This morning, San Diego Mayor
Todd Gloria is in Washington,
DC to discuss major issues for our region.
Thanks for being here at 6:00 AM.
I'm Eric Connor,
and I'm not Iran. Poor mayor Gloria.
We'll talk about affordable housing,
immigration, the fentanyl crisis
issues on a lot of our minds.
And he's going to be speaking with
federal officials about all of this.
CBS Eight data,
Marie Mcnichol live along Harbor
Island to explain what the mayor is
hoping to accomplish in DC right now.
Good morning.
Good morning, Erica. Netta.
Well, it really does seem like he
has a very busy couple of days.
This morning he's going to be speaking
at the National Housing Conference,
just one of many stops along his trip.
Now, he did post a Twitter when
he landed in DC last night,
sharing with us about what he's looking
forward to and hoping to accomplish.
Everybody Todd Gloria here in our
nation's capital for the next couple
of days advocating for San Diego.
Looking forward to sharing with
the National Press Club tomorrow
about some of the successes we've
had in expanding the amount of
affordable housing in our community.
Also looking forward to sitting down
with Homeland Security Secretary Marcus
to talk about our border city concerns.
And last but not least,
going by the Office of National Drug
Control policy to talk about my
fentanyl executive order in ways our
federal government can help support
keeping this poison off of our streets.
All out of housing for luxury housing.
Now he will be speaking
at the National Housing.
Conference, this is all about
solutions for affordable housing.
It brings together housing professionals,
policymakers, researchers and
advocates to discuss solutions to the
nation's housing policy challenges.
Mayor Gloria was invited there to
share more about the initiative efforts
undertaken by his administration to build
more affordable housing here in San Diego.
So we've shared with you here on
CBS8 a lot of those initiatives,
and now he's bringing it to Washington,
DC He will also be meeting with the Biden
administration administration officials,
including the.
Director of the White House Office of
National Drug Control Policy now tomorrow,
Mayor Gloria will meet with the US
Homeland Security to discuss migration
challenges at the US Mexico border,
particularly in advance of lifting Title 42.
So again, those key issues for San
Diegans as well as others across America,
the fentanyl crisis,
immigration and security funds
for their community,
all things that Mira Gloria
will be discussing.
Of course here on CBS eight.
We will keep you updated on how his trip.
Goes over the next couple of days.
I did.
Marie Mcnicholl coming to
you live from Harbor Island.
Alright, Dana Marie, thank you for that.
And now San Diego City Council
giving the green light to build
some 24,000 more homes in Mira Mesa
officials approved an update to the
neighborhoods Community Development plan.
This also adds the capacity for 5000
jobs in areas right near public transit.
So with these new limits,
officials say Mira Mesa will
accommodate 58,000 homes in all
and bring 117,000 jobs there.
Today the San Diego City Council will
vote on a nearly $5 million settlement.
All over asbestos violations,
taxpayers are footing the bill
after the city failed to properly
remediate asbestos at this building
101 Ash street downtown and at a fire
training facility in Point Loma.
So part of that money is for a $250,000 fine.
The rest will go towards a tree
planting program that will be
in low income communities.
Well, everything
seems to be more expensive
these days due to inflation,
and now many in the city of San
Diego are about to pay more
for water and sewer usage.
Rates are going up on January 1st.
CBS's Chris Growe live at the County
Water Authority in Kearny Mesa to
break all of this down this morning.
Not not the news many folks want to
hear with everything else going on.
Yeah, no, people want to hear that the
prices of groceries are going down,
that it's going to be a little
bit easier to maybe drive further
distances because gas is going down.
But instead what they're finding out
is turning on that faucet at home,
taking that hot shower here
in the winter months,
if that's going to get just a
little bit more expensive. I'm
concerned that every time we
turn around we get a new rate
increase, whether it's SDG
and E the water. I understand
you have to pay for infrastructure,
but it seems like it is constant.
And So what we're going to be seeing
happening is a 2 1/2 cent raise there for
sewage and a four cent raise for water.
Now when you look at it though,
it's really not, excuse me,
actually switch those two up,
2 1/2 cent increase for water
and four cents for sewage.
Now it isn't much when you look at
just how much it is going up per unit,
but if you spend about $100
a month on water and sewage,
it is a few dollars more.
And remember yesterday we were
down at the feeding San Diego
talking about how some people.
They're having to choose between
putting food on the table and paying
their water and electricity bills for.
So for some families,
this will continue to stretch
them even thinner.
Now, CBS eight was told by the
city that the increase is necessary
to pay for increases for imported
water to replace aging pipes,
as well as other sort of investments
in infrastructure when it comes to
water as well as future water programs.
But we spoke to the utility
Consumers Action Network.
Again,
they represent customers here they are.
An activist for them,
they told us that they have a couple
of questions for the city and so far
they haven't gotten many answers.
It is called a pass through fee,
but in years past the city absorbed
prior pass through charges.
Why didn't they do it this time?
