I'M
I'M TIM
I'M TIM PHAM. A THREE AND A HALF YEAR SEX TRAFFICKING
SEX TRAFFICKING
INVESTIGATION INTO A NETWORK OF MASSAGE PARLORS AND SPAS IN
SEATTLE LEADS TO
THE ARREST OF SIX
PEOPLE.
POLICE SAY THEY'VE
BUSTED A PROSTITUTION
RING OUT OF 11
DIFFERENT MASSAGE
PARLORS IN SEATTLE.
THE RAIDS IN SEATTLE'S
CHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL
DISTRICT HAPPENED IN
LATE FEBRUARY.
DURING THEM,
INVESTIGATORS UNCOVERED
CASH, FIREARMS AND
RESCUED 26 WOMEN FROM
THE OPERATION.
THIS LED TO CHARGES
AGAINST FIVE DIFFERENT
SPA OWNERS AND A
WARRANT FOR A SIXTH
PERSON.
THE C-I-D PUBLIC SAFETY
COORDINATOR SAYS
NEIGHBORS CALLED
THE MASSAGE PARLORS A
SECURITY PROBLEM IN A
RECENT POLL
OF MORE THAN 500
RESIDENTS.
RESIDENTS. "...BEING SEXUALLY
"...BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED."
ASSAULTED."
THE
THE WOMEN
THE WOMEN WERE BETWEEN 20 AND 60-YEARS-OLD. THOSE ARRESTED ALLEGEDLY
CONSPIRED TO LURE WOMEN
TO
THE U-S WITH THE PROMISE
OF A LEGITIMATE JOB.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
SPENT MORE THAN THREE
YEARS
INVESTIGATING AND
MONITORING ACTIVITY AT
THE SPAS BEFORE
SERVING WARRANTS.
POLICE ARE WORKING WITH
THE F-B-I TO POSSIBLY
CONNECT THIS
CASE TO SIMILAR CASES
ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
YOU MAY REMEMBER, ONE
YEAR AGO HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATORS
LOOKED INTO ILLEGAL
ACTIVITY AT
THE CRYSTAL SEA MASSAGE
IN NORTH SPOKANE AND
SPACE OIL
MASSAGE IN THE SPOKANE
VALLEY.
THE SPOKANE COUNTY
SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND THE
F-B-I RECEIVED
SEVERAL COMPLAINTS
REGARDING PROSTITUTION,
FORCED LABOR AND SEX
TRAFFICKING AT BOTH
BUSINESSES.
UNDERCOVER AGENTS WENT
IN AND CONFIRMED WORKERS
DID
ATTEMPT TO PERFORM
SEXUAL ACTIVITY.
SEXUAL ACTIVITY.
AS
AS WE
AS WE PREPARE TO SPRING FORWARD TOMORROW, DOCTORS OUT OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON ARE SOUNDING
THE ALARM ON THE
HEALTH IMPACTS OF
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME.
A MEASURE THAT WOULD
MAKE DAYLIGHT SAVING
TIME THE NORM
PASSED IN THE WASHINGTON
STATE HOUSE TODAY, AND
IS NOW ON ITS WAY
TO THE SENATE.
WE WANTED TO EXPLORE HOW
THINGS WOULD BE
DIFFERENT IF WE
WERE TO GET RID OF
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME.
OUR SISTER STATION IN
SEATTLE EXPLAINS WHAT
THIS COULD LOOK
LIKE.
LIKE.
LIKE. OUT
LIKE. OUT CUE: SHOULD WE
CHANGE OUR OWN DAYLIGHT SAVING RULE?
SAVING RULE?
WHAT
WHAT DO
WHAT DO YOU THINK MICHELLE? SHOULD WE STICK WITH
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME,
ALL THE TIME-
LIKE THE CURRENT BILL IN
THE LEGISLATURE
PROPOSES?
PROPOSES?
WHAT
WHAT ABOUT YOU, TIM? IT ACTUALLY LOOKED AND
FELT MORE LIKE IT OUTSIDE TODAY!
OUTSIDE TODAY!
HOW
HOW CLOSE
HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO GETTING MORE CONSISTENT SPRING WEATHER,
MICHELLE?
MICHELLE?
NEW
NEW TONIGHT....
NEW
NEW TONIGHT.... THE WHITMAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
RESPONDED TO A PLANE
CRASH
JUST EAST OF PULLMAN
EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.
A SINGLE-ENGINE 19-64
PLANE CRASHED IN A FIELD
AND LANDED
UPSIDE DOWN.
THE PLANE WAS EQUIPPED
WITH SKIDS MEANT FOR
LANDING IN SNOWY
FIELDS AND FROZEN
TERRAIN.
THOSE SKIDS DUG INTO A
FIELD WHILE THE PILOT
ATTEMPTED TO
LAND, CAUSING THE PLANE
TO FLIP.
THE PILOT SUFFERED ONLY
MINOR INJURIES THAT DID
NOT
REQUIRE MEDICAL
ATTENTION.
ATTENTION. TODAY ARROWS WENT FLYING
IN DEER PARK. HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS
COMPETED IN THE EASTERN
WASHINGTON ARCHERY
CHAMPIONSHIP.
THEY'VE SPENT MONTHS
PREPARING FOR THIS
COMPETITION.
KREM2'S SHAYNA WALTOWER
CAUGHT UP WITH THE
STUDENTS
ABOUT THE LIFE SKILLS
THEY LEARN IN THIS
COMPETITIVE
SPORT.
COMPETITIVE SPORT.
SPORT.
WE'RE
WE'RE LEARNING NEW DETAILS TONIGHT ABOUT THE INTERSTATE
THE INTERSTATE
SHUTDOWN
SHUTDOWN NEAR THE HUETTER REST AREA IN POST FALLS.
IDAHO STATE POLICE SAY A
SEMI- TRUCK CARRYING
MILITARY MISSILES
CRASHED AND CAUSED MAJOR
DELAYS ON THE
INTERSTATE.
ALL LANES WERE CLOSED
FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS.
IDAHO STATE POLICE SAY
THE SEMI-TRUCK CARRIED
16
MISSILES WEIGHING ABOUT
TWO- THOUSAND POUNDS
EACH.
THE DRIVER WAS TRAVELING
EASTBOUND WHEN HE
ACCIDENTALLY DROVE INTO THE HAZMAT CONTAINMENT AREA OF THE PORT OF
ENTRY INSTEAD OF THE
INTERSTATE RAMP.
THE TRUCK ENDED UP IN A
SNOW BANK AND THE DRIVER
RECEIVED A
CITATION FOR INATTENTIVE
DRIVING.
FORTUNATELY, NO ONE WAS
INJURED.