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"A sunday the estimate of ten thousand acres burned encompassing a huge area that homeowner tells k news r e his m property is safe protected from the inferno by the broad okanagan the flames three primary structures have been destroyed and residents are subject to a level two evacuation order meaning get ready to go it's still a huge fire line the fire also has into spread british columbia canada bringing the total burn area to twelve thousand acres corwin hake northwest newsradio wildfire season obviously underway but putrid sound fire fire has some new tools to help them battle the department says that they have two new type three wildfire engines they're shorter they have four wheel drive and carry five hundred gallons of water they can also be moving while firefighters are putting out the fire the advantage to that is the fact that we don't have to deploy eight hundred feet of of hose line firefighters are being trained on how to use the new engines as putrid sound fire gets ready to pull out those new rigs several animals are dead after a house fire in lacy investigators trying to figure out how it started they tell us the neighbors called 911 after seeing smoke coming from the eves of this home firefighters arrived and pulled several pets from that house firefighters tried to revive them but none of them were told survived that's coming for steve mccarran no word if any humans were in the house seattle police say man a died man last night after getting hit by the seattle monorail it happened around nine o 'clock near fifth and denny officers say he climbed up onto the roof of a nearby building and was spray painting a building adjacent before he was hit five people recovering now after a shooting outside of a seattle safe way store friday night this happened along rainier avenue south during a community outreach event this man telling como 4 that he heard twenty to twenty five shots we were like what's going on and then we heard all the sirens so we came down here and we saw multiple people on the ground two of the five people hurt were with the boys and girls clubs of king county during a weekly event to provide people with meals and other resources so far police have not announced any arrests coming up the despite demand for the labor unemployment among young workers remains relatively high i'm jeff county is
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"The sea spot saber program to get through screening faster. That's come before Steve mccarran. Cruz need to work on the good to go, electronic toll equipment tonight, so the eastbound lanes of the Tacoma narrows bridge will be closing at 9 o'clock. You'll be routed to manual toll booths until those lanes reopen at four tomorrow morning. And let's get a check on that drive now from the high performance homes, traffic center, Kimi Klein, how's it looking? We're actually getting a big improvement in Tacoma now that an earlier accident south on I 5 near highway 16 is cleared, so the most traffic you're gonna feel around there is heading south of enchanted Parkway towards the fife curve, but it really is fitting out. We have a crush in Sumner though, it's on westbound four ten approaching traffic avenue is blocking the left lane, you're backed up just past one 66 and it's really slowing you down eastbound too is people are slowing to look. I think there's a lot of activity probably in the median there. If you're on the east side, are slowing on south on four O 5 hasn't really let up a whole lot yet. It's still very heavy south of 5 20 up the Kennedy Dale hill towards sunset, northbound 405s travel time from Bellevue to Everett is down to about 43 minutes. Seattle to effort is 45, so slowly getting better. Sell 5 in a Seattle slow south of the U district towards I 90, both of our westbound floating bridges are seeing some brief delays, getting across the Lake, although that's not as bad as it was either. Your next northwest traffic at 6 24. And we've got your forecast sponsored by northwest crawlspace services, sunny and near 70° on Wednesday, mid 70s for Thursday and will be near 80 on Friday, cooling down a bit for the memorial weekend highs will be in the 60s to lower 70s with just a slight chance of some rain on Saturday. Right now it's cloudy around the
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"What's happening. You begin a man is dead and a woman is hurt after a shooting in linwood this morning it happened at a hotel not far from alderwood mall. Police tell us a man called 9-1-1 after he says he shot two people trying to steal his truck this morning. He shot at the pair as they were in the truck which then rolled into a corner of a nearby business. A woman was taken to the hospital. She was shot at least once. Officers tell us that pair that were shot may have driven another stolen car to that scene. They ran the plates on a red car police did that was found in the parking lot and found it was actually stolen out of burian. Film of forest, Steve mccarran. A man was found shot to death this morning in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood. Police found the body near 15th avenue northeast and northeast Ravenna boulevard, not far from Olga park. This man lives nearby and he spoke with como four. I heard two shots. I looked out the window right away. I didn't see any