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"O'Neil, I'm Rick Francis. We look at headlines two 9 year olds and an 8 year old are among the victims of that fatal shooting at a Nashville elementary school that shooting also claimed the lives of three adults, including the headmistress of the covenant Presbyterian school police shot and killed the shooter who they identified as a 28 year old transgender Nashville woman who was armed with two assault style weapons. Another sign of spring has arrived in the northwest today crews with a Washington State Department of Transportation began clearing snow from state route 20 more commonly known as the north cascades highway. Chaos in Israel were demonstrations shut down much of the country, the result of a controversial judicial reform plan that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now suspended jordana Miller is in Jerusalem covering the story for ABC News and spoke with northwest news radio's Bill O'Neill. Okay, jordana, what did we hear from Benjamin Netanyahu today Well, we heard Benjamin Netanyahu finally after months of intensifying protests and opposition to his sweeping plan to overhaul the judiciary, even penetrating into the military. We finally heard Benjamin Netanyahu say he's going to pause the process and sit down and try to craft a compromise with the opposition with the judiciary and then come back to these reforms in the next parliamentary session that is, it will begin in May and go through to July. Having said that his announcement was welcomed by the president, by opposition leaders, but almost nobody trusts Benjamin Netanyahu anymore. So the people on the streets of Israel, they scored a victory after weeks and weeks of protesting. But will Netanyahu in good faith sit down to talk about these reforms and make compromises or will he try to essentially push them through again in a few months? Now, of course, these protests did create a lot of tension across the Israeli involved hundreds of thousands of people, there were fires said, had to be quite a scene there. Phil has never seen anything like it. I mean, there were hundreds of thousands of people out every weekend. There were midweek, what were called days of disruption or national shutdown days. And then today, the unprecedented call by the labor union here in Israel that represents about a million workers, they went on general strike. That basically shuttered dozens of banks, businesses, hotels, the university's, and the airport, the international airport here, they grounded all outbound flights for hours and hours. I think many people were surprised at the response by the public here. To that point, what made these planned reforms so controversial? Why did we see large numbers of Israelis raising their voices against these plans? That's a great question. That a lot of people don't know the real answer to because it is a complicated reform platform. But in essence, what Nintendo was trying to push through or a series of laws that would weaken and politicize the courts from the Supreme Court all the way down. And I'll give you just one example. There was a law that would allow lawmakers with a simple majority of one vote, right? There's a 120 seats in the parliament. The government with just 61 vote majority could strike down Supreme Court law rulings. Now, why do you need a Supreme Court if such a simple majority can strike down, right? The Supreme Court. I mean, that essentially neuters the court. They also wanted to pass laws, for example, Israel has no constitution, but it has basic laws that the Supreme Court considers as quasi constitutional. Now, this government wanted to restrict the ability of the Supreme Court to even weigh in and adjudicate on basic laws. ABC's Jordan Miller with us on the northwest news line. And that's Bill O'Neill. Well, money has become more important to Americans in the last 25 years, while patriotism and other values have become less important. That's according to a Wall Street Journal poll, which says 43% of Americans say money is important compared to 31% in 1998 by contrast, the importance of patriotism dropped from 70% of Americans in 1998 to only 40% today. Getting update on Wall Street on the topic of money now and your stock charts dot com money news. Once again, we go to dairy albinger at ABC. For maybe C news, Wall Street now stocks closed mostly hired to start the week the Dow rose a 195 points. It had been up over 300 the S&P added 7, while the NASDAQ fell 55. More of us are going into the office every day the Labor Department says almost 73% of employees rarely work from home last year. Daria albumin BC news. And get your money news here at 20 and 50 pass to every hour coming up, we'll have a check on traffic and weather and coming to the aid of a fired American school principal for art's sake next. Have you Googled yourself lately? Are there negative posts from an ex employee or a former client? Maybe an outdated news article or sensitive personal information about your family. Search engines don't always get it right, but
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"O'Neill is our editor. I'm Rick Francis, along with Kim shepherd here's what's happening. Memphis police are searching for a man wanted for a series of apparently random shootings across the city with at least one live streamed on Facebook, Memphis PD has identified the 19 year old suspect they say he may still be live streaming, but he's on the move so they haven't been able to pin him down. A reminder no school tomorrow in the Seattle district, the district saying it remains optimistic, though, it will come to a contract deal at some point with its teachers ending a strike that began yesterday and kept classes closed on this. The first scheduled day of school, but again, no class tomorrow issues include pay mental health support and staffing ratios. Inflation has soared to a 40 year high and like nearly everything else. Auto insurance rates are increasing, but coverage is not bank rate dot com's Kate deventer takes a closer look with Tom hudler. Tell us about some of the numbers here. Premiums go up, coverage doesn't seem to be in lockstep with those increases. That can cause some problems. Give us your analysis into those problems, and what we can do about it. Yeah, absolutely. Well, thank you for having me. But that's exactly it. Inflation is causing a lot of the costs associated with car insurance claims to rise. So things like medical care services are up about 5% year over year, according to the consumer price index. The cost of new vehicles used vehicles, vehicle parts and equipment, all of that is rising, and what that means is that car insurance claims are more expensive. That causes insurance companies to raise their rates to make sure they have enough money in their claims reserves to pay out those claims, which means you're paying higher car insurance costs. But the other side of that is with claims getting more expensive, unless you have looked at your car insurance and increased those limits, your coverage is not really going as far as it used to, which could potentially leave you under insured if you have an accident. Kate, what about getting the right insurance? I mean, you have to have car insurance. What about finding the right coverage in today's economy? Sure. So definitely the medical care services is one of the biggest issues in 2020, the insurance information institute noted that the average bodily injury payout. So if you hit someone else, those are the injuries that you're causing to the other party. That was about $20,000. And that was 2020. So we're now two years on from that and we're in this inflationary environment. That number is very likely much higher, but if you haven't increased your coverage, you may not have enough, especially if you have state minimum coverage. That's really the group of people I think that need to be the most aware of this. Most states, their minimum coverage limits are fairly low, $25,000 per person for bodily injury is a really common one that occurs in various states. And we're now approaching that limit with that increase in
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"Happy tastes good Northwest news times 6 44 And let's get the latest traffic conditions from the dubin law group traffic center in Natalie Well there's a couple of issues in Seattle in the U district on northeast 54th street The traffic lights are not working There's been a report of a dark signal at Fifth Avenue so treat that intersection as a four way stop Outside of south Lake union on 6th avenue north and accident hasma reported at highland drive so expect slowdowns there and in north Beacon hill on Beacon avenue south and accident is affecting traffic between south Stephen street and south Hanford street and it's looking really tough there The report is sponsored by Amtrak gas prices are high so right Amtrak and travel without breaking your budget Book in advance to save up to 20% at Amtrak dot com restrictions and exclusions apply Our next northwest traffic at 6 54 All right here's to check on our 1530 mortgage dot com weather center forecast reigns here We're going to continue to see it through most of the day tomorrow letting up a little in the afternoon A high in the low 60s rain at times on Sunday but again backing off Sunday afternoon with even some sun breaks and mid 60s downtown Seattle now with the drizzle it's 57 Stay connected Stay informed northwest news radio 1000 FM 97 7 sponsored by K two vision RLE Thank you for joining us I'm Rick Francis with ELISA jaffe and our editor is Bill O'Neill Pentagon press secretary John Kirby says Congress must pass the Ukraine aid package by May 19th to ensure no interruptions.
