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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
Mostly cloudy
Cloudy
48° 36°
47° 35°
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Times of clouds
and sun
A little morning
snow
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
48° 39°
52° 35°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
51° 35°
50° 34°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
47°
31°
42°
28°
67° (1968) -13° (1922)
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"
1.06"
0.96"
1.06"
1.33"
0.96"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
49°
42°
61° (1977)
Trace
0.72"
0.79"
0.72"
1.30"
0.79"
SUN AND MOON
Jan 31
Bend
41/31
Last
7:29 a.m.
4:44 p.m.
9:28 a.m.
8:35 p.m.
New
Feb 7
Feb 15
Caldwell
44/25
Burns
38/17
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
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WORLD CITIES
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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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Medford
44/34
PRECIPITATION
Jan 24
John Day
41/29
Ontario
44/24
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24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Albany
48/42
Eugene
47/39
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
52° 35°
Spokane
Wenatchee
37/30
39/29
Tacoma
Moses
46/41
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 45/34
39/31
48/44
46/40
49/33
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
47/43
46/36 Lewiston
50/35
Astoria
45/31
50/45
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
47/44
Pendleton 38/25
The Dalles 51/35
48/36
47/36
La Grande
Salem
42/30
48/43
Corvallis
49/41
HIGH
50° 37°
Seattle
47/43
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
51° 32°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Some sun, then
turning cloudy
48° 33°
Saturday, January 20, 2018
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
38/25
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: A rain or snow shower
today; a little icy mix in the morning, then a
little snow and sleet in the mountains.
Cascades: Snow today, accumulating 1-3
inches; a little snow, mainly early in the
south.
Northern California: Mostly cloudy today;
frigid in the interior mountains. Rain at the
coast tonight.
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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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Eastern and Central Oregon: Intervals of
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SALEM — The looming
partial shutdown of the
federal government could
cause a cash flow hiccup for
the state of Oregon.
But the specific impact
depends on the length of
the shutdown, and how the
federal government decides
to implement it, says Legis-
lative Fiscal Officer Ken
Rocco.
In the event of a shutdown,
which could interrupt the
flow of federal funds, Oregon
would get reimbursed after
Congress passes a spending
resolution, Rocco said on
Friday morning, when the
prospect of a shutdown was
still unclear.
“Normally it’s just a cash
flow issue for us,” Rocco
said. “Most of these programs
will only be held up briefly.”
In the current two-year
state budget, Oregon expects
to bring in about $21.8 billion
in federal funds.
Central to the debate on
Capitol Hill is a package to
fund the Children’s Health
Insurance Program, or CHIP.
CHIP covers children
whose families make too
much money to qualify for
Medicaid, but still struggle to
afford health insurance.
About 121,000 kids and
1,700 pregnant women in
Oregon are covered by the
program.
Congress blew past its
Sept. 30 deadline to renew
the program, but approved
a short-term extension in
December.
States will gradually
run out of funding for the
program — Oregon’s will
last through the end of
January, according to OHA.
The program was set to
expire at 9 p.m. Pacific time
on Jan. 19, unless the U.S.
Senate votes to pass a bill that
contains both a short-term
spending plan and a six-year
extension of CHIP.
Oregon. Gov. Kate Brown
has said she wants the state to
cover CHIP-eligible kids and
pregnant women if Congress
decides to do away with
the program altogether —
although that’s an unlikely
prospect.
“If the feds do not
continue the program and we
decide to maintain it, that’s
a state resource we’d have
to apply to the program, but
that’s totally speculative right
now,” Rocco said.
The state hasn’t yet spent
any extra state money on
CHIP, but if Congress can’t
reach a deal, the state would
seek more money from the
federal government on a
monthly basis until federal
funding runs out in the
spring, according to OHA.
CHIP pays 97 percent of
the total costs of health care
for the kids on the program;
but if Congress doesn’t fund
CHIP, the state would ask the
federal government to cover
those kids under Medicaid at
a reduced match rate of 63
percent, which would cost
the state more money.
