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WEATHER USATODAY.COMTODAY’S FORECAST TODAY’S HIGH TEMPERATURES PRECIPITATION FORECASTBelow 10 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+T-storms Rain Snow Ice/mixU.S. CITIESTOP TRAVEL CITIESWORLD CITIESATLANTA CHARLOTTE DENVER HOUSTONMIAMI NEW YORK PHOENIX SAN FRANCISCOBALTIMORE CHICAGO DETROIT LAS VEGASMPLS-ST. PAUL ORLANDO SALT LAKE CITY SEATTLEBOSTON DALLAS/FT. WORTH HONOLULU LOS ANGELESNEW ORLEANS PHILADELPHIA SAN DIEGO WASHINGTONAQI AQI AQI AQI AQI AQI AQI AQI AQI AQI AQI AQIAir quality index (AQI)c Cloudy f Fog i Ice r Rain sf Snowflurries sn Snow w Windy dr Drizzle h Haze pc Partly cloudy s Sunny sh Showers t ThunderstormsWashington
63Cheyenne
76Casper
75Jackson
Hole
59Milwaukee
55
Madison
54Charleston
57Seattle
Olympia 57 58 Spokane
53Richmond
64Burlington(^50) Montpelier
47
Salt Lake City
73
St. George
84
Dallas/Ft. Worth
76
Brownsville
78
Lubbock
79
Midland-
Odessa
83
El Paso
81 Austin 76
San Antonio
76 Houston
74
Nashville
64
Memphis
67
Knoxville
63
Rapid City
(^77) Pierre
70
Sioux Falls
65
Charleston
71
Columbia
73
Harrisburg
59
Philadelphia
59
Pittsburgh
51
Burns
56
Bend
54
Portland
Salem 60
58
OklahomaCity
76
Tulsa
73
Cincinnati
60
Cleveland
55
Columbus
57
Fargo
55
Bismarck
61
Raleigh
Charlotte^64
67
Buffalo
50 Albany
52
New York
59
Albuquerque
73
Santa Fe
71
Reno
62 Elko 58
Carson City
60
Las Vegas
86
Omaha
67
North Platte
81
Billings
69
Miles City
70
Helena
57
Kansas City
67
Jefferson City
66
St. Louis
63
Jackson
70
Mpls-St. Paul
56
Duluth
51
Detroit
54
Marquette
43
Lansing
51
Grand
Rapids
52
Boston
58
Annapolis
60
Bangor
55
Augusta
54
Baton Rouge
72
Shreveport
73
New
Orleans
74
Louisville
60
Topeka
71
Wichita
Dodge City 82 74
Des Moines
63
Indianapolis
58
Chicago
55
60
Boise
58
Idaho Falls
61
Atlanta
68
Savannah
74
Tallahassee
77
Jacksonville
80
Tampa
85
Miami
90
Hartford
54
Denver
Aspen 70 81
San Francisco
68
Palm Springs
92
Los Angeles
76
Sacramento
74
Fresno
74
Eureka
59
San Diego
72
Little Rock
Phoenix 96 69
Flagstaff
66
Birmingham
69
Montgomery
73
Mobile
Honolulu^74
87
San Juan
89
Anchorage
44
Juneau
48
Fairbanks
33
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Alaska
Akron, Ohio 53/41c 58/38s
Albany, N.Y. 52/45sh 55/39pc
Albuquerque 73/52pc 72/43s
Allentown, Pa. 57/45w 60/35s
Amarillo, Texas 82/53s 84/44pc
Anaheim, Calif. 77/56pc 80/55s
Anchorage, Alaska 44/34c 43/38c
Aspen, Colo. 70/36pc 50/19sh
Atlantic City, N.J. 61/51w 62/45s
Augusta, Ga. 72/43h 75/46pc
Austin, Texas 76/54pc 86/69pc
74/49s 73/47s
Baton Rouge, La. 72/56c 74/60t
Billings, Mont. 69/42c 58/35s
Birmingham, Ala. 69/45h 74/54s
Bismarck, N.D. 61/42c 56/40pc
Boise, Idaho 58/42r 58/41pc
Buffalo, N.Y. 50/42pc 51/36pc
Burlington, Vt. 50/41r 54/38sh