people running or cars going by, but I called 9-1-1. No word yet, who killed the 46 year old man or why? Seattle police investigating a deadly assault, a man's body found this morning near south Alaskan way in south Washington street, no word how he died, and no suspects have been arrested. Seattle police department is presenting his quarterly report on staffing today. The department released some of the data to us ahead of that report between January and March of this year, SPD's goal was to hire 31 officers, the department of missed that goal slightly hiring only 26 SPD also projected a loss of 27 officers during that time and lost 28th. The department claims separations within the department are slowing down since last summer. Overall, SPD has a goal of 115 new hires for 2023. That's como fours Preston Phillips. Today, the Seattle city council will present the latest drug overdose trends to the public safety and human services committee, the latest data reveals more than a thousand people in King County died from a drug or alcohol overdose last year. The vast majority of those overdose deaths
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"Rules based off the amount of particulate matter that is being put out into the air from that wildfire smoke. The department will hold public hearings in several cities, including Vancouver, tuck willa and Yakima for any feedback about those proposed rules. Those will happen through August. Steve mccarran, coming up after we check on traffic and weather. So how did schools use those federal pandemic relief dollars that we're supposed to go to helping our kids recover learning loss? I'm Carly Johnson. 1204, traffic every ten minutes on the fours, from the high performance homes traffic center, Kimmy kleins with us. What do you see? Oh, it's already a very busy Friday, but the problem spot is Thurston county, south on 5 at Carpenter road just the right lane is getting by a rollover crash now the driver's been taken in a custody for DOI, but two left lanes remain blocked there and it's backed up to almost Burke leader JBL mr travel time is 75 minutes from Tacoma to Olympia. Even north and I 5 is slow perch in the scene from slater Kinney road. We have northbound 405s exit to eastbound 5 two two. That's partially blocked right now by an accident. In Burlington, the ramp from south on 5 to highway 20 is partially blocked by a stalled vehicle, but it's north 5 around there that's rolling slow. Just north of highway 20 towards bow hill road in eastbound highway 18, that is seeing a 6 to 7 miles slowdown from the Tiger summit all the way to I 90 and the hood canal Burgess scheduled to close the cars very soon around 1215 today, so expect to lay as if you're headed around there. Your next northwest traffic at 1214. Our forecast now sponsored by northwest crawlspace services. The weather is going to get hot this weekend. There's a heat advisory from the national weather service, which begins at 2 o'clock, Saturday afternoon, and it's going to last until 8 o'clock Monday night. Our high temperatures today should hit about 80, blow it to mid 80s Saturday, mid to
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"I'd turn that will continue into the upcoming weekend with lingering showers both on Saturday and Sunday. In the coming four weather center, meteorologist Kristen Clarke. Right now, in Olympia, it's 45° Tacoma 46 is a 47 downtown Bellevue at 48° in downtown Seattle. It's 49. It's now 5 36. The man accused of killing four college students in their off campus rental home is scheduled to have an additional court hearing this month. The matter concerns a challenge brought by family members of one of the victims to a blanket gag order on the case here's northwest used radios carlene Johnson. Brian co burger is charged with four counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Madison mogan, Kayleigh consoles, Santa crino and Ethan Chapin, who work stabbed to death in their rental home near the university of Idaho, November 13th last year. Yesterday, a new hearing was scheduled, May 25th, a month before co burger's scheduled preliminary hearing. The new hearing date is related to the consul's family motion to appeal a gig order in the case. Last week, the Idaho Supreme Court rejected a request by 30 different news organizations to lift the gig order imposed by the court. The Gonzalez family has separately filed a motion challenging that gig order arguing it is unduly broad and places an undue burden on the families. Carlene Johnson, northwest news radio. It's 5 37. Or maybe your lawn mower isn't waking up from the long winter hibernation or perhaps it's just time for an upgrade from gas to electric. Consumer reports has released its list of top lawnmowers, como four Steve mccarran, has the results. Every year, consumer reports lawn mower experts escape the cold northeast winners for sunny Florida. We go down to Florida in February while some people are still digging themselves out from snow so that we can test mowers before people are thinking about what they need. And it's serious business. Every mower goes through a series of tests from how evenly the grass is trimmed to how easy the mowers are to operate. Testers use the mowers and all the cutting modes side discharge bagging and mulching to see how well they work and to make sure you're getting what you pay for.
