This is KGB W news at sunrise. I
never wanted to die.
I don't want to die.
But my brain every day I
have to fight those thoughts.
Today, Oregon lawmakers
will hear testimony on 2 bills
that would fund suicide prevention,
coming up here from advocates who
plan to speak at the Capitol to try
and destigmatize mental health,
and an update on the Nike store in Northeast
Portland that closed back in November.
After a rash of thefts while it remains
closed, the shoe company sent a
letter to the Portland Mayor's office.
We'll tell you what they're asking for,
plus. All the dreams,
all
the visualizing that we're going to win
came true, and now you can experience
and and relax and enjoy the win.
It's frustrating not to win, but you know.
Is what it is. Move on.
I can relate to that frustration
a little bit this morning,
to be honest with you.
The Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl champions.
And because of that,
Rod Hill and I have some
scores to settle this morning.
We made a lot last
week of the fact that Rode's
favorite team, the Chiefs,
was taking on my favorite team,
the Eagles, in the Super Bowl.
I actually got a text,
not even from my own uncle,
my wife's uncle text me yesterday morning
and says good luck to the Eagles today.
I said, yeah, 4321,
the Eagles are going to win.
And he said that will be good for you.
And he said that would be bad for Rod.
The only problem with that story is
it didn't turn out that way. Your
wife's uncle. Yes. Who feels very good
for me this morning. That's wonderful.
I didn't read it that way. Graduations.
It was a great game. It was. Yeah,
it really was. And we will settle up
on our bets coming up at about 5:15.
But I know you also have a busy weather day.
I do. So despite my appearance,
I am a very serious brother man.
And here we go with the weather wall,
which basically is lit up with
advisories or warnings for snow.
So let's just take you through
this during the day today,
developing snow gets heavy over the Cascades
and eventually over the coast range.
Those are storm warnings of purple,
the white colors from Eugene.
Up long, up to Longview.
That's a winner.
Winter weather advisory for snow.
This mainly picks up this evening
into the overnight hours.
And then these are kind of
garden variety wind advisories,
including you folks in the Dows were to be
West winds later today at 45 miles apart.
That's kind of typical, right?
All right,
so the front is just now starting to move in.
Remember, this is Gulf of Alaskan air.
Scattered showers pick up.
It'll be rain showers during the day today.
Heavy at times and Breezy 42
right now will be 42 at 5:00 PM.
I have snow levels dropping to
1000 feet as soon as 6:00 PM
tonight for accumulating snow.
We'll talk more about that coming
up. Alright, we'll see you then. Thank you,
rod. Today in Salem, there is a big push
for more mental health support. In Oregon.
State lawmakers are considering several
bills aimed at suicide prevention.
Catherine Cook spoke with advocates who
will be at the Capitol to make their case.
I never wanted to die.
I don't want to die. But my brain,
every day I have to fight those
thoughts because I do live with
chronic suicidal ideation.
Angela Perry has found a way
to turn her pain into purpose.
Our goal is to give others hope.
She's board chair of the
American Foundation for Suicide
Prevention Oregon chapter,
and she's a staunch advocate for
destigmatizing mental health.
I just hope other people are
able to see it's OK to not be OK,
but it's not OK to stay there.
On Monday, Angela and other
advocates will be in Salem.
They'll offer testimony on three bills
aimed at supporting suicide prevention
services to go before lawmakers on Monday.
Those bills focus on suicide
prevention by supporting training
resources for medical professionals.
Last week, a House committee heard
testimony on 1/3 bill HB 2757.
It asks lawmakers to support a $0.50 cell
phone tax to fund services connected to 988.
It works.
8911 but callers are routed straight
to mental health crisis lines.
Since Oregon transitioned to 988 in July,
call centers like lines for life,
have received an average of
684 more calls per month.
So it's working.
But advocates say in order
to meet that growing need,
this additional funding is
critical. The 988 system has brought me hope,
hope that I haven't had in over 30 years.
But the work is not complete. We
have a sense of urgency about its
passage because it's an essential
element of our work to save lives.
And reduce organs high suicide rate.
According to the CDC,
Oregon ranks 13th in the
nation for deaths by suicide.
It's a statistic that hits
Angela in a very personal way,
even beyond her own struggles.
In 2017, her aunt Jean died by suicide.
She lived just a few miles from this park.
We used to come and walk around
here when I was struggling
with my mental health.
She's the one who talked me
into going back to therapy.
So part of the reason why
I am still here today
and why she's. Still here? For others,
suicide doesn't have to be the end answer
in tigerd. Catherine Cook, KGW news.
If you or someone you know is in crisis,
or you just need somebody to talk to,
call 988. You'll be connected with
local organizations and resources.
Alright, let's take a look at
some other local headlines that
we're following this morning and we
start in Clark County where there's
a special election on tap tomorrow.
Several local resolutions are on the table,
including four school levies.
Both Vancouver and Washougal school
districts are asking voters to approve
replacement levies that would keep
funding in place for existing programs.
Ballots must be postmarked by tomorrow
in order for your votes to count,
and drop boxes will be available
until 8:00 o'clock tomorrow night.
This is a live look this morning at the
Morrison Bridge in downtown Portland,
which is back open after a weekend
closure for painting and maintenance.
The bridge actually reopened early
because it wasn't supposed to open back
up until 5:00 o'clock this morning,
but it did open back up yesterday.
County officials say they do have
some more weekend closures planned for
the end of this month and the start
of next month's last headline here,
a high surf advisory in place on
the Oregon and Washington coast.
Over the next two days,
it will officially go into effect.
This afternoon and is expected
to last through tomorrow.
