B12 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Mostly sunny skies Thursday will become cloudier, and showers could move in as a cold front approaches. Highs in the mid- to upper 80s. Friday looks fine, with lots of sun and highs in the low to mid-80s. The good times are expected to roll right on through the weekend.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Low
Low Moderate Moderate
Harrisburg Hagerstown
80/62 80/62
Baltimore 86/64
Washington 88/68
Richmond Charlottesville
87/58 88/66
Norfolk 86/70
Blue Ridge
•Today, partly sunny. High 74-88. Wind south- southwest 7-14 mph. •Tonight, evening thun- derstorm, partly cloudy. Low 52-61. Wind south- west 4-8 mph. •Friday, partly sunny. High 71-83. Wind northwest 4-8 mph.
Virginia Beach 84/72
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, partly sunny. High 80-86. Wind south 10-20 mph. •Tonight, shower or thunderstorm, partly cloudy. Low 68-73. Wind south-southwest 20-30 mph. •Friday, partly sunny. High 79-86. Wind west 7-14 mph.
Annapolis 81/68
Ocean City 86/73
Dover 85/69
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
5 out of 11+, Moderate
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Good
Ozone, 54 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 82/67
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 88/62/s Anchorage 69/48/c Atlanta 88/68/s Austin 93/71/s Baltimore 86/64/pc Billings, MT
Birmingham 90/69/s
68/56/r 69/47/pc 89/60/pc 65/49/c 91/67/pc 94/71/pc 80/56/pc
74/48/pc 53/40/pc 93/67/pc
Bismarck, ND 72/45/pc 52/34/pc Boise 84/55/pc 86/56/pc Boston 66/59/pc 70/56/sh Buffalo 69/53/t
65/52/pc
Burlington, VT 64/48/r 67/44/pc Charleston, SC 86/68/s 88/69/s Charleston, WV 86/63/t 76/52/pc Charlotte 90/61/s
88/61/pc Boating Forecast » Upper Potomac River: Today, turning
cloudy. Wind south 10-20 knots. Waves 1-2 feet. Visibility unrestrict- ed. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, turning cloudy. Wind south 10-20 knots. Waves 1-2 feet on the lower Potomac, 3 feet on the Chesapeake Bay. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.5 feet today, holding steady Friday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Cheyenne, WY 80/48/s 78/44/s Chicago 68/52/r Cincinnati 82/60/t Cleveland 74/57/t Dallas 93/74/s Denver 84/52/s Des Moines
Detroit 72/54/r El Paso
Fairbanks, AK 67/37/s 64/41/s Fargo, ND
73/57/s 78/54/pc 66/54/pc 95/76/pc 86/49/s
72/55/pc 78/55/s 68/55/s
92/69/s 92/67/pc 64/47/pc 56/36/pc
Hartford, CT 70/61/r 76/50/pc Honolulu 89/73/s Houston 92/75/t Indianapolis 78/57/t Jackson, MS
88/74/s 93/75/t 79/60/s
94/67/s 95/66/pc
Jacksonville, FL 88/68/s 90/68/s Kansas City, MO 77/61/pc 84/66/s Las Vegas
99/73/s 100/69/s
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles Tomorrow
Louisville 88/59/t Memphis 90/70/t Miami 89/78/t Milwaukee 68/51/r Minneapolis 64/53/pc Nashville 90/66/t
92/69/pc 93/70/pc 82/60/pc 82/62/pc 81/59/pc 92/68/pc 89/79/t 69/56/s 64/46/c 85/59/pc
New Orleans 90/76/s 91/76/pc New York City 75/66/pc 77/61/pc Norfolk 86/70/pc 86/68/pc Oklahoma City 90/68/t 92/70/pc Omaha 72/58/pc 78/52/s Orlando 90/71/pc 92/72/s Philadelphia 82/67/pc Phoenix 107/80/s Pittsburgh 76/56/t
77/58/pc 108/80/s 71/50/pc
Portland, ME 67/53/pc 68/48/sh Portland, OR
78/61/pc 77/58/r
Providence, RI 70/62/pc 78/55/pc Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 88/66/pc Sacramento 84/52/s St. Louis
90/63/s 88/65/pc 85/50/s 84/52/pc 88/60/pc 82/56/pc
76/55/t 81/66/s
