Week in Review: Transportation, health and safety, and wildfire season

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with FOX 13’s Jennifer Lee, Seattle Times David Kroman, and Seattle Met’s Allison Williams

The Washington State Patrol is reporting that from January 1 to May 17 of this year 934 failure-to-yield incidents, and they say there has been a dramatic increase in fleeing traffic stops. Will the law be changed?

Neighborhood advocates are saying that the second International District/Chinatown Station need go a block farther west, under Fourth Avenue South near South King Street, because the construction would have less of an impact on the area. How big of a difference does a block make?

The Washington Poison Center says there was a 58 percent increase in cases of self-harm or suspected suicide in patients ages 6-12 from 2019 to 2021, and a 37% increase in patients 13-17 years old. How should parents respond?

On Wednesday, a group of Amazon employees protested the company’s continued sale of books they say are anti-trans during a Pride Month event at the company’s headquarters. The participants are members of No Hate at Amazon, which says that the company produces and sells books the group says are harmful to transgender youth and they are demanding an end to it. What impact did this have?

The city of Seattle will be voiding or refunding more than 200,000 parking tickets issued between September 1st and April 5th due to an oversight as parking enforcement officers transitioned from the Seattle Police Department into the Seattle Department of Transportation. How did that happen?

Seattle police’s sexual assault and child abuse unit staff has been so depleted that it stopped assigning to detectives this year new cases with adult victims, according to an internal memo sent to interim police Chief Adrian Diaz in April. How have they decided where to put their relatively few officers?

Don't be deceived by our cold, wet Northwest spring. Weather experts are expecting more wildfires and smoke through the summer season What should we know?