This is KGW news at sunrise.
First at 5A. Former mayor charged with
child *********** coming up this
morning. What he said minutes
after pleading guilty plus.
What these folks are doing is simply out
trying to gather data in an unofficial
way and then unfortunately seeing
reports of people misusing that data to
try to continue to spread the big lie.
Talking about questions about voter
fraud during the 2020 election.
Those questions still being asked.
In fact, those questions are being asked
face to face now at people's homes.
A cage W investigation takes
a closer look at this,
including what to do if
someone comes to your house
and big success. NASA new data show
a spacecraft successfully knocked
an asteroid off course, much more
than NASA initially
expected. So we're
safe. Is that what you're saying?
I don't know. I'm hoping. Yeah.
Fingers crossed. Hey, Wednesday
morning, October 12th.
Thank you for joining us
today. Hope your day is off to a good start.
What do you have for us, weather-wise?
My last words, I look
up. I thought they knocked
that thing off course. You.
It's coming at me. Duck alright.
It's a cool morning out
there, so eventually these longer nights
have to start catching up with you and
producing some lows in the 40s, right?
That's happening this morning.
46 in Sherwood Hillsborough.
Good morning, mid 40s. Gresham.
Good morning, Sandy 44.
Salem now in the 40s, good morning to you.
Who's cool on the spot?
SDK to Lebanon.
Sheridan, the Mcminnville at 44 degrees.
So jacket morning, you're going to be
spending some time outside early on.
This will be a beautiful sunny day and it
will be a day with the potential for record.
High temperature, 68 degrees at noon will be
upper 70s when the kids get out of school.
We could make it to 80 for a high today.
And that's your forecast.
Alright, thank you Rod.
We start with a deadly shooting
in Northeast Portland and as you
head out the door this morning,
be aware the police investigation is closing.
Some streets officers have been
at the state's motel all night.
That's right across the street from
McDaniel High School and just down the
road from Glen Haven Park, officers say.
Around 9:00 o'clock last night,
they found an injured man.
He had gunshot wounds.
He was in the motel parking lot.
They tried to treat him, but he died.
Police haven't made any arrests,
but tell us that one man was detained as
part of their investigation this morning.
Russell Street is closed from
82nd Ave to 85th,
but 82nd itself does remain open.
We'll certainly update you here
and on kgw.com as we learn more.
The man
who served as Beaverton's mayor
for 11 years has pleaded guilty
to child *********** charges.
Denny Doyle will be sentenced in January.
His case was part of the Justice
Department's Project Safe Childhood.
It's a nationwide initiative
addressing the epidemic of child
sexual exploitation and abuse.
Here's kW Catherine cook with
more on Denny Doyle sentencing.
Change of plea in federal
court Tuesday morning,
former Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle
pleaded guilty to 1 count of possession
of child *********** back in March
when the US Attorney's Office for
the District of Oregon first charged him.
Doyle pleaded not guilty.
He's accused of possessing explicit digital
images of children under 12 in 2014 and 2015.
That was during his time as mayor.
Because we're really trying to develop a
way to get people stable, fixed housing
Doyle. Who's 74, faces a maximum of 20 years
in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine.
He must also register as a sex offender.
But, The Oregonian reports as
part of Tuesday's plea agreement,
the US Attorney's Office said it
would recommend a sentence of one
year and one day in court.
Doyle told the judge he's in
counseling as he left the courthouse.
Doyle told The Oregonian, quote,
you know, we make mistakes.
FBI Portland's Child Exploitation
Task Force investigated the case.
In March, KGW spoke with Portland's
FBI special agent in charge.
He couldn't comment on Doyle's case,
but noted the growing problem of Child
Exploitation and sex trafficking.
Is this stuff more common in
the Community than we know?
Like the average Joe
knows? I'll say this,
it's scary as to how much we see
on a regular basis. It really is.
And I say that as a dad.
It scares me to see that much.
Catherine Cook, KGW news.
Inflation dealing a major blow to a nonprofit
that feeds hundreds of people each week.
They say rising prices are making it really
hard to keep up with the growing need.
The nonprofit is called Feed the mass.
They provide food for women's
shelters after school programs and
organizations that serve the homeless.
And the nonprofit says it's
only getting harder for them to
keep up with all the demand.
The number of people coming in for meals
is growing up dramatically.
A lot of food programs that provided food
have gone away. And so
demand is going up, prices are going up,
and you know, if it costs me
3 bucks more to make a meal,
that's three bucks more that
we can't afford to pay to people.
So they say
in the summer 80% of their
food comes from donations,
but that drops to about 30% in the winter.
So if you're interested in helping out,
we've posted a link to
the website at kgw.com.
Meantime, City of Vancouver officials
asking the community for input
about a new safe stay village.
It'd be comprised of small modular
buildings like you see there where people
experiencing homelessness can stay.
