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Washington 49/39 New York 43/34 Miami 82/72 Atlanta 69/54 Detroit 33/26 Houston 72/62 Chicago 34/30 Minneapolis 28/21 Kansas City 43/37 El Paso 69/44 Denver 54/35 Billings 43/27 Los Angeles 69/58 San Francisco 65/55 Seattle 45/43 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: FRIDAY 60° 53° SATURDAY 61° 47° Some sun Mostly cloudy SUNDAY 61° 51° Mostly cloudy MONDAY 60° 47° P eriods of ra in TODAY 60° 53° Cloudy most of the time with a couple of showers. Partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 57° Low ........................................................................ 53° Normal high ......................................................... 56° Normal low ........................................................... 39° Record high ............................................. 74° in 1958 Record low .............................................. 29° in 1968 Humidity noon today ........................................ 81% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 1.66" Month to date ................................................... 2.28" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.34" Season to date .................................................. 8.89" Normal season to date .................................... 5.16" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ................ Absent 1 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 7:15 a.m. 4:43 p.m. 3:49 p.m. 5:12 a.m. Friday 7:16 a.m. 4:43 p.m. 4:34 p.m. 6:14 a.m. 9 hr., 28 min. Dec6 Full Dec14 Last New Dec21 First Dec28 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.80 ......+0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.37 ....... -0.36 atOrdFerry................................114 ........97.11 ....... -0.29 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.30 ....... -0.10 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.90 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.75 ....... -0.28 BlackButte ....................438.60..............29,205 .....20.3% LakeOroville..................651.29............919,889 .....24.6% LakeShasta ...................889.79.........1,049,372 .....23.1% LakeTrinity..................2196.00............564,335 .....21.3% Whiskeytown...............1198.62............206,036 .....85.5% Weather Trivia ™ What is the record high temperature for the U.S. in December? 100 at La Mesa, Calif., on Dec. 8, 1938. Today Friday Anaheim 70/54/c 70/53/pc Bakersfield 69/51/pc 69/51/pc Chula Vista 70/53/pc 70/56/pc Crescent City 63/54/c 61/51/r Death Valley 73/52/pc 73/49/pc Eureka 63/52/c 61/50/r Fremont 65/54/c 65/56/sh Fresno 67/51/c 68/50/pc Glendale 69/54/c 68/54/pc Huntington Beach 68/57/c 68/57/pc Irvine 68/54/pc 69/54/pc Lake Tahoe 47/30/c 50/36/pc Long Beach 69/55/c 69/55/pc Los Angeles 69/58/c 69/57/pc Mammoth Mountain 48/20/c 48/18/pc Modesto 66/52/c 65/51/pc Monterey 66/54/c 65/54/sh Moreno Valley 66/48/pc 68/48/pc Napa 63/51/c 62/52/sh Needles 72/54/pc 72/57/pc Oakland 63/52/c 63/54/sh Oxnard 68/56/c 69/55/pc Redding 59/51/c 59/52/c Riverside 65/46/pc 67/48/pc Sacramento 65/53/c 63/54/c San Bernardino 66/46/pc 68/48/pc San Diego 68/56/pc 68/59/pc San Francisco 65/55/c 64/56/sh San Jose 65/52/c 65/54/sh San Luis Obispo 68/54/c 68/53/sh Santa Ana 71/57/c 72/57/pc Santa Barbara 67/53/c 68/50/pc Santa Clarita 67/51/c 68/50/pc Stockton 66/52/c 65/51/pc Ventura 67/55/c 68/55/pc Yosemite Valley 55/36/c 56/40/pc Today Friday Albuquerque 56/37/sh 58/37/s Atlanta 69/54/pc 64/52/pc Baltimore 46/34/pc 46/41/c Boston 43/27/s 40/37/c Buffalo 33/25/pc 42/34/c Chicago 34/30/c 38/32/c Cincinnati 41/37/r 52/45/r Dallas 67/58/sh 74/49/r Denver 54/35/c 51/31/s Detroit 33/26/pc 41/33/c El Paso 69/44/sh 67/44/s Fargo 31/11/pc 24/5/s Honolulu 81/69/pc 