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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Mostly cloudy with a little rain Pleasant and warmer 67° 49° 74° 55° SUNDAY MONDAY Pleasant and warmer Mostly sunny and nice PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 84° 57° 93° 63° 86° 57° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 80° 58° 74° 50° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 72° 78° 101° (1961) 54° 52° 34° (1920) 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 0.95" 0.76" 10.10" 5.92" 7.27" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 73° 79° 99° (1974) John Day 61/46 Ontario 71/50 Bend 62/42 57° 53° 40° (1930) Burns 64/39 Trace 0.24" 0.36" 6.55" 4.35" 5.47" SUN AND MOON 5:05 a.m. 8:47 p.m. 12:45 a.m. 12:02 p.m. First Full June 17 June 23 June 30 July 8 Caldwell 71/51 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 Hi 63 62 62 63 64 58 67 65 74 61 73 60 58 76 60 64 71 76 67 67 65 68 68 59 66 72 75 Lo 47 39 42 54 39 41 48 46 50 46 44 45 42 56 48 53 50 48 49 52 39 50 46 42 50 53 44 W sh r c c c sh sh r c r pc r r pc sh c c c r sh c sh sh r sh sh c NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 63 71 75 67 75 69 77 74 80 73 79 71 69 86 63 68 77 80 74 73 78 76 70 71 73 77 78 Lo 54 45 49 56 43 45 51 51 58 48 47 50 48 58 51 55 52 54 55 57 46 54 52 46 57 59 53 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W c pc s s pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Hi 101 91 83 74 79 57 74 85 88 64 80 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 71 82 63 60 54 49 55 66 64 57 65 W pc t s pc pc r pc s s c s Sat. Hi 97 86 83 82 80 68 82 85 83 64 78 Lo 75 81 63 62 51 52 62 65 62 55 65 W c r s s pc pc s s s sh s WINDS Medford 76/56 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 Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New Albany 67/51 Eugene 67/48 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 92° 59° Spokane Wenatchee 68/46 71/49 Tacoma Moses 68/43 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 74/45 63/44 63/46 68/43 75/44 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 66/46 72/53 Lewiston 76/49 Astoria 70/51 63/47 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 67/52 Pendleton 58/41 The Dalles 74/50 67/49 72/53 La Grande Salem 60/45 68/50 Corvallis 68/49 HIGH 98° 65° Seattle 69/49 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 90° 58° Today TUESDAY Hot with plenty of sun Friday, June 16, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 73/44 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy today; a little rain spreading from south to the upper Treasure Valley. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today. A couple of showers; only in the morning at the coast. Eastern Washington: Times of clouds and sun today with brief showers. Partly cloudy tonight. Cascades: Mostly cloudy today with a couple of showers. Northern California: Partial sunshine today. Clear to partly cloudy tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow. Saturday WSW 6-12 WSW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: A stray shower in the morning; otherwise, mostly cloudy today. Today WSW 8-16 WSW 7-14 1 2 3 3 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and Dec. 25, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 1 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday -10s -0s showers t-storms By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press RICHLAND, Wash. — Future accidental radiation releases at the largest U.S. site of waste from nuclear weapons production are likely following back-to-back emergency evacuations of workers in May and June because aging infrastructure is breaking down, the top Energy Department official at the site told The Associated Press. Adding to the likelihood of more nuclear mishaps at the sprawling Hanford Nuclear Reservation is inadequate government funding to quickly clean up the millions of gallons of toxic nuclear waste at the site, said Doug Shoop, who runs the depart- ment’s operations office at Hanford. Hanford has an annual budget of $2.3 billion for cleanup but Shoop said it will cost at least $100 billion to clean up the highly toxic radioactive and chemical wastes on the 580-square mile site which produced up to 70 percent of the plutonium for the U.S. nuclear arsenal since it was established in World War II. “The infrastructure is not going to last long enough for the cleanup,” Shoop said in an interview this week. “It will be another 50 years before it is all demolished.” Shoop made the comments after hundreds of Hanford workers were evacuated May 9 when the roof of a 1950s rail tunnel storing a lethal mix of waste from plutonium produc- tion collapsed. Tests show no radiation was released. Then, on June 8, demo- lition work at a 1940s plutonium plant sent 350 workers seeking cover inside. Radiation was emitted but not deemed at a level harmful to people. More money would lead to a faster cleanup, Shoop said. But President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for next year includes a $120 million cut for Hanford. The official deadline for cleaning up Hanford is 2060, but Shoop said so much infrastructure at the site is AP Photo/Ted S. Warren In this photo taken July 2016, a sign warns of radioac- tive material stored underground on the Hanford Nu- clear Reservation near Richland, Wash. deteriorating that “some facil- ities are not going to withstand that time.” The site’s cleanup began in 1989 and critics have accused regulators of allowing the U.S. government to delay cleanup deadlines by decades, putting lives and the environment at risk. “Every year that we don’t have an earthquake ... has been just luck,” said Gerry Pollet, a Washington state legislator who represents a liberal Seattle district, about 200 miles from Hanford. Shoop said about half of the site is