This is KGWN news at sunrise,
reached through the window and held
her head up so she could breathe. A
local man jumps into action to try and save a
woman's life from an ultimately
deadly crash coming up.
How he relied on his experience as a
former police officer and a marine. Also
thieves target this family owned towing
company that's been in business for decades.
Nobody seems to want to do
anything about it. What
are we going to do?
You know we can't stand in the
middle of the road and tell them
to stop. They think they know
what's causing the crime.
Now they have a message for Portland
police and Olympic skaters showing
off their skills in Sherwood.
It's a great opportunity for young
athletes trying to hone their talents.
We're going to take you to the ice coming
up here at 5:25 and we are getting a
little taste of the islands this morning
with a live performance in our KGW lobby.
This Polynesian dance group is called tiva.
Morialta coming up a little later on sunrise,
we'll chat with them and tell you where
you can catch a performance this summer.
Look at them, go.
That's awesome. I am feeling
the vacation vibes on this Tuesday as
people are back to work here after the
holiday weekend and our weather kind of
gonna start to match that feeling 3 days
of warmer weather,
3 days of potentially dry.
Although there's a shower
chance Thursday afternoon,
but 77 today would be
nice. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Would be
the warmest that we've been so far this year.
So here's a look at a partly cloudy
sky earlier this morning over downtown.
Of course, the sun now coming up before 5:30.
We're at 52. A lot of you are in the 40s.
Once again, this is a good looking day.
Coming up all dry,
partly cloudy out the door,
around 50 degrees on average.
Sunny Mid 60s at noon 65 would be warmer
than yesterday's high and then later
today when the kids get out of school.
75 and again.
I think the high could go up to around 77.
That's your forecast.
Thank you rod.
First Step 5 frustration is growing
for a North Portland towing company.
That's had entire truckloads
stolen from their lot.
Yeah, they're not getting much
help from the city or police and
essentially say they're out of options.
Here's Galen Ettlin,
a towing and storage yard company
in Portland says criminals
keep coming back because they
know there are no consequences.
They had to get the truck
right out from over here
to Tamra Zellmer. This is
more than a storage yard.
My dad is 80 years old. He's had
the property since back in the 70s.
Her family business Zelmer
Enterprises on North Columbia Blvd
in Portland is part of a legacy.
There's the truck there.
They stole that truck,
a legacy being damaged on Sunday.
Thieves took one of the businesses
tow trucks and drove right
through the storage yards.
Iron gate.
They have a snapshot of two
people in the front seat and
say this is not the first.
Theft
doesn't seem to be an end insight.
You can only do so much.
Douglas Bardy was lucky and found the
truck a couple miles away. The next day.
I'm just glad to have it back because
this is my livelihood, you know.
He says this type of break
in and theft has happened
at least three times at Zelmer Enterprises.
This other truck has been stolen twice.
He said they cut the latch
and storage units have been broken
into when they've confronted
thieves and called police,
officers responded hours later.
Nobody seems to want to do anything
about it. What are we going to do?
You know, we can't stand in the middle
of the road and tell them to stop.
Douglas worries growing crime
and next door in Campement and
drug use are part of the problem
illustrated by the vehicles. He tows
8 out of 10 cars have needles in
them from fentanyl and heroin.
It's a bigger picture than right here.
Tamara says. Each break in
results in loss of customers.
She's begging for a stronger
presence by the city and police.
When we've asked, well, what do
we do and they said why you need
to protect what is yours?
He came through here
and the fight. Protect a family legacy.
The business is just one that the Selmers
say is feeling the neighborhood impact.
They're now trying to fix their gait,
which could cost thousands and
block in their trucks and entrances
with other cars and cement blocks,
but they feel it'll all just happen again.
Galen Atlan KGW news.
This morning we're also hearing from a
retired police officer who tried to save
a woman's life after a serious crash.
His name is Steve Harmon.
Last Friday he and his wife
were driving down Northwest Yeon
Ave when they spotted the rack.
Harmon immediately jumped into help,
reaching through a broken window and holding
the woman's head up so she could breathe.
Portland Fire arrived several minutes
later and pulled the woman out of the car,
but she later died at the hospital.
Harmon says it was his training
as a policeman and a marine that
pushed him to intervene,
brought back memories
when I was on a job and
it's very sad when someone
loses their life over that.
This is just one of 27 deadly crashes
in Portland so far this year. Last year,
63 people died in traffic accidents.
The highest number in about 30 years.
It's now been one week
since 19 students and two teachers
were killed in that mass shooting
at Rob Elementary in Uvalde,
TX and the first funeral service
was held yesterday for 10 year old
Amari Joe Garza as those services
continue the conversation about
the shooting is now focused on gun
control and right now Democrats
and Republicans are working on a
bipartisan plan to address gun violence.
It includes expanded background
checks and red flag.
Rules to ban weapons from
those deemed a danger.
Funeral services began this week
for the 19 schoolchildren and two
teachers killed in last Tuesday's
deadly mass shooting in Uvalde, TX.
I think things have gotten so
bad that everybody's getting
more rational about this.
That's my hope.
Democrats and Republicans
are working on a bipartisan
plan to address gun violence.
We have one job.
More school safety restrictions and
potentially raising the gun buying
age to 21 are also on the table.
