This is KGW news at sunrise.
Striking city workers in Portland
reach a new contract deal,
will tell you what's in it and
what still has to happen before
it's official here from both
sides coming up in a few minutes.
And the Rose City getting a women's
basketball team may be in reach.
The WNBA Commissioner will be in
Portland a little bit later today.
What she's expected to talk about
and we are live this morning,
a proud Mary's
coffees, Portland Cafe on Northeast
Alberta, where they are selling a
cup of coffee today. For $150.00
ohh yeah. Now, not every cup of
coffee there will cost $150.00,
but a special cup will.
It's made with special beans.
Special beam reported on by a special man.
His name is Rod Hill.
You may have heard of him.
Rod has that report from from
Mary Coffee coming up at 5:15.
Wait a minute, you tasted the $150.00 coffee?
I thought about tasting
the $150.00 cup of coffee.
No, the deal was they didn't
want to open, understandably,
so they didn't want to open
up that pound of coffee.
They purchased until this
morning for the people.
They're gonna pay $150.00 per cup.
The track, which makes sense.
We did try one that Once
Upon a time sold for
$6000 for a pound of coffee. I
can't imagine. OK,
I can't wait for your review.
Go ahead and touch me if you like.
Banker operation once about time.
How about $10,000
pound of coffee right
here. My name is Rod Hill.
That's gonna be a fun story
coming up of coffee tasting.
Much like we think of wine tasting.
Or maybe. 9 bourbon tasting alright.
Rain showers on the radar behind me and
actually the rain has really picked up.
I mean it's wet more than not now.
Near downtown all the way off
of the coast this will pass.
I mean overall today we expect it
to be cloudy with some rain but not
a lot around in a pretty quiet day.
Temperatures are comfortable right now.
44 will be 48 at noon.
We get up to about 50 for a high.
Our next storm front comes in tomorrow
and it could be a decent one that's
coming up in my complete forecast.
OK, thank you rod.
We begin with breaking news.
Out of Turkey and Syria this morning
at 2:45 our time this morning,
another 7.5 magnitude
earthquake rocked the country.
This less than 12 hours after
a 7.8 quake hit that area.
The initial quake happened around
5:30 PM our time yesterday.
More than 1300 people have
died in both Turkey and Syria.
Pictures show wow,
collapsed buildings, tons of rubble,
and cars just crushed.
Under the debris right now,
crews are searching for any survivors.
Back here closer to home this morning,
the Clark County Sheriff's Office
says two teens are responsible
for a crash that caused this home
to burst into flames last night.
You can see this video that was
sent to us by one of our viewers.
Deputies say there was a 5 year
old inside that home at the time,
but thankfully that five year
old only suffered minor injuries.
The suspects meanwhile ran from
the crash but were later arrested.
They are 17 years old and 14 years old,
both teenagers charged with driving
under the influence possession
of a stolen motor vehicle.
And intimidating a public servant.
But it it's been an exciting
time just to see all the Members
of this Union coming together.
After three days of striking,
the union representing city
workers in Portland reached a
tentative agreement with the city.
This strike ended early yesterday morning.
Yeah, but this agreement is
still tentative until Portland
City Council approves it.
Bryant Clerkley spoke to workers
at a rally last night who say
this is still a huge win.
Public service. Attack.
That's right. After
three days of striking,
finally a tentative agreement.
Workers and wastewater treatment,
pollution testing, St.
maintenance and Park Rangers
services have reached an agreement
with the City of Portland.
One of the most important parts of
this tentative agreement is a 13%
salary increase for all Portland
city laborers by July 1st of 2023.
At a rally in North Portland Sunday evening,
you could feel the relief in the air.
It's been really. Invigorating to
see people feel their own power and
recognize their value to the city
in a way the city wouldn't. They
want you with your hands
on your tools for as long as possible
for as little pay as they can give you.
During the rally, you could see city
workers holding up signs that said
solidarity with essential workers
and city workers make the city work.
Other parts of the agreement
include increases in standby pay
and increases in annual work hours
for seasonal Park Rangers.
Negotiations between Union
representatives and the city
had gone on for about 10 months.
It's also going to help the city
financially because they're not
going to lose quality people.
They're not going to struggle with
the cost of recruitment and retaining,
they're not going to struggle
with the high cost of low morale
where people do the bare minimum.
The work isn't all the way done,
but few we get to take a breath.
In a statement, the city said
we're grateful that we were able
to maintain the essential services
Portlanders rely on every day.
We're also grateful that.
We can welcome our colleagues back to work.
Killian Haas is an arborist
with the city of Portland,
especially with the cost of living.
If you don't get it now,
then you lose it every year.
For this and the same concept on
saving money early for retirement.
You don't want to lose money on
your pay early in your career.
And we feel that if we didn't address it now,
then it would get worse and it'd
be harder to climb up that hill
and make up the difference. Bryant,
Clerkley, KGW news
the Union still has to ratify.
This new contract, that vote
is scheduled for next week.
Gresham Fire crews honored
firefighter Brandon Norbury yesterday.
Norbury died of cardiac arrest
during a training session on Friday.
There's a great deal of tradition
and honor that goes with a line of
duty death such as Brandon's was.
As we think about it,
it was less than 48 hours ago,
so there's been some grieving,
some people learning to cope.
We'll do our very best to honor his service.
The Fire Chief also spoke about
Norbury's life of service,
sharing that he was a Navy SEAL
and a police officer in Gresham.
Sunday's procession followed Norbury to
Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home in Portland.
Meanwhile, family, friends, fellow
firefighters also honored Jeremy Quimby.
