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WEATHER
East Oregonian
REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Cloudy with a
passing shower
Cloudy with a
couple of showers
64° 52°
60° 39°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Partly sunny
A little morning
rain
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
52° 35°
55° 42°
63° 34°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
64° 40°
66° 50°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
60°
54°
74° (2015)
42°
35°
8° (1906)
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
0.76"
0.50"
4.68"
3.33"
3.01"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
56°
57°
75° (2003)
Trace
0.35"
0.41"
3.81"
2.12"
2.65"
SUN AND MOON
Mar 27
Bend
64/46
Burns
62/38
First
Apr 3
Caldwell
71/45
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
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
68/46
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REGIONAL FORECAST
7:10 a.m.
7:00 p.m.
9:25 p.m.
8:22 a.m.
Full
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today. Rain and
drizzle across the north; a shower in central
parts.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today with a shower in places; warm.
Eastern Washington: Considerable cloudi-
ness today with a couple of showers.
Apr 10
Western Washington: Low clouds today;
occasional rain and drizzle, but a couple of
showers across the south.
Northern California: Partly sunny today.
Plenty of clouds tonight; rain and drizzle in
central parts.
Cascades: A thick cloud cover and mild
today with a shower.
Today
Wednesday
SW 6-12
SSW 6-12
SSW 6-12
SSW 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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Bills aim to prevent, mitigate oil-train disaster
SALEM (AP) — Native
Americans,
environmentalists
and a fishing guide spoke out
Monday in support of two bills
that aim to prevent, or at least
mitigate, an ecological disaster
like an oil spill into the Columbia
River.
One bill would require
railroads that own or operate
high-hazard train routes to adopt
oil-spill prevention and emergen-
cy-response planning, and ensure
they carry adequate insurance to
address a worst-case spill. The
other bill would prohibit the
Legislature from funding new
bulk coal or oil terminals.
Trains carrying oil travel
through Oregon to destinations
elsewhere, and among the ship-
ments is the highly volatile crude
from the Bakken Crude from
North Dakota. It was that type of
oil that was in a train that derailed
and caused a fire near Mosier
on June 3 along the pristine
Columbia River, a key salmon
habitat fished by Indian tribes.
The crash released oil alongside
tracks that parallel the Columbia
River.
“Our tiny town was nearly
wiped off the map,” Mosier
Mayor Arlene Burns told the
House Committee On Energy
and Environment. She said that
if the winds that normally sweep
through the Columbia River
Gorge had not been calm that
day, a conflagration would have
ensued.
Those testifying said Oregon
cannot prohibit oil trains from
transiting the state, but should
prepare for future accidents that
they said are sure to come.
“These are two good bills that
will honor the earth and protect
generations to come,” Cathy
Sampson-Kruse, a member of the
Walla Walla tribe whose father is
a tribal headman, said at a news
conference in the state capitol.
She said her father had just been
released from an intensive-care
unit for congestive heart failure,
and his message was “keep up the
good fight!”
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
WINDS
Medford
72/51
PRECIPITATION
Mar 20
John Day
67/52
Ontario
66/42
43°
34°
13° (1941)
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
Last
New
Albany
60/52
Eugene
62/51
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
66° 36°
Spokane
Wenatchee
55/46
50/40
Tacoma
Moses
58/48
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 61/48
56/49
53/49
57/48
65/44
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
58/53
63/53 Lewiston
65/51
Astoria
60/49
56/49
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
60/51
Pendleton 57/44
The Dalles 66/50
64/52
64/48
La Grande
Salem
61/49
60/51
Corvallis
61/52
HIGH
55° 42°
Seattle
56/48
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
56° 33°
Today
SATURDAY
Some sun, then
turning cloudy
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
Union
Pacific
Railroad
spokesman Aaron Hunt said in
submitted testimony that while
the railroad wants to partner with
the state to enhance rail safety,
he said the bill that sets out a
timeline for railroads to respond
to an emergency is invalid under
federal laws.