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 58/40s 65/50pc
Charleston, S.C. 71/48h 71/50s
Charleston, W.Va. 57/38pc 62/35s
Cheyenne, Wyo. 76/42pc 59/32s
Beijing 61/43c 67/45pc
Buenos Aires 67/55r 69/53pc
Cancun, Mexico 88/79pc 88/79pc
Dubai, UAE 97/79s 96/81pc
Frankfurt 61/54sh 61/51c
Hong Kong 87/74s 86/74s
Istanbul 73/61c 73/60pc
Jerusalem 79/66s 77/62pc
Johannesburg 87/59s 88/61s
London 59/49sh 60/48c
Mexico City 65/54t 72/56t
Montreal 49/43r 53/38c
Moscow 61/50pc 56/49c
Mumbai, India 95/80pc 95/80pc
Paris 61/53sh 61/52pc
Rio de Janeiro 86/73pc 89/75t
Rome 73/53pc 72/54pc
Seoul 71/53pc 74/51pc
Singapore 88/77t 89/78pc
Sydney 80/55s 75/57s
Toronto 51/41w 53/37pc
Tokyo 66/60pc 66/64c
Cincinnati 60/37pc 64/42s
Cleveland 55/42c 57/39s
Colorado Springs 80/47s 68/34pc
Columbia, S.C. 73/42s 72/45s
Columbus, Ohio 57/38pc 60/39s
Corpus Christi, Texas 80/67c 87/71pc
Dayton, Ohio 57/35c 61/42s
Daytona Beach, Fla. 81/63pc 80/73c
Des Moines, Iowa 63/47s 71/51pc
Duluth, Minn. 51/39s 59/47pc
Durham, N.C. 63/40s 65/39s
El Paso, Texas 81/63s 82/56s
Fairbanks, Alaska 33/20c 30/21c
Flagstaff, Ariz. 66/35s 63/27s
Fargo, N.D. 55/45s 57/42pc
Fort Myers, Fla. 89/74pc 89/76c
Fort Smith, Ark. 72/46s 76/54s
Fort Wayne, Ind. 55/34pc 59/40s
Fresno, Calif. 74/50s 73/50s
Grand Rapids, Mich. 52/35pc 55/42s
Green Bay, Wis. 52/34pc 57/47pc
Greensboro, N.C. 62/39s 66/42s
Greenville, S.C. 68/42s 70/44s
Harrisburg, Pa. 59/46w 62/36s
Hartford, Conn. 54/45w 59/36pc
Indianapolis 58/36pc 63/43s
Islip, N.Y. 58/47w 60/41s
Jackson, Miss. 70/47h 73/55s
Jacksonville, Fla. 80/52h 79/64pc
Jefferson City, Mo. 66/45s 74/52s
Kansas City 67/51s 72/53pc
Key West, Fla. 87/78pc 87/79c
Knoxville, Tenn. 63/37s 70/42s
Laredo, Texas 79/64sh 90/71pc
Lexington, Ky. 59/36s 65/42s
Lincoln, Neb. 71/51s 77/47pc
Little Rock, Ark. 69/43s 72/51s
Long Beach, Calif. 74/60pc 80/60pc
Louisville, Ky. 60/39s 66/45s
Lubbock, Texas 79/52s 86/50pc
Madison, Wis. 54/36pc 60/48pc
Manchester, N.H. 52/45r 57/41pc
Memphis, Tenn. 67/46s 74/51s
Milwaukee 55/40pc 58/48pc
Mobile, Ala. 74/54h 70/61t
Modesto, Calif. 73/51pc 73/46s
Montgomery, Ala. 73/47h 74/55pc
Myrtle Beach, S.C. 68/46s 68/51s
Nags Head, N.C. 63/50s 62/53s
Nashville, Tenn. 64/41s 71/48s
Newark, N.J. 60/49w 62/44s
New Haven, Conn. 60/48w 61/41pc
Norfolk, Va. 66/48s 64/49s
Oakland, Calif. 69/50pc 69/51s
Oklahoma City 76/51s 78/57pc
Omaha, Neb. 67/51s 74/50pc
Palm Springs, Calif. 92/62s 91/62s
Pensacola, Fla. 75/56h 73/66t
Pierre, S.D. 70/45pc 62/41pc
Pittsburgh 51/40w 56/35s
Portland, Maine 55/45r 58/42pc
Portland, Ore. 60/48r 59/50r
Providence, R.I. 57/45w 59/40pc
Raleigh, N.C. 64/39s 66/39s
Rapid City, S.D. 77/45pc 61/35s
Reno, Nev. 62/33pc 64/43s
Richmond, Va. 64/41pc 65/41s
Rochester, N.Y. 52/45sh 52/35pc
