of gunfire near
a Vancouver school sends two campuses into lockdown.
My brother just texted my mom and he said
that there's a lot of cops here
plus new video of an out of control
driver speeding right through Portland's grand floral parade.
What we're learning about the moments
before the driver crashed through the barricades
and
the most urgent thing that we're asking for is a ceasefire.
Now
amidst the humanitarian crisis in Gaza,
new calls for elected leaders in the northwest to help pursue
peace.
Thanks for joining us. I'm David
Molko and I'm Laurel Porter and we begin with newly released dash cam video
that shows a road rage incident in June when a driver
plowed through barricades at the Rose festival grand floral parade.
The driver nearly hit several people including small Children
along the parade route.
Investigative reporter Kyle Lavos,
she just obtained that video and joins us live in the newsroom.
Kyle rarely do we get to see the evidence in an open criminal investigation.
But in this case,
prosecutors submitted the dramatic video taken from inside the
suspect's truck as evidence during a preventative detention hearing.
They wanted to keep him behind bars and a judge agreed.
Then we obtained the video through a public records request
a warning before we play it.
There are some intense moments that may not be appropriate for all viewers.
Never before seen footage shows a
Portland man plowing past barricades nearly hitting
several people along the Rose Festival's Grand Flora parade route in June,
Sydney Meacham is facing felony charges for the alleged road rage incident at
the time. There was no clear motive for his speeding toward Children and families.
The 30 minute recording submitted as evidence in a preventative detention
hearing provides new insight into the June 10 th incident.
The dash
cam video shows Meacham become increasingly frustrated by heavy traffic.
His music is blaring as Meacham heads towards the motor center in North Portland
where he planned to meet others including his mother,
Oddo Cruise had blocked off numerous exits to
help keep traffic away from the parade route.
The video shows Meacham driving through a row of
barricades before blowing past Odak crews blocking the exit ramp
until
this
Portland police motorcycle officer chased after Meacham's
truck before pulling up beside him.
The officer shouted for Meacham to stop
but he refused.
The truck eventually turned exiting the parade route.
Meacham drove through barricades nearly hitting several people.
An unmarked police suv attempted to stop Meacham
at a red light in Portland's Lloyd district
but he drove off
the video showed Meacham continuing to drive for several blocks
until he eventually stopped near other officers in northeast Portland.
Meacham, a registered sex offender was arrested and taken to jail
where he'll remain while awaiting trial.
Meacham has pleaded not guilty to 38
counts related to the alleged road raid incident
including felony charges of unlawful use of
a weapon and attempting to elude police.
No trial date has been set.
Yeah, it's definitely hard to watch Kyle.
We appreciate you providing that video and sharing the context there.
Thanks so much developing this evening in Vancouver where reports
of gunfire sent two school campuses into lockdown this afternoon
just after one o'clock,
Evergreen school district officials say there was a report of shots fired in the
area near Evergreen High School and cascade
middle school on Northeast 18th Street.
A
shelter in place order was issued while police investigated,
they found several shell casings and a nine
millimeter handgun in a parking lot behind the stadium
and arrested a 16 year old male who matched the description provided by witnesses.
Police say he is not believed to be a student
during the lockdown.
It was an anxious afternoon as you can imagine for students and their families
and my sister
emailed
us
saying that there's a shooting at school. Um
and they're just currently on lockdown and that's the last that we heard
we got word around 3 30. The lockdown was lifted.
Students were then bussed to district headquarters to be picked up
within the last hour,
President Biden addressed the nation about
the escalating war between Israel and Hamas
as well as Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.
This evening,
the president reiterated the US commitment to
the security of both Ukraine and Israel
and said he will send an urgent request to
Congress on Friday to boost military funding for both.
Something of course, that cannot be done until the House elects a new speaker.
Meanwhile, the state Department issued a
worldwide caution security alert for all Americans
overseas due to the potential for violence
and increased tensions in Gaza.
Also there is now an agreement in theory to open
the Rafah crossing from Egypt on Friday for humanitarian deliveries.
Only the UN is calling for an immediate humanitarian cease
fire to allow aid to reach people inside Gaza.
Let's bring in Daisy Caballero now because hundreds of people also gathered in
today to echo those calls for a cease fire. David, you're absolutely right.
And the event was put on by the Jewish voice for peace, Portland,
a group of Jewish people that stand in solidarity with Palestinian people
and their message is for state leaders to sign the cease fire.
Now,
resolution that was introduced by over a
dozen house represent representatives earlier this week.
Now what this resolution would do is said he
assistance into Gaza and put an end to the
current violence that has claimed the lives of thousands
people I spoke with at the rally shared that
although Portland is far from the Middle East,
they hope the people of Israel and Palestine, no porters are on their side
to end the war.
