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There is now new leadership at the County Board of Supervisors.

Thanks for joining us.

I'm Maya Trabulsi.

That leadership includes San Diego County's newest supervisor, Paloma Aguirre was sworn in this morning.

Kpbs reporter Alexander Nguyen was at the standing room only ceremony.

Cheers and applause.

Paloma Aguirre is now officially the new county supervisor for district one.

I'm ready to lead, and we're just getting started.

Aguirre says she's ready to fight for South Bay, and the people have made their voices heard.

You stood up and demanded something different.

A change in priorities.

A county government where the focus is on working people, not the wealthy and well-connected.

Aguirre says she wasn't supposed to be here emphasizing her working class background.

I'm just a surfer girl who wanted clean water in my town.

And her status as a daughter of immigrants who came to America and worked long hours busing tables so I could have a better life.

Aguirre promised to fight with everything she has to ensure that district one gets its fair share of housing, parks and safe streets.

This is our new day in the South Bay.

What a historic moment for us to have a representative like her.

Louie Nguyen is the CEO of Say San Diego, a social service group that supports youth and families.

He's hopeful she will bring much needed change to South Bay.

Her initiatives around clean water, clean air incredibly needed in our community.

Obviously, affordable housing and affordable childcare just such an essential element of what we need in our community.

District one residents say they're excited to finally have a voice on the board after not having representation for seven months.

They hope Aguirre gets to work right away on issues such as immigration, housing and the border sewage crisis.

And the other thing would be the ice raids.

It's my community.

I have people of my family and friends that are fearful because of their status.

And I don't I want to I want to see them protected.

There's a lot of concern in South Bay with the sewage crisis.

I feel like it's an issue that's been going on for years and hasn't been really addressed.

So we're really grateful that she listens to us and that she can bring the resources, to help that crisis.

One of Aguirre's first actions as supervisor was bringing attention to the water sewage crisis.

She says she would be calling a sewage crisis action meeting on Thursday.

Alexander Nguyen, Kpbs news.

Aguirre is not only the newest supervisor, she is now also the board chair.

Pro tem third District supervisor Tara Lawson Remer was elected the board chair and fourth district Supervisor.

Monica Montgomery step is now vice chair.

Scientist at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, have created a new five day forecast not for the weather, but for water pollution on San Diego's South Coast.

Kpbs sci tech reporter Thomas Fudge explains how it works.

Raw sewage flowing into the Pacific Ocean from the Tijuana River and a nearby Mexican treatment plant has made it unsafe to swim or surf on many San Diego beaches, so scientists have found a way to forecast how clean or dirty that water will be.

Oceanographer Falk Fedderson is leading a project called the Pathogen Forecast Model.

The overall goal of the project is stated can be stated this way.

We want to be able to allow family to know whether they can take their kids to the beach on the weekend.

Scientists at Scripps Oceanography have developed a way to forecast the flow of sewage pollution along the coast.

They use data about winds, tides, waves and currents.

In one experiment, they poured some red dye into the ocean to see how it would move north along the coast.

The result, revealed today, is a website people can use.

It predicts how the sewage will flow from its source to the beaches such as Imperial Beach.

The silver Strand and Coronado of Anita Luna.

Over the course of the coming five days, color codes indicate sewage contamination.

Red means a high risk of getting sick.

Yellow is a medium risk and green is low.

So let's click on silver strand.

And you see now the plot up here changes.

This here is time five days.

And this tells you the percentage of sewage at that location.

And so you can see like oh it's in the yellow.

It's in the high yellow range at Silver Strand.

But then it drops down.

Fedderson says this pollution forecasting tool is the first of its kind.

The contaminant resulting from sewage pollution that makes you sick is norovirus.

He says the next phase of their project will be to get a better handle on this dangerous pathogen.

It's been measured in the ocean before, but it's essentially just a sort of like a one off, one off type of thing.

It's never been measured in a systematic way.

And we are now measuring norovirus in a systematic way.

But this forecasting tool won't solve the problem that continues to be inadequate treatment of sewage from the Tijuana region.

Pollution on the coast of Imperial Beach is such a problem that county water monitoring has sought to close that beach, with only intermittent openings for roughly the past thousand days.

