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ByBobSalsberg The Associated Press NEWTON,MASS. Thehardy side of Boston might not extend to its aging public transit system. On Tuesday, the head of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority staunchly defended her de- cision to suspend rail ser- vice for more than 24 hours as crews struggled to clear tracks of snow and ice and hundreds of thousands of commuters scrambled to make alternative travel plans. Her remarks came a day after Gov. Charlie Baker called the performance of the MBTA — known in Bos- ton as the T — unacceptable during the recent snow- storms that dumped up to 7 feet in parts of the state. Officials announced that subways, trolleys and com- muter rail trains, idle since Monday night, would re- sume Wednesday at a re- duced level, with passen- gers warned to expect fewer cars and less frequent ser- vice on most lines of the na- tion's fifth-largest and old- est system. The first under- ground subways in the U.S. began in Boston in 1897. "We are running an ex- tremely aged system that is getting a pounding ev- ery single day," said Beverly Scott, MBTA general man- ager. She acknowledged that riders are "frustrated as heck. They are mad as heck." She said she hasn't spoken directly to Baker since the onslaught of win- ter storms began more than two weeks ago. Transit stations around the region, normally jammed with commuters on a weekday, were eerily silent Tuesday. The sprawling Riverside MBTA station in subur- ban Newton was virtually empty except for a handful of plows and workers trying to clear away snow. A few people who hadn't heard the news of the shut- down were surprised to learn there were no trains, including 91-year-old Ber- nard Udin, who walked sev- eral blocks to the station and planned to take a trol- ley to Newton Highlands to run some errands. "I'll go back home I guess," Udin said. "What else can I do?" The subway station at Davis Square in Somerville was padlocked, and some businesses in the neighbor- hood were closed. "The fact the trains aren't running means no one is heading to work," said Jeff Brussel, who was trying to find one of the few buses still operating that could get him to Boston. "But I'm on a project with a deadline, and everyone is freaking out. So I'm going to do what I can." Scott said she made the call to shut down rail ser- vice in part after dozens of trains broke down Monday after losing contact with the electrified third rail, in- cluding one in which pas- sengers were stranded for more than two hours. She said upgrading the system would require more invest- ment in new equipment. Scott was appointed in 2012 after managing tran- sit systems in Atlanta, Sac- ramento and Rhode Island and holding leadership po- sitions in others including the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York. "I have been around 40 years. I have been through hurricanes. I've been through World Trade Cen- ter bombings, tornadoes coming ... 36 inches of snow, this ain't this woman's first rodeo," Scott said. RIDERS 'FRUSTRATED' Bo st on -a re a pu bl ic t ra ns it t es te d in s to rm s JOSHREYNOLDS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Lee Anderson adds to the pile of snow beside the sidewalk in front of his house in Somerville, Mass., on Tuesday. PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thank you! By Joe Mandak The Associated Press PITTSBURGH Police caught up to a man try- ing to flee assault charges because he posted a selfie on Facebook while sitting on a Greyhound bus out of town, a police chief said Tuesday. "We like it when dumb criminals assist us in our investigation," Ambridge police Chief James Mann told the Beaver County Times, which first re- ported the arrest. Mann told The Associ- ated Press that the suspect, 22-year-old Donald Harri- son, had been living in the borough about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh when he was charged with assaulting a woman and refusing to let her leave her apartment after an ar- gument on Jan. 24. An hour after the woman called police, po- lice learned that Harri- son, who is originally from Spartansburg, South Caro- lina, posted the Facebook message, "IT'S TIME TO LEAVE PA." Police couldn't find him right away, but Mann said the woman called him Sunday afternoon after she noticed the Facebook selfie with the message saying, "OMW TO SPARTANS- BURG SC SAY A PRAYER FOR ME." Mann said the picture appeared to show Har- rison sitting in a bus or airplane and, acting on a hunch, he called the Grey- hound bus terminal in Pittsburgh and learned a bus to Spartansburg had left 15 minutes earlier. Af- ter learning it would stop in Youngstown, Ohio, Mann explained the situa- tion to Greyhound and ar- ranged for Youngstown po- lice to arrest Harrison on a warrant he faxed them. 'DUMB CRIMINALS' Co ps s ee ki ng s us pe ct find him a er bus selfie Washington 45/31 New York 31/21 Miami 73/55 Atlanta 62/39 Detroit 35/14 Houston 74/48 Chicago 36/8 Minneapolis 23/0 Kansas City 37/12 El Paso 66/39 Denver 50/30 Billings 43/29 Los Angeles 86/57 San Francisco 66/50 Seattle 58/47 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 74° 45° FRIDAY 74° 45° Mostly sunn y Mostly sunn y SATURDAY 76° 44° Sunshine and pat ch y clouds SUNDAY 74° 43° Sun and some clouds TODAY 72° 42° Mostly sunny. Partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 64° Low ........................................................................ 41° Normal high ......................................................... 59° Normal low ........................................................... 40° Record high ............................................. 78° in 1971 Record low .............................................. 27° in 1999 Humidity noon today ........................................ 39% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................ Trace Month to date ................................................... 1.77" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.48" Season to date ................................................ 18.16" Normal season to date .................................. 15.48" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .......................................................... Moderate Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ....................... N.A. Mold .........................N.A. Trees ....................... N.A. Weeds ..................... N.A. 3 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 7:08 a.m. 5:39 p.m. 12:16 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Thursday 7:06 a.m. 5:41 p.m. 1:15 a.m. 11:42 a.m. 10 hr., 31 min. Feb11 Last Feb18 New First Feb25 Full Mar5 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........7.20 ....... -0.80 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......134.64 ....... -0.26 atOrdFerry................................114 ......103.24 ....... -0.66 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......241.40 ....... -0.40 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......204.90 ....... -0.90 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......172.04 ....... -0.66 BlackButte ....................451.55..............57,765 .....40.2% LakeOroville..................738.84.........1,575,706 .....42.2% LakeShasta ...................974.62.........2,312,505 .....50.8% LakeTrinity..................2260.51.........1,048,708 .....39.6% Whiskeytown...............1206.27............229,276 .....95.1% Weather Trivia ™ What U.S. town has the lowest average annual temperature? Barrow, Alaska; 10(F). Today Thursday Anaheim 86/56/s 89/56/s Bakersfield 69/45/s 77/45/s Chula Vista 81/56/s 81/58/s Crescent City 58/43/s 60/47/s Death Valley 81/51/s 81/52/s Eureka 58/43/s 60/46/s Fremont 68/46/s 72/47/s