This is KGW news at sunrise.
Good morning thanks for getting up
with us on this Saturday morning.
I'm Tim Gordon alongside Chris McGinnis
Wheaton. Yeah we got Chris right here.
It's kind of warm in the studio right now.
It's like our air
conditioner after about day.
What 6 is having a tough time
keeping up with that heat.
But we are fortunate enough to
have AC for those that don't.
This has been a really rough go and
the hot weather alerts continue.
The bright pink shading are excessive heat
warnings covering a lot of real estate here.
Houston Northwest and that Orange.
Peaches, shading, heat advisories.
So for the metro area,
Clark County South of Salem are
excessive heat warning has will
continues through today and through
tomorrow until 9:00 PM on Sunday.
A heat advisory outside of that
actually ends late tonight down
in Linn County and down towards
Corvallis and Albany to the north.
Here up the I5 corridor continues through
tomorrow evening alright the live
look outside man that is a hazy shot.
Check that out.
From our Wells Fargo Sky camera.
It is 70 degrees at PDX right
now that represents.
I think our low for the day.
For now, we may dip another degree,
but maybe not.
And with that in mind,
we are on the launching pad
to another hot day today.
It's 66 Millsboro 69 Westland big picture
across the state Pendleton in the 70s.
The Dows right now 75,
probably another day at 1:10 or hotter
for The Dalles and in the metro area.
We were 100 degrees yesterday afternoon at.
DS, I've got us at 101.
Some folks will range between
100 and maybe 102 this afternoon.
Full sun in the forecast today
again tomorrow.
We probably shave a degree or two and
then relief starts to trickle in.
On Monday.
We'll get a look at that forecast
coming up in just a few minutes.
OK? Looking for relief. Thanks, Chris.
Well, as the heat wave continues,
some tenants in lower income
housing are getting help.
We stopped by by Northwest
Tower Apartments on Friday.
Several people told us they are getting air.
Conditioners thanks to home Ford
which manages that building and this
is the same complex where someone
died during the heat wave last year.
Sadly, 72 people died during that heat
wave in Multnomah County and this week
three people have died from the heat.
For that reason,
City and county leaders called for
even more vigilance on the part
of landlords to check on tenants,
especially those who are older.
We're living alone.
Please take this heat seriously.
I know I and I understand that
people are are really tired of
being told to take care of yourself
and to look out for others.
But the reality is that climate
change and its consequences,
like this heat wave have no regard
for our feelings or our fatigue.
This weather is deadly and we cannot
afford to forget or ignore the trauma
and the lessons of last summer.
And of course, you don't have to be a
landlord to check on your neighbors.
Please make sure they're doing OK.
Knock on a door.
It only takes a minute.
So many of these deaths
are truly preventable.
Be proactive, schedule those breaks
and don't don't let people say
we're going to plow through this.
That's a public health doctor's advice to
businesses that have people working out
the heat during this dangerous heat wave.
It is also the requirement now
under new rules from Oregon OSHA,
all designed to keep workers healthy
and safe and regulators have been busy.
They say they have at least nine open
inspections related to heat where the
business is actually being cited and
they're still looking into more with 61
complaints coming in so far this week,
including and involving
heat related concerns.
From Oregon's agricultural fields,
where people toil in the sun to downtown
construction and demolition jobs,
the ongoing heat is downright dangerous.
Oregon Occupational Safety and
Health Administration's enhanced
requirements took effect in June.
In part, a response to last year's
heat Dome that was deadly to many,
including some who had to work out in it.
Now, Oregon OSHA says when
the heat index hits 80,
employers must provide access
to shade and water for people
working outside or indoors.
Without a ventilation system,
when it hits 90 and above like it is now,
employers must provide more breaks,
more communication and more close monitoring
for heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
But Loma counties acting health
officer says employers should
follow those rules and employees
should get help if they need it.
They're not going to be able
to cite the new statute,
but they're going to have to say I I
really need to get to a cool place.
I really need to take a break.
I'm starting that, you know that.
Queasy sweaty headache feeling,
so whether you're working heavy
construction or making coffees, we're
at Ole latte
down here on 5th, and Harrison
in Portland, OR by PSU.
Beating the heat is critical at this
coffee cart in Southwest Portland.
Robert Thielman has air conditioning.
Would he be here if he didn't?
No, I would tell my boss
he needs to come on in.
Yeah yeah, it's a little bit.
It's a little rough.
It would certainly be about 8590,
based on what Mullah County
Public Health is. Seeing.
