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Immigrant rights activists are demanding answers after federal agents arrested several cruise ship workers in San Diego last month.

An eyewitness told Kpbs reporter Gustavo Solis that agents detained roughly ten Disney cruise workers at the end of a Disney cruise.

One of the passengers saw Customs and Border Protection agents arrest several crew members.

Dharmi Mehta captured the arrest on video.

And she recognized several of the workers.

One of the employees in restraints was a head server that had been serving me and my family the duration of my trip.

You know, we got to know him fairly well.

And he had actually been serving us, probably 45 minutes to an hour before he was in restraints.

Nearly two weeks after the April 23rd arrest, Mehta is still searching for answers.

The big questions and concerns we had were, you know, what will happen to them?

Where will they go?

How do they go home?

Do they still have a job?

And do they know what resources are available to them?

Immigrant rights activists say federal agents also arrested cruise ship workers on April 25th.

Benjamin Prado is with Union del barrio.

Now, this forms part of a larger pattern of affecting raids and immigration detention in worksites.

Kpbs reached out to CBP and Disney Cruise for comment.

None of them immediately responded, according to Disney's website.

The company expects workers to obtain a passport, pass a background check, and obtain proper visas.

Gustavo Solis, Kpbs news.

Mayor Todd Gloria signed an executive order last July to prepare for a large scale federal immigration enforcement operation.

Coming up, we check in on those plans.

The World Health Organization now says some human to human transmission may have occurred on board the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak that has left three people dead and several others ill.

The ship left Argentina last month on a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, stopping off at some of the world's most remote islands.

Colin Jeffrey reports.

I'm currently on board the M/V Hondius, and what's happening right now is very real for all of us here.

A terrifying reality for almost 150 people, including 17 Americans, stranded on a cruise ship off the coast of West Africa.

Strict health and safety procedures are currently in place, including isolation measures, hygiene protocols and medical monitoring.

We're not just a story.

We're not just headlines, we're people.

The World Health Organization says they have confirmed two cases of hantavirus, with five more suspected.

Three people, a Dutch couple and German national, have died.

While the disease is commonly transmitted from rodent to human.

One variant found in Argentina and Chile does transfer human to human.

We do know that some of the cases have had very close contact with each other, and certainly human to human transmission can't be ruled out.

Right now, health authorities are working to evacuate the two symptomatic crew members so they can receive proper medical care.

Contact tracing has also begun to track possible exposure.

Based on the current information and what we know about previous outbreaks, WHO assesses the overall risk to the public as low.

As for the ship, it will soon sail to the Canary Islands, where Spanish authorities will conduct a full epidemiological investigation and full disinfection.

All we want right now is to feel safe, to have clarity and to get home.

Colin Jeffrey, Kpbs news.

I'm Ariella Scalese Coming up tonight, we begin to dry on out, but there will still be some area of a low, clouds lingering, and temperatures stay rather warm overnight.

Down to 57.

And warmth is going to be the trend that we see through the end of the week, into the weekend and into next week.

A closer look is coming up with higher parking costs in the downtown area, especially during big events.

The county of San Diego is looking to get the word out on cheaper alternatives.

One step came today when county supervisors approved an item directing staff to do more to utilize existing parking structures.

The county owns three of them.

Two are near the county administration center on Ash and Cedar Streets.

Another is located near Petco Park.

Supervisor Joel Anderson introduced the item.

He says it's in response to higher fees charged at city meters and private lots.

Gas prices are also getting more expensive.

Countywide, the latest average for a gallon of regular fuel, according to AAA, is $6.18.

That is the highest number since early October of 2023.

Prices have been elevated since the start of the war on Iran, and we've seen a recent surge due to ongoing uncertainty.

The San Diego City Council is reviewing Mayor Todd Gloria's budget proposal this week.

Kpbs Metro reporter Andrew Bowen says the budget would gut a key item, key element of the city's efforts to improve traffic safety.

San Diego has nearly 3000 miles of streets and 12 traffic engineers dedicated to redesigning them with safety improvements.

Things like slowing traffic, improving visibility and adding crosswalks and bike lanes.

It's called the Multi-Modal team and Gloria's proposed budget would eliminate it entirely.

Laura Keenan co-founded families for Safe Streets San Diego after her husband was struck and killed while biking in 2021.

The mayor says his number one priority is safety.

And if that is truly the case, he needs to also prioritize traffic safety.

And this team, this multi-modal team is the team that is responsible for making safer streets in a very cost effective, efficient way.

Traffic collisions killed at least 50 people in San Diego last year, and caused more than 5000 injuries, according to city crash data.

One of those killed was Andrew Olson, an 11 year old boy who was struck by a driver while walking to school in San Carlos.

After his death, the city implemented safety improvements at the crash site.

Our city acted almost immediately to make cost effective improvements.

