Progress made after the June 15th reopening
is slowly getting wiped away as more events
are canceled across San Diego County.
Good evening I'm Jessica gone.
I'm Carlo Cecchetto where there had
been excitement building about trips
and events coming up this fall.
There's now disappointment
despite rising cases,
City and county leaders did celebrate
the reopening of the downtown Convention
Center for events this morning.
But meanwhile, the county reported
1273 new cases on Thursday,
the highest daily.
Total since February 5th.
He states TV arena has some of
the latest event cancellations.
This park would have been packed the
evening of September 12th, but the
music won't be playing. COVID
look at the crowds of happy faces
in years past when live bands
were on stage at the white part.
Hundreds and hundreds were expected
again for the first post pandemic
concert in nearly two years.
Governor lifted the mandate.
We thought, OK,
we'll sneak one in September.
And, you know, just right before
the kids go back to school. I
guess with the the D varying
out there that's that's not
going to happen.
There is disappointment in the
neighborhood. Absolutely. It's all about
keeping our community safe and to
have to police people 6 feet apart.
And all of that would be very
tough to do because we're all
ready to get back out there.
We're all ready to give hugs and,
you know, love on our neighbors who
we haven't seen some for almost
two years. We do
a surf trip travel plans
are taking a hit as well.
Brad Cox has dozens of snapshots.
On display in his garage vacation
trips with friends over the years,
fun times, the next one being planned
though has been cancelled. We had 45
people. We were heading down
to Cabo San Lucas. We had to
cancel our trip because of Kovid.
Very disappointing to us. A
beautiful resort and smiles guaranteed
but COVID is 2 bigger risk.
One problem would be if we got
into Cabo and got COVID we
couldn't get out for two weeks.
That was a big decision. 24
hour fitness. Miramar is staying
open with some rules about mayors.
It looks like we're
going to be continuing to require
masks for unvaccinated individuals,
but for individuals who are vaccinated,
it will be left up to their
personal choice whether they like
to wear a face covering or not.
So what we've been doing is following
state and local guidelines,
so if the county goes back
to a mandate for masks
and we will follow suit and align with
the county summer wearing masks, not
all everyone trying to stay safe
and knowing everything could change
tomorrow. Stevie Arena news.
Now, as cases of the Delta variant go up,
new data from the CDC shows how easily
it can spread will have more on the
breakthrough cases and what doctors are
recommending in our second half hour.
A federal eviction moratorium is set
to expire this weekend and people
are rushing to apply for rental
assistance here in California.
The state eviction moratorium
will continue for at least
two more months as new seats.
David Vinson reports there's plenty of
rental assistance money still available.
Assistance is there. It's available.
We encourage people to apply. Pandemic
rental assistance continues to
be available in San Diego County
at least until September 30th,
when the state's eviction moratorium expires.
If you are behind on your rent payments,
start out by going to erap sandiego.org
where you can enter your address
and find out where to apply.
We're going to see a huge spike
in disbursements, senior management analyst,
Jose Dorado. Is with the city of
Chula Vista, so if
they have difficulty paying their rent,
whether it be passed to rent or
future rent, they can apply for this
rental assistance funding. Three
agencies cover all of San
Diego County when it comes to
pandemic rental assistance.
Chula Vista is 1 area.
The city of San Diego and the rest
is covered by San Diego County.
The money is only available
to low income applicants,
but if you've lost your job recently,
you probably are low income.
Because the income level can be
calculated over the past month.
So let's say
you've just been recently laid
off or had a reduction in hours.
Or you know, maybe you had a health issue.
Then you could use your last 30 days of
income to qualify for this program.
COVID rental assistance now covers
100% of past and future rent
going back as far as April 2020.
The money goes to the landlord
and neither the tenant or the
landlord can apply a lot of folks
are happy that they can.
Focus on other responsibilities
that they have to their families
instead of worrying about how
are they going to pay their rent,
or if they're going to be evicted.
We've posted a link to that
website where you can find
out where to apply for pandemic rental
assistance at cbs8.com Carla. Alright
David, we've been hearing
about the federal eviction
moratorium expiring on Saturday.
How will that affect San
Diego tenants right now?
Well, it will affect you if you
live in Federal Housing
like Section 8 housing,
but even then you can still apply
for pandemic rental assistance
here in the San Diego County,
and that will cover past and
future rent payments, right?
