This is KGW news at sunrise.
One of our employees on his way into our
central kitchen was held up at gunpoint.
That's the founder of salt and straw
talking about the issues they face
as a business operating in
Portland Central Eastside.
The city is responding with a
90 day reset plan that involves
removing the homeless camps that
are all over that part of Portland.
They'll after we get cleared.
What we're what are we supposed
to do after that happens?
We'll have more on those homeless
sweeps from people living on the
streets there in just a moment and
Hwy 30 finally back open for daytime
travel after a landslide late last month.
What you need to look out for still,
though, if you're headed to the coast,
here's a little something we're looking
at this morning on the Sunrise show,
the holiday lights at the Starkwood
neighborhood in Southeast Portland.
This is right around SE
111th and stark streets.
And yes, the homes all lit up
for us this morning typically.
This time of the day they would have the
lights off maybe save a little energy.
Yeah man, they're really pulling some strings
for us. Yeah,
they said alright, if you're coming out,
we'll get the lights back on for you.
So very cool to see.
We're gonna have more on this 60 year
tradition in Southeast Portland coming
up a little bit later on the show.
Hey, happy Monday morning.
We are back here with you.
Thank you for joining us.
Thank you for waking up today.
Brenda is out.
Of course, Rod Hill too,
but Daisy, I'm here.
Welcome aboard.
Thanks for waking up.
Yeah. Is it a busy morning in the weather
center or a slow morning good weather
center? A slow morning for the most part.
We're not seeing super exciting activity
and a lot of people really want to see
more of that rain and mountain snow. We
might be getting a little bit of it, but not
as much like I said,
as people would like.
But First off, this is what
we're seeing currently right
now in the Portland metro area.
We're holding 40 degrees at the moment.
Again, pretty calm winds for the most part.
Now these are our current
temperatures for our.
Area where basically just seeing
those upper 30s and lower 40s for
the most part 37 degrees for both
Forest Grove and Hillsboro as
well more of a widespread setup.
If you want to take a really quick look,
we're seeing a below freezing
temperatures or right at that freezing
line for Hood River 32 degrees
and again those higher elevations
saw so much of that snow inches
upon inches upon inches and more
could potentially be on the way.
I'll talk about that in my full forecast,
but this is your day at a glance.
We're expecting to just really flirt
with those mid to lower 40s for the
most part fog for your morning commute
and also expect cloudy conditions.
Alright, more Daisy coming
up here in a few minutes,
but right now we want to get to
our top story. This morning.
The city of Portland's 90 day
reset plan for the Central Eastside
business district is underway.
We know city crews are clearing out
a lot of homeless camps there and the
city is also stepping up police patrols.
Yeah, Blair best talked to people
living on the streets there who say
they aren't being offered any help.
Since they're forced to leave
forever. She was like,
I don't know, way too long.
That's how Kyle describes the past two
years he's been living on Portland streets,
most recently fighting to stay warm here
on the corner of SE 6th Ave and Oak.
Little fire or like burning hands tester.
Like alcohol or like propane.
The fire department has responded to
his fires four times in the last week.
Yeah, they know me pretty well,
I guess. I don't know
this area. Also the latest target
for city crews clearing homeless.
Camps. It's all part of the mayor's
central east side 90 day reset
plan to clean up the neighborhood
and increase police patrols.
After dozens of business owners called on
the mayor for help about two weeks ago,
citing safety concerns,
one of our employees on his way
into our central kitchen was held
up at gunpoint.
Like everyone in this room,
we deal daily with feces.
Human on our shoes.
We deal with break INS.
And we deal with assaults.
Mayor Wheeler promised them results,
not just in terms of the data,
but I want it to pass the C test.
Yeah, if you don't see it,
it doesn't matter.
And so my expectation is
that you will. Another
one of his reset plans launched
last March in Old Town,
which saw temporary results and got 87
people into shelters across the river.
Kyles Camp is now getting
the brunt of this plan.
He was swept twice this weekend and.
As until 8:00 AM Monday, to move again
kind of sucks. It's like
kind of depressing as hell.
I don't know when you got,
like, nowhere to go.
The city clears the camps in an
effort to remove all of the tents
and trash covering the sidewalks.
Yet for those living in those tents,
that's their home.
And for some homeless people out
here in the central east side,
they say the city isn't helping
them get off the streets.
When they sweep you,
do they offer you any sort of services?
They give me 5 bucks. What's right?
According to city data,
last week they assessed 500
camps and removed 50 of them.
They only offered shelter referrals
to 42 people, 33 accepted and 28
actually spent the night in the shelter.
So going off of this data,
not everyone is being offered
a safe place to go.