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"Freaking call on Beacon Here's the puget sound forecast now from the 1530 mortgage dot com weather center get out and enjoy for a while Rain does return overnight into tomorrow with a chance of thunderstorms by tomorrow afternoon and temperatures are going to cool down too Our overnight lows in the 40s but the highs tomorrow only in the 50s and rain threatens this weekend with a chance of snow mixed in on Sunday At least in the morning hours High temperatures upper 40s to about 50° and downtown now 72° at 6 15 Stay connected Stay informed This is northwest news radio 1000 FM 97 7 Thanks for joining us I'm Rick Francis with ELISA jaffe our editors Kathy O'Shea A bill banning Russian oil imports to the U.S. is on its way to the president's desk after the House and Senate approved the measure Biden called for the ban last month A Ukrainian man who served as a high level hacker in a ring that stole more than 20 million credit and debit card records sentenced in federal court in Seattle to 5 years in prison Dennis ayer Mark pleaded guilty in passing down sentencing judge Ricardo Martinez noted some irony that the group plundered the United States which is now supporting Ukraine amid Russia's invasion The state of Texas has hired 900 buses to ship undocumented immigrants from the border to Washington D.C. to drop them off at the steps of the U.S. capitol to make them the Biden administration's problem Governor Greg Abbott says Texas state troopers will meet migrants at the border wearing full riot gear and will put them on buses to Washington But it's not that simple Jeff poggio got the details from ABC's Alex stone What's governor Abbott left out is that this will be entirely voluntary Yeah and assume there's a lot more to it than the headlines that came out that he really put out and governor Abbott that he came out saying we're going to do what Biden will not do We're going to enforce border security that the buses are ready to go the migrants are coming in They're going to be put on board They're going to be shipped out so Biden can deal with them Here's a little ways ahead Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington D.C. Now here's the thing Abbott is campaigning and there's a lot of bluster in what he had to say that his office then put out the details as governors often do They come out They make the big announcement and then their office sends out an email with what that order is going to be He left out the migrants will only go if they volunteer and want to go on those buses And that they have to be allowed to remain in the U.S. by the Department of Homeland Security which means technically they are not illegal then that they are in the asylum process or an immigration judge has said they can remain for now He doesn't have the authority to round up migrants ship them around as he wants That's what the feds do Eric so dio is an immigration attorney But the situation where this would have to be voluntary in order to pass constitutional muster But none of that was brought up By the way Jeff mini groups already offer free rides to willing migrants wherever they want to go And the other part being that technically they're not illegal that the U.S. allowed them to remain if they've got to show proof that they went through the DHS process And then they're allowed to be here We're talking about people again who are legally here in the United States They have every right to be here because they have been paroled by the federal government Yeah so it sounded big new tough but in the end only for migrants who agree and say that they want to go and those allowed to remain But there's a lot going on with title 42 ending You hear a lot of the conservative governors making headlines with that They're angry that it's going to end the COVID era rules of not allowing in some asylum seekers But The White House is saying look that it's a COVID health role How do you say mask rules are going away that everybody's going back to regular life But then that that would remain And next month that's going to go away So you're going to hear a lot more border talk coming up in the next couple of weeks And of course governor Abbott is campaigning as you mentioned he's up for reelection this fall not to mention the entire U.S. House of Representatives and control of the house remains in balance This all seems like a political stunt more than anything else Well his opponents are definitely saying that that they are saying this has stunt all over it that yeah he has the authority to say he's going to send state troopers down to the border to do training and put up razor wire and wear tactical gear but they're not immigration agents And they don't have federal authority in that area And while yeah he can have his state law enforcement do Some federal immigration things That's not what their role is And that's what federal agents and officers what they're doing down there So a lot of it is for show that yeah maybe it will deter people from coming in But when it comes down to the bus situation I mean it really is not what it was built And that's ABC's Alex stone talking with Jeff pojo for the full conversation subscribe to the northwest politics available at NW news radio dot com.
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"Soggy again Friday and through the weekend Downtown Seattle now 49 stay connected stay informed This is northwest news radio 1000 FM 97 7 We thank you for joining us I'm Rick Francis with ELISA jaffe and our editor is Kathy O'Shea Russia is expected to be hit with more sanctions this week Today White House press secretary Jen Psaki did not go into specifics but said the sanctions are aimed at making it more difficult for Russia to fund its ongoing war against Ukraine A federal jury and Tacoma has awarded $8 million to a woman hurt in the 2017 Amtrak train derailment that spilled passenger cars onto I 5 and killed three people that brings to $46 million in damages so far for victims Big news in the golf world Tiger Woods says today he feels like he's going to play at the masters in Augusta this week Well as of right now I feel like I am going to play As of right now I'm going to play 9 more holes tomorrow ABC's Derek Dennis joining us on the northwest news line with more on what the 5 time champ needs to weigh before making a final decision What's he still considering Derek Well he's considering whether he can actually walk the course without further injuring himself or even just making it down the stretch Tiger Woods is really just a year out from his serious car crash where he shattered part of his right leg and needed screws and pins in a rod of his ankle just to walk again but today at a news conference he said he's not only going to play the masters down in Augusta George but he believes he can win The first round of the competition is Thursday We'll see if his body meets his mind 15 time major champ right And hasn't played on the PGA Tour in more than 17 months How are people saying he looks They're saying he looks good Rory McIlroy another champion said he spent some time with Tiger down to this home in Florida that says he looks good and that he's not surprised if anything he does including taking another crack at the master So that's just one person reacting to Tiger Woods come back here but of course his fans are all for Tiger to do his best and to take the masters again He's 46 years old Which is you know older of course and he's had a number of injuries over the course of his career This ankle shattering in that car crash last year though among the more serious But Tiger thanking his doctors and his therapist for getting them to this point And so it remains to be seen whether he'll actually win but he is definitely going to play He doesn't doubt his gulf abilities It's the walking he says that's the toughest part Forgive my ignorance Are they not allowed to use a cart Well you could use a card for part of it but not all of it And so that's the problem You've got to walk the course for a lot of the stretch And then you just stand there and really hit your shots So in many ways it's a game that you've got to use a mix of your physical attributes in order to win You've got to stand still but also use your body twist and use your upper body strength but also you've got to walk the course as well So it's a mix of both And what does it mean to the masters to have him participate I bet viewership would be up for sure Oh for sure I mean everybody who's involved with the masters in terms of organizing it And of course the telecast involved are all really excited to have him out back He's always been a big draw for the masters And so having them on the course again as a surprise really no one thought he'd actually make it back to the masters as a player maybe as someone on the sideline So it's an exciting time a big draw for the crowds and for the spectators And of course the organizers of the masters and the broadcasters will broadcast the competition And it's just such a huge comeback after nearly losing his right legs It'll be fascinating to watch him ABC's Derek Dennis thank you Derek You're welcome Well it's looking more and more like Will Smith did some damage to his bank account when he slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards Michael kessner with more Smith walked on stage and smack rock after the comedian made a joke about the actor's wife Jada Pinkett Smith Now there are reports at Netflix and Apple TV plus have dropped bids for a Will Smith biopic after the Oscar winner for king Richard clock rock this follows a couple more stories in The Hollywood Reporter One said Netflix had slowed production on the Smith movie fast and loose and that production has been slowed for the time being on bad boys four Michael Cassidy Now your stock charts dot com money update with Jim chesko Stocks took a tumble today technology shares leading the retreat the down dust dules dropped 280 points the S&P 500 shed 57 and the tech heavy NASDAQ composite skidded 328 or two and a quarter percent Investors seem to question the effectiveness of likely assertive actions by the Federal Reserve to curb inflation As inflation continues to cause concerns yeah the R word is starting to get mentioned more often Deutsche Bank today warned that the federal reserves inflation fighting efforts will spark a U.S. recession starting sometime late next year In its report the firm's economists wrote that we no longer see the fed achieving a soft landing Instead we anticipate that a more aggressive tightening of monetary policy will push the economy into our recession Analysts at RBC capital are casting down on carvana's near term prospects saying they're skeptical that the used car dealer's fundamentals could support its expansion plans RBC downgraded the stock and that sent carvana shares sliding 8.7% That's your money now Money news at 20 and 50 past the hour traffic next Stay connected Stay informed on all things COVID 24/7 breaking news as it happens from northwest news radio 1000.