The multimodal team was instrumental in designing the quick and easy fixes at that intersection.

Several council members on Monday supported the multimodal team, but acknowledged preserving it would require cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Total funding for the transportation department is going up.

That led some to question whether the proposal to eliminate the multi-modal team is more about politics than balancing the budget.

This is what I'm concerned about, that, the mayor's office heard one too many complaints about bike lanes and just decided to make a sharp left turn and say, we're not doing them anymore.

The mayor is set to release a revised budget proposal next week.

The city council is scheduled to adopt a budget on June 9th.

Andrew Bowen, Kpbs news.

Organizers that put on some of San Diego's most popular events are keeping a close eye on potential cuts to city spending.

One of those groups is San Diego Pride.

The group says it already relies heavily on revenue from the annual festival at Balboa Park.

Money from City Arts and Culture grants helps pay for Pride's year round programing, and much of that is geared toward youth, people of color and military.

But we've already had a bit of a pull back in kind of the capacity we've been able to to put on these programs.

So a cut like this would make it, impossible to continue to do the programs we do at the pace we're doing.

Another local organization that relies on arts and culture grants is the Ocean Beach Mainstreet Association.

They're the ones behind the annual OB Street Fair.

San Diego City Council is holding more budget discussions this week.

Animals starving, untreated injuries and a lack of basic care.

That is how the San Diego Humane Society describes the conditions for animals at a so-called sanctuary in Julian.

Kpbs reporter John Carroll has more on the rescue operation that the head of the Humane Society calls appalling.

A look at the website of the sanctuary.

Villa Chardonnay would lead one to believe that this place, for animals that had nowhere else to go, was a slice of heaven.

Instead, president and CEO of the San Diego Humane Society, Doctor Gary Weitzman, says once officials got on scene last weekend, they found something quite different.

It has certainly turned into what we would consider to be a horrific, hoarding situation.

The animal numbers become so untenable that any kind of operational model fails, and that certainly has happened here.

The number of animals Weitzman is talking about is hard to grasp.

About 165 horses and several ponies, 431 cats, 30 dogs and dozens of other animals.

This turned out to be the biggest rescue.

Cruelty case that we've worked on in our 146 year history.

Some of the animals have had to be humanely euthanized, but the vast majority of them are being treated.

As the investigation moves forward.

The actions we've taken and will continue to take are going to be guided by what the facts of the case are and what our legal responsibility is as humane agents here in the state and in San Diego, to ensure that, justice is served.

The results of the Humane Society's investigation will be forwarded on to the D.A., who will decide whether criminal charges are warranted.

This operation, this rescue and rehabilitation is such an enormous undertaking that the Humane Society had to have help.

So they have partners that have come in one from as far away as the Bay area.

County Animal Services, Pasadena Humane and Marin Humane all have staff here helping.

If you surrendered an animal to Villa Chardonnay and you want to check on them and perhaps be reunited.

Go to SDHumane.org/Julianrescue.

Keep in mind the Humane Society was already bursting at the seams before this situation, so adopting any animal would help.

As would donations to keep this heartbreaking but humane, necessary work going.

John Carroll, Kpbs news.

I'm Amna Nawaz tonight on the NewsHour.

Tensions escalate as the U.S.

and Iran compete for control of the Strait of Hormuz.

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

Seven candidates face off tonight in what might be the most hotly contested midterm seat.

Governor of California.

CNN is hosting a debate starting at 6:00.

Both Democrats and Republicans are competing on the same ticket.

There is no clear Democratic frontrunner since former Representative Eric Swalwell dropped out last month amid sexual assault allegations.

The five Democratic candidates could theoretically split their party's votes so evenly that two Republicans advance to the general election.

The primary election is set for June 2nd.

Ballots are in the mail and can be dropped off at locations across San Diego County starting today.

You can find voting locations and information on all the races on our website.

Just go to kpbs.org/vote.

It's the city of San Diego prepared for a large scale federal immigration enforcement operation.

That is something Mayor Todd Gloria started to address when he signed an executive order last July.

But now several immigration service providers tell Kpbs the mayor is not communicating that plan with them.

Immigrant advocacy groups were hopeful when Gloria laid out his vision last summer.

The mayor's executive order called for the city to establish a joint safety plan for how to respond to federal immigration enforcement.

It required the police to report any time they respond to calls involving Ice agents, and it promised the city would meet with stakeholders to evaluate new policies.

But ten months later, some of the service providers are still waiting for those promises to materialize.

The executive order called for a stakeholder meetings to, quote, evaluate safety protocols, monitor community impact, and recommend future action, unquote.

But some advocates say they're not being included.

Ian Seruelo is the chair of the San Diego Immigrants Rights Consortium.

He says the group has not met with the mayor's office.

The coalition is ready whenever the mayor says so to so that we could, you know, collaborate and plan together.

