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A fire destroys this Southwest
Portland apartment building.
People left without a place to .
Some lost their pets. The
smoke from that fire could
be seen for miles.
I-405 was shut down for a few h.
We're going to bring you a live report
from what's left of this apartmt
building coming up in just a mi.
And we also have the latest spel
election results in Oregon this morning,
including what appears to be a resounding
no from Multnomah County voters
over a proposed capital gains t.
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Thanks for joining us on
this Wednesday edition
of Sunrise. We've got Rodney Hill on standby.
Rod, I've noticed the last couple of nights.
That's about much better sleeping weather.
It has now, especially last nig.
Now this morning we are
running a little bit warmer.
We were 24 hours ago, but I I hear you,
man, I hear you. It's cooler.
Rod, here we go with this forec.
We are awaiting more sunshine.
Today. You can see the brightnes
from the Wells Fargo camera,
of course the sun coming up before 6.
Now we're at 60 degrees outside.
Yesterday at this time
we were I think mid 50s.
Right now 75 is my projection at noon.
I do have a spec up to about 89 at 5:00 PM.
Yesterday it was 85.
If we hit or don't hit 90 today,
however that goes,
I think this is our final
chance to do so of the week.
My updated seven day coming up shortly.
All right, yeah,
more from Rod coming up
here in just a few minutes.
But right now we do want to jump into
our top story This half hour res
from Oregon's special election.
So ballots are still being
counted at this point,
but here's where things stand right now.
We're going to start with the capital
gains tax measure in Multnomah
County that would have funded legal support
for renters facing eviction. It's failing
right now. So far, nearly 82% voting no
on this measure. Staying in Multnomah
County, voters did approve of renewal of
the Portland Children's
Levy for the 4th time. 69%
went with yes on this one.
In the Multnomah County Commissioners
race, former Nike executive Jula
Brimm Edwards has a firm lead rt
now with 58% of the vote in her bid to
claim the District 3 seat and ie
race for Portland School Board Zone 3.
Retired elementary school teacher Patty
Sullivan is in the lead with 56% of the vote.
The interesting thing here?
Derek Peterson, who previously
ran for Multnomah County Sherif,
withdrew from this race after reports
surfaced tying him to Christian nationalists,
But his name remained on the bat
and nearly 32,000 people still
gave him their vote.
And the youngest mayor ever
appointed in West Lynn is
leading his race by a landslide.
You might remember Roy Beallast.
The 23 year old was appointed
interim mayor back in January.
He took over the role after former mayor
Jules Walters resigned to repret
District 37 in the state legislature.
As of 1030 last night,
Beallastoski has 80% of the vot.
And of course, we'll continue to
have the latest on election ress
throughout our area on kgw.com.
You can look at the latest resus
also right now by going online as well
as all of our social media paged
you'll see our latest election results.
This morning fire investigators will be at
this Southwest Portland apartment building
trying to figure out what caused a huge fire
to throw up that gigantic plume of smoke
that could be seen really from miles away.
The 113 year old building was engulfed
in flames starting yesterday morning.
Crews had to rescue some of
the people living there.
Others used fire escapes.
So 14th and Taylor right arounde
apartments is blocked off this morning.
Crews are worried that part of
the building could collapse.
Devin Haskins is there live
for us this morning.
Devin, what else can you tell u?
Yeah, right now as you said,
SW 14th blocked off here
so I'm at Southwest Salmon
and 14th. Fire crews have been
out here all night long just
keeping an eye on the fire.
The fire is out right now.
You can see one of the fire crews coming
down the ladder right now.
Just kind of getting a a
look from the oversight.
One of the firefighters actually
just came up to us and said that
the roof is completely gone,
but the 4th floor is still ther.
Another major concern is that wall that's
on the SW 14th and Taylor side that yes,
that looks like it's buckling o.
It is in fact is buckling out and that's
one of the major concerns aboutf
that will fall or when that will fall.
Around 60 apartment buildings make or
60 apartments make up this buil.
While some residents walked out on their own,
others were trapped on the fire
escapes leaving everything behid
including their pets.
The four alarm fire started around 10:30
yesterday morning and at the height of it.
More than 120 fire crews were on scene,
smoke so thick that I Four O 5 had to be
completely shut down yesterday afternoon.
It's since been reopened.
The Red Cross did set up an overnight shelter
at the University of Portland campus.
It's not clear how many residens
that were displaced by the fire.
This more than a century year old building
built in 1910 had unreinforced masonry walls,
which is a big cause of concern, like I said,
for the potential or eventual collapse.
At least one firefighter
was injured in the fire.
We're told he received a cut on the forehead
after the fire blew out some glass windows,
but then continued working.
Flames could be seen
ripping through the roof,
shooting multiple feet in the a,
all while residents watched ther
building burn from across the freeway.
I thought maybe it was started
in my apartment for some reason,
so I opened the front door.
