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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY Rain, mixed with snow early Sun and some clouds 44° 32° 43° 36° FRIDAY SATURDAY Rather cloudy Mostly cloudy with a bit of rain PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 54° 36° 45° 26° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 48° 36° 49° 31° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 48° 16° 46° 29° 69° (1921) -21° (1933) 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" 0.26" 0.56" 1.85" 1.99" 1.94" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW John Day 41/30 Ontario 44/26 Bend 42/25 45° 14° 47° 29° 69° (1977) -22° (1933) 0.00" 0.14" 0.46" 1.24" 1.91" 1.74" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Feb 22 Full Mar 1 6:59 a.m. 5:20 p.m. 6:27 a.m. 4:23 p.m. Last Mar 9 Caldwell 45/27 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 Lo 39 23 25 38 17 25 33 31 31 30 17 28 27 31 39 38 26 26 32 35 24 34 21 26 36 32 26 W r sn sn r sn sn r sn r sn sf sn r r r r sn sn sn r sn r sn sn r sn sn Hi 49 42 42 55 37 37 51 42 48 37 44 39 36 49 48 52 47 48 43 50 45 52 34 35 49 45 49 Lo 41 25 26 39 17 25 34 33 36 28 19 29 28 27 40 38 26 36 36 39 24 37 28 27 39 38 29 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 42/17 Hi 45 69 56 46 75 18 42 49 48 94 53 Lo 18 63 45 41 47 9 39 33 19 70 47 Thu. W pc pc pc r pc pc r pc pc pc s Hi 44 71 60 50 76 18 52 53 37 83 56 Lo 24 63 44 33 48 16 34 33 18 69 39 W s pc c pc pc pc c pc pc s pc REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Rain and drizzle today; morning rain, then a shower in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: A mixture of rain and snow today, 1-3 inches of snow above 4,000 feet. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a shower, but occasional rain and drizzle across the south. Eastern Washington: Snow in the north accumulating 3-6 inches today, snow mixed with rain in the south. Cascades: Periods of snow today accumulat- ing 3-6 inches with locally higher amounts. Today Thursday WSW 10-20 WSW 10-20 WSW 6-12 WSW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 0 1 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 www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ 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 1 0 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. Northern California: Mostly cloudy today with some rain and snow showers, mostly in the mountains. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group Hi 49 41 42 52 38 39 48 42 49 41 42 40 38 48 48 50 44 47 44 50 43 51 37 37 48 43 51 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. WINDS Medford 48/31 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 Feb 15 Albany 49/35 Eugene 48/33 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 48° 30° Spokane Wenatchee 37/21 43/28 Tacoma Moses 46/33 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 44/27 36/25 49/36 46/31 51/26 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 48/36 43/32 Lewiston 49/29 Astoria 43/30 49/39 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 50/35 Pendleton 39/25 The Dalles 49/31 44/32 51/37 La Grande Salem 40/28 51/34 Corvallis 50/33 HIGH 56° 39° Seattle 46/36 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 53° 43° Today SUNDAY Windy with a couple of showers 50° 42° Wednesday, February 14, 2018 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 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: Mild air will dominate the Central and Eastern states today. Showers will dampen the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley. As snow blankets the Northwest, spotty showers will linger in the Southwest. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 88° in Immokalee, Fla. Low -33° in Chinook, Mont. 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 60 67 50 55 38 67 43 48 70 60 43 48 65 58 40 71 27 39 80 74 49 68 58 63 60 66 Lo 41 58 44 48 15 60 27 37 55 57 37 44 59 34 37 54 20 15 66 62 47 54 48 45 56 49 W c c pc c c c sn pc c r pc c c pc pc c sn pc r c sh c pc pc sh pc Thur. 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House Bill 4147 also would prohibit companies from charging consumers or requesting their credit or debit card numbers to redeem the companies’ offer for free credit card monitoring or a security freeze or to replace personal identification number, passwords or similar devices. Dubbed the “Equifax bill,” the proposed regulations intersect with revelations Friday, Feb. 9, that cyber thieves last year accessed more personal information than previously reported by the Equifax. The security breach affected an esti- mated 145.5 million consumers in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. “Oregon fared no better — over 1.7 million of Oregonians’ infor- mation was breached,” according to written testimony from Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s office. “As one cannot change their Social Security Numbers, this is a breach that will follow Oregonians for many years to come. Not only does the sheer size of the breach cause concern, but the Equifax story revealed many other failures and unfair practices.” The Atlanta credit reporting agency discovered in July that hackers had stolen consumers’ names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers and certain driv- er’s license information. But the breach wasn’t reported to consumers until September, according to media reports. A letter to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Friday, Feb. 9, showed that addi- tional consumer information was exposed, including tax identification numbers, email addresses and addi- tional driver’s license information. HB 4147 would require compa- nies to reveal a breach within 45 days unless law enforcement determines doing so would impede a criminal investigation. Data breaches less than 350,000 would require companies to notify consumers in writing, electronically or by phone. Notices of larger data breaches would require companies to post notice on their website and in statewide newspapers and television broadcasts. Companies would have to report all data breaches to the state attorney general’s office. Oregonians reported losses of $12.8 million from cybercrimes in 2016, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. Data breaches fuel those crimes, according to the attorney general’s office. Equifax offered free credit moni- toring services to affected consumers but accepting the offer they were forced to accept arbitration and a waiver of any lawsuit connected to the breach. “They and other credit reporting agencies steered consumers away from credit freezes, and into other pay-per-month type services,” according to the attorney general’s office testimony. Freezing credit is one of the best preventative measures a consumer can take to protect their credit from fraudulent uses, but ordering a freeze required a fee. “Making freezes free, like some other states, is the best way to help consumers use this very important tool,” according to the attorney general’s statement. The bill provides that a consumer may freeze credit for free once a year. ——— The Capital Bureau is a collab- oration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. One climber dies, others rescued on Mount Hood GOVERNMENT CAMP (AP) — One climber fell to his death and several others had to be rescued after conditions turned treacherous on Oregon’s tallest peak on Tuesday. More than a half-dozen people had been climbing near Mount Hood’s peak when a climber fell about 1,000 feet, said Sgt. Brian Jensen, a Clackamas County sheriff’s office spokesman. “One of the guys slipped,” said climber Quinn Talley of Welches, Oregon, who had been descending after summiting around 8 a.m. “At first he was just sliding and right before he disappeared, he started cartwheeling.” Talley, who said he’s climbed the mountain about 20 times and has never seen worse conditions, said he tried to reach the man, but the ice was too dangerous. “Normally, you like a frozen crust on snow so your crampons don’t ball up with snow, but this is different,” Talley said. “With the rain and freeze cycles, there’s something called rime ice ... and it’s really loose and normally it’s just fluffy. But these were like dinner plates, hard ice dinner plates.” T UESDAY , F EBRUARY 20 TH • 2018 AT 7:00 P . M . B LUE M OUNTAIN C OMMUNITY (BMCC) • 2411 NW C ARDEN • P ENDLETON , OR S CIENCE & T ECHNOLOGY B UILDING • R OOM S T - 200 F OOD F ROM THE G ROUND U P - F ARM TO T ABLE AP Photo/Don Ryan, file F EATURING : H AL M C C UNE , C OLLEEN S ANDERS AND S HARON T HORNBERRY In this Dec. 2009 file photo, high winds whip snow off the western peaks of Mount Hood. KOIN-TV reported that video taken from a helicopter showed other climbers performing CPR on the man before he was airlifted by an Oregon Army National Guard helicopter to a hospital. He was later declared dead. Authorities have not released his identity. Mount Hood, a peak notorious for loose ice and rocks in warm weather, is a popular climbing site that has seen dozens of accidents and fatalities over the years. Thousands climb it each year, mostly in the spring. The sun has been out this week and the temperature was around freezing at the spot where the climber fell, said Russell Gubele of Mountain Wave Search and Rescue. “This is the kind of weather conditions and the time of year where you often get falling ice, falling rocks and problems,” Gubele said. “It sounds like the conditions up there are very unsafe right now.” Climbers used their cellphones to report that conditions were hazardous and described the falling rocks and ice “like a bowling alley,” said Air Force Maj. Chris Bernard of the 304th Rescue Squadron. Hal McCune, Pendleton Farmers Market Association President Colleen Sanders, Umatilla County Master Gardener President Sharon Thornberry, Rural Communities Liaison Oregon Food Bank T HE COST FOR THIS SERIES OF 4 FORUMS IS $15 PER PERSON , $25 PER COUPLE OR $5 PER FORUM AT THE DOOR - S TUDENTS ARE FREE For more information about the EO Forum, please contact: Karen Parker at 541-966-3177. The EO Forum is a collaborative effort among leaders from the Blue Mountain Community College. InterMountain Education Service District; the East Oregonian; American Association of University Women; and Harriet Isom, a former United States ambassador who also serves on the committee. This EO Forum program is offered as part of Blue Mountain Community College’s annual Arts and Culture Festival. For more information on the festival go to www.bluecc.edu.
