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We begin tonight with a rallying cry from a group of families calling on the
city of San Diego to fix streets where there have been several deadly crashes.
Good evening. And thank you for joining us. I'm Carlo
and I'm an a Laurel and for Marcela Lee, the families dubbed those streets.
The fatal 15 mayor Todd Gloria proposed budget addresses eight of those.
But as CBS eight Kirsten Holmes found out these families and community groups
want the city to fix what they call the 77 deadly leftovers.
Kirsten joins us live downtown with more on their concerns. Kirsten.
Yeah, I'm here at one of those seven deadly leftovers.
This is the intersection of Market in 19th Street.
Now, I want you to take a look behind me.
As you can see there is a pedestrian crossing light.
It has a hand up when it's time to stop
and the person lights up when it's time to go. But as you can see
this intersection is missing some of those signs,
we talked to a widow and a mom who says half
this intersection had those lights and those signs and other enhancements.
Her husband and her twins father might still be here today.
I'm here for them.
You know, I want them um
to
know that their mom has a voice
and that we're
advocating for this not to happen to other people.
This is Katie Gordon with her late husband Jason and their twin baby girls, Malia and
Mia
Jason was killed by a hit and run driver who
stopped to get tacos moments after taking Jason's life.
That driver has been sentenced.
And now Katie and this group of families connected
by tragedy fight to make San Diego's street.
54% of all crashes in the city of San Diego are concentrated in 6% of the streets
and so fixing these will make a huge difference in saving lives.
Laura Keenan lost her husband, Matt in 2021.
Matt was riding his bicycle before he was hit and killed by a wrong way driver.
The city of San Diego's proposed fiscal year budget for 2025 has
money to fix eight of what these families call the fatal 15.
But Laura says the city has to do more to protect San Diegans.
We're not asking for a lot of money.
We're asking for additional $700,000 to fix these remaining seven intersections.
It's a drop in the bucket.
Robert
Lemon lives nearby.
He says he knows exactly how deadly market street alone can be I seen the buses hit,
twist the car
and the old man flew up through the window
when the car, especially when they go down,
go on westbound towards downtown.
It's a problem.
Katie says simple enhancements to the
seven deadly leftovers across San Diego could
go a long way to save lives having the digital crosswalk signs.
So that's not apparent on each intersection.
Um Obviously there is zebra striping,
but obviously making it more apparent with different reflection and color and,
and just maintaining that
we reached out to the city of San Diego for comment on this story,
but we still have not heard back but because they are fixing eight of the fatal 15,
we wanted to list for you the seven deadly leftovers,
they should pop up next to me right here.
They are Claremont, Mesa
Boulevard, Rosecrans, Euclid, Mira,
Mesa Boulevard at Westview and Black Mountain Road
and Imperial as well as Market Street.
To see if you live near any of these seven deadly leftovers.
Go to our website CBS eight.com and click on this story reporting for CBS eight.
I'm Kirsten Holmes. Come
to
you.
You can appreciate their activism here trying to get
things safer for the other pedestrians and cyclists.
So when Kirsten,
are we going to find out if those seven other streets left off the city's list,
when will we find out if they are going to be included in the budget for next year?
That is the big question. A lot of people are waiting for that.
It will be June 10th when the city of San Diego City Council,
when they get a chance to approve Mayor Gloria's budget, that's when we'll find out.
So we'll be waiting for that date. Carlo,
thanks Kirsten.
This. Just into our newsroom. We're learning.
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that's
delaying the phasing in of a $25 minimum wage
for the state's lowest paid health care workers.
It was supposed to take effect starting tomorrow.
The new move will push back the wage hike a month and is now set to take effect. July 1st
tonight,
disability workers are calling on Governor Newsom to reinstate
pay raises for people who work with those with
needs in the state's budget.
Hundreds of people rallied outside the California State building downtown today.
Now the governor's state budget proposal delays
the pay raises for disability workers until 2025
people at today's rally say workers who care for those with special
needs are already underpaid and places where they work are severely understaffed.
They say the governor's budget proposal will make those problems worse
new. Tonight.
A rolling strike by unionized academic workers across the UC system
expands to more campuses next week including UC San Diego.
The strike comes in response to the University of
California's handling of pro Palestinian protests at various campuses.
This
video from the picket line at UCL A earlier, this week.
The wave of strikes started at UC Santa Cruz now United
Auto Workers 4811 which represents 8000 academic workers at U CS D
says its members will join picket lines on campus starting Monday morning.
San Diego Gas and Electric is donating a
new drone to the San Diego Police Department.
It will be used in missions like swat standoffs and search and rescue operations
as well as for large gatherings, things like Comic Con Balboa nights and concerts.
SDPD says the drone will not be recording footage during these events
unless there's ongoing police activity.
Most traditional drones, uh you're going to have batteries,
you're going to be limited by the battery life.
So you're looking anywhere from 20 minutes to sum up to about 50 minutes.
Um
but after that, you need to land the drone, you need to change out the battery to
put it airborne again.
Now this new drone is not battery powered and it can stay in
the air for up to seven hours because it's tethered to a generator.
A group of jewelry robbery suspects are in jail tonight.
After a years long crime spree.
