This is KG W News at Sunrise,
Shamia Fagan will officially stp
down as Oregon Secretary of Sta.
Today. We'll recap what led
up to Fagan's resignation,
and we'll also show you new e-ml
records that reveal how her
other job as a cannabis company
consultant may have impacted ste
audits. Plus, they're bringing
this up right when they don't
want to deal with these bills.
That's absolutely perception.
But it's not the case, you know?
Absolutely the case. With
no end insight to the Republican walkout,
the Oregon Senate could be
working a lot of weekends.
How that could impact some of te
members future campaigns plus.
Does this count as a lunch brea?
Photographer Eric Patterson and I had
some fun with the founders of Cho Wines
talking about the first ever Asn
American Pacific Islander Food and Wine
Fest that's happening later this month.
How you can get a taste of some
unconventional wine pairings as well as
support diversity in Oregon's wine industry.
This a API Heritage Month that is coming
up here at 5:15.
But first, for starters,
I say good morning.
Welcome back to the work week,
Rod Hill. We talked about this .
Half hour, we're going to start out kind
of like here by the end of the ,
way up here we're going, we're going.
Records this weekend are low 90,
Mid 90s are doable.
This weekend forecasting low 90s and thinking
that the numbers will only get bumped higher.
Assuming nothing changes, it is.
Only Monday.
And how often is the weekend forecast?
Correct on Monday.
And the answer is, well, someti.
Here's a look at the radar
out there this morning.
We do have rain clearly to
our S down around Eugene.
Starting to see some showers migrating
northward up around the Albany ,
dry up in the Salem.
There's a load that's got
passing Southern Oregon today.
Now eventually I think some shos
to get thrown up into Portland.
But right now we're dry.
Sunup is 548 and we're seeing se
brightness with some blue sky up top.
Even at this 5:00 o'clock hour.
48 is the number out of PDX will
be cloudy with a shower chance
at noon and scattered showers
in the area later today may not
be much rain for Portland.
There will be more rain to the South,
less to the north.
I have us at 60 degrees at 5:00,
that 7 day forecast Drew talked about
that's coming up. All right
Rob. We look forward to that
here in a few minutes, but
right now. We want to get to our
top story this half hour. Shamia
Fagan will officially step down
as Oregon Secretary of State to.
She announced her resignation lt
Tuesday in a cloud of controver.
The drama all started when Willamette
Week first reported she had a side job
as a consultant for a cannabis company.
For the latest, let's get
to Devin Haskins and Devin.
Oregon lawmakers are looking at
some possible changes. Yeah,
good morning.
Those changes coming in the wayf
tightening ethics rules and increasing
salaries for state officials.
And that's something leaders on both sides.
Have told KG W that needs to ha.
It was just last Monday that Fan
was apologizing to Oregonian,
saying her $77,000 annual salars
not enough to support her famil.
It's because the Willamette Wees
the first report that Fagan had taken
a consultant job for cannabis company,
and that was happening at the se
time she was overseeing a state
audit on cannabis regulation.
That job paying $10,000 a month
with a chance for a $30,000 bons
if she met certain criteria.
It's also been reported by bothf
Willamette Week and The Oregonin
that Fagan had let the owners of
the cannabis company know about
the audit and voice their conce.
Governor Kotek has now asked the
Oregon DOJ to look at the recent audit
of cannabis industry regulation.
State ethics rules do allow for
outside employments,
but lawmakers tell KG W it's tie
to reconsider and tighten those
rules and increase salaries.
Yes, I do think we need to
revisit those ethics laws.
Because I don't believe any
statewide elected officials
should be receiving outside mon.
I think it's, I think it's too dangerous.
But in the one thing that I thik
Shamia Fagan was right about was
is that salaries are too low.
I mean I think that the ethics rules,
we should be looking at the
ethics rules as well.
I think the pay issue is something that
we should address first and that's what I.
I believe that we are going
to try to address this session
now. In terms of Secretary
of State salary pay,
Oregon ranks near dead last in the nation.
The deputy Secretary of State,
Cheryl Myers will not take over
office until Governor Kotech
appoints a permanent replacemen.
And according to state rules, F,
because Fagan was a Democrat,
the replacement that Kotech
appoints must also be a Democra.
Brenda
Devin, thank you.
We're keeping an eye on Salem an
this morning to see if Senate
Republicans show up for work.
On Friday, GOP absences stallede
session for the third day in a .
Then on Saturday, the Senate convened for
about 20 minutes and held A roll call,
but without a quorum.
They had to adjourn again.
This walkout started after Republicans
claimed bills on abortion,
gender rights and gun safety don't pass
what they call the readability .
That means the average citizen
needs to be able to understand .
So here's the thing about not showing
up for work with an unexcused absence.
If a lawmaker has 10 or more,
they can't run for reelection.
That's a new law of voters
pass back in November.
Some legislators say they're
ready to push the limits and tet
whether that law is constitutio.
My oath of office supersede. Anything else.
You plan to go 10 days and test it yourself.
I plan to go until we get billst
are readable and comply with thw
and a man is in jail this morning after
allegedly trying to rob 2 Albany businesses.
Deputies responded to a robbery
around 11:30 Saturday night at e
Loves Truck stop on Old Salem Rd. NE.
