Breaking news here.
Officials in Spain are
investigating a suspicious package
at the US embassy in Madrid.
Thanks for being here at 6:00 AM.
I'm Eric Connor,
and I'm not Ironport.
This comes after police say other
explosive devices were hidden
in packages sent in Madrid,
including one that ignited
in the Ukrainian embassy.
The package at the US Embassy
now under police control.
We'll keep you updated on
what's happening there.
And now to our other top story this morning,
there is a new push to end homelessness
in San Diego in just five years.
This is. An ambitious goal
that officials are setting,
they're doing this is all happening
during a conference on homelessness,
which does continue this morning.
CBS 8 State Marie Mcnichol live
along Harbor Island to explain these
possible solutions they're looking at.
Good morning.
Good morning, Eric.
Annetta, you're right.
Five years to have a
solution is quite ambitious.
But what they say,
the key to all of that is housing,
but also keeping up with
the demand and the work
that they're already doing.
Take a listen.
What we're doing works.
We need more of it.
We more need more units and we also need
more people to be able to be stabilized.
We need more prevention so that that's
you know, statistic of 10 people being
housed in 13 experiencing homelessness.
That isn't a failing of the work being done.
That is an over demand of
an under resourced system.
Now today is the 2nd day of this two
day conference we spoke to yesterday.
Those who say work is being done but
they can't keep up with the high demand
that's out there. Rent is so high,
housing is expensive and there just
isn't enough housing for everybody.
People spent the day listening to speakers,
collaborating, sharing ideas.
We spoke to the CEO of the San Diego
Regional Task Force on homelessness,
who said the point of all of this is
really to get everybody on the same page,
understand what the plan is.
And how to achieve it?
We asked.
What would you say to people out
there who are frustrated with this
crisis seeming only to get worse?
Those who are skeptical the conference
will actually make a difference,
we were told that they're doing
what they are everything they can,
and some of it is working.
They're getting people off
the streets and into housing.
It's just the demand is so high
that they're struggling to keep up.
Another topic they discussed
was preventing homelessness,
like helping people with rent payments
to prevent them from being evicted.
So for now,
we'll just have to wait and see what kind of.
Progress happens again.
Today is day two of this
conference against 700 people.
State, local and elected officials,
experts are all gathering for this one issue.
I'm Dana Marie Mcnicoll,
coming to you live from Harbor Island.
Of
course, it's a major one.
Thank you very much, Dana. Mary.
Now, this morning we're hearing from
a woman who says she was attacked
by a homeless man while on a jog.
It happened Saturday near the zoo.
Diane Brown says she tried to run around
a man who was throwing things at cars.
She says he then threw a
brick at the back of her head.
She managed to snap a picture
of her alleged attacker,
and then she gave it to police.
So before it was kind of like,
oh man, I hope these people
get the help they need.
Now it's like, stay away from me,
don't come near me. Recently,
a group of people who appeared
to be homeless attacked a man
walking his dog in Ocean Beach.
We reached out to the city
about these incidents.
They tell us they have been focused
on compassionate enforcement.
This morning, deputies are asking
you to take a look at this sketch.
They're looking for a man who
hit two women with his truck,
then tried to rob them.
They happened on Black Friday in a parking
lot in front of Kohl's on Mission Gorge Rd.
In Santee.
The women were walking to their
car when the man hit them and
tried to take their purse.
He got away.
You're asked to call the Sheriff's
Department if you have any information.
And this morning we are learning
about plans to redevelop land around
transit stations in North County to
add housing the North County Transit
District looking at 4 stations that
includes the Carlsbad, Poinsettia and
Carlsbad Village coaster stations,
the Oceanside Transit Center
and Escondido Transit Center,
you see them on your map there.
These projects could create up
to 2000 housing units,
many of which will be affordable housing.
None of them have broken ground yet this
morning people against a new rooftop.
Solar proposal will rally across
the state of California,
including here in San Diego,
2 weeks from today.
The California Public Utilities
Commission will vote on a proposal
that would lower how much solar
panel owners would get for selling
their excess power to the grid.
Critics are calling for officials
to quote save solar.
They think this will ruin it.
They will rally in San Diego's Valencia
Park neighborhood this morning at 11.
Touring Legoland in Carlsbad is
getting into the holiday spirit.
The local theme park has a
Christmas tree made out of bricks,
plus holiday themed entertainment and treats.
CBS, It's Chris Grow is there with all
the fun here live this morning, Chris.
Very festive out there already.
Yes, very festive, Eric.
In fact it's it's almost a mandate
here at Legoland that we are going to
be festive today and really throughout
the month of December and in January.
