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This is Seattle now.

I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories.

It's Wednesday, May 14th.

Starting with help coming to Seattle's Chinatown International District,

the city is hiring public safety ambassadors for the neighborhood.

Mayor Bruce Harold joined small business owners in Hing Hey Park today to announce the launch of the program,

which is modeled after similar teams in Ballard and downtown Seattle.

Harold says ambassadors will work with businesses and residents to respond to safety concerns in the neighborhood.

And what we think this strategy does is, number one, it gives more activation, more people that can help get people services.

That audio courtesy of Como TV, the program's funded by a combined $1 million investment from Amazon, the Asian American Foundation, and the city of Seattle.

The neighborhood ambassadors could start as soon as June 1st. In health care news, the King County

Council is considering giving money to clinics that provide abortions and other reproductive

health care services. It's a response to proposed state and federal budget cuts.

Ileish O'Neill has more.

Last year, 13,000 people in King County went to Planned Parenthood and paid with Medicaid.

But if a proposed federal policy change goes through, no one will be able to use Medicaid

at Planned Parenthood anymore. And at the state level, lawmakers just slashed half of a program that helps fund abortion

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