This is KGW news at sunrise coming up
on sunrise. Multnomah County closing
its warming shelters despite below
freezing temperatures overnight.
We have a list of places you can
go in other counties plus.
Wasn't until the 747 actually
went into service that we
realized that it was going to be
a a game changer in the world.
A flight engineer for the first
Boeing 747 remembers how it felt to
be a part of aviation history. Now
the last 747 ever is on its way to Everett,
WA, a look back at the impact of
what they call the Queen of the Sky.
Also this morning we have
a birthday to celebrate.
This local woman turns 100 today,
and as she hits the century Mark,
we're going to hear from six of her siblings,
all over 80 years old themselves.
They're going to share
how their dad saved their sister's life
when she was first born back in 1923.
Devon Haskins has this story
for us at 5:15. I cannot wait
to see that. Wait to start
off at Tuesday morning.
And thank you so much for joining
us and waking up so early with us.
We appreciate it. It's a chilly one.
Yeah. That warming center story puzzles me,
you guys. More on that coming up.
We're back in the low to mid 20s across
the valley most locations this morning.
Take a look from the Wells Fargo camera.
Visibility is good.
What you can't really tell from the camera
view is we have high thin clouds up top,
but those clouds did not thicken up
enough to really prohibit temperatures
from dropping 28 out of the airport.
It's actually one of the warmer numbers,
27 in downtown 25, Hillsborough,
Tigard Westland 2621 out in Gresham.
Now we said yesterday morning would
end up being the coldest of the
bunch and that's going to stand true.
These numbers are going to hold warmer.
And almost every location than
what we saw on Monday,
but still very, very cold out.
And this will still end up being
one of the coldest mornings that we
will see this entire winter season.
All right, 28 right now out of the airport,
colder in most spots, 38 at noon,
41 at 5:00 PM forecasting light
winds a high of 43,
cloudiness spilling up top,
may or may not thicken at times today.
We'll have your 7 day forecast
coming up shortly.
All right, before we get into
our top story this morning,
just want to give you an update on
something that's happening right now
just a few blocks from our station.
KGW, a live look from the
Goose Hollow neighborhood.
This is 13th and Columbia.
Nearly 2000 PG customers are without
power in that area right now.
Power went out around 3:30 this morning,
so about a 90 minutes ago.
The cause of this is still
under investigation.
Of course,
we will keep you updated as we roll
through the Sunrise show this morning.
Now to some of our other
headlines on this Tuesday morning,
the Union representing Portland
city workers will resume contract
negotiations with the city today.
The big issue here is pay, specifically
a cap on cost of living increases.
If those negotiations fail,
600 workers could strike this Thursday.
The union includes employees who
work in sewer and wastewater,
transportation, and Parks and Recreation.
Last week, Mayor Ted Wheeler
issued an emergency declaration
that would allow Portland to use
emergency money to hire replacement
workers and reallocate city staff.
Clackamas County deputies say the body
of Kyle Karcham has been found near a
campground in the Mount Hood National Forest.
He disappeared back in November.
Authorities found his car near Hwy.
224, but there was no sign of him.
Well, two days ago his relatives
were out searching and discovered
a piece of his clothing.
They later found his remains.
No word yet how he died,
also this morning.
To those who knew, Mike knew
that he was a very humble man
who expected the highest out
of himself and of others.
And that he would bring to
that former coworker is
talking about Mike Schrunk,
Multnomah County's longest serving
District Attorney, who died yesterday.
Shrunk led the DA's office for more
than 30 years, from 1981 to 2012.
He was best known for launching
one of the country's.
First, drug courts to help defendants
get treatment instead of prison time.
Mike Schrunk was 80 years old,
and those are some of your
Tuesday morning headlines.
With temperatures once again
dipping below freezing last night,
Multnomah County kept
warming shelters closed.
Officials use a few different
metrics to decide when that happens.
