This is KGW news at sunrise.
This morning on sunrise,
we're talking snow in the valley.
This was the scene yesterday.
Of course, a lot of people
throughout the metro area waking
up to some snow on the ground.
We don't have snow falling
this morning in the valley,
but we do have some very
cold temperatures out there.
Rod Hill will join us in just a moment
with a look at today's forecast.
Also, we're visiting one of the
city's new holiday pop-up shops
that's filled with colorful jewelry.
The designer says she's bringing
her Persian flair to Portland.
Because I'm in love with the weather.
I'm in love with the rain.
Also, friendly people.
Portland has the single mother
of two was originally from Iran,
and she explains why she chose
to leave and also shares a
message of hope for the holidays.
It is a Monday morning
here in the Sunrise show.
Brenda Braxton is actually going to
bring us that story here at 5:15,
although Brenda does have the morning off,
as does Christine Pinewatch.
Again. That's why Blair is back.
Hey, Ron, you weren't here on Friday, Blair.
Built in on Friday and she
dominated the coverage.
Dominated the coverage. I
wouldn't say that
to the point where almost there,
right and I weren't going
to come to work today.
I mean hey, but we are back and before
we get to your weather forecast,
I do have a couple of school closures.
Can I mention those real quick?
Sorry rod, school closures and delays
to mention as we get started here.
No classes today for kids in dufur.
Those schools are closed
today up in Clark County.
Rob, Battleground High School
is starting two hours late,
but at last check all the other
schools in that battleground
district are starting on time.
One more to mention.
Corporate schools starting two hours late.
We have a full list, by the way,
of closures on our website.
Go to kgw.com/closings.
I'm gonna throw out there that that list
could potentially get added to because the
big threat we're watching this morning,
Drew Blair mentions dry,
but we have freezing temps and actually
it was above freezing much of the night,
so snow continued to melt a little bit.
My point is wet spots on
roads now freezing over.
I would assume there are a significant
number of little icy spots on roadways.
Across the area,
so use caution with that in mind,
out the door Portland just now down to
32 degrees and temperatures will be
falling through the Sunrise Hour 28
now in Sandy 32 and Sherwood Tigard.
So again, everybody's close to
freezing or right there so far.
Salem Keizer holding at 34,
our dry day freezing spots this morning
partly cloudy at the airport we will
have developing Sun 43 at noon.
I have the high at 46.
If we make that, the snow will go bye bye.
And then we'll wait until it happens again.
No word on when that is.
By the way, that's your forecast.
Alright, Rod, thanks so much.
And we have two traffic
alerts for you this morning.
First, that big landslide
that closed a portion of Hwy.
30 about 20 miles east of Astoria.
Odot says it'll open one lane,
but only during specific times.
Now, the road will close at 8:00 this
morning and reopen at 4:00 this afternoon.
So crews can continue to remove that
hazardous rock if you drive through,
watch for flaggers and expect delays now.
Dot isn't sure when the work will be
done yet, but we'll keep you posted.
And yesterday's snow forced this semi
to jackknife off the side of the road
on I-84 E this was near Rooster Rock.
It was one of the many crashes
the Multnomah County Sheriff's
Office responded to yesterday.
The road has since been cleared,
but there is still some slushy
snow and spots of ice once you
get up to Multnomah falls.
Again, the big story yesterday,
sticking snow in many spots
around the Portland metro area.
Viewers around the spot around the area
sent us pictures to help tell the story.
Some only saw a dusting
in their neighborhood,
but others got more than that.
For sure, we were out and about
enjoying that snow yesterday.
I know Crystal Conway, I believe,
has more on this for us,
so let's go to that report.
Sunday brought the first snowfall of the
season in the Portland metro area. Clearing
the way for some winter fun activities.
As temperatures dropped into the low 30s.
Pretty exciting. Yeah, it's fantastic.
Snow fell across the Portland Metro area,
sticking in many places.
We're sledding on top of the hills,
especially in higher elevations
like here in Washington Park.
Our loving it. We're glad we had
this puppy here to enjoy it with us.
7 month old Indigo had a blast.
He wants to keep playing the West
Hills also got a decent amount
of snow accumulation Sunday.
This is kind of awesome.
Within Rahul,
his first glimpse of a winter Wonderland.
This is my first time seeing snow ever.
I've never, never seen snow before
and I really, really loved it.
But not everyone was a fan.
But then the weather was terrible,
quite terrible.
Love it or hate it,
local agencies were ready for Sunday snow.
So last night we put down 4750 gallons
of anti ICER throughout the West Hills,
all of the major typical areas.
So we've got our crews putting deicer
down really throughout the area.
Especially around in the
upper elevations, both P
bot and ODOT say don't monitor conditions
and determine what, if anything,
will be needed going into Monday's commute.
We're trying to be very,
very careful and be very proactive
and to make sure that we can
get out there on the roads and
take care of conditions as they
happen to keep the roads clear.
Temperatures are expected to rise,
so don't expect the snow
to stick around for long.
I suppose you missed out
on the opportunity,
but this may not be your last,
indeed, the first snowfall of the
season in the metro. And fans of
winter fun are wishing for more,
so a few days more would be great.
Crystal Conway, KGW news.
We want to give you an update
here this morning on the tragedy
at the University of Idaho.
Two students who lived in the home
where those murders took place
are actually being heard from.
Now this morning we can take
you to that video here again,
this is from the University of Idaho.
These two roommates not only lived in
this home, but they were actually at
the home at the time of the murders.
