WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
SATURDAY
Partial sunshine
Periods of snow
40° 27°
34° 19°
SUNDAY
Cold with plenty of
sunshine
Plenty of sunshine
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
26° 23°
29° 25°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
41° 28°
36° 21°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
LOW
39°
34°
39°
25°
66° (1900) -12° (1990)
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
0.03"
0.20"
0.98"
15.46"
12.74"
12.45"
Corvallis
41/27
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
Albany
39/28
Eugene
40/26
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
John Day
34/24
Ontario
37/25
Bend
40/24
43°
36°
39°
27°
63° (1933) -12° (1990)
Last
Jan 1
Dec 26
Jan 8
7:33 a.m.
4:14 p.m.
9:49 a.m.
7:38 p.m.
New
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
46
36
40
50
29
32
40
40
41
34
31
33
32
39
46
49
37
40
40
41
41
42
31
33
40
41
39
Lo
36
16
24
36
14
21
26
26
28
24
15
22
22
21
36
33
25
29
27
32
23
30
21
21
32
32
27
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
45
65
70
56
74
30
51
50
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WINDS
Medford
39/21
0.02"
0.15"
0.99"
8.91"
9.01"
9.46"
SUN AND MOON
Caldwell
37/22
Burns
29/14
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
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
31° 24°
Spokane
Wenatchee
31/21
29/22
Tacoma
Moses
42/31
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 34/26
30/25
44/37
42/31
39/27
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
40/33
41/32 Lewiston
41/29
Astoria
36/27
46/36
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
41/32
Pendleton 32/21
The Dalles 41/28
40/27
43/32
La Grande
Salem
33/22
42/30
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
27° 23°
Seattle
42/35
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
32° 16°
Today
MONDAY
Mostly sunny and
very cold
29° 10°
Thursday, December 21, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
31/15
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Intervals of clouds
and sun today. Mostly cloudy tonight.
Cascades: Mostly sunny today; not as cold.
A bit of snow across the north tonight.
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Northern California: Sunshine today; cold
in the interior mountains. Mainly clear
tonight; cold.
Jan 16
Friday
NNE 4-8
NW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today. Partly
cloudy tonight; a couple of showers across
the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
today. Cloudy tonight, except partly cloudy
near the Cascades.
Western Washington: Partial sunshine
today.
Today
SW 4-8
SSW 4-8
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0s
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10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Snow will fall from part of northern Arizona to northern Michigan
today. Rain will dampen part of the Gulf coast. Much of the rest of the nation can expect a
dry day while winds kick up in California.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 84° in McAllen, Texas
Low -15° in International Falls, Minn.
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
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57
44
45
27
66
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58
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41
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74
25
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35
34
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60
41
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52
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22
78
78
54
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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
56
63
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48
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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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Expert: New route may have
Report: Employees attacked
distracted engineer before crash by chimps at Oregon sanctuary
SEATTLE (AP) —
Experts say it’s possible the
engineer on an Amtrak train
that derailed as it hurtled
into a curve at more than
twice the speed limit was
distracted for an extended
period of time before
the train plunged off an
overpass and onto a busy
interstate, a key factor in the
investigation.
Authorities
worked
Wednesday to reopen that
vital highway ahead of the
holiday travel rush as federal
investigators focused on
whether the engineer’s
attention was diverted by a
second person in the cab, or
by something else.
Three men were killed
Monday south of Seattle
when the train barreled into
a 30 mph zone at 80 mph.
Southbound lanes of Inter-
state 5 near DuPont have
been closed at the accident
ever since.
A conductor in training
who was familiarizing
himself with the new route
was in the locomotive with
the engineer at the time. A
federal official who was not
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
The engine from an Amtrak train that crashed onto
Interstate 5 on Monday sits on a transport carrier
before being driven away from the scene Wednesday in
DuPont, Wash.
authorized to discuss the
matter publicly and spoke
on condition of anonymity
said authorities want to
know whether the engineer
lost “situational awareness”
— didn’t realize where he
was.
Rail-safety
experts
say that while it is fairly
common to have two people
in a cab, investigators will
look into whether that may
have distracted the engineer.
“What
interactions
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were the conductor and the
engineer having and did
that distract the engineer
from his focus on where
they were on the route?”
said Keith Millhouse, a
rail-safety consultant who
was former board chairman
of Metrolink, Southern
California’s commuter rail
system.
BEND (AP) — Employees
of a chimpanzee sanctuary in
central Oregon were harmed
by the animals by way of
“amputations,
choking,
grabbing and biting,” a report
by a state workplace safety
agency said.
The Oregon Occupational
Safety and Health Division
found 10 safety and policy
violations that could result
in more than $20,000 in fines
for Chimps Inc. in Tumalo,
The Bulletin reported.
Prompted by three sepa-
rate complaints filed in April,
the agency inspected the
sanctuary three times earlier
this year.
The sanctuary opened
in 1995 and houses seven
rescued chimps.
In the 541-page report,
the agency identified 30
episodes of safety problems
and employee injuries over
the years. Employees were
exposed to physical harm
that included cage doors
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failure to secure the sanc-
tuary’s chimpanzees,” the
report stated.
Day stepped down as
president of the sanctuary
earlier this year.
Sanctuary officials said
most of the safety issues have
already been addressed, and
they’re seeking clarification
on the remaining concerns.
“They have to do their job,
and we have to try to abide
by what they say and make
sure we are the safest we can
be,” said Marla O’Donnell,
executive director of the
sanctuary.
The sanctuary is also
appealing the agency’s find-
ings.
Three former employees
have also filed complaints
with the state Bureau of
Labor and Industries. Bureau
officials said these complaints
are still being investigated.
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being left open leading to
chimps escaping or attacking
workers. These unsecured
cage doors resulted in the
bites, scratches, skin torn
off hands and at least four
finger or thumb amputations,
according to the report.
The sanctuary did not
report these injuries to the
state, according to the report.
The report linked many of
the safety issues to sanctuary
founder Lesley Day’s failure
to follow the sanctuary’s
protocols. Day would leave
the cage doors unlocked,
which would put employees
arriving the next day in
danger, according to the
report.
“Oregon OSHA identified
and concluded the root cause
of most, if not all, injuries,
escapes and incidents are
due to the sanctuary founder
Lesley Day’s access to, and
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