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Dozens of people came together today to speak out against recent Ice arrests in San Diego.

They say our targeting the Haitian community.

Kpbs reporter Jacob Aere spoke with some of them in front of the Federal building downtown, where they held a peaceful sit in just days after Ice agents arrested a Haitian student near San Diego City College campus, The Haitian community is making their voice heard through peaceful protest.

They were accompanied by dozens of people who supported their cause.

gathered outside of the San Diego immigration court.

We sending a strong signal, to ice to DHS.

Hands off of our community with their.

Wister Gaetan is co-founder of Haitian Bri Alliance, a community organization which helps new arrivals to San Diego.

He says ever since a June Supreme Court ruling allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected status, or TPS, for Haitians and Syrian immigrants, fear has washed over their community.

It's terrifying.

It is hard working.

TPS allows people to live and work in the United States when conditions in their home country prevent them from returning.

Mothers are afraid to drop their kids at school.

Children cannot go to school.

Parents cannot leave the house to get basic necessities for the American children.

Willia Caillo is a mother of three, including a three week old son.

Her husband was arrested by Ice in City Heights when the baby was just a week old.

It's left her alone with the children.

Immigration attorney Wismick Saint-Jean says what's happening now by immigration enforcement is unconstitutional.

He says the Haitian community is being hunted down when somebody have asylum pending, when somebody come here to seek asylum, they cannot be deported until there's a final decision being made on the asylum cases by a judge.

So to that extent, Haitians who have TPS, who have been detained, those detentions are illegal.

A DHS spokesperson says that the Haitian student arrested near City College will have all his claims heard by an immigration judge, and he will receive due process.

Jacob Aere, Kpbs News.

I'm Ariella Scalese Coming up tonight, staying still a bit humid as temperatures only drop down to the 70s under a mostly clear sky, but we're going to get rid of that tropical air mass and start to welcome some drier conditions as we head into the weekend with the heat, people are rushing to the beach to try and cool down and that is keeping lifeguards busy.

The city says San Diego Fire Rescue has made nearly 6400 water rescues from June until September.

But lifeguards told our media partner, KGTV it's not the heat that first responders are worried about.

It's when things cool down the does, and that's because they expect a powerful El Nino to lead to a very wet winter with our El Nino preparations, we are anticipating a very busy winter.

And with that, with the significant amount of water that we anticipate with the forecast, our swiftwater teams are getting more and prepared.

Our fire departments are making preparations as well.

Five main objectives.

And right now we have 60 different projects working concurrently under nine different sub working groups focused on all kinds of different things.

The city says they will be adding sandbags that are placed along the coast lines every year.

Areas like Ocean Beach each year.

A month earlier than usual.

They are urging everyone who can buy and prepare their own sandbags to mitigate damage to property.

The City of Carlsbad is declaring a local emergency to begin stabilizing bluffs along South Carlsbad Boulevard, as Kpbs North County reporter Alexander Nguyen tells us, it's a proactive move ahead of an expected strong El Nino season.

The bluffs have eroded on this stretch of South Carlsbad Boulevard, almost to the pavement.

The city has put up signs and these orange cones to warn people of the hazards.

The cliff underneath the road has eroded quite significantly, so they got to keep an eye on it.

That's that's for sure.

South Carlsbad Boulevard is a popular spot for bikers, runners and walkers.

David Fennell and Stacie Waters often take a stroll here.

They say the erosion is very noticeable.

The place that we normally access the beach is quite eroded as well as other places so That's why Carlsbad declared a local emergency.

They want to add boulders along this stretch to stabilize the bluffs that would extend the existing rock revetment about 200ft north.

The city calls it a proactive approach ahead of big storms and large waves that could come with a strong El Nino.

In a statement, City Manager Geoff Patnoe says, we understand this is a heavily traveled roadway and maintaining its integrity is essential to protecting public safety as well as property in our coastal environment.

