This is KGW news at sunrise. He loves to love
and that was his purpose in life,
was to love people and make him laugh.
That woman is remembering her son who
was shot and killed while sitting
inside his car earlier this month.
His death marks the 37th homicide
in Portland this year and this
morning her plea to Portlanders.
Also an update on the landslide that washed
out a highway near the Mount
Saint Helens Observatory.
Tourists had to be rescued,
but they also had to leave their cars
behind when they could get them back.
Plus more on the road repairs. We
also want to let you know that
summer officially arrives today.
In fact, it's about 3 hours away.
The official start time of the season,
7:57 AM. Our time as we take this
live look at downtown Portland from
our Wells Fargo, Skycam, Brenda,
Christine in the studio right now,
Chris McGinnis standing by there
for a look at your traffic.
But first, how about this?
In honor of the first day of summer,
we have Rod Hill out there
at a local swimming pool.
Rod, where are you exact?
Yeah, we're in Southeast Portland.
This is behind me. Creston Pool,
of course, the first day of summer,
traditionally the first day of.
Portland parks opening up
all of the city's pools,
so we assume that water will be filled with
kids splashing a little bit later today.
It's really a beautiful morning.
Let's get you going out the
door with your forecast.
We're mainly clear right now,
at least over downtown Portland.
Now there's a chilly start.
A lot of you are in the 40s.
You can see downtown Portland
sitting at 50 degrees right now.
Here comes your planner.
The rain chances are over.
So a sunny,
beautiful way to kick off our new season 65.
At noon we'll get up to about 77 for a high.
Here's Chris McGinnis checking the roads.
Hard
to top that, but we'll try the morning
drive off to a pretty good start.
Quick look at the Banfield. This is
out near 28th Ave. your inbound commute
heading that way into downtown.
That looks pretty good.
We'll switch gears and take you
up to Clark County. It's moving.
It promised the cameras stuck, but I 205.
South Down here on the right hand
side of your screen, your SR500.
We're in pretty good shape on
that side of town, Brenda.
No crashes, no unexpected delays
on the roads just yet.
All right, Chris, thank you.
Now to our top
story this morning.
We have learned the two women killed
near a music festival in Washington
over the weekend were from Seattle,
and they were engaged to be married.
Jocelyn Ruiz and Brandi Escamilla
were shot at a campground near
the Beyond Wonderland Festival
at the Gorge Amphitheater.
Ruiz's family shared these pictures of her.
According to the family's lawyer,
the two women did not know
the accused gunman.
Our sister station in Seattle
spoke to another victim who
was shot in the shoulder.
A guy popped behind a tent
and points his gun at me.
He shoots me once and then the
moment he shot me he survived when
things kicked in and I jumped
behind one of my friends tents
and then I ran and he chased me,
was shooting at me and as he
was shooting at me at there's
bullets whizzing by me.
The Grant County Sheriff's Office
identified the suspected shooter as 26 year
old James Kelly.
So far investigators haven't
released a possible motive.
But he was stationed at
Joint Base Lewis McCord.
Kelly is in jail this morning,
but he has not formally been charged.
He was also treated for a gunshot
wound after deputies shot him,
now to a mother's plea for help.
Her son, Dominic Sawyer,
is Portland's latest homicide victim.
Police say 29 year old,
the 29 year old Rather
was murdered June 10th.
It happened just before 2:00
AM at SW 3rd and Harvey Milk.
Two other people who were shot survived.
Dominic's mom,
Sherish says her son was sitting in his
car when someone shot and killed him.
She asked that we not show her face.
She's desperate for answers and wants
police to find Dominic's killer.
You know, somebody saw the
shooter. Somebody did. I
want to see the person that killed
my son and looked them in the eyes
and let them know what they took from
hundreds of people underneath it.
Dominic left behind three young children.
His death marks the 37th
homicide in Portland this year.
If you have any information on the case,
call Portland police.
We've posted more detailed
information on our website, kgw.com.
Meanwhile, Oregon State Police are
looking for the four people who damaged
the Hasida Head Lighthouse in Florence,
one of the most historic landmarks
along the Oregon coast, last four.
Last Thursday, those four people were caught
on camera at the Lighthouse Building.
Two of them broke a window and try
to get in one of the buildings and
some signs were also spray painted.
The lighthouse started operating
back in 1864 and the damage from
last Thursday is estimated to stand
somewhere between 10:00 and $20,000.
If you recognize any of those four
people from these surveillance photos,
you're asked to call Oregon State Police.
We have an update on the
highway that was washed out by
a landslide near Mount
Saint Helens last month.
Both state and federal officials
say repair work could begin as
soon as this month. Yeah, and
that is good news for people whose
cars are still stranded up there.
Devin Haskins is live with us this morning.
So, Devin, what can you tell us
about this plan to fix the highway?
Yeah. Christine, you may remember
several cars were left stranded at the
observatory after the road washed away.
Now the plan is to build a
road to help recover them.
Officials at WSD OT say they are
finalizing a contract that would
start work by the end of this month.
