This is KGW news at I don't
want to never see your people.
But also reality is there are women
dying at just awful numbers. That
is the sister of one of five women
from the Portland metro area who
went missing and were later found
dead in just the past six months.
Coming up, we'll hear from investigators
who say they haven't made any
connections between these cases so far,
but they're also not ruling anything out.
And right now there are level one and
two evacuation orders in place in the
Beaver Creek area of Clackamas County.
We'll have the latest on the brush fire.
They're coming up also
this morning on the Sunrise show.
We are celebrating the fact that
today happens to be ready for it,
National Donut Day, Woohoo. There are
really, there are so many
great spots around the area.
That serve up a delicious donut,
and this is certainly one of them. This
is Joe's Donuts out in Sandy.
Chris McGinnis,
have you ever stopped at Joe's
Donuts on your way up to Mount Hood?
We certainly have.
In the Gateway of Mount Hood.
We have stopped in and picked up
a half a dozen for the family.
So Eric Patterson is
behind the camera there
this morning. We're going to
check back in with him later.
It is National Donut Day on a
Friday where I can't believe
this Rod Hill took the day off.
He's missing Rod.
We're going to have Donuts on the show today.
Rods losses. Chris's gain.
Chris is in for Rob. You got.
I'm waiting for my donut. It's
going to take a little bit.
Just give us a more carrot,
right. Let's go ahead and give it.
Maybe this will learn it.
What is sunrise out there?
Look at this. This is pretty
from our Wells Fargo sky camera.
You can see the silhouette
there of sunrise on the horizon.
There's the tippy top of Mount Adams there,
Mount St. Helens there.
It is crisp.
To start the morning,
we'll take you to the Oregon coast.
Not much in the way of cloud cover right now.
From Lincoln City.
The Chinook Winds Casino Resort camera shows
clear skies 47 right now in Vancouver,
Sherwood 4342 at Hillsboro as we slip
South in the Lamon Valley Corvallis and 41.
Sherwood also at 41 and Estacada at 40.
So there are some cool pockets
out there this morning.
Not sure why we're doubling
up on the temperature map,
but we'll give you the statewide view.
Chilly right now,
Newport at 37 and Sunriver at 34.
All right,
here's for the the plan for our Friday.
Lots of sunshine,
like 15 1/2 hours of sunshine in the
forecast with sunset inching towards 9:00.
O'clock.
By the way,
in case you're wondering when that happens,
June 13th,
our 1st,
9:00 PM or later sunset
76 this afternoon, guys.
OK. Thank you so much, Chris.
Clackamas County has issued a
Level 2 evacuation order for some homes
near a fire in the Beaver Creek area.
Our Devin Haskins joins us live from
The Newsroom with the very latest on
this fire and others burning in Oregon.
Good morning, Devin.
Yeah, good morning, Christine.
It's a relatively small fire.
Last report, Clackamas fire
set about 30 acres in size.
Fire crews from Clackamas,
Colton and the Oregon Department of
Forestry helped respond to this fire.
The fire is spotted burning
near the intersection of Upper
and Lower Highland roads.
That's in the Beaver Creek
area just South and South,
South and to the east of Beaver Creek.
Although small,
it was enough for the Sheriff's
Office to issue evacuation level
orders to homeowners living nearby
homes within 1/4 mile of the fire
on a Level 2 evacuation order,
meaning they need to have everything
packed up and ready to leave
just in case the fire spreads
quickly those within 1/2 mile.
Are on the level one order,
meaning they should be on alert and
start preparing for any evacuation.
This fire is one of 14 fires listed
on the state's wildfire map that
is burning throughout Oregon.
And as of the last update that was
provided about 9:00 o'clock last night
from Clackamas County's Twitter account,
it said that fire crews
were working to contain it.
We don't have updated containment
numbers this morning,
but Clackamas fire said don't worry,
the fire was not growing at that time.
Drew.
All right,
Devin Haskins reporting live for
us this morning from The Newsroom.
Our newsroom is also working to
get an update this morning on
the search for multiple wanted
suspects in Northeast Portland.
Police say the search started
before 9:00 o'clock last night.
After these suspects ran from
a car near the intersection of
northeast Rodney and Shaver.
People living in that area were
asked to shelter in place and
lock their doors again.
That was last night.
Since then,
police have cleared that scene,
although they still haven't told us
why they were after the suspects.
We'll pass that along as soon as we find out.
The family of a Portland man found
shot to death in Washington is suing
the Lewis County Sheriff's Office,
saying investigators there
sabotaged the investigation.
Last August, Aaron Christensen and his
dog were shot on a hike near Wallops Lake
that's about 5 miles north of Mount Adams.
Initially his family was told
he died from a heart attack,
but two months later investigators
ruled his death a homicide.
Detectives later identified the 20 year
old shooter who claims he shot Christensen.
Because he thought he was a wild animal,
prosecutors decided not
to pursue felony charges,
citing a lack of evidence.
Now Christiansen's family says a
necropsy done on his dog did not match
the initial report from investigators.
Their attorney claims the Sheriff's
Office mishandled the dog's body
to sabotage the investigation.
An
arrest and some justice would at least given
give us some healing and some closure,
and at this point, the friends group
really believes were being denied that.
The Lewis County Sheriff's Office
has not commented on the claims.
Human remains discovered in rural
Clackamas County have been identified as
a Portland woman who
vanished back in late March.
22 year old Ashley Rial is one
of five woman in the area to 1st
disappear and then turn up dead
all here in the last six months.
KGW's Mike Benner checked in with
investigators about the possibility
of the cases being connected.
These woods off SE Judd Rd.
In rural Clackamas County is where deputies
discovered the remains of Ashley Real.
The 22 year old was last seen in
late March at a fast food restaurant
in Transit Center in East Portland.
