from getting a withdrawal from this ATM and a mother throws a birthday party for her daughter's 18 year old friend with strippers and beer
The news at 11 starts now
With jetty and Ola and Kelly day this is coin 6 news at 11
We are expecting the first winter blast of the season that's bad news for most but for some
It also means it's time to catch cash in good evening. Thanks for being with us tonight. I'm Kelly day
I'm Jeff, you know, it's 11 o'clock and here's the latest, you know, it's not only beginning to look like Christmas
It's starting to feel like it overnight temperatures will be dipping below freezing for the next week and in the daytime
It won't get much warmer or in when it joins us from the cold streets of Portland tonight
Oh horn how well cold is it out there tonight? There's no question
It's very very cold out here. And if you happen to live out here in the streets, well, it's even colder
The holiday brings more than warm cheer
Oh, I see the train go by
Not far from the Fremont Bridge beyond the railroad tracks
Tom Smith climbs under a sleeping bag and hides behind a shopping cart his home even on the coldest of nights the street
Because I was born and raised in Minnesota where snow wouldn't taste cold
Yeah
This is this is summer weather here
For Tom and everyone else who lives out here on the streets each night this coming week will grow colder and colder
But not everyone in Portland seems to mind
When the temperatures dip below freezing Mike Vega gets very busy
But the Vancouver plumber doesn't mind I'm gonna catch up on my sleep tonight because we're gonna be working late as soon as those frozen pipes yet
At this Northwest coffee shop the lattes and hot cocos seem extremely popular
But when the weather gets really cold look out, it's not bad for us. They still sit outside
They get drinks and they still sit outside. So
They don't get too cold. They must warm up here back near the train tracks. Tom doesn't worry about warming up
He says he's lived through at least 20 winters in this very spot another year
Another year, that's all
The temperature may drop but it appears at least on this street that won't affect anyone's spirit
Obviously the homeless shelters provide some help but on these bitter cold nights
Not everyone gets in and believe it or not Jeff. Not everyone even wants to help
Or the Winnick outside tonight. Thanks horn now PGE tells us tonight
Don't expect any interruptions in power because of the cold but the supply situation is very bad
We're not getting any food or water or anything. We're not getting any food or water
We're not getting any interruptions in power because of the cold but the supply situation isn't a delicate balance and
California suppliers who we've come to depend on in winter months have come up short this year if we lose any more
Suppliers say a plant goes down in California or elsewhere. It is possible. We may have a shortage
Meanwhile both PGE and Pacific Power are running
Conservation campaigns to get people to be aware of the situation and more importantly play a part in improving it
We've got to be sure that all the plant is there now if it's not there
I think customers just need to be doing their bit and and if they can conserve some electricity
You know any time over the next week that is a valuable contribution to keeping everyone happy everyone safe
The energy crisis is hitting Californians hard
But it has some wondering where all the power has gone one expert found that the so-called crisis may be manufactured by the power plants themselves
holding back electricity to raise prices
There's good reason to believe or good reason for the government to investigate whether they were holding back
California power companies were regulated for the first time this year and some customers saw their bills triple
America is still waiting now for three Florida courts to rule and tell us who is going to be the next president of the United States
Florida's Supreme Court could rule anytime now on an appeal from Al Gore's attorney to order selective manual recounts of
14,000 disputed ballots in Palm Beach and Dade counties
Gore's lawyers say the lower court judge never even looked at the ballots an attorney for George W
Bush argued there's no evidence that any voter was denied the right to vote
Not far away another court is hearing a seminal county case brought by a wealthy Democrat
Who wants to toss out 15,000 absentee ballots because Republicans put missing ID numbers on ballot applications
A similar case in Martin County seeks to disqualify 10,000 votes
Tomorrow Florida's legislature meets a special session to appoint a slate of 25 electors
That's just in case the courts don't rule in time a Portland retiree got so wound up in the presidential election
He nearly wound up in the hospital
Alvin Batiste has been so involved with the goings-on in Florida
They got a little sidetracked when it was time to take his vitamins
I happen to look down and saw her one of her medicines. I said, oh my gosh in
Mine's next to it
And I says, oh my gosh, I've taken this medicine
So I told her and so she at first she's you did what nice. I took your medicine