Quimby was a firefighter and paramedic
in Lake Oswego for 13 years.
His family, friends and firefighters
celebrated him at a funeral service
at Sherwood High yesterday.
They say Quinby was pure light in this world.
Quimby died at his home of
cardiac arrest early last month.
The Commissioner of the WNBA
will be in Portland today.
She's here to participate in
a roundtable discussion about
women's sports in Oregon.
So her visit started speculation about
Portland getting another WNBA team.
Devin Haskins is here this morning with more.
Good morning, Devin.
Yeah, good morning, Brenda.
Within the last few months,
the WNBA Commissioner has said
Portland is one of the cities the
league is considering expanding to.
That was part of her response
to Senator Ron Wyden. Who was.
Advocating for a team to
come here to Portland.
If the WNBA did expand to include Porton,
this wouldn't be the first time
the city had a teams franchise.
For three seasons,
the Portland Fire played in the Rose
Garden before the franchise folded,
posting a total of only 37 wins in 96 losses.
Now that was back in 2002.
Fast forward to today and the talk of a
women's team will be front and center
as WNBA Commissioner Kathy Engelbert
takes part in a roundtable discussion.
Sitting at that table will be
the head coaches of both Oregon.
College teams,
as well as executives from the Thorns and
Blazers Blazers and Senator Ron Wyden,
a senator,
is cautiously optimistic
Portland will get a WNBA team.
So I think we're in
the homestretch looking very well positioned.
You look for example at every single
point of data, I mean we're being
considered for final four of finals
and and things of this, this nature
it is, it is clear women's sports in
Oregon are now an economic juggernaut.
Despite the team's dismal record,
attendance actually was pretty good
compared to the WNBA Games this season.
Average of 8000 fans
attended the games back then.
Today, that would be good for a second
most among current WNBA fans or games.
So that got us wondering,
would you buy tickets to a game if
Portland was awarded a franchise?
Taking a look at our Sunrise poll,
it looks like you know 2/3 are saying no,
but obviously there's still time to
vote in that poll. Just go to KGW dot.
A GW Sunrise channel on Twitter.
Not a scientific poll.
No.
Just a little sampling
of some of our viewers.
But I mean, a lot of people are.
I mean, in terms of just
talking about women's sports,
I mean the thorns.
But then also the sports
bra in Northeast Portland.
That's a new sports bar
dedicated to women's sports
that opened up this past year.
I think
I'd be curious if we put up a poll that said,
would you buy tickets to see the Blazers
play sometime during the rest of this season?
How different those numbers would be.
I mean, the fact is,
if you watch our show but don't
live like close to Portland, yeah.
Are you really gonna drive?
All the way here to see any
basketball game anyways,
not a scientific poll.
You went to one of the
women's games last time
around, right? And I believe they won
that game if my memory is correct.
Which makes me think I didn't go to a
enough games according to the win loss.
But it was fun. I mean, you know,
I enjoy going to the big arena setting.
Here's a look at our weather today.
We have quite a bit of rain out there
that's moved in over the past hour or so.
By the way, this band of clouds,
that's tomorrow's front.
There are two fronts coming.
One is tomorrow and another one is Friday.
So those will be the most active two
days that we will see this week.
But ahead of this moisture spilling in,
we do expect it to remain overcast today.
And we've picked up quite a bit of rain.
It's mostly light, but I'm the.
The tone of my voice is surprised how
much that we are seeing right now.
This would be moving through now.
I don't think we get a lot of
rain around this afternoon,
but I am continuing the chance of
a light shower in the forecast this
afternoon and even this evening.
Early morning numbers here on the
West side and other clouds are pretty
comfortable when you were in the low 40s,
even 48 now story 44 in Portland,
45 degrees out in Pendleton.
Here's our Futurecast movie show,
mainly to get you into tomorrow system.
So here we are this morning, cloudy skies.
The Futurecast is not picking up
the rain we have right now.
Well, again,
I would not assume this is going to be dry.
I would remember that there could
be some light showers around.
But here comes the front.
First thing tomorrow morning
Rain starts to pick up.
This is 630 here's 1:00 o'clock.
The front comes into Portland
right about noon.
So that midday hour is going to
be the wettest part of the day
in terms of some breezy winds and
and the rain rates in the morning.
There could be some S westerlies
bouncing between 40 and 50 over
at the coast by the way,
more like 15 to 25 mile per
hour winds here in the valley.
I think here we are tomorrow 8:00
o'clock snow level started about.
4000 feet.
But get this, by Wednesday morning,
the snow levels go all the way
down to about 1500.
Now if you live below 2000 feet,
1500 feet,
you probably look at maybe a couple
inches of snow when you wake up
Wednesday morning on the ground.
Here's how much rain we think
we're going to get.
This is tomorrow, about an inch at the coast,
about 1/2 of an inch up and down the valley,
and it shows that we could see another
10 inches at 5000 feet up in the Cascades.
Timberline actually picked up
15 big ones yesterday.
Meadows picked up closer to a
foot of total snow yesterday,
so that was good.
More mountain snow coming tomorrow 50 today,
49 tomorrow dry time would be
Wednesday afternoon and Thursday.
There's a second front on Friday
that has some lingering showers
potentially into Saturday and of
course Sunday is Super Bowl Sunday.
That looks dry right now for us.
Hey, I went to coffee tasting.
Have you been wine tasting?
Have you been fancy liqueur bourbon tasting?
I would coffee tasting.
Very similar educational experience
of proud Mary Coffee over in
Alberta will have that story.
They're having a big.
Tasting today
150 bucks for the cup is what they're
featuring that story coming up.