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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny
A shower in the
afternoon
53° 34°
49° 43°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Mostly cloudy with
showers
Today
TUESDAY
Partly sunny with a
shower
Times of clouds
and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
59° 36°
48° 33°
50° 36°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
47° 38°
56° 31°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
68°
46°
45°
31°
75° (1933) -12° (1985)
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
0.02"
1.02"
1.09"
14.72"
11.12"
11.08"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
49/37
Ontario
54/31
Bend
49/32
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42°
47°
31°
70° (2017) -11° (1985)
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0.78"
0.89"
8.58"
7.85"
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
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Dec 3
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4:17 p.m.
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9:46 p.m.
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Dec 9
Caldwell
54/34
Burns
49/25
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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PRECIPITATION
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Year to date
Last year to date
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Nov 26
Albany
55/38
Eugene
55/37
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
51° 36°
Spokane
Wenatchee
46/32
50/32
Tacoma
Moses
52/38
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 52/32
46/34
52/45
52/38
55/31
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
51/39
53/38 Lewiston
57/33
Astoria
53/34
54/43
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
53/39
Pendleton 46/30
The Dalles 56/31
53/34
55/33
La Grande
Salem
50/34
55/39
Corvallis
55/38
HIGH
52° 34°
Seattle
52/43
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
55° 36°
Friday, November 24, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
52/32
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today;
however, sunnier across the south and
toward the Cascades.
Cascades: Some sun today; a little snow,
accumulating a coating to an inch across
the north.
Northern California: Partly sunny today.
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Coastal Oregon: Rather cloudy today; a
little rain across the north. Considerable
clouds tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Times of
clouds and sun today; mostly cloudy and
cooler in the south.
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SALEM — Oregon Gov.
Kate Brown on Monday
directed the state’s health
agency to guarantee coverage
for children and pregnant
women covered by a federal
program that’s in limbo.
Oregon is one of three Brown
states that will run out of
federal funding for the Children’s
Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, in
December, according to OHA. Up to
half of the states will be out of federal
money by February.
Brown directed OHA to maintain
coverage of groups covered by CHIP
for the first four months of 2018. That
would cost the state about $35 million.
About 121,000 kids and 1,700 preg-
nant women are covered by the program
in Oregon.
CHIP generally enjoys broad polit-
ical support, but Congress is now well
past its Sept. 30 deadline to reauthorize
funding for the program.
But Oregon officials expect Congress
to reauthorize the funding and to pay the
state back.
“While this additional cost
was not in the Oregon Health
Authority’s
legislatively
approved budget, we can
manage this on a short-term
basis because it is early in the
biennium,” OHA Director Pat
Allen wrote in a Nov. 17 letter
to Brown. “We will spend
more of our appropriated state
funds earlier to make up for
lost federal funds.”
Allen added that if Congress does
not reauthorize CHIP funding or doesn’t
fund it retroactively, the lost funding
would “cause a hole in the OHA budget”
that would have to be reconciled in
2018.
The CHIP program pays 97 percent
of the total costs of health care for the
121,000 Oregon kids under the program.
Those children can be covered
by Medicaid, but will be covered at
a reduced match rate of 64 percent,
which would cost the state more money,
according to Allen’s memo.
If CHIP expires, federal funds can
still pay for emergency services for
pregnant women, such as labor and
delivery, according to Oregon’s interim
Medicaid director, David Simnitt. But
SEATTLE — A major
oil-by-rail terminal proposed
on the Columbia River in
Washington state poses a
potential risk of oil spills,
train accidents and longer
emergency response times
due to road traffic, an envi-
ronmental study has found.
Many of the risks could
be decreased with certain
mitigation measures, but
the study released Tuesday
outlined four areas where it
said the impacts are signifi-
cant and cannot be avoided.
The study said that while
“the likelihood of occurrence
of the potential for oil spills
may be low, the conse-
quences of the events could
be severe.”
The state’s Energy Facility
Site Evaluation Council has
been evaluating the project
since 2013 and released its
environmental review a week
before it is scheduled to vote
to support or oppose the
project in a recommendation
that will go to Gov. Jay Inslee.
Inslee, a Democrat, will
decide whether to approve
the facility or reject it.
The
proposed
$210
million terminal for the city
of Vancouver would receive
about 360,000 barrels of
crude oil by trains a day. Oil
would temporarily be stored
on site for Vancouver Energy,
a joint venture of Tesoro
Corp. and Savage Cos., and
then loaded onto tankers and
ships bound for West Coast
refineries.
