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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY A snow shower this morning Mostly cloudy and very cold 31° 15° 28° 17° THURSDAY FRIDAY Cold with intermittent snow Mostly cloudy PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 28° 25° 40° 32° 39° 29° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 31° 20° 36° 18° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 40° 41° 66° (1944) 25° 28° 1° (1972) 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 0.01" 0.23" 11.31" 7.95" 11.74" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 41° 41° 63° (1946) 0.00" 0.00" 0.27" 7.90" 5.57" 8.77" SUN AND MOON Dec 13 Bend 28/7 7:21 a.m. 4:11 p.m. 12:07 p.m. 11:26 p.m. Last New Dec 20 Dec 28 Caldwell 34/14 Burns 29/-1 Hi 43 30 28 47 29 27 42 29 36 31 35 31 28 45 45 48 35 39 31 41 32 42 28 27 40 32 38 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 28 6 7 35 -1 6 22 11 18 10 10 12 9 26 30 32 13 15 15 26 3 22 11 6 26 17 15 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. W s sf sn pc sn sn pc sn pc sn sn sn sn sn pc sh sf pc sf pc sn pc pc sn pc sf pc Hi 42 25 26 47 24 23 37 26 31 29 33 27 25 42 42 48 30 33 28 38 30 38 22 25 37 29 33 Lo 35 15 18 43 16 12 33 16 20 21 27 18 16 36 37 43 16 19 17 32 19 32 11 14 31 20 20 W c pc pc c pc pc c c c pc sn pc pc c c c pc pc c pc pc c pc pc pc pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Hi 43 73 59 53 75 23 49 57 38 78 60 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 25 63 44 47 47 8 36 41 28 68 42 Wed. W s pc s c pc sf pc c s t s Hi 48 73 60 57 76 17 51 60 47 76 50 Lo 27 62 44 49 47 14 37 40 25 67 43 W s s s pc pc c pc s sh pc c WINDS Medford 45/26 PRECIPITATION Dec 7 John Day 31/10 Ontario 35/13 22° 29° 1° (2013) 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 41/24 Eugene 42/22 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 42° 31° Spokane Wenatchee 28/11 33/15 Tacoma Moses 40/20 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 35/14 30/13 40/27 39/21 38/15 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 38/24 32/17 Lewiston 36/17 Astoria 34/20 43/28 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 41/26 Pendleton 27/6 The Dalles 36/18 31/15 38/21 La Grande Salem 31/12 42/22 Corvallis 42/25 HIGH 36° 29° Seattle 39/26 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 26° 22° Today SATURDAY Not as cold; a bit of a.m. snow Tuesday, December 6, 2016 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 35/10 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today. Mainly clear tonight. Cascades: Additional snow today, mainly during the morning; a few more inches in the south. Northern California: Snow showers in the interior mountains today; partly sunny elsewhere. Cold tonight. Wednesday N 6-12 WNW 7-14 NNE 6-12 NNE 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today; some showers central and southern spots, mainly during the morning. Eastern and Central Oregon: A snow shower today, but a bit of snow in the south and near the Cascades. Western Washington: Sunshine and patchy clouds today. Mainly clear tonight. Clouds and sun tomorrow. Today 0 0 0 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 88° in Plant City, Fla. Low -9° in Stanley, Idaho 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 50 68 50 45 14 63 33 44 75 49 37 44 56 32 43 62 -14 26 81 70 44 82 40 63 53 64 Lo 32 44 46 39 0 39 15 38 52 34 21 31 40 8 29 43 -21 12 68 48 25 49 23 39 33 49 W s t r r c c c pc r r c r pc sn r s s sn pc s r r pc pc c pc Wed. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Appeals court affirms conviction in car-bomb plot By STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND — A federal appeals court Monday upheld the conviction of Mohamed Mohamud, the Somali American sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to bomb downtown Portland during the annual lighting of a Christmas tree. Mohamud pressed a cellphone button in November 2010, believing it would set off explosives in a van. The bomb, however, was a fake provided by FBI agents posing as terrorists. Mohamud’s attorneys claimed the teenager was victim of entrap- ment, that he had neither the means nor the intent to commit domestic terrorism until he was persuaded in that direction by undercover agents. Pioneer Courthouse Square — and Prosecutors said at Mohamud’s planned where the van would be trial that the college student was parked. “Despite being provided on the path to radical- numerous opportunities ization, and it was only to deviate from or termi- the FBI’s intervention nate the plan, Mohamud that prevented him from never displayed any committing terrorism in reluctance in going the U.S. or abroad. through with a horrific The 9th U.S. Circuit attack that would have Court of Appeals killed and maimed count- acknowledged in its less people, including 50-page opinion that the young children,” Owens government’s conduct Mohamud wrote. was quite aggressive In the same opinion, at times, but the court the court also rejected said the sting operation fell short an assertion that the warrantless of a violation of the right to due surveillance of Mohamud’s foreign communications violated his process. Judge John B. Owens, who constitutional rights. The surveillance was autho- wrote the opinion, pointed out that Mohamud picked the target — rized by the Foreign Intelligence Couple, water district sued over fatal mudslide Lawsuit alleges district failed to maintain water line EUGENE (AP) — Two sons of an Oregon woman killed when a mudslide plowed through her home last winter are seeking nearly $10 million in a lawsuit filed against a couple and a utility district. Delores Miller, 70, died Dec. 18, 2015, after part of a private road on her neigh- bor’s property north of Florence collapsed, causing debris to flow into her home during a rainstorm along the Oregon Coast, according to the lawsuit filed in Lane County last week by her sons, Stephen Miller and Keith Eldien. The men assert the Heceta Water People’s Utility District failed to properly maintain a water line that runs beneath the road. The improper maintenance resulted in leakage that contributed to hazardous conditions, according