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BARBARA CO.Good Moderate Unhealthful for: Sensitive people All Not Available
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Santa Barbara Co.
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City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi LoStation Time Wind Waves TempL.A. Outer Harbor, in feet.Thursday downtown readingsMinutes to burn for
sensitive peopleTemperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura Today’s rise/setFull MoonLast QuarterNew MoonFirst QuarterAugust 23August 30August 15Los Angeles County August 7Orange CountyVentura CountyCity Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo SkyWorld
Key:Susunny;Pcpartly cloudy;Cycloudy;Fg
foggy;Prcpprecipitation;Drdrizzle;Hz;hazy
Shshowers;Tsthunderstorms;Rrain;Snsnow;
Sfsnow flurries;Iice;Rsrain/snow;Wwindy;
Trtrace.Notes:National extremes are for NWS
stations; excludes Alaska and Hawaii.
Missing data indicated by “xx”.Santa
Barbara
VenturaOxnardOjaiCamarilloSanta PaulaWestlake
Village Woodland
Hills
Santa MonicaTorranceLong
Beach Newport
BeachSanta AnaLaguna
Beach San
ClementeMission ViejoIrvineOceansideEscondidoPowayRamonaSan DiegoTemeculaHemet Palm
SpringsFullertonChino
RiversideOntarioPomona/
Fairplex San BernardinoYucca ValleyHesperiaWhittier
HillsLA DowntownUCLASimi ValleyChatsworth
Burbank MonroviaSanta ClaritaAnaheim 90 67 -- 91 65 91 65
Avalon/Catalina 76 61 -- 83 69 81 66
Bakersfield 100 70 -- 96 69 100 72
Barstow 106 73 -- 106 78 108 78
Beaumont 96 60 -- 99 64 99 64
Big Bear Lake 79 51 -- 80 46 81 48
Bishop 98 53 -- 98 55 99 59
Burbank 92 64 -- 95 68 94 67
Camarillo 78 61 -- 80 61 82 61
Chatsworth 97 64 -- 97 67 96 67
Chino 97 61 -- 100 62 100 62
Dana Point 72 65 -- 77 63 78 63
Death Valley 117 92 -- 116 97 118 97
Del Mar 71 68 -- 75 66 76 65
Escondido 90 65 -- 90 63 91 62
Eureka 69 53 -- 68 58 66 56
Fallbrook 87 64 -- 87 60 87 60
Fillmore 89 52 -- 95 62 94 62
Fresno 100 69 -- 98 69 101 71
Fullerton 89 66 -- 90 67 89 67
Hemet xx xx xx 103 66 102 64
Hesperia 96 63 -- 98 65 99 65
Huntington Beach 75 61 -- 78 66 80 67
Idyllwild 88 55 -- 91 68 92 69
Irvine 80 67 -- 84 66 85 65
L.A. D’ntown/USC83 66 -- 90 66 89 66
L.A. Int’l. Airport 72 63 -- 77 65 79 65Laguna Beach 81 68 -- 79 67 80 66
Lancaster 98 63 -- 102 69 103 70
Long Beach 87 66 -- 87 67 85 67
Mammoth Lakes 82 8 -- 82 42 84 44
Mission Viejo 92 65 -- 88 65 88 65
Monrovia 95 62 -- 91 69 91 69
Monterey 69 56 -- 68 57 68 57
Mt. Wilson 81 66 -- 86 65 87 64
Needles 111 90 -- 114 90 115 91
Newport Beach 75 66 -- 78 67 79 67
Northridge 98 63 -- 98 66 98 66
Oakland 69 60 -- 74 60 75 58
Oceanside 79 66 -- 83 62 84 62
Ojai 93 53 -- 93 62 91 61
Ontario 97 64 -- 101 69 101 68
Oxnard 72 59 -- 75 62 75 62
Palm Springs 114 83 -- 113 87 113 86
Pasadena 92 65 -- 94 68 94 68
Paso Robles 92 48 -- 100 55 102 56
Pomona/Fairplex 95 62 -- 99 64 99 64
Poway 90 62 -- 84 64 84 64
Redding 98 64 -- 99 66 104 67
Rialto 96 66 -- 101 68 101 67
Riverside 98 64 -- 101 62 100 63Sacramento 87 60 -- 93 61 98 60
