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"Thumbs up to former president Trump. All ahead on America in the morning. It's 7 passed and a busy day yesterday on Capitol Hill as both the House and Senate held hearings following the holiday meltdown that led to nearly 17,000 canceled flights for Southwest Airlines, their executives were grilled by members of the Senate commerce and transportation committee. Correspondent Clayton Neville reports. It was a late December nightmare for many Southwest Airlines passengers, a headache that lingered for days. Now the Senate commerce and transportation committee is demanding answers from the Dallas based airline. Committee chairwoman senator Maria Cantwell was tough on Southwest, but also said it's time to take a look at the airline industry as a whole. We need to make sure that consumers are consulted, that their reimbursement fees are continually being held up. Southwest CEO bob Jordan wasn't at the hearing but operating chief Andrew watterson was, he apologized for the holiday disruption and said simply. We messed up. But he did attempt to explain saying the airline wasn't equipped to handle the weather conditions at some airports, essentially exposing a scheduling software problem, our high rates of cancellation and Denver and Chicago were 25% of our flight crews are based, cause our crews to be displaced. At this point, the disruption changed from a weather event to a crew event that was unique to us. It's an issue pilots say they've been bringing up for years. It's our pilots have been sounding the alarm about southwest's inadequate crew scheduling technology and outdated operational processes. Those warnings have been summarily ignored by Southwest leaders. Casey Murray's the president of the Southwest Airlines pilots association and told the committee, it's crucial for all Southwest labor employees to be at the table in fixing the problem. Really addressing our process failures and how that's going to be programmed into our IT, the frontline operators must be involved. A southwest says some software updates are being rolled out this weekend and insists teams are looking at how to solve the icing and winter equipment issues. Passenger advocacy groups told Congress though the solution goes beyond upgrades at Southwest. Some calling for a rule allowing displaced passengers, seats on other airlines. Also calling on Congress to take a closer look at the current state of air travel in the U.S.. Senator Ted Cruz took it a step further. Reauthorizing the federal aviation administration. The general consensus in Congress regarding Southwest and air travel in general was that it's time to put people over profits. I'm Clayton Neville. 9 passed on the other side of the capitol House Republicans launched what they've called the marquee investigation of their new majority with an assertion, the federal government has been used against conservatives. Ed Donahue has that story. November 18th, 2021, an FBI whistleblower discloses to Republicans on the House judiciary at the FBI created a threat tag for parents voicing their concerns at school board meetings. April 26th, 2022, another FBI whistleblower discloses that the FBI employees are being run out of the bureau for attending conservative political events. Republicans are calling it the weaponization of government. The panel is led by Ohio's Jim Jordan, protecting the First Amendment shouldn't be partisan protecting the constitution shouldn't be partisan and protecting the fundamental principle of equal treatment under the law should not be partisan. Much of what was heard was partisan and sometimes inaccurate testimony in much of the grievances were about actions taken by federal officials when former president Donald Trump was in office. In response, Democrats brought in Maryland's Jamie Raskin, who was on the committee, investigating the capitol riot. It's all about restoring Donald Trump, the twice impeached former president to the office. He lost by 7 million votes in 2020 and tried to steal back in a political coup and violent insurrection. Raskin said it was the Trump administration that brought weaponization to frightening new levels across the board. Ed Donahue, Washington. Former vice president Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing investigations into former president Trump. The probe is being led by a special counsel Jack Smith, who's looking into both documents and testimony related to the January 6th riot at the U.S. capitol, and also into the former president's alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office. Trump had said last year that he would not partake in the investigation against him, it's not clear whether Pence will claim executive privilege. 11 after, female member of Congress attacked when America in the morning returns after these messages.
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"Three weeks ago, she says thieves broke into her store. They had just completely broken out the lock of the front door and got in that way. She and other rents and business owners saying they've seen a spike in retail crime in the past year. Brent and police say that's around the same time, they started to see a jump. During the pandemic, especially once things started to open back up, that became more and more brazen. About a couple of weeks ago, 7 people were arrested as part of an organized retail theft operation that happened here at targets and also beauty. The arrest happened within the span of about 5 hours. I'm glad they caught some people because I know that it's been happening a lot down here and it feels like there was kind of nothing happening. In Renton, Mohit, come on use. One of Washington senators is helping sponsor new legislation aimed at cleaning up what space exploration efforts leave behind. Northwest news radio's Brian Calvert explains. To fully grasp this one, we start with that event from March of 2021. Do you remember the night fires seemed to be streaking across the sky here in Washington? Wait, what's going on? I don't know. I was just getting ready for bed, and then my Twitter timeline blew up with, oh, it's alien invasion over Seattle. Harvard astrophysicist doctor Jonathan McDowell told us at the time that no it wasn't an invasion. We'd been expecting this rocket stage to reenter, sometime in that next few hours. And so it was a pretty quick calculation for me like a minute or two to bring up the orbit data and confirm that, yes, it would have been over the Pacific Northwest the next day, everyone confirmed it was indeed the afore named rocket burning up right before our eyes, but a farmer in rural grant county Washington will be the first to tell you that rocket didn't burn up completely. He found what was left the next day. The March 2021 event isn't rare, not at all, says doctor McDonald. Something like this happens about once a week, somewhere in the world. Which is why senator Maria Cantwell is stepping in and introducing Congress to the orbital sustainability act. Her plan, maybe we should be good stewards of outer space and go clean up all those spent rockets and whatnot before they come burning back into our atmosphere or worse these used up carcasses end up in the way of future space missions and cause problems or accidents. The build guesses there are 8000 tons of space junk currently orbiting the earth, including almost a million pieces that could eventually knock out satellites. The bill includes $150 million in funding, that's to identify the most lethal pieces of junk in space and develop
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"62 in Seattle. Stay connected, stay informed, news radio 1000 FM 97 7. Good evening it is 7 O 6 I'm Kelly blier and here's what's happening. The NTSB has released a preliminary report on the crash of a seaplane nearly two weeks ago that killed ten people. Details from northwest news radios Jeff poggio. The report doesn't speculate on a cause as much of the wreckage still needs to be recovered from the bottom of mutiny bay, but it does say the plane was manned by an experienced pilot and it underwent maintenance just days before the flight. A review of flight data shows the plane increased in altitude before going into a nosedive and crashing into the waters off whidbey island. Witnesses say it was spinning in a near vertical descent before it went down. Efforts to recover the plane and the victims will begin later this month. Jeff pozole and northwest news radio. A big ceremony today ahead of Sunday's reopening of the west Seattle bridge, the span was shut down on March 23rd, 2020, when cracks discovered 7 years earlier, grew by two feet in two weeks. Senator Maria Cantwell lobby Congress for repair money. $37 million from the federal government to say yes, we understand how important west Seattle is to the city of Seattle and to the economy of Washington state. Since then, residents have suffered through detours and long commutes to them, Seattle mayor Bruce harrell says, thank you. The people who lies were impacted by this two and a half years that had commute schedules had to get to work, medical appointments. I want to thank them for their patience. Transportation officials won't say exactly when
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"A Martinez and Culver City California. And I must Mahal than Washington D.C.. President Biden is expected to sign a bill soon that's the result of a rare show of bipartisan unity on Capitol Hill. Last week, Congress passed legislation that invests billions of dollars in American made technology, specifically those tiny microchips that power our computers and cars. But this bill is not just about the economy. It's also about national security. It's intended to give the United States a competitive edge over China. Senator Maria Cantwell is a Democrat from Washington state she's one of the architects of this bill known as the chips act and she joins us now Thank you so much, senator for coming on morning edition. Good morning, Osmo. So senator, this is a $280 billion bill, and I want you to get it specific with us. Here, where will we see some of this money go? Well, specifically, you'll see this money go to attract and incent the development of chip design in the United States. That's the key technology that we want to lead the world in. This is something we've fallen off of in the past. We used to be producing 31% of these chips in the United States and we fell down to 12, but not only do we want to get that number back up, we want to design the next generation of chips for new technologies. And when we talk about job growth then, I mean, are we talking about years out at this point to see some of these some of these benefits from this piece of legislation? Oh no, no, no, we're talking now. We're talking, we're in a we're in a horse race, if you will, we are in the information age, and people want to say, where are we going to develop the next best generation of chip technology? We want them to say in the United States of America. That's why we're passing this bill. It is literally a historic moment in the history of our race to lead in manufacturing. And in key sectors that are going to be dependent on these chips. So you'll see very soon, groundbreaking is in Ohio, Arizona, Texas, and other parts of the United States where we're going to be attracting that investment and getting those jobs here. I want to ask you about some of the criticism of this bill. We heard senator Bernie Sanders say that the bill gives blank checks to profitable microchip companies. What is your response to this sort of criticism? America's future isn't guaranteed, we have to earn it. And in an information age, one of the key things that you have to do is make the United States the basis for that technology, ecosystem. And since we've fallen off as a percentage of GDP, our investment in research and development, that research and development has gone overseas to other countries. And so we fallen behind. This represents an opportunity for 300,000 jobs in the United States that are going to be well paying jobs based on the technology of the future. But we have to invest in the R&D. United States used to be a 2% of our GDP in R&D and we've fallen down to point 6%. So it's time to up the investment. Senator, are there guarantees in this bill that microchip companies will use the money to add jobs? Here in the United States. And what's to prevent them from, you know, taking some of this money and put it into factories or a facilities abroad. Well, two things, there are guardrails in the bill that say that that has to happen. And we have a great secretary of commerce who also has the ability to then claw back these dollars given to companies if in fact those development goes overseas. So commerce secretary raimondo has been very clear that this has to be a U.S. investment. My understanding is that the chips act that you all pass last week is, in fact, a slimmed down package of what you had originally wanted. Are there going to be any efforts to revive some of the nuggets that did not make it into this final bill? Yeah, so I hope we'll still work in a bipartisan fashion, besides the investment in chips, this bill has a lot in workforce training because these are great jobs for the future. Stem to get the next generation of young people really thinking about these sectors of our economy. But we will come back to the table and look at other aspects of the foreign policy and security that weren't part of this legislation and hopefully get them in a revised conference report later in the fall. You know, senators just briefly, you mentioned bipartisanship of this bill certainly had a good number of Republicans and Democrats support it. Do you have the sense that some of the additional things you all would want to get through could get that level of bipartisan support? Yes, literally the bill came out of 7 different committees. And we just passed the biggest chunk of what that is. The future of America in high-tech. But we have to do the rest of it. And we have to keep working together to show people we can collaborate. All right. Thank you very much, senator. Thank you. That senator Maria Cantwell, she chairs the Senate committee on commerce science and transportation. For decades, the soft drink Sprite has come at a green bottle, but starting today
