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Washington 64/38 New York 58/36 Miami 91/74 Atlanta 64/44 Detroit 43/25 Houston 70/43 Chicago 44/26 Minneapolis 38/30 Kansas City 63/39 El Paso 67/40 Den ver 63/35 Billings 69/44 Los Angeles 76/56 San Francisco 66/49 Seattle 64/45 AIRQUALITYFORECAST Whatitmeans:0-50:Good; 51-100:Moderate; 101-150:Unhealthyforsensitivepeople; 151+:Unhealthyforall. Source: Airnow.gov City Today'sairquality City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W CALIFORNIA CITIES National and world forecast 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 Africa CarsonCity 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 Pollenlevels Source: National Allergy Bureau TODAY'S UV INDEX (The higher the number, the faster skin damage will occur.) Extreme Very high High Moderate Low SUN SETTINGS, MOON PHASES Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Hoursofsunlight River Levels SacramentoRiver Flood 7a.m. 24-hr Stage yest. chg. Lake Levels Elevation Yesterday Storage (acre-feet) Percent Capacity Q: A: SUNDAY 78° 52° MONDAY 71° 50° Nic e with clouds and sun Wa rm with clouds and sun TUESDAY 81° 57° Pa rtly sunn y and ve ry warm WEDNESDAY 87° 57° Sunn y and ve ry wa rm TODAY 76° 50° Partly sunny. Partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 72° Low ........................................................................ 48° Normal high ......................................................... 67° Normal low ........................................................... 45° Record high ............................................. 90° in 2002 Record low .............................................. 28° in 1936 Humidity noon today ........................................ 61% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.00" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.05" Season to date ................................................ 20.31" Normal season to date .................................. 20.69" 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 ............. Moderate Mold .........................Low Trees ...................... High Weeds ..................... Low 6 Highest at 1 p.m. Today 6:51 a.m. 7:35 p.m. 3:44 a.m. 2:24 p.m. Sunday 6:49 a.m. 7:36 p.m. 4:27 a.m. 3:30 p.m. 12 hr., 44 min. Apr7 New Apr13 First Full Apr21 Last Apr29 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........3.10 ....... -0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......130.70 .......none atOrdFerry................................114 ........98.30 ....... -0.10 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.90 ....... -0.10 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.80 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.90 ....... -0.10 BlackButte ....................456.53..............72,405 .....50.4% LakeOroville..................868.18.........3,059,742 .....81.9% LakeShasta .................1048.68.........4,026,672 .....88.5% LakeTrinity..................2283.80.........1,279,539 .....48.3% Whiskeytown...............1206.90............231,249 .....95.9% Weather Trivia ™ What is the record high temperature for the United States in April? 118 F at Volcano Springs, Calif., on April 25, 1898. Today Sunday Anaheim 77/52/pc 78/51/pc Bakersfield 83/56/s 86/55/pc Chula Vista 72/53/pc 73/53/pc Crescent City 58/46/pc 59/47/c Death Valley 93/55/s 94/55/pc Eureka 61/45/pc 62/48/c Fremont 71/48/pc 70/48/pc Fresno 82/55/s 84/55/pc Glendale 77/53/pc 78/53/pc Huntington Beach 69/56/pc 70/55/pc Irvine 73/53/pc 75/53/pc Lake Tahoe 60/31/pc 60/37/pc Long Beach 73/55/pc 74/55/pc Los Angeles 76/56/pc 77/56/pc Mammoth Mountain 64/31/s 66/32/pc Modesto 80/52/s 82/53/pc Monterey 63/48/pc 63/48/pc Moreno Valley 81/47/s 82/45/pc Napa 72/44/pc 71/46/pc Needles 88/58/s 91/60/s Oakland 66/49/pc 67/50/pc Oxnard 66/52/s 65/52/pc Redding 78/51/pc 78/51/pc Riverside 82/47/s 83/45/pc Sacramento 76/48/pc 76/50/pc San Bernardino 82/49/s 83/51/pc San Diego 70/59/pc 72/59/pc San Francisco 66/49/pc 66/52/pc San Jose 73/49/pc 73/50/pc San Luis Obispo 74/50/pc 70/51/pc Santa Ana 71/56/pc 74/55/pc Santa Barbara 66/51/s 67/51/pc Santa Clarita 80/51/s 80/50/pc Stockton 79/48/pc 80/50/pc Ventura 68/53/s 68/52/pc