This is kagwa news at sunrise.
Investigators are trying to figure
out who tried to burn down 3
reproductive health centers in Oregon,
and now the FBI is offering a reward.
Devastating and ridiculous.
Like we're just serving people,
we're just here to help others.
How much money the FBI and ATF are
now offering up for information
leading to an arrest. It's
been nearly two years
since Oregon voters
passed Measure 110.
Supporters said it would help
keep addicts out of jail and
instead get them into treatment.
Coming up, we'll hear just how
effective it's been or hasn't
been based on a recent audit. And
I want you to come over to your TV and
take a look at this beautiful site. Wow.
If you're not looking, you're missing out.
Look at that Lantern. It's colorful.
It is in honor of the Lunar New Year.
It kicks off on Sunday. So this morning.
We're at Portland's lawn Sue Chinese garden.
I just think that's spectacular.
The garden always throws a big celebration
with lanterns and lion dances and
all kinds of other demonstrations.
Photographer Eric Patterson is out
there live this morning, so stay tuned.
He'll give us a look around at some
of the other things you can see.
Yeah, and we're wrapping
up the year of the tiger.
Going into the year of the rabbit.
Similarly, wrapping
up a Friday. When
you say you're the rabbit, I think. What's
up, doc? So we asked Chris what's
up. Talk with the weather.
Well, let's see. We are,
we are foggy out there this morning for sure.
Very foggy out the door.
First off our camera top,
the Wells Fargo Tower in downtown Portland.
This is up at 550 feet looking
down on the low clouds that are
descending on Portland right now,
35 last check at the Airport, Dew .33.
So the air nearly saturated
setting the stage for that fog.
It's not bad everywhere,
but you can see the airport right now,
8th of a mile visibility Aurora,
Mcminnville Quarter mile visibility dense fog
advisory from much of the Willamette Valley.
Till about 11:00 o'clock the fog will lift,
will be foggy to mostly
cloudy through noontime.
And then check this out.
Some sunshine.
You'll need the sunglasses
this afternoon with a sunset.
By the way,
our first sunset of 5:00 o'clock
or later since November 5th.
Your weekend forecast comes
up in just a few minutes.
All right. Sounds good.
Thank you, Chris.
Breaking overnight two deadly shootings
in different parts of Portland.
This is a live look from SE Taylor
and 86 where a man was killed.
Around 2:00 o'clock this morning,
this is the police mobile command center.
Officers tell us they detained one person
they believed to be involved in the crime.
And then just about 30 minutes ago,
Portland police confirming that
someone was killed in another shooting
that happened just before midnight.
This one occurred at an apartment
on NE 42nd and Prescott.
Right now Northeast Prescott
from 42nd to 47th,
is closed as police officers investigate.
As soon as we learn anything new,
we'll let you know.
The FBI is asking for your help
this morning to try to find the
people who set reproductive
health centers in Oregon on fire.
And as an incentive, investigators
are now offering a big reward.
KGW's Catherine Cook has a look at
all three cases this morning with
some newly released video
from one of the attacks.
Vandalism, arson,
threats of violence should not,
cannot be acceptable in
this our shared community.
An admonishment from the feds,
now backed by $35,000 in reward money,
25,000 from the FBI and 10,000 from the ATF.
On Thursday they laid out three unsolved
cases 3 arson attacks at three different
reproductive health centers in Oregon.
First, the Oregon right to
life building in Kaiser on May.
8th around 10:40 PM police say someone
threw multiple Molotov cocktails
into their building on River Rd.
Newly released security video
shows someone pulling items
from the trunk of a white sedan,
possibly a 2017 or 2018 Hyundai Elantra.
After an explosion,
you can see someone running
back to the car and take off.
It was disconcerting, of course,
and we didn't know if there
would be additional attacks.
Lois Anderson is executive
director of Oregon, right?
Life's an anti abortion nonprofit.
She's grateful damage here
was minimal since the attack.
They've increased security and hoped
the reward money will make a difference.
Even when you disagree with
someone very intensely,
violence is never the answer.
