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WORLD Today Tomorrow

Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized

Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air

quality data); National Weather Service

* AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®

combines over a dozen factors for an accurate

measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,

sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,

sn-snow, i-ice

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Norfolk

Ocean City

Annapolis

Dover

Cape May

Baltimore

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Lexington

Washington

Virginia Beach

Kitty Hawk

Harrisburg Philadelphia

Hagerstown

Davis

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Temperatures

Precipitation

for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica

Yesterday's National

64° 3:01 p.m.

59° 7:00 a.m.

74°/55°

93° 1950

37° 1911

62° 4:00 p.m.

57° 8:00 a.m.

73°/50°

90° 1986

36° 196 8

60° 12:10 a.m.

57° 1:00 p.m.

73°/50°

92° 1949

40° 2011

Washington 1:28 a.m. 7:32 a.m. 1:11 p.m. 8:30 p.m.
Annapolis 4:05 a.m. 10:45 a.m. 5:24 p.m. 10:54 p.m.
Ocean City 12:31 a.m. 7:06 a.m. 12:55 p.m. 6:57 p.m.
Norfolk 2:20 a.m. 8:57 a.m. 2:56 p.m. 8:51 p.m.
Point Lookout 6:29 a.m. 1:44 p.m. 7:14 p.m. none

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46 ° 63

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48 ° 68

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52 ° 69

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57 ° 73

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61 °

Sun 6:03 a.m. 8:06 p.m.

Moon 11:00 a.m. 1:38 a.m.

Venus 4:24 a.m. 4:35 p.m.

Mars 3:39 a.m. 3:03 p.m.

Jupiter 4:07 a.m. 4:04 p.m.

Saturn 2:40 a.m. 1:11 p.m.

May 8

First

Quarter

May 16

Full

May 22

Last

Quarter

May 30

New

0.29"

1.30"

0.75"

13.90"

12.94"

0.42"

1.90"

0.86"

12.27"

13.38"

0.76"

1.55"

0.71"

15.18"

14.09"

Blue Ridge: Today, cloudy, breezy. A couple of showers, a
thunderstorm; occasional rain, drizzle in southern parts.
High 47 to 51. Winds north–northwest 12–25 mph. Tonight,
a shower in spots in central parts; occasional rain, drizzle in
northern parts.

Atlantic beaches: Today, cloudy, windy. A little rain; a
couple of showers, a thunderstorm in the south. High 56 to

75. Winds north–northeast 20–30 mph. Tonight, very windy,
    rain, drizzle. Low 48 to 54. Winds northeast 30–40 mph.

Pollen: High

Grass High

Trees High

Weeds Low

Mold Moderate

UV: Low

2 out of 11+

Air Quality: Good

Dominant cause: Ozone

65/ 47

75/54

59/49

53/ 46

54/46

55/ 48

54/43

57/44

60/44

77/55

75/57

53/ 42 53/^44

52/ 42

47/38 55/ 45

58°

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61°

64°

Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, cloudy, occasional rain, a
thunderstorm. Wind north–northeast 8–16 knots. Waves 2 feet or
less. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, cloudy, some rain,
a thunderstorm. Wind northeast 10–20 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on
the Lower Potomac; 1–3 feet on the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages:
The stage at Little Falls will be around 5.10 feet today, rising to 6.20
Sunday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.

