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East Oregonian
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Saturday, March 2, 2019
Washington Gov. Inslee focuses
on climate change in 2020 bid
CHEERING THE TEAM
By BILL BARROW and
RACHEL LA CORTE
Associated Press
ABOVE: Knappa fans
cheer their team during
the boys 2A state semifi-
nal game against Colum-
bia Christian on Friday at
the Pendleton Convention
Center.
RIGHT: A young Knappa
fan is engrossed in the
boys 2A state semifinal
game against Columbia
Christian on Friday at the
Pendleton Convention
Center.
Staff photos
by Kathy Aney
Forecast for Pendleton Area
TODAY
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Very cold with
periods of sun
Morning fl urries;
partly sunny
Partly sunny and
very cold
Cloudy and very
cold
Cloudy, snow and
sleet possible
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
27° 15°
22° 12°
21°
8°
25° 21°
21° 15°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
30° 16°
25° 12°
24° 10°
29° 24°
26° 16°
OREGON FORECAST
ALMANAC
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yest.
HIGH
LOW
TEMP.
Seattle
Olympia
51/29
26/8
30/12
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
28/15
Lewiston
49/24
30/14
Astoria
50/30
Pullman
Yakima 31/12
48/24
30/16
Portland
Hermiston
45/28
The Dalles 30/16
Salem
Corvallis
45/24
Yesterday
Normals
Records
La Grande
35/18
PRECIPITATION
John Day
Eugene
Bend
42/24
29/13
40/21
Ontario
42/23
Caldwell
Burns
28°
16°
53°
31°
69° (1959) 10° (1993)
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
47/23
0.00"
0.00"
0.04"
3.39"
1.75"
2.28"
WINDS (in mph)
39/22
37/17
Trace
Trace
0.03"
4.85"
2.82"
2.54"
through 3 p.m. yest.
HIGH
LOW
TEMP.
Pendleton 32/15
47/25
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
HERMISTON
Enterprise
27/15
31/19
26°
12°
51°
32°
74° (1925) 1° (1993)
PRECIPITATION
Moses
Lake
49/24
Aberdeen
23/4
28/14
Tacoma
Yesterday
Normals
Records
Spokane
Wenatchee
48/31
Today
Medford
55/30
Sun.
NE 6-12
N 4-8
Boardman
Pendleton
NNE 6-12
NNW 6-12
SUN AND MOON
Klamath Falls
43/22
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
6:33 a.m.
5:43 p.m.
4:43 a.m.
1:59 p.m.
New
First
Full
Last
Mar 6
Mar 14
Mar 20
Mar 27
NATIONAL EXTREMES
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 88° in Immokalee, Fla. Low -26° in Champion, Mich.
SEATTLE — Declaring
climate change the nation’s
most pressing issue, Washing-
ton Gov. Jay Inslee launched
his 2020 Democratic presi-
dential bid on Friday with a
promise to refocus American
government and society.
“It is time for our nation to
set a new priority,” Inslee told
supporters gathered at a solar
panel business in Seattle.
“This is truly our moment. It
is our moment to solve Amer-
ica’s most daunting challenge
and make it the first, foremost
and paramount duty of the
United States ... to defeat cli-
mate change.”
The 68-year-old former
congressman becomes the
first governor to enter a race
dominated by senators. For-
mer Vice President Joe Biden
and former Texas Rep. Beto
O’Rourke also are expected
to make highly anticipated
2020 announcements in the
coming weeks.
But Inslee says his empha-
sis on combating climate
change sets him apart from
his competitors and from
Republican President Donald
Trump.
“We are all angry and out-
raged by this president,” he
said, adding that rather than
get drawn into Trump’s vor-
tex, he would “unite Ameri-
cans in this moment to solve
our most urgent problem.”
Inslee frames climate
action as an economic oppor-
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
stands on an outdoor patio
on Friday as he takes part in
media interviews in Seattle.
tunity, not just a moral imper-
ative. He didn’t talk specifi-
cally Friday about the costs of
his vision, other than to crit-
icize considerable tax subsi-
dies for the fossil fuel indus-
try. But he argued that public
and private investments in
clean energy are a net boon
for working Americans that
would create “millions of
jobs,” from building “electric
cars in Michigan” to install-
ing solar panels on homes in
every state.
