We're going to show you how you
can fly out of the Tijuana airpt
from right here in San Diego for
hundreds of dollars less than
what you would pay to fly out of
the San Diego airport. He owned
more than 100 slaves.
So why is a local school named
after him working for you?
An update on the fight to change
things here at Henry Clay Elementary,
local farmers donating their fresh surplus
food to hunger relief organizat.
And Larry Himmel once wanted tow
if he was smarter than a four year old.
And 10 years later, Grayson wants a rematch.
CBS8 News Live
at six starts now.
This coming holiday weekend kics
off of the summer travel season,
and experts say it could be
one of the busiest ever.
Good evening and thank you for joining us.
I'm Carla Chichetta.
I'm Marcella Lee.
Tonight we're taking you inside
the San Diego terminal that
connects passengers to the
Tijuana airport in Mexico.
You can save hundreds of dollars
and a lot of travel time.
CBS8 Anna Laurel joins us right now from the
cross-border Express in Otay Mesa. Anna.
That's right you guys.
I'm in the terminal for Tijuana airport
right here in San Diego in O time Mesa.
Earlier today, the CEO, oh,
the Chief Operating Officer,
he gave us a walkthrough to show us exactly
what to do to make sure this is smooth.
If you come through here,
like, check out these kiosks,
you can actually buy your CBX ticket,
your cross-border express ticket here.
Here's a pro tip.
Do it before you get here.
When we pulled up today,
the curb was full of Sandy.
Hagan's already in the know.
As easy piece of cake, I recommend it.
Highly recommended I eat and
her friends just got back from
a girls trip to Puerto Vallarta.
How much did it cost?
Oh my gosh, about $125.00.
They flew out of the Tijuana ait
through cross-border Express in no time.
Mesa I think.
Our plane ticket was about $130.
Do you remember how much the one
out of San Diego I think it was?
About 500 for our CBS A crew.
It was an easy drive.
Here paid parking is available.
CBX is a pedestrian bridge exclusively
for passengers of the Tijuana airport.
You can cross between the United States and
Mexico without ever leaving the airport.
We are a unique scenario in the
world where we are terminal of
the airport on the American sid.
This is basically Tijuana
in Southern California.
Here's what you need.
Your passport, boarding pass,
CBX ticket that you linked to,
your boarding pass and an immigration form.
This is the FM M form.
This is basically your immigratn
form that you need to present to
Mexican customs if you are non
Mexican resident. Here's
a pro tip. Buy your round trip X
ticket and fill out your immigrn
form both online before you com.
You can do both though once you're here.
All the form is taken from your
passport and the address is dond
that's how it would pass immigration.
Special services are available
for unaccompanied minors and
people who need a wheelchair.
Before you go through the electronic gates,
staff make sure you have what you need.
This is where you will basically be scanning
your boarding pass and then you go right
and beyond these doors
is the indoor pedestrian
bridge that takes you
across the border.
You walk about 6 minutes
and then you will arrive at Mexn
immigration, then Mexican custo.
Then you would have the airline.
Where would you drop off your
suitcase if you checked in Anytg
else then airport security.
And you're in the airport.
Yes, you're in the airport.
So remember this is only if you
have a boarding pass and a fligt
out of the Tijuana airport.
This isn't if you want to just o
lunch over in TJ live here at te
cross-border Express in Otay Me.
I'm Anna Laurel for CBS8 Carlo.
So Anna, why? Why are tickets so
much less to fly out of the Tija
airport than say, San Diego? You know,
international or maybe even LAX.
Yeah. You know what, Carlo?
Of course, we asked them that.
What? What's the secret?
He said, well, this is domestic flights.
We're talking about here
to go to Cabo Cancun,
Puerto Vallarta from TJ.
That's a domestic flight.
So you pay a lot less in taxes,
but it's not just money you're saving.
When I looked on Expedia for flights from
San Diego International to Puerto Vallarta,
the cheapest flights get this.
They had travel times of like 25
hours and a lot of connections.
You're not doing that out of the
Tijuana International Airport.
Some good travel tips for you t.
Anna Laurel reporting for us. Thanks, Sam.
OK, we're seeing some disturbing images.
We want to warn you from the US Border Patrol
tonight of a four year old child being
dropped from the top of the border wall.
CBP Chief Roll Ortiz shared this video.
He says the child is OK,
but this should serve as a
warning not to trust smugglers.
We first told you about this
incident last Monday night.
Agents and 1st responders say they were
giving the child first aid wheny
heard gunshots near their posit.
No injuries from the gunfire was reported.
We are learning tonight that a
man from San Diego was among at
least 10 people shot and killed
at a road racing event in Mexic.
Investigators say Roberto Isaias Ayala,
who also went by the name Tito,
died in Baja California on Satuy
night when a gunfight broke out.
The Baja California state
attorney general says the shoott
involved organized crime groups.
So far, no arrests have been ma.
A man accused of attempting to sexually
assault a woman in her home in Barrio
Logan pleaded not guilty this afternoon.
Darius Hargrove appeared virtually in court.
San Diego police say he broke io
a woman's home back on March 25.
They say Hargrove was gone by
the time officers got there.
When they later identified him,
he was already in jail on unrelated charges.
The judge issued A protective
order for the woman today.
Hargrove will be back in court in June.
He is being held on $1,000,000 l
today. The San Diego City Councl
appointed 25 members to the new
Commission on Police Practices,
but it will be a while
before they take any action.