81/70/pc Houston 72/62/c 74/62/sh Indianapolis 37/33/c 45/37/r Kansas City 43/37/i 48/31/r Las Vegas 64/49/pc 63/49/pc Louisville 44/40/r 61/52/r Miami 82/72/s 82/71/s Minneapolis 28/21/c 33/15/pc New Orleans 75/61/pc 76/61/pc New York City 43/34/s 44/44/c Oklahoma City 59/51/sh 63/42/r Today will be the driest and the sunniest day of the week for much of the Northeast. An area of high pressure is forecast to push eastward from the Great Lakes. While times of clouds and sun- shine are in the offing for Florida and much of the Southeastern states, rain will gather from Texas to Missouri and the Ohio Valley. A thorough soaking will likely be centered on Kentucky. As some sun- shine holds over the northern Plains, clouds and areas of rain are forecast from Idaho and western Montana to Arizona and New Mexico. Snow levels will be very high in this swath. High ...................... 83° in Punta Gorda, FL Low ................................. -9° in Poplar, MT High ................. 112° in Kintore, Australia Low ................... -52° in Krestyakh, Russia Bogota 69/48/t 67/49/r Buenos Aires 86/68/s 84/71/s Caracas 87/76/t 88/75/t Ensenada 69/52/pc 70/55/pc Mexico City 72/45/s 74/43/pc Montreal 24/9/s 29/25/pc Rio de Janeiro 86/70/pc 78/70/r Tijuana 70/54/pc 70/56/pc Toronto 33/25/pc 39/32/c Vancouver 41/35/r 47/39/r Orlando 80/64/pc 80/63/s Philadelphia 45/34/s 46/43/c Phoenix 73/56/r 75/58/pc Pittsburgh 38/31/pc 45/43/i Portland, ME 40/19/s 34/30/pc Portland, OR 46/42/sh 50/43/r St. Louis 41/38/i 54/38/r Salt Lake City 53/35/c 53/37/s Seattle 45/43/r 53/44/r Tucson 68/48/sh 72/52/pc Washington, DC 49/39/pc 50/46/c Cairo 81/60/s 79/57/s Casablanca 62/49/c 64/46/sh Johannesburg 82/60/s 76/56/t Kinshasa 86/72/t 86/72/t Lagos 89/74/t 88/75/sh Nairobi 77/57/t 78/58/s Tripoli 72/54/s 71/52/s Baghdad 72/51/s 71/51/pc Beijing 35/16/s 39/17/s Hong Kong 59/55/sh 61/59/r Jerusalem 71/52/s 70/51/s Kabul 56/26/s 53/26/s Manila 88/76/t 88/74/t Melbourne 80/61/pc 71/59/sh New Delhi 82/51/pc 80/51/pc Seoul 30/15/pc 28/17/pc Singapore 86/77/t 88/76/t Sydney 87/71/t 82/69/t Tehran 48/36/pc 49/39/pc Tokyo 58/44/r 54/39/c Amsterdam 35/32/pc 41/37/c Athens 66/56/r 64/57/c Belgrade 49/38/pc 48/39/c Berlin 38/35/pc 39/32/c Budapest 44/35/c 44/39/pc Dublin 41/34/pc 42/35/pc London 42/35/sh 44/32/pc Madrid 50/33/pc 51/32/pc Moscow 27/25/c 32/22/sn Paris 39/36/pc 41/34/c Rome 63/53/t 61/50/t Stockholm 38/32/s 38/35/sh Vienna 43/40/c 43/39/c Zurich 39/33/pc 38/35/c 53/33 57/35 54/33 53/33 53/26 65/53 62/51 63/51 61/51 59/52 61/51 48/33 50/34 50/35 59/51 60/53 57/46 61/56 60/55 63/52 61/50 50/39 54/36 63/54 55/39 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 ByTomMurphy The Associated Press MillionsofMedicareAd- vantage customers are fast approaching a deadline for a task they'd rather avoid: Researching and then set- tling on coverage plans for 2015. The annual enrollment window for the privately run versions of the gov- ernment's Medicare pro- gram for the elderly and disabled people closes on Sunday. This is the main opportunity most custom- ers have each year to ad- just their health coverage, and it may be worth pay- ing extra attention to the details. Insurers frequently tweak their coverage plans from year to year, but brokers and other in- dustry insiders say they're seeing more changes over the past few years as com- panies weed out lower- quality coverage and ad- just to government fund- ing cuts. About 4 percent of Medi- care Advantage enrollees, or roughly 480,000 peo- ple, will have to find new coverage for 2015 because their current plan won't ex- ist, according the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, which studies health care issues. Last year, more than 500,000 people faced that choice. Customers who lose their old plans may be el- igible to pick