WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
Mostly cloudy
Pleasant with
sunshine
67° 47°
74° 50°
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Warmer with lots
of sun
Partly sunny and
nice
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
82° 48°
70° 47°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
78° 52°
73° 50°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
69°
74°
102° (1931)
44°
50°
36° (1978)
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"
0.65"
1.34"
6.07"
9.15"
6.45"
Corvallis
62/42
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
72°
76°
102° (1983)
45°
50°
34° (1979)
Bend
58/36
Caldwell
71/47
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
W
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61
68
71
61
68
64
70
71
78
69
70
67
64
78
58
63
73
76
74
70
73
69
65
65
68
73
75
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Boardman
Pendleton
Lo
52
37
42
49
38
39
44
47
52
44
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40
38
50
48
51
46
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97
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75
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88
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75
Lo
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98
94
73
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84
59
72
79
84
62
79
Lo
67
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59
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today.
Mainly clear tonight. A little rain across the
north tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today with a couple of showers; however,
dry across the north.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
Partly cloudy tonight. Occasional rain
tomorrow.
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3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
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Northern California: Clouds giving way to
some sun at the coast today; times of clouds
and sun elsewhere.
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SALEM — Oregon’s
emergency alert systems
blasted a cryptic alert to cell-
phones around the capital
city, panicking residents by
telling them simply “Civil
Emergency” and “Prepare for
Action” and leaving off that
the threat was toxic algae at a
local water supply.
Officials wanted to warn
Salem-area residents Tues-
day night that elevated lev-
els of a natural toxin caused
by the algae bloom had
made area tap water unsafe
for children and people with
compromised immune sys-
tems. But that information
got cut off, and a more omi-
nous-sounding default mes-
sage went out in its place,
said Andrew Phelps, head of
the state emergency manage-
ment agency.
Officials sent a second
message 31 minutes later
with more information and a
link to a municipal website.
Within hours of the first
alert, residents stripped the
aisles at one supermarket in
the city’s downtown center
of bottled water, and a shop-
Single copy price:
$1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
50s
ice
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 110° in Midland, Texas
Low 25° 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
92
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73
83
76
87
70
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85
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89
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97
88
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100
63
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93
89
78
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66
89
69
76
93
83
71
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98
90
81
102
66
83
85
96
86
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Lo
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Hi
Louisville
89
Memphis
92
Miami
84
Milwaukee
85
Minneapolis
84
Nashville
88
New Orleans
92
New York City
68
Oklahoma City
94
Omaha
93
Philadelphia
79
Phoenix
101
Portland, ME
73
Providence
75
Raleigh
84
Rapid City
87
Reno
71
Sacramento
72
St. Louis
87
Salt Lake City
87
San Diego
68
San Francisco
65
Seattle
64
Tucson
99
Washington, DC 85
Wichita
88
Lo
71
76
76
59
62
73
74
63
72
66
68
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60
62
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89
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87
92
80
97
96
85
99
72
75
91
84
77
86
92
72
68
71
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98
90
96
Lo
67
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60
70
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69
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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.
AP Photo/Tom James
Supermarket shelves are stripped bare of bottled
water in Salem late Tuesday, after officials warned
residents that tap water was unsafe for children and
the elderly due to an algae bloom.
Management. “I apologize
for the confusion and the anx-
iety this incomplete message
has caused.”
Phelps said the message
had also been broadcast via
local television stations.
Cole Mahaffey, a Salem
resident, set down a case of
bottled water Wednesday
he was carrying down the
sidewalk and described the
uneasy feeling of seeing the
first alert arrive on his phone,
10s
National Summary: Drenching showers and storms will extend from the Great Lakes to
the eastern Gulf and southern Atlantic coasts today. Severe storms will rattle the interior
Northwest as heat builds over the southern Plains.
Cryptic emergency alert panics Salem
ping cart lay tipped on its side
in front of the empty shelves.
Workers brought out a pal-
let of sparkling water, which
they placed at the front of the
store, and told customers they
hoped they’d get more regu-
lar water in the morning.
The incident marked a
high-profile glitch in author-
ities’ use of emergency alert
systems, following a false
alarm sent out by Hawaii offi-
cials in January warning of an
incoming ballistic missile.
In Oregon, confusion sur-
rounded the initial alert even
within the emergency man-
agement agency, with an
official telling reporters the
message had caught them
unaware and state police ask-
ing residents via a Facebook
post not to call 911 about the
alert.
And
when
officials
directed residents to the city
of Salem’s municipal web-
site for more information, the
site briefly crashed under the
load.
