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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY MONDAY Snow and rain Breezy with snow and rain 42° 34° 43° 27° TUESDAY Partly sunny and chilly A stray afternoon shower PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 43° 32° 45° 27° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 49° 29° 48° 36° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 34° 49° 66° (1921) 12° 31° 7° (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 0.00" 0.66" 0.94" 2.25" 3.53" 2.32" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 36° 51° 67° (1947) 0.00" 0.51" 0.79" 1.61" 3.26" 2.07" SUN AND MOON Mar 9 Bend 36/28 6:43 a.m. 5:35 p.m. 11:55 a.m. 2:17 a.m. New First Mar 17 Mar 24 Caldwell 40/25 Burns 31/17 Hi 48 35 36 48 31 32 47 40 48 34 37 34 32 46 46 48 41 47 42 48 38 49 32 32 47 41 48 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 42 23 28 39 17 25 38 33 36 28 19 28 26 30 39 40 27 34 34 41 24 40 27 26 41 35 29 W c sn sn sh sn sn c sn sn sf sf sn sn c r sh sn c sn r sn r sn sn r sn c NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. Hi 44 40 39 48 37 35 45 42 49 40 39 37 35 47 44 48 46 51 43 45 42 46 38 36 45 45 49 Lo 33 18 17 35 16 17 30 25 29 22 20 20 19 30 33 34 25 26 27 32 16 32 20 19 32 31 22 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W r c c r c sn r c sn c c sn sn sh r r c r sn r c r sn sn r r c WORLD CITIES Today Hi 39 71 58 42 76 12 41 54 42 89 56 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 18 64 44 31 53 -2 25 41 26 71 40 W pc pc s pc pc c s r c pc s Sun. Hi 45 72 60 39 76 5 32 54 43 75 46 Lo 25 61 47 29 53 -7 18 33 22 67 39 W s pc pc s pc pc s c pc r c WINDS Medford 46/30 PRECIPITATION Mar 1 John Day 34/28 Ontario 41/27 10° 30° 10° (2018) 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 48/39 Eugene 47/38 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 50° 29° Spokane Wenatchee 32/27 41/30 Tacoma Moses 46/36 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 43/32 32/25 47/40 46/36 48/29 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 45/39 41/35 Lewiston 49/37 Astoria 40/32 48/42 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 48/41 Pendleton 32/25 The Dalles 48/36 42/34 46/37 La Grande Salem 34/28 49/40 Corvallis 48/38 HIGH 49° 35° Seattle 46/39 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 47° 29° Today WEDNESDAY Cloudy and chilly 42° 23° Saturday, February 24, 2018 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 37/19 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Cloudy today. Snow, accumulating up to an inch or two near the Idaho border. Cascades: Snow today, accumulating 3-6 inches in Oregon, 1-3 inches in Washington. www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ 0 1 1 0 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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As snow extends toward the Upper Midwest, severe storms are likely over the lower Mississippi Valley. Rain and snow will hit the Northwest. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 88° in Immokalee, Fla. Low -23° in Loma, 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 44 79 53 58 30 77 36 56 81 66 43 46 70 34 44 57 15 24 82 80 53 84 43 56 70 63 Lo 24 63 45 46 16 63 23 35 63 60 32 43 37 15 36 32 -1 12 73 61 39 63 26 37 43 46 W s c r c pc c sn c s r r r r pc c s pc sn sh c r s r s t s Sun. 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(AP) — Three Republican U.S. House members are criti- cizing Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and other lawmakers for opposing their legislation that would prevent the breaching of four dams on the Snake River to restore endangered salmon runs. The three Republicans from the state of Washington support a bipartisan bill that seeks to maintain existing dam operations until at least 2022. Murray and two Demo- cratic House members from the Seattle area are pushing an environmental study to examine alternatives for salmon recovery, including breaching one or more of the dams to aid fish migration to and from the Pacific Ocean. “It’s unthinkable that Seattle Democrats are putting politics over science when it comes to improving fish recovery efforts,” Reps. Dan Newhouse, Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Jaime Herrera Beutler said in a release this week. “Millions of dollars have been spent studying these dams and improve- ments have been made to improve fish survival rates.” The skirmish is the latest in a decades-long battle that pits environmentalists against users of the Colum- bia-Snake river system. Fish advocates blame the four dams, built in the 1960s and 1970s, with decimating iconic salmon runs in the river system. But supporters of the dams point to the benefits of hydropower and navigation provided by the dams, and say fish ladders and other methods of transporting salmon past the dams are helping restore the runs. Murray sent a letter on Tuesday to Senate and House leaders criticizing Newhouse’s bill that supports existing dam operations. The letter, also signed by Democratic U.S. Reps. Adam Smith and Pramila Jayapal, contends Newhouse’s bill would circumvent a process to consider all uses of the river system. Managers must consider salmon recovery, fisheries, irrigation, naviga- tion, power generation, flood protection and recreation, they