Well, Alvin has low blood pressure, but he took his wife's high blood pressure
Diabetes pills. Well, he called over to the state health department
And told them and they said just monitor your blood sugar and your blood pressure
I need plenty of carbohydrates Alvin's blood pressure did drop for several hours. He's okay now
Just like the election Alvin says this is an experience. He'll never forget
Two local teenagers have died within a week of each other and tonight investigators suspect a popular cold drug
May have contributed to both of those deaths
It is the cold tablet called coracidum D
In large doses that acts as a stimulant and that's why some teenagers take it to get high
Pharmacists say overdoses of the drugs or drugs like it could cause a heart attack stroke or psychological disturbances
Experts are warning parents to talk to their children and keep an eye out for the abnormally high use of cold medications
The two deaths are still being investigated
Well, they want him out of their neighborhood
But a convicted child molester in Hillsboro says he's a drug addict
They want him out of their neighborhood, but a convicted child molester in Hillsboro says he is not a threat
Albert Rogers was convicted of attempting to molest a young boy 10 years ago
He got off probation and supervision four years ago, and he has kept a clean record last month
Hillsboro police notified neighbors Rogers was living in their neighborhood and now many residents want him to leave
And I've done all my parole all my
probation everything
family here and if they want to know something else I got just a few months
to live because I got terminal cancer in the lungs and they ain't got to worry
about you being out here. Well neighbors are holding a community meeting
tomorrow night at seven o'clock at Moo Berry Elementary. They want Rogers or any
sex offender who moves into their neighborhood to know that residents will
be watching their every move. His apartment was going up in flames and
stacks of newspapers inside may have cost a Vancouver man his life. The fire
broke out on the 15th floor of the Smith Tower, Vancouver's tallest building.
Residents say the man who lived there was a pack rat, 69 year old Bob Buchanan.
They call him airplane Bob because he knew so much about airplanes in the
Second World War. Bob Buchanan collected newspapers and they were stacked chest
high throughout the apartment. It was just an accident waiting to happen with
all that stuff up there. There seems to be an awful lot of newspaper up there.
We heard the report from one of the firefighters suggest that there may be
up to 20 yards of newspaper debris in that apartment. Firefighters had to clear
a way through those newspapers just to get inside to investigate. The good news
is the fire didn't spread to other apartments or other floors. Firefighters
say it could have been a lot worse especially considering the fire was on
the top floor. It presents a lot of challenges for our firefighters because
quite honestly they have to hump all of the material 14 floors up, stage on the
14th floor and then attack the fire from the 14th to the 15th. So manpower
intensive and you get a real aerobic workout going up 14 floors.
Investigators say the fire started near the kitchen stove but they don't know
how yet. Once again Bob Buchanan lost his life in that fire. So this is a very good
reminder for all of us tonight. Before you go to bed check those Christmas tree
lights, any candles you might have burning. Make sure you put them out very
well before you go to bed and also make sure you water your Christmas tree every
day so it doesn't dry out too much and become even more of a dangerous fire
hazard. A train and a semi truck collide in Marion County. Apparently the driver
of the tractor trailer rig filled with bark dust stopped at the tracks and then
proceeded to move on. Just as Bobby Moore was going over the tracks that's
when the red flashing lights and arms came down to signal a train was coming.
Moore says though he didn't see any of that. His trailer was just about over the
tracks when the train smashed right into it flipping the truck around. The Union
Pacific train was pulling several antique railroad cars at the time. The
conductor was not hurt. Moore was tossed around a bit. He was taken to Albany
General Hospital but tonight he's listed in good condition. Measure five goes into
effect tomorrow affecting everyone who buys firearms at Oregon gun shows.
Rick Rial just west of Salem is ready for the first test of measure five. The town's
semi-annual gun show runs Saturday and Sunday and for the first time all gun
buyers and sellers have to give their addresses and serial number of the weapon
involved to state police. Police check the buyer's background and if the sale
goes through they keep the records for five years and it's that record-keeping
that many critics say they don't like. Well you don't hear people talking about
going down to Portland's Rose Quarter unless there's a sporting event or
concert going on. These planners are now hoping to change that. The city hired a
company from back east to redesign the Rose Quarter to make it more vibrant.