to the lawsuit. Moreover, the plaintiffs allege the neighbors, William and Gail Munzer, failed to install, maintain or repair drainage ditches, or take other steps to prevent landslide dangers on that section of property. The Register-Guard reports the couple and the water district have yet to file a response to the lawsuit. Gail Munzer declined comment when reached by telephone by the newspaper and the water district did not return a phone message. According to minutes from an emergency water district board meeting held five days after the slide, district officials acknowl- edged that the water line was compromised in the incident and that a leak existed somewhere above the slide area. Delores Miller’s husband, Gary Miller, suffered minor injuries. He escaped the home with one of the couple’s two dogs. Firefighters recovered the body of the other dog. The lawsuit says the home near Mercer Lake sustained “catastrophic physical damage.” Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Surveillance Court. The law that created the secretive court allows warrantless physical and electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists. Mohamud’s attorney challenged the trial judge’s decision not to suppress, based on tardy disclosure, information collected through the act. The Appeals Court found that Mohamud could not demonstrate prejudice, and the late disclosure was not because of prosecutorial misconduct. The panel noted there were likely several errors regarding what evidence was allowed at trial, but determined they were “cumula- tively harmless.” Federal public defender Lisa Hay expressed disappointment with the opinion and said she expects to continue fighting on Mohamud’s behalf. “The 9th Circuit recognized that Mr. Mohamud presented a solid case for entrapment at trial. Those were their words,” Hay said. The appeals court’s deci- sion was also criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union. “Contrary to the court’s ruling, this sweeping surveillance violates the constitutional safeguards intended to protect Americans’ privacy,” ACLU staff attorney Patrick Toomey said. Mohamud arrived in the United States at 3 years old. Owens wrote that Mohamud was like any other American teenager, but something changed after believing he was racially profiled by security at a London airport in December 2008. He’s serving his sentence at a Cali- fornia prison. Senators ask for quick action on Hanford vapors By ANNETTE CAREY Tri-City Herald Three key senators are pressing the energy secretary to move quickly and definitively to take action on new recommendations to protect workers from chemical vapors at the Hanford nuclear reservation. The National Institute for Occupa- tional Safety and Health, or NIOSH, released a review with multiple recom- mendations last week following a June request by the Department of Energy. “We request that DOE develop an implementation plan which includes a clear schedule and the funding necessary to carry them out successfully,” said a letter sent Monday to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz by Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, both D-Wash., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore. “Nothing less than a complete commitment to safety at Hanford is acceptable,” the letter said. Since the report was completed on Nov. 28, a dozen more workers have been given medical exams after smelling suspicious, ammonia-like odors. All were cleared to return to work, but workers are concerned that chemical exposure associated with waste held in underground tanks could lead to serious neurological or respiratory illnesses. The report noted that few, if any, of thousands of air samples collected have shown exposures above limits set to protect workers from key chemicals in the vapors. It also acknowledged that the health effects of mixtures of chem- icals in the vapors are not clear. DOE has spent more than $50 million to improve safety with new monitoring and detecting technologies in the past year, and its contractor has hired more than 100 additional industrial hygiene staff and technicians. Recommendations in the report covered four areas, ranging from ways to control worker exposures to ways to restore worker trust in management. They included: ▪ Leadership of DOE and its tank farm contractor, Washington River Protection Solutions, should acknowledge health and exposure concerns as legitimate. DOE and its contractor may need to turn to professional mediation or arbi- tration to find points of agreement and establish a path forward on tank farm worker safety and health issues that is acceptable to all. O R ORDER YOUR HOLIDAY CENTERPIECES EARLY! ▪ Meetings should be held to allow workers to ask questions and discuss their concerns about the worker compensa- tion program with the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries’ workers’ compensation ombudsman. A focused review of worker medical data is needed to help establish the most appropriate medical screening and care for tank farm workers. ▪ A conservative approach should be used to establish tank farm perimeters, basing them on evidence of chemical vapors as much as possible. Workers are required to use respiratory protection to enter tank farm perimeters. The number of workers entering the tank farms should be limited to as few as necessary, and people working nearby may need to be assigned to different offices in some cases. ▪ A centralized website or manual is needed to explain industrial hygiene procedures in a way that management and workers can understand. The importance of initial and recurring training for industrial hygiene technicians should be emphasized to ensure they are familiar with new tech- nology and how data are interpreted and explained to workers. When they say “Winter is Here!” and you say “Look in a Mirror?” Flowers • Candles • Jewelry Plants • Balloons & More! Put a smile on the heart with the power of flowers. 541-567-4063 HWY 395, HERMISTON 405 N. 1st St., Suite #107, Hermiston 541-567-4305 Mon-Sat 8am-6pm • Sun 12pm-5am www.cottagefl owersonline.com Ric Jones, BC-HIS Verna Taylor, HAS Forrest Cahill, HAS 541-215-1888 246 SW Dorion, Pendleton
