B10 WEATHER Washington area today
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast Stubborn clouds dominate at least the
first half of the day. Slow rising temperatures and clouds make Friday a much better day to be out and about, though the humidity is only marginally diminished. Highs in the low-to-mid 80s with light breezes from the east.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Absent
Absent Absent
Harrisburg Hagerstown
82/70 78/65
Baltimore 80/66
Washington 84/72
Richmond Charlottesville
84/70 88/72
Norfolk 88/73
Blue Ridge
•Today, variably cloudy, showers, thunderstorms. High 77-83. Wind east 5-10 mph. •Tonight, mostly cloudy, humid, showers, thunderstorms. Low 61-70. •Saturday, partly sunny, humid, afternoon thunderstorms. High 78-88. Wind south- east 4-8 mph.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 86/72
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, variably cloudy, humid, showers. High 82-88. Wind east 10-20 mph. •Tonight, mostly cloudy, humid. Low 69-73. Wind east 8-16 mph. •Saturday, partly sunny, humid. High 81-87. Wind east 10-20 mph.
Annapolis 80/73
Ocean City 84/72
Dover 85/71
Absent
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
5 out of 11+, Moderate
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Good
Particulates, 94 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 80/66
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 95/66/t Anchorage 65/52/s Atlanta 96/75/t
76/62/pc 79/64/pc 95/70/t 70/54/c 90/75/t
85/68/pc Birmingham 96/76/t
72/51/t 72/49/pc 90/74/t
89/58/s 77/62/s 85/70/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles
Austin 102/77/pc 102/78/pc Baltimore 80/66/c Billings, MT
Bismarck, ND 82/57/t 76/53/pc Boise 88/58/s Boston 74/62/s Buffalo 84/69/sh
Burlington, VT 79/59/s 81/63/pc Charleston, SC 95/78/t 93/77/t Charleston, WV 96/69/pc 95/71/t Charlotte 96/74/t
90/72/t
Cheyenne, WY 80/49/s 76/48/s Chicago 93/74/pc 93/70/t Cincinnati 96/71/s Cleveland 88/71/pc
Upper Potomac River: Today, variably
cloudy, thunderstorm. Wind southeast 7-14 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility 2 miles. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny, thunderstorm. Wind east 10-20 knots. Waves 1 foot or so. Visibility reduced in thunderstorms. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.7 feet today, holding steady Saturday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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98/73/s 91/72/pc
Dallas 105/82/pc 105/83/s Denver 88/53/s Des Moines
Detroit 92/72/pc 93/73/t El Paso
102/75/t 100/75/t
Fairbanks, AK 70/50/pc 77/50/c Fargo, ND
89/73/s 99/81/t 93/73/t
82/59/t 76/56/pc
Hartford, CT 78/62/pc 82/61/pc Honolulu 88/74/s Houston 96/80/t Indianapolis 96/74/s Jackson, MS
96/77/t 92/75/t
Jacksonville, FL 94/77/t 93/76/t Kansas City, MO 96/77/t 90/71/t Las Vegas
104/75/s 106/81/s 87/52/pc 92/72/t 87/67/pc Tomorrow
Louisville 98/78/pc Memphis 100/82/t Miami 92/79/t
102/79/pc 102/79/s 79/62/pc 80/62/pc 99/77/pc 103/80/t 93/80/t
Milwaukee 86/72/pc 89/70/t Minneapolis 86/68/t Nashville 98/77/t
83/62/pc 98/78/t
New Orleans 93/80/t 91/80/t New York City 78/69/pc 83/71/pc Norfolk 88/73/c
Oklahoma City 102/77/s 104/75/s Omaha 90/67/t Orlando 95/77/t Philadelphia 80/66/c Phoenix 108/86/s Pittsburgh 86/66/t
Portland, ME 76/55/s 77/58/s Portland, OR
92/62/s 95/61/s
Providence, RI 77/62/s 81/63/s Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 88/72/t Sacramento 88/53/s St. Louis
98/79/s 97/76/t
St. Thomas, VI 90/81/pc 91/79/s Salt Lake City 84/57/s 90/59/s San Diego
87/61/s 68/63/pc 70/64/pc
San Francisco 64/54/pc 64/53/pc San Juan, PR 89/79/pc 89/79/t Seattle 83/59/s
Spokane, WA 84/56/s 85/57/s Syracuse 78/64/sh
95/72/t 85/68/pc
Tampa 93/80/pc 93/80/pc Wichita 102/75/t
