This is KGW news at I guess it's something
that happens around here a lot, but like
something that I encounter a
lot in my like, daily life.
Gun violence in the Rose City
killed one person and injured
nine others in just one night.
What we know about Portland's 34th homicide.
And take a look at this
10 foot deep sinkhole.
It has closed part of
southeast Yamhill indefinitely.
We'll walk you through the
traffic impacts of this,
plus what neighbors had to say about
that day that the sinkhole opened. Plus
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up, up and away. You might
say, Rod. I missed my
chance to say that, didn't
it? There'll be other times, I'm
sure kids at I Tech Preparatory
School in Vancouver are behind this
data collecting weather balloon.
And yes, a big kid by the name of Rod
Hill was there to help them send it off.
More on this mission. Coming up at 5:15,
look at all that blue sky.
You had fun out there.
You came back a little rosy
from the sun.
I don't want to ruin the the story,
but the coolest part of the whole
story to me is this school,
Vancouver I tech preparatory.
They have a weather balloon
club and it was that club that launched
that balloon. Not a physical club,
but a group of kids that make up a club.
Yeah, like a chess club, computer club.
They have a weather balloon club.
Just need clarification on Monday.
Thank you very much.
Here's a look outside Wells Fargo camera.
So this cloud tells a story.
It's actually kind of a a remnant debris
cloud if you will from convective
activity that produced some showers
and thunderstorms across parts
of parts of our state last night.
And there is a storm threat brewing
here on the West side later this
afternoon into this evening.
So we'll talk more about that
coming up right now.
It's another warm morning for you.
64 degrees will be 80 at noon.
We may hit 90 today.
If we don't have much in the way of
any cloudiness popping for potential
storm development later today,
we probably will.
I've got us 88 at 5:00 PM That's
your forecast for now.
All right, Rob, thank you.
Our top story this morning,
a warning from Portland police
about a dangerous batch of
drugs circulating in the city.
In the last three days.
Eight people have died from overdoses.
Here's a list of the dates
and times they happened.
Six of them are likely related to fentanyl.
The other two are under investigation.
Police say there's evidence that
people thought they were using cocaine,
but it was actually blended with fentanyl.
These overdoses started Friday morning
when a 38 year old man died inside
an apartment building on E Burnside.
The last reported overdose happened at
4:30 Sunday afternoon on North Hartman St.
6 of the 8 victims were men
over the age of 35.
Anyone with information about any of these
cases is asked to call Portland police
and at least nine people
are hurt, one dead after several
shootings in Portland this weekend.
The latest one happened in Southeast just
before 3:30 Sunday morning.
There are few details
on this one, but we do know that a man
walked into Adventist Health on SE Main
with non life threatening injuries and
refused to tell officers what happened.
We'll let you know if we learn more.
Police also responded to a pair
of triple shootings on Portland's
east side over the weekend,
and one of them wound up being deadly.
It's the 34th homicide in
Portland this year. Evan
Watson has the details and spoke
with one man who lives in the area
2 Triple shootings in one night
in Portland Police say one
man died at the hospital after being
shot near a home on NE Killingsworth
in the Cooley neighborhood.
Two other shooting victims,
a man and a woman,
had minor injuries that were treated
at the scene,
a contrast to a bright and
cheerful Sunday morning.
Walking out this morning, it's quiet,
the sun shining like there.
Yeah, it's like a nice, feels like a
nice community space a lot of the time.
Grant Smith lives a block away from
the other triple shooting in Portland.
Just after midnight Sunday,
police say three people were shot
at a bar in the Lloyd District.
Paramedics provided trauma care
on scene at the Capitol Bar and
Lounge on Northeast Broadway.
I guess it's something that
happens around here a lot,
but like something that
I encounter a lot in my,
like, daily life, You know?
It feels like pretty idyllic
a lot of the time.
So it's kind of wild,
the transition between that and this
Sunday morning.
Some signs of chaos could be
seen inside the Capitol bars.
Locked doors, broken, glasses,
flipped tables and items
left behind in a hurry.
Smith was surprised to learn
about the shooting this morning,
but says he feels safe and
secure walking around his
neighborhood at night.
These things
do happen once in a while,
and like when they happen,
they tend to stick in your brain a lot.
But I don't want to let that, like,
affect what I'm going to do on my daytoday,
the homicide in Northeast Portland
is the city's 34th of the year
for both triple shootings.
Portland police say the suspect
or suspects left the scene and no
immediate arrests have been made.
Evan Watson, KGW News.
Over the weekend there was
a vigil for a man shot and
killed in the Hazelwood
neighborhood six days ago.
Family and friends gathered
on Saturday night to remember
37 year old Justin Jokey.
Portland police say they found him
dead near the intersection of NE
122nd and Burnside on Tuesday May 9th.
So far no one has been arrested
100%, especially the way it happened.
It's terrible. It's getting bad
out here and it needs to stop.
And yeah, no 100% shocking yourself.
The mother of Jokey's 9 year old son set up a
GoFundMe to help pay for
funeral expenses. People
living near a Corvallis mosque
are feeling disheartened.
After it was vandalized,
someone spray painted the
words Jesus Loves You on its
walls and pavement on Thursday.
Neighbors say the mosque has
been a staple in the community
for more than 30 years now,
and while the message itself is not hateful,
the vandalism is disrespectful.
That's, you know, it's a nice sentiment,
but not appropriate for anything that
you know that maybe isn't in front
of a church. Our
news partners in Eugene have
reached out to Corvallis police
to ask about an investigation
that they have not heard back.
