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From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now.

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Power outages have hit a few thousand customers in Western Washington today as gusty winds

followed up on this morning's

pouring rain. Most outages right now are in the Sammamish area with very few in Seattle, Tacoma,

or Bellevue. Puget Sound Energy is identifying what went wrong in Samamish. They're also trying to

fix a transmission line that's damaged on Snoqualmie Pass.

On Snowqualmie, a landslide caused significant damage to the lines on Friday in the Cabin Creek area.

It's still business as usual today at CETAC Airport.

Ice agents have been deployed to several airports nationwide to help reduce security check delays as a partial

government shutdown continues, but no ICE agents have been assigned yet to CTAC. Wait times have

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