This is KGW news at sink.
Personally experienced it,
but they have my father's experience.
It just last night it's.
It's heartbroken.
Community members meet to
talk about ways to stop a rise in crime
against Asian Americans in Portland.
We're gonna take you inside that meeting to
hear the impact the crimes are having on
both individuals and businesses.
Also, this morning a project that's
been on pause gains a little momentum.
We're gonna hear about the city of
Portland's move to reenter the I5
rose quarter expansion project,
and we will also later this hour
have a live report from Tigard.
Rod, you know why we're going
to target this morning up up
and away festival of balloons
back for the first time since 2019,
so a lot to cover here.
We have no Nina this morning.
We have no Brenda Braxton
this morning but Rod Hill
will never leave me hanging.
Hey, I'm here.
He would never leave me hanging.
Looking forward to Eric Patterson's
gonna be down to cook. Jerk right braid.
Rod Hill would never leave me hanging.
Yes, I'm but you are right there.
But Louise Friday things are
moving a little slow here. I
didn't get the visual cue.
Sorry Drew look at sometimes beautiful
clear Sky Day that's better looking shot.
You're right just for you, my friend.
Thank you Rod beautiful by the way,
past level temperatures over the weekend will
be up into the mid 80s I believe on Sunday.
Here are the clear skies over Portland.
Everybody's clear this
morning for the most part.
54 is the temperature out there right now.
71 at noon. 84 and 5:00 PM,
which would become the
warmest of the year so far.
But remember 90s expected this weekend.
The Weather Service has
issued a heat advisory.
Andrew will have those details for you coming
up. Alright, we will have more
from Rod here in a few minutes,
but we do want to get to our top
story this morning. Right now.
Two major developments involving US gun laws.
So on one hand Congress is on the
brink of passing the country's most
significant gun safety measures in decades.
But on the other hand,
the Supreme Court made a decision that
could potentially allow more people.
To carry guns in public,
NBC's Chris Pallone brings us more
this morning from Washington DC.
I am
so grateful in a late night vote,
the Senate approved the most
significant changes to the
nation's gun laws in decades.
The motion to concur with
an amendment is agreed to.
15 Republicans joining every
Democrat to pass the bipartisan,
Safer Communities Act,
which closes the boyfriend loophole,
encourages states to pass red flag
laws and strengthens background checks
for gun buyers under 21 shooting
after shooting murder after murder
suicide after suicide for 30 years.
Congress stood in its political
corners and did nothing.
But not this time.
The vote coming just hours after the
Supreme Court ruled for the first time,
Americans have a right to carry handguns
outside the home for self defense.
I think this language is going
to make it really difficult to
justify gun laws going forward and
will lead to court striking down
a wide variety of gun safety laws.
The court overturning New York's
strict concealed carry permit
law and placing similar laws in
five other states in jeopardy.
We don't need more guns on our streets.
We're already dealing with a major.
Gun violence crisis. The
decision celebrated by the
organization that brought the lawsuit.
The time has come for this.
The judges decided,
and they're going to have to live with it.
The High Court has nine
decisions left in this term,
including a highly anticipated abortion
ruling which a leaked draft opinion revealed.
The court might be poised
to overturn Roe versus Wade.
Chris Pallone.
NBC News, Washington.
Alright, let's get to some
of this morning's local
headlines. We start with this one
person wound up in the hospital
after a light pole fell on them
at Irving Park in North Portland.
So police believe a child and the
child's caretaker were sitting on a
hammock between a light pole and a tree.
When that pole came down.
They say the child was seriously
hurt and went to the hospital.
We reached out to Portland Parks
and REC for a comment about this,
but we're still waiting to hear back.
Meanwhile, big changes are on
the way for the University of
Oregon track and field program.
The school announced it.
Is not renewing the contract
for head coach Robert Johnson.
Johnson has been with the
program for ten seasons,
leading the Ducks to 14 NCAA Championships
and 16 PAC 12 championships.
The university did not give a reason as
to why they're not renewing his contract.
We know Johnson's contract expires
here at the end of the month.
Assistant head coach Helen Lehman
Winters will serve as the interim
head coach while the school searches
for a permanent replacement and
one more local story. Here, Nike.
Says it's shutting down its stores
in Russia in response to the
country's invasion of Ukraine.
Nike had already suspended operations
in Russia three months ago,
but now the company says it is
shutting things down there completely,
all expected to take place here
in the coming months.
Other major brands like McDonald's
and Google have made similar moves,
and that's a look at some of
this morning's local headlines.
Asian Americans in Portland gathered
to discuss a rise in crime and violence
against businesses in Southeast Portland.
They're hoping to find solutions and
stand up against anti Asian hate.
Alma McCarty has more.
Thursday afternoon, a call to action
we're gonna talk about some issue,
some crime. Facing our Community,
Asian Americans in Southeast
Portland say they're facing attacks
and worse ever faced this kind of.
So much hatred toward the Asian,
the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent
Association which hosted this
community meeting say some of the
violence targets the same Asian
owned businesses again and again.
The outcry from the owner of
the house because restaurant.
That they've been broken into again,
even though this is petty
crime, but we need to stop
it. Community members were frustrated.
I appreciate that you guys can help
us, but I was
here from you guys. What you guys going
to do in the future? How
can we? How can you guys helping us
about crime? One man said through a
translator that's become all too common.
Somebody come in and use the electric
saw to cut the ATM machine and then
take all the money inside the machine.
What is the song you don't hold on to?
It's so difficult to survive and he
adds he was recently robbed at gunpoint,
his son, overcome with emotion.
Describing that call from his dad,
didn't personally experience it,
but to have my father's experience.
