WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY FRIDAY Partly sunny A passing afternoon shower 48° 31° 46° 35° SATURDAY Cloudy Times of clouds and sun PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 49° 35° 44° 29° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 45° 34° 52° 30° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 51° 31° 43° 30° 71° (1892) -13° (1896) 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" 1.47" 1.36" 15.17" 11.21" 11.35" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 44° 44° 67° (2014) 0.00" 0.87" 1.10" 8.67" 7.87" 8.38" SUN AND MOON Dec 9 Bend 45/28 New Dec 17 7:13 a.m. 4:14 p.m. 2:18 p.m. 2:03 a.m. First Caldwell 45/24 Burns 39/17 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 Hi 52 44 45 56 39 40 50 47 52 43 43 43 41 49 53 55 45 52 48 50 47 52 40 41 50 48 50 Lo 42 20 28 42 17 25 33 32 30 29 21 28 26 30 42 39 22 31 31 37 23 36 29 25 36 34 31 W c pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. Hi 51 43 48 54 41 43 47 48 45 47 47 44 42 47 52 53 40 46 46 47 51 48 39 43 46 46 45 Lo 41 28 29 45 22 28 37 34 34 32 30 30 29 37 40 42 26 30 35 38 27 38 31 29 39 37 28 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W r pc c pc pc pc r pc c sh pc sh r pc r r pc c pc r c r c pc r pc c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 33 79 62 44 72 25 43 59 36 78 64 Lo 18 69 47 30 42 22 36 45 21 70 52 W pc pc s pc s c c r pc pc s Thu. Hi 37 79 62 39 70 30 40 58 35 80 54 Lo 17 64 47 35 40 28 32 41 21 71 44 W s pc s pc pc c c r s pc r WINDS Medford 49/30 PRECIPITATION Dec 3 John Day 43/29 Ontario 45/22 29° 30° 0° (1931) 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 Full Last Albany 49/35 Eugene 50/33 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 48° 29° Spokane Wenatchee 40/29 44/29 Tacoma Moses 51/37 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 46/32 42/31 50/43 50/37 50/31 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 49/39 48/34 Lewiston 52/32 Astoria 49/30 52/42 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 50/37 Pendleton 40/25 The Dalles 52/30 48/31 52/32 La Grande Salem 43/28 52/36 Corvallis 51/35 HIGH 50° 35° Seattle 50/42 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 50° 34° Today SUNDAY Mostly cloudy with a shower 49° 35° Wednesday, November 29, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 43/21 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Some sunshine today. Partly cloudy tonight. Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny today. Partly cloudy tonight. A couple of showers tomorrow. Western Washington: Variable cloudiness today; a shower in spots at the coast. Cascades: Sunshine and some clouds today. Partly cloudy tonight. 0 2 1 0 0 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 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. 1 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme Northern California: Mostly sunny today. Clear tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow. — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ NE 3-6 SSE 4-8 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Dec 26 www.eastoregonian.com Thursday UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. 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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 56 68 62 63 48 72 45 56 74 59 46 48 68 58 46 67 7 48 85 79 55 78 50 67 67 75 Lo 38 52 38 34 28 54 27 30 48 38 38 34 45 26 33 41 1 33 75 51 41 55 37 46 48 54 W pc s s s pc pc s pc s pc s s c pc s pc c c pc pc pc pc pc pc c pc Thur. 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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 Nuclear sludge at Hanford put in safer storage Brown, Buehler could break spending record SPOKANE, Wash. — in governor’s race After 19 years of work to By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press safeguard nuclear waste dating from the Cold War, workers at a sprawling Washington state site have managed to remove virtually all of the radioactive waste from 16 aging underground steel tanks at risk of leaking. The sludge left over from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons was transferred from the old single walled tanks into modern double wall tanks that are considered much safer, the U.S. Department of Energy said in a statement provided to The Associated Press Monday. While the event is regarded as a major milestone for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the waste removed came from only one of the facility’s 12 tank farms containing radioactive waste. A government contractor is in the final stages of removing waste from one of the tanks, which has a capacity of 530,000 gallons, the energy department said. It has stored waste since 1947 and officials suspect it has been leaking. Cleanup of the waste at Hanford has been underway since the 1980s and is expected to last for decades, costing an additional $100 billion. Hanford was established by the Manhattan Project during World War II to make the plutonium for the nuclear bomb dropped on AP Photo/Manuel Valdes, file In this May 9 photo, a structure is seen at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Wash. After almost two decades of work, the government has nearly finished removing radioactive wastes from a first group of underground storage tanks in eastern Washington. Nagasaki, Japan, and most of the plutonium during the Cold War. The site is half the size of Rhode Island and is located in south-central Washington near the city of Richland. Hanford officials decided in 1997 that waste would first be removed from the tanks that are now nearly emptied because several were suspected of leaking. There are 133 more single- walled underground tanks at the additional tank farms. Washington state offi- cials said the emptying of the tanks on the farm is a good step forward but underscores the lengthy additional cleanup work that lies ahead. “It’s taken longer than we had hoped, but still we’re very happy to see retrievals completed at the first Hanford tank farm,” said Alex Smith, of the state Ecology Department’s nuclear waste program at Hanford. Hanford has 149 of the single-walled tanks containing about 56 million gallons of some of the most toxic waste on the planet. The site has 28 of the newer and larger double-walled tanks. Efforts to permanently dispose of tank waste stored at Hanford have stalled. The energy department is in the process of building a long-delayed factory on site that would convert the tank waste into glass-like logs to be stored in a national repos- itory, if one is ever built. Construction on the factory has been slowed by safety and design concerns. The government wants to build a repository for the glass logs in Nevada, but that state’s leaders have balked. Officials have said they may pour concrete-like grout into the emptied older tanks to seal the residual radioactive waste. The original tanks were planned for storing the waste for 20 years but have done so for 70 years. Seven were suspected of having leaked waste into the ground. 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. Oregon Retired Educations Association Annual Christmas Bazaar December 2nd, 9am - 1:30pm SALEM (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown and Repub- lican Rep. Knute Buehler have together raised $5.3 million in the 2018 race for governor, putting them on pace to exceed the most expensive gover- nor’s race in state history. Democrat John Kitzhaber and Republican Chris Dudley raised and spent more than $17.7 Brown million in their 2010 race for governor, won narrowly by Kitzhaber. At this point in 2009, the year before the election, neither Kitzhaber or Dudley had even announced they were running. Buehler Both filed in early February 2010. The Bend Bulletin reports that Brown and Buehler have each already surpassed the $2 million fundraising mark. Buehler has raised $1.96 million this year. When added to the $141,000 he carried over from last year, his total is $2.11 million. He’s spent just over $549,000 and currently has $1.55 million in the bank. Brown has raised $1.89 million this year. When added to the $1.2 million she rolled over from last year, it gives her a total of just under $3.15 million. She has spent $1.17 million and has $1.96 million in the bank. The numbers could be higher. Under state law, candidates have 30 days to report contributions and expenditures. Buehler has consistently reported both as they come in. His last recorded contribution was Nov. 26. Brown has returned to her earlier practice of filing in intermittent spurts, as the law allows. Her current last registered contri- bution is from Nov. 4. Whether a crowded primary campaign will materialize against Buehler is yet to be seen. Bend entrepreneur Sam Carpenter is also vying for the GOP nomination. High-profile conservative Republicans such as Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, House Minority Leader Mike McLane of Powell Butte, and Happy Valley Mayor Lori Chavez-DeRemer have looked into the race and passed. 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