into Wednesday, but again, our forecast is 88. Winds will be out of the southwest, up to about 10 to 20 miles an hour. And then on Thursday, for sure. we're going to have a record. 92. The forecast, the record is 83. Not very often do we predict a high temperature that's 9 degrees above the record, but that is going to be reality Thursday afternoon. And this could be for the first time since 1907, three days of 90 degree weather in March. Here we go. I mean, this is remarkable stuff this early in the season. Coldfront's going to come through Thursday evening, shift the winds back to the north. We'll be back down into the 50s, it looks like, by Friday. And if you've already started to spring garden... Here we are looking at the possibility of frost by Saturday morning. So you've got record heat and frost in the same week. That's how we do it in Kansas, I guess. 43 right now in Wichita, we have a clear sky. That's your Storm Team 12 forecast. I'm chief meteorologist, Ross Jansen. Hey, Ross, you know, Ted mentioned this morning he was asking, what is up with this weather pattern where you've got literally record heat and frost? day to the next. Have we ever seen anything like this in Kansas? I mean, maybe we did back in 1907 when we had three days of 90 degree weather. But it's so weird when we look at the charts, the weather maps that are 25,000 feet off the ground. And it's like if you had no date stamped on these maps that we're looking at, you would assume. This is July or August that we're looking at. And then you realize, oh, wait a minute. It's late March. So the pattern itself is really remarkable for this time of the year. And it means two things. I mean, we've got widespread heat and we've got dry weather.

Hopefully, I mean, I think after this week, that big heat dome is going to break down for a while, and that's why the door is going to open for some rainfall next week. But it's just so strange to see such a dominant high pressure in the southwest in late March. Well, there we go. We thank you. And that's why we check in with you every day for the update, because it's always going up or down. It's definitely up right now. I won't come down until the end of the week, but it's strange stuff for sure. All right. Thank you, Ross. We appreciate it. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning. The live forecast Storm Team 12, Chief Meteorologist, Ross Jansen 716 here on Woodward and Witt. The next, we've got the next workout trend for you. Okay. Listen up. Let me make sure I take notes on this one. Of course, like last week, we were talking about snake yoga. Right. Remember that? Yes. A new trend. And I made sure to make a note on that one. I'll definitely try that. And now the next big thing is sword yoga. Sword yoga? Yeah. Right. So I'm going to do yoga with swords. It's some kind of mixture of yoga, Tai Chi, and Kung Fu style movements. Okay. With a sword, though. Yeah. And you're holding a sword during all that. What am I going to do with a sword? One lady apparently said it's a tool of self-expression and freedom. When I hold the sword, I feel like a force of femininity, beauty, and strength. Of course, you also need to maintain a good six-foot distance from anybody near you while you're waving around a broad sword. They say classes can burn up to 500 calories, and it builds up your strength and your competence, is what they say. Okay. So if that's what you're going for, there you go. Okay. The next big trend is sword yoga. I'll get right on that. I know. So will I. Well, I've got my two-handed long sword. Well. I'm preparing to, you know, joust. So far, I'm over two. I don't want to do the snake yoga and I don't want to do the sword yoga. Oh, I'll take the sword yoga over here. I'll make you a deal. I'll practice sword yoga. You practice snake yoga and we'll compare notes. I'm out on that. All right. We'll see what happens with that. Yeah. And then two weeks from now, there will be another friend that we'll tell you about. I still have yet to try goat yoga. So I've got, it's on my list. It's on my list. It is coming up on 718 here with Woodward and Witt on this Tuesday morning. Let's see what's going on in sports. Sports is brought to you by SertaPro Painters. Schedule your free estimate online at sirtapro.com. And we have college men's basketball tonight for Wichita State. Shockers are on the road at Tulsa for the NIT quarterfinals. If this is a matchup you've seen before, you're right. This is the fourth time these teams are meeting this season.

Well, they know each other. Just since February. Yeah. So, yeah. They're going to be familiar. Now they're meeting for the fourth time. And that's exactly what Shocker head coach Paul Mills is talking about with all this. Excited, you know, excited to play those guys and continue the opportunity that I don't think we've ever won there. I know during my three years we haven't. So it's another obstacle. We understand how hard it's going to be. I can promise it Tulsa knows all of our plays. We know all of their plays. We could probably call them for each other based on understanding what they want to do. And so I just think it's going to be a heck of a game. There you go. The NIT quarterfinals tonight. Shockers are a three and a half point underdog. Just about the same they were going to Stillwater on Sunday, and they won that game. The Shockers are eight and four on the road this season. They have done well away from home. They have lost three straight at Tulsa, however, including earlier this year back in early February, seven weeks ago, a 10-point loss at Tulsa. But since that loss, the shockers have beaten Tulsa here in Wichita and then at the conference tournament as well. Let's see what happens tonight in the fourth and final meeting of the season between these two in the NIT quarterfinals. Wichita State at Tulsa. Mike Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dave Dahl, Bob Hull, begin their pregame coverage at 5.30 p.m. The game will tip off at 6 o'clock tonight. And, of course, you can listen live Shocker Basketball tonight on 103.7, K-E-Y-N. We do have Jucco basketball, men and women to tell you about, the national tournaments getting underway. The big 81st annual Jucco men's tournament up in Hutchinson every year at the sports arena. A second round game today features Butler Community College. The Grizzlies are the number eight seed, taking on the number nine seed, snow of Utah. Grizzlies and the Badgers. Butler comes in with the record of 24 and 9. Snow is 29 and 4. Butler leads the nation in turnover defense, more than 20 a game. Number one in the nation in three-pointers. Number two in the nation in offense. Butler averaging 104 points per game. See what they do against Snow today. That is a second round of game tipping off at noon in Hutchinson for Butler Basketball. Dennis Higgins will have live coverage of the Grizzlies beginning at 1145 this morning. Listen to Butler Basketball on 975 and 1240, KFH. The National Jucco Women's Tournament getting underway in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A game this afternoon in the first round has number 13-seed Hutchinson Community College, taking on at number 20-seed, Williston State out of North Dakota, a team on a 28-game winning streak. Hutchinson is 12-1 in its last 13 games. The Teton's and the Blue Dragons in women's basketball. That'll tip off at 2.30 this afternoon, first round of the women's juco tournament for Hutchinson. And we do have football news for you from the Kansas City Chiefs as tied in to Travis Kelsey has signed a three-year contract for $54 million. It's not going to be with the Chiefs for three years, but it's all structured because of the salary cap and all that. He's going to make $12 million for one year. This will be his 14th year with the Chiefs. And, of course, he's at the age of 36.

