This is KGW news at Sunrise today.
The Portland City Council is set
to vote on Mayor Ted Wheeler's
proposed daytime camping ban,
but it looks like not all
commissioners are on board.
Our Devin Haskins will
have the latest coming up,
also going green with a new app
that will tell you how much
carbon was produced during
the construction of your home.
How it works coming up at 5:15.
And we are also live this morning in
Northeast Portland behind the scenes of the
Rose Festival's float production facility.
Yes, getting that behind the scenes
sneak peek. So here's the deal.
Brenda, Christine, Christopher, Rodney,
the big parade is this Saturday.
We're talking about the Grand Floral Parade.
So we'll show you some of the floats that
are going to be in this year's parade.
And real quickly for viewers who may be
tuning in for the first time this morning,
when I say Brenda, Christine and.
Christopher. Rodney, That is the first
names of all four people there,
not just the 1st and middle name
of two of the people.
Does that make sense?
No, I don't get it.
That's OK. Me too. I got.
I was trying to follow.
It's all right.
You can catch up and explain yourself
a little bit late.
Have a cup of coffee.
Yeah, Or
two. Good morning, everybody.
It is Wednesday,
middle of the week, am I right?
It's mild outside today. Yeah.
We hit 92 yesterday, So you hit 92.
It typically stays a little bit
warmer the following morning.
And that's where you are,
Satellite pictures.
For you, we have some scattered rain
showers and notice these are all the way
up near and even north of Baker City.
Getting up into parts of Umatilla County.
We have a thunderstorm threat for those
of you in central and Eastern Oregon
that will be much farther N today than
we've seen the last couple of days.
And Portland will be sunny, I think,
but not the perfectly clear skies
that we have been dealing with.
There's Mount Saint Helens over on the left,
some pretty blue sky color.
62, as Brenda mentioned,
is the early morning number 77 at noon.
Today most of the valley should hold
underneath 90, although 90 still possible.
I've got Portland at 89 degrees.
Your complete forecast is coming up.
Here's Chris McGinnis.
Rod,
let's take a quick look at the roads
on the east side rolling out of
Oregon City South towards Westland.
This is I-205 obviously heading
down towards the Abernathy Bridge.
We're in pretty good shape on that side
of town. West side looks good. Hwy.
26 at the Sylvan Hill wide open and a
quick check of the trip out of Clark County.
We'll take you up to I5 near 78th.
I'm pointing this out because
once again northbound I5.
The left lane is.
Close between Main Street and 78th
today and tomorrow until 4:00 PM for
some culvert repair work in that area.
So far, though, guys,
light volume, no crashes,
no unexpected delays.
OK, sounds good. Thanks, Chris.
A large fire gutted an
industrial business in
Salmon Creek this morning.
Flames destroyed the property
and six other businesses.
No one was hurt.
Calls came in just before midnight.
People saying they could see flames
around the Pacific Biocontrol
building on NE 13th Court, firefighters
from Vancouver, as well as Clark
Cowlitz fire all responded. A
lot of people's livelihoods,
we're at stake with this building,
so they're trying to figure out
exactly what they're going to do
tomorrow morning or this morning
when their employees come to work
and there's really not much left.
Public documents show the
100,000 square foot building
was worth nearly $2,000,000.
We don't know the names of the
other businesses that burned.
This afternoon, Portland City Council
could vote on a daytime camping ban.
It was introduced last week
after hours of public testimony
and protests outside City Hall.
Yeah, for more on this, we'll bring
in our Devin Haskins this morning.
And Devin sounds like not all the
commissioners are on board with this.
Yeah, correct, Christine.
And it has to do with the punishments
given to those camping during the day.
For instance, if a person is
warned 3 times to move their tent,
they could face fines or jail time.
Well for that reason Commissioner
Carver and Rubio says she will vote no,
telling KGW the ordinance crosses the line
of punishing people just for being homeless.
She also wants more shelter
sites before ban is enacted.
On the other side,
commissioners Dan Ryan and Renee
Gonzalez both telling KGW they do
plan to vote yes on the camping ban.
Gonzalez says he wants to see
stronger rules around tents near
schools and non city run shelters.
And make it easier to break
up large 10 encampments.
It says jail time for camping
for daytime camping is unlikely.
Here's commissioners Randy
Gonzalez and Dan Ryan.
I think it's long overdue.
Portlanders have been demanding
some real changes on our streets,
so I think it's a step in
the right direction.
We need to provide services
that they'll say yes to,
and we need to stop enabling
and just allowing people to do
illegal things on the street.
Again,
that City Council hearing is this afternoon.
If there are any changes
made to the ordinance,
there would be more public testimony.
Then it would be followed by a vote.
As it stands right now,
it would ban daytime camping from
8:00 AM to 8:00 PM and for 24 hours
in certain areas like schools.
If it passes,
it would take effect next month.
Christine. OK, thank you, Devin.
We're also
checking in with the city's latest
safe rest village in North Portland
near the Peninsula Crossing Trail.
The Peninsula Crossing Village has
only been open for a couple weeks now,
but some people living
nearby are already worried.
