This is KGW news at Sunrise 252 in
the morning when those shots came off,
and so as a as parents out there,
what are your 12 and 14 years old
doing at 2:52 in the morning?
Yeah, it is the question.
A car full of kids hit with at
least eleven shots in a shooting
shooting early yesterday morning.
Coming up, you're going to hear
from those neighbors who heard
it all. And as kids go back to
school here in a few weeks,
staffing shortages remain a huge
issue for schools across Oregon.
So coming up. In just a minute,
we're going to share the ideas
the local lawmakers have to
hopefully deliver a solution. Plus,
it has attracted national
attention in the past,
and it's now a local landmark.
Devin Haskins explains the history
behind these squirrel crossing
bridges strung over streets
around Longview in a new edition
of our What's in a name series.
He's going to be live
there in about 15 minutes.
And Chris McGinnis doing one
more day for Rodney Hill,
filling in the weather center.
So I know we're gonna look ahead to
this weekend's weather forecast.
Can I can just talk about yesterday
for a moment a very weird day
how bad we busted. So weird no.
But the fact of the matter is we
were at 73 this time yesterday.
It only got up to 85.
Yeah, started very warm,
never got hot clouds here there.
And actually
those clouds actually yielded
some precipitation in some cases
and a lot of cases it evaporated
before it hit the ground.
Yeah, but that evaporative
cooling kept the atmosphere cool.
I'm not complaining about that.
I don't think many people
are the heat advisory,
of course was cancelled early
for the West side of the state,
and I don't think many folks
will complain about that.
Whether it's just the meteorologist
that got the forecast wrong, right?
Alright, here's the live look
from our Rose City Sky camera.
The buildings of downtown.
Obviously it's dark and early.
We're good hour and 15 minutes
away from sunrise this morning.
72. Last check at PDX.
It's 69 in Hillsboro, 66 Sherwood,
Mid 60s in the Willamette Valley as well.
You're probably sitting there saying,
I thought it was supposed
to be cooler this morning.
Hold on the cooler air is slowly seeping
in and that will be reflected with
the cloud cover and daytime highs.
Certainly not getting out
of the mid 80s today,
and that's probably where we
are as we head into the first
half of our weekend as well.
More on that coming up in just a few minutes.
All
right. We will check back in with
Chris here shortly, but we have new
information to get you right now about
a shooting in the Rocky Butte area
of Northeast Portland that we first
covered yesterday here on sunrise.
It happened just a few hours before we came
on the air Thursday right around 3:00 AM
at Target. Police say was a car full
of kids that was sprayed with bullets,
leaving two of them injured.
Mike Benner has the story.
Right here this one went through the
garage and then into the wall where
it says C3 late Thursday
morning at top Northeast,
Portland's Rocky Butte Bruce Duncan
points out the bullet strikes to his
home following an overnight shooting.
I I start work at three in the morning
and I and I was in the kitchen.
You know, getting some breakfast or
putting together a snack and I was
just walking to the dining room.
When the shots came off,
and it's just like a whole slew
of shots all in the second night
immediately hit the floor.
Even more alarming than that,
the intended targets a car full of
kids between the ages of 12 and 14.
The shooter or shooters, police say,
fired off 38 rounds, 11 of them
hitting the car with the kids inside.
It's 257 in the 2:52 in the
morning when those shots came off,
and so as as parents out there.
You're 12 and 14 years old
doing it 252 in the morning
that parts unclear.
What we do know is that a 14 year old
boy suffered serious but non life
threatening injuries while a 12 year
old girl suffered minor injuries.
The three other kids escaped unharmed,
at least physically home security
video obtained by KGW shows one of
the kids knocking on the front door
of a nearby home looking for water.
Homeowner Paulette Holly obliged.
How were they quiet subdued?
Yeah, and I asked
the young lady who got hit,
she was OK and she said yeah so
far this year there have been more
than 840 shootings in Portland.
51 people killed by the gunfire,
another 250 people injured,
including the kids in Thursday morning
shooting when we talk about kids,
you know, we want to protect our
kids and when we have gun violence
happening in our neighborhoods,
it's bad enough.
But when it's affecting our children,
that's certainly.
Increases the concern for me
and I know for many of our
community members, and again
here people like Bruce Duncan
whose house was one of two
hit by the gunfire overnight.
I mean it was, you know,
within 2 feet of the path
that I was about to walk.
I'm Mike Benner for KGW news
in your headlines this morning.
A 41 year old Bend man is charged with
murder after a homeowner discovered the
bodies of 218 year olds in his garage.
When he got home Wednesday night,
police say that.
Suspect Wesley Brady had been doing
work with the victims around the
home at the request of the homeowner.
Well, according to police,
they had been drinking after
they got done work with work.
When Brady got into a fight with one
of the teens and then killed them,
both Brady also faces charges of sex,
abuse and abuse of a corpse,
an Oregon State representative from Canby,
arrested at the Clackamas
County fair this week.
James Heebe is accused of disorderly
conduct and interfering with the.
Police officer,
the Republican told The Oregonian he had
just left the rodeo after 4 beers and had
just lit a cigarette near the fair exit.
A woman asked him to put the cigarette
out and then she called police.
We don't know what happened in between.
Then he also told deputies he was carrying
a permitted concealed weapon at the time.
The Sheriff's Office has not confirmed
the details surrounding his arrest.
Sadly,
another wildland firefighter has died
battling a fire in Southern Oregon.
Yesterday in Josephine County officials not
releasing that person's name quite yet.
It is the 2nd wildland firefighter
to die in Oregon this month.
The last happened on August 10th when
a firefighter died from a falling tree
while working a fire near Oak Ridge,
and those are some of your morning headlines.
