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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY Times of clouds and sun A little afternoon rain 54° 40° 55° 37° THURSDAY FRIDAY Cloudy with spotty showers Times of sun and clouds PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 51° 36° 48° 33° 50° 35° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 56° 38° 58° 38° PENDLETON TEMPERATURE LOW 54° 50° 72° (1999) 37° 34° 6° (1916) 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 0.15" 0.57" 0.55" 14.27" 10.56" 10.54" Corvallis 56/43 HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday Yesterday Normals Records LOW 56° 52° 73° (1999) Full Dec 3 Caldwell 51/34 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 W r pc c c pc pc c c c pc pc pc pc c c c pc c pc sh c c c pc sh pc r Hi 51 48 47 52 43 46 49 53 56 49 45 49 48 51 51 53 49 57 55 50 51 51 45 48 49 54 51 Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Boardman Pendleton Lo 41 32 32 44 29 32 40 36 38 33 33 33 33 39 43 43 40 38 37 43 30 42 35 33 43 41 31 W r c c r c sn r r r c sn c c r r r c c r r c r r c r r c Hi 45 79 72 52 71 37 50 59 53 73 60 Lo 21 72 53 47 46 31 39 49 32 61 50 W s pc pc c pc r s t s s r Wed. Hi 45 79 71 55 74 35 51 62 43 75 58 Lo 22 73 52 47 46 31 37 48 25 63 50 W s pc s c pc c pc c s s c REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today. A shower in spots in central parts; rain across the north. Eastern Washington: A little rain today; a bit of rain, mixed in the north with snow early. Cascades: Rather cloudy today; showers across the north. Mostly cloudy tonight. Eastern and Central Oregon: Clouds and sunshine today. Western Washington: Cloudy today; rain, heavy at times, but a couple of showers across the south. East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, 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. Wednesday S 6-12 S 8-16 2 2 2 0 0 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 mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 211 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 To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ 0 Northern California: Partly sunny today; cold. Periods of rain tonight. — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — www.eastoregonian.com Today SW 6-12 SSW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Dec 9 Lo 46 27 34 49 21 33 43 39 38 36 29 37 34 38 48 47 30 39 40 46 32 46 35 33 46 43 37 WORLD CITIES (in mph) Klamath Falls 48/29 6:53 a.m. 4:25 p.m. 2:44 a.m. 3:05 p.m. Last Hi 53 48 49 54 45 46 56 53 58 47 48 48 46 55 54 58 52 57 54 54 51 57 46 46 54 54 53 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. WINDS Medford 55/38 0.03" 0.35" 0.49" 8.15" 7.47" 7.77" SUN AND MOON Nov 26 Bend 49/34 Burns 45/21 PRECIPITATION Nov 18 John Day 47/36 Ontario 52/30 37° 33° 5° (1959) 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 56/46 Eugene 56/43 TEMPERATURE HIGH 52° 34° Spokane Wenatchee 46/35 48/35 Tacoma Moses 52/41 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 51/38 47/36 50/45 50/42 53/37 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 52/45 54/43 Lewiston 58/40 Astoria 52/36 53/46 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 54/46 Pendleton 46/33 The Dalles 58/38 54/40 56/37 La Grande Salem 48/37 57/46 through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH 52° 31° Seattle 51/44 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 54° 38° Today SATURDAY Turning cloudy Tuesday, November 14, 2017 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice CORVALLIS — In November of 1992, more than 1,500 scientists put their signatures on an extraor- dinary document titled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,” imploring global leaders to save the planet from environmental disaster. Now, 25 years later, more than 15,000 scientists have signed an updated version of that historic plea, saying “time is running out.” “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice,” published Monday in the interna- tional journal BioScience, charts the progress — or lack thereof — on the issues highlighted in the original document and renews the call for urgent action. Lead author William J. Ripple, a distinguished professor of ecology at Oregon State University, said he was astounded by the level of support he and his seven co-au- thors received for their manuscript. “I initially sent it out to 40 of my colleagues,” he recalled. “After 24 hours there were 600 scientists who signed it. Within two days, there were 1,200. There were so many people signing that our website crashed a couple of times.” By the time the paper was ready for publication, the authors had received the endorsement of 15,364 fellow scientists from 184 countries. AP Photo/Martin Meissner Protestors dressed as polar bears are watched by a police officer as they talk in a backstreet after a demonstration outside the COP 23 Fiji UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, Saturday. The original “Warning,” published by the Union of Concerned Scientists, was a sort of environmental distress signal that began with this chilling state- ment: “Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course.” It went on to lay out a number of alarming trends, including a growing hole in the atmospheric ozone layer, depletion and pollution of freshwater resources, overfishing in the ocean, wide- spread deforestation, crashing wildlife populations, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, rising global temperatures and soaring human population levels. “A great change in our stew- ardship of the