Good afternoon everyone.
Thank you for joining us on Crypto
News 1st at four I'm Tom Sherry.
It's good to have you here.
I'm Whitney Ward,
Spokane County prosecutor Larry
Haskell speaking out today about
the recent revelations of racist
comments made by his wife Leslie.
Our own Ian's may was at that press
conference. He joins us live now
in The Newsroom with more. Ian
yeah, this was Haskell's first time
publicly speaking about his wife's
comments after the Inlander first
reported on them on January 27th.
He had released statements about the story,
but today he apologized for her comments.
Leslie Haskell made racist comments on
the far right social media website gab.
Those comments included calling and
MSNBC host Joy Reid, a black woman.
The N word. She also described
herself as a proud white nationalist.
Haskell said he apologized for the
pain caused to his office and the
public created by her comments.
However, he said his wife isn't racist.
I believe that her comments were racist.
I have known that woman for 30 years.
And I do not believe she is a racist,
but what she wrote was racist.
Haskell also said his office is diverse
and specifically guides them to not
pursue suspects or cases based on race.
He added that he doesn't share his
wife views coming up at 5:00 and 6:00.
Tonight I'll have more from
Haskell as well as Spokane.
Human Rights Commissioner member and
Anwar piece for now in The Newsroom,
Ian's May Crypto news.
In our ongoing Boomtown series,
we are tracking how the growing population
here in Eastern Washington and northern
Idaho is impacting the community.
So we asked how the Spokane International
Airport is going to keep up with that pace.
So for starters, we're told the airport's
most pressing challenge has been
parking over the course of three years.
It did realign the roadway leading
into the airport, which created.
Room for about 1900 additional spaces.
The airport also added six more
nonstop flight destinations since 2019.
CEO Larry Crowder actually told
our Amanda Rowley why he hopes
to add even more. Anytime
we can make it easier for someone
out in the global economy to
get to Spokane with one stop,
we have accomplished the mission.
So that's why it's so critical
for us to add these flights.
What do you anticipate the
airport looking like by 2040?
Well joining us tonight on
KREM 2 news at 6:00 o'clock,
we're going to find out what the
CEO expects the Spokane airport
to look like in the future
and proof of another way.
Spokane is on the map,
this time in sports world class
athletes and even Olympians are
here for tonight's Lilac Grand Prix.
Yeah, one of them may break a world
record tonight and they are in.
They are over there at odd by our
Spokane's newest sports venue.
It's called the podium as you well know,
and that's where we have our very
own cream cheese. Kyle simcheck.
He is right there, Kyle.
So this is a pretty big deal now for Spokane.
Tom, very exciting and this is the
first professional event at this
venue and consider this podium.
Officials say their ten year goal
was to host a record breaking world
record breaking race and they're
going to try to do that tonight,
so competing tonight, our Olympians,
World Team members and national
record holders races range anywhere
from 600 meters to 5000 meters.
The podium, partnered with
Union Athletic Club,
a pro running group based
out of Portland athletes,
told us they like how close the venue
is to downtown and that Spokane could.
Easily become the indoor running
capital of the West Coast.
We we train in Portland, OR where?
It's arguably one of the coolest
track facilities in the world.
It's a track in the woods,
and as soon as we walked into
this facility in Spokane,
all of our jaws were dropped.
It's one of the best indoor
tracks I've ever been to,
if not the best.
So the lilac Grand Prix
starts tonight at 5:50.
General admission is $13.25 a thousand
people are expected to watch the races.
The podium is booking up this
winter with 13 track meets
on the calendar this season,
including nine this month
alone and coming up at 5:00,
we're going to look at the
economic impact this new venue
could have on the city of Spokane
reporting from the podium.
Kyle Simchah Cream 2 News right.
Kyle, thank you very much.
Yeah, we're so excited about what this
means for the future of our sighting.
Very cool, well the rapid
growth across the region.
Also though driving up prices and
it makes keeping up with bills a
lot harder for low income families.
Well now you've probably seen a few
RV's that have been parked around town.
It's easy to assume that they're abandoned,
but some of them aren't.
We decided to knock on their doors.
Here's who we met.
Posted up somewhere in Spokane, I'm not sure.
Along side of the road,
this is where we found Chris Bill and
his girlfriend my RV. Place of living.
Depending on who you ask,
you'll hear drastically different
reactions to RV's like this one.
Hopefully we're not in this
situation too long for Chris.
It's not ideal, but it's better than nothing.
There's just not too many places or
you know options after losing their
jobs and falling back on rent ended up,
you know, getting kicked out of our home,
so it's been one month living out of this RV,
making me a little difficult.
Disappointing, but you know goal,
goal orientated.
We will be back there,
you know back on her feet in no time.
Temporary set back for Chris yeah,
but for Melissa it's my home.
It's a step up.
It's
better than freezing our butts
off in a tent like we were
a different perspective on an RV.
Melissa is called home for two years
when you're out here.
This becomes your home.
She's been homeless for 11 years.
I just got tired of paying
bills and that's the truth.
Once on the streets, getting back
inside seemed impossible. You
have to have the first months rent and
then you have to have the deposit.
And then you have to have that movers fee.
Then after that you have to also be
able to make the qualifications. And. I
don't saving up
that money is hard with an RV because
of how old it is. It's a chore.
The RV has to be running so
Melissa can move when she gets
flagged by traffic enforcement.
I already had impound and once
I just had to go do laundry,
I get back and it's gone.
Neighbors report abandoned
cars in RV's to the city,
a system that's backed up with complaints.
The volume is has certainly gone up
a little bit in terms of the number
of abandoned vehicles the city has
to figure out if an RV is abandoned.
The owner is just breaking a rule,
or if someone is living in it.
We emphasize the rules of the road.
24 hours stay rules,
no parking rules, registration rules.
Even if the RV is a home objective is always
to keep the occupant in the vehicle
and to make sure it's safe for
everybody. It's a balancing act between
the neighbors perspective and the
people needing a roof over their heads.
So when we talked to the city
spokesperson Brian Coddington,
he explained that RV's are
also much harder to to,
so he says. For example,
when one breaks down and then does
end up abandoned, its costs about
$1000 each for the city to remove,
which is hundreds of dollars more
than just a regular abandoned car.
All right, we're going to switch gears.
We want to send things outside and look
at that sunshine on a Friday evening.
Man, it was great.
I actually had lunch outside
in my car, but feel good.
You know, you get that little
greenhouse effect in the garden.
Very, very comfortable blue skies sunshine.
Would you like that for the weekend?
Good because I think we're going to bring
that to you for most of the weekend.
48 degrees.
Right now we've got a little bit of a
breeze out of the northeast at 9 mph.
Satellite radar picture shows the
only cloud cover we're seeing down
around Pendleton and the Walla Walla area.
And that's just light clouds anyway,
so tomorrow we'll look for an
overnight low of 24.
So again, it is cold in the morning,
but then we'll see a
daytime high of 43 Sunday.
I think we're going to see a
daytime high of 45 degrees.
I'll check your 7 day forecast
in just about 10 minutes.
The first time it broke down.
Well, a very special guest making an
appearance in the kennel last night after
the break. We are catching up
with you superstar Jalen Suggs.