WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY Hazy sun Hot with plenty of sun 94° 61° 98° 67° THURSDAY FRIDAY Mostly sunny and very warm Plenty of sunshine PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 90° 62° 91° 61° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 101° 67° 96° 55° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 84° 88° 107° (1933) 49° 58° 43° (1918) 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" 0.16" 6.49" 11.37" 8.11" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 87° 88° 104° (1971) 49° 58° 45° (1931) 0.00" 0.00" 0.08" 5.10" 6.65" 6.00" SUN AND MOON Aug 18 Aug 26 5:54 a.m. 8:05 p.m. 9:51 a.m. 10:16 p.m. Last New Sep 2 Sep 9 John Day 95/58 Ontario 96/59 Bend 92/55 Caldwell 96/58 Burns 93/51 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 79 92 92 64 93 89 98 92 96 95 91 91 89 99 65 67 96 95 94 98 94 99 88 89 97 94 93 Lo 58 47 55 54 51 51 57 59 55 58 54 51 47 65 56 58 59 52 61 65 51 58 59 48 62 64 57 W s pc pc s pc pc s pc s pc pc pc pc pc s s pc s pc s pc s s pc s pc s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. Hi 69 95 93 65 90 93 91 96 101 95 91 95 93 97 63 68 97 100 98 93 95 95 93 94 92 99 98 Lo 57 53 56 53 50 57 55 65 67 58 53 57 55 63 55 57 65 59 67 60 55 56 64 55 58 72 63 W pc s s pc s s s s s s pc s s s pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 86 88 82 77 74 74 79 85 97 71 88 Lo 74 82 66 60 56 59 57 67 81 51 80 Wed. W c t s pc t pc pc t pc s pc Hi 90 86 85 78 74 82 83 82 98 77 88 Lo 73 81 67 61 56 60 60 68 78 55 79 W t t s pc t pc s pc pc s c WINDS Medford 99/65 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Albany 97/57 Eugene 98/57 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 95° 57° Spokane Wenatchee 88/59 92/65 Tacoma Moses 91/57 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 93/56 88/54 84/57 93/56 93/57 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 93/59 94/64 Lewiston 95/54 Astoria 94/59 79/58 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 98/65 Pendleton 89/51 The Dalles 96/55 94/61 100/64 La Grande Salem 91/51 99/58 Corvallis 94/54 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 94° 63° Seattle 91/62 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 99° 64° Today SATURDAY Pleasant with partial sunshine 95° 63° Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Klamath Falls 91/54 (in mph) Today Wednesday Boardman Pendleton NE 4-8 N 4-8 WSW 3-6 NNW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 4 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation: 541-966-0828 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s SEATTLE (AP) — The spectacular theft of a 76-seat plane from the Seattle airport by a ground crew employee is prompting an industry- wide review of how to thwart such insider security threats, though it remains unclear what steps airlines might take. “This is too big a deal. It’s not going to go away,” said Glen Winn, a former Secret Service agent who teaches in the University of South- ern California’s aviation secu- rity program. “There’s going to be a lot of discussion, a lot of meetings, a lot of fin- ger-pointing, and it’s going to come down to: How do we stop it?” Investigators are con- tinuing to piece together how 3½-year Horizon Air employee Richard Russell stole the empty Bombar- dier Q400 turboprop on Fri- day evening and took off on a roughly 75-minute flight, exe- cuting steep banks and even a barrel roll while being tailed by fighter jets. He finally crashed into a forested island south of Seattle. Russell was killed. No one else was hurt. In conversation with an air-traffic controller, he described himself as “just a broken guy,” said he “wasn’t really planning on landing” the aircraft, and claimed he didn’t want to hurt anyone else. Port of Seattle Commis- sioner Courtney Gregoire called the theft from Seat- tle-Tacoma International Air- port “truly a one-in-a-million experience,” but added, “That doesn’t mean we can’t learn from it.” She said airport officials have been in touch with other airports and airlines to begin to assess procedures. Sea-Tac has added security guards in the cargo area where the plane was parked when Russell stole it, she said. “We’re not waiting,” Gregoire said. “We expect a national-level conversation. We expect the federal gov- Richard Russell/YouTube via AP This undated image posted to Richard Russell’s You- Tube channel shows Russell, an airline ground agent. ernment may have some ideas about regulation.” The industry group Air- lines for America confirmed it is closely reviewing the incident but would not com- ment further. The National Transportation Safety Board referred questions to the FBI, which has released lim- ited information about the investigation. “There’s a lot of discussion about: What does this tell us?” said Michael Huerta, who retired in January as head of the Federal Aviation Admin- istration. “I wouldn’t be sur- prised if the individual air- lines came together with the regulators and made a deci- sion that we need to do more.” Potential solutions could include additional vetting or monitoring of employees; changes in who can access the planes and when; having parked aircraft monitored by closed-circuit television or by security patrols; requiring electronic or digital passcodes to start a plane’s engines; or requiring locks that could pre- vent an unauthorized person from manipulating a plane’s throttle, experts said. Aviation professor Jeff Price of Metropolitan State University in Denver said he expects a renewed focus on insider threats and warned that there is a real possibility Russell’s actions could inspire terrorists or copycats. Countering an insider threat remains challenging, given the number of people — caterers, mechanics, clean- ing staff and others — who have access to aircraft. Such workers already undergo background checks and drug and alcohol screen- ings. At some airports, includ- ing Sea-Tac, they are also subject to physical screenings the way passengers are. Russell was not believed to have had a pilot’s license. His responsibilities included towing and pushing aircraft for takeoff and gate approach, de-icing them and handling baggage. Many planes in service were designed decades ago and are started up by manip- ulating levers and switches in a certain sequence, rather than by, say, an ignition key. 