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Friday Evening Headlines

Seattle Now

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4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Some hospitals are running on generators, we talk with Latino voters in Yakima about Trump's presidency, and Magnuson Park could get pickleball courts. lt’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.

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Support comes from Washington's National Park Fund, the official philanthropic partner of Mount Rainier,

0:06.3

North Cascades, and Olympic National Parks. Proceeds from Washington National Park license plates

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help fund important projects in these parks that might not otherwise receive support. More at WNPF.org.

0:26.9

These days, there's so much news. It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community.

0:37.9

The Consider This podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. 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.

0:44.9

We get behind the headlines. We get to the truth. Listen to the Consider this podcast from NPR.

0:57.6

TGIF from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Coming up, Latino voters in Washington tell us about their hopes and fears about another Donald Trump presidency. But first, here's

1:03.7

our roundup of today's top stories. It's Friday, November 22nd. A wind advisory lifts at 6 o'clock tonight for the greater Seattle area, but there's still a lot of rain ahead over the weekend and next week. And if you're still without power, know that this week's storm was one of the worst in recent decades, according to Puget Sound Energy. About 130,000 homes and businesses are

1:29.0

still in the dark as the work week comes to a close today. And people are now mourning the two

1:35.3

women who died in the bomb cyclone. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner has identified

1:40.7

65-year-old Deborah O'Connor as the woman who died when a tree fell on her in Linwood.

1:47.1

Another 65-year-old woman died in Bellevue when a tree fell on her home.

1:51.5

And an Amtrak engineer was nearly impaled Tuesday night when his Seattle-bound train hit a fallen tree.

1:58.1

The tree smashed through the railcar's front window. The engineer was treated

2:02.3

for minor injuries at a nearby hospital. Heavy winds had knocked over the tree on the tracks near

2:07.6

Stanwood north of Everett. Some hospitals in King County are still running on backup generators

2:13.3

after losing power during this week's storm, But hospitals region-wide are up and running,

2:19.4

though it's not exactly business as usual.

2:22.6

Elish O'Neill has more.

2:24.5

The handful of hospitals that still don't have power

2:26.9

are in the east and southeast parts of the county.

2:29.8

Anoraleen is CEO of the Northwest Health Care Response Network.

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