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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY THURSDAY Partly sunny and very warm Not as warm with a stray t-storm 86° 59° 76° 56° FRIDAY Clearing and spotty showers More clouds than sun PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 70° 52° 75° 54° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 82° 58° 91° 62° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 86° 71° 97° (1934) 48° 46° 31° (1916) 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" 0.58" 0.53" 6.00" 8.60" 5.64" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 89° 73° 97° (1939) 0.00" 0.86" 0.53" 4.91" 6.07" 4.52" SUN AND MOON May 21 Bend 81/51 Burns 75/44 Full 5:24 a.m. 8:19 p.m. 6:00 a.m. 8:44 p.m. Last May 29 June 6 Caldwell 80/53 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 53 51 51 48 44 49 52 57 62 53 49 53 51 56 52 54 53 57 59 57 48 54 56 51 55 62 62 W s pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc t pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc s pc pc Hi 58 69 68 56 66 67 63 73 82 67 60 70 68 67 57 59 77 84 76 70 72 67 80 66 66 77 88 Lo 52 49 44 48 46 50 49 52 58 50 44 51 48 53 50 52 54 58 56 55 43 51 54 47 53 58 57 W c pc t c c pc c t pc t pc t pc c c c pc c t c t c pc t c pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 75/49 Hi 87 89 76 73 81 73 75 63 82 68 77 Lo 69 80 56 51 56 54 53 54 66 55 65 W c pc s s pc sh pc t c c s Wed. Hi 87 89 83 61 81 74 73 68 74 64 77 Lo 68 80 64 44 55 55 47 56 64 51 67 W c pc pc pc pc c t pc t pc pc REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today. Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today. Clear tonight. Eastern and Central Oregon: Partial sun- shine today with a thunderstorm in spots, but dry across the north. Western Washington: Sunshine and patchy clouds today. Cascades: Very warm today with times of clouds and sun; a shower or thunderstorm in spots. Northern California: A t-storm in spots in the interior mountains today; clouds, then sun at the coast. Some sun in central parts. Today Wednesday NW 3-6 NNW 4-8 SW 7-14 WSW 7-14 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 2 4 8 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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WINDS Medford 80/56 PRECIPITATION May 15 John Day 78/53 Ontario 83/53 48° 46° 30° (1964) 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 New First Albany 72/53 Eugene 71/52 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 80° 57° Spokane Wenatchee 84/56 88/62 Tacoma Moses 76/53 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 90/57 81/53 62/53 75/52 91/62 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 73/54 87/62 Lewiston 92/61 Astoria 86/60 61/53 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 78/57 Pendleton 77/49 The Dalles 91/62 86/59 89/62 La Grande Salem 80/53 74/54 Corvallis 70/52 HIGH 76° 54° Seattle 78/55 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 81° 58° Today SATURDAY Mostly cloudy, showers around 74° 55° Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -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: Drenching showers and gusty storms will target the southeast cor- ner of the nation today. Expect locally severe storms to rim the heat from Texas to New England. Storms will dot the mountains of the West. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 98° in Presidio, Texas Low 23° in Angel Fire, N.M. 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 85 79 77 92 77 88 77 76 81 88 69 74 87 70 74 94 57 80 83 93 84 84 79 90 93 70 Lo 55 67 64 67 51 66 54 53 71 63 51 55 70 48 51 64 35 58 71 68 64 68 63 68 66 54 Wed. W s t t t pc t pc t t t t t pc pc c s c s sh pc t t pc s s pc Hi 86 80 67 76 82 84 76 56 83 83 78 74 92 79 77 96 58 88 84 95 81 83 83 93 88 70 Lo 56 66 58 64 54 66 54 50 71 63 56 53 70 54 55 67 38 59 73 69 63 70 62 66 66 55 W s t sh t pc t pc c t t pc c pc t pc s c s pc s t t t s t pc Today 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 91 93 84 63 77 92 95 85 84 80 88 95 69 78 85 74 70 74 86 73 68 65 78 94 91 81 Lo 69 70 75 47 57 69 73 62 63 58 64 71 47 56 67 51 50 51 66 53 59 55 55 62 69 64 W t s t pc s pc t t t c t s sh c pc pc pc s t pc pc pc s s t t Wed. Hi 85 87 85 71 85 87 94 65 85 85 71 99 55 63 84 83 66 69 83 80 67 65 69 97 78 82 Lo 69 68 76 52 64 67 72 57 64 61 58 71 45 52 65 54 48 49 67 55 58 54 53 64 68 62 W t t t pc s t t sh pc pc sh s c c t t pc pc t pc pc pc c s t t 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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Kate Brown (D) Greg Wooldridge (R) Sam Carpenter (R) Knute Buehler (R) Republicans hope to make gains in Oregon primary By TOM JAMES Associated Press SALEM — Oregon vot- ers will choose candidates Tuesday to compete in the state’s general election, a pri- mary contest that sees Dem- ocrats striving to consolidate power and Republicans hop- ing to make gains. Democrats in particular have high hopes this year, being only one seat away from a three-fifths major- ity in both the state House and Senate. Along with being required to raise taxes, the broader margin would give Democrats an advan- tage pursuing carbon lim- its, which they have called a priority. Close races are antici- pated especially in a num- ber of legislative districts, including key seats in the state Senate. Both Republicans and Democrats