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 Needles, Calif. Low 32° 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 93 91 85 84 79 91 96 81 91 84 89 85 91 83 89 97 54 76 88 94 87 91 79 105 87 85 Lo 66 72 73 68 57 70 64 69 75 64 72 68 76 60 69 73 45 50 75 76 69 73 68 82 73 66 W pc pc pc pc s pc pc t pc pc s pc pc s s s sh pc pc pc s t r s pc pc Wed. 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If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Proudly Serving Eastern Oregon With Quality Outdoor Living Products Since 2009 ! 10s National Summary: The most concentrated areas of flooding downpours will be in the Northeast and over the central and southern Plains today. Storms will dot the Southeast, while fire weather continues over much of the West. Experts said Russell had to have known how to start the plane, taxi and take off, but it’s not clear where he learned to do so. He told the air-traf- fic controller he didn’t need much help flying because he had played video games. John Cox, a veteran pilot and aviation security expert with Washington, D.C.- based Safety Operating Sys- tems, said that given the rar- ity of commercial airplane theft, there should be no rush to adopt additional mea- sures that might bog down airlines or otherwise be counterproductive. The investigation, once complete, will likely show any shortcomings that need to be remedied, he suggested. He also cast doubt on some ideas suggested by oth- ers, saying it would probably be prohibitively expensive to retrofit older planes with measures such as computer passcodes. “It’s not as simple as put- ting a key fob in your pocket and getting in your car and pushing a button,” he said. Cox also questioned the effectiveness of having more guards monitoring parked planes. “If you’re a guard and a person comes up in a push- back tug, in uniform, with proper credentials, it’s only at the point the engine starts that you’d notice something’s amiss,” he said. “By then it’s too late.” Sun/Solar Patio Shades Pergolas · Patio Covers Awnings · Sunrooms Screens & More! 0s showers t-storms Seattle airplane theft prompts review of security measures By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press -0s Turn Your Outdoor Space into an Oasis! 541-720-0772 up.” “Building 8,000 shelter beds will cost 10 times the Rep. Knute Buehler, $10 million he’s proposing Republican nominee for to spend,” said Christian governor, has announced Gaston, a spokesman for a seven-point plan to end Brown’s campaign. “This the burgeoning isn’t a serious proposal.” homeless popula- tion with the aim His plan of ending unshel- includes the tered homeless- following: ness by 2023. • Convene a Nearly 14,000 statewide summit on solving home- people are con- sidered home- lessness and cre- less in Oregon, ate a position of an increase of 6 Buehler a state-level chief homeless solu- percent between 2015 and 2017, according tions officer. • Dedicate state Medic- to a survey in early January 2017 by Oregon Housing aid dollars for both physi- cal and mental health care and Community Services. “Under Kate Brown, our to community-based, street- homeless crisis is getting level clinics for homeless worse,” Buehler said Mon- populations. . day, Aug. 13. “It’s become a • Allocate $10 million in humanitarian, public health the 2019-20 state budget, and public safety crisis that combined with communi- needs bolder and more cre- ty-based resources, to cre- ative leadership from a new ate an additional 4,000 tem- porary emergency shelter governor.” One proposal in the plan beds and 4,000 long-term calls for building 4,000 supportive-housing beds to temporary shelter beds and move people from streets 4,000 long-term supportive and camps to shelters with housing beds. He has pro- access to transition services posed paying for the project and longer-term treatment. with a combination of $10 • Provide local govern- million in state funds in the ments stronger legal tools to 2019-2020 state budget and manage and regulate activ- federal, local, nonprofit and ity on streets and sidewalks. • Establish the Oregon private resources. State grants would be Workplace Housing Assis- made to local governments tance Fund, a $50 million, and nonprofit and private five-year fund to provide up partners to build and man- to three years of rental assis- age the beds and programs. tance to “working” families. Buehler did not give an esti- • Remove barriers to mate on the total cost of the developing more multi-fam- ily apartments. project. A longer version of Democratic Gov. Kate Brown’s campaign said this story is online at Buehler’s plan “doesn’t add www.eastoregonian.com. By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Western Purses & Jewelry, Western Home Decor & Much More! 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