This is KGW News at sunrise.
Investigators say there's a link
between the deaths of four women found in
and around Portland
this morning. Police say they he
a person of interest in custody.
We'll have the very latest
on the investigation plus.
And St. Racers at it again,
this time on the Fremont
Bridge and Northeast Portland.
Over the weekend.
We spoke with witnesses who say
police did not show up to help .
I mean, that was pretty crazy.
Like, seen that on the news this morning.
I was a little surprised,
you know. Yeah,
the Cougars seen on Haystack Rock has
moved on. But it turns out this wasn't
the only big cat spotted in
the area. That update plus more
reaction from you at home
coming up this morning at 5:15.
Yeah, that's the story
that keeps on developing.
Can't wait to see that.
OK, Happy Tuesday morning.
Thanks for being here with us.
What are we looking at weather wise, Rod?
Well, man, take the day off.
I mean, what that's been going ?
Yes. All right. Look at Cannon
Beach live this morning. There e
a few spots showing kind of
partly cloudy conditions.
Cannon Beach is one of them.
But generally speaking,
the coast is going to be sunny today as well.
Many areas from start to finish,
53 right now.
There's the Wells Fargo camera.
There is no marine push this morning,
so it's going to be a sunny
day from start to finish.
We're at 60 degrees,
so we will await the rising
sun at 539 this morning.
By the way, we did hold at 79 yesterday,
my forecast high,
but today you got to notice the
warm up 74 noon I have us back p
to about 87 for a high temperat.
That's your forecast.
OK, Thank you, Rod.
We begin this hour with a major update to
a story we've been following
for the last month and a half.
Detectives say they have a persf
interest in the cases of four women found
dead in and around Portland this year.
While investigators aren't namig
that person, the Willamette Wees
reporting his name is Jesse Cal,
a man with a rap sheet dating back to 2003.
Take a look at this picture here he is
the newspaper reporting that for
Oregon Governor Kate Brown grand
Calhoun clemency in March of 20,
partly because he was on the ine
work crew that helped fight the
historic Labor Day wildfires.
About two years after he'd been freed,
the women's bodies started turning up,
KGW has confirmed.
Earlier this month,
investigators asked Governor Tia
Kotak to revoke Calhoun's cleme,
and she did.
This morning, he's back behind .
Now to a quick travel alert
happening in Vancouver tomorrow.
Elaine of northbound I2O5 and the right
shoulder will be closed for environmental
cleanup work from 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
This is all happening at milepo7
on the Glen Jackson Bridge kind.
As soon as you get into Vancouv,
Wash dot is working with a hazas
waste management company to reme
contaminated oil soil rather
from an oil spill.
Street racing and fireworks.
That's what neighbors saw and
heard Sunday night into Monday
morning on the Fremont Bridge.
A witness tells us it started ad
1:30 and lasted about an hour.
But no police showed up.
And that wasn't the only reportf
street racing over the weekend.
People living near 72nd and Fret
said they heard gunshots and smd
burning rubber for at least two hours.
These are a few videos from the Snapchat map.
During a street takeover at
60th and Northeast Prescott,
people looted a 711 store.
The owner says they even climbed behind
the counter and in less than 20 minutes
stole about $15,000 worth of go.
The clerk said he talked to the police,
but they say they couldn't help.
I can't help you out because
too much crowd outside.
I can't do anything.
And if they broke the windows
or anything, then I'm coming.
Then then, then cop is coming.
I say, well, you you guys are
waiting for somebody kill us.
Then you guys come and they say I'm sorry,
I can't help you out and
they hang up the phone. The
mayor's office tells us Portland police
are beefing up their traffic division.
They've started performing
stings and arresting St.
racers. In the meantime,
a new Oregon law goes into effet
in September and will give St.
racers harsher punishment.
Portland police are now saying t
appeared to be an unprovoked attack on
a Japanese diplomat was a hate crime.
Yoshi Okayuzo, the Consul General of Japan,
was walking downtown last month
when he was shoved to the ground
and hit his head on the pavemen.
He was taken to the hospital.
The suspect is 23 year old Arissa Robinson.
And court records show this isnt
Robinson's first time accused
of attacking an Asian person.
Prosecutors say Robinson also assaulted
a 76 year old Asian man just last year.
Robinson is now in jail charged
with a felony hate crime known
as a bias crime in Oregon,
also 4th degree assault.
The Consul general told us in an
e-mail this incident has not chd
his positive perception of Port.
