We start this afternoon's newscast with a live look outside
by a way of a rose city sky cam.
I believe this is what they call picture
perfect temperatures in the seventies this afternoon.
Light clouds in the sky for more on today's weather.
We turn it over to Chris mcguinness as we say,
good afternoon and welcome to the news at noon and good afternoon to you Drew.
Let's take you up, up,
up to Timberline Lodge and we'll point south
towards Mount Jefferson and the three sisters.
It's always great and a sign of good air quality right where
we can see Mount Jefferson and then farther to the south,
the three sisters, which are, you know, a good 80 to 100 miles away, right?
So nice clear air up there.
For the most part, the central Oregon coast has some broken cloud cover.
That's a live look right now from Newport.
And then as we take you to the North Oregon coast,
it's raining.
So there are some places that are seeing
a little drizzle and light rain this morning.
This is the Astoria Column Sky Camera. That's the Megler bridge off the distance.
And again, a
couple of sprinkles along the North Oregon and the
South Washington coast fed some light sprinkles up around the
Neel Ridge, Long Beach Peninsula. And
as far south as about Manzanita,
pretty far, well, I should say
no rain being reported south of that and these sprinkles are likely to stay
at the coast and in the coast range for the remainder of today over downtown,
our thick cloud cover from earlier today has broken up and
we are partly cloudy to mostly sunny out there right now.
And I want to switch gears real quick and show you that we are currently
70 degrees at P DX. And
once again, my button is stuck.
But Drew, I can tell you we are on our way to a high of about 78 this afternoon.
I've got nineties in my 78 forecast. Stay tuned for that in just a few.
All right. Yes, we will check back in with Chris here shortly.
But right now we want to take a look at some of this afternoon's local headlines.
The Oregon Department of Human Services is searching for a missing newborn,
his mother and her partner.
We're going to show you their names right here on the screen.
I believe we have those names to show you here and there they are.
They were last seen on September 5th.
The Department of Human Services says both parents are from Portland,
but it's believed they could be in Newburgh
or across the Columbia in Vancouver or even farther north in Bellingham,
Washington.
The newborn may also be at risk so anyone with information
should call 911.
Police are also looking for this man who they say held up a postal worker.
The suspect allegedly took work keys from a mail carrier and a small amount of mail.
This happened in the south waterfront area of Portland last Tuesday night.
The
suspect,
the suspect that is described as between 58 and 5 10 and was
last seen wearing a black jacket with white lettering on the back.
Police say he also drove off in a dark colored Ford Explorer.
So there is a $50,000 reward available
if you have information that helps find the suspect.
The demolition of the May apartments near downtown is underway.
A fire gutted the apartment building at the corner
of Southwest 14 and Taylor back in May,
we saw crews working in hazmat suits with warning signs
there posted about the possibility of asbestos in the area.
The building's owner says the demolition project should take about six weeks
and that's a look at some of this afternoon's local headlines.
Meanwhile,
a hearing is scheduled next month for Michigan State's
head football coach who is accused of sexually harassing
a local rape survivor,
Brenda Tracy who lives outside of Portland is a
well known advocate for victims of sexual assault.
She says four men raped her in 1998
2 of them Oregon State football players,
but those charges were eventually dropped.
A recent USA today report says Tracy filed
a complaint against Michigan State head football coach
Mel Tucker last December claiming that he
conducted non consensual phone sex with her.
In April of 2022.
Tucker told investigators the act was consensual.
Michigan State has suspended Tucker without pay
objective has been and remains
focus on conducting a fair, thorough and unbiased investigation
and
allowing the processes
to play out.
This includes
protecting confidentiality
of the climate
and put in place interim measures.
There's a hearing scheduled for next month that
will determine if Tucker violated school policy.
We're also hearing from friends of one of the teenagers who was stabbed
at a Mac station in what police are calling a racially motivated attack.
A 17 year old named Damian was one of those two teens stabbed on
September 2nd as they were getting off a max train in Southeast Portland.
Damien's family asked us to only use his first name.
Police say Adrian Cummins, a 25 year old homeless man struggling with addiction,
yelled racial slurs at the teens before he attacked them.
Cummins lawyer says he was high at the time.
Friends of Damien tell us he is out of the hospital at this point,
but he can't leave his home and still has a long road to recovery ahead.
The focus is for him
to heal from the surgery since he bled into his heart and chest cavities.
He has been upbeat and full of jokes and joy throughout the whole process.
And
that touches me
because when I left his hospital room, I felt uplifted.
Damien was supposed to be starting his senior year at Park Rose High School.
Right now. There's a go fund me set up for his family.
They say they're hoping to raise enough money for a car for Damien
so he never has to ride the max again.
We have a quick update for you this afternoon on the Camp Creek fire.
It is now 35% contained.
It's also burned more than 2000 acres in the Bull Run watershed east of Portland
in the Mount Hood National Forest. It's also the city's main drinking water source.
Officials say Portland's water though remains safe to drink.
Almost 600 people continue to work. That fire.
Clark County has become a leading example for
first responders looking to coordinate across jurisdictions.
So it all started
with a vacant fire station on the
responding line between Clark calls fire and rescue
and Clark County fire district six,
but now station 151 as it's known is fully staffed by crews from both Clark
Kates and District six.
Clark Kale's fire chief John,
nor says the full time staff allows them to serve the community
full time.
And as we're moving the patient to the ambulance,
I look across the street and there's an empty fire
station and that obviously is the most dramatic example of not
doing
the right service for our folks.
And so at that point, it was time to say, what are we going to do to help staff?
This station
chief nor added that station 151 is critical at this point
to ensure good response times as that community continues to expand.