deciding whether to stay or go, he's going to stay. Travis Kelsey has signed a contract for another season at least with the Kansas City Chiefs. Of course, Kelsey is the Chief's all-time leader in receptions, in receiving yards, and in touchdowns. And he's coming back for at least one more year. Tight-end Travis Kelsey, a future Hall of Famer. That is Sports with Woodward and Witt. Sports is brought to you by Wichitae, now featuring the seasonal release, Lazy McCafferty. This beer is packed with multi-specialty grains that you love in an Irish red ale. That's light enough to put on your kilt and have you singing from the tabletops all night long. Lazy McCafferty, Irish Red Ale, that is now available at Wichita Brewing Company. Pizza and beer made here. 722 here with Woodward and Witt. We have a traffic and weather update next. And high blood pressure among young women is seeing some changes after 20 years. So you'll want to find out what that is. That is the House Call for Health. And that is next here on KNSS. Good morning. It is 730 Sharp. Ted Woodward and John Whitmire with you here on this Tuesday, March 24th. Currently in Wichita, it is partly cloudy and 45 degrees. The Wichita City Council convening this morning, holding a consent agenda meeting and workshop. Five items on the workshop agenda. That does include a pretty big topic, paid parking in the downtown area and at City Hall. And the workshop also includes a waterworks update. There will also be a discussion about technology upgrades for Wichita Police. The results of a community survey will be revealed, and then the council will start a preliminary overview of the next year city budget in 2027. Senate colleagues vote to confirm Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma's nomination to succeed Kristi Noem as DHX secretary. Cheers on the Senate floor Monday night as the chamber confirmed Mullen in a 54 to 45 vote.

The Oklahoma Republican telling lawmakers last week he wants to protect the homeland and bring confidence back to the agency. President Trump nominating him to replace DHS Secretary Kristi Noem amid scrutiny over her handling of immigration enforcement and use of taxpayer dollars. The Senate vote comes amid an ongoing partial DHS shutdown as Democrats continue to withhold support for a funding package that does not include significant reforms to ICE. Kristen Goodwin, Fox News. Farmers are facing the effects of high gasoline and fertilizer costs, which have been sparked by the conflict in the Middle East. Spraying the fields, harvesting cabbage seed that Andrew Albert eventually ships across the world. He tells me, it affects me, obviously, because fuel is a lifeblood of the farm, but... Anything that is shipped to and from us is going to have a huge impact. Andrew is an optimist. He's hoping what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz will only temporarily drive up the cost of diesel and fertilizer, but he finds it frustrating when the deck is already stacked against you. Farmers don't have a lot of voice. There's not very many of us. We have no voting power at all. Andrew believes waterway regulations, overtime work crackdowns, and rising prices at the pump spawning from the Climate Commitment Act have only added to his burden. That's Fox 13 Seattle's Lauren Donovan with that report. It's conference committee week in Topeka, Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives Dan Hawkins of Wichita, says the legislative session is in full gear. It's going to be a busy week. This week will be filled with... All kinds of stress and, you know, disagreement. This is quite a week. It really is. This is when the sausage actually is made is right now. Oh, I don't think we'll get done until Friday. There's a lot to do. We've got a lot to do. So I think it'll be sometime Friday. Speaker Hawkins appeared on the Under the Dome update on KNS, yesterday morning on Woodward and Witt. An autopsy report confirms a man missing for more than a month drowned by accident at Lake Afton, and he had drugs in his system. The exam conducted by the Sedgwick County Regional Forensic Science Center confirms that Ian Shelton's cause of death was drowning, no evidence of injury. His death ruled an accident, but the report did say that Sheldon had drugs in his system, including cocaine, oxycodone, and the psychedelic compound DMT. Denmark's prime minister hopes the Greenland factor will be enough to keep her in power when today's election results come in.

Meta Fredrickson called this election when her defiance of President Trump's designs on Greenland led to a popularity boost. The centre-left alliance she heads up has a narrow opinion poll lead, but as the debate over Greenland subsided, the campaign focus has turned to the economy and immigration. Prime Minister Fredrickson wants to make this vote a question of leadership as much as policy. She hopes voters agree that she has the strength to handle pressure from abroad. Analysts think Fredrickson will be... able to retain power, but perhaps more narrowly than before. Jonathan Savage, Fox News. Stacker has compiled a list of the most popular baby names for girls in the 1980s in Kansas. using data from the Social Security Administration, names ranked by the number of babies born. So those babies would now be women who are in Kansas here in their 30s and 40s. You might see a lot of these around. The top five girl names in Kansas back from the 1980s were Sarah, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer, and number one, there's a lot of Jessica's out there right now. Yeah, that makes sense. We have a daughter-in-law named Amanda. There you go. China is to dial back a hike in fuel prices as the Iran War sends energy costs soaring. The Chinese government says it wants to reduce the burden on drivers, so it's going to limit a planned increase in the price of gasoline from $320 per ton to about 150. Gulf countries are a major source of oil in China. Long queues of cars formed outside gas stations in multiple Chinese cities over the weekend. The latest price hike was the country's fifth this year. Meanwhile, in Europe, Slovenia has become the first nation to ration fuel to about... 13 gallons per private customer per day. Jonathan Savage, Fox News. 735 here with Woodward and Witt on this Tuesday morning. Let's check our weather forecast. Storm Team 12, meteorologist Jake Dunn. Mostly sunny skies, breezy and warmer today, a high of 73. South winds 10 to 20 and gusty. Becoming clear and mild, 51 is the overnight low. Sunny and hot on your Wednesday, high 88. Mostly sunny and even hotter on Thursday, high 92. We'll see a few storms on Thursday night than turning much colder on Friday. That's your forecast from Storm Team 12. I'm meteorologist Jake Dunn. Currently in Wichita, we do have a partly cloudy sky. It is 45 degrees here at Wichita's severe weather station, 98, 7 and 1330, KNSS. The Cedric County Commission has a number of meetings coming up in the next 10 days or so. Every Tuesday at this time, we sit down and have a conversation with the chair of the Sedgeach County Commission, Chairman Jeff Blubaw, and he joins us now to bring us a preview of those meetings. Chairman Blubaw, thank you for joining us this morning.