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"Corwin Hank the latest clock switch revives the debate over daylight versus standard And we'll get you there with our traffic update here in just four minutes It's 6 o'clock From ABC News I'm chuck sievertson The Red Cross calls Russia's constant bombardment of Ukrainian cities nothing short of a nightmare for civilians ABC's Ian panel and Kyiv says Russian forces are still trying to close in on the capitol Military experts say the Russian invasion remains stalled in many places across Ukraine Putin's forces switching tactics to shelling towns and cities more heavily and indiscriminately A fourth round of peace talks was held by video link between Ukrainian and Russian officials to talks due to resume tomorrow State Department declines to confirm reports that Russia reached out to China for aid but spokesperson Ned price warns We will ensure that no country is able to get away with such a thing A UN office is allocated $40 million to ramp up aid to reach Ukraine's most vulnerable You see this at the gas pump up another 21 cents a gallon the average price of regular unleaded in the U.S. is now $4 32 cents a gallon according to the energy department the biggest jump seen along the West Coast up 38 more cents in the past week California roads and other 40 cents The average price of regular unleaded in California is now 5 59 a gallon a buck 86 higher than a year ago with a 17 gallon tank that's $32 more every fill up compared to a year ago Alex stone EBC news Possibly hopeful news crude oil prices have dropped to a two week low Analyst Day gasoline prices could follow An arbitrator finds a three Houston police officers and a sergeant fired after the fatal shooting of a suicidal man in 2020 can be reinstated Chief Roy finner says the officers will be retrained Every time there's a critical incident we always look at ways that we can reemphasize or improve things Police say officers open fire when Nicholas Chavez reached for one of their tasers The American academy of pediatrics and children's hospital association say child COVID infections fell again last week You're listening to ABC News Do you check your informed with the northwest's only all news station northwest news radio Good evening it is 6 O two downtown Seattle temperature under well I guess we should say wet conditions currently is 45° I'm ELISA jaffe with Rick Francis and here's what's happening Late this afternoon in King County jury awarded a $150 million to the victims of that deadly Seattle crane collapse that happened about three years ago John lobert picks up from here And we have a few technical difficulties with this report so if stand by okay here's John's report now It was April 27th 2019 when lawyers say the omega crane company failed to check high wind warnings that would have stopped the dismantling of the crane used on the Google construction project If the wind got to 11 miles an hour given that type of crane they were supposed to shut down operations Wind gusts were clocked at 25 miles an hour What were your Todd gardener It's truly a situation where you had to have both entities make cost saving time saving decisions that led to this tragedy and either one of them down their job This wouldn't have happened The 300 foot crane fell to the ground below killing four people including 19 year old Seattle Pacific freshman Sarah Wong who was crushed to death in an Uber Sarah was one of those people who would light up a room when she came in She was just full of joy and love Two iron workers from northwest tower crane were killed four other people were injured John walbert northwest news radio the CEO of Pfizer now says will likely need a fourth dose of the COVID vaccine Ryan Harris spoke to a local expert who says she wants to see the data The CDC last month reported that data shows some waning immunity over time after receiving COVID shots which UW medicine doctor sharisha Dan already says could also mean the vaccine was slightly less effective against omicron But Dan already says among the data she wants to see is how much protection we'd get from a fourth dose Doctor Danner Eddie says we may reach a point where we get COVID shots once a year like flu but she's not sure where they're yet They're definitely certain population who are going to continue to get the boosters That's our immunocompromised patients There's fourth doses already approved and whether they get ongoing doses That is probably going to be likely Dan already says with little increase in global COVID activity and no variants of interest right now combined with how generally protected we are here she thinks it's an appropriate time for most of us to lighten up on mask wearing Ryan Harris northwest news radio Washington congresswoman Kim schreier has tested positive for COVID She says she has mild cold like symptoms plans to work from home this week shrier the Democrat from Washington's 8th district says she's vaccinated and boosted And her northwest newstime 6 O four still ahead a local man has pleaded guilty to trying to join ISIS I'm Jeff pogil at details on the way Here's Marina rockinger at 6 O four with our latest traffic conditions from the dubin law group traffic center Tough time of day for this to happen but 15th avenue northwest northbound direction right at the Ballard bridge There's a collision blocking the right lane causing some very heavy traffic making the approach In mount literis north NI 5 at the county line X at number one 77 a collision is partially blocking the ramp it was already slow from one 45th in shoreline it remains that way Seth and I 5 heavy from just north of 5 20 passed I 90 south L four 5 crowded in Bellevue from southeast 8 through Newcastle continues to be slowed down to 30th in rent and south NI 5 heavy from four O 5 at south center down to 200 south by 5 a slow go at solid from highway 18 through 5 down to 54th south belt one 6 7 is heavy at ellingson off and on to Sumner Next northwest traffic at 6 14 And the 1530 mortgage dot com weather center forecast all right Keep the umbrella Here's Shannon O'Donnell at como four Why everybody Monday night here in the great Pacific Northwest it's a soggy evening around here We're going to see the steady rain for the next several hours And then that will give way to off and on scattered showers on Tuesday We'll see some sun breaks poking out for good measure but some of the lingering showers could be locally heavy Slim.
