Good morning. Today,
California lawmakers are holding
a special session on gas prices.
The governor says he wants
to hold the oil industry
accountable for price gouging.
Glad you're with us at 6:00 AM.
I'm Eric Connor.
And I'm Evan Ronni Infernet
Iran poor right now.
San Diego's average price for
one gallon of gas is $4.82,
down 1 cent from just yesterday.
CBS 8 Stanley Marie Mcnichol
is live in Kearny Mesa.
She has more on what the
governor wants to do.
Hey, Denmark.
Well, good morning, Eric and Evan.
I mean, these conversations he's having
with legislatures are all about how
they can punish big oil companies
for skyrocketing those prices.
If you look at the numbers,
oil companies reported billions in profits,
record profits this year,
500 to 17% more than last year.
That's why Newsom wants to establish
a profit cap on the oil industry.
So here are three things he's looking
to accomplish in this session.
So first, impose a penalty on oil companies.
And return that money to Californians.
Second, give additional powers
to state agencies to review and
monitor the pricing and profiting.
And then third,
generate regularity oversight in order
to address avoidable gasoline shortages.
Here in California,
we did see a gasoline shortage and
that's why we did see some of those
prices rise over this past year.
Now we spoke to the Western States
Petroleum Association that represents the
Big 5 oil companies in front of the state.
They say the high prices.
Are not a result of greed or gouging,
but a legislative process problem.
Take a listen.
The costs we see in California
are about our market conditions,
public policy and the high cost
of doing business in California,
all things that the government,
the legislature, the governor can take
a look at and help solve for consumers.
Now, the regular session also does start
today, so experts look to the future in
terms of how much is going to get done.
They don't expect big announcements
to come today, maybe later this month,
even after the holiday season.
But here in Kearny Mesa,
$4.69 for a regular gallon of gas is a
lot cheaper than what we've seen all year.
Last week, we saw those prices drop
below $5 for the first time since March.
So we are seeing some changes,
but we will of course keep you
updated on the money that's cutting.
Back to Californians coming
from Gavin Newsom.
I'm Dana Murray mcnickle.
Coming to you live from Kearny Mesa.
And this morning, authorities will
continue efforts to reach a climber
who fell to their death on alcohol
mountain in the lakeside area.
That rock climber died after
falling about 200 feet.
Paramedics and deputies haven't
been able to reach that area
because of the rocky terrain.
El Cajon Mountain is a popular
destination for climbers.
It's located just South of the
Barona Resort and Casino and has more
than 200 different climbing routes.
This morning, our gas station
clerk is hurt after being shot
during a robbery happened early
yesterday morning at the AM PM.
Oceanside Blvd.
Police say two men came in.
They demanded cash at gunpoint.
The clerk gave them the money and then
tried to chase them out of the store.
And that's when one of the men shot him.
Police are still looking for those suspects.
2 migrants are in Border Patrol custody
after they were rescued from Sunset Cliffs.
The men were found yesterday morning
with hypothermia.
They were stranded on a rocky ledge of the
cliffs below Point Loma Nazarene University.
They were wearing life preservers
but the Coast Guard didn't find
any related boats in the area
and people in Barrio Logan are pushing back.
Against a project that they say will
pollute their community further,
a cement company wants to build
a warehouse in Barrio Logan.
The project would dramatically increase
diesel truck traffic in an area where
families have already been known to
get sick from breathing polluted air.
Sometimes even seeps into your
house if you have the window open
and smell the diesel air.
And it's going to get worse if
we have 4010 thousand trucks.
We've heard a lot of people speaking up
in Barrio Logan about that and according
to the Environmental Health Coalition,
barrio Logan's air pollution gives
residents an 85 to 95% higher chance of
developing cancer than the rest of the US.
The Board of Port Commissioners will
discuss the new warehouse next week.
Well, CBS is working with
feeding San Diego to give hope,
share joy and help feed
families this holiday season.
Yes is a proud effort with CBS
here every dollar donated provides
2 meals and today every donation
will be matched up to $10,000.
So very good time to give CBS.
It's Chris grow live at Sorrento
Valley with more on this campaign,
this money goes a long way.
Yeah, look, so let's do that math here.
And I know it's a little
bit early in the morning,
but I think it's important.
A dollar equals two meals,
so $2.00 = 4 meals.
So again, we are doubling
everything here by helping out,
especially during this holiday season.
I want to bring in Allison here because
right now this warehouse is busy.
We are seeing where all of these
different pallets of food are going.
And that's sort of the idea
behind feeding San Diego is this
is how food gets to schools,
to health clinics.
Can you tell us a little bit
more about your community
partners and how it is that
you help provide the food? Yeah,
sure. Yeah, I mean and as you said,
like we were just looking at those
boxes for an elementary school,
for a health clinic, for a church.
You know, we try to partner with all
the organizations across the community
that are helping their community.
So we're kind of the behind the
scenes to make sure that they have
the food they need to give to their
whoever is in their community,
whether it's a church,
whether it's a school, whether it's a,
you know, you know, boys and Girls Club,
whatever it is.
So that's kind of the most efficient
way we can distribute food to
as many people as possible.
And I think also when you,
when you look around here,
something else that we were talking about is.
Of life, a lot of this food
would have been lost or gone
to waste if not for feeding.
San Diego against stepping in to
make sure that that food gets used.
That's right. So we're part
of a member of Feed America.
So because we're part of feeding America,
we're able to access all this excess
food that goes to waste, like you said.