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
94/73/t 90/72/pc 92/56/s 95/58/s 90/72/pc 89/54/s
89/65/pc 95/78/t
85/67/pc 111/88/s 89/68/t
87/72/pc
S
KLMNO Today Thunderstorms
84° 72°
Wind east-southeast 7-14 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
SeattlSeattle 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 66/60/t 67/60/t Amsterdam 65/56/sh Athens 92/77/s Auckland 63/56/sh Baghdad 119/78/s
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 88/68/s
73/56/sh 99/79/s 63/53/r 116/81/s
Bangkok 90/80/pc 90/79/pc Beijing 91/71/pc Berlin 74/63/sh Bogota 65/43/t Brussels 68/52/sh
93/71/s 71/61/r
65/44/sh 75/59/sh
Buenos Aires 50/34/pc 54/36/pc Cairo 102/78/s 102/76/s Caracas 83/73/t Copenhagen 75/64/r
84/73/t 71/64/sh
Dakar 86/79/pc 87/81/c Dublin 64/52/pc Edinburgh 63/52/sh
Frankfurt 75/57/pc 79/61/s Geneva
73/54/sh 72/57/t
Ham., Bermuda 86/78/t 87/77/sh Helsinki 81/61/s
Ho Chi Minh City 93/78/t 90/78/t Hong Kong
Islamabad 95/81/t Istanbul 93/77/s Jerusalem 88/65/s Johannesburg 65/35/s Kabul 101/60/s
89/81/t 89/80/sh 95/82/t 90/77/s 86/65/s 70/39/s 103/59/s
Kingston, Jam. 88/80/t 89/80/t Kolkata 96/82/t Lagos 81/74/sh
96/81/t 78/73/sh Lima 67/56/pc 69/57/pc
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 109° Gila Bend, Ariz. Low: 30° Tuolumne Meadows, Calif.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service. 82/59/pc
66/52/pc 63/52/pc
London 66/54/r Madrid 88/58/sh Manila 89/78/t Mexico City
Tomorrow 90/68/s
70/57/r 84/57/s 85/78/t
79/57/t 79/57/t Montreal 81/64/pc 82/68/pc
Moscow 88/64/pc 90/64/s Mumbai 90/80/r
90/80/r
Nairobi 80/54/pc 81/54/pc New Delhi
Oslo 68/62/r Ottawa
98/82/t 97/82/t 76/63/c 80/64/pc
82/64/pc
Paris 72/57/sh 70/61/s Prague 75/58/sh
82/67/t 68/36/s
74/60/c
Rio de Janeiro 83/62/s 66/57/r Riyadh 105/82/s 106/82/s Rome 84/66/s Santiago 63/36/s
San Salvador 85/73/t 86/72/t Sarajevo
89/53/s
Seoul 88/77/t Shanghai 98/84/t Singapore 90/79/r Stockholm 75/63/pc Sydney 64/42/s Taipei 95/79/s Tehran 91/74/s Tokyo 85/78/r Toronto 86/64/pc Vienna 84/70/r Warsaw 83/69/s Yerevan 98/64/s
88/51/s 86/77/t
96/85/pc 89/79/sh 79/61/pc 66/46/s 94/78/pc 90/74/s 85/76/c 81/68/pc 88/71/pc 92/71/s 98/63/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 120° Mitribah, Kuwait Low: 0° Islas Orcadas, Argentina
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Saturday Partly sunny
86° 72°
Wind southeast 8-16 mph Sunday Partly sunny
86° 74°
Wind south-southeast 8-16 mph Monday Storms possible
87° 74°
Wind south-southwest 7-14 mph Tuesday Storms possible
87° 73°
Wind south 7-14 mph
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 2010
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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.
88° at 3:00 p.m. 73° at 7:08 a.m. 87°/69°
99° in 1926 55° in 1889
0.82” 1.42” 1.32” 20.19” 24.14”
88% at 8:00 a.m. 56% at 1:00 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
29.83” 29.74”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
90° at 1:05 p.m. 72° at 4:00 p.m. 87°/64°
98° in 2002 52° in 1968
1.04” 2.12” 1.42” 24.29” 25.87”
96% at 4:00 p.m. 56% at 2:00 p.m.
29.82” 29.74”
Normal Record
85° at 1:58 p.m. 71° at 6:52 a.m. 86°/65°
99° in 1900 54° in 1962
1.18” 1.80” 1.44” 25.32” 26.03”
100% at 8:00 a.m. 60% at 5:00 p.m.
29.86” 29.76”
Apparent Temperature:
94°
(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. Thursday ............ 16 This month....... 206 This season .... 1485 Normal to yesterday ...... 1074 Last season ...... 961
A S O N D J F M A M J
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
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5:58 a.m. 11:07 a.m. 6:12 p.m. 11:34 p.m. 2:14 a.m. 8:06 a.m. 2:28 p.m. 8:55 p.m. 4:29 a.m. 10:41 a.m. 4:59 p.m. 11:02 p.m. 12:13 a.m. 6:22 a.m. 12:43 p.m. 6:58 p.m.
