We begin tonight with an update near
the cities of Hubbard and Woodburn
where nonverbal 2 year old girl
who went missing last night was
thankfully found safe this afternoon.
Thank you for joining us this evening.
I'm Evan Watson.
The child spent over 18 hours in the
woods near her home off Yoda Road and Hwy.
2 on one.
Let's bring in Daisy Caballero who
has been following the story for us today.
So, Daisy, how did all this unfold?
Well, Evan, I'd like to first point
out that the Clackamas Sheriff's
Office is not citing foul play here.
They tell me two year old Raylene
Mishler's teen brother was watching
her when she disappeared and left the
community wondering what happened to her.
We're all just very
relieved when we found her.
After a nearly 18 hour search
in a rural part of Hubbard,
2 year old Raylan Mishler was found
safe on Sunday morning after wandering
away from her home on Yoder Rd.
in Hwy. 211. A neighbor say the
young girl's mother ran up to their
house looking for the two year old.
She just said that she came home,
that she got a call from work and
that her her baby was missing and
she said that the little girl had.
Taken off her clothes and was looking,
and so they didn't think
that she had anything on.
According to the Clackamas
County Sheriff's Office,
around 7:30 Saturday night,
Raelynn's older teen
brother was watching her.
That's until the teen took his
eyes off her and she disappeared,
leaving her pink pajamas out front,
according to neighbors.
I just can't imagine The mom was so
distraught and I felt so bad for her
and I told her just. Take a breath.
Let's get you some support.
You know, let's call the police.
That will help.
And so she finally did so.
Lieutenant Marcus Mendoza with
the Clackamas Sheriff's Office
says multiple agencies and search
crews helped locate Rae Lynn nearly
1/4 of a mile away from her home.
She was out in a maybe a hay field
would be the best way to describe it.
A grassy field about 1/4 from
one quarter mile from her home.
Lieutenant Mendoza says 2 crews were
searching the area and located the two
year old around 11:00 Sunday morning,
saying she was alert and
responsive but was dehydrated.
One of the searchers told me that she,
you know, she was laying on her
stomach and just kind of lifted
her head up and looked right at
them when they were walking by.
Ray Lynn was reunited with her
family and was transported to
the hospital to be checked out.
At this point there's no foul play that
that we're aware of,
but we are making sure that we're
doing a thorough investigation.
Now, I did ask Lieutenant Mendoza
why an Amber Alert wasn't sent out
and he explained it's a tool that
is used under certain circumstances,
but with this specific case,
there was no information about an
abduction connected to Ray Lynn.
We'll have more on this at kgw.com.
Back to you, Evan.
Thank you, Daisy.
Now to an update on Oregon
Secretary of State Shamia Fagan.
She's set to resign tomorrow.
Fagan steps down amid controversy over
her former job side job As a consultant,
she worked for a cannabis company that
paid her $10,000 a month while overseeing
a state audit on the cannabis industry.
On Monday, Fagan apologized to Oregonians.
She said her $77,000 a year salary
wasn't enough to support her family.
Ethics rules do allow for outside employment,
but now lawmakers on both sides of the
aisle say it's time to consider tightening
those rules and increase salaries.
Fagin's deputy Secretary of State made
more than three times her salary,
a product of Oregon's laws and salary
restrictions for the state's top officials.
That deputy will now step in for
Fagin while Governor Tina Kotek
considers a permanent replacement.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee is set to
sign a group of new bills into law tomorrow,
all centered around housing.
Among them will be a measure to accelerate
the construction of new housing,
and one that's designed to help
the supply and affordability of
count condos and townhouses.
Another increases socalled middle
housing in areas that are traditionally
dedicated to single family homes.
Also in Washington,
crews are repairing a ramp on State Route 99,
which had a big hole open up
in the pavement last week.
The state Department of Transportation
says crews poured concrete on the ramp
from the West Seattle bridge yesterday.
Washed out says it will take a few days
for the concrete to properly cure before
the ramp can safely reopen the whole force.
The ramps closure on Tuesday evening.
Drivers have been taking alternative
routes during the ramp closure.
The Red Cross is helping seven families
displaced in Seaside after a large fire
tore through their apartment building.
Fire crews got the call last night
just after 8:00 PM responding to an
apartment building on South Columbia St.
The fire was so big it could be
seen throughout downtown seaside.
Crews worked quickly to control the fire,
and it took about 1/2 an hour to put it out.
One person was taken to the
hospital with minor injuries.
