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born after Roe V Wade and I never imagined
that this is something I would ever have
to encounter in my lifetime this day.
It's it's an incredible day and we
weren't sure that it would ever happen.
Mixed reaction to the Supreme Court's
decision to overturn Roe V Wade more
on the local protests that followed
coming up. Also this morning,
another hot day on the way after
hitting 99 in Portland on Sunday.
We're going to climb
back towards the mid 90s.
This afternoon, but that's still about
20 degrees off the record highs we
saw this week a year ago coming up.
We'll take a look at the changes
the city has made to protect people
during episodes of extreme heat plus.
I have a lot of videos of Cougars.
A lot of Bobcats have a black
bear crossing a few times that
is so cool. Animal crossings using
downed trees in Oregon streams
Oregon State researchers showing us
how this natural event is helping
many different kinds of animals.
Good Monday morning everybody.
Thank you so much for watching.
I'm telling you if you are tired
of the heat just a little while,
hang on. We've got one more day.
Yeah, we haven't changed anything,
so still looks like this is
going to wrap up as a three day.
Heat oven of course.
Today day three we are under a
heat advisory for this final day.
As you look at the Wells Fargo
camera that all spiders lately,
there was another one we have
the clear skies awaiting us,
didn't cool off a whole bunch last night,
so if you're waking up without AC,
yeah, 69 degrees.
Definitely not as cool as you would like
to see it in the early morning hours.
Here are my numbers today. 84 noon.
We get up to a high of 94,
probably in the three or four o'clock hour,
then starting to cool off by
5:00 PM back down to 90 degrees.
Tomorrow's Are you ready for this?
Just 78.
We'll have that 7 day forecast coming
up. Much more comfortable.
Thank you, rod.
We start this morning with local
reaction to the Supreme Court's
decision overturning Roe V Wade,
ending a person's constitutional
right to have an abortion.
This was the scene in downtown Portland.
On Friday,
thousands gathered to protest the ruling,
which allows states to legislate abortion.
This protest was peaceful,
but later in the evening at KGW,
photographer caught a
small group in the crowd,
breaking windows downtown at
the corner of 5th and Yamhill.
They also sprayed graffiti on
the new courthouse downtown.
No word yet on any arrests.
The protests continued Saturday
along I-5 abortion rights.
Supporters dropped banners
over the Interstate at North
Missouri Ave and Ainsworth.
They demanded that lawmakers
and courts stop making rules,
regulating people's bodies Saturday night.
About 60 people marched in protest.
Portland police say this demonstration
started around 10:00 o'clock in Grant Park.
The group's smashed windows and sprayed
graffiti on several businesses and
at the mother and Child Education
Center in Northeast Portland.
The Center's executive director
told The Oregonian.
The group targeted them,
believing it was a pregnancy Resource Center.
Well, the impact from the Supreme Court's
decision to overturn Roe versus Wade
can be felt all across the country,
leaving both federal and state
lawmakers to figure out what's next.
NBC's Chris Pallone has more from Washington.
People filled the streets across
the country this weekend,
channeling their anger.
And expressing their joy. Never.
After Friday's Supreme Court ruling
overturning Roe versus Wade,
which had been the law of
the land for 50 years,
Democratic leaders are moving
swiftly to protect access to
abortion in their states.
Embracing for an influx of
people looking for care,
at least 16 states in Washington
DC have lost protecting
the right to an abortion.
There's
a wall in the West Coast protecting the
women of the West Coast and the citizens
that come from these other states.
But since Friday's decision
at least 10 states,
immediately restricted abortion
access with many banning.
Procedure altogether
the Supreme Court did its job.
It fixed a wrong decision.
It made many years ago and returned
this power back to the states,
which is how the Constitution
and our founders intended it.
This decision and this policy
will kill people no matter what.
Some Congressional Democrats are
urging the White House to explore.
Options like putting abortion
clinics in federal buildings in
states where the procedure is banned
and to expand access to abortion
pills sent through the mail.
This is not just a crisis of Roe.
