It is 6:00
AM on this Tuesday morning.
Thanks so much for joining
us here on up with Karim.
I'm Channing Curtis and
I'm Tim Fam. A lot to get to to,
but the big story this morning is it's
kind of a stormy morning and still warm.
Yeah. And I know Nicole said tht
it felt almost humid to her.
Thomas, is that just because it
kind of rained this morning?
It's still kind of warm. It
is a little bit of both.
It's that obviously a bit of ra.
That has fallen has added to the humidity,
but this storm system is generay
A humid 1 to begin with,
and humidity can act as fuel for
showers and thunderstorms to begin with.
So our humidity is a bit on the
higher side and we are seeing of
course a bit of some scattered
showers and some thunderstorms.
Already at 6:00 o'clock this morning,
the one cell that I'm tracking
right now is nearing Moses Lake.
You might be hearing some rumblf
Thunder off to the east from Moses Lake
and that is moving towards the West as well.
So that is the one thunderstorm
that is currently at play.
But you can follow that band of
showers all the way back to down
Spokane where it has been a bit
of some on and off rainfall,
but where it is raining.
Those raindrops seem to
be a little bit bigger,
a little bit thicker and maybe
a little bit wetter.
Certainly caused our studios to
get a good downpour earlier on s
morning and we are under flood.
Watches until 10:00 o'clock tont
happening today. Voters
in Kootenai County will cast thr
ballots and one key item they'll be voting
on is whether to renew a $25 min
levy for Coeur d'Alene Public schools.
Up with crimes, Brandon T Jones is live
in The Newsroom right now. And Brandon,
this vote today is the second attempt
at passing the levee and a lot s
on the line. Good morning. Yeah,
good morning, Tim. That's right.
Back in March, the levee failed by 2%.
According to Coeur d'Alene Public Schools,
25% of the operating budget
is at stake in this vote.
If the levy fails,
the district says over 100 jobs could be
cut in extracurricular activities like
sports and electives could be cut as well.
Crim 2 has been following this
vote for months now.
Many that are in favor of voting
yes to pass the levy say it woud
be devastating if it fails.
My 8th grader is going to be
in high school next year and he
plans on participating in sports
and extracurricular activities.
This has hit him really hard.
We talk about it every single dy
of what am I going to do next y,
mom, if there's no sports?
And how are we going to make this happen?
And what about those kids that are in
arts and drama and band and all of it?
Public schools says it spends
$1.5 million on extracurricular
activities In today's election,
Kootenai County voters will conr
the levy without a perpetuity clause.
This means even if it passes,
the levy will be up for
another vote in two years.
Reporting live in The Newsroom.
Brandon D Jones, Kerm 2 News.
Brandon, thank you.
And in the meantime,
the Lakeland School District is also trying
to pass levies related to the budget.
The 1st is a two year $9.5
million supplemental levy.
If it passes, the money will cor
maintenance and operation items outside
of the district's allotted fund.
It will also cover nearly
twothirds of staff wages.
Lakeland is also running a sepae
twoyear levy for building maintenance.
That one is budgeted at 1.5,
excuse me, $1.15 million.
We are just hours away from
a special session in Olympia.
The session will get underway
today as lawmakers try to pass
a new drug possession law.
So ahead of the session,
state lawmakers unveiled a compromise
on that law late last night.
The bill would make knowingly possessing
or publicly using drugs a gross
misdemeanor on the first offens.
The penalty will be up to
180 days in jail or a fine.
Now, after two drug convictions,
jail time could increase to nearly a year.
Under the current law,
which expires in July,
people can only be arrested forg
possession on their third offen.
Democrats say the Senate plans
to vote on this today.
There's no word this morning,
though, on the plan in the Hous.
Today's just about 6:05. Here,
let's take a look at your morning rush.
More news and less time.
A Shashone County man is in
critical condition this morning
after being attacked with an ax.
Now this all happened
yesterday at a home in Wallace.
ID Police arrested a 39 year old
man in connection with the case.
The man was not wearing any
clothes at the time of his arre.
New from overnight.
Police are investigating this
morning what led up to a SWAT
standoff in Post Falls yesterda.
Here's what happened.
Police say they originally respd
to complaints of a fight between a man
and a woman at an apartment com.
When police got there,
they heard a gunshot,
and that is when the SWAT team was called in.
Neighbors were evacuated from their homes.
Eventually, crisis negotiators
got everyone out of the apartmet
and came out to surrender.
The Idaho mom, convicted of
killing two of her children,
is now back in the Madison
County Jail this morning.
Laurie Valo De Bell was transpod
back to Rexburg after a jury's
guilty verdict on Friday.
Her sentencing hearing will
now take place in Fremont
County in about 3 months.
A new law is on the book
in Washington state this mornin.
The new law increases the number of crisis
response teams who can respond to someone
in crisis calling the 988 Lifel.
The law was signed by Governor
Inslee yesterday morning,
but it won't go into effect until next year.
The governor says the bill conts
the state's progress in implemeg
the 988 Behavioral Health Crisis
Response and Suicide Prevention system.
The expansion to the Kootenai
County Justice Building could bn
construction as early as Septem.
It will add 3 new courtrooms and more
office space for the Sheriff's Department,
according to our news partners
at the Coeur d'Alene Press.
If the project begins on time,
it could be finished by spring of 2025.
And that's a look at your morning rush.
To another check of our weather forecast
for this morning is on the mildd
even humid or muggy side if you will.
So yesterday our temperatures we
also quite warm and we're still
kind of in that very warm weathr
pattern to start out the day.
Our current temperature is 60 degrees is
about our low for the day here in Spokane.
It's still 59 as well in Coeur d'Alene,
but that humidity is being used
in the form of some scattered
showers and even thunderstorms.
Not only this morning,
but we'll see more action later
on this afternoon because of
the numerous showers storms.
And just generally cloud cover,
it's going to be not as hot for today,
just upper 70s or low 80s
for high temperatures.
And there is the current Doppler
radar with rain extending from
Moses Lake back towards Spokane,
a few scattered showers in Rakui
county as well as we are going
to be tracking these showers
and storms all day long today.