This is KGW news at sunrise.
They enjoy this whole roller coaster
and ohh we're going to do this
and end this homeless situation.
But yeah, it never gets done. There
has been plenty of talk from local lawmakers
about addressing the homeless crisis,
everyone from Oregon Governor Tina
Kotek to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.
We're now hearing about Multnomah County's
plan and reactions from the community
about the county's suggested strategy.
There's a new center in Portland
for Native Americans who are
struggling with opioid addiction.
We'll look at some of the holistic
methods it uses during treatment.
And there are a couple new
millionaires in the Pacific
Northwest will tell you where a
winning ticket was bought in Oregon.
But the big winner in Washington state?
Someone hit the Powerball jackpot,
and we are talking.
He didn't hear $747 million.
Ohh we heard, we heard
it is a Tuesday morning on
the Sunrise show. I know
a guy who lives in Washington
who regularly buys one of those
big time jackpot lottery tickets,
but he's at work today
so ohh not a winner.
I'm a horrible person because I see
you guys showing an excitement level
for the winner and I'm just sitting
there going well, I'm not happy.
I thought this was your shot.
What didn't you tell me? Ohh.
Well, I'm thinking it will never be
sold in Washington the rest of my life.
I missed my chance.
Alright, we have clouds
that we have rain, a big batch of it.
This is going to be sweeping inland,
so this is the dry time of your day.
Here's a closer look at the radar.
Starting to see some rain up in Longview,
but it's going to be at least a
little while yet before it moves
down into Portland and Salem.
So 48 degrees, comfortable outside
rain picks up through mid morning,
the rainiest, windiest part of your day.
Late morning through early
afternoon as the front comes in.
Temperatures will be in the 40s, so.
I have lots of those fancy
futurecast movies to show you
that's coming up in just a bit.
Alright Rod, thanks for that update.
We do want to get to our
top story this half hour.
A man is in jail this morning after
a standoff with Portland police.
The standoff ended at a home in Northeast
Portland Park rose neighborhood at
around 10:00 o'clock last night.
Police say the situation started just
before 6:00 PM at SE 92nd and stark.
So that's where officers say they try
to stop a vehicle with no plates.
But police say the driver speed off.
They used a plane to track.
Then threw down a spike strip near
Gleason and I-205 to try and stop him.
That's when they say the man ran from
his car and eventually wound up at
this home near NE 122nd and Sisku.
The people who live in that home got out OK.
Police say the suspect barricaded
himself in an attic over their garage.
Crisis negotiators were called in and
police eventually arrested the man again
just before 10:00 o'clock last night.
And our other top story this morning.
Police need your help to find a
Gresham man named Wesley Ash.
He's 22 years old, but his family
says he functions at the level of a
14 year old and depends on medication.
He was last seen around 3:15 Sunday at
the Rockwood Library off Stark Street.
Police say ash left without his phone,
wallet or ID.
Surveillance photos show when ash
left the library he went W when
he should have gone E His family.
Thinks he's lost or is with someone
he shouldn't be with.
Well, that's the last time.
He doesn't know where he's at,
he's very shy, so he
doesn't always ask for help.
Ash lives around NE Davis St.
and 178th. He's described as white,
about 5 foot 8 and 145 pounds,
with light brown hair.
He was last seen wearing a dark
blue hoodie and black sweatpants.
If you see him, call police.
Meanwhile, the Coast
Guard is searching for a man
who was on board a crabbing ship
that went into distress off the
southwest coast of Washington.
Crews rescued two people from
a life raft late Sunday night,
but here we are more than 24 hours later,
and they're still looking for a third person.
The ship got into trouble near the
entrance to Willapa Bay near Long Beach.
Search crews found pieces of
that ship that had broken apart.
Multnomah County
is rolling out a new plan
to address homelessness.
The initial goal is to move at
least 300 people into housing
over the next four months,
but there are questions about how to
pay for that and how this plan fits in
with what Mayor Ted Wheeler wants to do.
KGW Blair best went to get some answers.
It's the latest
attempt at getting people off
the streets and into housing,
off and on for the last like 15 years.
That's how long Diamond
toward has been homeless in Portland.
It is crazy. I've been on
a list for 4 1/2 years now.
She's currently on four housing waitlists
so bad I can actually like taste it.
I dream of it having cute my
own keys to my own apartment.
People like diamonds are the
focus of housing Multnomah Now,
the county's latest plan.
To get 300 people into housing
over the next four months,
there are apartments already
every day on the market.
Dennis Terry Elk at the Counties
Joint Office of Homeless Services
says they'll flood certain areas
of Portland with outreach workers.
The city's impact reduction team
will point those workers to
the areas with the most camps,
and the outreach workers are going to be
there day after day after day after day.
The plan has a price tag of
$14 million for one year,
which will come from unused tax
money from the supportive housing.
Services measure
the County Board of Commissioners
allocated some of that funding for
rent assistance to prevent evictions,
but they left a large chunk of
it for this board this year.
New folks on the board,
new chair to decide how to spend.
They'll rely
on shelters, safe rest villages,
and even Mayor Ted Wheeler's
designated camping sites,
which have yet to open for where to place
people waiting for permanent housing.
