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By Robert Burns The Associated Press WASHINGTON » In a bid to improve the government's accounting for missing U.S. war dead, Defense Secre - tary Chuck Hagel said Mon- day he is establishing a new Pentagon agency with more focused authority and more senior-level oversight. "We're streamlining ev - erything," Hagel told a news conference. The Pentagon has been under congressional pres - sure for months to take de- cisive action to improve the POW-MIA accounting effort. Its failings were highlighted last summer when The As - sociated Press disclosed an internal Pentagon report that said the search for re- mains of missing soldiers on foreign battlefields was mismanaged, wasteful and acutely dysfunctional. After lengthy study, Ha - gel decided to combine the two leading agencies in this field — the Joint POW- M I A Accou nt i n g C om - mand, based in Hawaii, a nd the Defense POW- MIA Off ice, based in the Pentagon. The combined agency will be overseen by the most senior policy offi - cial in the office of the sec- retary of defense. The Penta gon works year-round in Asia and Eu- rope to recover remains of service members listed as missing from World War II, the Korean War and from Vietnam. "There's not a more poi - gnant, emotional, impor- tant issue in our society to- day," Hagel told reporters, "... than you take care of the people who gave their lives to this country." Hagel said all communi - cations with family mem- bers of the missing from past conflicts will be man- aged and organized by this new agency. defeNSe Hagel acts to improve POW-MIA accounting By Nick Perry The Associated Press W e L L I NGTON, N eW Z eA- LANd » Sometimes the ob- ject spotted in the water is a snarled fishing line. Or a buoy. Or something that might once have been the lid to an ice box. Not once — not yet at least — has it been a clue. Anticipation has repeat - edly turned into frustration in the search for signs of Flight 370 as objects spotted from planes in a new search area west of Australia have turned out to be garbage. It's a time-wasting distrac - tion for air and sea crews searching for debris from the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished March 8. It also points to wider problems in the world's oceans. "The ocean is like a plas - tic soup, bulked up with the croutons of these larger items," said Los Angeles captain Charles Moore, an environmental advocate credited with bringing at - tention to an ocean gyre be- tween Hawaii and California known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which by some accounts is about the size of Texas. The world's oceans have four more of these flotsam- collecting vortexes, Moore said, and the searchers, in an area about 1,150 miles west of Perth, have stum - bled onto the eastern edge of a gyre in the Indian Ocean. "It's like a toilet bowl that swirls but doesn't flush," said Moore. The garbage patches are nothing like a typical city du mp . In f ac t, m ost o f th e trash can't even be seen: It's composed of tiny bits of plastic bobbing just below the surface. The larger items also tend to be plastic and are often fishing-related, Moore said. Though, he added, he has come across light bulbs, a toilet seat, and, bobbing off the California coast, a refrigerator, complete with defrosted orange juice. Seattle oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer has been studying the phe - nomena of ocean debris for years. He said there are smaller collections of gar- bage within the gyres. "If you go into a house you'll find dust bunnies," he said. "The ocean has a mass of dust bunnies, each mov - ing about 10 miles a day." Ebbesmeyer said he's fas- cinated by what happens to the trash that spews from the hundreds of shipping containers lost overboard from cargo ships each year. He said there's one that keeps belching out Lego pieces onto the beaches of Cornwall, England. An - other spilled 2,000 com- puter monitors. Another re- leased thousands of pairs of Nike sneakers. Sometimes, he said, the containers themselves