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An ongoing chapter tonight in the case surrounding the attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego.

Thank you for joining us, I'm Maya Trabuls The family of one of the young gunmen is now suing a mental health facility.

The teenager walked out and went missing before the shooting.

Kpbs reporter Alexander Nguyen has more on what the family says happened.

Leading up to the devastation in May.

This was preventable.

This should never have occurred.

Attorney Norman Finkelstein says that's why the family is suing.

He represents the family of 18 year old Caleb Vasquez, one of the gunmen in the deadly Islamic Center attack in May that claimed three lives.

They're devastated by this whole thing, and I feel horrible for the for the shooting victims, as well as for their son.

I mean, it's just tragic.

According to the civil lawsuit, the 18 year old was seeking inpatient treatment at a park mental health residential facility.

Patients are allowed to leave during the day but must return by curfew.

He did not.

The suit alleges that four days before the shooting, his mother received a call from the FBI.

The FBI told the mother her son was on the dark web looking for collaborators to shoot up a mosque.

That's when she contacted her son's therapist, as well as Pak Mental Health, according to the lawsuit.

Figuring that they were going to take steps to protect him.

He was doing this while he was there, while he was living at the facility.

Apparently, they let him keep his phone.

And, the next thing that happened was the shooting.

According to the lawsuit, Caleb Vasquez left this facility the night before the shooting and was apparently picked up by the other shooter.

And then the facility called the mom in the morning and said, have you seen him?

And she's like, "What do you mean, you don't know where he is?"

And they said no.

In a statement, Park Mental Health says many of the claims in the lawsuit are incorrect or counterfactual.

While it is understandable that his parents might seek to blame someone in their time of loss, this lawsuit is misguided in that neither Park nor its employees are responsible for Mr.

Vasquez's actions.

Finkelstein says the family is seeking monetary damages because the facility failed to notify authorities as soon as that a patient went missing.

He was identified as a threat when the mom called them and advised them what was going on with him.

Does a red flag.

They needed to do something and they just failed him.

And they failed.

You know, unfortunately, they failed the folks at the mosque as well.

These latest developments in the case are difficult for the community, which is still in mourning.

Alexander Nguyen, Kpbs news.

And in line with industry best practices, Kpbs does not typically name the perpetrators of mass shootings to avoid glorifying their actions or inspiring copycats.

In this case, 18 year old Caleb Vasquez is mentioned in this civil lawsuit.

Kpbs has decided to name him in its ongoing coverage of the case and public proceedings.

We believe identifying him is warranted by the circumstances.

A strong El Niño has formed in the Pacific Ocean, and that could mean a wetter than normal winter for Southern California.

But that's far from certain.

But Kpbs reporter John Carroll tells us the National Weather Service has started holding weekly El Niño briefings.

We first learned of a major El Nino forming in the Pacific back in June, when NOAA's Climate Prediction Center issued an advisory.

The last time and El Nino got some of the credit or the blame for a very wet winter was in 2004-2005, when more than 22in of rain was recorded at San Diego International Airport.

But the presence of that warm Pacific water doesn't necessarily mean a wetter than normal winter.

There was a very strong El Nino in 2015 and 16, and that winter was drier than normal.

So where are we now?

Today, the national weather Service offices in LA, Oxnard and San Diego held a webinar to try and answer that question.

Here's warning coordination Meteorologist Todd Hall.

The outcome is far from certain here.

And the important, important point to remember going forward that as El Nino sets the kind of the seasonal backdrop or the climate backdrop, associated with this, this, pattern.

Hall says as we move into winter, forecasts will become more accurate and specific.

But he says if weather warnings come, he and his fellow meteorologists want to be as certain as they can be to avoid what you might call the boy who cried wolf syndrome.

And then, as far as event driven watches and warnings, we want to reserve these for imminent, high confidence hazards that pose a direct threat to life and property.

Today's briefing was the first of many.

The Weather service offices here and in LA will give on Fridays as we head into the winter of 2026 2027.

