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These folks are some of the
hardest working people in the city.
They're the people who maintain your streets.
They're the people who maintain your parks.
And now it looks like
they have a new contract.
New at 5, negotiators for the
city and striking workers
have reached a tentative deal.
This announcement came out just
before 1:00 AM and followed a 12
hour mediation session on Saturday.
Terms haven't been announced just yet
that most likely will come until the
workers get a look at the New Deal.
Will then have to vote on it,
but this ends a three day strike
for the 600 plus city employees.
Welcome to KGW News at 5.
I'm Joe raineri.
Drug addiction and overdoses are
affecting every corner of our state.
Oregon saw a threefold increase in opioid
overdose deaths in a recent two year span.
The controversial law measure 110 was put in
place to help people access recovery service.
But it also decriminalized
certain amounts of hard drugs.
Blair but best joins us in The Newsroom.
And Blair.
A report was just released on
how the program has been doing.
Joe. The early
data shows that Measure 110 is
making an immediate. Impacts.
For people struggling with
substance abuse across the state,
that's everything from housing,
access to treatment and
increasing outreach staff.
However, some lawmakers are
still skeptical of the program
and regardless of this data,
are threatening to cut back on its funding.
In a preliminary report released last week,
the Oregon Health Authority found more
than 60,000 Oregonians struggling with
addiction were helped through Measure 110.
That's the drug addiction treatment and
Recovery Act voters approved in 2020.
This is really expanding a workforce
that is critical and was kind
of previously very underfunded.
Measure 110 decriminalized user amounts
of hard drugs and redirected tax dollars
from marijuana sales to pay for addiction.
Recovery centers and grants.
The report shows in the first
three months of the program,
measure 110 providers helped
more than 18,000 people,
primarily in rural areas of the state and
later through the access to care grants.
Another 42,000 people receive
treatment and temporary housing.
About $3 million went
toward hiring employees.
We know that access to care created
over 200 new jobs and staff training
for roles such as peer support.
Specialists certified
recovery mentors. Overall,
$265 million was given to 42 recovery
groups and 11 tribal partners,
reaching every county in the state.
A sobering center in Southern Oregon
reported that they had eased the
local emergency room burden and serve
as a stepping stone to residential
treatment and detox services.
Less than 24 hours after
the data was released,
the House Revenue Committee held a
public hearing where they talked of.
Cutting funding for measure
110 as much as $60 million,
a recommendation that's at odds with
Governor Tina Cotex proposed budget
she released last week investing in
substance use treatment and services.
Addressing gaps in treatment by
providing startup costs for residential
detox and inpatient treatment.
Many argue parts of measure 110,
like decriminalizing certain
amounts of hard drugs,
is making the addiction crisis worse.
And access to treatment
isn't expanding fast enough,
leaving people like David Castle.
And that's where I showed
up just a while ago.
Who's addicted to heroin
and homeless in The Dalles?
Lot of people just down the street,
because that's the only way there is
falling. Through the cracks.
There's no detox here.
The the hospital won't do nothing for you.
They give you a shot and send
you back out on the streets.
Do you think Measure 110 has made
it easier for you to stay on the
street and stay addicted? Ohh yeah.
You don't get in trouble for using drugs.
Ohh yeah, a lot easier.
More data around Measure 110 will be
released in April and the next hearing
on the Bills funding is on Tuesday. Joe
thanks Blair and we're gathering
information tonight after
shots fired call in Portland.
Here's a look at the scene.
As you can see, Portland police,
some caution tape and other markers
are set up there now this is on
the corner of Morrison and 2nd Ave.
at this point we don't
know if anyone was hurt,
but as soon as we find more information
we will bring it to you new tonight.
The Yamhill County Sheriff's Office
says it is solved the mystery.
After several reports of explosions
and loud booming sounds,
authorities say the sounds can
be heard in and near Mcminnville
and that the noise has been heard
periodically over the last few months.
Tonight,
the deputies found out people
were shooting explosive targets
on Southwest Trestle View Lane,
which is just South of Mcminnville.
Well, joining me now is Daisy Caballero.
With the weather now, I wouldn't,
I'd be, I hate to say it was
almost spring like out there,
but we saw temperatures,
saw your weather map,
upper 40s, low 50s.
