WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
61° 42°
62° 43°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Partly sunny
Partial sunshine
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
57° 42°
60° 44°
57° 43°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
65° 40°
61° 39°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
61°
53°
71° (2006)
40°
35°
15° (2003)
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"
0.19"
0.28"
10.58"
6.65"
10.31"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
63°
55°
68° (1939)
0.00"
0.09"
0.25"
7.42"
4.59"
7.56"
SUN AND MOON
Nov 21
Bend
68/37
Burns
64/31
New
6:45 a.m.
4:32 p.m.
1:32 p.m.
none
First
Nov 29
Dec 7
Caldwell
66/40
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
67
62
68
64
64
61
65
58
61
63
66
63
63
69
65
68
64
62
61
66
71
66
59
63
67
63
64
Lo
55
35
37
53
31
44
50
40
39
32
35
44
39
45
53
54
38
38
42
51
38
51
43
38
51
47
40
W
pc
s
s
pc
s
s
pc
s
s
s
s
s
s
pc
pc
pc
s
s
s
pc
s
pc
s
s
pc
s
s
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
64
62
65
63
64
63
66
61
65
63
65
64
60
66
62
65
62
64
62
65
66
66
57
60
64
64
66
Lo
49
32
36
51
26
32
46
42
40
25
32
35
32
41
51
50
34
41
43
49
40
47
39
30
48
46
42
W
pc
s
pc
pc
s
s
pc
s
s
s
s
s
s
pc
pc
pc
s
s
s
pc
pc
pc
s
s
pc
s
pc
WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
51
81
73
44
71
36
46
60
45
79
64
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
28
66
53
40
56
22
38
45
27
65
53
W
s
pc
s
pc
pc
c
c
t
s
pc
pc
Wed.
Hi
50
74
77
47
66
27
50
60
44
73
57
Lo
36
62
57
39
54
22
41
48
31
63
48
W
c
c
s
pc
pc
pc
sh
pc
s
sh
pc
WINDS
Medford
69/45
PRECIPITATION
Nov 14
John Day
63/32
Ontario
64/38
40°
35°
11° (1936)
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
64/51
Eugene
65/50
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
59° 41°
Spokane
Wenatchee
59/43
59/42
Tacoma
Moses
66/51
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 60/37
64/47
63/53
65/51
64/40
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
65/54
63/47 Lewiston
60/37
Astoria
66/47
67/55
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
66/51
Pendleton 61/44
The Dalles 61/39
61/42
63/44
La Grande
Salem
63/44
66/51
Corvallis
66/51
HIGH
59° 42°
Seattle
65/54
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
59° 39°
Today
SATURDAY
Considerable
cloudiness
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Klamath Falls
66/35
(in mph)
Today
Wednesday
Boardman
Pendleton
VAR 2-4
NE 3-6
VAR 2-4
E 3-6
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today. A
touch of rain tonight. Times of clouds and
sun tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
today; pleasant in central parts. Patchy
clouds tonight.
Western Washington: Partial sunshine
today; a passing afternoon shower at the
coast. Rain at times tonight.
Eastern Washington: Sunshine and patchy
clouds today; patchy fog near the Idaho
border in the morning.
Cascades: Partly sunny and warmer today;
pleasant in central parts. Mostly cloudy
tonight.
Northern California: Partial sunshine today.
Warmer; pleasant in central parts.
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
-10s
-0s
showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
high
warm front stationary front
low
National Summary: Most of the nation will be sunny today. However, a swath of clouds
and showers will extend from the western and central Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes region.
Rain in the Deep South can be locally heavy.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 92° in McAllen, Texas
Low 14° in Antero Reservoir, Colo.
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
64
70
68
68
67
72
70
59
69
69
58
65
70
65
59
70
18
57
84
76
61
75
63
81
65
87
Lo
39
50
48
47
44
53
45
43
46
45
39
46
59
36
42
44
8
38
70
61
44
54
36
59
52
64
Wed.
W
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s
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s
s
pc
c
c
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c
s
c
s
c
s
pc
c
sh
pc
s
s
pc
s
Hi
60
71
61
59
74
72
67
58
74
54
55
51
67
72
52
63
24
69
84
74
55
74
61
80
66
92
Lo
37
45
37
37
42
43
41
39
45
36
38
38
53
38
36
44
13
43
71
56
36
50
39
58
38
63
W
s
pc
sh
sh
s
s
s
sh
pc
c
s
c
pc
s
pc
pc
pc
s
sh
pc
s
pc
s
s
pc
s
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
68
65
82
56
58
69
77
66
61
62
67
89
57
63
69
65
71
75
64
64
79
72
65
84
68
62
Lo
46
53
68
40
37
48
65
50
48
32
51
63
37
42
47
33
41
51
43
43
64
56
54
58
52
37
W
c
pc
pc
sh
s
c
t
s
s
s
pc
s
s
s
pc
s
pc
pc
sh
s
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Wed.
Hi
59
65
82
55
60
65
74
57
63
62
58
84
52
61
65
78
72
76
60
66
86
70
63
78
60
62
Lo
40
43
67
40
42
38
60
38
39
40
40
61
32
37
40
44
39
49
40
41
64
55
48
55
42
35
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Acquittal of seven occupiers poses
questions on fate of seven more
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — The
U.S. Attorney’s office in
Oregon has taken a beating
since a jury acquitted seven
defendants of conspiracy and
weapons charges in an armed
takeover at a federal wildlife
refuge — and government
prosecutors still have a long
road ahead.