These photos of Real are some
of the last before she turned up
dead in that heavily wooded area.
It's just so heartbreaking and and
it's really hard to, I don't know,
put into words. I guess just.
How heartbreaking it is.
You know, no matter the circumstances
that that's somebody's baby.
Robin Speaks did not know real,
but she's following her case
closely because like Real,
Robin's sister Joanna Speaks
vanished in late March and
turned up dead in early April
in a rural area of Clark County.
We've gotten through the celebration
of life and we were able to,
you know, come together for that,
which was really awesome and but
now it's kind of like hitting us.
More that it's real.
And now we keep seeing on
the news all these new girls,
All these new girls.
5 in total we've told you
about speaks and real.
But then there's Bridget Webster,
whose body was found in late
April in northwest Polk County.
About that same time,
authorities discovered the body of
Charity Perry in Ainsworth State Park.
Perry had been missing since early March.
And then there's Kristen Smith,
who vanished in December of last year.
The 22 year old's body was found
two months later at SE Deardorff
Road and Flavell in Portland.
With each one, you know, we've as a family,
we've talked about it, we've shared it,
we've looked at the details.
We've talked to the detectives to
see if there are any similarities.
We too reached out to detectives with
all of the agencies investigating
these disappearances and deaths.
The Polk in Clackamas County
sheriff's offices got back to us,
and they're both talking to partner
agencies to see if their respective cases
are at all connected to any others.
I don't want to ever scare people,
but also reality is there are
women dying at just awful numbers.
While it's unclear if any of these
cases will turn out to be connected,
Robin Speaks says one thing is very clear,
Women need to pay attention
and they need to know that.
There are dangers,
and they're clearly taking the
lives of people that we love.
I'm Mike Benner for KGW News.
Okay, before we get to our Chris
McGinnis, a few weather
stories to share with you.
First, take a look at this.
Oh my goodness.
I can't even imagine it is the
result of flash flooding in parts
of Western Texas. Forecasters
say some areas saw five inches of
rain in just a matter of hours.
Alright, let's talk about Florida for a
minute, because Florida also expecting
a lot of rain today from a tropical
depression in the Gulf of Mexico.
So it's well off the coast of
Florida and isn't expected to cause
any big issues to the Gulf Coast.
The National Hurricane Center though,
says they do expect the system
to continue towards Cuba.
There's a slim chance,
there's a slim chance that the storm will
develop into a tropical storm before it
loses its strength coming up tomorrow.
So that's happening obviously in other parts
of the country right here a lot quieter.
Chris McGinnis is filling in
for Rod Hill this morning.
Chris, what are we talking
about in our neck of the woods?
Well,
we're talking about we could probably
use a little bit of rain at this point.
We are coming into what is climatologically
our driest time of the year, right?
May we just closed the book on.
We talked about how warm it was.
It was also one of the only 12
Mays on record where Portland
failed to record an inch of rain.
So we're drying out quickly and the
warm weather will continue as well.
Here's a look at the climate
prediction centers outlook for
June 7th through the 11th.
So we're kind of getting beyond the
range of our seven day forecast.
And you can see the northwest here in
these orangish shadings indicating
fairly high probability that the
above average temperatures are going
to continue through that time frame.
It doesn't necessarily say
we're overwhelmingly hot,
but there may be one or two hot days
in our seven day forecast and beyond.
All right,
right now it's this is just
really super pretty.
The Wells Fargo sky camera
showing the tippy top there,
Mount Adams and Mount Saint Helens and
you can see the glow of sunrise on the
horizon not too far away from that
about 15 minutes, 20 minutes or so.
For Morgan's Veterans Home in The Dalles,
looking back at the tippy top of Mount Hood,
that's a cool shot as well.
48 right now in Troutdale Hillsboro,
one of the cooler spots in the
immediate metro area at 42.
Kelso has slipped to 41.
So some of us are crisp this morning,
but most of us are clear and will
stay clear throughout the day.
Futurecast has hardly a cloud in
the sky across Western Oregon,
our modeling suggesting one or two
sprinkle chances in the Central
Oregon Cascades and then across
far Eastern Oregon otherwise.
We are high and dry for the
next couple of days here.
Heading into the first weekend of June.
We'll get a little cool front
that'll kick up the marine layer
I think early on Sunday morning,
but otherwise not much to talk
about in the weekend forecast.
But Sunshine 62 in Astoria this afternoon.
Breezy through the Columbia River
Gores the Dallas gets up to about 81.
Cascade Lock 7575 in Hood River,
Central Oregon. Sunny and warm as well.
Sun River gets to about 74.
Bend 77 with a good deal of sunshine.
And outside of that shower chance
to near burns this morning,
I think most of Eastern Oregon
is also dry with temps in the mid
70s up and down the I5 quarter.
We start the day cool and crisp and
we finish the day in the low to mid
70s which is about average maybe plus
or a degree or two for this time of the year.
We get to 79 on Saturday,
we climb the ladder to 80 on Sunday.
And then guys,
as I mentioned,
there could be one or two hot days in
the forecast and right now next week,
Tuesday and Wednesday look
like the days where
we're pushing into or near 90.
And we back down because
that's just too warm.
Great looking 7 day forecast,
guys. All right, Chris, thanks
for that weather update for that.
You've earned a look at Donuts. Maybe
at some point this morning
you'll actually get a donut.
But right now we give you this
live look from Joe's Donuts out in
Sandy. Oh, yes, there they are.
Take a look at that.
The close up of the Donuts
this morning from Sunrise
photographer Eric Patterson. We're
at Joe's Donuts because today is National
Donut Day. There are a lot of
great spots for Donuts in the area.
We heard from you.
You told us your favorites.
We're going to share some of those
coming up right after this quick break.