Point Lookout 4:10 a.m. 10:36 a.m. 4:59 p.m. 11:30 p.m. Moon phases
Aug 16 First Quarter
Aug 24 Full
Sep 1 Last Quarter
Solar system
Rise Set
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:20 a.m.
8:06 p.m.
10:37 a.m. 9:54 p.m.
8:36 a.m. 8:58 p.m.
10:11 a.m. 9:54 p.m.
10:22 a.m. 10:06 p.m.
9:52 p.m. 9:56 a.m.
9:45 a.m. 9:58 p.m.
9:42 p.m. 9:43 a.m.
Sep 8 New
Use of reserves to close budget gap scrutinized in D.C. “It becomes very easy to not make
reserves from B1
contributions to help needy resi- dents pay their bills, $1million from condominium conversion fees designated for emergency housing, and nearly $179,000 from Hoop Dreams scholarships.
Part of a package City Administrator Neil O. Al-
bert said the unused balances from the special accounts can and should be put to use. “The budget gap we were facing was enormous,” Albert said. “Over the last three years, $1.3 billion in revenue disappeared. . . . We didn’t do the gimmicky things some council members were sug- gesting like putting employees on a one-day furlough.” Drawing on the fund balance was part of a multi-pronged ap- proach that included cutting ex- penditures, consolidating pro- grams and increasing parking meter fees, other fees and traffic fines, Albert said. He said the District’s fund balance remains larger than that of 43 states, an assertion backed by the D.C. Fis- cal Policy Institute, a nonprofit watchdog of city finances. The fund balance withdrawals
have been called alarming by Chief Financial Officer Natwar
M. Gandhi and some people who served in the Cabinet of Fenty’s predecessor, Anthony A. Wil- liams (D). “It becomes very easy to not make difficult decisions,” said Robert C. Bobb, who was city administrator under Wil- liams and is now emergency fi- nancial manager of the Detroit public schools. “You want to buy a new pair of shoes. You don’t have the money. You go to your savings until there’s none there. . . . That’s what gets cities in trou- ble.” Ratings agencies look at the fund balance to gauge the city’s fiscal health, a process that af- fects the city’s credit standing and its ability to borrow money, Bobb said. The city “has risen like a phoenix from junk bond status to one of the healthiest city-states in the country. It would be a shame to see it flip backward too far,” he said. Jenny Reed, an analyst for the
D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, said that such warnings are exagger- ated. “Nearly every state has drawn down its fund balance in the recession,” she said. How- ever, she said that in the Dis- trict’s case: “You don’t know what they’re used for. You don’t know where it’s going. It’s hard to tell how much is affecting cuts
difficult decisions.” — Robert C. Bobb, former D.C. city administrator, on the use of reserve funds to balance the budget
and how much is surplus.” The fund balance reductions
have also become an issue in the sometimes testy mayoral pri- mary contest between Demo- crats Fenty and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray. At last week’s Ward 4 Democrats fo- rum, Fenty said of Gray: “All those budgets that he criticizes — me passing, balancing, getting the work done. He voted for ev- ery single one of them.” Gray countered that he has
created a plan to replenish the fund balance because “the budg- ets that have come to the council . . . have money to cover the over- spending by this administra- tion.”
Congress requires the city to
keep a 6 percent contingency fund, which hovers around $300 million and is included in the fund balance. The Fenty ad- ministration dipped into the contingency fund in 2008 when the summer youth jobs program had a $38 million cost overrun. The administration repaid the
Prince George’s officer shoots, wounds 3 men at end of chase
shooting from B1
cruiser got out, Mints said. The van surged forward, ramming the driver’s side of the cruiser and running over a sign and the curb, she said. The officer on the passenger side of the cruiser opened fire, and his partner jumped into the car to avoid being hit, Mints said. The officer on the passenger side, she said, thought his partner might have been run over. Police identified the officer
who fired the shots as Joshua Kingston, a five-year veteran who works in the patrol division. The driver of the van was crit- ically wounded by the gunfire, Mints said. The two passengers
were also struck by the gunfire and suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening, Mints said. Police identified the suspects as Christopher W. Jones, 19, of the District; Calvin Ber- nard-Smith Braswell, 19, of Up- per Marlboro; and Joseph C. Short, 31, of the Lanham area. All were charged with attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and theft.
Kingston has been placed on routine paid administrative leave while police investigate the shooting, Mints said. She said that he was the only person who fired and that investigators were trying to determine how many times. She declined to say wheth- er police recovered a weapon in
the suspects’ van.