St. Thomas, VI 90/79/sh 90/79/sh Salt Lake City 81/56/s 88/57/s San Diego
74/60/pc 73/60/pc
San Francisco 69/57/pc 69/59/pc San Juan, PR 90/77/sh 90/77/sh Seattle 72/57/pc 71/56/r Spokane, WA 74/52/pc 77/52/pc Syracuse 68/57/r Tampa 93/74/s
66/47/pc 91/75/s
Wichita 82/65/pc 88/67/pc NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO
Today Cloudy
88° 68°
Wind south 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 70/57/t 72/58/t Amsterdam 61/49/pc Athens 84/69/t Auckland 61/51/r Baghdad 106/66/s
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 85/63/pc
58/47/sh 86/70/s 57/48/sh 107/66/s
Bangkok 90/77/pc 91/78/sh Beijing 73/64/pc Berlin 62/48/sh Bogota 68/44/t Brussels 63/43/pc
67/67/r
59/43/sh 66/45/c 63/40/sh
Buenos Aires 63/41/sh 63/43/s Cairo 92/70/s Caracas 84/74/t Copenhagen 58/49/sh
92/67/s 86/74/t
63/47/sh
Dakar 89/80/pc 88/78/s Dublin 61/45/sh Edinburgh 58/40/sh
Frankfurt 65/45/pc 64/43/s Geneva
66/50/sh
Ho Chi Minh City 90/77/t 90/76/t Hong Kong
Islamabad 99/69/s Istanbul 81/67/s Jerusalem 83/60/s Johannesburg 84/46/s Kabul 90/45/s
91/82/t Lagos 83/73/r
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 104° Blythe, Calif. Low: 21° Bodie State Park, Calif.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
59/48/pc 55/43/pc
67/49/pc
Ham., Bermuda 84/74/s 84/78/pc Helsinki 59/49/sh
57/48/sh
89/79/s 89/79/s 97/67/s 79/66/s 79/59/s 80/46/s 83/44/s
Kingston, Jam. 88/79/sh 86/79/r Kolkata
91/82/sh 84/74/sh
Lima 70/57/pc 69/58/pc
London 65/46/sh Madrid 85/59/sh Manila 89/77/t Mexico City
Montreal 58/46/r Moscow 64/54/c Mumbai 88/77/t
Tomorrow 81/64/sh
64/45/pc 79/57/t 86/77/t
75/55/t 75/57/t
63/52/pc 63/52/r 86/75/t
Nairobi 86/57/pc 84/58/t New Delhi
57/50/r 90/74/t 89/77/t
Oslo 56/48/sh 60/45/s Ottawa
Paris 65/50/pc 69/48/s Prague 63/45/pc
63/42/s
Rio de Janeiro 84/76/pc 88/68/s Riyadh 103/76/s 102/75/s Rome 79/62/s Santiago 70/43/s
San Salvador 85/73/t 86/73/t Sarajevo
78/48/s
Seoul 83/61/s Shanghai 84/70/s Singapore 88/79/pc Stockholm 57/50/sh
77/50/s 83/63/s 82/69/s 90/80/t
61/49/sh
Sydney 69/43/pc 66/43/pc Taipei 90/77/s Tehran 79/66/s Tokyo 72/68/r Toronto 70/50/r Vienna 65/52/sh Warsaw 61/45/s Yerevan 87/56/s
89/77/s 80/67/s 80/70/pc 67/53/s 65/49/c 61/47/sh 89/57/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 115° Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Low: -7° Summit Station, Greenland
79/63/pc 75/43/s
61/50/pc Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix DalDallalas
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Atlant Atlanta Atlanta Charleston Charlesto Charleston San Francisco San Francisco Portland Calga Calgary Calgary Helena
Salt La
Salt City
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Denver Denve Denver St. Loui Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City Winnipe Winnipeg Winnipeg
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul Mpls.-
Ottaw St. Paul ChicagChicago St. Louis St. Louis Chicago Columbus Columbus Ottawa ttawa Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia Friday Partly sunny
84° 61°
Wind northwest 7-14 mph
Saturday Mostly sunny
83° 65°
Wind north 6-12 mph
Sunday Sunny
83° 61°
Wind north 7-14 mph Monday Mostly sunny
78° 61°
Wind north-northwest 8-16 mph
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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.
86° at 3:01 p.m. 62° at 7:00 a.m. 80°/62°
97° in 1930 43° in 1902
None 0.67” 1.90” 22.03” 28.16”
74% at 5:00 a.m. 29% at 5:00 p.m.
