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New laws signed today will impose stricter rules on the data center industry.

Thank you for joining us.

I'm Maya Trabulsi California Governor Gavin Newsom gave final approval to the sweeping package.

Much of it involves the work of a local lawmaker.

KPBS reporter Kori Suzuki says one of the new laws requires data centers to go through an environmental analysis.

Senate Bill 887 requires new data center projects to complete a review under the California Environmental Quality Act.

It also offers a streamlined path for developers who make certain environmental commitments.

The bill was introduced by State Senator Steve Padilla, a Democrat who represents Imperial County.

He said some data center projects are moving forward without any meaningful input.

Here he is speaking to an assembly committee in March.

This bill will ensure that centers are not exempt.

Creates a pathway of certainty for them to get proper and appropriate review and exchange appropriate benefits to community, to workers, and to protect the environment.

Padilla introduced the bill in response to a controversial project in Imperial County.

The developer tried to design a nearly 1,000,000 square foot data center to match local zoning code, so it wouldn't have to go through an environmental review.

Data center industry groups oppose the bill, arguing that it would drive developers away from California.

To give you an idea of what is at risk from 2022 to 2023.

California's data center industry directly and indirectly generated $23.88 billion in state and local tax revenues.

The other bill, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, will make data centers pay for infrastructure costs, energy needs and wildfire prevention.

In the newsroom.

Kori Suzuki, KPBS news A merger that will reshape the entertainment industry is taking a big step forward now that a dozen states are ending their opposition.

California is one of the states that sued to block the deal between Paramount, Skydance and Warner Brothers discovery.

But today, California Attorney General Rob Bonta confirmed a settlement that includes concessions and among them, an increase in domestic film production and more protections for industry workers.

I'm always willing to come to the table for honest, good faith negotiations, and when we can find a strong solution that protects competition and consumers.

I'd rather resolve the case the issue in the boardroom instead of the courtroom.

The merger will also have an impact on television news.

The two companies control CBS news and CNN.

Under the settlement announced today, both organizations will continue to have independent editorial boards.

Several news outlets are suing President Donald Trump after he last week announced that they are banned from the white House.

First amendment experts say Trump's actions are unprecedented, but questions about access also come up at the local level given today's media landscape.

KPBS Public Matters reporter Kevin Trevellyan has more.

The San Diego Police Department stopped granting media credentials in parking passes in February.

SDPD spokesperson Ashley Nicholes cited difficulties vetting freelance and social media journalists.

David Loy with the First Amendment Coalition addressed the situation Monday on KPBS Midday Edition.

He said society has shifted away from legacy newspapers and networks, but that should not be an excuse for the government to stop credentialing journalists.

We all must evolve with the times, you know, the media has to evolve to meet the current economic realities.

And I respectfully suggest the government must also evolve to meet the current media landscape.

Roy said there's value to providing journalists privileges beyond the general public, such as the right to park in certain locations or have access to certain spaces that they might not otherwise.

Which is a public good.

To facilitate the reporting of breaking news and to enable reporters to cover events and streamline their ability to show up for breaking news.

Since SDPD stopped issuing credentials, Nicholes says she's only heard of minor issues involving breaking news situations.

She says they were resolved relatively fast and that officers sometimes need to be refreshed on public access rules.

In Washington, D.C., the bad news outlets argued Trump violated their constitutional rights.

They're asking a judge to restore their access to the white House on social media.

Trump accused the outlets of only writing negative stories.

Kevin Trevellyan, KPBS news New in July, the Trump administration stripped temporary legal status from more than 500,000 Haitian nationals currently in the U.S.. Now, many find themselves without the ability to work legally and at risk of detention.

KPBS producer.

Marielena Castellanos has more on how the Haitian community is trying to cope.

As Haitians, we are very big in finding ways to, be self reliant That's Wister Gaetan, a proud Haitian immigrant here in San Diego, he co-founded a nonprofit called Haitian Bridge Alliance, which advocates for fair and humane immigration policies for migrants.

12,000 Haitians living in San Diego.

A strong work ethic, he says, is a shared characteristic.

Working a whole 12 hour shift, then find themselves into the mid-city community college, learning English, taking, you know, skills or skills, trainings so that they could make, you know, improving their chance of actually establishing and becoming more self-reliance.

Gaetan has seen dozens of Haitian immigrants succeed in the region.

But along with the second Trump administration, has come to the realization that they are at risk of losing everything they've worked for.

Trump began vilifying Haitians before he was elected, saying in his debate with former Vice President Kamala Harris that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eat cats and dogs in Springfield.

They're eating the dogs.

The people that came in, they're eating the cats.

They're eating, they're eating the pets.

