5 Welcome to KGW News at 5.
I'm Joe raineri.
We begin with team coverage tonight
as freezing temperatures hit our
state for the second night in a row,
temperatures are expected to drop
into the mid to the low 20s.
Daisy Cavaliero is in the
weather center looking at current
temperatures and tracking how cold
we can expect to get tonight.
But first, let's begin with
our Bryant Clerkley,
who's at a warming shelter tonight.
Brian Multnomah County had to open
more shelters tonight because they
nearly hit capacity last night.
Yeah, Joe, they were at 90% capacity,
and they're expecting more people tonight.
I'm here at the Charles Jordan Community
Center that's in North Portland.
And as you can see,
crews are setting up here.
You can see the cots and the beds here.
And there's pillows, blankets,
anything to help people feel warmer.
This will open at 8:00 tonight,
and there are more than 400 emergency
beds open within the county.
County leaders are expecting more
people to need help tonight.
As conditions remain poor for
the second night in a row,
several cold weather shelters
were opened in Multnomah,
Clackamas and Washington
County Saturday night.
Those shelters will be back
open tonight and Multnomah.
Multnomah County will open up two more,
including this one that I'm in now.
The shelter will also provide food
and water and a place for pets.
Officials say these low temperatures
are causing a state of emergency
and that more shelters are needed
to keep people warm tonight.
I think ultimately our
goal is to get people out of
life threatening conditions and to
essentially save people's lives.
So that's the number one
goal inside the shelter.
And then in addition, you know,
we want people to have a comfortable
spot where they can lay down,
get some sleep.
We also provide food,
water, some hygiene items.
Free transportation to warming
shelters are is available.
You can call 211 or ride TriMet
to get to a shelter again.
Multnomah County will open these
shelters at 8:00 PM Tonight.
And some of the other ones that
are opening include Arbor Lodge,
the Portland Building and East
Portland Community Center. Joe
Brian, thank you so much.
Daisy Cabellero is joining me now.
And Daisy, we're going to be
seeing some dangerously cold
temperatures, not just tonight,
but over the next couple of nights.
Yeah, absolutely, Joe.
Specifically for the Cascades,
they are under a wind chill advisory.
We'll talk more about that
also in my full forecast.
But taking a look outside 36
degrees in the Portland metro area,
Beautiful Clear day-to-day,
but check those winds,
winds coming out from the
east at 22 miles an hour.
And if many of you have been hearing
us talk about these wind chills,
these wind chills and you might be thinking,
you know, how do they come up
with these with these conditions,
I wanted to show you guys.
This quick map from the
National Weather Service,
hoping to explain this as simply as I can.
Alright, so remember those conditions,
what was it,
36 degrees for the Portland Metro
and we saw right around what,
22 mile per hour winds right now,
all right,
looking at these temperatures up top,
we'll say what,
35 degrees and now we're looking
at those wind mile per hour,
so sustained winds and we just connect
those two right around what we'll
say 25 and then 35, right around 23,
you know, degrees for that.
Wind chill,
which can be very dangerous
at times as those conditions
get a little bit warmer.
Take a look really quick at
those Max wind gusts today,
95 mile per hour winds over
near Mount Hood Meadows
that actually translated to
-, 3536 degrees. We'll talk more about this
and that 7 day forecast coming up, Joe.
Thanks, Daisy.
And Speaking of meadows though,
they had to close their lifts earlier
today because of those winds.
We'll talk with you in
about 10 minutes from now.
Well, we'll continue to bring
you the latest weather updates.
On air and online again,
if you are looking for a warming shelter,
we have a full list of locations
up on our website, nowkgw.com.
You'll find that article on our front page.
Tonight, rescue crews have stopped searching
for a missing person in the Lewis River.
Authorities say the boat he
was in capsized earlier today.
Clark Cowlitz Fire Rescue crews have found
the boat near the Lewis River golf course
but are unable to find the missing man.
Now the Clark County Sheriff's Office
will investigate Clark Cowlitz fire,
also sharing today that there was another
person on that boat when it capsized.
That person is being treated
for exposure to the elements.
A tow truck driver is in the hospital
tonight after a hit and run crash.
Portland Police Bureau says
the other driver took off.
The crash happened on the Banfield
Freeway around 6:45 this morning.
The tow truck driver was out
of the car when he was hit.
He was loading a vehicle onto
the tow truck at the time.
Authorities found the driver
laying on the pavement in front
of his car when they arrived.
The truck driver has serious injuries,
including a broken arm and leg,
but he is expected to recover.
The effects of the recent string
of mass shootings in California is
being felt right here in Oregon.
Today,
members of the Asian Pacific American
Network of Oregon Healthy Community
Vigil in Southeast Portland to
honor those who lost their lives
in the shootings at Monterey
Park and Half Moon Bay last week,
eleven people were killed and nine more
were hurt in the Monterey Park shooting.
Four other people were killed
at Half Moon Bay.
So far this month,
there have been at least six
mass shootings in California.
We value every life and.
As a human and as a Community member
and as a social justice organization,
we feel like these
acts of violence are senseless and
that we're really here to honor those
who are most impacted by this violence.
At the vigil, there was an opportunity for
people to express themselves through artwork.