Homeowners and renters in the area say
they've noticed things like drug use,
dozens of cars speeding
up and down the roads,
and loud noise in and outside the village.
We spoke to the chair of the University
Park Neighborhood Association,
who says there seems to be some improvement
at least since the site first opened.
Urban Alchemy initially just
focused on what's inside
the fence. Now
they are sending their staff around here.
That's happened since Sunday.
The village is now fully operational,
with 67 residents at last count.
The people living there all used to
camp along the Peninsula Crossing Trail
and an update to a story that
we've been covering for the
last few months. In less than a week,
Legacy Health will reopen its birth
center at Mount Hood Medical in Gresham.
Legacy closed the center in March without
the required state approval at the time.
It blames staffing challenges and
not many babies being born there.
The president of Mount Hood Medical
Center has now released a statement
apologizing for the stress,
confusion and disruption.
The birth center will reopen on June 13th.
Well, the Rose Festival continues
this weekend with one of its biggest
events. Of course, we're talking
about the Grand Floral Parade that
is the granddaddy of them all.
Drew Carney is in the Float Barn
this morning for a sneak peek at
some of what you'll see. Hey, Drew.
Hey there, Brenda and Christine.
That's right. This is a
live look this morning at
one of the floats that will be featured
in this year's Grand Floral Parade.
The Float Barn, as you described it,
has bounced around town over the years.
This present facility is in
Northeast Portland and right now I'm
going to introduce the the woman
behind the operation, so to speak.
She's the manager of this float production
facility in Northeast Portland,
Wasita, we have lots of floats
to check out this morning,
but I am curious because there
appears to be a headless creature
on some sort of bench or chair here.
Which float is this?
And what the heck is the theme?
This is Alaska Airlines and
they are a moose. This will be
a moose relaxing on the beach.
He just came back from a
flight and he is on vacation.
So as you describe that,
you're really asking people to
use their imaginations to see the
finished product because there
is clearly still work to be done.
But man, parade day is on Saturday,
so the countdown is on.
How many volunteers would you say
are really needed to make sure that
you can pull off a parade like this?
In the way you like to pull it off.
We like about, you know,
100 volunteers a day or more.
Yeah. And you know,
they can come down for an hour.
They can come down all day,
they can come down, you know,
whatever time they can give,
it just helps get the
float more parade ready.
Well, if you don't have that imagination
working yet on this Wednesday morning,
here's a look at what this float will
look like When it's all said and done.
The Alaska Airlines float
with the vacationing moose.
Gang, we will have more from
inside the production facility
here in Northeast Portland, coming
up a little bit later this hour. The
transformation is absolutely stunning.
I can't wait to see more.
And I'm telling you, your forecast
this year is looking, Yeah,
we're dry. We're comfortable.
We're in the 70s.
I mean, it potentially is overcast,
at least when the parade starts
Saturday morning. But right now,
I don't see a chance of any rain.
Here's a look at our.
Our dry streak, which will continue today,
so yesterday was the 22nd day, no rain.
Today will become day 23.
So again, we're over three weeks.
Now I am looking at a rain
chance to the 14th would be what,
Wednesday of next week?
It didn't look like much, but it's there.
And then we're still eyeing this.
And Chris Mcguins walked into weather
office this morning and reminded me that
if it's raining on the 21st day of June,
that's actually the first
day of summer this year.
So could it be raining on
the first day of summer?
We'll see.
We'll take whatever we can get right.
We continue to grow a deficit
in the water year department.
We have rain showers today that
will be developing and thunderstorms
eventually much farther to the
north than we've been seeing.
Remember,
much of the action last several days
has been down in South Central Oregon
and maybe up to around the Burns area.
Now we've got even a heavy
shower up in Umatilla County,
South of Pendleton currently.
Absolutely.
If you're going to be over in Central
Oregon today or you're watching us
from Central Oregon, good morning.
You have a thunderstorm threat today.
I don't think any action along the
Cascades would get north of Mount Jefferson.
Partly cloudy skies out there
to begin where it's 62,
very warm summer like feeling morning,
it's 50 in Newport.
Remember Newport actually dipped into
the 30s at this time yesterday morning.
So there's a nice warm up 57 in Bend,
56 in Baker City.
Generally everybody's pretty
comfortable out the door.
Futurecast movie for you.
Not the perfectly clear day
that we have been seeing,
but there will be mostly sunny overall,
I think Portland, Salem and Vancouver.
Some cloudiness expected
along the coast of times.
And here come the thunderstorms
popping up later today at 4:00 PM.
All right,
let's get you to our forecast numbers.
Weather models keep us much warmer today.
To me, this looks to be too cool,
but we'll see.
About the time I doubt the
the auto forecast programs.
I'm wrong and the the machine is right.
So we'll see. That shows Salem at 83.
Yesterday you folks hit 91.
I still think we're at least
going to be near 90 in some spots.
The hottest yesterday in
the metro area I saw was 93.
For you folks out in Troutdale,
I've got Portland today 89.
Tomorrow, 82, it's 77.
There's Grand Floral Parade.
Saturday, clouds of sun in 76,
very comfortable and dry and then warming
up into the first part of next week.
Chris McGinnis is here with
a look at your traffic
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