This is KGW
news at 11 and our top
story here tonight snow in
the valley. The Portland metro area
got a taste of winter today with the
first flakes of the season flying.
Hello and welcome to KGW News at 11.
I'm Brittany Folkers and the winter weather
is causing some delays and closures,
so several schools will be starting
late Monday morning or even shut
down completely due for school
district will be closed tomorrow.
It made that announcement just a few hours.
To go several other Columbia Gorge schools
will start 2 hours late and in Clark County,
Battleground public schools is
planning to start late as well.
Corbett School District in Multnomah County
will have a 2 hour delay and we have a
full list of closures on our website.
You can find that at kgw.com/closings.
We're also seeing a traffic impact.
The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office is
urging drivers to avoid I-84 east of Corbett.
You see this semi truck?
Was forced onto the side of the road because
of snowy road conditions near Rooster Rock.
The agency claims that they've responded
to multiple crashes in the area,
saying the roads are covered in snow.
Meteorologist Joe Raineri joining us and Joe,
well,
just about everybody got some snow today.
It was record-breaking here in Portland,
but we gotta prophasis
not by a lot. Like we saw
35 inches of snow fell,
of course throughout the West Hill.
They saw one to two inches of
snow here in the metro area,
about 1/10 of an inch. Of snow which
neither old record was trace amounts
but it was exciting it really was.
Excitement is over and
but at least here in the metro
area throughout the Columbia
Gorge in the coast range,
you're still gonna be looking at
a little bit of some snow showers.
And as we look on the radar right
now that peak you're seeing is
some pockets of freezing rain.
So some of us will be seeing
some slick roads heading out on
your Monday morning commute.
Here in the metro area I think
we have that cloud cover move in
that's basically going to keep
us just above freezing but right
around sunrise tomorrow morning
there will be a little bit of
some clearing so our temperatures.
Drop pretty quick at times
during your morning commute.
If that's the case,
what's basically a leftover
from this morning could freeze.
So the coast range tonight,
snow showers and pockets of
freezing rain here in the valley?
Mainly dry, but again,
we could be seeing some areas
of slick roads at times on your
Monday morning commute throughout
the Columbia River Gorge.
Like Brittany was saying,
this is going to be probably the
worst part to be driving through
late tonight and into tomorrow.
Not only going to be seeing
some snow showers,
but again you'll be seeing some
freezing rain along parts of I-84.
Now the watches and warnings.
Throughout the metro area have
expired but still until tomorrow
morning throughout parts of the
coast range that what you see
is that winter weather advisory.
It's also part throughout the West
End of the Columbia River Gorge
mainly it's going to be kind of an
ice event with just some light accumulation.
But again it's not going to take
much of light accumulation,
some light pockets of freezing
rain to make some slick roads out
there tomorrow morning.
Currently we're looking at
temperatures in the low 30s,
Hillsborough 34 degrees,
Sherwood 35 and West Linn you're
looking at a temperature of 33 degrees,
a lot of locations.
Will stay right at or just above
freezing tomorrow morning.
But again with there was clear
skies at times tomorrow morning,
we could be seeing a little bit
of some freezing roads at times,
but by the afternoon we'll be looking
at temperatures right around the
upper 30s to low 40s in many locations.
Here's a live look now from our Wells
Fargo camera temperature of 35 degrees.
The winds are pretty light and
coming up in my detail forecast.
Brittany,
I'll talk more about when we
could be seeing some a chance for
another round of some snow showers,
but it definitely looked pretty
out there earlier today.
You know, it really, really did, Joe.
And with that snow around the region
and here in the Portland metro area,
many people were taking advantage
of it while our local agencies
were proactively trying to keep
the roads clear for drivers.
Here's Christelle kumoi.
Sunday brought the first snowfall of
the season in the Portland metro area.
Clearing the way for some winter fun
activities. As temperatures dropped
into the low 30s. Pretty exciting.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
Snow fell across the Portland Metro area,
sticking in many places.
