Good evening. It is 91 degrees in the
Rose City on this 15th day of M,
and as we continue to endure het
that feels more like Midsummer,
a change is underway in the forf
higher humidity and strong thunderstorms
firing up over the Cascades.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm David Mulko.
And I'm Brittany Fulkers.
Let's get right to Chief Meteorologist
Matt Sofino with the latest on e
those storms are at right now ad
where they're headed. Matt. Hey,
Brittany. Yeah, it's interestin.
They developed over the Cascades
first as they so typically do.
But we're getting some
movement off the Cascades.
Towards the western valleys.
I'll show you that in a minute.
Here's our first lightning stri.
Picture this from Swoosh Mcduckf
of Twitter out to the east of S.
From the Johnson viewpoint ther,
there's mountain hood,
there's the lightning bolt,
and there have been a lot of
lightning strikes out there.
I'll show you that as well.
This is from downtown Portland
looking E some fairly dark and
stormy sky out to the east of Mt
Tabor there and also to the nor.
So showers, yes,
haven't had any lightning
strikes in the valley yet,
but it's still early.
The day is not over and it's certainly a
possibility up in the Cascades getting.
Some pretty good rainfall here.
This is from one of our two cams
at Timberline Lodge in the beaul
Mount Hood National Forest.
You're looking SE and there's
some solid rain there.
I saw some rainfall amounts
of about 2/3 of an inch.
East of here, out over the Ocho mountain.
So these storms have the potential to
drop a lot of rain in a short pd
of time because they're moving really slowly,
which means they could just keep
dumping and dumping over the same area.
Now watch on Doppler radar,
see the storms over Southwest Washington,
They're all moving from northeat
to southwest.
So we already have some of the
northern reaches of Clark County
here up towards battleground.
We're getting lightning very close by there.
In Portland,
not yet but out by Sandy,
there's some storms.
Sorry, up by Troutdale,
there's some storms in the gorge here, so.
Again, we have to keep an eye on these.
The movement is really slow,
the ones over the Oregon Cascads
moving a little bit more West to east,
but up over Southwest Washington
as I showed you,
they're moving northeast to southwest.
So we've got the potential to he
some drift down over the valleys
later on tonight or develop ove.
And for that reason,
there's a flood watch up and the same
time and same place there's a heat advisory.
They overlap up until 8:00 o'clk
and then the heat advisory ends.
The flood watch goes until 10:00
o'clock because of that potentil
for heavy rain from these storm.
So they're developing right now
pretty much anywhere or everywhe
anywhere really over the state.
They can happen.
Even the coast rage,
strongest storms will be over ad
near the Cascades though as usul
staying very warm through the w.
But there is a cool down coming our way
as we go towards the end of the week.
We'll have more on that
later guys. Yeah, a lot to keepn
eye on right now. Thanks, man.
And OK, get this.
Scientists say that the deep
snowpack and then warm temperats
led to this massive landslide on
the only road to Mount St. Hele.
Check out the video from the air
today of the scope of this slid.
Wow. This is on State Route 405
near the Johnston Ridge Observa,
which was supposed to open
to the public today, and
that reopening instead turned to rescues
with a slide taking out a bridgd
a section of the Spirit Lake Highway.
There in the Coldwater Lake are,
that is not far from the Ridge,
which meant a dozen or so folks were stuck
on the observatory side overnight. Daisy
Caballero is at the mountain wih
the story and how they got out.
State Route 5 O 4 near Coldwater
Lake is closed both ways because
of this debris slide. Here.
It also stranded 11 people and a
dog on the other side who had to
sleep in their cars overnight.
Here's a look at the slide from up above.
If you look closely,
you can see one of at least 11 people that
were stuck but safe on the other side.
At this time, we haven't even
gotten crew members out on the
material because it's still ver.
Very much saturated and moving.
Erin Yanez with the Washington e
Department of Transportation sas
the slide happened near milepost
49 just after nine Sunday night.
They believe one of the people stranded
called in the slide after coming
Facetoface with it on their drie
back home from Mount Saint Helens. We
are very thankful that at the te
nobody was reported missing or
unaccounted for, so we didn't ae
that anybody had been swept awa.
All eleven people were safe.
They were picked up and flown out of the
area by King County Search and Rescue team,
something Ynez says could have been much
worse in slightly different circumstances.
Luckily, last night was mild temperatures.
Had it been in the, you know,
in the winter time or or,
you know, more snowfall,
this could have been a different story.
Wow, that's incredible.
Duncan Foley is a professor of geology
at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma.
After showing him these picture,
he says the deep snow level fold
by incredibly warm temperatures melted
the snow really fast and providd
weight and lubricant to the slo.
So I would have typically expecd
a fairly small slide coming dow.
This is much, much larger and
you can see it was very fluid
and very liquidy. By the way,
the sediments almost look like waves.