Meanwhile, they'll offer landlord
incentives and rent assistance
to speed up the housing process.
If they want a shelter bed, any of
those sites, including the city sites,
would be available for those folks.
So you say if they want a shelter bed,
but we've already run into
problems that people don't
want a shelter bed.
That's why the end goal is
to get folks into housing.
Many living on the streets are skeptical.
They enjoy this whole roller
coaster and this whole.
Merry go round of ohh.
We're going to do this and
end this homeless situation,
but yet it never gets done.
A part of this plan will aim to
stop the cycle of moving people
from one location to the other,
one of the biggest concerns and setbacks
for people living on the street.
Then it seems like every time I get my
kids together and I buy like a trailer,
the city ends up towing
it and taking it from me.
So then I'm back to square one.
I think it's good for our community,
but most importantly,
it's good for our most vulnerable neighbors,
homeless advocates. Devon Pouncey are
optimistic for the plan, but believe
housing is just the first step.
And then I think also being able
to tack on services to be able
to assist them once they get the
housing is almost nearly as important
as the county is urging the state
legislature to pick up Governor
Tina Kotex $130,000,000 investment
package to address homelessness.
That package would help kickstart
what the county is trying to do.
Blair best KGW news.
The mayor's office is
responding to all of this.
It released a statement saying,
quote, the mayor's plan to develop
temporary alternative shelter sites
is absolutely still moving forward.
We plan to announce sites
and service providers soon.
Someone in Washington state is now a multi
millionaire.
Last night's winning Powerball ticket
was sold somewhere in Washington.
Don't have a specific city as of yet.
Yesterday's 747 $747 million jackpot,
by the way, is the 9th largest prize ever.
This is the first Powerball winner
since November 19th. Like I said,
we still don't know exactly where that
winning ticket was sold in Washington.
What we do know is someone
in Oregon is a millionaire.
It's not quite as much as 747 million,
yeah, but $1,000,000 ticket was
sold in Beaverton on Saturday.
If you're one of the many of us,
I'm sure thinking about how nice it'd
be to be part of that millionaire club.
FYI, the odds of winning the Powerball
jackpot won in 292.2 million.
That's those are the odds.
The $4.00 of that is mine.
Yeah I said earlier I don't
think it's asking too much if
you're the big winner to
somehow get $4.00 of that
back to me. Good luck with that everyone.
Have you ever run even a small
amount through the lottery rock?
Because you do play.
I want 30 bucks once.
Ohh OK that's your life winnings
when you say it like that.
Doesn't sound like much. But yes. OK.
I'm glad it's staying in the northwest.
Yeah. Yeah, why not?
No, it's cool to
see a local winter.
Well we assume it's a local winner.
Someone can just fly in by
the ticket here and fly out.
Ohh. That would really be ohh.
I didn't even think about that.
Put salt in your wounds. Yeah, so.
There's a get you going. We have a cold
front that marches into town today
somewhere around early afternoon.
It looks like it's a pretty
impressive little front.
The only warning or advisory we
have is for the Cascades snow level
4000 feet to start 2500 feet going
into early evening and it looks
like another one that should bring
our resort 6 to 12 inches of snow.
So that's good news.
OK, here we are right now raining
up in much of Western Washington,
starting to see rain in Astoria
and in the coming hours we'll
start to see rain push into the.
Inland valleys.
Right now we're dry in Portland
48 Salem dry in 45.
Other numbers, 39 out in Bend.
We will be watching wind today,
right now let's see here.
Yeah, story of popping the South winds to 26.
Starting to become noticeably
breezy where there's some rain up
in Cowlitz County right now as well.
I should mention SE winds to 24
for you up and down the valley.
Eventually it will be kind of a
breezy S 15 to 30 mile per hour day.
There could be some higher wind spikes,
could be a 40 to 50 mile per
hour wind later this morning.
Along the headlands are exposed
areas at the coast.
Here's Futurecast 8:00 o'clock this morning,
rain starting to move into the valley again.
These yellow and orange colors
are heavier rain rates.
Here we are at noon.
This would be the main frontal
band right here to the West of I5.
Then that crosses mid afternoon or so,
3:30 we're behind the front and
that will be scattered showers into
perhaps lingering tomorrow morning.
Then tomorrow after that should
go on to be dry.
Forecast models say about 1/2
to 3/4 at the coast,
about 1/4 of an inch up and down I5.
As I show more up in Longview Kelso area 66,
one hundreds, we'll be near 50 today.
It's 48 right now,
so temps aren't going to do much tomorrow.
Early shower, then dry.
If Thursday stays dry and
the clouds we expect,
high clouds are thin enough, we could be 55.
Then the next storm front is Friday,
and then next Monday there's
a front that comes in.
It's very possible that you wake up
Valentine's morning Tuesday of next
week and the snow levels for sticking
snow are around 1000 feet and we
could see some snow showers in the air.
At lower elevations,
if that happens,
you wanna hold your someone
tight and keep warm.
OK. Back to you,
Rod. Thank you.
Stay with us. Coming up this
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