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78/Seattle
53/Seattle
53/LosAngeles
71/Los Angeles
71/Denver
58/Denver
58/Houston
67/Houston
67/Miami
85/Miami
85/NewYork
56/New York
56/Chicago
51/Chicago
51/Anchorage
40/Anchorage
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City Hi Lo Prcp. HiLo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. HiLo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. HiLo Hi LoL.A. Outer Harbor, infeet.County Height Period DirectionFriday Downtown readin gsMinutesto burn for sensi tive peopleTemperature Los Angeles Fullerton VenturaToday’s rise/setApril 7 April 14 April 22 April 30Los An geles Co. Orange Co. Ventura Co.Key:Susunny;Pcpartly cloudy;Cycloudy;Fg
foggy;Prcpprecipitation;Drdrizzle;Hz;hazySh
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VenturaOxnardOjaiCamarilloSanta PaulaWestlak e
Village Woodland
Hills
SantaMonicaTorrance
Long
Beach Newport
BeachSanta AnaLaguna
Beach San
ClementeMissionViejoIrvineOceansideEscondidoPowayRamonaSan DiegoTemeculaHemet Palm
SpringsFullertonChino
RiversideOntarioPomona/
Fairplex San BernardinoYucca ValleyHesperiaWhittier
HillsUCLASimi ValleyChats worth
Burbank MonroviaSanta ClaritaL.A. DowntownSun 6:36a/7:16p 6:35a/7:15p 6:40a/7:21p
Moon 3:36p/4:39a 3:34p/4:38a 3:39p/4:44aAnaheim 70 53 -- 71 56 67 56
Avalon /Catalina 61 50 -- 5950 57 50
Bakersfi eld 68 42 -- 72 54 69 48
Barstow 76 42 -- 77 52 72 50
Big Bear Lake 56 27 -- 55 30 50 32
Bishop 69 28 -- 70 36 64 37
Burbank 68 49 -- 69 53 62 53
Camarillo 69 46 -- 6853 67 54
Chatsworth 73 47 -- 68 52 60 53
Chino 73 50 -- 72 52 67 52
Dana Point 63 49 -- 64 54 63 56
Death Valley 84 59 -- 86 64 83 64
Del Mar 62 55 -- 64 56 63 57
Escondido 71 54 -- 69 53 64 53
Eureka 53 37 -- 56 46 53 43
Fallbrook 68 51 -- 67 52 65 53
Fresno 70 45 -- 68 52 59 48
Fullerton 71 57 -- 71 57 68 57
Hemet 68 48 -- 70 46 63 47
Hesperia 71 39 -- 68 43 59 45
Huntington Beach 68 53 -- 67 56 64 56
Idyllwild 58 29 -- 5838 54 39
Irvine 67 52 -- 6856 65 57
L.A. D’nt own/USC71 57 -- 7158 64 55L.A. Int’l. Airport 67 54 -- 67 56 66 57
Laguna Beach 69 48 -- 65 56 63 57
Lancaster 68 44 -- 68 47 58 46
Long Beach 66 55 -- 67 56 64 57
MammothLakes 52 12 -- 51 30 48 28
Mis sion Viejo 70 48 -- 68 54 65 55
Monr ovia 70 52 -- 71 52 62 52
Monterey 60 48 -- 61 53 60 48
Mt. Wilson 54 37 -- 54 38 48 39
Needles 82 52 -- 83 58 82 56
Newport Beach 63 54 -- 65 57 63 58
Northridge 73 46 -- 69 50 59 52
Oakland 64 43 -- 61 52 58 47
Oceanside 66 47 -- 66 52 66 53
Ojai 69 37 -- 66 48 58 47
Ontario 70 51 -- 71 52 63 53
Palm Springs 82 54 -- 82 57 78 55
Pasadena 70 51 -- 69 53 61 53