The consortium is made up of roughly 50 organization.

Its members include groups that provide free legal representation, raise money to pay for immigrant bail bonds, accompany people to immigration detention centers, and even their immigration court hearings.

Seruelo says that their experience could really help the city prepare for a disruptive Ice operation.

We've been also waiting for, you know, some concrete plans from our local governments, especially from the city.

You know, in light of that executive order that was issued by the mayor.

So, so, yeah, we we we are very concerned that, you know, there's no, like, plans that are, you know, being, discussed in the open or in the public or shared with at least the, the different groups so that we will be able to, you know, provide some input and how we could collaborate better respond to, you know, this eventuality.

Kpbs asked the mayor's office for a list of who they have met with to recommend future action and evaluate city protocols.

A spokesman declined to share that list, naming only one organization, Jewish Family Service, which declined an interview request, but in a statement confirmed that the organization provided guidance regarding future Ice activity.

Gloria declined an interview request, and his office declined to share specifics about the city's plan for how it would respond to a Minneapolis style Ice operation here in San Diego.

Instead, his office told Kpbs that they have a real plan that's intentionally adaptive.

It's not a single document, but a set of coordinated response actions, protocols and rules.

Pedro Rios is a director with the American Friends Service Committee.

He says it's good for the city to have an adaptive plan, but they should really be more transparent about it.

And so there's a perception, that the mayor's office hasn't done enough and isn't as interested on these issues.

And even though he might and his office might say that they are doing, working on on this issue, it's not as clearly transparent.

It's not hasn't been clearly communicated to the wider public.

This tension highlights an important shift between the first and second Trump administration.

During the first term, Immigration Service providers mainly focused on providing legal and social services for people going through immigration proceedings, not necessarily shielding them from enforcement.

But now they're using words like protection because of how aggressive and confrontational enforcement tactics have become.

The administration's heavy handed approach has forced people into a defensive posture, and they're worried that local elected officials are not doing enough to support them.

Following Trump's 2016 election, California lawmakers passed the California Values Act, which limits cooperation between local police and federal immigration enforcement.

Erin Tsurumoto-Grassi, is the associate director of Alliance San Diego.

The California Values Act was groundbreaking.

It still is.

Like there's still states that don't have what we have here, and they're rushing to be able to get what we have and have had since 2017.

It has limitations, because what we're seeing now is different than what we were seeing in 2017.

She views the state law as a starting point.

So it's a floor, not a ceiling.

That's the way we've typically referred to it.

And then our local jurisdictions can go farther, which is what we've seen happen with a number of counties across the state.

Some cities, for example, the state law does not require local police departments to document every 911 call they get regarding Ice activity.

But the mayor's executive order does.

It requires the police to tell the mayor's office every time they respond to a 911 Ice related call.

And a new city ordinance takes it one step further.

Starting this month, the police will report every time officer answer to 911 calls directly to the city Council within three days.

And so that provides a level of transparency that didn't exist before.

Despite the lack of transparency coming from the mayor's office, service providers tell Kpbs that they're going to continue to offer legal, social and emotional support services to people impacted by mass deportation.

Gustavo Solis, Kpbs news.

Southwestern College is asking community members to help rename its student services center.

Cesar Chavez's name was removed from the building in March after a New York Times investigation revealed allegations of sexual assault and rape against the late labor leader.

The college has launched a survey to gather input.

It asks how important it is for the new name to reflect the farmworker movement.

The Kumeyaay nation, student success or other ideas.

There's also space to share a specific name suggestion.

The survey closes on May 29th.

State farm is facing legal action over last year's wildfires in Los Angeles, California.

Insurance regulators are accusing it of unlawfully delaying, denying and underpaying home insurance claims related to the fires.

The state is seeking millions of dollars in damages.

It's also seeking the power to ban State Farm from creating new policies in the state for up to a year.

The California Department of Insurance says it found unlawful behavior by State Farm in more than half of a sample of 220 claims.

That means I have to take out all my drywall, because I've got lead and arsenic in the wall.

So.

So be it.

I've got enough in my policy to cover that.

But then you put your IH report in and then they start saying, well, actually, we don't think that you do have that, you know, maybe that was there before.

State farm said it strongly disagrees with the filing and called California's insurance market the most dysfunctional in the nation.

AAA is out with a new report on how hybrids and EVs hold efficiency in both cold and hot weather.

It found that at 20 degrees, range is cut by 39% in EVs, while hybrids lose 23% in fuel efficiency.

But also, when it's 95 degrees, range is reduced less noticeably by over 8% for EVs.

Hybrids lost 12% of efficiency in the hot weather.

There's been no significant improvement in how the vehicles handle cold in the past several years.

The most ideal temperature for both EVs and hybrids is between 65 and 75 degrees.

All right, weather headlines shaping up for the better if you enjoy some time outside.

