Seattle News Tonight for Saturday, 10/24

It is a residential area and, you know, there's probably small kids around here and it's just, it's sad. A terrifying wake-up call as shots rang out early this morning in a Northgate neighborhood. The car that may be connected to the barrage of bullets. ...and cooler temperatures across western Washington, but staying mostly dry. Ilona McCauley has a look at what to expect for Sunday. And the Kraken look to build on their hot start to the season. We'll have a live report as the team takes a shot at a tie for first place tonight. We begin with breaking news. A 16-year-old is dead after a collision sent one vehicle onto a sidewalk in Federal Way. Police say it happened just before 11 last night at the intersection of South 304th Street and Pacific Highway, just a block away from Federal Way High School. Two cars reportedly collided. Then following that initial crash, a car left the road and struck the 16-year-old, who witnesses say was a football player at the school. Police and firefighters tried to save him, but he died at the scene. One of the drivers in the accident was suspected of driving under the influence and was arrested for vehicular homicide. Police in Auburn, meanwhile, say impairment may have been a factor in another deadly crash early Saturday. It happened near 112th Avenue Southeast in Southeast 316th Place. Auburn PD says one person was killed and two others were seriously hurt in the crash. Detectives are still trying to piece together what happened to determine if any charges will be filed. Gunfire erupted in a Northgate neighborhood, leaving behind more than 80 shell casings and damaged property. FOX 13's Shira Matsuzawa walks us through what happened as Seattle police investigate. It's quiet out here right now, but neighbors tell me earlier this morning they woke up to gunfire outside of their doors. And some of them are still shaken. A bullet hole in this van. A reminder of what happened just hours earlier. I heard like 80 gunshots, and I thought it was gonna stop, but it didn't stop. Vanessa Leach lives nearby and called police. Yeah, I thought they were gonna come in my house. Like, I thought they were trying to come through my window, and I'm so scared. At around 8.15 Saturday morning, Seattle police say they got 911 calls about shots fired. When officers arrived, they found more than 80 shell casings consisting of five different calibers. They say several cars and homes in the area were hit. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but police say several bullets flew into the window of one home, nearly hitting one woman. A very scary situation for people because it's like, this is our home and it's happening right outside our door. This woman did not want to be identified, but she's grateful no one in her family or her friends were hurt. Because bullets don't have names, you could be caught in the crossfires. Police say witnesses reported seeing a black sedan leave the scene on 107th and turn north onto Aurora Avenue using the real-time crime center. Officers found a black sedan with what appeared to be substantial bullet damage but could not find the car. We have a lot of gun violence going on right now. Saturday, shooting comes as the area continues to be plagued by violence. Last month, neighbors shared their frustrations to Mayor Katie Wilson during a community meeting. I really just hope that these people understand the damage that they do. Shira Matsuzawa of Fox 13 News. A teenager is in custody after allegedly threatening to commit violence at a high school football game last night in Tumwater. It was the second of two games in Thurston County that were canceled Friday night because of the threat of violence. Fox 13's Sam Campbell is in Tumwater with more. At Tumwater High School football field, cheers fill the stands. just 12 hours after the district told parents players and fans to stay home elementary school teams returned to the field saturday morning while a 14 year old remained in custody with Thurston County Youth and Family Services facing real consequences for alleged behavior in the digital world police say that teen posted a threat on social media friday afternoon and soon went on the run it took police six to seven hours to find that teen with tumwater police updating the community on Facebook around 1 a.m. A family member helping a school resource officer to track them down. The threat was credible enough that Tumwater School District called off its rivalry game kickoff in the Pioneer Bowl with Black Hill High School set for 7 p.m. but instead players and fans stayed home. A little leery but you know I guess it's everywhere you can't just stop. It's kind of scary because you know not only do we have to like teach them about football and everything but we have to teach them about this kind of stuff now too. And just a 20-minute drive away another threat canceled the