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at Sunrise will expect longer
travel times at the Portland
airport over the next few weeks.
Kids are on spring break and with
many pandemic restrictions lifted,
a lot of families planted on
traveling here to have more on how
PDX plans to handle the more than
1,000,000 people plan to use the
airport over the next few weeks.
We're also following what could be a
historic decision for the US Supreme
Court confirmation hearings begin today
for nominee. Tanji Jackson Browne.
More on the reviews.
She's getting from both sides of the
aisle and tackling food insecurity.
How a local program is working
with students to make sure they
don't go hungry over spring break.
Good Monday morning everybody.
Thank you for joining us.
Lots of families here in Oregon,
at least on vacation this week.
They're definitely looking
at your weather forecast.
Should we call drew?
He's taking spring break off,
so we call him see if he's out.
Wake him up. Yeah, let's do
it. Here's a look at a wet radar.
Oh my goodness,
this will be a steady rain day.
You can see this ball of moisture.
Eugene is the southern end of it.
Then it excludes all the way up into Seattle.
Right now. Temperatures are near
32 at past level in the Cascades,
but it will become all rain all the
way up through Timberline Lodge Day.
Here's the solid rain on the
radar temperatures right now.
44 degrees, Nothing stormy today,
just rain all day long.
Here's the bus stop weather
for Washington if you will.
45 degrees out the door,
49 degrees at noon,
still raining in 52 and the kids
get out of school later today.
Rod, thanks, you know.
I feel like it never fails spring break.
You know it does rain.
I remember being in school and that might
be a good reason to get out of town.
Maybe you already have plans because
it is spring break week in Oregon.
Yes, sorry Washington.
Yours still two weeks away
but spring break also means
it's gonna be busy at PDX.
Devon Haskins is joining us this
morning with what you need to
know if you're traveling, hey
you know what?
I'ma Washington residents maybe
all this rain will go away,
but the time our kids spring
break happens in two weeks.
But yes, busy is right,
PDX says by the time spring break.
Wraps up on April 10th round.
A million people will actually
travel through Portland airport
and not only do you have Spring
Breakers heading out for this week,
but all those that were in
town for the NCAA tournament.
We're leaving this city as well.
Saint Patrick's Day was projected
to be the busiest day of the spring
break travel period that runs from
March 17th through April 10th.
More than 44,000 people came
through PDX on Thursday.
That's above the daily average,
which is closer to 35,000.
And if you ask airport staff,
they say this is all a welcome sites.
It's really wonderful seeing people
excited about traveling. They wanna get
out, they wanna reconnect with
friends and loved ones. They wanna
go to sunny destination.
So there's a lot of joy in that.
And there's lots of smiles
even behind the masks.
We can still see the smiles,
so that's really fun.
Yeah, those masks. Don't forget them
because the TSA extended the federal
Mask Man mandate to April 18th. Brenda
getting back to normal,
though a little bit. Thank you Devin.
Well with COVID restrictions dropping
teens are getting a little more freedom.
During spring break this year,
but that can also lead to risky behavior.
Tim Gordon is talking with experts
about safety and mental health.
After two long years,
the pandemic is waning.
As kids leave classes for
spring break that is good news,
but added freedom can mean teens
returning to unsupervised risky behavior,
so parents should return to normal
parenting strategies according to child
and adolescent psychiatrist Heather Adams.
It starts with keeping track of them.
We know when they're expected to be back,
we know who they're with.
We know how to get ahold of them,
and then having a backup plan if we
can't get ahold of them that way.
We've been talking a lot about opioids.
And the extreme danger of
fentanyl often loaded in deadly
doses in counterfeit pills.
Two teens in Portland died this month
of suspected fentanyl overdoses,
as hard as this topic is.
Awareness and communication
are the first steps,
says Stephen Dunleavy,
with Multnomah County,
we really would encourage parents
to kind of take the initiative to
kind of learn more about the current
drugs that are in the Community
and the impact they're having,
and then to really kind
of initiate conversations.
With their children,
hopefully there are fun
times for your family.
Getting outside together is
good for your body and spirit,
but if your kid isn't into doing anything,
it could be a red flag.
If your kids aren't excited
about spring break, then we want
to watch out for like mental health concerns,
that could be that could be struggling with
Doctor Adams says spring break or anytime.
Watch for low mood anxiety.
Isolating and sudden behavior changes.
All could be signs your kid needs
help that help may come from
a mental health professional.
But it can also help to simply come together,
play games, have friends over,
have family meals. But again,
I think the real message is is really
trying to spend time connecting so
we know again when you're connecting.
You feel better when you're isolating.
That usually exacerbates
feeling depressed or anxious.
Go enjoy your kids.
Hang out with your kids.
Hang out with your kids friends and
get to know them and have a good time.
But just do it without drugs and alcohol.
Tim Gordon KGW news.
There are several ways to.
Reach out for help if you or
someone you know needs it.
The Multnomah County Call Center is
503-988-4888. The Oregon youth Line is
877-968-8491. You can also text teen 2
teen to connect with somebody and if
you didn't catch all of those numbers
we have them in Tim story on kgw.com.
Turning now to
the war in Ukraine,
Russian forces continued to take aim
at civilians and Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky is calling the latest
round of attacks against his country,
war crimes and art school
turned shelter in Marie.
