C10 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Look for Sunday to be another day without 90-degree temperatures. Clouds will keep things in the mid- or high 80s. Not rainy but obviously humid. Sunday night will be humid, too, but cooler, with temperatures in the upper 60s and mid-70s.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Absent
Absent Absent 81/69
Harrisburg Hagerstown
83/68
Baltimore 84/70
Washington 88/74
Richmond Charlottesville
88/70 88/70
Norfolk 84/72
Blue Ridge
•Today, partly, afternoon thunderstorm, more humid. High 76-84. Wind south 8-16 mph. •Tonight, mostly cloudy, evening thunderstorm, humid. Low 64-70. •Monday, partly sunny, shower, thunderstorm, humid, warm. High 82- 88. Wind south 6-12 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 83/70
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, partly sunny. High 80-86. Wind south- east 7-14 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, humid. Low 67-72. Wind south 5-10 mph. •Monday, partly sunny, humid, shower, thunderstorm. High 84-90. Wind south 7-14 mph. •Tuesday, shower, thunderstorm.
Upper Potomac River: Today, partly
sunny. Wind southeast 8-16 knots. Waves 1 foot or less. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny. Wind southeast 8-16 knots. Waves 1-2 feet. Visibility generally unrestricted. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.9 feet today and fall to 2.8 on Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 82/74
Ocean City 83/71
Dover 83/71
Absent
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
6 out of 11+, High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Good
Ozone, 21 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 82/70
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 94/68/t Anchorage 66/57/r Atlanta 88/73/t
84/68/pc 82/64/t 91/67/t 66/56/r 90/75/t
90/72/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles
Austin 102/75/s 102/76/s Baltimore 84/70/c Billings, MT
Birmingham 92/77/t
76/51/s 77/54/s 92/75/t
Bismarck, ND 78/50/s 77/46/s Boise 95/61/s
93/60/s
Boston 78/64/pc 80/68/t Buffalo 88/69/t
80/62/pc
Burlington, VT 85/67/pc 82/61/t Charleston, SC 90/74/t 91/73/pc Charleston, WV 94/70/t 93/66/t Charlotte 90/71/c
91/73/t
Cheyenne, WY 78/49/s 79/51/t Chicago 86/64/s Cincinnati 96/69/t Cleveland 92/67/t
89/55/t
84/63/s 92/65/s 82/61/s
Dallas 105/81/pc 105/80/t Denver 84/54/s Des Moines
Detroit 90/65/t El Paso
82/61/s 83/64/s 84/63/s
98/75/s 98/73/pc
Fairbanks, AK 88/58/c 77/57/pc Fargo, ND
74/50/s 72/45/pc
Hartford, CT 82/66/pc 83/68/t Honolulu 88/74/pc Houston 96/80/t Indianapolis 94/67/t Jackson, MS
98/76/t 96/77/t
Jacksonville, FL 91/76/t 92/75/pc Kansas City, MO 86/63/t 87/65/s Las Vegas
108/80/s 109/83/s
90/74/pc 96/79/t 86/63/s
Tomorrow Louisville 98/76/t
102/77/t 98/76/t 86/61/pc 88/64/pc 95/71/pc
Memphis 100/79/pc 98/78/t Miami 92/80/t Milwaukee 84/64/s Minneapolis 77/58/s Nashville 95/78/pc
93/78/t
82/65/pc 78/56/pc 95/75/t
New Orleans 94/79/t 92/79/t New York City 82/72/pc 87/74/t Norfolk 84/72/pc 90/75/pc Oklahoma City 102/75/pc 95/74/t Omaha 82/61/s Orlando 95/76/t Philadelphia 82/70/c
86/63/s 94/77/t 90/72/t
Phoenix 113/88/pc 108/87/pc Pittsburgh 87/68/t
84/61/t
Portland, ME 78/61/pc 75/65/t Portland, OR
97/61/s 98/61/s
Providence, RI 80/66/pc 81/71/t Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 88/70/pc Sacramento 87/52/s St. Louis
93/72/c 95/73/pc 95/57/s 100/57/s 95/72/t 89/54/s
92/67/t 88/68/s
St. Thomas, VI 89/79/pc 89/81/t Salt Lake City 86/57/s 93/59/s San Diego
92/58/s 73/65/pc 72/66/pc
San Francisco 62/53/pc 64/54/pc San Juan, PR 91/78/pc 90/78/sh Seattle 92/59/s