Paso Robles 69 35 -- 66 51 58 44
Pomona/Fairplex 73 49 -- 71 52 63 52
Redding 66 35 -- 54 48 55 42
Riverside 70 51 -- 69 47 62 46
Sacramento 70 40 -- 58 51 56 43
San Bernardino 72 54 -- 70 50 62 50San Diego 67 54 -- 65 57 66 58
San Francisco 62 47 -- 60 51 57 46
San Gabriel xx 54 -- 72 54 63 54
San Jose 64 39 -- 61 52 58 45
San Luis Obispo 63 46 -- 65 52 57 47
Santa Ana 69 56 -- 70 58 68 59
Santa Barbara 66 41 -- 64 49 64 48
Santa Clarita 71 42 -- 69 50 58 50
San ta Monica Pier64 51 -- 65 54 62 56
SantaPaula 69 41 -- 66 50 60 49
Santa Rosa 68 34 -- 59 47 54 39
Simi Valley 67 44 -- 67 51 59 52
Tahoe Valley 48 22 -- 42 32 39 22
Temecula 70 51 -- 68 50 62 49
Thousand Oaks 66 49 -- 66 51 61 52
Torran ce 66 55 -- 67 54 64 56
UCLA 65 53 -- 67 55 63 56
Van Nuys 71 50 -- 69 52 62 51
Ventura 64 49 -- 63 52 61 51
Whittier Hills 75 54 -- 71 56 65 56
WoodlandHills 70 43 -- 69 49 59 51
Wright wood 56 33 -- 55 38 46 35
Yorba Linda 72 50 -- 70 53 65 54
Yosemi te Valley 63 35 -- 52 39 46 30A littlerain 64/
Rain 62/
A few sho wers 62/
A few sho wers 61/Rain; cooler 59/
Rain 55/
Showers 58/
A few sho wers 57/A littlerain 62/
Rain 62/
Showers 60/
A few sho wers 58/Rain and snow 50/
Snow, 2-4” 39/
Snow, 1-3” 29/
Snow;cold 28/Some sun 78/
A sho wer 69/
Rain; cool 67/
Cloudy 67/Mostly sunny Mostly sunnyMostly sunnySunshine;coolMostly sunny
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Monday
Tuesday
WednesdayTodayInnerwaters:Wind east, becom-
ing west today at 5-10 knots. Wind
waves 2-5 feet with with west swells
3-4 feet and south swells around 2
feet.
Surf zone:Thehighestris k of rip
currents today will be at Orange
county beaches. A moderate but
significant risk will occurelsewhere.Santa Barbara 2-4’ 9 sec WSW
Ventura 2-4’ 8 sec WSW
Los Angeles 2-4’ 9 sec WSW
Orange 3-5’ 9 sec SW
San Diego 2-4’ 9 sec SSWFriday Today SundayFriday Today Sunday Friday Today SundayForecasts byAccuWeather, Inc.©Today 6:57a 5.3 Hi 1:02a 1.9Lo
8:21p 4.5 Hi 1:51p -0.7Lo
Sun. 7:49a 5.6 Hi 1:50a 1.2Lo
8:48p 5.0 Hi 2:27p -0.8LoHigh/low 71/57 71/57 64/
Normal high/low 71/52 71/51 67/
High/low ayear ago 67/57 68/57 64/
Record high/date 94/1 961 88/2015 88/
Record low/date 40/1892 46/2003 39/24-hourtotal (as of 4 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.
Seasontotal (since Oct. 1) 11.67 10.06 10.
Last season(Oct. 1 to date) 17.99 15.87 17.
Season norm(Oct. 1 to date) 13.63 12.54 15.
Humidity (high/low) 77/4 3 77/48 79/Precipitation Los AngelesFullerton VenturaLas Vegas, 25
Los Angeles, 25Phoenix, 25
San Franci sco, 60(^71) / (^5868) / (^5165) / (^5455) / (^3082) / 57
High94 inFalfurrias,Texas
Low–13 in LakeYellowsto ne, Wyo.