And As for when you could potentially
see that on your next statement,
well, that will be January 1st when
the rate hike goes into effect.
But to continue following this story and
any potential news that comes from it,
you just got our website,
cbs.com and click on that story link,
Eric and Netta.
Chris, thanks for that.
This morning we are getting a look at
this security video here of the men
accused of shooting a gas station clerk.
This happened in Oceanside.
It happened Sunday morning at
the AM PM on Oceanside Blvd.
Police say the men demanded cash at gunpoint.
Then one of them shot the clerk when
he tried chasing them out of the store.
The wound was so severe he underwent surgery.
You asked to call police if you
have any helpful information on
this and take a look at this.
This driver is OK after crashing through
the parking lot fence right here.
This is our TV station right here.
This is just.
About 100 yards from where I'm standing here,
this happened here at the CBS 8 station in
Kearny Mesa around 11 yesterday morning.
Witnesses say that Tesla swerved
to avoid another car and ran a
stop sign before crashing.
Fortunately, nobody was hurt.
Well, this morning Padres star Joe
Musgrove, a world record holder
now after this pitch in Antarctica.
Hey you.
There it is right there.
So the Elko native here's what he's
doing throwing the fastest pitch ever
on the world's coldest continent.
So it was an 86 mile an
hour fastball moments ago,
Musgrove himself saying on Instagram,
quote, I know there's more in the tank,
but this pitch was not
about hitting a high speed.
It was about raising awareness for
the challenged Athletes Foundation,
which raises millions of dollars to
provide athletes in need with prosthetics,
wheelchairs and whatever else they may need
to continue to pursue their dreams as an.
Athlete.
And he had a lot of the challenged
athletes there with him,
one of them also throwing a
pitch on the coldest continent.
So it's incredible the attention he's
now bringing to this local nonprofit.
And he did this on his birthday.
And by the way, that cold of a place
to throw an 86 mile per hour fastball,
I don't think that that record
is going to be broken anymore.
Just say my shoulder.
That's risky. That's especially
for it's risky for me.
But riskier for him. I mean,
he's got a little bit more on the plate,
super his fastball. Yeah,
no, it's impressive stuff.
It's so cool.
The money that he's raising into,
you know, give up his birthday.
But then I think about it.
I'm like, how cool to be on on your birthday.
It's exciting stuff.
Hey, we are waking up on our Tuesday
to some cloud cover out there and those
clouds are a little bit more ominous.
They're dropping some rain on us,
scattered showers as we kick off the day.
You could see on satellite radar imagery
ahead of the sunrise how it is shaping up.
So the green that you see is where we're
seeing the light scattered showers
as we speak between about Oceanside
and Del Mar and then from Del Mar.
Move it all the way down to downtown.
We've got kind of two separate cells that
are just passing through as we speak.
A little bit of a closer look shows you.
Just a couple hours ago,
we saw a pretty prominent wave
arrive just over the 8:05 and headed
E from there before breaking down.
This is the kind of activity that
we're going to hang on to for the day.
Today,
today and then tomorrow is where
we see those scattered showers
persist in the early morning hours.
And then by the afternoon we start
to see drier conditions prevail.
Same thing is going to take place today.
We're expecting those clouds to break apart.
On most spots of the map,
and that's where we'll see a bit
of sunshine by the afternoon,
temperatures warming up to the 60s,
a high of 62 along your coastline,
64 your inland valleys and 42
for the mountaintops.
Keep in mind that outside right
now we are cold in many spots.
I mean Mountain Laguna right now is
at 30 degrees, they're sub freezing.
Julian is at 37, Ramona is at 48.
The farther E you go,
the cooler those temperatures
are along the coastline.
You're seeing mainly 50s and all these
temperatures on the screen are cooler
than where we were at this time.
Yesterday, yesterday morning,
we were warmer by far.
Right now we're 11 degrees cooler than
where we were 24 hours ago in Oceanside,
or 8 degrees cooler in Del Mar,
7 degrees cooler in Poway.
So the rain and scattered shower
activity is kind of showing us
that those cooler temperatures
are coming each morning.
Today,
the afternoon highs are still trending
5 to 10 degrees cooler than average.
And then we'll get back a little bit of
that warmth as we head toward the later
portion of the week, Thursday and Friday.
Those are dry.
Out there we've got a lot of
sunshine for Thursday and Friday,
dry skies and then another round
of showers possible by Sunday.
We'll talk about that when we
look at the 8 day forecast.
Let's transition to traffic this morning.
Right now we have one thing to take you
to that actually has just been cleared.
So let's zoom in on that for you.
Earlier, the 1:25 at the eight,
we had that intersection.
That kind of exchange closed.
The number one lane was blocked and
the right hand shoulder was blocked
with a crash on the 8 westbound
at the 1:25 that is now cleared.
It was clear just seconds ago, really.
And it looks like we're still
seeing some slightly slower
speeds there on the 8 right now,
but besides that, not a ton of trouble
to kick off your Tuesday morning.
Back to you.