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ByJayReevesand Emery P. Dalesio The Associated Press COLUMBIA,S.C. Thefamily of Miss South Carolina 1954 found her flood-soaked pag- eant scrapbook on a din- ing room floor littered with dead fish on Tuesday, as the first sunny day in nearly two weeks provided a chance to clean up from historic floods. "I would hate for her to see it like this. She would be crushed," said Polly Sim, who moved her 80-year-old mother into a nursing home just before the rainstorm turned much of the state into a disaster area. Owners of inundated homes were keeping close watch on swollen water- ways as they pried open swollen doors and tore out soaked carpets. So far, at least 17 people have died in the floods in the Carolinas, some of them drowning af- ter trying to drive through high water. Sim's mother, known as Polly Rankin Suber when she competed in the Miss America contest, had lived since 1972 in the unit, where more than 3 feet of muddy water toppled her washing machine and turned the wallboard to mush. "There's no way it will be what it was," said Sim. "My mom was so eccentric, had her own funky style of dec- orating, there's no way any- one could duplicate that. Never." Tuesday was the first dry day since Sept. 24 in South Carolina's state cap- ital, where a midnight-to-6 a.m. curfew was in effect. But officials warned that new evacuations could come as the huge mass of water flows toward the sea, threat- ening dams and displacing residents along the way. Of particular concern was the Lowcountry, where the Santee, Edisto and other rivers make their way to the sea. Gov. Nikki Haley warned that several rivers were rising and had yet to reach their peaks. "God smiled on South Carolina because the sun is out. That is a good sign, but ... we still have to be cau- tious," Haley said Tuesday after taking an aerial tour. "WhatIsawwasdisturbing." "We are going to be ex- tremely careful. We are watching this minute by minute," she said. HISTORIC RAINSTORM South Carolina cleans up, but worries remain amid floods JOHNBAZEMORE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Floodwater surrounds cars parked behind a home in Ridgeville, S.C. By Alicia A. Caldwell The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Obama administration deported fewer immigrants over the past 12 months than at any time since 2006, according to internal figures obtained by The Associated Press as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called Obama's deportation policies too harsh. Deportations of criminal immigrants have fallen to the lowest levels since Pres- ident Barack Obama took office in 2009, despite his pledge to focus on finding and deporting criminals liv- ing in the country illegally. The share of criminal im- migrants deported in rela- tion to overall immigrants deported rose slightly, from 56 percent to 59 percent. The overall total of 231,000 deportations gener- ally does not include Mexi- cans who were caught at the border and quickly returned home by the U.S. Border Pa- trol. The figure does include roughly 136,700 convicted criminals deported in the last 12 months. Total deportations dropped 42 percent since 2012. In a Miami interview with Spanish-language TV network Telemundo, Clin- ton promised to be "less harsh and aggressive" than Obama in enforcing immi- gration laws. "The deportation laws were interpreted and en- forced, you know, very ag- gressively, during the last six and a half years, which I think his administration did in part to try to get Re- publicans to support com- prehensive immigration re- form," Clinton said. CLINTON CRITICIZES POLICY Deportations lowest in nearly a decade Washington 77/58 New York 75/57 Miami 87/74 Atlanta 80/61 Detroit 72/50 Houston 91/67 Chicago 69/55 Minneapolis 64/54 Kansas City 77/60 El Paso 75/57 Denver 74/50 Billings 75/49 Los Angeles 84/65 San Francisco 72/55 Seattle 62/56 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 90° 58° FRIDAY 93° 61° Ve ry wa rm with high clouds Wa rm with clouds and sun SATURDAY 89° 62° Wa rm with clouds and sun SUNDAY 90° 61° Pa rtly sunn y TODAY 88° 58° Partly sunny. Partly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 82° Low ........................................................................ 56° Normal high ......................................................... 83° Normal low ........................................................... 54° Record high ........................................... 102° in 1987 Record low .............................................. 41° in 1941 Humidity noon today ........................................ 38% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date .................................................. Trace Normal month to date ..................................... 0.13" Season to date ................................................. Trace Normal season to date .................................... 0.13" 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 .