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TheAssociatedPress LOSANGELES Twolawsuits target the maker of a medi- cal scope linked to the out- break of a superbug at Ron- ald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Attorney Pete Kaufman filed suit Monday on behalf of 18-year-old Aaron Young, who remains hospitalized af- ter becoming infected, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Los Angeles County Superior Court lawsuit claims negligence and fraud by Olympus Corp. of the Americas, which makes the difficult-to-clean duode- noscope involved in the out- break of the deadly and an- tibiotic-resistant bacteria known as CRE. On Wednesday, Kaufman filed a second suit on behalf of the family of Antonia Torres Cerda. The 48-year- old Corcoran woman died in November after alleg- edly becoming infected fol- lowing a liver transplant. Her family is suing the equipment maker for wrong- ful death, negligence and fraud. The claim seeks puni- tive and exemplary damages of an unspecified amount, the Fresno Bee reported. The hospital has said seven patients were infected with CRE after being exam- ined with the scopes, and infections contributed to deaths of two of those pa- tients. As many as 179 other patients may have been ex- posed from Oct. 3 to Jan. 28. CRE, which stands for carbapenem-resistant En- terobacteriaceae, is highly resistant to antibiotics and can kill up to 50 percent of infected patients. An email seeking com- ment from Olympus was not immediately returned Thursday. Olympus is a unit of the Japanese electronics giant. UCLA and the Univer- sity of California regents may be added as defendants after more investigation, Kaufman said. More patient lawsuits are expected. UCLA has declined to commentonspecificpatients, citing confidentiality laws. UCLA Suitsfiledagainstscopemaker in hospital superbug infection U.S.FOODANDDRUGADMINISTRATION—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Shown here is the tip of an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) duodenoscope, attached to a long tube, not shown. PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thankyou! By Scott Smith The Associated Press FRESNO Floyd and Vi- olet Hartwig's marriage spanned 67 years, but their love for one another ap- pears timeless. Sensing that the couple was close to death, their children pushed their two hospice beds together and gently placed their father's hand in the mother's palm. Floyd, 90, died first. Vio- let, 89, followed five hours later. They had a good life and died Feb. 11 at home, just as they had wished, the family said. "They wanted to go to- gether," their daughter, Donna Scharton, said Thursday. "It was meant to be that way." The two knew each other as children, growing up in the Central California farm- ing community of Easton. Romance sparked at a local dance hall one night when Floyd, a decorated Navy sailor, was home on shore leave. They were married on Aug. 16, 1947, and Floyd showered Violet with affec- tion from afar through love letters that the family still cherishes. Returninghomeforgood, the two raised three chil- dren on their small farm, growing cotton and rais- ing turkeys. Violet helped on the ranch and kept the house. She prepared break- fast early each morning for her husband, seeing him off to work as a ranch foreman and delivering eggs. "They were dedicated to each other," Scharton said. "Even other people who met them said they had that connection." The two, who had four grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren, remained active until recently. Around the holidays, the family noticed that Violet's dementia had turned for the worse, and in late Jan- uary a doctor