They say after such tragedy,
it's important to remind people they aren't
alone and that there is community support.
It's been one year since Vancouver police
Officer Donald Donald Sihota was killed
by a Clark County sheriff's deputy.
Today, the Vancouver Police
Department shared these pictures.
Riding today marks one year since
the death of Vancouver Police
Department Officer Donald Sahota.
May he forever rest in peace.
Last January, Deputy Jonathan Feller
shot and killed Officer Sahota.
Sahota was at a home fighting
with an armed robbery suspect
who showed up in his driveway.
The suspect managed to get inside.
Soda's house.
When deputy Feller got to the scene,
he saw Sahota running
towards the home with a gun.
He thought Sahota was the suspect
and that's when he shot him.
Officer Sahota died at the scene.
Earlier this month,
we learned Deputy Feller will
not be criminally charged.
It hurts me. It really hurts.
That woman's car was stolen
from her driveway in Southeast
Portland this week after she helped
homeless people who lived nearby.
Now she later found her car at their camp,
but is still waiting for help from police.
Blair best has the story.
Beverly Supola is new to
Portland's Hazelwood neighborhood,
just moved here from California in
an effort to be closer to family.
She bought a new car and drove to Oregon.
After the move,
she ended up with a spare mattress,
which she offered to people
living at a nearby homeless camp.
We were doing courtesy of feeling
sorry for the people out there.
She let them into her garage to pick it up,
and I had my key to hanging.
I always have leave them
hanging on the doorknob.
The garage the next morning.
It's like that that's missing.
And you don't know then?
When it first happened.
My brother came in the room and
he said since your card's gone.
Inside was her Walker wheelchair
and portable breathing machine.
It hurts me.
It really hurts.
Also hurt her daughter Elizabeth,
who has special needs.
I like
going out with my mom and
I can't go out anymore.
The stolen car was a black Honda.
The last time they saw it was parked
outside a homeless camp down the street.
It was the same homeless camp
that they gave the mattress to.
I called the police and told them that
the car's been in the neighborhood
and that's what I told him.
According to Portland police data,
since December 2021,
more than 11,000 vehicles have been stolen,
603 of them from the neighborhood.
Sippola now lives in Portland.
Police have recovered 92%
of all the stolen cars.
I feel like they're not doing their job.
Getting out there and looking for cars.
Police warn people like sippola
not to retrieve their cars from
homeless camps for safety reasons
and to call them instead.
Sipola says she did call them,
but Portland police says they don't
have that recorded in their system.
Sipola and her family are still
waiting for help from police
and are now relying on neighbors
like Bob Hawley for safety.
We all live on the same
St. And justice.
Trying to keep an eye on things.
People need to start putting
their differences aside
and start looking out for one another.
Start being neighborhoods again in
Southeast Portland. Blair best, KGW news.
Now to an emergency declaration
from Governor Tina Kotek.
She's asking the Oregon
legislature to approve money to
fight homelessness statewide.
The governor is asking for $130,000,000 to
provide shelter to at least 1200 people.
The money would also help another 9000
people at risk of becoming homeless.
The declaration includes 33
million in rent assistance,
almost 24 million to build low barrier
shelter beds and hire workers to connect
homeless people to shelters and services.
The governor's office says this funding
package is just the first step in
addressing the state's homeless crisis.
The City of Portland is launching
another 90 day reset plan.
On the central east side,
crews will remove abandoned cars and
homeless camps and install better lighting.
There will also be more police patrols.
The reset is meant to address
concerns around safety,
cleanliness and accessibility.
Old Town got a similar 90 day
reset last year.
This winter,
we've been seeing what king tides can
do when coupled with a big storm surge.
And in Washington,
experts with the Department of
Ecology studying sea level rise
are learning from these events to
help coastal communities cope.
Tim Gordon has more.
What a winter would the annual
king tides rolling in the
highest tides of the season,
in one notable instance happening at
a stormy time that added to the surge,
bringing seawater, flooding and
even jellyfish to downtown Olympia.
It is these types of events,
ecology experts say,
show what to expect in
coming years and decades.
So they give us a real glimpse of
what sea level rise would look like
in the future, because what those are
are the highest tides of the year.
And. Typically what will be
associated with coastal
flooding? These four
men are involved with learning
what to expect in the near and long
term and how to adjust to protect
Washington's 56 cities and counties
that have marine shorelines.
We know that there are about 14,000
structures and homes that are could be
at risk of coastal flooding by by 2050.
Washington Department of Ecology
has been studying the states
changing coast for many years,
how the change is connected to climate
change and even tectonic shifts the state.
Works with local leaders to mitigate
the damage now and in the future.
Case in point,
an $88,000 grant for Pacific County,
home to the Long Beach Peninsula,
to help come up with a protection plan there.
We're looking at inundation hazards and,
you know, do existing shorelines and
different assets in their community
that they need to protect and how
to plan for those while doing their
best to engage the community.
These experts say with sea levels expected
to rise about a foot in the next 80 years,
working with coastal communities is key
and it's really encouraging and.
Hiring I would say of the the
communities that are working on this,
both from a planning perspective
all the way down to designing
on the ground projects that
address the existing hazards,
but with a future looking lens.
Tim Gordon, KGW news.