Friday Today Friday Today
Albany 51 42 .20 58 45 Cy
Albuquerque 69 44 -- 70 46 Su
Anchorage 38 30 .16 40 33 Cy
Aspen 42 16 .06 50 32 Cy
Atlanta 78 48 -- 76 56 Pc
Austin 74 68 2. 19 56 53 R
Baltimore 65 47 .01 61 46 Pc
Boise 52 32 -- 57 40 Cy
Boston 45 39 .83 43 36 Cy
Buffalo 47 38 .05 53 41 Pc
Burling ton, Vt. 50 39 .28 54 40 Pc
Charleston, S.C. 77 44 -- 7552 Su
Charlotte 77 39 -- 76 49 Su
Chicago 70 45 Tr 51 35 Sh
Cincinnati 69 43 -- 70 49 Pc
Cleveland 55 30 -- 60 41 Pc
Columbia,S.C. 77 40 -- 77 49 Su
Columbus 66 33 -- 66 48 Pc
Dallas/Ft.Worth 66 63 .21 53 48 Ts
Denver 43 15 .05 58 35 Su
Detroit 65 36 -- 58 39 Pc
El Paso 76 58 -- 80 56 Cy
Eugene 54 30 Tr 50 42 R
Fort Myers 89 59 -- 85 67 Su
Hartford 53 41 .15 54 40 Cy
Honolulu 81 68 .03 8269 Sh
Houst on 82 65 .15 67 60 R
Indianapolis 69 47 -- 58 40 Cy
Jacksonville,Fla. 81 48 -- 83 59 Su
Kansas City 34 30 .23 51 37 Su
Knoxville 72 38 -- 74 49 Pc
Las Vegas 73 52 -- 78 57 Su
Louisville 73 48 -- 73 52 Pc
Medford 56 36 -- 55 41 R
Memphis 73 56 Tr 73 54 Cy
Miami 83 70 Tr 85 68 Su
Milwaukee 57 40 Tr 48 32 Sh
Minneapolis 30 26 .15 47 29 Pc
Nashville 74 43 -- 75 52 Pc
New Orleans 81 60 Tr 81 63 Cy
New York 52 46 .13 56 45 Pc
Norfolk 69 52 -- 56 45 Pc
OklahomaCity 42 30 .02 52 41 Su
Omaha 32 24 .15 50 30 Su
Orlando 84 57 -- 88 65 Su
Philadelphia 58 47 Tr 59 45 Pc
Phoenix 84 57 -- 84 59 Su
Pittsburgh 60 33 -- 63 46 Pc
Portland, Ore. 51 39 .06 53 43 R
Providence 46 40 .45 48 35 Pc
Raleigh/Durham 72 44 -- 67 46 Su
Reno 60 27 -- 55 40 W
Richmond 71 44 -- 63 44 Pc
St. Louis 74 54 .01 56 45 Ts
Salt Lake City 52 29 -- 63 45 Pc
Acapulco 91 73 -- 85 75 Su
Amsterdam 48 43 .25 57 42 Pc
Athens 54 45 .19 62 54 R
Bangkok 97 81 -- 99 83 Su
Barcelona 61 46 -- 61 47 Pc
Berlin 52 39 .04 54 34 Pc
Cabo San Lucas 84 61 -- 81 65 Su
Cairo 82 60 -- 93 74 Hz
Dubai 93 67 -- 93 75 Su
Dublin 52 38 .05 53 45 Pc
Havana 90 57 -- 90 67 Su
Ho Chi Minh City 99 80 -- 97 81 Su
Hong Kong 75 70 -- 75 66 Ts
Istanbul 50 41 .02 53 48 R
Jerusalem 66 45 -- 76 65 Su
Johannesburg 64 48 .36 61 49 Sh
Kuala Lumpur 92 76 .32 92 76 Ts
Lima 77 69 -- 76 69 Pc
London 55 44 .12 59 45 Pc
Madrid 63 36 -- 67 48 Pc
Mecca 98 75 -- 102 73 Su
Mexico City 84 56 .09 77 56 Ts
Milan 63 35 -- 66 43 Su
Montreal 48 40 .79 50 37 Cy
Moscow 50 36 -- 47 29 Pc
Mumbai 93 79 -- 92 80 Hz
New Delhi 86 54 -- 91 65 Hz
Paris 57 43 -- 63 43 Pc
Prague 48 32 .08 51 32 Su
Rome 60 34 -- 66 43 Su
Seoul 61 36 -- 56 32 Su
Singapore 91 81 .24 90 78 Sh
Taipei City 73 64 .24 67 61 R
Tokyo 64 45 .02 67 52 W
Vancouver 48 39 .04 49 38 Cy
Vienna 60 28 -- 59 33 Su
Seattle 50 39 -- 53 42 Cy
Tampa 83 59 -- 84 66 Su
Tucson 83 51 -- 83 50 Pc
Tulsa 38 36 .04 54 44 Su
Washington,D.C. 68 48 -- 63 49 Pc
Wichita 48 27 Tr 54 38 Su
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Low clouds then clearing:Westerly flow aloft to the south of a developing storm will promote onshore flow
today, and morning low clouds will clear for afternoon sunshine. Increasing moisture ahead of the storm will
cause clouds and a bit of rain or drizzle on Sunday. Then it will get stormy Sunday night and Monday with a
soaking rain. It may rain hard enough for some flash flooding.
