WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Cooler with a
couple of showers
Pleasant and
warmer
66° 51°
75° 53°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Partly sunny
Sunshine; breezy
in the p.m.
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
76° 45°
79° 52°
84° 51°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
72° 54°
79° 54°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
73°
82°
99° (1932)
47°
53°
36° (1892)
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
Trace
0.02"
0.07"
7.41"
5.65"
8.49"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
77°
83°
97° (2003)
0.00"
0.05"
0.05"
5.04"
3.43"
6.20"
SUN AND MOON
Sep 16
Bend
64/38
6:23 a.m.
7:23 p.m.
11:34 a.m.
10:08 p.m.
Last
New
Sep 23
Sep 30
Caldwell
70/47
Burns
65/34
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
68
62
64
68
65
58
68
64
72
64
72
62
58
78
61
66
71
71
66
67
64
68
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58
66
67
75
Lo
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36
38
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
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73
74
71
74
69
78
74
79
75
78
73
69
86
63
68
77
79
75
72
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
91
88
82
79
74
65
76
83
85
71
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Hi
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88
81
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83
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69
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WINDS
Medford
78/53
PRECIPITATION
Sep 9
John Day
64/47
Ontario
71/48
53°
52°
37° (1956)
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
First
Full
Albany
68/51
Eugene
68/50
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
88° 54°
Spokane
Wenatchee
61/48
71/53
Tacoma
Moses
67/53
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 70/47
60/47
65/54
67/51
75/46
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
65/54
67/56 Lewiston
72/53
Astoria
64/52
68/55
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
67/56
Pendleton 58/42
The Dalles 72/54
66/51
73/55
La Grande
Salem
62/43
68/53
Corvallis
68/51
HIGH
82° 50°
Seattle
67/55
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
81° 44°
Today
SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
72/37
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with a brief shower or two.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Intervals
of clouds and sunshine today; a passing
shower.
Western Washington: Mainly cloudy today.
A couple of showers; only in the morning
at the coast.
Cascades: Variably cloudy today with a brief
shower or two; cooler.
Northern California: Partly sunny today.
Mainly clear this evening, then becoming
partly cloudy.
Wednesday
WSW 6-12
WSW 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: A shower today. Mostly
cloudy; clouds, then sun in the south.
Today
WSW 7-14
SW 7-14
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Video shows vandals destroying
popular Oregon rock formation
PORTLAND (AP) — Cellphone video captured a
group of people knocking over a popular sandstone
rock formation known as the “Duckbill” on an Oregon
beach.
Oregon State Parks oficials originally said they
didn’t think the break at the site frequented by tourists
was caused by humans.
But the video obtained by KATU-TV shows the
visitors pushing the structure until it crumbled to the
ground on August 29 at Cape Kiwanda State Natural
Area.
The sandstone pedestal was roughly 7 feet to 10 feet
across and located in a fenced-off section of the park.
David Kalas says he was helping a friend ilm part of
the coast with his drone when they noticed about eight
people trying to push the pedestal down. Kalas says
he started recording with his cellphone when it began
wobbling.
The Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department
said Monday it will review the incident and takes
vandalism seriously.
ATV driver killed, rider hurt in
hit-and-run crash on dunes
WINCHESTER BAY (AP) — The Douglas County
Sheriff’s Ofice is still searching for three people
involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash between two
all-terrain vehicles on the dunes in Winchester Bay.
The Register-Guard reports that the crash happened
at 11 p.m. Friday and oficials were still searching
Monday.
Deputies say 30-year-old ATV driver Benjamin Wohl
of Poulsbo, Washington, died in the crash.
Wohl’s passenger, Breauna Ellison of Clackamas,
Oregon, suffered serious injuries.
Deputies say Wohl and Ellison were riding double on
a Honda ATV when they were struck by a Polaris ATV.
The Polaris’ occupants, two males and a female,
stopped briely after the accident, and then left the scene
irst on the vehicle and then on foot.
Deputies used a K9 police dog unit but did not locate
the suspects.
Remote-operated cloud seeder
being installed by Idaho Power
CORTEZ, Colo. (AP) — A remote-operated cloud-
seeding generator is being installed in the mountains
above Dolores in an attempt to improve snowpack and
runoff into McPhee Reservoir.
Cloud seeders emit plumes of silver iodide into winter
storm clouds to coax additional precipitation from clouds.
There are about 30 cloud-seeding generators stretching
in an arc from Telluride to Mancos to Pagosa Springs.
Most of the units are 40-year-old designs and require an
operator to turn them on and off when conditions warrant.
The Cortez Journal reports that the Dolores Water
Conservancy District has partnered with the Idaho
Power Co. and Colorado Water Conservation Board on
the project. Idaho Power has developed a more eficient
remote-controlled generator that can be placed in
locations higher in the mountains and closer to the clouds
they seed.