Barometric pressure High Low
Temperature trend
20° 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
30.17” 30.05”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
86° at 2:47 p.m. 51° at 5:48 a.m. 79°/56°
95° in 1993 38° in 1985
None 0.46” 1.95” 27.05” 30.18”
89% at 7:00 a.m. 28% at 4:00 p.m.
30.17” 30.05”
Normal Record
84° at 3:04 p.m. 53° at 5:04 a.m. 79°/57°
97° in 1927 40° in 1873
None 0.83” 2.04” 29.09” 30.37”
89% at 5:00 a.m. 30% at 4:00 p.m.
30.16” 30.03”
Apparent Temperature:
84°
(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. Wednesday ..........9 This month....... 174 This season .... 1932 Normal to yesterday ...... 1448 Last season .... 1340
S O N D J F M A M J J A
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington 2:56 a.m. 10:19 a.m. 3:37 p.m. 10:17 p.m. Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
12:30 a.m. 7:40 a.m. 12:16 p.m. 6:11 p.m. 2:22 a.m. 8:33 a.m. 3:13 p.m. 9:52 p.m. 4:31 a.m. 10:34 a.m. 5:16 p.m. 11:34 p.m.
Point Lookout 3:48 a.m. 8:20 a.m. 2:19 p.m. 9:38 p.m. Moon phases
Sep 23 Full
Sep 30 Last Quarter
Oct 7 New
Solar system
Rise Set
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:50 a.m.
7:15 p.m.
3:36 p.m. 12:22 a.m.
5:26 a.m. 6:32 p.m.
10:30 a.m. 8:34 p.m.
9:58 a.m. 8:45 p.m.
7:30 p.m. 7:24 a.m.
7:50 a.m. 7:53 p.m.
7:26 p.m. 7:24 a.m.
Oct 14 First Quarter
Identification of body brings relief to family
arlington from B1
— the final resting place of two presidents, 11 Supreme Court justices, and service members from every war and major con- flict in U.S. history — to be taken away from the Army Department and transferred to the Depart- ment of Veterans Affairs. The VA operates several military ceme- teries, all of which have been converted to digitized record- keeping. Arlington still relies on paper records. After the report was released,
ASTRID RIECKEN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Lanier Phillips stops at a statue of Abraham Lincoln while on a walk at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, where he lives. Town’s care changed shipwreck survivor’s life navy from B1
large gun mounted on the ship’s bow, where he used special gloves to grab hot expended shell casings and throw them overboard. “You never hear anything about
the Navy mess attendant,” he said. “They were the fightingest Afri- can American group of any mili- tary service. And every Navy Cross that was given out to blacks was [to] a Navy mess attendant.” Phillips, the son of a share- cropper and the great-grandson of a slave, grew up in a three-room house with no running water in Lithonia, Ga., east of Atlanta. There, he said, he saw the Ku Klux Klan terrorize black communities and burn down the black school. There, his great-grandmother cautioned him, “never look a white man in the eye. . . . If you do you’ll get a whipping, or maybe lynched,” he said. He had to move to the home of an aunt in Chattanooga, Tenn., just to attend a segregated el- ementary school. He joined the Navy in October 1941. “I was glad to get away from the South,” he said, and the Navy “was the lesser
of two evils.” In February 1942, he was on his second voyage, aboard the USS Truxtun, a spartan, 1920s-era de- stroyer with four smoke stacks and no internal passageways, he said.
Early on the 18th, the Truxtun and a supply ship, the USS Pollux, were battling a ferocious winter storm when both ships were blown onto the rocks off the southeast coast of Newfoundland. More than 200 men from the ships perished. Phillips and a few dozen others barely survived. When the Truxtun hit the rocks, Phillips was pitched from the top- most of a stack of five bunks. He scrambled up on deck, where it was snowing and a gale was rag- ing. “The waves would come and . . . just pick the ship up and then slam it against the rock,” he said. “You could hear steel cracking.” Eventually, he said, the ship
broke in two, and began hemor- rhaging fuel oil into the sea. Day- break revealed icy cliffs, and sail- ors swept overboard. Phillips tried to decide what to do. Should he stay with the ship? Or try to get into a life raft, braving the storm
and who knew what kind of wel- come on land? He and the other black sailors
believed they were off the coast of Iceland, where, he said they had been told blacks were forbidden to go ashore. He decided to brave the raft, which capsized just as it reached land. Wet, frozen and exhausted, he said, he staggered ashore and collapsed. Just then he heard a voice say:
“Don’t lie there. You’ll surely die.” Phillips said he could barely see through the oil in his eyes, but he could tell it wasn’t a sailor, and the speaker had an unusual ac- cent. It was one of the locals, and he was white. The man helped Phillips to his
feet and began walking him around a fire to warm him up. Phillips was amazed. “I had never heard a kind word from a white man in my life,” he said, “and I had hatred for white men.”