Hey, good morning, John. How are we doing, Ted? How are you? Good, good. Thank you. We are good, sir. We're not quite, we're a little flummoxed by the weather. It's so bizarre. We get, you know, 50s, 60s, 90s, 60s. A little bit, you know, if you can do anything about that as chair, feel free to sort that out for us if you can. Three days in the 90s is not real popular, not real common here in our part of the country, is it? No, no, but I don't know what we could do if anything, nothing we can do about that. So, you know, I put in my request with the big man. We'll see if I hear any feedback on that. Jeff, you guys have, like I said, you've got a number of meetings here coming up in the next 10 days. One of the things, though, that folks need to be aware of. If they want to appeal their property taxes, that deadline is rapidly approaching, correct? Correct, correct. March 31st, getting a lot of feedback about property values. And I just want to send the message out again. You know, if it's the amount of increase, I wouldn't get as excited about that. appeal more if you think that that value is more than what you can sell your house for. Because if you just go back on, well, it increased too much. Well, they're going to come back and say, well, you know, you were probably weren't paying your fair share to begin with. So just focus on that amount that, you know, what the property could sell for. Being a real estate broker myself, having a lot of people reach out to me. I'm telling you, I couldn't, I couldn't sell some of these houses for what. for what I see the values coming out at. So take a look at those and reach out. A lot of realtors will work with you on that if you want to get some comparables or something like that. But above all, make sure they get those appeals in by March 31st if they feel that that value is higher than what they can sell the property for. And where does someone get that? I mean, do they go online and get the valuation of their property? Reach out to a realtor. What's the best way for them to do that? Yeah, you know, the first thing is just fill out that whenever you get that tax form and the mail you get that valuation assessment. Go ahead and fill the back of that out and send it in. Also, if you look at Cedric County's social media page, they've done a really good job of putting together some videos the past few days. It actually shows you what you need to have a successful appeal. So kudos to our communications department and working with our property tax assessment department too and doing those videos and instructional. And hopefully, you know, we all want to reach a fair market value. So hopefully you can use some of those tools and have a successful appeal if your value is higher than the market. And then so you think the best argument is to, if you can justify what you think your home should sell for and then you go in and make that case? Absolutely. You know, it's, it's in real estate, we always look at what three things sell a house. It's price, condition, and marketing. Well, price and condition are the, are the two things that you want to go in there and try to justify whether that value.

will equal, you know, what the price and condition are. Because the appraiser's not coming out and looking at your home. He doesn't know if you've got, you know, foundation issues or if you haven't fixed, you've got your fence that needs to be repaired or anything like that. He doesn't know. So if you go and you take pictures of that or something, that would be useful when you're making your appeal, I take it. Yeah, yeah, they don't know what's going on on the inside of your house, nor will they try to come into your house. And they do visit the property, I think, once every six years, they'll come out there to the property. So, yeah, you really need to work with them because they're just kind of taking a ballpark assessment out there. Okay, well, that's good. That's good information to know. Yep. So you've got two meetings coming up on March 31st. The city-county. uh, en banc is March 31st as nine. You know, most folks are going to say an en banc. What, what, what the heck? That's French. That damn there's French talk. What, what's an on bunk? So basically, it's just a joint meeting between the city and the county. We try to do them every quarter. And actually, every quarter, we do an en banc with the city, the county, and the school district, Wichita School District as well. So this one will be between the city of Wichita and Ced County. It's going to be March 31st. We're going to host the meeting in our building, in the Ruffman building on the sixth floor, and it'll be at 9 a.m. And we're going to touch on a few topics. We're going to touch on fire. Still looking at, you know, is there any consolidation opportunities, especially with training? And then we're going to kind of look at some of our different locations and how many fires are being taken care of by Wichita and Sedgwick County. We're also going to discuss. Public safety. We've got Kansas Highway Patrol. We're trying to make sure that we keep one of their assets, their aircrafts down here in Sedgwick County. So we're looking at a joint hanger between the sheriff's aircraft that used and having that highway patrol aircraft down here as well. Also something that's very important to you and I both, John, West Kellogg expansion. We're going to add that on our agenda because it's... touches both the city and the county both. And, you know, a lot of people think that, you know, well, Kellogg's done. Kellogg's done. Come out west, folks. There's a lot of Kellogg that needs to be addressed. You know, we've got a lot of stoplights out west still. Let me ask you a question, Jeff. How long has the city and the county been doing these joint meetings? How many years now? I think probably on their third year. I believe we were doing them on my last year in council, which would have been 24. So I think we've been doing them two or three years now for sure. And have the city and the county done any consolidating yet, or have you guys just been talking? I mean, I get the, there's been a lot of talk about consolidating. Have you actually cut any services, you know?

Cutney had been bureaucracy and actually done any consolidating yet, or has it been just a lot of talk? Yeah. Well, I mean, that's the big issue, you know. You know, it's just trying to find what makes sense and what doesn't. You know, a lot of times when you put the pencil to it, you know, the services really... That's one of the biggest things I learned from coming from the city of the county. There's so many different touch points that sometimes you're handling different services and there's not a lot of crossover. But I'm a Six Sigma guy myself. I'm always looking for waste elimination and consolidation opportunities. And we're going to continue to work together. It's a continuous improvement model. We're going to continue to look for those opportunities. It sounds like lots of meetings. I would suggest maybe we get to the cutton. But the last one I know that's coming up is also on the 31st at 430. The doors open. You've got a presentation at 6. And we're talking with Jeff Bluboff, Sedgea County Commission Chairman, is the next data center meeting. This is a biggie. I'm sure you'll have a big crowd for that. Yes, and this is the planning, the data center planning town hall. It's going to be at the Central County Extension Office at 7,001 West 21st Street, and the doors are going to open at 4.30, and presentation is going to start at 6 o'clock. So this will be an important meeting to those folks that want to have input and we want to have a good dialogue going back and forth about what data center regulations would look like here in Central County. And at this point, I mean, are we close? Do you think if you're planning at this point, do you think after this meeting, if we're going to start having approval process for data centers, that might come after this? Well, nothing will happen prior to June 12th, just because we have those publication dates, the legal dates that you have to publicize everything. And administratively, that's the earliest. I would I don't know that we're going to be completely ready at that point. I think we may have to look a little bit further out. But you'll just kind of have to see where the process goes. But yeah, that would be the earliest. And that would be the earliest that you could just accept an application. Jeff, has there been any thought about putting, has there been any thought about putting a moratorium? Because I know there are a lot of people that don't want them at all. Right. But other states and other areas you hear about lawsuits coming out when, you know, you see a request for a three-year moratorium. Well, you have to justify that. Right. You know, what's going to happen in three years? What's going on? Are you doing a study for three years? You know, you can't just be throwing a block out there, you know, or, you know, there's. A lot of opportunities that end up in court and, you know, something to force its way into a community, and then no one wants that. Gotcha. Gotcha. Well, Jeff, I appreciate that's a good point. You don't want to get sued if you do something like that. So, Mr. Chair, we appreciate you taking the time to join us. You join us every Tuesday at this time, and we appreciate you taking the time to do that. That's Cedric County Commission Chairman Jeff Blueball with us every Tuesday for Tuesdays with the chair.

