Hey there, from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Ruby Deluna. Here are today's top stories. It's Wednesday, April 10th.

Athletic Ware Company Lulu Lemon is the latest store to it's leaving Seattle's Pacific Place Mall later this month.

The so-called Ghost Mall has become a symbol of downtown struggle to recover from the pandemic.

Monica Nicholsberg reports.

On a sunny Wednesday morning, you could count the number of shoppers at Pacific Place Mall on two hands.

Most who did show up were there to shop at Lulu Lemon.

Anne Mars does almost all of her shopping online,

but she wanted to lay eyes on a present for her picky granddaughter before buying it.

If she didn't love Lulamon, I would not be downtown today.

When Mars worked downtown, she was a frequent visitor to Pacific Place.

Just the entire mall has changed since I worked here.

I worked a couple of blocks from here, and I haven't been in the mall probably in a year.

And so when I walked in, I thought it used to look vibrant and alive, and it looks deserted.

A spokesperson for the mall's owner called Lulu Lemon's departure unfortunate, but and alive, and it looks deserted.

A spokesperson for the mall's owner called Lulu Lemon's departure unfortunate, but said there's interest from other prospective tenants. Monica Nicholsberg, KUOW News.

A Boeing whistleblower says nearly 1,000 planes in use right now have some serious structural flaws.

That quality engineer is planning to talk

more about this during a U.S. Senate hearing next week. The Seattle Times reports that Sam Salopor

says Boeing took shortcuts and hid design flaws that could cause 787 and triple seven jets to suffer

premature structural failure. Boeing told the paper

those claims about the 787 are inaccurate and that it's fully confident in the safety of the

Triple-7. The clock is ticking for King County's 10 public health centers. Most will have to close next year,

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