So no need to hit
the panic button. Alright?
David Gottfredson reporting
live. Thanks, David.
The man caught on camera driving on a
sidewalk and clipping a news 8 vehicle
earlier this week appeared in court today.
Michael Sewell pleaded not guilty
to felony charges of evading arrest
and assault with a deadly weapon.
He's also charged with misdemeanor counts
of hit and run and resisting arrest.
He's due back in court for a bail
review hearing on August 6th.
That's next Friday.
Street parking is out and bike lanes
are in on 30th St in North Park.
But some people say not so fast
organizers with Save 30th Street
parking Raleigh today to make their
case and show what they say is a
severe lack of parking in the area.
They say an already tough parking
situation has been made that
much worse by new bike lanes and
they're taking their case to court.
New seats.
Kirsten Holmes is live in North Park
after talking with people at the rally,
Kirsten,
both people for and against
all of this had some
points to make today.
That's right, Jesse and Carlo.
I'm here at the intersection of
North Parkway and 30th Street,
where if you take a look beside me,
this is one of those hot button
issues for folks in North Park.
The brand new bike lanes up and down
30th Street now folks against the
bike lane say the lanes are not worth
losing more than 400 parking spaces,
and they're hoping a judge
will agree with them.
Meanwhile, those for the bike
lanes say these lanes save lives.
Things got a little tense Friday
morning along 30th St and North Park.
That was a bus that's a best
in agreeance with us Pat Sexton
with save 30th Street Parking,
says the new bike lanes
on 30th St have got to go.
That's why she organized a rally
with signs like honk.
If you need more parking,
which drew plenty of car horns.
Most days I'm writing with
my 4 year old son in the back and I
wouldn't normally be riding on 30th,
but now that they put these in I
feel more comfortable riding with
him and that's why kulesa bowling
says she's happy to see the new
bike lanes installed along 30th St.
Kulesa attributes this to growing
pains and we're gonna have to make
some transportation changes and
people don't like change all of
the on street
parking was full and that was before they
eliminated 400 plus parking spaces. This
is idiocy to make up for
the loss. North Park now
has a parking garage with more
than 200 spots that Mayor Todd
Gloria says is being underutilized.
As of yesterday.
The elevator doesn't work so that
puts a stop to anybody going anyplace.
Except on the first level,
so I assume that that will be fixed.
There's also no security in there whatsoever.
Now we checked the parking garage out in.
Yep, one of the elevators
is indeed out of order,
but there's another that's working just fine.
On the other side of the building.
Jesse O'Sullivan with circulate San
Diego pro bike lanes nonprofit says
that parking garage has some of the
cheapest parking in the city and it's
one of the biggest compromises to have
both bike lanes and available parking
parking protected. Bike lanes.
Still parking on the street there.
I've been accommodations for disabled
people by putting more disabled
parking and you can see right
here and right here next to 30th.
And then there's a
parking garage. As for Apats,
compromise on the parking
versus bike lanes debate,
you need to take this out
and you put it someplace out.
Jesse says those bike lanes save
lives is a choice between saving
lives and convenient parking and.
I think it should be clear to people that
that saving lives is a more important
priority, and I don't think a
post is gonna keep anybody from
getting hit in the bicycle lane.
Save 30th Street Parking will have
their day in court on August 11th.
Their goal is to strip 30th St
of these brand new bike lanes.
Meanwhile circulate,
San Diego is having a big bicyclist
rally this Sunday morning to celebrate
the new bike lanes in the area.
That's going to be this Sunday
on 30th St at 10:00 o'clock
in the morning back to you.
Thanks, Kirsten.
As we are facing what could be the worst
fire season in the state's history?
Earlier today, Governor Gavin Newsom was
one of the Western governors who met
with the president and vice president
and asked for more federal help.
We're blowing past every
record and not in a good way.
Governor Newsom and six other
governors were part of meeting to talk
strategy and the need for resources.
Newsom says major issues include
getting emergency fuel supplies
for aerial firefighting and the
need for more boots on the ground.
And local firefighters are getting
little help when it comes to
eliminating wildfire potential.
These goats, they're not kidding around.
They're just doing their part to help
clear brush along Interstate 8 in El
Cahone working hard this afternoon.