The forecasting tool can be found at PFMweb.UCSD.edu Thomas Fudge, Kpbs news.

Well, this is one of those weeks where the forecast is really not changing too much from day to day.

Overnight tonight we're dropping down into the mid 60s once again, continuing to see those intermittent clouds will have a few changes, with the marine layer temperatures fluctuating a few degrees here and there.

But I'll break it all down.

Coming up.

The president of the Philippines visited with President Trump today, hoping to secure a more favorable trade deal for his country.

The Philippines is a key U.S.

ally in Southeast Asia and an important counterweight to China.

Karin Caifa reports from the white House.

The alliance with the Philippines is the oldest U.S.

relationship in the Pacific, and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr arrived at the white House on Tuesday as part of a three day visit to Washington that underscores the importance of the relationship now as a counter to China.

We're going to be talking about trade.

We're going to be talking about, war and peace.

Prior to a sit down with President Donald Trump, Marcos met with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday and on the agenda of Marcos' Oval Office meeting Longstanding U.S.

Philippine defense agreements, especially as China gets more aggressive in the South China Sea.

We would certainly look into any kind of military spending we would wish that we did.

That wasn't necessary, but it is.

Trump said the U.S.

is getting along with China very well right now, and doesn't mind if the Philippines gets along with China, too.

We're getting along with China very well, and I don't mind, if the president dealt with China, you know, if that's meant because I think he has to do what's right for his country.

I've always said, you know, make the Philippines great again.

Do whatever you need to do.

But, you're dealing with China wouldn't bother me at all.

Also on the agenda trade.

President Trump has threatened a 20% tariff of goods coming into the U.S.

from the Philippines starting August 1st.

And Marcos came in seeking a deal to lower that number.

Last year, total goods trade between the two countries reached $23.5 billion.

After the meeting, President Trump announced that the two leaders reached an agreement on a 19% tariff on goods coming from the Philippines, while American goods ship there will not be charged a tariff.

At the White House, I'm Karin Caifa hundreds of UC San Diego health workers walked off the job in Hillcrest today.

Union members hit the picket line in support of the more than 200 workers who were laid off late last month.

And that represents about 1.5% of UCSD Health's workforce across all hospitals and clinics.

They told our media partner, KGTV the cuts came even as the institution continues to buy new hospitals.

You know, none of us really understand the rationale.

They they've spent a lot of money recently buying hospitals, getting bonuses, getting raises for the executives.

But it really doesn't make sense while they're cutting the staff.

That made us number one.

You know, we're the ones the frontline workers that have gone through.

We went through Covid, we were heroes, and now they're just kind of disregarding us like we're disposable.

On its website, UC San Diego Health told patients it was committed to delivering excellent care and services during the one day strike.

Well, Comic-Con is here and hundreds of thousands of fans and people watchers are expected to fill the Gaslamp Quarter this week.

Kpbs video journalist Matthew Bowler says while you can drive downtown, you don't have to.

Parking in downtown is always a challenge.

But this is Comic-Con.

We're back in force at some Diego Comic-Con.

Everything was perfect.

Christopher Canoley or dude, Vader says he's the oldest cosplayer at Comic-Con, and he's taking the trolley every day to the con from his alma mater, UC San Diego.

For him, it's part of the fun.

And if you take the trolley from anywhere out of San Diego, you're going to see cosplayers on the trolley.

And it's a lot of fun because then your imagination is starting to build.

Even before you get downtown.

Comic-Con organizers say in recent years, attendance has topped 130,000.

San Diego City Councilman Stephen Whitburn is chair of the Metropolitan Transit System board of directors.

He says transit ridership spikes during the con last year, MTA saw more than 265,000 additional passenger trips during Comic-Con weekend.

Whitburn says the trolley is the best way to get downtown.

What are the beauties of taking the trolley to downtown?

To the comic-con You don't have to worry about parking down here.

But what you should remember is be sure to park in a regular park and ride a lot.

Don't just park randomly at the mall somewhere because we don't want you to get ticketed or towed.

Whitburn says parking is free at the park and ride lots like the Old Town Transit Center.

