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Washington 57/45 New York 52/47 Miami 83/73 Atlanta 70/58 Detroit 51/36 Houston 68/42 Chicago 52/30 Minneapolis 41/24 Kansas City 42/25 El Paso 48/26 Denver 32/12 Billings 28/9 Los Angeles 63/43 San Francisco 55/44 Seattle 44/37 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 53° 42° FRIDAY 51° 44° Cloudy , aft ernoon ra in Cloudy, a shower in the p.m. SATURDAY 51° 38° Cloudy with ra in tapering off SUNDAY 50° 44° Pe riods of ra in TODAY 52° 37° Partly sunny. Rather cloudy and seasonably cool tonight. High ....................................................................... 55° Low ........................................................................ 36° Normal high ......................................................... 54° Normal low ........................................................... 37° Record high ............................................. 83° in 1980 Record low .............................................. 28° in 1972 Humidity noon today ........................................ 51% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 1.65" Normal month to date ..................................... 1.84" Season to date .................................................. 3.02" Normal season to date .................................... 5.90" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .......................................................... Moderate Napa ........................................................... Moderate Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ..................................................... Moderate Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: At Risk Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees .................. Absent Weeds ................ Absent 2 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 7:25 a.m. 4:44 p.m. 11:09 a.m. 10:35 p.m. Thursday 7:25 a.m. 4:45 p.m. 11:45 a.m. 11:42 p.m. 9 hr., 20 min. Dec18 First Dec25 Full Last Jan1 New Jan9 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.60 ....... -0.90 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.87 ....... -0.73 atOrdFerry................................114 ........97.51 ....... -0.19 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.20 ....... -0.70 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.10 ....... -1.00 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.11 ....... -1.49 BlackButte ....................437.58..............27,495 .....19.1% LakeOroville..................652.48............927,232 .....24.8% LakeShasta ...................915.20.........1,359,841 .....29.9% LakeTrinity..................2182.19............486,480 .....18.4% Whiskeytown...............1198.18............204,739 .....84.9% Weather Trivia ™ What is the warmest it has been in Antarctica? 59 F at Vanda Station on Jan. 5, 1974 Today Thursday Anaheim 63/36/s 66/40/s Bakersfield 54/33/pc 57/35/pc Chula Vista 64/39/s 66/42/s Crescent City 52/47/c 56/50/r Death Valley 55/24/s 59/31/s Eureka 52/48/pc 57/53/r Fremont 56/38/pc 58/41/pc Fresno 51/32/pc 54/34/pc Glendale 61/38/s 65/41/s Huntington Beach 62/44/s 64/48/s Irvine 62/37/s 64/41/s Lake Tahoe 38/19/pc 42/26/c Long Beach 65/42/s 68/46/s Los Angeles 63/43/s 68/47/s Mammoth Mountain 38/14/s 45/16/pc Modesto 53/33/pc 57/35/pc Monterey 58/39/s 60/41/pc Moreno Valley 58/26/s 64/33/s Napa 55/36/pc 56/41/c Needles 57/35/s 60/39/s Oakland 56/38/pc 58/43/pc Oxnard 62/42/s 65/46/s Redding 52/39/pc 50/42/c Riverside 59/26/s 65/32/s Sacramento 52/34/pc 56/38/c San Bernardino 59/30/s 65/37/s San Diego 64/45/s 66/47/s San Francisco 55/44/pc 58/46/pc San Jose 58/38/s 60/41/pc San Luis Obispo 65/37/s 69/39/s Santa Ana 63/40/s 65/43/s Santa Barbara 64/36/s 65/40/s Santa Clarita 59/33/s 64/38/s Stockton 53/32/pc 57/36/pc Ventura 62/40/s 64/44/s Yosemite Valley 44/24/s 49/25/pc Today Thursday Albuquerque 35/17/pc 36/18/s Atlanta 70/58/pc 67/40/r Baltimore 54/42/s 57/41/r Boston 45/38/s 51/46/r Buffalo 49/44/pc 51/32/r Chicago 52/30/sh 