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Page 2A WEATHER East Oregonian REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Brilliant sunshine Mostly sunny and pleasant 91° 58° 83° 55° SUNDAY MONDAY Mostly sunny and nice Sunny and hot PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 83° 58° 91° 61° 96° 66° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 86° 56° 94° 60° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 86° 87° 108° (2008) 62° 57° 37° (1915) 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" 0.07" 0.22" 11.37" 7.34" 8.17" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 87° 88° 107° (2008) 65° 57° 42° (1969) 0.00" 0.06" 0.11" 6.65" 4.99" 6.03" SUN AND MOON Aug 21 Aug 29 Full Sep 5 5:59 a.m. 7:58 p.m. 2:27 a.m. 5:49 p.m. Last Sep 12 John Day 89/51 Ontario 94/58 Bend 89/50 Burns 89/45 Caldwell 92/55 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 69 90 89 74 89 87 85 88 94 89 91 88 86 97 65 69 94 93 91 79 91 85 84 87 78 91 92 Lo 54 45 50 56 45 49 54 58 60 51 48 51 48 58 52 55 58 56 58 56 46 56 55 45 55 62 56 W pc s s pc s s s s s s s s s s pc s s s s pc s pc s s pc s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 67 83 82 72 85 80 80 81 86 84 86 81 78 90 64 67 91 87 83 77 83 81 80 78 77 84 87 Lo 53 44 46 56 45 47 49 53 56 49 49 46 43 56 49 52 56 51 55 54 42 52 55 42 52 58 54 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s s pc s s pc s s s s s s s pc pc pc s s pc s pc s s pc s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 85 92 86 68 76 79 72 88 82 62 83 Lo 70 81 69 55 57 60 52 66 73 49 73 W pc t s s pc pc r s r s t Sat. Hi 82 92 88 68 75 84 70 85 82 59 84 Lo 71 83 70 54 56 61 52 69 73 47 74 W sh s s pc pc pc pc s r sh t WINDS Medford 97/58 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Albany 85/56 Eugene 85/54 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 98° 66° Spokane Wenatchee 84/55 88/59 Tacoma Moses 76/53 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 90/56 84/52 70/53 75/50 92/56 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 75/54 91/62 Lewiston 93/59 Astoria 92/61 69/54 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 79/56 Pendleton 87/49 The Dalles 94/60 91/58 88/60 La Grande Salem 88/51 85/56 Corvallis 85/54 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 92° 58° Seattle 75/57 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 87° 57° Today TUESDAY Mostly sunny Friday, August 18, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 91/48 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Sunshine mixing with some clouds today, but sunny across the south. Cascades: Mostly sunny today; pleasant across the north. Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the coast today; hot in central parts. Mostly sunny elsewhere. Saturday WSW 4-8 W 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny in central parts today; clouds breaking for some sun elsewhere. Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sunshine today; pleasant in central parts. Mainly clear tonight. Western Washington: Areas of low clouds, then some sun today. Becoming cloudy tonight. Today WSW 6-12 W 7-14 2 4 6 211 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. 4 2 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? 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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 93 89 83 90 91 90 92 76 94 86 82 86 97 87 82 96 58 78 89 98 85 92 88 105 91 81 Lo 66 72 75 69 60 73 60 70 79 65 65 63 79 59 62 71 44 57 73 78 68 76 63 80 74 65 W pc t c t s t s r t pc pc pc t pc c pc sh t s s s t t s pc pc 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 Eclipse traffic already heavy in central Oregon BRIEFLY AP Photo/John Locher, File In this April 12 photo, Marie Ries, center, marches with others in support of defendants on trial in fed- eral court in Las Vegas. A federal jury in Las Vegas that heard five weeks of prosecution testimony is deliberating the fate of four men accused of wield- ing assault weapons against federal agents in a 2014 standoff near Nevada anti-government figure Cliven Bundy’s ranch. Jury ends deliberations for the week in Bundy standoff trial LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury in Las Vegas has ended deliberations for the week on Thursday in the retrial of four men accused of wielding assault weapons against federal agents in a 2014 standoff near the Nevada ranch of anti-government figure Cliven Bundy. Jurors spent a second full day mulling evidence in U.S. District Court in the case against Idaho defendants Scott Drexler, Eric Parker and Steven Stewart and Ricky Lovelien of Montana and Oklahoma. The jury is due to return to work Monday. The six men and six women are considering 10 charges after five weeks of testimony on charges including conspiracy, weapon possession and assault on a federal officer. Parker and Drexler testified, although Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro ordered the jury to disre- gard Parker’s testimony after deciding that he broke rules of evidence that had been set before trial. The four men were tried earlier this year before a jury that found two co-defendants guilty of some charges but failed to reach verdicts in their cases. The trial is a prelude to another expected later this year for Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and two other defendants. Six other defendants, including two other Bundy sons, are slated for trial next year. Portland hospital gave away recalled eclipse glasses PORTLAND (AP) — Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon says some of the glasses it gave away at public events for viewing