And it just feels,
I wouldn't call it pleasant,
but it doesn't feel like winter out there,
a lot pleasant, a lot more pleasant
than what, last week, right.
So when we were in those 20s, in those 30s.
So yeah, I'm sure a lot of people are
enjoying at least these conditions
even though it's a little rainy
today and we will continue to see
more of those passing showers.
Portland metro.
As seen right around,
a little bit more than 1/4 of an inch of
rain, but the coast saw a lot more of it.
And again, more is on the way,
more lingering showers,
but we are gonna actually dry out as we're
kicking off our work week for tomorrow.
But Portland right now 50 degrees.
Winds are fairly calm right
around 9 miles an hour.
Taking a look at our highs for today,
check this out guys.
51 degrees for Vancouver,
Portland Hillsboro,
50 down in Mcminnville.
And that was really the
case across the board.
Here I think the warmest area is
gonna be over near the Dows they saw
right around 55 degrees for today.
Alright,
we do have two advisories to
talk about and I'll talk a little
bit more in detail in my full
forecast in just a few minutes.
But we have a winter weather
advisory along the Cascades,
Central and Eastern Oregon and also
a winter storm warning in the areas
that you see here in the pink.
Again, expect to see some snow,
but again,
we'll talk more about it in my full forecast.
But taking a look at the next three days,
here again, mostly cloudy skies.
For tomorrow,
the rain will return for Tuesday
and then we'll see a mixture
of the both as we're looking at
Wednesday's bank stage, the first couple of.
We've opened our doors in our arms
to women from across the country.
Oregon Congresswoman Andrea Salinas
joined other House Democrats to speak in
support of abortion rights legislation.
Yesterday. They reintroduced a
bill called the ensuring women's
rights to Reproductive Freedom Act,
which passed the House of Representatives in
the last session but failed in the Senate.
It aims to protect people's right to
travel out of state for an abortion
and also protect anyone who helps
them from being prosecuted.
Now, Representative Salinas from Oregon's
new 6th district is a Co sponsor of the bill.
So this means that it's just
giving women the autonomy and the
freedom to choose how and what
they do when they get pregnant.
And Oregon is welcoming,
and I'm so proud of that.
I, you know,
and I think women in Oregon are
proud of that. The bill is largely symbolic,
since it's unlikely to pass in the house
where Republicans hold the majority.
Up in Washington,
gun violence is a big topic for state
lawmakers in Olympia this session.
Specifically, they're talking about
how a newly released report from the
ATF it shows that guns bought legally
are more quickly being used in crimes.
Julia Kaloon is taking a closer look
at the report and how state lawmakers
are trying to address the problem.
ATS 1st sweeping report in two
decades looking specifically
at guns used in crimes,
one of the big problems that highlights
stolen guns with more than a million
stolen over a four year period,
something Tacoma PD warned
about earlier this week
in the hands of who knows who is
really alarming for all of us.
Tacoma police say a gun is stolen
out of a vehicle every 48 hours.
Just this month a 17 year old was arrested.
Tacoma after police say he shot and
killed a 14 year old with a stolen gun,
though it was from a house not a car. We
get asked all the time how are juveniles
getting their hands on firearms right,
and unfortunately some of those
some of those guns might be coming
from these vehicle problems.
Another key point the report shows
is a shorter time between when a gun
is purchased legally and when it's
recovered from a crime scene some.
Even bought less than a year
before showing up in a crime,
ATF says that's an indicator of
gun trafficking or straw purchase,
where someone who can legally buy
gun purchases one and sells it to
someone who can't legally own one.
This ATF report and others show that
there's still some gaps in the system,
and we've got to address them
to make sure that we're keeping
guns out of the wrong hands.
State Senator Marco Lias backing 2
pieces of legislation to tackle that.
The first would create legal liability.
To hold firearm retailers and
manufacturers accountable,
just like we did in the opioid space,
if somebody knows that a lot of of the
the the products they're selling are
going to the wrong place, they have some
responsibility to try and stop that.
The second would require a
permit to purchase a gun,
not waiting until after the fact to find
out if someone fails a background check,
but actually having to get a permit in
advance of making that initial purchase.
State lawmakers are also proposing
a bill to ban assault weapons.
Supported by the state's attorney
general and Governor Inslee,
and it will keep you updated as these
measures move their little legislature.