said Floyd's failing kidneys gave him two weeks more to live. The family moved the couches from the living room of their ranch house, making space for the hos- pice beds. Cynthia Letson said that after her grand- father passed, they told her grandmother, as she faded, that she could go too. They told Violet that Floyd was waiting for her. Letson said her grand- parents are a positive ex- ample at a time with too many broken marriages. LASTING LOVE Couple married 67 years dies holding hands Washington 32/16 New York 28/13 Miami 79/70 Atlanta 46/31 Detroit 17/1 Houston 52/37 Chicago 15/-3 Minneapolis 15/0 Kansas City 23/12 El Paso 56/35 Denver 18/1 Billings 27/9 Los Angeles 68/55 San Francisco 61/52 Seat tle 54/39 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: SATURDAY 64° 43° SUNDAY 67° 37° Br ee zy i n the morning; sunny Mostly cloudy with a shower MONDAY 64° 37° Ra ther cloudy , a sho we r or two TUESDAY 63° 36° Mostly sunn y TODAY 63° 41° Cloudy with a little rain. Mostly cloudy with a couple of showers tonight. High ....................................................................... 72° Low ........................................................................ 52° Normal high ......................................................... 62° Normal low ........................................................... 42° Record high ............................................. 81° in 1986 Record low .............................................. 27° in 1971 Humidity noon today ........................................ 52% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 1.77" Normal month to date ..................................... 3.78" Season to date ................................................ 18.16" Normal season to date .................................. 17.78" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: Neutral Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ................ Absent 3 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 6:46 a.m. 5:58 p.m. 12:54 p.m. 2:41 a.m. Saturday 6:45 a.m. 5:59 p.m. 1:46 p.m. 3:29 a.m. 11 hr., 12 min. Mar5 Full Mar13 Last New Mar20 First Mar26 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.20 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.20 ....... -0.03 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.80 ....... -0.07 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......237.90 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.70 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.40 ....... -0.06 BlackButte ....................451.47..............57,548 .....40.0% LakeOroville..................755.04.........1,725,030 .....46.2% LakeShasta ...................989.11.........2,598,321 .....57.1% LakeTrinity..................2270.10.........1,139,603 .....43.0% Whiskeytown...............1199.01............207,185 .....85.9% Weather Trivia ™ What is a 'growler'? A small iceberg about the size of a grand piano. Today Saturday Anaheim 68/52/pc 63/47/sh Bakersfield 67/45/pc 60/43/sh Chula Vista 67/57/pc 62/51/sh Crescent City 53/43/r 58/41/c Death Valley 78/53/pc 70/47/c Eureka 54/40/r 57/38/c Fremont 61/42/c 58/40/sh Fresno 62/48/pc 57/42/sh Glendale 66/51/pc 61/46/sh Huntington Beach 66/55/pc 63/51/sh Irvine 68/55/pc 63/48/sh Lake Tahoe 43/23/sn 38/22/sn Long Beach 68/55/pc 64/50/sh Los Angeles 68/55/pc 64/51/sh Mammoth Mountain 47/20/r 42/22/sn Modesto 64/45/pc 60/42/sh Monterey 61/49/sh 59/45/sh Moreno Valley 64/46/pc 55/40/sh Napa 61/40/c 59/39/sh Needles 77/52/pc 70/46/c Oakland 60/48/c 61/45/sh Oxnard 66/51/pc 62/48/sh Redding 64/41/r 65/43/c Riverside 66/47/pc 57/37/sh Sacramento 64/44/r 60/41/sh San Bernardino 65/47/pc 56/39/c San Diego 