the upcoming total solar eclipse may be among those recalled by Amazon. The hospital said Thursday that people who got solar glasses from Legacy Health at public events should discard them and buy new ones. It says glasses it gave away at Legacy Health clinics or Legacy/GoHealth Urgent Care clinics in the past month are safe. The online retail giant Amazon.com issued a wide- spread recall for eclipse glasses sold through its site after being unable to verify they met safety standards. The total solar eclipse is the first one to cross the U.S. in 99 years. The shadow cast by the moon first makes landfall in the U.S. in Oregon on Monday. PORTLAND (AP) — Traffic is already a headache in central Oregon as thou- sands of people arrive before Monday’s total solar eclipse. Traffic was backed up about 15 miles at one point on Thursday on U.S. Highway 26 near of Prineville, the last town before the turnoff for an eclipse-themed festival that’s expected to attract 35,000 people in a remote area with narrow, one-lane roads. Drivers then had to contend with another 14 miles of traffic on local roads to the venue. A handful of gas stations in Bend and Prineville also ran out of fuel Wednesday before getting restocked. The scene echoed one on Wednesday night, when eclipse traffic first began to swell. Traffic backed up for 12 miles on the same stretch of road, doubling the drive time between the towns of Redmond and Prineville as an estimated 8,000 cars passed through. “The numbers of people who were coming in, we are beyond capacity really on that highway. Traffic is moving — it’s not stopped — but it’s taking a long time,” said Peter Murphy, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Trans- portation in central Oregon. Traffic officials repro- gramed traffic lights to provide more time on green lights on east-west routes. The Prineville police also closed Oregon State Police via AP This aerial photo provided by the Oregon State Police shows a 15-mile traffic jam on Highway 26 heading in to Prineville on Thursday. Traffic is already a headache in central Oregon as thousands of people are arriving before Monday’s total solar eclipse. the eastbound lane of the highway and diverted traffic onto local roads so the crush could clear. In Madras, to the north, traffic was also picking up Thursday but so far there were no traffic jams. Gas stations were still stocked, said Joe Krenowicz, executive director of the Jefferson County-Ma- dras Chamber of Commerce. The town of about 6,000 is considered one of the best viewing locations in the nation and is expecting at least 100,000 people over the next four days. “We know that we will run out of gas at some times, but they will refuel. There will be some inconveniences,” he said. “We’re encouraging people to come into Madras with a full tank of gas if they possibly can.” Traffic elsewhere in the state was still normal, officials said, but more visitors were expected starting Thursday and into the weekend. “When it comes, it will come as a rush,” said Dave Thompson, chief ODOT spokesman. About 1 million people are expected to visit Oregon in the coming days — and up to 200,000 to Central Oregon — in the coming days to see the rare celestial event. It’s the first total, coast-to-coast solar eclipse in the U.S. in 99 years and totality — when the moon’s shadow blocks the sun and casts a shadow on Earth — first makes landfall in Oregon, making the state a top destination for eclipse watchers. State officials are urging travelers to log onto www. TripCheck.com before they leave or call 211, an informa- tion number about the eclipse set up for the public. Wildfire threatens buildings in Central Oregon SISTERS (AP) — With the solar eclipse just days away, a wildfire raging within Oregon’s path of totality threatened more than 400 structures Thursday and led officials to issue evacua- tion warnings. Gov. Kate Brown invoked the Emergency Confla- gration Act so the Oregon fire marshal can mobilize resources from around the state to protect homes. “State agencies are already working around the clock and across the state, and as we get closer to the total solar eclipse, we’ll need all resources available to keep communities, visitors, and property safe,” Brown said in a statement. The wildfire was burning in the center of the state near the town of Sisters in the Three Sisters Wilderness Area. The blaze started last week and stayed relatively small and tame for days. It expanded Wednesday to more than 5 square miles, charring dead timber in the scar of a 2006 wildfire. More than 200 firefighters were working to establish containment lines. The homes where people were told to prepare to evacuate lie west of Sisters, the Western-themed town where eclipse observers will see 34 seconds of totality on Monday. The Red Cross has opened a shelter at Sisters Middle School for those who choose to leave. Other wildfires are burning in what is typically Oregon’s busiest month for wildland firefighters. The state after a very wet winter and spring has so far been spared the kind of wildfire that destroys neighborhoods and burns areas the size of Rhode Island. A public meeting to update residents on the fire was scheduled for Thursday Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accu- rate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. evening at Sisters High School. M-F DRIVE - IN FM/AM RADIO SOUND GATES OPEN AT 7:30 P.M. SHOWTIME AT DUSK Now Open Fri. thru Wed. August 18 to 23 NUT JOB 2 (PG) WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG 13) Always two movies for the price of one! 938-4327 www.m-fdriveintheatre.com Adults $7, Children 11 & Under $2
