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Good evening, everyone. Let's get
right to breaking news in the world
of Major League Soccer.
After more than five seasons,
the Portland Timbers have fired
head coach Giovanni Savarese.
The team made this announcement about
1/2 an hour ago and it comes amidst
a really disappointing season for
the Timbers and on the heels of A5
nil blowout yesterday in Houston,
Assistant coach Miles Joseph will
serve as interim head coach the
remainder of the 2023 season.
Again, Giovanni Sevarese out
immediately our Art Edwards
tracking these developments.
We'll have an update for you a
little bit later in sports.
And we continue now with the
Portland neighborhood sent into
lockdown after an early morning
shooting with questions about why
people who don't live anywhere near.
There were also jolted awake
this time by an alert telling
them not to leave their homes.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm David Molko.
Two suspects are now in custody,
and while no one was injured,
plenty of nerves were rattled.
It's after shots were fired around 1:00
this morning near Southeast Hullgate and 112.
Police say an officer who was
driving by witnessed that gunfire
and chased after the two suspects,
a man and a teenage boy who hid
in the neighborhood.
The officer was on his way to a different
call when he saw the shooting happen.
So he was able to
really quickly get resources
here and. And and that really
was the difference that was made.
Police quickly closed streets in
the area as officers went house
to house searching for the two.
The suspects were eventually taken
into custody some five hours later.
OK, let's bring in Joe Raineri now.
Joe, an alert went out to people in
the neighborhood during all of this.
That is a good thing.
But thousands who live nowhere
near there also got that alert.
Walk us through what happened
here. Well, there there
was actually two alerts.
Now, again, the first one,
it came out for residents in that area in
Southeast Portland to shelter in place.
Again, that was around 1:00 this morning.
Several hours later,
during the six 6:00 hour,
they got another one telling
them that everything was clear.
But the frustrating part
for a lot of these folks,
thousands of alerts went out to
people who don't even live in the
Southeast Portland neighborhood.
Now we're learning it was
all because of an error.
Many people in Multnomah County Monday
morning received a wake up call.
They did not want to get
the alert and warning system that
we used to communicate with the
public when there's life safety
actions that they need to take.
That alert system was designed to go
out to people in A2 block area of where
the shooting happened in the area of
SE 112th and Southeast Holgate Blvd.
in the Palhurst Gilbert
neighborhood. Instead,
there's an error in the system
that unfortunately had set to go
out that same message that was
meant to go to A2 block area.
It actually went out to around 10,000
phone numbers and e-mail addresses
in the Multnomah County area.
Thousands received a
message from Public Alerts,
which is a notification
system residents sign up for.
It's designed to send out
alerts in case of an emergency
look. alerts.org allows you to sign
up in the county of your residence
and input as many contact methods
as you'd like to be alerted in.
In Monday morning's case,
some people who live nearby didn't
get any notice, while others in
Southwest Portland got one. We're
always trying to make things better.
We're we're trying to refine the systems
usage, provide training for our users.
It was one of those settings that
didn't do what it was intended to do.
Operations manager Katie Wolf with the
Portland Bureau of Emergency Management
says once those alerts went out,
they knew something wasn't right.
We figured out there was something
wrong right away and saw that it
went to too many people and started
investigating the issue and and then
we have resolved that issue now.
And Air Wolf says, was quickly figured out,
but not before thousands of people woke up
in a panic wondering what was going on.
David Wolf, you just heard there
with the Portland Bureau of
Emergency Management tells me.
Now if you're registered for those emergency
alerts that went out early this morning,
you don't need to do anything to
fix anything because they already
fixed the problem earlier today.
Reporting live in downtown Portland.
Joe Ranieri, KGW News
Thank you, Joe. Let's give you a
look now at the aftermath of Tropical
Storm Hillary and what it dumped all
over Southern California and Nevada.
Nearly a foot of rain in some spots,
really leading to washouts in the San
Bernardino Mountains east of LA and flooding.
I closed a stretch of Interstate
10 in the Palm Springs area.
Dozens of people had to be rescued
from high water, but thankfully,
so far we have had no reports of serious
injuries or deaths in the Golden State.
Let's bring in Chief
Meteorologist Matt Sofino,
now tracking what is left of Hillary.
Matt
amazing storm, you know ever since it became
a category four off the coast of Mexico,
what you just showed us what it
did in Southern California behaving
pretty much as we expected it would.
The modeling in the forecasting
was good with this.
The remains now moving out believe it
or not through the Idaho Panhandle,
northwestern Montana and up in the
Southeastern BC and southern Alberta,
Canada if you can believe it or not,
still producing rain up there.
Now we've got another batch of
rain showers and thunderstorms
developing over South Central Oregon.
But this is not related to
the moisture from Hillary.
This is related to that storm that was off
the coast of California all last week,
which helps steer Hillary
up in the Eastern Oregon,
Idaho in the inland intermountain Northwest.
So that's what's going on with that.
