This is KGW news at sunrise.
The Washington State University student
accused of a quadruple murder
in Idaho is back in court today.
Coming up this morning,
what we expect to happen and a
review of the evidence against him.
Also this morning, allegations
of animal neglect at Multnomah
County's Animal Services division.
We'll hear from former employees
who say for years the shelter has
failed to properly care for the
dogs and the cats that end up there.
Plus, we want to give people a more
full set of data and perspectives
about our history and our culture.
For New Year's resolution,
is it to learn a new
language? Become healthier?
What if you challenged
yourself to learn something
new about a different culture
different than your own?
We'll show you how travel Oregon
and tribes across the state will
help you do just that. I'm super
excited about your story.
I've lived here since I was
eight and there are nooks and crannies
I have never seen in the state.
That's good stuff coming up
for you on this Thursday.
OK, I almost did it.
Happy Friday, everybody.
How are we looking outside?
You know, the rule of the news
is to move things forward here.
I know rolling it back-to-back.
Hey, wanna
let you know there's nothing
stormy about today's weather.
No watches, no warnings, no advisories.
Except for the fact we do have an advisory
for potential sneaker waves along the coast.
The rain has been solid overnight.
You can see we are getting now some dry and
coming into Newport and Salem. Good morning.
The rain has ended for you temporarily.
We still have rain falling in Portland.
The other part of the story is the
mild weather that's coming in with
the rain right now 48 degrees.
There will be occasional shots
of rain continuing to come in.
Today won't be steady,
but we'll get rain from time to time.
53 at noon I have a set 54
degrees nice and mild at 5:00 PM.
Back to you.
You're going to
shoot up children, you're
definitely a dangerous man
and you have no business
being on the streets.
Our top story this morning
police are searching for the man
accused of firing almost two
dozen bullets through an apartment
on E Burnside Tuesday night.
Yeah, those bullets hit an 11 year old
girl and her uncle who were inside.
Both of them are out of the hospital
and recovering at home this morning.
The uncle tells us 36 year old
Rashad Kelbert knocked on the door,
then opened fire when he couldn't get in.
Court records show Calbert was
arrested on domestic violence charges.
Back in November,
he's accused of hitting the 11 year
old's mom with a baseball bat,
but the charges against him were dismissed.
KGW News spoke with the uncle
who was shot in the hand.
He didn't want to show his face though,
out of concerns for his safety,
but he spoke with us in the hopes
that it helps police catch Calvert.
He's freaking out because she'd been
hit and like, she's like,
it burns. She's like call
the cops. And I was trying to call
the cops and I couldn't like
function and use my hand. So she
ended up having to call the. Please.
Portland police are asking anyone
with information to give them a call.
Now to the latest in the murders of
four University of Idaho students.
Later this morning, the suspect,
Brian Koberger will have another court
appearance for the latest on the case.
Devon Haskins joins us this morning.
Devin, walk us through what's
going to happen at the hearing.
Brenda, this is what's
called a status hearing,
more of a procedural style hearing.
There's not expected to be any new
information revealed today, but lawyers,
lawyers will gather to discuss
scheduling and next steps in the case.
It's expected to be a rather.
Short hearing 28 year old Brian Koberger
has been charged with the four murders
of the University 4 University of
Idaho students and a burglary charge.
At his last court appearance last week,
he largely remained silent except to
answer the judge's questions about
understanding the charges against him.
Koberger has not yet entered a
plea of guilty or not guilty.
That formal process will take place after
a grand jury or preliminary hearing,
and that should happen within the next week.
Then a Magistrate Judge will determine
if the case can move forward
to a District Court.
For arraignment and trial now,
it's possible the prosecutors
could file for the death penalty
after the suspects arraignment.
After that
date, the prosecutor's office has 60 days
to file a formal notice that it intends
to seek the death penalty in a case,
and it can only seek the death penalty
if a variety of factors are met.
Alright, so that status hearing is at 8:00
AM today and if you're a fan of Dateline,
NBC will air A2 hour episode on the
Idaho Murders tomorrow nights. True.
Alright, Devin, thanks for that update.
Our next story this morning involves
former employees of Multnomah
County Animal Services who accused
the shelter of animal neglect.
So they say the problems
have existed there for years,
but it really got worse when the
shelter stopped doing in person
adoptions during the pandemic.
They told us when they talked
to management about issues like.
For crowding, staff shortages and
a lack of support from supervisors,
management took action against them.
There
were so many of them and so few of
us and so little, you know, support.
I just did not feel comfortable being
a part of the what I saw as inhumane
Treatment of Animals the more I.
Questioned it the. More,
I seem to be out of favor with management.
In September, Multnomah County
Animal Services got a new director.
Here's what she said just yesterday
about these issues.
I would, I guess, like to ask the
readers and the viewers to take a leap
of faith with me. And in some ways,
they have no reason to do that.
Meanwhile, new Multnomah
County Chair Jessica Vega Peterson
called for a review of current practices
at the shelter to quote ensure we
get to the root of the problems.
OK, let's get you caught up
on some of this morning's headlines.