In the newsroom, John Carroll, Kpbs news.

I'm Ariella Scalese And coming up tonight under a clear to partly cloudy sky.

Temperatures dropping to the mid 60s.

We will start the weekend off, cooler and drier, but some changes on the way when it comes to rough surf and even the chance of showers.

We'll have a closer look coming up.

Well, for many, Labor Day is the last hurrah of the summer season, often a busy time at our beaches.

But this weekend there's a few warnings for everyone planning to get in the water.

A high surf advisory and coastal flood warning are in effect from Saturday all the way through Tuesday.

Waves are expected to reach up to seven feet high and with Hurricane Maria coming up the coast.

There's also a risk for strong and dangerous rip and longshore currents.

Typically, hurricanes are very consistent at short intervals as well, so there's wave after wave after wave and they never cease.

There's never really an opportunity to get to safety.

Once caught in a rip current or push into the impacts on the surf.

And Maher says, if you are not a strong swimmer, it's best to stay out of the water.

And if you get caught in a current swim parallel with the beach to try and get out of it.

If you feel like you don't have control, he says, don't try to fight it.

Remain calm.

Try to float.

Put an arm up and then yell for help.

Those who drive to the beach this weekend will have lots of parking available.

City leaders are aiming to make sure that parking stays free in the near future.

Public matters reporter Jake Gotta looked into the issue and the money the city could be leaving on the table.

If you're heading to the beach in San Diego, you can count on a few things.

Beautiful views, lots of sun and free parking.

Come on, dude.

You shouldn't pay to park down here.

This is just why we pay the big bucks down here.

That's Pyper Vargas, who was hanging out in Pacific Beach on Wednesday.

He's definitely not alone.

Many San Diego residents, like Kevin Reeves, consider free parking at beaches and parks an absolute must.

I believe that parking should be free at the beach.

I don't think that this is the way that San Diego should find their revenue.

San Diego City Council members Joe LaCava and Raul Campo feel the same way.

So much so that they've proposed an ordinance that would ban paid parking at city owned beach lots forever.

And what council member Campo and I wanted to do was to really draw a line in the sand, if you will, that says, okay, you want to start thinking about it.

One place we do not want you to think about it is paid parking at the beaches and Bay of San Diego.

But if you travel up the Southern California coast, you'll find that San Diego is the exception.

Paid parking is the norm at Orange County, and Los Angeles beaches, and also state beaches like Torrey Pines.

And this ordinance is coming at a time when San Diego's budget deficits continue to balloon.

It got so bad this year that the city closed about half of the public bathrooms in mission Bay Park.

They were later reopened after public outcry, but if it meant the bathrooms would always be open, Pyper Vargas said he might change his mind about paid parking.

Yeah you got to return them, yes, because everybody has to pee.

There are more than 8000 parking spaces in the city's beach lots in the summertime, they're usually full.

If the city charge $2.50 an hour.

It could collect more than $200,000 per day of full lots over a year.

The revenue would be in the tens of millions of dollars.

But LaCava said new revenue ideas are off the table.

When we adopted that budget in June, there was really a commitment by the mayor as well as the city council that said, this time we're not going to look at revenue, new revenue ideas.

We're just going to cut services so we can deliver a balanced budget.

Earlier this year, the city started charging for parking at Balboa Park, but that didn't end well under threat of lawsuits from the Lincoln Club.

The city cut a deal and parking will be free again in 2027.

Campillo says the beach parking ordinance is a lesson learned from that fiasco, but to Pacific Beach resident David Cathell, free parking has real impacts on his neighborhood.

We've had several people get killed this year, due to traffic fatalities.

And the more vehicular traffic that you have in a community, the more of a risk you have for these kinds of things.

Cathell says he does see a lot of people riding bikes or walking to the beach.

That option's tough for those who live further away, and taking the bus to the beach takes a lot longer than driving for now, and in the near future, drivers will have a free parking spot waiting for them when they get there.

Jake Gotta, Kpbs news.

Public matters is a partnership with Kpbs, iNewsource and Voice of San Diego.

