Right now. It’s six cracking down on slow ambulance response times. You tried the carrot. This is a little bit of the stick. The six figure find one county is now levied against AM R plus a medical emergency on vacation leaves a local woman in a coma overseas with no way home.
It’s all been an absolute nightmare. Her family’s fight to get her back on American soil and as the Portland teachers strike stretches on how some students are finding purpose in serving others. I I like like the feeling of like helping someone and like making people happy. Thanks for joining us. I’m David
Molko and I’m China Greene. Today marks day eight that students in the Portland public school system have been out of class. The teachers strike pushing on with the union and the district still far apart on proposals. So let’s get right to Alma mccarty live outside Lincoln High School tonight with an update. Alma
David China. We just learned within the last couple of minutes that there will be no school tomorrow for PPS students. The district calling that again just moments ago, mediation did resume this morning and PS officials said in certain areas, the progress has plateaued and there’s still some disagreement on the numbers.
We reached out to the union to get their take on negotiations, their perspective on the current state of things. And meantime, we spoke with students about how they’re feeling at this point in the strike on Tuesday rallies and pickets continue. Portland public schools, teachers still out of school and still on strike.
Students from kindergarten to high school seniors remain out of the classroom too, filling their time while waiting for a deal. They miss it. They miss their teachers, they miss their classroom and I would say that some of them were doing math just for fun, which I love in Southeast Portland.
More than 30 kids played at Selwood Park participating in a day camp. Usually open this time of year. Rachel Lied Glim runs dance with Joyce Studios and reopened it to help out families and back the teachers. I also just hear that they’re confused, right. This is very confusing. We had the pandemic
Which was very traumatic for many families and now we have this. They understand that it’s not the teachers that are making the trouble and I hope other people do too close by students of all ages, laced up skates and roller blades at the Oaks Park skating rink,
The roller rink extending its hours. So kids like Stella and Billy have a place to go. But as fun as this is, they’re looking forward to going back. It’s nice to have a school. But like, I feel like I’m just like, when school gonna start, like, I kind of just want to start.
Now I get bored really easily. So it’s kind of hard to have this going on. And I also miss a lot of my friends from school. This is my cat birdie across the river. I’m really happy that this art class is letting kids have scientist.
That’s also how several young students say they feel while attending a paint your pet class with the Oregon Society of Artists. I’m like dying. Me and my friends need to get back to school. I’ve heard that it’s simmering down and I think we might get back to school
Like maybe on Wednesday for second graders, they have to be like a lot together and I don’t like it. I’m fine with a three day weekend but not a whole time of strike. So I feel like it’s better for us to just go back to school. And again,
We learned just before 6 p.m. that PP PS has canceled school for tomorrow due to the strike. Just something for families to keep in mind. There will be no school on Wednesday, live in Southwest Portland, Alma mccarty, KGW News. Thank you.
That will make day nine for us there. Stay with us for the latest on the strike. Look for updates on air on KGW dot com and streaming on KGW two other headlines this evening, everyone was able to get out of this northeast Portland apartment building safely when it caught fire this morning.
It was reported around 1030 in a complex on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. Near 158 firefighters were able to put it out quickly but not before the fire caused extensive damage to the building as you can see here. No word yet on how many families have been displaced.
Also in Northeast Portland workers at a recycling center punctured in unmarked gas cylinder that wasn’t discarded properly, sending hazardous materials into the air. That is according to Portland Fire’s Hazmat team. This was just before two this afternoon at Metro Metals Northwest off Columbia Boulevard.
One employee was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Hazmat says the gas was likely chlorine Wo County is finding ambulance provider AM R half a million dollars for late responses and our crews are supposed to to most life threatening calls in the county within eight minutes. A county review in August J
Found AM R frequently missed that mark taking 13 minutes or much longer in some cases. What we’ve seen instead is that there’s been no improvement in response times. In fact, we are seeing AM R expanding into other counties when they’re having issues, staffing and serving Mont Noma County. For me,
This was about accountability. AM R has blamed the issues on a nationwide paramedic shortage and the county strict ambulance staffing requirements the county could keep finding AM R each month going forward until it’s in compliance. And a standout University of Oregon student from Portland has
Earned one of the biggest academic honors in the world. Senior Nayantara Aurora has just been named one of 32 Rhodes scholars in the US. Recipients are awarded a full scholarship to attend graduates. Oxford Aurora is the first UFO recipient since 2007 and the only one from a PAC 12 school this year,
She’s a first generation Indian American majoring in neuroscience, also fluent in four languages and learning three more. She says Aurora will pursue two master’s degrees at Oxford. One in modeling for global health, the other in international health and tropical medicine. Congratulations to her and her family. Matt.
