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Washington 91/72 New York 90/67 Miami 92/79 Atlanta 88/67 Detroit 79/58 Houston 89/76 Chicago 76/64 Minneapolis 78/63 Kansas City 91/73 El Paso 89/70 Denver 75/54 Billings 82/56 Los Angeles 89/67 San Francisco 75/59 Seattle 82/59 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: THURSDAY 100° 66° FRIDAY 98° 65° Pa rtly sunn y and wa rm Ho t with plenty of sun SATURDAY 92° 61° Times of clouds and sun SUNDAY 90° 62° Mostly sunn y TODAY 99° 65° Hot with plenty of sun. Clear tonight. High ....................................................................... 90° Low ........................................................................ 63° Normal high ......................................................... 94° Normal low ........................................................... 62° Record high ........................................... 112° in 1988 Record low .............................................. 52° in 1995 Humidity noon today ........................................ 30% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.10" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.11" Season to date .................................................. 0.11" Normal season to date .................................... 0.22" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ............................................. Not available Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ....................... Low Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ........... Moderate 7 Highest at 1 p.m. Today 6:32 a.m. 7:49 p.m. 8:33 a.m. 8:43 p.m. Thursday 6:33 a.m. 7:47 p.m. 9:30 a.m. 9:13 p.m. 13 hr., 17 min. Sep2 First Sep8 Full Last Sep15 New Sep23 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........2.60 ....... -0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.20 .......none atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.80 .......none atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.70 ....... -0.10 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.20 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.00 ....... -0.10 BlackButte ....................447.09..............46,502 .....32.4% LakeOroville..................680.89.........1,114,645 .....29.8% LakeShasta ...................917.57.........1,391,647 .....30.6% LakeTrinity..................2220.27............721,799 .....27.3% Whiskeytown...............1208.63............236,719 .....98.2% Weather Trivia ™ Which five letters are not used to name Atlantic tropical storms? Q, U, X, Y and Z. Today Thursday Anaheim 91/65/s 92/66/s Bakersfield 98/70/s 101/72/s Chula Vista 86/66/s 87/65/s Crescent City 61/53/pc 61/53/pc Death Valley 109/75/s 113/79/s Eureka 65/55/pc 66/54/pc Fremont 80/60/s 80/60/s Fresno 99/70/s 102/73/s Glendale 91/66/s 93/65/s Huntington Beach 82/67/s 83/66/s Irvine 86/66/s 85/66/s Lake Tahoe 79/45/s 82/48/s Long Beach 88/68/s 88/67/s Los Angeles 89/67/s 89/67/s Mammoth Mountain 80/43/s 82/46/s Modesto 94/64/s 95/64/s Monterey 73/57/pc 70/58/s Moreno Valley 94/62/s 96/62/s Napa 81/55/pc 80/55/s Needles 104/79/s 108/81/s Oakland 75/60/pc 74/60/s Oxnard 75/61/s 76/61/s Redding 101/64/s 101/66/s Riverside 96/62/s 97/63/s Sacramento 93/61/s 93/60/s San Bernardino 95/62/s 97/62/s San Diego 83/70/s 84/69/s San Francisco 75/59/pc 74/59/s San Jose 82/60/s 83/59/s San Luis Obispo 81/57/pc 81/58/pc Santa Ana 89/70/s 88/70/s Santa Barbara 77/60/s 80/60/s Santa Clarita 93/62/s 96/64/s Stockton 94/60/s 94/61/s Ventura 76/60/s 77/62/s Yosemite Valley 90/59/s 93/60/s Today Thursday Albuquerque 82/59/t 84/60/t Atlanta 88/67/s 91/67/s Baltimore 90/64/s 84/58/pc Boston 86/67/pc 78/60/s Buffalo 76/55/pc 71/54/pc Chicago 76/64/c 78/71/pc Cincinnati 88/67/pc 87/68/pc Dallas 96/76/pc 95/76/s Denver 75/54/t 71/53/t Detroit 79/58/pc 76/62/pc El Paso 89/70/t 91/68/pc Fargo 76/59/s 77/59/s Honolulu 89/74/pc 89/75/s Houston 89/76/t 90/76/t Indianapolis 86/66/pc 85/69/t Kansas City 91/73/t 89/70/pc Las Vegas 96/73/s 100/74/s Louisville 93/73/pc 91/72/pc