The bill says that a railroad
must, within one hour of confir-
mation of a spill, provide a quali-
fied company employee to advise
the state on-scene coordinator.
Within three hours, it should
have monitoring equipment and
a trained equipment operator to
assist in protecting emergency
responders and the public. Within
eight hours, the railroad should
NEW SPRING INDOOR
be capable of delivering and
deploying containment booms,
boats, oil recovery equipment,
trained staff and other materials.
Rob Bignall, a fishing guide
who managed part of the Exxon
Valdez oil spill in Alaska that
covered thousands of square
miles of coastline and ocean,
said responders would need to
act fast if another oil train derails
on the track that runs along the
Columbia River between Oregon
and Washington state.
“The river flows at 2 to 5 miles
an hour and this thing could get
out of hand very fast,” he told the
news conference.
The state Senate also has a
similar bill.
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warm front stationary front
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 99° in Thermal, Calif.
Low -17° in Glen Ullin, N.D.
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
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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
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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BRIEFLY
Feds file motion to
dismiss charges against
Bundy lawyer
Alcohol industry jobs
outpace software sector
PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon’s
software industry has been growing
fast, but the state’s economic
development agency says it has been
outpaced by another sector — the
alcohol industry — since the Great
Recession.
The Oregon Department of
Economic Analysis says software
employment was up by 6,900
jobs between January 2008 and
September 2016. But the alcohol
industry was up by 7,400 jobs during
the same time span.
Senior state economist Josh
Lehner says people who brew beer,
distill alcohol and make wine may
have lower wages on average than
those in the software industry, but
the booze business brings other
economic benefits.
Lehner says alcohol production
is a value-added industry with a
geographic spread across the state,
impacting agricultural production,
equipment manufacturing and
marketing services.
He says software remains a high-
wage and fast-growing sector that
contributes to Oregon’s economic
diversity.
Man arrested after
attack at Middle Eastern
restaurant
SALEM (AP) — Police arrested
an Oregon man accused of attacking
a restaurant employee with a pipe
while calling the worker a terrorist
and telling him to go back to his
country.
Court documents say Jason
Kendall told an arresting officer
he entered the Middle Eastern
restaurant in Salem last week after
seeing a woman who he thought was
being held as a slave because of the
style of blouse she was wearing.
The affidavit says Kendall was
asked to leave, but he returned
minutes later yelling, “Get out
of America!” He is accused of
throwing a plastic object at the
employee and hitting him with a
pipe.
The affidavit says the arresting
officer felt a small bump on the
worker’s head.
Police say Kendall told them he
acted in self-defense.
He is expected to be arraigned
Friday on charges of assault and
intimidation.
His court-appointed attorney,
Julia Ann Hyde, did not immediately
return a phone call seeking
comment.
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National Summary: A nor'easter will deliver heavy snow with strong wind for the
Northeastern states today. Much of the Plains will be dry and cold. As heat builds in the
Southwest, rain will cool the Northwest.
PORTLAND (AP) — Federal
prosecutors assigned to the criminal
case against the lawyer for the
leader of the armed occupation at
an Oregon wildlife refuge have
filed a motion to drop the remaining
charges.
The Oregonian/OregonLive
reports prosecutors filed the motion
Monday, more than three weeks after
a judge dropped one of the three
charges against Marcus Mumford.
Special attorneys Timothy J.
Ohms and George J.C. Jacobs
of Washington state filed the
motion in U.S. District Court in
Portland, asking a judge to dismiss
the criminal information without
prejudice, meaning the government
could file charges in the future.
Mumford’s lawyer, Michael
Levine, said he was thankful, but
didn’t know what prompted the
government’s decision.
The incident in question occurred
when Mumford’s client Ammon
Bundy was acquitted last fall and
Mumford was tackled by federal
marshals for refusing to stop arguing
with the judge.
Native Americans Cathy Sampson-Cruse, left, and Raymond Es-
trada appear at a news conference at the Oregon State Capitol,
Monday in Salem, in support of two bills.
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