Good evening from the KUOW Newsroom.

This is Seattle Now. I'm Patricia Murphy.

Here are today's top stories. It's Monday, June 17.

Can you believe we're just days away from the summer solstice?

This cool, cloudy weather.

The weather service says the clouds will be moving out of here, though.

Temperatures might be close to 80 by the end of the week.

The murder trial for an Auburn police officer took an unexpected turn today.

Attorneys for Officer Jeffrey Nelson made a surprise decision not to call any defense witnesses.

Nelson is charged in the shooting death of Jesse Surrey outside a convenience store in Kent in 2019. KUOW reporter Ashley Haruko

is covering the trial and says the move was not expected. Before Nelson's attorney during opening

statements had said that he was planning to take the stand to explain his side of things and that he had been waiting for five years to do so.

But we've reached out to the defense and they haven't yet said why they decided to change their plans or what factored into that decision.

The trial is one of the first tests of the state's new legal standard for deadly use of force.

Voters approved the measure six years ago. King County prosecutors in the Nelson trial called

28 witnesses to testify over the last several weeks. Lawyers for the county and Nelson's defense

will now present their closing statement to the jury before deliberations begin.

Governor Jay Inslee is on the road trying to convince voters to keep the state's Climate

Commitment Act by showing off its biggest round of investments yet. Politics reporter Scott

Greenstone went to see one of those projects. This wet weather treatment plant in Georgetown catches stormwater and overflow from sewage

drains and treats it before it gets into the Duwamish River.

The governor is here because this station is getting solar panels as part of $72 million

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