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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Breezy with clouds and sun Times of clouds and sun 63° 40° 59° 41° SUNDAY MONDAY Partly sunny and breezy Times of sun and clouds PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 55° 37° 60° 42° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 63° 44° 68° 40° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 61° 58° 80° (2004) 32° 37° 18° (1954) 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" 1.38" 1.34" 3.71" 6.26" 3.85" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 63° 61° 80° (1994) 0.00" 0.75" 0.83" 2.38" 4.89" 3.07" SUN AND MOON Apr 8 Bend 62/39 New 6:39 a.m. 7:21 p.m. 6:38 p.m. 6:37 a.m. First Apr 15 Apr 22 Caldwell 67/42 Burns 62/35 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 Hi 53 64 62 65 62 57 59 62 68 61 65 60 58 71 54 58 69 68 63 60 64 61 55 58 58 63 68 Lo 39 35 39 49 35 35 41 39 40 41 36 37 35 42 42 44 45 36 40 44 38 44 33 34 43 43 37 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. W c pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc c pc pc pc pc c pc c pc pc c pc pc Hi 54 59 63 64 60 54 64 57 63 58 66 57 54 74 55 59 64 64 59 64 65 64 52 53 63 60 64 Lo 39 34 37 45 33 36 37 40 44 37 35 38 37 42 40 42 39 37 41 42 36 39 34 36 40 43 36 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc 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 Hi 66 80 57 49 74 33 50 65 67 84 61 Lo 48 71 48 40 49 24 38 54 46 70 47 Sat. W pc s c r pc pc sh r s s s Hi 75 80 65 48 77 39 52 60 64 76 61 Lo 51 69 50 38 50 33 40 46 49 68 53 W pc s s sh pc c t t s c s WINDS Medford 71/42 PRECIPITATION Mar 31 John Day 61/41 Ontario 69/45 36° 37° 12° (1954) 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 62/43 Eugene 59/41 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 63° 41° Spokane Wenatchee 55/33 62/38 Tacoma Moses 57/37 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 64/37 55/36 54/40 58/36 68/37 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 56/41 63/43 Lewiston 69/40 Astoria 64/42 53/39 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 60/44 Pendleton 57/35 The Dalles 68/40 63/40 65/43 La Grande Salem 60/37 61/44 Corvallis 60/42 HIGH 61° 36° Seattle 57/43 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 65° 43° Today TUESDAY Clouds and sun; breezy, cooler 60° 39° Friday, March 30, 2018 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 65/36 REGIONAL FORECAST www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ W 4-8 W 6-12 1 2 5 1 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today; a passing shower in the mountains. Partly cloudy tonight. Cascades: Times of clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Times of clouds and sun tomorrow. Northern California: Clouds and sun today. Patchy clouds tonight. Partial sunshine tomorrow. Saturday UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Times of clouds and sun tomorrow. Eastern and Central Oregon: Clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Times of sun and clouds tomorrow. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a shower, but dry across the south. Partly cloudy tonight. Today WSW 8-16 W 10-20 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday -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: Rain showers and spotty thunderstorms will extend from eastern Maine to northern Florida today. A storm will spread accumulating snow across the north- ern Plains. Most other areas can expect dry weather. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 95° in Thermal, Calif. Low 1° in Yellowstone Lake, Wyo. 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 70 66 59 65 53 66 66 60 73 49 50 42 73 63 47 83 32 31 83 78 52 75 57 82 66 82 Lo 46 41 38 35 16 41 42 38 48 34 38 31 55 33 33 56 13 11 69 54 35 50 45 62 45 58 W s pc r r c pc pc r r r pc pc s pc pc s pc sn s s pc t pc s pc pc Sat. 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Three days later, the Harts’ crumpled SUV was found at the bottom of a 100-foot seaside cliff in Northern California, all eight family members presumed dead in a mysterious wreck now under investigation. Five bodies have been recovered, but three children are still missing. “There are a lot of unknowns on this,” Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said. “Several of the questions that have been asked today will never be answered.” Investigators have yet to determine the cause of the crash and said there is no reason so far to believe it was intentional. But they also said there were no skid marks or signs the driver braked as the GMC Yukon