San Bernardino 100 68 -- 102 67 101 67
San Clemente Pier68 66 -- 79 64 79 63
San Diego 77 68 -- 78 66 78 65
San Francisco 69 58 -- 74 58 76 57
San Gabriel 89 64 -- 96 68 96 68
San Jose 76 56 -- 81 61 85 60
San Luis Obispo 75 55 -- 83 54 83 53
Santa Ana 81 68 -- 84 68 84 68
Santa Barbara 76 58 -- 76 58 76 58
Santa Clarita 94 62 -- 100 67 99 65
Santa Monica Pier 74 63 -- 79 64 79 64
Santa Paula 87 52 -- 92 60 90 61
Santa Rosa 83 53 -- 89 53 91 52
Simi Valley 86 57 -- 95 65 95 63
Tahoe Valley 79 40 -- 80 41 83 46
Temecula 97 61 -- 97 63 96 63
Thousand Oaks 81 58 -- 89 62 88 61
Torrance 75 66 -- 80 65 80 65
UCLA 77 62 -- 84 64 84 64
Van Nuys 96 65 -- 99 68 97 69
Ventura 69 58 -- 74 60 74 61
Whittier Hills 94 61 -- 92 66 91 66
Woodland Hills 98 60 -- 99 64 98 64
Wrightwood 81 64 -- 87 66 88 66
Yorba Linda 92 64 -- 94 65 93 64
Yosemite Valley 91 59 -- 86 59 88 61Warming trend:High pressure over the Four Corners region will expand, promoting a warming trend
through the weekend. The marine layer will be shallow, but will stubbornly cling to the coast, keeping
some beaches partly cloudy into the afternoon. Temperatures are expected to peak Saturday, when
some high clouds will stream into the area from the southeast.Partly sunny 89/
Mostly sunny 89/
Partly sunny 88/
Some sun 87/Partly sunny 96/
Mostly sunny 97/
Partly sunny 97/
Some sun 96/Partly sunny 79/
Partly sunny 80/
Partly sunny 79/
Partly sunny 79/Showers 81/
Mostly sunny 79/
Some sun 81/
Partly sunny 80/Partly sunny 113/
Mostly sunny 113/
Partly sunny 114/
Partly sunny 111/Sunny Sunny Some sun Mostly sunny Mostly sunnyLos Angeles Basin:Low
clouds, then mostly sunny
by late morning. Clear this
evening with coastal low
clouds later.
Valleys/canyons:Mostly
sunny with unhealthy air
quality for sensitive people.
Mostly clear tonight and
Saturday.Orange County:Low clouds
and fog gradually giving
way to sun.
Ventura/Santa Barbara:
Low clouds and fog on the
northern Santa Barbara
County coast, then sunny
and warm.
San Diego County:Morning
coastal low clouds, thensun. Clear this evening with
low clouds at the coast
overnight.
Local mountains:Sunny
and breezy. Mostly clear
tonight. Mostly sunny and
warm through the weekend.
High desert:Mostly sunny
and hot through the
weekend. Mostly clear atnight.
Low desert:Mostly sunny
and hot through the
weekend. Clear tonight.
San Francisco Bay Area:
Low clouds, then afternoon
sun. Mostly clear with low
clouds this evening.Saturday
Sunday
Monday
TuesdayTodaySoutheastern storms:Heavy showers and thunderstorms will extend
from Florida to the Mid-Atlantic region. Storms will also affect the
northern and central Plains, Rockies and Southwest. Rain will fall
in western Washington, while New England is dry.High117 in Death Valley
Low33 at Boca Reservoir, Calif.Inner waters:Winds becoming west at
10-15 knots. Wind waves 1-3 feet with a
west swell of about 2 feet.
Surf zone:The potential for strong rip
currents is low, although rip currents
are almost always possible, particularly
adjacent to piers, groins and jetties.
