This is KGW news at sunrise in less
than 24 hours. This wildfire in Wasco
County exploded burning 10,000 acres.
Evacuation orders remain in place
this morning for areas around Moppin
coming up here from folks fearing that
that fire will head their way, plus.
It just seems like there's great
beer being made on both sides of it,
so the rules around that I think
should kind of mirror one another
in. In my opinion, Oregon and Washington,
known for beer, but some say the
rules around distributing it across
the borders aren't exactly fair.
Now. Some Washington Brewers
are suing the state of Oregon.
We compare regulations in both states
to see where the imbalance lies,
and we were always required
in school to have them.
But why we're talking about the number 2?
Specifically, number 2 pencils.
We're taking a quick look at where
that name comes from coming up in our
latest what's in a name at 5:15 and in
a random moment here on sunrise, I'm
going to show you the world's biggest fork.
Huge yeah, it is huge.
It's in Fairview.
It's 37 feet tall, 2 1/2 tons.
I guess this is a Guinness thing.
It recently beat out Missouri's pork,
so take that Missouri and stuck in
the middle of the Fairview Food Plaza.
The city backed.
Food cart pod that'll get your attention
make you want to buy something, I guess.
So that's super cool.
I didn't even know that was
there to be honest with you.
Wow, that's what I said.
It's a random fact.
That's what I'm here for.
Great,
I'll lit up
on a Thursday. Good morning to you.
Thanks for joining us. Yeah,
and it feels so much more
mild out there this morning
so I haven't. We haven't stayed in the
70s for several weeks. At this point
we could do that today.
Here's a look at our Wells Fargo building.
The sun comes up at 2 minutes before 6,
so still dark, and the fact that it's
cloudy over downtown means we're
not gonna see the brightness even
as early as we have been seeing it.
63 is the number there are breaks in cloud
cover when you get South of Portland,
but generally we're looking for
it to be more cloudy than not.
Perhaps all the way into the new now or 63
now 69 at noon and then developing sunshine.
And maybe, maybe we stay in the 70s,
forecasting 79 for a high.
That is perfect, all right.
I think you will see you soon we start
this morning with an update on that wildfire
burning in Wasco County.
It is now at 10,000 acres,
0% containment.
It's officially called the Miller Rd Fire.
It's burning about 13 miles
southwest of Moppin.
Nearly 70 firefighters are assigned to it,
and the governor declared a
state of emergency to bring in
crews from around the state.
This all started Tuesday afternoon,
growing from 1000 acres to over
10,000 in less than 24 hours.
It's burning in heavy grass,
shrubs and juniper, so
when the wind picked up
yesterday, it really started spreading fast.
Still no confirmation on the burned
structures, but we did hear from neighbors
who are worried it's going
to come their way. Freaky,
uh, just. Just really scary terrifying.
Experience I think it's crazy here
in heck this is what the third
year we've been in the fire danger.
Some areas West of Moppin remain
under evacuation this morning.
Will update you if anything changes,
and the McKinney fire burning in
California near the Oregon border is now
10% contained in their latest update.
Officials say it is now burned
more than 57,000 acres overall,
but the size of the fire has not grown.
Officials say cooler temperatures and some
rain prevented the fire from spreading more,
but they expect that to change
over the next few days with drier.
And hotter weather in the forecast.
So far four people have died.
Nearly 6000 people have also been forced
to evacuate meantime dozens of pets from
were rescued from the McKinney fire.
At least 160 of them ended up at a place
called Rescue Ranch in Waurika that
includes a chug and her five puppies.
That's a Chihuahua, pug mix.
By the way,
the shelter manager says some of the
dogs may stay at the shelter for months,
and while there are concerns about
having enough staff and food on hand,
they are committed to helping these dogs.
You know, it's highly stressful
for the dogs, so we wanna. We wanna
make sure that we can do
everything we can to make sure that
their stay here is going to be
as stress free as possible.
He says they've received a whole lot
of donations since the fire started.
People have also volunteered
to help in the shelter.
If you're interested in helping out,
you can check out their website rrdog.org.
The latest tally from
Washington election officials
shows no major changes in the race
for the third Congressional District.
This race got national attention
because the incumbent Republican voted
to impeach former President Trump
and a lot of House members who did.
That lost their primaries.
Now to those numbers, look at that
Democrat Marie Gluzman Camp Perez,
maintaining a decisive lead
with 32% of the vote.
Longtime GOP incumbent Jamie
Herrera Butler is second.
With 24% remember these
numbers are preliminary,
but unless there's a big swing with
the remaining ballots to be counted,
Perez and Butler will be the two
candidates that move on to the
general election in November.
And if you're looking for results
from other races or ballot measures,
we have the full list on our website,
kgw.com/elections.
3 Washington Breweries are
suing the state of Oregon.
They want to make it easier and
more affordable to distribute
beer across state lines.
Yeah,
they say the laws regulating beer
distribution to Oregon customers are unfair.
One of the breweries filing
the lawsuit is in Vancouver.
Catherine Cook talked with the owner.
At Fort Side Brewing Company in Vancouver.
