today, an Idaho grand jury indid
the man accused of murdering
for University of Idaho student.
Hello everyone.
Thank you for joining us.
I'm Brenda Braxton.
Brian Koberger's next court
appearance is set for Monday.
At that time,
he'll likely enter a plea.
Last November, Zana Kurnodle,
Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Gonzalves d
Madison Mogen lost their lives.
The four students were found stabbed to
death in their offcampus home in Moscow.
At the time, Coburger was a grad student
in criminal justice at WSU in Pullman.
He's accused of breaking
into the students home.
Investigators say DNA retrievedm
the scene ties Coburger to the crime,
but they haven't revealed a possible motive.
Today, the late talk County Dist
Clerk told our sister station in Spokane,
Coburger was indicted on all charges.
That means the grand jury belies
there's sufficient evidence
for this case to go to trial.
Later today, the court is expecd
to release more information.
We'll update you on air and onl.
Today, firefighters are keeping
a very close eye on a Southwest
Portland apartment
building destroyed by fire.
Yesterday it was breaking news e
at noon and today there are stil
concerns that building could collapse.
Investigators are also on sceneo
figure out how this fire starte.
Thankfully, no one was seriously hurt,
but many tenants lost everything they had,
including their pets.
This building had more than 60 s
and is more than 100 years old.
Here's KGW's Alma McCarty
billowing smoke that covered the roadway,
flames erupting from the roof ad
onlookers standing by in shock.
In and around the May apartments
on Southwest Taylor and 14th,
we moved on to the third floor.
It looked like it was coming out from
there and it's pretty darn scar.
So we all evacuated the building and then
then we watched the flames just burst open.
Tenants watched from below as Portland
firefighters battled the fire from above.
The crews went inside to both suppress
the flames and ensure all tenans
got out in total rescuing 4 peo,
several residents told KGW.
They didn't hear a fire alarm.
Had the maintenance guy come
and Get Me Out of the house,
out of my own apartment. Casey
Cook lives on the 2nd floor and
evacuated before he could retrie
his most precious belongings. Yu
can lose my phone.
I can lose my wallet.
I can lose all the plastic
stuff in my wallet.
But my cats were in there.
It's been in the building,
neglected for a very,
very long time.
Well, this is.
A long time overdue,
Portland's Bureau of Development Services
confirmed Tuesday they received complaints
about the building from residen,
and the city sent a letter to the owner
listing 10 violations as of Mon,
however, a city inspector found.
Most violations at the 113 year
old building had been corrected.
Unfortunately, they're quite a w
people displaced as a result of the fire.
While there's still no word on
just how many were displaced,
the Red Cross made overnight
shelter arrangements late Tuesd.
Tenants set up at Mailing Hall n
the University of Portland camp.
On scene, volunteers connected
people with the basics,
food and water while planning
ahead for their.
Uncertain future.
We are utilizing every resource
at our disposal, products,
you know, good services,
everything to make sure that
these folks can recover in the n
the this smoothest way possible.
Alma McCarty, KGW News.
Oh, we are just a couple weeks away from
Memorial Day which is consideree
unofficial start of the summer travel season.
Triple-A predicting more than 37
million Americans will take a rd
trip over the holiday weekend.
That's 6% more than last year.
Gas prices nationally will be
lower this year. Right now,
Oregon's average is 4/13 a gall.
A year ago it was 506.
So it's moving in the right direction.
Rod, I'm telling you,
I feel like we've already hit
the unofficial start of summer.
It's been so hot recently.
I've shocked the gas prices
are lower than a year ago.
OK, to your point, Brenda. Yeah.
Did we get used to this, Did we,
For 90 degree temperatures in
a row yesterday, by the way,
the high on Tuesday was 85,
which snapped would have been fr
days in a row of 90 degree heat.
And that, by the way.
Stands as the new record out at PDX Records.
Go back to 1940, the most 90 dee
temperatures in the month of Ma.
How about that?
We have a chance to get back up to 90 today.
If we do, it would become day f.
That would be the new record.
So we'll see.
The only thing I'm really watchg
right now is some showers
out across Eastern Oregon.
They've been there since the morning hours.
The marine layer,
that strip of clouds right there
has pushed back off of the coasd
most of our coastal communitiesw
reporting a little bit of sunsh.
We are starting to see some hear
showers South and east of Baker City.
These look like they want to
turn into thunderstorm.
Certainly a Thunder, lightning a possibility.
So we'll keep an eye on that
To our live cameras.
Little murky out there,
but otherwise we're calling it sunny.
That's Lincoln City Schnuck
Winds Casino Resort Camera.
It is 64 degrees,
very pleasant and perfectly cle.
Over downtown Portland we are up to 76.
That's right in the wheelhouse.
Potentially being up to around 90 for high,
I'm going to say 89 and 4:00 PM,
but clearly we could get up to 0
and then still 82 at 8:00 o'clo.
This is likely the final chance we will
have this week of being up to around 90.
Next week we may not even hit 8.
Changes are coming in my 7 day forecast,
Brenda.
All right. I like the way
that sounds. Thank you, Sir.
Multnomah County still counting ballots
from Tuesday's special election.
But here's where things stand this noon
A proposed capital gains tax is failing.
It would have helped renters pay for a
lawyer when they're facing evictions.
So far, 82% of voters are sayin.
Voters renewed the Portland
Children's Levy for the 4th tim,
and in the Multnomah County
Commissioners race,
former Nike executive Julia Brim Edwards.
Has a firm lead in district thre
with 58% support and then in the race
for Portland School Board Zone .
Retired elementary school teacher Patty
Sullivan is in the lead with 56% of the vote.
In West Linn, the youngest person ever to
become mayor is winning in a landslide.
You may remember Roy Biallo Tos.
The 23 year old was appointed interim
mayor back in January.
He took over after former Mayor
Jules Walters resigned to repret
District 37 in the state legislature.
At last check, he has 80% of the vote.
We'll keep you updated of cours.
Those are just a few of the elen
highlights.
If you'd like to hear more,
go to our website.
You can also get results right w
by taking a picture of the QR code in
the right hand corner of your screen.
That will take you to KGW's
election coverage, now to Salem,
where the Republican Senate
walkout is in its 12th day.
Democrats will try to get a quorum tomorrow,
but there are no guarantees forP
senators have now racked up enoh
unexcused absences to disqualify
them for running for reelection.
The latest is Cedric Hayden from Fall Creek.
A new law prevents any lawmaker
with 10 unexcused absences from
seeking office the following te.
Republicans say they'll challene
that in court.
They also say they're boycotting
the session because bills on gun
reform and abortion are what thy
call hyper partisan In Olympia,
Governor Jay Inslee signed a law making
drug possession and public use of drugs
in Washington a gross misdemean.
Both chambers passed that bill yesterday,
the first day of the special session.
Lawmakers failed to agree on a
compromise during the regular session,
which meant drug possession would have
become legal statewide on July .
The new law also creates A diven
program to get people into treatment.