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WEATHER
Washington area today
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Washington approaches many people’s conception of April weather perfection Sunday, as the springtime sun shines, skies are blue and the temperature spends lots of time in the 70s. Not too windy. Sunday night will be cooler, and perhaps there will be clouds, but not rain clouds.
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The Region Today
Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass
Low Very High
Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
70/42 69/45
Baltimore
73/46
Washington
74/51
Richmond Charlottesville
72/44 75/49
Norfolk
72/53
Blue Ridge
•Today, sunny. High 62- 73. Wind west-southwest 4-8 mph. •Tonight, mostly clear. Low 36-46. Wind light, variable. •Monday, partly sunny. High 61-69. Wind north 4-8 mph. •Tuesday, partly sunny. High 54-64. Wind east 6-12 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach
72/52
Recreational Forecast
Atlantic beaches
•Today, sunny. High 65- 74. Wind south-southwest 7-14 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy north, clear south. Low 47-53. Wind southwest 4-8 mph. •Monday, partly sunny. High 62-68. Wind north- northeast 7-14 mph. •Tuesday, partly sunny. High 55-61.
Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly
sunny. Wind southwest 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility unrestrict-
ed. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny.
Wind south 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac and the Chesapeake Bay. Visibility clear to the horizon. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 4.2 feet today, falling to 4.1 feet Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis
70/51
Ocean City
65/49
Dover
69/49
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
6 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender:
Today: Moderate
Ozone, 45
The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia
72/49
North
KEY»
Temperature
100s°+ 90s° 80s° 70s° 60s° 50s° 40s° 30s° 20s° 10s° 0s° -0s°
-10s°+
Precipitation
Showers Rain T-Storms Flurries Snow Ice
Nation
City Today
Albany, NY
Albuquerque 74/50/s Anchorage 42/34/sn Atlanta 74/51/s Austin 72/53/t Baltimore 73/46/s Billings, MT
Birmingham 77/49/s
60/37/pc 56/33/pc 75/50/pc 46/34/sn 76/55/s 74/53/pc 66/41/pc
60/36/c 56/38/c 78/53/s
Bismarck, ND 60/41/c 62/44/t Boise 63/42/c
59/39/c
Boston 62/45/pc 56/40/pc Buffalo 57/36/pc 52/36/pc Burlington, VT 56/35/pc 52/32/pc Charleston, SC 76/50/s 78/54/s Charleston, WV 76/45/s 68/39/pc Charlotte 74/45/s
76/50/s
Cheyenne, WY 66/38/pc 68/39/c Chicago 65/38/pc 65/43/pc Cincinnati 70/45/s Cleveland 62/40/c
68/47/pc 69/55/t
67/45/pc 55/37/pc
Dallas 78/56/pc 79/57/pc Denver 66/40/pc 75/43/pc Des Moines
Detroit 63/41/c El Paso
60/39/pc 82/53/s 81/55/pc
Fairbanks, AK 46/27/sn 50/27/sn Fargo, ND
58/39/pc 55/44/r
Hartford, CT 64/40/pc 60/34/pc Honolulu 82/69/s
80/68/pc
Houston 75/58/pc 75/59/pc Indianapolis 70/44/s Jackson, MS
67/44/pc 78/49/s 79/52/s
Jacksonville, FL 74/54/pc 75/54/pc Kansas City, MO 72/55/pc 75/55/pc Las Vegas
82/56/pc 72/53/c
Tomorrow City Today
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Tomorrow
Louisville 74/50/s Memphis 78/55/s Miami 82/68/t
78/52/s 79/53/s 66/52/c 62/52/sh 71/48/pc 79/57/s 81/69/t
Milwaukee 60/38/pc 57/41/pc Minneapolis 64/44/pc Nashville 74/50/s
57/47/r 77/53/s
New Orleans 76/58/s 78/59/pc New York City 65/51/pc 60/46/pc Norfolk 72/53/s
67/49/pc
Oklahoma City 77/54/pc 77/53/s Omaha 70/50/pc 76/53/pc Orlando 80/59/pc 78/60/c Philadelphia 72/49/s Phoenix 88/62/s
60/45/pc 58/45/c
S
KLMNO
Today
Mostly sunny
74°
51°
Wind southwest 6-12 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle
Portlan
SeattlSeattle Portland
Portland
Calga Calgary
Calgary
Helena
Helena
Salt
City
Salt La
San Francisc
Los Angeles
Fronts
Cold
Warm Stationary
Pressure Centers
High Low
Key » s-Sunny, pc-Partly Cloudy, c-Cloudy, r-Rain, sh-Showers, t-Thunderstorms, sf-Snow Flurries, sn-Snow, i-Ice.
