This is KGWN news at sunrise.
2 pedestrians were hit by Max trains
over the weekend. What we know about the
incidents that happened two days apart.
Also, over the weekend,
a racist attack killed 10 people
at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY.
We spoke to an expert on Hayfield
extremism to find out how the issue is
being addressed locally here in Oregon.
Plus, in our Sunrise spotlight,
a local fundraiser that helps
people with Parkinson's disease.
Friend of the Sunrise show,
Brian Grant is the man behind it all.
More
on shake it till we make it in just a few
minutes. Yeah, they've been
doing that event for years.
So happy to see that back this Friday night.
Happy to see you Rod Hill
on this Monday morning.
I don't look forward to Mondays,
Rod, you don't but look
forward to hanging out with
you. Well, that's very sweet.
I could say the same.
That's separated by a Brendan.
What do you got for us?
Whether or not a bad Monday,
we are watching a shower chance this morning.
It looks to be kind of a
lingering deal where, yeah,
some of us could see a light shower at some
point this morning into early afternoon.
A lot of us probably won't
see any rain right now.
Radar is showing everything
is up north of Castle Rocks.
That's north of our viewing area.
We do have cloudy skies over the city.
It's still humid and it's still crazy
warm for this time of the morning.
58 degrees right now out of the airport.
So to the bus stop. We go.
We're watching it.
Power chance,
but I mean you know overall
you may or may not wanna take
the time to grab a rain jacket.
54 out the door 62 at noon the shower
chance itself completely ends around
3:00 o'clock or so this afternoon.
At that time we should be mainly
partly cloudy and in the mid 60s
when the kids get out of school.
All right Rob, we'll have
more for you coming up.
Of course, in a few minutes,
but right now we do want to
get to our top story this hour. It's
a traffic alert after a Max train hit a
pedestrian at about 9:00 o'clock last night.
This happened at northeast.
82nd and Jones Moore Street.
And it was the second time this weekend
that a Max train hit a pedestrian.
Portland police say the person who
was hit last night was taken to the
hospital with life threatening injuries.
The light rail station at 82nd and
Jones Moore will stay closed while
police continue their investigation.
On Friday, a person died after they were
hit by a Max train in Northeast Portland.
This one happened around 10:30 Friday
night near NE 160th and Burnside,
and according to TriMet,
the person who was hit was standing
on the tracks at the time.
We turn now to the mass shootings
that happened over the weekend,
starting with the most recent
in Southern California.
A gunman opened fire at the Geneva
Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods
yesterday afternoon. One person.
Died five more are injured.
Police say members of the
congregation detained.
The shooter took away his weapons and
tied him up using extension cords.
No word yet on a possible motive.
It was an act of evil.
Evil investigators are calling
Saturday's mass shooting at
a grocery store in Buffalo,
NY. A racist hate crime.
10 people died, including store
security guard Aaron Salter,
a retired Buffalo police officer
who tried to stop the shooter.
He worked over 20 something years as
a Buffalo Police offer officer lost
his life attacks. Disgusting to me.
A total of 13 people were shot,
11 of them African American investigators
say the shooter drove 200 miles to
Buffalo the day before the attack,
looking for a target.
The accused gunman was investigated
a year ago for making a threat,
but he was released after a
brief mental health evaluation,
according to the White House.
President Biden is scheduled
to visit Buffalo tomorrow
and coming up later on the Today show,
the wife of one of those
killed tells her story.
She thought this shooting.
It was a prank when she first heard about it,
but she later learned about what
really happened and that it was a
racially motivated crime. Why this way?
That was my response and I said God,
I know we all have a set time,
but why do you have to leave this way?
That was my response.
I didn't know if I should be angry.
I didn't know if I should be hurt.
This is all different kind of emotions,
but the first thing I thought
of why this way?
You can hear more of her story.
It's coming up on the Today show
right after sunrise at 7:00 o'clock
when it comes to violent
and hate filled extremism.
Oregon is actually ranked as one
of the worst places in the country.
