This is KGW news. At sunrise.
Scammers are targeting parents,
even using artificial intelligence to make
them believe their child has been kidnapped.
You know, mom, I'm with them.
Pay them and you know,
and and that's a scary thing, you know,
if you think your child is with them,
we'll talk more about how this scam
works so you don't fall for it. Plus,
people that were here said
it felt like a mom exploded.
This is definitely some of the
craziest local video we've
seen over the last week.
That truck barreling into
a bar and boring somehow.
I mean, you can see there are people
right there on the other side of
the wall that gets hit by that truck.
Somehow those people walked away.
There were a few broken ribs.
We also talked to the bar owner
who says this isn't the first
time that a car truck has
crashed through their bar.
And a love for space will send an
Astoria man's ashes out of this world.
His trek to the stars and the friends
that's helping him get there.
That's coming up.
Good Tuesday Morning, everyone.
Thanks for joining
us. Wow, what stormy weather we
had last night. Rod is going to
talk about what's on the way today.
It was, mostly.
Downpours.
There was some lightning, but not a lot.
It was mostly downpour activity.
We'll talk more about that coming up,
but we had the over an inch of
rainfall in under an hour in a
lot of spots around Beaverton.
Tiger area seem to be hit
really bad right now.
No lightning showing up anywhere.
We do have some heavier
showers out toward Pendleton,
little bit of rain offshore,
but otherwise we're pretty
quiet and we have blue skies up
top over the city 46 degrees.
There's a current temperature
so quite pleasant out the door.
This is mainly a quiet day.
61 at noon.
I do include a spotty shower chance in the
forecast because the rain chance is not zero,
but most areas will probably stay dry
and it'll be 68 degrees at 5:00 PM.
The heat wave is still a go for the weekend,
and we'll talk more about
that coming up as well.
Rob, thank you.
Our top story this morning.
Scammers are praying on
a parent's worst fear.
Several local families say
callers are claiming to have
their kids and demanding
money for their safe return.
And we're starting to learn just how
convincing some of these calls can be.
Kgw's Catherine Cook also found
out that this is happening to
parents with kids of all ages.
They could be very traumatizing
for parents to have to deal with.
Steve Padilla with the rental
school district has a warning.
He says scammers have been
calling parents claiming to
have kidnapped 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, mom, I'm with them,
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
them so that they can get them back.
Padilla 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 here.
Besides Reynolds, Centennial Park,
Rose and Gresham,
Barlow schools are also
warning of scam attempts.
It's sick
for anyone to be willing to scam
someone like that. Scammers.
They're so desperate they come up
with different things every day,
praying on anybody and
everybody that will listen. And
not just parents of young kids.
Folks, beware. Gary Overman's son is
Oregon State 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 it was
going to be swept under the table
and not become public knowledge.
Nor would they have to turn my
son into. The state police.
What the scammer didn't know is Jake
was home with his family on break.
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 understanding.
It wasn't like I was
talking to another country,
university officials tell KGW
scammers have called the families
of five OSC football players.
Sadly, one family made a payment.
School officials asked coaches to
talk with athletes and encourage
them to warn their parents.
Gary and Padilla hope they listen.
$1000 is worth getting your child back,
but it's a scam and we don't want
them to lose their money. Katherine
Cook, KGW News. And these scams do seem to be
personalized for each target.
Police say they're really tough to
track because the calls are often
coming from outside the United States.
Officials say if you hear
from one of them, stay calm,
check on your child's safety yourself,
and do not give in to their demands.
Now to a developing story
decades in the making,
a judge granted the release of
a man who was once convicted of
killing the chief of Oregon prisons.
Frank Gable was sentenced to
life in prison in 1991 for the
murder of Michael Frankie.
Another man confessed multiple times,
but the trial judge mistakenly
didn't allow the confession.
Nearly all of the witnesses
from that trial have recanted.
After 30 years,
a judge threw out the case and ruled the
state cannot retry Gable in the case.
Our next story this morning comes
from Boring, so check out this
video we're showing next to me.
It shows a truck barreling into
a bar and the camera angle from
inside the bar is even crazier.
This happened last Friday night
at the Timber Pub off Hwy.
212. I mean, you can see the
customers there that got hit.
Somehow they managed to avoid serious,
serious injuries.
Some did break ribs,
but none of them were in
the hospital for long.
They're all back home this morning.