After becoming president, Trump eliminated humanitarian parole and Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

These programs granted limited legal status to Haitian nationals because their country was deemed too unsafe to send deportees back to their home country.

Now, hundreds of thousands of Haitian nationals find themselves without legal status, unable to legally work, and at risk of being detained.

That's exactly what happened September 8th.

Two Haitian students were stopped by Ice, one identified by Homeland Security.

Renatho Kemsley Casseus was arrested.

The second student fled on foot.

Everyone in the Haitian community is impacted.

Even those with legal status.

People like Roseline, whose children are U.S.

citizens but terrified of being arrested by Ice.

Laineus runs a daycare center out of her East County home.

Some of her Haitian clients are either too afraid to leave the house or have already lost their job.

Lenny's kids are terrified.

She has no easy answers.

They ask questions she doesn't have answers to.

Gaetan says he believes in America's promises, a country that respects the rule of law and provides opportunities that few others do.

The US market itself as an exceptional countries where anybody who just who is seeking for safety will have a safe home here.

But he believes Trump's policies are breaking that promise.

That's not the American exceptionalism story that we all grew up and knowing that the U.S.

is stand for.

Gaetan regularly hears from Haitian nationals struggling to find their place in Trump's America.

I've got report phone calls of people calling me, asking, is there a way that you could go and buy for me basic necessities for my children because I'm afraid to leave my house?

Think about you got families with American born children not able to go to a supermarket to buy milk, bread and eggs so that they can feed their kid breakfast because they're afraid if they go out, they'll be taken by ICE.

Many of the most vulnerable people follow the rules.

Did everything they were supposed to do.

That's the case of a woman who asked KPBS to withhold her name because of her lack of legal status.

She was a doctor in Haiti who fled because of its gang violence.

The woman entered the U.S.

legally through a Biden era parole program for people from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

Trump terminated that program in 2025 after losing parole.

She was covered through TPS.

She still had a work permit, which she used to work at a hotel and take English classes while also raising a toddler.

She lost her ability to work legally.

When Trump eliminated TPS in July.

For me it's a lack of respect to us.

She describes her treatment as disrespectful.

She's trying to follow the rules, but the rules keep changing.

Coming here asking for help, needing security in a country where human rights are respected.

You hear about a democracy, but that's not how we're living.

It doesn't feel that way.

Like many Haitians, she still has hope.

She was able to file an asylum claim, which comes with a work permit, but she has to wait six months to obtain it.

Marielena Castellanos, KPBS news And the story you just watched was reported and written by KPBS investigative border reporter Gustavo Solis.

We have more coverage, including a recent episode of the KPBS Midday Edition podcast that's available for streaming at kpbs.org the KPBS YouTube page, and wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Amna Nawaz Tonight on the NewsHour, major news outlets sue the Trump administration after the president banned them from the white House.

That's coming up at seven after Evening Edition on KPBS.

I'm Ariella Scalese, and coming up tonight, we drop to about 66 degrees under a mostly cloudy sky.

We'll start the morning with some low clouds and then see a gradual warming trend before the humidity kicks back up.

I'll show you when that's all coming up.

Diesel prices are at another record high in San Diego, and that's according to Triple-A.

The average gallon of diesel is now at $8.25 per gallon.

Diesel is the type of fuel that powers much of the trucking industry, which ultimately affects consumer prices.

For most drivers, the average cost of a gallon of regular fuel is at 622.

That is $0.15 higher than a week ago, and about $0.20 below a record high set back in 2022.

Work is wrapping up on new dorm style apartments for people exiting homelessness.

KPBS reporter Katie Anastas says rent will be half the cost of San Diego's average studio apartment.

Father Joseph Villages is renting out 33 units at its downtown campus at $842 per month.

They'll be a fraction of the cost of the average studio.

Deacon Jim Vargas leads Father Joe's there, has a microwave and has a refrigerator.

Of course, he has a bed and some other amenities.

The facilities are down the hall.

Those facilities include bathrooms, a kitchen and lounge area.

These kinds of apartments are called single occupancy units or SROs.

They're some of the most affordable housing options in San Diego, but the number of SROs has been dropping year after year.

Researchers at UC San Diego say 24 years ago, there were 110 single occupancy hotels in the city.

Three years ago, there were just 35 in this town.

Up until a few years ago, there were thousands of SROs downtown.

Right.

But unfortunately, they started being converted to market rate housing.

And so people who resided therein sort of falling on to the streets, right, because a lot of them were dependent upon the low rents that the SROs provide.

Vargas says some incoming tenants are coming from shelters, while others are leaving street homelessness.

They'll have access to other Father Joe's village services next door, like meals, a health clinic and employment services.

Anything that will help people to retain their their homes here and then prosper within them with their we're there to help them.

Tenants will start moving in this week and continue to arrive through early November.

