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Three and a half months after three people were killed in a mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the parents of one of the suspected shooters have filed a lawsuit.

Thank you for joining us.

I'm Maya Trabulsi.

The 14 page lawsuit was filed against Park Mental Health Treatment of San Diego and Normal Heights and two of its employees.

It alleges wrongful death, medical malpractice and additional claims.

According to the lawsuit, 18 year old Caleb Vasquez was admitted to Park Mental Health in April.

He was diagnosed with autism, social anxiety and severe depression with psychotic episodes.

The suit all says that on the day of the shooting, a staff member texted his parents asking if they knew where he was.

It also says security video from the night before showed him leaving the facility.

Our media partner got reaction from Imam Taha Hassane of the Islamic Center of San Diego.

There are a lot of questions who allowed that to happen and why?

there was no follow up?

Why the law enforcement were not notified about him leaving the facility?

We believe that our heroes who were murdered here, they deserve justice.

Their families, deserve answers.

Park Mental Health Treatment shared a statement with KGTV, saying, "We believe that many of the allegations of the complaint are incorrect or counterfactual.

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

Vasquez's actions.

The lawsuit says the family is seeking financial compensation, but does not specify the dollar amount.

I'm Ariella Scalese, and coming up tonight under a mainly clear sky, temperatures dropping back to the 60 to 64 degrees and a lowering of temperatures is what we can expect through the weekend.

But we are watching Labor Day weekend closely and the return of some showers and thunderstorms.

I'll have a closer look coming up.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is now in port after more than eight months at sea.

The aircraft carrier arrived in Thailand today.

It left its home port here in San Diego last November.

Its extended deployment with 5000 sailors on board has raised concerns over crew morale, oil supplies and living conditions.

Our media partner KGTV spoke to a U.S.

Navy veteran who has been on several deployments.

He says being able to dock at a port can do wonders for the crew.

You miss your family.

You miss your kids.

It's really hard for parents.

You miss your girlfriend or your boyfriend.

Life is passing you by while you're out doing your job.

The port call near Pattaya brings the U.S.

military back to a long time rest and relaxation destination for American troops.

It is set to return to California later this year.

An Imperial County judge is preparing to block plans for a massive data center and order the county to do an environmental review of the project.

Kpbs reporter Kori Suzuki says residents have been asking for this analysis for months.

In a tentative decision Monday, Imperial County Superior Court Judge Brooks Andrew Holt said county officials failed to analyze the environmental risks of the data center complex before signing off on it this spring.

The judge's decision came after the Sierra Club and the city of Imperial sued to halt the project.

Alene Taber represents the city.

Basically, the county has to start over, is what the court is saying.

And the court went as far as to say, look, there's even evidence here of a fair argument that there could be a substantial impact.

Francisco Legal, is a resident of Imperial who lives next to the project's proposed location.

He says he and his neighbors have been asking for an environmental review for months.

Like, just do it right, you know, make it go through the process and whatever that report gives you, then you act accordingly.

The decision comes less than two weeks after another judge said he was preparing to strike down Imperial County's temporary moratorium on data center construction.

The court's decision isn't final yet.

Both the city and the county will have a chance to comment in the coming weeks.

The developer behind the project also says he will contest the decision.

Kori Suzuki, Kpbs news.

the San Diego County Sheriff told the Board of Supervisors this week what she's doing to reform the jail system.

As KPBS Public Matters reporter Kevin Trevellyan shares, the county is facing a series of lawsuits alleging unsafe conditions inside many of the aging buildings.

During a presentation, Sheriff Kelly Martinez told the Board of Supervisors her department has responded to the lawsuits with a concerted effort to improve.

She said that's led to better medical and mental health care for inmates and fewer in-custody deaths.

I want this to be foundational, that it is sustainable and that this is the way that we operate going forward.

Sheriff's office data shows there's been a steady decline in jail deaths since a record high of 19 in 2022.

Since then, the office has begun providing medical exams to each inmate at intake instead of just on request.

The office says that's led to more responsive care and the treatment of chronic health issues that may have previously gone unnoticed.

Commander Jesse Johns says the sheriff's office has also stationed a nurse on each housing floor so that when a medical issue arises, regardless of how small or large it is, there's somebody there to treat them immediately.

And then that creates consistency.

And who's assessing the patient every single day.

Martinez says there still needs to be more investment in jail health care moving forward.

She cited plans to hire a chief of psychiatry, which is required under a recent class action lawsuit settlement.

They'll be able to look at our system with an eye towards that industry in that profession that we don't currently have, and they'll be able to really analyze what the needs are and if we're we've got our resources in the right places, if our policies are on point.

The sheriff's office has also sought outside guidance through the national accreditation process, where facilities are expected to ensure they meet safety standards.

Kevin Trevellyan, Kpbs news.

