This is KGW News at Sunrise this morning.
On Sunrise. Former President
Donald Trump will be back in cot
tomorrow following his third indictment.
This time he's charged with
trying to overturn an election,
the latest on that case coming .
And I'm Devin Haskins.
We're live in Southwest Portlan,
outside the May apartment build.
May, remember the fire ripping through
this building just a couple mons
ago now an update on when demoln
could begin. We'll have more.
Just a few minutes. And we're
also looking to the skies this morning.
That is not the sun on the rise.
That is the moon hanging
tight. You said it's a super mo,
right? Thank you for
the proper introduction of that moon,
Rod. It is a super moon.
It's actually the first of two
super moons we'll see this mont.
We'll have more on that
coming up a little bit later.
A rare occasion,
2 super months in the course of
or two super moons in the
course of one super month.
Good morning, everybody.
It is Wednesday, August 2nd.
The road has led back to the studio for Mr.
Rod Hill. You were in Baker City
yesterday. That was a lot of fu.
Say good morning, Baker. Say
thank you folks out there for
making our two day say so much .
Weather was gorgeous.
The people are wonderful.
The city absolutely charming.
And you're going to have more
later this month. The big shut
off for bigger city. Yeah,
we actually worked when we were
out there. Well, haven't worked.
Here's a look at the web. You we
looking at the Wells Fargo camea
over Portland. That's right.
It's it's fairly dark in the
5:00 o'clock hour nowadays.
Right. But there's the moon.
This is our Cannon Beach camera.
So the point here is the fact
that we can see the setting moon
out over the Pacific waters.
No marine layer.
Everybody's going to be
getting going with sunshine.
The sun rises at 5:55 this morn.
Right now we're 66,
going to be a very similar day to yesterday.
Sunshine all day, 76 at noon.
And then we get up to about 89
degrees for a high temperature.
And that is your forecast for n.
That's toasty. All right,
let's get you out the door real quick.
A live look at the traffic map.
All green, right. Happy to show
you that. Happy to show you thi.
The trip out of Clark County,
wide open at the Interstate bri.
That's at SR14.
We'll take you to the West side.
Quick look at the sunset coming
down the Sylvan Hill, guys.
No crashes, no unexpected
delays on the roads just yet.
All right,
we have another update to pass g
to our viewers this morning.
New information from Portland Fe
as they mop up a grass fire that started
on Hayden Island just a few hours ago.
Just after 2:00 AM, the fire department
sent out this tweet updating the fire.
They say it happened on Hayden
Island Drive near the railroad
line and it took firefighters at
two hours to get it under contr.
There's still no word on
how that fire started,
and we do have another heads up for drivers.
Part of the Historic Columbia Rr
Highway is back open this morning after
a brush fire near Multnomah Fal.
These are pictures of the fire
that broke out Monday night.
Firefighters contained it
to about half an acre.
The highway had been shut down between
Oneonta Creek and Multnomah Fal,
but again this morning that ares
reopened to Portland's Goose How
neighborhood now where a burnedt
apartment building could soon be demolished.
You may remember back in May,
a fire ripped through the May
apartments near SW 14th and Tay.
A part of SW 14th has been closd
ever since because the buildings
unstable and sections of it acty
collapsed onto the surrounding streets.
Our Devon Haskins is live outside the
apartments at 14th and Salmon and Devon.
This demolition we're talking
about when is that going to hap.
So right now the city says no fm
dates have been announced just .
They say the demolition could
begin as early as this week.
Now let me kind of catch you up
on on that like the the what if.
That's because the city says
that the building's owner has a
contractor picked out for the
demolition work for the city hat
to issue any permits for that w.
You may remember on May 16th
as you said a four alarm fire
ripped through the building here
on Southwest Taylor and SW 14th.
All the residents living in the3
year old building got out safel.
The building was severely damag.
For the last couple months,
the streets surrounding the
apartment have been closed.
Nearby streets have been closed since
because of that falling debris.
Garrett Rep,
a tenant who was facing evictio,
has been charged with arson in the fire.
The city tells KGW that the building's
owner is working with the DEQ for the
treatment of asbestos containing material.
Once a permit gets issued,
the city estimates that it could take up
to six weeks to complete the demolition.
Now as far as the streets got
closed in this area goes,
the city says that once the buig
is brought completely down,
they could see a possibility of
the streets reopening at least e
lane while that debris gets movd
in and the contractors able to e
some of their vehicles in and tr
their equipment in to to remove
the building debris.
For now, we're live in Southwest Portland.
Back to you.
All
right, Devin, thanks for that
update this morning. Here's
another story we're covering on Sunrise.
More than 3000 counterfeit fentl
pills are off the street thankso
a recent bust by Portland polic.
Police say the dealer who had the pills
was selling them for just $0.80 each.
Police say they couldn't believe
the price without question.
They say that is the lowest price they
have ever seen for fentanyl pil.
Don't trust any drugs you've on the street.
All the drugs we've tested that
we've seized in the last year he
tested positive for fentanyl,
including, you know, cocaine and
meth and other recreational dru.
Everything has fentanyl residue on it.
