Seattle’s Morning News w/ Charlie Harger & Manda Factor

Jason Colby, environmental historian, on how we reached this point with orca population // Paging Dr. Cohen -- explaining the 2018 Nobel Prize for medicine // Hanna Scott with a King County gang update // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil on the Seahawks' loss/ the UFC riot // Jill Schlesinger on the historically low jobless rate // Michelle LeClair, author of Perfectly Clear

Maj Mike Lyons on our increasingly tense relationship with China // Nancy Cordes on the impending Kavanaugh vote // Tom Tangney's review of A Star is Born // Chris Sullivan on weekend I-5 emergency repairs // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil sizes up the Seahawks-Rams matchup // Hanna Scott on the City Council calling for accountability in homeless spending // Kathleen Hall Jamieson on simple Russian cyber tactics

Hanna Scott on mental health reforms in the next WA legislative sessions // Heather Bosch on the increase in illegal dumping in Seattle // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil helps us learn hockey lingo/ the NBA returns to Key Arena // Hanna Scott on changes to King County police inquests // David Cay Johnston on the NYT investigation into Trump family wealth // Chokepoint -- the WA Driver Guide in filmstrip form

Feliks Banel recalls the infamous Kitsap Ferry Riot, 31 years ago today // Major Garrett on the Kavanaugh investigation/ Rod Rosenstein/ the president's wealth // Marshall Allen from ProPublica explains how employers can fight for lower healthcare costs // Colleen O'Brien's dose of kindness -- Captain Walmart // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil on future Seattle hockey/ the end of the Mariners' season/ the AL Wild Card // Jason Mercier from the WA Policy Center, calling for a sales tax cut // Dr. Garen Wintemute on putting an end to mass shootings

Chris Sullivan's Chokepoint -- clearing a daily clog on 520 // Hanna Scott with an update on the fundraising efforts for a permanent Oso memorial // Shane Braun reporting on his time as a guard in a for-profit prison // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil on NHL expansion/ pro wrestling as theater // David Fahrenthold live on the Kavanaugh nomination/ ongoing emoluments cases

Dave Ross wraps up the news from over the weekend and this AM // Seattle U Law Professor Brooke Coleman weighs in on how the Kavanaugh hearings could have a terrible downside for #metoo and reporting sexual assault/harassment LIVE // UW Law Professor Ronald Collins responds to Kavanaugh hearings and his judicial temperament LIVE // CBS Business Analyst Jill Schlesinger explains what's in the new trade deal // David Gomez, Former Assistant Special Agent In Charge of the FBI's Seattle's field office on how/if the FBI can complete the Kavanaugh investigation in just 7 days LIVE // Hanna Scott with an update on the King County gun safety proposals // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil on the Huskies romp over BYU and the Seahawks flying high in Glendale, along with Earl Thomas' middle finger // Dr. Gordon Cohen's Cures for Cases of S.A.D.

Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, on our nuclear stance with Iran // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil previewing the Seahawks-Cardinals game // Hanna Scott with the family of a grandmother, killed by a stray bullet in Burien

Chris Sullivan's Chokepoint -- preparing for the post-Viaduct era with SDOT's Director of Downtown Mobility // Boyd Matheson from Deseret News on the weakening of Congress // Carolyn Ossorio with Angela Duckworth, author of Grit

Feliks Banel reminds us that the Duwamish Tribe still doesn't have federal recognition // Major Mike Lyons live on our stance with Iran // Michael Hobbes, trying to keep shame out of our national obesity discussion // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil on sports gambling, legal and otherwise // Chris Sullivan's Chokepoint -- emergency drills in the new 99 tunnel // Jose Antonio Vargas, America's most famous illegal immigrant

Hanna Scott on plans to restart the King County regional gang task force // Chris Sullivan's Chokepoint -- I-90 widening/wildlife overpass // Steve Hilton from Fox News argues in favor of populism // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil on roughing-the-passer standards // David Fahrenthold live on the Kavanaugh nomination/ Rod Rosenstein's job