Galen Ettlin follows up on the broader
issue here, and how it's being addressed.
The community of Buffalo, NY,
is mourning at least 10 people
shot and killed Saturday at this grocery
store will be prosecuted as a hate crime.
Investigators say an 18 year old gunman
had an evil goal of taking as many.
Black lives as he possibly could.
Yes, Sir, understand me churches.
The shooter traveled several 100 miles
from home and posted a manifesto online.
Before the shooting, he called
himself a white supremacist and
referenced other racial attacks
sharing his information.
His ideas, his hatred online,
and that's what scares me
is how far this virus is now
spreading and how quickly,
and it just seems to be escalating.
Professor Randall Blazak is chair
of Oregon's Coalition Against Hate
and Studies. Extremist ideology,
and it's really frightening how
we've seen the normalization of
some of the rhetoric that drives
white supremacist violence.
They will deny jobs to people who
have the wrong skin color of repeated
narrative of being pushed down,
making white people feel like somehow
the world is out to get them,
leading some to react in violence.
Sick, demented individual who was fueled
a daily diet of hate.
And they believe that if
they don't act now that their
country is going to go away.
So there's this sort of ticking.
Time bomb element to
it a report from March about domestic
terrorism and extremist attacks showed
Oregon ranked the sixth highest in the
nation for incidents between 2011 and 2020,
making up 10% of all attacks in 2020 alone,
despite Oregon ranking 27th in population,
the state's audits director and
the former US attorney for Oregon
both explained the problem.
We are one of only 16 states that
do not have specific legislation
criminalizing domestic terrorism.
People need to be held accountable and they.
They know they're not going to be well.
We see what what the result is.
Oregon has a history of extremism from the
rajniesh poisoning of an entire county.
Our purpose to the armed militia
takeover at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge,
and even more recent attacks on
Portland's Downtown Justice Center.
By the far left and attacks on
Oregon's capital by the far right.
They see themselves as good people.
Blazek tracks extremists online and
has a $750,000 grant for an anti
violence program called Kiere PDX.
Spread from person to person.
So if we can find places to
interrupt that spread by having
people within communities to kind
of know who's the most contagious,
the program aims to reach
potential offenders and avoid
racist attacks. Like in Buffalo.
I think people of color all over America
today are having another reminder that
there are people who want to kill them.
Just for existing in their skin,
what is your message for people
in the in the Community kind
of feeling this hopelessness?
Feeling this trauma?
What we're trying to do is help
people to be more empathetic.
Galen ettlin. KGW news.
And now to some of the
other headlines that we're
tracking for you on this Monday.
It was a wild weekend in Eugene.
Police say they arrested or
ticketed 64 people for things
like violating noise ordinances,
having an open container,
and minors in possession of alcohol.
Eugene police had extra patrols out in
the West University area because of other
incidents involving wild parties recently.
Well, tomorrow is Election
Day here in Oregon.
The biggest change this year you can drop
off your ballot in the mail on Election Day,
as long as it's postmarked
honor before May 17th.
It's going to count.
You can also drop off ballots
at county election sites until
8:00 o'clock election night,
and there are no more secrecy sleeves
inside your return envelope that will
save paper money and processing time,
and that's a quick look at
some of your local headlines.
Abortion rights.
Demonstrations took place
across the country on Saturday.
KGW Christel, Kuwait was in
downtown Portland that day,
as hundreds of people filled Chapman
Square in support of abortion access.
Hundreds of protesters took to the
streets of downtown Portland Saturday
afternoon. The demand, safe
and legal access to abortion.
It's bans on our bodies.
The Chapman Square rally was
part of the national bands
off our Bodies Day of Action,
organized by Planned
Parenthood and other groups.
Similar rallies took place in
communities across the state and nation.
We are saying no, don't touch our body,
it's our decision,
our choice and we want to put a ban on
anybody thinking that they have the say.
That they can do that.
The rallies are a direct response to a
leaked US Supreme Court draft opinion
suggesting the court may soon overturn Roe V.
