Thank you so much for joining
us here at 6:00 AM on this
Thursday morning. I'm Eric Connor
and I'm not at your mom part.
Thanks for joining us here and
you know our top story today.
We're helping you get ready for your commute.
We'd like to try at least amid this
price that you're about to see.
The cost of gas here in town.
It just hit a new record high.
So overnight, the average price for a
gallon of gas increased 6/10 of a cent.
So we're now at 602.
And that does beat the previous record
which was set on March 29th meantime.
The national average rose for the 10th
consecutive day nationally at 4:59,
so we are working for you here to
help you find the lowest gas prices.
Help you save some money.
Text the word gas to the number you
see on your screen 858-571-8888 eight
and you'll get a map back with the best
gas prices all around San Diego right now.
But the good news with all
this happening here today,
we're marking the return of bike to
work day for the first time in years
and there will be 100 different pit
stop locations from the South Bay.
County, even to the North County,
CSA's Ariana Cohen joining us
live from one of those stops
in La Jolla there good morning.
Good morning yes.
Why pay for those high gas prices when
you could just bike to work today?
Today's the day to do it and
sandbag coordinates this event?
We're at UC San Diego,
one of the largest pit stops.
I'm here with Phil from SANDAG.
Tell us a little bit about this event
and what they're setting up back here.
Yeah, thanks. Good morning. Yeah,
we're starting starting bike to work day,
so from 6:00 to 9:00 AM we'll have
over 100 pit stops out so you can
come in and and get a free T shirt.
One of these great purple T shirts,
get some snacks and get to work.
We're just really.
Celebrating biking as an alternative
form of transportation today. So
yes, I'm really looking forward to the
snacks that you're talking about now.
How can people register and be
a part of this event today?
Yeah, so you can go to sandag.org/bike
month and you can register there and find
out where the nearest pit stop to you is.
Or you can just come to any pit
stop and register at the pit. Stop
awesome. And like Phil said,
sign up online, you get a QR code
and with that QR code you get a free
T shirt at some pit stop snacks,
there's music and there's over 100.
Pit stops from Encinitas to Lamesa.
Even Tijuana has a pit stop,
and there's some cool ones like
beho is called the party pit stop
and sanitas is at surfing pit stop.
They'll be surfboards and surf music,
so you'll want to check it out.
We have a map of all these locations.
Just hit the help button on
cbs8.com and bike to work today.
It'll be a fun day and we'll
cover it all morning.
Send it back to you.
Nice, comfortable temperatures to
do that here. I don't actually don't
mind may Gray when I'm out by you,
right? It's it's perfect
for that and they like that.
There's parties that these pits.
Makes it a little easier to start
the work day party stop.
Sorry, thanks, Ariana, thank
you. Well, the number of your taxpayer
dollars being used for overtime pay.
It's been skyrocketing in
the last several years.
Yeah, we're working for you here.
Been digging into these numbers and
we found the amount of overtime paid
by the city of San Diego has gone
up from just 71 million in 2015 to
more than 113 million last year.
Most of that OT is going to
police and fire employees.
Last year, 114 police and fire employees
get this earned more than $100,000.
In OT this adds up to $36.6 million
to SDPD workers and nearly 53
million to the fire department,
which received more in overtime
payments than any other city department.
Well, the city attributes the spike
in overtime payments to the pandemic
and the need to cover unfilled
positions throughout departments,
citywide and in regards to police and fire.
The city spokesperson tells us the
overtime was needed to ensure public safety.
If you'd like to take a closer
look at the numbers,
just go to cbs.com and click on
this online version of the story
this morning. We do expect to learn more
about a proposed conservatorship unit.
This would be for San Diegans who are
experiencing homelessness City Councilwoman
Jennifer Campbell and Marni von Wilpert.
This new unit would connect people
with treatment and housing.
They say the goal is to help
homeless individuals who are
unable to care for themselves.
The Council members are requesting $547,000
from the city's budget for this new unit.
They are set to hold a media
conference later this morning.
Homelessness here in San
Diego is a big concern.
CBS Eight we are working for you
to get to the root of the problem.
So our Shannon Handy is sitting down
one on one with Mayor Todd Gloria
and you can watch this tonight.
11:00 PM right here on CBS 8
all right new developments this
morning regarding the potential
fee for national cities.
Low rider cruising night.
City leaders say they want a
cruisers to come up with quote
creative ways to pay for this $8000
fee for extra police presence
at these events that includes
sponsorships by local businesses.