A woman who answered the phone at Braswell’s home Thurs- day night declined to comment. Efforts to reach family members for the other men were unsuc- cessful.
Online court records show that
Jones was convicted of a robbery charge in Prince George’s in May. He was sentenced to 10 years, but a judge suspended all but seven months and technically started the sentence Dec. 31, awarding Jones credit for time he had served. The records show that a bench warrant was issued for Jones’s arrest July 28, although it is unclear why or how the case was resolved. On Thursday morning, the
funds. Gandhi, who has been signing
off on the Fenty administration’s policy decisions, became more aggressive about his warnings this year. On July 28, he wrote to the mayor and council that rat- ings analysts are concerned about the “precipitous drop” in the fund balance.
Rebuilding the balance He said the analysts were
heartened by a plan, sponsored by Gray, to rebuild the fund bal- ance with 100 percent of future surpluses. But Reed said she is worried that Gray’s effort could hurt constituents. “Every dollar that goes into the fund balance is a dollar we can’t use for residents who need it,” Reed said. “The proposal went too far, too fast. . . . What’s really important is that the budget needs to be flexible.” The Fiscal Policy Institute’s re-
port recommends that the 100 percent be reduced to 50 percent to free up cash. “Any
only evidence that something un- usual had occurred in the park- ing lot was scattered bits of crime tape and a sign bent at a 30- degree angle. Employees of neighboring businesses said no one was working when the in- cident occurred. Most said they had learned of it from news ac- counts Thursday.
Vince Canales, president of the
county’s Fraternal Order of Po- lice, said he believed an officer chased the van because he “thought it was a stolen vehicle.” He said officers would have been within their rights to pursue it, although he was not sure wheth- er the incident was a true chase because it happened so quickly. “If the car’s stolen, it’s a felony
theft. They can certainly go after the vehicle,” Canales said. “My understanding was that they had a suspicion the vehicle was sto- len, they get behind the vehicle and then all this nonsense got started.”
zapotoskym@washpost.com
rule that is set now will be hard to change because loosening the proposal to build up the fund balance may be seen as fiscally responsible,” the report says. In other words, just as Fenty’s
no-new-taxes pledge contributed to the decision to dip into re- serves, Gray’s fund balance plan could push the city into other choices, such as raising taxes. Will Singer, Fenty’s former
chief of budget execution, was the official behind the mayor’s early spending plans. Singer, who said he was not speaking on behalf of the administration, played down the concerns of bond rating agencies and Gan- dhi.
Gandhi is known for carrying
a notecard graph that shows the city’s finances going from in the red to well in the black. “It’s a point of pride for Gandhi,” said Singer, who added that the fund balance is not the only measure of the city’s financial health. “He’s nervous [about the fund balance]. I don’t think it’s a well- placed nervousness.” Singer said Gandhi’s office rec- ommended borrowing money at the beginning of the year to pre- vent dipping into the fund bal- ance. “It just didn’t make sense,” Singer said. He said the city
A balancing act Over the past two years, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has withdrawn nearly $840 million from reserves for operating budgets.
Fund balance at end of each fiscal year, in millions
0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 1.25 $1.50
0
$1.44 million
$605,402
Projected ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13
SOURCE: D.C. Office of the Chief Financial Officer THE WASHINGTON POST
should use its resources to avoid borrowing and paying interest. And the Fenty administration
has kept the mayor’s promise not to raise taxes. “Raising taxes would make Wall Street feel real- ly good. . . . People want to see a willingness,” Singer said. “That doesn’t make it the right thing to do.”
stewartn@washpost.com
2 sentenced in D.C. bribery scam
A former D.C. government technology manager was sen- tenced Thursday to 27 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $558,978.50 because of his in- volvement in a long-running con- tract bribery and kickback scheme. Yusuf Acar, 42, of Northwest
Washington pleaded guilty in De- cember to accepting bribes be- tween 2005 and his arrest in March 2009 from Sushil K. Ban- sal, chief executive of Advanced Integrated Technologies. In ex- change, Acar helped Bansal win D.C. contracts, hire “ghost em- ployees” and overpaid for his ser- vices.
Farrukh Awan, 38, another for- mer employee of the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer, was sentenced Thursday to 14 months in prison after pleading guilty in November to conspiracy to com- mit wire fraud as a lesser player in the scheme. Awan, of South Riding, was ordered to pay $156,807 in restitution and forfeit $46,648.
Bansal, 42, of Dunn Loring, was sentenced Friday to 20 months in prison and ordered to repay $844,766 jointly with co- conspirators. The cases were be- fore U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy of the District.
— Spencer Hsu
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