FIVE DAY FORECAST FOR BROWNSVILLE ALMANAC VALLEY MEXICO ACCUWEATHER.COM UV INDEX SUN AND MOON TIDES WORLD CITIES YESTERDAY NATIONAL CITIES NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY NATIONAL SUMMARY WEST TEXAS SOUTH TEXAS NORTH TEXAS EAST TEXAS TEXAS CITIES YESTERDAY TEXAS Brownsville through 7 p.m. yesterday Higher index numbers indicate greater eye and skin exposure to ultraviolet rays. 0-2, Low; 3-5, Moderate; 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; Extreme FullLastNewFirst July 12July 18July 26Aug 3 South Padre Island Day Time High Time Low City Hi Lo WCity Hi Lo City Hi Lo WCity Hi Lo City Hi Lo Hi Lo WCity Hi Lo Hi Lo WCity Hi Lo Hi Lo WCity Hi Lo Hi Lo Yesterday Wed. Yesterday Wed. Yesterday Wed.
Yesterday Wed. TODAYTONIGHTTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAYSUNDAY 92 77 91 78 92 76 91 76 93 75 Breezy with times of clouds and sun Partly cloudy A t-storm in spots in the a.m.; some sun Breezy with partial sunshine Some sunPartly sunny Shown is weather. Temperatures are highs and lows. Clouds and sun today. A stray thunderstorm; in the morning at the coast, in the afternoon in southeastern parts, and dry in central parts.
Partly cloudy tonight. Intervals of clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight, except mostly cloudy in northeast Texas. Intervals of clouds and sun tomorrow. Friday and Saturday: mostly sunny.
Partly sunny today. Partly cloudy tonight. Sunshine and some clouds tomorrow; a shower or thunderstorm in spots in the morning in Deep South Texas. Intervals of clouds and sunshine today; an afternoon shower or thunderstorm around in the panhandle. Patchy clouds tonight.
A blend of sun and clouds tomorrow. Showers and locally severe thunderstorms will stretch from part of the southern Plains to northern New England today. Hot and humid air will hold over the Deep South with spotty sea and gulf breeze storms in the afternoon. Less humid air will expand over the Midwest. Much of the West will be dry, but more storms will erupt over the deserts.
Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice -10s-0s0s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s100s 110s Cold Warm Stationary Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Forecast temperatures are for selected cities. Shown is weather. Temperatures are highs and lows.
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. Rio Grande City McAllen Weslaco Brownsville Harlingen Tijuana Puerto Penasco Hermosillo Chihuahua Ciudad Sabinas La Paz Cabo San Lucas Mazatlan Guadalajara San Luis Potosi Mexico City Monterrey El Paso Tampico Veracruz Acapulco Oaxaca Villahermosa Brownsville McAllen Laredo Corpus Christi San Antonio Houston Austin Del RIo Waco Abilene Odessa Alpine Lajitas Lubbock Wichita Falls Dallas Fort Worth Amarillo Temperature Precipitation High 92 Low 76 Normal high 93 Normal low 76 24 hrs. ending 7 p.m. yest. 0.00” Month to date 1.03” Year to date 7.00” 10 a.m.
5 1 p.m. 10 4 p.m. 5 Albuquerque 93 69 pc 88 68 Anchorage 66 55 pc 64 55 sh Atlanta 90 70 pc 87 70 Atlantic City 92 72 89 67 Baltimore 93 73 88 68 pc Billings 85 55 90 65 Birmingham 93 75 pc 86 70 Bismarck 79 58 pc 81 58 Boston 92 73 pc 89 67 pc Buffalo 79 67 74 56 pc Charleston, SC 96 78 97 78 pc Charleston, WV 89 73 83 61 Cheyenne 78 60 pc 84 59 pc Chicago 81 69 78 58 pc Cincinnati 83 69 81 59 pc Cleveland 81 68 75 58 pc Columbia, SC 100 74 pc 99 74 pc Columbus, OH 85 69 80 60 pc Denver 83 59 92 63 pc Des Moines 83 66 81 62 pc Detroit 81 66 75 57 pc Duluth 69 54 71 52 pc Fairbanks 73 56 72 56 Fargo 76 59 77 57 Greensboro, NC 94 71 pc 91 70 Helena 91 55 93 62 Honolulu 88 74 89 76 pc Indianapolis 81 68 79 59 pc Jackson, MS 92 74 pc 88 72 Jacksonville 91 72 pc 93 72 Juneau 57 55 59 52 Kansas City 82 66 pc 85 67 pc Las Vegas 102 84 105 85 pc Little Rock 92 76 88 71 Los Angeles 86 68 79 65 pc Louisville 87 72 pc 86 65 pc Memphis 90 75 87 69 Miami 90 77 89 76 Milwaukee 81 66 74 54 pc Minneapolis 77 63 pc 75 59 pc Nashville 90 75 87 66 New Orleans 87 77 91 76 New York City 91 71 pc 88 72 pc Oklahoma City 98 73 pc 93 72 Omaha 