Morro Bay 4p WNW7 7/7 58/
Santa Barbara 4p WSW4 2/17 61/
Ventura 4p WSW4 3/17 64/
Zuma Beach 4p SW4 1/14 67/
Marina del Rey 4p SW4 2/18 70/
Hermosa Beach4p WSW4 2/18 68/
Cabrillo Beach 4p WSW4 2/18 68/
Hunt’n. Beach 4p WSW4 1/18 68/
Newport Beach 4p WSW4 1/18 68/
Dana Point 4p W4 1/18 70/
San Clemente 4p W4 1/16 70/
Oceanside 4p W4 1/16 71/
Solana Beach 4p W4 1/16 72/
Mission Beach 4p WNW4 1/16 72/
Avalon 4p W3 2/18 68/High/low 83/66 89/66 69/
High/low a year ago 90/71 96/73 79/
Normal high/low for date 84/64 84/65 75/
Record high/date 99/1959 96/2018 86/
Record low/date 51/1933 61/1998 52/24-hour total (as of 4 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.
Season total (since Oct. 1) 18.82 17.22 18.
Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 4.72 3.11 6.
Season norm (Oct. 1 to date)14.65 13.62 16.
Humidity (high/low) 83/50 82/42 96/Thursday Today Saturday Thursday Today SaturdayThursday TodayThursday Today SaturdayForecasts provided by
AccuWeather, Inc.©Today11:34a 4.7 Hi 5:07a -1.2 Lo
10:52p 6.7 Hi 4:44p 1.6 Lo
Sat. 12:16p 4.8 Hi 5:49a -0.9 Lo
11:43p 6.1 Hi 5:39p 1.5 LoPrecipitationSun 6:05a/7:54p
Moon 7:47a/9:30pSun 6:04a/7:52p
Moon 7:46a/9:28pSun 6:09a/7:58p
Moon 7:51a/9:34pLas Vegas, 10
Los Angeles, 10
Phoenix, 10
San Francisco, 25Albuquerque 94 68 .01 93 69 Su
Amarillo 102 69 -- 101 70 Pc
Anchorage 66 57 -- 71 58 Pc
Atlanta 94 73 -- 84 71 Ts
Atlantic City 80 71 .20 82 73 Pc
Austin 97 70 -- 99 73 Pc
Baltimore 91 68 Tr 85 69 Ts
Billings 98 72 .28 97 68 Su
Birmingham 93 69 .01 87 71 Ts
Boise 98 63 -- 97 63 Su
Boston 89 73 -- 82 69 Su
Brownsville 97 78 Tr 94 77 Pc
Buffalo 83 60 -- 84 62 Su
Burlington, Vt. 82 61 -- 84 61 Su
Casper 84 59 .10 89 54 Su
Charleston, S.C. 91 74 -- 83 72 Ts
Charleston, W.Va. 92 67 -- 88 65 Pc
Charlotte 94 69 1.47 84 70 Ts
Chicago 80 57 -- 83 61 Su
Cincinnati 90 65 -- 86 66 Su
Cleveland 82 62 -- 82 66 Su
Colo. Springs 89 62 .01 83 58 Pc
Columbia, S.C. 92 71 .08 86 71 Ts
Columbus 86 69 -- 86 65 Su
Concord, N.H. 84 61 -- 86 56 Su
Dallas/Ft.Worth 96 77 -- 97 77 Pc
Denver 89 62 .41 87 62 Pc
Des Moines 81 58 -- 81 63 Pc
Detroit 83 59 -- 85 62 Su
Duluth 85 58 -- 84 63 Pc
El Paso 100 77 -- 99 78 Pc
Eugene 89 51 -- 85 59 Pc
Fairbanks 66 54 .31 61 58 Sh
Fargo 85 64 -- 85 66 Ts
Flagstaff 80 52 -- 80 55 Pc
Grand Junction 88 62 .03 94 66 Cy
Grand Rapids 81 55 -- 85 60 Su
Green Bay 82 52 -- 84 65 Su
Hartford 88 64 -- 88 66 Su
Helena 92 59 -- 90 58 Ts
Honolulu 90 79 .04 90 79 Sh
Houston 95 75 -- 94 74 Pc
Indianapolis 84 61 -- 85 65 Pc
Jacksonville, Fla. 89 76 1.79 82 71 Ts
Kansas City 86 68 .02 76 66 Ts
Las Vegas 104 80 -- 107 87 Pc
Little Rock 91 73 Tr 89 71 Pc
Louisville 91 69 -- 90 71 Su
Medford 95 62 -- 93 62 Su
Memphis 91 72 -- 90 72 Pc
Miami 85 77 .15 87 79 Ts
Milwaukee 75 55 -- 80 62 Su
Minneapolis 86 64 -- 86 68 Pc
