This is KGW news at sunrise.
Police are asking for information
that could help with a murder
investigation. This started
as a missing persons case in Aloha just a
week ago, but it quickly
took a turn. Also this morning,
take a look at this. That is a dog
trying to run away from the law.
We're going to tell you more about
the Oregon State trooper who had a
most unusual traffic stop down boy.
Yeah, he's going viral now.
Plus, Ridgefield has just exploded with
growth at one point it was deemed the
fastest growing city in Washington.
There's a new Costco coming,
a new YMCA fields are turning
into neighborhoods and Rod took
a trip on the road to Ridgefield.
He's going to show us around.
On the street shaking hands.
Hey good morning everybody.
So you have two jobs
today that and weather forecast
might say that the Taco
Bell there is fairly new. I
mean, it's been there a couple of years
but they gotta have one of those. This
man knows fast food, by the way,
so if he's bringing it up
trust speak. If
not, we had a great time up in Richfield
that straight ahead in our show,
right now we're dealing with
an easy Thursday forecast.
We're mainly clear we have a
full moon out there this morning,
so we step outside and look around.
You'll get to see it.
61 in Portland,
74 Noon high today with sunshine.
Up to 86 degrees
alright, rod. Thank you.
Developing overnight.
One person has been shot and killed near
Powell Butte in Southeast Portland.
This was at SE Bush and 136th Ave
so Bush is closed in that area
for about a three block stretch.
Let's take a look at video from that scene.
Overnight and around 9:15.
Police say the shooter or
shooters took off from that area,
so no arrests have been made.
You see the crime tape over that house.
There we will keep you updated here
and on our website as we learn more.
Well, the shots just seem never
ending the two people there.
In that video, ducking for cover as
bullets fly in downtown Gresham.
That was around 9:00
o'clock last Friday night.
More than 50 shots were fired
and it was one of seven shootings that
happened in Gresham over a five day span.
The owner of Equinox Tattoo told
us that bullet holes now line the
wall of the cafe. Next door to
them. It's really shaken us to
kind of start taking action in the
community and seeing what we can
do to improve spots
where shootings are happening recurrently,
especially in this close of
like really dense business area.
Again, 7 shootings altogether
in the span of just five days,
one of them near NE 169th and Russell Street,
left more than 100 shell casings.
Gresham police say this is an
unprecedented level of violence.
They're working with Portland police
and the Multnomah County Sheriff's
Office to address the issue,
and they say they'll add
patrols this weekend.
Well, what began as they search for a
missing 27 year old Aloha woman last
Friday is now a murder investigation
after her body was ultimately
found in a Corvallis landfill.
KGW's, all McCarty has more force,
including the details about the
man that detectives have already
charged with her murder.
Last
Friday, 27 year old Kaylee Birdsell's
family reported her missing on Sunday.
Deputies with the Washington
County Sheriff's Office got a tip
that led investigators to
believe that this individual,
Kayleigh Birdzell was possibly either
a hurt or be even more murdered.
Detectives soon determined it was likely
Birdzell had been murdered and her body,
they say, disposed of at an Aloha
apartment complex in a dumpster.
They were able to track where that.
Where that dumpster was taken to
the trail took a team of about 20
to this landfill in Benton County.
They just took the tedious
task of of going through the
garbage bit by bit and doing
everything they could to help.
Solve this case and you know,
hopefully at the end of this,
although. Unfortunate bring
some closure for the family.
Bird sells remains were recovered
Tuesday and on Wednesday.
The medical examiner formally
ideed them and determined cause of
death was homicide investigators
naming 31 year old Fabian
Albert Hernandez as the suspect.
Adding the two had been in a relationship.
This is his mug shot
from an arrest last year.
They didn't know each other so
this wasn't a random attack.
Coincidentally, police had arrested
Hernandez Sunday on unrelated.
Theft and fraud charges.
He now faces two more second degree
murder and abuse of a corpse.
Birds always already deceased
from everything that we know,
so disposing her body in a garbage can.
Is another charge,
and that's abuse of a corpse.
Alma McCarty, KGW news.
Let's talk politics now. The November
general election, less than three
months away, and we're seeing mixed
reactions from Southwest Washington
voters over their primary results.
So Democrat Marie Gluzman Camp Perez
will face Trump backed Republican
Joe Kent out of the running is 6 term
Congressman Jamie Herrera Butler.
This race will be watched
closely on a national level,
and here's what a couple voters.
He asked in woodland.
Think about it.
Pray that Trump
vote. So her vote on you
know her vote against Trump,
kind of undermined all of our
votes who voted for Trump.
So you know she's supposed to represent us,
and you know we're a, you know,
a district that Trump won an area that
Trump won and he was endorsed by Trump.
And that scares me because
I want something moderate.
I want calm and I don't
know how that's going to be.
I wish Butler would have never
conceded because I'm scared.
I'm scared about the other person,
but I'm a Democrat. So
meanwhile, in Vancouver we found a
supporter of glues in Camp Perez.
They can do is hope that the younger
generations which I do have faith
in are going to come in and say that
isn't how we want our country to be.
Well, both candidates now have a
very short turn around to convince
voters they're the better choice,
but whoever wins this marks
a big change for the seat.
Here's reaction from Republican
strategists Rebecca Tweed.
He ran a really intense,
really grassroots, focused campaign.
You know, he we knew he was
making it competitive, but.
In any case, you know unseating
an incumbent at that level is.
It's just a wow.
If I'm Joe Kent.
I'm feeling really energized
if I'm the Pres team,
I'm I'm looking at the strategy board
pretty quick to see you know which
voters do we talk to and how often
and expect a whole lot more
political ads from here on out.