The study identified the
four risks that could not be
avoided as train accidents,
the emergency response
delays, negative impacts of
the project on low-income
communities and the possi-
bility that an earthquake
would damage the facility’s
dock and cause an oil spill.
Measures could be taken
to reduce the potential risk
of oil spills by other causes,
fires and harm to juvenile
salmon, the study said.
Corrections
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the paper, please call 541-966-0818.
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with our facility that have
the potential to occur today,
such as a major earthquake
or impacts related to the
transportation of products
that move across the country
on a daily basis.”
Opponents said the report
provided justification for the
council to issue a recommen-
dation against the project.
The review “clearly shows
that the Tesoro-Savage oil
train terminal is bad for
Washington,” said Rebecca
Ponzio, director for the Stand
Up to Oil Campaign.
The
facility
would
produce more than 300,000
metric tons of greenhouse
gas emissions annually,
with half of that from trains
moving along the entire route
in Washington state.
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
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Low -5° in Embarrass, Minn.
the state would have to pay for other
services for pregnant women covered
by the program, such as prenatal
check-ups.
The 121,000 kids covered by CHIP
in Oregon live in homes where incomes
are between 100 and 300 percent of
the federal poverty level. Oregon must
cover about a third of those kids — those
earning between 100 and 138 percent of
the poverty level — under the Afford-
able Care Act, according to OHA.
CHIP covers children whose parents
make too much to qualify for Medicaid
but still may struggle to afford coverage.
Kids in households making less than
100 percent of the federal poverty level
are eligible for Medicaid.
Brown’s directive comes as OHA
struggles to get its books in order, shore
up its eligibility and payment systems
and bounce back from a pummeling of
negative publicity.
The state overpaid Medicaid
providers by up to $74 million between
2014 and 2016, about $10 million of
which it has already recouped. Allen,
who took the reins Sept. 1 in the wake
of a publicity scandal, identified a host
of other issues with payment and allo-
cation of funds — about $112.4 million.
Critics say the project is
a risk to the environment
and people while developers
promote the terminal as an
opportunity to bring crude oil
from North Dakota and other
areas to a western U.S. port
and bring jobs and money to
the region.
“Our initial assessment
provides confidence that
EFSEC’s thorough evalua-
tion of the facts will demon-
strate our ability to build and
operate the project safely
and in an environmentally
responsible way,” Vancouver
Energy spokesman Jeff
Hymas said in emailed state-
ment late Tuesday.
He labeled most of the
impacts outlined in the report
as “related to low-probability
events not directly associated
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Panel outlines risk of oil-by-rail terminal on Columbia
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Governor to preserve kids’ insurance program
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Parents file $8M
suit for death of
daughter in hot
apartment
PORTLAND (AP) —
An Oregon couple has
filed an $8 million lawsuit
against their apartment
company, claiming their
2-year-old daughter died
because a heater in their
unit raised the temperature
in her room to a lethal
level.
Portland attorney
Jane Paulson, who’s
representing Taqwa
Dakhlalla’s estate, says the
child was healthy before
she died in December
2016 when the heater and
thermostat in her room
malfunctioned.
The Oregonian/
OregonLive reported
Wednesday that the parents
are suing apartment owners
Cathedral Park Investments
LLC and the apartment
management company
Gordon Properties Inc.
The defendants’
attorney said more
investigating needs to be
done, but so far he’s found
no liability on the part of
his clients.
Man sues city
of Bend over
snowplow crash
BEND (AP) — A man
is seeking nearly $300,000
from the city of Bend
because of a 2015 incident
in which a snowplow
allegedly lifted and
dropped the truck he was
driving.
The Bend Bulletin
reports law firm Dwyer
Williams Dretke filed the
suit Wednesday on behalf
of Brian Fletcher, who
alleges he was injured in
the collision.
Fletcher is also suing
Tony Cota, the city
street utility worker who
operated the plow.
The complaint says on
Nov. 25, 2015, Fletcher
was driving when the
front blade of Cota’s plow
caught the rear wheel of
Fletcher’s pickup truck.
The complaint says
Fletcher suffered injuries
that included the herniation
of his lumbar disc, which
required surgery.
United starting
direct flights
to LAX from
Medford,
Redmond
MEDFORD (AP) —
United Airlines plans to
start direct flights to Los
Angeles from two Oregon
airports.
The airline said
Tuesday it will offer
twice-daily flights between
Medford and Los Angeles
International Airport
beginning April 9. The
Mail Tribune reports the
airline hasn’t offered direct
service between Medford
and Los Angeles since
cutbacks after Sept. 11,
2001.
Also on April 9, the
Chicago-based airline will
add a direct daily flight
from Redmond Airport to
Los Angeles.