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ....................... Low Weeds ..................... Low 4 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 7:11 a.m. 6:42 p.m. 2:17 a.m. 4:07 p.m. Thursday 7:12 a.m. 6:41 p.m. 3:13 a.m. 4:40 p.m. 11 hr., 31 min. Oct12 New Oct20 First Full Oct27 Last Nov3 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........2.30 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.40 .......none atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.90 .......none atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.50 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.10 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.00 .......none BlackButte ....................441.44..............34,419 .....24.0% LakeOroville..................672.41.........1,056,212 .....28.3% LakeShasta ...................929.74.........1,562,450 .....34.3% LakeTrinity..................2190.83............534,319 .....20.2% Whiskeytown...............1208.56............236,497 .....98.1% Weather Trivia ™ What type of cloud has been mistaken for a UFO? A lenticular cloud which is shaped like a saucer. Today Thursday Anaheim 84/60/s 88/62/pc Bakersfield 86/63/s 90/65/pc Chula Vista 78/63/s 81/64/s Crescent City 63/51/pc 64/52/pc Death Valley 95/65/s 99/66/pc Eureka 62/51/pc 65/52/pc Fremont 78/55/s 80/56/pc Fresno 85/63/s 89/64/pc Glendale 85/64/s 90/66/pc Huntington Beach 78/64/s 80/66/pc Irvine 81/62/s 84/64/pc Lake Tahoe 71/39/s 75/45/pc Long Beach 83/65/s 87/68/pc Los Angeles 84/65/s 88/67/pc Mammoth Mountain 70/37/s 76/39/pc Modesto 85/58/s 88/60/pc Monterey 69/56/pc 74/56/pc Moreno Valley 85/57/s 92/59/pc Napa 81/51/pc 85/50/pc Needles 92/71/s 97/73/s Oakland 74/53/pc 77/54/pc Oxnard 78/61/s 81/63/pc Redding 89/57/pc 90/55/pc Riverside 85/56/s 92/59/pc Sacramento 85/56/s 89/56/pc San Bernardino 87/60/s 94/63/pc San Diego 78/67/s 81/68/s San Francisco 72/55/pc 75/57/pc San Jose 78/56/s 82/56/pc San Luis Obispo 88/62/s 94/64/pc Santa Ana 80/65/s 82/67/pc Santa Barbara 80/59/s 83/61/pc Santa Clarita 89/61/s 94/65/pc Stockton 85/55/s 89/56/pc Ventura 78/60/s 81/61/pc Yosemite Valley 80/45/s 83/47/pc Today Thursday Albuquerque 68/53/c 71/54/pc Atlanta 80/61/s 81/62/pc Baltimore 75/54/pc 72/56/s Boston 70/51/s 61/49/s Buffalo 65/45/sh 63/53/pc Chicago 69/55/s 76/54/t Cincinnati 77/56/pc 80/60/pc Dallas 89/67/pc 91/70/c Denver 74/50/pc 71/47/pc Detroit 72/50/s 71/58/pc El Paso 75/57/t 72/59/t Fargo 66/49/r 57/40/pc Honolulu 87/73/pc 86/74/pc Houston 91/67/pc 88/69/pc Indianapolis 77/57/pc 80/60/pc Kansas City 77/60/pc 83/54/t Las Vegas 86/67/s 91/70/pc Louisville 81/60/pc 83/64/pc Miami 87/74/t 88/75/t Minneapolis 64/54/pc 67/46/c New Orleans 86/70/s 86/69/pc New York City 75/57/s 70/58/s Oklahoma City 83/60/pc 86/61/c Much of the eastern half of the nation will be dry and sunny today. High pressure over the Carolinas and around the Great Lakes will be responsible for the dry weather. Spotty thunderstorms will affect the Atlantic coast of Florida, due to a slow-moving front. Another front is forecast to bring spotty showers to northern New England, followed by brief cooling. Farther west, a slow-moving storm system has another round of showers and thun- derstorms in store for the Southwest. Some rain will skirt the coasts of Washington and Oregon. High ............................... 93° in Zapata, TX Low ................................. 22° in Olney, MT High ...................... 111° in Nasiriyah, Iraq Low ... -34° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 67/46/t 69/46/t Buenos Aires 64/45/sh 68/44/s Caracas 89/78/t 89/79/t Ensenada 80/61/pc 85/64/pc Mexico City 78/52/pc 78/54/pc Montreal 64/38/pc 56/42/c Rio de Janeiro 83/68/s 87/71/s Tijuana 79/62/pc 82/63/pc Toronto 67/41/pc 60/54/sh Vancouver 59/53/sh 64/54/c Orlando 86/71/pc 86/72/t Philadelphia 76/57/pc 72/58/s Phoenix 85/67/pc 92/71/s Pittsburgh 72/48/pc 73/59/pc Portland, ME 67/45/s 61/42/s Portland, OR 69/55/r 76/57/pc St. Louis 78/62/pc 84/61/pc Salt Lake City 73/51/pc 75/52/pc Seattle 62/56/r 70/58/pc Tucson 76/58/pc 84/63/s Washington, DC 77/58/pc 74/60/s Cairo 85/70/s 88/73/s Casablanca 76/58/pc 73/54/s Johannesburg 89/64/pc 89/62/c Kinshasa 87/73/t 88/72/t Lagos 82/76/t 82/74/t Nairobi 79/59/pc 77/59/pc Tripoli 95/73/s 94/76/s Baghdad 99/71/c 95/71/s Beijing 79/52/pc 67/46/s Hong Kong 88/78/c 89/77/pc Jerusalem 72/59/c 74/59/pc Kabul 79/49/s 83/51/s Manila 90/77/t 89/77/pc Melbourne 62/44/s 71/52/pc New Delhi 96/75/s 97/74/s Seoul 76/57/pc 75/52/s Singapore 88/79/c 88/78/pc Sydney 69/61/pc 70/61/c Tehran 86/67/pc 82/63/pc Tokyo 69/60/s 75/60/s Amsterdam 63/53/pc 59/48/sh Athens 79/66/pc 78/64/pc Belgrade 66/49/sh 53/47/r Berlin 65/48/c 53/43/r Budapest 69/51/c 59/50/c Dublin 57/43/pc 58/45/pc London 59/44/pc 61/44/s Madrid 71/49/pc 70/50/t Moscow 41/30/pc 38/30/c Paris 61/46/pc 59/45/pc Rome 74/54/pc 72/55/pc Stockholm 50/37/pc 49/30/pc Vienna 61/54/c 58/51/r Zurich 60/45/pc 60/44/c 78/46 79/46 81/51 79/53 79/41 85/56 85/56 81/51 84/51 85/58 86/58 74/40 79/38 78/46 89/57 88/58 79/55 64/54 68/55 62/51 76/50 81/45 83/47 63/51 82/51 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 | WEATHER | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015 8 B