This is KGW news at noon. We
start at noon with an update on a
shooting in Southeast Portland.
Portland police now say three people died
in what they're calling a murder suicide.
Thank you for joining us at noon.
I'm Christine Padawan,
which this shooting happened last night
at a house on SE 166th and Main Street.
A SWAT team and crisis negotiators
raced to the scene around 6:45 last
night after the 911 call came in.
Police today. Give us some new information.
We now know three men were found
dead at the home.
A woman is also in the hospital right now.
Last night we spoke to a neighbor
who wanted to stay anonymous.
He spoke with police as the
situation unfolded.
He said that there was a man
that was barricaded in the house,
that he had shot someone, so that's
what the purpose of all of this was.
Please tell us there isn't anyone
else involved in the shooting,
but we don't know the connection
between the shooter and the victims.
And just moments ago, Portland
police released these pictures
of a man wanted for murder.
43 year old Jose Carabao is
accused of killing his girlfriend.
He has very distinctive tattoos.
His girlfriend's body was found in Powell
Butte Nature Park Friday afternoon.
27 year old Catherine Muhlbach's
family shared this picture of her.
Police think Carabayllo has
left the Portland area.
He has friends and family in Oregon,
California and Mexico.
If you know where he might be,
call police.
Crime Stoppers is also offering
up a $2500 reward.
The city of Portland's 90 day reset
plan for the central East Side
Business district is underway,
with crews clearing out homeless camps
and the city stepping up police patrols.
Blair best talked to people living on the
streets there who say they aren't being
offered any help once they're forced to
leave forever. Was like, way too long.
That's how Kyle describes the past
two years he's been living on
Portland streets, most recently
fighting to stay warm here on the.
Corner of SE 6th Ave and oak.
Little fire or like burning hands
tester like alcohol or like propane.
The fire department has responded to
his fires four times in the last week.
Yeah, they know me pretty
well I guess. I don't know
this area. Also the latest target for
city crews clearing homeless camps.
It's all part of the mayor.
Centrally side 90 day reset plan
to clean up the neighborhood and
increase police patrols after dozens
of business owners called on the
mayor for help about two weeks ago.
Citing safety concerns,
one of our employees on his
way into our central kitchen
was held up at gunpoint.
Like everyone in this room,
we deal daily with feces,
human on our shoes.
We deal with break INS.
We deal with assaults.
Mayor Wheeler promised them results,
not just in terms of the data,
but I want it to pass the C test.
If you don't see it, it doesn't matter.
And so my expectation is that you
will. Another one of his reset plans
launched last March in Old Town,
which saw temporary results and got 87
people into shelters across the river.
Kyles Camp is now getting
the brunt of this plan.
He was swept twice this weekend and
has until 8:00 AM Monday to move again.
Kind of sucks. It's like
kind of depressing as hell.
I don't know when you got,
like, nowhere to go.
The city clears the camps in an
effort to remove all of the tents and
trash covering the sidewalks yet.
For those living in those tents,
that's their home.
And for some homeless people out
here in the central east side,
they say the city isn't helping
them get off the streets.
When they sweep you,
do they offer you any sort of services?
They give me 5 bucks. That's right.
According to city data,
last week they assessed 500
camps and removed 50 of them.
They only offered shelter referrals
to 42 people, 33 accepted and 28
actually spent the night in the shelter.
So going off of this data,
not everyone is being offered
a safe place to go.
What will it take for you to
get off the streets? What?
What is it that you need?
An ID and like. Somebody that cares,
I guess. I don't know. Yeah,
I just think that they they look
down upon people who are poor.
Alex and his friend Zach share this
corner of Southeast Grand Ave Oak.
They've tasked themselves with
watching out for the neighborhood,
saying they've stopped people from
breaking into nearby businesses.
I just try to make a bigger
conscious effort to keep my area
clean and my surrounding area.
And my street cleaner.
He sees the mayor's reset plan as
a ticking time bomb, leaving him
in fear of his sight being removed.
One he spent $500.00 making.
So after we get cleared.
What we're what are we supposed
to do after that happens? He
is now just waiting for the day he
can afford a place of his own. I
have a job. I work at Plaid Pantry.
I work graveyard at Plaid
Pantry five days a week.
It's. It's still not enough.
To pay for something.
Like I said, I can either have clothes
and food in my gut and live out here,
or I can go live somewhere and
have a roof over my head and have
no clothes and no food in my gut.