The emergency declaration streamlines contracting and allows the city to bypass the lengthy permitting process.

The city says work could begin as early as September 14th.

Eric Snortum is a professor of geology and oceanography at MiraCosta College.

He says the city is right to be concerned about El Nino.

I would be concerned if I were the cities.

I would be concerned about the, railroad tracks.

I'd be concerned about the roads and I'd be concerned if I was a local homeowner living right on the shore about my own home.

The effects of coastal erosion are acutely felt at Tamarack State Beach.

Sand has completely washed from the beach, and waves have made the parking lot unusable.

It's just kind of sad right now because it's so beautiful that you would want more people to be able to come enjoy it.

Kelly Roberts lives near Tamarack Beach.

She says despite the city's best efforts, El Nino or not, the ocean will reclaim what's hers.

Going to do what she's going to do.

Alexander Nguyen, Kpbs News Getting a college degree can take a lot of time and energy for any student.

Now, add kids to the mix and it can feel impossible.

Kpbs education reporter Katie Anastas San Diego City College is working to strengthen its support for student parents.

I came and look at the school.

We just walked around and I was like, I want to be here.

Elizabeth Lugo is studying social work and child development at San Diego City College.

She has two kids aged 13 and nine.

Her busy day starts well before she gets to campus and continues after she's done with class.

There's meal prep school drop off and pick up kids homework and then her own.

It is pretty challenging in sometimes you when you come to school and see like other students, like not trying to compare, but when they don't have children, it's like you can see the this it's a difference because you come with all the stress to school and their days are so different from us.

This year, San Diego City College is joining a nationwide cohort of colleges working to strengthen their support for student parents.

It's called FamilyU.

Over the next two years as college administrators will analyze their existing policies and create new ones to support students with kids.

And we just know that we need to do better as a college to better proactively support them.

Adan Sanchez is the dean of student affairs at City College.

He says 20% of their students are parents.

The library has a family study room, but they want to do more.

Sanchez says the college plans to use bond funding to build a new welcome center.

That center will include a dedicated space for parents.

It will also house offices that manage support services for low income students and single parents.

Instead of having to go from here to another building or two buildings over, either with a stroller or with little kids.

Lugo says that would help.

She says access to those programs can give student parents the confidence to enroll.

Sometimes they are afraid to start because they don't know that there's programs that will support them or that they will have resources, so they get discouraged.

City, Mesa and Miramar colleges have child development centers on campus.

Priority for their child care services goes to student families.

But Sanchez says there's a waitlist.

That's going to be one of the partners that we'll be looking at to see if we can do this kind of like drop in dropout or, you know, kind of situation, or if we need to build something within the space.

One of the goals for FamilyU is to improve how colleges collect data on student parents.

Sanchez says that data can help school leaders prove the need for financial support.

How do we not just bring these resources to our students?

But how do we validate their existence through data so that we can push and advocate for ongoing funding?

Mesa College participated in FamilyU in 2023.

Johanna Aleman is the college's basic needs coordinator.

Her department provides food, clothing, and school supplies to students.

She already knew many of the students they serve were parents, so we couldn't just do surface level stuff.

We had to start digging in deeper for things.

Things like campus policies and how they're enforced.

Campus policy says children can't be left unattended.

They're not allowed in classrooms, but otherwise they're allowed in places like dining halls.

Even with that, like we had employees who were telling parents, you can't have your kid here.

But the guideline is as long as the child, the minor child is with a guardian or adult, they are allowed on campus.

Aleman says they needed campus culture to change.

They started reminding staff about the policy at the start of the school year.

They're working to add changing tables to campus bathrooms and high chairs to dining halls.

They also created the Family Resource Center.

It has kids toys, books, diapers, and infant clothing.

And there's room for parents to study.

Della McCullough has brought her daughter here throughout the last two years.

I would pick her up right out of school, and we would come here and we would just sit here and I would need to do homework.

And she was able to occupy herself while I was occupying myself.

