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Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Here's our roundup of today's top stories. It's Monday, November 25th. The power outage isn't over yet for thousands of people in the Pacific Northwest, nearly a week after the bomb cyclone. It's been a slog for some people. In the East Renton Highlands area, Mandy

Mortensen has been running a gas generator for her home five gallons a day for six days.

Her boyfriend works for the power company, so she's been understanding until this morning.

You know, it's Thanksgiving and, you know, you're cold and tired. And, you know, I'm not sleeping because I'm afraid the generator's going to run out of gas and then, like, if I can't get it started. So I'm just, I'm tired. So today was a meltdown kind of a morning. Powers out at her son's school, Liberty High, a mile away. They reopened it today, but Mortensen says there was no internet or heat, so she kept him home.

Puget Sound Energy says it's working to restore power to all of its customers and notes that 99% of the outages have been fixed.

Two King County Council members have proposed a bill to help residents who suffered the worst damage in last week's bomb cyclone. The bill would

expedite permits for repairs and the county would pick up the tab for those permits. A second part of the

bill would offer grants for low-income people who had to buy fuel for generators, hotel charges,

or had to throw away food. Council members Sarah Perry and Reagan

Dunn will introduce the legislation tomorrow. Everyone in the region should get ready for

cold weather to move in and make itself at home for a while. The National Weather Service says

things will get really chilly at the end of this week. We've got cold air coming in from the north.

The daily high will be in the mid-to-upper 40s all week,

with overnight lows in the 30s.

But good news, if you're looking to play some football on Thanksgiving

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