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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
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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
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WORLD CITIES
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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
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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
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Sunny to partly cloudy
today; pleasant across the north. Low clouds
tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Hazy sun
today; hot. Clear tonight; however, mostly
cloudy in the south.
Western Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today. Clear tonight; however, mostly cloudy
at the coast.
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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.
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 110° in Needles, Calif.
Low 32° in Angel Fire, N.M.
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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
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Milwaukee
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Minneapolis
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Nashville
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New Orleans
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New York City
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Oklahoma City
83
Omaha
79
Philadelphia
83
Phoenix
105
Portland, ME
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Providence
85
Raleigh
89
Rapid City
77
Reno
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Sacramento
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St. Louis
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Salt Lake City
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San Diego
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San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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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.”
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“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.
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Democratic Gov. Kate
Brown’s campaign said this story is online at
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