We've got some friends that are
visiting us here from way on
up all the way to down below.
And I want to bring in another friend
of ours, Christina and Christina.
We got a lot going on right now,
but this is what folks can expect
at Legoland for quite some time.
That is right from the moment they
walk in here at Legoland California
Resort now through January 8th.
We have holiday entertainment galore,
we have our Jingle Jamboree.
Answers behind us.
We have our mint marching band
and of course we have kids awake
and ready to party this morning.
And they were ready to go.
They came in here, they're dancing,
they're moving their groove.
And real quick though,
four families that want to come.
This is included with the
general pass, right?
That is correct. Select annual passes,
go ahead and check your blackout dates
as well as general ticket holders.
All you have to do is make a reservation
and it's included in your day ticket. And
what are some of those?
We we know Legoland's very famous
for the events that happened within
a lot of these holiday festivities.
Concerts, music, things like that.
What are you most looking forward to? Yes.
Well, I have a 2 year old
boy and he loves dancing.
So we came this past weekend
and he was a dance machine.
We have so much fun new entertainment
this year, plenty of new shows.
We have Benny's ugly sweater party
and that was probably his favorite.
So I'll say I'm excited to come
back and do that one again.
Awesome. Very good.
We got to see if we can get some contestants
here for the ugly sweater party because
everybody's looking so good right now.
We've got our Legoland scarfs and
our little Legoland beanie because
right now guys, I'm feeling.
There is snow in the forecast today,
Evan, I don't know.
You gotta check on that for Carlsbad.
We might be getting some snow here,
but I tell you what,
we are going to have you
been hearing that music here?
We're going to be getting some
Jingle Bells here pretty soon,
maybe to take us here through the break.
So guys,
why don't you take us away here
with a little bit of Jingle Bells?
They're up on that.
Do you like the happy dancers?
I can't believe that that it's
6:07 AM they have that much energy.
They're having a blast out there.
I think they're getting
paid in hot cocoa, perhaps.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
I like that. Dial it right there.
I love it. Yeah. So Chris said it.
Snow in the forecast.
Yeah. One cloud
right above Legoland.
That's it's just very contained
spot. It's amazing how for some reason,
outside of Legoland, it's not.
That's pinpointed forecast for you.
We're watching for rain,
but it looks like that won't
even come to fruition for us.
We should get a little bit of a drizzle,
maybe a few one hundredths of an inch.
But we originally in the forecast,
we're hoping for 1/4 of an inch
or so for each of these events
for Friday and for Sunday.
Now instead, our models are
shifting toward a few hundredths
of an inch for each of those days,
Friday and Sunday.
And that means that in total, yes,
we will be lucky to see even 1/10 of an inch.
A lot of our models show this
atmospheric river breaking down
before it gets to San Diego.
What we will see is the influx of clouds.
We'll see those cooler
temperatures in play today,
upper 50s and we'll also see wind pick
up in the forecast as we go into tomorrow
afternoon and really even late tonight,
late tonight through tomorrow afternoon.
I should say cloud cover is
increasing early this morning.
It's led to some warmer overnight low
temperatures because those clouds act
as a blanket for us when we give you
the wider look at just California as a whole,
you.
I can see that atmospheric river traveling
through the San Francisco area as we speak.
Plenty of snow up toward
their higher elevations.
This will keep traveling farther
South and then make its way to
about the Santa Barbara area by
the time we get to late tonight.
It will still be pretty uniform
at that point, however,
beyond Santa Barbara and South
of Santa Barbara,
into LA, Orange County,
then down to San Diego,
that's when it really starts to decay and
we'll pick up on maybe a few sprinkles.
As you can see,
LA is right now into about some portions of.
With Orange County right now,
but that's really all we're gonna expect
is a little bit of a drizzle at times.
Now looking at your high temperatures,
we're sticking to cooler
temperatures and many cases about
10 degrees cooler than average.
59 is a very popular one for us for La Jolla,
PB, Mira Mesa,
El Cahone this afternoon,
National City and Chula Vista 60
degrees looking up the coastline.
A couple low 60s for Solana Beach,
59 for Del Mar, 59 for San Marcos
and 41 up at Palomar Mountain.
As that afternoon high,
the mountains are still going
to stay especially cool.
Julian, 46 Alpine 53 out there,
here's traffic this morning.
So far things have been light so far.
No crashes or collisions that we've
seen pop up here on the screen.
I'll give you a little bit of a closer
look at what we see on the 8:05.
There is no crash right now according to CHP.
We're just seeing volume increase there.
So that means that more and more
people are getting on the road early
this morning and it looks like
that's that stretch from about the
South Bay up through downtown San
Diego then. And Eric, over to you.