Nashville 92 71 -- 89 70 Ts
New Orleans 94 74 -- 88 73 Sh
New York 87 71 -- 84 71 Su
Oklahoma City 96 74 -- 96 72 Pc
Omaha 86 66 -- 76 65 Cy
Orlando 90 74 .10 82 73 Ts
Philadelphia 90 73 -- 85 71 Pc
Phoenix 105 83 -- 107 88 Pc
Pittsburgh 85 65 -- 83 64 Pc
Portland, Maine 85 66 Tr 83 62 Su
Portland, Ore. 90 62 -- 82 62 Sh
Providence 87 70 -- 86 67 Su
Pueblo 92 66 -- 93 62 Pc
Raleigh 91 67 .86 83 69 Ts
Rapid City 75 65 .01 80 61 Pc
Reno 95 58 -- 93 61 Su
Richmond 91 69 .15 81 68 Ts
St. Louis 83 65 -- 86 69 Su
Salt Lake City 93 65 Tr 98 72 Su
San Antonio 98 76 -- 99 76 Pc
San Juan, P.R. 88 75 .08 89 78 Pc
Santa Fe 91 58 .02 87 62 Ts
Seattle 85 60 -- 76 60 CySpokane 89 61 -- 88 59 Su
Springfield, Mo. 86 70 .01 82 69 Ts
Tallahassee 94 72 Tr 88 72 Ts
Tampa 95 73 .76 85 73 Ts
Tucson 99 75 -- 101 77 Pc
Tulsa 92 76 .01 87 72 Ts
Washington, D.C. 91 71 -- 85 72 Ts
Wichita 91 73 .18 88 70 Pc
Yuma 107 83 .05 110 84 PcAcapulco 95 78 .10 89 80 Ts
Amsterdam 70 61 .53 72 58 Sh
Athens 99 81 -- 95 78 Su
Baghdad 116 81 -- 115 83 Su
Bangkok 90 81 .08 86 78 Sh
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Beijing 92 79 .06 87 73 Ts
Berlin 76 57 .05 76 58 Ts
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Dublin 68 50 -- 68 56 Pc
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Geneva 79 55 .12 78 57 Ts
Havana 90 75 .01 88 72 Ts
Ho Chi Minh City 91 78 .02 88 75 Sh
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boyfriend, Kareem Leiva,
are awaiting trial on charges
that they tortured and killed
him in 2018. They could face
the death penalty.
In a written statement,
DCFS spokeswoman Amara
Suarez declined to comment
on the lawsuit, but said the
department had an “unwa-
vering commitment to pur-
sue child safety” when han-
dling more than 30,000 fam-
ily and child welfare cases
each year.
“Our 9,000 employees do
not take this commitment
lightly and look to do every-
thing possible to safeguard
the children in our care,” she
wrote. “All DCFS employees
are held to the highest
standards to ensure that the
public trust in our service is
honored and maintained.”
The lawsuit was brought
by Victor Avalos, Anthony’s
biological father who lives in
Mexico, and the boy’s sib-
lings, who remain in foster
care, relatives say. Filed in
Superior Court in Los Ange-
les, the suit cites numerous
causes of action, including
wrongful death, gross negli-
gence and civil rights viola-
tions.
The 57-page complaint,
filed Thursday by Avalos’
Pasadena attorneys, Brian
Claypool and Nathalie Val-
lejos, claims a “custom and
practice of deliberate indif-
ference” by the DCFS. In
dense detail, it outlines nu-
merous instances of vi-
olence, sexual abuse and ne-
glect against Anthony and
his siblings — beginning in
2014 — before the boy’s death
four years later.