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"Radio 1000 FM 97 7 sponsored by K two vision RLE And we thank you for joining us this evening I'm Rick Francis with Alicia jaffe our editors Kathy O'Shea A Republican senator is hopeful the Senate will move forward soon on a Russia sanctions package South Carolina's Lindsey Graham said it would involve sanctions now for the provocation Russia has been engaged in with Ukraine and he said there would be more consequences after any invasion Money there will flow to Native American tribes as part of an opioid drug settlement with a major manufacturer and three distributors will not come quickly but local tribal leaders say it will play a part in healing their communities from an epidemic that's been disproportionately killing Native Americans Each of the 574 federally recognized tribes will be eligible for a share of that nearly $600 million A huge winter storm blasting across the country muddling up air travel ABC's Alex stone joining us on the northwest newsline with details thousands of flights canceled already Alex Yeah it is a mess today Lisa like normally we say it's a mess when there are 13 or 1400 flights canceled and that's what we were seeing toward the end of the year and around the new year when between COVID sitcoms and then weather that those were bad days Today right around 5000 flights have been canceled and growing the storm is big It goes Dallas to Chicago all the way up into Maine It is moving east That is a problem Chicago and Dallas are big hubs And so airlines are canceling flights today left and right These people are stuck in Dallas today Well it's always frustrating when you can't get the word you're going This frustration but there's really not much you can do you know American and Southwest are being the hardest hit southwest alone has canceled 1100 flights today only at Southwest that is supposed to video live in the world DFW and Dallas have the most canceled flights for the airport in the world So the storm is moving east toward Boston folks who try to get out there now knowing it's coming This guy he can not catch a break trying to leave I was originally scheduled to fly last Saturday which was the day of the blizzard here So he's trying to bail now And in Dallas it is ice snow today governor Greg Abbott declaring an emergency A lot of power outages there We are dealing with one of the most significant icing events that we've had in the state of Texas in at least several decades But they say the power grid at least electricity usage wise is looking pretty good It is not all bad Michigan folks are taking the day off They say hey we know how to deal with snow They're hitting the slopes They're going skin Get some runs in before it gets too busy Yeah so now it's all moving east a lot of power outages tomorrow It's going to be worse We know that this is now going to be sitting tomorrow morning over the I 95 cord or New York New England so it's going to be a rough day but today it was made rough by Dallas Houston Chicago Those are big hubs for Southwest American United So they really dealt with it today And they will move east not going to be great tomorrow When mother nature is to blame what does this mean to ticket holders Well the airlines don't have to do a whole lot for you If they completely cancel your flight they've got to give you your money back And you can say I don't want a certificate or credit I want you to refund my money But they don't have to put you up in a hotel They don't have to pay for your food You always think of that stand to get the ticket counters saying I want a certificate put me up at the Hilton tonight They don't have to do that They have to do that if it's their equipment that fails or something else staffing wise But when it comes to whether they don't need to do any of that so they can say sorry Lisa nothing we're going to do you can just wait and go in the morning and that's all they have to do Looking like this might continue through the weekend Alex Yeah at least going into the weekend hopefully by tomorrow midday it will be gone from the east coast and have moved on then But the impact of this tomorrow we know probably Baltimore for Southwest That is a big hub for them Probably not going to get any better Newark is a big hub for United So jet blue New York and Boston So it's not going to be a lot better tomorrow and then it's going to be trying to work this all out of a probably through the weekend the 5000 flights today Planes are going to be on the wrong area as pilots and flight attendants are going to be in the wrong areas Passengers are going to be stuck So then they've got to put that puzzle back together It's not going to be over by this weekend but hopefully by Saturday or Sunday they can begin working on trying to get things put back together but it's going to be a while ABC's Alex stone Thanks Alex You got it Thanks Alicia 6 50 now And let's get an update on money news from dairy Albert From ABC News Wall Street now stocks fell on a bleak earnings report from a tech giant a day ago The Dow plunging nearly 519 points the NASDAQ gave up even more closing down 584 and the NASDAQ gave up 112 Meta continue to fall the day after posting fourth quarter earnings which missed the mark The parent company of Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp plunged almost 25% erasing more than $220 billion in profit making it the largest drop in history That is expensive stock price which is the case with many big communications and tech companies has a huge influence on the markets And a big swing in either direction can go a long way toward sinking or lifting the broader market Daria albano BC news After all that And we have money news for you at 20 and 50 past every hour Check on the latest traffic and another close look at the weekend weather picture next La petite academy of Leesburg is opening soon offering programs for infants to school age students our whole child approach is more valuable than ever We.
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"Closed up over 400 points but it wasn't a great month Wall Street ends it with the loss You're listening to ABC News Stay connected stay informed 20 minutes of nonstop news continues on komo news 1000 FM 97 7 Good evening partly cloudy skies at 6 O two downtown Seattle temperature 45 I'm Alisa jaffe with Rick Francis and here's what's happening A 34 year old is behind bars a day after a man was found dead at a home in Seattle's Bryant neighborhood Police found the 72 year old's body after being called to the house along northeast 58th street yesterday evening detectives found a 34 year old person of interest who was already in the custody of another agency for something unrelated Gun violence in King County getting worse according to the annual shots fired report shootings were up by 26% in 2021 following a record year in 2020 John libertini reports In 2021 cops and King County received more than 1400 reports of shots fired But to really understand the gravity of this problem you have to look back for years to 2017 King County prosecutor Brian wynne The total number of shooting victims was up 56% fatal shooting victims was up 64% The pandemic's getting the blame but the motives are different This is a gang violence prosecutor Rafael Serrano Where we've seen the most dramatic increases have been related to domestic violence in reckless discharges for road rage The shots fired reports suggest the gunmen are getting older more of them are women and there are fewer shootings in Seattle King County prosecuting attorney Dan satterberg Why is this for response to the pandemic Why more guns Why are record gun sales Why record gun violence Why Mental health services are hard to come by but as senator put it there are no simple answers to complex problems John libertini Cuomo news The city of Seattle is cracking down on drivers who block intersections The Seattle Department of Transportation plans to add 11 cameras to automatically identify and take it those that block the box According to cross cut the cameras have become the preferred method of enforcement as an officer pulling over a vehicle tends to make traffic worse Cameras have been in place for years to take at red light runners and speeders and the city has even used them to cite drivers violating restrictions on their Spokane street bridge In 2021 traffic enforcement cameras accounted for roughly 95% of the citations issued in Seattle Jeff Pedro come on news still ahead I'm Ryan Harris with a fear tactic used to sway state lawmakers to favor proposed limits on the governor's emergency powers It's 6 O four Here's Marina rockinger with our traffic every ten minutes on the force from the juvenile group traffic center Earlier we had a closure of westbound I 90 it did reopen but it really left a massive backup all the way across Washington Well in that backup at west Mercer way we have a disabled vehicle that is blocking the HOV lane So westbound I 90 is still a real struggle across Washington I would still take 5 20 even if you need to pay that toll And south pound 405 bumper to bumper from Southeast Asia and then sluggish all the way through new castle down to 30th in rent and other big backup that has started forming and in fact a solid now is north four O 5 from totem Lake up to where we have a blocking problem in bottle at 5 two two The left lane is blocked We're seeing slowdowns still southbound I 5 in the 5 curve though it's improving in that area Next como traffic at 6 14 And the future sound forecast from the 1530 mortgage dot com weather center piers come over as Shan O'Donnell Hi everybody heading into our Monday night with just a few leftover scattered showers including over the cascades where you're going to find some snow over the passes making for some tricky driving conditions for the next several hours but settling down for the most part on Tuesday with a lot of sun breaks in the mix.