The new location being considered is
near 11th and Esther Street downtown.
That's about two blocks north
of Esther Short Park.
There's an in person info session
this Saturday at City Hall and also
a virtual meeting next Wednesday.
Vancouver already has two safe
stay communities.
The first opened late last year off.
SR500 the second is along 4th Plain Blvd.
Other headlines
were tracking for you this morning. The
Portland Committee on Community engaged
policing is looking for your input on
the way PPB handled the 2020 protests.
It's hosting a virtual town
hall from 6:00 to 8:30 tonight.
The city hired an outside organization
to take that public feedback and
make some recommendations, including
opportunities for ongoing police training.
Intel is planning to layoff thousands
of workers because of declining sales.
That's according to a Bloomberg report,
Intel has 114,000 employees here in Oregon.
The company plans to cut about 20% of them,
potentially putting hundreds
of Oregonians out of work.
Intel is expected to announce the
layoffs formally as early as this month,
and we're getting our first look at the
application for student debt relief.
The White House released a draft.
Yesterday,
borrowers have to provide their Social
Security number and income information.
There's no website for the application yet,
but the White House does expect
to launch one later this month,
and those are some of your
Wednesday headlines.
Now back to that fire that we've
been tracking in Clark County.
Officials have determined the Nakia
Creek fire is human caused because
they say there was no lightning
on Sunday when the fire started.
People who live in the area sent
us these photos showing the fire
burning on large mountain near Camas.
You can see the flames and
smoke throwing up there.
The fire remains at about 250
acres and is now 10% contained.
Level one and two evacuation orders
remain in place, meaning be ready.
And get set.
You can see the map there on your screen,
with the colored circles
showing each zone coming up.
At 5:30,
we'll hear from a woman who lives
near those evacuation areas.
Today marks 60 years since the historic
Columbus Day storm. It was the windstorm
of all wind storms,
with gusts as strong as a category
three hurricane right here in Portland.
Nearly 50 people died and the destruction
was felt from San Francisco to Seattle.
Had the perfect conditions,
everything came together.
Doesn't happen like that all very often,
but in this case it definitely did.
And it was.
A rather rememberable storm.
Coming up tonight on KGW news,
Joe Ranieri will explain just
how historic this storm was and
why there really wasn't much
time for people to prepare.
And Rob has got his
notes over here handwritten.
By the way, you've got some more on that.
I do. So let's go to the ones
that are graphically presented
in our weather computers.
AV Department, please.
Let's go to the weather map, shall we?
So these were the peak wind gusts in
the books from that 1962 Columbus Day
Storm Matt Hebo in the Coast range 170.
Mile per hour wind gusts will up
the hills of course basically the
coast range on the Washington side,
160 mile per hour gusts,
Cape Blanco 145 right here in Portland,
the Morrison Bridge anemometer
116 mile per hour gusts.
There was a 90 mile per hour gusts in Salem.
It was about 90 at Pearson
Airfield up in Vancouver as well.
And as we mentioned in in Joe's lead
to a story that will be on tonight.
These would make you think
this was a storm as powerful as
a category three hurricane.
Now this is interesting.
National Weather Service posted
this graphic sometime ago.
There's the storm track 1962.
Notice of these three
historic storms 81 and 95,
the 62 storm track is the one
closest to the Oregon coast.
All these have a trajectory.
As they swing in,
they give you those S winds that
come running up the valley.
And that's when we can get
our strongest wind storms.
Now,
what's not on this particular
particular graphic is this storm.
Good morning, vernonia.
December of 2007,
Bay City had a gust of 129 the coast range.
Over 14 inches of rainfall and
of course all that lead to the
vernonia flood in December of 2007.
So do some math, 2007,
now we want 1962 to 81 to 95 to 2007.
We're getting these historic storms.
If you just look at that pattern every
dozen to 20 years with the last one being.
2007, 2007 was pretty close
to the Columbus Day storm.
It just wasn't as it took a
different trajectory and it was the
coast that got hit really hard.
But if you do the math on that,
all of a sudden we're getting back in
that wheelhouse of where you would think
we're getting due for another big storm.
It just depends on the exact track
who gets hit the hardest of course.
OK, these are current numbers.
We are clear 47 in Salem,
52 in Portland,
temperatures today upper 70s
and some of us will hit 80.
This shows Mcminnville 81,
it shows Longview Kelso.
77 Vancouver 80 the record high here in
Portland today is 78 and I'm forecasting 80.
That would be a record tomorrow.
82 that would be a record Saturday.
That would be a record Sunday.
It is crazy that this 80 degree temperature
weather just continues on this 12th
day of October. Back to you
no doubt. Thank you rod.
Hey stay with us.
Voters have been complaining
about folks going door to door
asking them how they voted in
the 2020 election just
ahead how Oregon officials are. Responding.