This is a crisis of our democracy.
The Supreme Court has dramatically
overreached its authority. The case
decided, but the debate in
many ways just beginning.
Chris Pallone, NBC News, Washington
here in your local headlines,
two men in their 80s were brutally
attacked in downtown Portland Saturday.
They are recovering,
but in really bad shape.
This happened at SW 5th and hall around 8:30.
Saturday night.
Police immediately arrested the suspect.
His name is Keffer White, he's 29.
And police called for an ambulance.
Witnesses and videos show the suspect
attacking an 82 year old and an
88 year old without provocation,
repeatedly punching and kicking them.
The 82 year old has critical
life threatening injuries.
The 88 year old is expected to be OK.
That suspect is in jail on multiple charges,
including assault,
Tigard police investigating a
suspicious death southeast of Hwy. 99.
Officers found a body on Southwest Hall.
Blvd yesterday just before 1:00 o'clock,
it's down the street from Tigard Plaza.
Tigard police say they are talking
with a person of interest,
but right now that's all they're saying.
We'll let you know we find out more.
Sadly,
a man who jumped into the Columbia River to
save a struggling swimmer is presumed dead.
This happened near the West End of
Government Island near 205 yesterday.
Portland firefighters searched with
their boats using underwater scanners.
A Coast Guard helicopter.
Also helped,
but the rescue mission was called off.
Witnesses say that Good Samaritan
was not wearing a life jacket,
that struggling swimmer.
She did survive,
though those are some of
your morning headlines.
Rod Hill is forecasting another
day in the 90s for the metro area.
Today, Portland reached 93 on
Saturday and 99 yesterday,
so a stretch of high heat for sure,
but nothing compared to the
record highs we saw one year
ago this week when Portland got
all the way up to 116 degrees,
nearly 100 people in Oregon
died during that heat.
Wave KGW, GAIL and Ethan shows
us how Portland is remembering
the people who died here.
The tranquil babbling of a
fountain and flicker of candles set
the tone for this somber Sunday
at Leach Botanical Garden.
Challenging times can also help us to connect
City, County and faith leaders
from around the Portland Metro
gathered to memorialize the nearly
100 Oregonians who died during 2021
historic heat Dome one year ago.
The environmental crisis
is a spiritual crisis.
Reverend Mark Canuteson called on
climate action in their memory.
We recommit ourselves in
their names. See and to talk
about the interconnectedness of
human life and global warming.
Let us work for that peace with the earth.
Peace with one another so nobody dies.
Everyone can make a difference.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said the
city is committing $4 million toward
climate work in its new budget to make
buildings greener and to plant trees
in neighborhoods that are heat islands.
The best time to have planned
for these emergencies was 20
years ago, but we didn't.
The fact is, we weren't ready.
Multnomah County Commissioner Lori.
Also spoke as part of Heat Week,
a series of events raising
awareness about safety resources.
Your message is timely,
important and life saving
a new Multnomah County report showed
disproportionate impact on men,
older adults, non Hispanic white people,
people living alone,
those without housing multifamily
homes and people without access
to cooling and as 90 degree
temperatures settled over the garden.
Leaders called on everyone to
reach out to vulnerable neighbors.
This isn't just a government. Issue and
ultimately to make drastic policy and
life changes to slow climate change and
lower frequency of extreme weather events.
Our very way of life is
imperiling all life on Earth.
Everything about that must change for
the continuity of the human race.
There's nothing less at stake. A
plea to preserve nature's tranquility,
with flickers of hope for
the future in Portland.
I'm Galen ettlin for KGW news.
We all felt the impact of last
year's heat wave in different ways.
For instance, this farm in Washington
County lost hundreds of Christmas
trees when those temperatures spiked.
I mean, just look at the drooping branches,
dead needles and severely damaged seedlings.
Well, a lot of you told us what
you experienced during last
year's heat wave on Facebook.
So let's run through a few of them.
Kara Owens remembers how all the
trees and plants turned brown.
It wasn't just the Christmas trees.
A lot of plants suffered last year.