Sacramento, Calif. 74/46pc 73/48s
San Antonio 76/58pc 84/69pc
San Jose, Calif. 69/48pc 70/50s
Santa Fe, N.M. 71/43pc 69/31sh
Sarasota, Fla. 88/73pc 86/76c
Savannah, Ga. 74/49h 76/59pc
Scottsdale, Ariz. 93/64s 85/59s
Shreveport, La. 73/49c 78/61pc
Sioux Falls, S.D. 65/48s 66/42pc
South Bend, Ind. 53/36pc 58/45s
Spokane, Wash. 53/41c 53/40c
69/44s 72/52s
60/38s 68/48s
St. Louis 63/45s 70/52s
St. Petersburg, Fla. 86/71pc 82/75c
Syracuse, N.Y. 52/43sh 52/36pc
Tallahassee, Fla. 77/53h 73/63pc
Tampa, Fla. 85/70pc 82/75c
Toledo, Ohio 56/36pc 58/40s
Topeka, Kan. 71/51s 75/52pc
Tucson, Ariz. 92/60s 84/55s
Tupelo, Miss. 69/44s 74/50s
Tulsa, Okla. 73/51s 75/57s
Virginia Beach, Va. 63/48s 62/48s
Wichita, Kan. 74/53s 78/52pc
Wilmington, Del. 61/46w 62/38s
Winston-Salem, N.C. 62/40s 67/42s
Worcester, Mass. 49/41w 52/36pc
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TODAY FRI
AQI
THU High clouds
68/
FRI Partly sunny
72/
SAT Showers around
68/
Good AQI
THU Sunny 6 7/
FRI Plenty of sun
71/
SAT Sunny, nice
72/
Good AQI
THU Partly sunny
81/
FRI Cooler 6 5/
SAT Mostly sunny
68/
Good AQI
THU Partly sunny
74/
FRI Partly sunny
81/
SAT Warmer 8 8/
Good
THU Shower, t-storm
90/
FRI A P.M. t-storm
89/
SAT Shower, t-storm
88/
Good
THU Very windy
59/
FRI Mostly sunny
60/
SAT Mostly sunny
64/
Good
THU Sunny, warm
96/
FRI Sunny 8 7/
SAT Sunny 8 8/
Moderate
THU Some sun
68/
FRI Mostly sunny
67/
SAT An A.M. shower
67/
Good
AQI
THU Windy 6 0/
FRI Sunny 6 4/
SAT Mostly sunny
66/
Good AQI
THU Partly sunny
55/
FRI Partly sunny
60/
SAT Showers 6 1/
Good AQI
THU Some sun
54/
FRI Plenty of sun
56/
SAT Partly sunny
64/
Good AQI
THU Mostly sunny
86/
FRI Sunny 7 8/
SAT Mostly sunny
80/
Moderate
THU Mostly sunny
56/
FRI Partly sunny
65/
SAT Mostly sunny
64/
Good
THU Partly sunny
87/
FRI Mostly cloudy
84/
SAT Shower, t-storm
83/
Good
THU Partly sunny
73/
FRI Cooler 5 9/
SAT Mostly cloudy
62/
Good
THU Rain, breezy
58/
FRI A little rain
55/
SAT A little rain
56/
Good
AQI
THU Very windy
58/
FRI Some sun
60/
SAT Sunny 6 1/
Good AQI
THU Partly sunny
76/
FRI Mostly sunny
81/
SAT Partly sunny
85/
Good AQI
THU Partly sunny
87/
FRI Partly sunny
87/
SAT Partly sunny
87/
Good AQI
THU Cooler 7 6/
FRI Mostly sunny
80/
SAT Sunny, nice
79/
Moderate
THU Mostly cloudy
74/
FRI T-storm 7 9/
SAT T-storms 8 3/
Good
THU Very windy
59/
FRI Mostly sunny
61/
SAT Mostly sunny
65/
Good
THU Clouds to sun
72/
FRI Partly sunny
73/
SAT Sunny, nice
74/
Good
THU Windy 6 3/
FRI Mostly sunny
65/
SAT Mostly sunny
68/
Good
TODAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
TODAY FRI
EXTREMES
Note: For contiguous
48 states through
3 p.m. ET yesterday
HOTTEST:
9 6°
Yuma, Ariz.
COLDEST: 9°
Angel Fire,
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather Inc. ©2019 N.M.