But the rainfall,
impressive for August, I mean,
we usually don't see this unless we have
like a massive thunderstorm outbreak.
And then it wouldn't be as widespread as
what we had from the remains of Hillary.
But Harle Butte, That's up in Willow County,
northeast of halfway over 2 inches
of rain there.
Hawaii Ridge is down in Harney
County about an inch.
That's in Malheur County West.
Kills in Harney County about an inch
Just across the border from Oregon.
Snake River 2.4 McCall ID 2.25
inches of rain.
Super impressive.
Other spots you probably have
heard up a little bit more.
Notice how it was nothing
West of the Blue Mountains.
Not much in the Blue Mountains,
but Lagrande and Baker City got hammered,
especially Baker City and
all the way down to Ontario.
Over an inch of rain in that area
and also down in Southeast Oregon,
as you can see 7/10 of an inch in Rome.
Now the other story is the
smoke which is clearing.
We've got more warm weather on the way,
but I think the smoke is pretty much done.
That thick smoke for now and still no rain
West of the Cascades with one exception,
which I'll show you later.
David, back to you. Thank you, Matt.
Let's get to your headlines this evening,
starting in Salem where police now have
a homicide investigation on their hands.
Authorities say 22 year old Janet
Ramos Hernandez from Gresham was found
unresponsive in a hotel room on Saturday.
This was at the Shiloh Inn
on Market Street just off I5.
Detectives today announced her death
was being considered a homicide,
but they didn't say anything about a suspect.
Some 150 Portland police officers
are now wearing body cameras.
Until today, Portland was the largest
municipal Police Department in
the country without body cameras.
Officers are required to turn
on cameras for every call.
They'll also be automatically activated
whenever an officer pulls a gun or Taser,
or when their cruiser lights go on.
If all goes well with a 2 month pilot,
the program will will be expanded
to all officers in October.
Oregon's governor now has signed a
number of public safety bills into law,
including an overhaul of the
public defender system.
The new law will gradually phase out
the state's reliance on contractors
and directly hire lawyers to work
as public defenders for this.
We know that when one pillar fails
from a lack of public defenders to
a lack of sensible gun laws,
everyone is less safe.
Another law increases penalties
for possessing ghost gun parts.
Another closes a loophole created
by Measure 110 by making a criminal
offense possessed between 1:00
and 5:00 grams of Fentanyl.
We have some progress tonight to
report on the lookout fire that's
burning northeast of Eugene.
With more than 1000 personnel
now fighting on the lines,
their containment at 5% with
more than 11,000 acres burned
near McKenzie Bridge Level 3.
Evacuation orders there remain in place.
The McKenzie River Trail, the Blue Pool,
other spots also now closed due to that fire.
A little bit to the southwest there,
the Bedrock Fire has now burned 30,000 acres.
And some good news there,
it's up to 35% containment.
You know, Speaking of the Bedrock fire,
let's bring in China Green,
because China,
you just talked to a specialized crew
who returned from fighting that fire.
They weren't there,
at least not directly to fight the blaze,
though.
That's right, David.
That's something that you might not think
about when it comes to these fires.
A firefighters job is to take care
of a fire and prevent the spread,
among other things.
But who takes care of the firefighters when
they need a situation to help get out of?
Well, it turns out that it's
a team called REM, or REMS,
which stands for Rapid
Extraction Module Support.
So this all started back in 2020
by the Scappoose Fire District.
In addition to all of the required
wildland firefighter training,
staff are certified in Rope Rescue and as
Paramedics and Emergency Medical Technicians.
Three years in,
they're starting to partner with other
agencies interested in being a part of REMS,
like a Clackamas Fire District 1.
The team before is utilized to remove
a firefighter from harm's way in
the steepest of environments or in
areas where traditional ambulances
nickel staff are not able to reach.
And this is not a one-size-fits-all
rescue operation.
Every situation is different.
You have got to think on the fly,
you think outside the box.
You know it's not the standard.
Hey, we show up, we tie a rope
here and then we go over the edge.
It's well, how can we do this
without using the ropes Or yes,
we have the ropes but can we
utilize the hand crew that's there?
You could have 20 or 40 people.
Well, let's use them to do a
human chain and Caterpillar,
that person up the line
using the rope as a backup,
and then this thing you see
whipping across your screen.
Right now, I'm actually
in the back being rescued.
We did a little practice run,
but they have this UTV,
which is like a lifesaver on wheels,
I call it. They've actually
engineered it for their specific needs.
And David, I also learned that
medical attention for firefighters,
it is not always fire related
or because of a fall.
Some of the most challenging events
that can happen on a fire is if
a firefighter steps on a bee's
nest or maybe a hornet's nest.
A lot of people are allergic here
and they could be 1500 feet down a
hillside and they need to be rescued.
So the REMS unit is a great addition
and resource to our firefighters
out there on the fire lines.
And they also told me that they did
not have to rescue anyone while they
were out there at the Bedrock fire.
So good news there, David.
Yeah, it is great news.
Thank you, China. You're.