Yeah, Ryan Patel.
As he's originally from New Mexico and
last year's heat here in Portland made
it the hottest place he's ever lived,
Linda Wilkinson says I remember
last year because that's when
my granddaughter was born.
It was miserable in the Weather department,
but a beautiful time for us this year,
which is trying to stay cool.
So
the anniversary of the 116
degree day is tomorrow the 28th.
I do remember that was a Monday last year.
I remember I went outside with one
of my sons to play whiffle balls
like Are you sure you wanna do this?
Like yes you wanted to experience?
Heat I think we lasted
honestly about 2 1/2 minutes.
Sure, and we were just like
already like dripping.
Yeah it was crazy. We did the
same thing. I wanted to walk outside
just to feel what that was like
now. Missouri humidity and I remember
thinking how bad could it be?
I think I I know I played
golf on the 112 day.
I think on the 116 day,
but honestly I will go to my grave
saying 112 dry heat is much better
than 92 and humid in Saint Louis.
Well I'm telling you I'm it is.
I lived in Louisiana.
I hear you.
I hear you. I
agree with that,
but I'd rather not have either.
Brutal, I'd rather have neither.
Yeah alright, I agree.
Our dew points out over the weekend
were low enough that the humidity.
Actors averaged about 20% during
the heat of the afternoon.
Hopefully you found it doable to
be outdoors if you were outside
having to take care of some things,
by the way, so real quick.
These were the numbers of a year ago.
One it was a three day event
in terms of three consecutive
days that set all time records.
When we went 108, one, 12 and 116.
So today's record high for today's date,
June 27th is now the 112 degree
temperature that we had one year ago.
Here are some of the numbers yesterday that.
That's it,
101 Portland Salem.
We topped a 99 yesterday Astoria,
set a record for the date 92
that was only record that I saw
Vancouver and Hillsboro hit 97 Kelso
and Hood River hit 95 degrees.
The weather there is some cooling in
the South Willamette Valley up into
parts of the Central Valley and the
weather services dropped the heat advisory.
If you folks,
but I mean Salem,
you're still in the 60s right now and
you're still going to be in the 90s today.
So if you don't have AC it's I'm
sure you're your house or your
apartment still really uncomfortable.
Heat advisory extends out into
the Columbia Gorge.
We have beautiful,
clear skies again this morning.
See,
there's a warm number in a spot that
technically is no longer under heat advisory.
Not my doing 66 is the temperature
there 69 in Portland,
64 in the Dows right now,
59 degrees over in Bend.
Our seven day forecast numbers
last day of the Heat will go 94
today and then look at the drop
tomorrow 78 we could wake up to
morning clouds in the morning
and then become partly cloudy.
There is at least a shower chance
but overnight tonight and tomorrow,
but forecast Miles insists that rain
chance stays up to our north closer
to Seattle and then certainly morning.
Clouds expected on Wednesday
back to 81 and Thursday 80.
More on Friday.
Of course,
this upcoming weekends of July 4th
holiday and we do get into shower
chances and cooler weather 75
with the shower chance on Sunday,
July 4th right now could be mostly
cloudy with some scattered showers
around and temperatures doing
well to be in the low 70s.
Of course that's a week from today.
Yeah, big changes.
Thank you Rod coming up this morning.
Local researchers make some
new discoveries about wildlife
near our rivers and streams.
We'll explore this important habitat
after the break.
Tonight at 6, the story hits the road.
You've told us you want more coverage
of the other side of the Columbia,
so we're heading to Clark County.
It's an area that's exploding in growth.
Thousands of people moved there every year,
so can the county,
and especially the Interstate,
bridge keep up?
So we need to think about really
carefully where those folks are going
to go and how do they going to get
around where they going to work,
how they going to access the things
they need to prosper here tonight.
On the story.
We're live from downtown Vancouver,
the entire show dedicated to issues.
Clark County we're talking
with Vancouver's mayor.
We'll show you the
spectacular new waterfront,
and we've got a look into Vancouver's past.
Join us tonight at 6.