11A Truck smashes right into a .
We're going to show you
the video from inside. Why?
The owner, say O dot needs to me
a change plus a rumble of Thundr
followed by a deluge to look ate
force of tonight's storm and the spot
still dealing with lasting dama.
And later call it the library.
That time forgot the hidden
Oregon spot and the dedicated
librarian who keeps it all goin.
Good evening and we begin tonigt
with a warning for parents.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm David Mulko, new at 11.
Scammers are calling moms and ds
in our area claiming their kidsd
teens have been kidnapped and of course
demanding money for their safe return.
Catherine Cook is in The Newsro.
Catherine,
this sounds absolutely frighten.
It is David.
The scammers are convincing and
they prey on parents worst fear.
They speak multiple languages ad
use specific background noises.
In some case, children's voices
hoping to fool people.
It's happening to parents of lie
kids and even college students,
including OSU football players.
They could be very traumatizingr
parents to have to deal with. Se
Padilla with the rental school
district has a warning.
He says scammers have been callg
parents claiming to have kidnapd
their kids for their return.
They demand money through
cash apps or wire transfers.
Padilla says the scammers also use AI
technology to mimic the sound of children.
And then have that noise of,
you know, and mom, I'm with the,
pay them and you know,
and and that's a scary thing, you know,
if you think your child is with
them and they're saying pay theo
that they can get them back. Paa
says scammers are hitting families of middle
and grade school age kids in his district.
They all spoke Spanish
and so did the scammers.
But it's not just happening her.
Besides Reynolds, Centennial Pa,
Rose and Gresham, Barlow schools
are also warning of scam attemp.
It's sick for anyone to be willg
to scam someone like that. Scam.
They're so desperate they come p
with different things every day,
praying on anybody and everybody
that will listen.
And not just parents of young k.
Folks, beware.
Gary Overman's son is Oregon Ste
tight end Jake Overman.
Last week,
Gary says a scammer called him
claiming to be an OSU campus police official.
He told Gary that Jake was in custody
for being drunk and disorderly
and demanded hundreds of dollars
and that if I paid these then is
going to be swept under the tabe
and not become public knowledge.
Nor would they have to turn my
son into. The state police.
What the scammer didn't know ise
was home with his family on bre.
Gary says the scammers used technology
to make the call sound more convincing.
And it sounded good and it
sounded authentic, you know,
as mentioned earlier with the background
noise that this gentleman had,
like they were at a Police Department.
Very clear and very understandi.
It wasn't like I was
talking to another country,
university officials tell KGW
scammers have called the familis
of five OSC football players.
Sadly, one family made a paymen.
School officials asked coaches o
talk with athletes and encourage
them to warn their parents.
Gary and Padilla hope they list.
$1000 is worth getting your child back,
but it's a scam and we don't
want them to lose their money.
Police say it's tough to track e
type of scammers because they're
often calling from outside the .
They say if you hear from one,
remain calm and don't
give in to their demands.
Instead, check on your child's
location for yourself.
And remember, this scam takes
on many different forms,
each personalized for targets Dd
and awareness here more than half the battle.
We appreciate you getting the wd
out tonight. Thanks, Catherine.
Okay, that definitely got my attention.
On top of the Thunder and lightg
this evening, some spots,
like parts of Beaverton,
saw some small hail or Thanks to Kevin
for sharing his video. Meanwhil,
one Southwest Portland neighbord
also had to deal with this floo.
Michael sent us video of Ash
Creek overflowing its banks rigt
into his backyard.
Nearby at SW 62nd and Dickinson,
a culvert could not carry all te
water that fell in such a short time.
So the sidewalk ruptured, sending water
in the basements and crawl spac.
Firefighters say 14 homes were impacted,
some homes with entire basements underwater.
City crews bought in vacuum trucks as quick
as they could to help pump the water out.
Sand bags also arrived to help
homeowners prevent further floo.
Let's bring in Chief Meteorologt
Matt Sefino. Matt, what a mess.