This is a citizen's oversight bd
that could suggest disciplinary action
for alleged officer misconduct.
The Commission will be able to
subpoena documents and witnesse,
but before they can start reviewing cases,
they must undergo background
checks and training.
That could take up to a year and a half.
This measure was approved
by voters back in 2020.
Some parents in Rolando are
fighting to change the name of
their local elementary school.
They say Henry Clay Elementary is named
after a man who not only kept ss
but was responsible for the expansion
of slavery into other states. They've
been working on this effort for months now,
but say the school district
has not exactly been helpful.
CBS8 Steve Price has been workig
for you to get answers from the
district and joins us live now m
the school with an update. Stev.
And Marcella and Carl, you proby
noticed that just over my shoulder is
the sign for Henry Clay Element.
But I actually want to step outf
the way so you can see the picte
that is right below that sign.
That's Nelson Mandela.
And parents say, you know,
putting a picture of a man who
fought against racial segregatin
under the name of a slave
owner doesn't fix the problem.
They say they want the school's name changed.
Henry Clay was elected to Congress in the
early 1800s and is still considered one
of the greatest US Senators of all time.
But the man who has an elementary school
in Rolando named after him also fought
to keep enslaved people on his property.
The school is named after
someone who enslaved 122 people.
Jared Tucker is one of several parents
with children at the school who
have spent the last several mons
trying to get the name changed,
but seemed to be getting nowhere with
the San Diego Unified School District.
Talk to this person.
Efforts to talk to that person,
and then that person has talked
to this person. Of course.
It's frustrating.
Jared finally got so tired of getting
the runaround that he showed upa
recent school board meeting and shared
his concerns during public comm.
For decades,
students in this district have
been forced to walk into buildis
and wear shirts and blazing with
the names of men that would have
seen them as less than human.
And that needs to stop now.
The parents who call their group Not Okay
with Clay got a huge endorsement last week,
a letter from City Council Prest
Shawn Ela Rivera that included the line.
Today I request action to remove this
shameful and racist image from our school.
It felt validating,
exciting that this is not accepe
in our community.
This is somebody that does have
powers to somebody that does
have capital to change this.
So you feel heard.
CBS8 has been working for you
on this story since March,
when we were told by school officials
that no action could be taken
because the parents didn't subma
formal proposal for a name chan.
The parents have now done that,
but still nothing from the school board.
So we reached out to the distrit
again today.
They now confirm they've receivd
a proposal and are working to
reestablish the School Names Committee,
which will make a recommendation
to the board.
The parents feel like they're bg
asked to jump through a lot of hoops,
which they'll do,
but wonder why do they have to?
Why should it be up to the pare?
Why should go to the community?
They know They know who the
schools are named after.
They know who named them.
So they should be doing
that work moving forward.
Yeah, their argument,
the board should be the ones
who are initiating this process,
not concerned parents.
So I asked the district.
I said, hey now.
That the ball is rolling.
You admit that?
When can we expect to see the change?
They said we don't know
how long this will take,
but Brian says he was told it
could take three to five years.
Marcelo and Carlo,
and he says that is not accepta.
Steve, has there been any opposn
to changing the name of the sch?
Marcelo, they have had two
different town halls and they
say there was no opposition at
either one of those town halls.
But Brian did tell me that he hs
heard from two people, 1A neigh,
one a parent at the school who
told him that they thought that
he was erasing history.
They were against the move.
Interesting. We'll have to see w
that all plays out once they do follow
the procedure and that gets addressed
by the school board. Thanks, St.
And here at CBS8, we'd like to
help solve problems affecting y.
If there's something you'd likes
to look into, you can e-mail us
at working for you at cbs8.com.
When it comes
to California schools, Governor
Gavin Newsom has set aside more
money for a bill to screen chiln
for dyslexia at an early age. Te
governor himself has dyslexia.
As our political reporter Morgan
Reiner tells us, it's the firste
that he's back to this type of .
Megan Potante is an educator
that's a classroom teacher
and a reading specialist,
a special education teacher.
And you know, that's really my
passion to help all achieve literacy.
But above all else, she's a mother my
son showed early signs of.
Challenge of starting in kindergarten,
first, second grade and was reay
struggling to learn to read.
As a mother and an educator, she felt
like the state was letting down her kids.
As a teacher myself, you know,
I wasn't trained in my teacher
preparation programs best in the
best ways to support early read.
So she became an advocate,
a state director for decodifying
Dyslexia California, and teamedp
with Senator Anthony Portentino.
I was one of those kids back ine
70s that grew up with unrecognid
that learning disability.
My mother didn't find out till
I was in the eighth grade that
I had dyslexia. Portentino
has pushed for early screening for years,
but there were concerns from the
California Teachers Association
that mandatory screening had the
potential to over identify and
misplace students. Special Ed,
especially English language learners,
English learner population
was getting misdiagnosed,
misidentified under the current system,
Portentino said.
Changes were made to his bill to
create linguistically sensitive tests,
but then he decided to hold the
bill back because the governor
wanted to include it in his bud.
They wanted to know if I was OK
not being the author of the bil.
And I said absolutely,
if we get kids that read,
I don't need to offer the bill.
We just needed to get done.
Morgan Reiner reporting for us.
Better diagnostic tools, better
outcomes for students hopefully, Yeah,
like a good program to be able o
identify that early, earlier, the better.