are watching the outcome of the gubernatorial primary as a bellwether for conservative Oregonians. As the first statewide reg- ular election since the 2017 inauguration of U.S. Presi- dent Donald Trump, the pri- mary is also widely seen as a referendum on which can- didates are appealing to GOP voters. At least one statewide can- didate, GOP gubernatorial contender Sam Carpenter, has fully embraced Trump’s approach, even adopting a “make Oregon great again” campaign slogan. Asked if a Trump-style campaign might find traction in Oregon, Melissa Garner, a registered Republican, said: “In Oregon? Idaho would be fine,” referring to the state’s more conservative neighbor. As a Republican in the deep-blue state, Garner said she has limited expectations for her party at the ballot box — part of the reason she hasn’t followed the primary races closely so far. The race for the Repub- lican nomination for gover- nor has especially seen can- didates divide themselves along lines of support for Trump. While Carpenter has embraced Trump’s rheto- ric and policies, State Rep. Knute Buehler, widely fig- ured to be the leading Repub- lican candidate, has repeat- edly distanced himself from the president. Greg Wooldridge, a for- mer Navy pilot from Port- land who came in second in a recent Republican straw poll, has sought something of a middle ground, distanc- ing himself from Trump’s attacks on prominent veter- ans but saying he’s open to some of his ideas. The three also differ on policy, with Buehler giving mixed support to abortion and Wooldridge taking an opposite stance. Both Car- penter and Wooldridge have opposed a pair of gun-re- lated initiatives. Carpenter went the furthest of the three candidates, saying he’d be in favor of repealing limits on domestic abusers and stalk- ers owning guns. At least two state Senate races are also pivotal: the 3rd and 15th districts. Both were last won by only hundreds of votes, and who ends up on the ballot could give either party a crucial edge in the general election. Republicans won the 3rd Senate District in 2016, but by only 395 votes, or less than a percentage point, and with Republican Sen. Alan DeBoer retiring, no incum- bent will be on the ticket. Flood waters threaten old dam near Leavenworth SPOKANE (AP) — Ris- ing flood waters are threat- ening a nearly century-old dam near the town of Leav- enworth, Washington, and downstream residents are being told to be prepared to evacuate. The Eightmile Lake Dam was built in the 1920s out of earth, rock and mortar. It is located in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of the Cascade Range. Snow melt from Can- ada in recent days has inun- dated waterways in eastern Washington, causing flood- ing in many areas. High water is already causing some minor damage to the earthen portion of the dam. About 50 homes are in jeopardy downstream of the dam. Meanwhile, Gov. Jay Ins- lee this weekend proclaimed a state of emergency for multiple eastern Washing- ton counties impacted by flooding. Currently, there is flood- ing in Ferry, Okanogan and Pend Oreille counties. BEND (AP) — Rising fees have Oregon health officials mulling whether to relaunch the state’s own health care insurance exchange even after its pre- vious health coverage web- site failed. Oregon has a state-based marketplace but currently uses the HealthCare.gov software platform on its site. The Centers for Medi- care & Medicaid Services, or CMS, allowed states to use the software for free in the first two open enroll- ment sessions but started charging a fee of 1.5 per- cent of premiums for the 2017 open enrollment period. CMS then raised the fees to 2 percent for 2018 and will charge states 3 percent for 2019, The Bend Bulletin reported. “The question is whether there is some alter- native that would actually be cheaper, or at least com- petitive in price, that might also give Oregon flexibil- ity,” Jesse O’Brien said, policy director for the Ore- gon State Public Inter- est Research Group and a member of the exchange’s Marketplace Advisory Committee. “Having no control over the system, it’s already clear over the past few years that it’s not the opti- mal situation.” Oregon exchange offi- cials said health plans paid an estimated $16 million in fees for the 2018 open enrollment period, and expect to pay somewhere between $25 million and $30 million for 2019. CMS officials did not respond to a request from The Bulletin for an expla- nation of the price hikes. State officials are won- dering if Oregon is get- ting its money’s worth in using the federal exchange, or whether acquiring its own technology might be cheaper. 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. Please Welcome Gwen Libby, MD Family Medicine Physician Now Scheduling Appointments 541-966-0535 Dr. Libby is originally from Hilton Head, South Carolina and graduated from Furman University in Greenville, SC. She attended medical school at the University Of South Carolina School Of Medicine, and completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. She then spent three years at Western Family Care/Lander Medical Clinic in Riverton, Wyoming. Dr. Libby is Board Certifi ed, American Board of Family Medicine. She has a passion for rural medicine and looks forward to living in Pendleton with her husband Brandon and daughter Sophie Belle. 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