Poway Businesses Hurting In Midst Of Water Crisis And More Local News

December 6, 2019 at 2:52 AM PST

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If you don't get punched, you're not going to have the motivation punch back. You know, and you're gonna look bad if you don't punch back that more San Diego news stories coming up right after the break. Residents in Poway are still being told to boil their water as after Brown water was discovered last week. The city's been handing out water, but most restaurants have been forced to close. KPB as reporter Matt Hoffman spoke to one restaurant or who's feeling the pain? I get calls constantly all day long. People showing up. Oh, you're open. No, Ron Paul owns Papa Duke's deli and grill and Poway. Here we go. Papa Dukes, gun goes run. Not at all. We're close like everybody else. I'm sorry. He's been turning away customers since Saturday, right? Oh, it's agonizing because not only do you lose money, you throw away product because of spoilage. Uh, there are still bills to do. Paul is one of nearly 200 restaurants and markets that the County health department closed after runoff from recent storms contaminated the city's water supply. Not only is his business hurting, but his employees are too. I'm losing my revenue and the employees are losing pay, so they're not out buying anything cause they have no money and it is coming on Christmas official. Say the earliest the water restrictions could be lifted as Friday. When that happens, the restaurants will be able to reopen almost immediately. Matt Hoffman, K PBS news, five North County mayors have endorsed a controversial new housing development proposed by developer Newland Sierra in an area near San Marcos and Escondido KPBS reporter, Priya Sri. There has more. This San Diego County board of supervisors approved the 21 a hundred home development in 2018 but opponents gathered more than a hundred thousand signatures to force the project onto the March, 2020 ballot. They say the development would cause more traffic in the area and ruin the natural environment. But the mayor of Escondido, Paul McNamara says North County needs more housing. I think it is a good compromise. I mean it's, it's uh, it's w w we need workforce housing. I mean, we need low income housing. We need a lot of housing. Okay. And every category. Newland Sierra has promised to allocate 10% of the homes to affordable housing. If approved, the project would be complete in seven years. Prius for either K PBS news, a June 2nd trial date has been set for a 20 year old nursing student accused of a deadly Poway synagogue shooting in April and at arson fire at an Escondido mosque a month earlier. KPBS a Sally Hickson has details. John T Ernest is charged with murder, attempted murder, arson and hate crime allegations for the April 27th shooting at Havato Poway and the March 24th fire at the Islamic center of Escondido. The June trial date could shift depending on a pending death penalty decision by the San Diego County district attorney's office. A March 5th status conference date may shed more light on the prosecution's decision regarding capital punishment. The defendant also faces more than 100 hate crime related counts filed by the us attorney's office and could also potentially face the death penalty in the federal case. Sally Hickson KPBS news, California could expect to suffer a significant economic damage from storm systems known as atmospheric rivers. KPBS environment reporter Eric Anderson has details. Newly published research finds storms have the potential to cause $1 billion in flooding damage every year. In California, Scripps institution of oceanography research economist Tom coring ham was the report's lead author. He says the weather phenomenon can be beneficial if it's mild like the one that passed through San Diego this week, but they can also be much more severe. They are literally rivers of moisture that flow through the sky transporting up to 15 times the volume of the Mississippi river. Coring ham says the rivers are getting longer or wider and wetter as the planet's climate warms. That raises the chances the storms will cause flooding damage in the state. Eric Anderson KPBS news. This is the time of year when Hollywood studios serve up their Oscar hoe folds, but KPBS film critic Beth hock Amando wants to highlight a small indie film called waves at out shines. Most of the bigger releases from its first breath waves announces itself as a fibrin piece of cinema. The music sets the tone than the over-saturated dizzying images from cinematographer drew Daniels and colorist Damien Vander Krusen convey a ravenous energy that drives us forward into the lives of the characters and orchestrating sound image and the performances is director Trey Edward Schultz. Waves looks to a suburban family shaken by tragedy and trying to rebuild and forgive. It's a familiar story, but told in a bold, fresh, cinematic language. If you love cinematic poetry, then this is the film for you. Beth Armando KPBS news. The holiday season is all about family and food, which might have you concerned about your waistline. KPBS science and technology reporter Shalina Celani spoke to a San Diego researcher who's got a science backed strategy that could help keep the pounds off. Scientists at the Salk Institute in LA Jolla have been thinking about biological clocks like the human sleep cycle. Saul chronobiologists, Emily Manoukian says, food is a cue to the clock that helps us create energy and keep our hearts healthy. But she says people tend to eat throughout the day and the night snack may confuse the metabolism, preventing it from resting and resetting. So, so Alec scientists conducted a trial where a dozen people were told to restrict