San Diego City Council Set To Vote On 5G Technology Antenna Regulations And More Local News

Speaker 1: 00:00 It's Monday, July 22nd I'm Deb Welsh and you're listening to San Diego news matters from KPBS coming up, the city council set to vote on five g technology antennas and at Comic Con a Star Trek favorite unveils his graphic new novel. Speaker 2: 00:16 What's happening today on our southern border is children being torn away from their parents. Speaker 1: 00:23 That and more San Diego news stories coming up right after the, yeah. Speaker 2: 00:27 Right. Speaker 3: 00:31 Um, Speaker 1: 00:33 thank you for joining us for San Diego News Matters. I'm Deb Welsh. The San Diego City Council is set to consider new and 10 irregulations for five g technology. KPBS reporter Lynn Walsh says the proposed rules have support from community members but not all industry leaders. Five g technology promises faster download speeds, less congested networks and longer device battery life. To make this a reality, new small cell in tennis that are a little bigger than a lunchbox will be placed on telephone poles and streetlights throughout the city. Greg Hopkins with the city says the proposed rules are meant to protect neighborhood aesthetics, especially in historic areas. Speaker 2: 01:12 We want to make sure that it's painted, uh, to match the actual pole for that, you know, so you don't notice it as much. Speaker 1: 01:20 In addition to requiring painting, the city is limiting the amount of equipment boxes and is trying to get as many as possible installed. Underground community groups are praising the proposed rules, but some industry leaders say the city is moving too quickly. City Council is expected to vote on the regulations. Tuesday Lynn Walsh KPBS news, the battle over whether California should eliminate cash. Bail is moving toward a double barrel showdown at the ballot box. As capitol public radio's been added reports, the industry is now seeking constitutional protection on top of its effort. Overturn a new state law, abolishing the current system. The law signed last year by former governor Jerry Brown replaces cash bail with a pretrial release system. It requires courts to base pretrial detention on inmates risks to flight in public safety. But the industry was able to block the law from taking effect by gathering voter signatures for a referendum on the November, 2020 ballot. Speaker 1: 02:15 Now what's going on on offense as well as defense backers have submitted a constitutional amendment which would protect bail from new legislation. That ballot measure could also give the industry new life if the California Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling that money bail is unconstitutional. Backers of the measure did not respond to requests for comment and opponent called the proposal antithetical to California's view of justice at the state capitol. I'm Ben Adler, California employers will have to do more to protect outdoor workers from wildfires. Spoke this season. Capitol public radio, Sammy Kay Ola has more on a new state approved rule. Last fire season. Levels of dangerous particulate matter in certain parts of the state got so bad that health departments told to stay inside Speaker 4: 03:00 as much as they could, but for outdoor workers such as farm laborers and construction crews, that wasn't an option. Workplace safety advocates say volunteers were out in the fields distributing respirator masks to laborers. They asked the cal OSHA Board to put a better plan in place before the 2019 season. Under the emergency rule. Employers will have to provide masks, offer filtered indoor spaces to work if possible, or change the intensity of work. If air quality worsens beyond a set threshold, the rule will be in effect for one year. While cal OSHA works out permanent regulations in Sacramento, I'm Sami K Yola. Speaker 1: 03:35 It's called colony collapse disorder. A millions of bees are dying all across the world, but an invention by an Australian father and son is helping small colonies of bees to survive even thrive. KPBS reporter John Carroll tells us how the invention is creating backyard beekeepers. The world over Speaker 5: 03:55 Stuart Anderson and his son Cedar had been your garden variety beekeepers for years harvesting honey, the traditional way, the sound you're about to hear is them showing that traditional way. Speaker 6: 04:06 You had to protect yourself from stings fire per smoker to sedate the bees, crack the hive open lift heavy boxes, pull out the frames, try not to squish bays, brushed them off for combs or use a leaf blower. Transport the frames to a processing shed, cut the wax capping off, filter the honey and clean up all the mess. Then the frames have to go back to