World
City Today
Addis Ababa 79/60/t 79/62/t Amsterdam 49/39/pc Athens 67/53/s Auckland 66/53/s Baghdad 90/70/s Bangkok 101/81/s Beijing 48/36/sh Berlin 49/39/r Bogota 64/47/r Brussels 50/35/pc
Tomorrow City Today
Lisbon 72/59/pc
49/39/pc 67/53/s 68/55/s 97/65/c 99/82/s 50/32/pc 54/42/r 65/47/r 47/37/c
64/43/pc 84/58/pc
Pittsburgh 66/41/pc 60/36/pc Portland, ME 60/36/pc 56/35/pc Portland, OR
Providence, RI 65/44/pc 64/40/pc Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 75/49/s Sacramento 58/51/r St. Louis
74/47/s 75/47/pc 59/38/c 50/35/c 71/44/pc 61/44/t
74/55/pc 73/55/pc
St. Thomas, VI 85/76/sh 86/76/sh Salt Lake City 71/47/pc 65/40/c San Diego
64/55/pc 63/54/sh
San Francisco 60/49/r 59/49/t San Juan, PR 86/75/pc 86/73/sh Seattle 59/43/pc 55/43/c Spokane, WA 53/36/c 51/37/r Syracuse 57/36/pc
Buenos Aires 79/62/s 71/60/pc Cairo 93/66/pc 81/61/s Caracas 83/71/t Copenhagen 51/36/pc Dakar 80/68/s Dublin 59/43/s Edinburgh 57/42/s Frankfurt 52/39/sh Geneva
83/71/t 47/43/c 77/66/pc 57/41/s 55/36/s 52/43/r
57/37/pc 55/41/pc
Ham., Bermuda 68/63/s 68/63/t Helsinki 41/36/pc
Islamabad 98/64/c Istanbul 62/46/s Jerusalem 89/58/c Johannesburg 72/51/pc
102/81/s 43/36/pc
Ho Chi Minh City 96/77/pc 97/79/pc Hong Kong
79/70/s 82/72/s 101/66/s 61/51/pc 65/49/pc 75/51/s
Kabul 73/47/pc 76/47/s Kingston, Jam. 87/77/sh 86/76/r Kolkata
Lagos 92/78/t 50/31/pc
Tampa 80/61/pc 80/61/pc Wichita 76/53/pc 78/53/s
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
Yesterday’s extremes
(Continental U.S. only)
High: 91° Pecos, Texas Low: -8° Lake Yellowstone, Wyo.
SOURCES: AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
100/77/s 90/78/t
Lima 86/63/pc 85/62/pc
London 57/39/s Madrid 69/38/s Manila 93/79/s Mexico City
Tomorrow
68/57/pc
50/41/pc 65/39/pc 93/81/s
Montreal 56/35/pc
77/54/t 76/48/c 50/37/pc
Moscow 54/30/pc 48/29/c Mumbai 93/80/pc Nairobi 85/65/t New Delhi
91/82/s 85/63/t
Oslo 45/37/c Ottawa
56/30/pc
Paris 58/36/c Prague 41/39/r
107/71/s 107/76/s 49/31/s 54/33/s 51/40/pc 46/40/r
Rio de Janeiro 76/68/sh 77/69/pc Riyadh 95/75/s Rome 61/46/r Santiago 77/48/pc
91/69/t 64/46/c 79/52/pc
San Salvador 90/72/pc 91/72/s Sarajevo
45/40/r
Seoul 66/46/sh Shanghai 63/54/r Singapore 90/77/t Stockholm 41/34/pc Sydney 82/59/s Taipei 86/72/pc Tehran 72/55/pc Tokyo 66/52/c Toronto 62/30/pc Vienna 49/37/sh Warsaw 54/38/c
58/43/c 64/41/c 64/46/c 93/79/pc 43/36/pc 72/57/s 86/66/pc 76/63/pc 57/52/r
54/32/pc 50/42/r
54/38/pc Yerevan 70/47/pc 60/47/r
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 113° Bankura, India Low: -46° Summit Station, Greenland
Rise Set
7:41 p.m.