Police still have no clue who's responsible.
They maintain these murders were targeted.
The students were stabbed November
13th in their beds.
Now. No, no, no murder.
Work was found at the scene at the time.
Over the weekend, though,
we did hear from the surviving
roommates who were they were had read
letters that were written by these
roommates read at a memorial service.
My life was
greatly impacted to have known
these four beautiful people.
Maddie, Kayleigh, Zanna, and Ethan
were truly all
one-of-a-kind. They all lit
up any room they walked into
and were gifts to this world.
Officials say the two roommates have
been ruled out as potential suspects.
Now they're working through
the more than 100 pieces of
evidence and thousands of calls,
tips and emails to find the murderer.
Well, we've seen an increase in poor
air quality throughout the years
during wildfire season.
Now 2 University of Oregon graduate
students are creating a response plan to
help communities learn how to manage it.
Right now the students are focusing on
Southern Southern Oregon, Jackson County.
It's gone from averaging 5 hours
of poor air quality in 2010
to about 350 hours in 2021.
Now the plan is meant to mitigate
the damage done to humans that
breathe smoke filled air.
But what we have learned so far
is that folks in Jackson County
want to know more about smoke.
They want to be notified in as ample
amount of time as possible before
smoke enters into the Rogue Valley.
And they need to know what to do now.
The work is funded in part by
federal dollars from the Department
of Environmental Quality.
It awarded grants to 20 local and
tribal governments to develop
these smoke management plans.
All right, a little bit
after 5:00 o'clock here.
God back in the studio with
us and you've got the snow
amounts from yesterday you're
taking a look at here for.
I mean nobody got buried right?
Can we agree? Well,
short people had it the worst,
right? We were up to our knees outside
of the mountain though. You're right,
no one got buried. We had seven
at Timberline and Meadows.
Hood River reported three,
Skamania three.
So that was the amount out
in the Columbia River Gorge.
And then basically in
the metro area there was,
it was mostly from Portland up to the north.
There was far less reports of
sticking snow when you got down
into the mid valley around Salem
and then areas to the South,
but around Portland up through the Longview.
Area, you know a light dusting to
1/2 of an inch where a few spots
but not many that reported a solid
inch and that includes over in
East county of course you had more.
When he started to get up into Sandia
I saw one report in Sandy where they
had four on the ground that the low
that produced all that is now down
here in California and there are no
moisture bands coming our direction.
So the forecast is basically dry today,
tomorrow and Wednesday and the next
storm front end comes on Thursday.
So you know what you probably assume
is the case but a quick reminder if
you are traveling out into the gorge.
Coast range over the Cascades.
You'll find snow and ice on the
roadways earlier this morning.
You can see there's definitely
snow there in the parking lot.
That's Multnomah falls parking
lot off of 84 out in the gorge.
Here's the highest camera in the coast
range of just over 1400 feet on Hwy 26.
Snow and ice on that roadway.
The government camp camera,
25 degrees is kind of tough to tell us,
not very well lit,
but if I go to Santiam pass, yeah,
yeah, there's winter right there.
Coverage on the highway,
24 degrees and we do have expected.
Icy spots on roadways here
in the Metro Valley,
we actually stayed above
freezing much of the night.
Snow melted a little bit.
That kept moisture on area roadways
and sidewalks and that type of thing.
And now as temperatures are getting down
to freezing and more and more spots,
just assume there's an icy
spot waiting to surprise you.
So keep that in mind.
This morning it's 32 in Kelso
and out of PDX now, 34 Salem,
30s at the coast, 19 over in Bend.
There's a dry forecast across our region,
18 out of burns this morning.
Forecast numbers should at
least get up into the 40s.
There's a dense fog advisory that's
been issued for the Mid Valley,
Salem down to Albany to Eugene.
I think you folks have a good chance most
of you to see some sun this afternoon.
You'll need that to crack up to 40
degrees or so for a high temperature.
It will be partly cloudy in the 40s
from Portland up in the Southwest,
Washington today as well.
Here's the dry weather through Wednesday.
The next storm front comes rolling
in first thing Thursday morning.
Right now that looks to be all rain,
40 to 45 snow levels,
maybe as low as 2000 feet up
in the mountains
during the day and then it's pretty wet.
Friday there's rain picks up
with a heavier rain maker.
I think Friday night into Saturday
morning this could change,
but right now Sunny looks to be a a dry
break for the most part ahead of the
next system that comes in on Monday.
And I have Sunday zooming up to about 49,
which would be pretty warm basically,
except for Sunday.
All these temperatures overall are
below normal for this time of the year.
Cold weather pattern continues.
Yeah, my thumbs down.
Thanks so much, Rod.
Well, just in time for the holidays,
7 new pop-up shops are open for business,
including this colorful
jewelry store in Pioneer Place.
Next we talked to the designer about
what it took to bring her Persian flare
to Portland. Before
we go to break though,
a reminder that our KGW great
toy drive is happening right now.
As a matter of fact, Rod Hill was on hand
over the weekend at the Wood Village,
Fred Meyer helping to collect toys.
I think Rod brought a few of those
toys back that you see right there,
a live look inside our Regents.
Toy box on this Monday morning.
By the way, if you want to give
to the KGW great toy drive,
you can do it very easily
simply by going to our website
youcandonatecash@kgw.com/toy and we
will do this toy shopping for you.
Of course, if you want to drop off toys,
you can still do that as well.
Drop off new unwrapped toys at any IQ,
credit union, any Fred Meyer store,
or any local Toyota dealership.