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KPBS Midday EditionMattis is often considered one of the best field commanders of his generation. Those who served under him feel his blunt talk and strong moral center will serve him well as secretary of defense under a Trump Administration. -
The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and destroyer Wayne E. Meyer are scheduled on Thursday to set off from San Diego on deployments in the Pacific and Indian oceans. -
U.S. Navy-trained dolphins and their handlers will participate in a last-ditch effort to catch, enclose and protect the last few dozen of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita porpoises to save them from extinction. -
The strike group will deploy next Thursday and Friday to conduct exercises with partner nations in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. -
As temperatures are set to drop below 50 Friday night, the city of San Diego says it has opened emergency homeless shelters. But that's not true — the city's own website says shelters won't open until Saturday. -
Inclement weather homeless shelters will open Saturday through Monday in downtown San Diego, according to city officials. -
Research shows veterans are more likely to form businesses than other people, which makes San Diego a prime location for veteran entrepreneurs. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe program aims at securing housing for 1,000 homeless veterans by March 2017. -
Two men who have worked as Navy contractors face potential prison time and fines for allegedly making bogus bomb threats that resulted in mass evacuations of naval ships moored on San Diego Bay in recent months. -
Democrats at the state capitol launch an offensive on the proposed immigration policies of President-elect Donald Trump. Will retired Gen. James Mattis be a good fit for Secretary of Defense? And the recent legalization of recreational marijuana in the state is already having effect on criminal justice in San Diego.
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