WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
Intervals of clouds
and sun
Morning rain;
mostly cloudy
48° 41°
45° 27°
MONDAY
TUESDAY
A little afternoon
snow
Very cold with
clouds and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
39° 24°
31° 17°
27° 15°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
48° 28°
53° 43°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
46°
41°
67° (1975)
31°
28°
6° (1985)
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"
0.00"
0.09"
11.30"
7.94"
11.60"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
46°
43°
70° (1941)
0.00"
0.00"
0.11"
7.90"
5.54"
8.61"
SUN AND MOON
Dec 13
Bend
44/32
7:18 a.m.
4:12 p.m.
10:21 a.m.
8:14 p.m.
Last
New
Dec 20
Dec 28
Caldwell
44/28
Burns
42/21
Hi
54
40
44
53
42
38
53
46
53
44
45
44
41
52
53
55
43
53
48
52
46
53
41
41
51
50
51
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
Lo
44
26
32
44
21
29
43
38
43
33
26
35
34
37
45
46
27
41
41
44
29
44
34
33
46
42
33
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
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Hi
50
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52
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37
47
43
48
44
44
41
39
52
48
51
45
50
45
47
46
47
40
39
48
47
48
Lo
39
16
21
39
17
13
34
24
28
20
22
21
20
34
38
39
22
26
27
37
23
36
22
17
37
27
23
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
50
76
57
46
74
25
42
59
49
77
59
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
29
69
46
32
45
16
28
44
36
68
49
Sun.
W
s
pc
s
pc
pc
sf
pc
pc
pc
pc
s
Hi
51
78
60
44
72
21
45
59
52
82
61
Lo
26
66
47
34
45
13
34
43
42
69
50
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WINDS
Medford
52/37
PRECIPITATION
Dec 7
John Day
44/33
Ontario
43/27
27°
29°
-5° (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
53/45
Eugene
53/43
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
29° 20°
Spokane
Wenatchee
41/34
46/35
Tacoma
Moses
50/39
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 50/37
43/35
50/41
49/39
51/33
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
51/43
50/42 Lewiston
54/43
Astoria
47/37
54/44
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
52/44
Pendleton 38/29
The Dalles 53/43
48/41
53/39
La Grande
Salem
44/35
53/44
Corvallis
52/46
HIGH
35° 18°
Seattle
50/41
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
41° 27°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Increasing amounts
of sunshine
Saturday, December 3, 2016
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
45/26
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Periods of clouds and
sun today.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with a shower in places. Occasional rain
tonight.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today;
not as cold in the interior mountains. Mainly
clear tonight.
Cascades: Cloudy today; a rain or snow
shower in spots.
Sunday
W 7-14
WSW 8-16
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: A little rain across the
north today; clouds and sun elsewhere.
Showers tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mainly cloudy
today.
Today
WSW 8-16
WSW 8-16
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0s
showers t-storms
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
50s
ice
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Lake-effect snow is in store for part of the Northeast today as snow
showers dwindle over the northern Rockies. Rain and flooding will affect the South Central
states with damp weather in the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 84° in Brownsville, Texas
Low -1° in Loa, Utah
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
47
57
51
50
44
53
43
47
61
44
38
40
54
45
41
49
-3
36
80
66
43
68
43
60
46
70
Lo
26
44
37
32
30
42
30
31
44
30
27
31
46
18
31
38
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29
71
54
31
51
37
40
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Hi
47
50
48
48
45
53
45
40
64
47
37
44
58
51
41
53
-11
38
79
61
41
74
48
62
49
73
Lo
27
46
38
34
26
46
24
29
53
38
30
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29
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-22
26
69
53
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61
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Today
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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
49
50
79
38
35
50
69
47
48
40
51
70
45
48
55
41
49
59
47
36
69
61
50
64
52
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Lo
37
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27
31
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64
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30
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51
80
38
39
49
75
46
55
46
49
68
38
44
53
45
55
60
43
43
70
59
46
67
49
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Lo
37
43
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31
28
40
62
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32
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Brian Davies/The Register-Guard via AP
In this 2015 photo, visitors to the Oregon State Hos-
pital Junction City campus walk outside the facility
during a public tour in Junction City.
Governor suggests
closure of new
psychiatric hospital
SALEM (AP) — Eugene-
area residents are uneasy
following Gov. Kate Brown’s
proposal to permanently
close a new, $130 million
psychiatric hospital there.
On Thursday, Brown
suggested
closing
the
18-month-old Junction City
hospital to help fix a large
health care budget hole,
reported The Register-Guard.
The proposal calls for perma-
nently closing the facility in
mid-2018, saving the state
an estimated $34.5 million a
year.
The hospital’s 422 jobs
have provided an economic
boost to the region since it
opened in mid-2015 after
years of funding negotiations.
Its closure would require
approval by state legislators
and most of the proposed
savings would come from
wages and benefits.
“I shudder to think of the
impact from an employee
standpoint,” said Junction
City Administrator Jason
Knope on Thursday. “This
caught us completely off
guard today. I did not have
any inkling that this was
coming down the pipe.”