Spokane, WA 89/59/s 94/61/s Syracuse 86/68/t Tampa 92/79/t Wichita 88/68/t
84/59/t 92/78/t
88/69/pc NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO Today Partly sunny
88° 74°
Wind south-southeast 7-14 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
Seattl Seattle Portland Sacramento Sacramento San Francisc Los Angele
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 64/59/r 68/61/t Amsterdam 67/63/r Athens 99/80/s Auckland 65/50/s Baghdad 114/79/s
Bangkok 92/79/pc 92/79/t Beijing 93/72/s Berlin 83/64/t Bogota 65/44/t Brussels 69/58/r
83/73/t
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 88/63/s
72/60/c 100/79/s 63/53/sh 116/80/s
95/70/s 71/58/sh 65/43/t 65/58/r
Buenos Aires 54/43/s 57/44/pc Cairo 104/77/s 102/78/s Caracas 84/72/t Copenhagen 79/69/pc Dakar 91/81/sh Dublin 68/52/s Edinburgh 67/52/s Frankfurt 69/58/r Geneva
70/53/t
75/64/sh 86/78/pc 68/59/pc 69/57/s 64/58/r 67/58/s
Ham., Bermuda 88/75/s 88/75/s Helsinki 82/66/pc
72/59/s
Ho Chi Minh City 92/78/t 90/78/t Hong Kong
Islamabad 94/81/c Istanbul 92/80/s Jerusalem 89/67/s Johannesburg 75/40/s Kabul 103/59/s
94/80/t
90/81/sh 90/82/t 93/80/t 95/80/s 91/67/s 73/39/s 103/60/s
Kingston, Jam. 88/80/t 89/81/t Kolkata
95/80/t
Lagos 84/75/pc 85/75/pc Lima 68/56/pc 68/55/pc
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 107° Needles, Calif. Low: 30° West Yellowstone, Mont.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
London 72/55/pc Madrid 86/61/s Manila 87/78/s Mexico City
Montreal 77/68/t Moscow 86/66/s Mumbai 90/82/r Nairobi 83/54/s New Delhi
82/69/t
Paris 69/56/r Prague 82/56/t
Tomorrow 84/66/s
66/55/r 86/57/s 89/78/s
75/55/t 73/54/t 81/64/t 85/57/t 89/82/r
83/53/pc 93/82/t 93/82/t
Oslo 77/61/pc 73/54/s Ottawa
81/60/t
67/60/sh 75/56/t
Rio de Janeiro 63/60/r 67/61/s Riyadh 105/82/s 105/80/s Rome 82/63/s Santiago 58/32/pc
82/66/s 54/40/c
San Salvador 86/73/t 84/74/sh Sarajevo
90/53/pc
Seoul 84/71/t Shanghai 100/82/t Singapore 88/81/t Stockholm 74/57/s Sydney 68/48/s Taipei 95/81/s Tehran 90/76/s
90/50/s 84/67/c 93/81/t 90/79/t 72/57/s 63/45/s 95/83/s 92/76/s
Tokyo 93/82/pc 93/81/t Toronto 84/68/t Vienna 90/64/pc Warsaw 95/67/s Yerevan 98/62/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 121° Mitribah, Kuwait Low: -4° Islas Orcadas, Argentina
81/63/pc 80/64/s 90/64/s 100/62/s
Rise Set
Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix San Francisco San Francisco Portland Calga Calgary Calgary Helena
Salt La
Salt City
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Denver Denve Denver Columbus St. LouiSt. Louis Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas Dallas St. Louis Atlanta Atlant New OrlOrlean New
Orleans Tamp Miami
ew Atlanta CharlestoCharleston Charleston eans Tampa
Tampa Miami
Columbus Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipe
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul Mpls.-
Ottaw St. Paul ChicagChicago Chicago Ottawa ttawa Boston Bosto Boston New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia Monday Thunderstorm
91° 74°
Wind south-southwest 6-12 mph Tuesday Thunderstorm
89° 73°
Wind south-southwest 6-12 mph
Wednesday Thunderstorm
89° 71°
Wind north-northeast 6-12 mph Thursday Thunderstorm
91° 72°
Wind north-northeast 7-14 mph
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 2010
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high Record low
84° at 3:40 p.m. 69° at 7:00 a.m. 87°/69°
99° in 2002 55° in 1941
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
None 1.76” 1.54” 20.53” 24.36”
70% at 7:00 a.m. 46% at 3:00 p.m.
