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July 2006 ArchivesEVIDENCE ROOMS Ever stepped inside a police evidence room? Its kind of interesting. Every stolen bike, every empty backpack and every brown bag with who knows what inside, tells a story. Some are tiny rooms. The West Linn police evidence room would barely fit a car inside. In fact it looks allot like my garage...a couple storage bins, some bikes, some power tools. No place for the car. The West Linn room included some... Today is the second annual "Livestrong" Challenge in Portland. As a reporter, heading to a big forest fire is a thrilling adventure. We grab our protective clothing, yellow shirts and green pants made from Nomex, which makes it harder to burn, but lets not find out, and special wild land fire boots made by the Danner company from Portland. Show up in those and the fire bosses know you're no rookie. It helps with access to the flames. My fire bag also holds a hard hat, gloves, goggles and a...
I've gotten a few emails from viewers about the Greyhound story I broke on Monday, July 24th, so I thought I'd let you know how the story unfolded. This is an incredible first hand account of what it's like when the unthinkable happens. It's from my cousin, who lives just outside St. Louis, MO. There are still hundreds of thousands of people without power after tornadoes and severe storms hit on Friday. The tornado came thru around 11:40 AM on Friday. "I finished making Thomas' lunch and then Thomas said "Mom, downstairs on the tv they say there is a thun... Let's put it this way: the number of emails we're getting about hot weather coverage is shooting up as fast as the temperature around here! I love email, because it lets all of us sound off on anything we want to, 24/7. The sounds we're hearing right now? Well, 'twobears' wants us to stop saying anything more than we've said about the heat: "I personally do not think that 105 degrees is excessive heat." For more than a century, you could always count on one western Oregon city to be dry on a certain day. That city was Salem, the day without rain was July 12th. Since we started keeping records in 1892, it had never rained on this date. Need to schedule a family reunion? A class reunion? Maybe a wedding? If so, this is the day you knew you were safe to have the event outdoors...even though it's Oregon. But today, the rain starte... |
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