The Department of Labor released the latest
unemployment numbers and they
showed that fewer Americans
filed for unemployment benefits.
Last week, application numbers
fell slightly and the four
week average for claims is also
down. Analysts say
unemployment applications are a
good indicator of both layoffs and
for where the job market is headed
well with the tight labor market,
many industries are struggling to
hire enough staff and for school
districts that's taking on new urgency
as the year is about to start.
KGW Christine Pittwater
takes a look at how Oregon.
Lawmakers are trying to
address school staffing issues
all across the state. Even
before the pandemic, school
districts struggled with staffing.
But the pandemic made it harder
to recruit and retain employees,
from teachers to special
education staff and bus drivers.
So we started working on it right
away and started forming work groups
to look at it in the short term,
the medium term, the long term,
and Senator Michael Dembrow represents
parts of Northeast and Southeast Portland.
He also chairs the Senate's
education committee.
Last year he headed up efforts to form
a work group made-up of teachers,
parents, legislators from both sides
of the aisle and others in education,
all dedicated to solving
school staffing shortages.
The group made progress in
the last legislative session.
Dembrow says legislation that
passed did several things,
the first of which is that this school year,
districts will have additional funding.
We're able to allocate $78
million to go out to the different
districts for short term.
Strategies, that is,
strategies that would be of use
this coming school year.
To retain teachers to recruit
teachers you know in some cases
that is taking the form of bonuses
and he says a grant was also made
available giving districts money to
pay for things like substitutes so
teachers could have more time to plan
and collaborate districts that applied
received dollars based on enrollment.
Dembrow says they're also trying to make
it easier to get a teaching license,
not in terms of the standards,
but in terms of streamlining.
The process giving the teachers
Standards Practices Commission
which overseas licensure some more
staff to be able to help people
navigate through the process
and underway right now, is research
looking into staffing levels statewide.
You know we have 197 different school
districts and the state as a whole
doesn't really have a clear sense
of what the staffing needs are on
the ground at the individual levels.
The hope is that data will inform.
Legislation dembrow plans to introduce
in the next session starting in February.
Christine pigwich. KGW news.
We've been talking
a lot lately about kids
going back to school soon.
How soon we're talking about
not next week, but the week after. That's
the return. Well, no,
for for a Portland public all kinds
of different start dates, but yeah,
a lot of them last week of August,
so it's coming quickly.
Christmas, yeah it is.
And we know this because we have one
about ready to enroll in kindergarten.
Well, has enrolled and we'll
be starting matriculating.
Patrick McGuinness.
Kindergartener watch out.
See if Joseph you got a
wild one on your hands,
alright, let's get you out
the door right now. We'll
give you a live look at downtown Portland.
The pretty lights of downtown from a
Rose City Sky camera you see a few.
I think there's a concrete truck
where he's where he's going.
He's taking the I5 S Morrison exit all right.
It is 72 degrees. Last check at PDX.
It is still warm out there this morning.
It's still a little bit on the
muggy side that will improve,
and in fact temperatures are not
going to warm a whole lot today.
We're certainly done with the
90 degree heat for today.
I can tell you that for sure.
72 As we mentioned at the
airport 67 in West Linn.
That said,
for those of us West of the Cascades,
we're feeling that relief coming
in now east of the Cascades.
It's a different story.
It's 82 degrees in the Dows.
The Dows will probably spike up to the
low to mid 90s today before the cooling
kicks in that side of the mountains.
And so for that reason we still have heat
advisories and excessive heat warnings
for the East Gorge and the Columbia Basin.
For one more day today,
but that will be it for the heat,
for that part of the state as well.
Alright,
here's a look at the satellite radar
imagery over the last six hours.
One thing that's kind of interesting
this morning is if we actually had a
fair amount of lightning strikes just
West of the Olympic Peninsula this morning.
And over the last six hours,
you can see they've been kind
of concentrated up there.
The system that's creating those is also
helping to get that onshore push invigorated.
And so that shows up here in futurecast.
That's why I've got the cool arrow here
that will keep the clouds pushing inland.
It's likely that the clouds envelope.
The chunk of the Willamette
Valley this morning.
They probably will burn off this afternoon,
but once they do the atmosphere,
you know on top of us,
it's just not nearly as warm as
it's been the last couple of days.
And that translates to
cooler temperatures today.
So we go 84 today morning
clouds tomorrow again 84.
We probably briefly spike
up a little bit on Sunday,
and then we knock it back
down a little bit Monday,
and I'm just because nobody's interested
in this part of the forecast,
and I'm going to stand here
and cover the 90s for
next week's cover the ugly again.
Again yes, alright,
yes. I love that weekend Chris.
Thank you. OK coming up there is
something nutty about Longview.
They sure do love their squirrels so much
so that locals build bridges overhead
for them to cross busy streets safely.
Our latest in our what's in a name
series takes a look back at the
history behind what's called the
Nutty Narrows that's coming up next
before we get to that we want
to let you know about this.
Our KGW school supply drive.
Big day yesterday.
Because we jumped up in
terms of 6 success rate,
we have now helped more than
7500 students in the area.
Thanks to your donations of
cash and school supplies,
there is still time to give and
we want to help more students.
So easiest way to give,
I think is right there at the register
at your local Safeway and Albertsons stores.
You can add a donation on the pin
pad at the checkout stands plus all
this week when you give cash to the
school supply Dr Nika, IBEW Local 48.
There was electrical workers.
They're matching your cash donations.
They're doing that up to $25,000.
So we thank them as well as our
school supply drive partners at
on point Community Credit Union,
Safeway, Albertsons,
Intel and ****** Auto Group.