Friday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Light rail to Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace, and Lynnwood begins, oil tankers are becoming more frequent in Puget Sound, and several Lake Washington beaches are closed to swimming due to bacteria. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Patricia Murphy.
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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. |
| 0:27.4 | Hey there, and happy Labor Day weekend. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now. I'm Patricia |
| 0:33.4 | Murphy. Here are today's top stories. It's Friday, August 30th. Five years after it's groundbreaking, |
| 0:41.7 | Sound Transit is celebrating the start of light rail service north of Seattle. State Senator Marco |
| 0:47.3 | Leas represents Linwood and chairs the Senate Transportation Committee. At the ribbon cutting, |
| 0:52.1 | he called it the biggest thing to happen for Snohomish County since Boeing started building jetliners there. |
| 0:58.0 | This is about the infrastructure of our lives that we are building here. As someone that |
| 1:03.5 | grew up here, I have been waiting for this day for decades. I'm so excited that it's here, |
| 1:10.6 | and I'm so excited for the journeys that we're all |
| 1:12.9 | going to begin. The new extension runs 8.5 miles and includes four new stations. The trip from |
| 1:19.5 | Linwood to downtown Seattle takes 28 minutes. It's going to be a warm and sunny holiday weekend. The |
| 1:25.9 | National Weather Service expects temperatures in the low 80s around Seattle. And if you're planning to take a dip, you might want to check your beach. Right now, swimming areas at five east side beaches on Lake Washington have been closed for bacteria or sewage overflows. Gene Coulon Beach in Renton, O'O. Denny and Houghton Beach in Kirkland, |
| 1:45.7 | and Maidenbauer Bay Beach and Newcastle Beach in Bellevue. |
| 1:58.0 | The recount in Washington's race for Lands Commissioner is nearly over. Counties are on schedule to finish the bulk of the work today, if they haven't already. |
| 2:07.1 | That's according to the state's elections director, Stuart Holmes. |
| 2:10.1 | What I mean by that is they'll have completed the complete hand count during a mandatory recount. Any questions of voter intent or discrepancies need to go to |
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