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"Two vision RLE Thank you for joining us I'm Rick Francis our editor Cathy O'Shea ELISA jaffe with the night off our headlines while the Biden administration is withdrawing their big business vaccine or test mandate some companies are going through with their own requirement On the list including Microsoft Walmart American Express CVS Health Delta Air Lines Ford McDonald's and Google Flights departing and arriving at pain field and Everett canceled again this morning is foggy weather and other restrictions hampered the airport's operation all commercial flights out of pain were canceled yesterday We'll keep a close watch and how things are shaping up for tomorrow morning Well you've been hearing about the crowds of people flooding Washington's hospitals right now during the pandemic but you're not hearing are the stories of others who have been turned away because of the precariously low supply of a lifesaving substance Brian Calvert has a closer look As Washington's hospitals burst at the seams anything elective in nature is once again on hold part of it is a staffing and or hospital bed shortage And part of it is that there's just not enough blood The teams are scrounging their I wouldn't call it desperation I don't like those kind of words But they're working very very hard to keep the blood banks stocked and every day it's harder and harder Doctor Jorge Reyes his chief of transplants at UW medicine It's almost like a wartime practice that trauma surgeons are more used to But our expectation is that there is blood right We always expect it I mean this is America the land of plenty The reality the nation as a whole has just a one day blood supply The number of regular donors has plummeted meaning even if he was allowed to do something elective Reyes probably couldn't The transplantation of organs is not an elective operation It's we consider it more of an urgent operation Doctor Reyes knows firsthand you never know when someone you love might need blood My mother lives in Ecuador and I was in Ecuador and I went to Ecuador because she fell and broke her head And she needed a blood transfusion They came in the room and they said unless you find four donors we will not be able to transfuse your mother Challenge accepted So of course I said well you will find blood for my mother And I also will find donors I'll actually donate myself I think it's a good message And she got transfused and she did fine She's fine It hasn't come down to that here yet But the fact remains hundreds if not thousands of procedures are on hold partly because finding a blood source isn't easy Doctor Rea does have a solution It's actually more of an urgent plea If you can get the wherewithal to donate and help somebody I guarantee you you're going to feel better no matter what stress you're under It's giving a gift is kind of actually receiving something So please do what you can Brian Calvert komo news Continuing on health covering up your skin means less sun exposure of course but it can also lead to drops in your body's vitamin D levels We have more from ABC's M win During the summer our bodies only need ten minutes a day of sun exposure to make vitamin D but during the winter less exposure to UVB rays limit the body's ability to make vitamin D especially in the northern half of the United States This can lead to deficiency in health problems The elderly and those with darker skin need even more sun exposure to make vitamin D and may have more severe deficiencies and adequate amounts of vitamin D can lead to weaker bones digestive problems and inflammation to help avoid these conditions you can increase your vitamin D levels in your diet by eating oily fish like tuna and salmon dairy or non dairy substitutes eggs fortified juices and mushrooms You can also take vitamin D supplements and health experts recommend at least 600 international units of vitamin D per day for adults Vitamin D three is the form of the body absorbs the best Very high levels of vitamin D can also be harmful So talk to your doctor about having your vitamin D levels.
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"Time by Beacon plumbing heating an electrical cold Beacon today and save $50 on all heating and air conditioning Just call one 800 freaking and stop freaking Beacon The future sound forecast few light rain showers moving across the Canadian border in north sound areas right now and will continue to threaten as we go into the evening down in the Seattle area Showers tomorrow and Wednesday with heiss near 50 increasing rain late Wednesday into Thursday and then trying out for the weekend It's 48 in downtown Seattle at 6 15 Stay connected stay informed The northwest's only 24 hour news station como news 1000 FM 97 7 I'm Rick Francis Lisa jaffe with the day off and our editor Cathy O'Shea in headlines the family of Martin Luther King Jr. once the Senate to honor his legacy by passing voting rights legislation MLK's granddaughter Yolanda Renee king said her grandfather's passion for equality has been passed down to her She encouraged voters to write to their senators and talk to friends and family about why protecting voting rights is so important And independent investigation by outside agencies will attempt answer questions about the fatal shooting of a person during a traffic stop by a pierce county sheriff's deputy last night near pu all of two others in the vehicle including the driver were not injured nor was the deputy who is now an administrative leave and coming up in less than 15 minutes you will hear from the couple in Bellevue whose house was destroyed after it slid off the side of a hill who have the latest coming up The voting rights porch getting a little more momentum at least today with a holiday celebrating doctor king and win is covering this for ABC News and went more in depth with Bill O'Neil And members of dozens of organizations gathered in D.C. today right Right exactly Bill Here in Washington D.C. for voting rights advocates is MLK junior day of action What that means is hundreds of people just earlier today were crossing the Frederick Douglass memorial bridge and over a hundred national and grassroots organizations gathered right here in the nation's capital And that included advocates such as doctor king's family including his eldest son I'm not always sad the holiday should be a day on not a day off Today we're not here to celebrate We're here to be on They were calling on Congress to advance voting rights legislation And for the eldest son he was saying in his speech today that democracy stands on the brink of serious troubles And so bill they are saying at this point that the Republican controlled states are stripping away the very laws their father fought to attain and all of this is happening on the heels of what we are expecting for tomorrow Senate Democrats are set to debate voting rights legislation And so in a 50 50 split Senate we are expecting that the vice president Kamala Harris will be the tiebreaker in order to actually bring the legislation up for debate And just debate I will mention because usually it takes 60 votes to get this debate even to start And in this case they have this kind of legislative loophole They don't need those other ten votes from Republicans So it's a small victory for Democrats but ultimately though they still need those Republicans to end debate and actually vote on the bill which is not going to happen So at that point I will mention we heard from some democratic aides today about what happens after that They say likely what's going to happen on Wednesday is that the majority leader Chuck Schumer could challenge that 60 vote threshold otherwise known as the filibuster that they need to get an advancement of the legislation and in order to challenge it they just need a simple majority Another 50 votes is 51 votes in this case And that could come as early as Wednesday But again we heard those dates over and over the democratic senators Joe Manchin and kyrsten sinema They are opposed to changing Senate rules So it's likely all of this will fail in the end Yeah we've heard the president actually used something of along the lines of unfinished business and describing the voting rights legislation moving forward here Will we stand against voter suppression Yes or no Will we stand against election subversion Yes or no But it doesn't seem like he has a lot of sway over those two senators does he Right And he's tried multiple times to meet with them who's even met with them recently in the past few days at The White House and it doesn't seem like they're going to change their mind But that rhetoric is even pushed into today we heard from not only the president in recorded remarks but also the vice president Kamala Harris she demanded action on voting rights in honor of doctor Martin Luther King Jr. She pledged that the administration would keep up that fight calling on the Senate to follow through with what she called the responsibility to pass this legislation and she made it clear that she still making calls and she still having these meetings on this issue but it certainly seems that even though the administration is still pushing ahead it's all just like the lack of support that they need not only from Republicans but yeah members from their own party Bill Lots of chapters still to play out here that's ABC's M win with us on the Commodus line And Bill O'Neil with the interview that brings us to 6 20 and your propellant insurance money updates Signing up for a membership has always been easier than canceling it While subscribing to an app newspaper Jim or other service may now be as.