Miami 92/79/t 91/78/t Minneapolis 78/63/pc 71/63/r New Orleans 91/78/pc 91/78/t New York City 90/67/pc 81/62/s Oklahoma City 96/69/pc 95/69/pc Heat and humidity will spike in the coastal areas of the Northeast today, while the extreme heat eases slightly over the South Central states. A few showers and storms will focus over northern New England, Florida and the western part of the Gulf coast. Meanwhile, Cristobal will spin over the Atlantic, near Bermuda, and will produce rough surf and strong rip currents from the Carolinas to southern New England. Farther west, a large area of showers and thunderstorms will extend from the central Plains to the central and southern Rockies. High ............................. 104° in Laredo, TX Low ............. 32° in West Yellowstone, MT High ........................ 121° in Baghdad, Iraq Low ... -18° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 66/49/t 64/47/r Buenos Aires 58/40/s 61/46/s Caracas 89/77/t 90/77/t Ensenada 87/67/pc 89/65/pc Mexico City 76/52/pc 77/53/t Montreal 77/56/pc 71/51/pc Rio de Janeiro 74/66/r 71/65/sh Tijuana 86/65/pc 87/65/pc Toronto 76/54/pc 73/55/pc Vancouver 74/59/pc 69/56/pc Orlando 90/74/t 94/75/t Philadelphia 92/68/s 83/61/s Phoenix 100/79/pc 103/78/s Pittsburgh 83/56/pc 76/56/pc Portland, ME 84/60/pc 76/54/pc Portland, OR 89/62/s 82/59/pc St. Louis 93/76/t 92/75/pc Salt Lake City 75/57/t 81/58/s Seattle 82/59/s 74/57/pc Tucson 95/72/pc 98/71/s Washington, DC 91/72/s 85/67/pc Cairo 94/75/s 92/75/s Casablanca 92/71/s 88/70/c Johannesburg 72/50/s 72/34/s Kinshasa 90/72/pc 87/71/pc Lagos 83/72/c 84/74/pc Nairobi 80/53/pc 81/55/pc Tripoli 103/77/s 101/74/s Baghdad 118/85/s 118/84/s Beijing 90/65/s 83/66/r Hong Kong 89/82/t 89/82/t Jerusalem 84/64/s 84/64/s Kabul 88/57/s 88/57/s Manila 87/78/t 88/78/t Melbourne 66/44/s 68/46/s New Delhi 101/80/t 98/80/t Seoul 84/66/c 84/67/s Singapore 85/77/sh 86/78/sh Sydney 64/51/r 64/51/r Tehran 93/74/s 92/73/s Tokyo 75/71/r 77/72/t Amsterdam 68/54/pc 70/58/sh Athens 92/73/s 94/77/s Belgrade 79/54/t 73/51/pc Berlin 69/48/pc 72/51/pc Budapest 71/48/t 72/47/pc Dublin 61/54/sh 65/54/sh London 69/60/c 72/56/r Madrid 95/63/s 95/64/s Moscow 58/47/r 65/47/pc Paris 72/60/c 73/59/sh Rome 83/68/s 85/67/s Stockholm 67/50/pc 65/50/sh Vienna 66/50/t 71/53/pc Zurich 69/52/sh 74/54/pc 87/52 90/59 90/58 90/54 89/52 93/61 95/61 81/55 96/57 95/67 97/66 87/46 91/48 89/50 101/64 99/65 88/57 66/53 67/54 65/55 90/56 92/53 97/58 61/53 95/59 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 ByLindseyTanner TheAssociatedPress CHICAGO "Do-it-yourself" blood pressure measure- ments and medicine changes work better than usual doc- tor-office care in some pa- tients, a study of older adults in England found. Those who did their own readings at home and ad- justed their medicine as needed had healthier blood pressure levels after a year than those who got stan- dard doctors' care. Self-care patients weren't completely on their own — any changes they made were part of a treatment plan previously OK'd by their doctors. But the pa- tients didn't need to con- sult their doctors every time they increased the dose if it was part of the original treatment plan. Why self-management worked best is uncertain, but patients who partic- ipated were taking more medication than the others and were perhaps more vig- ilant than doctors treating the usual-care group, the study suggests. It's possible usual-care doctors had "clinical iner- tia" — a phenomenon de- scribed in other research showing that physicians often fail to increase blood pressure medication doses even when office measure- ments show patients' levels are too high, said study au- thor Richard McManus, a professor and researcher at the University of Oxford. The study was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical As- sociation. Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults have high blood pressure — measuring 140 over 90 or higher — but only about half of them have it adequately controlled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. High blood pressure rates are similar in England, health surveys there have found. The study involved 450 patients with previous heart trouble, strokes, di- abetes or kidney disease, aged 70 on average, who were followed for a year. About half got usual care; the others did self-care. Average blood pres- sure measurements at the study's start were about 143 over 80. At the end, that dropped to about 128 over 74 in the self-care pa- tients and 138 over 76 in the usual-care group. That difference would be expectedtoresultinadropin heartproblemsorothercom- plications,"althoughmorere- search is needed to evaluate long-termbenefits,according to a JAMA editorial. The researchers estimate that if the self-care group's lower levels could be sus- tained, they'd likely see a 30 percent reduction in stroke risk compared with the other group. Self-monitoring blood pressure is common in some countries and in the United Kingdom, and the study notes that blood pressure monitors are widely avail- able there, costing as little as $25 (15 pounds, 18 eu- ros). Similarly priced home blood-pressure monitors are sold in the United States. Some U.S. centers have tried self-management ap- proaches although more research is needed before a program like the one stud- ied could be widely rec- ommended, said Dr. Laura Svetkey, a hypertension spe- cialist at Duke University. "I think we're moving in that direction," Svet- key said. "There's tremen- dous motivation to con- trol health care costs and a parallel trend toward giv- ing patients a bigger role in their decision-making and management." Most patients studied were white and worked at white-collar or skilled man- ual labor jobs; whether simi- lar results could be achieved with less skilled or less edu- cated patients isn't known. For self-care programs to work, patients need to be carefully selected, said Dr. Mary Ann Bauman, a spokeswoman for the Amer- ican Heart Association. "You have to have compli- ant, knowledgeable pa- tients," said Bauman, med- ical director for women's health and community re- lations at Integris Health, Inc. in Oklahoma City. STUDY FINDINGS Do-it-yourself blood pressure care can beat MDs ROGELIOV.SOLIS‑THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Monica Torres, le , checks the blood pressure of Esther Fisher, right, during an event at the Jackson‑Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, Miss. By Stephen Ohlemacher The Associated Press WASHINGTON Govern- ment investigators found no proof that delays in care caused veterans to die at a Phoenix VA hospital, but they found widespread problems that the Veter- ans Affairs Department is promising to fix. Investigators uncovered large-scale improprieties in the way VA hospitals and clinics across the na- tion have been scheduling veterans for appointments, according to a report re- leased Tuesday by the VA's Office of Inspector General. The report said work- ers falsified waitlists while their supervisors looked the other way or even directed it, resulting in chronic de- lays for veterans seeking care. "Inappropriate sched- uling practices are a na- tionwide systemic prob- lem," said the report by Richard Griffin, the VA's acting inspector general. "These practices became systemic because (the Vet- erans Health Administra- tion) did not hold senior headquarters and facility leadership responsible and accountable." The report could de- flate an explosive allega- tion that helped launch the scandal in the spring: that as many as 40 vet- erans died while await- ing care at the Phoenix VA hospital. Investiga- tors identified 40 patients who died while awaiting appointments in Phoenix. But, the report said: "While the case reviews in this report document poor quality of care, we are un- able to conclusively assert that the absence of timely quality care caused the deaths of these veterans." CHRONIC DELAYS IG: Shoddy care by VA didn't cause Phoenix deaths PineStreetPlaza 332 Pine Street, Suite G Red Bluff, CA (800) 843-4271 Stacy L. 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