Yosemite Valley 72/41/s 72/43/pc Today Sunday Albuquerque 62/37/s 71/42/s Atlanta 64/44/pc 65/45/s Baltimore 62/35/sh 51/36/s Boston 55/36/sh 39/27/sn Buffalo 41/23/c 35/26/sf Chicago 44/26/pc 61/34/c Cincinnati 52/27/pc 56/46/s Dallas 70/45/s 77/52/s Denver 63/35/s 65/38/s Detroit 43/25/sn 43/31/pc El Paso 67/40/s 75/45/s Fargo 42/30/pc 49/25/pc Honolulu 84/71/pc 83/71/sh Houston 70/43/s 74/48/s Indianapolis 51/28/pc 58/47/s Kansas City 63/39/s 75/48/s Las Vegas 79/59/s 83/61/s Louisville 58/33/s 61/51/s Miami 91/74/pc 82/70/c Minneapolis 38/30/pc 56/29/pc New Orleans 70/52/pc 73/54/s New York City 58/36/sh 43/32/pc Oklahoma City 72/42/s 79/47/s Clouds and showers will extend along much of the Atlantic Seaboard today. A cool front is forecast to slowly push to the southeast. A storm moving along the front will cause a period of steady rain to slice northeastward along the mid-Atlantic and New England coasts. Heavy rain and thunder- storms will focus over northern and central Florida. Arctic air will blast southeastward across the Great Lakes region with strong winds and a swath of snow and snow squalls. High winds can cause power outages in parts of the Northeast tonight. High .............................. 91° in Sanford, FL Low ............................. -1° in Leadville, CO High .................... 110° in Malegaon, India Low ... -46° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 66/50/sh 66/51/t Buenos Aires 78/57/r 74/58/pc Caracas 88/76/pc 87/76/pc Ensenada 77/48/s 80/51/s Mexico City 82/47/s 81/51/s Montreal 49/21/c 26/13/c Rio de Janeiro 88/76/s 90/76/s Tijuana 73/52/s 75/53/s Toronto 42/19/sf 35/26/sf Vancouver 58/43/pc 60/47/pc Orlando 83/59/t 77/55/pc Philadelphia 62/37/sh 47/35/pc Phoenix 83/60/s 88/60/s Pittsburgh 50/26/sh 47/43/pc Portland, ME 52/32/sh 34/18/sn Portland, OR 69/46/pc 69/50/pc St. Louis 59/36/s 72/53/s Salt Lake City 64/43/s 70/47/s Seattle 64/45/pc 65/48/pc Tucson 79/50/s 85/52/s Washington, DC 64/38/sh 53/42/s Cairo 87/62/s 87/63/pc Casablanca 65/51/pc 68/51/pc Johannesburg 84/60/pc 82/56/s Kinshasa 84/73/c 92/75/c Lagos 91/79/t 92/80/c Nairobi 74/61/t 77/62/c Tripoli 94/61/pc 76/57/s Baghdad 77/50/s 79/57/s Beijing 69/41/c 66/39/s Hong Kong 76/69/c 77/69/c Jerusalem 72/54/s 73/53/pc Kabul 52/46/r 62/40/sh Manila 93/80/s 93/79/s Melbourne 70/54/pc 66/49/pc New Delhi 103/77/pc 105/75/pc Seoul 66/43/pc 63/39/c Singapore 94/80/pc 90/80/t Sydney 85/65/s 74/67/pc Tehran 56/38/s 64/47/s Tokyo 57/53/c 65/60/c Amsterdam 58/54/pc 65/52/pc Athens 71/55/pc 70/52/s Belgrade 63/48/pc 72/53/pc Berlin 58/42/s 64/46/pc Budapest 59/37/s 68/44/pc Dublin 48/43/r 54/39/sh London 58/47/pc 61/47/c Madrid 63/39/pc 57/42/sh Moscow 41/36/r 43/32/pc Paris 61/52/c 67/49/c Rome 73/51/pc 73/53/pc Stockholm 46/39/pc 51/36/pc Vienna 58/44/s 69/48/pc Zurich 68/47/c 71/48/c 68/37 75/40 74/41 75/42 74/36 76/48 75/50 72/44 77/44 75/52 76/51 68/36 70/35 72/41 78/51 76/50 72/44 62/48 63/48 61/45 72/43 70/42 74/44 58/46 75/47 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 ByJenniferPeltzand David Klepper TheAssociatedPress NEW YORK California and New York — where al- most 1 in 5 Americans live — are on their way to rais- ing their minimum wage to $15 an hour, and the activ- ists who spearheaded those efforts are now setting their sights on other similarly lib- eral, Democratic-led states. Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ore- gon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington are among the states with active "Fight for $15" efforts, and even economic experts who op- pose the increased rate see it gaining momentum. "There is lots of pressure to do this," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Con- gressional Budget Office di- rector who is now president of the conservative Ameri- can Action Forum, which says big minimum-wage in- creases cost jobs. The idea faces head- winds in more conserva- tive and rural states in the South and the Midwest. But activists believe it is pick- ing up steam, even if their two big victories so far were achieved in two very receptive places: trend-set- ting, liberal, labor-friendly states with a high cost of living and a yawning gap between rich and poor. "In the beginning, it looked impossible," said