Katie Anastas, KPBS news Let's take a look at those weather headlines here as we make our way out of the summer season into fall.

We're going to start the first day of fall with some low clouds on our Tuesday.

And then as the week progresses each day we'll get a little bit warmer.

A lot of us are trending to the 80s, and then by Friday, we'll start to feel that kind of tropical influence yet again, as some muggy air does return Friday into Friday night.

All right.

Tonight's quite comfortable and cool.

61 Borrego Springs.

Mount Laguna.

51, Oceanside 59, San Diego 66, in Chula Vista, down to 64 degrees across San Diego County.

Tomorrow.

Things are pretty much close to the historical average.

So thunderstorms continue across the Four Corners region and we start to warm up in the northwest, but we'll still have pretty nice temperatures through the day tomorrow.

Our Tuesday 95 for Borrego Springs, 66 in Mount Laguna.

And we'll see again some of those morning low clouds San Diego, Oceanside, Chula Vista, with temperatures back into the upper 70s.

Enjoy the comfortable air while it lasts because we will start to turn warmer by Wednesday as the heat does continue to build.

Still some thunderstorms lingering, but more pleasant air across Nevada and back into Utah.

All right.

We take you out the five day coastal forecast here, where there's those temperatures trending up by Friday and Saturday, back to the 80s.

And also notice the wording.

It will start to turn more humid as we head into Friday and Friday night.

All right.

There's the warm up for you.

Low 80s tomorrow mid 80s Wednesday and Thursday and inland areas.

We'll get to the upper 80s as we head into Friday and Saturday.

Plenty of sunshine and staying dry.

Mountains will be quite comfortable the next couple of days in the 60s, and we'll start to see an increase in temperatures by some ten degrees by Saturday, a high of 76.

All right.

Just as our temperatures come down across desert locations, we're already looking at triple digit heat as we head into the weekend for KPBS news, I'm Ariella Scalese The state of California is taking a proactive step to prepare for the upcoming El Nino weather cycle.

Today, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an emergency declaration.

The move allows for the staging of equipment and other resources that might be needed to respond to severe weather.

The emergency declaration also expands multilingual outreach and notifies a California National Guard that it will be used for emergency response as needed.

Storms are just one of the disasters that can lead to an insurance claim, and in a few weeks, Californians will choose the next person who will serve as the state insurance commissioner.

Our public media partner, KQED, is talking with the candidates.

Here's part of the conversation with Marisa Lagos and candidate Jane Kim.

One of the reasons that private insurance exists is that, yes, there are companies that are making a lot of money off of this and being traded on the stock market and are international conglomerates, but they also are taking on this risk.

So what do you say to people who who would be worried that, like the tax payers would essentially end up with a huge risk here if we had, God forbid, another year of the 2017 fires, another Paradise, another LA.

We're already paying for it tomorrow.

I mean, yeah, we're already paying for it, but but first of all, they're actually not taking on the risk.

That's a misnomer.

They are raising prices on all the healthy homes and saying that they have to do that because of the risk.

Then they're canceling coverage and all the sick homes and homes with preexisting conditions, and then pushing them on to the fair plan.

So they already aren't covering this risk.

And the California Fair plan, which, by the way, is also run by the private market, the 15 insurance companies, and it's one of the secret affair plants in the country.

They have a nine person governing board.

We don't know who sits on it.

We don't know when they meet.

We don't have access to their financial models and how they make their decisions.

Because the fair plan is considered nonprofit, when they have gains, they distribute those gains amongst the 15 insurance companies when they make too much money because they're not allowed to hold excess profit when they lose money.

They just charge all the homeowners and the multi payer system.

And when interest doesn't cover the disaster, guess who comes in.

FEMA's state local and county.

So taxpayers are already on the hook for these wildfires.

And I've been on the hook.

My PG&E bill doubled.

And this is a lot like how utilities operate, right.

And so, you know, there's all this fight about, you know, subrogation etc.. But they're really just shuffling the decks on the Titanic.

They're just deciding which industry is going to charge consumers more to pay for wildfires.

Is it going to be utilities or is it going to be the insurance companies?

But we're always paying.

So what I'm proposing is that we claw back some of those premiums we're already spending.

We invest it in the market, we keep those returns, and then we use some of that revenue to actually invest in prevention.

Because the only way to make insurance affordable and available is to drive down the risk to flood proof and fireproof.

Entire communities so they're not destroye in the future by floods and fires.

And that is what New Zealand is doing.

Actually, Canada interestingly has single payer auto insurance.

They use a percentage of the premiums to pay for roads and filling potholes, so that there are less collisions in the future.

Yeah.

I mean, I guess that gets me to, well, a few questions, which is like one of them is, yes, this is a huge industry, but isn't that also part of the quote unquote insurance they have, which is like they're not just operating in California.