36/24/c Cincinnati 61/41/pc 45/29/pc Dallas 57/34/s 58/33/s Denver 32/12/pc 23/16/sf Detroit 51/36/sh 41/28/c El Paso 48/26/s 51/26/s Fargo 31/17/sn 18/0/sf Honolulu 83/72/s 83/72/pc Houston 68/42/pc 63/37/s Indianapolis 55/32/sh 40/26/pc Kansas City 42/25/pc 37/23/pc Las Vegas 49/32/s 51/35/s Louisville 63/40/pc 48/31/pc Miami 83/73/sh 83/73/t Minneapolis 41/24/r 27/14/c New Orleans 78/58/t 67/45/pc New York City 52/47/pc 56/48/r Oklahoma City 52/25/s 47/24/c Even though a cooler day is in store for much of the East Coast, temperatures will remain well above average today. Most areas from the south- ern Appalachians to New England can expect at least partial sunshine. A storm will swing across the Upper Midwest after depositing heavy snow from the Great Basin, Rockies and northern Plains in recent days. Snow will retreat to parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota with gusty winds assisting with a push of much cooler air over the Plains. Showers and spotty thunderstorms will extend from the western Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast. High ............................ 91° in Edinburg, TX Low ........................ -17° in Bridgeport, CA High ........... 116° in Marble Bar, Australia Low ... -76° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 68/47/c 67/48/t Buenos Aires 84/67/pc 81/59/t Caracas 86/76/t 86/75/pc Ensenada 64/38/s 67/41/s Mexico City 76/45/pc 77/48/pc Montreal 38/31/pc 45/34/r Rio de Janeiro 86/74/pc 85/75/pc Tijuana 64/36/s 67/40/s Toronto 42/41/c 48/32/r Vancouver 43/33/pc 42/35/r Orlando 85/67/t 85/68/t Philadelphia 55/46/s 59/48/r Phoenix 56/36/s 59/40/s Pittsburgh 56/46/c 52/30/r Portland, ME 43/29/s 47/39/r Portland, OR 47/40/c 47/44/r St. Louis 59/32/pc 44/28/s Salt Lake City 32/22/sn 35/26/c Seattle 44/37/c 45/40/r Tucson 52/28/s 57/34/s Washington, DC 57/45/s 56/41/r Cairo 67/55/c 66/52/s Casablanca 78/47/pc 78/47/pc Johannesburg 83/59/pc 85/59/t Kinshasa 87/72/t 87/72/t Lagos 91/68/s 91/69/s Nairobi 75/59/t 74/58/pc Tripoli 63/52/pc 60/49/sh Baghdad 64/42/pc 64/47/c Beijing 33/15/s 38/16/s Hong Kong 64/50/s 60/51/s Jerusalem 56/44/c 52/43/sh Kabul 45/21/c 45/18/s Manila 82/77/r 83/77/r Melbourne 83/57/s 95/72/s New Delhi 70/44/pc 69/44/pc Seoul 36/18/sf 31/22/s Singapore 86/77/c 87/76/t Sydney 79/66/t 79/67/s Tehran 46/24/s 45/28/pc Tokyo 63/43/sh 52/42/pc Amsterdam 55/52/sh 57/50/c Athens 56/47/pc 53/46/pc Belgrade 36/28/pc 39/29/c Berlin 45/43/c 54/47/c Budapest 38/28/pc 36/31/c Dublin 57/52/sh 56/48/r London 60/54/r 60/51/c Madrid 63/37/pc 63/39/pc Moscow 31/21/sn 24/18/pc Paris 57/50/c 59/49/c Rome 58/38/c 58/39/s Stockholm 32/27/c 38/35/c Vienna 41/35/c 42/34/sh Zurich 47/36/sh 51/35/pc 38/22 38/14 39/26 39/26 37/20 52/34 50/35 55/36 54/38 50/37 52/38 31/25 32/23 39/26 52/39 52/37 52/41 55/48 55/47 52/48 54/43 42/34 42/36 52/47 44/37 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 ByRobinMcdowelland Martha Mendoza The Associated Press BANGKOK The president of one of the world's big- gest seafood exporters ex- pressed frustration and promised change Tuesday after saying an Associated Press investigation that linked slave-peeled shrimp to his company should be a "wake-up call" to the in- dustry. Thiraphong Chansiri said Thai Union will spend mil- lions of dollars to end reli- ance on poorly regulated contractors that have been responsible for much of the abuse. He added that under the current system, it's al- most impossible to ensure that supply chains are clean. Like other exporters in Thailand, his company has for years relied heavily on poor migrants working in factories in the port town of Samut Sakhon to peel, gut and devein shrimp. The AP report revealed Monday that many of these laborers are undocu- mented and can end up be- ing tricked or sold into fac- tories where they are forced to work 16-hour days with no time off and little or no pay for sometimes years at a time. Some end up locked inside. Others are allowed to go out, but only if they leave their children or spouse behind as a guaran- tee