WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
Breezy and cooler
with clearing
Sun and some
clouds
61° 33°
60° 36°
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Partly sunny and
nice
Mostly sunny and
pleasantly warm
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
74° 47°
75° 47°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
65° 35°
65° 34°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
66°
63°
92° (1934)
39°
40°
18° (1927)
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"
1.37"
0.80"
5.08"
7.54"
4.76"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
71°
66°
90° (1934)
0.00"
1.55"
0.54"
3.93"
5.47"
3.65"
SUN AND MOON
Apr 29
Bend
58/29
5:59 a.m.
7:49 p.m.
10:38 a.m.
1:12 a.m.
Last
New
May 7
May 15
Caldwell
70/38
Burns
63/29
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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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
66/32
Hi
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny in central
parts today; a shower across the north.
Sunny in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Clouds and sun today;
clearing across the north. Mostly sunny in the south
and upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: A shower in the
morning; otherwise, mostly cloudy today.
Partly cloudy tonight.
Eastern Washington: Clearing in the north
and near the Idaho border today; a shower
in the mountains.
Cascades: Partly sunny today; however,
more clouds across the north. Mainly clear
tonight.
Northern California: Sunshine today; pleas-
ant in central parts. Mainly clear tonight.
Today
Sunday
WSW 10-20
W 10-20
NE 4-8
NNE 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
WINDS
Medford
68/40
PRECIPITATION
Apr 22
John Day
60/32
Ontario
72/39
36°
40°
22° (1931)
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
First
Full
Albany
60/37
Eugene
60/37
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
81° 49°
Spokane
Wenatchee
56/34
59/37
Tacoma
Moses
58/38
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 62/35
55/32
53/38
57/37
63/37
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
57/36
62/39 Lewiston
66/35
Astoria
63/39
55/41
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
61/42
Pendleton 57/28
The Dalles 65/34
61/33
64/40
La Grande
Salem
58/32
61/39
Corvallis
60/39
HIGH
77° 46°
Seattle
57/42
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
71° 41°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Mostly sunny and
nice
65° 40°
Saturday, April 21, 2018
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National Summary: Rain will soak a large portion of the central and southern Plains
as storms rumble across central and eastern Texas today. Showers will dot the Florida
Peninsula and the Northwest. Most other areas will be dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 96° in Presidio, Texas
Low 10° in Embarrass, Minn.
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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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Documents detail FBI testimony after Finicum shooting
By CONRAD WILSON
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Newly released grand
jury transcripts recount the
actions of FBI agents on
the ground in the minutes,
hours and days after an
occupier of the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge
was shot and killed by law
enforcement.
The testimony released
Thursday includes state-
ments from four FBI
agents — identified by their
initials T.S., B.M., I.M. and
C.S. — all who were on the
scene when Arizona rancher
Robert “LaVoy” Finicum
was shot and killed by two
Oregon State Police SWAT
team members at a traffic
stop on a remote stretch
of Eastern Oregon road in
2016.
The transcripts are signif-
icant because they form the
basis for the government’s
case against FBI special
agent W. Joseph Astarita,
who worked as a member
of the elite hostage rescue
team that coordinated the
traffic stop.
Prosecutors
allege
Astarita fired his weapon
twice at Finicum’s truck
and later failed to disclose
those shots when ques-
tioned. Investigators ruled
the shooting justified, but
prosecutors have charged
Astarita with several counts
of making false statements
to
investigators
and
obstructing justice after the
shooting.
Astarita — who still
works for the FBI — has
pleaded not guilty to the
charges.
The grand jury testimony
and other documents were
included in the public court
record after OPB and The
Oregonian/OregonLive
filed a legal motion chal-
lenging the government’s
protective order in the case.
In the portions of the
newly unsealed transcripts,
none of the FBI agents
testified they heard or saw
Astarita fire his weapon.
But the special agent
identified as I.M. told the
grand jury on June 28,
FBI via AP, file
This photo taken from an FBI video shows Robert “LaVoy” Finicum after he was
fatally shot by police Jan. 26, 2016 near Burns. On Tuesday, authorities said police
were justified in killing Finicum.
