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By Matthew Lee The Associated Press C A S A B L A N C A , M o r o C C o » The Obama administra- tion will reevaluate its role in foundering Middle East peace talks following actions by both Israel and the Pal - estinians that have brought the negotiations to virtual collapse, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday. A visibly downbeat Kerry, who has spent the better part of his 14-month tenure as America's top diplomat trying to cajole the parties into talks, stopped short of declaring the peace process dead. But in his most pessi - mistic assessment of the sit- uation since talks began last summer with an end-of-April target for a deal, Kerry made clear his patience was near exhausted. He said it was time for a 'reality check." "It is regrettable that in the last few days both sides have taken steps that are not helpful and that's evident to everybody," he said. Speaking to reporters in Rabat before traveling to Cas - ablanca, Kerry said the Is- raeli-Palestinian peace talks could not continue to occupy so much of his time if the Is- raelis and Palestinians were unable to take even minor steps toward making the talks successful. He noted there were other pressing matters, such as crises in Ukraine and Syria and the Iran nuclear talks that demand attention. "Clearly we have an enor - mous amount on the plate," Kerry said. "There are lim- its to the amount of time and effort that the United States can spend if the par- ties themselves are unable to take constructive steps." Kerry has been the lead player in the administra - tion's effort to forge a long- elusive deal to end the con- flict and for the past 12 days had been conducting furious shuttle diplomacy to salvage the talks as the end-of-month deadline loomed. With lit - tle tangible signs of prog- ress over the course of eight months of talks, the initial goal of a comprehensive deal was scaled down to an out - line of what such an agree- ment would look like. MiddLe eASt Kerry: U.S. reconsiders its role in peace talks By Nick Perry The Associated Press PertH, AuStrALiA » Four weeks after the Malaysia Airlines jet vanished, two ships deployed sound loca - tors Friday in the southern Indian Ocean in a desperate attempt to find the plane's flight recorders before their signal beacons fall silent. Officials leading the mul - tinational search for Flight 370 said there was no spe- cific information that led to the underwater devices be- ing used for the first time, but that they were brought into the effort because there was nothing to lose. The air and sea search has not turned up any wreckage from the Boeing 777 that could lead searchers to the plane and perhaps its flight data and cockpit voice re - corders, or "black boxes." The recorders could help investigators determine why the Malaysia Airlines plane, which disappeared March 8 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Bei - jing with 239 people aboard, veered so far off-course. Beacons in the black boxes emit "pings" so they can be more easily found, but the batteries only last about a month. Two ships with sophisti - cated equipment that can hear the pings made their way Friday along a 150- mile route investigators hope may be close to the spot where officials believe Flight 370 went down. "No hard evidence has been found to date, so we have made the decision to search a sub-surface area on which the analysis has pre - dicted MH370 is likely to have flown," Cmdr. Peter Leahy, the commander of military forces involved in the search, said in a statement. Australian Air Chief Mar- shal Angus Houston, head of the joint agency coordinat- ing the operation, acknowl- edged the search area was essentially a best guess. He noted that time is running out to find the