President Biden has also mentioned
a ban on assault style weapons,
but says he has executive
powers only go so far.
Congress is on recess this week,
but hope to have a deal by June 6th now
to some of the other headlines
that we're tracking on your
Tuesday morning.
Washington State Patrol says more
drivers are refusing to stop for troopers
when they're trying to pull them over.
The agency reported more than
900 failure to yield incidents
from January 1st through mid May.
WSP says part of the problem may be that
suspects know troopers can't chase them.
A new law prevents high speed pursuits
except in very limited circumstances.
Today the Seattle City Council
is expected to vote on what it's
calling the pay up legislation.
It sets Labor Standards for
certain app based workers,
including DoorDash and Uber eats.
If this passes,
companies will have to pay
drivers minimum wage,
which up in Seattle is 1727 an hour.
They'd also have to pay for
business expenses,
including mileage and students
at the University of Oregon say
the school has run out of space.
For kids who test positive for COVID
students say they're quarantining in
their dorm rooms instead of temporary
housing set up by the university.
UFO's website says students must remain
in their room except to get food, shower,
or step outside for some fresh air.
And those are some of your
Tuesday morning headlines.
Across the nation,
Americans gathered to observe
Memorial Day with parades, ceremonies,
and quiet prayer, and in Portland,
Willamette National Cemetery paid
tribute to fallen servicemembers.
Hundreds of people turned out
for the first in person Memorial
Day tribute in three years.
The event included a wreath.
Seeing a flyover from the
Oregon National Guards,
142nd Wing, a rifle salute,
taps and speeches.
The defenders of this nation have
fulfilled their obligations to us.
It is now our duty to honor all
of the obligations we owe them.
We are all charged with this responsibility.
To do our best?
To repay the debt that is owed to
those who have presented us with our
most most precious gift freedom.
Scouts in Vancouver honored fallen
service members in a big way,
raising a 20 by 38 foot flag.
It was one of several ways the public
honored those who made the ultimate
sacrifice for our country and a
Portland mausoleum that only opens
to the public one day a year was back
for the first time in three years.
Will Helms Memorial Mausoleum in
Sellwood held tours yesterday?
For the public who can only
enter on the holiday?
Normally it's only friends and
family who can come inside.
97,000 people are interred there,
so they call it a city within a city.
There are 7 miles of marble hallways,
and the mausoleum takes up three city blocks.
Quite a thing to see.
The Memorial Day meteor shower
was a bit of a bus last night
here in the Pacific Northwest.
The weather,
the city lights everything kind of
interfered with our view up in Seattle.
The National Weather Service tweeted
the peak of the meteor shower
happened about 10:00 PM. Now if you.
Lucked out and got to see it.
Send us a photo if you took one.
You can text pictures to
5032265072. I love that statement.
They're like about the media shower.
Last night you couldn't
really see it well. Remember,
part of the a big part of the story
we had on this meteor shower was.
NASA wasn't sure if we were going
to move into the debris out of
the comment and and they said
this could basically be the most
vast meteor shower we've seen in
years and years and years or not,
but anything so it looks like,
at least for our neighborhood we got.
That reminds me of past snowstorm
forecast. Hard to do right?
Go back to memory lane.
Alright, good morning everybody.
Today is a kick off of some warmer days.
Three to four nice temperature
days coming up with highs mainly
in the 70s and it all starts today.
I do want to point out the
system offshore it is weakening,
but we will get those cloudiness.
The cloudiness from that system coming
in not today but tomorrow and there's
some question mark as to how much
cloudiness we see tomorrow or not.
And that will impact whether
or not we see 80.
We think for the first
time this year tomorrow.
Here's a beautiful shot.
This is partly cloudy skies in Lincoln
City looking up to the north from our
Chinook winds at casino resort camera
that is gorgeous and generally speaking,
we expect partly cloudy skies
out the door this morning.
There's a little bit more cloudiness
than that in some areas of the valley.
Here are the temperatures right now.
39 Baker City 46 and Bend again.
Generally speaking here on the West side,
we are partly cloudy at this hour
and we will get going with a mostly
sunny Tuesday in the coming hours.
So here's futurecast.
8:00 o'clock this morning,
and then 8:00 o'clock this evening.
Yeah, it's basically mostly sunny, right?
Pretty nice.
Alright?
So forecast numbers for today.
Well up into the 70s.
We think this gives Salem
75 winds will be light.
Winds will be light out in
the gorge today as well.
The West Northwest Breeze
and then up in Longview,
75 Vancouver and Portland I think
has a chance to get up to 77,
which would be by 1 degree.
The warmest we have been so far
this year 80 tomorrow depending
on how thick those clouds are.
Shower chance on Thursday but it could
be Friday before we return to rain.
And there's the weekend Saturday
and Sunday rain in the in the 60s.
That's a high confidence call because
it seems like we've had a lot of
rain in 60s on the weekends lately.
Yes, it does seem like that.
We'll focus on tomorrow.
All right? Well, thank you.
Hey, we have been getting a taste
of the islands this morning with a
live performance in our KGW lobby.
This is Polynesian dance group.
They're called tiva orietta.
This month is at Asian American and Pacific.
Islanders Awareness month and
what a way to spread awareness
of this beautiful dancing.
After the break,
we're going to chat with them and
tell you where you can catch an
upcoming performance this summer.