KOMO
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"Coming up. I'm Ryan Harris with how one big CAUTI is dealing with gun violence as a public health crisis It's 7 30. Steven air says the rioters who attacked the capitol on January 6th, 2021 thought they were following orders from former president Trump. I was hanging on every word he was saying. Everything he was putting out, I was falling. And I mean, if I was doing it hundreds of thousands or millions of other people are doing it, or maybe even still doing it. There's who pleaded guilty to his role in the insurrection testified at today's January 6th committee hearing. President Biden is on his way to Israel for stop on his Mideast trip. Police in Southern California want help from the public as they look for a suspect who robbed two 7 11s and two donut shops in the San Fernando valley over the weekend. No car scene, no vehicle scene. That's why we think he might be a transient. LA deputy police chief Allen Hamilton, a million gallons of oil have been collected since April of 2019 from the nation's longest oil spill off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Twitter sued Elon Musk to force him to complete his acquisition of the company. ABC News. Stay connected, stay informed with the northwest's only all news station. Northwest news radio. Good evening is 7 31. I'm Kelly blier and here's what's happening. Senator Maria Cantwell is introducing legislation to help protect a woman's right to get an abortion. Details from Jeff pojo. She and 33 other Democrats have introduced the freedom to travel for healthcare act. It would bar states like Texas that are looking to criminalize women, traveling out of state to seek abortion care. Cantwell spoke on the issue last week. These laws take rights away from women that they have had for decades. But it's unlikely Kent wells proposal could clear unexpected Republican filibuster. Jeff pozole and northwest news radio. The plan to reduce spiking violent crime is already in action in Tacoma. It started with phase one last week, which involves making police highly visible in areas that data collected shows are known crime hotspots. Doctor Robert tiller from the University of Texas San Antonio was part of the team helping Tacoma police with his plan. He says the next phase is a place based strategy where they work to learn why certain areas are more susceptible to crime. Can we change this calculus? Can we make the victim or the target less attractive, less vulnerable? Can we impact the motivation of the offender potentially and or can we change the conditions to present more security or guardianship? Tillier says that part of the plan also involves the help of a large number of public agencies community groups and others. It's not just a small number of places but a small number of people involved in most of the violence of phase three involves trying to help them find a path away from crime so they don't end up in jail. Gun violence is treated as a public health emergency in Washington's largest county, Ryan Harris has more on that approach. King County public health made a presentation to a Seattle city council committee, which included the goal of interrupting violence now and a focus on a small group of younger people who numbers show are involved in most of the violence, concentrated in certain parts of the city and county. Public health salutary says providing services to families includes a strategic approach to looking at younger siblings who are often directly impacted by their elder siblings involvement in gun violence. And so we have a referral strategy to catch those young people and help support them so that perhaps we can prevent the next incident to violence. The difference is that approach has led by community organizations rather than law enforcement, as they implement the plan list says they want to hear from people in the community, including the voices of youth so they can learn from those most impacted by violence. Ryan Harris northwest news radio. The FBI is investigating a Seattle man for allegedly threatening to kill congresswoman pramila jayapal. This guy went to her home and made some threats. Casey McNulty, with the King County prosecutor's office as the man was armed with a handgun when he was arrested. Court documents indicate he was targeting representative jayapal largely because the congresswoman is of Indian descent, bale has been said at half
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"Northwest news radio 1000 FM 97 7 and streaming on your smart speaker, northwest news and the world. Twitter's board of directors tweeting they intend to sue Elon Musk now that he's abandoning his $44 billion bid to buy the company. A push to free Britney griner is growing. We stand rock solid behind Brittany grinder at this stage, did what she is going through. The reverend Al sharpton at a news conference today after the WNBA star pleaded guilty to drug charges in a Moscow court. Former president Trump on the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. His assassination is not only a grievous atrocity. It's a devastating loss for the entire world. We will miss him greatly. Mister Trump at the start of a rally in Las Vegas, the transportation department urging airlines to make it easier for families to sit together on planes at no extra charge. The south entrance to Yosemite National Park is closed as the washburn fire grows. Daria albinger, ABC News. Stay connected, stay informed with the northwest's only all news station northwest news radio. Good evening at a 7 31. I'm Kelly blye and here's what's happening. Senator Maria Cantwell says Congress is working on several fronts to stem the tide of inflation, John libertini reports. U.S. senator Maria Cantwell contends breaking the supply chain gridlock is critical. She's focused on cars and semiconductors. Is tampering the cost of cars. Cars are up 40% for used cars just because people don't have enough chips to get new cars. Then the high cost of prescription drugs. If you ask consumers, this is the number one concern they have. During a recent roundtable in Seattle, Cantwell pointed the finger at the drug market for pocketing discounts intended for patients. We want to see a federal policeman on the beat in the Federal Trade Commission whose job it is to call out unfair and deceptive practices. And gas prices, much like the energy crisis 20 years ago, Cantwell blames unregulated traders. The gas prices right now are being set by as little as a few trades on these dark indexes that no one has any transparency and oversight of. Congress is considering it all that is one Washington Republican put it, the Biden administration shut down American energy for its own agenda. John libertini, northwest news radio. President Biden today issued an executive order to protect access to emergency contraception and patient privacy this in response to overturning roe versus wade. But democratic congresswoman Kim schreier says it's not enough. Ultimately what we need is for Congress to make row the law of the land. None of Washington's Republican representatives responded to our request for comment. Congresswoman Kim schreier wants Congress to help farmers, Jeff poggiolo reports. After meeting with Washington cherry growers, the east side Democrats says the ag industry needs support from the other Washington. You know, it's really research that it's going to help our farmers and our or to this understand how to deal with future weather events. She says crop insurance just isn't enough. Try or serves on the agricultural committee in the House. Now her likely opponent this fall, Republican Reagan Dunn, does not address farming on his campaign website and is not responded to our request for comment. Jeff pojo and northwest news radio. Police have arrested a man. They say killed another man over the weekend in lacy, the shooting was called in at around 11 p.m. Saturday, south of rainier vista community park, another call came in soon after saying there was a man shot along 50th avenue
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"Local northwest stories. Joey deliberations have begun over whether Seattle police officers follow policy the day they shot and killed Charlene lyles. Leigh Anne wynne has the latest on today's testimony. Testimony focused on police training and what happened from officer Steven mcnew perspective. He told the jury, other uses of force, like using his baton, were not viable because of the imminent threat of lyles coming at him with two knives. While initially had called to report a burglary that day, and though the officers were aware of her previous incident with police where she showed quote crisis behavior, they tried not to let it impact them as they took the burglary report. The police department trains us and expects us to not hold those prior incidents against somebody. It's information to help inform what we do, but we are expected to treat all people. Regardless of their criminal histories or their crisis histories, as they are when they present to us. And officer mcnew went on to say he believes he followed his training and police policies that day, and that he had no other reasonable alternatives other than to fire his weapon at lyles, ultimately killing her. Coma four's linen win. Leaders, I should say, with abortion fears escalating Washington senator Maria Cantwell is reaching out to the U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland on abortion rights. I am sending a letter to the Department of Justice to attorney general Merrick Garland to ask for clarity from these individual states and state laws. Because it's legally possible for abortion providers from Washington and women from other states to be charged with murder. Doctor neriman hemati is with the Washington medical association. They want
WTOP
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"Our producer and the top story we're following for you today This is the day that the U.S. will announce new sanctions against Russia in the wake of the atrocities discovered in bucha A U.S. official says the sanctions in coordination with the G 7 and EU include a sweeping package of measures that will impose significant cost on Russia and send it further down the road of economic financial and technological isolation The official also says the package will include a ban on all new investment in Russia increased sanctions on financial institutions and state owned enterprises in Russia and sanctions on government officials and their family members These measures are expected to degrade key instruments of Russian state power impose acute and economic harm on Russia and hold accountable The Russian kleptocracy that funds the war News Ukrainian president zelensky says Russia has committed the worst war crimes since World War II and he's calling for a Nuremberg style tribunal to investigate and prosecute any Russians involved CBS News correspondent Holly Williams has more from Venice Ukraine Ukraine says butcher is just the tip of the iceberg and the city of Murray a pole may have experienced even worse horrors They can't be counted yet because it's still under siege with around a 100,000 people thought to be trapped A Red Cross evacuation convoy had to turn back after being detained by Russian forces NATO's security secretary general says Russia will likely launch a new offensive over the coming weeks targeting Ukraine's eastern region Meantime President Biden has approved a $100 million transfer of javelin anti armor missiles to Ukraine bringing the total of U.S. Military assistance to $2.4 billion since President Biden took office last January The javelin missiles are funded as part of a broader $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine approved by Congress last month Oil executives are set to be grilled today by a congressional committee about soaring gas prices WTO's Mitchell Miller has more now from Capitol Hill Top executives from Exxon Chevron and BP America are among those who will appear before a House energy panel And there's no doubt where Democrats will be coming from The title of the hearing is gouged at the gas station Big oil and America's pain at the pump Washington state senator Maria Cantwell has already chaired a Senate commerce hearing related to oil prices and middlemen Americans have the right to know why one of our most important commodities doesn't have the right amount of proper transparency and oversight Republicans charge Democrats are trying to shift the blame from the president's energy policies which they argue have contributed to higher gas prices and inflation On Capitol Hill Mitchell Miller WTO news The House select committee investigating the capital insurrection January 6th will consider contempt of Congress charges for two aides to former president Trump There will be an hour of debate than a formal vote on this resolution recommending criminal prosecution against Dan scavino and Peter Navarro two Trump aides accused of stonewalling the house January 6th committee in both of whom are accused of having knowledge of what was going on in The White House In the administration in the days before January 6th To recruit Americans to come to Washington with the false premise.