Here's a look now at a few more of
this morning's local
headlines. We start with the Oregon Senate,
which is expected to resume
resume floor sessions today.
Republicans staged a nine
day walkout this month.
Claiming that bills focused on
abortion rights and gun safety
issues aren't written clearly enough,
then late last week,
Republican leadership announced an
arrangement with Democrats to suspend
Sessions on Friday and Saturday.
So a new law voted in just last year
would block any Oregon lawmaker who
has 10 or more unexcused absences from
running for reelection in Portland's
Multnomah Village neighborhood.
The intersection at Southwest Garden Home Rd.
And Capitol Highway will be closed all week.
Starting today,
cars will not be able to get
into or out of Multnomah Village
using Southwest Capitol Highway.
P Bot says to use SW 40th Ave.
to get to Garden Home Rd.
Instead.
On Thursday,
crews will also begin work on
the intersection of Southwest
Primrose and Capitol Highway.
Keep in mind the bridge sidewalk will
stay open there for walking and biking.
Meanwhile,
in Portland's Mount Tabor neighborhood,
SE Jam Hill closed indefinitely at 76th Ave.
because of this massive sinkhole
we're showing you,
which opened up on Friday.
PBOT crews were working to
fix it over the weekend,
but before crews were able
to get their neighbors say,
they put out buckets and bins
to warn other drivers.
It went from
six inches at 2:30,
and you see what it is now.
I mean, it's a crater,
and it took an hour and a half,
but I I think the bus is pounding on.
It didn't help.
P Bot says that the hole is about 10
feet deep and could get even bigger.
TriMet, meanwhile, says that bus Line
15 will not stop between SE 71st and
76th until further, further notice.
And that's a look at some of
this morning's local headlines.
Well, the hot weather over
the weekend was a very big
change of pace from the cold,
rainy start to our spring, so we posted
this question on our Facebook page.
What did you do to beat the heat?
Lot of you send in pictures.
Let's start off with Michael.
He spent his day at the coast
saying it was hot there too.
Ooh, looking good.
Gabe was on his bike and
took a picture of his shadow.
He says he went on a four hour ride,
adding the breeze cools you off.
Christy sent us a picture of her pool.
Oh yeah, girl, that's the way to do it.
And then finally,
Deanna says she walked around
Laurelhurst Park with her puppy.
It looks like a lot of you got
out there over the weekend,
so stay tuned here on Sunrise.
We're going to be reading more of
your comments and showing off more of
your pictures throughout the newscast.
All right. Rod, you talked about it.
We could have a record on our hands later
today if we hit that 90 degree mark again.
Yeah. And we all ready tied was it,
I think it was Saturday morning.
We only dropped down to 62,
which ties the record for the
highest low temperature overnight
all time for the month of May.
So records are certainly falling.
We've already set a whole fistful of
them in terms of daily high temperature
records and that's where we begin.
So this all started back on
Friday when we made it to 90.
You remember that day I forecast.
57 Didn't think we did 90, but we did.
And that was a record.
93 a record Saturday,
92 a record yesterday, the record today.
I don't think we get up to 93,
but we might get up to 90 And here's
the deal, if we make it to 90,
that would be four in a row.
That would.
Break the record all time for PDX.
It goes back to 1940.
Those records for the number of 90
degree days in the month of May.
PDX since we built the airport,
we've never had more than three in
the month of May and that would
be four in a row and four total.
There's a bigger record that
goes back to 1874.
All the reporting sites since records
began in Portland and we've never
had more than 490 degree days,
we get at 90 today for a fourth day.
We can do it again later this week.
So this is really becoming
quite the weather story.
Of an unusual heat spell in the month of May.
All right,
you see the spinning kind of the
the counterclockwise movement here
of showers down in Southern Oregon.
Some weakening showers are
pushed up north of the gorge.
There is a low center we talked about this
last week that is tracked into our area.
And certainly there is the
possibility of thunderstorms later
today here on the West side.
Likely storms developing this afternoon
along the Cascades southern central,
Eastern Oregon areas.
All right here,
the current numbers right now,
64 in Portland we've been down as low as 63.
If 63 turns out to be the low,
that will break that 62 degree mark
for the warmest night all time in the
month of May 58 in Kelso, 52 in Newport.
The beach has cooled off the east
wind we had over the weekend,
which is why we had 92 in Seaside
on Saturday for example.
That E wind is gone.
So the coast,
you folks will only be closer to 70
for a high today and we will lose the
potential to be crazy hot here in the valley.
But as I mentioned,
we could still.
Get up tonight and here's a look
at that thunderstorm threat.
This is this afternoon at 2:30.
You see Bachelor and Mount Jefferson,
big ones around Mount Hood.
At 4:30,
there's a storm bouncing off of Mount Adams.
Could some of these storms migrate
into the valley?
Here's one in Clackamas County.
Absolutely they could.
That would come later this afternoon into
this evening.
It shows you how widespread the
storm activity will be across
much of our state later today.
We're going to 89 today.
Clearly, we can hit
908788909087. My favorite weather model,
what they call the European,
shows a cold front coming in on Sunday
that would finally break the heat.
And much of next week looks closer to normal.
Daytime highs back down closer to 70.
That would make it your favorite
model as well. All right, hey,
we're going to get you outdoors.
Coming up next for the launch of a
weather balloon up in Vancouver of high
school kids working on this project.
Really quite the feat.
And there she goes.
As Drew said earlier in the show
up up and away. Next on Sunrise. Ha.