And you know,
obviously at this point,
the pills you're buying on the street
that people tell you rocks a coat on,
they're
counter for fentanyl, you're pug
your life in people, you know, there's
their lives at risk as well.
So police identified the suspec.
He was in court yesterday after,
and he faces charges of
trademark counterfeiting,
delivery of oxycodone and unlawl
possession of a controlled substance.
It is another first in American history.
Former President Donald Trump
is facing a new indictment.
He's now officially charged with
trying to overturn an election
and will be arraigned in federal
court tomorrow in Washington,
DC Trump is accused of attemptio
defraud the United States by tag
part in three conspiracies that include
trying to stop the counting ando
processing of votes and to obstt
official proceedings by stoppine
certification of votes on January 6th.
The attack on our nation's
capital on January 6th,
2021 was an unprecedented assaut
on the seat of American democra.
Joe Biden's running against
Donald Trump and losing current.
And now we have that Justice Department
indicting President Trump. This
is Trump's third indictment.
The other two are related to his
handling of classified documents
and payments allegedly made to
adult film actress Stormy Danie.
The former president believes
he's being charged now because
of his current 2024 campaign.
His arraignment is scheduled for 1:00 PM,
our time tomorrow.
Intel is apparently making
plans to expand two of its
factories in Washington County,
and that could eventually bring
hundreds of new jobs to the metro area.
Intel isn't saying much right n,
but KGW obtained the company's application
to the DEQ to upgrade its aging
facilities in Hillsborough and Aloha.
The work could increase emissio.
That's why Intel will have to show it
can meet DEQ air quality standa,
a spokesperson told KGW.
Intel doesn't have a specific
project to announce right now,
but it does want to make sure it's ready
for future expansion here in Or.
According to the permit applica,
the DEQ must still review Intel's request.
There will also be public testi.
The first of two super moons this month is
still in full view here in the 5:00 AM hour.
Stare at the moon with me, won't you?
There it is, staring at the moo.
Together, we are The moon will
set just before 7:00 this morni,
so you still have a couple
of hours to check it out.
This one, by the way,
is called the Sturgeon Super Moon Rod.
Correct me if I'm wrong here because,
you know, I had been wrong befo.
But super moons, I want to say,
happen when the moon is full during its
closest point in orbit around the Earth.
Yeah, it seems
like, yes. And I think we keep expanding.
We like saying super money,
so we keep expanding the defini.
How about this? I know this is live TV.
This is a live picture from Sune
photographer Eric Patterson. He's also Eric,
you delivered the best pictures
of the Super moon, Eric.
And real quickly, I know a lot
of our viewers are out snapping
pictures of the moon last night,
maybe early this morning.
If you did send us those photos,
won't you? You can text us at 5O
32265088. We'd like to
see your pictures of the
oh that was so cool.
And FYI, remember,
this is not the only time.
August 30th will be the
next time you can see this
this month. Yeah, two super
moons in one month. Blue moon,
they call that. Yep, Blue Moon.
Generally we say super when it's
one of the moon orbits that aree
closest to the Earth for that season.
And the one coming up in late
August is supposed to be the
closest full moon pass of the ee
year. So that one should
be particularly wonderful.
Bigger and better, perhaps blue.
Yes, of course we can't guarantee that
because you know we're not in te
guarantee business around here.
I do want to touch on this.
Boy, this is still going on by the way.
Poor air quality risk in for wildfire smoke
and lane Deschutes County, all of this,
the tan color fire weather watch this is
posted for tomorrow and Friday because
it's been a while since we've seen this.
We're going to start to see
thunderstorm activity fire up,
especially it looks like
Thursday over in Eastern Oregon.
And there's certainly a reasonable fear,
if you will, that some of that
lightning will come without rai.
Dry lightning, of course,
would be your best bet for fire
starts from lightning activity.
So we're going to be eyeing that generally
across the West and certainly Nevada,
Idaho, Utah.
We are seeing some scattered shower and
thunderstorm activity this morn,
and we have a little bit of rain just
nipping down in southeastern Or.
Now this is Futurecast tomorrow at 1:30.
This is Thursday afternoon.
There's a storm just north of Baker City
and there were some more storms firing
up in Eastern Oregon tomorrow evening.
So we'll be keeping an eye on t.
And I'm sure monitoring will be on full
alert out there for any fire st.
OK, back to today,
which is going to be dry in oura
and for the most part, just sun.
There's no marine Bush.
That's 46 in Newport right now.
Salem, good morning 59 is your number.
PDX at 6652 up in Kelso.
Baker City good morning 53.
Here's a look.
I'm in love with Eastern Oregon so we're
featuring Eastern Oregon still today.
Sunny and hot areas of wildfire smoke.
It wasn't that hazy I didn't think when
I was out there yesterday and Monday 93,
the high temperature, there's a dry heat.
Actually I asked the locals is 9394 hot?
And they were like no okay 90 in Mcminnville,
90 in Salem, 89 in Corvallis.
Plenty of sunshine today including up
in College County. No marine push 86.
Your expected number.
Still dry numbers right around .
The next couple of days some of us wake up,
some of us won't.
I do believe we'll all be up ino
the nines this weekend and that
is your 7 day forecast for now.