This is KGW news at sunrise.
Good morning thanks for getting up
with us on this Saturday morning.
It is 7:00 AM. I'm Tim Gordon.
It's been pretty nice this week.
Nice summer weather outside.
Ohh boy temperatures going to
climb Daisy Cabrero with us
this morning to tell us how hot
good morning.
Fortunately the bearer of bad news
because we actually just upgraded
our fire weather watch to a red flag.
Warning excuse me but it's not just
that we're also under a heat advisory.
We'll talk about the heat advisory
in just a little bit,
but looking at that red flag warning,
obviously everywhere in the red
that you see here all the way from
Longview down into the Eugene area.
So what this means is absolutely,
for whatever reason,
do not try not to mow your lawn obviously
and dry grass anything like that.
Also, do not burn.
I know it's summer,
I know it's the weekend and people might
want to do a bonfire or something.
Do not do that wise because we
could see wind gusts of up to 20.
5 mph at times and again,
this is really really bad
because low relative humidity is
going to be a 15% or less.
So again impacting the Willamette
Valley and Clark County as well.
That's starting today at noon and
lasting until 8:00 o'clock on Sunday.
All right, we've been warned.
Be careful out there folks.
And as we head for the triple digits,
cities and counties will be
reopening some cooling centers.
If you're planning to hit the
water to get out of the heat.
Army Corps of Engineers has a
warning put on a life jacket in
the Oregon State Marine Board.
Reports there have been 11 recreational
boating deaths so far this year,
with six of those happening in July.
Swimming ability is kind of a a
misnomer like it just doesn't matter
if you're unconscious in the water
wearing that life jacket is is
what is going to save your life.
Now for those who are not on the water.
Multnomah County is activating
additional cooling resources on Sunday,
like a daytime cooling center
and extended library hours.
Hillsborough will offer four cooling centers
in Beaverton will set-up an after hours
cooling center at their main library.
If you're wondering why
more shelters are cooling,
centers aren't open overnight, but now,
the Multnomah County leaders explained
last week was record setting 7
consecutive days at 95 degrees or hotter.
Sunday's Heat is not expected
to last for nearly as long.
Well, we have a bit of good
news in Wasco County,
where evacuations have been downgraded
by one level at the Miller Rd Fire.
That means Level 3 evacuations,
which are go are now at Level 2 level.
Twos are now level 1 the fire near
Moppin has burned more than 11,000
acres and at least one structure
is 25% contained and fire crews say
that they are cautiously optimistic
as they make good progress and
portions of four national forests are
now closed because of three fires.
Burning southeast of Eugene parts
of the Umpqua and Deschutes,
Willamette and Fremont,
Winema national forests are closed.
That includes part of the Pacific Crest
Trail, the Diamond Peak Wilderness,
and Summit Lake as well.
the US Forest Service says the closure
will allow crews to focus on fighting
the flames instead of evacuating visitors.
And new this morning homicide
detectives are on the scene after
yet another deadly shooting.
One person was killed overnight.
Portland police responded to the area
along N Schmeer Rd just after 2:00 AM.
This case is obviously in its early
stages and no arrests have been made.
If you have any information,
call Portland police.
Well, we could see a recount of primary
results in the race for Washington's
third Congressional District.
And wow, this is gotten very close.
The latest vote count shows.
Trump endorsed challenger Joe Kent
now has less than 300 votes behind
incumbent Jamie Herrera Butler.
She's hanging on in second place,
with 22.6% of the vote.
Kent is less than 1/2 percentage
point behind now Democratic
challenger Marie Gusen Camp Perez.
On the left side of your screen
there is firmly in first with
The Associated Press projecting.
She does definitely move on to November.
The Colombian reports that
as of yesterday afternoon,
Clark County officials said they had about
30,000 ballots still left to process.
The next update won't come
until Monday in Washington.
The two top candidates advance to the
general election regardless of party.
Well,
Gresham police have arrested a man in
a hit and run that left a cyclist dead.
Investigators caught up with 52
year old Donald Troy bighas after
looking through surveillance video
from the area where this happened.
He's accused of hitting the cyclist
in an alley behind a building
on SE 182nd Ave on Wednesday.
A security guard found the victim's body.
Big Hoss faces murder and felony
hit and run charges.
Well,
the operator of a Max train didn't
stop at the end of their line Friday,
injuring themselves and two passengers.
And TriMet says the injuries don't
appear to be life threatening.
The crash happened during the
morning commute at the intersection
of McLaughlin Blvd and Park Ave.
That's at the end of the Orange Max line.
The train crashed into a safety
barrier stop and buckled the concrete.
After seeing the damage,
one regular Max rider said he
may consider driving to work.
Now
the light rail looked like it pushed.
Thus, the spring stopper jumped up
onto the concrete another 20 feet.
It could have been
detrimental into the street.
The train will be removed from service.
It will be fully inspected.
Engineers and investigators
are now working to figure out
just what caused that crash.
Well, this is pretty wild.
A walk come county Washington man
battled a black bear and survived.
It happened near Lake Whatcom where
state Fish and Wildlife officers
say the bear had been causing
problems in a nearby neighborhood.
Now the man, who's in his 60s,
encountered the bear while jogging on a
trail Wednesday morning it attacked him,
but he was able to fight it off.
He escaped with some injuries
to his hands and feet.
I think
it says a lot about this
individual that he had the the frame of mind
to to fight back and scare
this bear away.
Of the bear had to be euthanized.
Wildlife officials say people
are part of this problem.
Bear attacks are rare,
but usually happen when they become
too used to people and one of the
most common ways is when garbage
is left outside and it becomes
a food source for the bears,
and this bear had been spotted
going through trash bags.
Well, some homeless shelters in
Multnomah County are facing a big
hurdle when it comes to filling up.