This is KGW news at sunrise. Gas
prices keeps setting new records.
Oregon's average is the fourth highest
in the country and just overnight,
it jumped six cents from yesterday.
Mr. President guys is getting outrageous.
Getting outrageous, outrageous.
I've never seen this hot before.
Yeah, coming up the impact for
delivery and rideshare drivers
plus a call for change in Portland
Dawson Park after two recent
shootings, the local community is
trying to curb the violence there,
saying they're done talking
and they want the city to take
action. Then it's America's
fastest growing sports where the
most common age of player is 65.
And you hear over and over and over again.
People say that they're
addicted to pickleball.
Now, the largest indoor pickleball
facility in the metro area has
quietly opened in Clackamas.
People, though, are already driving
over an hour to come play here,
and they haven't even had
their official grand opening.
What makes this spot so much different?
I'm sorry.
Did you say the average age
of the athlete is 65?
Yes, and you and I would be youngsters.
We can do this.
I have played and I may have
been a youngster, but I got
schooled by whoever it was on the
other side of the court.
Well, you can school us in the
forecast that you have down.
Alright, here we go.
We have the cold morning that we
made a big deal about yesterday that
was coming right 26 in Gresham 27 in
Hillsboro so generally it's either
32 or colder in your neighborhood
28 and Salem 27 out in Estacada.
We have light winds.
We have clear skies it will go
on to be a beautiful day today
after the cold frosty start so.
To the bus stop.
Obviously a big coat 28 degrees
outdoors to start the day mid 40s
will feel pretty nice with no wind
really to speak of at noon and when
the kids get out of school after warmest,
it could be up to about 54 degrees back
to you. Thank you, rod.
And we begin this morning with an
attack that Ukraine is calling a war
crime and airstrike on a maternity
hospital in the city of Mary.
Opal killed three people,
including a child.
17 others were hurt.
These attacks from both
the air and on the ground,
continue to batter cities
and villages in Ukraine.
Yeah, the stepped up violence,
putting even more pressure on families
trying to escape the war zone.
Big Ray has been following the
situation and the humanitarian crisis
along the Poland Ukraine border.
Bombed and burned out homes.
Paternity and Children's Hospital
left in ruins after an airstrike.
It's becoming increasingly clear.
There's no line between soldier and
civilian in the Kremlin's war plan.
Evidence of brutal attacks
on families fills Ukraine
hospitals and fuels the resolve.
Of volunteers like this father and
son now training to fight every
parents must be defense the children,
but we are now together because it's
our choices. Are we not possible?
Is having it another way?
Because it's our measurement.
We might be different first of all.
While mothers struggle with
a very different battle,
leaving loved ones behind to protect
the youngest victims of this war,
I believe that kids shouldn't
see their murder they they
shouldn't hear the bombs falling
from their city Netherlands.
That's why we are here.
Hoping that something will change
that our army will stand till the end
and hoping. They'll be able to
go home again. Jay Gray, NBC News
along the Poland Ukraine border.
Well, meanwhile the ripple effects of
this conflict being felt here at home,
and one of those impacts, soaring gas prices,
Oregon now has the nation's fourth highest
AAA updating its number overnight.
They're up over the last 24 hours now.
The national average for a gallon
of regular 431 that is brand new.
This morning, Oregon average
went up to a record high 472.
That is 6 cents more than yesterday.
It's 470 in Washington, that's $0.20 higher.
Then yesterday,
experts believe the price will keep climbing.
Drivers are feeling it,
and AAA says there's no telling
how long this will last.
Yes, I have noticed the price of
guys getting outrageous getting
outrageous. Yes outrageous.
I've never seen this hot before. Usually
when we see price spikes like
this they can be the result of
something like a hurricane.
It's relatively easy to make
educated guesses about when
things might come back online.
In this case we're talking
about a war in Europe and there
are just no answers.
One industry feeling the pain
already delivery and rideshare
drivers Bloomberg News reporting
the rising cost of gas is poised
to eat up as much as 60% of their
take home pay both Uber and Lyft are
hesitating to raise rates on riders,
though if you are looking
for the cheapest gas,
a websiteslikegasbuddy.com and gas guru can
help you find it around the region by map.
But people we talked to put it
in perspective saying with what's
happening in Ukraine,
it's hard to complain
about our expensive gas.
I'm asking you to listen now. Stop
talking about gun violence. Unless let's come
up with a real solution, a real
answer that includes all of us.
That call for change in Portland Dawson Park,
with advocates demanding less talk and
more action after two recent shootings,
one of them deadly.
The park has a long history of
being a gathering place for many
in the black community.
But recently people say Dawson Park
has become a place of sorrow and pain.
This memorial is set up on northeast
Stanton St for 55 year old Mark Johnson.
He was gunned down on the edge
of Dawson Park just last week.
One year ago to the day this same
spot was blocked off with crime
tape as police investigated the
shooting death of another black man.
42 year old Titus Micmac.
This is about you caring enough
about black lives that you're
willing to put your money where
your mouth is and invest in the
people that know how to do the work
instead of just talking about it.
They're calling for room at the
table for more diverse perspectives,
including those directly impacted
by violence city Commissioner
Mingus Maps says he's willing to
discuss new reproaches to politics.
Now in state, Senator Dallas
heard is stepping down as chair
of the Oregon Republican Party,
but will stay on as a senator.
He says it's because of quote,
evil and wickedness within the party.
Hurd wrote a letter resigning as of tomorrow,
and in it, he says, quote.
Communist psychological warfare tactics
are being used daily in the Republican
Party and that his physical and spiritual
health can no longer survive it.
His points he points to what he
calls slander, gossip, conspiracies,
sabotage, lies and hatred.