crossed a flat dirt pull-off area, about 75 feet wide, and went over the edge of the Pacific Coast Highway. The case has thrown a spotlight on at least one previous run-in with the law by the Harts, along with neighbors’ repeated concerns about the way the home- schooled youngsters were being treated. Some family friends, though, say that doesn’t track with their knowledge of the parents, Sarah and Jennifer Hart, as a loving couple who promoted social justice and exposed their “remarkable” children to art, music and nature. The brood was known as the Hart Tribe, a multiracial family of two women and six adopted children who grew their own food, took sponta- neous road trips to camp and hike, and traveled to festivals Kale Williams/The Oregonian via AP The scene of Monday’s fatal crash on the Mendocino coast north of Fort Bragg near Mendocino, Calif. was all but deserted Thursday morning. Tristan Fortsch/KATU News via AP This March 2016 photo shows the Hart family of Woodland, Wash., at a Bernie Sand- ers rally in Vancouver, Wash. Authorities in Northern California say they believe all six children from a family were in a vehicle that plunged off a coastal cliff. Mendoci- no County Sheriff Tom Allmon told reporters Wednesday that only three bodies of the children have been recovered. Their parents also died Monday. and other events, offering free hugs and promoting unity. One of the children, Devonte Hart, drew national attention after the black youngster was photographed in tears, hugging a white police officer during a 2014 protest in Portland over the deadly police shooting of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri. Devonte was holding a “Free Hugs” sign. But well before the wreck, Sarah Hart pleaded guilty in 2011 to a domestic assault charge in Douglas County, Minnesota, telling authorities “she let her anger get out of control” while spanking her 6-year-old adoptive daughter, court records show. Then, last week, Bruce and Dana DeKalb, next- door neighbors of the Harts in Woodland, Washington, called state child protective services on Friday because Devonte, now 15, had been coming over to their house almost every day for a week, asking for food. Dana DeKalb said Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Devonte told her his parents were “punishing them by withholding food.” The boy asked her to leave food in a box by the fence, she said. Social service authorities opened an investigation, and a state caseworker went to the house last Friday but didn’t find anyone home, state officials said. The agency had no prior history with the family, said Norah West, a spokeswoman with the Department of Social and Health Services. By Saturday, the fami- ly’s SUV was gone from the driveway, said Bruce DeKalb. The wreck was discov- ered by a passing motorist Monday afternoon. The women, both 38, were found dead inside the SUV, while three of their children — Markis Hart, 19, Jeremiah Hart, 14, and Abigail Hart, 14 — were discovered outside the vehicle. A team on Thursday continued to search the rugged coastline for the three other children, also believed to have been in the SUV: Hannah Hart, 16, Sierra Hart, 12, and Devonte. On Thursday, authorities in Washington state also searched the family’s home for information. The Clark County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were looking for bills, receipts or anything else to shed light on why the family left and other circumstances related to the trip, KGW-TV reported. The DeKalbs also recounted that three months after the Harts moved into their house on 2 acres with a fenced pasture last May, one of the girls rang the DeKalbs’ Live Music 9:00 PM Friday, March 30 Tylor and the Train Robbers 8 S . E . CO U RT, P E N D L E TO N • 5 4 1 . 278 .1 1 0 0 doorbell at 1:30 a.m. She “was at our door in a blanket saying we needed to protect her,” Bruce DeKalb said. “She said that they were abusing her.” The entire family came over to their house the next morning to apologize and explain it was a bad week, Dana DeKalb said. The sheriff said investi- gators don’t know exactly when or how the SUV went over the cliff, situated along- side a spot commonly used Preview: 1 PM - 3 PM Saturday, March 31st by motorists to walk their pets. Allman appealed to anyone who might have seen the family to come forward. Accident-reconstruction experts said investigators will look at such factors as the weather, road conditions and the possibility of brake failure, a blown tire or some other malfunction. That model of Yukon was also presumably equipped with a black box recorder that would show its speed and use of the brakes.