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FRANCE: ‘The terrorist
character (of the attack)
cannot be denied’
Plan for federal wolf
delisting clears U.S. House
the state of emergency and
the Sentinel operation with
10,000 soldiers on patrol,
he said he was calling up
“operational
reserves,”
those who have served in
the past and will be brought
in to help police, particularly
at French borders.
President Barack Obama
condemned what he said
“appears to be a horriic
terrorist attack.”
European Council presi-
dent Donald Tusk said it was
a “tragic paradox” that the
victims of the attack in Nice
were celebrating “liberty,
equality and fraternity” —
France’s motto — on the
country’s national day.
Writing online, Nice
Matin journalist Damien
Allemand who was at the
waterside said the ireworks
display had inished and the
crowd had got up to leave
when they heard a noise and
cries.
“A fraction of a second
later, an enormous white
truck came along at a crazy
speed, turning the wheel to
mow down the maximum
number of people,” he said.
“I saw bodies lying like
bowling pins along its route.
Heard noises, cries that I
will never forget.”
Graphic footage showed
a scene of horror up and
down the Promenade, with
broken bodies splayed out
on the asphalt, some of
them piled near one another,
others bleeding out onto
the roadway or twisted into
unnatural shapes.
“Help my mother,
please!” one person yells
out amid a cacophony of
screaming and crying. A
pink girl’s bicycle is briely
seen overturned by the side
of the road.
The origin and authen-
ticity of the footage could
not immediately be veriied.
Kayla Repan, of Boca
Raton, Florida, was among
the hundreds gathered on
the promenade to watch
ireworks.
“The whole city was
running. I got extremely
frightened and ran away
from the promenade,” she
said. “It was chaos.”
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an exchange of gunire.”
The president of the
Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur
regional council, which
includes Nice, said the truck
was loaded with arms and
grenades. Christian Estrosi
told BFM TV that “the
driver ired on the crowd,
according to the police who
killed him.”
Images being broadcast
across
French
media
showed revelers running
for their lives down Nice’s
palm tree-lined Promenade
des Anglais, the famous
seaside boulevard named
for the English aristocrats
who proposed its construc-
tion in the 19th century.
Video footage showed
men and women — one
or two pushing strollers —
racing to get away from
the scenes. And, in what
appeared to be evidence of
a gun battle, photos showed
a truck with at least half a
dozen bullet holes punched
through its windshield.
It was not immediately
clear who would have been
behind an attack, but France
has recently seen a spate of
dramatic assaults by jihadist
groups, including the
Islamic State group which
straddles Iraq and Syria.
President
Francois
Hollande said in a televised
statement that all of France
was under an “Islamist
terrorist
threat”
and
extended by three months
a state of emergency that
has been in place since
the November attacks that
killed 130 in Paris was to
end July 26. The decision
needs
parliamentary
approval.
“The terrorist character
(of the attack) cannot be
denied,” he said.
Hollande said he was
calling a defense council
meeting Friday that brings
together defense, interior
and other key ministers, then
heading to Nice. He listed
several measures to bolster
security in France after
two waves of attacks last
year that killed 147 people.
Besides continuation of
By KRISTENA HANSEN
Associated Press
PORTLAND — As the
battle over Oregon’s recent
delisting of the gray wolf as
endangered is waged in a
courtroom, the state’s lone
Republican
congressman
helped convince the House
to approve a plan to remove
all protections for the species
at the federal level.
The proposal cleared the
chamber Wednesday with a
223-201 vote and now heads
to the Senate,
It was introduced Monday
by Oregon Rep. Greg Walden
and Washington state Reps.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
and Dan Newhouse as an
amendment to a large federal
appropriations package.
The plan would enable
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service to move forward with
its proposal made three years
ago to delist the gray wolf
under the federal Endangered
Species Act by 2017.
Population management
would instead be at the
discretion of the lower 48
states, although it wouldn’t
directly impact state-level
endangered species lists
or wolf management plans
in separate places such as
Oregon.
“Oregon’s wolf popu-
lation has grown by more
than 40 percent, and yet we
have this divided manage-
ment strategy in the federal
government where in part
of the state wolves are still
listed and part of the state
they’re not,” Walden said in a
statement. “We need a single
management strategy where
we have local control under
the Oregon state plan.”
Gray wolves in the eastern
third of Oregon are under
state management but, as of
last fall, are not considered
endangered as they are by
federal oficials elsewhere in
the state.