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"On Monday. Marina rockinger, northwest, news radio, starting next week, expect big delays at the anacortes ferry terminal. Washed out is set to update all four and a quarter severity terminal toll booths for getting on Monday. During this construction work up to two toll booths could be closed at once during non peak times. On Fridays through Sundays, the state says it will keep three booths open. This project will cost about $5 million expected to be done by fall of 2023, so this fall. It might remember international service from Anna quarters to BC still suspended right now and likely won't be back in service for years. Como four Steve mccarran, with high temperatures expected near 80° today and tomorrow. It was near 80 today, the desire to cool off at area beaches, rivers, and lakes is tempting, but it's still April, and that means the water is dangerously cold, and you can be overcome very quickly when you jump in. Multnomah county Oregon sheriff's deputy John plock talked with K two TV in Portland. The cold water, even the strongest swimmer can be overtaken by the temperature of the water. More than 100 people drown each year in Washington drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional death in children under the age of 5. Time to check on sports from the Beacon plumbing sports desk, Toronto, Blue Jays. First of all, they lost are excuse me, the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Mariners today and there was just a score in the abs game and the abs that went to the score and the abs just score so it's now one zero in the first period between the abs and the kraken. With more sports here's Taylor van zeiss. Pete Carroll and John Schneider surprised NFL analysts and drafted a defensive back as the 5th overall pick at the NFL Draft last night. Devin Witherspoon was not expected to go that high, but Seahawks did end up making an offensive draft at number 20 with receiver Jackson Smith in jigga, pending last minute swaps or trades, the hawks should end up with 8 new players by the end of the 7th round. Britney greiner spoke out for the first time since her release from a Russian prison camp, saying whether it's Russia or another country she will never again play in an overseas league. The whole reason a lot of us go over is the pay gap. A lot of us go over there to make an income to support our families. Griner says the only way she'll dribble on a foreign court will be on the U.S. national team. The north division title is on the line this weekend for the XFL and the Seattle sea dragons are in the nation's capital to fight the D.C. defenders. The Seattle sounders have a break from the U.S. open cut play until May 10th, but the team isn't on vacation. They're in Utah for a match against real Salt Lake Saturday, OL rain back on the pitch Saturday too, also on the road in Louisville. Sports at ten and 40 passed each hour, Taylor van zeiss, northwest news radio. Roxanne Watson is on a mission to have more people sign up as organ eye and tissue donors. What drives her? Roxanne received a heart transplant made possible by an organ donor. I decided that day to devote myself to signing up the most people in the United States.
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"Where boats are stored in an elevated structure during winter times often. David cuerpo with Seattle fire says that the flames erupted around two in the morning at Seattle boat company. That's on north Lake way. 30 votes were involved in this fire. That entire rack facility has collapsed. Smoke from the fire enveloped the I 5 ship canal bridge this morning about a hundred feet above the scene. A man in his 40s was arrested at the scene in connection with the fire, and that same man was also overcome by smoke and transported a harbor view for treatment. A house caught fire early this morning in Everett near 34th and Broadway. Steve mccarran describes the scene, firefighters and engines there as smoke was rising up from that home. This is just up the road from funko field. Three people were taken to two different hospitals after suffering burns in this fire. One of them were told was in a wheelchair at the time, all three people are in critical condition, no word yet how that fire started. Coming up after traffic and weather. 9 years since the ohso slide, I'm corwood Hague with today's simple remembrance. Three four, hunt for an update on traffic from the high performance homes traffic center. Here's Michael condrey. Probably the slowest traffic is up in north Seattle on I 5 south bun as you come down through a north gate off and on towards 92nd and then a little more slowing too as you move from the ship canal bridge right into downtown up towards the off ramp for Mercer street. Northbound I 5 again a little bit of a backup moving into downtown as you move up towards the off ramp for Seneca, not a big delay through that stretch. I four O 5 south bound delays over on the east side moving out of Bellevue down past I 90 and some scattered slowing headed past the coal creek Parkway into the new castle area. Again, pretty good situation with our Washington state ferries this afternoon. We do have one delay at slight, the font laroi, southworth, vashon ferry, is running about 20 minutes behind. This report is sponsored by Kelly blue book, Kelly, blue book, instant cash offers as an official offer to buy your car, enter your vehicle ID, answer some questions, then receive a no obligation offer. It's all a KBB dot com. Our next northwest traffic is at 1234. And the forecast sponsor by northwest crawl space services, here's como four meteorologist Kristen Clarke. Sunny and warm today, in fact, today is going to be the warmest day of the week. Don't go getting used to it. We're back into the 40s on Thursday