It's a much bigger market.

Like, you think we're a big enough market to essentially create this ourselves.

We are the fourth largest insurance market in the world.

We're the largest market in the country.

Actually, none of these countries.

I'm sorry, none of these companies truly want to exit California.

We are 10 to 15% of their revenue base.

You know, currently, it seems like we have two choices.

We either let them raise rates or the exit California, but they haven't actually really exited.

And also, they provide other types of insurance that are quite profitable, like auto insurance.

And so one of the things that I want to negotiate is that if you provide auto insurance in that zip code and make tons of money, you must provide home insurance as well.

When people are worried that you're being sort of overly ambitious, like, what is your answer there in terms of like how homeowners can think about what would happen in a year, two years versus ten years down the line?

Well, what I will say is that for all the critiques of these ideas that we're putting out there, which I think we have to at least explore and study and discuss while we're having that discussion, the current system is not working.

It is too expensive.

The premiums are too high.

They're canceling our coverage.

So, I my assessment of the current framework is that it's a total disaster.

And and so what I'm proposing is to kind of expand the number of ideas that are on the table that we can think about, and it's going to be a big table.

It is going to involve the governor's office, the state legislature, the industry and consumers as well.

And that's the way it should happen.

But what I will do is be a political and policy leader on putting everything on the table to make, this economy work for all of us.

And you know, what I'll end with is that I'm really excited to run for this office.

I really think this office, because that could have a huge impact on California and make the state actually work.

Last week, we aired a portion of KQED interview with the other candidates, State Senator Ben Allen, and both interviews are featured in the Political Breakdown podcast, and that is available for streaming at kpbs.org Filmmaker John Carney has reimagined the musical for modern audiences and films like "Once" Now, the Old Globe Theater serves up the world premiere stage adaptation of his 2013 film "Begin Again" KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando goes behind the scenes for a preview of the Broadway bound show.

John Carney's film Begin Again starred Keira Knightley as Greta, a gifted but heartbroken songwriter, and Mark Ruffalo as Dan, a record producer on A Downward Spiral.

But then Dan hears Greta perform at a bar.

That encounter leads to an unexpected collaboration that reignites their creativity.

But that scene also proved inspiring to Lorin Latarro, the director of the Globe's new musical based on the film.

In the film, there's this one beautiful moment of magic that when Greta and Dan finally meet.

Of course, this collaboration is so expansive that it makes the universe change.

There's these beautiful instruments that are floating, and we're seeing what Dan is imagining in his head.

And that's the only time in the movie there's a moment that is sort of extraordinary in that way.

And I wanted to expand that and make it theatrical.

Every time Credit and Dan collaborate, so on and hopefully on every song, we have a bit of, magic and, elevated realism.

The task of creating new songs for the musical landed with Pat Monahan of the band train.

The most appealing thing about getting involved with Begin Again was the fact that it's a story about starting over, which I've had to do.

It's also a music story about the industry and the passion and really the fact that many of us, if not all of us, really don't have a choice.

If music chooses you, you go.

In the film, Dan's passion prompts an innovative solution to the lack of access to a recording.

You mean record outside?

That's right.

Like where?

Everywhere.

In our show, Derek McLane created this truly exquisite set.

I mean, it is a translucent, sketched version of New York City, highlighting the creativity of both the artists in the story and the ones behind the scenes is at the heart of both works.

I mean, it's really about the art of making art.

There's nothing more important in the world.

I think it's there are two ways to save people's lives.

One, if you need a doctor, you have to go to the hospital and they'll save your life.

And two, if it's something that moves you and helps you become more resilient or become more thoughtful or introspective or feel big feelings, and I think only art can do that to us as human beings.

Emma Busse plays Greta in the play.

When she meets Dan.

She's able to collaborate in a way that creates this explosion of art and music.

I mean, there's a great line in there.

What's the what's the purpose in making any art unless it's going to change people's lives?

And there's something so joyful about this show that while we are meeting these people down and out at the top, that quickly goes away and we get into this place of hope and love and, opportunity.

Audiences will have an opportunity to be inspired to begin again at the Old Globe Theater through October 18th.

Beth Accomando, KPBS news Oh, lots of great collaboration there.

Now, here's a look at what we're working on for tomorrow in the KPBS newsroom.

NPR's Morning Edition.

We'll have the latest on a lawsuit filed by news outlets over access to the white House.

And KPBS Midday Edition.

We'll have more on the emergency declaration ahead of the El Nino weather cycle that airs at noon on KPBS FM.

You can find tonight's stories on our website, kpbs.org.

Thanks for joining us tonight.

I'm Maya Trabulsi.

Enjoy your evening.

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And by viewers like you.

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