Because recently it's been a little cooler and a little bit wet.

But showers are tapering off through tonight as we begin to dry out and warm up through the middle and end of the week, and temperatures continue to rise as we head into next week's is a big heat building across San Diego County.

All right.

Tonight we're down to 49, in Borrego Springs.

Mount Laguna down to 35.

San Diego drops to 57.

But a cooler night on the way for Oceanside down to 50 and Chula Vista 54 through the day Wednesday.

The storm that's been bringing us some showery weather does continue to make its way east, bringing more snow to Colorado, but we have drier and nicer weather as we head into the day on Wednesday.

Temperatures will be quite pleasant 85 in Borrego Springs, 54 in Mount Laguna, San Diego at 70 Oceanside, 71.

In Chula Vista, you'll see a high of 70 under sunshine for Wednesday afternoon.

All right.

Some warmer weather continues to build, but we stay dry through the day on Thursday and a dry, warm pattern is what we're going to be tracking here.

Really a surge of heat on the way.

Time frame.

May 10th 11th and 12.

So if you had any outdoor plans scheduled for then something to consider and start thinking ahead about.

That very warm to hot weather will start to move in during that time period.

We'll take you out the next five days.

Coast looks good.

It has some clouds lingering.

Wednesday partly to mostly sunny Thursday.

Friday into the weekend does stay quite pleasant with highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s.

We take a look inland and look at those temperatures that start to rise by Friday and Saturday will be back into the 80s and feeling quite pleasant by Sunday.

Slow increase in temperatures from 50 to 60 to 70s for mountain locations.

So definitely feeling that warm up.

And speaking of the heat that's starting to build in desert locations as well, with triple digit heat on the way for Sunday.

For Kpbs news, I'm Ariella Scalese.

Well, the U.S.

Postal Service released new stamps to mark the 100th anniversary of route 66.

The pain of 16 contains eight images, and they feature vintage cars, historic places and more.

Route 66 was established on November 11th of 1926, with more than 2400 miles of roadway.

The historic highway passes through eight states linking Chicago to Los Angeles with numerous rural communities in between.

The route 66 forever stamps are available at post offices, and you can find them also online@usps.com.

And from the streets of Southern California to the front of a postage stamp.

Low riders are in the national spotlight.

The United States Postal Service recently launched a first of its kind stamp series celebrating these customized cars.

Maribel Gonzalez takes us to Long Beach, where the multigenerational car culture continues to evolve.

The tilt, the lean, the hops.

These are lowriders, customized vintage cars with origins dating back to the 1940s, a time when Chicano communities facing discrimination and segregation wanted to be seen.

It was just like, a statement of we're doing our own thing, you know, we're we're Chicanos, and we're going to ride our cars low because we want to.

The hydraulic part came in to be able to lift the car up so that when the police would see them, they wouldn't get pulled over for their cars being so low, a form of expression that never stopped evolving.

Lowrider culture has deep roots here in Los Angeles.

People take a piece of history and make it their own.

But now a new and powerful era is being driven by women in the front seat.

We have an all female car club.

We're based out of Southern California.

They call themselves the Lady Lowriders.

Women who grew up loving lowrider culture but never truly saw themselves represented in it.

When you said you grew up watching your brother do this, did you ever see a lady having her own lowrider?

You know what?

No.

It was more men back then.

No.

Like, probably like the little sisters borrowing the cars, but actually, no, it was more men driving a chandelier inside that actually turns on.

They went from spectators to owners.

So I kind of wanted something royal, but something sexy at the same time.

This is my car.

My 66 Chevy Impala named highly favored accessories or lights the bucket.

I try to keep as consistent to all the original parts from that era.

This is my hydraulic set up.

Their creative designs turning heads at car meet ups like this one.

For us to be able to have a car, a car club full of women.

You know, it's kind of a barrier breaker too.

And winning competitions and winning trophies and having nice cars.

Putting our hands on the builds.

And just as the Lady Lowriders have earned recognition amongst their peers.

So too has the car culture they are part of.

The United States Postal Service is featuring lowriders in their new set of limited edition postage stamps.

I got teary eyed when I saw that, to be honest with you, because I was like, wow, you know, we're really we're really out there and we're accepted everywhere now.

And these ladies are making sure their story rides along.

The guys can do it.

You can do it.

We can do it.

We're doing it.

In Long Beach, California, Maribel Gonzalez.

Here's a look at what we're working on for tomorrow in the Kpbs newsroom on NPR's Morning Edition.

Expensive airfares are causing Americans to change their travel plans.

Why travel advisors warn high prices are here to stay.

And Kpbs Midday Edition talks to the CEO of Serving Seniors about the increase in homeless seniors in this year's point in time count.

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

Thanks for joining us.

I'm Maya Trabulsi.

Enjoy your evening.

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