In this case,
City and county leaders say it's dry,
and they didn't think forecasted
temperatures would dip to 25 or below,
although in the area those temps
did get to that threshold,
though of course it's still cold out there.
People looking for a place
to stay warm overnight?
For sure more than 80% of the available beds.
And warming shelters in the county
were filled overnight Sunday.
Meanwhile,
Washington and Clackamas counties
did open warming shelters for
people needing a place to go.
And
we know that this is a life
saving service for people
experiencing homelessness
to have somewhere to get
inside and get warm and have a,
you know, a a hot meal.
And so we are keeping our
shelters open overnight.
So here is a full list of what's open
in Washington and Clackamas counties.
We've got information about Clark
County on our website, kgw.com.
Of course, lower temperatures
also mean higher heating bills.
And not only are we running our
furnaces more of these days,
gas and electric companies
are also charging us more.
As our sister station in Seattle reports,
the impact of rising energy costs is
being felt throughout the Northwest.
And you can
see it's at 68 here.
John Owen sets his thermostat to 68.
Degrees. Not a degree more
because he has no other choice
if I turn it U anymore. You know,
I'm not gonna be able to pay the bill.
John and his wife live on a fixed
income of just $1000 a month.
When they go to bed, they turn
the heat off and bundle up with
jackets and blankets to save money.
When it gets cold, it gets cold in
there and the and the temperature
changes rapidly in there.
John says his heat bill nearly
doubled this month to $140.
He's never seen it so high,
forcing him to make some
decisions he shouldn't have to.
I have to make a choice,
or am I going to eat?
Or am I going to pay my my rent,
my rent and my utilities
Puget? Sound energy rates jumped
by nearly nine. Percent this year,
while natural gas costs skyrocketed
23% and early in exceptionally cold
winter is giving people sticker shock
when they go to pay their bills.
The war in Ukraine,
along with less natural gas
production and increased demand,
are driving prices higher.
They keep raising the prices.
How are we going to afford this? You know,
I don't know where it's going to end.
It has all the numbers where people can call.
This. Winter is creating a perfect
storm of sorts for agencies like the
Opportunity Council, which helps
people struggling with utility bills,
COVID relief money to help people.
Pay their bills is running out with
the need for assistance higher than
ever. We do our best
to just get really creative,
but it is hard on your heart and
it is concerning when you know
people are really struggling.
They're delicious. Believe me.
For now, John Owen keeps warm with
a pot of beans, hoping for an early
spring and brighter days ahead.
We're grateful for what we have. Again,
that was Eric Wilkinson
reporting from Seattle for us.
And it's also worth noting,
even with the rise in rates
here in Washington and Oregon,
we still have some of the lowest
energy costs in the entire country,
less than half of what people
in New York and California pay.
The press called it jumbo.
They called her jumbo. They've
called her wide body. Boeing
called her the Superjet.
The Boeing 747 eight airplane,
also known as the Queen of the Sky,
changed the world's
perspective on travel today.
The last 747 will be delivered
to Atlas Air in Everett, WA,
where it'll take off for
the last time on Wednesday.
But let's head back more than 50 years ago,
when the 1st 747 flight took
off out of Western Washington.
It took 50,000 people to design and build it,
and Thomas Gray is one of
the people who worked on it.
Today he guides tours of the plane,
but back in 1969 he was on one
of the first Test flights.
In fact, there's a patch
on his jacket saying so.
This was one of the thousands
of men and women that.
Actually spent their heart and soul.
In. Conceiving and.
And building this airplane.
Would you say that you put
your heart and soul into it as
well? I'd I'd like to think so.
I'd like to think so.
It just captured the
world's imagination and. That
was the source
of that was right here,
right here in our area.
So not only did this jet make
it economically feasible for
the average person to fly,
but they could go anywhere in the world.
It also put Western Washington on
the map as an aviation powerhouse.
In total, more than 1500
seven 40 sevens were made.
