This is KGW news at should be a
real interesting election to see
what happens here. Ohh
yes, this morning we're gonna
hear from political analysts after
two newcomers beat out the six
term incumbent Jamie Herrera Butler in
Washington's third Congressional District
primary, a Democrat and a
Trump endorsed Republican now
going head-to-head in November,
another Portland restaurant
closes its doors. It points
to an increasingly familiar
concern across the city.
The safety of its employees.
And we are live this morning at the
Clark County Fair in Ridgefield, WA.
Home of this 152nd annual event,
and we are talking fair food
like the elephant ears.
I'll get out of the way there.
You've got elephant ears.
We're also talking roasted corn.
How about some hand dipped corn
dogs coming up this half hour?
Brenda, Nina,
and Rodney I will be at taste
testing some of this fair food
with royalty members of the
Clark County Fair Court.
Joining us in 15 minutes to do a
little fair food taste testing.
You are speaking our language.
My friend hand dipped corn dogs.
I'm all about the elephant ears.
What's your favorite forfend ears?
Elephant ears? Yes. So delicious.
Good morning to you on Wednesday.
Yes, we are live from the fair and it's
gonna be comfortable weather it sounds
like for the rest of this week for it
really nice. Only about 80 today
a little bit warmer mid 80s.
The next couple of days we begin with a
look back at the storms that hit hard.
Much of the Lamet valley
coming from Central Oregon.
The last 12 hours watch these storms.
Now for the most part the
cluster stayed South of Portland,
but Salem got hit hard and then
watch the thunderstorms overnight
blow up from Newport with lightning.
Eventually all the way up into Astoria.
At any rate,
all of that has now moved out to sea,
and while we could have a a spotty
shower repop between now and
say 9:00 o'clock this morning,
the storm threat is certainly over
and we'll see morning clouds turn into
afternoon sun for a really nice day.
65 now 70 at noon,
we'll get up to 80 at 5:00 PM.
Some of the storm.
Reports were really impressive,
and we'll talk about those coming
up in just a bit.
Sounds good. We'll see you then.
Rob, thank you. We start this morning
with a live look at the Futures
Board of the New York Stock Exchange.
As we wait for the latest consumer
Price Index report for July and
what it will do to the markets,
we're expected to get those
numbers at 5:30 this morning,
so we'll give you a preview to
what investors and consumers can
expect come September when the Fed
reevaluates those inflation rates.
But first this morning.
The big story. Locally is the race
for Washington's third
Congressional District.
This morning there are just two
candidates left after Republican
incumbent Jamie Herrera Butler conceded
the race to challenger Joe Kent.
He's a Trump endorsed Republican who
will take on a Democratic newcomer.
Let's bring in Devin Haskins this
morning and Devin analysts say this is
political fallout for Herrera Butler
voting to impeach the former president.
Yeah, that's right,
US Representative Herrera Butler became
a target of former President Trump.
After voting to impeach him after the
events of the January 6th insurrection,
she held the seat for six terms,
going back to 2010.
Last night she thanked her
supporters and conceded the race.
In a statement she wrote ever since
I was first elected to this seat.
I have done my very best to serve
my home region and our country.
Though my campaign came up short.
This time,
I'm proud of all we've accomplished
together for the place where I
was raised and still call home.
Early vote counts looked to be
in Herrera Butler's favor,
giving her a bit of a lead over Kent.
But as the counting?
Continued that lead began to
disappear and eventually overtaken.
So the question in November will be will
Southwest Washington Flip Blue or remain red?
So the race now will be between
the top two primary candidates,
Democrat Maria Gleeson Camp
Perez and Republican Joe Kent.
Both are newcomers to politics
and speaking to a crowd of Clark
County Republicans on Tuesday night,
Kent called for conservatives to unite
and rally behind him as the candidate.
Right now we have seen the full scope
of what can get thrown at us and the
unity that Republicans can have.
I'm not very good at doing math,
so I won't try and do it publicly,
but if you look at the Republican
turn out on that ticket,
it will be an absolutely loud
and clear message to Washington
DC and throughout this country
that Washington three is one of
the most conservative districts
in the country.
In an interview with KGW on Tuesday,
closing camp Perez also called
for unity within the district,
hoping to win over moderates
on both sides of the aisle.
This is absolutely a winnable
seat and and it's not so much
about convincing folks that they
need to change their affiliation.
It is about an argument of
what's best for the district
and who has lived experience.
We can't keep electing extremists
and career politicians to Congress
and expect better results.
Jamie Herrera, Butler's
current term in Congress,
ends on January 3rd, 2023, Nina
alright, Devin? Thank you.
We are learning more about that FBI
search of former President Donald
Trump's Florida home and office at
Mar-a-lago this morning we're hearing
from Trump's personal attorney,
who says the former president
has been targeted by the FBI.
Jay Gray has the latest.
We now know the FBI search
and seizure at Mar-a-lago as
the escalation of a back and forth
between former President Trump and
the Department of Justice for months
before federal agents broke the locks
on a basement storage area. And Mr.
Trump says opened his safe removing
about a dozen boxes from his office
and private residence in Florida.
I'm sure that they're claiming
that there was something you know,
terribly egregious that the grave
matter of national security.
The problem is, there
are no crimes committed,
multiple sources say.
The investigation is
centered on sensitive,
highly classified documents.
Mr Trump's personal attorney
says it's driven by politics.
They're scared of Donald Trump.
They don't want him to run in 2024.
We believe in the rule of law.
And that's where our country is
about and no person is above the law,
not even the President of the United States.