Fresno 67/44/s 69/44/s Glendale 86/55/s 87/55/s Huntington Beach 84/59/s 83/60/s Irvine 86/57/s 88/55/s Lake Tahoe 57/30/s 62/30/s Long Beach 88/56/s 89/56/s Los Angeles 86/57/s 88/57/s Mammoth Mountain 56/24/s 62/26/s Modesto 71/43/s 73/43/s Monterey 72/49/s 76/50/s Moreno Valley 86/49/s 84/47/s Napa 66/39/pc 68/41/s Needles 79/55/s 80/56/s Oakland 66/45/s 70/46/s Oxnard 83/59/s 84/58/s Redding 74/40/s 76/45/s Riverside 85/45/s 83/40/s Sacramento 70/44/s 73/45/s San Bernardino 87/46/s 85/42/s San Diego 83/59/s 81/61/s San Francisco 66/50/s 69/52/s San Jose 69/45/s 74/46/s San Luis Obispo 84/45/s 85/46/s Santa Ana 88/59/s 91/58/s Santa Barbara 76/47/s 77/48/s Santa Clarita 87/54/s 82/52/s Stockton 70/42/s 72/42/s Ventura 83/58/s 84/56/s Yosemite Valley 67/37/s 70/34/s Today Thursday Albuquerque 52/30/c 57/33/s Atlanta 62/39/s 45/22/pc Baltimore 41/26/pc 42/13/c Boston 24/14/sf 26/15/sn Buffalo 31/25/sn 25/-2/sf Chicago 36/8/sf 11/5/sf Cincinnati 46/19/pc 25/12/sf Dallas 67/37/s 54/33/pc Denver 50/30/pc 64/34/pc Detroit 35/14/sn 16/1/sf El Paso 66/39/s 60/35/pc Fargo 9/-13/c 9/5/pc Honolulu 80/65/pc 78/66/pc Houston 74/48/s 63/37/pc Indianapolis 41/14/pc 20/8/pc Kansas City 37/12/pc 29/19/s Las Vegas 72/47/s 72/48/s Louisville 52/23/s 28/15/pc Miami 73/55/s 75/53/pc Minneapolis 23/0/c 12/8/pc New Orleans 66/45/s 61/34/s New York City 31/21/pc 31/11/sn Oklahoma City 53/28/pc 47/34/s Dry and chilly to seasonable conditions will stretch from New England to the Gulf Coast today. A weak area of high pressure over Quebec will push southwestward to the Deep South. An Alberta Clipper storm will continue to progress eastward across the Midwest. A swath of snow and flurries is in the offing from northern Ohio to Michigan, Wisconsin, northern Illinois and north- eastern Minnesota. The clipper storm is forecast to strengthen along the New England coast later Thursday. Arctic air will follow the clipper storm in the Central states. High ............................ 87° in Thermal, CA Low ............................. -11° in Gaylord, MI High ............... 116° in Mandora, Australia Low ... -74° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 65/47/pc 65/48/c Buenos Aires 87/66/s 91/60/t Caracas 90/76/pc 89/77/t Ensenada 82/58/s 80/59/s Mexico City 73/43/s 66/42/sh Montreal 12/6/pc 21/0/sn Rio de Janeiro 94/76/s 96/78/s Tijuana 84/53/s 82/56/s Toronto 28/18/sn 20/-9/sf Vancouver 53/44/c 54/46/r Orlando 67/42/s 71/38/s Philadelphia 38/27/pc 40/15/sf Phoenix 81/57/s 80/53/s Pittsburgh 40/28/pc 28/5/sf Portland, ME 21/2/pc 21/12/sn Portland, OR 59/42/c 60/42/c St. Louis 46/14/pc 27/18/s Salt Lake City 53/34/s 58/34/pc Seattle 58/47/c 58/44/sh Tucson 76/55/s 72/50/pc Washington, DC 45/31/pc 45/18/c Cairo 57/45/s 59/47/s Casablanca 64/47/pc 62/45/s Johannesburg 88/60/s 83/61/pc Kinshasa 93/73/t 90/72/t Lagos 93/80/t 92/79/t Nairobi 87/56/pc 88/57/pc Tripoli 60/44/c 66/50/pc Baghdad 73/51/s 66/41/s Beijing 47/21/s 42/21/pc Hong Kong 69/60/pc 71/61/s Jerusalem 48/37/s 46/36/pc Kabul 56/32/s 59/35/pc Manila 86/73/s 87/74/pc Melbourne 100/60/pc 81/62/pc New Delhi 72/49/pc 73/50/pc Seoul 42/19/pc 35/18/s Singapore 87/75/pc 88/75/c Sydney 82/69/t 82/70/t Tehran 59/49/sh 59/45/sh Tokyo 53/40/s 56/38/s Amsterdam 43/31/c 42/33/sh Athens 44/37/pc 48/41/pc Belgrade 39/27/pc 40/28/c Berlin 42/33/sh 45/32/s Budapest 42/28/c 41/25/c Dublin 44/34/sh 45/38/sh London 44/36/c 44/40/pc Madrid 49/36/sh 50/33/sh Moscow 34/25/c 36/27/c Paris 44/31/s 47/36/s Rome 57/39/s 56/41/pc Stockholm 40/33/pc 38/28/pc Vienna 41/32/c 41/31/c Zurich 41/25/s 45/28/s 59/34 62/35 60/31 57/33 58/20 70/44 70/41 66/39 73/38 67/43 70/42 58/25 60/23 59/31 74/40 72/42 70/39 59/45 68/49 58/43 68/41 61/32 60/31 58/43 62/35 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY is Accepting Applications for our 1, 2, 3 & 4 Bedroom Affordable Luxury Apartments! 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