as Jared Leto drops by tonight.
Now, KOB Eyewitness News 4 at 10.
The United States will not be a migrant camp,
and it will not be a refugee holding facility.
It won't be.
President Trump holding his ground
is pressure mounts from both sides of the aisle
against the White House immigration policy.
Tonight, protesters from our state are heading to the border
where a new detainment center for minors is being activated near El Paso.
We'll have more on that story in just a few minutes,
but first, a big decision out of Albuquerque City Council
that has some people cheering for a new entertainment venue,
but others are crying foul.
City Councilors decided to override the mayor,
giving Topgolf millions of dollars in incentives
to set up shop right here in our city.
But as our Jen French reports, exactly how much green
the city will be giving the company
and what the city will get in return is up in the air.
Jen?
Steve, Kasha, a lot of back and forth tonight.
Now, city councilors debated what exactly Topgolf owes
the city of Albuquerque if we give it $700,000 in city funds
in addition to tax rebates over the next decade.
Sure, we'll get jobs, but how much those jobs will pay,
we'll have to see what that average wage will be in the next two years.
Some think it's worth a shot.
Give Dallas-based company Topgolf millions,
and it could potentially drive revenue to the city of Albuquerque.
Councilor Ken Sanchez thinks it could be a hit.
Right now that property has been vacant.
Mayor Tim Keller vetoed the $2.6 million economic development
incentive package for Topgolf, but city councilors weren't playing around
when they discussed bringing the business here.
Raise your hand and say yes.
So they overrode his veto.
That sure is dense.
Competing golf company Big Shots is upset.
Their company wasn't up for getting any incentives.
Well, we feel a little jilted.
We haven't asked the city for any money.
Big Shots, which will be built near Balloon Fiesta Park,
is already promising to pay Albuquerque employees more.
We're starting probably around $2 an hour higher than what Topgolf does nationwide.
Topgolf must provide at least 132 full-time jobs
or be subject to paying the city of Albuquerque fines.
Though competing businesses may have missed out,
Councilor Sanchez says helping Topgolf is worth taking a swing.
We feel that these incentives in the long run will benefit the city of Albuquerque
and there are clawbacks that protect the taxpayers of our community.
Now Mayor Tim Keller's office says this is a raw deal for tax payers
and an over-the-top incentive package.
Reporting live downtown, Jen French, KOB, Eyewitness News 4.
The big story tonight, our nation's immigration crisis.
Pressure continues to build up against the White House with lawmakers
on both sides of the aisle calling for it to stop the policy of separating children
from their parents at the border.
Under the zero tolerance policy, everyone who crosses the border illegally is prosecuted.
But because children can't be charged, they are detained separately while parents are sent to jail.
Here is the bottom line, DHS is no longer ignoring the law.
We are enforcing the laws as it is on the books.
As long as illegal entry remains a criminal offense, DHS will not look the other way.
The president says the zero tolerance policy can end quickly if Democrats come to the table.
The House is hoping to vote this week on two immigration bills.
One has billions of dollars for the border wall the president wants
as well as a path to citizenship for DREAMers brought here as children.
Here in New Mexico, dozens of people took to the border to protest the separation of families.
Arjoy Wang sat down with an Albuquerque middle school teacher who was at that protest.
And Joy, this teacher says she was also undocumented.
Acasius Steve Ingrid Ordonez tells me her family fled here to the United States when she was 11
because they feared for their lives.
Now she has a green card and is teaching in Albuquerque.
You can see her right here in Torneo, Texas where she was over the weekend protesting the separation of families.
Hey everybody. This isn't the future Ingrid Ordonez expected when she left Chihuahua, Mexico.
I came to the U.S. when I was 11 years old. We were running and fleeing home because of violence.
My family was threatened and we had to leave or we would have been killed.
So they crossed the border hoping for a better life.
Hey, hey, don't take those kids away.
Only to find years later, these conditions.
Thousands of children separated from their families.
Imagine these children who are being detained.
We don't know how long it's been since they haven't seen their parents.
