this morning on sunrise,
a local advocate for victims of sexual assault and a rape survivor herself
is accusing the head football coach at Michigan State of sexual harassment.
We'll share more details about their two year working relationship
and her accusations against the coach. Coming up in our top story.
He has been upbeat and full of jokes and joy throughout the whole process.
That woman is talking about one of the teens who was stabbed as
they got off a max train earlier this month in Southeast Portland.
Now she and another friend are giving an update on how that teen is doing. Plus
after a couple of big wins on the football field this past weekend,
Oregon State and Washington State earned another victory in court.
Those fans we just heard from cheering a judge's ruling that prevents
the PAC 12 board of directors from meeting later this week.
We'll explain how that decision benefits the bes and the cougs
as they fight for control of the PAC 12 conference.
Hey, happy Tuesday morning. Glad you're here. Rod on the desk, Chris here too.
Of course, Drew Rod. We begin with you
happy yesterday was. Yes.
And my mood was not.
Oh, no
controls everything.
All right, let's get you to what's going on. This will be a very similar day.
The reason I bring that up yesterday, it was 80 down in Eugene. It was 79 in Portland.
Most of us stayed in the seventies. We'll see the same thing today.
It's kind of a mix of partly the mostly cloudy skies
moving across and there is a shower chance right now.
Radar is showing some rain showers along the Washington Coast.
Kind of a mixed bag of broken clouds up top
currently at 61 degrees to the best stop. We go
again. I'm saying mostly cloudy in the graphic but like you
kind of partly sunny, mostly cloudy back and forth.
50 is out the door, 71 degrees at noon. Kids get out of school with light winds.
About 77. Here's Chris mcguinness Rod.
We take you live out to Linton photojournalist,
Eric Patterson staged on a highway 30 here
and literally within the last 10 minutes here,
we had a gnarly little two car crash here that had one lane blocked each direction.
Eric is here just to show us, hey,
that road has now reopened so we can close the book on
that highway 30 rolling along now just fine through the Linton area.
Remember the speed slows through Linton, right?
Compared to as you get out towards deeper into Multnomah County, all right quick.
Look at the drive out of Clark County getting busier at the interstate bridge.
But so far we're looking good there as we are out in Gresham guys.
No other crashes, no unexpected delays. Ok. Thank you, Chris.
A hearing is scheduled the next month for Michigan State's head
football coach accused of sexually harassing a local rape survivor.
A warning the details may be triggering Brenda Tracy who lives outside of
Portland is a well known local advocate for victims of sexual assault.
She also helps college athletes across the country.
She says four men raped her in 1998 2 of them Oregon State football players.
But those charges were eventually dropped.
Most recently,
a USA today report says Tracy filed a
complaint against Michigan State University head football coach,
Mel Tucker last December claiming he had conducted non consensual
phone sex with her in April of the same year.
Tucker told investigators the act was consensual.
MS U has suspended Tucker without pay
objective has been and remains
focus on conducting a fair, thorough and unbiased investigation
and
allowing the processes
to play out.
This includes
protecting confidentiality
of the climate
and put in place interim measures.
The hearing scheduled for next month will
determine if Tucker violated school policy.
Also this morning,
we're hearing from friends of one of the teenagers who
was stabbed on a max train earlier this month,
the 17 year old is out of the hospital but still
recovering at home and the suspect now faces hate crime charges,
Blair Best has more from one of the teens friends.
First, I will say this situation did not dim the bright light
that radiates from Damian.
Brianna Rehana and her son Emanuel are close friends with Damian.
One of the two teens stabbed earlier this month on a max train in Southeast Portland.
I just couldn't believe it. I mean, my heart sank. I just heard that
he had gotten stabbed on the
the attack sent Damien to the hospital for emergency open chest surgery.
He has been upbeat and full of jokes and joy throughout the whole process.
And
that touches me
because when I left his hospital room,
I felt uplifted in an unprovoked attack.
Police say Damian was stabbed once in the arm and chest.
Doctors say the knife nicked his heart. The focus is for him
to heal from the surgery
since he bled into his heart and chest cavity.
Court documents show the attack happened on September 2
just before six
night,
Damien and a group of friends were getting on
the max train when investigators say Adrian Cummins,
a 25 year old homeless man who struggles with addiction,
yelled racial slurs at them before stabbing Damien and another teen with a knife.
Cummins now faces attempted murder, assault and biased crime charges. To me
that is one of the most vile and disgusting things that can happen
is a racially
motivated attack. The other victim was treated on scene and is expected to be ok.
Police originally reported both as having non life threatening injuries
but we're told that wasn't the case for Damian.
The friends that were there
in the group
helped keep Damien alive until Ems could get there.
As for Cummins, prosecutors argue he's a threat to the public.
So he's being held behind bars without the
option of bail until his next court appearance
which is set for September 28.
Adrian Cummins didn't win,
did not win that day. Blair Best Kgw
News
this morning.
Students in the Evergreen school district I
think are preparing to have their second day
of school after missing seven days of classroom time due to a teacher strike.