Albany, NY 57/40/pc 63/41/s

Albuquerque 89/58/s 87/55/s

Anchorage 53/40/pc 51/41/pc

Atlanta 69/53/pc 74/54/s

Austin 101/73/s 100/72/s

Baltimore 54/43/r 51/46/r

Billings, MT 63/39/c 56/35/c

Birmingham 72/52/pc 80/60/s

Bismarck, ND 78/47/t 70/47/sh

Boise 56/36/sh 53/34/sh

Boston 50/45/c 52/45/pc

Buffalo 57/38/c 61/42/s

Burlington, VT 62/36/pc 67/39/s

Charleston, SC 80/59/pc 70/49/pc

Charleston, WV 57/44/r 67/42/pc

Charlotte 72/51/t 66/46/pc

Cheyenne, WY 75/40/t 64/37/pc

Chicago 60/45/s 65/55/pc

Cincinnati 59/46/sh 68/49/c

Cleveland 52/42/sh 59/46/pc

Dallas 97/75/s 99/74/s

Denver 84/45/pc 79/47/s

Des Moines 71/53/s 67/61/t

Detroit 64/43/pc 62/48/pc

El Paso 96/68/s 93/68/s

Fairbanks, AK 55/32/c 50/34/c

Fargo, ND 72/53/pc 63/53/r

Hartford, CT 54/42/r 57/41/pc

Honolulu 83/73/pc 85/73/pc

Houston 94/76/s 98/75/s

Indianapolis 65/45/pc 70/51/c

Jackson, MS 82/56/s 87/67/s

Jacksonville, FL 87/59/pc 82/57/s

Kansas City, MO 73/59/s 79/71/pc

Las Vegas 92/63/s 84/53/s

Little Rock 79/58/s 86/70/s

Los Angeles 75/56/pc 70/53/pc

Louisville 63/49/c 72/55/pc

Memphis 72/55/pc 80/66/s

Miami 91/75/c 91/74/t

Milwaukee 57/44/s 58/51/c

Minneapolis 71/50/s 60/55/t

Nashville 65/49/c 75/58/c

New Orleans 88/71/pc 89/73/pc

New York City 51/43/r 54/46/pc

Norfolk 75/54/t 56/50/r

Oklahoma City 82/69/s 94/72/s

Omaha 74/57/s 74/67/t

Orlando 89/70/pc 91/69/pc

Philadelphia 53/44/r 52/44/r

Phoenix 100/73/s 94/67/s

Pittsburgh 52/42/r 60/42/pc

Portland, ME 53/39/pc 56/39/s

Portland, OR 55/43/r 53/43/sh

Providence, RI 52/44/r 53/44/pc

Raleigh, NC 74/49/t 56/44/c

Reno, NV 66/42/pc 53/30/c

Richmond 65/47/t 53/46/r

Sacramento 74/47/pc 65/40/pc

St. Louis 71/52/s 75/61/pc

St. Thomas, VI 85/76/s 86/77/pc

Salt Lake City 66/44/pc 59/39/pc

San Diego 67/60/pc 65/58/pc

San Francisco 64/50/s 60/48/pc

San Juan, PR 87/74/pc 88/76/pc

Seattle 53/40/r 53/42/sh

Spokane, WA 52/34/sh 49/33/c

Syracuse 60/38/pc 64/41/s

Tampa 85/76/t 86/68/pc

Wichita 78/66/s 93/72/s

Addis Ababa 83/54/pc 83/54/pc

Amsterdam 63/45/sh 60/42/s

Athens 73/57/s 72/57/pc

Auckland 69/52/pc 70/55/pc

Baghdad 83/60/pc 88/64/pc

Bangkok 89/77/t 90/78/t

Beijing 63/45/pc 55/47/s

Berlin 71/50/sh 68/44/pc

Bogota 62/51/r 65/51/r

Brussels 65/49/sh 65/45/s

Buenos Aires 72/60/s 71/57/c

Cairo 82/66/pc 87/69/s

Caracas 74/64/t 75/64/sh

Copenhagen 62/42/sh 59/46/pc

Dakar 79/70/s 78/68/s

Dublin 59/46/pc 65/50/pc

Edinburgh 57/46/c 64/52/pc

Frankfurt 72/53/c 72/52/pc

Geneva 67/53/c 68/52/sh

Ham., Bermuda 76/70/sh 75/69/sh

Helsinki 57/35/sh 51/31/pc

Ho Chi Minh City 92/79/t 89/80/t

Hong Kong 83/74/t 83/76/t

Islamabad 99/74/s 103/77/s

Istanbul 65/51/s 66/51/s

Jerusalem 65/50/pc 72/57/s

Johannesburg 70/51/pc 66/46/c

Kabul 78/58/s 81/63/s

Kingston, Jam. 85/78/pc 85/77/pc

Kolkata 91/80/t 92/79/t

Kyiv 66/52/c 69/52/t

Lagos 88/78/t 90/78/pc

Lima 69/60/pc 69/60/pc

Lisbon 82/59/s 84/61/pc

London 66/47/pc 65/44/pc

Madrid 75/52/s 78/53/s

Manila 97/82/s 97/82/pc

Mexico City 83/58/s 83/58/c

Montreal 58/38/pc 63/41/s

Moscow 61/49/c 63/42/r

Mumbai 92/83/s 93/83/pc

Nairobi 77/59/t 80/60/t

New Delhi 105/86/pc 106/86/pc

Oslo 59/36/pc 58/41/pc

Ottawa 59/36/s 64/39/s

Paris 68/52/sh 71/52/s

Prague 67/46/sh 70/48/sh

Rio de Janeiro 77/69/pc 76/68/pc

Riyadh 102/75/pc 98/73/s

Rome 71/54/t 71/53/t

San Salvador 85/70/t 85/69/t

Santiago 72/44/s 65/43/c

Sarajevo 64/47/r 66/47/t

Seoul 76/55/pc 70/50/c

Shanghai 82/61/c 77/60/c

Singapore 89/80/c 90/81/t

Stockholm 52/35/sh 54/34/pc

Sydney 67/50/s 68/56/s

Taipei City 83/71/t 81/71/t

Tehran 79/61/t 76/59/s

Tokyo 70/60/s 70/56/pc

Toronto 58/41/s 56/43/s

Vienna 63/53/c 69/52/sh

Warsaw 67/52/c 67/45/sh

Today

Cooler with

rain

Sunday

Rain

Monday

Partly cloudy;

cool

Tuesday

Sunny and

cool

Wednesday

Partly cloudy