match between Centralia and Rochester High Schools. The Thurston County Sheriff says this one was aimed at one student in particular and is gang related. No arrest there yet. When I grew up if you had a beef with someone you literally you went out there you either got you're fucked or you kicked their fucked but at the end of the day you help them up and you may not be friends but it's done it's over with one suspect still outstanding and half the season left to play parents of players of all ages worry when and where the next threat will be made or worse followed through to tragedy in Tumwater Sam Campbell Fox 13 News union workers and community members descended on SEA airport this afternoon the group all in organized today's protest calling on public institutions like SEA to cut ties with AI tech surveillance giant Palantir rally goers are also speaking out against what they say are an increase in ICE detentions at SEA as a caregiver and also as an immigrant and it hits home for me. So if I'm not here, you know, standing up for them, I'm not doing my job. The group says Palantir Technologies is using advanced AI surveillance to make billions on detentions and deportations after the company's founder, Peter Thiel, donated more than a million dollars to President Trump's election campaign. Fox 13 reached out to Palantir, which has an office in South Lake Union. We're still waiting to hear back. Across the region with readings in the 50s. But Fox 13 meteorologist Alana McCauley says October has been a lot warmer and drier than usual. Well, there's been no doubt about it. This October so far has been incredibly warm and incredibly dry. In fact, you can see really October so far with those temperatures well above 60, even into the 70s. And we've been tracking very little rain. We've only had less than a tenth of an inch of rainfall since the beginning of the month, when typically during an October we get around just under four inches so as of right now this does look like it is the third driest start to the month after 81 years of keeping records dating back to 1945 but things are changing we are tracking that increasing chance for some showers with that cold front that's already moving on shore best chances for rain will be overnight tonight into early Sunday morning. Overnight temperatures will be cool. We'll be right around 43 degrees in Seattle, 39 degrees in Bremerton. Temperatures will be chilly once you get off to the south there in parts of Olympia and Centralia. Coming up, we'll have a look at that Seahawks forecast as well as the extended forecast coming up. The Seattle Kraken are riding a two-game win streak and are off to a historic start this season. Tonight, Seattle hosts the Minnesota Wild at Climate Pledge Arena for the Kraken's third of four straight home games. That's where we find Fox 13 sports anchor Lauren Helmbrecht. Lauren. Well, Frankie, as you alluded to, Seattle is off to its best start through 11 games. They have seven wins and 15 points. And a big reason for Seattle's success so far this season, their goal scoring. The Kraken are averaging 3.82 goals per game, which is tied for fourth in the National Hockey League. Now tonight, Seattle will be without forward Jared McCann, he sustained a lower body injury in their Thursday win against the Utah Mammoth. And in that 5-3 victory, Seattle, well, they gave up multiple goals in the third period to ultimately lose a multi-goal lead. But Seattle was able to overcome that and win back-to-back games in very similar circumstances. So earlier today, head coach Lane Lambert was asked about this historic start to the season and he pointed out that these close games are something that the team needs to sort out yeah i think we've done a pretty good job of uh you know obviously offensively um i think we've done a good job of dialing in and and putting pucks in the net obviously um you know that's been nice uh defensively i still think we can shore them some things up and i think our goaltending uh has been very good for us now as for the Krakens competition. The Minnesota Wild have lost their last three road games, but Seattle is not overlooking this team. In fact, they boast the goalie who has the most total saves in the NHL, and he's starting in this one tonight. Puck drop at Climate Pledge is just under an hour at 7 p.m. Reporting outside the arena, Lauren Helbrecht, Fox 13 Sports. Protests across France have been anything but peaceful as hundreds of Thousands of demonstrators clashed with police. The French government says nearly 410,000 people have turned out across the country. Nearly a quarter of them are flooding the streets of Paris. The rallies are centered on the cost of living and school funding. Authorities say more than 1,000 people have been arrested. All right, stay tuned. We have much more local news and your extended forecast straight ahead. Fox 13 News. This is Seattle News Tonight