Plenty of people are needing urgent
medical care because of the heat wave.
It canvassed local hospitals and
tweeted out the results saying ER
visits for heat exposure are way up
and at least a third are people who
got too hot working outdoors this week.
Many of them are young and
otherwise healthy people.
On one hand I think,
oh this is Uber scary.
On the other hand, I think maybe
people are hearing the message.
You know, it's better to treat.
When you're in that heat exhaustion phase,
when cool and some cooling
blankets and maybe some Ivy
fluids are going to basically get
that person right as rain. Yeah,
the doctor says better to catch it
early and get some help so it does not
become potentially deadly heat stroke.
Well, new this morning homicide detectives
have been on the scene of a deadly
shooting in Portland's Old Town and
this is video from NW 5th and Kooch.
Officers responded to a shots fired
call just after 9:30 last night and
say three people were hit one victim.
A man died either at the hospital
or on the way there.
Another victim who was also hit badly
and had life threatening injuries when
they were admitted to the hospital.
Now for an update on the deadly
police shooting Wednesday night,
the Portland Police Bureau is not planning
to identify the officer who killed a person,
at least for now.
They say it's because of
concerns over doxing.
That's when private information about
a person like an address is published
publicly with the intent to cause harm.
A spokesperson for the Portland Police
Bureau says officers involved in
police shooting Sunday morning and
Tuesday morning are victims of doxing.
In fact,
authorities say there are credible
security threats to these officers.
Because of this,
the decision has been made to not
identify the officer involved in
Wednesday night's deadly shooting of
a man who was reportedly firing a
gun in the front of yard of a home.
Transparency is very important.
It's a vital cog and accountability.
But when we then see officers
threatened before there's any due
process before the investigation
really has even gotten off the ground,
people followed home people.
Having, you know,
Flyers put up in their neighborhood,
family members being threatened.
This is not about.
Transparency this is about utilizing
an event to create chaos and threaten
the safety of police officers.
It's just not acceptable
now. Sergeant Schmaltz says
officers dealt with a lot of doxxing
during the protests in 2020.
He says it was so bad officers had to
take their names off their uniforms.
Well after a ferry boat sank in Astoria,
crews are scrambling now to contain fuel
that spilled into the Columbia River.
The Coast Guard tells US divers are
working to find out how this happened.
They're also trying to find all
the leaks and patch them up.
Hopefully by the end of the day.
The vessel took on 500 gallons,
but we don't know exactly how much
the vessel is capable of holding or
what the potential discharge could be.
Now to further protect the river
cruise have placed a boom around
the old historic ferry to contain
the fuel that has leaked out well.
Investigators say it's going to cost
millions to fix this Washington ferry
that was damaged in a crash on Thursday.
Look at that. It really took a big hit.
The cathlamet.
Get a structure it a ferry dock in
West Seattle and it's going to be out
of service for several months now.
At least the next several right now
the Coast Guard is investigating
what caused that crash.
An update on our homeless crisis with more
affordable housing coming to Vancouver.
A four story housing complex
for low income seniors is
opening up off West Mill Plain.
Although, as Blair best found out,
some are still waiting for
their opportunity for housing.
It's a day of new beginnings.
Today is huge for me,
especially for Beth Funk who
will soon call this place home,
and my life will will.
Be stable for the first time since I was 19.
Yeah, most of her life she's
been in and out of homelessness
until today because I have my own
apartment for the first time ever
and I'm really excited about it.
The complex is called Miles Terrace.
All the tenants are 55 and older and
make about 50% of the median income,
meaning rent is about 1000 to $1400 a month.
But since many of our residents that
come into these are actually far lower,
we are adding some rent subsidy as well.
Monday is move in day.
And there's already a wait list.
Unfortunately, the creation
of affordable senior housing
has not been real robust over
the last couple of years,
so we're happy to add this
to the portfolio, but the
city's housing crisis lingers on,
in fact, directly across the
street is a homeless encampment. I
wanted to have a library when
I moved into a new House,
so I started collecting books
for three years. Sarah Taylor has
been left to pick up the pieces
I came home after going out
for a walk and everything.
That's in the world over here.
This happens all the time,
especially to me.
She's in the process of finding housing,
which hasn't been easy.
People need to be able to shower.
They need to be able to do their laundry.
Simple, simple, just basic needs.
Her tent now a front row
seat as others like Beth,
it's a little overwhelming.
You know, I'm trying not to cry,
step into their new home down the street.
I think it's absolutely
disgusting in Vancouver.
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