67/59/pc 63/54/sh San Francisco 61/52/c 62/49/sh San Jose 60/48/c 60/44/sh San Luis Obispo 63/47/c 58/44/sh Santa Ana 70/58/pc 66/52/sh Santa Barbara 69/51/pc 63/48/sh Santa Clarita 67/45/pc 59/42/sh Stockton 64/43/sh 60/39/sh Ventura 66/51/pc 61/47/sh Yosemite Valley 54/34/sh 50/25/sh Today Saturday Albuquerque 42/25/sn 50/39/pc Atlanta 46/31/pc 46/35/pc Baltimore 29/8/pc 28/13/s Boston 25/9/pc 25/12/s Buffalo 10/0/pc 15/2/pc Chicago 15/-3/s 21/14/s Cincinnati 20/4/pc 28/22/pc Dallas 31/27/sn 40/34/i Denver 18/1/sn 23/7/sn Detroit 17/1/s 21/7/s El Paso 56/35/pc 71/47/s Fargo 13/-1/s 23/0/pc Honolulu 80/69/sh 80/69/pc Houston 52/37/c 58/51/c Indianapolis 16/-1/s 24/19/s Kansas City 23/12/s 29/24/sn Las Vegas 64/48/pc 60/44/c Louisville 25/15/pc 34/31/c Miami 79/70/sh 81/72/sh Minneapolis 15/0/s 21/11/s New Orleans 54/42/pc 61/55/pc New York City 28/13/c 27/19/s Oklahoma City 29/19/sn 36/30/sn Arctic air will extend from the Plains to the Atlan- tic and Gulf coasts today as a large area of high pressure, centered over Iowa, drifts eastward. Most areas can expect at least partial sunshine, despite the cold. Spotty light snow will fall over the central Appalachians, while chilly rain affects from central and southern Florida to the Keys. Meanwhile, a large storm will begin to sprawl more than a thousand miles over the West. A zone of snow will expand in coverage from northern Texas to the central Rockies. Rain and mountain snow will fall across the Northwest. High .......................... 87° in Opa Locka, FL Low ....................... -37° in Embarrass, MN High ................... 107° in Boulia, Australia Low ............. -60° in Delyankirskiy, Russia Bogota 69/46/t 70/45/c Buenos Aires 80/59/s 77/65/s Caracas 88/77/pc 87/75/t Ensenada 67/53/pc 59/50/sh Mexico City 75/45/pc 76/45/pc Montreal 10/1/pc 19/6/pc Rio de Janeiro 93/76/t 88/74/t Tijuana 67/57/pc 62/51/sh Toronto 14/-1/pc 22/5/pc Vancouver 52/35/pc 49/31/s Orlando 68/58/c 72/65/sh Philadelphia 30/12/pc 28/16/s Phoenix 76/57/pc 69/57/c Pittsburgh 16/-4/pc 24/12/s Portland, ME 23/1/pc 27/9/s Portland, OR 53/38/r 54/30/s St. Louis 22/13/pc 33/28/c Salt Lake City 48/32/sh 48/30/r Seattle 54/39/r 53/34/s Tucson 75/55/s 70/55/c Washington, DC 32/16/pc 31/21/s Cairo 83/54/s 70/52/s Casablanca 62/46/c 65/47/s Johannesburg 77/56/t 74/57/t Kinshasa 89/72/t 88/72/t Lagos 89/77/t 90/78/t Nairobi 88/60/s 89/61/s Tripoli 61/48/pc 61/47/sh Baghdad 75/46/s 76/49/s Beijing 38/25/c 39/24/sn Hong Kong 73/65/c 75/64/pc Jerusalem 71/49/pc 59/40/s Kabul 41/20/s 43/28/pc Manila 89/75/s 89/73/s Melbourne 77/59/pc 90/58/t New Delhi 78/56/pc 79/61/pc Seoul 38/23/s 44/31/pc Singapore 90/76/pc 90/76/t Sydney 79/69/pc 84/70/pc Tehran 50/36/s 53/39/s Tokyo 52/40/pc 51/46/pc Amsterdam 45/33/pc 45/40/pc Athens 58/48/r 61/48/sh Belgrade 51/42/c 51/40/sh Berlin 48/33/pc 43/32/pc Budapest 49/37/pc 51/34/pc Dublin 47/43/pc 49/38/r London 48/39/pc 52/44/r Madrid 54/35/pc 59/42/pc Moscow 36/35/sf 38/33/r Paris 47/31/c 46/44/pc Rome 58/42/pc 59/40/pc Stockholm 40/35/c 40/33/pc Vienna 49/36/pc 48/31/c Zurich 38/31/sh 39/27/pc 50/28 56/31 53/31 51/30 51/30 64/44 63/43 61/40 58/39 61/40 63/40 44/24 45/25 48/27 64/41 63/41 55/35 56/45 56/46 54/40 55/37 48/32 50/32 53/43 48/32 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 Saturday,February28th 10:00am – 8 : 0 0 p m Carlino'sRoomatRollingHil Casino Tickets $10 Includesacommemorativetastingglassand$5freeslotplay $1 Tasting Fee at Each Booth Tickets available at the Rolling Hil Casino Box Office by calling 530.528.3500, AmericanWest Bank, Rabobank, and at the door! $ 10 Adults • $ 3 Students Studentteams vs Adults teams... 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