A powerful storm evolv-
ing into a bomb cyclone will
hammer New England with
heavy rain, high winds and
coastal flooding today.
Enough rain can fall to cause
street flooding while winds
can be strong enough to
topple trees, break large
tree limbs and lead to power
outages. The storm may
mark the end of the fall
foliage season in part of the
region.
Lesser showers with
gusty winds and high-eleva-
tion snow are in store for
the central Appalachians.
Some snow will fall on the
higher elevations of north-
ern New England. Much of
the South and Central states
will be dry.
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Federal authorities said Wednesday
that a South Korean national and hun-
dreds of other individuals worldwide
were charged with operating or using a
major dark web child sexual exploita-
tion site that included videos of adults
abusing children as young as age 2.
A nine-count indictmentsays 337
people in 24 states and 11 countries, in-
cluding eight in the Washington, D.C.,
area, were arrested and charged with
operating or using the site.
The Department of Justice said two
users of the site died by suicide after
the execution of search warrants.
The dark web, also known as “dark-
net,” refers to encrypted online con-
tent that is not indexed by convention-
al search engines.
“Darknet sites that profit from the
sexual exploitation of children are
among the most vile and reprehensible
forms of criminal behavior,” said As-
sistant Attorney General Brian Bencz-
kowskiof the Justice Department’s
Criminal Division.
Prosecutors, who announced the
unsealing of a sweeping indictment,
said authorities seized approximately
eight terabytes of child sexual exploi-
tation videos, which they called one of
the largest seizures of its kind.
Authorities said the site contained
250,000 videos that were downloaded
a million times by users worldwide.
The indictment says the site carried
numerous graphic videos depicting
adults engaged in sexual acts with
children as young as 2 years old. View-
ers could use a search engine to pick
videos by age, including “preteen
hardcore” and “pedophile.”
At least 23 young victims abused by
the site’s users were rescued in the
USA, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children (NCMEC) ana-
lyzed the site’s content, including
more than 250,000 unique videos, ac-
cording to the Department of Justice.
The indictment, issued in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, charges that the
Welcome to Video site was run by Jong
Woo Son, 23, a South Korean national.
‘Vile’: Feds bust
massive dark web
child porn site
Doug StanglinUSA TODAY
A powerful coastal storm will un-
leash soaking rain and howling winds
through Thursday from the Mid-Atlan-
tic to New England.