746 here with Woodward and Witt, and we'll have a local business update from the Wichita Business Journal. Coming up with editor Kirk Seminoff next on KNSSS. It's 750 with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire on 987 and 1330 KNSS. Coming up our Wichita Business Journal update with Kirk Semenoff. Now it's time for three big things. Three. Ice agents assist TSA as shutdown strains airport security. Two. Education Department moves closer to shutdown as student loans shift over to the Treasury Department. The 2026 Major League Baseball season kicks off tomorrow with a matchup between the New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants. That's three big things with Woodward and Win on KMSS. Let's take a look at traffic with Chad Chambers. All right, incident in traffic on West Kellogg. This looks to be affecting east and westbound lanes. Very slow-moving traffic, east and westbound on Kellogg right around Meridian right now. I do see a couple of vehicles involved in some sort of incident, and that is in the westbound lanes over there. But traffic eastbound running... Just as slowly, maybe even just a little bit slower going through there. Traffic update from 987 and 1330 KNSS in the Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Jed Chambers. Mostly sunny and breezy and warmer today with a high of 73 degrees. This evening, becoming clear. Love with a low of 51 degrees. Tomorrow, sunny and hot, high of 88 degrees. Right now, Wichita, it's clear, 45 degrees, which is a severe weather station, 987 and 1330. KMSF. 752 here with Woodward and Witt. Let's see what happened on the stock market yesterday. The major averages kicking off the new trading week higher but paired from bigger earlier gains after President Trump said that he would hold off on striking Iran's energy infrastructure for five days amid ongoing peace talks. However, Iran is denying direct talks with the U.S. Oil prices fell on the news. West Texas intermediate crew, the U.S. benchmark, fell to around 88 bucks a barrel. Travel stocks like airlines and cruise operators jumped while shares in energy and fertilizer companies fell. The Dow winners, Goldman Sachs, Caterpillar and Shepard. Sherwin Williams, the Dow decliners, United Health Group, Disney, and Travelers. The Dow rising 631 points, the NASDAQ higher by 299, S&P 500 up 75. Hillary Barski, Fox News.

Let's see what's going on in local business news. And, of course, the Wichita Business Journal update is brought to you by Mr. Electric, lighting up the path to your success. Now it's time to get local business news from editor Kirk Seminoff at the Wichita Business Journal. Good morning, Kirk. Good morning, Ted. It's just good to hear Hilary Barski again. Wichita is getting attention nationally for its young homeowners with a new rent cafe report, ranking the city's sixth in the country for Gen Z homeownership. That's those of us born after 1997. The study found more than 6,200 Gen Z residents owned homes here in 2023. Affordability is the draw with many buyers in their early 20s, coming in with solid down payments. finding homes under $200,000 something rare in most U.S. cities. While lower-priced inventory remains tight, builders are increasingly looking at ways to create more sub-300,000 homes to meet rising demand. And Wesley Medical Center visitors are seeing signs of progress after months of parking disruptions as the hospital's 50-year-old parking garage has now been fully demolished. The teardown clears the way for a $65 million version that will add 1,350 spaces. roughly 460 more than before. Construction will also bring a new atrium lobby and main entrance, which will stay closed for the next two years while the work is underway. In the meantime, traffic is being rerouted and patients are parking in the employee garage on Rutan Street or in a nearby overflow lot at central in Rutan. Hospital leaders say the project is part of a larger $120 million slate of upgrades. Local breaking business news every day on KNSS at Wichita Business Journal.com. For the Wichita Business Journal, I'm Kirk Semenoff. Yeah, Kirk, I know you and I have sat through many a Wichita State Tulsa matchup. Again, tonight in the quarterfinals of the NIT, so, you know, it'll be the 8,000th matchup between these two longtime opponents. Why couldn't, and I made this point to you earlier, why couldn't we get Antoine Carr and Paul Presley to play four times in a year? The entire city would be there for that game. The city would explode if that had happened. Oh, man. Those were great games. That was good stuff back in the day. Hopefully tonight's good stuff, too. That should be two teams playing well right now. Kirk, thanks. I imagine the Cimarron Turnpike will be a little crowded eastbound this afternoon. Let's hope so. Definitely so. Hey, Kirk, thanks for being with us. We'll talk to you again one hour from now. That's editor Kirk Semenoff from the Wichita Business Journal. It is a 756 here on Woodward and Witt. We have entertainment news in the blur coming up at 835 this morning. Make sure you are here for that. And... Yeah, Jessica Rosenthal from Fox News Radio will give us an update. You know, we have a new secretary of the Homeland Security Department, but we still don't have funding for the Homeland Security Department. She'll bring us an update on that. Very good. Looking forward to that. And a big 8 o'clock hour on the way with all your news, sports, business, weather, and traffic as well. We are glad you're listening and we're with us here on this Tuesday, March 24th on KNSS. Wichita's number one talk. Good morning. It is 801. This is Tuesday, March 24th, here on KNSS. Currently in Wichita, we have a partly cloudy sky. It is 45 degrees here on this Tuesday morning.