Barometric pressure High Low
Temperature trend
40° 60° 80° 100° 120°
PAST TEN DAYS
0" 1" 2" 3" 4" 5" 6"
Normal TODAY TEN-DAY FORECAST
Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010 Actual
30.13” 30.05”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
82° at 3:17 p.m. 67° at 3:30 a.m. 86°/63°
100° in 1985 49° in 1983
None 2.81” 1.66” 24.98” 26.11”
87% at 4:00 a.m. 53% at 3:00 p.m.
30.12” 30.05”
Normal Record
81° at 3:35 p.m. 66° at 5:00 a.m. 86°/64°
99° in 1985 51° in 1961
None 3.11” 1.68” 26.63” 26.27”
74% at 5:00 a.m. 48% at 3:00 p.m.
30.13” 30.06”
Apparent Temperature:
85°
(Comfort index com- bines temperature and humidity.)
Cooling
degree days An index of fuel con- sumption indicating how many degrees the average tempera- ture rose above 65 for the day. If a day’s average temperature were 75, there would be 10 ‘degree days’ for the date. Saturday ............ 12 This month....... 230 This season .... 1509 Normal to yesterday ...... 1102 Last season ...... 991
A S O N D J F M A M J J
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington 12:26 a.m. 7:49 a.m. 12:56 p.m. 7:49 p.m. Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
4:34 a.m. 9:41 a.m. 3:52 p.m. 10:53 p.m. 6:09 a.m. 12:28 p.m. 6:58 p.m.
none 1:56 a.m. 8:02 a.m. 2:33 p.m. 8:54 p.m.
Point Lookout 12:42 a.m. 5:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 6:57 p.m. Moon phases
Aug 16 First Quarter
Aug 24 Full
Sep 1 Last Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:21 a.m.
8:03 p.m.
1:00 p.m. 11:06 p.m.
8:34 a.m. 8:51 p.m.
10:14 a.m. 9:50 p.m.
10:20 a.m. 10:01 p.m.
9:44 p.m. 9:47 a.m.
9:38 a.m. 9:50 p.m.
9:34 p.m. 9:35 a.m.
Sep 8 New
Security firm’s guards fail weapons detection tests
Company has contract with District to protect schools, buildings
by Rick Rojas The security company con-
tracted by the District to guard government buildings, schools and public arenas, such as RFK Stadium, failed tests in which in- spectors were able to sneak weap- ons through checkpoints, docu- ments show. In May, U.S. Security Associ-
ates, based in Roswell, Ga., had eight weapons violations and 12 other infractions that resulted in up to $3,560 in fines for the firm and its subcontractor, Watkins Security, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Weapons used in the testing, according to the contract, could be a handgun, rifle or shotgun, or a knife or bladed instrument at
least six inches long. The weap- ons could be on a person or in a bag during the tests. The exact locations of the in-
fractions are unclear. D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles said that inspectors had been “creative” in their deception but that the failures in May were unacceptable. After the failed tests, U.S. Secu-
rity sent a memo to its 300 offi- cers in the District, threatening to fire those who did not do their jobs. “What makes these failed pen-
etrations even more unbelievable to me is that each of you knows” the inspectors who conducted the tests, Cmdr. Calvin Kimball of U.S. Security Associates wrote in the May 28 memo. “When they arrive on your posts you should take your awareness level up a notch! Does it not occur to you that they will possibly attempt to run a penetration exercise on you at that time?” The city could terminate the contract, but Nickles said the Dis-
trict is unlikely to do so because security personnel have had sig- nificant training. There were no weapons breaches in June, he said.
“Our folks are satisfied that the
training has been successful,” Nickles said. U.S. Security’s contract expires in September. Nickles declined to comment on whether the city will renew the contract or say wheth- er the failed tests would be a mat- ter for discussion in negotiations. The training U.S. Security held in early June included sessions on anti-terrorism, magneto meters and customer service, and the company has since fired two of its officers, Brian T. Dooling, a spokesman for the company, said in an e-mail.
Dooling said that performance has improved and that the com- pany will work with the District officials to “take the necessary steps to ensure we meet their needs.”
rojasr@washpost.com
Arrest in slaying of D.C. teen
Police link shooting to gang violence in Adams Morgan
by Jenna Johnson
A 17-year-old has been arrested in the gang-related killing Wednesday of a 19-year-old in Ad- ams Morgan, D.C. police said Sat- urday.
Robert Givens of Northwest
Washington was arrested Friday and charged as an adult with first- degree murder in the shooting of Sean Robinson near 17th and Eu- clid streets, police said.