4:56 a.m. 5:14 p.m.
San Francisco Los Angeles
San Francisco
Los Angele
Phoenix
Phoenix
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke
Denver
Denve Denver
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City
Winnipeg Winnipe
Winnipeg
Ottaw
St. Louis
Chi
St. LouiSt. Louis Dalla
Houston
Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre
Monterrey
nterrey Dallas
Dallas
Atlant New OrleanOrleans
New Orleans
ew Atlanta
Atlanta
Chicago
Mpl
Chicag
Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul
cago
St. Paul
Mpls.-
s.- Columbus
Columbus Ottawa
ttawa Bosto Boston
Boston
New Yor
Washingto
Charleston Charlesto Tamp Miami
Miami
Tampa
Tampa Charleston New York
ew York Philadelphia Philadelphia
Washington
Washington
Monday
Partly sunny
67°
44°
Wind north 8-16 mph
Tuesday
Partly sunny
65°
45°
Wind north-northeast 8-16 mph
Wednesday
Mostly sunny
66°
47°
Wind north-northeast 8-16 mph
Thursday
Mostly sunny
72°
54°
Wind southwest 7-14 mph
Official weather data
Reagan
Temperature
High Low
Normal Record high
Record low
Precipitation
Past 24 hours Total this month
Normal month to date
Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity
Max. Min.
66° at 3:59 p.m. 43° at 4:59 a.m. 65°/44°
89° in 1922 28° in 1997
None 0.69” 0.93” 8.52” 10.37”
57% at 6:00 a.m. 23% at 5:00 p.m.
Barometric pressure
High Low
Temperature trend
20° 40° 60° 80° 100°
0°
PAST TEN DAYS
TODAY
TEN-DAY FORECAST
Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010
10"
0" 2" 4" 6" 8"
Actual Normal
30.36” 30.14”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY
BWI
Dulles
67° at 3:59 p.m. 41° at 3:50 a.m. 64°/39°
78° in 1992 19° in 1985
None 0.34” 1.06” 10.34” 10.43”
64% at 4:00 a.m. 21% at 5:00 p.m.
30.35” 30.12”
Normal
63° at 3:48 p.m. 38° at 6:00 a.m. 63°/40°
89° in 1922 22° in 1985
None 0.68” 1.03” 12.60” 11.45”
69% at 6:00 a.m. 30% at 3:00 p.m.
30.32” 30.11”
Record Wind Chill:
40°
(Comfort index com- bines temperature and wind.)
Heating
A M J J A S O N D J F M
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face
Washington Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
degree days
An index of fuel con- sumption indicating how many degrees the average tempera- ture fell below 65 for the day. If a day’s average temperature were 45, there would be 20 ‘degree days’ for the date. Saturday ............ 10 This month......... 31 This season .... 3648 Normal to yesterday ...... 3817 Last season .... 3968
SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010
Point Lookout 6:27 a.m. 12:21 p.m. 6:19 p.m.
Moon phases
April 14 New
April 21 First Quarter
April 28 Full
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus
6:38 a.m.
7:14 a.m. 9:20 p.m.
7:37 a.m. 9:29 p.m.
1:08 p.m. 3:43 a.m.
5:26 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
5:44 p.m. 6:05 a.m.
5:45 a.m. 5:41 p.m.