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"Nearly 20,000 Americans are admitted to hospitals each day to be treated for COVID that's down 8% from last week overall to a better place with each wave But we just have to recognize that we're not really at the end of the world just yet even though things will be much better in the coming weeks ABC's medical contributor Doctor John brownstein the U.S. has sent approximately 80 tons of missiles and launchers to Kyiv to be used if Russia invades a queen Is to raise the potential cost of an invasion by way of supplying these systems By the way these are sophisticated best in the best in class systems And Putin knows that they're that good Lieutenant general Doug luta former U.S. representative to NATO 39 people have been missing for days They're believed to have been on a human smuggling boat that capsized off Florida's eastern coast Stocks closed lower today the NASDAQ down more than 300 points Stereo Alvin are ABC News Como news 1000 FM 97 7 7 31 37° art Sanders top local stories now from the 24/7 news center as Washington's hospitals deal with a still growing number of COVID patients their administrators have another concern over a bill that would set strict numbers of patients for each nurse on duty Our state has avoided healthcare rationing or crisis standards of care because hospitals have worked together to balance their patient loads Washington state hospital association vice president taya briley says the nurse to patient ratios proposed would end load leveling because hospitals would need to reserve all their staff and their beds for their own communities If we have these ratios in place throughout the pandemic many washingtonians who are served by hospitals outside their community would have lost their lives Well they also says hospitals would have to hire more nurses which would take the limited number away from other services like long-term care facilities She points to California where ambulances have been lined up outside Los Angeles hospitals in patients are unable to get in Calling the omo cron variant the worst of the pandemic struggling restaurant owners took their stories to a round table today with United States senator Maria Cantwell John Lowe martini reports The problems are multiplying This fourth quarter we've lost so much money It's just been shocking We're stunned Supply chain delays are driving up costs and omicron is taking a bigger toll on employees Steve valenti runs the mighty bowl in Vancouver You've probably all seen it where you're going to your favorite restaurant and you show up And they're not open And there's a note on the door that said too many staff are sick The restaurant industry is pushing for a second round of federal aid Anthony Anton heads the Washington hospitality association And we know that there's 4000 Washington restaurants who applied qualified and did not get it U.S. senator Maria Cantwell told the roundtable there's a push to increase the restaurant revitalization fund from 29 billion to $60 billion We think this should be a priority within the next 60 days Trouble is time is running out for restaurant owners many who have used their homes as collateral to stay in business John libertini como nude in a controversial vote Celia Seattle city council effectively voted to continue hazard pay for grocery store workers the four to two vote upheld a move by X mayor Jenny durkan and continues the $4 an hour pay ramp Bump that is city councilman shama sohan Go see what goes have risked their lives on poverty wages to make food available to all of society throughout this crisis Calcium and Alex Peterson voted against the continuation of hazard pay Their lives on poverty wages to make food available to all of society throughout this crisis The northwest grocery association rejected the vote saying we are extremely frustrated with the Seattle council This is a completely unfair and illogical hazard pay ordinance Both University of Washington and Seattle university will return to in person classes January 31st Schools moved online for the first four weeks of winter classes while COVID cases were spiking 7 34 traffic every ten minutes on the fours from the dupin law group traffic center Tama Fulton At earlier stall we were watching in Seattle westbound on 5 to wanna get in The Motley Fool of our baby was doing the brave way that's been cleared away and is no longer causing a blocking issue in the burian areas Don't washing a crash eastbound on 148th street at first avenue south that's causing a bit of a backup from former avenue south and in takua across south on 5 just before interurban avenue has the.
Wall Street Breakfast
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"News air travel continues to return with a vengeance as many look to take a long do summer vacation or see family for the first time in more than a year. Another high mark would set on sunday despite a renewed threat from rising corona virus case. Numbers fueled by the delta verion more than two point two million people went through airport checkpoints nationwide according to the transportation security administration notching the highest number since february twenty eighth twenty twenty thought bubble. Not only does the. Us have strong vaccination rate. It just reached seventy percent of all adults but the country also has a strong domestic market contrast that to nations that rely more on international travel or require digital health passes or negative. Pr tests to board a plane for the broader market. Airline industry executives are relying on the easing of travel restrictions for things to snap back and some say consolidation may be in the cards post pandemic as carriers look to shore up their balance sheets. Meanwhile the resurgence of travel coupled with bad weather has led to delays and flight cancellations airlines are struggling to rebuild networks that have been caught short staff after urging employees to take buyouts or leaves of absence to cut labor costs during the pandemic. They still received fifty four billion in taxpayer money. Senator maria cantwell democrat from washington. State chair of the senate. Commerce committee is even questioning airlines to explain the high numbers of flight delays and cancellations case in point american airline scrapped. Hundreds of flights on monday following disruptions caused by severe thunderstorms that swept through its dallas fort. Worth international hub florida-based discount carriers spirit airlines additionally canceled about one third of its flights and as working around the clock to get back on track at least forty percent of south west and spirit. Flights were also delayed on sunday. Which created long lines at ticket counters at orlando international airport in other news thought. The chinese crackdowns were over. Guess again the online gaming sector might be the next target in beijing's cross here's after a strongly-worded article from an affiliate of the state-backed jin wa. Newspaper took aim at the industry. Phrases like spiritual opium and electronic drugs. Were referenced into since deleted post by economic information daily so the story remains available in the print version. The article also flagged widespread gaming addiction among children. Which could negatively impact their growth market movement the new said tremors through the gaming arena with shares of ten tencent tumbling as much as eleven percent in hong kong and wiping nearly sixty billion off its market capitalisation. A steep sof was also seen it gaming companies net ease. Xt inc tencent went onto pledge limits on playtime for minors to just an hour during weekdays and no more than two hours during vacations and holidays.
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
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"Essex, Porter explains Senator Maria Cantwell and representative Susan Del Benny. Want the new infrastructure bill in Congress to increase money for those tax credits by 50%. A recent bipartisan agreement brokered by the White House is focused on projects like roads, bridges, water and airports. Need to do more and make sure that we include affordable housing. CBS is even Portnoy now reports President Biden was out again today promoting his infrastructure plan. Visiting a community college outside Chicago. The president pushed to separate infrastructure proposals, the bipartisan framework crafted with Republicans and the larger families plan that would be chock full of what the president calls human infrastructure truly deal everybody in this time. We need to invest in our people. Mr. Biden's package would fund community college and pre K in home care for the elderly and disabled, child care and paid family leave, among other priorities. Democrats are aiming to pass it on their own, if necessary, without any GOP support. Stephen Portnoy CBS NEWS Washington The death toll from last week's Northwest Heat wave rises, There were now at least 46 heat related deaths in Washington. The state medical examiner says victims range in age from 37 97. Many had no air conditioners or fans and we're alone when they died. The organ death toll there is up to 1 16. The search for survivors is over at the condo collapse. And Surfside, Florida Miami Dade County Mayor Daniel Levine cover acknowledged today the operation their shifts from search and rescue to recovery. They used every.