McCullough is a single mom.

She says she felt disconnected from her younger classmates when she first got to Mesa.

Events for student parents helped her find her community.

And I love to share this fact all the time that it's actually one out of five students that our parents.

So it's like, oh, you could be a parent.

And I just don't know.

Generation Hope is the organization that puts on FamilyU They say student parents have higher GPAs on average than their non parent and classmates, but they're ten times less likely to graduate on time.

I'm not going to lie.

Parents probably think about it often.

I think we're constantly thinking about if if this is going to be the day that we're just going to have to sacrifice what's important to us for the benefit of the family.

But I think, and I remind myself, that both can be done.

Especially when college professors, staff and policymakers are ready to help.

Katie Anastas, Kpbs news.

I'm Geoff Bennett.

Tonight on the NewsHour, a look at President Trump's claim that he would give Americans $5,000 if Republicans win the midterm elections.

That's at seven after Evening Edition on Kpbs.

The war with Iran has caused a global energy crisis.

Gas prices have surged around the world, and as a result, more global drivers are buying electric vehicles, but not in the US.

Jenn Sullivan looks at why U.S.

consumers aren't making the switch, and why some industry insiders say now may be the best time to get a deal on EVs.

Global oil prices are back at $100 per barrel, as fighting in the Middle East raises concerns about prolonged disruptions in oil supply.

The continued higher gas prices have many drivers switching to electric cars.

More than 1 in 4 cars purchased on planet Earth is electric.

Sean Tucker with Kelley Blue Book says EV sales have hit record highs in 50 countries, including Australia, Vietnam, India, Brazil and South Korea.

But EV sales in the U.S.

have hit a slump.

The countries where EVs are doing best are countries that don't have these extremely long stretches of highway in between cities.

The way that we do out west.

In China, EV sales are on track to make up 60% of all new car sales in 2026.

But in the U.S., EVs accounted for only 5.8% of new car sales last quarter.

One reason is the higher price, according to Kelley Blue Book parent company Cox Automotive.

The average price for all new cars in July was just under $50,000, but the price for a new EV was more than $6,000 higher.

But Tucker says over time, drivers can save a lot of money by not having to fill up.

You still have to pay to charge your EV, but he says that cost is still much cheaper than gas, especially now.

You're reprograming the money that you're spending on gasoline into your electric bill, and it still works out to be cheaper to drive on electricity right now.

Now may be a good time to buy, maybe because Tucker says dealerships will likely drop the price of older models to make room for next year's inventory.

For consumer watch, I'm Jenn Sullivan.

The protected bike lanes on Santa Fe Drive and Encinitas have been a flashpoint in the ongoing battle over transportation options in San Diego County.

And now that fight has gone all the way to Sacramento.

Public Matters Reporter Jake Gotta has the details.

Earlier this year, Encinitas city council voted to remove a protected bike lane in front of San Dieguito Academy High School.

The protected lanes were built just last year using more than $3 million in state funds.

But public backlash to the configuration led the city council to reconsider.

The council voted to redesign the stretch of road and replace the protected lane on one side, with the painted lane running between parked cars and the flow of traffic.

This redesign is expected to cost up to $3.6 million.

And State Senator Catherine Blakespear, who represents Encinitas, wants to stop it.

I cannot accept a solution that would be proposed that would take the bike lane backward, that would make us less safe for all the many kids and families that are going to that high school every single day.

She's responsible for a line in the state budget bill that would specifically prohibit Encinitas from removing or modifying the bike lane on Santa Fe Drive for the next five years, and for ten years after that.

The city wants to make changes.

It would have to return the state's $3 million.

At Wednesday night's city council meeting, Mayor Bruce Ehlers led the council in voting to ask Governor Newsom to strike that line from the bill and let them proceed with removing the protected lane.

This is about overall safety.

It's about the overall safety of allowing during peak traffic, getting ambulances to our hospital, which is right down the street.

