This is KGWN news at sunrise. Well,
this could be a big day for straightening
out the Clackamas County ballot mess.
Thousands of votes have yet to be
counted, and today we will hear an
updated timeline to get that done
that a local man doing what he can to
help drivers stay safe by fixing their
tail lights before they get stopped plus.
You know that's how I kind of feel
about Mondays too.
Welcome Monday and welcome to the
kids from Westland High School.
The state champion symphonic choir.
Ohh with us this morning.
Live in our lobby that is a strong
showing of high school students
at 5:00 o'clock in the morning.
We're going to have more on their story
coming up here in just a few minutes.
And sunrise incredible.
They sound amazing.
I thought they'd show up
in jeans and T shirts,
but they're in their formal room.
Isn't that amazing?
Hey, happy Monday everybody. So
glad you're watching. We've
got the choir we have a lot of
news to cover. Do we have a nice day
on the way? Well please a little
applause for the weekend.
Come on, give it up for the
weather people yeah woo.
Thank you all. Yeah, I really
didn't expect to have to ask for that.
We went 7376 over the weekend.
We do have some cloudiness right now.
This is the back edge of the clouds.
Came in yesterday afternoon.
You can see we're starting
to see some breaks up top.
The sun pops up this morning at 5:31,
by the way, so already getting bright out.
We're at 56.
A very comfortable start to your day
and it will be another good one.
We have the cloudiness around
that will give way to increasing
sunshine 60 at noon and we should
get back up to 70 degrees for
high temperature today.
Back to you.
Alright, well we start with the latest
on that bad batch of election ballots
that had a faulty barcode on them from
Clackamas County and today officials
expect to give an updated timeline for
when those ballots will be counted.
Let's go back to last Friday
because by the end of last Friday,
only about a third of the ballots
received by the County Elections
Office had actually been processed
and they estimate as many as 60,000
ballots are part of that bad batch.
The county also says that none of the
ballots with one of those faulty barcodes.
Have actually been counted yet the county
has to duplicate each one of them by hand,
and that process hasn't started yet.
Although it is expected to begin today,
the deadline they're trying
to beat is June 13th.
Because Oregon law states that
all ballots must be counted and
certified by that date in order to
count. Well, Clackamas County Clerk
Sherry Hall says they first noticed
the barcode issue on May 3rd.
That's two weeks before the election,
and she says, instead of testing
actual ballots from the printer,
the ones that go out to the voters.
They tested ballots printed at the
Elections office and by the time they
notice the error on the actual real ballots,
it was too late.
Hall says they've used that system
for years with no issues and gave
several reasons why the county
doesn't test real ballots.
We've talked about that because
if we had ballots printed
by the external printer,
we might have known about
this problem, but it's the timing
of it all. That doesn't allow that.
Sometimes because of the printer
scheduling each of their customers.
You know, just different things.
The error has delayed a key U.S.
House race, Oregon's fifth Congressional
District that includes a large portion
of Clackamas County that race between
seven term Democrat Kurt Schrader,
who so far, is trailing far behind
challenger Jamie McLeod Skinner.
Here are a couple of a couple
of other headlines on your Monday morning.
Portland police are looking for information
about a deadly shooting just before
3:00 o'clock yesterday near 99th and
southeast Ramona when officers arrived.
Someone had already taken the victim to
a fire station with a gunshot wound.
An ambulance drove the man to the
hospital where he later died.
His name hasn't been released and
there's no word on a suspect.
Anyone with information should
contact Portland police,
and in case you missed it,
a teenage boy has been charged
with first degree murder in the
death of 13 year old Milana Lee.
Beaverton police say the suspect
was charged in Washington County
Juvenile court Friday morning.
Because the suspect is a juvenile.
Officials did not release his name or
details as to how or when he was arrested.
Lee's body was found May 11th in a
small stream near Barrows Park two
days after she was reported missing,
and those are some of your Monday
morning headlines.
A Portland man is on a mission
to keep drivers safe while
also reducing unnecessary
traffic stops in the city.
And he says this mission of his
not only addresses public safety,
but also social justice.
Here's KGW's AMA McCarty with more during
a Saturday cleanup in Portland's
Richmond neighborhood.
People living nearby are
folks just passing through.
This is a great service.
Might have noticed Don Merrill and
a sign for his nonprofit CN be seen.
I also printed it this way.
Know that when they drive by,
they look up in the river
mirror and read it, announcing
burnt out tail lights can be replaced here.
When you see enough of these
you just get to know it.
Volunteers inspect and change
the dead light bulbs looks good.
But it's not a lot of people don't even
know that they have a light. That's out
the small but important service.
In some neighborhoods, that's a
bigger deal than other neighborhoods.
Merrill's mission started
a couple of years back
for this one little narrow thing.
I'm very committed to it.
His intent to reduce the number of
people getting pulled over by police
for a minor equipment violation.
My concern when I hear about
people being pulled over for a taillight
is that it can become a dangerous
situation for people in the Community.
