WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Very warm with
clouds and sun
Mostly sunny and
very hot
93° 61°
97° 66°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Partly sunny and
very hot
Sizzling sunshine
and very hot
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
101° 67°
96° 64°
99° 61°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
101° 67°
97° 62°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
88°
85°
109° (1922)
62°
56°
40° (1901)
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
0.00"
0.00"
0.03"
11.30"
6.47"
7.60"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
89°
86°
106° (1942)
67°
56°
39° (1979)
0.00"
0.00"
0.02"
6.59"
4.64"
5.72"
SUN AND MOON
July 8
July 16
New
5:12 a.m.
8:47 p.m.
4:50 p.m.
2:27 a.m.
First
July 23
July 30
John Day
96/58
Ontario
100/64
Bend
91/56
Burns
95/49
Caldwell
100/62
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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92
91
62
95
91
84
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Wed.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
88
88
93
77
71
67
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85
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WINDS
Medford
98/64
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
86/54
Eugene
84/53
TEMPERATURE
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
96° 62°
Spokane
Wenatchee
89/62
91/61
Tacoma
Moses
79/47
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 93/57
88/57
70/50
81/47
95/59
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
81/52
95/67 Lewiston
96/59
Astoria
96/65
67/51
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
84/57
Pendleton 91/51
The Dalles 97/62
93/61
93/61
La Grande
Salem
93/56
85/57
Corvallis
86/55
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
101° 66°
Seattle
77/54
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
105° 70°
Today
SATURDAY
Very warm with
plenty of sun
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
90/50
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Hot today
with clouds and sun. Patchy clouds tonight.
Mostly sunny and hot tomorrow.
Western Washington: Partly sunny today,
except more clouds at the coast.
Cascades: Partly sunny and very warm
today; pleasant across the north. Clear
tonight.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by sunshine at the coast today; plenty of
sunshine elsewhere.
Wednesday
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Clouds breaking for some
sun today.
Today
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KENNEWICK, Wash.
(AP) — A wildfire burning
in Benton County, Wash-
ington, that shut down
roads and forced the evac-
uation of some workers at
the Hanford nuclear site
has burned about 31 square
miles by Monday.
The Tri-City Herald
reports the blaze was
burning mostly west of
Hanford and about 35
miles east of Yakima. The
Hanford Fire Department
had it contained on the
nuclear reservation at 6
a.m. Monday, with no
structures or contaminated
areas burned.
The fire overall was
about 30 percent contained,
said Jacob Welsh, a fire
information officer.
An evacuation order for
a remote area of Benton
County, the Barrell Springs
area, had been lifted by
Monday afternoon.
Highway 240 remained
closed at the Yakima
Barricade to the Junction
of Highway 225 Monday
afternoon. Parts of Highway
24 were also was closed.
Water
from
the
Columbia River was being
used to fight the fire from
the air.
The river was closed to
boaters Monday starting
at 8 a.m. about three miles
downstream from the
Vernita Bridge to allow
water to be collected from
the river. The closure
extended up the river to the
Priest Rapids Dam.
Benton and Grant county
sheriff’s offices were
blocking and patrolling the
closed section of the river.
The river was expected
to be closed until dusk or
until aircraft were no longer
needed for fire suppression.
Forest Service proposes plan
to limit hikers in Oregon
SALEM (AP) — The
U.S. Forest Service is
seeking to limit the number
of hikers in Oregon’s
wilderness by requiring
permits for popular areas.
The plan announced this
month by Willamette and
Deschutes national forests
would require a permit to
hike or backpack in the
Mount Jefferson, Mount
Washington, Three Sisters,
Diamond Peak and Waldo
Lake wilderness areas,
The Statesman Journal
reported.
The goal is to limit
crowds and damage by
restricting numbers, offi-
cials said. But it would also
represent a fundamental
change in a state that for the
most part allows people to
venture as they please on
public lands.
Salem photographer Jeff
Green said it’s frustrating
that overcrowding has
reached this point, but it’s
time for permits.
“I feel user experience
will vastly improve with
less shoulder-to-shoulder
crowds and all the human
impact and garbage that
comes with it,” Green said.
Other people were
concerned with the permit
pricing of $6 to $12.
“The permits are over-
priced and there is little
control over the system,”
said Matt Reeder, author of
“101 Hikes in the Majestic
Mount Jefferson Region.”
‘’It is disappointing to see
a permit to access a public
area cost $12, all for the
privilege of hiking on public
property.”
Hunters, however, were
happy they would be exempt
from the permit requirement
after purchasing a tag.
Environmental groups
said the episode demon-
strated that Oregon needs
more wilderness areas.
“It’s supply and demand
and Oregon has very little
protected wilderness,” said
Erik Fernandez, wilderness
program manager for
Oregon Wild. “Oregonians
love to visit our amazing
wilderness areas. Until our
elected leaders step up and
protect more, this trend isn’t
going to go away.”
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National Summary: Spotty thunderstorms will erupt in the Southeast and from part of the
Chesapeake Bay region to the Ohio Valley and part of the Upper Midwest today. Storms
may be severe and drenching over the central Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 111° in Blythe, Calif.
Low 30° in Climax, Colo.