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"Forecast from the 1530 mortgage dot com weather center now here's como meteorologist Shannon O'Donnell Still never able to thaw out in most locations today temperatures maxing out just in the upper 20s that compact snow and ice frozen solid on so many of our streets and sidewalks and you're better off with a jackhammer than a shovel trying to get through it at this point because it is just so thick and so tough to get through We'll freshen it up with a fresh coating of snow into early Thursday most of us around the sound picking up an additional one to four inches between midnight and 8 o'clock in the morning and then highs in the low to the mid 30s on Thursday In the coming four weather center I'm meteorologist Shannon O'Donnell 28 in downtown Seattle at 6 O 5 Stay connected stay informed 20 minutes of nonstop news continues on komo news 1000 FM 97 7 Good evening I'm Rick Francis with a Lisa jaffe Here's what's happening Floor families in Kent can't stay at their apartment tonight after a fire this afternoon firefighters were called to the groves apartments in the 23,000 block of a 180th place southeast just after four 30 today four of the buildings 12 units are not habitable it's still not known where the fire started Another claim of alleged voter fraud is before the state Supreme Court details from Cuomo's Jeff peja At the moment it's not even clear if the justices will hear the case as that is up to the court commissioner During a preliminary hearing on the issue the Washington election integrity coalition united a group that has aligned itself the supporters of Donald Trump and Lauren culp claimed that tens of thousands of non citizens were registered to vote in Washington But court commissioner Michael Johnston seemed very skeptical about those claims This preliminary investigation as you call it I don't see anything that established as a foundation for the rather eye popping numbers that are set forth there It's almost like somebody pulls them out of thin air I mean it's I can't really call it confident evidence It's just a bunch of numbers I have no idea where it came from Attorneys for the group say they conducted their own analysis but the commissioner pointed out that much of that rests on the unsworn statements of a single individual which amounts to nothing more than hearsay A decision on whether the court will formally hear the case is expected next week Jeff page will come on news King County is suspending in person trials for a few weeks due to COVID-19 There will be no such trials from December 28th through January 14th and no new criminal trials will start until then State health officials reported a 19% increase in cases and a 58% increase in hospitalizations largely due to a variant and most civil trials will be held virtually Well day four of the bitter cold with snow and ice covering the region more is on the way comos carling Johnson spoke with Federal Way mayor Jim farrow today about efforts to protect the homeless during this dangerously cold period Last night 25 people took shelter in the warmth and comfort of the former iconological in federal which was turned into transitional housing for families last year but also utilized in this cold weather emergency for others in need of escaping the cold fed away marriage Jim Ferrell These temperatures are dangerous If you're outside in the 20s or below it really is hazardous And that's why as a community we need to make sure that we've got the facilities to be there when they when they reach out for help Now with more snow and freezing temperatures through Thursday morning we can expect another night and morning commute that will be challenging As far as treating roadways the city website says tonight will be focused on applying de icer to the primary and secondary routes Johnson The high demand for COVID booster shots during the snowy weather has been frustrating for some people coma for its Keith Eldridge reports A lot of people are telling us that it's really a challenge for them to get a COVID-19 appointment to get a vaccination Sometimes there are weeks away but people that.
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"Jaffe and Rick Francis our editor is Kathy O'Shea Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is suing the House committee investigating the events of January 6th the former Trump administration official wants to block a subpoena for his phone records To come a police officers involved in the death of Manny Ellis last year had been exonerated from any policy violations the police chief and Tacoma says the decision follows a thorough review by the county sheriff's department state patrol and attorney general's office Three other officers though still face felony charges for the death of Ellis a black man who said he couldn't breathe as he was being detained New punishment for those airline passengers who behave badly on board airplanes ABC's faith and boob joining us on the como news line with the FAA's message just in time for holiday travel faith It really is you know and of course the reason behind this push to try to add more penalties to unruly passengers is because of the skyrocketing of a number of incidents that we've been seeing We're talking abuse threats and violence against airline workers especially flight attendants Just recently there was a survey of 5000 flight attendants 85% of them said that they had actually dealt personally with an unruly passenger since January of this year And a good number of them actually were physically assaulted And so the FAA is tired of this the numbers have been going up since 1995 The highest number of unruly passenger investigations that they had was 310 And that was the highest in 2004 in 2020 was a 183 investigations but fast forward to this year They've had more than a thousand investigations of unruly passengers So it's really really a problem It's dangerous for the workers unpleasant for other travelers So the FAA is now partnering with the TSA to really make these penalties tougher And so if you're one of those who gets fined by the FAA for being unruly at the airport or an airline on your flight you will lose your TSA PreCheck benefit They have a zero tolerance policy This new partnership is supposed to make it safer for everyone And of course TSA PreCheck is this benefit that allows you to expedite your security screening when you're at the airport go through the line faster and the federal government is making sure people know that this is a privilege not a right And so if you become one of those unruly passengers you will have to wait in line like the rest of everyone else Interesting I didn't realize that they hadn't teamed up before So this is a new partnership Yeah it is It is a new partnership I think they were trying to figure out okay how much more can we do Of course they've had these fines for a while now but they wanted to add more penalties to this And so they figured oh well if TSA PreCheck is reserved for people who are considered low risk travelers if you're unruly passenger you're not necessarily a low risk traveler You're a high risk traveler And so there are partnering to do this to make sure that these people don't have the advantage of skipping the line and then causing trouble once they're in the air What's considered unruly faith Where is the line Of course each flight attendant or each airport worker will have to share their own personal stories and then the FAA will figure out after it investigates to figure out okay does this qualify The issue is that have happened recently A lot of them have been passengers who have been refusing to wear their masks It's a federal violation The federal government requires that you wear a mask when you're at the airport and when you're on your flight And so if you refuse to wear your mask you flight attendant is asking you to wear your mask and you're fighting them That is considered unruly behavior You've had people who have been threatening these flight attendants They've threatened violence They've actually physically hit them You've had a situation You've actually had several situations recently where flight attendants have had to go to the hospital because they got into fights with unruly passengers It's a wide range of things The FDA investigates a lot of them and then they determine okay this qualifies as unruly behavior This is your criminal charges We're here are your civil penalties And those can be tens of thousands of dollars up to $37,000 per incident ABC's faith of ube Thank you so much faith Thank you 6 20 now your propellant insurance money update with Jim cesco The stock market notched brought in sharp rebound today with technology shares particularly strong The Dow Jones Industrial Average recouped 560 points the S&P 500 leaped 81 and the tech heavy NASDAQ composite rallied 360 or 2.4% Shares of Nike leaped 6.2% the athletic apparel giant late yesterday handily topped expectations with its quarterly earnings and also beat with revenue and set its gross margin increased Per share profit of 83 cents was 20 cents above analyst consensus estimate That's your money now And catch money news here at 20 and 50 past every hour still some struggles on the way home That and a look at the weather next The worst traffic in.
