This is KGW news at Sunrise.
Fentanyl has become a big problm
statewide in Oregon. Lawmakers
want to make sure kids
and teens know how dangerous the drug is.
Coming up this morning, more
on the bill requiring that
education in schools. Plus,
I mean, they're devastated, rig?
They're they don't know what to,
obviously, shock.
Sorrow, grief, all the emotions.
He is talking about the families
of the seven people killed
in a crash on I-5 last week.
Now there is an organization
reaching out to help. Also
this morning, the City of Portld
receives hundreds of what are considered
official complaints each year.
The big news here?
The fact that that number
is not in the thousands.
In all seriousness, right.
I was expecting a little chuckle
from you there, and I got nothi.
So I got an official car.
How does your complaint become official?
We'll get to that later.
We'll also have you guess which department in
the city got the most complaints last year.
That answer coming up in the next 10 minutes.
You were a stone face on that o.
Well, I thought I would be the
one calling and they'll go.
I'm sorry, Mr. L, but we don't
consider that an official compl.
Can you give us the official?
I mean, the official Tuesday forecast,
ladies and gentlemen.
This is on the record.
We have some scattered light shs
up along the North Coast this morning.
This isn't going to mount too m.
It looks like it's primarily a morning
thing dropping northward Tillamk
and this is traceable rain amou.
Otherwise on the the West side of our state,
this is a dry day,
including out in the Gores,
including up over the Cascades.
Early morning Iris on the Wells Fargo camera,
a little washed out.
We're at 50 degrees, partly clo,
a lot washed out actually partly
cloudy skies out there right no.
This will go on to be a day
similar to yesterday, all dry.
61 at noon yesterday it was 66.
Today I have us getting up to 6.
That is your forecast,
Rob. Thank you.
We have new information this mog
about the seven people killed ia
crash last week on I-5 in Alban.
Investigators have identified them and
tell us they were all farm work.
Catherine Cook talked to communy
leaders and advocates working to
reach out to the victim's famil.
Seven people died in this crash on I-5
near Albany Thursday and four were injured.
Investigators say they were
in this van returning home to
families who now mourn their lo.
On Monday, OSP released their n.
They range in age from 30 to 60 years
old and lived in the Salem Woodburn area.
The victims were all farm workes
from Mexico, according to a
statement from the Mexican consulate.
And devastated. And so we knew,
you know, that we had to act.
Anthony Velies is with Poder,
Oregon's Latino Leadership Netw.
Over the weekend, he and other l
leaders planned how they would p
survivors and the victim's fami.
One resource they're offering
is free emotional support.
Velies Co owns Oyen, a bilingua,
bicultural behavioral mental health clinic.
Besides the victims, families,
they're also helping former coworkers.
I mean, they're devastated, rig?
They're they don't know what to,
obviously. Shock, sorrow,
grief, all the emotions.
And what we're really there is
to provide them someone to talk
to and listen to and help them,
even though it's so new, you know, but.
Through this grieving process,
Aware Food Bank in Woodburn is
providing food to victim's fami,
and Velies says the Oregon Farm
Bureau is working with the victs
employer to create a go Fund mee
beautiful thing is our community
is a really giving community and
there are people just waiting to
help and we're trying to coordie
that and do it in a respectful .
On Friday, the man accused of causing
the crash faced a Marion County judge.
Police say 52 year old Lincoln Smith of
California was driving the semi truck.
He faces DUII and manslaughter charges.
Witnesses told investigators that Smith had
been swerving before veering off the road.
The truck slammed into the victim's van,
which had been parked on the shoulder.
The force pushed the van into another
semi truck parked nearby in cou.
The husband of one of the victis
asked for justice. There's
no power that will be able
to give me back my wife. We
had plans together as a family
in the wake of tragedy, Valleys says.
This community is doing everythg
they can to help, though they
know nothing they can offer.
We're just really just trying
to hold them up, you know,
will ever be enough.
Catherine Cook, KGW News.
A new report out of Portland's ombudsman's
office is giving us a better lok
at what's going wrong in the ci.
The office investigates official
complaints about city government
to find ways to resolve them.
In 2022, it got 542 complaints.
Just over half were related to y
bureaus similar to past years.
Portland's Bureau of Transportan
had the most complaints and
mainly involved cars being towe.
In many cases,
the office helped those who
couldn't pay towing fees get a
reimbursement from the city. We
do particularly try to
prioritize cases that involve
egregious individual injustice.
When someone's basic
human needs are at stake,
such as shelter when historicaly
underserved or marginalized communities,
members of those communities are
coming to us with complaints,
A spokesperson for the office s.
They typically address between 0
to 300 complaints a year. A bill
that would require Oregon schooo
teach students about the dangerf
fentanyl is headed to the governor's desk.
As KHW's Blair Best explains,
the goal is not only to educate students,
but also to save lives.