83 65 84 65 pc Philadelphia 95 76 pc 89 72 Phoenix 105 86 100 85 Pittsburgh 81 68 78 57 pc Portland, ME 83 68 pc 84 62 pc Portland, OR 88 62 pc 83 57 pc Providence 91 72 pc 85 65 pc Rapid City 79 52 82 59 pc Reno 98 75 97 68 pc Sacramento 95 66 pc 89 59 St. Louis 88 68 pc 86 68 pc Salt Lake City 99 69 pc 93 73 San Francisco 76 56 pc 71 59 Santa Fe 86 57 84 59 Seattle 86 60 80 57 pc Shreveport 93 75 pc 93 73 pc Sioux Falls 81 60 pc 81 62 pc Spokane 94 65 93 61 Syracuse 88 71 76 56 pc Tampa 88 73 90 77 Topeka 86 68 pc 88 67 pc Tucson 100 75 pc 92 77 Washington, DC 96 72 90 72 Wichita 86 73 pc 88 67 pc Athens 95 75 Beijing 93 75 pc Berlin 82 64 Bermuda 84 79 pc Bogota 62 50 Buenos Aires 57 39 pc Cairo 95 72 Calgary 77 55 pc Dhahran 111 84 Dublin 61 43 Frankfurt 70 59 Geneva 63 55 sh Havana 89 73 Helsinki 81 61 Hong Kong 90 82 Istanbul 86 72 Jerusalem 83 65 Johannesburg 47 29 Kiev 81 63 sh Lisbon 77 61 London 69 54 Madrid 87 60 Mexico City 73 55 Montreal 86 66 Moscow 75 57 pc Nassau 90 76 pc New Delhi 104 86 pc Paris 66 55 Rio de Janeiro 81 69 sh Rome 79 70 pc Seoul 82 72 pc Singapore 90 73 Stockholm 82 61 Sydney 62 45 Tokyo 86 72 pc Toronto 75 66 Vancouver 73 61 Warsaw 88 64 pc Today 4:08 a.m. 1.3 ft.
7:17 p.m. ft. none none Thu. 4:50 a.m. 1.4 ft.
8:05 p.m. ft. none none Abilene 97 74 pc Alice 97 74 Amarillo 90 62 pc Austin 96 69 pc Beaumont 94 74 pc Brownsville 92 76 pc College Station 95 74 pc Corpus Christi 96 76 pc Dallas 98 78 Del Rio 97 76 El Paso 96 73 pc Fort Worth 98 77 pc Galveston 91 80 pc Harlingen 97 74 pc Houston 92 74 pc Kingsville 96 76 pc Laredo 98 77 pc Longview 93 75 pc Lubbock 92 69 pc Marfa 88 55 McAllen 96 76 pc Odessa 96 71 San Angelo 97 67 San Antonio 96 75 pc Texarkana 96 76 pc Victoria 93 76 Waco 95 74 Wichita Falls 96 76 pc Weather (w): s- sunny, pc- partly cloudy, c- cloudy, sh- showers, t- thunderstorms, r- rain, sf- snow sn- snow, i- ice. Sunrise today 6:45 a.m. Sunset today 8:25 p.m.
Moonrise today 5:43 p.m. Moonset today 3:56 a.m. B8 THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014 EATHER ORLD Restorative Medicine Anti-aging 1200 Central Blvd A4, Brownsville, TX 78520 If you have any weather questions please contact the Team 4 Weather Lab at: Partly cloudy skies with isolated showers and thunderstorms possible. BRYAN HALE In Mexico, lopsided death tolls draw suspicion BY MARK STEVENSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN PEDRO LIMON, Mexico Bullet marks and blood spatters on the walls inside a grain storage warehouse deep in the mountains of southern Mexico tell a grim story of death involving soldiers and alleged criminals. It may not be the same story officials tell, however.
Defense Department says soldiers were patrolling in one of the most violent, lawless corners of the country on June 30 when they came under fire from a warehouse where a gang of 21 men and one woman were hiding. One soldier was wounded, but all of the suspects were killed. The shootout was the most dramatic in a string of battles in which the army says criminals fired first at soldiers who then killed them all, while suffering few or no losses. There have been so many such incidents that human rights groups and analysts have begun to doubt the version. raises suspicion, the simple fact that there were 22 dead on one side and one wounded on the other said security analyst Alejandro Hope, a former official in domes- tic intelligence service.
In San Pedro Limon, pools of blood and bullet marks observed by Associated Press journalists three days after the shooting raise questions about whether all the suspects died in the gunbattle, or after it was over. The warehouse where many bodies were found showed little evidence of sustained fighting. One witness who lives near the warehouse said he heard almost two hours of automatic gunfire and loud bangs during the pre-dawn hours of June 30. But he say if it came from the warehouse or from the forested hillsides around it. The man, who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals, said he saw soldiers searching the hillsides after the shooting stopped.