The separation of families and that they are not being humane, that they're repeating history.
It's, she's not right.
To join Thousand Sunday marching at the Torneo, Texas port of entry demanding change.
People from all over the country held signs and shouted in protest.
Say it loud, say it clear.
Immigrants are welcome here.
They are detained and pretty much incarcerated in cages.
Now we have a center in Torneo, Texas where they'll have children detained under tents.
It's not right and it's not what we stand for.
Frustrated, these children might never get the opportunity she had.
I am now teaching where I graduated from and working with these children really connects me to them
and I know what they're going through and I know what it feels like to be looked at in the face
and say you don't deserve to be here.
Ordonez is part of the New Mexico Dream Team. Members based in Las Cruces have been traveling back and forth
between the Torneo port of entry.
She says the organization plans to have a presence there until something changes.
Steve. Joy, thank you.
We reached out to New Mexico's congressional delegation.
We wanted their thoughts on this zero tolerance policy.
Senator Martin Heinrich said, quote, the trauma that President Trump is inflicting on families,
many of whom are already fleeing violence and seeking asylum, is horrific and it is un-American.
From Senator Tom Udall, with one phone call, POTUS could end this horrific policy.
If he won't, then Congress must step in.
Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham said, quote, this cruel heinous practice betrays our American values
and chips at our shared humanity.
And Congressman Benrey Lujan cites the Bible, Leviticus 19, verse 34, quote,
when a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him.
The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens, end quote.
And so far, we have not heard from Congressman Steve Pierce.
It was a relatively fantastic day for a lot of you.
We had abundant sunshine, light wind, and very warm temperatures.
Here is Outlook throughout the day in northern New Mexico from Angel Fire Resort,
looking to the east and a few low clouds trying to build,
but just not enough moisture throughout the atmosphere to allow for storms to develop.
And we could see a storm or two pop-ups later this week,
so a few cold fronts passing through, but for the most part,
it doesn't look a lot like this statewide.
Mostly clear skies and warm afternoons.
In fact, we topped out at 97 in Tucumcari and Carlsbad,
81 in Alamosa, Colorado, 86 in Santa Fe, and 87 here in Albuquerque.
But we do expect warmer temperatures over the next several days.
We'll talk about that and what's ahead for your weekend in just a few minutes.
Back to you.
Jorge, thank you. We do have some breaking news tonight.
Albuquerque police confirm an arrest in a homicide case from last month.
The suspect is identified as David Garcia.
He is accused in the murder of John Maldonado at a mobile home park near Central and Eubank.
This happened May 15th last month.
We did just barely get those court documents regarding his arrest,
and we are working to get his mugshot.
We will have more details in our morning show starting at 430 a.m.
A woman accused of killing someone while driving under the influence of meth
was given a 15-year sentence today, but she's only going to serve four years.
Cynthia Silva had fled no contest to vehicular homicide charges.
Albuquerque police say Silva was on meth in August of 2016
when she rear-ended Shirley Van Wye on I-40 near 98th Street.
The Burleo County District Attorney's Office had been pushing for at least a six-year sentence.
The mother accused of forcing her seven-year-old daughter into prostitution will remain behind bars.
Today, an appeals court denied a motion to release Terri Sanchez.
They claim she is a danger to children in the community and should not be released.
The other suspect in the case, James Stewart, also remains behind bars.
Tonight, authorities are still looking for three escaped inmates from Curry County.
Aaron Clark, Ricky Senna, and Victor Abolaca were last seen on Friday.
Detention officer Serena Dodson is now charged for allegedly assisting in that escape.
Meanwhile, here in the metro, authorities are still looking for 27-year-old Duane Perez Córdova.
He was mistakenly released from the Metropolitan Detention Center after deputies say
he switched ID wristbands with his cellmate.
Police say he robbed the business shortly after his escape. If you might know where he is or if you see him, call 911.
Your tip could be worth a reward.
The Hobbs Police Department is the latest in our state to consider giving officers raises.
According to the News Sun, officials are trying to keep officers from leaving to higher-paying jobs.