Others shared,
they feel involuntary part of the conflict as they want it all to stop.
I think the biggest concern is that it's my tax dollars being used
to send additional weapons and military aid to Israel, which will do nothing
other than escalate
the situation.
I don't condone what Hamas did at the same time.
I think
the retribution that we're seeing on the part
of the Israeli military is uncalled for.
And another group is planning a rally in support for
the Israeli people as well as a plea for peace.
That's it for this Sunday afternoon in downtown Portland. David Laurel.
Thank you Daisy.
In your headlines this evening,
the city of Portland is reporting its 51st traffic death of the year.
It happened late last night on Southeast Holgate
and involved one car. You can see it here in this video.
The car is demolished near a tree,
two women were inside, one of them died,
the other was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
Holgate shut down overnight between 134th and 136 as police investigated,
but the road is open again.
We'll keep you updated on the story as we learn more
to a follow up. Now about Multnomah
County commissioners seeking to raise restaurant
health inspection fees by about 6%
after pushback from some restaurant owners including
some you heard from on Wednesday.
Today, commissioners voted against
that proposed hike.
It turns out that will leave the county with a funding shortfall because
the revenue from those higher fees was already built into the budget.
Federal regulators have approved a contract
commercial expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific northwest.
The 1300 mile GTN pipeline
delivers natural gas from Canada to Idaho, Washington and Central Oregon.
Its owner TC Energy said it needed to add capacity to the pipeline
to meet the demand
to do so.
It sought permission to upgrade three compressor
stations including one in Sherman County.
The expansion was opposed by environmental groups and democratic elected
leaders saying it would undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
and fire season is officially over the Oregon Department of Forestry
says firefighters responded to 975 fire starts this year on state
lands
that is on pace with the 10 year average for context here,
wildfires burned about 190,000 acres across Oregon this year.
That is less than half of last year's total.
ODF is crediting partnerships among local state and
federal agencies plus aggressive initial attacks by firefighters.
Matt.
Well, that's pretty much right on schedule.
See fire season ending in mid October right at the start of the rainy season.
Of course, the rain back in September helped as well check out our story right now,
it's already setting in with the fog and the low clouds there 62 degrees.
But what a beautiful day all around the northwest sunset happening
now out at the reserve golf course over the coast,
rain still hanging on to seven degrees.
At the moment we go farther east. There's Mount hood from our camera in the dolls.
So basically from the valleys to and over the cascades clear still. 75.
over in the Dallas we had fog this morning. There it is.
We'll have fog again tomorrow morning, it was going to burn off.
There'll be a slight difference tomorrow. Not quite as warm.
We are 73 today for the second day in a row. We had eighties in central Oregon again,
tomorrow will top out at about seven because we're gonna catch some
high clouds later on in the day but still really nice,
warm, beautiful October day, sunset tomorrow
at 6 16.
Ok, morning fog, but still warm on Friday.
Your headlines are like this showers on Sunday but they're mainly light,
not looking at a lot of rain there and then
much cooler next week with valley rain and snow,
the mountains more on that later guys.
Thank you, Matt.
In Gresham,
a max train hit and killed a man early this
morning and officials tell us he was within a restricted area
between stations.
Ashley Grahams joins us now and Ashley,
this isn't the first fatal incident involving a max train there.
This was the third person in three years to be hit
and killed by a max train between the station at 197 th
and the one we're at right now. Civic Drive
max trains run daily to and from Gresham.
But early Thursday morning trains were stopped when they got to the scene.
They found the person and they were deceased.
Jerem
Swayze with Gresham.
Police says a max train hit a man who was on the tracks and killed him.
He said it happened between Northwest
Woola and Northwest Bella Vista.
I
ain't never seen nobody get
over here
before.
Nick lives near Civic Station, the closest station to the collision.
He was shocked to hear someone was walking on the tracks
for somebody to actually be on the track. That's just madness to
Gresham.
Police found headphones at the scene and they're investigating
whether the man was wearing them at the time.
And if that contributed to the crash,
if somebody's distracted
or if they're listening to headphones or anything, they may not hear a train coming.
But Nick is wondering if Thursday morning fog played a part in the collision.
It was foggy
this
morning,
a possibility. They
probably didn't even
see them walking
on
this stretch of max tracks between 197 th and Civic has
seen two other deadly crashes in the past two years.
In 2022 a man was hit and killed by a train and in 2021 a woman
in all three of these cases, people were in restricted areas,
prevent distractions when you're near a track.
And also if you see a track, think train
police
are still investigating.
But I think this is a reminder to everyone to just be aware,
take those headphones off, look up from your phone and of course,
stay off the tracks, Laurel David.
Thank you,
Ashley.