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Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Thursday, November 14th. Starting with the investigation into multiple

stabbing in the Chinatown International District, prosecutors have charged the suspect Roland Jerome Lee with five counts of

assault. The neighborhood where the stabbings happened, Little Saigon, is under immense stress

from illegal activity on its blocks. Quinn Fam is the executive director of Friends of Little

Saigon, a group focused on the Vietnamese community.

It's also a vulnerable community. I keep saying we were at a breaking point, but we have

been broken. And it's going to take a lot to get us back or even get us to kind of baseline

level of health and safety for this neighborhood. FAMM says ongoing safety issues are making it difficult for businesses

to recover from the pandemic. And she says if the city doesn't step in and invest more in the area,

businesses will continue to shut down. In politics, opponents of the Natural Gas Initiative,

266, have conceded that they lost. Voters approved I-266 in last week's election. But the opponents are now planning to file a lawsuit to overturn it in December. More from K&KX reporter, Bellamy Pailthorpe.

I-26 seeks to protect access to natural gas in homes and

businesses in Washington. The No campaign says the initiative is unconstitutional and unfair to voters

because it violates the single subject rule. Leah Missick is a policy director with climate solutions

and was on the executive committee for the no campaign.

So previous initiatives have been struck down by the courts because they have, for example,

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