So why is this event being charged
a fee now or national cities
Mayor says there was but a lot of
people that more people than they
anticipated at the first night of
the legal cruising event in May.
As we all saw and I was
gobsmacked at a lost for words.
When we turned that corner
and saw so many members of our
community out there that day.
So the mayor says that this
fee for police presence is
about keeping attendees safe.
However, organizers say similar
events in other cities are
not required to pay the fees.
City officials and organizers
will discuss these new
recommendations next week.
Today, the CDC's scientific advisors
are meeting to decide whether
to recommend a COVID booster for
people ages 5 to 11 years old.
That younger age group, the FDA,
already gave emergency authorization for
Pfizer's booster in hopes that it'll help
provide more protection as infections.
To creep back up,
if the CDC does give authorization,
they could be available as early as
tomorrow's new efforts this morning.
Now to ease the nationwide baby
formula shortage House lawmakers
just passed a pair of bills.
One makes it easier for low income
families to get formula through
the federally funded WIC program.
The other would provide more money to
the FDA to prevent another shortage.
President Biden also invoked
the Defense Production Act.
This gives formula makers priority
access to their ingredients.
The president also.
Availed what's called Operation Fly formula.
This would use Defense Department
planes to transport formula
here from other countries.
Meantime,
many store shelves.
They're still empty and local moms tell us
they need formula and they need it now.
An Escondido woman posted in a local
moms group on social media asking for
help and received a flood of responses.
So she started a dedicated Facebook
group called Formula Finder
San Diego where other moms can
go for the same type of help.
So
that it's all in one specific place
because they can get lost when
people post about other things and.
I don't know if other people are just
kind of like sick of the formula
posts that aren't looking for formula.
You know, that's a great way to
reach out if you have some and
are able to give it to other moms.
We've also heard some moms are
going to Tijuana where supply is
not that much of an issue there.
Another thing you could try is
calling your pediatrician and
see if they have any samples
of formula that you can have.
Alright, let's check in with Evan
and the May Gray is going to be
sticking around here yet again,
yeah, I mean, it's been almost
every day of this month so far.
We had a couple days where we had those
clouds clearing out now as we head through
your Thursday may grade back intact.
Back in fashion you could say and it looks
like as we go into the next several days
we're gonna actually see it strengthen.
Which means those clouds hang out with us
for a longer portion of the morning and
it takes longer for those temperatures
to warm up just to even the 60s.
We're at 58 right now.
We're expected to warm another 10 degrees.
By the afternoon,
but the warming likely won't
even begin until we get into.
I'd say about 9:10 AM,
because between now and then,
we're probably gonna still stay in the
upper 50 degree range along the immediate
coastline mid 70s inland this afternoon,
70s for the mountain tops and triple
digits for the deserts yet again today
looks almost identical to yesterday
and tomorrow is gonna look pretty
much identical to today between
today and about Monday of next week.
Temperatures are largely stagnant,
not moving around all that much,
hanging out just around average if 69.
The average we're at 68 this afternoon,
so a degree cooler than average.
So we do have the possibility that
toward your other microclimates toward
your mountains and deserts especially,
we'll see a minor cooling trend
for the weekend,
and then we see those temperatures across
the border climb into the beginning
and middle portion of next week.
Debra Marine layer,
expected for today and tomorrow.
Gusty West winds as well,
primarily for your mountains and
for your deserts.
That's where we're seeing some
trouble out there.
Gusts moving into the 40 and 50
mile per hour range at times,
but those clouds are pushing pretty far off.
To the east.
That means they will be with us
for a good portion of the day,
and we'll keep you up to date on what
we see as far as any changes go,
but can't expect those clouds to
hang out with us for a good portion
of the morning.
We'll let you know when they
start to clear out it's 609.
We wanna keep you updated
on the roads out there.
If you're headed out for
your morning commute,
no trouble right now and earlier.
We were tracking some backups
on the Coronado Bridge.
Those have actually lessened
in their intensity,
so it looks like really into the next hour,
so we'll keep an eye on the Coronado Bridge,
but so far,
smooth sailing once you get into Coronado,
your speeds will drop down
to about the teens.
If not, the 20 mile per hour range,
but otherwise you're good to go.
Headed farther South toward Imperial
Beach from Coronado as well.
Looks like there are also
some minor backups on the 94,
mainly eastbound lanes,
slightly slower speeds just due to volume.
CHP not reporting any crashes this morning.
Back to you.