This is KGW news at sunrise.
Good morning. Thanks for getting up
with us on this Saturday morning.
I'm Tim Gordon, and this morning on sunrise.
More to the story.
A close up view of an Oregon
State representative under arrest
at the County Fair.
Plus, Oregon is allocating more funds
to the safe routes to school project.
How this money will help create more safe
crosswalks for kids and families statewide.
But first,
let's check in with Daisy Caballero
for a quick look at forecast Daisy.
Good morning. And good morning to all of
our viewers watching us. Happy Saturday.
I wanted to show you guys right now
64 degrees as we're looking near
the Portland downtown metro area.
Winds are pretty calm around 7
mph coming out from the West.
Now this is your day at a glance for today.
So we are expecting mostly cloudy skies
for the first portion of our day,
maybe lingering into the afternoon
hours right around 1:00 or 2:00.
O'clock. Warming up just a little
bit into those upper 60s,
lower 70s and we're expecting to see 72
degrees as we're looking at 5:00 o'clock.
Now, it's not just this that we're expecting.
We're also expecting to see maybe
a little bit of some drizzle,
mainly just isolated along the
coast for today.
But don't worry,
more rain is also on the way.
We'll talk about when that's happening
and how hot we're expecting to get
because we're warming up once again.
Back to you, Tim.
Daisy.
Well,
new this morning,
Portland homicide detectives spent the
night in the Old Town neighborhood.
A man died after being shot there at the
intersection of NW 6th and Flanders.
Officers responded to that scene
just after 9:30 last night.
The victim died at the hospital. Now,
if you have any information on this case,
please contact Portland police.
And did Tiger,
the suspect is in custody after a
standoff near Washington Square mall.
Police say it started with an armed man
threatening a woman inside the Greenberg.
Apartments on Greenberg road.
That's South of Hall.
She got out OK,
but the man he barricaded himself
in and he refused to come out.
For several hours,
police evacuated nearby homes.
Now police were finally able to
take that man into custody just
before 1:00 o'clock this morning.
Well,
new body camera video shows the night
Clackamas County sheriff's deputies
arrested state Representative James Heeb.
It fills in some of the missing
pieces of what apparently started
as an argument over heebe smoking
a cigarette at the County Fair.
Investigative reporter Kyle Aboshi
had to appeal after his initial
public records request was denied,
and what he got was 22 minutes of video.
Take a look.
Why? Newly released police body Cam
footage shows the arrest of Oregon
State Representative James Heebe
at the Clackamas County Fair.
He admits he'd been drinking.
The Republican from Canby was
handcuffed on August 17th
after refusing to give his ID,
then booked into the county jail.
In the video, he acknowledges he's a
public official and wore a campaign shirt.
You hear me? If you're running for
political office, probably not looking.
Probably not the look you
want to get going down here.
Several calls from employees telling us that.
To refuse to put out a
cigarette and refuse to leave.
That's not cool. Oh, I didn't.
I didn't get told to leave.
I well, I think you did.
You have ID on you by chance fan?
Yeah. OK, I see that.
No, OK. I'm not.
I can show you my ID.
Deputies then put into handcuffs
and removed a firearm from his hip.
During further questioning,
he downplayed his interaction
with fairground staff,
which asked him to put
out a cigarette and leave.
Smoking is not allowed
on fairgrounds property.
Some lady just walked off and was
just like you and your cigarette,
right? Long story short.
And do you, do you know that that
Lady works for the fair that told
you to put that cigarette out?
Do you know how many people work for
the fair or fair grounds or yeah.
So anybody can say, hey,
I worked for the fair.
Deputies tried repeatedly to calm heap
down and encouraged him to cooperate,
suggesting they would issue him
an exclusion notice from the
fairgrounds and then drive him home.
Instead, the state lawmaker
challenged deputies to arrest him.
Riding on my arms. You're about 2 seconds
from going to the ground. Chill out.
And there we go. Go ahead. Hurt me.
Go for it. What are you gonna do?
Why are you acting like this?
Wrenching on my arms,
acting like an adult right now.
Why are you wrenching on my arms?
I never tried to do anything.
I just wanted to leave.
And we want.
I wanted to leave.
Why? Alright.
I just wanted to walk home and leave
for your safety. We can't
let you walk and that's why.
Yeah. Drive. Yeah. But
now do your behavior gonna
go to click OK? Yeah, OK, OK.
He was arrested on suspicion of
disorderly conduct and interfering with
a peace officer and booked into jail.
Previously, he told KGW he wishes
he'd made better choices that night,
including waiting to smoke a cigarette
until after he left the fairgrounds.
So far, the Clackamas County DA's office
has not filed any charges in the case.
He was appointed in February to
represent Oregon House District 39,
replacing House Minority
Leader Christine Drazin,
who stepped down to run for governor.
Kyle Aboshi, KGW news.
Well, investigators have reopened a more
than 40 year old case in Eastern Oregon.
They're trying to identify the remains
of a young woman found buried in
the woods in Oregon near La Grande.
Investigators named her the Finley
Creek Jane Doe back in 1978,
and this is a sketch of what police believe
she may have looked like at the time.
She would have been in her late
teens or early 20s. Just last week,
searchers went back to where she was found,
plus two other locations using cadaver dogs.
They're looking for human bone.
Fragments or other evidence to
help ID or through DNA testing.
So far, all they found are animal bones.
Anyone who may have information is
asked to contact Oregon State Police.
Well, ODOT safe routes to school
program is expanding this year.
It helps protect kids and families
safely cross busy streets by upgrading
intersections and creating more walkways.
While since House Bill 2017
past five years ago,
the programs received $44 million
with another 90 million on the way,
officials say the money helps fund
projects across the state of Oregon.
We've been able to allocate about
$44 million to over 70 communities
in the last several years,
and a lot of those projects have been
built or are being built or will be
built in the next couple of years.
Mostly we're building projects
just like this, like walkways,
bikeways, crossings.
Those are kind of the bread and butter
of the safe routes to school program.
All the most recent project
wrapped up in Milwaukee this week.
It created 2 new walkways,
and a pedestrian crossing near
a school includes a flashing.
Weakened to alert drivers that
people are using the crosswalk.
That helps a lot.
Well, the plan for a residential behavioral
health facility in Clark County is a
big step closer to breaking ground.
It is a state project and
the need is clearly there.
However, it sounds like some
neighbors are not thrilled about it.
We'll look at the debate
coming up in 3 minutes.