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"Is no word on a cause of this fire at this moment and we're trying to figure out if anyone was inside of the time or if anyone was hurt. We're also tracking a fire investigation in Federal Way right now. Investigators trying to figure out the cause of a house fire along south 304th. This is close to steel Lake just down the street from Federal Way high school. We're hearing reports at least one person was trapped in the back of that home and had to be rescued some of Steve mccarran, flames are going through the roof of a building near 23rd in south plum in Seattle, no reports of any injuries connected with this fire and no word on how it started. A detective with the King County sheriff's office remains in the intensive care unit after being shot yesterday morning, while attempting to serve an eviction notice in Ballard. Northwest news radio's carlene Johnson joins us live from outside harborview medical center with the latest curling. Well, good morning again, Brian. Just before 9 30 yesterday morning, there were three King County sheriff's office detectives going to serve that eviction notice at an apartment near Woodland park zoo. The 800 block of northwest 54th and as they approached somehow there was an exchange of gunfire two of the deputies opened fire or returned fire. At this point, sure who fired first. But the deputy, who ended up being injured, did not fire his weapon. Is there what the sheriff's department for 25 years were told? He was shot in the upper torso, that bullet somehow missing his bulletproof vest, being black with Bellevue police says on the way to harborview here, the deputy was actually awake and alert. He was in fairly good
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"Heard one and I kind of just tried to mark it up as like, oh, maybe it's like a backfire from a car, firework, and then I heard like 7 shots after that. She described law enforcement arriving quickly and trying to communicate with their subject. Like you need to surrender. We're coming looking with canines right now. King County executive Dow Constantine in a tweet Sunday writes he's thinking of the deputy colleagues and family and is hoping for a speedy recovery. Let's come a fours Jackie Kent reporting, both the deputy and the suspect are expected to survive. A 17 year old girl died in a head on crash in Thurston county over the weekend. An authorities suspect an 18 year old driving one of the cars was under the influence. This happened on Saturday night on rainier road southeast and the Thurston county sheriff's office arrested that 18 year old driver. They say he was driving north, lost control and a curve crossed the center line and went into oncoming traffic. The impact killed his passenger. The 18 year old driver was processed for suspicion of DUI and his under investigation for vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. Deputies report, the other driver involved a 24 year old woman, has serious injuries. Steve mccarran reporting. One person is in critical condition after a major crash in Federal Way that happened this morning, south of 272nd street along 9 5 south. Investigation into this collision. That state trooper Rick Johnson says the crash involved two cars and a semi truck. The person in critical condition was driving one of the cars. The wreck happened around 5 30 this morning and tied up traffic for most of the morning commute. A Kirkland woman speaking out for the first time since she was raped in her own home. That attack happened last October. The victim, Jennifer sharing this terrifying moment
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"A great job to really get everything lined up super fast so that we could prevent him from possibly going out on duty and having more interactions with the public as a police officer. In the probable cause documents, the victim alleges amicia forced sex, then pushed her out of the truck and said she was lucky he didn't kill her. A detective told him each year the DNA found on the rape kit could be connected to an unsolved sexual assault in Connecticut. Amicia reportedly denied the out of state incident before admitting to meeting up with an escort, but denied that it was raped. Even Tacoma, Jackie Kent, come on in. Police are investigating a smash and grab robbery targeting an ATM machine at a credit union and south Tacoma, on south to come away and 96th in Lakewood. They got the money machine onto the truck, but did not get away with it. Police say it fell into the street at a nearby intersection investigators do have surveillance video of that incident, and they ask anyone who has information about that crime to call 9-1-1 right away. And that's come before Steve mccarran. Officials in Olympia are dealing with the highest property crime rates in half a decade. Joel Moreno reports that isn't the only stunning statistic from a new report. But there is also an extreme increase in stolen cars to track down. My neighbor had their truck stolen. Car prowls are a persistent problem, but even those a double digit uptick over Olympia's 5 year average. The department and it just came in the passenger side and I don't know the window was broken in my bags were gone. Business break ins are another challenge for Olympia police and officers have been working with owners to reassess their security measures to better safeguard the stores. One category that didn't go up is residential burglaries. The number of reports fell nearly 4%
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"The last remaining mask mandates in Washington state is about to be lifted. Details from northwest news radios, Jeff Poe jala. On April 3rd, masks will no longer be required at healthcare or correctional facilities. However, the Department of Health is recommending masks still be worn in those settings. And it's not just Washington. California, Oregon, and Washington you've all decided to make this step together. State epidemiologist doctor Scott lindquist says the mask mandate could come back if cases rise, but at the moment, the data doesn't support such a move. Jeff pojo and northwest news radio up you all up police officer accused of raping a woman made an appearance before a judge today. Pleaded not guilty to third degree rape in his bell was set at $200,000. He's also required to stay in western Washington if he posts bail. According to the judge, also lost his job with the P wall at police departments, the next hearing for amicia is scheduled for two weeks. Tyra majors. A man accused in a brutal attack inside a prison is back behind bars now facing new charges. Abraham was charged with attempted murder following an attack on corrections officer Terry breedlove at clallam bay correction center that happened back in 2016. The case was ultimately dismissed and Abraham was