What will it take for you to
get off the streets? What?
What is it that you need?
An ID and like. Somebody that cares,
I guess. I don't know. Yeah,
I just think that they they look
down upon people who are poor.
Alex and his friend Zach share this
corner of Southeast Grand Ave Oak.
They've tasked themselves with
watching out for the neighborhood,
saying they've stopped people from
breaking into nearby businesses.
I just try to make a bigger
conscious effort to keep my area
clean and my surrounding area.
And my street cleaner.
He sees the mayor's reset plan as
a ticking time bomb, leaving him
in fear of his sight being removed.
One he spent $500.00 making.
So after we get cleared.
What were what are we supposed
to do after that happens?
He is now just waiting for the day
he can afford a place of his own.
I have a job. I work at Plaid Pantry.
I work graveyard at Plaid
Pantry five days a week.
It's. It's still not enough.
To pay for something.
Like I said, I can either have clothes
and food in my gut and live out here,
or I can go live somewhere and
have a roof over my head and have
no clothes and no food in my gut.
I can't afford to have both.
Another meeting on this 90 day
reset plan is scheduled for
Tuesday and this one is not open
to the public in Central Eastside.
Blair best KGW news.
At least one person is in the
hospital this morning after a shooting
last night in Southeast Portland.
Police say there were several people hurt,
but they don't know the
extent of those injuries.
Investigators say they got a call about
a shooting at around 6:45 last night.
They say at least 30 units were
on scene there for about an hour,
and the crisis negotiation team was also
on hand to assist in their last update.
Portland police say they still
don't have any suspects in custody.
Now to a traffic update.
Highway 35 near government camp is back open.
This morning it was shut down in both
directions for a couple of hours.
Yesterday afternoon around
12:30 before it reopened.
O dot says multiple cars spun
out because of icy conditions.
You can see the backup there and all
that snow and ice on the roadway.
Here's a look at Hwy 26.
This is where cars were actually stuck in
traffic because of what happened on Hwy 35.
Odot says no one was hurt,
but crews did have to help get three
cars right back onto the highway.
Meanwhile, Hwy 30 reopening.
The daytime travelers today,
for the first time in nearly two weeks,
the road shut down so crews could
clean up after a landslide.
The closure was about 20 miles
east of Astoria.
Odot has had one lane open at night from
4:00 PM to 8:00 PM for the past week
while flaggers waved drivers through.
Now,
ODOT says it'll be opening one lane
both directions starting this morning.
But if you plan to travel that
way still expect delays because
crews will be in the area.
All right, time to check.
Back end with Daisy Caballero filling
in for Rod Hill this morning.
So the weekend began with I was at that
event at Pioneer Courthouse Square.
There was a caroling competition
pouring on Friday night.
Woke up Saturday.
We had a toy drive collection event pouring
at times during that amazing things.
A little bit more calm this morning though,
a lot more calmer.
I actually did just check our live
cameras and we're actually getting
some activity along the coast,
seeing a little bit of some drizzle as
we're looking near Newport or at Newport.
Excuse me, 51 degrees.
They're seeing calm winds.
So they're probably the only
ones that are seeing really any
activity for the most part.
And we can all thank this low pressure
system that's really bringing in
a lot of rain and mountain snow
into those higher elevations
for much of Northern California,
Central California as well.
And again,
we are actually seeing the tail end,
if you see it's a counterclockwise
type of deal.
And again,
we're just seeing the tail end
and what we're seeing here, again,
not a whole ton,
but the coast is mostly seeing the.
The bulk of the action for the moment.
So a little bit later into our morning,
we can expect to see some morning
fog and that will probably last
until the early afternoon hours.
After that we'll mainly just
be sticking with those cloud.
The sun might be peeking around
a little bit more of the sun
will be a little bit more,
excuse me visible as we're looking
into Tuesday morning and especially
into the afternoon hours as well.
So what else can we talk about?
I want to show you guys a look right now.
A live look in timberline 22 degrees.
They saw a lot of fresh snowpack.
More is actually on the way.
This is a look all the way into
Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning,
excuse me, all the way into next
Monday as we're kicking off next work week.
A little bit closer to 5 inches
of snow near the Mount Hood area.
More of those current temperatures right now,
30s and 40s again, for the most part,
not quite seeing any twenties,
32 degrees.
Below freezing temperatures
for the Hood River area,
other highs for today,
45 for Mcminnville,
Corvallis a little bit cooler as
we're looking at 44 cascades,
we are seeing 25 degrees for timberline.
So if you're going to be heading up
to those mountains and foothills,
it is going to be a pretty awesome
day to again Snee and snowboard as well.
This is your 7 day forecast.