Today,
the California Attorney General announced four San Diego
suspects arrested for an organized jewelry theft ring
national city. Chula Vista, El Cajon.
San Diego,
Escondido Carlsbad jewelry stores all the way up to Bakersfield shops were hit.
Yeah, C DS A Abby Black has more on the investigation.
The attorney general says that these are not smash and grabs at jewelry stores,
rather grab and go.
We spoke to a local jewelry store owner who explains what they're doing.
So it doesn't happen to them.
Watch this dramatic video of a jewelry heist
at Princess jewelry in El Cajon last August.
Many of the incidents happened in broad daylight.
The attorney general says that this is the
suspect's typical mo engaging a retail employee to say
I'm interested in seeing some jewelry. Can you show it to me? Can you bring it out
and seeing it having it out, having it unlocked and available watches.
Three suspects distract the worker in the black shirt and then one turns
and climbs on the counter and grabs gold chains on the wall.
The other clerk pulls a gun on them.
Both workers try to take them down but they take off with more than $950 in jewels.
We're told there's a getaway driver too.
There was a deception and a fraud in it pretending to be a legitimate customer
wasn't the suspect's first or last jewelry hit today.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the
arrest of four suspects on dozens of felony
counts connected to 21 organized jewelry store
thefts at stores such as Marc Jacobs,
Zs
Kay's JC Penney's and Mal
Kias throughout San Diego, Orange,
Riverside and Kern counties from April 2023 to May of this year.
If you steal and violate the law
as the suspects did here. We will hold you accountable.
I spoke to the man in the black shirt who tried to take down the robbers.
He declined an on camera interview but says that he's still traumatized but
glad that everyone is ok and relieved the suspected thieves have been caught.
These high
rock jewelry stores across the area.
We did have to put a lock on the door and we only let one person or two people in at a time.
We have a sign that says we'll be right with you.
Jewelry locked in Grossmont Center in La
Mesa has not been hit by these suspects but are not
taking any chances and you just have to be more.
A
bona says that not all of these jewelry heists
were as violent as the El Cajon robbery,
but as you can see these suspects are brazen
doing it in broad daylight in front of customers.
Bona says that no one was seriously injured and recommends
that bystanders be a good witness and not get involved.
Safety first, be safe. Make sure you're safe. Abby Black CBS eight.
That's really scary when you see that video that Abby thank you
January flood victims have until the end of the day
to apply for financial aid through the realtor's Relief foundation.
The foundation is providing more than a million dollars to
help cover a month of housing payments for flood victims.
Applicants can get up to $2900
to apply.
You must have proof, you live in San Diego,
a copy of your mortgage or renters agreement and proof of damage to your home.
We've got details on our website at CBS eight.com/help
New Tonight, Ingram Street in Pacific Beach is getting a much needed makeover.
It comes after multiple city projects over the
years that have left the road in disrepair.
CBS Eight's Brian White is in PB with more on the
project and what people who live nearby are saying tonight,
anyone who lives in Pacific Beach and drives on Ingram
Street knows that it's been tore up for years,
kind of rough on the wheels.
So
this repaving project is long awaited and could not have come soon enough
city crews hard at work today putting down a fresh layer of asphalt.
Ingram Street is one of the main roads leaning in
and out of Pacific Beach and for people around here,
this is long overdue.
I'm relieved. It's, I'm definitely relieved.
It blocks things up right now and I've got to go around, but it's only for a few days.
Crew started work on Ingraham Wednesday and finished repaving today
on a six block stretch from Riviera Drive to Lap
Play Avenue. It's been so many years and it's so frustrating. Paige
Kavanaugh lives nearby and she says the road's
been torn up several times going back about
seven years or so to replace the sewer
lines as well as putting power lines underground.
Leaving Ingram and other roads nearby in disrepair. It's been very frustrating.
It just, there seems to honestly be no end in sight. We've kind of just feel deflated.
Last year.
The city used this automatic road analyzer van
to assess the 3000 miles of roadway around the
city using cameras and lasers to measure potholes in how smooth or rough a road is.
Turns out Ingram Street ranked one of the worst.
This is one of those that rated very low on that score.
And one of the ones that we prioritized to get
fix. Jose
with the city of San Diego says so far this fiscal year,
they've fixed more than 60 miles of roadway
starting July 1st on the new budget cycle,
they have more than $104 million set aside for overlay projects like this.
I am very happy to see it happening. I hope it happens on all the streets eventually.
So
yes, it's a great thing.
Crews will add finishing touches like striping
and curb repairs in the coming weeks,
which may cause a few traffic delays at times.
And after that,
they'll move on to some side streets in the area including Riviera Drive.
All of our streets are in poor condition which I
know is happening everywhere but ours are in bad shape.
So I'm glad to see it improved
in Pacific Beach, Brian White CBS eight.
Hopefully they'll enjoy some smooth sailing for a
while there for Sure that's good to see.
California launches its first ever adopt a pet day. Details on that. Still ahead.
Plus why Vice President Kamala Harris was in
America's finest city this afternoon and later,
a San Diego high school coach's Olympic effort
to raise money to fight breast cancer.
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plenty of sunshine inland and pleasant temperatures. I'm meteorologist Sha
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