WEATHER
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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
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52
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53
56
49
45
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48
51
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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
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79
72
52
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Hi
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51
62
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Lo
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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47
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76
65
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58
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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
53
63
84
47
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59
71
48
67
60
51
86
42
45
55
59
60
64
54
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73
65
51
88
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Lo
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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