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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
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35
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49
35
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41
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40
41
36
37
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45
36
40
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44
33
34
43
43
37
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
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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
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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
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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
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-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
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52
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57
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66
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Sat.
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73
70
51
58
25
73
60
53
69
65
52
52
80
51
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85
31
17
82
81
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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
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56
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58
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Many unknowns in SUV cliff plunge that killed family
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO —
Nobody answered the door
when a child-welfare worker
went to the Washington state
home of the big, free-spirited
Hart family to investigate a
neighbor’s complaint that
the youngsters were going
hungry.
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
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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’
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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
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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.