This is KGW News at Sunrise.
I was trying to get out.
I got out and I was trying to climb,
and it was obviously too deep.
And from there,
that's when I started screaming help.
That woman is talking about her
rescue from a ravine in Vernonia,
and she's thanking her iPhone
for tipping off first responders.
And if you've been on Twitter lately,
you've probably
seen all the buzz about the app's new
flashing X sign that is at its San
Francisco office, why the company was forced
to remove it days after it was installed,
and we are also live this
morning in Baker City.
That is a look at the Geyser
Grand Hotel in Baker City,
and I know of two people who
were staying there right now.
One is Sunrise photographer Eric
Patterson giving us this shot of the
library and he'll pan over to show
the other guests that we know of
this morning at the H1 Rodney Hill.
We're going to check in with
Rod here in just a second.
First, we say good morning.
It is a Tuesday edition of Sunrise.
What's up, Rod?
Chris McGinnis is handling double duty.
He's got your traffic reports, of course.
And he's also doing some weather
for Rod because Rod, I mean,
Rod is really busy talking
about Baker City this morning.
So, Rod, we're going back to you right now,
my friend. You mentioned last half hour.
This is a live report that you
have wanted to do for years.
Yeah, absolutely.
So we're spending this hour,
This is our final half hour at five,
of course, being here at the Geyser Grand
Hotel, which of course has so much history.
And then next hour we're going to go just
down the street to a local business called
Sweet Life Bakery or Sweet Life Baking.
Pardon me. And we've got a whole
bunch of locals in there just dying
to say hi and talk about their town.
So we're excited to tell you about that.
Think about it. In the late 1800s,
what you're looking at right now
must have been just a huge room,
So much grandeur.
Today, it's the most intimate, right?
Because our scales become so much larger.
But the woodwork,
Eric is showing you absolutely
gorgeous and mostly entirely original
to the 1800 build. How about that?
All right, let's take a look at
your day planner and get you out
the door With the weather forecast,
we have 50s and 60s with clear
skies over the valley, much of what
we've had for the last week or so.
You see PDX right now reporting
61 degrees at noon will be 76.
So another pretty comfortable morning.
Then later today like you actually
getting a little toasty was 85 yesterday.
We have a stopping out this
afternoon at 87 degrees.
Now Chris Mcgiss is coming up. Chris
122, I'm counting cars on
Main Street in Baker City.
Two of them, Sir, back to you.
I absolutely had to get the traffic
report for Baker City and All right,
let's bring you back to Vancouver and,
oh, we're sputtered along here.
Our watchdog camera stuck,
but I5 at SR14IN pretty good shape.
The I5 drive out of Wilsonville
also getting busier,
but so far, guys, no crashes,
no unexpected delays on the roads just yet.
All right, more from Chris and Rod
coming up here in a few minutes.
But right now our first news
headline this half hour.
It's an update on a brush
fire near Multnomah Falls.
Crews are mopping up this morning
after getting control of this fire,
which started around 9:00 o'clock last night.
Cascade Locks Fire and EMS shared
these photos with us last night,
and they show the flames right
there along the hillside above
the eastbound lanes of I-84.
Officials say the fire grew to about
1/2 acre in size at milepost 33.
There's still no word this
morning on A cause.
A woman's car is still stuck this
morning after she crashed into an
embankment in rural Columbia County.
The craziest part of all of this?
It was a feature on her phone that
actually helped save her life.
Yeah, you wouldn't think that a
cell phone could save your life,
but she says it's absolutely the case here.
Ashley says she was heading home Friday
night when her truck slid off the road.
So she says she tried to
climb out of the embankment,
but it was just too steep for her.
So that's when she started yelling for help.
And that yelling, combined with
the SOS feature on her cell phone,
is what helped dispatch and
a neighbor find her.
When I first got on scene,
I couldn't even see it.
I was like it was amazing that they found it.
I was so happy that they actually
had people come and help me.
Fire crews recommend knowing how
that SOS feature on your phone works
because obviously from this story we
now know it can definitely help you
in an emergency.
Back to a story that we've
been covering nationally,
the Idaho mother convicted of
murdering her two children has
been sentenced to life in prison.
Lori Valo de Bell received 5
consecutive life sentences without
the possibility of parole yesterday.
Back in May, you may remember a
jury found Valo guilty of murder and
conspiracy to commit murder in the
deaths of her two kids, JJ and Tylee,
as well as her husband's late wife, Tammy.
Multiple family members also
spoke in court yesterday.
Most called Valo A murderer,
a liar, cruel and heartless.
The judge said the photos shown
in court were traumatizing.
I don't think to this day you have
any remorse for the effort and
heartache you caused for others.
Looked for your children when you knew
where they were and knew they were dead.
Valo de Bella dressed the court
for the first time to claiming her
children's spirits have visited
her and told her she didn't do
anything wrong and to stop worrying.
Her husband, Chad Daybell is facing
similar charges as well as insurance
fraud and Grand Theft charges.
His trial is set to begin April 1st of 2024.
Other headlines
were tracking this morning. Today the new hit
and run alert system begins in Washington.
The system can help identify a vehicle
driving away from the scene of a crash
involving serious injury or death.
The public can sign up for alerts.
Law enforcement will also
post those on social media.
Washington lawmakers okayed this program.
It's now in a two year trial period.
A man authorities call a prolific car
thief will be back in court next week.
Jesse Dane Brower pleaded not guilty
yesterday to charges including possession
of a stolen vehicle and eluding police.
Authorities say they were executing
a search warrant at Brower's
home over the weekend and found
evidence related to dozens of stolen
vehicles and stolen car parts.
