This is KGW news at sunrise.
Who could forget this video?
That woman breaking into a
Portland home and climbing
into a child's empty bed?
So far, she isn't facing
charges for that crime,
but coming up this morning on sunrise,
we'll explain how she
landed in jail again.
Also, this morning,
we'll recap last night's virtual
meeting between behavioral health
workers and elected officials,
including Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.
And if you are waking up.
This morning, wondering about Hurricane Ian,
we have some new information.
It's now a category four storm
gaining strength and moving
inland near Fort Myers, FL.
What you're looking at there
is a live picture about an
hour South of there in Naples.
You can see that crashing surf things
are really picking up this morning.
This, of course,
is the big weather story nationally.
We'll be talking a lot about
it all throughout the show.
It is a Wednesday morning
here in the Sunrise show.
And Brenda, as you just mentioned,
we will have much more on Iran,
in fact, just a few minutes from now.
But Rod, let's kick things off with our
local forecast. We have rain,
yes, for a change, rain,
take a look at the radar right now.
You can see it up and down the coast.
This is and there are some heavy rain
pockets where you see the bright colors
passing up into classic county right there.
This is going to be breaking up
somewhat but still making it into
the Willamette Valley and up into
SW Washington in the coming hours.
So right now we're dry 59 degrees.
Our futurecast models show
between 6:00 and 7:00.
Most of us would start getting rain,
and maybe a little bit earlier than that.
You folks in Salem in the pack 65 at noon,
just a few showers midday and then
heavier showers will pick up later today
into this evening with temperatures
again mostly in the 60s today.
Now let's get back to our
Hurricane Ian coverage.
All right, Rod, you'll be part
of this as well, but let's get to
the headlines regarding the storm.
First, the National Hurricane Center
upgraded into a strong category four
overnight with maximum sustained
winds of 155 miles an hour,
the path of the storm.
Has shifted slightly S It's now
expected to make landfall near
Fort Myers later this afternoon,
Florida time.
The satellite imagery we're going
to show you here shows just how
defined the eye wall of Ian is.
You can see it right there on the screen.
At this point,
evacuation orders are in place for
more than two and a half million people.
Forecasters expect a catastrophic
storm surge, winds and flooding
in many parts of the state.
And if you're just waking up,
this thing really did pick
up speed relatively quickly.
Yeah, the Hurricane Center had predicted.
So remember, we hit it was over Cuba
at this time yesterday morning,
a week into 115 over land pretty
quickly popped to 125 late yesterday,
popped back up to 140,
and then in the middle of the
night just exploded to 1:50.
Five, so category 5 strength starts at 1:57.
We're talking 2 mph.
So it's it's right there to the biggest,
strongest hurricane category that we
ever track here it is on the radar,
the latest current imagery and
this has been a very well defined
eye on satellite imagery going
way back the days and days there's
Fort Myers is closing in on only
about 60 miles being offshore.
So there's Fort Myers, they're getting
50 mile per hour wind gusts right now,
right around this eye.
That's where the winds are blowing sustained.
Sustained winds at 155 with of
course higher gusts than that.
So the storm in the coming hours
will be moving inland there already,
as I mentioned,
getting into the heavier rains,
winds have picked up to 50 mph.
There's the hurricane report from
the Hurricane Center category.
Four 155 mile prior winds pretty
much near or just north of Fort
Myers is the latest track,
quite a bit S from Tampa.
So the track really did adjust
southward over the past 24 hours.
Then the heavier rains later
today will be moving.
Up into the Orlando area as the
storm of course weakens and weakens,
but still produces devastating
flooding rain amounts.
Here it is on futurecast again.
There's the eye just outside
of Fort Myers at this hour,
moving near to just north of that city.
This is our futurecast model there.
The heavier rains later today
up into the Orlando, Tampa area,
the Hurricane Center still predicting
12 to 18 inch widespread rain
amounts over the path of the storm
with isolated heavy rain bands
along the central Gulf Coast of
Florida as high as two feet.
Rain totals.
Crazy amounts.
OK,
there's what we just showed you a moment ago,
the rain on the radar.
And just a reminder that
the driest part of our day,
once rain moves in,
let's say around 7:00 AM or a
little bit before the driest
part of it is probably midday.
We don't expect a lot of
shower activity at that time.
There will be some scattered rain showers.
Maybe you find one of them.
Futurecast will show that to you.
Here's the first wave of rain
at 7:00 o'clock this morning.
Up and down Interstate 5 and here's
scattered shower chances, but not a lot.
Up and down, I5 midday.
There we are.
Two o'clock.
And then this evening,
if you're out and about where
you get increasingly unstable,
there's a trailing low that
comes in that will pop all these
scattered heavy downpours,
which is what you're seeing.
So it could be quite wet and
quite rainy overnight tonight.
Then we get into tomorrow morning
at 7:00 o'clock.
And then during the day tomorrow,
the showers just kind of wind down.