Thursday

Partly sunny,

a shower

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Statistics through 5 p.m. Friday

Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: –0.1° yr. to date: +0.3°

High: Zapata, TX 102°

Low: Climax, CO 15°

World

High: Matam, Senegal 118°

Low: Hall Beach, Canada –6°

Weather map features for noon today.

WIND:NE 10–20 mph

HUMIDITY:Moderate

CHNCE PRECIP:90%

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ENE 7–14 mph

Moderate

40%

Cool and rainy

Showers will appear off and on
throughout the day, with possibly
heavier rain in the afternoon,
yielding as much as half an inch of
precipitation. Highs will be in the
mid- and upper 50s. E xpect winds out of the
northeast at around 10 to 15 mph, with gusts near
30 mph.

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personally opposes abortion. Ricci

said spending or saving the money

would have no bearing on existing

abortion rights.

“It would do nothing to affect or

restrict these rights for Maryland-

ers at all,” Ricci said. Hogan has

said he believes it is unsafe for

pregnant patients to get abortions

from providers other than physi-

cians.

This spring, when it appeared

the Supreme Court was poised to

strike down federal abortion pro-

tections, the Maryland General

Assembly enacted the most

sweeping change to state abortion

laws in three decades. The legisla-

ture, dominated by Democratic

supermajorities, voted to remove

an old prohibition that limited

abortion procedures to only physi-

cians.

The new law follows recom-

mendations by the American Col-

lege of Obstetricians and Gynecol-

ogists that medical professionals

such as nurse practitioners, nurse

BY ERIN COX

Outraged by Gov. Larry Hogan’s
refusal this week to spend money
set aside to train new abortion
providers, Maryland Democrats
launched a campaign pressuring
the Republican to reverse course.
In letters to Hogan, statements
to reporters and posts on social
media, top Democrats have tried
to lean on his sense of populism,
imploring him to release $3.5 mil-
lion they say the people who elect-
ed him want to see spent.
“You have committed to treat-
ing reproductive rights as ‘settled
law’ in Maryland, and yet in the
face of grave threats, you appear to
be failing to protect these rights
for Marylanders,” reads a letter
signed by over 80 state lawmakers.
So far, Hogan is unmoved. “This
is just misinformation,” spokes-
man Michael Ricci said in an
email. Hogan promised during
campaigns he would not infringe
on abortion rights even though he

midwives and physicians assis-

tants can be trained to perform

abortions. It also set aside $3.5

million a year to train more pro-

viders, which abortion supporters

say will be needed to bolster an

already insufficient network in

the state. A majority of Maryland

counties lack any abortion provid-

ers, according to the abortion

rights research group the Gutt-

macher Institute.

Hogan, a Catholic who until this

year had largely avoided taking

any action on abortion policy, ve-

toed the bill. The legislature

promptly overrode him. But

through a quirk in the Maryland

budget process, the only way to

spend the money when the law

takes effect on July 1 is to have

Hogan approve it.

He said he will not do so in the

days after Politico published a

leaked draft opinion this week

that said the Supreme Court in-

tended to strike down constitu-

tional abortion rights.

“There are serious concerns

this program would set back stan-

dards for women’s health, and

hastily rushing through this fund-

ing a year ahead of schedule would

run counter to those concerns,”

Ricci said, adding the money for

the training was “tucked away in a

side deal that we weren’t party to”

and Hogan had never agreed to

spend it.