C-SPAN Radio
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"Tom Carper, Democrat of Delaware. The nomination did face Republican criticism. In his opening speech this morning leader Mitch McConnell, calling the president's choice quote and ethically compromised partisan lawyer during the Obama administration. Alejandro My orcas did head up the U. S citizenship and Immigration Services. Senator McConnell brought up an inspector general report that found my orchids intervene to help foreign investors in the E B five visa program who were connected to top Democrats. And there was this from Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee when he served as U. S. C. I s director during the Obama administration. The inspector general was forced to investigate quote an extraordinary in quote number of internal alligator. Nations that may or kiss was granting special access and special favors to wealthy db five investor visa applicants linked to influential Democrats. When the IG took a closer look at the visa applications for three powerful Chinese nationals in particular, they came to the conclusion that if may, orcas hadn't intervened, and I'm quoting the matter would Have been decided. Different, like in quote now, Mr President, this is something that we know is inappropriate. We know that this is something for which Mr may orcas should be held accountable. We know that this is something for which he has not been held accountable in here is what he did. He put his thumb on the scale, pressured his A. D. H as colleagues pressured his DHS colleagues to break their own rules and turned the law on its head. All because a few powerful friends asked him to do it. He pressured others for the benefit of some powerful friends. And it is all there for everyone to read in the inspector general's report, And yet he was never held accountable. And yet here we are being asked to support his nomination to the president's Cabinet that debate over the president's nominee to head up the Department of Homeland Security Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, despite some Republican opposition In six GOP senators did support the Democrats in the my organs nomination. They are capital Quest, Virginia Collins of Maine, Murkowski of Alaska, Portman of Ohio, Romney of Utah, and Sullivan of Alaska. Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania did not vote again. Final confirmation vote 56 to 43 in favor of his nomination Also in the Senate floor. The nomination people to judge by a vote of 86 to 13, the former South Bend, Indiana mayor and 2020, Democratic presidential candidate confirm As the next transportation secretary. Washington Senator Maria Cantwell, the incoming chair of the Senate Transportation Committee. With these remarks, President come before today to support the nomination of Pete Buddha Judge to be Secretary of transportation. We all know the nominee as Mayor Pete, a man who basically came onto the national stage as they Midwest mayor who had lots of enthusiasm for making investment in America's future. So today. Were considering his nomination to be secretary of transportation at a time when we need a lot of work done on transportation, and in my opinion, he's a young, energetic mayor who is going to help us usher in a new era of transportation. That means there's gonna be a lot of bipartisan dialogue about how we get there. But this job should not be underestimated in the importance that the transportation sector and the investments for the future need that. Is that our transportation Since system serves as the backbone of our economy, and when it's not doing well, the consequential impacts of that affect our economy. It affects how are businesses compete in the global economy. It affects how people get to and from work, and it affects their home life as well. So it's a big job that we have. And I know that this mayor and future secretary of Transportation understands how big this challenge is that from such Senator Maria Cantwell is lawmakers confirming people to judge Serving is the next transportation secretary, and he is making history as the first openly gay member of the presidential cabinet. Meanwhile, the Senate Agriculture Committee taking up the nomination of Tom Vilsack, he is the former Iowa governor. He also headed up the AG department during the Obama administration and his president Biden's pick to return to that Cabinet post Senator Debbie Stabbing a Michigan who now chairs the committee with this line of questioning to Tom Vilsack. I want to start first with just the farm economy. In general, we've seen such tumultuous years now for our farmers and ranchers. We've seen government payments replaced markets as the main driver of farm profitability and I share With a center. Bozeman's concerned about markets and trade and what we need to do to get stability back for our farmers and ranchers. We're going to continue to have challenges. We know because of the pandemic and it moving forward. It is good to see bright spots like corn and Serbian wheat prices recently, hitting their highest in the last six years. That's good news, but taking a step back how Can we return to a sense of normalcy and the farm economy with a focus on responsible risk management and building markets for producers, which really has been the foundation of our farm bills in recent years? Sure, that's any complicated question, and I'll do my best to try to respond in a short period of time. It indeed starts with markets. Historically, we've obviously looked at export market opportunities anywhere from 20 to 30. Out of what's produced in this country. It's exported so clearly a stable, secure trade policy that doesn't create havoc in the market. It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage would be helpful in terms of our ability to sell product overseas, expanding market opportunities in new market. I think Southeast Asia is an opportunity, I think, eventually over time, we're going to see potential opportunities in Africa one half of the world's increased population, it is liable to come in the next 15 years in that single continent. So we want to obviously be engaged in trade opportunities There is they've all certainly our competitors are doing that. But it's more than just export markets is growing markets here domestically by a good by investing in a robot's local and regional food system that creates market opportunities for small and its size producers so they can negotiate their own price. We began that process in the Obama administration, but I think there's much much more work to be done in that space. It's about creating new markets markets that have never been that have been developed before. Carbon sequestration and storage. I've done the right way Theocracy, unity for methane capture and reuse. You've done the right way. The development of bio based manufacturing creates.
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"Covert vaccine now, more than ever, it's crucial for this important department to be led by men and women who have been vetted and confirmed by members of this body. The American people deserve a capable leader at the helm of this department, and I believe that leader is Alejandro. My Yorkis Holly represents the best of America. Born in Havana, Cuba, Ali knows firsthand what it's like for a family to flee. Flee is native land and come to the United States and search of refuge. He's a man of integrity, person of principle who possesses a truly truly remarkable work out there. What's more, you may well I'll be the most qualified nominee we've ever been asked to consider to lead the Department of Homeland Security has previously served admirably. It's this deputy secretary for nearly four years, and before that, as they had a DHS is largest agency, The U. S Citizenship and Immigration Service is director this agency He works to combat immigration fraud. He directed and implemented the doctor program to protect hundreds of thousands of dreamers and much more. His deputy secretary. He led the department Successful Unity of Effort Initiative to improve morale in an agency, which previously had the lowest morale of any large agency in the federal government. Back to department there reported the greatest improvement in morale in the final year of the Obama administration was the department Homeland Security in large part due to all these leadership in that of former Secretary Jay Johnson. From the Senate floor. Tom Carper, Democrat of Delaware. The nomination did face Republican criticism. In his opening speech this morning leader Mitch McConnell, calling the president's choice, quote an ethically compromised partisan lawyer during the Obama administration. Alejandro my orcas did head up the U. S citizenship and Immigration Services. Senator McConnell brought up an inspector general report that found my orchids intervene to help foreign investors in the E B five visa program who were connected to top Democrats. And there was this from Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee when he served as U. S. C s director during the Obama administration, the inspector general was forced to investigate quote an extraordinary in quote number of internal alligator. Nations that New Yorkers was granting special access and special favors to wealthy db five investor visa applicants linked to influential Democrats. When the idea took a closer look at the visa applications for three powerful Chinese nationals in particular, they came to the conclusion that if may, orcas hadn't intervened, and I'm quoting the matter would Have been decided, different like and quit now, Mr President. This is something that we know is inappropriate. We know that this is something for which Mr May or kiss should be held accountable. We know that this is something for which he has not been held accountable, and here is what he did. He put his thumb on the scale, pressured his A. D. H as colleagues pressured his DHS colleagues to break their own rules and turned the law on its head. All because a few powerful friends asked him to do it. He pressured others for the benefit of some powerful friends, and it is all All there for everyone to read in the inspector general's report, And yet he was never held accountable. And yet here we are being asked to support his nomination to the president's Cabinet. That debate over the president's nominee to head up the Department of Homeland Security Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, despite some Republican opposition six GS. Piece. Senators did support the Democrats in the my organs nomination. They are capital of West Virginia Collins of Maine, Murkowski of Alaska, Portman of Ohio, Romney of Utah, and Sullivan of Alaska. Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania did not vote again. Final confirmation vote 56 to 43 in favor of his nomination also on the Senate floor. The nomination people to judge by a vote of 86 to 13, the former South Bend, Indiana mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate confirmed as the Transportation Secretary Washington Senator Maria Cantwell, the incoming chair of the Senate Transportation Committee. With these remarks, Mr President come before today to support the nomination of Pete Buddha Judge to be secretary of transportation. We all know the nominee is Mayor Pete, A man who basically came onto the national stage as a Midwest mayor who had lots of enthusiasm for making investments in America's future. So today we're considering His nomination to be secretary of transportation at a time when we need a lot of work done on transportation, and in my opinion, he's a young, energetic mayor who is going to help us usher in a new era of transportation. That means there's gonna be a lot of bipartisan dialogue about how we get there. But this job should not be underestimated in the importance that the transportation sector and the investments for the future need that is that our transportation system serves. Is the backbone of our economy, and when it's not doing well, the consequential impacts of that affect our economy. It affects how are businesses compete in a global economy. It affects how people get to and from work, and it affects their home life as well. So it's a big job that we have. And I know that this mayor and future secretary of Transportation understands how big this challenge is that from Senator Maria Cantwell as lawmakers confirming people Judge Serving is the next transportation secretary, and he is making history as the first openly gay member of a presidential cabinet. Meanwhile, the Senate Agriculture Committee taking up the nomination of Tom Vilsack, he is the former Iowa governor. He also headed up the AG department during the Obama administration and his president Biden's pick to return to that Cabinet post. Senator Debbie stabbing on Michigan who now chairs the committee with this line of questioning to Tom Vilsack. I want to start first with just the farm economy. In general..