coverage in a special election period that runs through the end of February. Other customers with discontinued plans are be- ing automatically enrolled in another option offered by the same insurer. Com- panies generally try to limit the coverage changes in these cases, but the plans may not be identi- cal, especially when com- paring premiums. "It really pays to shop around," said Dwane Mc- Ferrin, a vice president with Senior Market Sales Inc., which helps agents sell Medicare Advantage coverage. However, sitting down to figure out coverage changes or whether there's a better option can trig- ger headaches. Custom- ers need to make sure their new plan covers all their doctors and prescrip- tions and leaves them with manageable bills if a major health problem hits. OPEN ENROLLMENT Medicare Advantage deadline looms PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thank you! By Dee-Ann Durbin And Marcy Gordon The Associated Press WASHINGTON Japan's Takata Corp. rejected fed- eral regulators' demand Wednesdayforanexpanded, nationwide recall of mil- lions of air bags, setting up a possible legal showdown and leaving some drivers to wonder about the safety of their cars. Amid the standoff, Honda Motor Co. decided to act on its own and recall cars with the potentially de- fective equipment in all 50 states. But other automak- ers have yet to make a de- cision. At issue are air bags whose inflators can explode with too much force, hurl- ing shrapnel into the pas- senger compartment. At least five deaths and dozens of injuries have been linked to the problem worldwide. Over the past six years, Takata and 10 automakers issued a series of recalls cov- ering 8 million cars in the U.S., mostly in high-humid- ity areas such as the Gulf Coast, because of evidence that moisture can cause the propellant to burn too quickly. But after incidents in California and North Car- olina, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administra- tion began pressing for the recall of 8 million more ve- hicles from coast to coast — a demand that Takata flatly rejected. "There's not enough sci- entific evidence to change from a regional recall to a national recall," Hiroshi Shimizu, Takata senior vice president of global quality assurance, told a House sub- committee on Capitol Hill. Takata also contends that NHTSAhasauthoritytoseek recalls only from auto manu- facturers and makers of re- placement parts, not from original parts suppliers — a position NHTSA contests. Shimizu insisted that the air bags are safe: "I would drive a car with a Takata air bag." David Friedman, NHTSA deputy administrator, said he was "deeply dis- appointed" by Takata's re- sponse. The agency is now gath- ering proof that a recall is needed, which it will pres- ent at a public hearing. Af- ter that, NHTSA could or- der Takata to undertake a recall, and could take the company to court if it re- fuses. But Friedman ac- knowledged that could take months. "It's time for industry to step up," Friedman told lawmakers. "Until (Takata) and automakers act, af- fected drivers won't be pro- tected." The stalemate is likely to add to the confusion among car owners, many of whom are already bewil- dered because some of the recalls have covered driv- er's-side air bags, while others applied to passen- ger-side air bags, and a few covered both. The NHTSA- demanded recalls would in- volve driver's-side air bags. At Wednesday's hearing, Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Il- linois, the panel's senior Democrat, said she has re- ceived letters from con- stituents "who are literally afraid to drive their cars." Rep. Billy Long, R-Mo., warned that driving a car with a Takata air bag is "tantamount to driving down the highway with a shotgun pointed at you." 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