This is KGW News at sunrise.
You are waking up to a major traffic alert.
The Lewis and Clark Bridge will
close for eight days starting Sunday
and it has a wide-ranging impact.
We are breaking down all the ways
this will affect the commute.
And in a handful of hours,
a SAG after union members,
many of them actors,
will join writers on the picket
line in California and Washington.
How the strike
will cause a disruption in
Hollywood, and it's Twitter versus
threads which one will come out on top?
Still too early to know,
but we are breaking down some of the
major differences between the apps.
Happy Friday. We are finally here,
and we are finally in for, gosh,
some really warm weather. Hot, hot
weather. Yeah, like 90.
Yeah, people consider 90 hot right?
Let's get to it right now.
We'll get you out the door live look from
our Stoller Vineyard camera and Dayton,
this is pretty right silhouette of
Mount Hood there and if you look really
closely at the tippy top of your screen,
you can see the the waning Crescent moon
there sun up in about 35 minutes or so.
Right now we are waking up to
temperatures that are warm.
It's 64 in downtown Portland, 57 Hillsboro.
We slip South in the Blomin Valley.
We're upper 50s and low 60s.
Pretty common here. Kaiser at 59.
Salem and Aumsville checking in with 64.
The plan for today? Wall to wall.
Sunshine flirting with the 80 degree mark.
By lunchtime.
We will be up to about 90 degrees
or so by 3:00. O'clock, I think.
And I think Portland tops out at 92 today.
We'll tack on a few degrees tomorrow,
with a heat advisory in effect across much.
Of Western Oregon for the day on Saturday.
I'll walk you through that part
of your forecast in a second.
Let's get you out the door with
the live look at the roads.
Here's a quick check of Hwy.
26 out near 217 rolling right
along the drive from Wilsonville.
Here's your N down I5 commute on
the right hand side of your screen.
That looks good.
A Rose City Sky camera showing I5
down the bottom of your screen.
No crashes, no unexpected delays.
On the roads just yet, guys.
OK.
Thanks, Chris. And hey,
here's a traffic alert that we
want to give you a heads up on.
This is a live look from our Eric Patterson.
He is at the Lewis and Clark
bridge right now driving over.
That bridge by the way connects
Rainier OR and Longview, WA.
It'll be closed for up to 8 days
starting at 8:00 o'clock Sunday night.
So Chris, you're here with
more details on the closure
and also the reason for it.
Yeah, really
big impacts, right.
So First off. There we go.
Thank you guys. So watch.
That tells us that 20,000 cars and trucks
a day use the Lewis and Clark Bridge.
So it is a major thoroughfare,
an important route for anyone headed to
the coast, a crucial link for industry
in Longview and Rainier and and vital
for those that need medical treatments.
Let's get you some video of the
bridge and the bridge work.
The bridge will be closed so that work
work crews I should say can replace
2 finger joints and a fractured.
Floor beam on the bridge deck itself, right?
Preliminary work started last month
with night and weekend closures,
but starting this Sunday night,
the bridge will be closed
to all motor vehicles.
Only emergency vehicles,
bikes and pedestrians will be allowed access.
During the eight day closure,
you have a couple of options,
but they will all add hours to a
normally very short trip I5 through
Portland or US1 O1 through Astoria.
Those are your two alternate routes, right?
Both of these at approximately
100 miles of detour exactly.
The third option is the ferry,
which runs from Westport to Kath Lammet.
However, the Oscar B ferry,
as it's known,
has a Max capacity of about 23 vehicles.
So do the math.
20,000 vehicles a day right over the bridge.
23 vehicles is the capacity of the ferry.
So before you Daydream about a lovely
ferry ride across the Columbia,
know this that the priority will be given
to emergency responders and medical
staff who normally commute over the bridge,
as well as those with
necessary medical travel.
So for everyone else,
you could be waiting hours for
the ferry and it may be best.
This is what Wash dot says
suggests to postpone your travel.
Importantly,
this weekend is the annual
Seattle to Portland bike ride STP.
As it's known,
it crosses the bridge at 2:00 PM on Sunday,
just a few hours ahead of the closure.
Washed Out says that the closure
has no impact on the actual event,
but sometimes cyclists like to kind
of hang out and take their take their
time getting back across the bridge.
Don't do that because the 10
hour closure in which no one will
be allowed across the bridge.
Starts at 8:00 PM on Sunday,
All
right, tons to get to. Thanks for
giving us, you know, the details,
but we'll stay on top of that all morning.
Right now we want to talk about a
wildfire burning in Sherman County.
Deschutes State Park had to evacuate
last night after somebody tipped
over a camp stove a few miles
South of the park around 10:00 PM.
Sherman County Emergency Services says
crews contain the fire to the Canyon.
Now this is an active fire burning
about one mile up the Deschutes
River on the Sherman County side.
Deschutes State Park is under a
Level 3 Go Now evacuation order.
Wasco County does not appear to be affected,
though at this point it's unclear
how big the fire is.
Now do a terrible update on a
death investigation out of Damascus
police say a 12 year old boy.
Was killed in an apparent murder suicide.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office
says 34 year old Rick Shay Care rammed
through a gate to get to a home on Delia St.
Investigators say he crashed into
the garage before killing the boy,
then himself.
Two dogs in the home were also
shot and killed.
We've also learned someone at the address
had a restraining order against Kerr.