can become hazards as they float around for months. Scientists are particu - larly worried about small and seemingly ubiquitous pieces of plastic that can be from shopping bags, plas - tic water bottles, or other household items. Waves break the items up into smaller pieces. mALAySIA Garbage frustrates search for 370 Rob GRiffith, Pool — the AssociAted PRess A picture taken off a computer monitor shows a piece of unknown debris floating just under the water that was spotted by a Royal New Zealand P-3 orion while searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight Mh370 in the southern indian ocean on Monday. Washington 64/48 New York 58/42 Miami 82/68 Atlanta 78/53 Detroit 56/36 Houston 77/66 Chicago 51/34 Minneapolis 37/23 Kansas City 53/42 El Paso 81/53 Denver 58/26 Billings 39/23 Los Angeles 66/53 San Francisco 57/46 Seattle 58/40 AIR QUALITY FORECAST What it means: 0-50: Good; 51-100: Moderate; 101-150: Unhealthy for sensitive people; 151+: Unhealthy for all. Source: Airnow.gov City Today's air quality City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W CALIFORNIA CITIES National and world forecast Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Summary National Extremes World Extremes North and South America Asia, Australia Europe Africa Carson City Hawthorne Reno Herlong Lovelock Sacramento Yuba City Napa Ukiah Chico Corning Lakeview Alturas Susanville Redding Red Bluff Laytonville Fort Bragg Point Arena Eureka Redway Mount Shasta Yreka Crescent City Ashland Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Shown are today's noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. ALMANAC Precipitation Temperatures ALLERGY REPORT Pollen levels Source: National Allergy Bureau TODAY'S UV INDEX (The higher the number, the faster skin damage will occur.) 11+: Extreme 8-10: Very high 6-7: High 3-5: Moderate 0-2: Low SUN SETTINGS, MOON PHASES Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Hours of sunlight River Levels Sacramento River Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr Stage yest. chg. Lake Levels Elevation Yesterday Storage (acre-feet) Percent Capacity Q: A: WEDNESDAY 64° 42° THURSDAY 65° 45° Some sun, t hen clouds Pa rtly sunn y and wa rmer FRIDAY 68° 44° Pe riods of clouds and sunshine SATURDAY 73° 47° Pa rtly sunn y and nic e TODAY 55° 40° Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy and chilly with a couple of showers tonight. High ....................................................................... 53° Low ........................................................................ 42° Normal high ......................................................... 67° Normal low ........................................................... 45° Record high ............................................. 87° in 2011 Record low .............................................. 32° in 1999 Humidity noon today ........................................ 72% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.26" Month to date ................................................... 2.95" Normal month to date ..................................... 3.20" Season to date ................................................ 11.28" Normal season to date .................................. 21.26" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ....................... Low Mold ......................... Low Trees ...................... High Weeds ................ Absent 2 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 6:53 a.m. 7:33 p.m. 8:00 a.m. 10:03 p.m. Wednesday 6:52 a.m. 7:34 p.m. 8:41 a.m. 11:04 p.m. 12 hr., 40 min. Apr 7 First Apr 15 Full Last Apr 22 New Apr 28 at Bend Bridge 27 3.30 -1.60 at Hamilton City 148 130.90 -2.20 at Ord Ferry 114 99.00 -1.20 at Red Bluff Diversion Dam 253 238.90 -1.30 at Tehama Bridge 213 201.80 -1.90 Lake Shasta...................967.28 2,176,303 47.8% Lake Trinity .................2285.74 1,300,417 49.1% Weather Trivia ™ What is the record low temperature for the lower 48 states in April? -36(F) at Eagle Nest, N.M., on April 5, 1945. Today Wednesday