Witnesses say a man came in wita
hammer demanded money from the workers.
They say the man then took off r
customers and employees tried to stop him.
While police responded to that ,
Albany police got another report of a
robbery at the Motel 6 on Pacific Blvd.
Police say the suspect descriptions matched.
They saw the man driving on Santiam Hwy.
pulled him over and then arrestd
30 year old Michael Partlow.
He also had a felony parole
violation warrant for burglary.
All right, let's take a look no.
Some other headlines that
were following on this
Monday morning.
We start in Washington where Governor
Jay Inslee is set to sign a grop
of new housing bills later toda.
Among the bills, a measure to accelerate
the construction of new housing.
Another one will help ensure more supply
and affordability of condos and townhomes,
and a third will increase socald
middle housing in areas traditionally
dedicated to single family home.
Also in our headlines this morn,
a project to improve bike and bus lanes
on a stretch of Southwest Jeffen
in the Goose Hollow neighborhood
of Southwest Portland starts to.
The work is happening between SW
16th and 18th Avenues and is expected
to last through the month of Ju.
During that time,
there will be occasional lane closures,
parking restrictions and traffic delays.
Several buses will also be adjug
the routes.
You can head to trimet.org for more details.
And last LED last headline here
also involves TriMet.
All Max lines are back in full service today.
Crews finished several track improvements
along the I-84 quarter on Sunda.
Since the middle of last month,
passengers have been taking
shuttle buses between the Gatewy
Transit Center and NE 7th Ave.
Full service for the blue-green
and red line all back and are on
regular schedules at this point.
And that's a look at some of
your Monday morning headlines.
Well, later today the Biden
administration is expected to
announce new rules for US airli.
It's all part of a new effort to make
sure Flyers are compensated when
a flight is delayed or canceled.
This comes after last December's
flight meltdown. You might remember it.
That thing left thousands of Flyers stranded.
The Today show We'll have more on this
coming up right after Sunrise Watchdog.
Crews have already started patching a huge
hole that detoured traffic in Seattle.
The video was pretty incredible.
We showed it to you on Sunrise Friday.
It was a 4 by 5 foot hole between the
West Seattle Bridge and northbound Hwy.
99. On Saturday,
crews poured concrete saying its
going to take a couple days to e
before the ramp can reopen safe.
That ramp shut down almost a week ago.
Now.
I'm thinking this coming
weekend would be the weekend I d
not want to be doing work outsi.
We're all looking ahead to this crazy
hot weather that's coming. But I guess
we should start with today's forecast.
Yeah, but 90s this weekend woule
the first night degree heat at .
That Friday, what, two Fridays
ago in Portland hit 88, right?
Salem hit. I think it was 91.
So we have had 90s in the area, but this
would be the first time at the airport.
Here's a look at our satellite picture today.
We're in this Cool.
Pocket of air Here's the jet stm
to our S See the big curl right there.
That's a low that's just going
to migrate along the California,
California, Oregon border today.
So you'll find more precipitatin
to the South, less to the north.
Snow you can see radar is pickip
some snow snow level here local.
Upper Mount Hood today will be 5000 feet.
So again,
more precipitation S less to the north
as you're out traveling about right now.
Salem's dry. Portland's dry.
We've got rain showers.
Danny,
Eugene a little bit down arounde
Albany area this morning and ths
going to slowly push a little bo
the north as that low starts to move inland.
But if you're getting ready to p
outside here in the Rose City right now,
you'll find this very nice conditions,
partly cloudy skies up top.
We're at 48 degrees Here are the other
numbers. It's cooler up in Kels.
I mean, that's cool.
4049 over in Astoria.
Salem's matching Portland's tem.
It's 39 over in Bend right now.
Again, those are current temperatures,
the way Futurecast shows our da.
Here's the rain,
more so to our S That includes e
coast much wetter today in Newp.
Not much rain expected up in our story.
Here we are 2:30 again.
Most of the actions down here we get just
a little bit pushing up to the north.
And did you see some bright col?
There is a thunderstorm threat along the
Cascades and then Central and eastern areas.
Today.
This is 9:00 PM this evening.
Generally, the shower chance ends overnight.
Tonight we'll have a mix of
clouds in the morning.
This is Tuesday at 8:30.
And then tomorrow in the aftern,
still the threat of some
showers along the Cascades.
But we should be dry with
the increasing sunshine.
And the tomorrow afternoon will
kick off a stretch of dry weathr
that's expected to be with us
the rest of the week real quick.
Here's the wider Futurecast mov,
and I just want to show you the thunderstorm
activity out across Eastern Oregon today.
All right, How much rain we tal?
Not a lot.
This goes Portland just a
little bit more than a trace.
Get more like 1/4 of an inch
of rain down in Eugene.
Here come this, the Stair Step Heat 6266.
Wednesday looks fabulous, 73 degrees.
Thursday still really nice, 78 Friday,
85 going 92 Saturday and Sunday.
My thought is I don't want to,
as a forecaster, I don't want
to lower the temperature.
So I picked the number that I
thought if anything I'm going to
have to lift higher and that mes
we could be mid 90s for the wee.
That's your forecast.
Oh my goodness. Look at that ramp up.
OK. Thanks, Rod. Portland and te
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