This is KGW news at noon.
Good afternoon. I'm Drew Carney.
Thanks for joining us
here for the news at noon.
And we start this afternoon with
the latest on Oregon, Measure 114.
Just a few hours ago,
a federal judge granted a delay
of 30 days for the permitting
process portion of the measure.
Otherwise, measure 114 will take
effect as planned this Thursday.
Oregon voters passed the measure with
just over 50% of the vote last month.
It calls for several changes to Oregon.
In laws including a ban on
magazines that hold over 10 rounds
and complete a background checks
prior to any gun sale or transfer,
it also requires people get
a permit issued by local law
enforcement before purchasing a gun.
But a few days ago,
the Oregon Department of Justice
said the state wouldn't be ready
to implement that portion of
the measure by this Thursday.
And then just yesterday we heard from
the head of the State Association
of Police Chiefs who said police
departments and sheriff's offices in
Oregon needed more time to draw up the.
Permit process.
What's the uniformed application look like?
It needs to look the same and as of
today we have not fully decided or
even really vetted an application.
Again,
measure 30 will stay will still
take effect on Thursday.
But based on the federal judge's
ruling today,
Oregonians will have another 30 days
before a permit is required to buy a gun.
The Oregon Attorney General, meanwhile,
is cracking down on an Illinois
based company over phone calls and
Flyers about extended car warranties.
Consumer complaints were really the
driver behind this crackdown, so we're
going to tell you more about it here.
The state of Oregon started investigating
this company again out of Illinois after
it got more than a dozen local complaints.
According to the Department of Justice.
The company,
called Endurance Warranty service,
sent hundreds of thousands of
deceptive mailers to people in
Oregon between 2016 and 2019.
In some cases,
endurance pretended to know
when someone's car warranty had
expired or was about to expire.
KGW talked with the Hillsborough
man who was given an offer because
of his cars make and model,
but the 76 year old told us
he's never actually owned a car.
I'm not sure if I'm targeted or
if I'm just a random selection
that happens to be an old guy,
but you know, I can.
I can understand why they might target
seniors during this investigation
and during warrant endurance warranty
service did stop sending out mailers.
But the Illinois based company did not
respond to our request for comments.
As part of a settlement deal with
the Oregon Department of Justice,
they're now banned from making
unwanted sales calls in Oregon for the
next five years and they were also.
Find just over half $1,000,000.
This next story is about a project
that leaders in Oregon and Washington
have been talking about for decades,
how to best replace the I5 bridge
connecting the two states.
Some people living on Hayden Island
say that they're worried about the
impact that the current proposal
for the bridge would have on them.
Christel Conway was at a community meeting
last night and brings us this update.
The projects to replace the aging
Interstate Bridge is now in year three.
One of the bridges is 105. Years old.
The other is 64 years old. Greg
Johnson heads the Interstate
Bridge replacement program,
the Bay State Committee
charged with replacing an old,
out of Date I5 bridge that's bound to
collapse during a major earthquake.
Both bridges are are old and are
considered functionally obsolete.
It's no small project to replace
a bridge that is part of a major
Interstate freeway connecting Oregon and
Washington across the Columbia River.
Last March, the Washington
Legislature put up a billion
dollars to help fund construction,
and we'll be going before the Oregon
legislature in the 2023 session for
a similar ask of a billion dollars.
Hey government, take a beat, take a pause.
Let's rethink this before it
goes to the Oregon legislature.
Be friend is part of the Hayden Island
neighborhood network. We're really
concerned about how it's going to impact
the livability of the island's economic.
Access wise, physically, our commute times.
The group held a meeting Monday night
to share their thoughts on the project
with others in the community. We
fear that we're going to be an island
covered by the shadow of this giant bridge,
and are we going to just have
more tent encampments underneath?
We are trying to listen well and
we're trying to hear the community.
Johnson was also in the room discussing the
matter in hopes of finding common ground.
Making sure that folks understand
there is no perfect solution
that makes everyone 100% happy,
but we're listening and we're trying
to incorporate as much of the
comments from the public that that
is feasible to get this thing done.
Crystal Kumuyi, KGW news.
Ohh yeah. Yeah, we were waiting
for that reaction there to start
this next story.
This is actually some new video
from Hwy 30 as crews continue to
clean up that landslide there.
The landslide happened last week and
crews continued to try to get the highway
back open and fully functioning again.
The slides shut down a section of the
highway about 20 miles east of Astoria.
They were able to open up
one lane over the weekend,
but that one lane will only stay open at
night time because during the day they
want to keep all the lanes shut down.
This is between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM.
So the cleanup crews can work more safely.
If you are driving there through Hwy 30
during that stretch or across that stretch.
It's about four miles long.
If you're driving there over the night,
they say that flaggers will be out.
O dot expects delays to happen,
at least for the next several days.
Alright,
next story this morning Chris is your story,
we're talking about the weather here.
Yeah, it's gonna say for basically for
any drivers heading that direction,
he probably considered that it's
generally off limits right at this point.
Might want to take two up through
Washington or try one of the other Oregon
passes like Hwy 26 right now there is
some light rain falling in that area
by the way of the of that slide and
we have a couple of very light rain
sprinkles falling beneath that thick
cloud deck here that's over Portland,
Vancouver and pretty much a big chunk
of Western Oregon and Washington.
At this noon hour,
here's a live look at the Oregon
coast from Astoria.
And you can see the slate Gray
sky and what it looks like,
maybe even a little bit light
rain or drizzle falling there.
We'll switch gears.
It's not all gloom and doom.
It is a bright Bluebird day
up in the mountains.
Check out this live shot from timberline.
There's not a cloud in the sky.
That is a deep, bright fresh white snow pack.
And by the way,
we're going to add a whole lot more to
that coming up in my 7 day forecast,
but not today.
Here's what it looks like right now
from our Wells Fargo or excuse me,
Rose City Sky camera, slate Gray sky.
It's 41.
There has been a couple of
drizzle drops here and there.
And that will likely be the case
through the rest of the day.
I thought we might see one or two sun breaks,
but drew,
they are just not materializing today.
So we're gonna keep temperatures
pretty much status quo.
Sunset 427,
two more weeks until the days
start getting a little bit longer.
Drew 427 for the sunset though,
yeah, we are definitely in that
stretch of the darkest days
of the year, Chris. No doubt.