During an emotional press conference Friday, Alex Ramirez Gonzalez and Yan Vazquez Hidalgo, the SUNY Upstate Medical University employees detained by ICE in October, discuss the events that led up to their arrest, and the experience they had in a Batavia detention center. The couple was granted bond this week while they appeal a deportation order that would have them sent to Ecuador, where neither have ties. http://specne.ws/bcWwrd | Spectrum News 1 Rochester

This week on In Focus, JoDee Kenney talks to Albany Mayor Dorcey Applyrs about her historic achievement becoming the city's first Black mayor. Plus, Applyrs shares her journey to City Hall and discusses her first State of the City address. | Spectrum News 1 Rochester

JoDee Kenney and Kevin Coffey from the American Red Cross discuss the impact of donating blood and what New Yorkers should do during this National Blood Donor Month. | Spectrum News 1 Rochester

Vice President JD Vance is coming to Plover, Wisconsin on Thursday following President Donald J. Trump's State of the Union address. Lawmakers shared their thoughts on tomorrow's visit. | Spectrum News 1 Wisconsin

Spectrum News 1 takes a closer look this week at the steps NYS is implementing to help curb gun violence and more in a new special series: "New York's Gun Violence Crisis". Watch beginning tonight. | Spectrum News 1 Rochester