WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Cold with increasing
cloudiness
Snow and rain
37° 30°
42° 33°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Cloudy, a shower
in the p.m.
Today
TUESDAY
Partly sunny and
chilly
Chilly with clouds
and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
43° 25°
40° 25°
42° 30°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
49° 35°
39° 32°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
28°
49°
68° (2002)
21°
30°
5° (1894)
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
0.04"
0.66"
0.90"
2.25"
3.53"
2.28"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
35°
50°
71° (1988)
Trace
0.51"
0.75"
1.61"
3.26"
2.03"
SUN AND MOON
Mar 9
Bend
35/26
Burns
28/20
6:45 a.m.
5:33 p.m.
11:08 a.m.
1:09 a.m.
New
First
Mar 17
Caldwell
37/25
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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48
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Lo
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27
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25
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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
35/19
Hi
54
67
58
42
74
13
39
53
48
82
48
Lo
22
63
45
30
53
-2
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71
39
Sat.
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59
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77
11
41
54
43
89
56
Lo
19
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44
30
53
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26
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26
70
40
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: A few showers in the north
today; sunshine in central parts. Clouds and
sun in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A fl urry across
the north and in central parts today; not as
cold near the Cascades.
Western Washington: A little snow today;
however, snow and rain at the coast.
Mar 24
Today
Saturday
SW 7-14
SW 7-14
WNW 8-16
W 10-20
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
A bit of snow in the north, near the Idaho
border and in the mountains.
Cascades: A fl urry today; periods of snow,
accumulating 1-3 inches across the north.
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3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
WINDS
Medford
43/30
PRECIPITATION
Mar 1
John Day
31/25
Ontario
38/25
17°
30°
13° (1993)
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
43/37
Eugene
43/35
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
48° 32°
Spokane
Wenatchee
28/23
35/21
Tacoma
Moses
38/32
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 35/26
27/22
43/38
38/33
40/25
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
38/36
38/33 Lewiston
39/33
Astoria
36/28
45/37
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
40/36
Pendleton 29/21
The Dalles 39/32
37/30
37/30
La Grande
Salem
32/24
43/36
Corvallis
43/36
HIGH
46° 28°
Seattle
38/34
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
49° 28°
Friday, February 23, 2018
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10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
50s
ice
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Rain will soak areas from central Texas to southern Michigan and
southwestern New England today. Snow will leave California and Oregon and move east-
ward from Utah and northern Arizona to Colorado.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 88° in Venice, Fla.
Low -33° in Malta, 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
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79
47
49
20
80
33
42
81
76
47
58
55
34
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68
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80
57
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Sat.
Hi
43
79
56
59
29
78
37
55
80
69
42
45
69
33
41
56
13
24
82
78
56
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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
70
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84
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34
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80
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48
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37
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35
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54
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Sat.
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58
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58
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44
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57
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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BRIEFLY
Legislative leaders
ask for harassment
policy review
SALEM (AP) — The
leaders of the Oregon
House and Senate are
asking for a review of
laws and policies about
workplace harassment at
the Capitol.
House Speaker Tina
Kotek and Senate President
Peter Courtney, both
Democrats, on Thursday
said they had made the
request to the Oregon Law
Commission. In a joint
statement they said the
review “will give us an
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
outside perspective on how
we can do better.”
Earlier this month state
Sen. Jeff Kruse said he
was resigning after an
investigation determined
he had harassed women in
the Capitol building with
prolonged hugging, groping
and other unwelcome
physical contact.
The investigation was
one of many in statehouses
nationwide following a
wave of sexual misconduct
allegations against men in
power since an October
expose of movie mogul
Harvey Weinstein by the
New York Times.
Corrections
Pamplin Media Group
Gov. Kate Brown wants the Legislature to authorize money to hire an
additional 185 Child Welfare workers.
to what auditors say is a dire shortage
of workers. In order to adequately meet
the needs of the thousands of kids in its
care, DHS would need to hire about 769
more field staff, auditors said.
Although DHS already has the
money to hire 184 field positions —
that’s the difference between the number
of field positions DHS has budgeted
for in the 2017-19 biennium and the
actual staffing average as reported by
state auditors — the governor’s plan
would call for 185 separate positions,
according to DHS.