I mean, it blew in so fast,
so anything left.
Where it came from?
No, it's really dying down,
but boy was it ever intense.
When it came down.
We had rainfall rates of about an inch
and 1/2 an hour when this line f
showers developed into thunderss
across the Portland metro area.
The bunch of lightning,
the hail and the very, very heavy rain
made a mess of traffic for a while as well.
But now it's really falling apart, dying off.
The thunderstorms are long gone.
There's lots of clearing going
on out there right now,
so we are much better shape.
And in fact, once the rain stops tonight,
we're done with rain for about a week maybe.
Longer as a matter of fact,
the airport ended up with 1/4 of an inch.
But right here downtown Portland to KGW,
we more than doubled that.
We had 62 hundredths of an inch here you see
up in the Hillsboro 27 hundredths of an inch.
Some places though got nothing, such as
the nature of showers and thunderstorms.
And the nature of tomorrow is d.
We will have a dry day all day ,
57 at noon time and then up
to 66 tomorrow afternoon.
So really pleasant day.
We'll talk about 90 degree weatr
because it is in the forecast and it's
going to be earlier than June 4.
David, here
comes the change. Thanks Matt.
Meanwhile, A landslide has cancd
all Amtrak trains between Portld
and Seattle for the next 48 hou.
Amtrak telling us that slide is
covering railroad tracks about.
6 miles north of Vancouver, thee
offering bus service as an alternative.
Routes between Portland down to Eugene and
Seattle up to Vancouver BC are not affected.
There. Well, new tonight,
O dot is investigating after a k
crashed into a bar. A warning,
the video you're about to see is jarring,
but we want to let you know firt
that nobody was seriously hurt.
Let's show you the video.
The crash at a bar in the town of Boring
was caught on cameras from several angles.
That's outside.
You're going to see inside.
This was Friday night at the
Timber Pub off Hwy.
212.
Yeah, it happens fast.
Everybody's okay.
The owners tell us this is the fifth or sixth
time a vehicle has run into this building.
They say they have seen it all before
and speed seems to be the main factor.
Driving way too fast,
People fly through that intersection,
It's scary.
People that were here said it
felt like a bomb exploded.
I'll say some of the customers
suffered broken ribs,
which sounds fairly serious,
but again we understand none of
them were in the hospital long.
They are all back home tonight.
The owners say they talked to O dot today.
The agency is now looking to see
if there is anything they can
do five or six times in to try
to make this a safer spot.
To get you caught up on
tonight's other headlines,
a man who was once convicted of killing
the chief of Oregon's prisons has now
been released from all supervis.
This is a development decades in the making.
Frank Gable was sentenced to
life in prison in 1991 for the
murder of Michael Frank.
Since then,
another man confessed to the sae
murder multiple times and nearll
witnesses in Gable's trial reca.
Now,
four years ago,
a judge threw out Gable's conviction.
He was released from prison but
still under supervision until t.
The ruling also means the statef
Oregon cannot retry Gable in Sa.
Shamia Fagan is officially out
as Oregon Secretary of State.
Her resignation took it take
a foot this afternoon.
This comes after new surface tht
Fagan had a second job as a consultant
for a troubled marijuana compan.
Deputy Secretary of State Cheryl
Myers has moved into an acting .
Until the governor appoints a nw
secretary and Oregon Senate Republicans
extended their walk out into a 6th day.
Republicans say they are standig
up for a state law that requires
bill summaries to be written at
an eighth grade reading level,
but Democrats say it appears
they're trying to stall bills
on abortion and gun control.
Now keep in mind a measure passy
voters last year means lawmakers that
get 10 or more unexcused absencs
cannot run for reelection.
But some have suggested they
may try and test whether that
new rule is constitutional.
By the way, our team at the stoy
looked into this idea of readability,
and we're able to figure out that many
of the bills sponsored by leadig
Republicans this session also failed the
test they and the state law refers to.
For more, check out their report
in the story section on kgw.com.