Hobbs police officers are already the highest paid in southeastern New Mexico and one of the highest paid in our state.
And just last week, we told you about Rio Rancho's police department.
Officers have been leaving or threatening to leave as the Albuquerque Police Department works to aggressively recruit officers by offering higher pay.
Possible raises are still being negotiated with no exact timetable.
The city manager points out Rio Rancho officers have received annual pay increases the past four years.
So how much does it cost to pay rent here in our state?
That's the subject of a new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
So let's take a look at some of these numbers.
The average two-bedroom apartment costs $873 in Albuquerque. That's more than $1,000 in CNFA.
So what hourly wage do you need in order to afford these rents?
Well, in Albuquerque, you need to be making at least $16.79 an hour, and it's almost $20 an hour in CNFA.
But what does the average renter make in reality, and what can they afford?
Well, on average, an Albuquerque renter makes $12.84 an hour, and the average CNFA renter only makes $13.50.
So that means the average household needs to have more than one job just to pay the rent.
The numbers are worse when you look at the minimum wage.
Nevertheless, though, rents in New Mexico are still more affordable than some metros in neighboring states, namely Colorado.
If you want to take a look at all these numbers for yourself, we post a link for you at kob.com. Just click on four links.
Dumpster divers saving bonds for veterans, how they're giving them back to their rightful owners.
Also, what one Four Corners Tourist Attraction is planning on doing starting tomorrow to keep the economy rolling.
Plus, our Lobo insider goes one-on-one with UNM's Paul Weir and the Isotopes go for three straight wins.
Brandon Ortega has a look at sports later in the newscast.
Ted Talks are inspirational. Tomorrow, Morgan Aguilar tells you how the local Ted Talk community is offering something new.
Danielle, Steve, and Colton, tomorrow morning starting at 4.30 on K.O.B. Hoop, the team that stands for New Mexico.
What does turning these knobs and working this gizmo tell us about what makes that great rain smell?
Meteorologist Eddie Garcia teams up with the Air Force Research Lab to find out.
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Here's tonight's Pay It Forward report on KOB 4.
It happens way too often. People traveling through our city only to become victims of crime during their short stay here.
Yeah, but a couple helped restore one victim's view of Albuquerque by finding and returning something very precious.
We have that story for you in tonight's Pay It Forward.
It's a story only made possible with some good old detective work.
Deborah White is a case manager for the VA's housing program.
She works with people who are homeless or who used to be homeless, including Timothy Carroll and Cindy Beverly.
They're very grateful. They have so much less and they're happy with less.
No complaints out of them ever. They're just sweet people. Just sweet people.
And while Carol and Beverly live in an apartment now,
they still have a hobby of dumpster diving.
It's what they found in one of those dumpsters near their home on Central and what they did with it that makes them this week's Pay It Forward recipients.
OK, should we pay it forward? Yes. Yes, let's do it. Yes.
Hello. Hi, guys.
The department wanted to.
Have you receive a Pay It Forward gift from K.O.B. Channel 4?
And this, you know, is about the saving the spots.
So here we go.
One, two, three, four.
This is why Cindy, I could let you walk away today.
I needed you to stay here until they got here.
No more surprises.
I don't like them either.
Trust me.
In February, Carol and Beverly found twenty two hundred dollars in savings bonds.
I'll be honest.
She found the first one and I looked at it and I ain't never seen one.
And I said, I believe I just throw that back.
Well, she did. And she kept on digging.
The man they belonged to was a captain in the military and they knew he might be missing that money.
But what they didn't know was how those bonds ended up in the dumpster.
The man had everything he owned stolen from a moving van on his trip from Virginia to San Francisco.
White tracked down the man's wife on Facebook and began messaging back and forth.
I let her talk a little more.
And I said, well, what kind of documents were they again? She said, savings bonds.
Then I told her who I was, who I represented and the couple.
And they have found savings bonds.
And she cried.
Those bonds were a birthday gift from the man's grandmother.
He received them almost every year since nineteen seventy nine.
And that's the main thing they was worried about was them bonds.
