WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
SUNDAY
Cloudy with a few
showers
Clouds giving way
to some sun
53° 36°
50° 30°
MONDAY
Spotty showers in
the afternoon
Partial sunshine
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
52° 34°
50° 28°
50° 29°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
56° 35°
55° 28°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
55°
47°
76° (1902)
40°
30°
6° (2006)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.12"
0.78"
0.74"
2.29"
1.48"
2.12"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
59°
49°
71° (1930)
0.06"
0.30"
0.62"
1.40"
1.05"
1.90"
SUN AND MOON
Mar 1
Bend
46/26
Burns
41/20
New
6:52 a.m.
5:27 p.m.
2:46 p.m.
4:47 a.m.
First
Mar 8
Mar 15
Caldwell
58/33
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Hi
52
45
46
50
41
45
49
52
56
52
42
48
45
50
50
53
58
56
53
51
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52
Lo
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25
26
40
20
27
37
32
35
30
23
33
30
34
42
42
34
37
36
39
25
38
31
28
39
38
30
Today
Hi
45
64
76
49
77
24
46
58
43
86
61
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
42/23
Lo
40
21
25
42
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21
34
28
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30
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33
42
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30
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38
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Breezy today with periods
of rain. Cloudy tonight with a shower in
places.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A couple
of showers today with clouds and limited
sunshine; snow level near 5,000 feet.
Western Washington: Periods of rain today.
Mostly cloudy tonight with a couple of
leftover showers.
Eastern Washington: Showers today, but a
bit of snow with little or no accumulation in
the mountains.
Cascades: Periods of rain and snow today
with snow levels mostly above 4,000 feet.
Northern California: Rain today; a little
snow, mainly later in the interior mountains.
Today
Saturday
SSW 7-14
S 8-16
WSW 6-12
WSW 6-12
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DOJ asked to investigate Palmer
to address the community
meeting, as was Palmer.
The meeting was orga-
nized by local residents who
sympathized with
Bundy’s anti-gov-
ernment
stand.
Palmer was unaware
that police planned
to act against Bundy
and others that day,
according to law
enforcement sources
and Palmer’s Face-
book posts.
Robert “LaVoy”
Finicum, 54, of
Utah, attempted to elude
police after that stop,
repeatedly telling of¿cers
that he had a meeting with
Palmer. Shawna Cox, who
was in Finicum’s truck that
afternoon, said the occupiers
believed Palmer could protect
them.
Finicum was shot and
killed after he encountered a
roadblock, left his truck and
reached for a loaded handgun,
according to the FBI.
Palmer later referred to
the police operation as an
“ambush,” a description that
drew a sharp rebuke from
the Oregon State Sheriffs’
Association, which represents
all 36 elected sheriffs.
The appearance of the
militants in Grant County
and Palmer’s association with
them stirred concerns that the
protesters intended to stake a
second camp in the John Day
area.
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picked out within two months,
Webb said. However, addi-
tional steps in the process,
such as an environmental
analysis if the company
decides to move forward,
means the small modular
reactors likely wouldn’t be
operational before 2023.
The Energy Department
said the agreement advances
President Barack Obama’s
plan
for
non-carbon
producing energy. “Today’s
announcement is a part of
the Department of Energy’s
ongoing commitment to
strengthening nuclear ener-
gy’s role in America’s low
carbon future,” Lynn Orr,
under secretary for science
and energy at the agency, said
in a statement.
Oregon-based NuScale
Power would build the
reactors that can individually
produce 50 megawatts.
Additional reactors could
be built as power demands
grow, with up to 12 reactors
producing 600 megawatts.
Experts say the small
reactors are designed to
be safer than conventional
nuclear plants by being able
to shut down without human
involvement in the event of a
disaster.
The cost for 12 small
modular reactors is about $3
billion, NuScale has said,
compared with about $15
billion for a conventional
nuclear plant. Part of the
cost savings comes from
building the modular reactors
at a factory and then trucking
them to their locations.
110s
high
low
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 91° in Canadian, Texas
Low -17° in Watertown, N.Y.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
72
64
41
40
58
68
57
37
61
58
56
50
78
64
50
82
6
45
80
79
58
68
70
73
71
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Lo
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48
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61
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80
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Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
62
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Hi
69
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63
60
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58
55
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The agency granted a
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who took over the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge
on Jan. 2. Ammon Bundy,
the Idaho businessman who
led the takeover,
invited Palmer to
visit the occupied
refuge headquarters.
Palmer declined, but
he subsequently met
twice with occu-
pation leaders who
traveled the roughly
100 miles from the
refuge in Harney Palmer
County north to
Grant County.
Ryan Payne, a Montana
militiaman who was the
tactical leader of the refuge
takeover, told The Oregonian/
OregonLive that Palmer
shared the militants’ views.
Payne is now in jail facing
federal charges for both the
Oregon takeover and his role
in the 2014 armed standoff
in Nevada involving rancher
Cliven Bundy.
One of the other militants
who met with Palmer, Jon
Ritzheimer of Arizona, said
he and Payne autographed
the sheriff’s pocket copy of
the Constitution at Palmer’s
request. Ritzheimer also is
facing a federal charge for his
role in the occupation.
Ammon Bundy and
other occupation leaders
were heading for a town hall
meeting in John Day on Jan.
26 when police stopped them
about 20 miles north of Burns.
Bundy and the others were
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The state agency that
licenses police of¿cers has
asked the Oregon Justice
Department to investigate
Grant County Sheriff Glenn
Palmer, who met with
leaders of the armed wildlife
refuge occupation and then
was scheduled to speak at a
community meeting featuring
the occupiers.
The state Department of
Public Safety Standards and
Training made the request
after it received several citizen
complaints about Palmer’s
conduct in recent weeks.
The complaints and details
of the allegations weren’t
immediately available, but
the licensing agency noti¿ed
at least one complainant that
if the allegations were true,
Palmer’s conduct would
violate state regulations.
Palmer, sheriff since 2000,
didn’t respond to requests for
comment.
The licensing agency can
take a range of action against
Palmer’s police certi¿cation,
up to revocation, if it ¿nds
he violated rules or laws
governing police conduct.
The agency, however, has no
authority to remove Palmer
from of¿ce since he is an
elected of¿cial. Only a recall
election can remove him.
Palmer has drawn crit-
icism for his association
with the armed militants
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
WINDS
Medford
50/34
PRECIPITATION
Feb 22
John Day
52/30
Ontario
58/34
38°
29°
5° (1929)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
50/38
Eugene
49/37
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
53° 31°
Spokane
Wenatchee
46/31
45/31
Tacoma
Moses
52/35
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 50/32
46/35
49/37
49/35
52/30
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
50/37
54/38 Lewiston
56/38
Astoria
55/38
52/40
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
51/39
Pendleton 45/27
The Dalles 56/35
53/36
52/36
La Grande
Salem
48/33
50/38
Corvallis
50/37
HIGH
54° 27°
Seattle
51/40
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
52° 31°
Today
TUESDAY
Mostly sunny
Friday, February 19, 2016
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