Duncan adds the slides themselves aren't
uncommon, but the size of this one during
this time of year is what's eye opening.
We do intend to try to move some
of this water off the road to sp
any undue damage to the surface,
but other than that we're we're
working on coming up with a pla,
working with geotechnical
engineers that are on site today
as well as the rest of our staf.
Now, as of Monday night,
there is no word on when State e
5 O Four will be cleared and reopened.
Reporting from Mount Saint Hele,
Desa Caballero, KGW News.
All right, check out this new vo
this evening of a Coast Guard
helicopter rescue of a distressd
swimmer off the Oregon coast.
It happened yesterday off Indian
Beach just north of Cannon Beac.
The Coast Guard says a rescue
swimmer from the Cannon Beach Rl
Fire Protection District swam
out to assist the woman and tell
more help was able to get there.
The aircrew hoisted both of them
into the helicopter and took tho
Ecola State Park in stable condn
and that was just one of the res
and sadly recoveries that the Ct
Guard was across this weekend.
They also spent the last couplef
days searching for 18 year old b
Stokes from Beaverton after he t
swimming with friends on Friday.
Joe Ranieri is in The Newsroom.
Joe, we also learned today Stoks
was a senior you saw there at
Mountainside High about to grad.
I mean just incredibly tragic he
David. This is absolutely heartbreaking
Now Mountainside High School has
their graduation on June 9th,
less than a month from now.
Jacob Stokes, who was going to graduate,
was already planning on attendig
Oregon State University in the .
It was on Friday when he was
swimming with three other friens
when he got caught in a rip curt
and swept out into the ocean.
This was just one of several
rescues crews were on over the
past couple of days along the my
Mountainside high school students were just
learning the sad news on Monday morning.
That their classmate Jacob Stoks
had presumed drowned after swimg
with friends over the weekend.
He was with three other people
swimming near Cannon Beach wheny
got caught up in a rip current.e
searched for over an hour for the other
individual and same as Coast Gu.
We had three speeds of water, one seaside,
one Nehalem and 1 Cannon Beach.
Despite searching for the last couple
of days, his body hasn't been f.
Lieutenant Shauna White with Cannon Beach
Fire Department said two other students
were able to get out on their o.
Firefighters were able to rescue 1/3.
The water is extremely cold.
People get tired.
The best humbers can get hypothermic,
even in a dry in a wet suit,
White said. It doesn't take
much for conditions to change
and at a moment's. Notice
the conditions itself.
The surf was extremely choppy.
It was extremely big while they
were out there, it sounds like.
It was relatively OK,
and then within like 20 minutes,
the surf got really big for the.
Stokes was just weeks away from
graduating from Mountainside and
was planning on attending Oregon
State University in the fall.
I spoke with one classmate off camera
who told me he was the sweetest,
Mountainside principal Todd Corsetti said.
Jacob was a kind and thoughtful young man.
He pushed for excellence
in all areas of his life.
A school district spokesperson d
there was extra staff at the high school
to help students who are mournig
the loss of a friend and classm.
Lieutenant White also told me dg
our interview that they don't
have lifeguards along the
beach this time of year.
She said there won't be any lifeguards
along that part of the coast for another
couple of weeks in The Newsroom.
Joe Raineri, KGW News.
Well, to a developing story now on the drug
epidemic here in Portland.
Eight people are dead from
suspected overdoses across the .
Now, all of these between Friday
morning and Sunday afternoon,
with investigators worried there
is a particularly dangerous bath
of drugs still circulating.
Let's bring in Mike Benner.
Mike, do we know how many of
these are from fentanyl? Yeah,
David, fentanyl appears to have played a
role in at least six of the eight cases.
Needless to say, this drug is tg
too many lives, including the l.
Of a 47 year old man,
he Od'd and died at Sellwood Riverfront Park.
Another man inside an apartment on northwest
NATO between the Broadway and Steel Bridges,
A third person near NW 8th and Burnside.
In all, eight people overdosed d
died in Portland between 11:30 Friday
morning and 4:30 Sunday afterno.
Detectives say the victims belid
they were ingesting cocaine,
but in all likelihood.
It was cocaine blended with fenl
or maybe even pure powdered fentanyl.
The loss of life is absolutely
tragic for those individuals,
their friends and families and .
We feel really deeply about tha.
And then I'm very concerned as l
regarding ongoing changes in the
drug supply that we're seeing as
evidenced by this type of epidec
of overdose and overdose death.
All right. That was Andy Mendenl
of Central City Concern.
He went on to say that if someoe
makes the decision to ingest a ,
it is very important to use a
fentanyl test strip to be sure
that fentanyl is not in that dr.
He says it's also very important
to never use alone and always be
sure that naloxone is close by.
Naloxone, of course,
is a medication that reverses overdoses.
Let's send it back to you.
All right, Mike. Thank you.