earth and the life on it is required,” the authors declared, “if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.” As the manifesto’s 25th anni- versary approached, Ripple and SALEM — More problems with the state’s troubled Medicaid system may soon come to light. OHA Director Pat Allen says new internal reports of processing problems in the Oregon Health Plan have arisen in the two weeks since the public learned that the state overpaid Medicaid providers to the tune of $74 million between 2014 and 2016. Oregon may have to pay as much as $65 million to the federal govern- ment to reimburse what it paid the state to cover Medicaid patients. Allen listed the possible addi- tional problems in the program during a legislative committee hearing Monday, adding that the $74 million figure may also no longer be accurate as the agency tries to sift through who bears responsibility for the costs of certain patients. Allen did not provide much detail about the new problems, but said “without doubt” more will emerge. The director said an employee approached him last week with documentation about possible mis-processing “when two different people who are similar to each other both enroll in the Oregon Health Plan.” And, he said, accounting staff brought him “a list of concerns they’ve got about business processes” in OHP. Two weeks ago, revelations emerged that the state overpaid 3 0 th P SYCHOLOGICAL S ERVICES OF P ENDLETON , LLC Anniversary Celebration! cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 88° in Goodyear, Ariz. Low 4° in Plentywood, Mont. 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 72 61 53 51 45 65 50 44 61 50 47 47 76 65 46 81 12 45 85 80 48 71 56 73 59 77 Lo 44 41 41 31 26 42 37 34 40 33 44 33 63 28 36 53 -4 27 74 59 36 48 44 52 47 59 Wed. 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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 his co-authors examined the avail- able data to determine whether any progress had been made on key global environmental issues since 1992. By most measures, they concluded, humanity gets a failing grade. “Especially troubling is the current trajectory of potentially catastrophic climate change” from burning fossil fuels and other human-caused factors, the article states. It also calls attention to a drastic loss of biodiversity that the authors call a “mass extinction event.” Charts included with the paper chronicle a number of other disturbing developments over the past quarter-century, including a 28.9 percent reduction in the abundance of all vertebrate wildlife, a 62.1 percent increase in carbon dioxide emissions, a 167.6 percent increase in global average annual temperature change and a 35.5 percent rise in the global population — an increase of 2 billion people. On the plus side, the researchers note a number of positive trends. Perhaps the biggest environ- mental success story of the past 25 years has been the significant recovery of the ozone layer since the 1987 Montreal Protocol sharply curtailed the use of damaging chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, in aerosol sprays and other applications. OHA Director: More Medicaid problems may come to light By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau 60s National Summary: Showers will affect part of the Florida Peninsula and extend from Oklahoma to Minnesota and Wisconsin today. Rain and snow showers will riddle the north- ern Rockies, while rain returns to western Washington. OSU professor writes updated ‘Warning to Humanity’ By BENNETT HALL Corvallis Gazette-Times 50s providers for members of Medicaid who were also eligible for Medicare. The distinction is important: Medicare, a coverage program for the elderly funded solely by the federal government, pays first. Medicaid is paid for with both state and federal funds. So people who are technically eligible for both, if they are classified correctly, should be covered and paid for by Medicare at less cost to the state. In this case, though, the state paid for them as Medicaid patients. 30% OFF Storewide * OPEN HOUSE ~ Th ursday, Nov. 16 ~ BRIEFLY Hanford board says more money needed for cleanup RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Hanford Advisory Board says more money is needed to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The board says Congress needs to give Hanford some $4 billion per year to reach cleanup deadlines. The Tri-City Herald reports Hanford currently receives $2.2 billion to $2.5 billion per year. The board is composed of people from the Tri-Cities and the Northwest who have an interest in cleaning up the site. The board at a meeting last week said the current funding level is “dangerous and destructive.” Hanford is located near the Tri-Cities and for decades made plutonium for nuclear weapons. The site is now engaged in cleaning up the resulting radioactive wastes. Salem Republican Jodi Hack resigns from Oregon Legislature SALEM (AP) — State Rep. Jodi Hack is resigning to become chief executive officer of the Oregon Home Builders Association. The Republican confirmed the news in a statement Monday, saying it’s a bittersweet day. Her district includes parts of South Salem, Aumsville and Turner. Marion County commissioners will appoint a replacement within 30 days of her official resignation. Hack, who is originally from Pendleton, was elected in November 2014 and re-elected last year. 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. WARM UP with our NEW WINTER MENU Try the New Meatball Marinara Old Favorites are Back! 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