recorders. "The locator beacon will last about a month before it ceases its transmissions — so we're now getting pretty close to the time when it might ex - pire," Angus Houston said. The Australian navy ship Ocean Shield towed a pinger locator from the U.S. Navy, while the British navy's HMS Echo, equipped with similar gear, looked for the recorders in an area that in - vestigators' settled on after analyzing hourly satellite pings the aircraft gave off after it disappeared. That information, com- bined with data on the es- timated speed and perfor- mance of the aircraft, led them to that specific stretch of ocean, Houston said. Because the U.S. Navy's pinger locator can pick up signals to a depth of 20,000 feet, it should be able to hear the plane's data recorders even if they are in the deep - est part of the search zone — about 19,000 feet. But that's only if the locator gets within range of the black boxes — a tough task, given the size of the search area and the fact that the pinger locator must be dragged slowly through the water. Finding floating wreck - age is key to narrowing the search area, as officials can then use data on currents to try to backtrack to where the plane hit the water, and where the flight recorders may be. MALAySiA Hunt is on for Flight 370 'black boxes' Washington 61/36 New York 62/36 Miam i 84/73 Atlanta 68/48 Detroit 48/28 Houston 65/55 Chicago 50/31 Minneapolis 48/37 Kansas City 60/40 El Paso 71/51 Denver 53/33 Billings 48/34 Los Angeles 69/54 San Francisco 62/51 Seattle 55/46 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: SUNDAY 80° 52° MONDAY 83° 49° Sunn y and ve ry wa rm Sunn y and ve ry wa rm TUESDAY 83° 52° Mostly sunn y and wa rm WEDNESDAY 81° 50° Mostly cloudy TODAY 72° 46° Partly sunny and nice. Mostly clear tonight. High ....................................................................... 56° Low ........................................................................ 45° Normal high ......................................................... 68° Normal low ........................................................... 45° Record high ............................................. 87° in 1966 Record low .............................................. 33° in 1982 Humidity noon today ........................................ 37% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.01" Month to date ................................................... 0.13" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.21" Season to date ................................................ 11.64" Normal season to date .................................. 21.47" 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 .................. Absent Mold ............... Moderate Trees .................. Absent Weeds ................ Absent 6 Highest at 1 p.m. Today 6:47 a.m. 7:37 p.m. 11:00 a.m. 12:53 a.m. Sunday 6:45 a.m. 7:38 p.m. 11:51 a.m. 1:40 a.m. 12 hr., 50 min. Apr 7 First Apr 15 Full Last Apr 22 New Apr 28 at Bend Bridge 27 1.80 -0.30 at Hamilton City 148 129.80 -0.40 at Ord Ferry 114 97.70 -0.40 at Red Bluff Diversion Dam 253 238.40 -0.20 at Tehama Bridge 213 201.00 -0.30 Lake Shasta...................971.67 2,257,071 49.6% Lake Trinity .................2286.46 1,308,239 49.4% Weather Trivia ™ In which states have tornadoes never occurred? Tornadoes have been observed in all 50 states. Today Sunday Anaheim 70/52/s 82/53/s Bakersfield 69/50/s 74/56/s Chula Vista 67/52/s 74/59/s Crescent City 57/47/pc 59/46/pc Death Valley 83/63/s 89/63/s Eureka 58/43/pc 62/46/s Fremont 66/48/pc 74/52/s Fresno 71/50/s 79/54/s Glendale 69/51/s 83/55/s Huntington Beach 65/53/s 71/55/s Irvine 66/54/s 78/56/s Lake Tahoe 48/28/pc 58/27/s Long Beach 69/53/s 80/54/s Los Angeles 69/54/s 80/57/s Mammoth Mountain 50/28/pc 58/28/s Modesto 71/48/pc 79/50/s