It’s not yet clear what exactly the
agency will do differently to onboard
employees expediently, though.
A spokeswoman for the governor
said that Brown has been working with
DHS Director Fariborz Pakseresht and
Child Welfare Director Marilyn Jones
“to understand which changes would
bring the most tangible impact most
quickly.”
The state allocates about $500
million to the Child Welfare program
every year.
Secretary of State Dennis Richardson,
a Republican whose office oversaw
the audit, said in a written statement
Thursday that he was “delighted to see
appropriate action taken to immediately
address the staffing shortage in our
foster care system.”
The audit, released Jan. 31., was far
from the first time that the Child Welfare
program has been under scrutiny.
Brown commissioned an outside
review of child safety in the foster care
program amid the fallout from a scandal
at a Portland-area foster care provider,
Give Us This Day.
That review was published in 2016,
but auditors found that the agency
hadn’t corrected foundational problems
identified in that review.
Man who died in Iranian prison had strong Oregon ties
EUGENE (AP) — Kavous
Seyed-Emami, an environ-
mentalist whose death this
month in a notorious Iranian
prison has drawn worldwide
media attention, is being
mourned by his friends in
Eugene, where he earned a
doctorate in 1991.
Iranian authorities have
said that Seyed-Emami
committed suicide; critics
and his family dismiss that
as improbable and are calling
for an investigation.
Seyed-Emami decided to
return to Iran more than 25
years ago. He did so because
of how much he cared about
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Brown wants to beef up DHS
SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown says she wants to hire 185 more
Child Welfare workers at the Depart-
ment of Human Services, to the tune of
$14.5 million.
That’s in addition to 184 budgeted
field positions that remain unfilled.
The governor announced her plan
three weeks after state auditors found
DHS’ Child Welfare program was
chronically understaffed, among other
persistent problems.
On any given day, about 7,600 kids
are in Oregon’s foster care system.
The secretary of state’s audit found
that caseloads are three to four times
“higher than what is optimal, contrib-
uting to staff burnout, increased turnover
and difficulty recruiting new workers.”
Due in part to high turnover, the
state’s caseworkers are also fairly
inexperienced. About one-third of case-
workers have started within the past 18
months, according to the audit.
Brown, a Democrat up for reelec-
tion in November, wants to hire 75
social workers, 75 case workers, 25
office support staff and 10 managers.
The move would require legislative
approval.
“I urge our elected representatives to
take advantage of this session to make
sure that more Oregonian children have
access to a brighter future,” Brown said
in a prepared statement Thursday.
The boost would go part of the way
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the country’s environment
and wildlife, particularly the
rare Asiatic cheetah, said
longtime friend Mohammad
Maleki, a computer engineer
at the UO.
“He basically gave his life
for serving his country,” said
Maleki, who became friends
with Seyed-Emami in the
late 1980s. “He loved Iran,
he loved (Iranian) culture.
He could have chosen to
live outside of Iran and had
a very comfortable life either
in the U.S. or Canada, but
he chose the hard path, to
go back to Iran (and) make a
difference.”
Friends plan to hold a
private memorial service for
Seyed-Emami, a dual Iranian
and Canadian citizen, this
weekend on the UO campus.
Seyed-Emami, 64, was
the founder of the Persian
Wildlife Heritage Foundation
and a sociology professor
at Imam Sadiq University
in Tehran, Iran’s capital. He
was arrested late last month
on suspicion of spying, with
Iranian officials saying he
used wildlife study as a cover
to collect information about
Iranian missile bases for the
United States and Israel,
according to media reports
from the Middle East.
Friends
and
family
dispute the claims and
question the circumstances
of Seyed-Emami’s death.
Iranian officials say he
committed
suicide
by
hanging himself, but his
family is calling for more
investigation.
Kavous
Seyed-Emami
was born in Tehran on Dec.
24, 1953, and came to the
United States for college. He
earned a master’s in devel-
opment studies from Ohio
University. He then moved to
Eugene and earned a master’s
degree in sociology.
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