Phillips was taken to a place where women were washing the oil off the survivors. “Everybody was black” with oil, he said. But the women seemed to be having
trouble getting him clean. “I can’t get it off” him, he said one woman remarked. He said he replied: “It’s the color of the skin. You can’t get it off.” He said he thought now that the townsfolk realized he was black, the good treatment would end. Instead, he recalled, the woman said, “I want him at my house.” It was Violet Pike, the humble wife of a miner, who took him home, fed him soup and put him to bed with blankets and rocks she had heated in her stove. Phillips, one of 46 men from
the Truxtun to survive, and the only black survivor, soon recov- ered and went on to spend 20 years in the Navy. He had a career in oceanography, marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala., and raised a family. But he never forgot Pike, who
died at 62 in 1975, or the people of St. Lawrence, whose humanity that wintry day in 1942 so changed his life. “I can never repay them,” he said. All he can do is tell their story.
ruanem@washpost.com
Warner demanded proof from the cemetery that his son was in the correct spot. But the paper- work provided by the cemetery had inaccuracies that made him doubt the location of his son’s re- mains, he said. He said he had no choice but to exhume his son. Shortly after the cemetery opened Wednesday, Warner and his wife, Melissa, were flanked by a small group of friends and rela- tives and a priest as they made their way to their son’s grave site. Two reporters were also invited by the family to attend. A backhoe had already opened their son’s grave. Tallman said that process included pumping water out of the plot, which, like many grave sites at Arlington, rests below the water table. Heath Warner’s headstone lay on the ground at the head of the freshly dug rectangular hole. Nearby, headstones were covered with green plastic garbage bins for protection.
When the family was in place by the grave site, the backhoe lifted off a large concrete slab covering the coffin. Then a cem- etery worker lowered himself into the hole and emerged with an identification tag that had been affixed to the coffin. He handed it to an Army colonel, who rubbed off the dirt and handed it to the Warners. They nodded their heads, in-
dicating that it identified their son. Then the workers placed har- nesses on either end of the coffin that attached to the arm of the backhoe, which began to pull the casket out of the ground. It came up slowly, covered in dirt, and emerged over the lip of the hole at a tilt. Softly, the priest said a prayer:
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” After it was pulled from the ground, the coffin was placed on a flatbed truck, covered in an American flag and taken to a cin- der-block building in a mainte- nance area of the cemetery. Scott Warner and a young Ma- rine who was a friend of Heath Warner’s entered the building to make the identification. When they emerged a half-hour later, Scott Warner said, “It’s him,” to his wife, who embraced him. “I can breathe,” Melissa Warn- er said. “I feel like a ton of bricks have been lifted off my chest.” Because of the severity of
Heath Warner’s wounds, he had a closed coffin. When he was first killed, his family identified him by a tattoo on his right arm, his father said. On Wednesday, Scott Warner once again identified his son by that tattoo. He had been fearing that mo- ment, he said, especially after he heard that the cemetery recently learned that two bodies had been buried in the wrong plots. Three weeks ago, the cemetery took the extraordinary step of opening the grave of an Army staff sergeant after his wife heard about the cemetery’s prob- lems and worried that her hus- band was buried in the wrong place.
When officials opened his
grave, they found that someone else’s remains had been interred there, Tallman said. The cem- etery found the sergeant in an- other plot, his wife said in an in- terview. Tallman declined to ex- plain how the mix-up occurred. In the four months since the re- port was released, the Army has also declined to make Army Sec- retary John McHugh or Kathryn Condon, who was appointed to fix the problems at Arlington, available for an interview. “When I heard the first disin- terment was not positive, it gave me a sick feeling,” Scott Warner said. “But now I’m relieved.” Once his son’s remains were positively identified, cemetery officials took them to the mortu- ary and placed them in a new cof- fin. Heath Warner was reburied at noon in the same plot.
davenportc@washpost.com
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