But the possibility of waves up
to 25 feet high, sneaker waves,
rolling logs and erosion are all real
possibilities because of the weather
coming up today and tomorrow along the coast.
And that's a look at some of
this morning's local headlines.
We've
been talking about businesses
moving out of Portland because
of an increase in crime,
and in recent months more have
threatened to leave if the city
doesn't do something about it.
But some are finding a
way to stay in the city.
The once booming Lloyd Center mall
became nearly empty after most of
its big department stores and other
businesses left over the last decade.
Now it is seeing a resurgence.
The owner of stacking Kicks started his
business out of the trunk of his car
almost 13 years ago and recently moved.
Into his store in the Lloyd Center,
David Jefferson says so far business
has been good and he's glad he
made the decision to move in.
I sleep better. I don't
think twice about it.
All the time I had to check my camera
when my store was on Sandy just
to see if anything was going on.
If I was traveling out of town,
I had to check the camera to
see if anybody was in there,
if there's any moves being made.
Floating World Comics also recently
moved in after leaving its Old
Town location because of crime.
Pallet Portland is also leaving
downtown over crime and may be moving
into the Lloyd Center soon as well.
Nike is proposing a new solution
to keep its Portland stores.
Open the store on Northeast MLK
abruptly closed back in November.
Now, according to The Oregonian,
Nike is asking the city to hire off duty
police officers to provide security,
and Nike will cover the cost.
Late last year at KGW,
investigation analyzed Portland
crime data and found the Nike
Outlet reported more than 400
shoplifting cases since 2019.
Nike says the key here is officers have.
The authority to make arrests as opposed
to security officers or Nike employees,
the mayor's office told The Oregonian.
Meetings between Nike and the city are
ongoing as they look for solutions.
Look at all those Chiefs fans
celebrating last night as Americans.
American, says Rod Hill,
Kansas City beating Philadelphia
and Super Bowl 57 last night,
3835, the final score this
Chiefs Party played out at Pono
Brewing in Northeast Portland.
We love having the same all
of us pulling the same rope
here and all of us, you know,
pull for Kansas City in the same bar.
That's that's what makes it really fun.
It was the best day of my life.
Their cluster of a game.
The Eagles are a great team.
But yeah, Kansas City just managed
strategy at the end of the game.
So good, so amazing.
I guess I should feel good for
that young man having the best
day of his life yesterday, right?
How about this? Quite the opposite.
Not the same scene as a group of
diehard local Eagles fans watched
the game from coaches Bar and
Grill in Southwest Portland.
So here is the deal. What is it?
Almost 10 minutes after 5:00
o'clock in 5 minutes,
Rod and I are going to settle
up on our bets that we we made
because his chiefs were taking
on my Eagles in the Super Bowl.
One of the things that would have
happened if the Eagles had won,
you would have won the Eagles jersey.
But obviously not the case here this morning.
This one fits so well.
Real quick, before I get into weather.
Understand before I get into the
graphics that what we're dealing
with tonight in terms of snow,
it's a scattered pattern.
And like scattered rain patterns,
sometimes you get just a little bit of rain,
but your neighbor goes, well,
we had like a bucket of rain come down.
That could be what we have tonight with snow.
Somebody's going, well, another is going.
We got more than what they said we would get.
Here's a look at my general Snow
level dropping graphic, if you will.
So Valley Winter weather advisory
starts at 10:00 PM.
Tonight goes to 10:00 AM that's
from the National Weather Service.
6:00 PM Tonight, snow level that
early could be down to 1000 feet.
That means up in the West Hills.
That means you know Bull Mountain.
That means hockinson.
That means sandy.
All you folks live around 1000 feet.
Look at that time for whatever rain
is falling to change the snowflakes.
3 to 6 inches could fall,
especially looking at maybe 6 inches up
in the cascade Foothill communities.
OK, and then by 8:00 PM,
notice this is a dropping trend.
Now we've got snow sticking
as low as 500 feet.
10:00 PM tonight,
we've got snow sticking as low as 200 feet,
and again, 200 feet is a lot of areas.
That includes much of Clark County.
When you get up into Hazel area,
that includes Salem.
That includes Hillsboro.
That includes pretty much
all areas South of Salem.
And any little bumps
really in our metro area,
OK,
Downtown Portland is more like
50 feet to about 125 feet.
If you kind of take a walking
tour through the blocks,
I think we'll stay generally in
downtown Portland above 32 tonight.
But it would be all snow falling.
And if there is a little burst,
which there may be after midnight tonight,
some heavier snow showers that
could get downtown Portland colder
than I think and produce some
sticking snow by tomorrow morning.
Whatever we end up with,
it will be all gone just like that.
Tomorrow we'll actually see some clearing.
This model focuses mainly on the
Cascade Heavy snow 16 inches.
It's coming today through tonight
for 5000 feet and also
the coast range.
It does give an accumulation of some some
degree down in Salem of over an edge.
Here's the radar right now.
Rain from our W getting ready
to move into downtown Portland.
This is the front that's coming in
temperatures during the day today,
not an issue 46 in Newport right now.
Salem 41, Portland 42, it's 47 out in
the Dallas and with a West wind coming.
We don't really expect that much
of an issue out in the gorge,
but clearly there could be
some light snow accumulations.
Here we are this afternoon.
It's all rain at 1:30.
I just want to show you.
Yeah, alright, here we are, 11:30 tonight.
Now that's mostly snow coming
through downtown Portland 46 today,
43 tomorrow,
whatever we get will start to
melt tomorrow and then we're
dry on Wednesday and Thursday
and that's your forecast.