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The push is on to get school resource
officers back in PPS this morning.
We'll break down what a safety
task force wants to do,
including partnering with police. Plus,
we disagree with this draft recommendation.
It doesn't do enough.
A new recommendation says regular
mammograms should start earlier.
But why? Some radiologists are
saying it doesn't go far enough
and we are also live this morning
at the Oregon Humane Society.
Hello there puppy.
The Humane Society is getting
ready for a huge event,
their 36th annual Doggy Dash,
which happens this Saturday.
So this is Lily, a four year old cattle dog.
Yes, Lily is available for adoption.
So if you love that face.
That's a face that you could
have in your own home.
We also have details on
registration for the Doggy Dash.
You can actually get half
off that registration today,
so we'll share those details
with you coming up here.
In a few minutes. All right.
Love, Lily.
Lots to look forward to
on this Wednesday morning,
middle of the week and Roger saying
we're going to hit 70 plus today,
Nice
day. It's been 68 the last two days.
Today, 74. I think most people would
say it's right in that sweet spot.
Right. Here's a look outside right now.
Sun comes up at 546.
So our camera already is seeing some
brightness and partly cloudy skies overhead.
Everybody's dry.
We are at 50 degrees.
Out at the airport will be 62 at noon.
Now it is a day that I expect
to see afternoon thunderstorms
develop over the Cascades.
We could see some showers
over the Coast Range as well.
Maybe some of that turns into a spotty
shower storm here in the valley.
Otherwise we'll be dry and we get up
to a nice 74 for a high temperature.
Back to you,
Rob. Thank you. Well,
there are new recommendations
this morning to make students in
Portland Public Schools safer.
PPS put together a task force,
and it's suggesting A partnership
with Portland police. That
was actually just one of several
recommendations that the task force gave
at last night's school board meeting,
all to address recent violence
in and around Portland schools.
For years, students of color voiced
their concerns about how school
resource officers treated them.
So in 2020, shortly after
the murder of George Floyd,
the district scrapped its SRO program.
Last night, though,
the Safety and Security Task Force
suggested walking that decision back of it.
But instead of having police
officers in schools,
they would simply have them stationed nearby.
The task force says that move could
help ward off criminals and would also
give officers the amount of time they
need to respond quickly when necessary.
Our students,
for the most part,
don't really want to see armed,
uniformed officers in their school,
but they do want they do want to know
that they've got their back somehow.
Okay. Take a look at your screen.
Other suggestions include
expanding the campus Safety and
Youth Violence Prevention teams,
creating a community walking patrol
to walk kids to and from school,
instituting a rapid
response system for staff,
and requiring middle and high school
students to wear ID badges at all times.
Now, the school board had a lot of
questions about how all of this will work.
They hope to get a pilot
program going this fall.
We'll certainly keep following the
discussion and let you know what happens
now to some of your Wednesday
morning headlines, take a look
at this fire. It broke out in a building on
Reynolds High School grounds in Troutdale.
It started just before 2:00 AM
We're told this was a sort of
storage building that caught fire.
We've reached out to Gresham Fire
For more information and we'll
update you if we learn more.
We're also following developments in
another deadly shooting in Portland.
It happened in the Hazelwood neighborhood.
Police say they got to Burnside in
NE 122nd a little after 8:00 o'clock
last night and found a man dead.
When they arrived,
the shooting shut down a part
of Burnside and Max lines,
but this morning things are back to normal.
No word on any arrests or suspects,
but we'll let you know when we learn more.
And today,
Senate Democrats are planning to meet
up with Republicans to discuss the
walkout now heading into its 8th day,
Republicans have been no shows
because they say Democrats are
considering bills that aren't
plainly worded or written in a way
the average person could understand.
They say it's a violation of Senate
rules and Oregon's Constitution.
There's no set time for today's meeting,
but we'll keep you updated
as this story develops.
And those are some of your morning headlines.
Fire crews in Canada are
trying to get a handle on more
than 80 wildfires in Alberta.
They've called in Oregon
firefighters to help them.
Devin Haskins has more on the
partnership between the two countries
that made all of this possible.
Good morning, Devin.
Yeah, good morning, Brenda.
At least 25 of those fires.
Are considered out of control
and they've forced more than
24,000 people from their homes.
The Oregon Department of Forestry
posted this photo to Twitter yesterday
showing ODF crews entering Alberta.
Oregon sent 22 fire crews ranging
from management to ground crews.
ODF says they got the call for
help last Friday through what's
called the Northwest Compact.
That's a law that was signed 25 years ago.
It allows 5 U.S.
states and five Canadian territories
to share resources without any delays
in processing special permissions.
ODF says the train is similar to
Oregon and that firefighters are fully
prepared to help wherever it's needed.
Oregon firefighters are are trained
and equipped to to deal with different
different fuel types depending on,
you know, what they're going to encounter.
And so some of the fuel types are
are very similar up in Alberta,
they have kind of the Great
Plains fuel type, lots of grass,
lots of shrubs and then they can move into,
you know. Big Timber.
Much like the the West side in Oregon,
the fire crews will be there for two weeks
before making the two day drive back home.
