20/06/2016 Reporting Scotland


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Rail passengers across Scotland are facing the first in a series

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of strikes tomorrow after talks at the conciliation

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The RMT union says Scotrail wants to water down and wipe out

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the safety role of the guard on long distance journeys,

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ScotRail say this is nonsense and the majority of services

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Here's our correspondent, Andrew Kerr.

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Raising a flag about rail safety. The RMT protested outside ScotRail

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's HQ this morning. At the moment, on long-distance diesel trains there

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is a driver and a guard. On the electrified suburban routes where

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59% of journeys take place there is a drive around ticket examiner. The

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union says ScotRail ultimately wants to reduce the safety role of the

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guard. When trains have to be evacuated, they are not trained to

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evacuate a train. And people like to see guards on trains were all sorts

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of reasons but it is a critical role. ScotRail have expressed their

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frustration saying safety and jobs are not at risk. They are calling

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for the RMT to get a crown the table with no preconditions in a row that

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appears to be over who opens and closes doors. We have operated a

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safe system of work big Zachary which the RMT says is not safe. For

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30 years we have operated that in Scotland. 59% of our customers today

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travel with that safe system of operation. It is so disingenuous, so

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avoidable and so unnecessary. Final efforts to resolve the strike failed

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at the conciliation service ACAS in Glasgow at lunchtime. The prospect

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of a strike can be annoying for travellers in any part of the

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country but for commuters in the central belt, it is but a grievous

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trading out as they are facing long central belt, it is but a grievous

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journeys already because of the improvement works. It has taken 15

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minutes to come through. It is putting me off. It was always a

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nightmare when the trains were delayed or cancelled. It is not

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good. It is not going to affect me at all. I am going down to

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Yorkshire. It is always frustrating. You hope your day is good to be what

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you planned. So, the first strikers tomorrow. Another six days of action

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are planned, with passengers being urged to check their journeys online

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before travelling. With just days to go to the vote,

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both sides of the EU referendum in Scotland have stepped

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up their campaigning. The First Minister told nurses that

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leaving the EU would end up But UKIP's Scottish leader said

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Nicola Sturgeon couldn't be trusted. This from our political

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editor, Brian Taylor. The referendum is dominant and so

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addressing the Royal College of Nursing congress in Glasgow, the

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First Minister took care to make her own position plain. I will be voting

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to remain in the EU on Thursday and I hope others will do so too. She

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told the nurses were dished exit would damage the NHS come as

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economic decline would result in spending cuts and she broadened her

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case. I think it is still looking very close across the UK, which is

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right it is really important that everybody who wants to remain part

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of the world's biggest single market, protect our own freedom of

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travel across the EU, to protect workers' rights and this notion that

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independent countries in the modern world come together to work together

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for the greater good. If that is all world come together to work together

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important to you, it is vital to get out and vote remain on Thursday. In

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Edinburgh, voters seek backing from the public. Ever obliging, Ukip

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Scottish leader follows photographic advice. He says Nicola Sturgeon

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cannot be trusted on the NHS as her own record is poor. For him, this

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referendum is about choice and about the UK regaining control. My

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campaign message is vote to leave the European Union. It is best for

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Scotland's interests. We get to decide who runs our country, not run

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by an unelected bureaucracy in Brussels but by our own Parliament

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in Holyrood and in Westminster. Make sure that we make our own decisions

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and we can throw people out of cash every five years. In the Commons

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this afternoon, tributes to the late Jo Cox MP, who was shot dead. MPs

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united today, each wearing a white rose of her native Yorkshire. But

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they and voters will divide once more for the referendum this

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Thursday. In a debate on Reporting Scotland

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earlier, key figures from both sides of the EU referendum clashed

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on what a leave vote With more, here's our political

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correspondent, Nick Eardley. Less than three days until the polls

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open, what would staying in or leaving the union for Scotland? Key

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topics which have dominated the UK wide campaign so far were prominent.

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There was disagreement on whether wide campaign so far were prominent.

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leaving would cause an economic shock. I think it would be a very

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significant shock. It would be very serious and we would see the results

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of it almost instantly as the markets open on Friday. It will be a

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free trade agreement, all common sense tells you that will be the

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case. And the shock will not in fact occurred. Debate two on the impact

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of immigration. I think we need to challenge the myth that is what is

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creating pressure on our public services in the United Kingdom is

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migrants from the EU, it is not. We do need to have migrants coming to

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our country but we need to be able to control the numbers so that we

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are able to match the services for the schools, health service,

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housing. Questions to over what a UK wide lever but a Scottish vote to

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remain would mean for the independence debate. I believe very

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strongly as I did throughout the independence referendum that

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Scotland's future best lies within the United Kingdom and especially if

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we were to leave the European Union and I sincerely hope that we don't,

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that relationship comes even more important. The SNP said it would

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leave to a groundswell of opinion for another referendum but in such

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circumstances, would her party want an independent Scotland to use the

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pound or the EU row? It would need to look at the economic conditions

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at the time. We would not want to be tied to the pound if it nosedives

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at the time. We would not want to be after a Brexit. The party 's former

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deputies leader said there was no mandate for another referendum.

