WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a shower
Intervals of clouds
and sunshine
47° 37°
44° 30°
SATURDAY
Cloudy
Cloudy, a few
showers; cooler
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
44° 39°
49° 40°
45° 29°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
49° 31°
51° 38°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
49°
37°
43°
29°
72° (1892) -13° (1896)
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"
0.87"
1.42"
11.26"
7.81"
11.45"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
52°
44°
67° (1973)
0.00"
0.54"
1.15"
7.87"
5.39"
8.46"
SUN AND MOON
Dec 13
Bend
42/24
Burns
38/18
Last
7:15 a.m.
4:13 p.m.
7:59 a.m.
5:37 p.m.
New
Dec 20
Dec 28
Caldwell
41/25
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
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Hi
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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
42/18
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Variable cloudiness today
with showers; showers will be most numer-
ous in the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A bit of snow
and rain at times today; mainly only during
the morning in the west.
Western Washington: Clouds and occa-
sional sunshine today with spotty showers.
A stray shower tonight.
Eastern Washington: A little snow and rain
ending in the west this morning; spotty
snow and rain anytime east.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy today with snow
showers, accumulating a coating to an inch
or two.
Northern California: A shower in spots
today, but a snow shower in the interior
mountains.
Today
Thursday
WSW 7-14
WSW 8-16
WSW 6-12
WSW 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
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County children, who are
represented by guardian ad
litem Richard Vangelisti.
The plaintiffs, in essence,
wanted the court to require
DHS to stop housing kids in
hotels or offices.
Neither party is waiving
argument, but the interim
settlement agreement means
that the plaintiffs have agreed
that putting a child up in a
hotel temporarily, for the
time period in the agreement,
is an acceptable exception to
what they argue is a generally
“nonpermissible” practice.
DHS has said that beds
for children in foster care
are increasingly scarce;
since this summer, it has
been under scrutiny both for
persistent safety problems
and for putting children up
temporarily in hotels and its
field offices.
Some foster children have
also been held in juvenile
detention or in hospitals
when they no longer needed
a high level of medical care.
DHS, under the agree-
ment, also must not “seek”
to place kids in detention
centers temporarily. At least
one foster child in Deschutes
County has been held in
the local juvenile detention
facility.
The agency must not also
keep children in hospitals
in the absence of a medical
purpose, unless the child
faces a safety risk.
Child welfare issues will
likely continue to be the
subject of discussion going
into the legislative session,
which is scheduled to get
underway in February.
In late August, a
consulting firm found the
state had a number of gaps
in how safety issues are
reported and addressed in the
foster care system.
The governor’s new foster
care advisory commission
will study foster care issues
and recommend legislation.
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
PORTLAND — The
Oregon Department of
Human Services has agreed
to stop temporarily housing
foster kids in hotels or offices
except under certain circum-
stances.
The
department
is
defending itself against a
lawsuit filed by children’s
advocates challenging its
practice of housing foster
children in those settings.
The department and plain-
tiffs in the lawsuit reached an
interim settlement agreement
earlier this month.
The agreement, publicly
announced Tuesday, states
that effective Dec. 31, DHS
will cease placing children
overnight in DHS offices
unless there is no “available
and safe hotel” within 30
miles or 30 minutes of the
office.
DHS has agreed to not
house children in its care for
more than two nights in a
DHS office prior to Dec. 31.
The agreement also says
that foster children will
be placed in hotels only in
“emergency circumstances”
where no “safe or appro-
priate” licensed residential
placement or certified foster
home is available.
Further, a foster child
who is housed temporarily in
DHS offices or hotels must
continue to attend the school
or daycare in which he or she
is enrolled, according to the
agreement.
Settlement talks continue
in the case, according to Youth
Rights and Justice, a Portland
group that is providing legal
representation to the two
young plaintiffs.
The parties have agreed to
stay all action in the lawsuit
while confidential settlement
discussions continue.
The lawsuit was filed on
behalf of the two Multnomah
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
WORLD CITIES
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By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
WINDS
Medford
48/33
PRECIPITATION
Dec 7
John Day
41/31
Ontario
40/23
31°
30°
8° (1985)
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
51/41
Eugene
51/38
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
49° 30°
Spokane
Wenatchee
37/30
44/33
Tacoma
Moses
51/36
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 44/29
38/33
50/41
50/36
50/29
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
51/42
46/36 Lewiston
52/36
Astoria
42/33
53/43
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
51/40
Pendleton 37/26
The Dalles 51/38
47/37
51/36
La Grande
Salem
41/32
51/40
Corvallis
50/39
HIGH
53° 42°
Seattle
51/41
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
48° 41°
Today
SUNDAY
Turning cloudy
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
-10s
-0s
0s
showers t-storms
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Rain and thunderstorms will affect much of the eastern third of the
nation with snow in northern Maine, the Upper Midwest and interior Northwest today. Rain
will dampen the coastal Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 94° in McAllen, Texas
Low -5° in Grand Canyon, Ariz.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Hi
41
70
63
70
37
65
41
52
81
65
45
59
62
43
56
53
-12
37
82
70
54
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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
Los Angeles
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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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58
83
47
41
63
68
60
56
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67
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79
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68
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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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Seattle home prices see biggest growth in U.S.
Portland ousted from top spot where home values gained 10.9 San Diego, according to a Zillow anal-
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle area
has the hottest housing market in the
country — the first time in nine years
that Seattle has led the United States in
home-price growth.
The Seattle Times reports the typical
single-family home across King,
Snohomish and Pierce counties cost
11 percent more in September than a
year prior, according to the monthly
Case-Shiller home price index released
Tuesday.
That marked the biggest increase
among the 20 major metro areas
covered.
Seattle narrowly topped Portland,
percent. For the prior eight months,
Seattle had seen its home-price growth
sit second in the country behind Port-
land.
Overall, Seattle prices are rising
twice as fast as the rest of the country,
as they have for most of this year.
The Seattle area had already broken
its old record earlier this year after
seeing prices rise for more than four
straight years. The region has seen
home values jump nearly 60 percent
since early 2012.
Seattle-area home values are the
fifth-priciest among the 50 biggest
metro areas in the country, behind San
Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles and
ysis. In the past year, Greater Seattle
surpassed the Boston, New York and
Washington, D.C., metro areas on the
list of most expensive regions to buy
a house.
The Zillow data shows that home
values across the Seattle metro area —
King, Pierce and Snohomish counties
— topped $400,000 for the first time a
few months ago, up from $300,000 just
three years prior.
The latest figures from the North-
west Multiple Listing Service showed
the median single-family house in
October cost $550,000 in King County,
$387,000 in Snohomish County and
$280,000 in Pierce County.
Eugene police arrest man 7 days after initial standoff
EUGENE (AP) —
Eugene police have arrested
a man seven days after
he held them at bay in a
six-hour standoff.
The Register Guard
reports Tuesday that
26-year-old Joshua Austin
Thomas was booked into
Lane County Jail late
Monday on suspicion of
violating parole, menacing,
being a felon in possession
of a weapon, unlawful use
of a weapon, as well as
interfering with making a
report.
The newspaper
previously reported that
Thomas, of Eugene, held
police at bay for hours
on Nov. 22 until police
command staff decided to
retreat and come back later
to arrest Thomas.
That decision drew the
ire of the Eugene Police
Employees Association.
The police union
released a letter that
said the decision as
“unethical, cowardly and
irresponsible.”
Thomas eluded officers
again on Nov. 23 and once
more on Saturday.
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