WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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.
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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
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sn
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pc
c
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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
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s
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Hi
48
73
60
57
76
17
51
60
47
76
50
Lo
27
62
44
49
47
14
37
40
25
67
43
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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
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
-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 will affect the Ohio Valley to the Southeast and wind-swept snow
will fall in the Upper Midwest and the central Appalachians today. Arctic air will expand
over the Central states.
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
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Wed.
Hi
45
60
53
53
11
58
30
45
67
45
31
41
56
17
38
61
-12
19
81
67
37
73
31
54
44
66
Lo
22
41
38
31
-3
40
19
35
48
29
16
26
33
-1
26
34
-20
11
70
51
21
46
14
35
29
49
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
50
54
84
40
29
55
64
47
49
35
47
67
40
46
51
23
44
55
45
34
64
56
39
71
45
44
Lo
30
35
72
22
18
33
50
40
27
17
43
50
26
36
38
-1
16
33
27
19
53
42
26
47
40
27
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r
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Wed.
Hi
46
48
83
32
23
49
67
49
46
26
51
66
39
48
60
13
40
50
40
29
66
53
37
65
53
37
Lo
27
30
71
19
16
30
52
37
19
10
35
46
29
34
40
-2
29
42
20
15
49
48
30
42
37
15
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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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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
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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.
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