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
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100
79
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104
75
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90
96
86
101
77
91
86
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Today
Hi
Louisville
85
Memphis
88
Miami
90
Milwaukee
75
Minneapolis
80
Nashville
83
New Orleans
90
New York City
84
Oklahoma City
88
Omaha
90
Philadelphia
87
Phoenix
111
Portland, ME
77
Providence
84
Raleigh
88
Rapid City
95
Reno
97
Sacramento
90
St. Louis
93
Salt Lake City
102
San Diego
74
San Francisco
70
Seattle
77
Tucson
104
Washington, DC 91
Wichita
85
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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TRANSPORTATION: Plan calls for establishing a
tolling program on I-5 and I-205 to help raise funds
Continued from 1A
establish a rebate program for
low- and moderate-income
residents who purchase
low-emission and electric
vehicles and to handle a
greater workload with an
influx of storm water permit-
ting.
The fate of the transpor-
tation package remains in
question after 16 Democrats
sent a letter to Speaker Tina
Kotek, D-Portland, Saturday,
July 1, suggesting the
funding plan may be in peril
if lawmakers refuse to raise
new revenue before the July
10 constitutionally-mandated
end of the legislative session.
The Democrats want to use
the money for K-12 education
and general government
operations.
“Signing onto the letter
“We all support a good, robust trans-
portation package. But we all believe it’s
be a mistake to only get that done while
revenue reform — and big investments in
our kids — remains unfinished.”
— Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Clackamas
shouldn’t be seen as an
indication by the signers
that they’re a no on trans-
portation,” said Rep. Janelle
Bynum, D-Clackamas, who
signed the letter. “We all
support a good, robust trans-
portation package. But we
all believe it’s be a mistake
to only get that done while
revenue reform — and big
investments in our kids —
remains unfinished.”
Bynum did not say how
she would specifically vote
on the multi-billion-dollar,
seven-year
transportation
funding bill.
Lawmakers have down-
sized the transportation
funding bill from $8.2 billion
to $5.3 billion late last month
as part of a deal between
Democrats and Republicans
to win enough votes for the
plan.
Specific
Portland-area
projects designed to address
congestion shrunk dramati-
cally.
A Rose Quarter conges-
tion-relief project on Inter-
state 5 declined from at least
$400 billion to $30 million in
the bill that is headed to the
House of Representatives.
Under the first iteration of
the plan, Interstate 205 would
have received up to $452
billion in the previous plan for
widening, an extra lane and
the replacement of the Aber-
nathy Bridge between West
Linn and Oregon City. The
version headed to a vote later
this week would earmark just
$30.7 million toward I-205.
In addition, the plan
instructs the Oregon Trans-
portation Commission to
establish a tolling program
on I-5 and I-205 to help
raise funds for more conges-
tion-busting projects.
———
Capital Bureau reporter
Claire Withycombe contrib-
uted to this story.
Man fatally shot by police after seizing helicopter
PORTLAND (AP) — A
man was fatally shot by
police Monday after seizing
a helicopter at gunpoint near
Portland, Oregon, the author-
ities said.
The man, who was not
been identified, hopped a
fence at Hillsboro Airport
and then approached a flight
instructor and a student who
were inside a helicopter that
was warming up, Hillsboro
police Lt. Henry Reimann
said.
The man ordered them
to get out, firing at least one
round during the encounter.
The shot, and maybe a second
misfire, were directed away
from the victims, Reimann
said.
The man got into the heli-
copter, but officers arrived
before he could take off,
Reimann said. “He jumps
out the helicopter and starts
running, runs across the
street, and we engage him out
in a field,” he said.
The man died at the scene
shortly before noon. No other
injuries were reported.
Investigators have to yet
to establish the man’s motive
for trying to steal the heli-
copter, Reimann said. The
man did not reveal his plans
to the flight instructor and
student, he said.
A witness, Christopher
Neal, told reporters that he
and his family were watching
planes at the small airport
when he saw a man walking
in wearing a gray hoodie. “He
had his hands in his pockets,
and for a moment I thought
to myself that it was a little
warm for the big, thick, gray
hoodie with the hood over it,”
Neal said.
While finishing that
thought, the man looked at
them and then started running
toward the fence. He pulled a
gray mask over his face, Neal
said.
The Hillsboro Airport,
established in 1928, is one
of three airports operated
by the Port of Portland. It’s
about a 40-minute drive west
of the Portland International
Airport, the region’s main
airport.
The Hillsboro Aero
Academy is the flight-
training school at the airport.
Its representatives did not
immediately return a message
seeking comment.
Oregon to continue running six hatcheries under extension
MEDFORD (AP) — The
U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers will allow the state of
Oregon to run six hatcheries
for three more months under a
recent extension.
The Mail Tribune reports
the Corps decided this week to
keep Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife staff at the
Cole Rivers Hatchery on the
Rogue River and five other
hatcheries ahead of the Friday
expiration of an agreement
between the parties.
Scott Patterson with the
department says it has not
heard back from the Corps
on its proposed roughly $2
million annual agreement to
manage Cole Rivers hatchery.
The parties are currently
hashing
new
operating
contracts for four hatcheries in
Willamette Valley.
Corps spokesman Tom
Conning says the agency
hopes to have the contracts for
the six hatcheries finalized by
the end of July.
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Male - 7 years old
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