I can't afford to have both.
Another meeting on this 90 day reset
plan is scheduled for Tuesday and
this one is not open to the public in
central east side Blair Best KGW news.
Now to an update for drivers who use Hwy.
30 in Columbia County.
Starting today, the highway,
which is about 20 miles east of Astoria,
is open for daytime travel.
That area, it's the first time this
is happening in nearly two weeks.
Crews have been working to
clean up after a landslide.
Odot has had one lane open at night from
4:00 PM to 8:00 AM for the past week,
with flaggers waving drivers through.
Now those flaggers will be sticking around,
but the highway will now be staying open
all day if you plan to travel that way.
Still, expect delays because crews
continue to be in that area and Hwy.
35 near government camp, now back open.
It was shut down in both directions
for a couple of hours yesterday
afternoon around 12:30,
ODOT says multiple cars spun
out because of icy conditions.
Here's a look at Hwy 26, though,
where cars were stuck in traffic.
You can see the lineup there because
of what happened on Hwy 35, ODOT says.
No one was hurt,
but crews did have to help get three cars.
Back onto the highway.
Let's get to Daisy Caballero
in the weather center now.
And Daisy,
we've had a lot of rain recently,
but things are looking like they're changing.
Yeah, Christine, you're totally right.
Things are definitely changing.
And that's because a new system is pushing
through and that we're actually going to be
under a dry spell for the rest of this week,
potentially clear into this weekend.
We'll talk more about it in my full forecast,
but I wanted to take us out to Cannon
Beach where 43 degrees out there,
those skies are starting to clear out, but.
More of those clouds are gonna be
coming right back after one another.
Look at those.
Current temperatures were mainly in
those mid to upper 40s for the most part.
I'd actually did see a 50 degree
mark right here in the Dals.
We are in the 30s though,
near John Day, Burns and Bend,
but we're seeing those 40s on the coast now.
Comparing these conditions to
what we were 24 hours ago,
we're actually a little bit
warmer in Scappoose, Vancouver,
Troutdale, Portland here as well,
9 degrees warmer.
Right now than we were yesterday
specifically in The Dells.
This is your daily planner here.
We're expecting again those clouds to
stick around for the majority of the day.
But are we expecting any more snow
in those mountains and foothills?
I'll let you know coming
up in just a little bit.
OK. Thank you. Daisy,
Oregon's election director has resigned,
saying the job is extremely challenging
and also cited uncertain funding.
Deborah Scroggin gave her resignation
letter to Secretary of State
Shemia Fagan on Friday. Fagan.
Called a House committee last week
that her office tracked 220 incidents
of false information this year,
and many of those instances
involved threats of violence.
Fagan is asking lawmakers to
fund 4 full time staffers,
including two to investigate
elections complaints.
Right now there's only one full-time staffer,
and today Oregon Senator Ron Wyden gave a
speech at the Oregon leadership Summit.
It's a forum with business,
community and elected leaders.
One of the big topics discussed growing
the semiconductor industry in Oregon.
Wyden wants to grow Oregon's
so-called Silicon Forest.
There's a global shortage of
high tech chips and Wyden wants
Oregon to be part of the solution.
Before his speech today,
he we talked to him about how the $52
billion chips Act will make a difference.
My
legislation that I made a part of
this package provides billions of
dollars for investment tax credits.
And this gives us a chance to
really move into the big leagues
in terms of manufacturing.
Wyden also told us that the
Secretary of Commerce will be
visiting Oregon early next year,
with an eye on growing the
semiconductor business across the state.
Still ahead at noon, returning home,
and now recovering how Britney
Griner plans to help other Americans
stuck in similar situations.
And the Golden Globes are
back a year after scandal.
The big award show returns.
Find out which movie took
home the most nominations,
and we're in our last week of the KGW Great
Toy Drive. And while the toy
box is still looking good,
we definitely need your help.
You can do it by dropping off a new
unwrapped. Boy at any IQ credit union,
Fred Meyer, or local Toyota dealership.
And if you'd like to drop off a toy in
person, we have a collection event tonight.
Our Joe Ranieri and the KGW team will
be at zoo lights tonight on the news.
At four and five you can bring a toy,
drop it off with Intel folks at
the Polar Plaza and if you can,
please, please give.
We'd love it if you would help
bring a little more joy to kids
in our area this holiday season.