Tonight neighbors hood some of the proposals for the first time. One
includes completely junking and tearing down Memorial Coliseum. Another puts a
new baseball stadium on the site. The whole idea is to bring more people into
the Rose Quarter and make it more vibrant. Whatever strategy neighbors and
experts come up with it will all be presented to the City Council in March.
Ever dropped a quarter in a stranger's parking meter when it was about to run
out? Well most would call that a random act of kindness but city officials
believe it or not say that's a ticketable offense. Are you tired of
driving out to the Yamhill wine country to sample Oregon's best? Well we've got a
solution coming up. It wasn't your typical teenage birthday party and Ohio
mother goes all out. She got the kids everything from the strippers to the
alcohol and she got in trouble.
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Well we have a recall to tell you about tonight nearly 100,000 scooters are
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scooter to the store for a refund and of course for more information like we do
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people they just know it when they when they taste it. All right let's talk to John
on it right now about this big mass of cold air we've got moving in John. That's
right the big story now isn't so much snow but the Arctic air coming down out
of Canada relatively mild in British Columbia as well as Alberta but it's the
stuff up in the Northwestern territories and the Yukon that is coming down. When
will it arrive? The forecast is coming up next.
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Well if you think it's cold out there now you better wait till this weekend
because this is nothing. Thirty-six degrees underneath a thin overcast of
Portland. Dew point 32 so our relative humidity is 86%. A light east wind in the
barometer is on the rise. Temperatures around the rest of the region. Already
many locations below freezing or at freezing. They're at freezing at Vancouver.
Thirty-one at Hillsborough. Thirty-one at McVinville. Thirty at Aurora. Down to
29 degrees in Salem. They stay chilly down there all day long today. They had
a lot of fog and only broke out of the fog for an hour or so. Thirty-six the
current temperature again at Portland. Thirty-five in the Dalles. Twenty-seven
at La Grande. Twenty-five in Baker City. They also had low clouds and fog and
that kept them down in the twenties today for their high temperatures. Thirty-four
at La Grande. Thirty at Pendleton. Forty-one with brief sunshine in Salem. No
sunshine just fog in Eugene. They get up to 35 degrees today. That's all they
could muster. Forty-four the high today in Portland. Thirty-one the low. Well
below the average of 36. Record low 17 set back in 1972. The freezing level this
afternoon just below 9500 feet and sunrise tomorrow morning just before 740
a.m. Lots of low clouds and fog again in the Columbia Basin but also lots of low
clouds and fog in the southern half of the Willamette Valley and that kept
temperatures down in places like Aurora, Salem and Eugene. Eugene again only
getting into the mid-thirties this afternoon and that is nothing compared
to some of the cold weather we're going to see. It's this air mass up here. It
will modify as it comes down. We're expecting it to come through sometime on
Sunday. So as we go through the weekend we should see some light rain, maybe
even some sleep mixed in on Saturday and then the front comes through on Sunday
and we see the arc to cold all next week. So for tomorrow along the coast
we're looking at mostly cloudy skies. Same story in the western valleys that
will probably start out with low clouds and fog and the low clouds and fog will
linger in the southern half and because of that temperatures down there will be
awfully chilly in the Cascades. Mostly cloudy skies with low clouds and fog
along the eastern slope. Freezing level at 7000 ft in the gorge. We'll see low
clouds and fog in the eastern half and because of that temperatures will only
be in the thirties tomorrow afternoon. Same story not only for the Columbia
River Basin for the Grand Rhond Valley as well as the Baker Valley and they
will see temperatures tomorrow only in the thirties and twenties just like
they saw today here in Portland and Vancouver. We're looking at areas of
dense fog, a low of 30° and for tomorrow mostly cloudy high 43 and that
seven day planner again it's not so much the snow that's the big story. It's
that arctic cold that arrives on Sunday will have a high Saturday night of 37
for Sunday and temperatures will fall during the day on Sunday into the
twenties and it stays chilly right on through the middle of next week. My
