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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast FRIDAY TODAY SATURDAY Hot with plenty of sun Hot with plenty of sun 99° 65° 97° 66° SUNDAY Hot with plenty of sunshine Mostly sunny and very hot PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 102° 67° 102° 67° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 101° 67° 103° 67° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 96° 90° 114° (1928) 61° 60° 42° (1897) 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" 0.00" 0.26" 6.49" 11.30" 7.84" Corvallis 94/54 through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 98° 90° 109° (1928) 61° 60° 45° (1953) July 27 Aug 4 New 5:32 a.m. 8:31 p.m. 7:56 p.m. 4:27 a.m. First Aug 11 Aug 18 Bend 96/54 Caldwell 100/63 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 55 51 54 52 53 54 52 64 67 60 53 55 51 64 51 52 66 60 65 62 50 56 64 49 59 72 63 W pc s s pc s s s s s s s s s s s pc s s s s s s s s s s s Hi 67 94 93 67 93 90 91 95 101 94 92 93 91 100 61 65 100 100 97 90 96 93 90 90 90 98 98 Lo 56 52 54 52 50 54 50 65 67 59 52 54 52 62 52 53 66 61 66 62 50 56 63 51 59 71 63 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s s pc s s s s s s s s s s pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Hi 91 90 88 92 77 82 95 88 92 67 85 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 95/53 Lo 76 83 68 67 56 68 72 68 79 46 74 W s t s pc t c t s pc s pc Fri. Hi 89 90 86 86 77 84 96 86 94 69 85 Lo 75 81 67 62 57 68 66 70 79 51 76 W s t s t t pc pc s pc s pc REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today; however, low clouds followed by sunshine in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Hot today with plenty of sunshine. A moonlit sky tonight. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today; however, some clouds at the coast. Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. Mainly clear tonight. Sunny tomorrow. Cascades: Plenty of sun today. Clear and moonlit tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow. Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the coast today; hot in central parts. 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Sussman portrayed Astarita as a relatively inex- perienced member of an elite FBI unit, and the only member of law enforcement who was in position to fire the shots in question. “Only one guy stood in just the right spot,” he said. “Only one guy stood with his rifle shouldered, aimed right at Robert “LaVoy” Finicum’s truck.” Finicum and the occu- piers seized the refuge on Jan. 2, 2016, to protest the imprisonment of two Ore- gon ranchers who had set fires. President Donald Trump recently pardoned those men, Dwight and Ste- ven Hammond. On Jan. 26, the FBI learned that Bundy, Fini- cum and other key figures were leaving the refuge in two vehicles to meet with a sheriff sympathetic to their cause. 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Sheriff Glenn Palmer said the “phone’s been off the hook” as numer- ous friends and family have called his office after Contributed photo Terry and Sharon Smith’s Terry and Sharon Smith and their pickup are missing home on Nan’s Rock Road after a fire burned down their cabin in the Laycock burned to the ground July Creek Road area July 17. 17-18. Locating the fire initially Foul play is not yet sus- had a home. pected, but law enforce- Cathy Hinshaw, Sharon’s proved difficult, John Day ment are still looking for sister who lives in Hawaii, Fire Chief Ron Smith told the Smiths’ vehicle, Palmer said she spoke to Sharon the the Blue Mountain Eagle. said. Friends and fam- evening of the fire, and Sha- A “glow” was observed by ily who have contacted the ron said they were headed to people west of Mt. Vernon sheriff’s office said it was bed. Hinshaw said she then and reported to authorities unusual for the Smiths to got a call about 4 a.m. from about 10:15 p.m. on July have lost contact with them, a friend of Sharon’s who 17, but the reporting party lived near Nan’s Rock Road thought there was a fire on he said. “They’re a very social informing her about the fire. Canyon Mountain. According to John Day The Smiths’ disappear- couple,” Palmer said. Palmer confirmed ance is very unusual and dispatch, crews from the cadaver dogs searched could suggest foul play, Forest Service, Oregon the debris from the house Hinshaw said. She said the Department of Forestry, fire and found no human Smiths were very social and John Day fire and Mt. Ver- remains. A search effort was she talked to Sharon two or non fire responded to Nan’s planned for the surrounding three times a day. She said Rock Road around 12:15 she and Sharon have known a.m. in an attempt to locate area Tuesday, he said. A statewide press release Terry since they were in multiple fire reports. By the time initial attack was issued by the sheriff’s their early teens in Spring- office last week, asking any- field and often went camp- crews from ODF arrived, one with information about ing together. the house on Nan’s Rock Hinshaw also said the Road the location of Terry Smith, was completely 67, and Sharon Smith, 65, Smiths sometimes let peo- burned to the ground, Smith or their silver 2006 Toy- ple stay on the 80-100 acre said. John Day fire crews ota Tacoma pickup truck property on Nan’s Rock secured the perimeter to with license plate 714 EGG Road they bought in the prevent the fire’s spread to to contact law enforce- mid-1990s, but the man the surrounding area, which ment. Palmer said the press who served as a caretaker included heavy timber and release was not sent to for the property was gone at open meadows covered with dry grass, he said. Hawaii, where the Smiths the time of the fire. In this Jan. 31, 2016, file photo, makeshift roadside memorial for rancher LaVoy Finicum stands on a highway north of Burns. Police stopped the vehi- cles, and several people sur- rendered, including Ammon Bundy. But Finicum fled at more than 70 mph with Bundy’s brother Ryan and several others. Roughly a mile down the road, Finicum swerved to avoid a roadblock, nearly hit an FBI agent and careened into a snowbank. Three shots, none fired by Astar- ita, hit the pickup during the chaos. The two mystery gun- shots rang out as Finicum emerged from his pickup and yelled, “Go ahead and shoot me!” One bullet missed every- thing and was never recov- ered. The other struck the pickup and shattered a win- dow. A fragment, possibly from the bullet, went into Ryan Bundy’s shoulder. The potential evidence remains embedded. “He won’t give it to us, and we just can’t go in and take it,” Sussman said. OUT WITH CABLE. IN WITH SAVINGS. MUST MAINTAIN SVC & REDEEM W/IN 75 DAYS (CARD IN 4 WKS). 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Astarita, 41, is charged with making false state- ments and obstruction of justice after repeatedly tell- ing investigators he did not fire two shots that missed Finicum, an Arizona rancher who served as spokesman for the Ammon Bundy-led group that seized the refuge in southeastern Oregon. The errant shots came as Finicum left his pickup while authorities tried to arrest leaders of the take- over. Oregon State Police fatally shot Finicum sec- onds later. The shooting was deemed legally justified, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Sussman told jurors in his opening that the case is about not whether Astarita was right or wrong to fire. It’s about integrity, “with- out which a law enforce- ment officer is nothing and Hi 68 96 96 67 95 92 96 96 103 97 95 95 93 102 61 65 101 102 99 94 99 96 92 92 92 100 100 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Fri. 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