said. “The Columbia and Snake River system is essential to the Pacific Northwest’s culture, environment and economy,” the Democrats said. In 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon of Portland ordered the new environmental review and a new federal biolog- ical opinion. The current biological opinion, created by federal agencies, states and tribes to protect salmon while operating the dams, does not do enough to rebuild endangered fish populations, the judge ruled. The study is intended to evaluate the costs and bene- fits of multiple alternatives, ranging from no changes to removing all four dams. There have been 18 public meetings in the Pacific North- west and more than 412,000 public comments have been submitted, according to the letter. Simon also has ordered more water to be spilled over dams starting this spring, which is intended to help out-migrating juvenile salmon swim more quickly and safely to the ocean. Some critics of the decision say the spill would do little to help fish and could create high gas levels in the water that can harm juvenile fish. The spilled water would otherwise be used for power generation, and will cost Washington residents $40 million in higher electric rates this year, Newhouse said. “They claim to support clean renewable energy, while simultaneously working to destroy hydro- power, Washington state’s largest source of carbon-neu- tral, clean energy,” Newhouse said. “Breaching the dams ... should not even be an option.” their water. Environmental advocates had pushed a lower lead limit of 1 part per billion. Celeste Meiffren-Swango, state director of Environment Oregon, told councilmembers that the rules give an illusion of safety. beaten and placed in solitary confinement because of his role in a hunger strike. The Washington state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as GEO Group, which operates the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The organization says Jesus Chavez Flores is one of more than 120 immigrant detainees at the facility who began a hunger strike Feb. 7 to protest the conditions of their confinement. BRIEFLY she was supposed to face a Ex-prison guard New rules require jury trial. sentenced for Oregon day cares murder of Washington House to test for lead Kennewick woman passes ban on PORTLAND (AP) — A state board has approved KENNEWICK, Wash. bump stocks new rules requiring Oregon (AP) — A former prison guard who kidnapped and murdered a Kennewick woman will die in prison. The Tri-City Herald reports Judge Cameron Mitchell on Friday sentenced Theresa Wiltse to life without parole for the murder of 69-year-old Sandra Harris. Wiltse, who lived in Connell, forced her way into Harris’ home when Harris was there alone in November 2016. Evidence showed Harris was shot and wounded there before being driven away. Wiltse used a voice modulator to distort her voice, making calls to demand $250,000 from Sandra Harris’ husband Randy Harris. Before Wiltse collected the cash, Sandra Harris died and her body was left off a rural road south of Kennewick. Wiltse pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and kidnapping charges in January, two weeks before OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington House amended and passed a bill to ban trigger devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly. The bill moved on a 56-41 vote Friday after the chamber accepted an amendment that would allow the Washington State Patrol to set up a “buy back” program for people who already own the devices, known as bump stocks. The measure now heads for a final vote in the Senate, which passed the underlying measure last month on a 29-20 vote. The move to ban the devices came in response to last October’s mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and left hundreds more injured. The ban would make it illegal for anyone in Washington to manufacture or sell bump stocks beginning July 1. In July 2019, it would become illegal to own or possess a bump stock in Washington. day cares to test drinking water for high levels of lead. The state Early Learning Council on Thursday approved the rules, stipulating that day cares must test the water and submit the results to state regulators by the end of September, The Oregonian/ OregonLive reported . The rules apply to more than 4,000 licensed day cares across the state and to unlicensed day cares that receive government subsidies. Under the new standards, water taps used for drinking, cooking, preparing food or infant formula must be tested. Day cares with water taps that exceed the lead limit of 15 parts per billion must be shut off to children. They must then provide a source of clean water to children and submit an improvement plan to the state Office of Child Care. The day cares will then have 30 days to fix the issue after the state approves the plan. The state may issue warnings, fines or license revocations to day cares that fail to test or provide safe drinking water. Day cares will be required to test their water every six years. New day cares seeking state licenses also will be required to test SEATTLE (AP) — A new federal lawsuit claims an immigrant detained at a privately run jail in Washington state was Accepting New Patients LORDY, LORDY LOOK WHO’S 40! 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