Monterey 61/46/pc 67/49/s Moreno Valley 68/47/s 82/51/s Napa 68/47/pc 75/44/s Needles 78/60/s 84/64/s Oakland 65/48/pc 70/53/s Oxnard 65/49/s 76/50/s Redding 71/48/pc 82/51/s Riverside 69/46/s 82/49/s Sacramento 71/46/pc 78/50/s San Bernardino 69/49/s 82/53/s San Diego 68/57/s 73/59/s San Francisco 62/51/pc 67/54/s San Jose 70/48/pc 77/53/s San Luis Obispo 67/44/s 80/48/s Santa Ana 67/55/s 79/55/s Santa Barbara 69/45/s 77/48/s Santa Clarita 70/49/s 83/57/s Stockton 71/45/pc 78/49/s Ventura 65/49/s 77/50/s Yosemite Valley 61/38/pc 70/42/s Today Sunday Albuquerque 61/39/pc 61/41/pc Atlanta 68/48/pc 63/53/r Baltimore 60/35/pc 60/37/s Boston 56/35/pc 56/39/s Buffalo 42/28/c 52/33/s Chicago 50/31/s 57/37/pc Cincinnati 54/34/pc 62/44/s Dallas 65/48/t 59/46/r Denver 53/33/pc 55/31/c Detroit 48/28/pc 54/37/s El Paso 71/51/pc 72/49/pc Fargo 52/30/pc 51/36/pc Honolulu 85/70/pc 82/69/s Houston 65/55/t 69/52/r Indianapolis 53/36/s 60/43/pc Kansas City 60/40/s 63/43/c Las Vegas 71/58/s 76/64/s Louisville 58/37/s 67/47/pc Miami 84/73/pc 86/75/pc Minneapolis 48/37/s 55/40/pc New Orleans 68/59/t 77/66/t New York City 62/36/pc 60/41/s Oklahoma City 65/43/pc 59/42/r Brisk winds will dry out much of the Great Lakes, Northeast and mid-Atlantic today. A pocket of chilly air will settle over the interior Northeast with snow showers over upstate New York and northern New England. As high pressure builds eastward across the Ohio Valley, most areas can expect at least partial sunshine from the central Appalachians to the middle Mississippi Valley. A zone of showers and storms is forecast to linger along the Gulf Coast to the Georgia coast. A dry day is in store for much of the Plains. Rain and snow showers will affect the Rockies. High .......................... 89° in New Bern, NC Low .............. -4° in Lake Yellowstone, WY High .............. 113° in Fatoto, The Gambia Low ... -50° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 67/48/t 68/48/c Buenos Aires 80/66/t 79/67/t Caracas 89/73/s 91/74/pc Ensenada 63/49/s 77/58/s Mexico City 82/55/t 81/52/s Montreal 43/27/c 48/34/pc Rio de Janeiro 82/71/pc 84/71/pc Tijuana 70/52/s 73/52/s Toronto 40/28/pc 51/32/pc Vancouver 50/43/r 54/48/r Orlando 86/64/pc 87/68/pc Philadelphia 62/36/pc 61/42/s Phoenix 77/59/s 82/62/s Pittsburgh 50/30/pc 61/37/s Portland, ME 48/30/r 48/29/s Portland, OR 57/46/r 60/47/r St. Louis 58/38/s 63/44/c Salt Lake City 53/39/pc 58/41/pc Seattle 55/46/r 59/45/r Tucson 71/48/s 76/51/s Washington, DC 61/36/pc 65/42/s Cairo 84/64/s 89/67/s Casablanca 72/56/pc 79/59/pc Johannesburg 73/49/pc 71/48/pc Kinshasa 89/73/t 90/69/t Lagos 91/77/t 91/76/t Nairobi 82/60/pc 84/59/t Tripoli 71/56/s 65/53/s Baghdad 82/53/s 86/63/pc Beijing 71/44/s 80/48/pc Hong Kong 74/68/pc 71/67/sh Jerusalem 75/58/s 80/60/s Kabul 59/46/r 61/45/t Manila 92/76/s 92/76/s Melbourne 75/52/pc 74/51/s New Delhi 95/70/pc 99/77/pc Seoul 52/35/pc 57/38/s Singapore 90/78/t 90/78/r Sydney 77/61/sh 75/61/sh Tehran 62/48/s 69/51/s Tokyo 58/43/c 53/42/sh Amsterdam 61/51/c 62/53/pc Athens 70/56/c 69/53/s Belgrade 72/44/r 61/42/pc Berlin 64/46/pc 66/50/pc Budapest 68/48/sh 65/49/c Dublin 57/50/sh 58/45/r London 60/55/c 60/53/r Madrid 68/48/pc 72/48/s Moscow 37/26/pc 50/37/c Paris 63/50/pc 64/50/c Rome 64/50/sh 68/50/s Stockholm 50/39/s 52/41/c Vienna 70/47/sh 70/54/pc Zurich 66/45/sh 65/44/pc 57/34 59/38 59/40 59/35 59/35 71/46 71/48 68/47 70/42 72/49 72/49 53/33 55/32 57/35 71/48 72/46 64/38 57/47 58/47 58/43 66/43 60/36 62/37 57/47 61/36 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 The Tehama County Arbor Day Committee would like to thank the following individuals, businesses and organizations for their support of the 2014 Arbor Day Program in Tehama County Schools: The ADman Calif. 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