“The integrated public
alert warning system inadver-
tently defaulted to a generic
message,” Phelps said in a
video posted on social media
by the Office of Emergency
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a shower toward the Cascades. Partly cloudy
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Today
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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Lo
48
37
36
45
33
36
41
45
50
39
32
40
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44
46
47
48
49
47
49
34
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WORLD CITIES
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
58/32
5:10 a.m.
8:36 p.m.
10:31 p.m.
6:58 a.m.
First
Full
Hi
60
60
58
59
59
55
62
64
73
59
58
58
56
66
55
59
69
69
67
63
61
62
66
56
63
66
69
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
WINDS
Medford
66/44
0.00"
0.91"
1.09"
4.96"
6.31"
5.08"
SUN AND MOON
June 6
John Day
59/39
Ontario
69/48
Burns
59/33
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
Albany
62/42
Eugene
62/41
TEMPERATURE
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
74° 50°
Spokane
Wenatchee
66/45
69/48
Tacoma
Moses
63/45
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 72/46
59/42
60/48
63/43
69/43
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
63/46
66/50 Lewiston
71/50
Astoria
64/47
60/48
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
63/49
Pendleton 55/36
The Dalles 73/50
67/47
70/50
La Grande
Salem
58/40
62/45
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
86° 50°
Seattle
64/48
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
85° 57°
Today
MONDAY
Mostly sunny;
breezy, pleasant
81° 53°
Thursday, May 31, 2018
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going on in the area, or if
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School must allow student
to wear pro-Trump T-shirt
PORTLAND (AP) —
A federal judge has over-
turned a decision by Hills-
boro school administrators
who banned a student from
wearing a pro-border wall
T-shirt to school.
Liberty High School
in Hillsboro had prohib-
ited senior Addison Barnes
from wearing his “Don-
ald J. Trump Border Wall
Construction Co.” shirt on
school grounds. But U.S.
District Judge Michael W.
Mosman found Tuesday
that the Hillsboro School
District could not justify
its censorship, The Orego-
nian/OregonLive reported.
The school district is
entitled to be concerned
about the response of other
students to the T-shirt,
Mosman said. But the
“thin” court record so far
offers little support for the
district’s argument that
the shirt could “substan-
tially disrupt” the school,
he said.
Barnes earlier this
month sued the high
school, the principal and
district, arguing they vio-
lated his First Amendment
rights when he was told to
go home or cover up the
shirt in class.
Barnes, 18, was sus-
pended Jan. 19 for wear-
ing the shirt to his “People
and Politics” class, where
the topic of discussion
was immigration. After his
father met with the princi-
pal, the school rescinded
the suspension but told
Barnes he couldn’t wear
the shirt again in school.
School officials said the
shirt would contribute to a
“hostile learning environ-
ment” and would make
students feel insecure, not-
ing students of Hispanic
descent make up about
one-third of the school
population. The district
also described increased
tensions arising from
racially charged language
around immigration.
After the hearing, when
asked if Barnes was going
to wear the shirt to school
before he graduated, his
lawyer, Bradley Benbrook,
responded, “Yeah, that was
the idea.”
Barnes is scheduled to
graduate June 7.
Redmond sues for $62,000 after company fells Christmas tree
REDMOND (AP) — A
city in central Oregon seeks
$62,000 from a tree removal
company that accidentally cut
down a big spruce that was
slated to become the city’s
Christmas tree.
In a lawsuit filed last
week, Redmond officials
allege that workers trespassed
on land owned by the city
and removed a tree that was
intended to be part of a park
expansion near City Hall, The
Bulletin newspaper reported.
Keith
Leitz,
human
resources director for the
city, said the 40-foot blue
spruce is difficult to replace,
because of its size and loca-
tion near the center of town.
He said the city resorted to a
lawsuit because it couldn’t
agree with the company on
compensation.
The mistake occurred in
March after a property man-
agement company asked
Fagen Tree & Chips to
remove a spruce.
Company owner Wade
Fagen said an employee
accidentally went to a prop-
erty three blocks to the east,
where he encountered a sim-
ilar spruce tree with tape and
cones around it. He said the
removal was an honest mis-
take and criticized the city for
taking legal action.
“I think they’re just trying
to profit off a bad situation,”
Fagen said Tuesday.
The city’s tree was marked
with tape and cones to prevent
it from being removed, Leitz
said. The parcel the tree sat
on had been transferred to the
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gon law that says that any-
one who unlawfully removes
a tree on someone else’s prop-
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“There’s no value (to me);
I wasn’t stealing anything,”
Fagen said.
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