New storm in the West:Rain and mountain snow will spread across
Oregon and Northern California as a storm approaches. Heavy rain and
thunderstorms in Texas, while beneficial for some, can lead to flash
flooding. The Northeast will be mainly dry with less wind.
bers right here,” he said.
“You don’t want to be the
next.”
Bill Young, president of
the union that represents
Riverside County sheriff ’s
deputies, said he knew both
Werksman and Young and
called them “the nicest guys
that you could meet.”
Young and Werksman
did not work together and
did not encounter each
other while infected with the
coronavirus, Bianco said. No
Sheriff ’s Department em-
ployees who worked with
Werksman have shown
symptoms as of Friday.
Twenty-six Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment employees and 13 in-
mates in the county’s jails
have tested positive. Two
employees and no inmates
have been hospitalized.
Young, a deputy of 15
years, was working March 22
at the Cois M. Byrd Deten-
tion Center near Murrieta
when he fell ill and went
home early, Bianco said. A
week earlier, Young had es-
corted an inmate from the
detention center to a
hospital. The inmate has
tested positive for COVID-19.
Young was a family man,
a caring husband to his wife
of nearly 31 years, Marie, and
an attentive father to their
four children, said Tania
Gergel, a longtime friend of
Young and his family. Since
launching a fundraiser for
his family, Gergel has heard
that Young was a smiling
face to strangers at his local
church in Murrieta, where
he worked security and
ushered cars into the park-
ing lot every Sunday.
Werksman joined the
Sheriff ’s Department in
1998, working in the jails, on
patrol and then on the bomb
squad, an assignment he
held for 11 years, Bianco said.
His first day on the bomb
squad, Werksman was sent
to a vineyard in Temecula,
where a man digging with a
backhoe had unearthed an
unexploded World War II-
era artillery shell, Werks-
man’s older brother, Harry,
said in an interview.
“David said, ‘What are we
going to do?’ And the guys
said, ‘Pick it up.’ He said,
‘What if it goes off?’ And they
said, ‘We won’t know. We’ll be
pink mist.’ ”
Despite its stress and the
toll it took on his body,
Werksman loved the work.
One day, he called his
brother and told him to turn
on the news. A TV crew
showed a day care, its base-
ment converted into a meth
lab, and a solitary figure ap-
proaching. “There he was in
his bomb suit,” Harry
Werksman recalled, “trudg-
ing toward it.”
“He really felt like he was
saving not just one person,
but as many people that
might be affected by a meth
lab blowing up or by a suspi-
cious package in a court-
house,” he said. “For him, it
was about helping as many
people as possible. And
when he told me those sto-
ries, I’d look at him and
think, ‘I am the most selfish
person in the world.’ ”
After 11 years, though,
David Werksman’s shoul-
ders, knees and back were
aching. He was in the proc-
ess of being declared medi-
cally retired, his brother
said, and was looking for-
ward to purchasing a cata-
maran, moving with his wife
to the Caribbean and open-
ing a charter boat company.
On March 17, Werksman’s
mother, Mary, died at her
home in Rancho Mirage. She
was 88 and had leukemia,
Harry Werksman said.
Though Bianco said that
Werksman may have con-
tracted the coronavirus at
the funeral or while making
arrangements for his moth-
er’s burial, Harry Werksman
said there was no funeral
service out of concerns
about spreading the virus.
When he spoke to his
brother March 28, David
Werksman was coughing
and his voice was all but
gone. He checked into a hos-
pital the next day and went
on a ventilator.
The last thing he said be-
fore he was hooked up to the
machine, hospital workers
later told Harry Werksman,
was “take care of my kids.”