It seems as if drugs and
fentanyl are everywhere,
overdoses are up, people are dy,
and police point to these cheap
blue pills as a main factor.
And everyone seems to
have a say on the issue,
like longtime Portlander Alan Johnson.
It's just a crisis
in the making. Obviously the
crisis has been made already,
that crisis also making its way into schools,
and the reason for a bill that t
passed the House last week calling for
age appropriate fentanyl curriculum to
be added to existing drug and alcohol
classes in middle and high scho,
being from my age
group. There's been
drugs in schools
all the time. All the time,
whether it's marijuana, meth, cocaine,
and now fentanyl.
The bill also aims to educate
students on the laws that provie
immunity to people who report
fentanyl use or seek treatment.
And a sneaky thing like
fentanyl bears learning about
now. This bill comes at a critil
time as police respond to an
increase in fentanyl overdoses n
our streets and in our schools.
Earlier this year,
a student here at Franklin Highd
of a suspected fentanyl overdos,
and last year, two other studens
died the same way from McDaniel High.
According to data from Multnomah
County's Health Department,
opioid misuse among youth is dropping,
but overdoses are up. Youth
will have access to whatever
is in their environment,
and given how easy fentanyl is to get,
this is no surprise to Multnomah County
health officers like Doctor Teresa Everson.
The drugs are there,
and I do think it's really impot
for us to recognize the change
in in trends and drug and to be
able to keep up with that and me
sure that youth are armed with
the information that they need
at the county level, Dr.
Everson says.
They're enhancing youth drug screening
and upping Narcan distribution,
among other things.
Do you really think that adding
this type of education in schoos
will truly make a difference in
curbing this crisis among youth?
I I hope so. This feels like a cliche,
but it's true that knowledge is power.
If people know what the real ris
are and then have really specifc
information about what to do when they're
worried or where to go for information,
I think that's absolutely helpf.
Blair Best KGW news
and a special good morning to or
viewers in the Kelso Longview a.
Yesterday we posted on KGW's
Facebook page asking for your
recommendations of places to vi.
We did get a number of ideas in Longview,
so we'll head that way soon.
But first, photographer Eric
Patterson is giving us a live lk
at the train station in Kelso.
It was built back in 1912,
but the rail system it uses
dates all the way back to 1871.
That takes me back to that new story we
ran a few weeks ago about how many chugga,
chugga chuggas do you do? Oh my gosh,
remember that one?
Yeah, Chuga chugga chugga,
chugga, chugga, chugga,
chugga, chugga chugga chugga
Too
many.
I feel like this morning
is bumpy. So far. We have a
running tree, man, what
rails are you on? Cloudy skies
up here over the Rose City this morning.
We are dry.
We are seeing those scattered lt
showers dotting the North Coast.
We're 50 degrees in Portland.
That's actually one of the warmr
numbers throughout the metro ar.
Most areas are in the 40s.
Now with that said,
Mcnairy field down Salem is 52,
but it's 47 up at Kelso and it'.
48 degrees out in the dows,
There's a storm chance later
today down around Burns we have
the light scattered showers,
traceable amounts rain in the North Coast.
Otherwise it's going to be
a completely dry Tuesday.
Here's Futurecast shows that the spotty
light showers not much going on,
but radar does verify that.
Here we are.
Skies will quickly break up the clouds,
that is.
This will just be a partly clouy
Tuesday here on the West side,
all dry over the Cascades.
This is 1:00 o'clock.
I do want to play this into
tomorrow afternoon because tomow
afternoon we bring back a retur.
Storm chance up and down the Cascades.
Here's one at 4:00 PM to sniff in the
corner of Clark and Callas Coun.
So it does appear there's at let
the chance that storms tomorrow
with the Cascades later in the
day and evening would bounce
back to the West a little bit.
We could have some spotty
action in the valley.
So we will be watching that.
Otherwise pretty quiet weather,
partly cloudy today,
we'll call it temperatures runng
a little bit cooler than normal.
Yesterday we were in the mid 60.
Today it's more like an upper
60 day I think on average.
This shows only 65 of Longview t
68 Battleground 69 In Vancouver,
winds generally light NW 5 to 15 mph.
Here's your seven days.
So I've added that shower chance
late day tomorrow for the potenl
of the storms in the Cascades.
76 so we start to warm up.
Still 80.
Thursday.
There's still a same thing on Thursday.
There's a thunderstorm chance
over the mountains and maybe
a spotty shower chance here.
Most of us will stay dry.
82 Friday, Saturday 75,
I still feel like.
The weekend forecast has
some uncertainty to it.
I've added a or haven't had it.
I still have a shower chance on Sunday
and Monday of temperatures in the mid 70s.
This could easily be a dry week.
Just something we're keeping an eye on
right now and that is your fore.