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Good afternoon and happy Friday. From the KUOWW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. I'm Ruby Deluna. Here's our roundup of

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Now on to our top story today.

A Spokane man who's married to a U.S. citizen has been detained by ICE after being

tackled by agents at his home. As KUOWW's Gustavo Sagrero reports, he's been trying to get

legal status for years. When Kendall Diaz got the text her husband was taken by ICE from their home,

she rushed to watch the home surveillance video of the incident. In the video, her husband Martin Diaz makes it dashed for the

backyard gate when he's tackled by a man who's wearing a vest with yellow lettering. Kendall says

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