And we found them and I was that was cool.
You know, Carol, an Army veteran himself, says he would do it all over again.
We do it any time we can. We love to help.
It's a it's a feel good.
And while he and Beverly would never expect anything in return, they say what goes around comes around.
I mean, if you give from your heart, you will receive.
I'm not a religious person, but I believe that.
On the Wildfire Watch, firefighters are having no luck containing the San Antonio fire despite the rain over the weekend.
It's burned nearly five hundred acres in the Valles Caldera National Preserve.
More than two hundred firefighters are trying to get it under control.
Route four remains open between Jemez and Los Alamos.
The weekend rains also helped crews fighting the four sixteen fire up in the four corners at fire is 30 percent contained tonight.
And more evacuees were allowed to return home on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the town of Silverton, which was caught off by the fire, is trying to get tourists to come back.
Now that Highway five fifty is open, business owners want visitors to know it is OK to stop by.
There's tons of stuff to do.
You can hike, you can bike, you can O.H.V. or jeep.
You're fishing anything.
I mean, there's tons of stuff to do.
Now, the Durango and Silverton Railroad plans to send tourists to Silverton by bus starting tomorrow.
Train service has been suspended through the end of the month due to the fire danger, leaving the Silverton economy struggling.
The railroad says the Silverton excursions will allow tourists to stay there for three hours until train service can resume.
Despite a pretty active weekend, it was a very nice day in the metro.
Nice, tranquil, calm, warm.
It wasn't hot because some of your temperatures can exceed 100 degrees easily.
Wasn't the case today.
In fact, we didn't make it to 90.
We talked at 87 degrees.
Morning low was in the lower 60s.
And you see the rainfall deficit has shrunk a bit, obviously, because of the beneficial rains we got over the weekend.
But we're still more than half and shy of where we should be for this summer of year.
And beautiful nights here in the metro.
Live look courtesy of TrueView 4.
Looking toward downtown from K.O.B. where temperatures are in the upper 70s, Wednesday, Sunday at 10.
A little warmer down in Eddy County from Jefferson Montessori Academy there in Carlsbad.
Temperatures are in the mid-80s tonight.
Up there in Roswell, a little bit cooler by a degree, 83, 81 in Tucumcari, near 70 in Clayton.
And in southwestern New Mexico, temperatures generally in the 80s in the lowland deserts.
But up in the Gila, it's in the upper 60s there in Silver City.
Satellite radar look over the past six hours showing you just some cloud cover to our east and a few spotty showers and storms.
But not New Mexico.
It's going to be mostly clear for the next several days.
For the majority of the state, there will be a few exceptions along the eastern plains, for example, because of a cold front that's going to pass through.
And there's going to be several of them.
Not strong, but enough to cool things down a few degrees and enough to provide enough moisture to allow for a few isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms to develop tomorrow, Wednesday, and even into Thursday.
I think that's the best shot for rain in that part of our viewing area.
But tomorrow, mostly sunny, heating up again throughout the state.
And by Wednesday, which is actually the last day of spring in the northern hemisphere, we'll be monitoring a cold front that may produce a few spot showers.
But unfortunately, the outlook for the rest of the week does not look promising as far as rain opportunities here in the southwest.
In fact, the outlook, courtesy of the Climate Prediction Center, is showing that much of the west will be dealing with warmer than average temperatures and drier than average conditions, with the exception of the far northeast highlands.
Now, remember last week we talked about the possibility of it being another active week because of these cold fronts passing through?
Well, the cold fronts will still be here.
The problem is this big ridge of high pressure is pushing most of the storm track to the north and to the east. That's why we've practically taken out those rain opportunities for a lot of locations, which did look promising.
So not a lot of you were excited that, OK, we can get another round of good rains. Just not going to be the case. That's kind of how meteorology works sometimes.
Southeast New Mexico, overnight lows in the 60s and 70s, with highs in the 90s, and Clovis, Portales, and Roswell, you'll be at 100 and at 70.