A new California law makes it a crime to loiter with the intent to buy sex before it passed.

Critics warned of racial bias.

Kpbs reporter Katie Hyson says San Diego police data might be proving that true.

A new billboard went up earlier this year on Main Street and Barrio Logan.

Buyers of sex beware, it warns California law AB 379 makes it illegal to loiter in an area for the purpose of purchasing sex.

The law went into effect in January.

The City of San Diego and Mayor Todd Gloria sponsored it.

Proponents argued it was needed to combat sex trafficking.

Think of street level prostitution and human trafficking as hand in hand.

Lieutenant Daniel Hall oversees San Diego Police Department's enforcement of the law.

Chances are no one woke up and said, this is what I want to do with my life and try and become a street level prostitute.

Like I stated before.

Chances are there was abuse involved, coercion involved.

He says going after street prostitution makes San Diego less appealing to traffickers.

San Diego police data only show a single citation under the general law against buying sex in the first half of this year.

Hall says that's because this new law against loitering with intent to buy is a more efficient use of resources.

It's easier to bring cases to court.

We have made a concerted effort to employ this new law to hopefully create a better and more efficient impact.

They made 95 citations and arrests under the new law through July of this year.

Nearly all were in Barrio Logan and National City.

It's by the naval base.

The neighborhood is mostly Latino and low income.

Paul says it's a known area of prostitution.

You have kids trying to get to school that are seeing this.

You have businesses that are trying to operate with this activity going on.

Their data show they cited mostly Latino and Black men.

Only 12 were white.

Paul says that's not intentional.

There's no identity of the, driver of the vehicle that's known in advance.

You just have the actions of the vehicle.

Actions like circling around, stopping to talk to someone who looks like they could be a sex worker.

We find out who the race and the gender can be.

Once we go up to the car.

But studies show no connection between race and the likelihood of being a sex client.

In other words, everybody, wants to have like, sex or services is not on a specific black or brown community.

Jamie Arangure is a sex worker, and she advocates for other workers through her organization, Proyecto Trans Latinas.

She says the new law targeted San Diego's most vulnerable workers.

And the streets is like more like dangerous, but more cheaper.

More dangerous and cheaper than finding clients online or at motels.

She says Street workers are often desperate for income.

Many don't have the same access to traditional employment.

Some, like Arangure are trans immigrants.

They want to find a job, but they've been discriminated, so they cannot pay the bills and how are they gonna survive?

They need to eat.

They need to pay their bills.

And with all these things and like I mentioned, and it's like really going slow, they don't have any other options.

Arangure says business has slowed since the law went into effect.

Minouche Kandel warns the law is endangering workers too.

They cannot take the kinds of safety precautions that they need to.

She's an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union in Southern California.

Because their clients are worried they're going to get arrested and are saying, get in the car, get in the car.

So they may not have the time to check.

Oh, does the car open from the inside?

Does it have a handle?

Am I going to be trapped?

She says loitering laws like this one have a long history in America of being used to control native black and LGBTQ, plus people, and not all sex work is trafficked sex work.

This law targets potential clients, not traffickers.

She gave a hypothetical.

When we see trafficking in other industries, let's say like an agriculture or the garment industry, there have been publicized cases.

We don't say, oh, we're going to outlaw the manufacture of clothing, but we're going to arrest people who are purchasing things at the gap.

Kandel says if the city's goal is to reduce sex work, research supports a public health approach, providing sex workers with housing, mental health care and paid job training... not policing.

She sees it as an issue of autonomy.

Two consensual adults engaging in sex work.

Is is, you know, having control over your body.

Arangure doesn't think any law can get rid of an ancient industry.

No matter how many bills they gonna make or any laws they're gonna do, is still is going to be the sex work.

Because sex work is work.

Katie Hyson, Kpbs news.

I'm Amna Nawaz tonight on the NewsHour.

Iran and the U.S.

once again trade multiple rounds of strikes.

But the flare up in the war means for the global economy.

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

It doesn't get the same headlines as the stock market, but some economists say the bond market has a greater impact on the overall U.S.

economy.

And lately, the bond market has been flashing some serious warning signs.

Here is Karin Caifa with a look at what it means for your household.

There have been some very strong reactions from the bond market in recent weeks to rising oil prices, inflation concerns, the national debt, and when bond yields rise, household borrowing gets more costly too.

Everything from credit cards to mortgages to auto loans.

The summer selloff in the bond market is putting the squeeze on household borrowers.

Not everybody's in the middle of trying to buy a house or is about to buy a car.

But if you are one of those people, then effectively what happens when Treasury rates go up is that your life becomes more expensive.

The U.S.

national debt just topped a record $40 trillion.

The stagnant situation around the Strait of Hormuz has kept global oil prices high, and U.S.

inflation remains stubborn.

Investors confidence in the U.S.

economy has slipped.

