WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
Mostly cloudy
Cloudy
47° 35°
48° 44°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Cloudy with a
touch of rain
A shower in the
morning; cloudy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
56° 49°
60° 50°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
50° 35°
49° 43°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
48°
41°
43°
28°
65° (1971) -15° (1950)
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
Trace
1.59"
1.35"
1.59"
1.35"
1.35"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
42/34
Ontario
46/28
Bend
44/33
50°
45°
44°
29°
64° (1967) -19° (1950)
Burns
41/25
Trace
1.10"
1.24"
1.10"
1.40"
1.24"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Feb 7
New
7:18 a.m.
5:00 p.m.
5:33 p.m.
7:24 a.m.
First
Feb 15
Feb 22
Caldwell
47/31
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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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
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
48/33
Hi
38
53
56
48
69
30
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32
72
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Lo
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today into tomor-
row; showers across the north.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
Partly cloudy tonight. Cloudy tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today. A couple of snow showers near the
Cascades tonight.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with a passing shower. Mostly cloudy
tonight.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy today; periods
of snow, accumulating 1-3 inches across
the north.
Northern California: Partly sunny today.
Partly cloudy tonight. Times of clouds and
sun tomorrow.
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Today
Thursday
WSW 6-12
WSW 6-12
SSW 3-6
SSW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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Hi
48
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44
55
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38
49
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
WINDS
Medford
50/39
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
Jan 31
Albany
50/40
Eugene
49/39
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
61° 51°
Spokane
Wenatchee
39/27
39/28
Tacoma
Moses
46/38
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 46/31
40/30
46/42
45/39
49/32
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
47/41
49/36 Lewiston
51/36
Astoria
46/33
48/42
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
49/39
Pendleton 38/28
The Dalles 50/35
47/35
49/36
La Grande
Salem
41/30
50/40
Corvallis
50/39
HIGH
57° 49°
Seattle
45/41
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
61° 46°
Today
SUNDAY
Cloudy with a little
rain
60° 46°
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
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-0s
0s
showers t-storms
10s
rain
20s
30s
flurries
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
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90s
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warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Snow and flurries are in store for the Great Lakes and northern Rockies
today, while snow falls on the northern Cascades. Rain will soak the coastal Northwest as
showers dot southeastern Florida.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 86° in Thermal, Calif.
Low -36° in Ely, 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
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Today
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
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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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Coast Guard digging toward source of Columbia oil sheen
pier — oil and all.
Oil from the tank was
likely used for boilers at the
Union Fishermen’s Coopera-
tive, which was located at the
pier and closed down more
than 70 years ago, Madjeska
said. Since then, the pier has
had a handful of owners, and
knowledge of the tank likely
was lost somewhere in the
turnover.
“Did people know years
ago that this tank was there?
Possibly. Maybe not,” hotel
spokeswoman Donna Quinn
said. “We wish it had been
disclosed, but it wasn’t. We
don’t know who knew or
who didn’t know.”
Quinn said the hotel is
researching options for how
to pay for the cleanup and
equipment, which Madjeska
By JACK HEFFERNAN
EO Media Group
The Coast Guard began
chipping away Monday at
a dilapidated pier that likely
holds the source of an oil
sheen on the Columbia River
near Astoria.
After the first of what will
likely be a multiday effort,
officials offered more detail
about what may have caused
the spill.
The sheen was first
reported Jan. 18 near the
Cannery Pier Hotel. It has
been concentrated near the
hotel but was visible about
5 miles along the river at its
peak.
Other affected areas —
including the Hammond
Mooring Basin — have been
cleaned up, while a contain-
ment boom has been placed
near the hotel. Oil has also
been spotted on boats in the
area.
A Coast Guard diver
discovered the tank a couple
of days after the sheen was
reported. The pier is located
on the same property as the
hotel, though hotel manage-
ment maintains it did not
have prior knowledge of the
tank until the sheen appeared.
Coast Guard crews on
Monday cut a hole in the tank
— located on the south side
of the pier and encapsulated
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Workers use heavy equipment to access a pier in Astoria that is thought to be the
source of an oil leak.
by concrete — to survey it.
The tank likely has a capacity
of 10,000 gallons — a larger
size than previously believed
— and contains about 2,000
gallons of heavy, sludge-like
oil, said Coast Guard Lt.
Cmdr. Andrew Madjeska. A
storm earlier in the month
may have shifted the pier and
the tank, which already had
holes on its side.
“That does explain why
we’re seeing product in
the water,” Madjeska said.
“It probably shifted once
the river was able to make
contact and come in through
those holes and then exit with
the tide.”
The exact amount of oil
discharged is still unknown,
but the Coast Guard considers
the spill minor. Wildlife has
not been affected.
Tide cycles of up to 9 feet,
inclement weather, crum-
bling concrete surrounding
the tank and the risk of
disrupting the containment
boom have presented chal-
lenges for crews hoping to
excavate the tank. A crane
barge was placed in the area
Friday before work began
Monday.
Madjeska said crews hope
to fully access the tank by the
end of the week. Crews will
then be able to determine
how heavy it is and how, if
possible, to lift it from the
Muslim inmate at TRCI sues state for lack of halal meals
By NOELLE CROMBIE
The Oregonian/OregonLive
An inmate at Two Rivers
Correctional Institution in
Umatilla has sued Oregon
Department of Corrections
staff for failing to serve
meals that observe his
Muslim faith.
Rashid Kambarov, 29,
who is serving a sentence for
rape, filed a complaint this
week in U.S. District Court
in Pendleton.
He is a legal permanent
resident from Turkey and is
suing TRCI superintendent
Troy Bowser and other
administrators at the prison.
The
Department
of
Corrections did not immedi-
ately respond to a request for
comment Tuesday.
Kambarov claims he is
not served halal meat and
that vegetarian alternatives
have been cross-contami-
nated with pork, a forbidden
food for Muslims. Halal
refers to food and drink
prepared in accordance with
Islamic dietary laws.
He claims the state’s
failure to accommodate his
religion violates the First
and 14th Amendments and
the Religious Land Use and
Institutionalized Person Act
of 2000, which bars state
and local jails and prisons
from imposing arbitrary
limits on inmates’ religious
practices.
According to the suit,
Kambarov asked for and
was denied a special diet to
accommodate his faith when
he was sent to prison in 2015.
He says he was told
that the department offers
Muslim inmates a “pork-free
meat alternative diet” that
includes fresh and cooked
fruits and vegetables.
He says he was told that
the food would not come into
contact with pork or alcohol,
halal requirements.
Kambarov said he was
Corrections
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State told inmate
vegetarian ‘best
option for a Muslim’
estimates will cost hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
The sheen has prompted
questions about other piers
in Astoria. Companies that
moved out of the town,
which once hosted a booming
cannery industry, left behind
dilapidated docks.
“This generated some
excellent
conversation
among stakeholders and
partners about canneries
in general, but at this time
there is no information of
additional tanks,” Madjeska
said.
Large
environmental
and economic ramifications
appear to have been avoided
in this spill. “But I would
say it’s a big event in a small
city,” Coast Guard Capt.
William Timmons said.
also told the vegetarian
option “is the best option
for a Muslim.” However,
Kambarov said he witnessed
kitchen
staff
handling
vegetarian meals as well as
salami.
In other instances, he said
he was served soup he later
learned contained pork and
watched staff use the same
knife to cut vegetables and
ham.
He said his requests for
kosher meals, which are
prepared in accordance with
Jewish law, were rejected by
prison staff. Kosher require-
ments satisfy Muslim dietary
restrictions, he said.
The suit doesn’t list a
dollar amount in damages.
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