against running away. Thiraphong said despite great efforts, Thai Union has been unable to keep la- bor abuses out of its supply chains. It has tried every- thing from spot checks by third-party auditors to reg- ular meetings with exter- nal suppliers. But problems keep popping up. "We realized that we could not ensure 100 per- cent," he said. "Even with the whole system that we established." He said Thai Union will exclusively use in-house la- bor for shrimp processing starting Jan. 1, a change he said would cost the com- pany about $5 million. "This move will provide us with full oversight of all processing stages and will ensure that all workers, whether migrant or Thai, are in safe, legal employ- ment and are treated fairly and with dignity," Thira- phong said. A day earlier, he called the latest revelations "an- other wake-up call not only to us, but to the entire in- dustry." On Tuesday, the Global Aquaculture Alliance, which audits companies and offers a Best Aquacul- ture Practices seal of ap- proval, said it will pull its certification from anyone outsourcing shrimp pro- cessing. AP journalists followed trucks from an abusive fac- tory raided last month to major Thai distributors, in- cluding a Thai Union sub- sidiary, and traced similar connections from another factory, raided in May, that was directly supplying the parent company. Thai Union and four other exporters that bought shrimp from the sheds sell to companies around the world. Those retailers and restaurant chains widely condemned the practices that led to these conditions, and many said they were launching investigations. Big Australian super- market chain companies, including Coles and Wool- worths, were among those that expressed concern. Coles, Red Lobster, Whole Foods and some other com- panies said they had been assured by Thai Union that their shipments were clean. Thai Union said shrimp it purchased from the sheds AP tracked did not go to major U.S. companies, while declining to say where it went. In any case, accord- ing to U.S. and United Na- tions standards, if even a single piece of shrimp com- ing from a company is tied to forced labor, it taints the entire supply chain. Some said the problem requires a drastic response from big players. "I guarantee you that if Wal-Mart and Kroger and Red Lobster stopped buy- ing from Thailand until this got fixed, I think pretty soon Thailand would have no choice but to really deal with it," said Buddy Galetti, president of Southwind Foods, a smaller importer in Los Angeles. He said he rarely buys Thai goods. "The large corporations are the ones who act like the pope as far as sustain- ability and human rights, but then they go out and buy from the main culprits," Galetti said. U.S. customs records show the shrimp AP tracked made its way into the sup- ply chains of major U.S. food stores and retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kroger, Dollar General and Petco, along with restaurants such as Olive Garden. It also entered the supply chains of some of America's best-known seafood brands and pet foods, including Chicken of the Sea and Fancy Feast, which are sold in grocery stores from Safe- way and Schnucks to Pig- gly Wiggly and Albertsons. AP reporters went to su- permarkets in all 50 states and found shrimp products from supply chains tainted with forced labor. SLAVE LABOR Leading Thai seafood boss: AP shrimp probe 'wake-up call' DITAALANGKARA—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Burmese workers sit on the floor as a member of Thailand's Department of Special Investigation searches the office of a shrimp shed during a raid in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. 741Main Street,Suite#2 Red Bluff, CA 96080 1-800-287-2187 (530) 527-2187 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK www.redbluffcoldwellbanker.com See All Tehama County Listings at IfyouareConsidering Selling Your Home, Now is the Time! PropertyisSelling and Listings are in Short Supply! 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