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Senator Cantwell talks about tribal broadband at confirmation hearing
"This is national native news antonio gonzales the biden administration says it's ordered a pause new oil and gas leasing on public lands does not apply to tribal nations the mountain west news bureaus savannah mar reports the administration issued the clarification after the chairman of the youth indian tribe called the initial. Moratorium direct attack on tribal sovereignty. Stephen fast tourists of the northern arapaho. Business council agreed that would impact all of our guests tribes. Pretty bad it would triple fast. Horror says those tribes rely on oil and gas revenue to pay for social services and unlike state and local governments. They don't have a tax base to back on. The issue is thornier for climate activists. Gold tooth with the nonprofit indigenous environmental network. It's nice to see them. Ministration recognized travel it is disheartening to the tribes. The use that to continue fossil fuel extraction moving forward gold tooth hopes to biden will support tribes in divesting from fossil fuel industry for national native news. I'm savannah mar this week. President biden signed a memorandum on tribal consultation. It directs all executive departments and agencies to engage a regular consultation with tribes agencies. Have ninety days to come up with a plan. Tribal leaders across the country are welcoming the memo in a statement principal chief of the cherokee nation. Chuck hoskin junior applauded. The action hoskins says meaningful consultation is vital to treble governments to have a seat at the table to shape policy and hold the federal government responsible. He says the memorandum is the first comprehensive white house affirmation of mandatory consultation with tribes since two thousand nine the tribal consultation follow directives laid out by the obama administration. President biden says he's committed to honoring tribal sovereignty and including tribal voices and policy and hopes to strengthen the government's relationship with tribes this week washington. Us senator. Maria cantwell address. President biden's nominee for us. Secretary of commerce rhode island governor gina raimondo and talked about tribal broadband. Steve jackson has more. Senator can't will introduce legislation last session. That would accelerate the deployment of broadband services to tribal communities by setting aside fcc and usda funds for deployment on tribal lands at the confirmation hearing for commerce secretary. Can't well made governor raimondo. Aware of the issue and the secretary will inherit a new program as part of the kobe. Bill the tribal broadband connectivity program. It two thousand nineteen report from. Fcc found that less than half of households in indian country have access to high speed broadband services a twenty percent gap from non tribal areas. And so i hope that we will be able to get good administration of that program. The cova pandemic has only increased the problem of limited broadband. Dude at more people working from home as well as distance learning for students for national native news. I'm steve jackson reporting from spokane alaskan native artist and illustrator. Michaela goad was honored by the american library association. This week with the randolph called toco metal. She said to be the first native american to win the award. A member of the central council of lincoln and haida indian tribes go was recognized for most distinguished american picture book for children. We are water protectors. The book written by carol lindstrom turtle mountain honors water protectors for fighting for indigenous rights and environmental justice. Awards were announced during the association's virtual midwinter gathering. I'm antonio
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"KCRW. Here's what's happening at 6 30, California's moved to ditch the regional stay at home order came as a surprise for many officials said that data and science led to the change yesterday back to a tear based system, but some were still confused as to what that exactly meant. Today, California's Health and Human Services secretary, Dr Mark Galle gave some more clarity on the move. He says it all comes down to ICU projections. We know today's Cases become hospital cases in about two weeks. I see you cases 3 to 4 weeks later. So if we want to really determine what the impact is on where we're gonna be in the hospitals, we have to look about four weeks out. Charlie says the state used to set of formulas for the original restrictions. So they basically calculated how many new cases there are. Many of those people are expected to be in the hospital, and I see you and how many ICU beds there are in total. Today, the state reporting roughly 18,000 new covert 19 patients in the hospital, not new currently and more than 4300 of those are in the ICU. Well as the state remains in the grip of the covert pandemic. Not everyone is celebrating Governor Newsom's decision to end stay at home orders. A lot of people think that the pandemic is over and we will be getting back to normal. It's not anywhere near normal as any triumphal Cortez is the president of the California Nurses Association. She told KGO TV that even with infection rates trending downward, there will be a human cost toe lifting stay at home orders prematurely. Have been a nurse for 40 years, and I have never seen so many patients die health officials to say the decision was based on models that show capacity in those icy units. Rising above 15% program used to house Angelenos Experiencing homelessness may be expanded. City Council members nephew Rahman and Mike Bonnett introduced a motion today to build on Project Room Key. That program uses vacant hotel and motel rooms to House residents and the council members say funding for the expansion would come from FEMA. President Biden last week announced the agency would provide reimbursements for 100% of city expenses for programs like Project Room Key. Through September. Previously, FEMA only reimbursed 75% of the cost project room. Key has housed more than 6000 people since it was launched last March. The goal of the program was to protect unhealed Angelenos from covert 19 by housing them outside of congregate shelters. The next step. Is for the city Council to vote toe either approve or deny that motion. Of all California immigrants healthcare coverage. That was the message today from immigrants rights advocates. They're trying to convince Governor Newsome at the state can't afford to expand its Medicaid program to all unauthorized immigrants. Only Democratic Senator Maria Elena Durazo says she'll continue to make it a priority. $100 million is not going to break the budget. Of California. $100 million to save people's lives is really urgent, and we just have to keep pressing that issue with the governor. So far, Newsome's proposed budget does not set aside money to expand medical eligibility toe all California seniors. Regardless of immigration status. Health advocates say there's a dire need for the change in light of the heavy impact the pandemic has had on immigrant communities. It's 6 33. This is greater l A on KCRW, the show that connects you to the people and the places of Southern California and state to take us. One year ago today. This was the scene at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles that morning, Thick Bank of fog. Helicopter had crashed into a hillside in.
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"On the East side near the foothills or back around Hood Canal or Welcome county in the coma Weather Center I'm meteorologist Shannon O'Donnell. We're basically between 40 and 45 throughout western Washington. 41 4 x 41 in Olympia in Seattle. It's now 43. At 7 36 bill on how much landlords can raise rent once Governor Jay Inslee's eviction moratorium expires, got a virtual public hearing today. Comas Carleen Johnson reports. A moratorium on evicting renters who can't pay up has been in place since March of last year when has already been extended several times, Isaac organist a with a tense group told lawmakers in the Senate housing and local government committee. Putting strict limits on how much rent could go up after the moratorium is lifted, is critical. The renters that I work with could be pushed into homelessness and lose their health and lives. Plenty of opposition to the bill, though from rental housing groups and landlord associations, Chris Job Lor is with a group that owns several multi housing developments in Pierce County. In the last year. We've experienced rental income losses and staggering Cost increases. All of our apartment communities have had property tax increases. The bill would prohibit a housing provider from increasing rent for the first six months after the end of the governor's emergency eviction ban and then limit increases to 3% of the rate on March 1st. Carleen Johnson come on news, infrastructure and aviation safety or among US Senator Maria Cantwell's priorities as she grills President Biden's nominee for transportation secretary. Almost Corwin Hate has more. Cantwell, The three term Democrat led the questioning of former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buddha judge think that at grade crossings need more attention. Yes, Cantwell listed the many transportation infrastructure challenges her home state faces ejects like the high five Columbia River Bridge replacement, the West Seattle Bridge replacement, the North South Quarter and Spokane, and she sought assurances the former presidential candidate would continue efforts to fix the regulatory issues that led to the seventh. 87 Max disaster. I want to know that you will make the safety reforms at the F A. A a priority I'm committed to doing so. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held the confirmation hearing. Can't well now chairs that committee. Corwin Hague Co. Moh news Here. Sara Lee Kessler, With today's health update masks are now required in all federal buildings. The requirement was the first executive order President Biden sign when taking office. He promised to make masks mandatory in an effort to slow the spread of covert 19 wondering why the vaccine rollout is so disjointed why some vaccine mega sites in New York and beyond are closing and why you're having trouble booking a coffin shot? Well, it turns out according to see An end. There was no trump vaccine distribution plant. Biden staffers say they discovered that after moving into the White House Wednesday, nothing to rework. They say they'll have to start from scratch. Getting the vaccine into people's arms is President Biden's top priority. Have a solve this offering to help President Biden with vaccine distribution and his goal of vaccinating 100 million people in this 1st 100 days that Sara Lee Kessler Stay in the theory journals. Singers of the song Why M. C A. R. Relieved former President Trump will likely stop using their.
