This is KGW news. At sunrise
this morning, we're following a
deadly shooting at an assisted
living complex in Mcminnville.
Police still haven't said
who fired the deadly shot,
but the incident started with
the report of a man with a
gun outside on the sidewalk.
We'll have more
on this coming up in just a minute plus.
So it was pretty traumatic.
It was pretty upsetting and
shocking not knowing what to do.
Yeah, Clackamas County family who
lost their home in the 2020 wildfires
gets a new one in the same location
you're going to hear from them and
the group that helped make it happen.
Also, helium debuting a new
comedy special this weekend.
And I talked to the star of the show,
a national act with kind of
a soft spot for Portland.
And I love Portland. It's so green.
So weird. And I just love it there.
It's a lot of hippies.
I love it. Yeah,
that is stand up comedian Jade Catta preta.
She is in a ton of movies,
TV shows.
But coming up this morning at 5:15,
she gives us a sneak peek at
her newest project.
And we also have a Riddle for
you on this Wednesday morning.
What do you get when you take national
waffle day with national waffle
or party National Sandwich month?
You get a waffle.
You do and you get a waffle sandwich segment
rod on the Sunrise show this morning.
So this place I've never heard of it.
It's called smokin waffles smokin smokin
like rockin, we're rockin the smoking
waffles on this Wednesday morning,
and I also read that they have
like over 60 different varieties
of waffle sandwiches.
Wow, have you ever had one
waffle sandwich in your life?
No, but I love had a chicken
waffle sandwich. Fried chicken.
Yeah in between with cheese and two waffles
as the bread. Delicious
you on board with that.
Yeah, we sure that's the name. Smokin.
Yeah, that's a very unique name.
Smokin waffle. Something
we're very good at. Here is research.
We researched the name.
We found out it's called
smoking and it's a Dutch word.
Apparently that means tasty.
Tasty. It looks like smack the
AA that smack it. You know what?
Yeah, I did. The research.
Research Department is over here.
Right? Nobody fills me in.
Alright, let's get you to
your day planner. It's gonna
be heating up today,
but nothing crazy, if you will.
We're at 64 right now.
We're mainly clear 81 at noon.
Yesterday it was 87.
So you'll feel the the difference.
93 I think at the most it could
be some 95 degree hotspots.
Yesterday nobody up and down
the valley made it to 90 again.
Portland stopped at 87
and that's your forecast.
Sounds good. Alright Rob, thank you.
We start this morning with a big
announcement that will be coming
from the White House later today,
President Biden expected to
make good on campaign promises
to address student loan debt.
So that could mean up to 10 grand
would be wiped clean from your bill
if you make less than $125,000 a year.
The president is also likely to
extend the pause on loan payments
that was put in place in the pandemic
that is scheduled to end next month.
Democrats have called on the
president to forgive $50,000 for
federal student loan debt,
while Republicans argue that
could make inflation even worse.
We want to make sure higher
education is accessible, and we know
education is the great equalizer. You
cannot add that to the debt at a time
where the debt is at near record levels
and inflation is a huge problem.
It's estimated over 40 million
Americans are in debt for their
education totaling $1.7 trillion.
The White House press briefing
is scheduled for noon hour time.
We'll post any updates on
air and online@kw.com.
Police are investigating a shooting in
Mcminnville that witnesses say killed a man.
This happened just after 2:00
o'clock yesterday afternoon,
near NW 2nd and Hill Rd.
Witnesses tell us.
Mcminnville police responded
to reports of a man.
With a gun standing out on the sidewalk,
neighboring businesses
had to go into lockdown.
Jeff Johnson lives in a
nearby apartment and says his
girlfriend was home at the time.
Said that she heard a shot fired
and then 10 minutes later sirens
and then a few minutes after that,
10 cops banging on the door
to be let in upstairs to go
into this person's apartment.
A witness tells us she also
heard a single gunshot.
She shared this photo showing first
responders performing CPR on the man.
She says they spent about 10
minutes trying to revive him,
but she believes he died.
It's unclear who fired the
shot that witnesses heard.
Oregon State Police are investigating this.
They have not released more information,
though we do expect to get an
update from them later this morning.
We also have an update on a
shooting turned hostage situation.
At an auto shop in Southeast Portland
last week, the suspect 49 year old,
Robert Conley now faces 20 charges,
including attempted murder,
attempted assault and kidnapping.
Police say Connolly was wanted,
and when they tried to arrest him,
he fired shots, ran inside,
then held a customer hostage.
It was all caught on surveillance video
that hostage later convinced Connolly
to turn himself in and no one was hurt.
The largest wildfire burning in Oregon
right now is the Cedar Creek fire.
It's burned more than 7100 acres in
a very steep and really difficult
to access area of the Willamette
National Forest about 15 miles
east of Oakridge in Lane County.
More crews are being called to help
fight this fire, which is 0% contained.
There are still no evacuation orders
in place, but the northern and western
areas of the Waldo Lake Wilderness
remain closed to the public. Well,
there's been two years since Oregon's.
Historic and devastating wildfires
and some families are just now getting
back on their feet. That includes
a Clackamas County family that
finally had the chance to settle
into their new home as KGW Christel
Conway explains, a dedicated group
of volunteers helped make it happen.
The 2020 wildfires ravaged
communities across Oregon.
Smoke was just black.
It was so hard to breathe.
Sheila James lives in Molalla with her
daughter and remembers the evacuations. We
only could take our goats and our horses.
Over to the Clackamas County Fair
and we were the last to return
after about two weeks. By then
their home was damaged beyond repair, so
it was pretty traumatic.