However, he says he will hang on
to his seat in the legislature,
so for context,
heard is a far right Republican.
He encouraged those who broke into
the Oregon Capitol in 2020 and.
The US capitol.
A month later,
he became chair of the state GOP last
year after the former chair quit.
Take a look at this ransacked art gallery.
The space near SW 10th and oak here in
downtown Portland was set to showcase
the work of several different artists.
But last week three people were spotted
sleeping in the building and the next day,
organizers found this mess lights
were smashed, walls spray painted,
and most of the artwork was damaged.
I'm really devastated and saddened
by it. It's as an artist over over 20
years I've never ever had
this experience in any other gallery space
nationally or internationally, and none
of my artist friends have ever had
anything like this happen before.
So all of this is happening to an exhibit
titled Take Care with works of art centered
around protection and reciprocity.
Police say they did arrest someone
who was sleeping in the gallery,
but the damage was already done.
There's now a go fund me to help the exhibit.
Organizers recoup some of their losses.
Some more bad news from downtown
after 90 years in business,
a Portland jewelry store says it just
cannot survive downtown any longer.
The owner of Margulis Jewelers says it
will be closing in the next few months.
The store, right next to
Pioneer Courthouse Square,
tried to do a sale to bring people in,
but the owner says foot
traffic has never bounced back.
He blames city and county leaders
for not doing more to protect
businesses and get office buildings.
Back to life
and the perception of
the people is that there's just a
broken downtown and people
don't wanna come downtown.
The employees aren't
coming to their buildings.
The shoppers aren't coming
down and our city has done too
little too late to help downtown
and the independent merchants
in his letter to customers.
David Margolis named the factors that
have taken a toll, the pandemic,
the homeless crisis, vandalism.
And a quote general sense
of nighttime. Lawlessness,
well, we've talked a lot about the
problems in the city of Portland,
but this next story is really about
one neighborhood coming together
to create something positive.
Here on sunrise, we always love to
highlight community driven change.
Although Nina, in this case,
they're a little bit worried that
the city won't let their work stand.
Yeah, our story team has
been riding along since some
skateboard ramps and rails popped
up in the Lents neighborhood.
Pat Doris has an update.
It's a project that started when
the pandemic shut down everything.
Some of the neighbors who were
out of work decided they'd get
together and build a skate park.
It's just off the spring Water
trail at South East, 100 and Duke.
While it appears sturdy and well built,
it's not officially sanctioned by the city.
We first featured the park
on the story last Friday.
Then we got word members of
the Parks Department showed up
Monday afternoon to check it out.
Anxiety. As you can imagine,
shot through the roof for
people like Alex Genga,
one of the builders here.
He quickly moved into action.
We had some neighbors that are in
support of the skate park build come
and talk to them and we had some of
the youth who just got out of school
to come down here and skateboard and
talk to him and tell him the merit
and the positive aspects of this.
The parks employees would not talk to
our photographer who took this video,
but Alex said they were nice and
simply there to see the skate
park for themselves and then
report back to their bosses.
Alex is hoping they'll be able
to keep it in the community.
As you can imagine.
I've asked the Parks Department
whether the city is working to approve
the park or to maybe tear it down.
Spokesman said the city has no
plans nor decisions at this time,
which I think is good news for
the skate park, at least so far.
Pat Dooris
reporting there. We saw lots
of sunshine in that video.
We'll get there a little later today,
but boy, right it is cold
out this morning.
Yeah, and by the way will be a clear sky
start so it's gonna be a gorgeous day.
And it's the clear skies
that have course helping the
temperatures drop off this morning.
I've only thing I'm really watching on
the satellite picture the cloudiness.
A little bit of high clouds
could spill into our skies today,
but I don't really expect that to be that
noticeable until tonight into tomorrow.
So for today, Sunny to mostly sunny skies,
everybody will be dry.
With sunshine across our two state
region and real quick before we get to
the temperatures again this morning,
so a bit of a timing change on the weekend.
Higher confidence of Saturday will be
dry all the way through the noon hour.
I start the rain.
Chances here in the valley around
2:00 Saturday afternoon,
but that could be more like potentially
4:00 o'clock even with the real
wet stuff coming in early evening.
And then it rained Saturday overnight.
Pretty wet Sunday morning that's
looking wetter to me than it once did.
Of course that's a Shamrock run morning
and then scattered showers continuing
in the afternoon, but probably.
Decreasing in numbers all total
about 4/10 to 75.
One hundredths of moisture coming
to the valley for the weekend.
OK, that's what's coming up now.
Back to the temperature map and
what's the headline at the moment?
28 in Salem,
26 Kelso freezing in Astoria 32 in Portland.
These temperatures still have
a couple of hours to fall off,
yet the dahls is down to the mid 20s.
Bend is at 12.
Burns now is at 9 degrees and again
it will be sunny all areas today.
So for the valley highs I mean
if we can get up to 50 or better,
that's gonna feel really nice.
Winds generally. Well, be on the light side.
There is a bit of an east wind right
now out near the gorge in Troutdale
that's expected to actually fade
and become light and variable 51 in
battleground 54 in Vancouver this afternoon.
Again that will feel great.
Here are the seven day numbers we
talked about the weekend rain with
the dried morning Saturday and then
still an inch or more following
Monday into Monday night,
with showers continuing on Tuesday.
And that is your 7 day forecast.
All right. Rob, thank you.
And that girl at it.
Trying to be #1 for old,
I just want to come out and have fun.
He just wants to have fun and
that's the point we're talking.
Pickleball this morning so many
people are trying it and loving it.
They're calling it an addiction
and the metro area's largest indoor
pickleball facility just opened with
special rubber cushioned courts for
the old knees to some other super
function sports that just seem made up.
I'm going to tell you why
it's named Rex coming up.