Wade, the landmark decision
that legalized abortion
no matter what
the Supreme Court does.
This fight will continue.
Healthcare and political leaders
were also on hand Saturday for
news conference before the rally,
senator Jeff Merkley and Governor Kate
Brown vowed to fight for abortion access.
We have a constitution designed around
the idea of liberty and freedom.
And this court is determined to tear
that down, and we're determined
to say no way that's incredibly
important that Oregonians,
who believe in making sure that
women and people have the right
to this essential healthcare vote.
And so it's like, get out your
ballot and make sure you vote.
Many demonstrators carrying
signs and cheering agreed.
Half of America will have their
civil rights rolled back.
I think every person has a
chance to make a difference,
and they can make a difference by voting.
Absolutely. Do your research.
Make your decisions.
Check your your resources and
look at your heart and your gut
and see what it's telling you.
If Roe is overturned,
individual states would take over,
and Oregon and Washington both have
laws protecting abortion access.
Meanwhile, we're hearing from a group
called Human Life of Washington.
Its executive director has counseled
women at pregnancy care centers,
recommending maternity,
housing and adoption as
alternatives to abortion. And
really, the pregnancy is a temporary
housing for someone else on the planet,
and they feel really good. And empowered
that they made the good choice.
Leaders with Planned Parenthood say
Washington could see a 385% increase
in patients seeking abortions.
In part, that's because Idaho is
likely to ban them if Roe is reversed
right before we get to Rod
Hill and his local forecast.
They look outside along the
Oregon coast this morning.
This is the brand New Sky.
Can we have down there by Chinook
winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City.
So cloudy start to the day down there, rod.
What are we looking at?
Weather eyes across the country say country,
I'm not going to put that much.
Well, yeah yeah. OK so cloudy
skies it's dry along our coast
right now there is still a chance
of a what we would consider to be
a lingering shower this morning.
But right now the radar is showing
everything is even up north of
Longview and up north of Castle Rock.
By the way, the rain yesterday,
Saturday I was amazed how nice it
turned out to be 73 yesterday.
I was amazed how rainy it turned out to be.
We still hit 70.
It became the first back to back 70
degree temperatures that we've had
so far this year and the rainfall.
Last day was 18-1 hundreds put
PDX up over 2 1/2 inches of 2.58.
So that's now more than we typically we
get for the entire month of May 2.51.
And if you're wondering, OK,
the wettest May on record at the airport
had 5.55 that was back in the May of 1998.
Here are the clouds over the
city this morning we are seeing
dry weather at this moment.
As I mentioned 58 degrees is the
temperature futurecast just a few
green dots around so it shows
a lingering shower chance this
morning into early this afternoon.
Once we get to three or four at the latest,
the rain chance completely ends
and it will be partly cloudy,
less humid,
and pretty nice out there late this
afternoon and going into your evening hours.
How much rain?
I mean,
this shows a DAB or or not a dab depending
on where you are for the day today.
Early temperatures are really mild.
We're 50 in Astoria,
58 in Portland 56 and saying look at
this 53 are warmer from Seattle all
the way down to Eugene and we're in the
50s and Pelton and 47 out in Baker City.
7 day forecast numbers.
So today pretty nice overall.
Will slowly start to take the
humidity out of the air 66 tomorrow,
44 maybe upper 30s in some
spots are cool night.
Tonight we get up to 70
completely dry Tuesday.
Then it's rainy weather Wednesday.
Heavy showers Thursday,
Friday could end up being dry for now.
I'm just watching a shower chance
and the weekend forecast currently
shows the possibility of some rain
coming in Saturday afternoon.
That's what I have for now.
Rod, thank you. Hey, stay tuned.
Sunrise Spotlight is focused
on shake it till you make it.
It's a Parkinson's fundraiser and that man.
Familiar face Brian Grant
is behind the effort.
I'm going to be in seeing,
so I want to tell you all about it.
That's coming up after the break.