This is KGW news at noon.
Have you seen this video?
A Chinese balloon that was seen floating
across the US was shot down on Saturday.
The Pentagon thinks the balloon
was spying on the US military,
but Chinese Chinese officials
maintained that it was just a weather
balloon that had blown off course.
Hello and thank you for joining
me for the news at noon.
I'm Devin haskins. U.S.
military officials are continuing to
search for the balloons wreckage.
They hope that it can shed light on
its capabilities and possible mission.
Here's NBC's George Selise with the latest.
And today, Navy divers and recovery
ships expected to continue searching that
roughly 7 mile stretch of ocean where
it's believed most of this balloon debris
fell after being shot over the weekend.
This is certainly been the talk of the town,
many people flocking to the area even
in the pouring rain yesterday to catch
a glimpse of these recovery efforts.
Speaking of which,
there are some video circulating
around that appears to show the US
military recovering some of that
balloon debris here in Myrtle Beach.
Now as we know,
the Pentagon says the bulk of this
debris fell in about 47 feet of water,
which is good.
News that should help expedite some
of the recovery efforts as it was
projected to fall in deeper water.
Now, as we know,
the balloon entered US airspace
roughly last week before moving
into Canadian airspace and then
transversing most of the continental US.
China maintaining it was a weather
balloon that simply drifted off course.
But then as we saw the balloon shot
down in spectacular fashion by a single
side wider missile from an F22 jet.
Spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry
of Foreign Affairs responding,
calling it.
Unacceptable and irresponsible action.
The message from authorities here
in the Carolinas is that if some
of this balloon debris happens to
wash on shore in the coming days,
to simply leave it alone and
certainly don't take it home,
because doing so could mean that you are
interfering with a federal investigation.
Back to you.
Alright, we're continuing to follow the
ongoing situation out of Turkey and Syria.
Officials now say that two massive
earthquakes are responsible for more
than 2400 deaths across both nations.
The first one,
A7 point magnitude 7.8 magnitude rather,
hit around 5:30 PM our time yesterday,
and then at 2:45 our time this morning,
another earthquake, a 7.5 magnitude,
rocked the country.
The shocking video out of Turkey shows
the moment a building came crashing down.
The number of injured and missing
expected to climb as crews continue
to search for any survivors today.
Secured home in Portland,
a strike involving more than 600
city employees has ended our Bryant
Clerkley talked with workers at a
rally after the two sides had reached
an agree a tentative agreement
early yesterday morning.
When public services are under attack,
what do we do?
That's right.
After three
days of striking,
finally a tentative agreement.
Workers and wastewater treatment,
pollution testing, St.
maintenance and Park Ranger
services have reached an agreement
with the City of Portland.
One of the most important parts of
this tentative agreement is a 13%
salary increase for all Portland
city laborers by July 1st of 2023.
At a rally in North Portland Sunday evening,
you could feel the relief in the air.
It's been really invigorating to see.
People feel their own power and
recognize their value to the
city in a way the city wouldn't.
They want you with your hands on your
tools for as long as possible for
as little pay as they can give you.
During the rally, you could see city
workers holding up signs that said
solidarity with essential workers
and city workers make the city work.
Other parts of the agreement include
increases in standby pay and increases
in annual work hours for seasonal Park
Rangers negotiations between Union.
Representatives and the city had
gone on for about 10 months.
It's
also going to help the city
financially because they're not
going to lose quality people.
They're not going to struggle with the
costs of recruitment and retaining,
they're not going to struggle
with the high cost of low morale
where people do the bare minimum.
The work isn't all the way done,
but few we get to take
a breath. In a statement,
the city said we're grateful that we
were able to maintain the essential
services Portlanders rely on every day.
We're also grateful that we
can welcome our colleagues.
Back to work. Killian Haas is an
arborist with the city of Portland,
especially with the cost of living.
If you don't get it now,
then you lose it every year.
For this and the same concept on
saving money early for retirement,
you don't want to lose money on
your pay early in your career.
And we feel that if we didn't address it now,
then it would get worse and it'd
be harder to climb up that hill
and make up the difference.
Bryant Clerkley, KGW news.
Alright, so the City Council and the Union
both need to approve the new contract.
They say that vote scheduled for next week.
Stay with KGW. We'll bring you updates
on air and online at kgw.com. All right.
Taking a quick look outside at the from
the view from our Rose City Skycam,
some of us like myself waking
up to light rain this morning.
So will that rain continue?
I'll let Rod Hill answer that question.
Well, we started off with rain out
there and the tail at noon today
is the ongoing chance that some
more light showers could develop.
Otherwise you're going to
find today to be pretty quiet.
We have the Gray skies.
Winds have been mostly southwest
to southeast, 5 to 15.
And you know, one of the big weather
stories not to get lost in the shuffle
is that we are enjoying much warmer
nights in comparison to, you know,
a week ago it was really cold in the morning.
So these were the lows this morning,
38 in Hillsboro,
41 up in Kelso, 43 out of.
The accident was even comfortable
this morning out in Hood River
where it was 41 degrees.
Real quick, I'll show you some other temp.
Salem dipped down to 39 and it wasn't
bad out east this morning either.
You folks in Prineville,
John Day and burns,
enjoying of course a dry Monday.
Most of you have already reported a
good bit of sunshine, light shower.
Chances are going to continue for you today.
This is the front that I'll talk about
more coming up that will bring a very
rainy Tuesday is that front comes in.
So real quick,
I think we have fairly steady
temperatures the remainder of.
Today will say about 50 degrees
for a high and I'll have your
7 day forecast coming up.
A new report from the Oregon
Health Authority on Measure 110
found in its first three months,
more than 18,000 people struggling with
drug abuse got immediate help. Later,
that number increased to more than 60,000.
Still, state lawmakers are considering
cutting millions of dollars in funding.
Voters approved the controversial
law in 2020.
It decriminalized certain amounts
of hard drugs while helping people
access recovery services.
Overall, $265 million went to
42 recovery groups and 11.
Tribal partners reaching every
county in the states sobering
center in Southern Oregon reported that
they had eased the local emergency room
burden and served as the stepping stone
to residential treatment and detox services.
OHA also found more than 200
new jobs were created around the
state helping people recover in a
public hearing less than 24 hours
after the report was released,
though the House committee considered
cutting as much as $60 million,
another hearing over the funding
of measure 110 set for tomorrow.