1:12 a.m. 6:53 a.m. 1:44 p.m. 7:15 p.m. 3:52 a.m. 10:19 a.m. 4:17 p.m. 10:11 p.m. 12:02 a.m. 6:10 a.m. 12:20 p.m. 6:26 p.m. 2:04 a.m. 8:16 a.m. 2:13 p.m. 8:29 p.m. none
May 6 Last Quarter
Pr. George’s foreclosures open doors for investors
flip from C1
foreclosure filings. Under the circumstances, hous- ing and foreclosure experts said, it is no wonder that investors are eyeing places such as Hyattsville, Mount Rainier and Capitol Heights, communities with older housing stock near the District line. “These are desirable locations,”
said state Del. Doyle L. Niemann (D-Prince George’s), who has spon- sored a number of bills dealing with foreclosure in recent years and who prosecutes mortgage fraud as an assistant state’s attor- ney. “Mount Rainier and Hyatts- ville are strong and attractive com- munities to folks, even in the cur- rent economic recession.” Maryland does not track what happens to homes after they go into foreclosure or how many of those homes are bought by in- vestors, said Raymond A. Skinner, state secretary of housing and community development. But Skinner said it seemed likely
that people would be looking for bargains and that many investors would focus on older communi- ties, where the prices are lower and the chances of resale are great-
20710–41 20722–50
Mount Rainier
495 95
Suitland
5
Andrews AFB
4
Marlboro
NOTE: A foreclosure hot spot is a community that had more than 10 foreclosure events in a quarter and had a foreclosure concentration ratio of more than 100. The concentration ratio measures a community’s foreclosure rate in relation to the state average.
MARY KATE CANNISTRA/THE WASHINGTON POST
JAMES M. THRESHER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Rain forces a delay as Bernie Granzow, left, his brother, Karl, right, and Patrick Ricker work on the exterior of a house in Hyattsville.
er. Rebekah Lusk, a resident of
Hyattsville and a founder of Bright Lusk Properties, said she chose to buy a house in the county’s Lew- isdale section because her com- pany wants to be part of the rede- velopment effort in the city. All of its properties have been renovated and are being rented out. “Our goal is to be active in-
vestors and be involved in the community,” she said. “We don’t flip. That’s not our goal. We’re not looking to put properties back on the market when there are so many already on the market.” Niemann, who has toured some
of Property and Industry Coordi- nators’ properties, said he is pleased to see homegrown inves- tors working in the community. He
said he is not bothered that Ricker and Granzow are renovating and quickly reselling the properties they buy, a process known as flip- ping, because they are “bringing the homes up to high-quality sta- tus.”
Niemann said the properties would otherwise become increas- ingly blighted or would be scooped up by speculators with no ties to the community. Ricker said that he has made a living brokering real estate deals and investing in new develop- ments — his company’s offices were raided by the FBI in 2008
during a probe of a proposed de- velopment near the Greenbelt Metro station — but that he had to refocus when the market dried up. As he drives his black Cadillac Escalade through Mount Rainier and Hyattsville, he searches for signs of neglect in the neighbor- hoods. Brown lawns. Weeds. Miss- ing curtains. He is looking for any possible indication that a home- owner is in foreclosure. “When the bubble burst, I said,
‘Why not buy some of these homes?’ ” he recalled. Instead of going to auctions, Ricker negotiates with lenders to
arrive at an acceptable price. He bought one house in Brent- wood for about $100,000. He gut- ted it, installed marble counter- tops in the kitchen, new appli- ances and new bathroom fixtures, and he transformed attic space into a master bedroom. He said the house will sell for about $300,000. “The positive is that they are not fly-by-night speculators who want to make a quick buck,” Niemann said. “Yes, they are making a re- turn on their money, but there seems to be a strategy to make the community stronger.”
wigginsovetta@washpost.com
Witnesses accuse Prince George’s police of ‘terrible’ beating outside pizza shop
police from C1
Ellis said. “He did not want to be handcuffed. He did not want to leave. He was not listening to the officers’ commands. It took four officers to put handcuffs on him.” One witness, a pizza shop em- ployee, told police that Duncan- Lollis shoved an officer and seemed to reach for the officer’s gun, Ellis said. Duncan-Lollis has not been
charged with a crime, Ellis said, because officers did not believe he could discern right from wrong and form criminal intent. Officer Robert Wiggins, one of the first at the scene, filed a peti- tion for an emergency psychiatric evaluation. Wiggins wrote that Duncan-Lollis appeared to be mentally impaired: “PCP intoxi- cation and hallucinations.”