We open up Sun breaks should be totally dry,
I think by Thursday evening.
Here are the current numbers 59 and
Portland 54 in Salem, 60 degrees.
Look at a 16 John day with 39 and burns.
All right. Our seven day forecast
numbers near 70 today and tomorrow.
We're hoping for at least more
than 1/4 of an inch of rain out of
all of this here in the Rose City.
And then a sunny, warm weekend,
85 on Saturday and Sunday.
And that is your forecast.
A little bit of everything in
that seven day. Rob, thank you.
Now to an update on a
story we've been following
for weeks. A woman caught on camera
breaking into a Northeast Portland home
and crawling into a child's empty bed is
back in jail this morning. This time,
she's accused of harassment and theft.
Let's bring in Devin Haskins.
And Devin, even with this new arrest,
charges still haven't been filed.
Yeah, Terry Zinzer was that woman
inside the empty child's bed.
She was supposed to appear in court on
Tuesday for her most recent arrest,
but the DA has her listed as a no complaint.
What that means is the District Attorney
has not officially charged her,
but could do so at a later time.
Zinzer, however, does remain in jail
on a county hold as far as what
she's most recently accused of doing
around 10:00 o'clock Monday night,
police say they were called about
a woman acting erratically.
At SE 112th and Powell and harassing
people for several hours, the woman,
identified as Terry Zinzer,
was reportedly trying to get into cars.
We're also learning that she at one
point walked into the Daily Planet
Bar topless and cause issues there.
She's also accused of shoplifting
at a nearby 711.
We spoke to a man who lives in the area,
hangs out in the area.
He says he's not at all surprised
by this behavior.
I see a lot of it around here.
There's a lot of it. Never
used to be that way. It never
used to be that way and
since the pandemic. And
the last couple of years is just
continues to go downhill. Alright.
This video you might recall about two
weeks ago Zinzer is is suspected of
breaking into a Northeast Portland
home and climbing into a child's empty
bed since her through an Ottoman at
the homeowner and was later arrested.
The DA did not pursue charges in this case,
saying what sins are really needed
was mental health treatment,
but in the past sensors declined
that sort of treatment.
The DA has since said he's taking a second.
Look at that case.
We'll be sure to update you when
charges officially get filed in
either of these cases through.
Alright Devin.
That woman's story is another example
of an ongoing issue here in Portland,
crimes involving people who
desperately need mental health care.
Last night,
behavioral health workers had a
chance to talk about the issue during
a virtual meeting with Mayor Ted
Wheeler and other local officials.
Here's KGW's Alma McCarty with more
what do you need from us
as elected officials,
both at the city level,
the the county level.
Our state representatives are here.
What are some of the the major touch
points for us that we need to know about?
Really thankful that we're
seeing a shift at the federal,
state and local levels to not
just add resources that help
people experiencing a crisis
of mental health or substance use,
but to support them after
the crisis has passed.
During the hour and a half
discussion leaders heard from people
involved at every level of crisis
response in the Portland metro,
speakers broadly noted a
need for more shelter.
Based in housing and a more streamlined
process in accessing services like
sobering and treatment centers,
one solution already in the works,
the new behavioral Health Resource
Center downtown phase one a day
program to serve the homeless community
will open mid November is not
crisis. It is not treatment.
What it is is a safer space for our
houseless neighbors who live with mental
health and substance use challenges who
often are are. Rejected from
traditional shelter or other housing
environments because their
behaviors don't support.
That group participation,
shall we say? There are many
bills that are contemplated.
State representative Rob Nos ran down
a list of potential bills in the
upcoming 2023 legislative session.
Among them bills to address problems
at the Oregon State Hospital,
to add more residential treatment facilities,
and to increase funding to
community behavioral health clinics.
So we are going to get to the
behavioral health Nirvana in this state.
It may take a couple of legislative sessions,
alright, but we are working on
it. Alma McCarty. GW News
other local headlines this morning. A deadly
shooting in Fairview the Multnomah
County Sheriff's Office says a man
died around 7:00 o'clock last night on
Lincoln Street near 6th and Halsey.
Investigators are still
out there this morning.
The victim hasn't been identified
and no arrests have been made.
We will keep you updated on air and
online on kgw.com as we learn more.
A man is in jail.
Accused of smashing windows at
several downtown Portland businesses.
Court documents say Tyler Haramia,
who is homeless and has
self-described mental health issues,
although he does not have a
criminal history be cleaners,
had two windows,
broken trek bicycles and the campaign
office for City Council candidate
Renee Gonzalez were also damaged.
And finally,
take a look at this do you
recognize this wedding dress?
Officers say they found it in a stolen car.
Covered in downtown Lake Oswego
yesterday morning near Foothills Rd.
Police believe the stolen car
which is there on your screen
was also involved in a number of
car break ins in the same area.
Anyone with information is asked to
call the non-emergency line for the
Laco Police Department and those are
some of your Wednesday headlines.