The owner of the bar tells us this
is the fifth or sixth time that a
vehicle has run into their building.
So ODOT is investigating to figure
out why this has happened so often.
There.
It seems that speed was the main
factor behind this most recent crash.
Driving
way too fast, people fly through
that intersection. It's scary.
People that were here said
it felt like a bomb exploded.
The owners just talked to ODOT on Monday,
so ODOT is now looking to see if
there's anything they can do to try
to make that spot safer. A landslide
has canceled all Amtrak trains
between Portland and Seattle.
Passengers can take buses instead.
Amtrak tells us.
The slide yesterday covered
the railroad tracks about
6 miles north of Vancouver.
Those routes could reopen tomorrow.
Routes between Portland
and Eugene to the South,
and then Seattle and Vancouver,
BC, are not affected
by the slide.
Wow, look at that.
This is in case you missed the
thunderstorm that rolled through
the Portland metro area last night.
Spots around Beaverton also saw small hail.
Thanks to Kevin, by the way,
for sharing his video with us.
There was flooding to take a look at
this Southwest Portland neighborhood.
Michael sent us this video of Ash Creek.
Overflowing into his backyard and nearby,
firefighters say water flooded out about
14 homes near SW 62nd and Dickinson.
Some of them had basements
that were totally underwater.
We had it over in Clackamas
as well about 5:00. O'clock.
We looked outside of like,
what is going on, right?
It's been a pretty rainy
spring for the most part, but yesterday and
one of my sons was saying that
I don't think it's rained this
hard this spring. Well, you could
probably say hasn't rained
this hard in five years,
any particular location or even.
10 We don't see these type
of rain rates very often.
One point the radar was showing
about 2 1/2 inches of rain an hour
meaning if if that cell would have
stayed in the same spot in an hour
that's how much would have come down.
We had a spot in Tiger that they
got over an inch and 20 minutes.
We don't see it very often
come down like that.
That is over thank goodness and
today looks to be pretty quiet.
Our seven day attention is still on the mini
heat wave that's coming our way many because
it looks like it only lasts a few days.
But here we go with the latest numbers.
Fridays today you'll start to really
feel it warming up at 85, still not bad.
And then Saturday 92.
So that is my forecast.
High, unchanged.
That would tie the record for the
date Sunday I've jacked up to 95.
That would break the current record
for the date of 91. Monday 92.
That would be very close to the
current record of 93 degrees.
And right now it looks like.
Tuesday would potentially cool into the 80s,
but we could still be well up
into the 80s next Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday.
So a pretty good run of hot to warm
weather in the forecast.
All right, here's what's going on right now.
No lightning being currently detected,
but we've got heavy downpours
out in the basin just a little
bit West of Pendleton right now.
We've got a little bit of light
rain trying to nip along the North
Coast up there in Clatsup County,
but so far staying offshore.
And we have this over downtown Portland,
beautiful blue skies.
We're at 46 degrees.
You saw some shallow fog pockets down in that
camera shot 48 in Kelso Newport's cool at 41.
That matches Band and Burns and
Baker City each in the 30s.
This morning,
futurecast shows a pretty quiet day.
It's one of those days.
The rain chance is not zero.
I do have a spotty shower
chance in the forecast.
Futurecast does show
that we get some showers,
maybe some isolated thunderstorms
along the Cascades later today.
That's at 4:30,
and that's still going on down
around Mount Jefferson overnight.
The wider view shows scattered
showers out east,
but what we had yesterday's moved off
into Idaho and now moving over into Montana.
That's where the action
will be most noticeable.
So mainly a dry day,
partly cloudy temperatures in the 60s,
Mcminnville, Salem and Corvallis.
Winds will be on the light side.
Here come our seven day #68 today,
74 tomorrow by the way.
This is new thunderstorms expected to
become quite numerous along the Cascades.
Tomorrow afternoon,
maybe some of that spills into the valley.
We'll keep an eye.
Otherwise there are the numbers 85 Friday
and the 90s Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
And that is your forecast.
Hey Rod,
take a look
at this. The Morrison Bridge this
morning all lit up in turquoise to
raise awareness about lung cancer.
So Lung Cancer Action Week started on Sunday.
It will end this coming Sunday,
which is also Mother's Day.
It's all part of the Turquoise takeover,
as it's called.
It's an initiative through
the American Lung Association.
You can head to lungforce.org to learn
more about early detection and screening.