Especially people of color,
as what I've noticed when I read the news,
it's a really difficult issue and this is
just a tiny little thing that I'm doing.
I mean, this is not going
to change the world,
but I'm hoping that you know someone
who comes to get a bulb replaced
because they don't want to get
pulled over by the police.
Whether it's because of public safety
or whether it's because they're
they don't want to be profiled.
That's what I'm here for.
In March, Governor Brown signed
Senate Bill 1510 into law.
Part of that legislation aimed
at cutting down on unnecessary
police stops and interactions.
By prohibiting officers from initiating
traffic stops for minor issues, I would
say it is a step in the right direction.
You know, every little bit is
a step in the right direction,
but Merrill says he'll wait to see
whether this new law makes a difference.
No police are police.
They're going to do what they do,
and I'd like to think that
that will mean fewer stops,
but you just you just don't know.
So he and his volunteer team
will continue this outreach.
He said good, isn't
it? The more bulbs that get changed,
the more conversations people have.
Maybe those police stop data
numbers will go down. You know?
That would be a nice goal.
Alma McCarty. KGW news.
You said don't them comment.
Hundreds of students walked out of
class Friday for a climate strike.
It happened just outside of
Portland's City Hall downtown.
Students showed up with a list of demands,
including more green infrastructure,
less freeway expansions,
fewer freeway expansions,
and a divestment in fossil fuels.
I mean, this is our future.
It's the future for everyone.
This is obviously a global issue,
and so it affects every single person,
and it's important for us to express
that like there are so many ways that.
Everyone is impacted,
but especially communities who are
most marginalized in our society like
low income and bipod communities.
Several elected officials,
including City Commissioner Carmen Rubio,
showed up to support the rally
following several speeches
students marched from City Hall to
Revolution Hall in southeast in
the name of climate justice.
So that was back on Friday.
Between then and now, Rod we had
a pretty spectacular weekend, to the
point where you actually demanded a
round of applause for yourself.
Started this program. Painful of you.
Three that I had to ask for
happens every once in a while.
Another nice day today.
Now we started to talk about this.
I don't know.
Three weeks ago that the modeling was
showing and returned to some cooler
wet weather from Memorial Day weekend.
They're still sticking to that,
so it'll be interesting to see
if that turns out to be true,
because it's been an amazingly
consistent pick up by the extended
forecast data that we look at anyway.
But back to today, well,
it's just going to be nice out there.
Again, this is a push of warmer
air that will throw some thick
cloud cover our way tomorrow.
And that may or may not produce
just a little dab of light rain
that would be tomorrow for today.
I mentioned earlier in the show around
the back edge of that cloudiness and
started to come in yesterday afternoon.
I can't find anybody except
for Seattle that's reported.
Any light moisture,
but there are some specks of some
light rain now moving east of The
Dalles out into the Columbia Basin.
Here this the cloud cover.
You see some breaks from the Wells
Fargo camera against 509 in the morning.
We're brightening up sign
up this morning 5:31.
Very comfortable number out the door for you.
56 degrees out at the airport.
Salem's in the 50s, Kelso,
5250 degrees in Newport this morning.
Bakers say looks like the cold
spot on the map at 35 degrees,
so good looking day.
Today we have the cloudiness to start.
That'll break up and get out of here and
we'll see increasing sun during the day.
Northwest winds 5 to 15 Salem 71,
Corvallis, Mcminnville.
close 69 degrees and this shows the
Longview 66 but 68 Battlegrounds.
71 in Vancouver so not as warm
as yesterday but very very nice.
Weather indeed,
and understand this light rain
chance that I've added for tomorrow's
forecast may or may not materialize,
but I have the chance in there and then.
Wednesday It's back to 77 and son
first front comes in on Thursday.
And then there's the table laid
out for some cooler wet weather
times into your holiday weekend
and that no applies for that.
And I'm gonna ask for it.
That's your forecast.
No
worries, rob. Thank you.
Hey for the first time in three
years the National Alliance on Mental
Health of Oregon hosted its NAMI.
Fox fundraiser in person.
The walk in Northeast Portland's
Peninsula Park raised money
from mental health advocacy and
local programs and services.
One in four adults in the US
lives with a mental illness.
That number is 1 in 10 when
it comes to children.
Raising awareness is a big
part of Nami's mission,
and the pandemic has made the
need to connect people with
resources even more urgent.
You can't get away from
what we just experienced.
And an organization like ours,
NAMI helps in that process
of the healing process,
the coping process.
So people stay healthy.
The walk was a chance for people
struggling with mental health to
come together and share their experiences.
Prepandemic NAMI walks, northwest
was the largest mental health walk
on the West Coast. If you'd like
more info about NAMI and it's
free programs, visit namior.org.
The.
We decided what this
Sunrise show could use on a
Monday morning is a little talent
and we actually have a lot of
talent with us this morning in
our lobby. Those are the kids from
Westland High School. The symphonic choir
from Westland High School and they added
state champs to the resume earlier this
month, so we're going to meet some of them.
Hear more about their story with more
singing on sunrise right after this.