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Good afternoon from the KOWW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Paige Browning with the roundup of today's top stories.

It's Tuesday, August 5th.

The next time you hear from us about the primary election, it'll be the results.

That's because voters in Washington State have until this evening at 8 o'clock to return their primary election ballots.

As of this afternoon, turnout in the county is just under 21%. In this election, analysts have described Seattle City Council President,

city attorney, and mayor as moderate liberals fending off more progressive challengers.

City Council President Sarah Nelson says for her those political labels are too simplistic.

But Nelson says there are commonalities between her campaign and those of city attorney Ann Davison and Mayor Bruce Harrell.

Because we came in at the same time and we have been working often in very close coordination on certain issues

and we're all the incumbents in that sense were the people that have been trying to recover

the city Nelson says she considers voters top priorities to be public safety affordability

and addressing homelessness opponents of Nelson Davis and Harold Davison, and Herald are pledging

to more aggressively challenged Trump administration policies and pursue new forms of progressive

revenue. Two other stories to know at the top of the show, Washington State and Seattle are

both appearing on a list of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions published this morning by the

Justice Department. President Trump directed the DOJ to create the list, and it includes 34 cities,

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