free of pollution. And parts of Hanford make up the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park, where visitors can learn about the development of the atomic bomb. But Hanford’s most dangerous contaminated waste has not been cleaned up, and the two recent evacuation incidents illustrated problems that could become more frequent in the future. In the May rail tunnel collapse, a huge sinkhole suddenly emerged above the 360-foot long tunnel holding eight railroad cars that trans- ported waste in the 1950s. The earth that fell into the tunnel helped prevent radiation from going into the air because it covered the railroad cars. Workers have since filled in the sinkhole and covered the tunnel with a fabric similar to what is used to cover farmers’ haystacks. Officials were aware of the risk to the tunnel, Shoop said. He warned other aging facilities at Hanford also pose a risk. “There are a whole bunch of things analogous to the tunnels,” he said. In the June incident, radiation warnings sounded as workers removed outdoor equipment from a plant that once churned out disks of plutonium for use in nuclear weapons and is now one of Hanford’s most polluted areas. The event illustrated how Hanford’s precautions to protect its workers have paid off and how they’ll likely face similar situations in the future, Shoop said. “We are sending people into environments no one was expected to go to,” Shoop said. “Is there the potential for more alarms? Absolutely.” Hanford’s has 177 under- ground tanks made of steel that contain more that 54 million gallons of radioactive and chemical wastes. In late May, radioactive contamination was also found on robotic equipment surveying the space between the walls of a double-walled underground nuclear waste storage tank, indicating a possible leak. Some radio- activity was discovered on the clothing of the worker who removed the robot from the tank, although no skin contamination was found, Hanford officials said. In addition, vapors for several years have escaped from underground storage tanks and made dozens of workers sick, most recently on Tuesday. In that event, eight reported smelling vapors and three underwent medical checks. 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: Showers and storms will expand from the Southeast to the Northeast states today. Storms over part of the Midwest can become severe. As showers cool the Northwest, the rest of the West will be sunny. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 111° in Palm Springs, Calif. Low 26° in Angel Fire, N.M. 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 97 88 76 83 76 89 70 67 89 86 88 91 98 92 86 104 66 83 87 94 88 88 92 107 93 90 Lo 64 72 68 69 51 73 51 61 74 65 69 71 78 60 69 72 54 58 73 76 69 71 73 81 74 63 W s t c c c t c r pc t pc pc s pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc t s pc s Sat. 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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 Rainbow Family to gather near Seneca East Oregonian The 2017 annual Rainbow gathering will be held on the Malheur National Forest about 20 miles outside of Seneca, the U.S. Forest Service announced Thursday. The location will be at Flagtail Meadow, off Forest Service Road 24 and east of the South Fork John Day River. The gathering, organized by The Rainbow Family of Living Light and open to everyone, could draw anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 people. Participants are already beginning to arrive and officials expect attendance to peak during the week of July 1-7, according to a release by the U.S. Forest Service. The Rainbow Family is a loose-knit group of people without leadership or organization who participate in a national gathering once a year. Attendees come from across the country. Since AP Photo/Rick Bowmer A man who identified himself as Glowing Feather walks along a trail in the Rainbow Family encamp- ment July 2014, in the Uinta National Forest, Utah. 1972, the event has taken place on a different national forest during a two-week period surrounding the Fourth of July holiday. Last year it was held in Vermont. “We are working closely with the local community to raise awareness about the event and plan accordingly before the majority of participants arrive,” said Ryan Nehl, Agency Administrator and Malheur National Forest Deputy Forest Supervisor. “Ensuring public safety, minimizing impacts to local communities, and protecting natural resources will be our top priorities.” An event of this size can have significant impacts on local communities, natural resources, traffic and visitors. Local businesses can expect to see large numbers of Rainbow Family participants along routes to the site. U.S. expands review of cyanide predator traps BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials are launching an expanded review of pred- ator-killing cyanide traps and additional guidelines for workers deploying the devices after one sickened a young boy in Idaho and killed his dog. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday the expanded review should be finished this fall and workers, meanwhile, will follow interim guidelines intended to make sure anyone near a device is alerted. The spring-activated devices called M-44s look like water sprinkler heads embedded in the ground but spray cyanide when trig- gered by animals attracted by bait. They’re used to kill coyotes and other livestock predators, mostly in Western U.S. states. In March a 14-year-old OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE Idaho boy was injured and his dog died when they encountered one on feder- ally-owned land about 500 yards from his home. 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. M-F DRIVE - IN FM/AM RADIO SOUND GATES OPEN AT 7:30 P.M. SHOWTIME AT DUSK Now Open Fri. thru Wed. 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