on FOX 13 and streaming on FOX Local. Emotions are still high nine days after a shooting at a school in Bend, Oregon. A father with two little girls who attend Silver Rail Elementary did the unimaginable. He followed the gunman before firing the fatal shot that ended the violence. I called her and I was like, Mom, I just had to take the life of what I think might be a child. Caleb Giamonco says the first thing he did after stopping the bloodshed at a Bend, Oregon elementary school last Thursday was call his mother. The 36-year-old Carpenter was emotional recalling the crucial minutes before he ended the October 15th shooting rampage. I started hearing children pleading for their lives and then I started hearing gunfire and I just started army crawling faster and faster and I told myself this is probably the the last thing that I'm ever going to do. The shooter, identified as a former Silver Rail student, killed three children, ages 5, 8, and 11, and a 25-year-old teacher. A second teacher and a child in a wheelchair were injured by the gunfire before Giamonco used a legally owned .40 caliber pistol to stop the gunman. I found my opportunity and I seen a teacher on the left struggling with the gunman on the right with the rifle and I knew that they were they were both side to me and I knew that he did not know that I was there and so at that point I swung the door out and open and I stepped in and I fired Bend Police say Giamonco's selfless intervention and that of another Silver Rail teacher likely saved countless lives you know I don't think we can underestimate or underappreciate that courage. When someone is willing to risk their own life for others, we recognize that. And the quick thinking to observe, to then park and follow someone into the school is incredible. As for the school community, the district has arranged for extra counselors and a strong police presence across the district. But administrators say it will take time to move forward. While most students in Bend have returned to the classroom, Silver Rail will be closed until further notice. Police continue to call the shooting an active investigation. Among the questions detectives hope to answer, where the shooter obtained the gun and a trove of ammunition used in the shooting. Frustrated parents in Olympia are fighting to stop a proposal that would close and consolidate schools. The district is one of many around the region grappling with declining enrollment and budget deficits. Fox 13 spoke with one parent as she was dropping off her student. It feels like an erosion of public trust because we elected the school board members into this position to represent us. The parents and the community members really are ready to partner with the school board rather than have it be adversarial. We really want to partner together to keep these schools open and help think of creative solutions dozens of parents spoke at the school board meeting Thursday night most of them against these closures the proposal would close McKinney Elementary along with Madison and Elpreet Brown elementary schools the superintendent for the Olympia School District says closures are necessary due to budget issues and declining enrollment the final vote on the proposal is scheduled for November 12th driving too fast through school zones and floor and for Federal Way will soon land you a speeding ticket outside of school hours. The city says four speed enforcement cameras will start ticketing drivers 24 hours a day. That includes two cameras near the Saghali Technology School and one on Southwest Campus Drive, another on 21st Avenue Southwest near the school and a Fred Meyer. The third camera is right in front of Panther Lake Elementary school on First Way South and the other camera is on Southwest 320th Street in front of Twin Lakes Elementary. A 30-day warning period will begin November 1st. Violations will begin December 1st. Heads up for drivers in Seattle the Spokane Street Swing Bridge will be closed this weekend for maintenance. SDOT says it will be replacing the center lock. Bicyclists and pedestrians will still be able to use the bridge. The bridge closure started this morning at 7 a.m. and will last until the bridge reopens Monday morning at 4 a.m. Drivers can use the West Seattle High-Rise Bridge instead. The World Series is underway between the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays, but as FOX 13's Lauren Donovan has learned, there's a piece of history some local fans here may not realize. Before they were Brewers and called Milwaukee home, they were the Seattle Pilots. After just one season in 1969, bankruptcy, a big move and a legal battle left Seattle without its team. It was so slapdash and happened so quickly that the the truck with all the pilots equipment was in Provo, Utah and they're waiting for a call to see if they should go northeast to Milwaukee or northwest to Seattle. Just five days