There's always something new on
tap. Stratospheric Hazy
IPA is one of our latest
cofounder.
Mike Defabio is proud of what they do.
He wants to share it with others,
including businesses across the
Columbia River without breaking the bank.
Which brings us to the latest
thing for its side is brewing up a
lawsuit against the state of Oregon.
Economic discrimination right now.
Washington Brewers cannot direct
ship to customers homes in Oregon,
but Oregon breweries can
direct ship to Washington.
That's one complaint in the
lawsuit filed by Fort Side and
two other Washington breweries.
Here's the other part to distribute
beer to Oregon businesses.
Oregon law requires out-of-state breweries
to go through a third party distributor,
something that once again,
Oregon breweries don't have to do
when distributing to Washington.
Sportside started their own
distribution company in Oregon,
but it's far from a fix.
All
it's a whole nother company.
A whole nother federal wow
wholesalers permit another
state permit with the OCC.
It costs us thousands of dollars a year.
It's pretty excessive costs
for a small business.
The lawsuit addresses Oregon's three
tier control system manufacturers,
distributors and retailers. Why
it's set-up that way is so that
a manufacturer doesn't exert.
Influence over a retailer so
that there's more, you know,
an even playing field for all
Brewers or other manufacturers.
Bryant Haley is a spokesperson
for the Oregon Liquor and
Cannabis Commission because the
laws fall on the OCC to enforce.
Its commissioner is named
in the lawsuit. We're
in a holding pattern waiting to
see what the courts play out.
If the legislature wants to
take action on this and perhaps
give us different guidance,
that's something that could
come down the line.
But as an administrative agency,
we're set to follow the laws and
statutes that are put towards US
portside. Is one of 32 breweries
in Southwest Washington and right
now one of just six of those?
The chips? It's beer to Oregon.
They think that number would be a lot
bigger if there were fewer restrictions,
financial and otherwise.
These guys make great beer.
Michael Dines is a fourth side regular,
but cross the Columbia and he says so many
Oregonians don't know what they're missing.
It just seems like there's great
beer being made on both sides of it,
so the the rules around that,
I think, should kind of mirror
one another and in my opinion.
Mike Defabio will raise a glass to that.
It's not like we're getting an
advantage to sell to Oregon,
it's just leveling the playing field
in Vancouver. Catherine Cook KGW
the northwest does make good beer
and wine and cider refreshing.
It's also refreshing the
temperatures that we're finally
having in the morning. Somebody
actually talked about, OK,
we're gonna be cooling down a degree
2 degrees, but today it's a whole
bunch of degrees. Wow, OK,
alright here we go. We have the
cold front that's slowly pushing in.
It's more of a. Have a little wave
of cooler weather but it is arriving
with a push of some low cloud cover.
It is arriving with a little dab of light
moisture and spots including the Long Beach
Peninsula and then up towards Seattle.
You focus on the North Coast,
certainly the potential of a
little dab of moisture.
This actually shows a little
dab of moisture around Newport.
This is what 9:00 o'clock this morning.
Cloudiness is broken between
Salem and Eugene right now,
but solid from Portland up toward
Longview that could continue up until
about the noon hour and here we are
at 1:30 then things start to break up.
Now we see increasing sunshine
this afternoon, but very,
very comfortable weather.
Depending on the amount of
sun you get at your place,
you either just hit 80 or a little bit above
or you'll stay shy and hold in the 70s.
Nice, mostly clear evening coming our way.
That's 8:30.
We are watching a chance of some
scattered shower and thunderstorm
activity out here in southeastern Oregon,
including you folks in Burns.
Otherwise everybody's dry.
And by the way,
because of generally cooler
temperatures statewide today,
no red flag warnings have been posted,
so that's good news.
We did update you on that fire
out in your mopping and mentioned
the winds and those winds.
Again,
will be from the West and gusting
to about 30 to 35 mph at times.
In fact, it's already or blowing right now,
I should say out in The Dalles to
about 25 mph so it is windy even
this morning out in the gorge.
Otherwise winds are light.
52 salems are current numbers,
so yeah, that's a sign that it's
been fairly clear overnight.
52 Salem.
It's in the 40s in Eugene.
How about that?
Then you get underneath the
cloud cover Portland Kelso,
holding in the low 60s.
Here are the numbers for today
coming your way so early.
Cloud mix, we'll call it in the
mid and South Willamette Valley.
Otherwise,
a sunny afternoon temperatures
depending on Sun 80 or not quite there.
Maybe sailing gets a little
bit warmer than 80,
but only 74 expected in
Longview probably will still be
overcast at noon for you folks.
Then.
Increasing Sun Vancouver 79 battleground,
76 degrees,
seven day numbers tomorrow it's
back to all Sun 85 and there's that
little stretch of hot weather again.
9297 on Sunday 93 on Monday and I
still think we break the heat on Tuesday.
And start to cool back down
and that is your forecast.
Alright. Thank you rod.
We are talking the number
2 pencil this morning.
It's actually the number one requested.
Writing utensil for school kids you
probably haven't given it much thought,
but it does have an interesting history.
We will walk you through it in
this special edition of what's
in a name coming up next.