Friday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
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🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Movement to put a lid over I-5 is gaining steam, PSE gas and electricity rates to increase, and a state law that protects immigrants could see challenges under Trump. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dyer Oxley, and on the latest episode of Meet Me Here, find out how Dungeons and Dragons |
| 0:05.0 | could save the nation. With lies on social media traveling faster than reason, could this nerdy |
| 0:11.2 | role-playing game be the answer to combating disinformation? Listen to Meet Me Here on the KUOW app or wherever |
| 0:18.4 | you get your podcast. |
| 0:24.3 | TGIF. on the KUOW app or wherever you get your podcast. TGIF from the KUOW Newsroom. |
| 0:27.1 | This is Seattle now. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm Paige Browning. |
| 0:30.1 | Coming up an immigration issue, |
| 0:32.0 | we learn about the policing agencies |
| 0:34.1 | who are not embracing a law meant to protect immigrants. |
| 0:37.3 | That story's in a few minutes, |
| 0:38.7 | but first, here's our roundup of today's top stories. It's Friday, January 17th. Incoming President |
| 0:46.9 | Donald Trump will take the oath of office Monday. Organizations that help refugees get settled in |
| 0:52.7 | Western Washington are working at a frantic pace |
| 0:55.4 | trying to help as many people as possible now in case the Trump administration shuts the door on refugees. |
| 1:02.2 | Ileish O'Neill has more. |
| 1:04.0 | Ever since the election, the caseworkers at World Relief Western Washington have been working evenings and weekends, |
| 1:09.8 | driving to CETAC to pick up arriving |
| 1:11.5 | families and helping them get settled. |
| 1:14.1 | Madar Ngaeta is the organization's executive director. |
| 1:17.8 | He says the Biden administration has been bringing all the refugees who are vetted and ready to travel |
| 1:22.5 | into the U.S. as fast as possible. |
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