released from prison in January of this year. Only to find himself back in handcuffs less than a month later. Police say he carjacked a man in Seattle, knocked a 70 year old woman to the ground outside of a community center, stealing her purse, and was involved in an officer involved shooting in burying all within the span of 5 days. We talked with a corrections officer who nearly lost his life in that 2016 attack. That is like the worst nightmare of all. If he's back out on the street, the next time somebody could either end up like me or dead. He's going to hurt people. That's what he does. That report from como for Steve mccarran. Sound transit now says it's light rail line from Federal Way to Tacoma won't be open until at least 2035. David Jackson with sound transit says floodplain issues have taken the 5 station out of the running and a second potential station location is not much better. The alignment along I 5 have some serious constructibility issues and also potential cultural resources in that area. So we need to study an additional alignment along SR 99. The sound transit board will convene march 23rd to discuss options, but at this point, they estimate light rail from Federal Way which should open 2024 or 2025 will take about ten more years to reach to coma. A state economist says personal income is stable, statewide, and revenue collection is strong. In other words, a predicted recession has yet to land locally, more from northwest news radios corwin Hague. Four months, economists have been abuzz over layoffs, inflation, and the coming recession. Consumers still have some serious concerns. On the other hand, they're continuing to buy things. That's doctor Steven lurch, executive director and chief economist with the Washington state economic and revenue forecast, trying to get a fix on our local economy. He says, despite all those tech layoffs late last year, overall income has remained level statewide. We do have a little bit lower levels of Washington personal income compared to what we were looking at in November. The overall growth rates on average are quite similar. Nor are tax collectors complaining still very good growth, 6.4% year over year. While none of that suggests a booming economy, it's not necessarily recessionary either, but lurch says, check back later this year, when tech companies severance packages run out, corwin hake, northwest, news radio. Boeing rewarding CEO David Calhoun with compensation valued at 22 and a half $1 million for this past year. However, the company will not pay him a $7 million bonus because it will fail to get its new triple 7 X jetliner into service by the end of this year. The company says the jet will be behind schedule for reasons largely beyond mister Calhoun's control, but also say some of his decisions regarding the plane contributed to the miss. Northwest news time, four ten and the kraken try to pad their winning column against the
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"Now, it's 37° at two O 6. A shelter in place order is now lifted in linwood following a hazmat situation. It was happening at a furniture refinishing business. This happened along 204th street southwest, just about three miles south of alderwood mall. We're told a refinishing product got too close to a heater and caused a chemical reaction that reaction created an irritating but not toxic smoke that set off the smoke alarm. No one was hurt. Coma forest Kelly cumans. A woman had to be rushed to the hospital after an early morning shooting in Bremerton. Officers were called out to chica way northwest at around one 30 this morning. This is not far from earlens point kitsap Lake, and about a block away from a fire station. The woman was inside her home when she was shot this morning. Family members immediately called 9-1-1, the woman suffered serious injuries, had to be airlifted to harborview medical center in Seattle. Deputy say several suspects took off after that shooting. Come on for Steve mccarran reports, no suspect descriptions have been released, no word on the woman's condition. Two drivers struck and killed a man overnight along southeast mile hill road in kitsap county, and we've learned that the 33 year old died at the scene, the drivers were a man and a woman, both in their 50s, they were not impaired according to the sheriff's office. Their investigation continues. Legislators and Olympia are looking at ending a state tax on gasoline, it would be replaced with a paper mile plan. Starting in 2025, electric drivers like Jay would have the chance to voluntarily participate in the paper mile system. Already, he says the measure is unfair because all drivers of electric cars would have to pay the same amount, regardless of how big their car is. There is an impact and we'd like to see the smaller, more affordable cars, tax less, especially for the drivers who just don't burn up the roads that much. In 2030, the pay per mile system would then be made mandatory for drivers of gas cars. We'll sponsors of the bill hope it'll make up for the shortfall in gas tax revenues. Washington policy center says it would be unfair for people who live in rural areas, who must drive long distances to get anywhere. In downtown Seattle, Brian Sims come over. Scattered county is considering significantly higher rates on the guiness island ferry, details from northwest news radio, Jeff pojo. The grimace island fairy is actually run by the county, and not the state ferry system, meaning skagit county is solely responsible for its budget. But according to the skagit valley Herald, the ferry is being subsidized from the roads fund, resulting in less money for street maintenance. Operations manager, Rachel rose, says fairy fees haven't been raised in several years. Those fares are no longer keeping up with the cost of operating the ferry today. So now a consulting firm has recommended raising ferry rates by more than 70%. The public will have a chance to comment on the proposal at a meeting early next week. Jeff pojo in northwest news radio, drug overdoses in Seattle, doubled in two years, come a four as Jeremy Harris spoke with first responders about the problem and possible solutions. We know that if we reverse somebody's overdose, about one in 20 of those individuals will be dead in a year. Doctor Michael sayer supports more medical intervention like methadone and Suboxone,