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National Summary: Wind, rain and rough seas will buffet southeastern New England today.
Severe storms will affect areas from the central Plains to the Upper Midwest. Clouds and
showers will cool the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 103° in Tucson, Ariz.
Low 18° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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
84
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Today
Louisville
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
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Malheur occupiers’ trial to start Wednesday
Ryan Bundy asks for case to
be dismissed, brother Ammon
questions court’s jurisdiction
By KIMBERLY FREDA
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Just days before his trial is sched-
uled to begin, Ryan Bundy has asked a
judge to get rid of his standby counsel
and dismiss the government’s case
against him.
In the latest series of court ilings
from the Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge occupier, Bundy writes that
he remains committed to representing
himself in court.
At the same time, he says he’s been
unable to create a defense for himself
because he lacks access to critical
documents.
Bundy writes that standby counsel
Lisa Ludwig was “thrust upon Defen-
dant by the government, without the
right of interview, contract, or compe-
tence test. Defendant was denied his
right to represent himself through
standby counsel and to ile his own
motions and his right to ind
his own assistance which is
competent to help him prepare
a defense.”
Bundy also asked U.S.
District Court Judge Anna
Brown for a 30-day exten-
sion to ile pretrial motions
because he hasn’t been able
to view what he describes as
the “United States Attorney’s Bundy
ile.”
Bundy and defendant Kenneth
Medenbach nearly lost the ability to
represent themselves in court after
repeatedly violating court orders.
In court, Bundy reluctantly assured
Brown.
“I will abide by the court’s rulings
as long as the court rulings are in abid-
ance of the law,” he said.
In an unrelated iling late last week,
the Utah-based attorneys for Ammon
Bundy, Ryan’s brother, take issue with
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight’s
assertion that the court has jurisdiction
over the case because it involves
federal charges.
Mumford
compared
Knight’s
“I will abide by the
court’s rulings as
long as the court
rulings are in abid-
ance of the law.”
— Ryan Bundy, defendant
response to that of a “irst-
year law student” and recites
what he calls a “memorable exchange”
from “The Treasure of the Sierra
Madre.”
That scene includes Humphrey
Bogart’s character saying, “If you are
the police, where are your badges?”
Alfonso Bedoya responds, “Badges?
We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need
no badges. I don’t have to show you
any stinking badges!”
“The government’s response says,
essentially, we don’t need to prove no
stinking subject matter jurisdiction,”
Mumford writes.
Jury selection for the case of the
Bundy brothers and six other occupiers
is set to begin Wednesday.
Secret railroad inspection data frustrates Spokane oficials
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP)
— Railroads appear to keep
most data on their bridge
inspections secret, even after
a federal law allowed local
oficials to request the infor-
mation.
Spokane City Council
President Ben Stuckart said
he requested copies of Union
Paciic and BNSF Railway
bridge inspections, hoping to
learn more about the condi-
tion of the infrastructure that
supports trains carrying oil
and other hazardous cargo
through the city daily, reported
The Spokesman Review.
Several of the city’s
bridges show signs of aging
and others are regularly hit
by semi-trucks, according to
Stuckart.
He said he was expecting
an engineer’s analysis of
the structures, but only got
a one-page report for each
bridge.
“There was zero detail,”
said Stuckart, who described
the report as containing a
check-marked box saying the
bridge passed an inspection
conducted by the railroad.
Railroads’ bridge inspec-
tion reports aren’t considered
public documents, but a
federal bill gave city and state
oficials the right to request
public versions of the inspec-
tions last year. Leaders in
Milwaukee pushed for the bill
after Canadian Paciic initially
refused to release inspection
reports for a corroded bridge
used by oil trains.
There are about 77,000
private rail bridges nationally
and eight federal employees
who inspect them. Railroads
are left to conduct their own
inspections, with periodic
audits by the Federal Railroad
Administration.
BNSF is responsible for
most of the oil train trafic
through Spokane. Spokes-
woman Courtney Wallace
says the company’s bridges
are inspected at least twice a
year, more than required by
the federal government.
“We will not run trains
over, on or through any
infrastructure that we think is
unsafe,” Wallace said.
Oil train safety has
garnered attention in recent
years. In 2013, 47 people
were killed after a train
derailed in Quebec. In June,
the derailment of a Union-Pa-
ciic Train in Oregon resulted
in a 42,000-gallon oil spill.
Rail safety advocates say
the lack of access to reports,
combined with railroads’
role in policing themselves,
doesn’t inspire conidence.
“It’s tough when we
simply have to take the indus-
try’s word,” said Jerry White
Jr., who leads the nonproit
Spokane
Riverkeeper
program, a citizen advocacy
group for clean water.
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