The strong winds – potentially gust-
ing up to 60 mph – may cause some tree
damage and power outages, the Nation-
al Weather Service said. Up to 3 inches
of rain could fall in this storm, especially
from eastern New York to southern
Maine, where flash flooding is possible.
The latest forecast shows the storm
will strengthen at a fast pace from
Wednesday to Thursday to be classified
as a “bomb cyclone,” AccuWeather said.
The barometric pressure has to fall at
least 24 millibars, or 0.71 inches, in 24
hours for the bomb cyclone criteria to be
met.
The lower a storm’s barometric pres-
sure, the more intense the storm.
Weather Channel meteorologist Greg
Diamondsaid some record low baro-
metric pressures for October could be
set. CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen
said, “The system will have the equiva-
lent low pressure of a Category 1 hurri-
cane.”
AccuWeather meteorologist Brett
Rossio said, “We expect gusts around
New York City to range from 40-50 mph,
but gusts between 50 and 60 mph are
likely in central and southeastern New
England.”
Expect numerous flight delays and
cancellations in New England on
Thursday and Friday as the strong
winds hold on until Friday evening be-
fore diminishing, CNN warned.
The rain and wind could strip away
fall foliage in parts of New England,
the Weather Channel said.
Since winds on the front side of the
storm are likely to be from the east or
southeast, instead of the northeast for
much of the Mid-Atlantic and New
England, it is not likely to be consid-
ered a true nor’easter, according to Ac-
cuWeather.
‘Bomb cyclone’ to blast coastal Northeast
Doyle RiceUSA TODAY
MELBOURNE, Fla. – NASA has de-
cided to move up the planned first all-
female spacewalk to this week to tackle
a power issue on the International
Space Station.
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessi-
ca Meir will venture outside the orbiting
outpost starting at 7:50 a.m. Thursday
or Friday, depending on station sched-
ules, and spend more than three hours
replacing a faulty battery unit. The units
have previously been replaced using a
robotic arm, but the failed unit is too far
away for the arm to reach.
The units regulate how much energy
flows from the station’s massive solar
panels to batteries that provide power
during nighttime passes around Earth.
Three previous spacewalks had been
planned to replace lithium-ion batter-
ies, but those will be rescheduled until
the latest issue is resolved.
The hardware failure presents some
concern, especially since another bat-
tery was replaced in April and there are
only four more backups on station.
“There’s some level of concern,” said
Kenny Todd, manager of ISS operations
and integration. “It’s absolutely a con-
cern at this point when you don’t know
what’s going on and we’re still scratch-
ing our heads looking at the data.”
This week’s spacewalk – Koch’s
fourth and Meir’s first – will see the as-
tronauts move the new hardware, in-
stall it, then return the faulty version to
the airlock for future investigation.
Todd said SpaceX’s next uncrewed
Dragon flight to the ISS can pick up the
faulty battery and return it for inspec-
tion in December or January.
Koch and Meir will have some left-
over time during their extravehicular
activity, or EVA, to finish additional
tasks like hardware installations for
the European Space Agency.
The planned EVA comes almost
seven months after the first all-female
spacewalk was canceled due to a lack
of properly sized spacesuits for astro-
nauts Koch and Anne McClain. Astro-
naut Nick Hague ended up joining
Koch instead.
But this time, the right spacesuits
are in place.
“It will be an exciting event and
something that we’ll reflect on certain-
ly after the fact,” said Megan McAr-
thur, deputy chief of NASA’s astronaut
office. “In truth, in terms of looking at
the workload that we have coming for-
ward, this was the right crew to send
out to do this set of tasks.
“All of our crew members are com-
pletely qualified to do this and I think
the fact that it will be two women is a
reflection of the fact that we have so
many capable, qualified women in the
(astronaut) office.”
Follow Emre Kelly on Twitter: @Em-
reKelly
NASA moves up first all-female
spacewalk at the Space Station
Emre KellyFlorida Today
USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, left,
and Christina Koch have been tasked
with the first all-female spacewalk.
CHRISTINA KOCH / NASA