Park at the park and ride lot.

Hop on the trolley.

Get down here.

It's, carefree way to enjoy.

Whitburn says he's taking the trolley to Comic Con because it's part of the con experience.

One of the fun parts of taking the trolley to Comic-Con is you've got a lot of people who are dressed up in costume on the trolley with you.

It is an absolute ball.

Dude, Vader says he's catching the 9 a.m.

blue line from UC San Diego on Thursday and Friday.

He's happy to pose for pictures and spread Comic Con joy, as long as he doesn't miss his transfer at the Santa Fe Station to the Green Line.

Matthew Bohler, Kpbs news.

San Diego city staff will now be allowed to clear homeless encampments on some state property.

Mayor Todd Gloria's office announced today that he has signed an agreement with the California Department of Transportation.

The one year agreement covers five miles of state freeways.

They go through downtown Little Italy, Sherman Heights, East Village, and Barrio Logan.

San Diego prohibits tent camping on public property, but city staff haven't been able to enforce that ban on state land.

Gloria called for collaboration with Caltrans during his state of the city address in January.

But the situation is dire and we need help.

So if the state can't or won't address these areas.

They should give the city full authority to do this work and then fully reimburse us for the cost of doing that work.

The city says it will use existing staff to offer resources to people camping on state land and clear debris from the areas.

The state of California will reimburse the city for up to $400,000.

I'm Amna Nawaz tonight on the NewsHour.

Republican leaders try to quell concerns over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

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

Imperial county's chief accountant is suing the county government, saying county leaders are actively preventing her from doing her job.

Kpbs Imperial Valley reporter Kori Suzuki says it sets up a legal battle over one of the county's most important elected offices.

Imperial County Auditor Controller Karina Alvarez filed the amended lawsuit in Superior Court last week.

Alvarez is accusing county administrators and the Board of Supervisors of barring her from entering the main county office building, or speaking with employees in her department.

She also alleges several supervisors pressured her to resign earlier this year in a phone call with Kpbs this afternoon.

Alvarez says the board was threatening the county's financial health.

It almost feels like if they think I'm in a different board and they want to drown me, but we'll call from the same boat, which is called Internal County.

If I drown, if my department drowns the whole county, it's going to be hard to recover.

A spokesperson for the county did not respond to a request for comment.

Earlier this year, the Board of Supervisors voted to publicly rebuke Alvarez, accusing her of mismanaging the office and jeopardizing the county's finances.

In the newsroom, Kori Suzuki, Kpbs news.

The airline industry is increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency, safety and customer experience.

But now some airlines are beginning to expand their use of AI when it comes to ticket fares.

Ivan Rodriguez has the latest for the aviation sector.

AI's ability to process vast amounts of data quickly and accurately is invaluable.

Recently, Delta Airlines announced it plans on scaling its use of AI to expand dynamic pricing.

The use of AI in the global airline industry is only growing.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines chat bot uses AI to provide booking assistance and flight information.

United Airlines uses it to communicate with passengers about cancellations and delays.

American Airlines started using it to predict which passengers might miss their flights.

If you want information on changing your flight, if you want information, on changing your seats, it's likely going to be AI responding to you.

Matt Britton, author of generation AI, says we're beginning to see the next phase of airlines adopting artificial intelligence.

Airlines use dynamic pricing to constantly reprice fares based on market conditions.

I think why consumers particularly have a problem with some of the recent news is it's not based upon their IP address.

It's actually based more upon them as an individual.

So I think it calls into question a lot of consumer privacy issues.

One of the first major airlines entering this new space is Delta.

About 3% of Delta's domestic ticket prices are already determined by AI, with plans to raise that to 20% by year's end, according to the airline's president.

As airlines adopt this model, travel writer Gary Leff says it will lead to more personalized pricing.

AI offers a tremendous ability to further segment customers based on what they know about those customers.

They're not at this place yet, according to Delta, of actually taking specific information about individuals and putting that into pricing.

Experts tell me they believe more airlines will begin deploying AI for dynamic pricing.

For people looking to book travel and find mainstream pricing, one good option is to use incognito mode in your browser, whether you're using Google or Safari, and that'll block the cookies that identify you as an individual.