We're right in the middle of Oregon's
commercial crabbing season and deckhands
are pulling heavy crab pots every day,
but as they do,
they're often paying a price
with back and shoulder injuries.
Tim Gordon reports that researchers
are working with commercial
fishers to see what they can do.
Commercial crabbing is a
laborintensive business,
and crabbing may be hardest on the body.
That's because of what's required
to harvest Dungeness crab
from the Pacific Ocean floor.
The pots that go out must come back in.
A power winch does that,
but then it's all muscle coming
from deckhands over and over again.
That leads to a high percentage of injuries.
Many of those limiting
injuries actually happens,
you know, from the back cans,
and while they're, you know,
dealing with those fishing gears and,
you know, crab pots and things like that,
Oregon State University professor
Jay Kim says their past research
shows 80 to 85% of commercial
fishermen have experienced muscle
and skeletal disorders or injuries,
most to the lower back and shoulders.
Now OSU is working to fine tune a
piece of equipment that commercial
fishers developed called a banger bar,
used on some boats to make the
emptying of crab pots less taxing.
Researchers are in the lab studying
how the banger bar works and how it
affects the body using electrode
sensors and 3D motion capture cameras.
They can gather information
that can help improve its use.
For instance,
height matters.
So what would be the, you know,
good level of this bar height so that
those fishermen can bang their crab,
but against to the bar to release
those crabs without bending
their back and shoulder too much?
Kim says he's met a lot of those in
the fishing industry doing his work.
And they've been great with everyone
looking to make the job of commercial
fishing a little less stressful.
We'd like to provide sort of useful
information to them to serve the
population to make their workplace safer.
Tim Gordon, KGW News.
Well, it's been a cloudy and
rainy weekend in the Rose City.
Meteorologist Joe Ranieri joins
us from the weather center
with your first folk forecast.
And Joe, not much need for raincoats
for the rest of this week,
is that right?
No, pretty much, no. You
know, might see some light showers tomorrow
morning into the afternoon with a slight
chance see some thunderstorms developed.
But the most activity is going to
be along the east side of the state.
And that's kind of what we have been
seeing here the last couple of days.
Basically, your forecast out there,
the rest of your Sunday night is gonna
be similar to what you saw last night,
all seeing a little bit of
some light precipitation.
Falling on the radar right
now east side of the state,
I just like to see some thunderstorms
develop up near Boise and along the Oregon,
Idaho border.
But heading into the next couple of days
we'll gradually see our temperatures warm up.
In between now and next Sunday,
which of course is Mother's Day,
we could be seeing a chance
for our first 90 degree day.
Right now we're seeing a
temperature of 61 degrees.
We got some high clouds
out there over a Newport,
more thick clouds over a Newport
with a temperature of 54 degrees at
this hour and as we look at the.
Best of your Sunday.
Again, some light sprinkles here and there,
but for the most part,
the heavier precipitation won't
be moving into our area until
basically right around 6:00.
O'clock tomorrow morning on your
morning commute and then we'll
start to dry out starting Tuesday.
So we'll gradually warm up.
It's going to be very comfortable.
But again, by the end of next week,
it might be a little uncomfortable
for some people.
I'll talk more about the chance of
seeing our first 90 degree day and how
long the stretch of the potential of
record heat will be staying with us.
You got it. Thanks, Joe.
This weekend marked a major milestone for
students across Oregon and Washington.
It's graduation season,
and that includes the University of
Portland 2 commencement ceremonies,
happened today at the
university's Child Center.
Most of the graduates started
College in the fall of 2019.
That means they navigated their
studies through virtual learning
and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Really. We've seen before.
Now they've earned their degrees
and are celebrating with family,
friends and the entire UP community.
Ari Shapiro, cohost of All Things Considered,
an NPR awardwinning News magazine,
was the commencement speaker.
Shapiro's mother taught communication
studies for many years at UP
University of Portland School of Nursing
Graduates also crossed the stage today.
A pending ceremony was held yesterday,
welcoming these soon to be
nurses into the profession.
There are 252 nursing graduates
in the class of 2023,
making it the largest graduating
class at UP and in Oregon's history.
Washington State University in
Vancouver is welcoming 847 new
graduates to their alumni list As well.
A graduation ceremony was held
yesterday afternoon at the RVN Style
Resorts Amphitheatre in Richfield.
68 of the graduates received
their master's degree.
A huge congratulations to
this entire class of 2023.