Work continues under I-135 in North Wichita, this after a train derailed on Saturday, colliding with two support pillars that hold the highway up over the train tracks. Approximately 10 cars derailed just after midnight Saturday, according to the Union Pacific Railroad. Trains are still passing through the area while the Kansas Department of Transportation is repairing the bridge and the train tracks where the derailment occurred. Braces have been installed where the pillars holding the bridge were knocked out. Wichita City Council member Joseph Shepard, representing his district on the north side of town, has been in contact with the Union Pacific about the derailment. The first thing I want everyone to know is that there were no hazardous spills or materials involved in this derailment. I know that that was of a major concern given the 29th and Grove contamination issue that also is happening in District 1. Second thing that we can confirm is that there have been no reported injuries of individuals, which, again, the safety and security of our people is of the highest importance. Northbound I-135 is open for traffic, but it is reduced down to only one lane in the area of the incident. However, the southbound lanes of I-135 are completely open and unaffected. Israel and Iran continue to trade rocket fire as the conflict in the Middle East continues. The Iranians are continuing their attacks against Israel, launching a number of ballistic missile barrages against this country overnight. One of those missiles slammed into the heart of Tel Aviv. Black smoke was rising from the horizon where first responders were removing debris and rubble. This was a direct impact, according to police, and there was a 220-pound warhead on top of the missile. There were some interceptions overnight across central Israel, as Israel's advanced air defense system worked to shoot down the incoming fire. and the Americans are striking back, hitting the heart of the regime in Tehran and other locations, going after many of the storage facilities for these ballistic missiles. That was Fox's Trey Yinks from Tel Aviv. One person was critically injured after an explosion in Hazeville last evening after 7.30. Crews responding to a home in the 100 block of Sarah Lane, that's north of Grand and Seneca. A fire from an oxygen tank exploded, critically injuring one person. The Wichita City Council will hold a consent agenda meeting and workshop this morning. Wichita Mayor Lily Wu says there will be much discussion over the next budget in the workshop. Things are still challenging, as always, because every decision we make is a trade-off. And the budget this year, just the adopted budget for the general fund, was $342,816,000. So it really is a large budget that we have to make decisions on.

Five items are listed on the workshop agenda, including a hot-button topic, paid parking in the downtown area and at City Hall. Mayor Wu spoke during Mondays with the mayor yesterday morning at 7.30 here on Woodward and Witt. Wesley Medical Center's parking garage is no more. A new one will take its place. The hospital's old parking garage was demolished on Monday as Wesley prepares to build a new $65 million parking garage. The new parking garage will offer 1,359 parking spaces plus 20 motorcycle-specific parking spaces, an increase of 466 parking spaces from the current garage. The project also includes the addition of a new atrium lobby and main hospital entrance that will provide access from both the parking garage and from its main entrance from hillside. All patients and visitors will enter the hospital through the hospital entrance nearest the central and Rutan parking lot. The patient admissions department is located to the right of that entrance and an information desk just inside will offer assistance in locating patients and navigating the hospital. Phil Hildebrand, KNS News. The War Department announced recently that it is giving the nearly 8,000 service members who were forced out of the military for refusing the COVID vaccine more time to rejoin the service. Should those service members want to return to active duty, the deadline has now been extended by a year to April 1st, 2027. War Secretary Pete Hegseth. Our obligations to make things right are not yet complete. Although thousands were discharged, only hundreds have returned to the military. Pete Hegseth is hoping those numbers increase, and he provided some further incentive for potential reconsideration. The active service obligation for individuals returning to service under this guidance is now reduced from four years to two years. Pete Hegseth said that change will also be grandfathered in for the service members who have already returned to duty. Kevin Yerewski, Fox News. Thinking about Sainthood for a legend in Nebraska and more meteors over the United States. It is 806 with Woodward and Witt here on KNSS. 809 here on this Tuesday morning on KNSS. The Homeland Security Department will have a new secretary after the Senate confirmed Markwayne Mullin in a 54-45 vote to the role yesterday evening paving the way for a new chapter for the agency that is spearheaded President Trump's immigration crackdown. With us now is Jessica Rosenthal from Fox News Radio. Jessica, thank you for joining us this morning.

Thanks for having me. So Mullen was approved along largely partisan lines. Congressional Democrats are still holding out, however, on funding for DHS until the White House agrees to reform ICE. It's the number one priority for the new secretary probably has to be getting that issue taking care of, I would imagine. You would be correct. And there were some pretty high hopes that he would be sort of injecting this fresh new take or voice into the debate in terms of getting DHS funded. He had said during his confirmation hearing, for example, that he was open to requiring judicial warrants for ICE, which is a big democratic ask and demand. He had said that he was open to that requirement. if agents were not in hot pursuit of somebody. So in other words, going to somebody's home to make an arrest during an enforcement operation. It remains, though, to be seen, if Markwayne Mullin's take is even needed at this stage, I'm sure it will still be. However, we're hearing now that after last night from senators that they may be trying to come up with a new plan to get DHS funded possibly through a reconciliation bill. Um, that would also include funding for ICE is my understanding. Our chief congressional correspondent Chad programs reporting that while the president wants DHS funding tied to that save act, which is about voter ID, uh, the GOP is a, I guess a little wary or cautious about that working. They don't have enough votes to change the filibuster. So now that this new workaround plan may mean another reconciliation package. Uh, we'll see if the president can be convinced of this, uh, but. I'm sure we all know at this point the frustration has been building the shutdown on the DHS front has been ongoing since February 14th. And we're now seeing these tremendously long lines at airports. We heard from Department of Homeland Security yesterday that 400 TSA agents have now quit. And they had their highest callout rate on Sunday with about 12% of officers calling out. A reconciliation bill, does that still require 60 votes in the Senate? No. That's 51, right? That's the, yeah, that's the simple majority one. That's how they got that big, beautiful bill passed last year because if you do, if you construct a legislative package that specifically addresses only budgetary items and doesn't add on policy riders and other sort of, you also can't make tremendous changes to policy. This has to really be about budgetary items. And so that's the thinking is this is a budgetary item. Let's see if it can get through in this manner. We'll see. The president even said yesterday from Memphis that he really wants to see the Save Act tied to this. That would obviously be a policy. Right. So I'm not quite sure how this will work. We'll be checking him with Chad program throughout the day. He's our policy walk when it comes to Congress. But he would tell us about the bird bath and all of these things that would sort of get in the way of that.