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"Represented by that. We're not naming the teacher at this point, but a judge did find probable cause to order that he be held on bail. We checked with the district and understand that that teacher was placed on paid administrative leave while the investigation is underway. Joel Moreno. We are learning more about the man accused in a deadly stabbing at an addiction recovery house in kitsap county. It happened Sunday Night. Investigators say 29 year old Sterling travin admitted to using meth earlier that morning. Police found two people stabbed to death and two others severely injured in this home. Travis is facing murder and assault charges. That's come all fours Mary nom. A second arrest has been made in a violent smash and grab robbery that happened at a Tacoma pot shop October 28th. Having at the shop in the 2600 block of Pacific avenue, 6 suspects arrived at that closed business in three vehicles, one of which was used to drive through the front door. The suspects then entered the store started throwing merchandise in the bags. They had brought with them. Now, as the suspects were leaving, you might remember an armed security guard who had been outside the business exchange gunfire with multiple suspects. The suspects then took off in one of the vehicles, some ran off. Now to come a police say they have arrested an 18 year old. He also had a stolen firearm on him when he was taken into custody, then booked into jail. He's the second arrest now made in this case the other, a 17 year old, that guy was arrested back in December. Police are still looking for four others. That's kummel force Preston Phillips. Suicide rates are climbing again across the country after two years of decline. Komal for Steve mccarran reports, a local group is working to make sure people learn the warning signs and prevention strategies to help save more lives. The new statistics are hard to fathom. According to the CDC, more than 48,000 Americans died by suicide in 2021, the highest numbers recorded since 2018 and at least one out of every ten was someone under the age of 25. It's heartbreaking. It is. And that is Scott Hannah with family education and support services, which provides early intervention services in four local counties, including pierce, Thurston, mason and Lewis. In 2018, fess was asked to facilitate a task force on child and adolescent suicide because of rising rates. That spring, three young people killed themselves. In two of those kids were 9 years old. And. Not accidents. These were kids. They had a plan. They had the means. They slipped through the cracks. And our hopes to get the word out about some free seminars being offered each month this year to learn about different ways to get help. The warning signs of suicide, and the risk factors, which for dogs can include relationship problems. Substance abuse, historical trauma and barriers to healthcare. The CDC didn't reveal why suicide rates are climbing again, but research has suggested the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on mental health for all age groups. While we're hearing from parents a lot is that there are early signs that their kids are struggling, but that they can't get help during those early stages. So the challenges continue to escalate until something really bad happens. It is on all of us, he says, to do our part to help prevent that, knowing the warning signs, and the resources that are available, can be the difference between life and death. Steve Karen, come on news. It's now four 40. That's time to get into the Beacon plumbing sports desk will Bill Schwartz to the Seahawks to find a big blocker among other things. 27 year old Phil Haines has started 5 games for Seattle's offensive line. He was to become an unrestricted free agent next month, so the Seahawks locked him up on a new contract. Several reports have LA rams assistant Greg Olson joining the Seahawks as their new quarterbacks coach. The sounders kick off the Major League Soccer season at home Sunday Night against Colorado. MLS will expand the playoffs in 2023, 19s from each conference get in, 8 versus 9 and a wild card, and then the first round is a best of three format. Position players join pitchers and catchers at Mariner spring training, catcher Cal Raleigh says last year's playoff run has amped up the expectations for this season. It's changed, but you know, nothing in my mind changed. You know, I'm still working hard every day. I'm trying to get right
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"Services available, whether they want it or not. We're just looking for more attention on the neighborhood. I think we feel like we're on the fringe of Seattle and maybe don't get quite as much attention as the rest of the city does. This year, the city has nearly $2 million budgeted to help improve police recruitment. Again, the state of the city address is happening this Tuesday. It will have all of your updates right here on como news. For now reporting in South Park. I'm Jackie Kent. Detectives in auburn are investigating the death of a man after a domestic disturbance call. Officers went to the scene on Jupiter court near auburn away investigators say a man was holed up inside of a vehicle there, efforts to deescalate the situation did not work and police say it appears the man died after shooting himself. They saved no officers fired their weapons. Steve mccarran. 7 34, let's get a traffic update from the high performance homes traffic center. Here's Natalie Melendez. Inland wood northbound large way remains fully blocked from a falling tree between one 84th and 13th avenue. Southwest Seattle del richway, all the south bun lanes blocked by a collision between Trenton and Henderson and going from 18 to 5 12 on south one 67 will take 9 minutes as reporters once by indeed dot com. Are you hiring then check out indeed schedule virtual interviews and talk to candidates right from your employer dashboard vicinity dot com slash credit or next to this traffic at 7 44. Rebecca Stevenson has your forecast sponsored by northwest crawlspace services. Tonight, the mountain passes may become impassable because we're getting increasing amounts of heavy snow. We've got high avalanche danger. Plus we've got those strong winds out there. Now, we're going to keep going with that mountain