It was pretty upsetting and shocking,
not knowing what to do.
That's when Sheila heard from the
Clackamas County Long Term Recovery group.
Our mission is volunteers is to support,
rebuild, and recover the community here
of Clackamas County volunteer Pat Olson
says the group formed two years ago.
It's funded largely by private
businesses and nonprofits,
and serves as a lifeline in the
wake of the 2020 wildfires.
So our help includes actual home
building and I call it soup to nuts
all the way from permitting
working through land use.
They rebuild Sheila's home from the
ground up in about 8 months on the
same property her old home used to be,
so it's been almost two years since
we were living in our home. Thanks
to the Clackamas County long term.
Recovery group Sheila and her
daughter have a place to call home
again in their beloved community,
and I have relatives all around.
I grew up here over 51st Cousins.
My family came in the 1800s,
escaped from communism in Poland,
so it's really neat history and
we're thankful to be able to stay
here. Christal, Kuwait. KGW news.
It has been 30 years since the
devastating Category 5 hurricane.
Andrew hit South Florida.
The storm grew from a category
one to a CAT5 in 36 hours,
catching forecasters and residents off guard.
It made landfall August 24th, 1992.
Winds were 175 miles an hour,
storm surges, 17 feet tall and completely
leveled much of Miami-Dade County.
NBC News's Kerry Sanders was there when
it all happened and he headed back.
To the hardest hit city of Homestead.
So they're gonna have their
report on the anniversary coming
up this morning on today.
I just explained when I saw that video.
I mean, it's been a long time,
but wow, what a mess, you
know. So quiet, right now.
We've had very little tropical
activity this entire season,
which is great.
There's nothing brewing currently in the
Atlantic or over in the eastern Pacific,
so you wanna knock on some wood?
That's good news.
Wood, Brenda, you're
just kidding. My dear, just kidding.
By the way, so we're still talking about
this rain chance on Saturday, right?
So today will be the 48th day that we haven't
had more than just a trace of moisture.
You have to go back to July 6.
That was the day that had 16107.
So if we could get some rain,
that would be great.
Now on the flip side,
I know it's Saturday, it's August.
You have plans,
you don't want it to rain.
So we're still talking about either
we don't get anything or at most we
have some scattered areas that could
pick up 1/10 of an inch of rain and
maybe some isolated downpours that
would be a little bit more than that.
But that's Saturday, said the snow.
We're still watching that
in the forecast right now.
A little bit of rain is picking up in the
extreme northeastern corner of our state.
Otherwise, we're high and dry.
We have morning cloudiness being
reported at the coast yesterday.
It wasn't solid cloud cover.
Maybe it's not this morning.
It's tough to tell this time in the morning.
And then yesterday we did end up with
morning clouds up in Kelso long.
You were calling for that again this morning,
but right now,
inland areas reporting mainly clear skies.
Salem is a 59, Portland 64.
We have 50s in Baker City and burns
good morning 57 is your current number.
Futurecast does show.
Some cloudiness along the coast,
there's a little bit of an early
morning pick up and cloud cover.
We'll see if anybody gets anything.
I think there will be some clouds at
least up in Cowlitz County this morning.
And then what I really want
to show you this afternoon.
Not much, but here we are at 4:00 PM.
That's a chance of some scattered
showers and isolated thunderstorms
popping down around Baker City.
There's at least the remote chance
there could be a thunderstorm pop
late today up over the Cascades.
If you look to the east yesterday,
you may remember we did, in fact,
especially up around Mount Saint Helens,
we saw some towering cumulus clouds build up,
so maybe there's something pops up.
Over the Cascades later today,
otherwise it's a sunny forecast
and a hot spot.
Yeah, the Dows good morning Wasco County.
You could be up to about 101
today with similar temperatures
in your forecast tomorrow,
but everybody gets that cool down on Friday,
so this heat up today and tomorrow.
Friday we cool off.
This shows 93 in Salem.
That's not terrible, right?
And then we have temperatures
expected to get up to 91 in Longview,
94 in Vancouver,
93 in battleground forecast numbers.
The back to backers of 90 degree
days will be days 22 and 23.
90 degree heat so far this summer season.
There's a cool off Friday 84.
There's that rain chance Saturday,
70s both days.
Not much sun.
This weekend morning clouds
Sunday could be slow to clear
and then we could get a little
spike back up to 92 stab next week.
That is the forecast.
It's the only one I have. That's
it. Well, you know what? We'll
take it Rob. Thank you.
Hey, helium is debuting a new comedy
special this weekend and I talked
to the star of the show Jade Catta.
Preta fans know her from movies
and TV shows. Like the soup.
So we'll get a sneak peek
at her newest project.
Next on sunrise.
Here's an update on our Cage W
School Supply Drive, which continues
through next week.
So far, we've raised enough cash
and supplies with your help to help
more than 11,000 local students.
So great job so far, but let's keep it going.
So one of the easiest ways to make a
difference is by giving cash online.
To do that, just go to cagew.com/school
and click the donate cash tab, by the way.
When you give online,
you'll actually get something
you're going to get a Columbia
Sportswear employee store pass,
so you give a little and you get a
little through the school supply drive.
You can also drop off actual supplies,
by the way,
like pencils and notebooks,
crayons, markers,
all of that good stuff at today's
collection event in Wilsonville.
We're going to be out of ****** Chrysler Jeep
Dodge Ram this afternoon from three to six.
A big thanks to ****** Auto Group and on
point Community Credit Union and Safeway,
Albertsons,
and our friends at Intel.
All of them joining us to make this
year's school supply drive a huge success.