You can see more of our stories at Kpbs.org/publicmatters.

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I'm Jeff Bennett tonight on the NewsHour.

The U.S.

economy keeps adding jobs, but inflation puts a damper on wages.

That's at seven after Evening Edition on Kpbs.

Earlier this year, a Kpbs investigation revealed that an Ice detention center in Imperial County has received millions in tax breaks meant for charities.

Kpbs reporter Kori Suzuki says a bill to revoke those benefits is on its way to Governor Newsom's desk.

The bill is called SB 420.

California lawmakers approved it in the final weeks of the legislative session last month.

The bill would strip that charity tax break from the Imperial Regional Detention Facility in Calexico, and would ban other for profit detention centers from trying to claim it in the future.

Sharon Quirk Silva is a Democratic Assembly member from Fullerton and a coauthor.

On the Assembly floor last month.

she said the detention center is part of an effort, quote, hunting people because their skin is brown.

This facility had a non profit designation and received the benefits of that designation.

And yet it is the furthest that you can imagine of being a charitable institution.

The legislation was introduced by Steve Padilla, a Democrat who represents Imperial County.

He brought it forward in response to a Kpbs investigation earlier this year.

Immigrants rights organizers celebrated the news.

Kristian Salgado is with the Imperial Liberation Collaborative.

I'm really grateful Senator Steve Padilla took an interest in it.

I think it was addressing a very clear misuse of the welfare exemption.

An outrageous misuse of the welfare exemption.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has until the end of September to sign the bill into law.

Kori Suzuki, Kpbs news.

Hiring surged in the U.S.

during the month of August, adding more than twice as many jobs as expected, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The job gains were the strongest since March shows that the labor market remains stable despite the rapid adoption of AI.

The war with Iran and historically high diesel prices.

Cole Higgins has more expectations for job growth.

Last month were blown out of the water Friday.

New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the U.S.

economy added 162,000 jobs in August, more than double what economists had projected.

The unemployment rate also stayed steady, holding at 4.1%.

The white House says the above average jobs number is thanks to President Donald Trump's tariff policies and tax breaks.

Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, also credited AI, which was something economists have long worried would hurt job growth.

We saw a big surge in utility employment because while people are anxious that data centers might raise their utility bills, the utilities are working overtime to hire people to expand their capacity so that data centers can go wherever they want without making people's electric bills go up.

But it looks like those positives aren't translating to paychecks.

Wage growth slowed to an annual rate of 3.1%.

A new five year low.

Family budgets are still under pressure and people might hear, oh, something about there was a pretty good jobs report for August.

I don't think that's going to change the way they look at their personal finances, when they're going to the grocery store or filling their tank with gas.

Sticker shock at the pump is not just about the gas consumers put in their vehicles.

Diesel fuel hit an all time high Friday, putting further strain on airlines and farmers strains that will be passed down to consumers.

That means higher food prices and we have a harvest coming up.

Most of those machines harvesting food run on diesel, so that is going to push prices up.

Cole Higgins, Kpbs news.

Earlier this week, Waymo officially launched service in San Diego.

The autonomous taxi services arrival comes at a pretty significant moment for people who make their living behind the wheel.

Just this week, Uber announced it's cutting about 10% of its workforce.

Uber added that it wants to invest in a more autonomous future.

While this doesn't mean those job cuts are because of Waymo, it does show how quickly the industry is moving forward.

Drivers who spoke to our media partner, KGTV say while they are not asking for the technology to disappear, they're wondering what happens to the people who make a living off of rideshare driving.

If you're right now, that is the beginning, your way of seeing it as more expensive.

Imagine once they take the market and they can set up whatever prices they want.

And that's where we come when we want to have a local regulation where cities and drivers within the city can have a voice.

San Diego City Council member Sean Elo-Rivera is backing a resolution that would add regulations on autonomous vehicles.

The resolution would focus on public safety, protecting impacted workers and giving San Diego more control over how driverless vehicles operate.