The state would need to
come up with roughly $8.75
million per month to make up
the difference between match
rates. In total, the program
costs $29 million per month.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden,
R-Ore., who represents
the state’s massive second
district in southwestern and
Eastern Oregon, has called
on the Senate to pass the bill.
“The question before us
today is, do you want to keep
the government open, and the
services provided, and six
years of full funding for chil-
dren’s health insurance and
pregnant women, or will you
vote against it?” Walden said
in a speech on the floor of
the House of Representatives
Thursday, before the House
voted to pass the bill. “It’s
as simple as that. The rest is
political rhetoric.”
THANK YOU
The family of Althea L. Gibbs gives our
sincere thanks to all of our friends and
family for the many cards, flowers, phone
calls and donations in her name to Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research.
Thanks to the Eagles Lodge in Pendleton
for the wonderful food and all the help
with her Celebration of Life, and to Burns
Mortuary of Hermiston for their care.
A big thank you to Kadlec Oncology Unit
doctors and nurses for the highest quality
care that they gave to Mom during her
time there.
Brad & Marcy Rosenberg and Family
Zane & Janice Gibbs and Family
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 79° in Imperial, Calif.
Low -1° in Waverly, Colo.
NATIONAL CITIES
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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
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Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
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But
Democrats
say
the program has become
a “bargaining chip” in
the budget negotiations
on Capitol Hill — that
Republicans added the CHIP
extension to the funding bill
at the last minute, and lever-
aged the optics of children’s
health programs to take a dig
at Democrats who oppose
the continuing resolution for
other reasons.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Ore., said “these children
became hostages to the
Republican political agenda.”
“Colleagues,
you’ve
had months to act,” Wyden
said on the Senate floor
on Friday. “You’ve had
almost a year. The program
expired 111 days ago, the
Finance Committee passed
a bipartisan bill, but these
kids and their families are
still waiting. There is nothing
aside from cynical political
strategy forcing the Congress
into this crisis we’re facing
today.”
A shutdown could also
have impacts on Oregonians
who work for the federal
government — the 16-day
shutdown in 2013 required
“non-essential” employees to
take furlough days.
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the coastal Northwest today. Snow will fall on the central and southern Rockies. Much of
the Central and Eastern states will be mild.
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Trespassers entering closed
Columbia Gorge areas
PORTLAND (AP) —
Trespassers continue to
venture into areas closed
after a Columbia River
Gorge wildfire to get to
nature attractions despite
dangers, Oregon authorities
said.
Authorities have handed
out $280 trespassing cita-
tions to 49 people and let
hundreds go with a warning,
The Oregonian/OregonLive
reported.
Half of the citations were
issued after the Multnomah
Falls Lodge reopened in late
November, they said.
Authorities put up a
fence and closed off trails
after the blaze, which began
in early September and
burned nearly 77 square
miles.
The fence has not stopped
some from trekking to a
lower viewing platform to
look at the falls, said Rachel
Pawlitz, spokeswoman for
the Columbia River Gorge
National Scenic Area.
Authorities
have
verbally warned almost 600
people about trespassing
since Sept. 19, according
to
numbers
provided
Wednesday by Pawlitz.
Other hot spots for tres-
passers include Eagle Creek
and Larch Mountain, she
added.
Although the fire is 100
percent contained, Pawlitz
said authorities saw smol-
dering stumps as recently as
December.
Hazards such as land-
slides, falling trees and
tumbling rocks exists,
officials said.
There are also logjams
that have formed on
the streams and above
waterfalls that can bursts
and flash flood or rockfall
threats, Pawlitz said.
Search and rescue efforts
would be expensive and
dangerous, authorities said.
The area is considered
so dangerous that the Mult-
nomah County Sheriff’s
Office’s Green Hornet trail
rescue team has yet to train
there, said Lt. Marc Shrake,
the agency’s spokesman.
The lower Multnomah
Falls viewing platform is
expected to reopen early
this year and the Benson
Bridge may be reopen in the
summer.
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