They're selling off their U.S.

government bonds and demanding higher interest or yields from the government when they buy new ones, because federal debt seems more risky.

Here's the simple story.

We have too much debt.

And people you know, most international buyers want to buy less U.S.

debt.

When it becomes more costly for the government to borrow, It becomes more costly for consumers to borrow because banks use those yields as a benchmark for setting interest rates on everything from mortgages to auto loans.

If you're somebody who's already struggling with other kinds of payments on groceries and on gas for your car and things like that, and interest rates are going up.

Well, your life just got a whole lot more expensive.

In recent weeks, the Treasury Department announced it would buy back more of its debt to try to tamp down the rise in yields.

At the same time, major tech companies like Google and Meta are issuing tens of millions of dollars in bonds to help finance their AI infrastructure buildout.

And many investors are finding that corporate debt more appealing and less risky than the governments in Washington.

I'm Karin Caifa.

Clusters of Cyclospora infections are still under investigation, but the FDA said it remains confident all recalled.

Iceberg lettuce related to the outbreak are off the market.

While new cases of the gastrointestinal illness are nowhere near the number reported during the peak of the outbreak back in July, there are some that continue to trickle into the data.

Mandy Gaither reports.

It's not a new hazard.

Cyclospora infections happen every year in the U.S., mostly during warmer months.

But this summer, the parasite has been particularly preoccupying.

Anytime that we have a sort of outbreak that crosses many state lines, that I think we tend to think about these things more often.

Doctor Colleen Kraft with Emory University says the latest guidance from the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration is that it's fine to eat lettuce that's currently being sold.

It's believed that the lettuce linked to the outbreak and recalled in July is no longer in stores or restaurants.

And the Best Buy dates have passed on these products.

When we hear about people getting having additional cases, it's usually because there's a delay between when they've gotten ill, when they may have been diagnosed, when they may have been interviewed by public health officials, and ultimately having their illness linked to the outbreak.

Cyclosporiasis symptoms usually start about one week after being infected.

Kraft says to continue making sure you don't have any recalled products remaining at home and for fresh produce, wash your hands before preparing food.

Rinse fruits and veggies under clean running water and discard damaged portions and outer layers of leafy greens when appropriate.

Keep cutting boards clean to prevent cross-contamination.

An important caveat, though, with Cyclospora is that washing reduces the risks, but it can't guarantee removal.

But again, it's not.

It's not present in that high amounts overall.

For Health Minute, I'm Mandy Gaither.

The second annual Asian American Dance Festival is underway in San Diego.

Kpbs arts reporter Julia Dixon Evans spoke with organizers about bringing AAPI dancers together.

Joyce Lien Kushner's parents are from Taiwan, but she grew up practicing Western dance forms like contemporary jazz, ballet and tap.

And none of those dance forms was I ever asked to tell stories of my family lineage or my family's history or immigration story, any of that.

Kushner has spent decades as a dancer and educator and realized others had a similar experience.

There wasn't really a space or a place for those of us that identify as being both Asian and American, to tell our stories within our dance forms.

She co-founded the Asian American Dance Festival with Doctor Grace Shinhae June, who teaches dance at UC San Diego.

For June, the festival is about the future.

But really thinking about the next generation and and filling them with support in the ways that both Joyce and I didn't receive as we were coming up in our dance fields.

These emerging artists take center stage on Friday in a showcase at Lightbox Theater.

June and Kushner are excited to see their students perform, including Forrest Li.

They're half Chinese, half white, identifies as trans and with all that that entails coming from a conservative Asian background, comes from a family of divorce.

All of that wrapped up into it.

This is the first time they're creating work that's going to encompass all of that.

Kushner and June want to deepen connections within San Diego's AAPI community.

We're very separated here at San Diego.

We all live in our different, separate communities, right?

So it's kind of insular.

So I think through art is a great way to bring people together and through dance we move physically and space together.

It provides opportunity to open up conversations that maybe we won't always have.

Public performances will range from hip hop and contemporary to traditional dance forms.

The Asian American Dance Festival runs through October 3rd.

Julia Dixon Evans, Kpbs news.

Checking out our weather headlines.

Finally getting a brief break from the heat.

With inland areas staying cooler and drier with coastal clouds returning each morning.

Heads up as we head into the Labor Day holiday weekend as the surf builds.

And that shower chance does begin to increase tonight.

Nice to see these temperatures lower.

We had a lot of heat, not just in the daytime hours, but overnight as well since humidity was higher.

Borrego Springs 65.

Mount Laguna 53, Oceanside 58.

In San Diego a comfortable 64 degrees through tonight into the day Thursday.

This is always a good color.

Represents pleasant conditions which have finally returned.

Showers across northern parts of California and still tracking thunderstorms in Arizona and New Mexico through the day on Thursday.