2016, that Astarita stood out
from his colleagues after
the shooting. At the time,
I.M. was asking other HRT
members if they were OK
and if anyone fired their
weapon.
“And (Astarita) stood
out because he said
something to me,” I.M.
testified. “Everyone else
kind of nodded or gave
me a thumbs-up. He said
something, I didn’t catch it,
and I said, ‘What?’ And he
said, ‘Hey, man, you don’t
got to ask me that, bro,’ or,
‘I’m good, bro, don’t ask
me that,’ which is typical
for Joe. He’s just kind of a
flippant guy.”
I.M. testified he was
“perturbed” because he
had other things to do and
moved on.
Agent C.S. testified to
the grand jury about the
same conversation between
I.M. and Astarita.
“I interjected, ‘Yeah, he
can, and he needs to know if
one of our guys shot, there
is admin things that have to
happen,’” C.S. said. “And
by that, I mean, you know,
the gun has to — the gun
that was used generally
gets traded out for another
weapon so that the agent
isn’t disarmed, but that
weapon is segregated so that
it can be examined later.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Pamala Holsinger asked
what Astarita said.
“Then he said, ‘No, bro,
we’re good,’” C.S. testified.
“That’s my recollection.”
Special agent B.M.
told the grand jury on the
morning of March 1, 2017,
that Astarita was standing in
front of him when Finicum’s
truck went off the road and
hit a snowbank.
“When that truck hit the
snowbank and Finicum got
out, did you hear any shots
fire?” a federal prosecutor
asked B.M.
“No. I do not recall
hearing shots fired at that
time. I do not recall hearing
shots fired at that time. I
heard shots from the vehicle
that came initially around
the bank, and then the
next shots that I specially
recalled were the ones when
Mr. Finicum was engaged,”
B.M. replied.
B.M. testified he was
wearing a noise dampening
headset during the shooting.
He was Astarita’s direct
supervisor on the scene and
asked him and other HRT
operators if they were OK
and if any of them fired
their weapons.
“And in terms of your
inquiries, Joe Astarita told
you he did not shoot his
weapon?” a prosecutor
asked.
“That’s right,” B.M. said.
“He told me he did not fire
his weapon.”
“And in terms of
protocol, you were his
director supervisor on
scene?” the prosecutor
asked.
“Yes,” B.M. replied.
“I’m his direct — I’m his
team leader, so direct supe-
rior on scene —”
“And off scene, every-
where?” the prosecutor
asked.
“Correct,” B.M said.
“And so he’s required,
really, to be truthful with
you, his supervisor, in that
type of dynamic situation
or any situation, frankly, I
would imagine?” the prose-
cutor asked.
“Undoubtedly,”
B.M.
responded.
Investigators say a total
of eight shots were fired
during the incident. But
crime scene investigators
did not recover eight shell
casings at the scene.
According to court docu-
ments, FBI aerial surveil-
lance footage shows what
appears to be FBI members
using their flashlights in
the hour after the shooting
searching the roadway in
the dark.
During his testimony,
B.M. told the grand jury
he’s “pretty certain” he saw
a shell casing on the road.
Days after the shooting,
B.M. again asked Astarita
if he shot, this time at a
makeshift headquarters the
FBI established at the Burns
airport during the 41-day
occupation.
“I talked to Joe,” B.M.
said. “He was — we were in
one of the tents. It was just
the two of us. And I said —
I told him the nature of the
situation. I said, ‘It looks
like there’s two rounds that
have be unaccounted for
or are unattributed at this
time.’ You know, ‘Did you
fire a weapon?’”
B.M.
said
Astarita
responded, “‘No, I didn’t
fire a weapon.’”
B.M. testified that it was
a reasonable reply.
On Feb. 6, 2016, Oregon
State Police questioned FBI
HRT operators at the FBI
command post in Burns.
All were on the scene when
Finicum was shot and
killed.
The FBI HRT operators
wanted to be interviewed
as a group, according to
a
supplemental
report
released Thursday.
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