In adoptive mother and grandmother
accused in the death of an 11 year
old girl asked a judge for bail.
Coming up, what else we learned in
court today plus a chase by police that
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A plea for bail today in an El
Cajon courtroom from the adoptive
family members charged in the
death of an 11 year old girl.
Good evening and thanks for joining us.
I'm Marcella Lee.
I'm Carlo chicado.
Disturbing new details came out in court,
including the fact that Arabella
McCormack weighed just £48
at the time of her death.
As our David Garretson reports,
Arabella's biological mother
sat in court holding a
photo of her dead daughter.
A911 call on August 30th reporting a girl
in distress brought ambulances to the
McCormick home in Spring Valley. When they
arrived they found the 11 year old
Arabella lying on the living room floor.
She was pale, unresponsive and had no pulse.
11 year old Arabella McCormick was
later declared dead at the hospital.
Her adoptive mother and grandparents
are now charged with torture in
the girl's death in El Cajon Court.
Tuesday, attorneys for the adoptive mother,
Leticia McCormick, and her mother,
Adela Tom, asked the judge to set bail.
Miss McCormack has no prior arrests,
no prior convictions and there is
no evidence. Let me say it again.
There is no evidence to support an argument
that she poses a danger to the public.
She has support from friends that
would allow her to live with them
if released on home recognizance
or a bail amount that's set that
would be affordable for her.
That's when Deputy District Attorney
Meredith Pro revealed the gruesome
details of Arabella's death.
At the time of her death,
Arabella visibly was
already severely emaciated.
Her bones protruded from her skin.
She had visible bruising lacerations to
her body after further investigation.
It was learned she had 15 healing
bone fractures to her body.
The prosecutor
said Arabella and her two younger
sisters were all malnourished,
and she alleged the adoptive
family members forced the girls
to exercise and withheld water,
all while the girls were
starving to death. She also
weighed 48 pounds, which was
less than what she weighed at
the age of five years old. Also
in the courtroom, the girls
biological mother. Who lost
custody of the children in 2017?
This is Arabella.
This is my least favorite
picture of her because of how
skinny she is in this photo,
and I held it up so they can
see so Leticia and her mother
can stare at what they did.
In the end, the judge denied bail,
saying the defendants were clearly a
danger to society and a flight risk.
They face life in prison if convicted,
so all three defendants will
continue to be held without
bail. They'll be back in court
on January 18th at the El Cajon
Courthouse. David Godfredson
CBS 8 thanks David a woman is in
the hospital tonight after being
shot by law enforcement in Tallmadge
a little before 9:00 last night.
This happened on Callwood Lane.
Investigators say officers engaged
the woman inside a stolen van
and that when asked to get out,
she pointed what looked like a gun at them.
A Chula Vista police officer and
a sheriff Sergeant opened fire,
hitting her multiple times,
they later learned. The gun was a replica.
This was a task force that was
going after stolen autos.
The woman has serious injuries
but is expected to survive.
No officers were hurt.
Mayor Todd Gloria signed an executive
order today to address the fentanyl
crisis in the city of San Diego.
Fentanyl overdoses killed more
than 800 San Diegans last year.
City leaders say the order will
increase prevention efforts,
including education,
and will give law enforcement
and prosecutors the tools to
investigate and prosecute.
People involved in fentanyl related crimes
right now Chula Vista Mayor Mary
Cassia Salas is delivering her
final state of the city address.
She is being termed out after
eight years in office as mayor.
Mayor Sallis says her biggest
accomplishment is how she has
strengthened Chula Vista's economy.
She says the billion dollar Bayfront
project and SDSU Chula Vista
Cinematic Arts Center will enhance
the community's quality of life. I
see that the city is going to be
growing in influence. In the region
and that we will become a major
player and and that we will be
the hub and the Center for a
lot of economic development.
As for who will be the next
mayor of Chula Vista,
Council member John McCann is currently
leading and will likely take over that seat.
Gas prices dropped again overnight.
The average price for a gallon of
regular unleaded here in San Diego
County dropped nearly $0.05 to $5.03.
That's $0.21 a gallon lower than
what we were paying just a week
ago and $1.40 lower than the
record high sent on October 5th.
Meantime, statewide tonight
the average price for a gallon
of gas has fallen below $5.
The California Energy Commission
says prices started to drop after
the governor ordered a switch to
the cheaper winter blend of gas.
As our political reporter Morgan
Reiner tells us, the Commission met
today to discuss why we saw much
higher prices here in California
compared to the rest of the nation.
The meeting lasted all day long, with a
panel full of experts noticeably
absent though any representative
for the five oil companies that
control 97% of the gas in California,
the California Energy Commission,
made it clear they reached out individually
to the five oil companies to ask them
to participate in Tuesday's hearing.