High temperatures closer to the historical average.

A lot of 70s.

As we look across the coast, inland will be into the 80s, across desert locations, still quite warm upper 90s and Mount Laguna, a nice 67 degrees.

All right.

We'll be tracking this front here, and we'll be watching some changes as we head into the end of the week and into the Labor Day holiday weekend, as we've been keeping close eyes here a lot going on into the tropics across the Pacific, and an influx of tropical moisture could bring times of showers and thunderstorms with pockets of heavier rain.

We'll have to watch for areas of localized flash flooding.

Heads up for significant rip currents.

The surf is going to be quite dangerous here and the humidity increases near the coast.

All right.

We take you out into the next five days as temperatures return back to the 80s.

There's that chance of a shower and a shower possible as we head into this weekend.

We'll watch a chance of a shower Saturday and Sunday inland as temperatures come back closer to 90 degrees.

We take you across the mountain locations where temperatures stay lower, but a shower or thunderstorm could impact outdoor plans on Sunday, and we'll get a brief break in the heat.

But watch for thunderstorms across desert locations as we head into the day on Sunday.

For Kpbs news, I'm Ariella Scalese.

La Jolla is home to vibrant underwater ecosystems that are protected by the state, but not everyone has equal access to the ocean.

Kpbs science and technology reporter Carly Kaye shows us there's a new virtual tour that lets people explore these safeguarded swatches of the ocean without ever getting wet.

La Jolla Cove is known for its barking sea lions.

If you've only seen it from the shore, you may think that's all there is to see.

But below the surface is a vibrant world of fish, seaweed and sharks that are hiding in plain sight.

I was just kind of blown away.

The kelp forests out here, the rocky reefs, the seagrass beds.

I just couldn't believe I had lived here in San Diego my entire life.

And I just had no idea we had such beautiful marine life here.

Zach Cabading is a recent graduate from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

He regularly dives and La Jolla State Marine Reserve.

It's one of the state's 124 marine protected areas.

But he says many people don't know it exists.

And if they do, they might not be able to get access to it.

Some people just are not physically able to go out swimming or diving.

Some people just lack economic access to be able to do the lessons or buy the gear that can help them get out into the water.

Now, anyone can dip a toe into the underwater park without ever touching the water.

Captain created this virtual tour of ten different unique habitats in the reserve, with just a click of a mouse.

Users plunge beneath the surface and are submerged in an immersive ocean oasis.

I wanted to do a project that could kind of introduce people to these marine ecosystems without making them get wet, or have to pay a bunch of money to do a scuba course or something like that.

The tour takes visitors to popular dive spots like La Jolla Cove, Sand Dollar Bank, and the Marine Room.

Guests can scroll along the bottom similar to Google Street View.

Then the screen comes to life with creatures and informative text bubbles.

It's as close as you can get to actually being there.

You go.

But if you do, you get the opportunity to get in the ocean.

Cabading encourages you to dive in.

Cabading used a 360 degree camera to create the tool.

He and his team collected 21 hours of footage here.

They captured things like flowing seagrasses, orange Garibaldi's lazy sharks and playful sea lions.

The area is a no take reserve.

That means people can't fish or collect anything within the protected region.

Cabading says it's one of the reasons why animals and marine protected areas thrive.

I would say that protecting those targeted species is basically like building a superhighway across the food web, and it just makes it easier for energy to be transferred all the way from the bottom, all the way to the top, and back down again.

Cabading hopes that when people see these creatures with their own eyes, they'll want to help join conservation efforts.

He says learning about conservation tools like marine protected areas is especially important right now, because our ocean is under significant stress right now.

We're dealing with rising ocean temperatures.

A very, very severe marine heat wave is due to hit our waters later this year in October or November, which could devastate our marine life and our marine ecosystems here.

Those threats may inspire people to start swapping scrolling with swimming habits, Cabading is searching for funding to potentially expand the tool to other marine protected areas in the state.

Carly Kay, Kpbs news.

Gosh, what a cool story.

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

Facing tough competition from imports, an American manufacturer is leaning heavily into AI to improve quality and efficiency on the factory floor.

More on NPR's Morning Edition.

And on the US-Mexico border, right along the Pacific Ocean, is a powerful symbol showing the familial and cultural ties between the neighboring countries.

On Kpbs Midday Edition, we preview a pop up museum that celebrates Friendship Park.

And you can always find tonight's stories on our website, kpbs.org.

Thank you for joining us.

I'm Maya Trabulsi.

Have a great evening.

Major funding for Kpbs Evening Edition has been made possible in part by Bill Howe, family of companies providing San Diego with plumbing, heating, air restoration and flood services for over 45 years.

Call 1-800 Bill Howe or visit billhowe.com And by the Conrad Prebys Foundation, Darlene Marcos Shiley, And by the following... And by viewers like you, Thank you!