This is KGW news at sunrise.
Portland City Council has
voted in favor of a daytime
camping ban despite strong
pushback from local shelters.
Coming up this morning.
They explain how they came
to their decision plus.
My years of work, hard work,
it's pretty much gone.
Investigators are trying to figure
out what started the fire that
destroyed several small businesses
in Clark County. We spoke with
some owners who are trying
to look past the devastation
and now focus on Plan B.
And we are also live this
morning in downtown Portland.
I have the Willamette River behind me
and I have Snapdragons all around me.
They are one of the participants
in this weekend's Dragon Boat
Races here in downtown Portland.
When I say snap, you say dragon snap, snap.
Let's try this one more time.
When I say Brenda, you say Braxton,
Brenda, Brenda, Brenda, Braxton,
Christine, Rodney and Christopher.
We will have more with the Snapdragons
coming up here on the Willamette River
a little bit later this half hour.
True. Thank you. That's the first.
I've never had my own cheer.
Looking forward to hearing
more from the Snapdragon.
Get used to it. Oh, wow. Right.
A little jealousy over here.
Way to start it off.
You say sunny, I say sunny.
You say skies.
All right, sunny sky.
Mess that one up.
Not in a play
playing mood this morning.
All right. Here we go.
We have like yesterday a
lot of cloudiness up top.
You can kind of see that from the
Wells Fargo camera. 58 degrees.
Here's a closer look at clouds
over the West Hills. And.
Downtown and a reminder that
fleet looking a Fleet Week,
pardon me, is underway.
Temperature outside 58 degrees
going to be another dry day
and like yesterday kind of a
mix of partly sunny skies.
I have a 69 at noon and just getting
up to 80 for a high temperature.
Here's Chris McGinnis.
You mentioned a Fleet Week.
Today is the big one, the big day.
This is when seven ships come
in and so wanted to give you the
heads up that between 2:00 and as
late as 6:00 PM.
There will be numerous
bridge lifts of the Broadway,
the Steel and the Burnside Bridge.
So if you want to avoid that,
avoid downtown between 2:00 and 6:00
or use another route like maybe the
Hawthorne or the Morrison Bridge.
Right now the freeways are
in pretty good shape, guys.
I'm watching one trouble spot that
just popped up on the east side
getting rid of a possible injury crash
here out near 181st and Sandy Blvd.
I'll keep you posted on that.
Thank you, Chris.
We begin this morning with a new camping
ban here in Portland. City leaders
voted in favor of banning daytime
camping from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM,
and that takes effect in 30 days.
They hope it'll motivate people living
on the streets to get the help that
they need while also tackling crime,
rampant drug use, and garbage.
Catherine Cook walks us through
how it's all supposed to work.
With that I vote aye in the
ordinance is adopted. Thank you.
On Wednesday, the vote was 3 to
one in favor of banning daytime
camping in the city of Portland.
The new ordinance proposed by Mayor
Ted Wheeler bans camping on city
property between 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM.
It also creates a complete camping
ban on public property like parks,
near schools, and in high crash corridors.
This decision was
not difficult for me.
Commissioner Dan Ryan was among
the Council's three yes votes.
Commissioner Renee Gonzalez
and Mayor Wheeler joined him.
Commissioner Mingus MAPS was absent
from council but supports the ban.
We need clarity. And we need a commitment
to moving forward that allows us to
save the soul of the city. Under
the ordinance, homeless people
can be warned to move their tents
once per day and if they're warned
twice and still refuse to move.
Then on the third time,
they can be fined up to $100
and face up to 30 days in jail.
City officials say the ordinance
will focus on members of the homeless
community that refuse services.
It's not just economically displaced.
I think Portlanders continue to be
very compassionate about that segment
of our homeless population.
But it's the out of control
crime, heavy drug use,
sex trafficking, drug trafficking
that Portlanders are done with.
And this feels like a unilateral
action by the city instead of
in partnership with others.
Commissioner Carmen Rubio
was the sole no vote.
She believes the ordinance
criminalizes homelessness and gets
ahead of other critical efforts.
And I felt like it was.
It was not good process to move
forward on this policy when we
don't yet have other initiatives.
Online public information
about where people can go and.
Other essential steps that would
ensure this was a success as intended.
Rubio says she'll be watching
and hoping things workout.
Commissioner Ryan believes the
time for waiting has simply run
out. Portland, you have been patient.
I hear you. Your patience has run out,
and the status quo is not working. Catherine
Cook, KGW News.
A heads up for
anybody getting SNAP benefits.
Fred Meyer and QFC will now accept EBT
payments for online grocery orders.
This is available for customers in Oregon,
Washington, and Idaho.
You will need to create an online
account before placing digital orders.
You can go to the Fred Meyer app or either
of the store's websites on your screen.
Click my account,
then hit Wallet and add a new card
using your EBT account number.
Once you're done with that and
shopping and checking out,
you can select EBT as a payment method.
Investigators are trying to
figure out what caused a massive
fire at an industrial complex in
Clark County Tuesday night.
The building housed 7 different businesses.
Devin Haskins talked with some
of those business owners and
joins us this morning and Devin.
They say they lost pretty much everything.
Yeah, they did.
Two of the business owners I
spoke with on camera say the fire
destroyed everything inside.
We're talking thousands of dollars
worth of tools, painting,
equipments and even a work truck.
What was in that shop, of course,
was one of our trucks and and
thousands of dollars of tools,
every hand to every tool we have,
every shovel wheel.
You know, I'm a paving contractor
with this morning without shovel.
