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and start your day knowing what matters and why. Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm your host, Paige Browning with today's top stories. It's Thursday, May 28th. Starting with our top story, the bodies of six people who were unaccounted for in this week's chemical disaster in Longview have been recovered. It appears to be the state's deadliest workplace tragedy

in nearly a century. OPB's Bryce Dole has the latest. On Tuesday, a massive tank ruptured and

released tens of thousands of gallons of corrosive chemicals at the Nippon-Dina Wave packaging

company. Eight people have been confirmed dead, three more are missing, and officials believe they're dead. That would make it Washington's deadliest workplace accident since the state's coal mining disasters decades ago. The most recent comparable incident occurred in 1930, when 17 people died in the Pacific Coast coal mine

explosion in the town of Carbonado. In 2010, seven people were killed in a refinery explosion

in Anacortis. An investigation into the Longview tragedy is ongoing. I'm Bryce Dole, reporting.

Advocates for light rail packed the sound transit board meeting today and pleaded with board

members to build future light rail stations in Ballard, West Seattle, and elsewhere.

As of our podcast taping time this afternoon, the board has not voted yet on how to move forward.

Here's Casey Martin with what's at stake.

If waiting for a late train is bad, waiting on delayed train stations is upsetting just about

everyone in Seattle. Elected leaders, business groups, transit advocates all want to know

when will Sound Transit complete its expansion plan, something that voters approved 10

years ago. The agency is short about $35 billion. And today, the board will vote on a plan that

could defer or delay big sections indefinitely. Projects like pushing South Kirkland Light Rail

out nine years to 2050,

scrapping West Seattle's Avalon station, and stopping the Ballard extension about five miles short of Ballard.

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