goodness. All right thanks for the warning John. Well some would be thieves
had their funds spoiled after Boston police stopped their bid to steal an ATM
machine from a credit union. Investigators say the thieves tried to
make off with a whole machine from the state employees credit union early
Thursday morning. Police say the thieves wrapped a chain around the ATM attached
the chain to their car and pulled the machine right through the glass door in
the front lobby. Well luckily police spotted the robbers before they got away
with the ATM. I don't think they'd be too hard to spot but the robbers managed to
get away leaving the ATM in the street. Tonight they have the machine but the
suspects remain at large. A woman in Cleveland Ohio is in big trouble
tonight. She threw a birthday party that was more like a bachelor party. The 41
year old woman Anne Salazar allowed a stripper to perform at a birthday party
for her daughter's male friend. Well the birthday boy turned 18 which makes him
old enough for the stripper but not for the alcohol that was present at the bash
and police say they also smelled marijuana. Kids over with cake and ice
cream that's what we consider a birthday party and friends but no alcohol. She's
totally wrong for buying alcohol for the kids and a stripper. Salazar was charged
with a felony that could get her up to a year in prison. December 7th it's a day
we all remember as Americans a day that will live in infamy but not only because
of Pearl Harbor because we're gonna take you back in time to the good old days of
the NBA and that one game that the Blazers can never forget. And Jesuit is
gearing up for Saturday's big state championship football game. We'll hear
from the Crusaders as they get ready for North Medford. Seahawk fans who love
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by Emporium. Hello everybody nice seeing you again it's going to be a good
old-fashioned headbanger at high noon Saturday in Eugene. Number one Jesuit
against third-ranked North Medford for the state football championship and
what you'll see is Jesuits high-powered style against North Medford's grinder of
a running game. Number 10 is Jesuits Mike Haas just before Thanksgiving. Haas
scored seven touchdowns against Central Catholic. Jesuit quarterback Mike McGrain
hooked up with Haas with his beauty that put Central away in the third but
Jesuit expects a much tougher game against North Medford. They'll probably
be the most athletic team we face all year. Their quarterback can do so many
different things. Their defense flies to the ball better than any team we've seen
all year so they'll create they'll present some problems for us. Boy did
Tiger Woods get mad today. Woods missed the birdie putt on 16th swiped at the
green with his club. Been over and snatched the ball out of mid-air. Woods and David
Duvall are teamed in the World Cup down in Argentina. Duvall with a slick birdie
on 18th but Woods and Duvall trail the leaders from New Zealand by four. They're
in fifth place. All right December 7th is also an infamous date in Blazers history.
It's a day the fellas on that 1982-83 team will always remember and not fondly.
We'll remind you that number 12 you'll see is Billy Ray Bates. Number 34 is
Kenny Carr. Three is Jeff Lamp. Number 42 is Wayne Cooper. Darnell Valentine and
Michael Harper were also on that team. December 7th 1982 is when Adrian Dantley
and the Utah Jazz came to the Coliseum and made an NBA record 39 straight
free throws. Bill Shotley was the announcer. All right it's 28 for 28 at the
foul line. They can't be perfect all night can they? Maybe they can. Shays now
to make it 37 to 30. So he almost missed but it's down 37 for 37 at the foul line.
38 for 38. 39 for 39. Oh my. The record still stands today. Those black and white
pictures are great Ed. Thanks a lot. I see those guys all the time. I'm gonna tease them.
Oh they're gonna say thanks Ed. Well he holds the record for the longest
fingernails in the world. Yeah now it's time for a change though. The champ yeah
says he's gonna trim them for the first time in 20 years.
Well here's our question. Who is the Sea Talks all-time interception leader? And
we'll have that answer there. Dave Brown 50 interceptions from 1975 to 1986 with
the Seahawks. He was a tough player right there. And there's our winner John McCabe
was our six-caller. John congratulations you're gonna get great stuff from GI Joe's
and some tickets. And we'll have another question tomorrow night. We'll be right
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Isn't that something? Really? He used to be a dairy farmer. Good night everybody.
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