WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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43
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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10s
rain
20s
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30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Rain, mountain snow and much colder air will spread over the
Northwest and into Northern California today. Showers and storms are forecast in South
Florida, Texas and Oklahoma. Most other areas will be dry.
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
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61
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Sat.
Hi
65
78
73
76
56
80
49
73
82
81
77
77
88
57
74
81
22
64
87
88
75
85
72
74
81
82
Lo
40
60
56
49
43
65
44
55
63
51
62
58
60
36
57
51
10
38
74
70
60
68
47
55
63
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Today
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Louisville
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
Hi
77
80
89
75
76
78
83
72
77
78
74
88
66
71
78
83
52
68
79
63
73
64
54
90
76
77
Lo
54
61
79
58
60
52
73
55
66
64
53
61
42
49
51
42
33
44
60
38
61
51
45
59
54
64
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Sat.
Hi
78
80
87
74
69
80
84
76
78
69
77
86
69
77
78
59
64
71
79
57
77
67
55
83
76
74
Lo
60
67
79
61
45
61
73
58
47
41
56
61
46
50
53
34
38
45
62
43
61
53
51
56
56
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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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.
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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
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