Unfortunately, showing little rain opportunities and a lot of heat. We'll be in the 90s in triple digits all the way through next weekend.
Well, this weekend, I should say early next week.
Southwest New Mexico, lows tonight in the 60s, with highs on your Tuesday in the 80s and 90s there in Silver City. 98 in T.R.C. 100 in Deming and in the Four Corners.
Respect overnight lows down in the 40s and 50s, with highs in the 70s and Chalma 80s in Cuba, same in Grants and Gallup.
And Farmington, you will be at 87. Seven days showing abundant sunshine, dry conditions, breezy afternoons and highs in the 90s beginning Wednesday.
Northeast New Mexico, you may have the best shot out of anybody this week to see some beneficial changes in the form of cooler temperatures and scattered showers.
The case in point areas like in Merton and Clayton highs there in the 80s, 70s in Angel Fire.
But as you head farther south, it'll be a bit warmer in Santa Fe.
Lows tonight in the 50s with highs up to 90. Hot and dry conditions will continue. And that seven day forecast showing hot and dry conditions through the rest of the week with highs in the 80s and 90s.
East Mountain tonight, expect overnight lows generally in the 50s, with highs in the mid and upper 80s close to 90 in Edgewood.
And in Valencia County, lows in the 60s with highs in the lower 90s.
And here in the Metro, expect highs in the lower 90s once again.
And the heat rolls on the rest of the week with highs staying in the 90s through the first day of summer, which is Thursday and even hotter on Friday.
Sports of Brandon is next.
Ted Talks are inspirational. Tomorrow, Morgan Aguilar tells you how the local Ted Talk community is offering something new.
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Nice weekend for the Topes and also the weather is just perfect for a Monday at the ballpark.
And hey, if she doesn't get you dancing, I don't know who can.
Bottom of the first we go, runner on third. Josh Fuentes stacking on to his team-high 52 RBIs.
Mel Tabia come on down to the Topes on the board first, one-nothing.
David Holmberg steady on the mound. He's scattered six hits, two runs in five innings with three strikeouts.
Holmberg and the Topes make it three in a row. Same teams again tomorrow. Early first pitch at noon.
MLB Astros raise Tampa up 4-3. Bottom of the ninth, bases loaded for Albuquerque native Alex Bregman.
And the Academy grad comes through in the clutch.
RBI double brings home two Astros and Houston makes it 12 straight in a walk-off, 5-4 the final score.
Rockies Mets, we go to Colorado. Home runs pretty common at Coors Field.
Today a different kind of homer that we're not used to seeing exactly. Brandon Nemo going deep.
Rockies thought he was going out of the park. It fell short. So Nemo taps on the turbo button.
Inside the park homer for the Mets as New York goes on to win big 12-2.
Still to come, World Cup highlights and our Lobo insider Lee Ferria goes one-on-one with Paul Weir.
That's next on KOB Eyewitness Sports 4.
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That guy right there, Lee Freya, he got some one-on-one time with UNN basketball coach Paul Weir.
Coach and our Lobo insider broke down some Lobo basketball, some chalk talk in today's segment.
We're talking about teaching offensive philosophies to his team and he's got a lot of new faces on the squad,
learning how to play fast and how to play with space in the half court.
They're all traditionally going to have triangles or spacing between the different spots that are like 15 to 17 feet.
And no matter what we happen to be in, those are spacing guidelines.
We always want to make sure that we're adopting as a team.
So we spend a lot of time mechanically as a team working on these spacing concepts.
You can see that complete segment with Paul Weir on kob.com.
More chalk talk with Coach Weir coming up Tuesday night.
To the World Cup, an opener for England and Tunisia.
First half, no score. Watch this.
The keeper for Tunisia initially with the block and then Harry Kane there for the rebound.
One of his two goals in the match.
England finally breaks through their first World Cup win in eight years.
That's all for sports. We'll be right back.
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Final look at your 7-A forecast showing highs in the 90s all the way through next week.
Back to you.
Jorge, thank you. That'll do it for us tonight at 10.
Thanks for joining us.
We'll see you again tomorrow. Good night.