They also say it's an opportunity to
bring back new techniques that they
may be able to utilize down here.
True. All right, Devin,
While you're covering that story for us,
Governor Tina Kotek and state wildfire
officials held a media briefing
about what they expect for this
year's wildfire season in Oregon.
As KGW's Joe Bernier explains,
it's never a matter of if
we'll see wildfires here,
it's simply a matter of when they'll start.
This spring has brought a
healthy amount of snow for the
Cascades and plenty of rain in the valley,
but what state officials are paying close
attention to is what this summer could bring.
Drought intensity across the state is
less than it was this time last year,
although some regions have experienced
persistent, severe droughts.
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek is
preparing for what's expected to
be another busy wildfire season,
especially in the areas that
haven't seen much spring rain,
particularly in Eastern Oregon where fire
indices suggest an above average fire season.
Kotek says just like any season,
crews will face obstacles out in the field.
There are several challenges facing us,
including capacity in rural areas that
largely rely on Volunteer Fire services.
The one thing the Oregon Department of
Forestry relies on is the technology aspect,
which is something they're going
to rely on again this season.
We continue with our statewide smoke
detection system in the smoke detection
cameras are a critical element to the
technology that's provided success.
They also have spotters to look for
fires and more of the rural areas.
The agency has a stateowned aircraft
that we have been utilizing to fly on
the heels of lightning storms at night.
To detect fires overnight.
One thing everyone can do
this summer to be prepared.
But it's going to be up to every
single one of us, every Oregonian,
to do our part to prevent human
cause fires before they start.
And take the steps now to
be ready, just in case.
Prepare your yard, Have an evacuation plan.
Have A to go kit. Have a plan if
there's smoke in your community.
Joe Ranieri, KGW News.
Look outside right now from the
Dallas sky Cam, pretty mild morning.
But in that previous story
they were talking about the upcoming fire
season and hot weather and we're going
to have some hot weather coming up this
week. We are a reminder though,
the biggest barometer for fire
season statistically is the length
of fire season and the longer you
can keep getting some spring rain,
which we've had plenty of and
that's going to be getting hot this.
This coming weekend,
But still looks like we could have some
decent showers and not an overly hot
June so we can get all that pulled off.
Then the fire season becomes
shorter and that's the biggest
barometer to a not so bad season.
So fingers crossed.
Absolutely, That's good news.
All right, here we go with what's
going on for this weekend.
Yeah, the hot weather is coming 85 Friday.
Today will be up in the 70s.
And then 92, Saturday 95, Sunday, Monday 93.
These are the records.
We could tie the record Saturday break
at Mother's Day, tie it on Monday.
And then after that it looks like
we're back down to the 80s.
But it does appear that much of next
week we'll see highs in the 80s,
which would be above normal for
this time of the air.
It's so considered, especially if
you don't have air conditioning.
Pretty guys starting warm out there,
all right.
Here's what's going on for today.
Pretty quiet.
Couple little specs of shower
activity already popping though.
Coming up from the South over
both the Coach Range and the
Cascades and our futurecast miles,
which I'll show you in a moment.
Do show the chances of afternoon showers,
also over the coach range,
with the storms popping later
today over the Cascades.
We're partly cloudy out there right now.
We're 50 degrees.
We have calm winds.
Going to be a really nice day overall,
outside of the scattered thunderstorm
chances in the mountains.
42 in Astoria.
46 Salem 44 in The Dalles.
We saw that live shot out there
in Wasco County a moment ago.
38 in John Davis freezing this
morning on Baker City.
32 Right here's feature cast.
There's a spotty shower over the coach range.
And then here are thunderstorms popping
this afternoon at 3:30 over the Cascades.
Now, I'm saying that there's at least a
chance when we've got showers here and there,
we're really unstable again today.
There's a chance we could see some spotty
storms here in the valley later today.
Futurecast.
Does that show that?
But it's possible.
The modeling here we are at 8:30
does show once the sun goes down,
the storms, even over the mountains,
quickly fade away.
And then we're off and running with just
completely dry and for the most part,
completely sunny days tomorrow,
all the way into the weekend.
The wider futurecast look for those
of you in central Eastern Oregon.
Scattered showers, storms.
Most areas are anticipated.
All right,
we've been in the 60s last few days.
Today we'll warm it up into the
70s with lots of sunshine.
A really comfortable days show 73 in Salem.
Winds will be light.
Similar numbers up through
southwest Washington
Longviews at 74 this afternoon.
Most of us will have a dry,
partly, mostly sunny day.
Just keep an eye that there is
at least a chance for a spotty
storm later on 78 tomorrow,
85 Friday, then the hot weather
we talked about Saturday, Sunday,
there is a storm chance for watching on
Monday with what we call a cutoff low.
And then Tuesday there's the the cool
off but still warm at 86 degrees.
And that is your forecast.
OK. Thank you, Rod.
Mammograms. They save lives,
and now doctors say people
should start getting them
earlier at 40 years old instead of 50.
But we spoke to a radiologist
who says that new recommendation
should be even earlier.
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