Tweed expects huge amounts of
national money to pour into this race,
and she expects it to get nasty.
Well, here's some good news this
morning for the first time since March,
the average price for a gallon
of gas in the US is below $4.
According to AAA,
the national average now sits at 399 a
gallon down another two cents this morning.
There are several reasons given
to explain the drop,
including fewer people driving because
of how high gas prices have been,
and a sharp decline in oil
prices around the world.
A handful of states have
also suspended gas taxes,
federal COVID relief money never got
to certain low
income Washington residents
who really needed it.
Yeah, that's what a new investigation
is claiming and the state
auditor says it's disconcerting.
We're talking about $271 million with
no documentation of where it went
a lot of times. The documentation just
wasn't there and it needs to be there
for us to do the work of auditing
to ensure that level of transparency
that the public expects, of course.
So Washington was supposed to document
who got the money and for what,
but the auditor found 60 examples
where that didn't happen and
she calls it significant.
The agency that handed out the money
says it met all federal standards,
but here's the thing.
Now, it doesn't have enough staff to comply,
so it's asking for more money to go back
and find out where that funding went.
This morning, Oregon is offering new
funding to help hundreds of Afghan
refugees who are now living here.
About 800 people arrived in the past year.
The state is now giving almost $3 million
to community partners who provide services.
Those organizations,
including the Portland Refugee Group,
say Immigrant Families need Help
getting settled in housing and
everything that goes along with it.
Organizations can apply for
the money through the Oregon
Department of Human Services.
Brenda Braxton, is it too early this
morning to crack one open? It's
5:00 o'clock somewhere as they say,
it is a 5:09 AM right here.
That gentleman behind the bar this morning
at Lewitt Brewing Company in Vancouver.
The reason we're showing you that beer is
not because we want to drink it right now.
It's because we want to let you
know about a big event coming to
downtown Vancouver this weekend.
They're calling it Vancouver summer brewfest.
It's happening Friday from 4:00 to 8:00 and
then basically right in the heart of the
day on Saturday from noon to 8 Esther Short.
Park the location so Eric Patterson,
our trusty Sunrise photographer,
is live there this morning at Lewis Brewing.
We'll have more from him and more from
the Esther Short Park Brew Festival
known as Vancouver Summer Brew.
Drink it how to give enough
time to grab that beer.
There you go, Eric Rodney,
that's your hometown there.
Vancouver that is a little
party this weekend, yes?
You know, if you're a brewery,
should we have the the big wagon
with the Clydesdale horses pulling
the world? That's just one certain
company that you like to mention.
A lot. Favorite though.
A big national company.
Alright, here we go.
We have the upper
level low parked offshore.
It's actually moved out to see a
little bit from yesterday and inland.
Now we are dry and we are for
the most part mainly clear.
Even the coast reporting
clear twinkling stars.
We have a full moon up there up there in
the sky and you should be able to see that.
Early this morning in many areas
might be a little bit of cloudiness
up around Longview to start today.
Otherwise, mostly sunny skies
now this afternoon.
This is 9:30 this morning,
but later today we'll stop at one.
Here come our thunderstorm threat
areas out in the far Eastern
Oregon over into Idaho once again
and those the futurecast
shows them being pretty big.
Thunderstorms just some intense
downpours and lots of lightning,
so we'll keep an eye on that.
Otherwise all is quiet and again
even at the coast we have some
some clear skies this morning.
53 in Astoria. 50 in Newport.
Cool temperatures thanks to the.
Clear skies up top 56 in Salem.
Portland is at 61.
It's 59 degrees out in John Day right now.
Alright, here we go with our
forecast numbers for what should be
a really nice Thursday yesterday.
You know we had the cloudiness
in the morning.
It took a while to get out of here
and that held Portland in the upper
70s so you will notice it being a
little bit warmer in this afternoon
but but pretty typical for this
time of the year 86 and Salem,
Mcminnville 84 Corvallis 83
light winds mostly sunny skies,
similar numbers up through
SW Washington 84 in Longview
Battleground Mid 80S and Vancouver.
Up to 86 degrees and here come
our seven day forecast numbers.
So really nice stuff through the weekend.
It looks like we'll get back into
some morning cloud cover Friday and
Saturday and then afternoon Sun.
But temperatures kind of close to yesterday,
right about 80 then Sunday.
Like today we get up to 86 or
87 and then our next heat wave
still shows up on the models.
Monday 91,
Tuesday 96100 on Wednesday could
be near 100 degrees on that
following Thursday as well.
OK,
Ridgefield,
WA? What's upon a time?
This was roving farmlands now.
They got BBQ.
They have an active downtown city center,
one of the fastest growing spots
in all of Washington state.
My latest rod on the road
coming up in just a bit.
Alright rod, let's give you the
latest on the KGW school supply
drive now in its 11th day.
So the update this morning
is the fact that we
have now helped over 2500 students go
back to school this year
with the supplies they need.
You've actually helped them
by making donations but
we're hoping for a lot more.
Help even more students.
You can drop off school supplies at any
on point Community Credit Union location.
You can drop them off at any
local ***** auto Group location.
We can do so at any one of our many
community partners including big
shout out this morning to Portland
braces in Northeast Portland.
They're helping us out this year. There
is also a couple of collection
events coming up this weekend.
The first is on Friday at the
on point Lloyd Center branch.
You see the times right there.
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
Also this weekend.
Jansen beach.
Saturday we'll be there
to collect supplies from
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM as well.
Thank you this morning to on point,
Safeway, Albertsons, Intel and
****** Auto Group for joining us
to help local students this year.