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Nicola had the opportunity to add words they're saying in the event

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Brexit turning out this way, I ask you a mandate in order to hold a

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second referendum. She does not have the mandate. And Lord Forsyth called

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on UK Unionists to back leave. The simple message to anyone who wants

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to keep the union is that you should vote to leave in Scotland, otherwise

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it will be used as a nation to make the case for another referendum. On

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Thursday, the decision is down to voters across the UK.

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There's been a further fall in crimes reported

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They fell by just over 3% in the year to the end of last March.

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There were fewer murders but overall violent crime was up by 5.6%,

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with serious assaults rising by just under a quarter.

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Sexual crimes also increased, although police say many of these

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offences were historical, and there were fewer rapes.

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More than ?11,000 has been raised online for the family of deaf

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mother-of-four Kirsty Aitchison, whose body was recovered

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The online fundraising drive is asking for contributions

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towards her funeral costs and to support her children.

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Minimum staffing levels in Scotland's NHS are to

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon outlined the plans

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at the Royal College of Nursing Congress in Glasgow.

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She says discussions will begin over the summer,

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with the aim of putting health staffing on a statutory basis.

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The Royal College of Nursing welcomed the promise,

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but said it would only work if it was backed up

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A new fundraising appeal is being launched to look

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after the remote islands of St Kilda, to mark the 30th

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anniversary of their designation as a World Heritage Site.

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The National Trust for Scotland, which owns the islands,

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spends ?270,000 a year preserving the historic remains

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Celtic's new manager Brendan Rodgers and his squad had their first

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There was an immediate focus on the European Champions League

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as the qualifying draw was made this morning.

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Monday afternoon and Brendan Rodgers gets his first chance to look at the

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Celtic players and he must hit the ground running. Success vital in the

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Champions League campaign, which begins in just over three weeks. He

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is a very experienced individual. He has worked at top clubs and he

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understands and knows what this club is about. He grew up supporting the

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club. He understands the pressure that comes with the job. The demands

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to perform and win. Celtic will face a trip to either Flora Tallinn of

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Estonia of Lincoln of Gibraltar in the second qualifying round. The

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more likely opponents to emerge from the first qualifying round tie will

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be Flora Tallinn. The club was established in 1990 and has never

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been relegated from the stony and top division. But also battling to

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meet Celtic are Lincoln. We will make sure we do our homework and we

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have to make sure we are to speed and fit and strong and the team is

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fully prepared going into the game because we want to be in the

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Champions League, so we can take no because we want to be in the

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chances. Celtic have lost in the final play-off round for the past

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two seasons. The immediate pressure, spoken or not, is for Brendan

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Rodgers to meet the -- reach the group stage.

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And Scotland has three other teams in European action next season.

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The draw for the qualifying rounds of the Europa league

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In ten days' time, Aberdeen will be at home

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to Fola Esch from Luxembourg, while in Edinburgh, Hearts play

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Hibernian will meet Valur Reykjavik or the Danish side Brondby.

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That's in the second qualifying round in mid-July.

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Well, it's over to Judith Ralston now with the weather outlook

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Thank you. Indeed, the summer solstice, the longest Day, an

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awesome sight if you do catch the sun going down. It is happening

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about now across the far North. It is a drier look for Scotland through

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the evening and overnight period. We will start to see a weather front

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edging into Aussie far North West, introducing more cloud and summer

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edging into Aussie far North West, showers by tomorrow morning. First

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thing tomorrow, some lovely sunshine. Mild as well. Good sunny

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spells across Scotland. The Northwest, Argyll, cloudy skies.

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Showers here but it will be quite breezy. Dry the first thing. Those

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showers keep coming in across the far north-west. In the afternoon

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becoming more concentrated. Elsewhere, a scattering of light

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showers. The emphasis on a lot of dry weather tomorrow with sunny

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spells. It is quiet UK wise. A better day for the southern end of

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the UK. No rain here tomorrow. Sammir stand low cloud lingering

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along the channel. It will be launched -- warm across Scotland. We

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are expecting 19 Celsius. We should see sending brighter coming through

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for the Western Isles. And just a few showers edging into the Northern

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Isles as we head through the afternoon. Those showers keep coming

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in across the Northwest in the evening. Low pressure to the

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north-west of us. Generating weather fronts, brushing the Northwest over

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the next couple of days. Some showers. That is what we will see on

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Wednesday but brighter skies in general for the Northwest. Feeling

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pleasantly warm. Our next update is during Breakfast

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at 6:25 tomorrow morning. But from everyone on the late

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team, good night.

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