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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY SUNDAY Windy and cooler with some sun Mostly cloudy with showers 58° 40° 57° 53° MONDAY Mostly cloudy, a shower or two Sunny PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 61° 46° 63° 41° 63° 45° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 60° 57° 62° 42° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 65° 62° 82° (1940) 45° 39° 15° (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" 0.26" 0.62" 12.55" 9.24" 9.56" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 67° 64° 77° (1973) 0.00" 0.18" 0.35" 7.19" 6.34" 6.91" SUN AND MOON Nov 3 Bend 48/35 Burns 47/24 Last 7:18 a.m. 6:01 p.m. 8:01 a.m. 6:57 p.m. New Nov 10 Nov 18 Caldwell 57/37 Hi 54 52 48 54 47 48 54 56 62 49 45 51 48 54 54 56 59 61 58 55 51 56 53 47 54 59 61 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 Lo 44 27 35 48 24 32 42 40 42 35 32 36 33 41 46 48 36 41 40 45 33 45 36 32 45 43 35 W r sh c r sn r r pc pc r sn sh sh r r r r pc pc r c r c r r pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 61 43 57 56 48 46 59 56 60 51 50 47 44 60 58 61 47 56 57 60 59 62 45 48 59 55 54 Lo 51 37 49 52 33 42 52 51 57 49 33 44 41 47 52 55 42 53 53 54 49 55 43 45 56 53 49 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W r sn sh r r r r r sh r r r r r r r r sh sh r sh r r r r sh sh WORLD CITIES Today Hi 68 84 78 58 76 43 62 73 71 68 63 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 50 70 59 54 52 32 53 51 49 58 61 W s s s pc pc c pc pc s r r Sat. Hi 64 83 75 59 78 38 63 74 72 66 67 Lo 47 68 57 48 52 26 48 57 48 57 63 W c pc s pc pc r sh s s pc r WINDS Medford 54/41 PRECIPITATION Oct 27 John Day 49/35 Ontario 59/36 43° 38° 15° (1949) 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 First Full Albany 55/44 Eugene 54/42 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 64° 40° Spokane Wenatchee 53/36 58/37 Tacoma Moses 54/40 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 60/39 51/37 54/46 54/41 61/35 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 54/44 59/43 Lewiston 62/43 Astoria 57/40 54/44 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 55/45 Pendleton 48/32 The Dalles 62/42 58/40 57/42 La Grande Salem 51/36 56/45 Corvallis 55/42 HIGH 66° 40° Seattle 54/45 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 69° 47° Today TUESDAY Partly sunny Friday, October 20, 2017 Today Saturday WSW 10-20 WSW 12-25 S 7-14 S 8-16 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 45/32 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy, rain this morning, then a shower or two. Breezy tonight with rain. Eastern and Central Oregon: Cooler today with a shower in spots; windy across the north and near the Cascades. Western Washington: Some rain and a thunderstorm today. A shower tonight, though steadier rain southwest late. Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a bit of snow in the mountains. Cascades: Snow and rain today with snow level mostly 4,000 feet or higher; a few inches above 5,000 feet. Northern California: A couple of showers today, but a couple of snow showers across the mountains. 0 1 2 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 99° in El Centro, Calif. Low 11° in Bodie State Park, Calif. 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 76 79 74 75 68 79 54 69 81 76 76 74 80 79 73 87 21 77 87 80 76 83 76 79 78 75 Lo 49 56 52 47 40 58 35 52 56 48 58 52 69 38 53 64 7 57 74 70 54 67 63 54 61 59 W s pc s s pc pc r s s s s s pc s s s c s pc t s pc s c 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 Judge tosses statements made by man accused of killing women Tristan Fortsch/KATU-TV via AP, File This Sept. 4 file photo provided by KATU-TV shows a wildfire seen from Stevenson, Wash., across the Columbia River, burning in the Columbia River Gorge above Cascade Locks. Charges have been brought against a 15-year- old boy who allegedly used fireworks to start the blaze. Charges brought against teen in Gorge fire By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM — A 15-year-old boy who allegedly started a wildfire by tossing fire- works along a hiking trail in Oregon’s scenic Columbia River Gorge, with the blaze causing evacuations, the closing of an interstate highway and causing ash to rain down on Portland, has been charged with several offenses, authorities said Thursday. He’s charged with reckless burning, depositing burning materials on forest lands, criminal mischief and recklessly endangering other persons, Hood River County District Attorney John Sewell said in a statement. The boy, from Vancouver, Washington, was not named. The fire that started Sept. 2, and which continues to smolder, burned 76 square miles of forestland, devas- tating beloved day trails around dozens of crystalline waterfalls in Portland’s back- yard. Witnesses had seen the boy, who was with other youths, tossing fireworks off the trail. A fire quickly started, stranding dozens of