Inslee says no presidential
candidate has hinged a cam-
paign as heavily on climate
and environmental policy as
he will. He unveiled a blue-
and-green campaign logo with
an arc of the Earth, eschew-
ing the typical red, white and
blue. His Twitter feed Friday
was replete with the hashtag
#OurClimateMoment.
He plans his first trip as a
candidate to Iowa next week,
with events geared to climate
issues. Trips to Nevada and
California will follow.
Inslee may have a larger
opening on climate since bil-
lionaire environmental activ-
ist Tom Steyer has passed
on a national campaign, opt-
ing instead to continue his
advocacy for impeaching
and removing Trump from
office. Former New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
a billionaire who has spent
millions of dollars on climate
issues, may run.
Steyer tweeted Friday:
“It’s good to know that a cli-
mate champion like @Gov-
Inslee will be in the race,
pushing the country to recog-
nize what is at stake.”
Inslee hasn’t specifically
endorsed the Green New
Deal introduced by New York
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cor-
tez and Massachusetts Sen.
Ed Markey, and he didn’t
during his speech Friday. But
he said last month that he was
“thrilled that this ... resolution
has been brought forward” to
push for action.
“This is an aspirational
document that sets the goal,
rather than the policy. It’s
not meant to be a policy doc-
ument,” he said during an
interview after his campaign
event. “I will be rolling out
my own proposed policy. It
will be comprehensive. It will
be robust. It will have a sec-
tor-by-sector approach which
will be targeted to reduction
of carbon pollution and job
creation.”
Measles outbreak in Pacific
Northwest about half of U.S. cases
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — The
focus on measles in the
Pacific Northwest inten-
sified Friday as public
health officials in Oregon
announced a new case of
the highly contagious dis-
ease unrelated to an ongo-
ing outbreak in Washington
state that’s sickened 68 peo-
ple so far.
An unvaccinated Illinois
resident who spent time
overseas visited Portland
International Airport and
various locations in Salem
last week while contagious
with measles, the Ore-
gon Health Authority said.
Potential exposure loca-
tions include a Red Robin
restaurant and a trampoline
fun park in Salem, officials
said.
The case is unrelated to
an ongoing measles out-
break in southwest Wash-
ington state that’s sick-
ened dozens. Public health
officials in Clark County,
Washington, said three new
cases were identified Friday
and two more are suspected.
That brings the num-
ber of cases in the Port-
land bedroom community
of Vancouver, Washington,
to 68 — more than 40 per-
cent of the number reported
nationwide since Jan. 1, the
Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention said in
updated statistics released
Friday.
There have been 159
measles cases identified
nationwide through Feb. 21,
the CDC said, and Wash-
ington accounted for 69
of those. There have been
six outbreaks nationwide,
including in Illinois, Texas,
New York City and Mon-
roe and Rockland counties
in New York state. An out-
break is defined as three or
more cases at a time.
Most cases in Wash-
ington are young children
under age 10 who were not
vaccinated.
Before Friday, Mult-
nomah County — home
to Portland — had identi-
fied four people with mea-
sles and one who could have
measles. One man in King
County, which is home to
Seattle, also had measles.
Those cases were thought
to be connected to the out-
break in southwest Wash-
ington, however.
The viral illness has a
long incubation period and
21 days must pass without
a new case before the out-
break could be considered
over in southwest Washing-
ton, said Dr. Alan Melnick,
public health director in
Clark County, Washington.
State legislatures in both
Washington and Oregon
are considering laws that
would remove non-medical
exemptions for the routinely
administered measles vac-
cine. Both states currently
allow parents to opt out of
the measles immunizations
if they have a religious or
philosophical objection.
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
High school gym roof collapses
under heavy snow, no injuries
SPRINGFIELD
(AP)
— The Springfield School
Board has declared an
emergency after the roof
of Thurston High School’s
auxiliary gym collapsed.
KEZI-TV reports the
declaration made Friday
will allow the district to
waive the bidding pro-
cess so repairs can be done
more quickly.
No one was injured when
a support beam came down
on Wednesday because of
heavy snow. The roof col-
lapsed during the school
board’s meeting on Friday.
Because of the damage,
officials say they are mov-
ing this weekend’s state
basketball tournament to
Springfield High School.
The Bulletin reports no
one was injured when the
roof of a bakery distribu-
tion warehouse in Bend
also mostly collapsed
Thursday from heavy
snow. The roof of a riding
arena for horses also fell
east of Bend, KTVZ-TV
reported.
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