“There were probably 10
instances in which any rea-
sonable social worker would
have permanently removed
Anthony and those kids
from that home, given the
danger they were in,” Clay-
pool said.
The lawsuit also recounts
allegations that a DCFS so-
cial worker laughed while
describing abuse against
Anthony — an interaction
recorded on the depart-
ment’s hotline.
Prosecutors have alleged
in court papers that Leiva
“frustrated easily” and re-
peatedly hit the children,
sometimes with hoses, and
withheld food from them.
The reports also said
Heather Barron screamed
at her children, showed no
affection and “seemed com-
pletely detached.”
The lawsuit also names
Hathaway-Sycamores Child
and Family Services, a Pasa-
dena-based contractor for
the DCFS that offers mental
health and welfare services.
The suit alleges that an em-
ployee may have failed to re-
port abuse she witnessed at
Anthony’s Lancaster home.
Hathaway-Sycamores
officials couldn’t immedi-
ately be reached for com-
ment.
The same Hathaway-
Sycamores employee
worked with the family of
Gabriel Fernandez, an 8-
year-old Palmdale boy who
was tortured and killed by
his mother, Pearl Sinthia
Fernandez, and her
boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre.
In that 2013 case, DCFS
social workers also missed
red flags. It became a symbol
of bureaucratic failure and
propelled what were meant
to be far-reaching reforms
within the county’s child
welfare system.
The legal action on
Thursday is the latest head-
ache for the DCFS, which is
still reeling from Anthony’s
death and the negative state
audit it prompted.
The department has en-
gaged in a spurt of new hir-
ing and reform efforts under
Director Bobby Cagle, who
spent time in foster care
growing up in North Car-
olina.
The DCFS also is facing
fresh criticism over its han-
dling of the case of Noah Cu-
atro. The 4-year-old Palm-
dale boy died July 6 — weeks
after the department sought
and received permission
from a judge to remove him
from an abusive home in
May, but then failed to follow
through on.
His parents, Jose and Ur-
sula, called 911 over the
Fourth of July weekend, say-
ing Noah had drowned in the
swimming pool of an apart-
ment complex, but Los An-
geles County Sheriff Alex
Villanueva has said the boy’s
injuries were not consistent
with that claim.
Foul play is suspected,
given the years of abuse re-
ports involving his parents.
At the time of his death, No-
ah had been under active su-
pervision by the DCFS after
more than a dozen calls to
both the child-abuse hotline
and police from people who
said they suspected children
in their home were being
abused.
Sheriff ’s detectives are
still investigating the case as
asuspicious death, which
some say could have been
prevented had social work-
ers placed the boy in foster
care immediately after get-
ting permission from the
judge to do so.
The details of the depart-
ment’s extremely rare deci-
sion not to execute the re-
moval order remain secret.
However, in response to a
request by The Times, the
DCFS on Wednesday night
released 117 pages of heavily
redacted reports in Noah’s
case.
The documents confirm
the timeline of the depart-
ment’s interaction with the
boy’s family — including al-
legations of sexual assault
by his father — but don’t ex-
plain why he remained in the
home.
In addition to the civil
case filed Thursday, Clay-
pool — who also represents
Noah’s great-grandmother
—sent lettersto California
Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra
and U.S. Atty. Gen. William
Barr, asking for state and
federal investigations.
Maria Barron said she
joined the news conference,
which included a gathering
of about a dozen protesters
carrying signs such as
“Enough is enough” and “Fix
this broken system,” be-
cause she still hasn’t re-
solved the pain of losing An-
thony — and her belief that
the DCFS is responsible.
“DCFS has really failed
us terribly,” she said. “Hope-
fully this is a wake-up call so
not one more family has to
go through this.”
Boy’s death prompts suit against welfare agency
[L awsuit,from B1]
MARIA BARRONweeps at a news conference announcing a $50-million lawsuit
against the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.
Gary CoronadoLos Angeles Times