This is KGW news at sunrise.
What Ocean keeps about is
bringing the ability to explore
the oceans to everyone. More
than a century ago,
the Titanic sank in the North
Atlantic. Today, five people
are missing after boarding a
submersible and embarking on an
underwater tour of that sunken ship.
Turns out the company that owns
the sub is from Washington.
Also this morning,
it is the start of day two
of this week's Providence
Nurses strike and we are live again
this morning in Northeast Portland
where nurses are picketing outside of
Providence Portland Medical Center.
We'll recap what these local nurses
want and what Providence has already
offered coming up in just a minute
and a country singer from Oregon City
just may be on her way to stardom.
How some big names are helping
her win over new fans.
Well, as you probably have heard,
yeah, we've had some wild weather
over the weekend and it did
not let up yesterday either.
There were another 5 waterspouts that
formed off Cannon and Rockaway beaches.
It lasted anywhere from 10 to 20
minutes and one witness said he was
having breakfast with his family
when they were totally surprised.
Yeah, it's pretty interesting.
I mean nothing that I've ever
seen before for sure and and I
didn't expect to ever experience
it. We saw a boat, a fishing
boat out in the water, just.
Going as fast as they could away from it.
So then around 3:00, o'clock
yesterday just South of Salem,
another funnel clouds spotted near I-52.
Funnel clouds and waterspouts
and hail storms. Oh, my.
Welcome to the Midwest. We should probably
remind people that tomorrow
is the official start of
summer. I think it's 8:57 local
time in the morning. OK. Yeah.
Will be summer and then things
will all change, Right, Ron?
Will they look at the radar this morning?
This is going to be a transition day.
So what we've been having the crazy weather
going back to Father's Day on Sunday
is because of a cold air mass up top.
Generally that air mass starts to warm
and it will start to ease its way
out of here over the next 24 hours.
Now this will be another day with
scattered showers. Right now,
if you look see most of the actions,
coast and valley, there's not much going on.
If you're going to hit I5,
it's another cool morning at Scappoose.
Good morning 44. You were at 42.
It's 44 out and 40.
Grove and Hillsborough, Westland, 49.
Salem and Kaiser, each setting at 50 degrees.
There's estate at 45 this morning,
so here we go, Scattered showers,
but far fewer number.
Now, if we go crazy with sun this afternoon,
the temperature starts to warm up.
That would fuel still the
chance of a spotty downpour.
With some hail, we'll go 54 right now,
61 at noon.
And then 66 of five,
o'clock Chris McGinnis back this morning.
Good morning.
All right. Let's get you
back onto the roads earlier.
Crash by the way on the southbound
Interstate bridge. That's clear.
That's out of the way.
I5 traffic actually looks good.
This is what it looks like right now
through North Portland and Marine Drive.
And you can see we're rolling along
just fine on that side of town.
Quick check of the Vista Ridge Tunnel.
Eastbound traffic rolling
along just fine as well.
Mind your mind your lane spacing
there and the no lane changes
in the tunnel and all that.
We're all through a pretty good start, guys.
No other crashes, no delays just yet.
All right, Chris, thank you for that update.
Right now we do want to head back out live
to Northeast Portland where Providence
nurses are starting day two of their
five day strike picketing their outside
Providence Portland Medical Center
close to 1800 Nurses and clinicians
from Providence Portland Seaside and
Home health and Hospice walked off
the job at 5:30 yesterday morning.
Their demands include higher wages,
more time off and better healthcare benefits.
In the meantime,
Providence is bringing replacement workers.
Transferring patients to other hospitals
and also canceling non-emergency
procedures to get through the rest of
this work week without normal staffing.
This is a challenging time
for them, for nurses,
for our community and for all of us.
So it'll be important that as this strike
concludes that we come back to the table,
are able to negotiate a fair contract and
really move into healing and reconciliation.
We're the face of the company and we're
the ones that provide everything.
So when we say there's something wrong.
It shouldn't go in one ear and out the other.
It should be listened to
like there's a problem.
This is the problem.
Let's brainstorm solutions
and let's make it happen.
So where did negotiations stand right now?
Providence says it's already offered
nurses a contract that includes
an additional 30 hours of PTO
over the course of three years,
a 12% raise in the first year
of that contract and 3% raises
over the final two years.
Providence also says it will
not negotiate any further while
this week's strike is happening,
but it is looking to schedule
more bargaining sessions once
this week's walkout is over.
After a whole lot of back and forth tomorrow,
Legacy is reopening its
birthing center in Gresham.
It closed back in March without
getting state approval first.
Administrators blame staffing challenges
and also said not enough babies were
being born there to keep the center open.