Robinson, of the 1600 block of Euclid Street NW, was found un- conscious in the 2500 block of Mozart Place, not far from his
home, and was taken to a hospi- tal, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The arrest was announced at a
Saturday afternoon news confer- ence held by Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fen- ty (D) and D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), who rep- resents the area. Lanier said the shooting was part of “ongoing criminal gang violence” between two groups in Adams Morgan. At the time of his death, Rob- inson was under the supervision of the District’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, D.C. Attorney General Peter Nick- les said Saturday. Lanier would not identify the
rival groups or say how they oper- ate, saying she did not want to give them publicity or disclose de- tails of the investigation. She said
the homicide unit worked round- the-clock to close the case before there was more violence. Graham said that gang activity
near 17th and Euclid has been an issue for years but that the situa- tion has improved, thanks to po- lice and community efforts and a police surveillance camera. Officials also announced an ar- rest in an unrelated homicide, in the 1100 block of 10th Street NW. Police charged Marcus McLean, 24, with murdering Delando King, 34, who was found stabbed to death Monday in an apartment. Fenty applauded the depart- ment for closing the two cases quickly. He said the department “is doing some of the greatest work in the country,” which has “directly resulted in less crime in the District of Columbia.”
johnsonj@washpost.com
Hotels evacuated during electrical fire
Power is cut off on streets near the White House
Mosque manager theft case dropped Long-running dispute
involving Islamic Center official ends abruptly
by Spencer S. Hsu
Federal prosecutors moved to drop a long-running fraud and theft case against the former business manager of the Islamic Center of Washington on Friday, abruptly ending a dispute that had unsettled the politically prominent mosque along the capital’s Embassy Row. In court papers, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. moved to dismiss charges against Farzad Darui, an Iranian-born U.S. citi- zen whom the government ac- cused in 2006 of stealing $430,000 from the mosque in a
Farzad Darui
complex check scam. The money came from an ac- count funded by the Saudi Arabi- an govern- ment for ex- penses at the center, whose colorful mina- ret is a well- known land- mark blocks away from the vice presi- dent’s Massa- chusetts Av-
enue residence in Northwest Washington. A May 2008 trial ended in a hung jury, and Darui’s attorneys challenged the truthfulness of testimony by the prosecution’s key witness and the mosque’s imam, Abdullah Khouj, a Saudi who was hired to lead the center in 1984, the same year that Darui
by Michael Birnbaum and Martin Weil
A column of flame leapt from
was brought in as its director of security.
Darui claimed that the imam told him to take the money from the Saudi “special account” to pay for debts and living expenses of two women who were close to the imam and for informants with se- curity tips. In court papers, Assistant U.S.
Attorneys Tejpal S. Chawla and Bryan Seeley did not say why they dropped the case, but prosecu- tors recently told the court that they would not call on Khouj to testify in any retrial. The Islamic Center did not re- spond to messages late Friday. Darui’s attorney, Victoria Toens- ing, said, “Farzad Darui is an in- nocent man,” and she praised Ma- chen’s office for “reviewing the facts anew and deciding to do the right thing.”
hsus@washpost.com
beneath a downtown Washington sidewalk Saturday night as an underground electrical fire prompted the evacuation of two hotels and darkened streets near the White House. The fire broke out about 7:45 p.m. in the 1400 block of F Street NW, which is occupied by the Willard and the W hotels. A trans- former below the sidewalk appar- ently was the source of the blaze. “It was pretty spectacular,” said
D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer. He said flames shot about 25 or
30 feet above the pavement. No injuries were reported, and
firefighters brought the blaze un- der control within minutes. But visitors to the downtown area saw clouds of billowing black smoke rising into the air. Traffic in the neighborhood, a
few blocks from the Mall and a center for dining and entertain- ment, was brought to a standstill. Fire equipment converged on the area, and a crowd gathered to watch from beyond the cor- doned-off areas. It did not appear that the flames caused any damage to nearby buildings, including the two landmark hotels. However, Piringer said the hotels were evacuated as a precaution. In ad- dition to dousing the flames, fire- fighters sprayed water on build- ings to prevent any possible spread of the fire. Piringer said it appeared that the fire involved a transformer in
an underground electrical vault. He said water from recent heavy rain might have caused damaged the electrical device and caused overheating. He said the clouds of smoke were apparently generat- ed by the burning of oil that is used to insulate or carry heat from the transformers. It was not immediately clear to
what extent electrical service would be affected by the fire. Pir- inger said power had been cut off for “blocks around” as a result of the fire. But it was not known how far the blackout extended or when power might be restored. It was not immediately clear how many people were involved in the hotel evacuations. The Wil- lard has 335 rooms and 40 suites on its 12 floors. Guests from the Willard were taken to a nearby Marriott to await a decision on whether they could return.
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