We're sledding on top of the hills,
especially in higher elevations
like here in Washington Park.
Our loving it. We're glad we had
this puppy here to enjoy it with us.
7 month old Indigo had a blast.
He wants to keep playing
the West Hills also got a decent
amount of snow accumulation Sunday.
This is kind of awesome.
Within Rahul, his first glimpse
of a winter Wonderland.
This is my first time seeing snow ever.
I've never, never seen snow
before and I really, really loved
it. But not everyone was a fan. But
then the weather was
terrible, quite terrible.
Love it or hate it, local agencies
were ready for Sunday snow.
So last night we put down 4750 gallons
of anti ICER throughout the West Hills,
all of the major typical areas.
So we've got our crews putting deicer
down really throughout the area.
Especially around in the upper elevations,
both P bot and ODOT say don't monitor
conditions and determine what,
if anything, will be needed
going into Monday's commute.
We're trying to be very,
very careful and be very proactive
and to make sure that we can
get out there on the roads and
take care of conditions as they
happen to keep the roads clear.
Temperatures are expected to rise,
so don't expect the snow
to stick around for long.
I suppose you missed out on the opportunity,
but this may not be your last,
indeed, the first snowfall
of the season in the metro.
And fans of winter fun are wishing for more,
so a few days more would be great.
Crystal Conway, KGW news.
Winter weather did shut down
the Oregon Zoo lights tonight.
The zoo made the call
around 2:00 this afternoon,
but according to the website,
the Zoo does offer a refund if it
shuts down because of severe weather.
We have an update on that big landslide
that closed a portion of Hwy.
30 about 20 miles east of Astoria.
Odot says it will open one lane back up,
but only during specific times.
The road will be open overnight
from 4:00 PM to 8:00 AM.
If you drive there,
watch for flaggers and expect delays,
Hwy 30 will be closed during the day so that
crews can continue to remove hazardous rock.
Odot says it isn't sure when
the work will be done. Debt.
A Gresham home caught fire overnight
after a tree knocked over a power line.
The home is on northeast Everett St
Gresham Fire says a large tree fell
on the main power line there which
energized the house and caused the fire.
The agency believes this fire
ruined 3/4 of the home.
They have not said yet if the
tree falling was weather related.
The wildfire season is mostly snuffed out,
but with smoky days on the rise
due to bigger fire seasons,
communities are trying to figure
out how to manage it.
Tim Gordon reports on some
UFO graduate students helping
develop smoke management plans.
Fire seasons have been
getting worse and worse.
Climate change and other factors
have fires burning bigger and
the season lasting longer.
The fire landscape is changing
dramatically and quickly,
and we see it in the air
quality data in Jackson County.
Stuart Warren is one of two University
of Oregon graduate students coming
up with a smoke management plan for
southern Oregon's Jackson County,
home to the city of Medford.
It's important because the county
has gone from averaging 5 hours
of poor air quality in 2010
to about 350 hours in 2021.
They've studied the area and
are in the middle of writing
up a plan for the community.
But what we have learned so far
is that folks in Jackson County
want to know more about smoke.
They want to be notified and as ample
amount of time as possible before
smoke enters into the Rogue Valley
and they need to know what to do,
Warren says. The response plan
they're developing is pretty
straightforward and meant to
mitigate the damage done to
humans breathing smoke filled air.
It's hardest on the very young,
the elderly and those with
health issues. They're
thing we found out is that there
are a lot of houseless folks and
other outdoor workers who are just.
Continually exposed to smoke,
so we have tried to come up with
options for them so they can protect
themselves from smoke as well.
For most of us with a home, Warren says
the best thing to do is stay in it.
But it's important to have a weather eye
structure that doesn't let the smoke leak in,
and that it's best if you have an air
purifying unit to clean the air inside.
Running an HVAC system with the outside
air induction turned off helps as well.
Also refrain from burning
candles in the gas stove, too.
And avoid vacuuming.
It kicks up smoke particles and other dust.
