Carlsbad to receive $3 million to address homelessness
Good Morning, I’m Debbie Cruz….it’s Tuesday, October 8th.
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The city of Carlsbad is set to receive 3 million dollars in state funding to address homelessness. More on what it will be used for, next. But first... let’s do the headlines….
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An Escondido resident is the first person in the county to get the dengue virus locally.
The virus is spread by mosquitos and not commonly found in the U-S.
It’s more likely for travelers to get the virus while visiting countries where it’s common.
So far this year, there have been 49 cases of travel-related dengue in the county.
To protect the public’s health and keep mosquitoes from potentially spreading the virus, the county’s vector control will continue spraying treatments at nearby homes in Escondido through Thursday.
No other locally acquired cases have been identified at this time.
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We’re in the clear from the Heat Advisories in most parts of the county.
And starting today (Tuesday), temperatures will slightly drop each day.
But, we still won’t be feeling the fall weather quite yet.
Today (Tuesday) in the inland and mountain areas, temps will be in the low to mid 80s, and by the coast, it’ll be in the mid 70s.
In the desert areas, an Excessive Heat Warning has been extended to 8 tonight (Tuesday), where temps are expected to reach up to 110 degrees.
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The Padres will be facing the Dodgers in the third game of the National League Division Series at Petco Park today (Tuesday).
The N-L-D-S series is the best of five.
So far, the Padres and Dodgers have each won a game.
Game four of the N-L-D-S series will also be played in San Diego tomorrow (Wednesday).
If game five is necessary, the teams will head back to L-A for that game on Friday.
Today’s (Tuesday’s) game starts at 6-oh-8 P-M.
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ANOTHER ROUND OF STATE FUNDING TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS IS HEADING TO SOME CALIFORNIA COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING CARLSBAD.
NORTH COUNTY REPORTER TANIA THORNE SAYS THIS AWARD IS AIMED AT HELPING PEOPLE LIVING IN THEIR CARS.
$131 million dollars is going to 18 California cities. Carlsbad is- only San Diego city to make the list. Chris Shilling is the homeless services manager for the City of Carlsbad. This 3 million dollar. Grant is going to help Carlsbad address the increasing concerns about people living in their vehicles in the downtown village and barrio area by creating an innovative, vehicular, homeless, outreach program. -. He says this round of state funding will be used for outreach support, housing navigation and rental assistance for people living in their cars. But this funding from the state comes with strings attached. Governor Gavin Newsom has been more critical with cities about how the funding is used and threatens to “claw back” funding if conditions aren't met. TT KPBS News.
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AFTER A SHORT REOPENING, SOUTH COUNTY BEACHES ARE AGAIN CLOSED DUE TO CROSS-BORDER SEWAGE.
REPORTER ANDREW DYER HAS MORE FROM IMPERIAL BEACH.
FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS IMPERIAL BEACH LIVED UP TO THE IMAGE ITS SURFBOARD CITY SIGN PROJECTS. BACTERIA LEVELS DIPPED LOW ENOUGH TO LIFT LONGTIME BEACH CLOSURE SEPTEMBER 22 .THE REOPENING WAS SHORT-LIVED. FRIDAY BACTERIA LEVELS FROM CROSS-BORDER SEWAGE CONTAMINATION FORCED THE COUNTY TO AGAIN CLOSE THE BEACH. BETHANY CASE IS A VOLUNTEER WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL NON-PROFIT SURFRIDER FOUNDATION AND LIVES IN IMPERIAL BEACH. SHE SAYS SHE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT CONTAMINATION EVEN WHILE THE BEACHES WERE OPEN. “I THINK AFTER HAVING THE BEACHES CLOSED FOR OVER A THOUSAND DAYS STRAIGHT, WE WERE EXCITED TO HAVE THE BEACH OPEN A LITTLE BIT. BUT ALSO REALLY SKEPTICAL. INFRASTRUCTURE WORK IS UNDERWAY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER. ACCORDING TO A REPORT IN VOICE OF SAN DIEGO TIJUANA’S MAIN SEWAGE LINE WILL BE OFFLINE THIS MONTH FOR REPAIRS. THAT MEANS FOR TWO WEEKS MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF SEWAGE HAS NOWHERE TO GO BUT THE RIVER. ANDREW DYER, KPBS NEWS
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YESTERDAY WAS ONE YEAR SINCE HAMAS KILLED MORE THAN TWELVE-HUNDRED PEOPLE AND TOOK HUNDREDS OF OTHERS HOSTAGE IN ISRAEL.
REPORTER KATIE ANASTAS VISITED A MEMORIAL AT UC-SD COMMEMORATING THE ANNIVERSARY.
A year after the attack, there are 101 hostages still in captivity. The UCSD chapter of Students Supporting Israel set up a table with a seat for each of them. Andrew Jeter is president of the group. JETER Our main message is to make sure that, you know, we pay respects to the people that lost their lives and that were kidnaped on October 7th. The ensuing war has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians. UCSD student James Wright stopped by the display on his way to class. WRIGHT From my understanding, it's not it has not been a proportionate conflict or a proportionate response to the conflict. Tritons for Israel and Students for Justice in Palestine at UCSD both planned vigils for the late afternoon and evening. Katie Anastas, KPBS News
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THE 49TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT COVERS PART OF SAN DIEGO'S NORTH COUNTY AND A PORTION OF ORANGE COUNTY.
REPORTER TANIA THORNE HAS A LOOK AT THE CANDIDATES IN THAT RACE.