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"I'm Rick Francis our top story state senator Steve Hobbs has been sworn in as Washington's new Secretary of State Hobbs takes over for Kim Wyman who is leaving for a job with the Biden administration The Lake Stevens Democrat was appointed to the position by governor inslee in large part due to his military background and experience in information security Last thing we need is to have our democracy eroded By people believing that our election system is not secure when it is secure Steve Hobbs will serve until a special election is held next fall to fill out the remainder of Wyman's term Jeff pagella come on use The new 2022 budget calls for the city of Seattle to spend $7 billion on everything from economic recovery to transportation become as Ryan Harris tells us one council member took a parting shot over police spending outgoing council president Lorena Gonzalez tried but failed to shave more than $17 million from the SPD budget for 101 officer position she says the department won't fill next year and Gonzalez says that amendment would have made the SPD budget more transparent than accountable The future council will continue to struggle with holding the police department accountable to spending within its limits in large part because the failure of my aggregation amendment means the future mayor and permanent chief will have the budget by which to hoard nearly $20 million worth of general fund dollars during a historic global pandemic A statement from the downtown Seattle association says the council virtually ignored what it says was a clear message from voters by not coming up with a real strategy to address homelessness and improve public safety Ryan Harris come on is Amazon will pay the state of Washington more than $2 million after being accused of improperly selling highly regulated pesticides online State attorney general bob Ferguson says the law in Washington is very clear These chemicals are regulated for a reason pesticides are dangerous for human health and they are dangerous for environment And that's why they are so strictly regulated So it's frankly deeply concerning that a company is large and sophisticated Amazon was failing to meet the most basic safeguards for selling those products Ferguson says Amazon was selling the pesticides without proper licenses and was not collecting required information still ahead A ten year old missing woman cold case gets another look I'm Kelly Blair the latest on the Laurel Sinclair case ahead First though a check on our como traffic would do that for you every ten minutes on the forest from the deuben law group traffic center here against Kimi Kline We'll keep an eye out for a crash reported he's found 5 two senior echo Lake road I can't get a camera shot of him but it's keeping it busy out of Maul B we do have a crash in Everett north on 5 just north of the Boeing freeway see a medic still with it blocking the carpool lane So a very short backup there and we had a crash in the north on 5 express lanes just before northgate but everyone is on the right shoulder of that Either way it's keeping it busy into and out of Seattle both directions of I 5 In fact sell 5 at northeast 45th an accident blocks the left lane so you're heavy from Lake city way all the way to the west Seattle bridge And if you're headed to the south end we're seeing delays south and I fly from inner urban avenue up the south center hill and then heavy again from highway 18 throughout 5 you could still see Pacific highway eastern 5 shut down between the portage coma road and Milwaukee for an accident investigation and volumes on one 6 7 are mostly heavy now south of highway 18 in a pulp with some lingering delays on southbound 5 around JBL Lim but that's actually starting to improve Your next gomo traffic is 6 14 Here's the weather outlook from Shannon O'Donnell Why everybody Monday night here in the great Pacific Northwest it's damp it's cool it's a little breezy it's the way November's supposed to be here as we head into the late part of the month and Thanksgiving is waiting just around the corner Tomorrow a little bit brighter out there from time to time with fewer showers more sun breaks in between them but still damp at times Wednesday does look mainly dry and that's a good day for travel before Thanksgiving The holiday itself is looking damp and gusty as thanksgivings usually do around here In the coming four weather center I'm meteorologist Shannon O'Donnell It's cloudy and 46 in downtown Seattle and that.
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"I'm tamma folks traffic Forecast we have a little rain again in the forecast for tomorrow afternoon after a morning that's going to be dry It looks like for the commute in and then back to some dry weather again Wednesday morning with afternoon rain again Both tomorrow and Wednesday about 60 Downtown now 48 Stay connected stay informed como news sponsored by tub cove bathroom and shower remodel Thanks for joining us I'm Rick Francis with Alicia jaffe After some spirited debate today the Supreme Court Justices seem prepared to let abortion providers seek a federal court challenge to the Texas abortion law that bans abortions after 6 weeks ABC's Derek Dennis joining us on the communist line with what happened today and all eyes on justice Brett Kavanaugh Yeah that's right Just as Kavanaugh and also just as Amy Coney Barrett two conservative members of the court who express some concern about the Texas abortion law and the challenges to it There were more than three hours of oral arguments before the Supreme Court with two separate challenges to the law known as SBA one was brought by the actual providers of abortions in Texas and another by the Justice Department and basically these challenges are trying to stop the law police and injunction on it to stop it in its tracks basically So that abortions would not be happening And that's currently the case right now So the injunctions are to try to keep it on the books and stop any challenges from happening So it's right now in the hands of the justices of the Supreme Court They're expected to issue a ruling in the next in the coming days or within the next weeks or so And let's talk about what each of those justices did just as Kavanaugh said permitting a challenge might be equivalent to closing a loophole Right And the loophole is basically that there's precedent that explicitly forbids federal courts from enjoining state courts or even judges to challenge them about hearing cases basically preventing them from being challenged at the federal level when it's a state court issue And that's what is at stake here This is a state law in Texas but it's being challenged at the federal level and the justices Kavanaugh as well as Amy Coney Barrett expressing some reservation about whether that can actually happen whether a federal challenge is lawful on a state law So that there is the crux for the Supreme Court Justices to weigh out And then justice Barrett was talking about the law being structured to keep it so that providers couldn't present a full constitutional defense Right And what you have here in the law is penalties for ordinary citizens anyone who aids in a bet someone from getting an unlawful abortion And so that's what Cody Barrett was sort of referring to She finds it problematic that anyone would try to challenge that aspect of the law saying this was decided at the state level It was upheld at the state level Why is it now being challenged at the federal level So she expressed some reservations there Talk about how high the stakes are in this case Oh it's very high I mean they're saying that this is the challenge to roe versus wade the landmark abortion law that allowed for abortions in this country And so they're saying that this Texas law really flies in the face of that And it's risen all the way to the Supreme Court level And keep in mind the Supreme Court decided not to hear it some months ago kicking it back to the state level and that's why the law is still on the books in Texas So now it's before them again So they're going to have to make a decision It is unlikely that they'll make the same decision to kick it back to the states to the state of Texas They're going to have to make a decision It's just a matter of when and what ABC's Derek Dennis thank you so much Derek You're welcome 6 15 now at como news Your propel insurance money update now from rob Smith at Seattle business magazine Amazon fresh stores have been open only 8 months but they already have steady.
