Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Nov. 19-20, 2024

This is KEPW 97.3 FM LP broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon and simulcast online at KEPW.org. And now… the news.

This is KEPW Newsday Top Of The Week edition for Tuesday, the 19th and Wednesday, the 20th of November, 2024. On this edition of KPEW Newsday:

• Antisemitic incidents are reported at the University of Oregon.
• A Springfield man is arrested for allegedly punching a woman and preventing her including her from calling 911.
• A man steals a delivery truck in Milwaukee, Oregon with an employee trapped in the back.
• Project Turnkey significantly improves outcomes for homeless Oregonians.

In national news,

• The Biden administration authorized Ukraine to strike Russia with U.S.-supplied long-range missiles,
• The FBI says it stopped a possible terrorist attack in Houston
• Beverly Hills carjacking suspect crashes and injures four in a crowded holiday event, and
• A woman rescues a toddler walking in the middle of an intersection.

We will have all of that, plus our national roundup. Bringing you the news locally and around the globe, KEPW Newsday starts…right now.

And welcome to yet another busy edition of KEPW Newsday. I’m your host Sam Broadway and we do have a lot to cover and we will get to all of that. But our top story on Tuesday is the weather and we’re going to get to that right now. So we had what’s called a bomb cyclone coming into our area and that means a very low pressure event with high winds and lots of rain.

In fact, a powerful storm system continues to bring heavy mountain snow, rain and high winds to the Pacific Northwest as well as northern California through midweek…

Featured music: Confounds the Science by Don Caron and Linda Gower.