Now to your morning rush.
Just in this morning,
North Korea has detained a U.S.
National who illegally crossed
into their country.
the United Nations says the mans
on a tour of the Joint Security Area,
which is part of the Demilitarid
Zone between North and South Ko.
The UN is now working with North
Korea to resolve the incident.
The Georgia Supreme Court has dd
former President Trump's bid to stop an
investigation into election tampering.
That means the Fulton County
DA will continue looking into
interference in the 2020 electi.
The DA said she intends to indict more
than a dozen people and is exped
to do so before the end of Augu.
There's more legal Trump trouble
for former President Trump.
Later today,
prosecutors and defense attorneys will
start putting together a timetae
for his classified documents tr.
Prosecutors want to start by December,
but the defense says Trump can't get a
fair trial until after the 2024 election.
Iran has reinstated its infamous
morality police. They'll conduc.
patrols to make sure women
are wearing headscarves.
The announcement comes just ten
months after Masha Amini was kid
in police custody after she was
arrested for not wearing a hija.
Her death sparked nationwide
protests and resulted in the
morality police being disbanded,
and the FDA has approved the fit
RSV shot for babies and toddler.
The vaccine,
developed by AstraZeneca and Sa,
should be available by this fal.
About 80,000 kids ages 5 and
younger are hospitalized with
the respiratory virus every yea.
And that's your morning rush.
The Powerball jackpot has now
climbed to a billion dollars.
No one won last night's drawing.
The new jackpot would be
the third highest in U.S.
history and will keep growing
until somebody takes it home.
The next drawing is tomorrow ni.
Meanwhile, the Mega Millions jackpot,
also climbing tonight's drawing
is an estimated $640 million.
This is just the third time
both jackpots are above half,
$1,000,000 at the same time.
It happened also in 2021 and in 2018,
according to the Oregon Lottery
winning Powerball tickets were bought
in Portland and Bandon on Satur.
The Oregon Lottery has sold more
than $19 million in Powerball
tickets since Saturday.
We bought one
of those are you end up going
well, I I didn't buy the big on,
but I bought a Washington
Lottery ticket and nobody.
That's like at 4,000,000
nobody won that last night.
Well, if nobody won,
I'm glad that at least.
Nobody else. I I didn't win.
You can't win either.
You are. You are unhappy for
all of our viewers out there,
just to know I'm glad we all hae
another chance. Yeah, yeah, yea.
That's the way to say it.
That's been Meister right there.
I take a look at a beautiful, cr
sky. Morning.
From our Stoller family, vineya,
estate, camp and Dayton trees.
And of course there's Mount Hoo.
No marine push this morning.
We do have a kind of a mixed baf
partly cloudy skies of the coas,
but generally everybody's going
to be sunny from start to finis.
This will be a day that warms back up.
Now remember yesterday we
were watching the gorge.
These are current temperatures
because we had West winds gustig
is that cooler weather arrived.
We had a red flag warning for
high fire danger no longer.
That warning has been allowed
to expire and the winds in the
gorge today will be fairly ligh.
Again, the Dows right now,
5954 over in Pendleton,
we have some cool spots due
to the clear skies.
Kelso's now down to 52 and
Newport is now down to 46.
So nice,
very comfortable summer morning out there.
This doesn't show you much.
This is your day today.
Futurecast movie again,
maybe some fog pockets early on at the coast,
but watch them bump, they go aw.
So later on everybody just has the sunshine.
No storm chance obviously with
the clear skies out there.
All right,
so it's all about just
watching the forecast numbers.
60s and 70s at the coast today.
Expected to be breezy,
right on the beach itself.
Some wind gusts this afternoon as high
as 30 mph winds are pretty blig.
All areas that I saw when I
checked earlier this morning.
Salem,
back up to 89 yesterday you folks hit 80,
so this is a pretty good warm up today.
And in fact models like Corvalls
at 90 today just like that
up in Southwest Washington,
Longview 84 does a clear sky start for you.
Battleground 85, Vancouver 87.
Yesterday we had afternoon Gus
that hit 20 kind of the same
thing again expected today.
So here's my seven day yesterda.
By the way we did hold in
Portland 79 but today 87.
Here comes the warm up.
And then we still have the three
days of not way up into the 90s,
but at least getting into 92 tomorrow,
Thursday, 90 on Friday.
Right now the weekend is all
sunny and we have temperatures
pretty much like today,
87 on Saturday and 85 on Sunday.
That is your forecast.