Black smoke in the hallway.
I knew I wouldn't get down Sout.
I had to kick the fire escape with my dog. We
moved down to the third floor. It looked
like it was coming out from thee
and it's pretty
darn scary. So we all evacuated
the building and then then we
watched the flames just burst o.
The city says it had sent a letter to
the owner of the building notin0
violations after residents complained.
But as of Monday,
a city inspector found most violations
had actually been corrected.
The fire alarms were big concer,
Portland Fire says, though theye
working and going off many residents.
Didn't believe that the fire alarms were
going off because they'd been going off
so frequently most recently and so they
just thought it was another false alarm.
Fire investigators will be back
out later today to try and see
if they can determine A cause.
And also a building inspector
will come to take a look
at the the building, again,
as we said, is looking to seem
like it is leaning for now.
We're live in Southwest Portlan.
We'll send it back to you.
Yeah, a lot going on.
Keep us posted, Devin. Thank yo.
Other headlines this morning a fourth
Oregon lawmaker has been disqualified
from running for reelection.
State Senator Cedric Hayden from Fall Creek
reached 10 unexcused absences yesterday
on day 11 of the GOP legislative walkout.
Republicans now say they're boycotting
the session because bills on gun
reform and abortion are hyper partisan.
A new law prevents any lawmaker
with 10 unexcused absences from
running for reelection.
Right now, six other Republicans have eight.
Up in Olympia,
Governor Jay Inslee signed a law making
drug possession and public use f
drugs in Washington a gross misdemeanor.
Both chambers passed the bill yesterday,
the first day of the special session.
Lawmakers failed to agree on a
compromise during the regular session.
Which meant drug possession would have
become legal statewide as of July 1st.
The new law also creates A pretrial diversion
program to get people into treatment.
And a heads up this morning,
if your commute takes you over a downtown
Portland bridge beginning at 7:00 AM,
Multnomah County says expect
frequent bridge lifts because te
Willamette River is running hig.
The Broadway,
Burnside,
Morrison and Hawthorne Bridges
will be staffed 24/7 through at
least early next week.
And those are some of
your Wednesday headlines.
All right, that was a live
look at downtown Portland by
way of our what was our our Rose
City Sky Cam.
Now we've got what our Wells
Fargo sky Cam. Oh yeah,
I've been here 16 years figurint
all those sky cams.
Rodney Hill, right where he's
supposed to be to deliver
today's forecast. By the way,
let me say that Bridge live sto.
Overall, that's a good story.
Means we've got a good, healthy snowpack.
Rivers are running high this time of the
year, which you would want them to be.
So good news, right?
Good news. I mean,
not great news if you're sitting there,
you know, while the bridge is going up,
but that's the way it goes.
All right, here we go.
High pressure Ridge,
see the green and yellow colors.
This is the warm pattern. Yeste,
85 actually snapped would have been a
four day run of 90 degree temperatures.
So that's over but the four day.
Stands as the most 9 degree
heat we've ever had.
The month of May since PDX
Records began back in 1940.
Okay, we may hit 90 today.
I've got us 89, but I have lowed
the temperatures in the coming .
So I really feel like today is going to
be our final day this week to hit 90.
And then this is Sunday,
which you've been talking about.
Remember Sunday,
things start to change.
We have a push of cooler weather
coming in and see it in blue and
then let me play this one more .
Here we are next Wednesday.
The cooler air is still on top of us.
So growing confidence that
maybe all of next week,
certainly Monday through Fridayf
next week will only be in the 60s and
70s and several of those days he
a chance to see some major rain.
So we get through this week and
then we'll be much more comfort.
Right now we're pretty quiet radar wise.
We do have some showers out arod
Baker City. Good morning to you folks.
About that direction between John Day
and Baker City and then up north along 395.
Some rain shower activity.
The chance calls for a scattered shower or
or thunderstorm across Eastern Oregon today,
but not expecting much total activity.
There's that camera view that Dw
showed you from the top of the s
Fargo building where it's 60 degrees.
Currently, Salem is about the s.
Kelso's 57, Newport 52.
Everybody's about the same.
Really.
Ben's 54 this morning.
John Day, good morning.
Your current number is 54.
Futurecast showed a little
bit of early cloudiness,
backing off for partly cloudy
skies coming to the beach.
It shows a spotty shower there
around Mount Adams and Jefferso.
But this is 630,
so obviously the Cascades
you can say mostly dry today,
just watching for a spotty shower popping up.
And again, not much thunderstorm
activity even out over the blue.
Stay pretty quiet overall.
All right, Mr.
Sunshine. Miss Sunshine.
Miss Sunshine, 89 degrees.
In Salem today expected again
obviously maybe we hit 90.
I just do the math.
If you do the math from
where we were yesterday,
it would have a stopping just s.
This shows 86 up in Longview 89,
eight.
We're going down
89878684736870 degrees
rod. Thank you. Stay with us
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