The lack of their participate,
the refineries participation
in this discussion is really
going to limit our ability to
more deeply understand why.
Californians paid $2.61
more than other Americans,
but still the Commission's Gordon
Schremp went through a list of
a combination of explanations.
We're self-sufficient,
we produce pretty much everything we
need and consume it here locally.
However, when there's a significant
unplanned outage, additional supply
needs to come from somewhere,
and the gas from overseas used
to supplement the outages,
he said, is more expensive.
UC Berkeley's Haas School of
energy director Severin Borenstein
said that plays a role, but.
He has other thoughts
and the vast majority of these different,
the differential, it's coming downstream,
it's coming in the marketing,
distribution and retailing sectors.
Refiners continue to play a huge role there.
They own some of the downstream stations
and they have tremendous control
over the pricing for of most of the
other branded downstream stations,
CEO of consumer watchdog Jamie Court said.
He knows it's because of greed.
2022, The over fires in
California doubled their profits.
These are unprecedented profits.
They're unprecedented windfall
profits and it's all because of the
market power of the oil refiners.
While the oil companies did not participate,
the head of the Western.
States Petroleum Association
Catherine Reese Boyd said it
comes down to mostly policymakers.
We have a greater tax burden,
we have higher environmental program costs.
We adopt regulations and policies that
have both prevented needed energy
infrastructure from being built in the state,
and we send signals to the market that
have significantly curtailed investment.
One of the big takeaways today is that
it's hard to say exactly what the main
cause for California seeing these huge
price hikes compared to the rest of the
country when you don't have the access.
For the authority to access a lot
of the data from the oil companies,
Thanks Morgan. San Diegans who are
owed money by the county have just one
more day to file a tax refund claim.
County treasurer tax collector
Dan McAllister says the county
still has more than $1,000,000 it
needs to give back to residents.
Right now there are nearly
1400 unclaimed refunds.
To see if your name is on that list,
you can head to the cbs8.com website
and click on the help button.
Hundreds of sailors on board the
USS Tripoli are back home tonight,
reuniting with loved ones.
The amphibious warship was out for nearly
seven months on its maiden deployment.
CBS 8 Dana Marie Mcnicholl has more on the
special homecoming from Naval Base San Diego.
Well, we have a smiles, hugs,
even tears as 1200 sailors
on the USS Tripoli are making
their way down here now.
1st 21 dads get to meet their
babies for the first time.
Alejandro, congratulations.
What it what does it feel like to
be able to meet Mila for the first
time? It's very exciting.
I been looking forward to this
for months now. So just to finally
be here is definitely like super
exciting and I'm just super happy.
Is this your first little baby?
Yes, this is my first baby, yes.
What was the communication
like while on? Employment.
Card we had to e-mail a lot and
different things like that.
You know whenever we hit port I was
able to call but you know it was hard
and let's see can we see
maybe Mila? Hello. Ohh.
I saw you sprinting. Yeah.
How are you feeling? Amazing.
It's so good to have him home.
I'm so excited.
And the holidays are around the corner.
What are you gonna first
do when you get home?
I don't know.
What are we going to do?
Go eat.
Well, congratulations. Happy holidays.
And this is just one of so many
families that this moment,
they've been waiting for seven months
to welcome the USS Tripoli home.
It was actually their first deployment.
And we have a lot of anxious sailors up
there waving at their family members,
a lot of phone calls being made.
Say, I could see you.
I could see you.
I've been hearing young kids screaming,
Mommy, Daddy,
just waiting for that moment to embrace
their family members for the first time.
As you can see,
we have another group of sailors coming off,
just smiles, hugs all the way around.
And they're looking for their family as
they make their way through the crowd,
full of signs,
love and support for their
sacrifice that they gave to our
country over the past seven months,
so far away from their friends and family,
of course.
We are so happy to welcome them
home just in time for the holidays.
And we'll have more on cbs8.com
and later editions of CBS 8 News.
I'm Dana Marie. I'll come back to you.
Thanks,
Danny, and welcome back. Welcome back.
Hope you're enjoying a wonderful family
dinner tonight. Still ahead tonight,
a Senate victory for a bill
to protect same sex marriage.
Plus, the CEO's of the nation's
two largest grocery chains make
their case for a merger. Why?
Some workers and customers say
it's a bad idea. Clouds and cool
temps in the forecast for tonight.
Also talking about 59 degrees for downtown.
Now we're still talking about
the cool temps, but there could
be some rain on the way. All
those details coming up. And
up next, the message one Daredevil
tried to spread today when he
scaled the Ritz Carlton up in LA.