hikers who had to retreat into a safe area and wait out the night before being evac- uated the next day. Flames leapt from the trees on the gorge’s steep slopes, and winds carried sparks across the broad Columbia River, starting another fire on the Washington state side. Interstate 84, a major east-west corridor that runs along the Gorge, was shut down, and communities like nearby Cascade Locks, which depend on visitors to inject money into the local economy, suffered a severe setback. The fire removed vegetation, underbrush and tree roots that support the Columbia Gorge, and now authorities expect landslides and rockslides with additional rain. The Historic Columbia River Highway and State Trail was damaged by fire and rockfall and remains closed. The uncontained portion of the fire is in steep terrain and fire managers do not expect it to spread further, authorities said. The charges came after a criminal investigation by the Oregon State Police assisted by U.S. Forest Service inves- tigators. As the fire took such a toll, many enraged commentators on news media web sites called for charges to be filed, and for the boy’s family to pay some of the millions of dollars in costs to fight the fire. “What happens next is for the courts to decide,” said Michael Lang, conservation director for Friends of the Columbia Gorge, a group dedicated to protecting the area. “Friends of the Columbia Gorge is focused on efforts to heal the land, trails, and communities affected by the fire.” The boy was caught due to the efforts of a hiker, Liz FitzGerald of Portland, who said she saw a boy toss a smoke bomb into a ravine as girls with him giggled and another boy took video with his cellphone. FitzGerald continued up the trail and then looked back, saw smoke was growing, and decided to run back to the parking lot and warn others. “I passed the teenagers at that point,” FitzGerald told Willamette Week newspaper. “It was a smaller group of maybe seven or nine. Just as I was passing them I said ‘Do you realize you just started a forest fire?’ and the kid said, ‘Well, what are we supposed to do about it now?’ And I yelled over my shoulder ‘Call the freaking fire depart- ment!’” After she got to the parking lot by the Eagle Creek Trailhead, she told a law enforcement officer what she had seen. He stopped a van carrying some of the group of youths as they attempted to leave in a van. The fire was one of the worst to hit the U.S. West during a particularly intense fire season. Now Connecting Businesses With Customers In More Ways Than Ever! www.statewideyp.com Simpl e y Best th g! Advertisin CALL TO PLACE YOUR AD TODAY! 5009 W Clearwater Ave Ste J, Kennewick, WA 99336 • Fax: 509-734-5362 • Email: support@statewideyp.com PORTLAND (AP) — An Oregon judge has thrown out statements made by a man accused of killing four women, finding that Port- land police used improper and coercive tactics during the interrogation. Homer Lee Jackson, 57, was arrested in October 2015 in the strangling deaths that occurred in the 1980s. After Jackson was apprehended, police ques- tioned him for more than seven hours over two days, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported . Earlier this month, Judge Michael A. Greenlick suppressed the statements obtained by two detectives during the interview. Authorities said the state- ments were a confession by Jackson. The detectives, using an array of tactics, encouraged Jackson to confess to killing the women. At one point during the interview, a detective urged Jackson to “get on” the train, and then warned that if Jackson didn’t, he would be “run over” by the train, according to transcripts of the interrogation. The judge cited more than a dozen examples from the interrogation that demonstrated the statements were “made under the influ- ence of fear produced by threats.” The judge said that the types of inducements or threats made by police can create a risk of an inaccurate admission. “Given the totality of circumstances, I believe the defendant could have started to believe that he would suffer a number of detrimental consequences, including that the judge and the jury would consider him to be a monster, the police would seek the longest possible penalties, the victims would be angry and influence prosecution negatively,” the judge said. Prosecutors have defended the detectives’ methods and said the statements were given voluntarily. “There is simply nothing threatening about calling the defendant a monster nor is it threatening to tell the defen- dant that the detectives will work as hard as possible to do their jobs and make a strong case against the defendant in order to keep him in prison as long as possible,” Deputy District Attorney Susan O’Connor said. “A threat must be more than expression by the officer of an intent to do something that the officer is authorized to do.” Jackson has pleaded not guilty to charges of aggra- vated murder. Corrections 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.