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"Thursday and Friday. And I come before weather center, meteorologist Kristen Clarke. And currently still cloudy and 45° in Seattle. TSA says more than 6500 guns at airport checkpoints last year. Come O fours, Steve mccarran breaks down the figures from sea tac airport. TSA agents discovered at least 14 guns at sea tax security checkpoints during the month of January. And that was a new record for the month of January and the airport saw a record number of guns during the entire year and 2022. 113 in all of last year, a pretty big jump from the year before. And in the past couple of months, the TSA increased the maximum fine for bringing a gun through an airport security checkpoint from $13,910 to 14,950. So almost 15,000 bucks. The total fine amount is determined on a case by case basis. Agency also looking to expand enhanced security procedures at airports where agents are seeing those high number of guns. Como four Steve mccarran, a new drug is popping up in West Coast cities. Authorities call it trank. It is a fentanyl mixture, consisting of animal tranquilizers, the deadly effects can take effect just minutes after injection. According to a DEA report, that drug began appearing on the east coast and then branched out from there moving west. A small number of overdoses just started showing up in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Last year, the FDA sent out warnings about that drug, which naloxone in opioid overdose treatment can not reverse. Last year, the U.S. experienced a huge resurgence in opioid deaths. There were more than 110,000 of them health department data shows more than 1000 total overdose deaths in King County in 2022. A 43% increase over 2021 when the county recorded 709 overdose deaths. Some of fours Kelly koopmans, a bill being considered in the state legislature would make schools and day care centers a little safer, Michelle Esteban, elaborates. It's stateville 53 32 they are considering it would force the removal of camps near schools and day cares and it would prohibit homeless services like tiny home villages and RV safe lots from being established near a school. Homeless camps near school is a red hot issue in Seattle. In fact, parents of students at John Stanford international school in wallingford are demanding that the state removed an illegal encampment under the ship canal bridge. It's about 350 feet from the encampment to the school's entrance. You have individuals that have chosen to be here, tell me where that makes any sense at all. They're the ones that came there illegally camped on those grounds in my opinion. And we're saying, well, now in order to move them, we got to find a place for them to live. The bill is still being considered in committee if passed, it would take a fact about 90 days after passage. And that's come up for us, Michelle Esteban. This month, the sharper focus is being shifted on boosting stem education for women and girls around the world, more from coma force holy menino. The United Nations General Assembly recognized the inequality and adopted the international day of women and girls in science to promote full and equal access and participation. Although progress has been made, local tech leaders say it's not enough. Girls and women at this point only make up 28% of the stem workforce. And that's not enough, right? We're 51% of the population, I think it doesn't track to have only 28. Percent of the workforce reflected. Katie McCormick is the director of product for promethean. Promethean is a local EdTech company that makes classroom tools used in schools throughout Seattle. Next month, W Everett is hosting its second annual girls explore
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"steve mccarran" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"The west valley highway and south center. We're seeing some traffic build on westbound 18 just merging on to south I 5 in one 6 7 is already very slow getting south of auburn most of the way into Sumner. There is a high wind warning in effect across common arrows bridge and I just checked with your mountain passes still no restrictions over Stevens snow call me blew it or white pass. This supports sponsored by positive coaching alliance questions about youth or high school sports, positive coaching alliance can help PCA a national nonprofit organization develops better athletes and better people through youth and high school sports. Info at positive coach dot org. Your next northwest traffic at two 44. And now your forecast sponsored by northwest crawlspace services. Localized power outages and heavy mounted snow, the main impacts in the short term from the next incoming winter storm tonight, then on Tuesday, we can expect past travel delays if not temporary closures with high avalanche danger into your whiteout conditions at the cascade passes. And for the lowlands increasingly cold conditions with a strong north wind developing throughout the day tomorrow, this will bring snow levels down to sea level by Tuesday night. The north coast near port Angeles, the cascade foothills that will up a hills because he close to one to two inches, most other areas less than a half inch of accumulation, and then the cold with high stuck in the 30s despite the sunshine this Thursday and Friday. And I come before weather center, meteorologist Kristen Clarke. And currently still cloudy and 45° in Seattle. TSA says more than 6500 guns at airport checkpoints last year. Come O fours, Steve mccarran breaks down the figures from sea tac airport. TSA
