Friday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Another Westlake Center retail store calls it quits, feds chip in $1.5 billion to replace the I-5 Bridge, and PNW Douglas fir trees are dying by the thousands. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Ruby de Luna.
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| 0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. |
| 0:01.8 | It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
| 0:06.4 | The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. |
| 0:10.7 | Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news. |
| 0:17.5 | We get behind the headlines. |
| 0:19.4 | We get to the truth. |
| 0:22.8 | Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. |
| 0:28.3 | Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Ruby Deluna. Here are today's |
| 0:35.5 | top stories. It's Friday, July 12th. Governor Jay Inslee has |
| 0:42.3 | weighed in on President Joe Biden's reelection bid, sort of. Olympic correspondent Jeannie Lindsay |
| 0:48.6 | explains. Governor Inslee was asked at a Bloomberg climate event in Seattle this week if he thinks Biden can beat Donald Trump. |
| 0:57.0 | He didn't address the question directly, even as Bloomberg's Anna Edgerton pressed him on it. |
| 1:02.9 | So is Biden the best person to do that in November? |
| 1:06.3 | People can make that decision, but I can tell you, he's done some great work on climate change. |
| 1:10.6 | I know there's questions, but again, I want to focus on beating Donald Trump. |
| 1:14.0 | That exchange comes after Inslee didn't respond to multiple requests for comment about the issue last week. |
| 1:20.8 | Inslee isn't running for governor again, but Biden has previously said he wants Inslee to work in his administration if Biden wins a second term. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm Jeannie Lindsay in Olympia. |
| 1:32.4 | Other Democrats in Washington State are calling on President Biden to reconsider his candidacy. |
| 1:38.9 | State Senator Mark Mollett is running for governor. |
| 1:41.3 | In 2019, he says he was the first member of Washington state legislature |
| 1:46.0 | to endorse Biden. Back then, Mollett thought Biden was the only one who could beat Donald Trump, |
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