It's about not squeezing cars so much that they run into things.

Newsom has until September 30th to sign or veto state bills.

Jake Gotta, Kpbs News Public matters is a partnership with Kpbs, inewsource and Voice of San Diego.

See more of our stories at kpbs.org/PublicMatters Before there were big grocery stores in the 70s, many neighborhoods depended on small markets for everyday goods.

One of those stores was Lew's Market in Logan Heights.

The original owner, Jimmy Lew, recently passed away.

Kpbs reporter Alexander Nguyen talked to residents who fondly remember his generosity and what he did.

For many families who lived there.

Very kind and very giving.

He was just a real kind person.

Good, kind hearted people.

When people talk about Jimmy Lew, one thing keeps coming up.

His kindness, he would give things to the kids like.

Like he'd give my son like a slice of bologna, he was little.

Gave us whatever we needed.

Put us on the book.

My parents come in later and pay him off.

James Lew is his son.

He describes his dad as a well-intentioned people pleaser who often extended credit.

People saw it as like a community bank, they called it.

And so you know, just the idea that I recall have mental flashes of his little notebooks where he would have running tabs with, you know, people and the annotations, what was paid off, what was written off.

James's grandparents opened Lew's Market in the 1970s at the corner of 33rd Street and Imperial Avenue.

At the time, they were the only Chinese family in the neighborhood.

It was mostly, Mexican in that, black neighborhood.

Rene Bejarano and his wife Delia used to live behind Lew's Market.

We moved there like in 1974.

He remembers the family keeping to themselves.

They lived upstairs in the apartment above the market.

Jimmy Lew died August 15th.

The news came as a shock.

I couldn't believe it.

Yeah, I believe it.

He passed away because I had heard about, Philip.

But, Jimmy, I used to see him every day, and just.

It just seemed like he would live a long, long time.

I just don't think, you know, I think he was probably 76, 77.

You just look a lot healthier.

And the one thing Rene Bejarano remembers most about Jimmy is that his generosity extended to animals, too.

He would get a big bone with some meat on it and give it to my dog, and my dog would go down there because we lived right behind Lew's Market in the alley, and he would just go down the alley with a big bone in his mouth, walking slowly, and all the dogs would go crazy.

James Lew says his father was generous.

My own cousins, you know, they tell me about, you know, kind of like the private embarrassment that they would have when my aunts would send them to the store with, like, a handwritten note asking for assistance and the things that they need, and, you know, like, to him It was no, no big deal.

One of those cousins is Jose Briceno.

He still lives in the neighborhood.

Him and Felipe, they both have their little books in their little pocket.

You know, we'll walk in there, be like, oh, we need this, we need that.

And he was like, okay, you got money?

No we don't.

Well, we'll put it on your dad's credit.

What's your last name?

Briceno says that generosity helped a lot of families.

It did help us out sometimes.

Maybe we didn't have it at the time.

I don't know, I was too young to even know what you know.

I mean, what was money like that?

You know, I mean, but we know I just know that we walk in there.

They helped us out.

They gave us whatever we needed The Lew's sold the market in 2017.

But it still bears the name.

And the younger generation of the family still lives upstairs.

James says the outpouring of support reminds him how much he needs to live up to his father's name.

There's a certain existential pressure that comes with, you know, coming from that and then also, you know, having been given, like his name, being born a junior.

So it was very much, you know, this expectation that, oh, one day you were going to be exactly where your father's at.

The market still stands.

And while Jimmy Lew is gone, the memories live on through the people in the neighborhood who will never forget his charitable heart.

Alexander Nguyen, Kpbs news All right.

Some changes for the better.

Of course.

We were tracking the impacts, with at least tropical moisture from what was Hurricane Marie?

That tropical grip does start to ease.

By that, I mean the humidity associated, with some of that moisture being pulled in.

We'll start to see and feel the difference with some lowering humidity and also just temperatures also coming down.