In Atlanta, Ivan Rodriguez Chula Vista may soon have the strictest rules on electric bikes and scooters in San Diego County.

The Chula Vista City Council is considering new regulation options in a meeting today.

The ordinance would ban anyone under the age of 12 from riding a class 1 or 2 e-bike and make it a crime for any adult to knowingly allow them.

Also, e-bikes and scooters would be prohibited from being used on sidewalks or roadways, with speed limit speed limits of 40mph or more.

School is going to be like seven miles from my house, so I'm going to really need it.

And my dad works in the morning.

My mom does too.

I have eight speeds here and if you don't know how to use it, you know the brakes.

Forget about the brakes that turn the brake cells.

Next thing you know, they out in front of a car and they get hit.

Now, if the ordinance passes, it will take effect 30 days later.

The council says the first 60 days after the law takes effect will be used as a grace period to issue warnings and spread education about these new laws.

San Diego's City Heights neighborhood has a new turf soccer field.

Kpbs education reporter Katie Anastas says it will soon be open to both students and to the public.

Central Elementary School and Wilson Middle School have gone through major transformations over the last few years.

They've both been completely rebuilt, and now they have a new turf soccer field between them.

It changed a lot, actually.

They changed a lot.

And it's pretty nice now.

Alondra Vega Perfecto is about to start eighth grade at Wilson.

She's already using the new field during a summer camp.

She's looking forward to P.E.

classes using it too.

We can have multiple classes on the field since there's a lot of space.

The field will also be open to the public after school hours.

It's the 96th Joint use agreement between the San Diego Unified School District and the City of San Diego.

The beauty of having this in City Heights is that we have a lot of schools that are very actually close together, but there isn't enough green spaces to actually offer that playground or that community usage.

So I think it's beautiful that both the city and San Diego Unified partnered to deliver this to City Heights.

Construction of the field cost more than $10 million.

The school district paid for the field and the new schools using bond funding approved by voters.

And that's why we're able to make this investment into, you know, transform our schools and create these new experiences for our kids because when we ask San Diego, are they willing to sacrifice and invest in our kids?

They say yes and they say yes every time the soccer field will be open to the public starting next month.

Katie Anastas, Kpbs news.

Well, overall, as we look at the rest of the week ahead, we will see the marine layer becoming a little bit shallower over the next couple of days, but don't expect to see the low clouds and the fog disappear, especially along the coast.

But it won't be moving as far inland as we get into the next couple of days.

Temperature wise.

Not a lot of changes here, but as we look ahead to next week, that's when we get temperatures back to historical averages, or at least in the ballpark of historical averages for just about everybody.

Let's talk about tonight, though.

Overall we're dropping down into the mid to low 60s, 64 in Oceanside, 62 in Escondido here 70s though for Borrego Springs and upper 50s for Mount Laguna.

As we look ahead to tomorrow, it's kind of just a typical status quo kind of day.

We are staying dry.

All of the rain that we're seeing into the Rockies and into the four corners, that is not impacting us here in Southern California, really, we're just kind of sticking with the July status quo as we look ahead to tomorrow.

Temperature wise, we're into the mid or upper 70s for Oceanside, low 80s for Escondido, 82 in El Cajon.

Triple digits, of course for Borrego Springs 68.

Is that high in Mount Laguna Let's take a look at what to expect for the next five days.

Starting off with the coast.

Those intermittent clouds.

That is one thing that is staying very consistent over the next five days as we go into the weekend.

Temperature wise, we're only bouncing around by a few degrees.

It's one degree of variation from Wednesday to Thursday as we head into the start of the week and we drop down a few degrees to the mid 70s and then rebound a little bit to the upper 70s by the time we get to Sunday again next week, that's when we start to get back towards historical averages.

We've been a little bit cooler so far this week.

Taking a look a little bit further inland.

We're in the 80s.

We do drop down to 78 as our high for Saturday, but then quickly rebound.

So a little bit of a roller coaster there, but only a few degrees.

Variation there.

As far as the high temperature into our mountain regions.

We are in the 60s until we get to Sunday.