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"Washington wide. Round of lowland snow will keep you posted in the comer Weather Center. I'm meteorologist Shannon O'Donnell. Cloudy skies 45 in downtown Seattle. You're in the middle of 20 Minutes of nonstop news on Co Moh at 406. U. S. Senator Maria Cantwell from our state wants to ensure she's on the same page with President Biden's nominee for transportation secretary During Pete Buddha judges confirmation hearing, Cantwell sought to promise on reforming the Federal Aviation Administration. I want to know that you will make the safety reforms at the F A, a a priority. I'm committed to doing So. Last year, Cantwell introduced legislation to improve aviation safety based on lessons learned from the deadly Boeing 737. Max crashes even though Donald Trump is no longer president. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says many of the lawsuits he filed against his administration are still being litigated. Ferguson filed 97 suits against the federal government during Trump's term. Ferguson's office had 39 legal victories and only two defeats. Dozens of people signed up to testify today Online for a public hearing on a rent controlled bill proposal in Olympia. Details from Cuomo's Carleen Johnson Democratic State Senator Morra Joss, a renter co sponsored the bill to limit how much landlords can raise rents on tenants. Once Governor Jay in please eviction moratorium expires. It is on us to provide meaningful relief for the growing number of people in our state who are struggling to pay rent and feed their families. Spencer Anderson, with the multi Family Housing Association, said members are already struggling to make the mortgage and rent controls, he says will only worsen the affordable housing shortage detrimentally affect our ability to provide me it's affordable housing. We are already falling so short, providing new housing units to the market. The bill would prohibit a provider from increasing rent or other charges for the first six months. After the end of the eviction band, which is currently set to expire in March. After that, red could only go up 3% based on what rent is set at on March. 1st Carleen Johnson Come on news January is human Trafficking prevention month, and advocates say the pandemic has made things worse, according to data from the national Human Trafficking Hotline, calls increased 40% in April, just after covered 19 hit Advocate Louw Lito William says that the loss of jobs and homes might force people to do things they normally wouldn't and she wants victims to know that they're not alone. Not knowing where you're going to get resource is or how you gonna feed your family or keep them house. We're very aware that but we're very blessed to be in Washington state, and we have resource is Please just reach out. The national human Trafficking Hotline is one triple 8373 78 81 again as one triple 83737888 victims can call 911 for more help to the latest unemployment numbers from the state show a glimmer of hope amid the pandemic. Como's Who, Romero explained. The state Employment Security Department saw a huge drop in new unemployment claims filed during the last work week of January. 10th to the 16th numbers were down 29% or nearly 8000 claim. Comes from the previous week. The department also reports claims overall including pandemic related or regular applications, were down 9% the declines air Noteworthy, however, claims applications are still high compared to pre cove in times hovering around 114% compared to last year. Sue Romero Camo news and if the pandemic cost you your job free help is available through local.
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"Hearing. Republicans now share a 50 50 split, with vice president Kamila Harris. The tiebreaker, giving Democrats the edge majority leader Chuck Schumer and now minority leader Mitch McConnell. Said to be working to find an agreement on some power sharing for those sessions today, Schumer says that also includes about talking the impeachment trial against former president Trump Speaker Pelosi will determine when she will send the articles over Leader McConnell and I are trying to come up with a bipartisan agreement on how depends up the trial. Make no mistake about it. There will be a trial on the first full day of the Biden presidency. Joe Biden committing the U. S will return to the World Health Organization. Part of his strategy, he says, for combating the pandemic here in the U. S and abroad. Dr Anthony Fauci, appearing virtually with WHO leaders today, thanking them. President Biden will sign executive orders this afternoon dealing with both health testing and economic challenges in this pandemic. Michelle Frandsen ABC News Co. Moh news 1000 FM. 97 7 Good morning Once again, we're glad you're with. This is 10, 31 Clouds and 42 downtown. Our top stories continue from the come on. 24 7 News center, Infrastructure and aviation safety are among US Senator Maria Cantwell is priorities as she grills President Biden's nominee for transportation secretary, comas, Corwin Hate Widmore. Cantwell, the three term Democrat, led the questioning of former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buddha jet. You think that at grade crossings need more attention? Yes. Cantwell listed the many transportation infrastructure challenges. Her home state faces checks like the high five Columbia River Bridge replacement the West Seattle Bridge replacement the North south quarter and spoke in and she sought assurances the former presidential candidate would continue efforts to fix the regulatory issues that led to the 7 37 Max disaster. I want to know that you will make the safety reforms at the F A, a a priority I'm committed to doing so. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held the confirmation hearing can't well now chairs that committee. Corwin Hague Co. Moh new teachers at other staff returning to schools for in class learning could receive the Corona virus vaccine sooner than expected changes to the State Department of Health's plan, announced this week would allow all school staff to receive the vaccinations, regardless of age. Officials hope to move into that phase in the late winter or early spring, The Washington Education Association president Larry Delaney tells the two common used to be on the move is an important step toward making in person learning as safe as possible, though he points out the timeline for getting teachers vaccinated remains unclear due to supply issues. Bipartisan Group of State lawmakers sent a letter to the governor earlier this month urging a revision. In the vaccination guidance to allow all school employees who want the shots to get them. Our area has earned a new distinction this week and his come was Brian Calvert explains. It has to do with everything. Where purchasing online, the pandemic has brought a lot of things forward a reluctance to gather a preference to stay home at a massive uptick in the amount of shopping we do online. The organization household polls recently tracked the increase of online shopping in the country's 15 largest metro areas, and we are at the top of the heap over 67% of us say we've spent more online during the pandemic. And we did before Cove it in San Francisco. The percentages 61. Only 57% of New Yorkers say they've increased their online shopping yet What's good for Mr Bezos isn't good for traditional brick and mortar already under siege by online shoppers. Many stores have closed their doors, speaking of Amazon after hearing about this massive increase in online shopping It's likely not going to shock you that the company added 30 million shoppers last year and said a company record for the number of prime memberships Brian Calvert Co. Mon you. Here's what's coming up protest in Portland last night resulted in vandalism and several arrests made. I'm Carling Johnson with details. Come on, Whose time 10 34 traffic and weather of data every 10 minutes on the force and doing the traffic force right now, do the law group Traffic Center is where we find the Carol Jordan. Most of our drives air very easy right now, but not the case. If you're trying to travel westbound on Spokane straight between I five and 99. It's really bumper to bumper. We have a long line of the semis who are trying to get on the Harbor island. So then this catches everybody up in the back up. One of our only other slow spots is going to be north and I five in Seattle just right. As you're approaching the convention center, going from Lin Wood to Seattle or live with the Bellevue that's about a 16 minute driving going from otter and.
Native America Calling
Tribal Broadband, Keystone Pipeline and Navajo Voting Patterns
"This is national native news. Megan camera in for antonio gonzales a bill that would help a native american communities get more broadband access on reservation lands passed to the. Us senate indian affairs committee. Wednesday steve jackson reports from spokane fcc survey found that thirty one percent of households on tribal lands lack access to high speed broadband compared to seven percent of americans in non tribal areas at a hearing wednesday senator. Maria cantwell spoke about the impact that some washington tribes of experienced because of the lack of service for the caulfield tribe in north central washington. Many of the households don't have access to the internet. This means many of thousands don't have access to emergency service. Notifications connectivity is critically important during fire season especially this year as fires have forced evacuations from homes and businesses. It's absolutely unacceptable for these tribes and many others living on tribal lands throughout the state of washington to not have access to basic reliable broadband. Cantwell cosponsored the legislation. Which would require technical assistance be provided to the under served native communities and set aside fcc and usda funding for broadband deployment. The bill passed in a bipartisan voice. Vote wednesday and now heads to the full senate for consideration for national native news. I'm steve jackson reporting from spokane. A group made up of five. First nations in canada says it plans to invest up to seven hundred sixty five million dollars in the keystone excel pipeline bloomberg reports. Tc energy corporation is counting on the deal with natural law energy to save the controversial pipeline from the incoming administration of president elect joe biden. The pipeline must have a permit from the us government since it crosses the border with canada. The trump administration granted the permit but biden's campaign has said it plans to resend it. Raiders reports the agreement includes the neat and little pine first nations in saskatchewan and the urban skin creation montana first nation and louis bowl tribe in alberta chief alvin francis president of natural energy and chief of nickel neat first nation said in a news release. The deal is a historic one that will create intergenerational wealth. He also pledged that natural law. Mtc energy will ensure the pipeline is quote held to the highest levels of environmental and social responsibility. Natural law energy has until next september to secure financing for the deal in minnesota to people on wednesday locked themselves to equipment used on line three of the end bridge sands oil pipeline to protest permits granted for the project by the state native news online reports. The action was organized by the guinea collective minnesota public radio reports that approval of key water permit for the project prompted twelve members of an advisory group to the minnesota pollution control agency to resign that included white earth tribal member winona luke and bridges line three would transport up to seven hundred sixty thousand barrels of crude oil daily through northern minnesota. The project is opposed by five agip bands. If you look at a map of how arizonans voted in the selection. You'll see several blocks. That don't correspond with urban areas and gibson with arizona public media reports most of these rural precincts are from voters living in tribal lands high country news reports that sixty to ninety percent of votes in precincts across the navajo nation. When to biden and vice president elect comma harris. Allie young is the founder of protect the sacred a grassroots initiative responding to the pandemic and promoting voter education within the navajo nation. I'm very proud Especially tribal communities in arizona for showing the world. That arizona is indigenous. Dna that we re claimed arizona. A map created by abc. Fifteen arizona shows that on average almost ninety. Four percent of votes in the thaw of nation went blue tube for national native news. I'm emma gibson and i'm megan camera.