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"Stay connected. Stay informed. 20 Minutes of nonstop news continues on common news. 1000 FM 97 7 officially made it to the weekend. It is a Friday night in Seattle six to downtown Seattle. Still, some light drizzle here and their current temperature 65 degrees. I'm ELISA Jaffe with Rick Francis. And here the top stories from the coma 24 7 News center, a new development in the case involving the police officers charged with killing many Ellis combos, Charlie Harder tells us It involves evidence. We're just now learning about that issue is a cell phone found at the scene, the State Patrol announced. Investigators will now put it under a forensic investigation. Ellis died in March of 2020 after a confrontation with Tacoma. Police. Prosecutors and the Ellis family say what officers did was excessive and illegal to TPD. Officers are charged with murder, another charged with manslaughter. The officers all pleaded not guilty. The three are out on bail as the trial approaches Charlie Harder KOMO news nearly two years after a deadly drive by shooting on highway five Oh 93 people charged now with homicide in the first degree, James Richardson was shot and killed while driving south on the highway in Burian back in December of 2019. A passenger in Richardson's car was not hurt. Troopers of the time say the shots were fired from a car in an adjacent lamb. Union carpenters in our area are voting now on whether to walk off the job or accept contractors. Latest offer come with Ryan Harris has details. The offer up for a vote comes with a raise of more than 20% over four years retroactive to win. The contract expired in June, a boost to benefit contributions and parking reimbursement expanded to parts of Bellevue. Evelyn Shapiro, with the Northwest Carpenter's Union, says bargainers recommend accepting the contract. But she says members are divided. Some of our carpenters think this is a fantastic contract, and some of them struggle with it. And so in this division, we either have to decide to unite under the contract or unite under a strike if members choose to strike.
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"Opening attachments that looks suspicious or that you weren't expecting that's Cuomo's Tyra Majors. 3 14. Here's Marina Rock injure with Cuomo traffic from the juvenile law Group Traffic Center. We've been talking about this for a couple hours now in federal way. Highway 18 a collision between two semis that resulted in a fire. Has the eastbound lanes of highway 18 completely blocked. We have one lane getting through. It looks like westbound and we have the ramps to highway 18 completely blocked as well. So it's a tough one right now. In the federal way area this affects traffic north on I five. Coming out of the five curves. So that's bumper to bumper eastbound highway 5 12 at Canyon and Parkland. We have a collision that is partially blocking that eastbound 5 12 exit to Canyon Road as we start to see volume increasing on the roads. We also have an issue and ever at North 25 approaching 41st Broadway exit exit number 1 92 carpooling is blocked and blocked and that is now stop and go Traffic from 112th. Your next chemo traffic at 3 24 whether tonight we drop down to about these sixties or high fifties. Otherwise, tomorrow we'll have early clouds, afternoon sunshine and a high of 71. Downtown Seattle now 75. Stay connected. Stay informed. The Northwest only 24 hour news station. Coma news, 1000 FM 97 7 Bill O Neill at the editor's desk. Good afternoon. I'm Rick Francis with ELISA Jaffe. All flights are being suspended at Tampa International Airport.
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"Tub Cove, bathroom and shower. Remodel. We thank you for joining us. Bill O Neill is at the editor's desk with ELISA Jaffe. I'm Rick Francis. Governor Greg Abbott says Texas is going to build its own border wall. Abbott said law enforcement will target undocumented migrants who are engaged in trespassing, human smuggling and criminal mischief. The Republican says illegal immigrants need to be put in jail for breaking the law while criticizing the federal government for lax security. Seattle's Office of Police Accountability says an officer followed proper procedures last year when he shot at the suspect who threw a flaming piece of lumber inside the officer's cop car. The burning wood injured. The officer who fired seven shots in response did not injured the suspect. The nation's unemployment lines keep getting shorter. The Labor Department reports 376,000 Americans filed first time claims for jobless benefits last week 9000 fewer than the previous week. Bankrate dot com's senior economic analyst, Mark Hamrick spoke with Cuomo's Tom Hudler, just like a golf score. Good to see that number going down and I'll see one before the other. It won't be Michael score, but But no, you can waive the sixth straight weekly decline on the national number. It's a fresh pandemic. Whoa there on the number of new jobless claims. You're in the state of Washington even more pronounced decline of 1200 to 9000 new claims, So these numbers are moving in the right direction for a job market that's continuing to heal. All right. What are some of the other takeaways from the report, for instance, the continuing claims and a lot of people who are still getting some sort of jobless benefit. That's right. So continuing claims is the total number of benefits that are paid to the traditional state programs. Think of the situation before the pandemic with the federal government added a couple of programs so that number is 3.5 million. Compare that to a year ago. 19 million, so a big decline there, but still, we have 15.3 million people on some form of unemployment benefit. Remember, those federal programs are basically set to go away around Labor Day, and many states are beginning to take them away anyway, or at least attaching a work search requirements. So I think these big numbers are probably going to receive. Of course, more people are going back to work as well. More people are going back to work, and more people are looking for people to work for them. There are still seems to be a kind of a logjam of availability, in some cases, and in some particular industries, absolutely leisure and hospitality bars and restaurants, retailing also manufacturing, It tends to be the lower paid or entry level jobs that are the hardest to fill these days. This is, I would say part of the price of the reopening in the economy after the unprecedented shutdown the last year. Meanwhile, inflation made its biggest jump in nearly 13 years last month, with consumer prices in May about 5% higher than May of last year. What do you make of those numbers today? Again? You know, just unprecedented circumstances here, and we see the things leading the way and they increase in the CPI used car and truck prices, airfares and the cost of clothing. You know, reopening the economy comes after prices had been depressed a year ago, when demand really cratered, and so as demand has come back for those things that we just mentioned. The prices are going now, but I think most if not all, these things will settle out by the end of the year. As we get the supply change the supply of the things we need evening out. And, for example, the airlines are able to provide as many flights as people are hoping to take right now. All right, Mark, go work on that golf game, and we'll hope for lower stores next week. Four. Thank you Talk to you soon. That is Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst at bankrate dot com. And that's Ko most Tom Hudler, 5 15 and your car will propel insurance Money Update now from Seattle Business magazine. Here's editor Rob Smith, home buying and mortgage company Fly. Holmes has raised $150 million. The Seattle startup will use the cash to expand into multiple new markets and fuel growth in its six current markets Fly home says it has bought and sold more than $2.5 billion worth of homes since its founding five years ago. Chase has opened a branch in a long time prominent McDonald's location on Sixth Avenue in Seattle's Denny Triangle..