The attacks happened around the same
time the Supreme Court overturned
Roe V Wade early on June 10th.
Police and firefighters responded to
the Pregnancy Resource Center in Gresham.
The building on NW 11th St.
was engulfed in flames, investigators found.
Multiple Molotov cocktails on the
ground under a broken kitchen window,
and then over the 4th of July weekend
1/3 arson attack and vandalism,
this time at the mother and Child
Education Center on NE 41st Ave.
in Portland.
Someone spray painted the words if
abortion ain't safe, neither are you Jr.
It's devastating and ridiculous.
Like we're just serving people,
we're just here to help others,
executive director Maura White says.
Someone also threw a lit flare
into the building.
The fire
investigator just said we were
lucky it got put out there.
Like, I don't know how this
went out without burning,
so we were really lucky at this point,
investigators aren't certain if all three
attacks were carried out by the same person,
but they're looking at all angles.
Besides bringing those responsible
to justice, they want to make
sure they don't do this again.
When we talk about this level of violence,
and it is sometimes so understated
or downplayed like, well,
it's just another Molotov cocktail.
No, it's not. It's not at all.
This is serious violence
in Northeast Portland.
Catherine Cook, KGW news.
Investigators in Yamhill County
are waiting on a toxicology
report after they found signs that
someone was using fentanyl in a
classroom at Willamina High School.
The Yamhill County Sheriff's
Office says deputies found Burnt
Foyle and pills in the classroom,
and students and a deputy on scene got sick.
In the meantime,
we asked the medical director of the
Oregon Poison Center about the risk
of second hand exposure to fentanyl.
There is little to to be
concerned about being near
someone who is using fentanyl.
Generally, secondhand smoke
is what it's often called,
although it's not really smoke.
It's like, you know,
really fentanyl vapor.
But being in the same room with
someone who is using fentanyl is
not a concern for you to get a
significant amount of fencing.
Experts with the American College of
Medical Toxicology say simply touching
fentanyl is very unlikely to make you sick.
Other experts say inhaling a little bit
of airborne powder could lead to trouble.
But again, they say that's not likely.
Some of the more minor effects of
fentanyl are feeling lightheaded,
confused or sleepy.
It's been nearly two years since
Oregon became the first state
in the country to decriminalize
small amounts of hard drugs.
The goal of Measure 110 was to
spend less time arresting addicts
and more time treating them.
So the question is,
is it accomplishing that goal?
Our Pat Doris took a look at the first
audit that was supposed to answer
that question last night on the story.
In this first audit of Measure 110,
the auditors found it was really a mess.
They basically said we can't really
tell if it's working or not.
Here's audits director Kip Mamont we we
got off to a rough start. Some of this
ballot government by ballot
initiative causes some problems
and it takes time to structure
government properly,
which can be frustrating.
But you know auditors,
we we talk a little bit
wonky about controls and
governance and outcome measures
but you really have to
have those in place to to assess performance.
He's saying that measure 110 has
none of the tools that let you
determine if anyone is being helped
or if the money is being wasted.
Here's what auditors did find $33
million in marijuana tax money was
turned into grants for programs to help
people deal with their drug addiction.
But little to no data was collected by the
Oregon Health Authority on those programs,
so the auditors don't know if
they've been effective at all.
Auditors also criticized OHA for
being way too hands off with the
oversight group in charge of.
Handing out the funding,
auditors wrote the members lacked experience
and made the application process too complex.
The money was supposed to be
distributed in nine months,
but it took more like 2 years.
You auditors also looked at the special
phone line set up for Measure 110.
Under the law,
people found with user amounts of
drugs in public can be fined $100,
but the fine is dropped if they call a
hotline to talk about their drug use.
Our reporting found that most
drug users think that's a joke.
They ignore the requirement.
The auditors backed up that finding.
They found that during the 1st 15 months,
the special hotline had a total of 119
calls with a cost of over $7000 per call.
27 of those people actually wanted help.
By the way, the Oregon Health
Authority has a new director.
He put out a response to the audit today,
basically saying, yeah, good points,
yes, we'll get on those.