It just last night.
It's heartbroken business owners hoping
to stop the cycle and hoping this
particular plea to police will help law
enforcement understand the toll these
crimes are taking on this community.
These just aren't concerning.
They're disturbing to
us too. As far as law enforcement. We
got into these professions because we want
to bring justice and voice to
the victims, and those who otherwise
would not be able to speak
in Portland, Alma McCarty. KGW news.
Well, after months on
the sidelines, the city of Portland
appears ready to rejoin the I5 rose
Quarter expansion project during
a City Council meeting this week,
the city announced it would move
forward with support for the hybrid
three options so that option calls for
parts of the freeway to be capped and
that could pave the way to reconnect.
Portland's historically Black
Albina neighborhood.
Some believe expanding I5 in that area of
the city is a step in the right direction,
but others think this is really
only a temporary solution.
Any lessening of congestion.
Will be short lived and
they'll be as bad as ever,
but with more lanes of it.
We believe that
transportation should heal and connect
that children should be safe in
the city core that
the urban fabric
should be repaired.
Stolen wealth should be restored
and we need to build for the future.
City Council will vote on this in the
coming days and then reevaluate where this
project stands in the summer of 2024.
Happening right now.
A closure, not right this moment,
but this weekend is that.
Clear it up there Rod yes alright,
a two mile stretch of 84 will
be closed this entire weekend.
As TriMet continues to work on a new
light rail bridge over the freeway so the
closure starts at 10:00 o'clock tonight,
it will wrap up Monday morning at 4:00 AM.
Keep in mind the on ramp at NE 102nd
will also be closed during that stretch.
And this is what I actually felt we
were gonna talk about right there.
This is happening right now.
Right now.
The Tigard Festival of Balloons
is underway this morning,
so this is like the only event
over the course of the entire
year that is actually happening.
While we're on the air between
5:00 and 7:00 AM.
You can see the balloons just
rolling into tiger there.
They're getting them set up to
take off later this morning.
We have sunrise photographer Eric
Patterson out there at Cook Park in
Tigard going to have a a beautiful
sunrise shot there all morning long,
and the plan is to get Eric in
one of those balloons.
We can see a take off live
during the show this morning.
What do you think about that?
Yeah, I know you've been down there.
I've been down there for a number
of live shots over the years
and and if you haven't been,
I think you'll be amazed at just how
simply beautiful the balloons are, right?
It's it was amazing to me.
During all those years
that I covered the event.
How many times it actually rained on
us during this final weekend of June,
but we are going to get really
nice weather this morning and
a really hot weekend.
Yeah, this weekend, clear
skies. They won't have to use those burners
because the air will be warming up enough.
Yeah, all right. The big story is the one
we've been prepping you for all week,
and that's the heat advisory.
So the the way this works, the heat advisory.
The Weather Service won't issue these
advisories, watches and warnings until you
typically get within about a 24 hour period.
And that's where we are right now,
so the advisories up this is all of
Western Oregon up into Washington.
This includes, by the way,
the beach itself up into the Cascades
and out into the Columbia River Gorge,
and taken as a whole.
Everybody in the advisory area
with the exception, I believe,
of the cascade passes.
Has the chance to be in that 92 in the
valley areas as hot as 100 degrees at
times over the weekend so it still
looks like the hottest day here.
Up and down 95 will be on Sunday
and the hottest to east of the
Cascades will be on Monday,
which will be telling you about
so just a couple tweaks and some
of the forecast temperatures the
Dallas could hit 100 on Monday.
Redmond, 96 on Monday, Hermiston,
one on one on Monday out in the
gorge Hood River, the hottest day,
Sunday 95 and the hottest day down in Salem.
We think we'll stay in the upper 90s.
We have you at 97 if you are going
to the coast.
It's an east wind that develops.
Tomorrow,
that brings two things #1 clear skies
to the beach #2 it totally shuts off
the cooling from the Pacific so the
coast can be about as warm as the valley.
We'll go 7075 the day as east as Sunshine
Will will be with us and tomorrow.
The east winds start to kick in.
There will be some beach temperatures.
I think most areas in the 80s
there could be a 90 degree spot
and then Sunday some areas,
especially down along the Central Coast
and Lincoln County could start to see some
cooling and maybe eventually some low clouds.
In the afternoon we'll go 75 to
still as warm as 90 in places like.
Deciding Cannon Beach on Sunday.
Speaking of the beach,
there's our Chinook winds casino resort,
Cameron Lincoln City Beautiful
Clear Sky morning again,
the beach today is gonna be fabulous
and we'll be beautifully sunny here
in the valley as well.
That's still her family Avengers
estate down in Dayton.
Here are the current numbers 46 in Astoria,
54 in Portland,
51 degrees in Salem's
coolest spot this morning.
Yeah, there you are.
Baker City 39.
Alright, my seven day numbers 84.
Today we go 93 tomorrow Sunday we keep
bumping the temperature up now 99.
You could make the case this Sunday could
be as hot as 100 to 102 and then Monday 94.
Late day rain chance on Tuesdays
we cool back down and this is
your forecast America
back to you. Drew didn't mean to
cough over the back end of your
forecast there rod quite alright.
Rodney. Have you ever been to the
Evergreen aviation and Space Museum
world class? I am very impressed. Yes
I have so right out front of the
museum for the past eight years has
sat this 747 just sitting there.
I just kind of thought it was
one of the displays right?
But apparently this plane?
Is available to be bit upon all.
Let's do it is going up for auction.
Brian Clerkley is gonna have more
on the story coming up on sunrise
talking specifically about the
museum's attempt to keep that 747.