His bail was set at $30,000 and
the Multnomah County Sheriff's
Office says so far this year it's
taken in 122 guns for safekeeping.
This special unit works to reduce
gun violence by taking guns from
people who legally can't have them or
people who give them up voluntarily.
And those are some of your
Tuesday morning headlines.
All right, if you've been
watching this morning,
you know that Rod Hill is live in Baker City.
But before we check back in with Rod,
we want to share some of the
places that our viewers said Rod
should check out during his visit.
So Kathy leads us off here.
She says the bakery, she told us.
I believe it's called Sweet Wives.
All right, Sweet wives.
And then we hear from Patty,
who said Sweet wife bakery, Sweet wife.
And then we heard from
Bryn who said Sweet Wives.
So I believe those are the same suggestions
said three different ways popular.
The correct name of that bakery by the way,
we now know is Sweet Wife Baking.
And the truth is Rod will be there live this
morning coming up in the 6:00 o'clock hour.
But right now, gang,
I know he's still alive at
the Grand Geyser hotel.
Should we check back in with our favorite
man Rodney live at the hotel this morning?
What do you have for us right now?
You know, it's funny because
we had the same discussion.
Is it plural? No, it's singular.
Sweet wife baking. Yes.
And we're going to be there
one more shot of the beautiful
entranceway as you as you walk
in and the grand dining room.
And there are guest rooms
around on the 2nd floor
up, there's three rooms of of guest rooms,
I think 30 guest rooms right now,
Barbara, is that right?
You were telling me the
original plan had like 70 rooms,
but you, they were really
tiny by today's standards, right? Yeah. So we
created 30 Barbara
Sidway, by the way, her and her
husband responsible for restoring this
gem that at one point was going to
be just torn down. Yes.
Demolition order had been
issued by the city and the
downtown community said no,
we need to save this.
And they talked us into
coming here and doing it. So
glad we did. It was shut down
for what, the latter 60s into the
90s. And then you did the work
and it reopened, correct? Yeah,
so you were telling me earlier,
I said probably you got a minute,
what do you want to talk about?
And and you gave me a topic that
wasn't expecting. But go ahead
and share with me. We're really
proud that we can welcome the public
in many ways into this special place.
We have tours every Friday,
Saturday and Sunday by our hotel historian.
And we have dinner every night,
seven nights a week and overnight rooms,
the and when you walk in, it's gorgeous.
And the restaurant open seven days a week.
I mean, everything's functioning
and I love you were telling me.
I asked and you were proud to tell me.
This has been a business success story.
I mean, people are
using the hotel I can see is great
and the history is bright. Yes,
we're very happy that we did this.
And we're actually expanding with another
dozen and a half Jacuzzi suites
next door in a history building.
Erica zoomed in on this goofy photo.
It's a goofy story, ladies and
gentlemen, but it's interesting.
It's history. So Barbara,
give us like the 1520 seconds, the
rundown of what we're
looking at in this photo.
This gentleman is deceased in the photo.
Those are his funeral flowers.
In the very early first decade of
the 20th century, this was a thing
kind of like Weekend to Bernie's
the movie. Yes, yes. And so you had
your deceased friend and you
had a party with him present.
It's crazy. That's obvious.
You can recognize the woodwork
that's here in the hotel.
They have you and mentioned
tours and they have these historic photos,
which I love, this sort of thing sprinkled
throughout the hotel.
Again, so much history here.
There was that room that Eric
showed you earlier in the show
that we called the The Library.
There was a point where salesman
could rent that room for one dollar
$1.00 and they would set up their
trunks and then they would spend the
night sleeping with their belongings
that they were selling to people.
Of course, rooms today,
crazy expensive, but
they are more than a dollar.
OK, Barbara, thank you so much.
Thank you. Right,
let's get you to the weather forecast.
I'm going to run back to the iPad
while we take the weather graphics.
We have a beautiful clear sky
morning outside, really clear most
areas of our state this morning.
We've got temperatures starting off
where they have been here in Portland
that's in the 50s and the 60s.
You're looking
at the Wells Fargo view where
it's 61 degrees outside right now,
52 over in Hillsboro, 57 down Aurora.
Again, plenty of comfortable sleeping spots.
Hello, Baker City 48 is your number.
Down in John Day is 56. Down in Burns.
Temperatures holding on about 50 degrees.
See the Gray area?
Boy, we've been covering this for
what going on Couple weeks now
that's Lane and Deschutes County.
I still under an air quality
alert for wildfire smoke.
Weather computer says these will be
your temperatures throughout the day
and we're going to stop the clock.
This afternoon at 5:30 shows 88 in Salem 87.
In Portland, 73.
Over in Tillamook, some 90s out
toward the dows and Pendleton 90,
two on the Grand 92 this afternoon
in Baker City as well.
And let's see what's coming up. Look at.
OK, well I don't want to do that.
Hold on.
Let me back up and running the remote iPad.
This is what I want to show you.
Baker City 95 for the actual high today,
the grand 94.
Sunny and hot areas of wildfire.
Smoke winds are going to be on
the light side for the most part.
And then here's your 7 day
forecast for the Rose City 8788.
Today, tomorrow, Thursday,
maybe degree cooler,
but then we go into the 90s this weekend,
90 Saturday and 94 Sunday.
Hey, when we come back, Brenda Braxton,
we're going to be out live on Main
Street and then we're going to get to,
let me say correctly, sweet wife
baking with all kinds of folks ready
to say hi from Baker City back to you.
Yeah, those treats are your happy place.
I can't wait to check back
with you. Thank you, Rod.