It does sell. I mean, Katie Britt came out of Alabama Senator Katie Britt came out of a meeting yesterday and told reporters last night they think they're going to try and do this workaround. So we'll be paying attention to that today because the demand here for something to change, for something to shift. I mean, you see every reporter at some airport. No one wants this and no one wants to be blamed for this either. Mullen will soon resign his seat as a Republican senator from Oklahoma. That also creates now another issue because they have a very thin margin in the Senate. Yeah, and there's a lot of talk about how, I mean, you look at the polymarkets and Kalshi and all these places. There's even discussion that the GOP could lose the Senate this fall. So you're right. The money is going to be pouring into different races here. It's a 53 to 47 margin right now, and everybody's talking about the House, right? But there's this sort of new effort. and new look at the Senate, especially as John Cornyn in Texas is forced into this runoff against Ken Paxton. So you're right. No one wants this right now, but. I think the thinking is Markwayne Mullin is from a very red state. The thinking would be you pluck him and his replacement is likely to be a Republican. So I think there was some safety in that pick as well, on a number of fronts, but also on the midterb front as well. Well, Jessica, we appreciate you joining us. And thank you for that update on something we'll definitely keep an eye on. That's Jessica Rosenthal from Fox News Radio. Coming up on 815 here with Woodward and Witt, Pope Leo is beginning the process of considering Father Flanagan of Nebraska's Boytown fame for St. Hood. The Pope proclaiming the heroic virtues of Flanagan, whose work at Boys Town spawned an Oscar-winning movie in the church that makes Flanagan venerable. Later steps toward St. Hood are beatification and canonization. An Irish immigrant Flanagan made his mission mentoring boys in the juvenile justice system before turning a Nebraska farm into the campus known as Boys Town. Gary Baumgarten, Fox News. A meteor in the skies over Texas leaves some evidence on the ground. Saturday skies were alive across Texas. Houston was a boomtown, people reporting their houses shaking. NASA confirms a meteor streak to cross the Texas skies at 35,000 miles an hour and exploded over the BAML neighborhood, north of Houston, causing a pressure wave that set off sonic booms, sent thousands of meteorites cascading through the skies. A Houston woman told Fox 26 one crashed through a roof. The ponderosa fire captain responded, saw the marbleized...

veined rock was unusual and there was no construction or trees nearby. Scavengers still scouring for meteorites from a seven-ton fireball that exploded over Cleveland last Tuesday. Teresa Crowley, Fox News. 816 here with Woodward and Witt here on KNS.S. Traffic right now, the traffic volumes are thinning out a little bit, which is good news because we did have that stalled out vehicle westbound Kellogg right around West Street, and it was really backing things up on Kellogg, right around West Street between there and Meridian, and it was backed up, fairly heavy east and westbound. It does look like that's cleared out quite a bit by now. Things looking better in that area at the moment, so that's definitely... Good news. We just still have some fairly heavy traffic volumes out there. And a big slowdown in the construction, southbound I-135 if you're trying to exit to eastbound K-96. Traffic update from 987 and 1330KNS. The Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Chad Chambers. And let's look at our weather forecast. Storm Team 12 meteorologist Jake Dunn. Mostly sunny skies, breezy and warmer today, a high of 73. South winds 10-220 and gusty. Becoming clear and mild 51 is the overnight low. Sunny and hot on your Wednesday height 88. Mostly sunny and even hotter on Thursday, high 92. We'll see a few storms on Thursday night than turning much colder on Friday. That's your forecast from Storm Team. 12, I'm meteorologist, Jake Don. And currently in Wichita, we have what they're calling hazy sunshine. It's kind of hazy out there this morning. And it's 46 degrees here on this Tuesday morning at Wichita's severe weather station, 987 and 1330, KNSS. I did come across this just real quickly. Recently there was a competition for high school students called the Kansas Pro Start Invitational, and that's for youngsters that are interested in going into the restaurant industry or the hospitality industry. So they have this competition of all these high schoolers in the state of Kansas, and we did have some good local results. Wichita Heights High School finished runner-up in the culinary competition. and Andover Central finished runner up in the management competition. And how about these kids in Andover Central? They won the Best Pork Dish Award. Oh. And they won the Best Dessert Award. Okay. So there's some students out there at Andover Central that can whip you up a great dessert or a great pork entree. Fair. Next chef Ramsey may be out in Andover. Yeah, exactly. So congratulations to all those. Those that were involved in that. That's kind of cool. How about that? We have budding, budding chefs out in Andover. I wonder what they made. That's pretty cool. Congratulations, two of them for doing that. It is 819 here with Woodward and Witt. Now it's time to take a look at what's going on in sports. Sports brought to you by SertaPro Painters. Schedule your free estimate online at surtapro.com.

All right, let's look at college men's basketball. We have the NIT quarterfinals tonight as Wichita State is visiting Tulsa. The Shockers and the Golden Hurricane are meeting for the fourth time this season, just since the month of February began. Four times in the last seven weeks, and this one is for a trip to the NIT semifinals. So we got that game tonight. As of another meeting between these two conference foes, the shockers have lost their last three trips to Tulsa, including, like we said, back in February. Since that loss, though, the shockers have beaten Tulsa twice. Once here in Wichita, and then another time at the conference tournament, now they meet again. The trip to the NIT semifinals on the line. Here's Wichita State head coach, Hall Mills. It's a really, really fun environment. I do ask that... the mayor would let everybody off in Wichita at 2 o'clock so everybody can make the 6 p.m. tip. But when we played there last time, we had a tremendous following today here at Oklahoma State. And for... all of our shocker fans to come down. Look forward to seeing all the shocker fans there in Tulsa on Tuesday night. Yeah, it's great that it's within driving distance. The shockers are a three and a half point underdog tonight, although that's pretty much the same. They were an underdog in Stillwater on Sunday, and the shocks won that game handily. Tulsa is tough at home, 15 and 2 on home court this season. The shockers have been a good road team this year, 8 and 4. So we'll see what happens tonight in the NIT quarterfinals. And, of course, we've got great coverage. Love listening to these games on the radio. Mike Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dave Dahl, and Bob Hull. We'll have live radio coverage beginning at 5.30 p.m. with the pregame, tip off at 6 o'clock this evening for Shocker Basketball. You listen live on 103.7, K-E-Y-N. Jucco national tournaments are going. The men's tournament, of course, the 81st annual Jucco men's tournament in Hutchinson at the sports arena. We have a second round game today featuring two of the top 10 seeds. Number eight seed, Butler Community College, taking on number nine seed, Snow, Utah. That will tip off at noon up in Hutchinson today. Can you stop the Butler Grizzlies? We'll see if Snow can get that accomplished. Most teams can't. Butler is number two in the nation, averaging 104 points a game. They're also number one in the nation in three point range. So how about Butler? The Badgers are 29 and 4. Butler is 24 and 9. Dennis Higgins will have live radio coverage of the Butler Grizzlies beginning at 1145 this morning. Listen live to the Butler Grizzlies on 975 and 1240, KFH. The women's national tournament starting today in Lake Charles, Louisiana with the first round of game, number 13 seed Hutchinson, against number 20 seed, Williston State out of North Dakota, Blue Dragons and the Teton's.