Opal was ripped apart by missiles,
with 400 people sheltering inside and
in Kiev homes and a shopping center are
in ruins following the latest attack.
It's unbelievable.
I never see. Give like this
like now what is going
on? We have
destroyed house.
Warm C.
Except.
Keith's mayor is encouraging soldiers on
the front lines to hold their ground,
while other troops and volunteers
prepare to patrol the capital city.
It's pressure that seems to be working.
US defense officials saying
Russian ground troops are moving
at a slower than expected pace.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill,
a historic week kicks off today.
Confirmation hearings for
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson,
the first black woman nominated to
the Supreme Court, get underway.
President Biden picked Judge Jackson to
replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Jackson will face tough questions
from senators this week,
including criticism on her record
of the US Sentencing Commission
and Republican attacks,
claiming she's soft on crime.
Jackson could be confirmed
without any Republican.
Votes if all 50 Senate
Democrats stick together,
but President Biden wants bipartisan support
for too long our government.
Our courts haven't looked like America.
And I believe his time that we
have a court reflects the full
talents and greatness of our nation.
If confirmed, Judge Jackson would be the
first black woman to sit on the High Court.
And it's more than 200 year history.
Here are some of
the other headlines for you.
This morning, we start
with Courtland latest shooting.
It happened in the Buckman neighborhood.
Early yesterday, police responded
to SE 8th and Washington and found a
person shot to death on the sidewalk.
No word yet on a suspect.
Or the name of the victim.
Anyone with information should contact
Portland police and overnight fire at
this Beaverton apartment complex left.
10 people without a home.
This happened at Menlo Drive and
Allen Blvd around 8:30 last night to
Wollaton Valley Fire and Rescue found
two units on fire and the flames were
spreading through a shared attic.
Crews say fire,
smoke and water damaged 4 units total,
but no one was hurt.
The Red Cross is now helping
the families affected.
And Portland police recovered
a stolen U-Haul carrying 1100
pairs of Yeezy Adidas sneakers.
Police haven't said where
the shoes came from,
but they arrested someone for stealing them.
The shoes are worth an estimated $250,000,
and those are some of your
Monday morning headlines.
Well,
there's an island in the Columbia River
right near Bonneville Dam in the gorge
called Bradford Island in what we
now know is it's highly polluted from
decades of dumping dangerous chemicals,
the EPA just listed it as a Superfund site.
That status means more federal
funds to clean up the pollution.
the US Army core of engineers used the
island as a landfill for 40 years and
was supposed to have cleaned it up.
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and
Governor Kate Brown praised the EPA.
Decision as a step in the right direction.
Music to
my ears. Let's
dive in. Let's get the plan and let's
get it done or
again, along with the Yakima Nation
and the state of Washington have worked
for over 20 years to see some forward
progress in addressing this injustice. The
next step is for the EPA to
set up the cleanup timeline.
The core will still be responsible
for the cleanup process,
but the EPA will now oversee it.
Like a raining day spray,
but why would it take 20 years to
get somebody to go?
Yes, let's clean that up.
Is that a rhetorical government?
The government moves slow.
Alright, see you ladies,
you said rain on the parade
there's no parade but there
is rain that is
a live look at our Wells Fargo Sky Cam.
So spring break for a lot of Oregon families
starting wet, but it's not gonna
end up that way. It's gonna be
kind of a typical week, you know.
Spring break is often you have a few really
good days and a few days like today
is one of those. Here's a look at the
radar that the satellite flow,
so all this just channeling and then
what I call spilling down into our area.
This is a ridging pattern offshore
and is it continues to strengthen
it is it brings in some warmer air.
You folks that live South could see the rain
eventually break up at some point today.
Right now Eugene's on the
southern end of this.
And if anything, there would be a really
slow inching movement to the north.
I think of the rain pattern.
There is a heavier rain pocket right now
coming into Portland much of the day today.
But really not that unstable,
so much of the day the rain
will be on the gentler side,
but that's moderate rain and green
and heavier rain right now in yellow,
so that's proof that the rain can pick
up and maybe will from time to time.
Today 43, Newport 44 in Portland,
the 1040 spells in the 40s and he
got banned at 36 Central Oregon,
expecting to get a little bit
of rain eventually.
Today it should be dry though with some
thin cloud cover if for partly saying
to mostly cloudy skies and John Day
Burns and Baker City on the West side,
here's future cast just a solid rain
this morning at 8:30 through the commute.
Really,
no breaks through 2:00 o'clock
and then here we are this evening.
8:00 PM now.
Eventually this will start to break
up and get out of here.
The rain ends overnight.
We wake up to some clouds tomorrow
and then tomorrow become sunny and
remember this is warm air moving in,
so we really ought to hit 70 tomorrow.
If we get developing sun during the
morning hours, that's on Tuesday.
Alright for today though.
Low to mid 50s Salem to the South,
maybe 1/4 of an inch of rain.
You get a higher amounts near
the Colombian up to the north so
maybe 1/2 of an inch in Portland,
3/4 of an inch up in Longview.
Temperatures here again right
about 50 degrees.
There's that day tomorrow 70 degrees ladies
come on. Give me some applause,
do something. Yeah, let's hear it.
Whoa, that's far more,
yeah well we'll clap when it happens, OK?
Well spring break is exciting for most kids,
but for others it means they
won't have access to school
meals coming up in 2 minutes.
How Beaverton volunteers
are bridging that gap?