This is the type of information that is
being built into the smoke management
plan so Jackson County officials
can help citizens in a world where
wildfire impacts continue to grow.
Things have changed quickly,
and these plans will really help
us to adapt to that new world
of wildfire that we're living
in. Tim Gordon, KGW news.
New developments tonight on Oregon
strict new gun control measure 114 the
Oregon Department of Justice wants a
judge to postpone part of that new law.
The measure was narrowly approved
by voters last month and is set
to go into effect on Thursday.
It bans the sale,
transfer or manufacturer of magazines
with more than 10 rounds of ammunition
and requires a permit and background
check to buy a gun in a letter to
the judge the Attorney General.
Asked for the permit requirement
part of the measure to be pushed
back by two months to give law
enforcement more time to implement it,
the DOJ heard from local law
enforcement that said they would
not be able to process permit
applications starting December 8th,
when the measure takes effect.
The judge,
if the judge agrees to
the postponement permits,
will start being required in February.
Instead,
a ruling is expected to come
down from the judge this week.
I'm not gonna stop fighting
until I get justice for my son.
A North Portland mother is
speaking out for the first time,
exactly one year after her 19 year old
son was killed in a drive by shooting.
Police still have not made an
arrest in the case and she
continues to search for answers,
Blair best reports.
Yeah, today, keyon. Baby,
we stand right here in the mist on
this snowy December day at Tylice Brown
and her support group stand in the
Bridgeton neighborhood where her 19
year old son Keon Howard was shot and
killed a year ago on December 4th, 2021.
And here's my oldest son.
I was 15 when I had him.
Didn't have a clue being a parent,
didn't know how to be a parent.
But this is a real right now.
Brown struggled with addiction and was in
and out of jail for most of her son's life.
Because I wasn't a perfect mom by far.
I still not, but I do.
But I accept the responsibility
and I'm not going to appear
out of guilt from now on.
But what I do know is that my son
deserved to be killed in these streets.
She was working on getting her life
back on track when she got a call
that something happened to her son.
I didn't wanna believe it.
I I couldn't sleep. I just sat there
for a long time and and like, ah,
she says her son was on his way to pick
up his brother and got into an argument
with a group of people when they shot him.
Others argue he was the aggressor.
There is no clear explanation from
police as to what exactly happened
that night other than an officer
tried to perform CPR on Howard,
but he died at the scene.
KGW reached out to Portland
police for an update on the case.
We didn't hear back right away.
I feel like it was like one of those.
Things in their mind.
Ohh just little black kid that's dead.
It's been one year and police
still haven't made any arrests.
Leaving Brown and her family
with so many unknowns.
Amy angry. And so I'm here because
I don't feel like justice has been
served and I'm not going to fight.
I'm not going to stop fighting
until I get justice for my son.
And helping her in that
fight is Laurie Palmer.
Her son was shot and killed back in 2015.
So what we need to focus on is healing.
We need healing.
I'm still in trauma.
Everybody's in trauma.
Trauma is behind the gun and
it's in front of the gun.
Palmer started go get your child,
a group educating families
about gun violence.
This starts at the head and
works it away all the way down.
And the system that we're doing,
sitting at getting money from mayors
and governors and sitting to having
meetings on gun violence and everybody
throwing up their hands saying,
oh, we don't know what to do.
You're not doing the right thing.
You have to start with the
family Brown now using her
pain to help other mothers.
I'm trying to start my own
organization to stop the violence
and searching for answers along the way.
Let me know as a mother.
Tell me something because
I deserve to know why.
What happened to my child
in North Portland? Blair best KGW news.
Two people were rescued from this
car after crashing into the side
of a Tualatin building overnight.
The crash happened on Boones Ferry Rd,
just South of Lower Boones Ferry.
When Tualatin Valley Fire
and Rescue got to the scene,
crews worked to get those two
people out of the vehicle.
They've since been taken to the hospital.
Authorities haven't said what
led up to the crash.
Tualatin police will continue
that investigation.