before opening day in 1970, Seattle lost its ball club, so they didn't even have uniforms. They had the old Pilots uniforms. They stripped off Seattle, they stripped off Pilots, they put Milwaukee and put Brewers, so the first year they were wearing Pilots jerseys. Local baseball historian Dave Eskenazi has collected pieces of that short-lived season. He says the Brewers blue and gold we see on the diamond today goes back to their Seattle roots and on Rainier Avenue there's another reminder the Lowe's now stands where Six Stadium once did. At the time it was built, it was the finest in the country. But 30 years later, it was a little bit ramshackle and wasn't suitable for Major League Baseball. Seattle agreed to fix up Six Stadium and eventually build a new ballpark altogether. It happened so fast. They were still in spring training as the Pilots. The team had declared bankruptcy in September of 1969, but they tried to keep the team here. Civic leaders fought to keep the team. They even took the American League to court. In fact, them suing the American League for breach of trust and breach of contract is what brought the Mariners here seven years later. If not for that happening, we might not have had another Major League Baseball team. Dave says losing the Pilots hurt, much like losing the Sonics years later. Even still, this World Series, he's jumping on the Brewers bandwagon. It's been 57 years, and we've had a major league team for 50 years, so maybe the first time the Brewers went to the World Series in 1982, it was still kind of fresh 12 years later, and there's a lot of anger and vitriol, but I think it's time to let that go. Lauren Donovan, Fox 13 News. Disney on Ice has skated back into the Puget Sound area. The latest show is called Jump In, featuring over 50 Disney beloved characters. Performances run through the weekend at the Showwear Center in Kent. FOX 13 got a backstage performance based on the movie Inside Out. If I touch it, it will tell me my emotions. Yes. Touch it. Oh, my goodness. Is that? Joy. It's joy. Oh, good. I have joy. Of course I do. I'm Disney on Ice. I'm on the ice. If you can't make it to Kent this weekend, Disney on Ice will be at the Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett from October 29th to November 1st. The U.S. Secret Service ramped up an operation around Seattle this past week on the hunt for skimming devices across the Puget Sound area. Secret Service agents visited 217 businesses, more than 400 credit card or debit card terminals, 100 ATMs and 300 gas pumps. They were looking for card readers that take and hold information from cards. They say as technology improves, skimming devices are more difficult to detect while their use has increased in the past two years on bank cards and EBT cards. The Secret Service says in the last year alone, operations like this removed more than 400 illegal skimming devices, preventing an estimated loss of $428 million. We'll be right back. special well hi there everyone from the Fox 13 weather center I'm meteorologist Ilona McCauley some changes finally beginning to take place as we're increasing those chances for showers beginning late tonight and in fact we're going to keep the rainfall chances going uh through much of the work week as of right now it does look like a drier Halloween is in store for us by next Saturday big game on Sunday out at Lumen Field uh you might want to bundle up though temperatures are going to be only in the 50s throughout the much of the game stray shower possible I do think that most of the game will be more dry than wet but we'll have a few showers around in fact as we time it out on that future cast here's that increasing chance for rain beginning late tonight with that cold front coming through and the hours are for the best chances for rain will be late tonight into early tomorrow morning but you can see i pause this right around 5 30 tomorrow that's really close to kickoff time and we've got mostly cloudy skies but we do have a few showers in the area that's why i'm just keeping that stray shower possible off to the east there we do have the chances for some snow flurries up around the higher elevations as the snow levels will be coming down to right around four to five thousand feet a stray shower possible holding into early monday morning but after that drying out ever so slightly we do have some pretty good rainfall totals possible in fact over an inch will be possible in areas around the olympic peninsula highs on sunday very close to where we've seen them for the last couple of days low 50s up around everett we've got 57 degrees in seattle 55 in olympia and that seven-day forecast will show we're going to hold steady in those 50s for much of the week as we talked about kind of an unsettled week ahead for us as we've got additional chances for some showers all the way through Thursday. Thanks for joining us for Seattle News Tonight.