That was the owner of Fox Coatings.
He's an owner of an
asphalt resealing business.
Says they lost everything In that section
of the building from above you can see
the level destruction on the ground,
the raw motion taking over some owners taking
a look at what's left of their business.
The owner there on camera you
just saw told me off camera he
lost everything in his custom car
business and did not have insurance.
The fire quickly engulfed this
110,000 square foot building.
It was so intense,
propane tanks burst,
shot like missiles hitting a car and a boat.
Luckily no one was hurt.
While they lost everything,
the business owners tell me
this has only slowed them down.
I got to got to keep, keep moving.
I got to keep going and
honestly kind of I feel bad.
I'm not going to lie,
I I feel bad seeing this and all my,
you know, my years of work,
hard work is pretty much gone.
You got six guys that work for
this company today that are
not working because of this.
Yeah, six good, six good guys.
We'll get them back.
We'll get them back working tomorrow.
We will.
This is not Fox Coatings
was not going to stop.
The fire marshal tells KGW.
The blaze started in a storage area
for an estate sale business and
spread from wet spread from there.
Again, no word on the exact cause. Brenda
Devon, thank you.
With our warm, dry weather,
we are seeing more burn bans.
Here's what 3 area fire districts
are doing to prevent wildfires.
Beginning today, Clark County has banned
all land clearing and residential
burning that went into effect at midnight
and last through September 30th.
Then, one week from today,
Vancouver will ban recreational fires,
things like bonfires within the city limits.
Also, the Clackamas Fire District
will reevaluate its backyard
fire and agricultural burn ban,
which was supposed to expire today,
and then finally,
the Tualasin Valley Fire District says.
It'll let the public know
if and when it lifts a burn.
Ban there.
And take a look at this incredible
video, The Kilauea
volcano on Hawaii's Big Island erupting
again. Wow, look at all that lava.
the US Geological Survey sent out
the alert yesterday, but says no
populated areas are being threatened.
What you're looking at right now is a
live look at that eruption this morning.
The last time Kilauea erupted was in January.
And you know what?
This video just never gets old.
It doesn't. We were there in 2016. Mmhmm.
And you can actually walk out there, Not.
Not in this specific spot,
but you see the rivers of fire,
basically, and that's what you see.
Yeah. Those little that lava that
you walk on that big Black Rock
stuff is like sharp as glass.
I don't know how people did.
I didn't get very far.
I was like that smart.
That's smart.
Yeah, I've been there.
When
it when it's recent enough that
you can still feel heat in some
of those areas, well, scary.
I mean like being on a hot tennis court,
but you can still still. Yeah.
Here's a look at what is
now 23 consecutive dry days.
Today will become day 24,
still eyeing at least a chance
of a dab next week on the 14th.
They're still eyeing the chance of
maybe a soaking bit of rain somewhere
around the first day of summer.
So none of those headlines have changed.
And of course,
the big one is dry weather continuing.
Here on the West side now,
we are seeing decent rain once
again out across Eastern Orient.
There's a big lowdown here.
This is what happened yesterday.
The circulation and the cloud flowed
from the showers and thunderstorms.
That what I call debris clouds kind
of keep pushing back to the West
and that's the reason we had the
partly sunny conditions yesterday.
We have those partly sunny
conditions again today.
So you can see that on the
closer satellite picture,
pretty wet morning out around Baker
City and also a little bit of rain
along 84 out in the Blue Mountains.
You got a couple specks of rain
in Jefferson County out there
around Madras this morning.
Futurecast at 9:00 in the
morning shows the rain out east,
shows a mix of cloudiness here on the
West side and then earlier in the afternoon,
here we are.
230 thunderstorms firing
up over in Central Oregon.
So again,
there is a storm threat near and east
of the Cascades Once again today,
partly sunny skies expected
here on the West side.
We have a lot of clouds out there
currently 58 degrees of use from
the Wells Fargo camera here.
The other numbers Cloudiness at the coast
expected to become a partly cloudy day.
Newports of 52, Salem's of 50.
So there are some cool spots.
Then you jump out into the east Gorge,
Wasco County, the Dows at 67.
You go out to Baker City and it's 59.
Forecast numbers are generally
pretty comfortable today in fact.
Salem, Mcminnville, Corvallis.
You folks may stay in the 70s with partly
sunny skies and West winds 5 to 15.
I do give Vancouver and Portland
a chance to get up to 80.
Yesterday it was 84.
Similar batch of air overall 75.
In Longview battleground 78.
We again West winds 5 to 15.
Dry weather through the weekend
of course Saturday's Grand Floral
parade morning we may not see much
sun tomorrow cloudy start and
we may or may not clear up the
entire valley in the afternoon.
Then we'll have clouds Saturday morning,
perhaps still going on around
10:00 or so in the parade stars.
And then we'll clear out.
And then this is a warming forecast,
more so than what I showed you yesterday,
89 on Monday.
And then there's that at least a
chance of a raindrop on Wednesday.
All right, He is going to be hitting
the river at some point this
morning. He's getting ready.
It looks like Drew Carney.
Hey Rodney, I am surrounded by some
great faces on this Thursday morning.
They are the Snapdragons,
a dragon boat team that is participating
in this weekend's Dragon boat races.
Just a minute ago, Rod, I asked this group,
I said, do you guys do some sort of
stretching before you go out and paddle?
And they said no.
I was like, wow, really? How about this?
Do you guys love the paddle?
Yes. Then that's what we'll do.
We will paddle with the Snapdragon
starting next here on Sunrise.