KIRO Newsradio Headlines: Judge to release redacted affidavit on FBI’s Trump home search

A judge has decided to publicly release a “redacted” version of the document that explains why the FBI needed to search former President Trump’s Florida home.

The Justice Department confirmed it met today’s deadline to submit the affidavit, with portions blacked out.

CBS confirmed the FBI seized hundreds of pages of classified material from Mar-a-Lago.

The Justice Department previously unsealed portions of the warrant related to the search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, indicated that the government seized 11 different sets of classified materials, along with other information about Trump’s decision to pardon ally Roger Stone.

Heatwaves more frequent, higher temps with climate change

Scientists say we’re facing more record-setting heat waves if we don’t keep climate change in check.

A study published today put some actual numbers on the threat.

Researchers say their study underscores not only the need to curb carbon emissions, but to plan for the increasing need to protect people working outside.

Scientists say a heat index of 103 degrees is dangerous to the human body, and 124 is extremely dangerous and unsafe for any amount of time.

Now, University of Washington and Harvard researchers say even if the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement are reached to slow the planet’s warming by the year 2100, The U.S., Western Europe, China, and Japan would cross into the dangerous threshold three to 10 times more often.

The tropics could see “dangerous days” for half the year.

Bridge requires cooling down with temperatures so high

It’s hot enough the bridge sprayers are at work in Seattle today.

The Fremont, Ballard, and First Avenue South bridges may be shut down for 10 to 15 minutes at a time.

The crews are trying a new technique to cool the University bridge, so it likely will not have to be closed for the work.

Temperatures over 85 can cause steel to expand, which can affect a bridge’s ability to raise and lower for boat traffic.

Monkeypox continues to spread in King County

Most Monkeypox cases are in homosexual men, but in King County, it is now hitting a wider demographic.

Health trackers say an infant and three women who are not gay have been infected.

One of them is suspected of contracting the virus through sexual activity.

The source of the other cases is still being investigated.

The baby likely caught the virus from a family member.

That child is in the hospital in stable condition.

Doctors say it takes prolonged contact with an open Monkeypox sore to transmit the illness.

Transmission on surfaces or thru the air is possible, but rare.

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