The seat is currently held by Democrat Mike Levin. He is seeking re-election and this could be his 4th term. we're going to work on everything from the cost of goods, whether it's gas, groceries, housing or insurance getting the spent nuclear fuel off our coast at San Onofre, doing everything we can for our veterans, continue to advance bipartisan legislation for them and trying to get bipartisan immigration reform and border security. Transportation and climate change are also key issues for Levin. Working on securing the LOSSAN rail corridor as well as keeping sand on our beaches. Republican candidate Matt Gunderson didn’t respond to requests for interviews but- his first political ad focused on his stance on abortion. On a woman’s right to choose, I’m pro-choice. I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. I don’t want politicians dictating healthcare for my daughters. And his priorities… lowering housing, grocery and gas prices. Securing the border and protecting Social Security. We can end the overheated political rhetoric and focus on fixing a broken Washington. Gunderson is an auto dealership owner and lives in Ladera Ranch. TT KPBS NEWS.
TAG: REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE COUNTY SHOULD KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THEIR BALLOTS IN THE MAIL THIS WEEK.
EARLY VOTING AT THE REGISTRAR’S OFFICE ALSO BEGINS THIS WEEK, AND STARTING TODAY (TUESDAY), YOU CAN ALSO DROP OFF YOUR BALLOT AT ANY OF THE REGISTRAR’S OFFICIAL BALLOT DROP BOXES.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ELECTION, VISIT OUR NEWSROOM’S VOTER GUIDE, AT K-P-B-S-DOT-ORG-SLASH-VOTER-HUB.
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THE POLYNESIAN PEOPLE WERE MIGRANTS AND SETTLERS.
BUT THEY DIDN’T SETTLE A CONTINENT.
THEY SETTLED ISLANDS, SEPARATED BY A VAST OCEAN THEY HAD TO NAVIGATE.
SCI TECH REPORTER THOMAS FUDGE PRESENTS TO US A SCIENTIST WHO HAS LEARNED THAT MIGRATORY HISTORY FROM GENETIC SAMPLING, AND FROM THE STORIES HIS GRANDMA TOLD HIM.
Keolu Fox stands on a balcony overlooking a cloud-covered Pacific Ocean on the edge of the UC San Diego campus. Keolu is a genetic scientist and a professor of anthropology at UCSD. He’s also a native Hawaiian who is using genetic analysis to learn how his ancestors, his Kuapuna, moved from one Island to the next. Risky exploratory trips that he compares to “moonshots.” Keolu believes that journey ultimately brought Polynesians to a pre-Columbian landing on the South American continent. “It’s traveling thousands of miles across our planet’s oldest, most gnarly, most dangerous ocean. You find comfort in reading the stars at night. You find comfort in understanding winds and currents like this. You find comfort in reading this ecological metadata that allows you to know the direction that you’re going.” That knowledge was passed from one generation to the next. Today it stands alongside modern scientific research. “It’s true that our grandparents told us we came from Tahiti. But now I can show you in an unbiased way that we have another thing we can be proud of. And that is that we’re the greatest voyaging and seafaring people in human history.”Evidence of Polynesian migration is seen in many ways, including the languages islanders speak. But it’s not been clear what path the migration took or just when it happened. Thanks to modern genetic analysis by Fox and his research group they’ve been able to draw a map, and establish a timeline for that migration.
A paper published in Nature three years ago presented a specific eastward migratory path. Keolu was a co-author. By testing the genome of people on one island and comparing it to those on islands settled by their descendents or forebears, you can understand the sequence of island settlement. Alex Ioannidis is a computational geneticist at UC Santa Cruz, and another co-author on the Nature article. “Imagine that on the original parent island, from which they came, let’s say there were only one in a hundred people with red hair. But on the new island, if one of the ten people on that boat had red hair, then on the new island you’re going to have a ten percent frequency of red hair. Right? So you’re going to have this strong effect, depending on what the founders happened to have,” Evolution of DNA also lets you calculate how many generations separate the people of Tahiti from their distant cousins in Hawaii. So… given the speed and the extent of the Polynesian eastward expansion, why didn’t they end up in America? If they found Easter Island, how could they miss a whole continent?
Keolu Fox said they didn’t. And they arrived hundreds of years before Columbus.
“The reality is that the nail is in the coffin baby. The idea that our Polynesian ancestors made it to South America first is a fact.” Early Polynesians and American Indians did make contact centuries ago.That is indisputable.
Polynesian islanders share the same genetic signature seen in at least one South American Indian tribe. Ioannidis says the timing of Polynesian expansion also favors a hypothesis that they landed on the continent. “The settlement process of the remote Islands all the way out to Easter Island, the most remote, was occurring right around the time, the 1100’s and 1200’s, that we date the contact with the Native Americans to have also occurred.” Still, some questions remain because, so far, no Polynesian DNA, from that era, has been found in South America. Ioannidis said the possibility that an Indian boat made it to a south sea island to initiate the contact cannot be discounted. But Keolu called that scenario “highly unlikely,” given how little evidence we find of Native American navigational skills or their construction of ocean-worthy vessels. Researchers continue their work to answer the unanswered questions. Keolu wants to bring genome testing to North America. He hopes that indigenous tribes along the California coast will offer samples to see if THEY may be linked to the Polynesian people. “The idea of testing a hypothesis that brings indigenous people closer together around unity and connectivity and harmony and balance and says that we had a relationship before settler colonialism, I think that’s a really powerful thing.”
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That’s it for the podcast today. Join us again tomorrow for the day’s top stories. I’m Debbie Cruz. Thanks for listening and have a great Tuesday.