That's where we do see a little bit more of a significant warm up.

67 Saturday up to 75 by the time we get to Sunday.

And then of course, in the desert.

Not a lot of changes here.

We're in the triple digits.

Not sure you'll really feel much of a difference between 103 104 to 105 by the time we get to Sunday.

For Kpbs news I'm AccuWeather's Anna Azallion.

For almost four decades, Comic-Con has handed out the Eisner Awards, commonly referred to as the Oscars of the comics industry.

Kpbs arts reporter Beth Accomando explains what the awards are and looks at some of this year's nominees.

Will Eisner is one of the giants of the comic book world, so it's fitting that the Oscars of his beloved industry are named after him.

Jackie Estrada has overseen the Eisner Awards since Comic-Con took them over in 1990.

They're given in 32 different categories, with 5 or 6 nominees in every category.

It's a different set of judges every year, and they see what trends are going on in the industry.

I wish that I could have an invisibility cloak and sneak into the Eisner room every year, where all the books are just piled everywhere to get an idea of everything that was nominated.

Pamela Jackson didn't need a cloak.

She was a judge in 2021.

What happens is you get a secret phone call from Jackie Estrada telling you, would you be a judge?

And you can't say anything for months.

And I don't think most people realize how many books are out there.

It's just a lot.

It's about an eight month process of deciding what's going to filter to the top, and then a six person showdown with your other judges of ranking the materials.

I say it's agonizing in all of the best ways.

Jackson is also the comic arts librarian at San Diego State University, where the comics collection has grown from about 1800 to more than 120,000.

So I use the Eisner Awards nomination list to help with my collection development, and then look through the Eisner list and buy as much of it as I can on a limited budget.

Of course, the librarians rely on awards lists like the Eisner, both for an assurance with the quality of the material they're purchasing.

But also because they raise interest in these comics.

Patrons are going to be coming to the library and asking about these titles.

Once they get them, the nominees lists are going to be like, you have this, you have this, do you have this?

The Eisner's are a fantastic CliffsNotes version of what's new and noteworthy every single year in the field of comics.

And so it's it's great to know that here's this prevetted list in each category that helps.

You know, you didn't miss something.

Over at Kamikaze Comics and Pop Culture Store, co-owners Lucky Bronson and Dee Dee highlight Eisner nominees each year on a dedicated shelf.

Dee Dee shared his favorites.

It's the car dog story from Patrick McDonnell, who's done mutts comic strip for a long time.

You might want to bring Kleenex while you read this.

And if you love dogs, this is great.

This is nominated for, I believe children books, and it teaches kids about microbes, and they're fun.

These picks highlight how superheroes no longer dominate the awards and also have titles like Joe Sacco's The War on Gaza or the Puerto Rican War, which is magnificent.

He did all his art with woodblock cut and prints.

I'm really excited for the Department of Truth by James Tenney in the fourth, which conceives of the fact of the possibility that what if every conspiracy theory was possibly true, but it depended on how many people believed in it.

Elizabeth Pollard appreciates how the Eisner's reflect the diversity and complexity of the medium.

The list of categories opens the eyes of those who don't know to just how complex the field of comics is.

Comics.

The production of them, the scholarship about them is no joke.

It is an incredibly serious, moving, important field.

And the Eisner shines a light on that.

The Eisner also continue to respond to changes in the industry, adding categories to reflect new genres, and that makes a strata happy.

I am gratified when I see how emotional people get when they go on that stage and get acknowledgment for what they've done, because for so many years, people in comics got zero acknowledgment for what they did, and even those who don't win benefit.

Part of the fun, I think, is when the final ballot is released and everyone starts arguing in the community about what should have been on there and how we got it wrong.

And all of that, it helps raise even more awareness of the titles out there that people are passionate about.

So if you're looking for something to read this summer, the Eisner nominations are a great place to start.

Beth Accomando, Kpbs news.

And San Diego Comic-Con kicks off tomorrow with preview night.

Kpbs Limited Edition is highlighting a few other things going on outside of the convention.

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

Thank you for joining us.

I'm Maya Trabulsi.

Have a great evening.

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And by viewers like you.

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