Good Morning El Paso 04.14.16

a possible bus driver strike is no longer looming this morning for students in las cruces–so what’s next in the negotiations? / patriot riders rode into town alongside a replica of the vietnam memorial …why this visit to fort bliss is making history. “hillary clinton and bernie sanders held competing rallies in new york city, find out who had the most in the audience and how that compared to the polls, i’m abc’s lana zak and i’ll have the details coming up. a very good morning el paso, las cruces, and juarez. i’m hillary floren. stephanie valle is off today. thank you for watching us on air and online—let’s send things straight over to krystal keli… good morning, everyone. westerly winds will bring warmer dry weather to southern new school this morning–and we can also tell you they won’t be going on strike later today. from our new mexico mobile newsroom … the union and the districts contractor reached a tentative agreement on a contract. union members were on the verge of a strike after storming out of the negotiation room — but they ended up going back to the bargaining table. the union says it was arguing for a safer environment for children, higher wages and more sick days for employees the trump team has been touting a campaign reboot, including a new laser focus on racking up delegates, adding a national political director, and hillary clinton and bernie sanders staged dueling new york city rallies on wednesday night ahead of tonight’s big debate. here’s abc’s lana zak it’s your voice, your vote. tonight the two democrats will face-off in the first debate since the rhetoric between hillary clinton and bernie sanders turned from courteous to contentious. in new york, hillary clinton maintains a double- digit lead over bernie sanders but you never would have guessed it based on the estimated sizes of their competing rallies last night: 12-hundred for a clinton event in the bronx, nats clinton event and 27-thousand for a sanders event at washington square park nats sanders rally while on the republican side- sot trump – “you can’t let th bosses take it away” donald trump continues to urge supporters to fight against what he calls a “rigged republican system.” nats an now, there are increasing reports of death threats against republican delegates. sot delegate – “very spooky, very personal” trump’s longtime ally roger stone said he would help angry supporters find republican delegates at the convention. sot: we will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal. ted cruz on cnn said the trump campaign was encouraging thousands of threats against the republican party chair in colorado sot cruz – “trump supporters were tellin the supporters go to his house and bring their guns.” but whil trump’s battle intensifies with some, he is making nice with others. sot megyn kelly – “we met for an hour just the two of us & we were able to clear the air…” tag: fox news host megy kelly–the subject of trump’s vitriol on twitter said they cleared the air and laughed, saying trump’s doorman was surprised to see her. lana zak, abcn, w beginning today– you can visit a replica of the vietnam memorial wall– here in el paso. good morning el paso’s denise olivas is live … this comes on the same year of the 50th anniversary of the vietnam war:take a look right behind me– this is a replica of the vietnam war memorial– also known as the walk that heals. the original one sits at our nation’s capital. on here the more than 58-thousand names of those killed in action or still missing: abc-7 was there yesterday morning has the a big rig carrying the memorial arrived at fort bliss cemetery. it was escorted by patriot riders. the 250 foot vietnam memorial wall bears the 58 thousand names of those killed or missing in action. the director of fort bliss national cemtery says this for all the veterans of the borderland. and get this– you can visit any time of day: “this is open to the public…2 hours a day” wall that heals vietnam war memorial replica april 14-17 the memorial also includes an education center. new this morning– el paso congressman beto o’rourke has received the outstanding house legislator of the year award from the disabled american veterans, a national veterans service organization. o’rourke was chosen among all of the 435 members of the house for this award. gary augustine, the executive director of the d-a-v in washington said, representative beto o’rourke… has become a nationally- recognized leader on veterans’ issues, working in a principled and bipartisan manner to improve the lives of the men and women who served. the man who admitted to beating a woman to death with a baseball bat has been sentenced to life in prison. 53-year-old jesus chavez pleaded guilty to the 2014 murder on monday. the woman — 51- year-old laura lara — died at the hospital three days after the attack. along with the life sentence, chavez was also fined $10 thousand dollars. happening today … closing arguments are set to begin in the trial of a man accused of a double murder. luis rodriguez is charged with capital murder for the 2012 killings of 32-year- old luis antonio fierro and 19-year- old roberto renteria. the shooting was allegedly linked to the barrio azteca gang. yesterday…. jurors saw crime scene photos showing the two victims on the side of the canal, each shot multiple times in the head and torso. the prosecution and defense both rested their cases yesterday. police have made two arrests after a weekend shooting in east el paso. it happened saturday night on the 11- thousand block of rojas. the victim 27- year old nathaniel jones was taken to the hospital where he’s listed in stable condition. 24-year old derrick lattimore and 29- year old anthony jones are accused of the shooting. this is lattimore’s mugshot — jones’ mugshot hasn’t been released. authorities say robbery was a motive behind the shooting. westerly winds will bring warmer dry weather to southern new mexico and west texas today and friday. however a deep low pressure system with a cold front will move slowly across the rocky mountains this weekend causing windy conditions on friday followed by cooler temperatures and a few showers and thunderstorms this weekend. moisture will then flow into the borderland from the east resulting in a continued threat of showers and thunderstorms into next week…mainly east of el paso and north of las cruces. an abc-7 traffic alert to pass along. gateway east is shut down at piedras. this is due to the road caving in gateway east is shut down at piedras. this is due to the road caving in during construction yesterday. it’s not clear when it will be fixed. your best bet to get around it will be to use the freeway and get off at copia instead… and then make a u- turn or head south depending on where you are going. now it’s time to take a look at the tx-dot traffic cams… we still have much more to come here on gmep… police have identified the pedestrian who was hit last night by a car in east el paso–why they say it isn’t the driver’s fault. / and this is abc-7, where news comes