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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY SUNDAY Hot with plenty of sun Hot with plenty of sunshine 98° 64° 98° 65° MONDAY Sunny and hot Sunny to partly cloudy PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 102° 69° 101° 65° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 102° 65° 102° 67° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 97° 90° 109° (1928) 62° 60° 40° (1908) 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" 0.28" 6.49" 11.30" 7.86" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 101° 90° 109° (1939) 60° 60° 45° (1936) 0.00" 0.00" 0.18" 5.10" 6.59" 5.88" SUN AND MOON July 27 Aug 4 New Aug 11 5:33 a.m. 8:30 p.m. 8:35 p.m. 5:21 a.m. First John Day 95/61 Ontario 100/65 Bend 94/54 Burns 94/50 Caldwell 99/61 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 67 96 94 67 94 90 92 95 102 95 92 94 91 100 61 65 100 100 98 91 97 93 90 91 90 100 98 Lo 55 50 54 52 50 54 50 64 67 61 50 54 50 63 53 54 65 62 64 63 52 56 64 49 59 69 63 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 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 68 95 94 65 93 91 93 95 102 95 93 94 92 100 61 65 99 101 98 93 96 94 91 91 91 99 98 Lo 54 53 54 51 50 54 50 64 65 59 52 55 52 64 50 53 67 63 65 64 54 58 62 51 61 68 61 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 c pc s s s s s s s s s s pc WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 89 91 86 85 77 84 97 86 93 69 85 Lo 75 81 67 61 56 67 67 71 79 47 75 W pc t s t t pc t s pc s pc Sat. Hi 91 91 82 75 76 85 82 85 93 69 84 Lo 75 81 67 59 57 66 62 69 78 55 80 W s t s t t pc pc s pc pc r WINDS Medford 100/63 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last Albany 91/54 Eugene 92/50 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 105° 67° Spokane Wenatchee 90/64 96/71 Tacoma Moses 88/56 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 98/66 90/55 70/56 86/53 98/63 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 85/57 100/69 Lewiston 100/63 Astoria 98/66 67/55 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 91/63 Pendleton 90/54 The Dalles 102/67 98/64 99/67 La Grande Salem 94/54 93/56 Corvallis 89/53 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 106° 71° Seattle 88/62 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 105° 65° Today TUESDAY Mostly sunny and hot 101° 65° Friday, July 27, 2018 Klamath Falls 92/50 (in mph) Today Saturday Boardman Pendleton W 4-8 W 6-12 NW 4-8 NW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun today, except low clouds followed by sunshine in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sunshine today; hot. A moonlit sky tonight. Plenty of sun tomorrow; hot. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today, except mostly cloudy at the coast. Aug 18 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ Eastern Washington: Sunny today. Clear and moonlit tonight. Sunny to partly cloudy tomorrow. Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today. Clear and moonlit tonight. 2 4 8 2 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 8 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation: 541-966-0828 -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: Severe storms may topple trees in parts of the Northeast today. Storms will riddle the steamy Southwest as the Midwest turns cooler. More heat will bake the West as more storms drench the Rockies. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 117° in Needles, Calif. Low 33° in West Yellowstone, Mont. 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 89 92 81 90 73 92 99 87 89 82 78 79 100 86 79 92 73 76 89 99 80 90 82 113 87 88 Lo 65 72 73 70 54 70 65 74 74 63 61 63 80 59 60 73 54 55 78 76 61 73 64 89 69 70 W c pc t t c s s s t c pc pc pc t pc pc sh s pc s s t pc pc pc pc Sat. 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Contrary to President Donald Trump’s numerous efforts to shred Obama’s leg- acy, U.S. Justice Department lawyers are in Obama’s cor- ner as they defend his expan- sion of a national monument in Oregon. That puts the Trump administration in direct opposition with timber inter- ests that Trump vowed to defend in a May 2016 cam- paign speech in Eugene. However, that opposi- tion may be temporary in a case full of ironic twists that centers on a unique hab- itat where three mountain ranges converge. It is home to more than 200 bird spe- cies, the imperiled Oregon spotted frog, deer, elk and many kinds of fish, including the endangered Lost River sucker. A federal judge is being asked to consider limits of power among all three gov- ernment branches. For the Trump administration, the case is about protecting the power of the president of the United States, even if it was Obama who exercised his authority under the Antiqui- ties Act of 1906 that allows a president to declare a national monument. During his last week in office, Obama nearly dou- AP Photo/Jeff Barnard, File In this 2000 photo Pilot Rock rises into the clouds in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument near Lincoln. Contrary to President