Duncan-Lollis was taken to
Prince George’s Hospital Center and spent four days in the psychi- atric ward before being released on Monday. Duncan-Lollis and his parents said he has no history of mental impairment. Duncan- Lollis said he asked the hospital for the results of a drug test con- ducted during his stay but that they were not provided. The incident occurred about 10
p.m. March 31 at a strip shopping center on Lake Arbor Way. In an interview, Duncan-Lollis, of Dis- trict Heights, denied that he was under the influence of drugs or that he resisted police. Five days after the encounter, his eyes were bloodshot. Duncan-Lollis said an eye doctor gave him medication and advised him not to read for a while.
“I didn’t do anything. I was try-
“He was not listening to the officers’ commands. It took four officers to put handcuffs on him.”
— Andy Ellis, police spokesman
ing to get a job,” Duncan-Lollis said. He said an officer who es- corted him out of the pizza shop asked for identification, and when Duncan-Lollis reached toward his back pocket to get it, the officer knocked him to the ground.
“I turned my head to the right
and saw another officer coming. I was [pepper-sprayed], and I couldn’t see anymore,” Duncan- Lollis said. After that, he said, he felt blows to his face and torso. Duncan-Lollis acknowledged that he walked behind the pizza
counter. The manager on duty at the time, Henry Rodriguez, 20, said in an interview that he told Duncan-Lollis to leave, an ad- monishment Duncan-Lollis ig- nored. Rodriguez said Duncan- Lollis behaved strangely, made an odd remark and used foul lan- guage but was not threatening. An officer arrived to escort Duncan-Lollis outside, Rodriguez said. Duncan-Lollis did not fight or run, but when they reached the counter, he tried to grab it with his left hand and said, “I don’t want to go,” Rodriguez said.
The officer picked up Duncan- Lollis and carried him outside. A witness saw two officers on top of Duncan-Lollis. As one offi- cer held Duncan-Lollis’s legs, an- other ground the left side of the man’s face into a rock that is part of a decorative garden, one wit- ness said. The officer pressed the back of Duncan-Lollis’s head into the rock with one hand and punched him in the face with the other, the witness said. A third of- ficer stood nearby, the witness said.
Duncan-Lollis tried to block the punches, the witness said. The witness said he yelled “Hey!” to let the officers know someone was watching, but one of them told him to go into a nearby res- taurant. The witness complied. “I was scared for him,” the first witness said. “It was hard to look
at. It was terrible.” The officers flipped Duncan-
Lollis onto his back, and the offi- cer who had been grinding the man’s face into the rock punched him, the first witness said. The other officer struck Duncan-Lol- lis in the legs and torso with a ba- ton, the witness said. The second witness said he saw Duncan-Lollis facedown on the pavement, his arms at his side. When Duncan-Lollis did not re- spond to an order to put his arms behind his back, an officer bent down to hit him in the face or kicked him in the face or torso, the witness said. Three or four of- ficers took turns striking him, the second witness said. “Every time he didn’t [comply],
they punched or kicked him,” the second witness said.
castanedar@washpost.com
Upper
Indian Head
La Plata Solomons
Prince George’s County
Zip code and number of foreclosures:
95
20705–181 20783–259
Beltsville
Bowie Riverdale
Hyattsville
20737–131 20784–241
50 301
Rockville
D.C.
Annapolis
Shady Side
Chesapeake Beach
SOURCES:
RealtyTrac and D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development
Ocean City
Laurel
295
Investors are eyeing foreclosed properties in Prince George’s County.
Foreclosure hot spots
Last quarter 2009, by Zip code
Hagerstown Aberdeen Frederick Clarksburg
Baltimore
Zip code and number of foreclosures:
21217–175 21223–153
Severe Very high High
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