This weekend, millions of Americans are expected to take to the roads and the skies for the Labor Day holiday.

But this year, the likely be met by an unwanted travel companion.

Higher prices experts say that, coupled with high demand, it's leading travelers to shell out more than they did last year for a summer getaway that Maddie Gannon reports.

National gas prices averaged above $4 a gallon every day in August, and holiday road trippers aren't likely to see pump prices cool as the summer travel season closes out.

Right now, we are looking at a national average of 414, and we've never had a Labor Day that the national average has been above $4 a gallon, and there's no relief for those taking to the skies.

Average domestic airfares are up more than 2% from last year, with over 17 million travelers expected to fly this long holiday weekend, according to TSA.

It's not just jet fuel adding to airfares.

There's just still a lot of demand for air travel.

High fuel costs are the result of a global energy shock shaking supplies, according to GasBuddy Patrick de Haan.

A lot of it is simply two main geopolitical factors that continue to weigh on the flow of oil.

The major disruptors to global supply are Iran's chokehold on the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, and Ukrainian drone strikes on major Russian refineries.

Closer to home, De Haan says U.S.

refineries are already operating at breakneck pace to try to offset lost capacity.

U.S.

refiners were operating at 98% of their capacity.

Even if you put millions of barrels of oil more in the Gulf Coast, refineries would not be able to process it.

Even as demand for gas will likely fall along with temperatures in the coming weeks, a Aixa Diaz says prices may not.

The problem is, this year we've got high crude oil prices, and most of what we pay at the pump has to do with crude oil.

In Washington, I'm Maddie Gannon.

and there's no relief for the temperatures either.

The heat isn't taking a vacation for Labor Day weekend.

And if you're headed to the beach or to a lake, experts say to beware.

Hot weather and war water can make germs thrive.

Mandy Gaither has more with the doctor on how to protect yourself from waterborne bacteria this long holiday weekend.

It's the unofficial end of summer, and if you're heading to the beach for one last hurrah, take heed.

Doctors say warm lakes, salt and brackish waters, a breeding grounds for several different bacteria.

The main one commonly seen at the beach this time of year is called Vibrio.

That particular one can get pretty aggressive.

We're shell casings are rare, but we always see uptick in cases around this time of year.

Doctor Daniel Egan with Orlando Health says open cuts or wounds, no matter how big or small, can open your body up to germs like Vibrio, which can cause an infection.

It starts off where the wound itself gets more red, gets more painful.

Redness starts to spread beyond the wound itself, and then, it can progress even to, I don't know, flesh eating bacteria.

Egan says waterborne infections tend to incubate quickly between 24 hours and a few days.

So, he says, if you do have a wound, watch it carefully.

When you get out of the water.

Is there, increased pain, redness, drainage, do you have a fever?

These signs should send you to the emergency room.

He says you can also protect a wound by washing it with soap and water, before and especially after the ocean.

You can also keep small cuts covered with bandages or adhesives that are water tolerable.

And if you tend to nick yourself when shaving, consider leaving the razor for later.

I would hold off on it until after you're done with that water exposure.

Whatever it may be.

For Health Minute, I'm Mandy Gaither.

Breaking down some weather headlines as we are tracking changes for the weekend.

The good news is the Santa Maria staying well off shore.

But tropical moisture will return to the region and that does bring the threat of downpours, plus the elevated surf conditions into early next week, which can bring some dangerous conditions.

If you're trying to head to the coast.

So that's how we've been tracking here, with the rough surf continuing through early parts of this month.

Here, as we watch those large swells from the offshore tropical activity, big waves and an elevated risk of rip currents through the weekend.

And that's the reason for the high surf advisory.

Could see waves 4 to 8ft making for some dangerous swimming conditions and the risk of rip currents.

You can see that, stretching along the San Diego coast.

Also, a coastal flood advisory, mostly at times of high tide is, we could deal with some coastal flooding again, that starts Saturday morning and continues through Tuesday evening, Tuesday night for that coastal flood advisory.

Temperatures tonight, quite comfortable.