Hutchinson, 12 and 1 in its last 13 games. Williston is on a 28-game winning streak, only one loss all season for the Teton. That'll tip off at 2.30 this afternoon for the Hutchinson women at the national tournament. And football news, the Kansas City Chiefs, tied in to Travis Kelsey, not retiring. He has signed a three-year contract, $54 million with the Chiefs. Now, don't expect him to play three years. They're just doing this for salary cap reasons. Basically, it's one-year, $12 million contract. So Kelsey is coming back for his 14th season with the Chiefs. Kelsey is 36 years old. A legend, the future Hall of Famer, leads the Chiefs all-time franchise in receptions, touchdowns, and receiving yards. Travis Kelsey is coming back for one more year, at least, with the Kansas City Chiefs. That is Sports with Woodward and Wits. Sports is brought to you by Wichita Brewing Company, now featuring the dub event venue at WBC Delano. That is perfect for things like graduation parties, receptions, rehearsals, meetings, reunions, whatever you got. Visit Wichita Brew.com and begin your booking at the dub event venue. That's at WBC Delano, where groups gather. What a great place. It is 823. Here with Woodward and Witt, we do have a traffic and weather update on the way, and we'll talk about the president's goals in Iran coming up on the Sean Hannity morning minute. Next on KNSSS. This is Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNSS. Good morning. It is 832 here on this Tuesday morning with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire. It is March 24th here on KNSS. Currently in Wichita, we have a hazy sunshine. It is 46 degrees here on this Tuesday morning. One man has been taken into custody after making threats against Wichita Mayor Lily Wu. The Wichita Police Department says it's aware of threats made against the mayor. Investigators are in contact with her, working with her and her staff. That suspect is 50-year-old Kyle Cornejo booked into jail on a charge of criminal threat. Iran calls the idea of peace talks fake news while the White House says the situation is fluid. One man rumored to be the key Iranian in talks with the United States insists no negotiations have taken place. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the powerful speaker of Iran's parliament, says President Trump's announcement of productive conversations is just fake news to manipulate the markets. Iran's Revolutionary Guards also dismissing what they call psychological operations. But an Iranian foreign ministry official admits his country has at least reviewed points from the U.S. as a...

precursor to talks. The White House says the situation is fluid. Reuters reports Pakistan could host substantive peace talks as soon as this week. Jonathan Savage, Fox News. Drivers had to avoid a mess on Highway K-96 in northeast Wichita yesterday when a truck spilled cement across 1,000 feet of roadway. This was in the eastbound lanes of K-96 between Rock and Webb late yesterday morning. Traffic had to be diverted onto the shoulder. The Kansas Department of Transportation and the concrete company worked to clean up the mess. It took about two hours to do that. Two vehicles did sustain damage, according to KDOT. The Kansas House of Representatives has passed a Senate bill cutting the red tape, making it easier to build homes. Kansas House Majority Whip Nick Hoheisel of Wichita worked the bill through committee. It really is just getting government out of the way and letting builders build. Right now we have a lot of government regulations that are driving up the cost of building these homes, 2,000 square foot, 15-hundred-square-foot starter homes. And it's getting government out of the way and let builders do what they do best, which is build home. So it was a good bill and we're glad to get across the finish line. House Majority Whip Ho Heisel appeared on the Under the Dome Update Monday with Woodward and Witt on KNS. President Trump wants a voter ID bill attached to another bill needed to reopen DHS. The president wants Republicans to stand firm six weeks into a funding shortfall for the Department of Homeland Security. You don't have to take a fast vote. Don't worry about Easter going home. In fact, make this one for Jesus, okay? Make this one for Jesus. That's what I tell him. President Trump says the DHS funding bill should be merged with the Save America Act legislation that would require proof of citizenship and ID to vote, as well as curb mail-in voting. You can't have Homeland Security without voter ID or proof of citizenship, so we're tying them together. That bill lacks the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate. At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News. Imagine getting a check just for having a child. A Michigan program has doled out a million dollars for just that. Have a baby in Detroit? By the time you get home from the hospital, the check may already be in the mail. The program is called RX Kids, which has paid more than a million bucks to more than a thousand families in just its first month of operation. Three dozen Michigan cities are part of the Michigan State University program designed to help parents during the weeks surrounding a baby's arrival.