Educators voted to officially approve a new
contract with the district yesterday morning.
The agreement includes more special education support,
teachers and cost of living increases.
The missed school days will be made up throughout the year.
Portland public school teachers are scheduled to meet with the
district this Friday to continue their discussions about a new contract
negotiations here have not been successful at this point and things
could be lining up for a teacher strike in Portland.
The teachers list of demands include higher pay,
higher cost of living increases and a cap on class sizes.
The district says it's offered
fair and sustainable proposals.
There have been two bargaining sessions in the last few
weeks with the next one scheduled for this Friday.
If negotiations fail,
the earliest teachers could strike would be the end of October.
It may be early on in the college football season
but both Oregon State and Washington State remain undefeated.
Both schools also undefeated in court.
A Washington State judge ruled in favor of both schools
that are fighting for control of the PAC 12 conference.
We want to bring in Devin has
for more on what this means
and there is a temporary restraining order against the other teams.
Yeah, good morning. Essentially.
What this means is that the temporary restraining order
will keep the PAC 12 commissioner and the eight schools that are
departing from the conference from meeting as a board later this week.
The ruling also sets up a hearing that's expected to decide who
makes up the voting members of the PAC 12 board of directors
as the only schools committed to the PAC 12.
Beyond this year,
both Oregon State and Washington State want
full control of any decisions being made.
So those eight schools that are leaving the conference after this year, Arizona,
Arizona State, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington,
California and Stanford US C and UCL A
were both stripped of their voting rights
last year when they announced their departure.
The lawyer for WSU and Os U argued that since
the eight schools announced their intentions to leave the conference,
they gave up their right to vote and make any decisions that impact the conference,
the schools that are departing, argue what constitutes a formal notification
after the temporary restraining order was issued by
the judge in Whitman County in Washington State.
Oregon State's president issued a statement that
said she was pleased with the decision.
Adding the two remaining members must be able to chart their own path forward.
The lawyer for both schools argued in court that the PAC 12 would
be violating its own bylaws by allowing the departing schools to participate.
It's been very clear for the last
14 months that members who announce they're leaving
the conference and join the competitors can no longer participate on
the board or make decisions on behalf of the conference.
All right.
So the judge did allow the conference to,
to continue to conduct day to day business as usual.
Another hearing will have to be set to clarify those conference bylaws.
So a lot remains to be undecided or remains to be decided,
but a small victory for both Os U and WSU
guys.
It seems pretty simple to us. Right. Rod and I are like, listen to
the whole time,
like if you choose to leave the conference,
you shouldn't have a vote in where the conference goes from here.
So all in favor of the winner of the Washington State
Oregon State football game going to the Rose Bowl every year.
I
who to actually play here. Not this weekend, but next, that's the week four matchup.
It is Oregon State against Washington state.
So an early showdown, the winner should go to the Rose Bowl.
Honestly, even as a non football watcher, it makes sense to me.
Like, why would they have a stake in that? Yeah.
So, anyway, so no debates on the desk this morning, we're all in agreement,
Rob, what do you have for us? Weather wise? Right. Similar pattern to yesterday.
Kind of day two of the same type of weather
and then we'll start to change gears tomorrow.
You still have the hot nineties showing up on my seven day.
Here's that cool pool of air yesterday, the coast of Oregon,
uh most areas had at least a dab of rain anywhere from
a trace to about 5 107 inch showed up right now.
Radar is showing this band of rain near in the Long
Beach Peninsula and mostly running up along the Washington Coast.
A future cast shows that band of showers and otherwise like yesterday,
kind of partly saying to most cloudy, partly sign to mostly cloudy winds are like,
except for a west wind in the gord.
It could eventually gust as high as 25 between Hood River and the Dallas.
Uh Here's a trace of rain just a reminder this afternoon,
at least possible that the clouds will drop a rain
drop that would be just a trace of moisture.
Uh And then tomorrow is the transition day. This has a starting off with valley fog.
You notice here, I five, there's a valley that, that would be low clouds and fog.
It doesn't really show a true marine layer.
Um, so we'll see what we'll end up with tomorrow morning during the day.
We'll clear out of all that and then we start to warm up.
It will still be comfortable Wednesday. But Thursday we could hit 90 just like that.
Ok. So we have no watches, no warnings.
Air quality generally good across Oregon and Washington,
we have temperatures mostly around 50 degrees. John Day, Ben Baker City Salems at 53
51 along the Columbia PDX and the dow each at 61 and 64
best chance of a shower that would be,
but we will be again along the coast. Wind should be light today.
And you know, at times yesterday, we had sunshine here too.
I know can be at one point was just flat out clear.
So it's a mixed bag, 67 degrees expected in Pacific City
Salem 78 Corvallis 79. Again, very similar numbers to what we had yesterday.
Long view, 72 battleground, 76 Vancouver 77.
And then tomorrow we clear out, we get up to 80 then we get hot again.
89 Thursday, 94 Friday,
92 Saturday.
And then at least we drop into the mid 80
s on Sunday and Monday and that is your forecast.