Donald Trump’s numerous efforts to shred Obama’s legacy, U.S. Justice Department lawyers are in Obama’s corner as they defend his expansion of the national monument in Oregon. bled the size of Cascade-Sis- kiyou National Monument in heavily forested southern Oregon, to more than 150 square miles. Commercial timber harvesting is prohib- ited in the monument except for ecological restoration, so logging companies and local governments were deprived of revenue from timber that was suddenly placed out of their reach. In March 2017, the Amer- ican Forest Resource Coun- cil, a timber-industry advo- cacy group, sued the federal government in U.S. Dis- trict Court for the District of Columbia, charging that Obama’s expansion of the monument was unlawful. A group of Oregon counties that receive revenue from logging sued separately in the same court. The advocacy group insisted Obama exceeded his authority because Congress in 1937 designated much of the land in question for tim- ber harvesting to allow local communities to prosper. The expanded area included 62 square miles designated by Congress for “perma- nent forest production,” the group said, telling the court its members “rely on timber sourced from federal lands in and around the Monu- ment to support profitable operations.” Some observers, seeing the Trump administration develop a record of favoring business interests over envi- ronmental concerns, figured it wouldn’t fight the lawsuits. “I was worried that the timber industry and DOJ would come to an agreement that would not be good for the monument,” said Susan Jane Brown, an attorney for environmental groups. Instead, after a lengthy pause in the court proceed- ings, Justice Department attorneys in June asked the judge handling both lawsuits to rule in the government’s favor without trial. “I don’t see this at all as the administration sid- ing with the environmental- ists, but rather doing all they can to shore up presiden- tial power,” said Rhett Law- rence, conservation director of the Sierra Club’s Oregon chapter. BEND (AP) — A proposed change to the state’s Med- icaid program aims to reduce the overprescribing of opi- oids, which has caused an epidemic of overdoses, Oregon officials said. The proposal would limit coverage for five broad chronic pain conditions to 90 days of opioid pain reliev- ers, The Bulletin reported Wednesday. It would also taper off patients who have been taking opioids long-term from those medications within a year. In turn, it would introduce alternative treatments pre- viously unavailable under the Oregon Health Plan. “Individuals with chronic pain really face debilitat- ing conditions that impact quality of life, yet we’re “Individuals with faced with this significant chronic pain really face opioid epidemic where we know there’s a lot of debilitating conditions misuse and overprescrib- that impact quality of life, ing,” said Dr. Dana Har- yet we’re faced with this gunani, chief medical officer for the Oregon significant opioid Health Authority. “We’re epidemic where we trying to use evidence to guide us, but we really know there’s a lot of mis- welcome public input into use and overprescribing” the process. Many chronic pain patients have voiced opposition to the proposal. Alterna- tive treatments don’t work for everybody, they said. They believe the decision to limit opioid medications should be made by physicians, not a government agency. Currently, the Oregon Health Authority does not cover treatments for fibromyalgia, chronic pain syndrome, chronic pain caused by trauma, other chronic postproce- dural pain and other chronic pain. Many patients suffering from those conditions are being prescribed opioids, according to the government agency. Because the agency has no way of knowing if the patients are being prescribed those medications for chronic pain conditions or for a covered service, it can’t simply decline to cover those prescriptions. Instead, they plan to cover alternative treatments such as yoga, acupuncture or physical therapy, while scaling back the use of opioids. 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. Board revokes ex-Portland chief’s police certification PORTLAND (AP) — A state board, citing dishon- esty, has voted to revoke the police certification of former Portland Police Chief Larry O’Dea for 10 years. The Oregonian/Oregon- Live reports the Board of Public Safety Standards and Training took Thursday’s action based on findings that O’Dea misled investi- gators about his handling of an off-duty shooting and failed to immediately act on an employee’s complaint of a hostile work environment. O’Dea retired two years ago amid controversy over his shooting of a friend during a camping trip in southeastern Oregon. O’Dea told a Harney County dep- uty on the day on the shoot- ing that he thought the friend had shot himself. O’Dea also waited sev- eral days before telling Portland officials about the shooting. The board voted 10-5 to revoke O’Dea’s certifica- tion. Current Portland police Chief Danielle Outlaw was among those voting against it. 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