Anaheim 65/50/r 63/50/t Bakersfield 65/49/sh 62/48/c Chula Vista 64/53/r 63/52/sh Crescent City 54/39/t 54/41/pc Death Valley 77/61/pc 74/47/pc Eureka 51/36/t 54/37/pc Fremont 59/46/r 61/45/pc Fresno 63/45/t 62/44/pc Glendale 63/47/r 61/47/t Huntington Beach 62/52/r 61/51/t Irvine 64/55/r 63/50/t Lake Tahoe 36/19/sf 40/17/sf Long Beach 65/53/r 63/51/t Los Angeles 66/53/r 66/52/t Mammoth Mountain 40/22/sf 43/20/sf Modesto 61/48/t 63/45/pc Monterey 57/47/t 59/44/pc Moreno Valley 60/44/r 57/43/pc Napa 57/43/t 62/37/pc Needles 74/54/pc 71/51/pc Oakland 58/47/t 60/45/pc Oxnard 60/48/c 60/46/c Redding 53/37/t 63/42/pc Riverside 60/43/r 58/40/pc Sacramento 59/43/t 64/40/pc San Bernardino 61/46/r 59/43/pc San Diego 64/55/r 63/55/sh San Francisco 57/46/t 58/46/pc San Jose 59/46/t 61/44/pc San Luis Obispo 58/43/t 61/43/c Santa Ana 65/55/r 63/50/t Santa Barbara 59/49/c 62/44/c Santa Clarita 62/43/c 60/48/t Stockton 61/45/t 64/42/pc Ventura 59/48/c 60/46/c Yosemite Valley 52/36/r 44/33/sh Today Wednesday Albuquerque 72/43/s 65/39/pc Atlanta 78/53/s 80/59/pc Baltimore 64/42/pc 68/48/pc Boston 48/34/s 53/38/pc Buffalo 59/36/c 48/31/pc Chicago 51/34/pc 41/34/r Cincinnati 70/47/pc 63/51/sh Dallas 77/67/sh 80/68/pc Denver 58/26/pc 52/24/c Detroit 56/36/pc 48/31/c El Paso 81/53/s 78/55/s Fargo 24/2/pc 32/19/pc Honolulu 84/73/pc 84/72/pc Houston 77/66/sh 81/69/sh Indianapolis 63/44/pc 57/46/sh Kansas City 53/42/pc 56/42/t Las Vegas 65/53/s 62/49/pc Louisville 74/54/pc 72/59/c Miami 82/68/s 82/70/s Minneapolis 37/23/pc 44/30/c New Orleans 76/66/pc 77/68/c New York City 58/42/s 60/46/pc Oklahoma City 70/60/c 82/61/t Warmer weather is in store for much of the eastern third of the nation today, compared to recent days. Most areas from Maine to Florida will have abundant sunshine. As a storm leaves the Upper Midwest, snow and rain will diminish over the upper Great Lakes. However, gusty winds are forecast to continue over the northern Plains and reach into the Midwest with cooler air. Showers and spotty strong thunderstorms will occur in parts of the central and southern Plains. Rain and mountain snow will reach from the Pacific coast to the central Rockies. High ............................... 94° in Dryden, TX Low .................................. 5° in Stanley, ID High ............................. 113° in Faya, Chad Low .......... -42° in Shepherd Bay, Canada Bogota 70/45/pc 65/48/sh Buenos Aires 73/63/pc 75/64/pc Caracas 91/73/pc 89/72/pc Ensenada 61/46/sh 61/44/r Mexico City 79/54/s 78/56/pc Montreal 41/36/pc 46/28/pc Rio de Janeiro 84/73/t 82/71/sh Tijuana 61/51/pc 62/49/r Toronto 48/29/c 47/27/pc Vancouver 53/40/pc 54/41/pc Orlando 82/57/s 82/59/s Philadelphia 60/42/s 63/45/pc Phoenix 76/57/s 72/54/pc Pittsburgh 69/40/pc 57/44/sh Portland, ME 45/26/pc 46/30/pc Portland, OR 56/42/sh 60/41/pc St. Louis 65/51/s 67/52/t Salt Lake City 52/32/r 52/34/c Seattle 58/40/c 60/41/pc Tucson 78/53/pc 72/49/pc Washington, DC 64/48/pc 71/52/pc Cairo 78/54/s 74/55/pc Casablanca 76/58/pc 63/50/r Johannesburg 71/53/pc 73/53/s Kinshasa 93/73/t 90/73/t Lagos 91/78/t 91/77/t Nairobi 85/58/pc 85/60/s Tripoli 68/51/pc 78/59/s Baghdad 69/52/pc 60/47/r Beijing 74/48/pc 71/44/pc Hong Kong 77/70/t 77/73/t Jerusalem 71/48/s 61/45/pc Kabul 64/43/c 55/38/r Manila 96/77/s 94/77/pc Melbourne 88/68/s 79/58/sh New Delhi 91/63/pc 91/64/pc Seoul 71/49/pc 70/46/pc Singapore 91/79/t 91/77/t Sydney 82/64/c 84/66/pc Tehran 59/46/s 62/49/pc Tokyo 61/50/c 61/50/sh Amsterdam 66/47/c 67/50/c Athens 70/51/s 74/51/s Belgrade 72/47/s 70/48/sh Berlin 62/43/pc 59/41/pc Budapest 64/47/s 64/44/s Dublin 54/47/pc 54/46/r London 66/48/pc 68/52/pc Madrid 66/48/r 54/41/r Moscow 34/21/sf 36/23/sf Paris 65/48/pc 71/52/c Rome 65/43/s 64/50/pc Stockholm 39/26/pc 45/30/s Vienna 66/48/pc 68/48/s Zurich 66/44/pc 71/42/s 46/27 51/32 49/31 49/28 52/29 59/43 59/42 57/43 54/39 57/41 56/41 43/28 45/25 46/28 53/37 55/40 52/34 54/44 53/44 51/36 55/37 45/27 53/26 54/39 54/28 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 We Do That 1375 Montgomery Rd. 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