KGW (NBC Portland) 5 p.m. news open - 2006-11-27

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[0:01] Let it snow. The city of Portland gets

[0:03] ready for the slippery aftermath. What

[0:05] officials are doing to make tomorrow's

[0:07] commute safe. How the snow will affect

[0:09] cleanup work on Highway 35. Will it

[0:11] further delay Meadows opening? A family

[0:14] is safe after 35 hours stuck in the

[0:17] snowy woods. What rescuers say this

[0:18] family did right and it's so hard to

[0:21] detect. A mammogram won't pick it up.

[0:24] What you need to know about inflammatory

[0:26] breast cancer.

[0:29] >> From KGW, where the news comes first,

[0:33] this is Northwest News Channel 8 at 5.

[0:39] >> From the West Hills to downtown Portland

[0:42] to the coast. Winter arrives early in

[0:44] the Northwest. Tonight, temperatures are

[0:46] dropping and the city is getting ready

[0:48] for what could be a dangerous morning on

[0:50] the roads.

[0:52] >> Really slick. I mean, it's bad enough

[0:53] you can't hardly stand up on it.

[0:55] >> Good evening. I'm Joe Donlin

[0:56] >> and I'm Tracy Barry. We've been

[0:58] following the snow all day and have

[1:00] First Alert Storm Team coverage. We'll

[1:02] start out tonight with News Channel 8

[1:03] Scott Burton live at the city

[1:05] maintenance yard where they're getting

[1:07] ready. Scott?

[1:08] >> Well, Tracy, the city's got its snow

[1:10] plows ready. They are all chained up and

[1:12] prepared to go. They're expecting about

[1:14] 6 ines to fall and accumulate in the

[1:16] West Hills. That's their main area of

[1:18] concern. As a result, the city's

[1:19] transportation employees are on alert

[1:22] tonight, preparing for an overnight on

[1:24] call shift.

[1:26] >> Go ahead and hold this one.

[1:28] >> With more snow expected overnight, the

[1:29] city transportation bureau is preparing

[1:32] for a full call out at 3:00 tomorrow

[1:34] morning.

[1:36] >> We've got in a 24-hour period, we have

[1:38] two 12-hour shifts prepared to come in.

[1:41] Each of those shifts has approximately

[1:44] 160 people. The city's workers will stay

[1:46] ready with deicing agents and snow

[1:48] plows. However, if roads in the West

[1:50] Hills get too treacherous, they may shut

[1:52] them down.

[1:53] >> We'll monitor the areas. If we see a

[1:55] problem, we've got road closure trucks

[1:57] available to do that. Also preparing is

[2:00] TRAT, hoping to avoid frozen lines

[2:02] riders experienced last winter. Try has

[2:04] been busy all summer installing plastic

[2:06] ice cap to the power lines. With the

[2:08] installation, Try hopes to prevent the

[2:10] lines from crusting over on the east

[2:12] side of the metro area. We have about 20

[2:15] miles of uh ice cap on. Going to finish

[2:18] up a little more by the end of the year.

[2:20] Uh most of it is east county is done.

[2:23] Basically from uh Gresham to the rose

[2:27] quarter. All the platform areas have it.

[2:29] Try will also decide overnight if buses

[2:31] will chain up and if they'll run on snow

[2:34] routes tomorrow morning.

[2:36] Charmed says that decision will come

[2:37] right around 2 or 3:00 tomorrow morning

[2:40] if they decide to put the chains on the

[2:42] buses and move them to snow routes. They

[2:44] ask riders to be patient because they

[2:46] expect that those buses will then be

[2:48] running behind schedule. Joe,

[2:50] >> thank you Scott. It's going to get cold

[2:52] tonight. Chief Meteorologist Matt Safino

[2:54] joins us from the First Alert Storm

[2:55] Center with some of the issues we could

[2:57] see in the morning as a result. Matt.

[2:58] >> Yes, indeed, Joe. Let's check the

[2:59] temperatures right now around the metro

[3:01] area. And you can see it's already very

[3:03] chilly. It's down to 34 in Scapus