WEATHER
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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
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23
28
39
17
25
38
33
36
28
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40
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
Hi
44
40
39
48
37
35
45
42
49
40
39
37
35
47
44
48
46
51
43
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Lo
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20
20
19
30
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26
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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
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WINDS
Medford
46/30
PRECIPITATION
Mar 1
John Day
34/28
Ontario
41/27
10°
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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.
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Coastal Oregon: Showers around today;
however, a bit of snow and rain across the
north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cloudy today
with snow accumulating 1-3 inches with
locally higher amounts.
Western Washington: Cloudy today with
a couple of rain and snow showers; snow
showers in the mountains.
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National Summary: More flooding rain is in store from Texas to Pennsylvania today.
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
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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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Lawmakers battle over bill to prevent breaching of dams
SPOKANE, Wash. (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
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