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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Mostly sunny and
warmer
Sunshine
60° 35°
64° 38°
TUESDAY
Sunny to partly
cloudy
Times of clouds
and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
70° 47°
69° 50°
71° 48°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
64° 33°
62° 31°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
54°
65°
83° (1898)
38°
41°
22° (1899)
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
0.09"
0.25"
0.42"
12.54"
8.77"
9.36"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
59°
67°
80° (2015)
0.11"
0.18"
0.22"
7.19"
5.95"
6.78"
SUN AND MOON
Oct 27
Bend
55/28
Burns
45/13
Full
Nov 3
7:10 a.m.
6:11 p.m.
1:24 a.m.
4:00 p.m.
Last
Nov 10
Caldwell
53/27
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
59
55
55
68
45
50
61
58
62
53
58
53
51
70
60
63
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62
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Sun.
Hi
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
58
86
72
67
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WINDS
Medford
70/34
PRECIPITATION
Oct 19
John Day
53/31
Ontario
55/27
43°
39°
18° (1928)
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
New
First
Albany
62/36
Eugene
61/32
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
74° 50°
Spokane
Wenatchee
51/34
54/35
Tacoma
Moses
58/36
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 58/32
51/37
55/43
59/36
61/30
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
59/37
60/41 Lewiston
62/33
Astoria
58/39
59/41
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
61/40
Pendleton 50/29
The Dalles 62/31
60/35
63/34
La Grande
Salem
53/30
62/38
Corvallis
61/34
HIGH
72° 51°
Seattle
58/43
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
70° 46°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Times of clouds
and sun
Saturday, October 14, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
58/21
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Clearing near the
Idaho border and in the mountains today;
partly sunny elsewhere.
Cascades: Partly sunny and warmer today.
Mainly clear tonight. Warmer tomorrow.
Sunday
NE 3-6
NW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Sunny and becoming
breezy today, but some clouds across the
north. Clear tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
today; warmer. Clear tonight. Sunny tomor-
row; warmer in the south.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
Mainly clear tonight, but mostly cloudy at
the coast.
Today
SW 6-12
SW 6-12
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By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — Oregon’s
business regulator on Friday
ordered health insurance
companies linked to the
Affordable Care Act to
increase rates to some of their
customers in 2018 because
President Donald Trump
halted payments to insurers
under the Obama-era health
care law, a move that several
states including Oregon said
they’d fight in court.
Trump’s action would
halt $49 million worth
of cost-sharing reduction
payments by the federal
government to Oregon
insurance
companies,
according to Oregon’s
Department of Consumer
and Business Services.
Jean Straight, acting
director of the agency,
said Friday that while
Oregonians’ 2017 plan rates
and benefits won’t change
through the end of this year,
some will see increases in
2018 to compensate for
Trump’s action.
“These rate increases
are necessary to ensure the
stability of the health insur-
ance market,” Straight said.
The agency said in a state-
ment: “In order to ensure
carriers can continue to offer
coverage in Oregon, DCBS
is ordering health insurance
companies offering plans on
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HealthCare.gov to increase
their already approved silver
metal tier 2018 plan rates by
7.1 percent.”
There are about 117,000
enrollees in silver plans,
though not every one of
those plans will increase,
said agency spokesman
Jake Sunderland. Silver
metal tier plans are the
only plans that have cost-
sharing reductions. The
CSRs, as they’re known, are
offered to middle-income
consumers and have lower
maximum
out-of-pocket
limits, deductibles, co-pays,
and co-insurance. About
50,000 Oregonians were
enrolled in cost-sharing
reduction plans. It was not
immediately clear how
many Oregonians would
be subjected to the rate
increase, or what the average
dollar amounts would be.
Those under the bronze
and gold plans will remain
unaffected, the agency said.
Health
insurance
companies that sell plans
on HealthCare.gov — the
website created as part of
former President Obama’s
Affordable Care Act where
people can buy insurance
plans and get financial
assistance — can still sell
plans off of HealthCare.gov.
If the carrier participates on
HealthCare.gov, they will
have to increase silver plan
rates, Sunderland said.
Rosenblum
blasted
Trump’s action as “a rash,
ill-conceived decision that
will have a devastating
impact on many vulnerable
Oregonians.”
“These ACA subsidies
are a vital funding source that
keep insurance premiums
manageable,” Rosenblum
said in a statement.
“Oregon, along with 15
other states, is joining Cali-
fornia’s lawsuit against the
President -- defending ACA
payments that help many
families access affordable
health insurance,” she said.
The White House says
the government cannot
legally continue to pay
the cost-sharing subsidies
because they lack a formal
authorization by Congress.
Trump said Friday the subsi-
dies are “almost a payoff” to
insurance companies to lift
their stock prices instead of
helping low-income people
afford premiums.
But several attorneys
general say Trump is not
following federal law in
ending a legally mandated
system that already is oper-
ating.
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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
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Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
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Survivor of train attack returns to college
PORTLAND (AP) —
The survivor of an attack
on a Portland light-rail train
where two people were
stabbed to death has returned
to college and says he’s
ready to “at least pretend to
lead some semblance of a
normal life.”
Micah Fletcher, 21, on
Thursday held his first
news conference since the
May attack where he and
two other men intervened
after authorities said a man
boarded a train and yelled
hateful comments at two
black teenage girls, The
Oregonian/OregonLive
reported.
Authorities
said
35-year-old Jeremy Chris-
tian then turned his attention
to the three men and stabbed
each of them in the neck,
killing Taliesin Namkai-
Meche and Ricky Best. All
three have been called heroes
for confronting Christian,
who has pleaded not guilty
to the deaths. Court proceed-
ings are ongoing.
The neck wound to
Fletcher broke his jaw bone
and came within millime-
ters of his carotid artery.
Fletcher said the path to
recovery hasn’t been easy,
Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP
Stabbing victim Micah Fletcher talks with the media
Thursday. Fletcher, a survivor of an attack on a Port-
land light-rail train where two people were stabbed to
death, returned to college and says he’s ready to “at
least pretend to lead some semblance of a normal life.”
but he expressed hope that
his return to Portland State
University would help ease
that path.
“It’s a true privilege to
come back,” Fletcher said. “It
means I can at least pretend
to lead some semblance of a
normal life.”
He noted the attack has
caused trauma and paranoia,
which has made him fearful
of his surroundings.
“I don’t feel safe
anywhere, man,” he said.
“Not even in my own bed.”
Fletcher waded into the
topic of the city’s ongoing
demonstrations, and he
appealed for the need to
overcome political division
in order to solve the city’s
issues.
“To be quite frank, this
is our town, it’s our home.
We’re the ones who get to
make it what we want to
make it,” Fletcher said. “We
need to decide, we need to
talk to one another and figure
out as to what we want our
city to look like.”
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