WSJ Tech News Briefing
3 social media CEOs face grilling by GOP senators on bias
"Today facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and center Chai's CEO of Google and Youtube owner alphabet have been asked to testify before the Senate Commerce. Committee. They've been invited by the Republican led panel to answer questions about how their platforms deal with political content and ads joining me on what to expect is our tech policy reporter Ryan Tracy. Ryan. Thanks so much for being here. Good Morning. Thanks for having me. Okay. So it's just a week before the election and all of A. Sudden, the heads of the top social media platforms are coming to Washington. What was the impetus behind the sudden invite? Well, it was a surprise when we first heard that the committee wanted to see is to testify it was kind of unlike what we saw in the house over the past year and a half where the antitrust subcommittee investigated these companies and went back and forth for a while this came together in less than a week. There was less than a week between when they. Were invited and when the committee threatened to subpoena them to come and it was clear that the committee wanted them to come before the election and so I think it's fair to have read into that. That lawmakers see these companies as playing a really really important role right now and want to sort of oversee that role. Let's talk about what this hearing is going to focus on section two thirty of the Nineteen ninety-six Communications Decency Act. We've talked about this act in the past, but can you just give us a refresher wise it on the line right now. Sure said, the topic of the hearing is section two thirty. That's the law that gives big online platforms and small ones actually as well. Immunity from lawsuits when users post content on their sites, it also gives them immunity when they take down content or when they moderate content, and that's been viewed as a really important law for these companies to be able to develop. And grow their user base without the threat of lawsuits. Around every corner that being said, it's also getting a lot of scrutiny these days both Democrats and Republicans are wondering whether given how powerful these tech companies have become. They still deserve such a broad legal immunity, and so that's going to be a big topic of discussion at this hearing is the fact that this is taking place right before the election important for this conversation. Yeah absolutely I mean first of all, there's going to be a debate about at this hearing about how serious each party is about wanting to reform section to thirty Democrats will surely point out that. Republicans are holding this hearing before the election and that looks like perhaps an effort to influence the way facebook and twitter deal with political content over the next week and and even. After the election as well So you'll have that kind of going on in the background it also really it's kind of amazing to see this happening just six days before. November third because you know if you'd looked back earlier this year, this is exactly where facebook and twitter and Google did not want to be right that they do not want to be the center of conversation. Around this election, they had a really bad experience with that four years ago, and you know despite their efforts to get things under control this time to be more aware of the potential pitfalls around misinformation around you know things that candidates might say or that users might post despite all those efforts here they are again kind of at the center of the conversation and it just shows how central they've become to our discourse. Okay. So let's break it down a little bit. What position do we expect Republicans to take in this hearing? Yes. So Republicans are very likely to bring up they view as a bias on social media by the. Social media platforms, they see that when twitter and facebook, for example, took action against the new. York. Post stories about the Biden family in recent weeks that they were doing that with a liberal bias they think that Silicon Valley operates that way, and so we're starting to hear a lot of those types of accusations. We also expect the CEO's to push back on that as they have in the past and say that you know what they're trying to strike a balance and they're not leaving up content or taking down content with regard to one political party or another, but rather with regard to these sort of nonpartisan policies that they've tried to develop. Now, these companies have actually taken a lot of very different steps ahead of the election. Is it fair to even put all of them in the same category or are they going to be speaking to them individually about the separate efforts that they've taken? Will you're right I mean once again to the details there definitely are differences between these companies certainly, they all generally have gotten more active since twenty six. More willing to kind of step in and put a thumb on the scale when they they think it's necessary. But you know twitter for example, handled the New York Post stories by blocking sharing of a link to the stories facebook didn't do that facebook. said, it wanted its third party fact checkers to look at the stories, and while that was happening, it would slow the spread of those stories on his platforms. So there's a lot of shades of gray certainly with these companies and it'll be interesting to see how lawmakers treat them whether one of them comes out ahead or behind certainly with respect to again what we've seen with. The stories about Joe. Biden in recent days twitter print taking the brunt of that because they have taken the most. Drastic action in response to it. So we've talked a little bit about the questions. Republicans are likely to ask in this hearing. What about the Democrats Will Democrats main concern is the spread of false information on social media and we expect them to ask about that. We expect them to push back against the accusations of anti-conservative by that Republicans are going to make and so in that sense at least the Tuxedos, I'll have a friend in the room because Democrats will certainly back them on their. Their denials of those claims there could be other issues brought up for example, Google was the target of an antitrust lawsuit. Recently, we could see lawmakers ask about that on both sides of the Aisle Senator Maria Cantwell who was the top Democrat on the committee put out a report this week where she criticized these companies specifically facebook and Google for endangering local news organizations given the way that they treat content created by local news
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Sen. Patty Murray Won't Commit to Ending Filibuster, But Doesn't Rule It Out if Dems Win Back Majority
"After the fight, But Washington's U. S. Senators are tipping their hands. Almost Bill O'Neill has more Senator Patty Murray isn't yet throwing our support behind, ending the Senate filibuster aura pushed and more justices to the nation's highest court. Democratic critics say the filibuster could slow a democratic agenda should the party when the White House in the weeks ahead, the Senate's third ranking Democrat on Murray tells the Seattle Times she's not ruling out major changes but is hoping Republicans will be more cooperative should her party win decisively in November. Marie says the best and most durable legislation has been crafted with support from both sides of the aisle. Meanwhile, Washington's other Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell, is also not publicly backed an end to the filibuster or expansion of the Supreme Court. Colonial
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Boeing 737 Max Whistleblower Warns Of Broader Problems On Jet, Hints At 777X Issue
"A letter to Congress from a Boeing engineer says flaws the ground of the seven thirty seven Max could also trouble the upcoming triple seven X. como score one heck reports the engineers being regarded as a whistle blower Chris Eubank is the Boeing flight system specialist who wrote a letter to the U. S. Senate outlining his concerns U. S. senator Maria Cantwell from our state tells The Seattle Times she saw the letter just before questioning FAA chief Steve Dixon earlier this week the FAA management needs to be willing to back up those engineers on the ground for calling out safety concerns at the earliest phases of the process not at the end Eubanks letter says the Max's problems go beyond the much discussed M. cast flight control system and include design flaws that could also affect the safety of the new triple seven acts Boeing says in a statement it has not seen you banks letter Corwin hate komo
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Washington DC - Senator's office has first coronavirus case in Capitol
"Capitol Hill is a hosting its first confirmed case of corona virus now to a staffer in Washington state senator Maria Cantwell's DC office has now tested positive in that staffer has been isolated Cantwell says she's closing her office for the remainder of the week for a deep cleaning Cantwell says if other staffers show symptoms they'll be tested to it comes as DC mayor Muriel Bowser has declared a state of emergency in the district and as the house and Senate sergeants at arms prepare to announce a suspension of all towards in the
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Coronavirus: UC Davis cancels in-person exams, large gatherings
"With the World Health Organization now labeling the outbreak a pandemic and the U. S. death toll of at least thirty seven president trump has outlined a plan of action the speech from the oval office the president trying to reassure the nation this is not a financial crisis this is just a temporary moment of time that we will over come together as a nation and as a world the president banning travel from Europe for thirty days with some exceptions for the U. K. and other special cases and promising to help Americans who have no paid sick leave Andy field ABC news Washington Dow futures fell almost a thousand points after the president's speech the index today plunged nearly fifteen hundred points and send it into bear market territory economists Cary Leahy says there's no telling when it could recover here there is panic and there's unfortunately no historical pattern to state it will get out of it among the latest cases of the virus a senior staffer in Washington senator Maria Cantwell's DC office and actors Tom Hanks and Rita
Native America Calling
South Dakota Senate committee rejects resolution urging Congress to rescind Wounded Knee medals. Spokane Tribe celebrates legislation to compensate tribe for losses from dam construction decades ago.