Seven more defendants
are set for trial in February in
a second high-stakes airing
of the same evidence and the
same witnesses. Under intense
scrutiny after the acquittals,
the government now must
decide whether it wants to
press forward with an almost
identical case, make changes
or give up entirely.
“I’m sure it was a
surprising verdict for the
government. I’m sure most
observers were assuming it
would be a fairly slam-dunk
case, and we were all wrong
about it,” said Tung Yin,
a former criminal defense
attorney and professor at
Lewis & Clark Law School
in Portland. “Knowing what
we know now, how would
they have approached this
case differently — and how
will they approach these other
defendants differently?”
The U.S. Attorney’s
office in Portland declined
to comment on the acquittals
and the upcoming trial.
Defense
attorneys,
however, questioned whether
government
prosecutors
would be wise to proceed,
given that the first jury
didn’t buy the government’s
conspiracy case. The next
round of defendants is also
emboldened by the acquittals
and considers another trial a
forum to bring their brand of
political protest to a national
audience for a second time.
“Watching the trial, it was
clear: This is what they wanted
to do and, to some extent, has
the government played into
their hands? Are they playing
into their hands in trial No.2?”
said Andrew Kohlmetz, an
attorney for Jason Patrick,
who has pleaded not guilty
to conspiracy and weapons
charges.
“They’re giving them a
soap box to stand on, and I
think they need to make some
tough policy decisions,” he
said of government attorneys.
Brothers Ammon and
Ryan Bundy and five others
were acquitted on Oct. 27 of
felony charges of conspiracy
to impede federal employees
from doing their job and
possession of firearms in
a federal facility after a
six-week trial in U.S. District
Court in Portland. The heavily
armed occupiers seized the
Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge on Jan. 2 to protest the
imprisonment of two Oregon
ranchers who were convicted
for setting fires on public land.
More than two dozen
others eventually joined the
41-day occupation, which
grew into demands for the
U.S. government to turn over
public lands to local control.
Now, prosecutors face a
range of unsavory options for
the second trial, legal experts
said.
They can proceed and risk
another acquittal, dismiss
the case entirely, add lesser
charges such as trespassing
to give the next jury more
options or offer plea deals to
defendants.
“If they came to me with
jaywalking and time served,
I’d tell them to go to hell. I
want to fight,” said Patrick, a
52-year-old roofer who was
jailed for six months before
a judge released him to await
trial. “If you fight the govern-
ment outside of court, they
will kill you. But if they invite
you into court to fight — and
your fight is right —then
fight.”
Complicating
matters,
the first group of defendants
included brothers Ammon
and Ryan Bundy, the self-pro-
fessed leaders of the standoff.
The February trial includes
defendants largely seen as
lesser players in the occupa-
tion, but the charges are just
as serious.
A judge has set a Nov. 16
date for attorneys from both
sides to file court papers indi-
cating how they would like to
proceed.
In the meantime, legal
experts cautioned about
thinking of last month’s
acquittals only in terms of a
defeat for prosecutors.
Government
attorneys
are sure to comb over every
decision they made during the
first trial and make changes
to counter perceived weak-
nesses, said Laurie Levenson,
a former federal prosecutor
and law professor at Loyola
Law School in Los Angeles.
That will likely make them
stronger at a second trial, if it
happens, she said.
For example, in the first
trial, standoff leader Ammon
Bundy testified for three days
in his own defense but was
only cross-examined for 15
minutes.
Prosecutors likely felt
that most of his testimony
was irrelevant, but Bundy’s
charisma and earnestness on
the stand may have impacted
the jury, she said.
“Someone who spends
three days on the stand really
develops a relationship with
the jury, and you really have to
anticipate that. It sounds like
Bundy was able to plant the
seeds of jury nullification,”
Levenson said. “And I don’t
know if the next defendants
would be able to do that.”
State tourism grows, generating
more income and problems
SALEM (AP) — Oregon
is expecting a record number
of visits to its state parks and
federal lands for the second
year in a row.
Data from multiple
agencies shows that the
crowds began growing in
2013 and show no signs of
slowing down, reported The
Statesman Journal.
The Columbia River
Gorge and Central Oregon
are the fastest-growing recre-
ation areas, but visits to the
coast, Crater Lake National
Park and John Day Fossil
Beds have also increased.
“The upside is that we’re
serving more people than
ever before — and seeing
more smiles than ever
before,” said Chris Havel,
spokesman for Oregon Parks
and Recreation Department.
“At the same time, we’re
having problems keeping up
with crowding, trash, and the
wear and tear on parks.”
The $10.8 billion industry
accounts for more than
105,000 jobs, according to
Travel Oregon, the state’s
tourism bureau, and can
offer an economic boost
to rural towns. But it has
also resulted in damage to
ecologically sensitive areas
and fatal accidents.
Trouble spots in recent
years include Opal Creek
Scenic Area,
Oneonta
Gorge and Blue Pool on the
McKenzie River. Oregon
officials are considering a
cap on the number of people
allowed to visit certain desti-
nations.
The tourism at Opal Creek
“puts a tremendous amount
of pressure on this fragile,
natural environment,” said
Josh Weathers, developed
recreation manager for
Willamette National Forest.
“From trash and human
waste, fires left burning, to
just trampled vegetation and
soil ... it’s being loved to
death.”
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