Gary Baumgarten, Fox News. And you wonder why Michigan is $1.1 billion over budget? Yeah, hard to figure out. Yeah, it's amazing how that works. Yeah, it's 849 with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire on 987 and 1330KNS. Coming up our Wichita Business Journal update with Kirk Semenoff. But first, it's time for three big things. Three. Hey, it's the sports junkies. If anybody knows about die-hard sports fans, it's us. We get to live and breathe the excitement of the season all year long, right alongside the most passionate fans out there. For advertisers, that passion matters. It's exactly why sports radio performs for brands. That passion, that excitement and engagement, you don't get that kind of dialed in attention anywhere else. People who listen to sports on the radio via streaming or on sports podcasts are nearly three times more alike. to consider a brand that supports their favorite team. If you're interested in reaching sports fans, we have the playbook for you. Check out our comprehensive e-book, State of Audio, sports fandom. Learn where fans spend their time, why avid fans drive stronger brand results and how categories like beverage, grocery, and quick service restaurants are winning with sports fans on audio. If you want to reach the most valuable sports fans, check out stateofaudio.com. The Recap Show is an inside look into the world of global soccer and women's sports. Follow and listen to The Recap Show wherever you get your podcasts. Trump causes Iran strike hours before deadline opens up a five-day window for military buildup. Two. Another no Kings Day protest planned for this Saturday at Douglas and Broadway. One. Douglas County judge sets hearing over Kansas bathroom bill for September 29th. That's three big things for Woodward and Witt on KNS. Let's take a look at traffic with Chad Chamber. And traffic looking pretty good at the moment. The traffic volumes have decreased out there, and so things are looking all right. Just continue to watch out. We do have a little bit of a slowdown. This is westbound on Kellogg right around Seneca, where we've got a stalled-out vehicle there. Traffic Update from 98-7 and 1330KNS. NSS and the Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Jed Chambers. Mostly sunny, breezy and warm today with a high of 73 degrees. This evening it will become clear and low of 51 degrees. Tomorrow, sunny and hot with a high of 88 degrees right now in Wichita, it's clear and 48 degrees at Wichita's severe weather station 987 and 1330 KMSS. Coming up right after us, we have the Glenn Beck program for two hours, 9 a.m. 11 a.m. Special guest at 9.30 this morning on the Glenn Beck program is Senator Rick Scott from Florida. And he'll be talking about is Congress treating taxpayers like pawns in their TSA funding battle? The Senator Scott from Florida at 930 this morning coming up on the Glenn Beck program. Stock market has opened for the day. I don't have good news for you. Everything is way down. The NASDAQ is already down 1% on the day as stock market.

Stock market is falling today after a rally yesterday as the Iran war drags on. And you should have... You should have sold your Estee Lauder stock yesterday. It's down 8% on the day. Because I had so much Estée Lauder's going in the tank today on the stock, so it's not good. All right. I'm sitting on buckets of that. I know you are. Yeah, that's why I gave it. Yeah. Let's check in with editor Kirk Seminoff and get a local business update from the Wichita Business Journal. Good morning, Kirk. I know that Estee Lauder will make up for it tomorrow. Put-um-pum. Yes. Oh, wow. Good morning, guys. That was bad. Wichita is getting national attention for its young homeowners with a new Rent Cafe report, ranking the city's sixth. in the country for Gen Z homeownership. That's those of us born after 1997. The study found that more than 6,200 Gen Z residents owned homes here in 2023. Affordability is the draw with many buyers in their early 20s coming in with solid down payments and finding homes under 200K, something rare in most U.S. cities. While lower-priced inventory remains tight, builders are increasingly looking at ways to create more sub-300. thousand-dollar homes to meet rising demand. And Wesley Medical Center visitors are seeing signs of progress after months of parking disruptions as the hospital's 50-year-old parking garage has now been fully demolished. The tear-down clears the way for a $65 million garage that will add 1,350 spaces, roughly 460 more than before. Construction will also bring a new atrium lobby as the main and a main entrance, which will stay closed for the next two years while the work is underway. In the meantime, traffic is being rerouted and patients are parking in the employee garage on Rutan Street or in a nearby overflow lot at Central and Rutan. For years, Gone South has been a podcast about crime in the American South. But for our new season, we're widening the lens. Through deeply reported narrative-driven stories, we're digging into the myths, scandals, and power structures that still shape the South, and in a lot of ways, the country itself. Follow and listen to Gone South Season 5, an Odyssey podcast, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows. The project is part of a larger $120 million slate of upgrades. Local breaking business news every day on KNSS and at Wichita Business Journal.com. For the Wichita Business Journal, I'm Kirk Semenoff. Yeah, Kirk will give you a couple seconds here to take a nice sip of a beverage somewhere around, but get that throat cleared. By the way, Wes, okay, so Wesley Medical Center, the new, by the way, that old parking garage, it was like something out of Kazakhstan. Oh, yeah, it was terrible. That place was filthy. Yeah, it was terrible. I'm so glad they're getting something new.

That's 50 years of grime. Yeah, and just not conducive. It was tight, very tight, narrow lanes. And it was just, I'm glad they're doing it. They definitely needed an upgrade. And here's my other thing. Well, we've, yeah. Well, I'm going to go. Go ahead. Some buildings seem to go up just overnight. All of a sudden they're there. Right. But it seems like parking garages, I don't know why they take. What's the deal with the parking garage near the baseball stadium? I'm Susie Welch, the host of Becoming You, a podcast where I help you stop living by default and start living by design. Listen to Becoming You wherever you get your podcasts. Beem. That thing is taking years to build. Why? Why can't they get that thing built? Same with the hotel, the restaurants, the retail development, all that stuff that was supposed to be built by the baseball stadium, too. Where's all that? We haven't even had groundbreaking for any of that. Remember, we sold the land for a dollar. We're supposed to get all this development. I'm talking about the parking garage. They've been building that thing now for three years. And every time I drive by, is like, have you done anything? If you build it, they will come, remember? What is going on with it? that well if you're like me hey y'all i'm mattie and i'm poodle and together we host the podcast reality gays we are two ridiculous homosexuals who love nothing more than talking about reality television and tearing in a new one so whether it's 90 day fiancee love is blind love after lock up or any other trash tv show about lonely hearts looking for love your gay besties got you cover joe new shows every week follow and listen to reality gays wherever you get your podcast

You never drive by there, so when you do drive by there and you see a four-story parking garage, you think... Whoa, where'd that come from? It's just a matter of you driving by there too often. That's my, okay, that's my problem. That's it. And I expect progress. Progress. One of these big thinkers that wants to see progress being made. All right. Something the city builds? Wait a minute. That's a novel concept. Thanks for being with us, Kirk. That is editor Kirk Seminoff from the Wichita Business Journal. Hey, another show. Tuesday, it's in the books. Yep. Thank you, John. Thank you, Ted. Thanks for listening. Stay tuned for Glenn Beck, the Dana Show with Dana Lash, Sean. Sean Hannity Show and news updates all day on another warm day with Woodward and Witt, 987 and 1330, KNS, Wichita. The older I get. The podcast Campus Files is back with more stories of scandal, crime, and intrigue on college campuses. It is not hard to destroy a college. It's almost like a university on a siege. Listen to and follow campus files. Available now wherever you get your podcasts.