So it's 35% of all food goes to waste.
So almost all this food you see in
this warehouse was food that was
going to end up in the landfill,
perfectly good, nutritious food.
So we go to the Ralphs in the Costcos
and the Amazon warehouses and we get
the food before it goes landfill and
we either bring it back to the house,
which is where our volunteers.
Women are critical to making sure that
food gets packed or gleaned and then backups,
community or we actually match up a
partner organization and a store that's,
you know, needs has excess food and we
just let them directly pick it up and
give it to the people that they need.
And we know that we're
asking for donations today,
but As for volunteers,
we are fully booked up here
for the holiday season.
You were saying, but you run on volunteers.
Feeding San Diego runs on volunteers.
So we're encouraging
people to do what looking
forward. So we do.
I mean, if we didn't have,
I think it's an equivalent to.
I think 15 or 16 full-time
employees over 10,000 volunteers.
So during the holidays people are
even more generous with their time.
So we are through December.
Luckily we do have all our you know,
shifts committed,
but all year long we need those volunteers.
So we encourage people to
look online and January,
February, all year long come in.
But also right now the
donations if we can keep,
we need to get the funds in
so that we can then make sure
that the Community continues
to be fed and we have a match,
which is amazing today from TRACON
Pharma who's a local company here.
So like you said it's all doubled.
So if anyone has the ability
to give right now.
We encourage them because we really
want to make sure everyone in San Diego
has food on their table right now.
And
again, if they can't donate their
time, where should they go? To
donatetheirmoneyfeedingsandiego.org.
You can go to donate your money.
You can go see if there's a volunteer shift.
If you are in need of food
assistance or you know someone that
is in need of food assistance,
we have a fine food map and you can
find out where you can access food.
We have holiday boxes for all
our partners right now and all
the people in around the country.
We have of the county.
We have, you know,
in Southwestern College.
We're down there,
we're at North Island Credit
Union Amphitheatre all over,
trying to make sure that.
Families have the food they need right now.
Thank
you so much again,
showing us inside and making sure again
that we're getting that message out.
So you can go to feedingsandiego.org
to make sure that you can donate.
You can go to cbs8.com/community as well too.
We are partnering with feeding San Diego
to make sure that we're helping out those
in need during this time of year. Eric.
Yeah, Chris, got to wear that vest
because those forklift operators very
busy there Wheeling all over the place.
They got to get that food out.
They got a job to do, a big job to do,
and we can all help here today.
So we're all glad you.
Reminded us how far dollar can go.
Thanks for that Chris.
We'll see you here shortly.
Very great way to ring in the
holidays by helping out, right?
Yeah, I mean it just got really
busy out there behind Chris.
So we're seeing it in action.
And yes, Media and San Diego does
an amazing job of getting food to
all their local community members
and to people who can distribute
them equitably around our county.
It is amazing stuff that they do.
And hey, $10,000 is a lot
that they are matching today.
So get donating or you can
also help them out, you know,
with your time as well.
Take a look.
This is what satellite radar
imagery has given us over the last.
About 3 hours or so.
It has been generally very light.
You see a little bit of green popping
up here on the screen and that is
denoting some scattered showers,
some misting taking place.
From Del Mar headed E,
We're seeing a pretty decent
cell come through.
This could give us maybe one
100th to 100th of an inch.
Very light accumulations overall,
and that's what we're going to keep
tapping into for the next several mornings,
this morning,
tomorrow morning and
Wednesday morning especially.
That's the time frame we're kind
of watching out for those showers
60s in play for this afternoon,
partial sunshine.
Temperatures are still gonna be a
few degrees cooler than average.
San Diego and Ramona coming in
about 5 degrees cooler than
what would be considered normal.
Normal would be upper 60s.
Mid 60s will be instead in the low 60s.
Brego Springs 71 this afternoon and
for the next couple days we'll stick
with those cooler temperatures,
especially tomorrow,
Tuesday as well as Wednesday.
Showers will come through
early Wednesday morning,
taper off by the afternoon,
and then as that low clears to the east,
well,
that's when we'll start to
see a little bit of warm up.
It is not.
All that much we're gonna pick
up on more of a zonal flow.
So unchanged, mostly,
but we will at least see those skies
clear up on Thursday and Friday.
A little bit more sunshine peeking through.
Here's what temperatures look like
out the door right now, mostly 50s.
And we also are seeing a bit of
wind across the mountain tops.
And the deserts will keep on hanging
on to that wind for the next couple hours.
It looks like that'll die down
by the afternoon.
But beyond that,
between now and the afternoon,
we're still going to see those
winds accelerate before then dying
down after that time frame. Right?
Let's take a look at traffic this morning.
This is your.
Traffic map this morning.
I'll zoom in on one spot of the map
that looks to be giving us some difficulty.
Haven't checked in on this yet,
but it looks to be toward the South Bay,
or at least South of downtown San Diego.
Yeah,
just moving toward about the
National city area.
We have all lanes stopped with a
crash on the 94 westbound at the 805.
Again,
you could see the delays leading up to this.
Speeds are very,
very slow on the 8:05 and on the
94 it looks like 11 mph there,
and just farther off on the 94 at 9 mph.
So it is slow. Going right now,
as we start off the morning,
we're gonna check in and see what this is,
how this came to be. But again,
right now it looks like all lanes are
stopped with a crash on the 94 westbound,
so this is headed West on the 94
as you get toward the 805 again,
we'll bring you more as
the morning progresses.