A man has been sentenced to more
than 25 years in prison for a
deadly crash in downtown Salem.
Enrique Rodriguez Junior pleaded guilty
to two counts of manslaughter and other
charges after he crashed into a homeless
camp last March while driving drunk.
Four people died,
two others were hospitalized.
Prosecutors say Rodriguez's blood
alcohol level was nearly three
times the legal limit, and three.
18 year old suspects linked
to arsons around Mount Tabor
will be arraigned this morning.
Samuel Perkins is scheduled
to be in court at 9:45.
Perkins,
Malik Harris and Wayne Chen are accused
of setting dozens of fires last summer.
They were arrested in September,
but a judge dismissed the charges.
The DA didn't give many details,
only saying the investigation was pending.
Then last month a grand jury
examined evidence which led to
14 new charges including arson.
Reckless burning and possession
of a destructive device.
The DA's office believes
they might be responsible for
several other fires in the area,
and a two mile stretch of
Northwest Germantown Rd.
Is back open between Skyline Blvd.
And Northwest Bridge Ave.
The Portland Bureau of Transportation
was doing some preventative landslide
work over the last couple of days.
Crews were clearing rock,
soil and other debris following
recent heavy rain.
Alright, before we get to Rodney's
Thursday forecast, we're going to Eric
Patterson's bakery shot this morning.
I think this is the second time this week
Eric's been involved with some sweet treats.
These treats courtesy of yatzpan
bakers out there in Beaverton.
So Eric is taking a look at their apple pan.
This is a apple butter poached
apples and breadsticks stem treat.
Say that again.
OK, this treat involves
apple butter poached apples.
And a breadstick stem and matcha.
Matcha.
I love matcha.
The matcha
green tea. I have that right this morning.
Is that with my cup? Yeah.
I should point out this is
a newer item at the bakery.
It's also a limited item at the bakery.
So you better check it out today.
Perhaps if you want to get
your hands on that. Ohh.
Yatzpan opened up back in 2016.
We'll have more from there with Mr.
Eric Patterson behind the camera
coming up later this morning.
It really is like art.
The way they crashed everything.
I love it. Is he
gonna bring us back? Treat? Ohh,
I'd. No, I can't. Let me wait.
Let me get into his head,
make the call out. In fact,
he doesn't start early. In fact he
is. I'll just call the man.
Come on. Good point. Alright,
it's going with your weather forecast.
You know, one of the the stories
nationally is the fact that California
gets a break from the rain.
If you go back a couple days especially,
you see this elongated band of clouds.
This was kind of lined up
perpendicular to the West Coast.
It was coming in straight West
to east in the California.
Now it's swung around.
It's moving S to north.
There are some showers still
lingering in Northern California.
They'll be drying out and the rain
is moving into Southern Oregon,
up into our area now.
Not the rain amounts to California
had and we have 0 watches,
warnings,
advisories today except for an advisory
for sneaker waves along the Oregon coast.
For us,
this is just a surge of rain coming
in with warmer weather and we
are seeing our first break after
steady rain last night so far we
picked up about 1/2 of an inch of
rain here in downtown Portland.
We'll get maybe another quarter
inch during the day.
Today you can see a break in Salem,
Mcminnville.
You're starting to dry out a little
bit and this is all pushing up to the north.
So there are some drying coming into
Portland. There's futurecast 830.
But there's more rain that
will continue to come in.
So I guess the point there is
there's not gonna be just steady
rain every single minute of the day.
There will be some dry breaks,
which is what futurecast shows.
And here's another surge of
moisture perhaps coming in around
11:00 o'clock this morning.
This is interesting.
If you look at this carefully,
the models,
including tomorrow,
show more rain to the West side
of I5 and far less to the east.
Now the driving low behind all this
is still a ways out in the Pacific.
It will get closer during the
PM hours of Friday and maybe.
At that point we would have a rain
amounts pick up into the Cascades as well.
It is rain over the past as this
morning as we expect that snow
levels today will go as high as
7000 feet here early morning numbers
and they are pretty mild 47 Eugene,
46 Salem 48 Portland 47 Kelso 43
over in Bend today 45 out in Downs.
Those are current temperatures.
Here are the forecast highs for the valley.
Salem 57 degrees 30 hour rain totals
will call up to about 3/4 of an inch.
We're on target to hit that Mark
and mentioned so far we picked
up about 1/2 of an inch of rain.
In Portland anyway, Longview 54,
we do have E gusts to 3035 this
morning near the gorge.
Those will be calming down to about
2025 mile prior peak gusts this afternoon,
7 day forecast once we get
through today into tomorrow,
the rest of the time it's just
kind of showery weather or rain
at times if you will,
but nothing big all the way
through the Monday holiday.
And then we have our next push of steady rain
coming in, it looks like Tuesday evening
into Wednesday and that's your forecast.
OK. Thanks rod.
So people are making all sorts of
different New Year's resolutions.
But what about something a little different,
maybe a commitment to seeing more of Oregon?
How about travel Oregon and
tribes across the state,
making it easier for you to do just that?
We'll have that story coming up.