The Oregon Fish and
Wildlife Commission took
the wolf off the state endan-
gered list in November — a
decision wildlife advocates
are currently ighting in
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File
In this Jan. 6 ile photo, Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., right, accompanied by House
Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, and Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, speaks during
a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, ile
appeals court — and now
revising its wolf manage-
ment plan as required every
ive years.
With federal delisting in
limbo as the wolf population
keeps growing, Walden said
there’s little recourse for area
ranchers and challenges for
the ive year review of the
Oregon Wolf Plan.
Oregon
Rep.
Peter
DeFazio, a Democrat and
longtime wolf advocate
who voted against Walden’s
amendment, said the issue
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Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Sunny to partly
cloudy and nice
Sunny and
pleasant
82° 54°
83° 54°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Partly sunny and
pleasant
Mostly sunny and
comfortable
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
88° 60°
85° 56°
85° 58°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
87° 57°
88° 55°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
86°
89°
109° (1911)
53°
59°
41° (1913)
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
0.00"
0.80"
0.14"
7.32"
5.00"
7.75"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
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89°
110° (1935)
50°
58°
44° (2010)
PRECIPITATION
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.29"
0.10"
4.93"
3.25"
5.83"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
July 19
July 26
87° 60°
89° 59°
Seattle
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Aug 10
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TUESDAY
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beautiful
Spokane
Wenatchee
76/53
82/61
Tacoma
Moses
73/55
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 83/58
76/46
66/56
72/53
87/57
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
69/56
83/57 Lewiston
87/57
Astoria
84/55
68/58
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
74/59
Pendleton 76/45
The Dalles 87/57
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La Grande
Salem
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77/55
Albany
Corvallis 80/54
80/55
John Day
82/47
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
90/57
80/52
78/43
Caldwell
Burns
90/56
83/41
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
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: A passing shower across
the north today; pleasant in the south.
Partly sunny elsewhere.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Nice today
with plenty of sunshine. Clear tonight.
Sunny and pleasant tomorrow.
Western Washington: Clouds and breaks
of sun today. Mostly cloudy tonight. Mostly
cloudy tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Sunny to partly
cloudy today. Clear tonight.
Cascades: Pleasant today with plenty of
sunshine; however, some clouds across
the north.
Northern California: Sunshine today. Hot
in central parts; pleasant elsewhere. Clear
tonight.
Today
Saturday
WSW 4-8
W 6-12
SW 4-8
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stems from an irrational
fear of wolves that farm and
cattlemen’s associations use
to put “tremendous pressure”
on conservatives.
“It’s borne of some
ancestral, irrational fear of
wolves, which permeates
the agricultural community
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
and the Republican Party
here in Washington, D.C.,”
DeFazio told The Associated
Press, noting the gray wolf is
already partially delisted at
the federal level as of a few
years ago.
The
broader
bill
containing the wolf amend-
ment won’t clear the Senate,
he said. But in year-end
negotiations, “I assume the
Republicans will assert, ‘Oh
gee, we got all these amend-
ments and we want them in
the year-end deal,’ which (is)
how they got the irst partial
delisting of the wolves,”
DeFazio said.
Nick Cady, attorney for
Eugene-based
Cascadia
Wildlands, one of the groups
ighting the state’s delisting
in court, also expressed
concerns about how year-end
wolf negotiations would play
out.
“It is just so apparent
that so-called ‘local control’
simply means an absence of
protections for the species,”
Cady said.
This 2014 ile photo provided by the Oregon Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife shows a female wolf from the
Minam pack outside La Grande, after it was itted with
a tracking collar.
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National Summary: Showers and locally drenching, gusty thunderstorms will be scattered
over much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation with hot and humid conditions today.
Much of the West can expect a dry and sunny day.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 114° in Needles, Calif.
Low 25° in Gould, Colo.
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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
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Memphis
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Miami
91
Milwaukee
71
Minneapolis
77
Nashville
87
New Orleans
92
New York City
93
Oklahoma City
90
Omaha
79
Philadelphia
93
Phoenix
112
Portland, ME
88
Providence
92
Raleigh
94
Rapid City
80
Reno
97
Sacramento
97
St. Louis
87
Salt Lake City
98
San Diego
75
San Francisco
74
Seattle
75
Tucson
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Washington, DC 94
Wichita
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