We'll start working on all of
those right away.
Alright, that was Pat
Doris reporting last
night again on the story.
Let's talk about a recent
audit of the Portland Trail Blazers. It shows
they are not playing well right now.
Not at all. Last night against
the 76ers at the Moda Center,
it was a terrible offensive
display in the first half.
The Blazers in the first half last night,
the Blazers scored 34 points for the half.
That would be 68 points for the game
if you added that up twice, right?
That is a 34 points in the first half.
I mean, bottom line here,
they lost last night 105.
95 that doesn't sound too bad, right?
A10 point loss. But it was ugly,
especially in the first half.
And I tell you this,
Christine, Brenda and Chris,
because I was at the game last night.
I sacrificed sleep to watch the
Blazers take on the Sixers.
And I was with our colleague,
executive producer here
at KGW, Brandon O'Rourke,
who knows a big basketball fan.
We couldn't believe it.
We're looking at each other like,
Oh my gosh, they missed so many shots.
And I don't want to get too deep in the
woods on you, but, you know,
the sharp shooters are Anthony Simmons,
of course, and Damian Lillard
last night. Those two from 3 point land,
they took twenty shots from 3
point land they made a combined 5.
Whoa, 5 for 20 from 3.
And I went up to bed last night.
Actually Jeff said I'm gonna watch
the Blazers game play in Philadelphia
and he said they're gonna get smoked.
Jeff was right. He stayed home on the couch
like again. You see a 10 point at the end.
A 10 point game doesn't
look too bad right too.
So you know they they brutal the first half.
We gotta get back to the back.
Come on, Rip city. Alright,
this better weather forecast please.
Could you give us a better weather forecast?
Yeah, how about
this? It's been kind of a Gray gloomy January
so far, right. We've had measurable
rain 17 in the 1st 19 days.
I've got a 7 day forecast that is mostly dry.
How about that to tease your,
your weekend weather and beyond.
But before we get there, we've got fog.
We've got a dense fog advisory up and down
the I5 corridor N Oregon coast in Longview,
South Eugene until 11:00
AM and with good reason.
Current visibility right now,
half mile at PDX,
quarter mile right now in Mcminnville.
It's not bad everywhere, but be aware,
you know you're going to run into this.
This is the live look from our Wells Fargo.
Guy Camera 35 last check
at PDX the beach today.
Brief morning fog,
sunshine in the afternoon with a
high near 50 in Pacific City that
looks pretty good through the West
End of the Columbia River Gorge.
Kind of foggy cascade locks.
Corbett Troutdale East End should
be partly to mostly sunny.
Getting out to the Columbia Basin in the
fog could be a little bit of an issue.
Central Oregon partly to mostly sunny
today after a chilly start you get into
the mid 40s cold start in Eastern Oregon.
Burns is below 0 as I showed
you earlier this morning.
You'll get up to about 27 with
some sunshine this afternoon
and up and down the I5 quarter.
Temperatures gradually moderate into
the mid to upper 40s this afternoon,
so about 45 or so here in Portland
and Corvallis.
Longview 48 we hop over the Cascades again,
chilly but a decent recovery from a cold.
Start.
Alright,
let's get into your weekend real
quick and show you what's going on.
Futurecast shows the fog in the
valley this morning that lifts.
We should finish our day with some sunshine.
And that'll be nice when you consider
that today is the 1st 5:00 PM or
later sunset here in Portland.
Since November 5th,
we've added 34 minutes of daylight
since the winter solstice.
That's kind of nice, isn't it?
All right, we go to tomorrow.
Tomorrow starts frosty.
Clouds roll in.
We do have rain in the forecast,
at least a period.
A few hour window here of some light
rain late morning into the afternoon.
So a little drippy heading into
our Saturday afternoon as well.
Sunday is kind of in and out
of the cloud cover.
But I did want to point out
that our seven day forecast,
guys check this out after days
and days and days of rain,
primarily light rain,
we're going to shut off the Water
Works and we're going to bring in some
sunshine into our seven day forecast.
Oh, that looks good. Thanks Chris.