WEATHER
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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
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
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91
83
74
79
57
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85
88
64
80
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
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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
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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.
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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
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Louisville
93
Memphis
95
Miami
88
Milwaukee
85
Minneapolis
86
Nashville
94
New Orleans
88
New York City
70
Oklahoma City
97
Omaha
91
Philadelphia
80
Phoenix
109
Portland, ME
64
Providence
69
Raleigh
89
Rapid City
83
Reno
94
Sacramento
100
St. Louis
90
Salt Lake City
91
San Diego
78
San Francisco
74
Seattle
69
Tucson
106
Washington, DC 83
Wichita
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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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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
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Idaho boy was injured and
his dog died when they
encountered one on feder-
ally-owned land about 500
yards from his home.
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