their eating windows. Multiple groups have shown that limiting your eating window to a consistent eight to 12 hour window can have a wide variety of health benefits. Weight loss tends to be something that comes along with this, and in every trial it says time restricted eating showed positive health results in all participants. This research came out in the journal cell on Thursday. Shalina chat, Lani key, PBS news. If you've had your fill of the Grinch and Scrooge, then diversionary theater has some less traditional holiday fair KPB as ours. Reporter bath like Amando reviews, Santa land diaries. If you have a limit to the amount of holiday cheer you can consume, then David [inaudible] Santa land diaries can offer a refreshing break inspired by his experiences as an elf at Macy's. The play cast a satirical eye on the Christmas season. I think you're that at least as an elf. I'll have a place, I'll be in Santos village with all the other elves. We will reside in a fluffy Wonderland surrounded by candy canes and gingerbread shacks. It won't be quite as sad as standing on some street corner dressed as a French fry. I can laugh at Christmas. I can. I am, uh, I'm no Rube. I understand how ridiculous the whole enterprise is. Anthony Methvin directs the play. He makes sure that [inaudible] is humor about consumerism and false good cheer has fight, but he also warms us with some genuine holiday magic. How can you not be happy when you get to sit and say this chair and spend every night with elves and glitter and the smell of cinnamon? It's, it's kind of a beautiful place to live your life every night following each performance of Santa land diaries. Actress Linda Libby will perform her holiday story time, which also makes us humor and emotion to bittersweet perfection. Beth like Amando KPBS news six months ago, Imperial Valley box for Andy Rui shocked the world when he became the heavyweight champion upsetting. They heavily favored Anthony Joshua with their rematch set for this weekend. KPV has reporter max Rivlin Adler met with young boxers in Calexico, a region that has moved from the periphery to the very center of the boxing world. Afterschool every week, day 14 year old Genesis Garcia comes to a converted warehouse, a mile from the us Mexico border in Calexico. There's a ring, a few punching bags, and a lot of jump ropes. The Baja boxing club is where Garcia's own title quest begins. I like once you're in the ring and just the adrenaline when you start fighting. Garcia is already the national champion for our age group and weight class and regularly spars with boys her own age and much older girls. If you don't get punched, you're not going to have the motivation punch back. You know, if you're gonna look bad, if you don't punch back like the two dozen other boxers in the gym on Thursday night, ranging in age from five to their early twenties Garcia looks up to the 30 old heavyweight champion and you were weeds who like them, learn to fight on both sides of the border. It felt great because it put the city on the spot. Imperial Valley Garcia spars with Alex [inaudible] and seems to smile a little every time she gets punched before immediately recovering and punching back. The 15 year old again, slightly bloody after a flurry of punches from Garcia is preparing to fight in Mexicali on Saturday just hours before Ruiz fights across the world in Saudi Arabia where Rees's rise helped propel Guian in the ring, eh, motivates you like to become like a champion one day. Like from here from Imperial Valley. Boxing remains popular in the Imperial Valley even as the sport has lost popularity nationwide. Still many boxers here feel as if the region is overlooked even as it's punched well above its weight. For years. RO Lao has run the Baja boxing club for over 10 years. Like everyone else who grew up around boxing on the California Mexico border. He knew Ruiz from his earliest fights. He says that Ruiz has shown the fighters that you can do anything. Nothing is impossible in life. He believed that he could be champion and now he is. It's entirely possible that another champion could come out of the Valley. 13 year old through Rocky Sanchez first came to the gym with her older brother over a year ago. She describes her style of boxing as fought the Dota. You throw a lot of fun shoes, you go forward and you keep on going. Sanchez also has a big fight set for this Saturday. Her words of advice for Andy Ruiz. Well, good luck. Try your best and well you can do it. [inaudible] the bell rings after two hours of training as the young boxers set off into the desert night, some are heading to Mexicali for another training session. Others had homework on Saturday. Their eyes will turn to a match across the world. As the first ever Mexican American heavyweight champion tries to defend his title and prove to the world that the road to boxing greatness now runs through the Imperial Valley. Max Roven, Adler K PVS news. Thanks for listening to San Diego news matters. If you like the show, do us a favor and tell your friends and family to subscribe to the show.

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Many Poway businesses are still closed because of the water contamination that started a week ago. And they are feeling the pain. One restaurateur told KPBS he’s lost $8,000 in business so far. Plus, California can expect to sustain significant economic damage from storm systems known as atmospheric rivers, according to a new study. The rivers are getting longer, wider and wetter as the planet’s climate warms. And, the holiday season is all about family and food, which might have you concerned about your waistline. A San Diego researcher has a science-backed strategy that could help you keep off the pounds.