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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY SUNDAY Intervals of clouds and sunshine Partly sunny, breezy and cooler 75° 49° 64° 45° MONDAY A passing afternoon shower Today TUESDAY Mostly cloudy with a little rain Cool with periods of rain PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 62° 41° 60° 38° 63° 39° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 69° 47° 79° 51° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 86° 72° 92° (1918) 49° 46° 27° (1911) 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" 0.91" 0.51" 12.28" 8.02" 8.89" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 82° 74° 89° (1994) 6:51 a.m. 6:39 p.m. 3:34 p.m. 12:19 a.m. New First Oct 19 Oct 27 Caldwell 79/55 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 64 77 67 64 73 75 67 72 79 78 70 76 74 72 63 63 79 79 75 68 69 69 75 73 66 77 77 Lo 50 43 37 51 38 43 44 46 51 46 36 44 41 47 49 48 54 49 49 51 35 47 46 39 51 52 42 W r pc c sh pc pc r pc pc pc pc pc pc pc r r pc pc pc r c r pc pc r pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 62 62 58 67 60 57 65 61 69 58 62 59 56 68 61 65 69 72 64 64 61 65 62 56 62 66 71 Lo 48 34 32 50 29 37 44 44 47 33 30 37 34 44 49 48 43 46 45 51 33 49 41 35 50 48 40 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W c c pc pc pc c pc pc pc pc pc c c pc pc pc pc pc pc c pc pc pc pc c pc c -10s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 79 91 76 65 71 49 74 74 72 77 75 Lo 54 82 62 50 58 42 55 56 59 60 64 W s t s sh t c t pc s s pc Sat. Hi 81 89 75 63 70 48 64 73 79 75 76 Lo 62 82 60 56 61 33 53 55 59 52 65 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 70/36 W pc sh s pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern and Central Oregon: Sun and clouds today; not as warm near the Cas- cades with a shower in spots. Western Washington: Rain and drizzle today; a little morning rain, then a shower at the coast. Eastern Washington: Some sun today. A shower toward the Cascades; mostly cloudy in central sections. Cascades: Mostly cloudy and cooler, a shower this afternoon. Northern California: Some sun today; fog early at the coast. Clouds and sun elsewhere. Saturday WSW 10-20 WSW 10-20 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: A passing shower or two today; cooler across the north. Today WSW 7-14 W 7-14 1 2 4 211 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. 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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 Corrections Incorrect information was provided as to the location of “A Talk with Teddy,” which appeared in the Sept. 21 edition. The event is at Hamley Slickfork Saloon. 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. BRIEFLY Oregon’s pension deficit reaches $25.3 billion Kathy Plonka /The Spokesman-Review via AP Caleb Sharpe walks into Spokane County Juvenile Court to a packed courtroom on Wednesday in Spokane, Wash. but did not talk to reporters afterward. Sharpe did not speak at the hearing. Court documents released Wednesday say Sharpe determined whether to carry out the shooting by flipping a coin. Detectives wrote in court documents that heads meant Sharpe would shoot students and tails meant he would not do it and never think about it again. The coin landed on heads, according to documents. Sharpe also told detectives that he had been watching documentaries of other school shootings, including Columbine and Sandy Hook, for about a year, court documents said. The documents said Sharpe told detectives about loading his father’s assault rifle into a golf bag and putting a handgun in his pocket, The Spokes- man-Review reported. Once inside the school, Sharpe pulled out the rifle, which jammed, so he discarded it and pulled the pistol out, shooting a 15-year-old classmate in the abdomen and face, killing him, court documents said. The teen then walked down a hallway, firing into the ceiling before wounding three female students, authorities have said. Sharpe told police that he had been bullied by the boy who died but did not target him specifically. Wyden gets bypassed on taxes by Trump Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden has authored two bipartisan plans to revamp the tax code, including one with a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet. But Wyden isn’t being consulted on the new plan released by the admin- istration and the Senate Republican leadership. “You’ll have to ask them why,” Wyden said in a telephone interview Thursday. “The president and I had a chance to spend what amounts to about 30 seconds on taxes.” He said that was back in June. Wyden said he used those few seconds to urge Trump to follow the last successful revamp of the tax code — back in 1986 — by building bipartisan support for a bill. But Wyden and other Democratic leaders say they want a plan that doesn’t rack up more federal debt and that isn’t tilted toward the wealthy or to major corporations. Trump and GOP leaders rain 20s Today Teen accused of shooting 4 faces more charges By JEFF MAPES Oregon Public Broadcasting 10s Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 99° in Thermal, Calif. Low 15° in Bodie State Park, Calif. Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Prose- cutors filed 51 new charges Wednesday against a 15-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting a classmate and wounding three others at his rural Washington state high school. Caleb Sharpe already has been charged with first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder in the Sept. 13 shooting at Freeman High School near the tiny town of Rockford. Spokane County prosecutors upgraded the murder charge to premed- itated murder and added 51 counts of assault, representing other students in the vicinity of the gunfire, according to court documents. Sharpe also appeared in court for the first time, where a judge said a decision on whether to try the teen as an adult will not occur until next year. Defense attorney Bevan Maxey agreed with the delay, though his client will remain in custody. “I have all kinds of concern for him being in jail,” Maxey said. “This is a process that is going to take place. Everybody needs to be properly prepared.” The Associated Press doesn’t typically name juvenile suspects but is doing so because of the severity of the accusations and because Sharpe’s name was released in public documents. “We would prefer he be handled as a juvenile,” the defense attorney said. “That’s what he is; 15 years old.” Family members of Sharpe and the victims filled the small courtroom 0s National Summary: Downpours will drench parts of Florida, Texas and New Mexico today. Spotty showers are forecast for the Great Lakes region, while rain arrives in the Northwest. Much of the rest of the nation will be dry. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 3 -0s showers t-storms WINDS Medford 72/47 0.00" 0.36" 0.40" 7.01" 5.44" 6.52" SUN AND MOON Oct 12 Bend 67/37 Burns 73/38 PRECIPITATION Oct 5 John Day 78/46 Ontario 79/54 45° 44° 31° (2015) 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 Full Last Albany 67/47 Eugene 67/44 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 63° 34° Spokane Wenatchee 75/46 74/49 Tacoma Moses 67/48 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 78/48 75/47 64/52 67/47 77/42 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 65/51 77/52 Lewiston 81/51 Astoria 80/54 64/50 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 68/51 Pendleton 75/43 The Dalles 79/51 75/49 73/52 La Grande Salem 76/44 69/47 Corvallis 68/44 HIGH 64° 37° Seattle 67/53 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 65° 41° Friday, September 29, 2017 are now focused on trying to attach their tax proposal to budget legislation. That would allow them to get it through the Senate without facing a filibuster, which requires 60 votes to break. Republicans tried the same tack on health care in their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That hasn’t worked, at least so far because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., hasn’t been able to assemble enough Republican votes. On taxes, Trump has tried to bring along a handful of Democratic senators from red-leaning states. For example, he gave Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., a ride on Air Force One Wednesday when the president traveled to Indiana for a speech promoting the GOP tax plan. After they arrived, Trump told a crowd at the Indiana State Fairgrounds he’d campaign against Donnelly next year if he didn’t vote for it. Wyden said he’s also been lobbying Donnelly and other moderate Demo- crats about what he sees as the ills in the Republican plan. “I talk to every member of the Democratic caucus about taxes, including the several who have made it clear that they are looking at this care- fully,” Wyden said. “I think the amount of debt you’re going to have here (with the GOP approach) is going to be a real turnoff to them.” The Oregon Democrat first devel- oped a bill revamping the tax in 2010 with then-Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. The plan never took off, but it was praised by many analysts for simpli- fying the tax code. After Gregg left the Senate, Wyden joined forces in 2011 with Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., to fashion a similar plan that also didn’t go anywhere. Coats now serves under Trump as the director of national intelligence. The Wyden-Republican plans contained some elements that are part of the Trump approach, such as reducing the number of tax rates and cutting the corporate tax rate while reducing some exemptions. But Wyden said his plans didn’t reduce revenue or give a big tax break to wealthier taxpayers. PORTLAND (AP) — A new valuation by the actuary for Oregon’s public pension determined that the system’s deficit has ballooned to $25.3 billion, meaning higher costs will be coming. The growing deficit will cost schools and local and state government an additional $1.4 billion, according to the valuation by the Milliman Inc. actuarial and consulting firm. The increase was likely caused in part by the Public Employees Retirement System Board’s decision to lower its assumption of how much it will get from investments from 7.5 percent to 7.2 percent, taking the deficit from $21.8 billion to $25.3 billion by the end of 2016, the Oregonian/Oregon Live reported Wednesday. The board has allowed employers to underfund the system by billions of dollars. “We’re not paying anywhere close to what we should be paying, and if we did it would absolutely decimate schools,” said Jim Green, executive director of the Oregon School Boards Association. The additional $530 million school districts will have to pay because of the rising deficit is equivalent to the cost of 2,650 teachers or 11 instructional days. Local and state governments will be drawing 40 percent of the additional money they will need from state’s general fund, which is speculated to result in a budget deficit in 2019. Man charged with raping girl, giving her meth ROSEBURG(AP) — Authorities have arrested a 45-year-old Oregon man accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in 2014. According to Douglas County court records, the woman who’s now 18 came forward in April to say was raped three years earlier by a man who lives in the Canyonville-Riddle area, after he coerced her into smoking methamphetamine from a pipe. Following a months-long investigation, detectives spoke with Jason Budel on Wednesday at the Myrtle Creek Police Department. He was arrested at the conclusion of the interview. Budel faces charges of rape, sodomy, sex abuse and delivering methamphetamine to a minor. Cats rescued from home of Grants Pass hoarder GRANTS PASS (AP) — The Rogue Valley Humane Society rescued about three dozen cats from the home of an elderly Grants Pass woman. Society director Margaret Varner tells the Daily Courier that staff members removed 33 cats, but there might have been more in the house. She says they were under couches, and in different rooms. A relative of the elderly woman requested the action. M-F DRIVE - IN FM/AM RADIO SOUND GATES OPEN AT 7:00 P.M. 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