We want to take a moment here though,
to remind anyone who needs to hear it.
You are not alone.
There is help out there.
The Clackamas Women's Services Crisis Line.
The number right there on your screen is
888-654-2288. There is also the
National Suicide Prevention Hotline.
That one a pretty easy
number to remember 988.
Seven businesses in Northeast Portland
are cleaning up gas glass rather after a
vandalism spree early yesterday morning,
Portland police arrested 44 year
old Freddy Paredes Can cab for
allegedly hurling rocks and at
least one brick at several windows.
This happened along 32nd
and Northeast Broadway.
The place is damaged include
a daycare couple,
local restaurants.
A State Farm office,
Verizon and a Fred Meyer store.
It didn't seem like it was breaking
and and try and rob the business.
It was more just kind of do some damage,
maybe just some vandalism,
The Hillsborough Police Department confirmed.
Ken Cab is also accused of an
early morning incident there.
Officers say he admitted to
purposely shattering a Walgreens
window with the rock last month.
Looking for flights to Southern California?
Maybe Vegas? Well,
you'll soon have another option
out of the Salem Airport.
Starting the first week of October,
flights will be available from a relatively
new ultra low cost carrier called Avello.
It will provide flights to and from Southern
California and Las Vegas twice a week.
The airline says one way tickets
will start at just 39 bucks.
Some are saying it's an opportunity
to energize the Salem economy.
This is like putting a Fortune 500 company
right in the middle of the community,
the job creation and just the exponential
ripple effective of bringing a new
dollars to our local businesses.
It helps our small business community,
it helps keep employment,
and it helps the engine keep
running not just for Salem,
but for the entire Willamette Valley.
The airlines started flying in 2021
and has a fleet of Boeing 737.
Well, Rod Hill is playing
in a golf tournament today,
so for exactly that's his favorite.
That's his happy place
up at the Welsh's resort, right?
Play it all three nines up there.
I know he's going to be loving his
day and as he mentioned yesterday,
in the warm weather,
the ball really flies, right?
Well, it's going to get a little
extra boost today because we've
got 90s in the forecast today,
tomorrow and probably Sunday as well.
One place it will not be that
hot over the next couple of days.
The beach, the.
The flow is not very strongly offshore.
And so with that in mind,
we will enjoy the cooling influence I
think of the Pacific here along the beach.
This is the live look from
Cannon Beach right now.
The sun not up just yet,
but it'll be a pretty day.
All right.
We do have a heat advisory in effect
for much of the Limon Valley.
Now here's the deal.
The advisory actually takes hold
today for areas South of Salem.
And then it expands for this whole area
that you see in orange for the day tomorrow.
Specifically for the Portland,
Vancouver metro area,
that heat advisory runs from
noon Saturday through 9:00 PM.
That will be the hottest part
of the next three days here
in the region that is on fire.
Wow, what a pretty sunrise here.
From our Wells Fargo sky camera sun up
by the way in about 25 minutes or so.
We are off to a warm start. 66 at PDX.
It's 57 in Hillsboro, Aurora.
Check in with 63.
Check out the Dows already at 65 as well.
And temperatures east of the
Cascades are are pretty warm.
One of the cooler spots,
Sun River in the Central
Oregon Cascades right now.
Check in with 46.
All right Futurecast shows temperatures
quickly warming to near the upper 70s
or near 80 degrees by lunchtime today,
and then as a roll the clock
into the late afternoon.
You can see Futurecast has Portland
easily in the low 90s today,
mid 90s in Salem,
mid to upper 90s for the southern
Willamette Valley this afternoon,
and it gets hotter.
We've got Portland at 94 on Saturday with
that heat advisory kicking in at noon,
mostly sunny,
we'll call it not as hot on Sunday.
Somewhere between about 88 and 91
is our forecast on Sunday and then
significant cooling comes in on
Monday where we stand with 90 degree
heat so far, 990 degree days at PDX.
If you go back to May,
remember we had a bunch then one last
month and a couple so far this month.
We are well on our way to an
above average summer we think.
When it comes to 90 degree heat,
all right, when does the relief come in?
Well,
obviously a couple of days
of bright sunshine.
But as I Fast forward Futurecast
into the weekend,
you'll see that by late Sunday
night we get a pretty good push of
marine cloud cover that comes in
and that will end temporarily the
high heat in the forecast that may even
squeeze that little drizzle across
portions of Southwest Washington.
This is early Monday morning.
Beyond that though,
as they let the clock roll for days
and days and days on Futurecast,
you can see that that is our next.
Meager opportunity at any rainfall.
Beyond that, the forecast next
week is back to hot and dry.
So 92 today, guys,
94 the hot day tomorrow,
Hottest of the three and probably
near 90 again on Sunday.
Thank you, Chris.
I think they've kicked the hornet's nest.
For the first time since the 1960s,
actors and writers in
Hollywood are on strike.
Together, we'll explain how it
came to this and how it could
affect your entertainment.
Also, the annual KGW school supply drive
starts next month, but now is the time
to sign up to help us collect supplies.
Last year we sent more than 15,000
local kids back to school with the
supplies they need, and this year
we'd like to help even more. We
want to say a big thank you this
morning to Mattress Warehouse
in Gladstone for signing up.
If your business or organization
wants to get involved,
go to kgw.com/school.
We'll send you an official
school supply drive collection
kit to get you started again,
That web page is
kgw.com/school.