Who could use a vacation right about
now? I could. OK,
Brenda Braxton, we're gonna
put you in Aruba this morning.
We can put you there.
Well, wait a minute.
I think she should be inviting you, right?
I know she should be inviting yourself.
Come on along, you're in Rod.
We can take you to Aruba because we have
Earth Cam this morning taking us to Aruba.
So here's the deal.
Today is actually known as
national plan your vacation day.
One of the reasons we have this day
is so people don't forget to use all
their PTO over the course of the year.
Don't wait till December.
It happens.
It happens in our station all the time.
Actually, as part of the day,
we're asking you what is your dream vacation
spot if you could go anywhere in the world?
Where would you go?
Hazeldell, hey?
OK God, I started to laugh and I realized,
you know what Hazel Dell is beautiful.
Why not? Ron did not say Hazel Dell though.
Viewer Ron said this week he
would go any place that is warm.
And Hazel Dell is not warm this
week Terry wrote how about Scotland?
Or maybe Greece from Greece?
Yeah.
And then I believe,
I don't know if we're gonna see these
comments but I promise you they exist.
Bobby said she would keep it short and said
just Italy. Sure.
Ohh yeah, lots of good food.
Ohh. Here they come.
Now they're pouring in.
There's Aaron's comment.
Yes. Next. Flipping through,
there's Terry's comment.
Yes. Now what do we got here?
There's the Italy. Yes.
And now we've got Jimmy. Yeah.
Jimmy says he wants to go to
either Japan or South Korea.
Gosh, great choices.
Alright, plan your vacation day.
Brendan does happen,
especially with some of
our younger employees.
I always ask him how many
days off do you get each year?
And a lot of times they'll say,
I don't know, you have to change that.
Find out how many days off you get.
You know what
I got to say?
It's not just the younger ones.
You helped me out last year.
I miscalculated my vacation.
10 days. Ohh, I got 10
extra days because of this.
You used you used
it by your lack of you. Why aren't
you taking more time off Brenda?
OK, alright rod, let's talk about the
weather. The cold part of our
finders feed drew that she
should pay you. That's a lot of cash
left on the table. Alright,
we have a cloud spilling it right here.
So overnight high clouds were thin,
so thin that didn't really impact anything.
Temperatures have fallen off
back into the mid 20s on average,
but looks like there are some
thicker clouds offshore.
So maybe we do cloud up at some point today.
Weather models vary on how
thick those clouds will be.
There's no precipitation and they're
going to be fairly well mid to high
level clouds when they come in,
it's another cold morning,
not I mean by the number of degrees
technically not as cold as yesterday,
but you may not notice the
difference 27 right now in downtown.
26 in Westland, 23 out in Sherwood.
We had a few spots dipping into the teens.
Remember yesterday morning and
PDX got down to 21 yesterday.
There's Salem at 25 currently.
So we're still dealing with
the cold temperatures being the
number one weather story.
Burns is at 0 bend 18.
It is freezing over the
coast this morning as well.
The headlines I'm following,
I'm saying today is the final
very cold day for our climate.
Tomorrow we start off freezing,
but again,
warmer than the numbers I just showed you,
but.
We warm back up to 50 degrees tomorrow
afternoon that will be back to normal
and then the next thing we're watching
showers returning Thursday night,
Friday night.
A lot of rain though the miles keep
down grading the rain potential here
now down to 2/10 Saturday it may or
may not produce a shower and then
a rainy Sunday of snow levels at
about 4000 feet up in the mountains.
So here we go,
our lonely low day.
Then we pop up and then we stay
up and then we have showers coming
in Thursday night into Friday
and that is your seven
day. Alright thanks ride
coming up after the break.
The family of six siblings talked with
me about growing up and growing old
together and the story of how their
dad saved their half sister's life.
Who celebrates her 100th birthday today.
Love that story in just a couple minutes.