"The National Native News Antonio Gonzalez a South Dakota Senate committee is rejecting a resolution urging Congress to rescind the medals of honor given to soldiers who participated in the wounded knee massacre. The sponsor of the resolution says senators miss their chance to make history by saying what happened at wounded. Knee was not okay. Lee strube injured reports on December. Twenty ninth eighteen ninety around four hundred and seventy. Us soldiers surrounded chief big foot leading his people to the Red Cloud Agency in Pine Ridge. A shot rang out and thus began one of the deadliest massacres in United States history. It happened on South Dakota soil estimates range of one hundred fifty to three hundred Lakota elders women and children were killed. Republican state senator. Jim Bohlen is a former history teacher. He opposes the resolution which came up in a Senate military and veteran's affairs committee. He says the decision to resend medals of honor given to soldiers who participated in the massacre is a matter best left at the federal level again. None of these people who were involved in these horrific horrible terrible despicable acts were residents of South Dakota and none of the orders that were given at any time. Were to best my knowledge or what was testified here. Today were ever came from anyone in the WHO wasn't an official of the South Dakota State Government. Which at that time was only one year old had only been in. Venice state for one year of those nearly four hundred seventy. Us soldiers twenty were given medals of honor by contrast twenty seven medals of honor were awarded Marines. Out of the seventy thousand sent. You would Jima. During World War Two Democratic State Senator Roy. Heiner brought the resolution. He's CICHAGO's Lakota from Michigan and says a Senate resolution is reserved for petitioning the states federal delegation to read some of the accounts from people who were there both Indian and non Indian. They all said what happened was terrible what. I don't understand is the congress awarded Congressional Medal of Honor for those acts and we aren't brave enough to say we shouldn't Heiner says we're sending those metals would go a long way in helping descendants of wounded knee survivors. He'll for national native news unleashed Jupiter. Npr The spokane tribe held a long anticipated celebration last week over passage of legislation to compensate the tribe for losses incurred after. Grand Coulee dam was built decades ago. Steve Jackson has more the completion of Grand Coulee dam in nineteen forty one meant the loss of homes as the Columbia River. Rose over its banks. The impact on the culture was just as dramatic in meant the Sanin very important staple an icon would no longer be able to make it upstream tribal lands. It took decades to convince lawmakers that the tribe deserve to be compensated for its loss. The bill received bipartisan support from Washington State Lawmakers Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell and Republican Representative Cathy. Mcmorris Rogers Ninety five year old tribal member Viola. Brazil remembers when the dam began to flood the tribal lands. I was GONNA make it my. Gosh live that long. But it's Kinda sad that might never got to enjoy everything that's going to be coming because I'm happy for the younger people that you know that will have schools in college funds. I hope you know something to go on. Travel Business Chair care. Eleven says the annual compensation could bring the tribes six million dollars a year in perpetuity for national native news. I'm Steve Jackson reporting from Spokane
KIRO Nights
Senate passes sweeping legislation to combat opioid epidemic
"Sweeping legislation to battle the opioid epidemic. Passed in the US Senate this week Cairo radios Hannah, Scott report Pierce county sheriff Paul past or says Washington Senator Maria Cantwell's Bill cleared in the Senate this week is exactly what needed to happen to start getting a handle on the opioid crisis. This is the way government is supposed to work. Well, says one of the most important aspects of our Bill is that it permanently increases the number of patients doctors can handle with medication based treatment like suboxone to two hundred seventy five it used to be capped much lower. It also cracks down on drug makers who don't report suspicious orders and trains first responders on how to be safe around
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Senator Maria Cantwell, Everett Washington and King County discussed on News and Perspective with Taylor Van Cise
"To solve the opioid crisis arrives in King County this hour Senator Maria Cantwell is here drumming up support for the opioid crisis response act. It is a full package of proposals all designed to curb the distribution of opioids and prevent debts nearly seven hundred people in two thousand sixteen died in our state from opioid overdoses and more than forty two thousand nationwide. So this new proposal which the Senate passed on Monday is supposed to help curb some of the problems that the countries having if it's signed into law. It would require special packaging push for more non addictive painkillers and forced the post office, detract shipments Senator Maria Cantwell, also says manufacturers need to be held accountable. Citing a case of over prescribing install mush county in one example of physician in Everett Washington wrote more than ten thousand prescriptions of opioid. Loyd's this number of prescription. So it's twenty six times higher than the average prescriber in Everett, Washington, Senator Cantwell also says that drug courts like those that started in our needs to be expanded to help non violent offenders. That's
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12 People on Flights to Philadelphia Have Flu-Like Symptoms
"Has more international flights land in the US. There are more cases of people being sick with symptoms of the flu. At least a dozen people reported sick today on two separate American Airlines flights that landed in Philadelphia the CDC is now evaluating those passengers yesterday. A flight from Dubai landed in New York with sick passengers today. Ten tested positive for
Mandy Connell
Bernie Sanders' 'BEZOS' bill targets worker pay at Amazon and Walmart
"Senator Bernie Sanders says introduced the base os act, the stop bad employers by zeroing out subsidies act would tax companies like Amazon and WalMart for every dollar. They're low wage worker gets in government, healthcare and food stamps. The American people are tired. Having to subsidize the wealthiest people in this country. Paying wages that are just so low. That people can't get by Amazon declined our request to comment on
Ethan at Night
Washington, 16 other states sue Trump administration over family separations
"The komo twenty four seven news center today's supreme court decision upholding president trump's travel ban has sparked outrage and protests one of those rallies was right here in seattle komo's jeff pohjola has more from outside federal courthouse a couple of hundred people gathered in downtown rallying against the five to four decision decision not only attacks the muslim communities but also opens the door to government and court sanction discrimination other ethnic and religious groups or marisha con is one of the organizers the muslim ban as part of president trump's larger unamerican war immigrant families including his administration's incarceration of immigrants and inhumane separation of children and parents at the border the rally briefly disrupted traffic on fifth avenue planned a few counter protesters tried to disrupt the proceedings but bicycle officers were able to keep the peace in downtown seattle jeff pohjola komo news the trump administration is praising today's supreme court decision upholding the president's travel ban attorney general jeff sessions criticizing lower court rulings that attempted to block it very pleased with the outcome today and hope that this goes some way toward ending the practice of the broad nationwide injunctions which in my view gravely threaten the rule of law the executive order mostly targets several muslimmajority countries in addition to north korea and venezuela allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the us as long as they stay in agriculture komo's shoe romero reports that proposals being looked at as part of a broader immigration bill by the house of representatives this week agriculture amendment would grant legal status to undocumented workers for a few years but only if they keep working in fields and return to their home countries for at least forty five days during that time it would offer no permanent residency or allow them to try other occupations if they leave agriculture they must leave the us while some in agriculture support illegal path for undocumented workers to stay in the us others don't care for that path might gambler is with the washington growers league i think that's going to create more of an underground economy of sorts people probably get out of agriculture and do whatever they have to to survive the amendment would also allow farm employers to charge for housing rather than provide it for free to workers as is required by current law see romero komo news state attorney general promise to sue the trump administration over family separations at the border today he followed through on that promise sixteen other states in the district of columbia joined with bob ferguson on a lawsuit it says the administration violated the constitutional due process rights of the parents and children and that the administration's violating federal asylum laws by turning families away at the border the two senators from the north west continue to press the trump administration on reuniting children separated from their parents after being caught entering the country illegally oregon's ron wyden says it's clear the health and human services administration has no idea what it's doing department is scrambling to collect resumes of individuals with experience in child care it's clear that the department was woefully unprepared meanwhile washington senator maria cantwell personally press secretary alex as are on the case of one asylumseeker being held in seatac the secretary promising are putting kids in touch with parents to make sure that happens that that we want to we we're working every parent child want them in regular touch regular community please let me know off line we'll get on that and make sure that that's happening however as our says the agency must be able to prove a percentage before families can be reunited reunited national park service says it made three rescues and a single they over the past weekend on sunday helicopter crew rescued in eighteen year old man from the north cascades national park then they flew to olympic national park to rescue a fifty five year old man who had been in the back country for six days an emergency beacon activated from out rainier were rescued two climbers the superintendent of mount rainier national parks and he's proud of the work the crew did boeing has unveiled a new concept plane it's jet that would be capable of traveling at mach five fast is that that's five times the speed of sound or.
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Twelve senators seek FCC probe of Sinclair news scripts, pause in Tribune review
"Adam smith is worried that the us might get bogged down with another military conflict this time in syria is the white house weighs its response to the latest chemical weapons attacks smith is concerned about how effective any military response might be president monster missile strike after chemical attack it really didn't change schmidt says there are no easy solutions but he's afraid that any kind of response could lead to esscalation seahawks peer to be passing on the opportunity to bring colin kaepernick aboard is a backup quarterback komo's charlie harder has the story let's two weeks ago we were telling you about the rumblings a hawks are interested in speaking with capper nick adam schefter on espn reports the team was all set to speak with him earlier this week the question of how he would handle the anthem this year came up and caused that visit to be at the very least postponed and possibly canceled depending on how you look at it there are reports captured said he'd continue to kneel for the national anthem while other reports say he wouldn't commit one way or another seahawks are still without a backup for russell wilson charlie harder komo news washington state senator maria cantwell is among eleven us centers asking the federal communications commission to investigate sinclair broadcasting scripts for news distortion the letter from the eleven democrats and independent bernie sanders asks the fcc to put on hold its review of sinclair's proposed purchase of tribune media is fortytwo tv stations if c c chairman agit pie has reportedly rejected the request saying the fcc does not have the authority to revoke a license based on the content of a particular newscast reuters quotes pie as saying i can hardly think of an action more chilling of free speech the federal government investigating a broadcast station because of disagreement with its news coverage or promotion of that cover verage shouldn't claire on komo tv and komo radio state supreme court has upheld the death penalty conviction of connor shire man this is judge handing down that sentence in two thousand ten and finished shelby and hereby is sentenced to death sharon walked into a kirkland home in stab two women and two children to death in two thousand six the ruling today a majority of.
Ron and Don Show
Microsoft Upheld Less Than 1 Percent of Gender Discrimination Complaints by Female Employees, Court Documents Say
"And mount ranier and other national parks said hearing today washington senator maria cantwell not to confront him about that this is an almost three hundred percent increase how does that make sense your proposal would increase the park entrance fee and cost visitors to these park an additional two hundred and fifteen million dollars a year she says the proposals specially outrageous since ryan zinke thinks nothing of spending one hundred forty thousand dollars to fix a door at the interior department i resent the fact of your insults i resent the factor misleading i resent the fact that the doors and i'll go through line by line is also under fire for his use of military and chartered aircraft while doing government work there's a new scam hitting local parents were the culprits tell them their kids have been kidnapped and they demand money for their safe return the king county sheriff's office says they've heard from at least two families in one case the man pretended to be the little girl but in both cases the kids were actually safe at school the seattle police department is a step closer to getting out from under the thumb of the federal government today a judge approved the city's plan to submit a series of quarterly reports the hopes of terminating the consent decree in january of twenty twenty as speed he's been under a microscope since two thousand twelve the justice department started investigating allegations of excessive force and biased policing female employees at microsoft filed nearly one hundred twenty complaints about gender discrimination over a sixyear period and internal investigators concluded that only one of those was founded that's according to the documents filed by plaintiffs an ongoing lawsuit against the company the seattle times reports three women are suing they say they were passed over for jobs or promotions because of their gender they're asking for class action status microsoft has denied the allegations a look at your drive now here's kiro radio realtime traffic healthy snacks it's going to be a long drive and when you're hungry it's never fun you're eighty two minutes seattle.