He said closing the
hospital would also mean a
loss of utility revenue for the
city.
Danna
Coleman
of
Springfield has worked at the
hospital as a mental health
technician for eight months.
She said she’s not worried
about finding another job if
the facility closes, but she’s
concerned about her clients.
“I have no clue what will
happen to them,” she said.
“Psych beds are tight every-
where.”
The hospital serves too
many people to simply
displace, so another facility
would be required, according
to Coleman.
Brown said she favors
“deinstitutionalization” of
mental health care, which
played into her suggestion
of closing the hospital.
She said she’d like to see
most patients transferred to
smaller community-based
mental health facilities,
although Oregon has chron-
ically struggled to fund such
institutions.
“It was a very difficult
decision for me to make,”
Brown said. “It’s really
important that the people
struggling with mental health
issues get the services they
need.”
Corrections
The Dec. 2 story “Blazers visit Hermiston boy” mis-
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Daughtery.
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P O RT L A N D
waiting for his
(AP)
—
A
case to be called,
4-year-old macaw
he was taken for
named “Bird” is
a drug urine test
an instant celebrity
and failed, Ray
after appearing in
said.
When he real-
a posed booking
ized he was going
mug
shot
in
to be arrested,
Oregon with his
Buckner
got
unfortunate owner.
very upset and
Craig Buckner Buckner, Bird
deputies finally
left Bird in a tree
outside court in Washington realized why.
“He was very concerned
County while he went in for
an appearance Thursday in about Bird the bird,” Ray
an ongoing drug and theft said. “Very distraught.”
Bird was 30 feet up the
case, said Sgt. Bob Ray, the
tree, Ray said, and it was
sheriff’s spokesman.
Buckner
was
not getting dark and rainy.
expecting to be arrested, but Temperatures were in the
when he fell asleep while low 40s.
Deputies realized there
was no way Bird — a trop-
ical parrot — would survive
overnight, but he would not
come to them.
They eventually brought
Buckner
outside
and
removed the restraints from
one of his hands.
Bird immediately flew
down to Buckner and landed
on his shoulder.
The macaw stayed with
deputies for several hours
and feasted on peanuts until
they reached a friend who
could pick Bird up.
While they waited, depu-
ties let Buckner’s feathered
friend sit on his shoulder in
a set up booking shot, just
BRIEFLY
Hillsboro man
sentenced for
‘revenge porn’
Mother sues for $5
million after tree
causes son’s death
PORTLAND (AP) — A
Hillsboro man has been
sentenced to jail time after
being among the first people
to be convicted under
Oregon’s new law banning
so-called “revenge porn.”
The Oregonian reports
that 31-year-old Benjamin
Barber on Thursday was
sentenced to six months in
jail for uploading sexually
explicit videos of a woman
onto several porn websites
without her consent.
He is not required to
register as a sex offender.
Barber uploaded four
pornographic videos of
himself and the woman to
nine websites. The videos
were taken when the two
were a couple but were
uploaded after they had
ended their relationship.
Prosecutors say Barber’s
case was the first to go to
trial in Washington County
for unlawful dissemination
of an intimate image.
PORTLAND(AP)
— The mother of an
11-year-old boy who died
after a tree struck the car
they were riding in is
seeking $5 million for her
physical and psychological
injuries.
The Oregonian reports
Susan Graham filed a
lawsuit Wednesday against
two Portland property
owners, alleging they failed
to recognize that a large
cedar tree on one or both
properties was dead and a
risk to public safety.
Graham and her son,
Thomas, had been heading
toward Lake Oswego in
December 2014 when the
tree fell on their vehicle,
which continued for about
50 feet before crashing into
another tree. The boy died
at the scene.
Graham suffered serious
injuries that required
multiple surgeries and
months of rehabilitation.
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A $2.5 million lawsuit
filed by Graham’s husband
against the same property
owners on behalf of their
son’s estate is pending.
Couple charged
with trying to steal
Crater Lake fees
PORTLAND (AP) — A
man and woman are facing
federal indictment for
attempting to break into
a fee collection box at an
entrance to Crater Lake
National Park.
The Oregonian reports
that an indictment filed
Thursday in U.S. District
for kicks.
They also took a real
booking photo of Buckner
without Bird — but the
macaw still managed to
photo bomb it with a few
of his colorful feathers, Ray
said.
“It’s quite funny,” he
said. “How can you resist
that?”
The department is proud
of how it landed the Bird,
even if it did take extra time
on a busy day, Ray said.
“We’re not all robots.
We’re humans, we love
animals and we want to do
the right thing,” he said.
“For the animal, and for
Mr. Buckner too.”
Court in Medford says the
pair tried repeatedly to
break open the container
during an early morning in
November. Visitors deposit
a fee of $10 per vehicle
in the collection container
before entering the park.
Court documents say the
couple employed a drill,
hammer, crowbar and Ford
Taurus in their attempt to
get into the collection box.
When that didn’t work, they
reportedly returned the next
day with a reciprocating
saw.
U.S. National Park
Service ranger Shane A.
Rogers says the couple was
caught on surveillance.