Crews will then start clearing the debris
that washed down the hill and also focus
on making sure the hillside stabilized.
Then they'll build a temporary one lane Rd.
That would be used, among other things,
to get the seven stranded car owners,
or cars rather back to their owners,
washed out.
Says it hopes to have that
work finished by early August.
I talked with Ryan Crandall and Tim
Mueller after the slide happened.
Both have a car stranded up there,
Crandall at the time.
Had just bought his car a few weeks
prior and hadn't even made a car
payment on his 2021 Toyota Route 4.
For him,
it's even more of a reason to get it back.
I caught up with both of them
yesterday about the thought
of getting their cars back,
hopefully later this summer.
Having my car back especially because
I also do DoorDash, Uber Eats.
So it's part of my job, let alone the
photography that I'm trying to do.
It is monumental to have my
car back throughout all that
when it's all said and done.
It will have just been a minor inconvenience.
It's really not a big deal
in the scheme of things,
but it is kind of at that point
where it's like, oh,
I would have loved to have done this,
but I can't cuz I don't have the car. So
all right, so when that temporary Rd.
gets built, it will not
be open to the public.
It'll only be used to clear the
debris and get those cars back.
We still don't know.
We don't have a timeline for when the
highway will get completely repaired.
Guys, back to you.
All right, Devin
Haskins reporting for us this morning.
Live in our studio. Meanwhile,
live outside this morning.
There he is. Rodney Hill standing
next to a body of man made water rod.
It's the first day of summer.
Fill us in again on where you are.
Yeah, it's going to be a beautiful day today.
You know, we had the need of the rain
back on Father's Day Monday. Yesterday,
the airport actually didn't pick up any rain.
It turned out to be a pretty dry day.
And now we have mainly clear skies up top for
much of the Lima Valley and summer will be a
sunny 70 something start to the new season.
The pool is beautiful. Camera.
Eric out here with me, you know, I've been
here before and if you look on the left,
you see their grass right there.
Typically they'll bring out
tables and loungers.
So it's really a great comfortable spot
for mom and dad if you don't need to
be in the water with your little ones.
Again, Portland Public Schools.
Schools, Portland Public Parks and
Rec opening up the pools today.
All right, let's get you to the weather.
I mentioned.
It's going to be a beautiful day.
Here's a satellite picture.
A little bit of cloudiness up around Kelso
Longview dropping down from the South.
But otherwise, this is going to be a
mainly sunny day across our region.
And the winds expected to be light too.
So the summer season,
the Solstice 757 this morning, local time.
Now so far we hit 95 times of May,
that was a record.
We've done it once,
a 92 degree day earlier this month.
So the total is sitting at six.
And if you're wondering about the summer
now that it's coming up on us right now,
the weather models show no hot weather
all the way through the July 4th weekend,
meaning no 90s or certainly
nothing well up into the 90s.
The forecast projections 20 or more,
90 degree days and typically we would hit 90.
Well, maybe not typically,
but we certainly can do it well
into the month of September.
So we'll see what the
summer season brings us.
All right, here's a look.
A little hazy out from
the Wells Fargo camera.
I can tell you here where we are.
If I look up,
it appears to be a baby blue sky up top.
Temperatures are cool,
so there could be some shallow fog
pockets starting to develop as well.
It's 50 out at the airport, but.
A lot of you are in the 40s, in fact,
46 now up in Kelso, 47 down on Salem.
It's freezing. Adam Burns.
That's a cold start to summer.
And the 27, of course,
still spring right now.
31 out in Baker City.
All right,
forecast numbers are all good winds.
This shows Corvallis could get up to 80.
Salem 79.
Today, summer begins.
The northwest winds is 5 to 15 at most,
mainly sunny after some
cloudiness in early morning.
Shallow fog pockets around a
similar scene up north. Again.
Longview has some cloudiness right now.
But. That will thin out quickly.
76 year expected high temperature and
here's the seven day still looks like
77 today from Portland, about normal for
the first day of summer. 85 tomorrow.
I have taken out the rain chance on Friday.
I am still looking at the chance we'll see
a scattered or isolated storm pop Sunday.
The best chance of rain on the
seven day right now is Monday and
enough cloudiness and rain around
to lower temperatures into the 70s.
You know, I I had a coat,
but it's it's really not that bad out
despite the back. It's 50 degrees.
It's a beautiful morning.
Some are just a little over a couple
hours away. Guys back to you. I
know. Hard to believe it's already here.
Okay. Thanks, Rod.
So where Rod is right now?
Creston Pool, it's going to be one of
all the outdoor public pools that will
be open today through August 27th.
Each one will be hosting a
weekly free swim session.
We've got the dates,
hours there on your screen.
This is all a part of Portland Parks
and Recs Summer free for all series.
We've got more details at kgw.com
where we've posted an article
with the full calendar of all
the summer Free for all events
also coming up this morning
here on Sunrise it is.
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running out of air.
We'll have an update on all
of that after the break.