The community pushed back,
and after several months and a
couple of different reopening dates,
Legacy says the center will now
be staffed around the clock.
During the course of
the dive, they lost communications,
and we have not had communications
with the submersible since then.
So now to the North Atlantic Ocean,
where the search for five people aboard
a missing submersible continues.
The US Coast Guard says they're
looking in an area about 900 miles
off the coast of Massachusetts. So
this group went to explore the
Titanic wreck on Sunday morning,
but lost contact a little less than
two hours after that mission started.
the Today Show will cover the
latest on the search this morning,
starting at 7:00 o'clock.
But first, here's Sebastian Robertson
with our sister station in Seattle
to fill us in on the Washington
connection to this national story.
So we're working very closely at this
point to make sure that we're doing
everything that we can do to locate the
submersible and rescue those on board.
It's all hands on deck as the
US Coast Guard leads the search
for a missing submersible.
If you know how to play a video game,
you can drive one of our Subs.
The submersible is called the Titan,
the work of Everett based Ocean Gate.
Which runs the private venture to
explore the depth of the Seas,
specifically the wreckage of the
Titanic found some 12,000 feet below
the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
A project that KING5 profiled.
That's Ocean Gate CEO Stockton Rush.
You get to the bow and there's it.
There's that moment of awe when
you're you're looking at the bows and
what This is what I've seen so many
times for 1/4 of $1,000,000 socalled
adventure tourists can purchase a
ticket aboard the deep sea missions.
According to the US Coast Guard,
the vessel was reported overdue
Sunday evening.
Earlier that morning,
it made its final radio call just one
hour and 45 minutes into its dive,
a vessel that the company reports
has enough oxygen to be underwater
for a total of 96 hours.
It is a remote area,
and it is a challenge to conduct
a search in that remote area.
But we are deploying all available
assets to make sure that we can locate
the craft and rescue the the people
on board the Coast Guard,
confirming 5 souls are aboard the
small exploratory submersible.
All right, Rod just walked
out into the studio.
We have to talk more about this weather.
When I look at my backyard,
it looks like there's snow
on my neighbor's roof.
It was the hail in Clackamas that came down,
and it just lasted because it
wasn't that warm yesterday.
It wasn't. Think of the Stampy comeback.
I don't have one you were showing me.
That shot of the Timberline
this morning has its
second second day in a row
of fresh snow up there.
Yeah, I'm going to show that to you.
I do want to start with this photo.
I don't think we showed this to you earlier.
This was the latest inland.
Funnel cloud that was spotted this
was three o'clock yesterday afternoon
South of Salem in Marion County.
Obviously Chris Lindsay posting this
and Weather Service tweeting it hashtag
Oregon weather but there you can see
right there is a funnel did not touch
down but gosh we've had I mean if you
count the water spouts and the and the
inland funnels being reported and of
course the EF0 tornado that we had in
Harrisburg down in Linn County back
on Father's Day you're coming up with
a tow of almost a dozen different.
Funnel formations.
Crazy, right?
Over the last couple of days,
which made me go back in the record book
and like how common or not uncommon is this?
So EF0 tornadoes.
We had two of them,
Damascus and Saint Helens in 2020,
the walk on battleground 2021
near Sandy 2022.
Now we got the Harrisburg one
down in Linn County 2023.
So and I didn't look back farther
but now we know at least four years
in a row we've had one to two of
these tornadoes every flipping year,
right so.
That's certainly getting out of the
uncommon category, if you will.
Here's what Drew is mentioning,
a little bit of fresh snow up
there at Timberline Lodge 29.
There's a temperature today's the day
the air mass finally starts to warm.
It is the cold air that's been
fueling all the craziness and we're
still in this cold through aloft.
But this starts to kind of
moderate and warm up a bit today.
And that's why the forecast does
call for more scattered showers.
You're seeing a few on radar right now.
But this would want to be a much
quieter day if we have this many
showers in one area yesterday.
Today we have like that many.
So it's quite a difference.
I think of calming that you'll
see mostly cloudy up top.
PDXI think it's the warm spot
on the map at 54.
Am I right?
Yep, 51 up in Kelso, 50 in Salem,
48 degrees down Eugene.
Those are current numbers.
Futurecast showers this afternoon,
But notice this doesn't
pick up bright colors.
Now if we get enough sun and the
temperature starts to go a little crazy,
meaning warming this afternoon,
we could still get some spotty.
Hail showers out there are go 66 for high.
Tomorrow's all dry 75.
Thursday's all dry 84.
The shower chances Friday,
Sunday, Monday right now are
kind of in the slight category.
And that's your forecast.
Good Morning,
Devin
Morning Rod and
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