‘We are reeling’:
Two deputies die
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one else anywhere near me.
But unmasked runners
who have staked out the
dead center of a sidewalk
whoosh past me without
warning or effort to make
space. I see construction
crews everywhere, working
shoulder to shoulder, wear-
ing masks — if they have
them — on top of their
heads like tiny clown hats.
People still zigzag on the
streets, staring at their
cellphones, earbuds in,
oblivious to others. Many
seem to think that, if they’ve
got on masks and gloves,
social distancing isn’t re-
quired of them.
Even a trip to my friendly
neighborhood supermarket
has come to feel to me like a
rough game of dodgeball,
where everyone’s hurtling
my way, moving too fast,
grabbing for the last paper
towels, and I can’t get myself
out of their range because of
the narrowness of the aisles.
For a short while, social
distancing maybe felt a little
bit over the top. Holing up,
at least for the luckier ones
among us, maybe felt more
like an adventure in home-
steading or glamping than
an essential act of survival.
But that was in that
halcyon time several weeks
ago when we were still re-
joicing in our shedded com-
mutes and in our increased
family togetherness. When
we were celebrating com-
munity and creativity rather
than dwelling on angst.
When cutout hearts in win-
dows and chin-up messages
scrawled in chalk still were
enough to cheer us up and
keep fear at bay.
That was before the word
even from the White House
grew dire, before our federal
government told us that, if
we do a really good job of
social distancing and
containment, we might see
only 100,000 to 240,
Americans die.
How do we process such
numbers? I know I’ve had a
hard time lately. In the light
of day, I reach out to people.
I try to reassure them. I try
to boost their spirits. We’ll
make it, I say. We’ll get
through this together.
But at night, more and
more frequently, I stay up
too late and then jolt awake
too early out of fear.
Fear that those I know
and love will get sick. Fear
that those I know and love
will die. Fear that those who
have the least will suffer the
most, often without the
comfort of others. Fear that
the relatively few who still
are failing to act with care
will continue to imperil the
lives of the many.
I know a lot of people are
experiencing the strain of
this duality — trying to stay
positive while increasingly
anxious.
And I’m guessing that
for some, ignoring our situa-
tion’s seriousness is a cop-
ing mechanism along the
lines of, if I don’t see the
virus, it won’t see me.
And that would be fine if
ignoring the problem only
affected the ignorer.
But we know that it
doesn’t.
We’ve all heard about the
Sacramento church that
continued to hold services
and is now linked to more
than 70 confirmed co-
ronavirus cases, about the
deadly toll on a Washington
state choir that rehearsed
even as people were dying of
the virus an hour’s drive
south in Seattle.
We’ve heard about the
likely links between Mardi
Gras and the quick spread
of coronavirus in New Orle-
ans, between spring break
parties and outbreaks in
Florida.
It’s hard to avoid absorb-
ing ample evidence that
even small crowds can lead
to big spreads — and yet we
still crowd in together, even
in spaces where we don’t
have to, and then moan
when our beaches and our
park trails are shut down.
We’ve also heard, I hope,
that following the rules can
make a difference, that it
appears to be doing so here
in our own state.
I closely observe the
world around me. I observe
many people trying their
hardest.
Some of my neighbors
are staying inside so com-
pletely that days go by when
I don’t even see them on the
street and I know I have to
email, text or call to make
sure they’re still OK. I also
observe people acting care-
lessly — and I say so now
when I have to, when their
actions endanger me,
though I know they are
outside my control.
What is within my con-
trol is what I do myself —
which makes me increas-
ingly grateful for my home
and heartbroken for those
who don’t have one.
At home, I can control
my environment. I can
scrub down my counters
and wash my hands as often
as I like. I can keep my front
door firmly shut, no visitors.
I can make sure that
doing the right thing for me,
I am also doing the right
thing for all.
Social
distance
resisters
troubling
MAGGIE MEDINA, left, Juanita Gomez and Vanessa Reagan meet in the parking
lot of the Westfield Valencia Town Center while practicing social distancing.
Myung J. ChunLos Angeles Times
COMMUTERScrowd together to catch a bus at 7th
and Alvarado streets in the Westlake district of L.A.
Luis SincoLos Angeles Times
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