57 in Oceanside, San Diego 65, Chula Vista 63.

Mount Laguna into the mid 50s and Borrego Springs, upper 64 tonight.

Again, tropical moisture making its way on through so very humid conditions, especially near the coast, and could watch some downpours.

Areas of localized flooding and those significant rip currents to be watching for our Labor Day weekend.

All right.

Let's take you here through the day tomorrow as we watch the thunderstorms and the lingering showers and the higher humidity.

But we'll start to get some improvements on the way as we follow you the next five days here.

By the time we get into next week.

Still pretty humid on Monday and staying warm for Tuesday and Wednesday along the coast.

All right inland, we have to deal with the showers this weekend.

It's going to be a hot Labor Day on Monday and the heat continues Tuesday and Wednesday.

Then the mountain outlook here.

Thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday, cooler on Monday and staying pleasant Tuesday and Wednesday and desert locations.

Thunderstorms this weekend and then plenty of heat building as we head into next week.

For Kpbs news, I'm Ariella Scalese.

The late Mexican poet and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz said poetry makes real the unspoken, the spirit, the soul, as Kpbs video journalist Matthew Bowler shows us, Tijuana is proudly continuing what tradition?

That tradition, with a National Poetry prize and the window for submissions, is now open.

Tijuana's streets are a special place.

The noise... the people... the colors... give this city of nearly 2 million people its own rhythm, its own music.

And its own poetry.

"Subjugated by my civilization."

"reduced to pure savagery opened to barbaric nature."

Poet Sofia Favela Magro sits in the well known Tijuana bookstore Libros Café y Jazz, and reads one of her poems.

For Favela, Tijuana is a special place to write.

"A model de una guerra através de la letras."

Waging a sort of war.

Through their letters, you can hear the emotional intensity, whether it's about love or a political grievance.

But there is always emotion in the words.

People here write.

"There is a man watching me from his chair from his hand, motionless, writing without writing on an old machine of broken names."

That's Samantha Luna, director of the Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura Tijuana, or eMac, reading one of her favorite poems called Gato by Sara Uribe.

Since 1998, the Tijuana eMac has sponsored a National Poetry Prize called the Premio Nacional de Poseía Tijuana.

Poets have until September 11th to submit their book.

The books can be from 60 to 120 pages, must be in Spanish, and the poet must either be a Mexican citizen living in Mexico or a legal resident of Mexico.

For the last five years.

"El ano pasado fueron siento veinte trabajos..." "Last year we received 120 submissions, 120 entries, of which 101 met all the requirements outlined in the call for entries.

This year, we expect double that number.

The winner will not only have their book published by eMac, but they will also receive $90,000 pesos, or about $5,000 USD.

"En La Casa de escéna..." "a dog is dying in the house next door," Startled by its cries, we begin to recall our childhood in silence."

Claudia Berrueto won the Primo Tijuana in 2008 for her book Polvo.

doméstico, or "domestic dust".

Berrueto says winning helped launch her career.

"Oh, it was very exciting because it was my first, prize in poetry, and I was needing to believe in my writing "Animal gazes at us from the depths of memory".

Luna says poetry shows us who we are.

"Poetry is one of the avenues.

One of the best ways to bear witness to everything we are experiencing in these times."

Rough and tumble and uniquely beautiful, Tijuana is poetic in so many ways.

"A man I approach slowly, like a silent cat."

"Nosotras estamos en paz..." "We are at peace within a mystery that we have created in our sacred right."

The winner will be announced November 12th.

Matthew Bowler,, Kpbs news.

And before we wish you a wonderful Labor Day weekend, we have a few programing notes for you.

We will not be airing an episode of News This Week Tonight, but you can expect news this week to return next Friday at its normal time at 8:30.

Also, we will not be airing Evening Edition on Monday, September 7th in observance of Labor Day.

But as always, you can keep up with Kpbs and find tonight's stories on our website, KPBS.org.

Thanks for joining us, I'm Maya Trabulsi.

Have a great weekend.

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