Tuesday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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WA Dems react to Biden's executive order, a jury says Boeing stole technology from a startup, and WA's parents bill of rights takes effect this week. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Patricia Murphy.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Be careful if you're out and about. It is still pretty windy out there. |
| 0:07.8 | From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. I'm Patricia Murphy. Here are today's top stories. |
| 0:13.7 | It's Tuesday, June 4th. Seattle's Democrats in Congress are split over the Biden administration's order that temporarily shuts down the southern border to asylum seekers. |
| 0:25.2 | Politics reporter Scott Greenstone has the story. |
| 0:28.3 | Democrat Pramila Jayapal, who represents much of Seattle, compared the president's order to Trump-era restrictions. |
| 0:35.2 | This is not going to do anything to address Republicans who are |
| 0:39.9 | trying to demonize immigrants and, you know, try to make this into an election issue. This is a mistake |
| 0:46.0 | that, unfortunately, Democrats have made too many times. We try to out-Republican the Republicans |
| 0:51.6 | on immigration. Congressman Adam Smith represents the rest of Seattle. |
| 0:55.7 | He said the order is not a lasting solution, but Biden has little choice. |
| 1:00.2 | No other president, Democrat or Republican, has faced this incredible overwhelming volume of asylum seekers. |
| 1:09.2 | Both Democrats brought up groups of migrants seeking support from local churches and governments. |
| 1:14.1 | Scott Greenstone, KUOW News. |
| 1:16.8 | Fatal traffic crashes are up in Washington, and the Washington Traffic Safety Commission reports |
| 1:21.8 | they're hitting especially hard among Native American communities. |
| 1:25.6 | Penny Rarick is the commission's tribal liaison. She says deadly |
| 1:29.2 | crash rates are at least three times higher among Native Americans than any other race in Washington. |
| 1:35.3 | We see it in Yakima Nation. We see it in with the Confederate tribes of Calville. We see it in the |
| 1:40.6 | Puyallup area and then we see it up in Lummi. And those are where in the last five years we've seen most of the fatalities. |
| 1:47.3 | Deadly collisions that involve an intoxicated driver or a pedestrian are up nearly 60% here since 2019. |
| 1:55.1 | Rarick says the commission is in conversation with 11 tribes to come up with culturally relevant strategies for boosting traffic safety. |
| 2:11.1 | The so-called Parents Bill of Rights voter initiative in Washington will go into effect this week. |
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