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caption: Crews chip away a circle on the southern wall of the pit that was built to access and repair Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine. Eventually it helped Bertha break through/
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Crews chip away a circle on the southern wall of the pit that was built to access and repair Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine. Eventually it helped Bertha break through/
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Is this week the re-birth of Bertha? What’s the right punishment for a florist who won’t do gay weddings? And a Bellevue man is on the short list to go to Mars and never return. You’ll meet him, along with Q13 FOX’s C.R. Douglas, Jonathan Martin of the Seattle Times and the Seattle Channel's Joni Balter.

Today's Week In Review crew (clockwise, from top left): Joni Balter, Jonathan Martin, Bill Radke, hopeful Mars colonist Carl LeCompte and C.R. Douglas. Today's parting thought? In the words of '90s group KWS: 'Please don't go!'

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