The campaign to change his

mind started with Comptroller Pe-

ter Franchot (D), a longtime Ho-

gan ally who is now running to

succeed him. Franchot appealed

to Hogan and his sense of pragma-

tism, noting that if nearby states

ban abortion, Maryland residents

would also wait for services.

Franchot wrote in a letter, “To

ensure that our state has enough

health professionals to meet the

expected increased need for these

services, and especially consider-

ing the majority of abortions are

conducted by medication, we

should immediately and safely

train health professionals through

programs with these funds,” add-

ing the state could afford it, with

over $200 million left in the gener-

al fund this year.

Ricci said Hogan has been con-

sistent in his thoughts about the

policy. “The governor firmly be-

lieves, as stated in his veto of this

partisan measure, that nonli-

censed physicians should not be

performing these medical pro-

cedures. Suddenly releasing tax-

payer dollars for this purpose

would run counter to those con-

cerns about setting back the stan-

dards for women’s health.”

Maryland allows abortion for

any reason until viability and in

several circumstances afterward.

It uses state tax dollars to pay for

abortions for Medicaid patients,

policies that have been unchanged

since a referendum in the 1990s

and have public support. An Octo-

ber poll by Goucher College found

88 percent of Maryland residents

say abortion should be legal.

The new law calls on all insur-

ance companies to cover the full

expense of abortions at no cost to

patients. That provision, along

with permission for an expanded

network of providers to do abor-

tions, takes effect in July even if

the state training does not.

With Maryland politicians in

campaign mode, many Democrats

seized a moment to criticize Ho-

gan on Twitter without appearing

to try to persuade him. Rep. An-

thony G. Brown (D), who lost to

Hogan in the gubernatorial race in

2014, tweeted that Hogan “needs

to listen to Marylanders.”

But others implored Hogan to

be on what they viewed as the

right side of history.

“I hope you will rise to this

historic moment and rise above

the politicized discourse by mov-

ing urgently to protect rather than

restrict access to essential health

care for all Marylanders,” Mont-

gomery County Council member

Tom Hucker (D) wrote.

MARYLAND

Democrats launch campaign to push Hogan on funding for abortion training

sources available to combat this

epidemic.”

In Alexandria, there have been

30 opioid overdose cases this

year, including two people who

died. In the past month, there

were 12 incidents. Half of them

involved people younger than 17.

Authorities said first responders

used Narcan, an opioid reversal

medication, in treating those

dozen cases.

CITY OF ALEXANDRIA

A p ill, left, that’s made to look like Percocet and could be laced with

illicit drugs, and burnt tin foil, right, used to inhale drugs.

three men, who are from the

Dumfries and Woodbridge areas,

face charges of possession with

intent to distribute a narcotic

and other charges. Police said in

a statement that they seized on

Monday several firearms and

“over 5,000 suspected counter-

feit fentanyl-laced Percocet pills”

that were “known to be distribut-

ed in the area.”

The arrested men include Wal-

ter Alexander Quintanilla

Gomez, 23; his brother Emerson

Giovanni Quintanilla Gomez, 20;

and Zion Alexander Ryan, 19. The

BY DANA HEDGPETH

Three men were arrested and
charged in Prince William Coun-
ty this week in connection with
the distribution of more than
5,000 fentanyl-laced counterfeit
Percocet pills.
According to local police, the

two brothers also face firearm-re-

lated charges. Another man, Joel

Medina, is charged with furnish-

ing a firearm to a minor.

Officials in Alexandria have

warned of a spike in “suspected

fentanyl-related overdoses, espe-

cially in school-aged youth,” ac-

cording to the statement.

Officials for Alexandria said

youths reported using a “little

blue bill” that they thought was

Percocet. The officials said illicit

drugs are “often laced with fenta-

nyl,” which is an “inexpensive

substitute that is up to 100 times

more potent than morphine and

can be deadly.”

Alexandria police said there

were two reported overdose

deaths of juveniles late last

month in a “neighboring juris-

diction” that involved “this same

type of pill.” Many juvenile cases

involve people “either smoking

or ingesting a ‘blue pill’ that is

being sold as a Percocet pill,”

Capt. Monica Lisle, commander

of the criminal investigations

unit at the Alexandria police

agency, said in the statement.

She said officials are “doing all

we can to warn youth and other

community members of the re-

VIRGINIA

Arrests in distribution of 5,000 fentanyl pills

Police charge 3 men from

Pr. William i n connection

with counterfeit Percocet

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