This is KGW news at noon. Now.
At noon, former President Donald
Trump said he expects to be indd
by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
He posted the news today on his
social media site, Truth Social.
The specific charges aren't cle,
but Smith's team has been eyeing potential
obstruction charges in connectin
with Trump's actions on January.
Trump said he received a letterm
the special counsel on Sunday sg
he was the target of a grand jury probe.
So far, no charges have been fi,
but he's already been criminally
charged twice in recent months.
And that's not the only legal
trouble for the former presiden.
A hearing is going on right nown
Florida and could decide the tig
of his classified documents tri.
Trump is facing charges for
allegedly mishandling classified
documents after he left office,
keeping them at his Mar A Lago estate.
Attorneys for both sides are discussing
how to handle this classified
evidence and schedule a trial de
during a presidential campaign.
Prosecutors proposed December 1,
but defense attorneys want
that trial after the election.
Here in Oregon,
Portland detectives say they
have a person of interest in the
cases of four women found dead n
and around Portland this year.
They believe the same person is
responsible for all four homici.
Investigators aren't naming that person,
but Willamette Week reports
he's Jesse Calhoun,
a man with a rap sheet dating back to 2003.
That's a picture of him.
The newspaper reports.
Former Oregon Governor Kate Bro.
Granted Calhoun clemency in March of 2021,
she cut about a year off his sentence,
partly because he was on the
inmate work crews helping fight
the historic Labor Day wildfire.
About two years after he'd been freed,
the women's bodies started turning up,
KGW has confirmed.
Earlier this month,
investigators asked Governor Tina Kotak
to revoke Calhoun's clemency, and she did.
He's now back behind bars.
Police say two people were hurt during a
shooting at a North Portland street fair.
Cell phone video shows people running
away after hearing gunshots at e
Mississippi street fair Saturday night.
Witnesses say they saw a gunman
fighting with a man who had a k.
They think one of the men got stabbed
near North Mississippi and Beac.
Then the fight moved a few blocs
away where the shooting happene.
Police say a woman was seriously
hurt by a stray bullet.
We talked to the producer of a
local band that was on stage whn
the violence broke out,
and that was, I think,
the most alarming thing to see h
all these kids running toward m.
And they looked scared.
They looked upset.
Police say the person who was
stabbed hasn't come forward.
If you have any information
or video of either incident,
Portland police want to hear from you.
The man accused of fatally stabg
a mental health worker has plead
not guilty to second degree mur.
That's according to The Oregoni,
58 year old James Smith
appeared in court yesterday.
Gresham police say officers gota
call early Sunday morning and fd
the employee dead at Cascadia Health.
Court documents identified
her as Hayley Rogers.
Police say there were signs of a
struggle in the common area and bloody
footprints leading to Smith's r.
He's in jail this afternoon ands
another hearing coming up on July 25th.
Local detectives need help identifying
the suspected drug user who attacked a
Portland father in front of his kids,
sending him into a weeklong com.
Take a look at this photo.
This is the man accused of the crime.
It happened on July 3rd
in Southeast Portland,
outside the 711 near 148th and Stark.
The family said they had stopped
by the convenience store after
dinner and noticed the man using
what they thought was fentanyl.
The father, upset about what was
happening right in front of his kids,
confronted the man,
who reportedly punched him in the face,
knocking him unconscious.
The suspect is white,
63 and between 22 and 29 years .
He has tattoos from his left
hand up to his elbow.
If you recognize this man,
you're asked to call Portland police.
Well, it's wildfire season and e
224 fire southeast of Estacada
continues to grow this noon.
It's about 38 acres and is 35% contained.
Level 1 evacuations remain in pe
in the Clackamas River RV Park,
the Promontory Park Campground,
SE Fall Creek Rd.
and Tamala Mountain Rd.
Firefighters are encouraging
people to avoid the area.
They also remind anyone trying o
get a look at the fire from aboe
not to fly drones over the area.
They can interfere with
firefighting planes and helicop.
Well, the largest fire in Oregon
grew to 5500 acres yesterday.
It's called the Flat Fire,
and it started Saturday in the e
River Siskiyou National Forest,
about an hour's Dr. east of Gold Beach.
Right now it's
0% contained. More than 300 firefighters
are working now to put it out.
Rod Hill is here tracking smoke
from the fire rod. What are you
seeing on Futurecast? Well,
the biggest player in in the ste
of course is that flat fires
Brenda mentioned over 5000 acre.
So this is futurecast.
It tracks and colors for you.
The smoke plumes,
the overall flow pattern today s
generally coming down from north to South,
so that's holding.
All of the smoke,
There's the flat fire plume just outside
of Medford also you can see it t
there in the corner of the stat,
but that's the north flow is
holding that smoke well to our
South and it's kind of spreading
out a little bit off to the eas.
So really no wildfire smoke
at all here locally.
If you go up towards Spokane,
you eventually start to run into
some of that Canadian wildfire e
that is still a player that aga,
there's that close up look
down in Southern Oregon.
Here home beautiful clear skies.
The Weather Service this morning did pop
up a red flag warning for this afternoon.
Starting at 2 and going through
7:00 PM this evening,
this is basically for the
Willamette Valley from Eugene al
the way up to the Columbia Rive.
And it simply means temperaturee
back on the rise and we'll get e
late day N breezes out there as well.
Keeping low, low relative humidity factors.
We are at 75.
Yesterday 79 was the high,
today 87 will be the high and il
still be in the 80s I think with some
late day breezes bouncing to maybe 20
mph at 8:00 o'clock a temperature of 83.
Brenda,
I have 90s on the seven day.
I know that's coming up
again. All right, thank you, Ro.
On the Oregon coast today,
lots of folks still talking about the
cougar that climbed Haystack Ro,
the big cat wandered away
and the beach is back open.
But as Joe Ranieri reports,
people can't quite believe
what happened in Cannon Beach.
Yeah, that's crazy.
I didn't hear about it. The cray
thing that most people heard
this weekend was how this cougar
was most likely looking for food
and climbed up on Haystack Rock.
It was there from early Sunday
morning to early Monday morning
before officials with the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife
saw fresh tracks leading away fm
the rock and spotted it on wilde
cameras leaving the area. My
friends and I, we were planningo
make a beach day since last week
and so it kind of had our plans
up in the air as we decided whee
they were going to come or not.
And then we just followed the news this morning and we said, you know,
it's open today, We're still going to go.
The beach reopened Monday morning and the
safety closure didn't stop people from
coming out here to catch some summer sun.
Jasmine Diara drove out here frm
Hillsborough and was glad it was
open by the time she got out he.
You can see from drone video
AKGW Viewer sent us,
the cougar got stuck during high tide,
just climbing over the
rocks waiting to leave.
It wasn't just at Haystack Rock where
a cougar was spotted over the weekend.
There was also a sighting here
at Nehalem Bay State Park.
As we pulled into the park 16
miles away, you could see signs
posted all over the camping area
warning people of the cougar.
And ODFW says it's not the same
cougar that was on Haystack Roc.
I mean, that was pretty crazy.
Like, seeing that on the news this morning,
I was a little surprised, you k,
I mean seeing like like why woud
a Mountain Lion go up to a rock,
you know, are the feasting on b,
Despite the Mountain Lion
being spotted in this area,
that still didn't stop people fm
spending time on these trails.
There have been cougar sightings
in this area that kind of have u
a little nervous? Not at all, n.
I mean, I I take my bike on
those trails all the time.
It's super beautiful out here. So I don't.
I'm not really scared of a Coug.
Joe Ranieri, KGW News
Scared. No. Prepared. Yes.
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