Wow, that is a big deal. Congratulation. Indeed. All right, we got clouds moving in from the south. You can see it in a rather gray and stormy, ominous looking uh time lapse from our camera up the timberline lodge and rain on radar. There it is.
It’s now north of Eugene just about to Marion County right now. This is very light rain, scattered showers. This is not gonna be the soakers that we saw back in early November yet it will get wet later on tonight into tomorrow morning. In fact, I expect rain for the morning commute.
So plan accordingly should be raining when you go to work or wherever, sunrise at 710 tomorrow. But look, showers and sun breaks midday. And by later in the afternoon, the sky begins to clear tomorrow and that sets us up for a couple of really spectacular days on Thursday and Friday,
It will be a little frosty on Thursday morning, but the east wind kicks in, that’ll clear us out. We’ve just got some really, really good weather coming our way to end the week. We’ll get shower again as we go into the weekend, but again, nothing heavy there.
So we’ll talk more about that. Take a look ahead towards Thanksgiving and the Leonid meteor shower and why it’s so special and why we may see it this weekend. Guys. Love you. Thanks, Matt. We’ll see you in a few. All right. To some major developing news tonight in the world
Of college sports within the last couple of hours. A judge in Washington ruling in favor of Oregon State and Washington State in a lawsuit over the future of the PAC 12. Yeah, let’s bring in our Edwards to break down what this means for the two remaining
PAC 12 schools and the 10 who are on their way out the door. Art. All right. Well, that ruling means that Os U and WSU will be the only two voting members of the PAC 12 going forward. The other 10 schools will be permitted in board meetings,
But they’re not going to be able to vote. The Beavers and the Cougars filed a lawsuit after all the other pac 12 schools left for other conferences. Now this is a big deal because there are millions of dollars on the line U of O and WSU argued that they should be the
Only ones deciding what happens to the assets of the conference. Those assets could be about $400 million. The preliminary injunction is in place until an appeal is filed in the cases. The University of Washington has already indicated that it will appeal the ruling.
Yeah, it’s a lot to keep track of a lot to watch. We know you’re gonna be across the details as this develops. Thank you. Art. Let’s get to an update this evening on a Vancouver woman who traveled to Portugal
In May to celebrate her retirement and ended up in the hospital in a coma. Daisy Cabrera joins us tonight. Daisy. It’s been some six months now and Diana James family says she’s essentially stuck overseas. So what’s going on here? Yeah, Diana in China. Uh excuse me, Diana,
China and David. I’m so sorry. A lot of these here. Uh Yeah, Diana has been in a coma for the last 180 days and while she has started to open up her eyes, she’s still in a coma. It’s going to cost the family up to $200,000 to medically fly her back to Washington.
It’s a fight I will never give up to bring her home. The bond between Megan Cosey and her 71 year old mother, Diana James of Vancouver is unbreakable even halfway around the world. It’s all been an absolute nightmare. Um Watching your mom like that is, is very traumatic back in May.
Diana suffered a brain bleed that put her into a coma while traveling to Portugal. And after 180 days, she’s still there with no word on when she’ll be medically flown back home, which will cost between 160 to 200,000 dollars something, Diana’s medical insurance, Humana has denied paying for three different times.
Originally, it was based solely on the fact that she was out of the country. So they didn’t have to cover it under Medicare guidelines. However, we have proven with the clinician’s help and with uh legal team that it actually started occurring on us soil according to Kunz,
Because her mother is a US citizen. Portugal’s medical system is only required to perform life saving treatment and stabilization of a patient. She has yet to see a neurology specialist or any rehabilitation treatment for her coma disorder. There are these situations, AJ Rowland is medically representing the family on behalf of Connect health.
He’s a health care executive with a background in special operation, medical services. Really when you go back and look at this with an analytical eye and not an eye that is geared towards just entirely denying the claim, but really one that questions the data in front of you. And you can see this
Is a woman who is at risk and to make matters worse, there are plans to move her to a lower quality hospital where a nursing shortage and strike are happening. She’s also on her seventh hospital acquired infection including pneumonia, which doctors say will just continue to worsen. We’ve witnessed unsanitary
Conditions in the hospital. We’ve, we’ve witnessed them not connecting or feeding tube and having it leak all over the floor. We’ve witnessed her missing meds, missing meals, missing uh rotations. I mean, going through so much and so far away from home, I imagine is what makes it so difficult you feel for them.
What options do they have now? Daisy. Yeah, David. Well, Diana’s daughter is reaching out to local and state leaders and Senator Patty Murray’s office is actually helping her file a, file a repatriation loan later this week. And the family also has a gofundme
Which you all can, of course, go to KGW dot com in maybe 30 minutes or so. And it will be right there if you uh can find it in your heart to uh donate to this family. All right, Jay Z. Thank you.
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