Tuesday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Here are today's top stories. It's Tuesday, April 23rd. |
| 0:16.0 | Starting with walkouts today, high school students across the Puget Sound region walked out of class to protest the war in Gaza. |
| 0:24.1 | Free, free, free, free, free Palestine. Our reporter Casey Martin recorded that audio from Cal Anderson Park in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, where dozens of the students rallied this afternoon. The organizers |
| 0:38.4 | say they want to see a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Maysoon Dahar is a senior at Garfield High School. |
| 0:45.6 | It's important to be sensitive, but this is also important to be strong with your opinions. And it's |
| 0:50.1 | important to stand for the people who can't fight for themselves. |
| 0:58.6 | The walkout follows similar protests at universities across the country. |
| 1:03.4 | Some people opposed to the walkouts say these actions are anti-Semitic. |
| 1:07.8 | Students at Cal Anderson today denied that saying they just want to see peace. |
| 1:12.0 | Local school districts said absences from school for this would be unexcused. Washington State wants to make electric vehicles affordable for anyone who drives a car. |
| 1:19.0 | So state officials made a big announcement today. Forty-five million dollars in rebates for people |
| 1:24.6 | who buy or lease an electric vehicle, whether it's new or used. |
| 1:28.8 | So how much per buyer? The rebates are up to $9,000 and are meant for lower and middle-class drivers. |
| 1:36.3 | Mike Fong heads the state's Commerce Department. |
| 1:39.2 | Most of the rebates and incentive programs and tax incentives from the federal government |
| 1:43.3 | lean towards supporting |
| 1:45.0 | more affluent, wealthy communities and individuals that are able to make EV a realistic option. |
| 1:52.0 | Governor Jay Inslee said the state's goal is to make climate-friendly cars accessible to everybody humanly possible. |
| 1:59.0 | Currently, EVs make up about 3% of cars on Washington's roads. |
| 2:03.6 | The first rebates should be available in August. Seattle has a brand new transportation plan as of this |
| 2:09.5 | afternoon. It sets out the next 20 years of road proposals, bike lanes, how to move freight around |
| 2:16.3 | the city and more. |
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