Despite that heavy gunfire, only about six incoming rounds appeared to have hit the facade of the warehouse, the only part of the building with a window or door where soldiers likely would have been firing at people holed up inside. There also were also no signs of continuous shooting inside the building, few bullet marks and no casings. But there was ample evidence of death. The floor was stained with pools of drying blood and scat- tered with pieces of numbered paper left by investigators to mark where cadavers were found. At least five spots along the inside walls showed the same pattern: One or two closely placed bullet pocks, surrounded by a mass of spattered blood, giving the appearance that some of those killed were standing against the wall and were hit by one or two shots at about chest level.
The distance at which the fatal shots were fired has not made public by the Mexico State office, which is carrying out the autopsies. A state official said the office could not release the cause of death because it is a federal case, but a federal official denied that. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record. The Mexican Defense Department did not respond to requests for comment. Two observers of the United High Commission on Human Rights, who inspected the warehouse just moments before state authorities closed it off with police tape, noted that they found no signs of stray bullets of the type that would be left by soldiers shooting automatic weapons from a distance.
Nor did they see signs of outgoing fire from within the warehouse. also find that said U.N. observer Tom Haeck, adding that no conclusions had yet been drawn, and that any report would be for U.N. internal use. Scattered around the earthen floor of the warehouse were notebook paper investigators left to mark where the bodies had been found; most were close to the walls.
There were also toothbrushes, medications and empty food containers, suggesting people had camped out there. Employees of the Mexico State medical office, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press, said the dead were mostly youths between the ages of 16 and 24, and were from neighboring Guerrero state. home to a drug gang known as Guerreros Unidos, which reportedly is battling the Michoacan- state-based La Familia cartel for control of drug routes in the area. Officials have declined to say which gang might have been involved with the warehouse. The Mexican rules of engagement allow soldiers to fire on armed civilians only if the civilians fire first.
In some cases there is evidence that heavily armed drug gangs have attacked the military. A convoy of troops and police came under fire on May 16 in Michoacan state; four soldiers were killed and several wounded. The military said two soldiers died in another Michoacan ambush in January. Five soldiers died in a 2007 ambush in the same state. But far more common of late are cases in which soldiers say they came under fire and only the attackers were killed.
The army reported a May 8 clash in Zacatecas state in which troops killed seven armed men without taking casualties. In four cases in the span of a week in late April, officials said federal forces killed 12 men who attacked them, but suffered no casualties themselves. The army said troops killed 11 other alleged hit men who fired on them in the northern border state of Tamaulipas in 2010. REBECCA BLACKWELL ASSOCIATED PRES Soldiers patrol a road on July 3 near the village of San Pedr Limon, the site of a shootout between Mexican soldiers an alleged criminals in Mexico state, Mexico. MYBROWNSVILLEHERALD.COM Browse through a photo gallery of the situation in Mexico.
Luxury Rolls-Royce car sales soar worldwide BY GREGORY KATZ AND MATTHEW KNIGHT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON They are rolling symbols of wealth and excess, starting at $263,000 a pop, with many buyers choosing custom options that can easily double the price. And they are more popular than ever before. Rolls-Royce reported a startling rise in demand for their distinctive cars Tuesday. The British-made cars, updated to reflect the technical know- how and marketing might of parent company BMW, have become must-haves for the new global elite. That group is growing in number even as much of the world struggles to get by in an era of low growth, low expectations and high unemployment.
The company said 1,968 cars were sold in the first half of this year compared to 1,475 in the same period last year. The 33 percent rise in sales for the first six months of 2014 compared to the same period last year is explained not just by the plush leather seats and gleaming paintwork those are old standbys for the brand, which used to focus on the British aristocracy but also by the rising number of billionaires worldwide. A Forbes survey says there are 1,645 billionaires in the world, 219 more than a year ago. you look at the number of ultra-high net worth individuals around the world, that number is clearly said company spokesman Andrew Ball. luxury market is growing at the high end and we are delighted to be part of The phenomenon helps to explain the strong sales of mega- yachts, rare jewelry and complicated, handmade Swiss watches.
There are more people with more money looking for ways to stand out from the crowd and in this context, a Rolls becomes a very noticeable statement. Ball said 70 percent of Rolls buyers are new to the brand, and roughly half choose to customize their cars by adding expensive personal touches. The cost of making a Rolls the British term for custom-made suits rather than the can dwarf many household budgets. can be simple, like having your initials stitched into the headrest or the said Ball. enjoy this.
an emotional also a level of consumerism that soars as high as famous Shard skyscraper: A refrigerator inside the automobile can be custom built to accommodate the shape and size of the favorite beverage at a cost rivalling a year in a U.S. college. The company is opening its first showroom in Cambodia. But it remains an essentially British product, enjoyed by Queen Elizabeth II and evoking the opulence of the Downton Abbey era. At Rolls-Royce Motor Cars London, the showroom in a particularly posh section of Mayfair, visitors are drawn to a sparkling black Phantom (starting at $600,000) and the Wraith, a bargain at $400,000 unless you want some options.
The back of the dealership resembles a home furnishings store, with samples of different woods and hides..