The former president hasn't
officially announced.
Soon we will have greatness again,
but did post this campaign
style fundraising video online.
Just hours after agents finished
their investigation at Mar-a-lago.
I believe he was going to run before
I'm is stronger in my belief now,
Republicans have rushed to
support the former president,
demanding an explanation from the
Justice Department saying Mr Trump.
And the GOP are being targeted,
outraged growing when late Tuesday,
representative Scott Perry,
a Trump supporter,
said his cell phone was
confiscated by FBI agents.
There's been no indication
the events are connected.
The FBI is not commenting on either.
Jay Gray NBC News Washington.
Here are a couple more headlines for
you on this Wednesday morning.
This is a strange 1A Corvallis man
discovered that he'd been shot,
but he has no idea where
the bullet came from.
Now police are asking the public for
tips to help solve this mystery.
The 44 year old man called 911 saying
he was bleeding from the shoulder.
He checked the windows of his
apartment on Meloy Ave.
Couldn't find any broken glass.
Eventually though, police found the
bullet had traveled through the wall.
With his apartment and went
right into his shoulder,
he is expected to make a full recovery.
Officers are now looking for the shooter.
If you have any information or
maybe video of what happened,
you can contact Corvallis police
for the second time in a month.
A popular restaurant chain announced
its closing one of its Portland
stores Cracker Barrel in Jansen Beach,
shut down abruptly yesterday.
A spokesperson blamed the restaurant's
performance, but employees.
Told us it was because of safety
and security.
This comes after three Portland
Starbucks stores also closed for the
safety of their staff and their customers,
and those are some of your local headlines.
Alright, updates now on the wildfires
burning near us,
especially the McKinney fire.
It's now 55% contained.
It is over 60,000 acres
in Northern California,
right near the Oregon border.
Some of those counties down there
have now lifted evacuation orders,
but things can always change.
Four people were killed in that fire
when it since it started July 29th.
All the Lightning we saw yesterday has
firefighters watching things closely
over in Central Oregon this morning.
Over the past 48 hours more.
And 100 fire starts have been
spotted across Deschutes,
Jefferson, and Crook counties.
Most of those fires are small,
so they're just being monitored.
For now.
There is concern as the rain
moves out of that area that some
of those fires may grow larger.
Well,
a viewer named Nicholas in West
Salem sent us this video yesterday.
What a light show, right?
He's slow mode it so you can
see the lightning just kind of
spread out through the sky.
Other viewers told us it was
raining hailing it was windy.
They could hear the Thunder.
Alright, let's talk more about that.
Weather forecast rod.
You were saying that this storm
system is now out to sea?
Yeah it has it for the most part missed.
The Portland metro area.
I was really active on.
You know my Facebook page last evening
putting out the warning so if you
put away the patio furniture and
you're like it didn't rain just now,
well you got lucky.
The storms missed you but
I did hit plenty of areas.
Here's a look at what I think were
some of the more impressive storm
reports starting with Lane County.
That's down there in the Eugene area
75 one hundredths of rain came down.
1.25 inch size hail that's enough for a
severe thunderstorm warning to be issued,
and there were several issued
Linn County get this point.
85 inches.
85107 inch of rain came down in 25 minutes.
That is an absolute deluge.
Marion County had quarter inch hail
reports gusts to about 40 miles
prior Mcminnville thunderstorms and
then basically the last big burst
produced lightning from Newport
all the way up into Astoria.
And here's what's left of this cluster,
so it basically started in Central Oregon.
Came across the mid and South Valley.
We had reports of people hearing.
Thunder,
and there was a little bit of
rain that moved through Portland,
but not much for the most part of
the State S and then it exploded
from our story to Newport and then
this is what's left against all
moving out to sea at this time.
Upper level low parked right here
the circulation is going to curb that
stormy weather farther out to sea.
We are seeing some rain out near the
Idaho Oregon border this morning.
Futurecast there is the chance we
could see a kind of a remnant shower
pop in the next couple of hours.
Otherwise we will be dry and we'll see
the morning clouds here on the West side.
Get out of here and turn it into
a nice beautiful sunny day.
We are expecting more
afternoon thunderstorms.
There's 2:00 PM popping out across
areas of Eastern Oregon temperatures.
We are under the clouds on 65 in
the Rose City 63 up in Kelso Salem.
61 clouds,
57 in Newport and it's kind of a mix
of cloudiness in Central and Eastern Oregon.
This morning we have 64 degrees
being reported out in Baker City
and here come my seven day number so
today just like that is really nice.
We'll have the cloudy start,
maybe a shower pops between now
and 9:00 o'clock.
Otherwise,
all dry PM Sun is coming and then
a little bit warmer in mid 80s
on Thursday and Friday.
Maybe some early clouds Saturday
and then the headline of the seven
day is the start of next week.
Monday 92, Tuesday 96.
There are some models alike 100
degrees again Wednesday of next week.
Now
a man who is live from a place
that once had me getting mustard
all over myself. Mr Drew Carney.
It's funny you bring that up Rod
because I have a question for you.
Yes. What is the first thing
you think of Rod Hill?
When I say the words County Fair.
I think of a big corn dog with
mustard all over the place.
We are talking fair food next
here on sunrise.
I'm not doing this segment alone.
I'm doing it with the court queen Emily,
Princess Brianna with us this
morning early on a Wednesday.
We're going to a blindfolded fried
food taste test with the ladies
coming up next here on sunrise.
For now though,
best smiles and best royal waves.
All right, Drew, we're looking
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