Alvin Major, a former fast food worker who is now a leader of the Fight for $15 campaign. But now, "what happened in New York, in California, it's going to spread around the country." Since the $15-an-hour movement planted roots with a 2012 New York City fast food workers strike, it has gained ground amid the broader debate over wage stagnation and income in- equality. Cities such as Se- attle, Los Angeles and San Francisco have recently agreed to go to $15 in the coming years, and Oregon's minimum wage is headed to $14.75 in Portland. Democratic presiden- tial candidate Bernie Sand- ers has been pushing for a $15-an-hour standard na- tionally, while President Barack Obama has called more generally for raising the minimum wage. The federal minimum is cur- rently $7.25; 29 states and Washington, D.C., have set theirs higher. New York and California are now on track to have the highest. California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, is set Monday to sign a mea- sure boosting the current $10 rate to $15 by 2022. In New York, Demo- cratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed on a more complex plan. The $9 minimum would rise to $15 at many New York City businesses in 2019, at those with under 10 employees in 2020, and in some prosperous suburbs in 2022. But it would go only to $12.50 in 2022 in the rest of the state, with further in- creases to $15 tied to infla- tion and other economic in- dicators. While supporters hail the agreements as signs of the movement's strength, they also were products of com- promise with those who worried that the increases would harm businesses and ultimately workers. In California, where more than 2 million work- ers currently make mini- mum wage, Brown initially opposed raising the mini- mum, saying it would put poor people out of work and cost the state billions more in pay for its own employ- ees. But he ultimately made a deal to head off compet- ing labor-backed Novem- ber ballot initiatives that would have imposed swifter increases without some of the safeguards included in the legislation. New York's graduated ap- proach stemmed from ne- gotiations with state Sen- ate Republicans who wor- ried such a sharp increase would devastate businesses, particularly in the more fragile economy upstate. Similar dynamics may play out as proponents push for $15 in other parts of the country. While $15 may seem reasonable in high- paying areas, "it's a much harder lift in low-wage ar- eas," said Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Prior- ities and former adviser to Vice President Joe Biden. Also, California and New York have politically influ- ential unions, strong com- munity organizing activity and Democratic politicians eager to translate the move- ment into legislation. Indeed, efforts to boost minimum wages — and not necessarily to $15 — are fac- ing pressure in some states. Idaho lawmakers recently passed a measure banning local governments from increasing the minimum wage, currently at the fed- eral $7.25 statewide, and Republican legislators in Arizona are trying to do the same. Economists have long debated the impact of rais- ing the minimum wage, and some recent research has found that modest in- creases seldom cost many jobs. But the jumps to $15 are larger than those econ- omists have tested in the past, and there are fears of widespread job losses in some places. In New York City, Joseph Sferrazza worries that pay- ing $15 will cost him his bakery, La Bella Ferrera. The rate is nearly double what he now pays his em- ployees, mostly students working part time. "The rent is so high, the profit margin is already so low, I don't see how we can make it work," he said. "You can only charge so much for a cookie." ACTIVISM $15 minimum-wage movement sets sights on more states RICHPEDRONCELLI—THE ASSOCIATED PRESS State Sen. John Moorlach, R-Costa Mesa, speaks in opposition to a measure that would increase California's minimum wage. 235So.MainSt.,RedBluff 527-1657 FurnitureDepot MON.-FRI.9:00-6:00 SAT. 9:00-5:00 • SUN. 11:00-5:00 *"no sales tax" in reference to discount given equal to the amount of calculated sales tax. SALE going on now | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016 10 A