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"On tackling the economic fall out of this pandemic. President Biden will sign executive orders today that expand food support for families worker protections and create a plan for federal contractors. To pay a $15 minimum wage. National Economic Council director Brian D's at the White House this past hour echoed the president's called Action, saying to invest and provide Americans relief now or to pay more laying. Retail sales fell last month, and just yesterday we saw another 900,000 Americans fall for unemployment insurance. That's a weekly rate that is higher than any week during the great recession, he says. The White House is also working to get bipartisan support in Congress for the separate $1.9 trillion rescue plan. Moments ago, retired Army General Lloyd Austin sworn in as Secretary of defense, the Senate confirming his nomination earlier, he's the second member for the Bide administration confirmed so far. Shell Friends and ABC News Co. Moh news 1000 FM 97 7 Broken clouds and 42 downtown 10 31 on a Friday Thanks for being with us as we bring you the top stories from the coma 24 7 News Center Right now, the entire state is in Phase one. Which means strict limits on restaurants, fitness clubs and social gatherings. Many business owners are urging the state to move us to the next phase more from coast to the sweet occur. State Health secretary doctor who marry Shaw says they believe there is a risk in allowing not just restaurants, but bars to open back up. We're going to find out today if any region in the state has the metrics to move on to face two, which would allow Limited into her Danny to move into the next phase. Regions need to be four criteria, including a decreasing trend in the 14 day rate of new covert cases and hospital admissions per 100,000 people. The state Health Department reports were still less than halfway to the governor's goal of hitting 45,000 doses of the covert vaccine every day. We're currently averaging about 15,500 per day, the Health Department reports a significant vaccination milestone. It has finished giving the first round of doses to all residents. In nursing homes across the state. Sunday, Amazon will hold a pop up clinic in the South Lake Union area to vaccinate thousands of people for covert 19 camo Steve McCarran with more the partnership with Amazon and Virginia Mason is one of the state's latest steps to ramp up vaccinations. As more people become eligible is we're making tremendous progress. But again, none of us are satisfied until we continue to see these numbers. Dr. Hired the way just never show nearly 803,000 doses have been delivered to providers and long term care facilities in our state. But only 362,000 have actually been given the rate of roughly 43%. The governor says the state is working with pharmacies to distribute more doses and plans to open several mass vaccination sites across the state next week. But demand is currently beating supply again Call most even a care in the first round vaccinations has been completed for every nursing home in the state, as we mentioned in most of the work was accomplished by pharmacies, namely, CVS and Walgreens. Long term care facilities account for about 5% of total cases, but more than half of the state's covert 19 deaths. 222,223 new cases were reported in Washington yesterday, and Northwest Health experts started to see that Maura these cases they're happening among kids. Here's comes Brian Calvert, while the number of Washington youth testing positive for covert 19 is rising in Oregon, the number is spiking. We had a lot more testing. I think these people wanted to travel after Han Vestergaard says this past fall through December more kids under the Age of 18 were tested, and that's when they started noticing this not necessarily in the younger of kids, but mainly in the 12 to 17 age range. The pediatrician says. It happens because most parents still allow their teams to get together with each other. We had one case rumor. We had a kid who had been in a car with like three of his friends, and they weren't wearing masters in a day later, one of the kids tested positive and then the other kids did, too. It's hard sometimes to stop those activities in that age range. The encouraging news the teenagers aren't getting a sick is most adults. But as carriers of Kobe they are taking at home two moms and dads. Ryan Calvert Co. Ammonia. Here's what's coming up next up to the judge. Now civil trial against him. I'm in is over. I'm Carling Johnson, the massive penalty he could face Come on, whose time 10 34 and updating traffic. Every 10 minutes on the forest sighs. We'll make our way through the Friday midday for the duty Log Route Traffic center here. Jordan has the latest for you. Most of our drives are enjoying a nice commute right now unable to move along at the speed limit. Still, some slowing traveling westbound on Spokane Street between I five and 99. Reef Hesitation north and My five is you're approaching the convention center. Also still a little bit of a slow down south at 16 Dina's You're approaching.
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Coronavirus Testing Has Gotten Better, But The U.S. Still Does Not Have Enough Tests
"Workers on the front lines of the pandemic. Come on Steve McCarran with more on the state's plan. Doctors told me that they believe we're just weeks away from that first group of people being able to get a covert 19 vaccine and getting it to everyone will likely take months. So they're saying that Patients will be key here. Right now. The state is in the process of finalizing its plan of who will get the vaccine and when, within the next few weeks, the state will submit its plan to the CDC. Doctor say high risk groups in frontline workers will likely be at the top of the list to get a vaccine that includes folks like doctors, nurses, those who clean hospitals, respiratory therapists. And people who transport patients through a hospital. The reason for that is especially important right now in many areas are still seeing a surge in covert 19 cases, Experts say. We all want available doctors or doctors to be available, along with nurses and medical workers to be available to take care of patients. And if you're healthy, or don't have any underlying conditions, expect to wait in order to be vaccinated. I'm unless 65 healthy, I don't have any conditions. So I have to wait my turn. And I know everybody in the United States to do that. Let's make sure we get the vaccine so that people who really need it first, and we deny our vaccine. We have enough Doctor Muktar with you. Tubbs Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation tells me until you get vaccinated, and even if you're vaccinated early on It is still very important to wear a mask and social distance to help stop the spread of the virus in another member of the Trump family has tested positive for covert 19 this time. It's another trump son. A. B C's Andy Field has details from Washington. Donald