the hives again. Speaker 5: 04:24 That changed back in the mid two thousands when the pair decided there had to be a better and easier way. Cedar Anderson talked to me via Skype from his home in Australia. It was just so much work to get your honey in such a disturbance for the bees and it's been all weekend just to get a few buckets of honey to sell to the shop and make a big mess in the process and my baser who collect thank you about it and I thought that had to be a better way. That led us on what turned out to be a decade long invention journey of tinkering away, trying prototypes and putting them in the heights and those wedding treatments to see whether the bees liked it or not. Eventually they settled on a design that would become the flow hive and in the is partially drawn honeycomb cells which the bees wetter completely sales and then start filling them with necdet and do that process of Manny. Speaker 5: 05:17 When the bees are finished and the combs are full of honey, you put a lever into the top of the flow hive, give it a turn, which opens up the honeycomb cells and outcomes the honey. When they were ready to go in early 2015 the Andersons turned to a crowd funding website with the goal of raising $70,000 instead, they raised more than 12 million. Now a little more than four years later. The Anderson say there are more than 65,000 flo hives in more than 130 countries. Two of those hives are perched above a canyon in mission hills. They belonged to Eric Carpet and ski Speaker 1: 05:51 flow hive is great because it's made it accessible to so many more hobbyists, which then allows that genetic diversity. Speaker 5: 05:58 Genetic diversity is critical to strong B colonies. It makes them much more able to fight off viruses and to withstand the destruction brought by the use of insecticides. Plus Cedar Anderson says the process of beekeeping is good for humans too. Speaker 7: 06:12 Let me just stop vaping to open their eyes to what's going on with the flowers, what's going on with the sprays, what's going on with habitat and the very matrix of life that we all depend on. Speaker 5: 06:25 These are responsible for 30% of pollination across the globe if they go, so do fruits and vegetables aside from the delicious honey, he harvests a couple of times a year. Eric Karpin ski says it feels great to be doing his part to combat colony collapse. Speaker 7: 06:42 I love that. We just have all these little pockets of reserves all across the u s all across the world because we can't, we don't know exactly what causes Connie claps. If all of a sudden there was a huge colony collapse set in a bunch of commercial beekeepers, they can. We could put out the word, hey, we need queens. We need, we need some hives. Speaker 5: 06:59 Even with a flow hive, you still have to tend to your B's, which means you need a bee suit and a smoker. It may not be traditional beekeeping, but it is an effort. However, you could call it a labor of love. John Carroll, KPBS news Speaker 1: 07:14 actor writers, Star Trek Alumnus, and activist. George decay is out with a new graphic novel. The title is they called us enemy and it tells the story of decays childhood years spent internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War Two he told KPBS that the past is being echoed in what's happening today. Speaker 2: 07:35 Bleeds as children were always intact as a family. We were together with our parents. What's happening today on our southern border is children, infants being torn away from their parents. Speaker 1: 07:49 To hear the complete interview, listen to midday edition or go to kpbs.org despite the comic con weekend, San Diego is no longer in the top five for most popular convention destinations. KPBS is Annika. Colbert says, we've dropped a couple of spots. Speaker 8: 08:06 San Diego dropped from number five to number seven in top destinations for conventions in the u s that's according to an annual report out from sea event. San Diego State Marketing Lecturer Miro Copec says, the new ranking hasn't meant less business or less visitors. Speaker 7: 08:23 Hotels in the last year, both their occupancy rates have increased. So more people are coming and they're spending more. Their average daily value with they, with the hotels bring in per visitor, has increased. So San Diego is doing actually pretty well in the study. It's just that, well, if you think about, we may not be getting as many requests cause we're an expensive city. Speaker 8: 08:42 San Diego was bumped out of the top five by Nashville and Dallas, a covert k PBS news. Speaker 1: 08:49 Thanks for listening to San Diego. News matters. If you're not already a subscriber, take a minute to become one. 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