This is KGW news at noon.
This noon police need
your help finding a kidnapped toddler.
Hello everyone. I'm Brenda Braxton.
I want you to take a look at your screen.
There is an Amber Alert and it has been
issued for two year old Rudy Osiah.
Police say that his father kidnapped him
early yesterday morning from Nampa ID.
Rodolfo Reyes doesn't
have custody of his son.
Police believe the two may be in Oregon,
possibly here in the Portland metro area.
This noon, officers are looking for a Gray
Lexus with Idaho license plate 2C T J-90.
Rudy was last seen wearing
a Gray hoodie and a diaper.
You're asked to call police or the Amber
Alert tip line if you have any information.
I5 N between Salem and Albany is back open
this noon after a deadly multi car crash.
Seven people died.
Several more were injured shutting
down that stretch of freeway
for hours yesterday afternoon.
The crash involved 2 semis
and a passenger van.
It happened just after 2:00 PM and
took almost five hours to clear one
lane so cars could get through.
Here's how one driver described the
first emergency responders on scene.
They
look very disturbed,
a couple of them, you know, you can see
it on their face motions over there.
I do drive semi and I've driven
for quite a while and I've seen a
lot of fatalities in on the road.
Think about the people's families is in the,
you know, sad day for those people.
Oregon State Police say they'll
release the likely cause of the crash
once they finish their investigation.
A parent in the Portland Public
School District reached out to KGW
about how hot it's been inside the
classrooms at her child's school.
We're talking about Marysville Elementary.
A number of teachers there kept track
snapping photos of the thermostat
showing temperatures up to 87 degrees.
Well, we followed up with PPS and
they told us only twelve of their
81 schools have air conditioning,
and Marysville isn't one of them.
I
would like to see a whole
change with the district.
The HVAC system needs to be updated.
We need A/C and heat in here
during the winter and the summer.
Our kids shouldn't have to
deal with this and now it.
I'm worried about their health.
We're learning about how to write
essays and a lot of things like that,
so it makes it hard to focus.
The district says it's been modifying
school activities, even even moving
classes outside in the shade.
It'll also keep its ventilation systems
running overnight to bring in cooler air.
Well, the A/C is back on at the Schnitz.
The HVAC system went out earlier
this week, so it was too hot for
the Oregon Symphony to perform.
But now the theater has a temporary fix,
so tomorrow's concert is back on.
The venue says permanent repairs
could take up to 8 months.
Well, the weather will be cooling
down in a couple of days, but Rod,
how are things looking right now?
And really Brenda, already quite a nice
cool off from the 90 degree temperatures
that we featured in that school story.
Here's a look at where we are right now.
We had the marine layer that was
solid at the beach this morning.
We had clouds in downtown Portland,
but other parts of all you've had sun.
Anyway, right now most of the
marine Cloudinesss is is gone.
Here's Lincoln City Marsh,
Nick Winds Casino Resort Camera.
Clearly no clouds over downtown Portland
to speak of. It's kind of partly.
Cloud and mostly sunny.
We're at 69 degrees.
That's one of the cooler noon time
temperatures of recent memory.
How about that?
So I have the high at 84.
You figure we've been warming in
these conditions about 15 degrees.
So that would get us right there.
So we'll see if we make that 77, eight.
O'clock.
I do want to show you a new development.
This is our Futurecast movie.
This is this evening for your Friday night,
10:00 o'clock.
Thunderstorms expected over the Cascades.
But look on the the West side
of the Cascades.
Could there be some Boomers make it
into parts of eastern Multnomah County?
Maybe up toward battleground in Clark County.
We have to keep an eye to the sky again
that's coming up later this evening.
Your complete weekend forecast
straight ahead.
Thank you, Rod.
This afternoon investigators will fly
drones over a burned out apartment
building in southwest Portland.
They hope those 3D images will help
pinpoint how the fire started. Now.
What's left of the place on SW 14th
and Taylor continues to crumble.
The area is fenced off in case it collapses.
The Red Cross has set up a shelter
on the University of Portland campus
for tenants who lost their homes.
Many of them don't have much money,
and they used to live at the Blanche House,
a nonprofit in Old Town that provides
both meals and transitional housing.
The executive director says his
team is already reaching out.
If we were devastated by a fire like this,
we probably have a lot of friends and
family that we could rely on a place to
stay that we know that would be safe.
And we've had people at the ready that,
you know, give us clothing and
money and anything that we need.
Well, a lot of people, you know,
I bet living in this apartment building
don't really have that in their community.
And so they rely on us and the
generosity of strangers really here
in the Portland area who are moved
by this event and are and are going
to step forward and and help out.
If you'd like to help,
there are several Go Fund Me campaigns.
We have links for you at kgw.com.
Rooftop solar panels are blamed
for starting this house fire in
Southeast Portland yesterday.
This happened in the 3800 block of 62nd Ave.
in the Foster Powell neighborhood.
Crews were able to stop the fire from
spreading into the attic and no one got hurt.
After disconnecting the panels,
firefighters covered them with tarps.
To prevent them from producing more
electricity and potentially reigniting now
to a traffic alert involving the Morrison
Bridge tonight starting at 10:00 o'clock,
one eastbound and 1
westbound lane will close.
The ramp from I5 will also close.
Crews will be repairing the bridge
joints and working on the deck.
This is part of the Morrison Bridge
paint project that began last year.
Both lanes and the ramp will
remain closed through the weekend,
reopening Monday morning at 5:00.
Well, one of downtown Portland's oldest
food cart pods is getting a makeover.
The new name will be the Midtown Beer Garden.
It's at 5th and Harvey Milk.
Plans include a bar seating for 300 people,
a stage for events and music,
and still plenty of food carts.
A company called Expensify
is behind the changes.
Right now,
all the carts are in storage
during the renovations.
Unfortunately,
they've been vandalized over the year.
This is also the same pod where a food
cart propane tank exploded last summer.
The Midtown Beer Garden could
open as soon as July.