So not only did was it humid, we also had the heat.

So that cooler relief is going to start to spread inland.

And after some afternoon thunderstorms today we do have a drier weekend ahead.

So some good news to look forward to.

Still kind of warm and humid tonight.

81 in Borrego Springs, Mount Laguna 65, Oceanside 68 and Chula Vista will be down to 71 tonight.

But there's the pleasant air mass, a drier conditions moving on through is still tracking the thunderstorms across parts of the four corners, and a lot of heat building back in across the central and southern plains.

But for San Diego County tomorrow, still on the warmer side.

82 in San Diego, 85 at Oceanside.

And then we'll get 90s and triple digit heat as we make our way inland and towards the deserts at 107 and Borrego Springs, but a nice 76 into Mount Laguna.

As for the weekend, West Coast northwest is going to be a wet and cooler.

But, across California we stay quite nice here as we head into Saturday and Sunday.

All right along the coast.

Still holding on to some humidity for the weekend, but some pleasant and nice conditions return as we head early next week.

Notice is overnight temperatures dropping from 70 to the upper 60s to the lower 60s.

A good indicator that some lowering humidity is on the way, and we see that trend inland as well.

Temperatures.

Afternoon highs will also be dropping from the low 90s to the low 80s by early next week.

Mountains stay pleasant for Friday and into the weekend, and turning a bit cooler by early next week.

And across the desert, it will still stay into that triple digit heat.

Maybe 95 feels a little bit better by next Tuesday.

For Kpbs news, I'm Ariella Scalese.

We do it every day without even thinking we breathe.

A new study at UC San Diego looks at how our brain activity is affected by even the small change in the air that goes in and out.

Kpbs science and technology reporter Carly Kay says the finding could lead to research that helps reveal clues about fatal events involving irregular breathing.

You might think these squiggly lines should be even.

Each bump represents a breath, but subtle changes show up as sawtooth patterns, big dips and flat lines.

Those light switch ups are enough to impact the activity in your brain.

Every breath is a little bit different.

Even at natural breathing.

We just pause for 10s at a time, like I said.

Sometimes the breaths will be shallow, sometimes they'll be more deeply.

Sometimes you sigh.

All of those subtle changes on each breath or what the brain was tracking.

Scientists have known that breathing is connected to how we feel.

You might have been told to take a deep breath to calm down.

But UC San Diego researchers found that the connection between breathing in the brain is far more precise than previously thought.

We have a sense culturally, experientially that these things help.

And there is scientific evidence like breath control can calm emotions and things like that.

But in terms of what those are doing to the brain and brain activity, that's what that's the layer that we are trying to add the extra layer of clarity.

Eena Kosik-Rose is a graduate student at UC San Diego.

She measured two things in epilepsy patients the shape of individual breaths and their brain activity.

The results should something surprising.

I completely didn't believe it.

Like, I was just like, there's something wrong with my data.

I'm coding something wrong.

I took basically, you know, I said, I'm in my sixth year of my PhD.

It's because there's been a lot of, disbelief along that way, along the way.

And these two measurements mirrored each other almost perfectly.

The couple, to show the way people breathe, may be shaping brain activity in regions responsible for cognition, memory and emotion.

The measurements were made with these brain implants inside epilepsy patients head.

The lab professor says it's usually taught to study these areas that are located deeper in the brain.

Noninvasive methods don't provide the same results, but it's like trying to understand, like a conversation that people are having by having like a microphone outside of a dome football stadium.

Like you can hear people cheering and stuff like that, but you can't tell who is saying what to whom, where.

You just know that something happened.

Looking at these hidden signals could potentially reveal clues about the cause of fatal events like sudden death and epilepsy.

Voytek says future studies may include looking into if these unique breathing patterns can be used as an early warning sign.

Carly Kaye, Kpbs news.

There's some really interesting stuff there.

And here is look at what we're working on for tomorrow in the Kpbs newsroom.

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