The San Diego Border Patrol apologizes for demolishing the Friendship Garden, a garden that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana. Plus, California water quality officials lambast Poway for allowing contamination that shut down the city’s water supply for a week. And more and more fire calls in San Diego a linked to homeless encampments.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is heading for its new home port of San Diego and the ship’s families, who have already arrived, are eager to settle down with their sailors. Plus, the City of San Diego waves a $2,000 permit fee to encourage homeowners to help the city fix its cracked sidewalks. And San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer delivers his sixth and final State of the City address.

A motorist stopped by Oceanside Police flees the wrong way on I-5, resulting in a crash that causes two deaths. Plus, the head of the Border Patrol in San Diego is appointed to be the head of the whole agency in Washington D.C. Also, California becomes the first state to conduct its own “mini census” to check the numbers the Census Bureau collects in the state’s hard-to-count districts.

There's a new call center open in City Heights to help members of San Diego's refugee and immigrant populations complete the census. Plus, immigrants with professional degrees from their home countries face big challenges to work again in the U.S. Hear how skilled professional immigrants can re-train and fill jobs where they are needed most, in this country. Also ahead, San Diego County Republican strongholds seem to be declining, but San Diego's GOP chairman says they plan to fight back. And, hear about two new studies that show how supporting working parents can boost the economy.

California Gov. Newsom wants to give $20,000 stipends to teachers at high needs schools and extend health care to older low-income immigrants who are in the country illegally. Also, California could become the first state to make its own prescription drugs. Plus, Alliant International University will honor a student killed on a Ukranian ariliner that crashed in Iran and cooler and drier weather can be expected in San Diego this week.

San Diego Zoo researchers are doing what they can to help protect koalas, which are threatened by fast-moving wildfires in Australia. Plus, say goodbye to Lime scooters in San Diego. The company announced Thursday it was ending operations in America’s finest city as the company aims toward profitability in 2020. You’ll hear about a series of local ordinances that were announced Thursday to combat a spate of San Diego County vaping-related illnesses and injuries. And Imperial County gets $220 million in Governor Newsom’s proposed budget to improve the environment of the Salton Sea.

Governor Newsom says he will not be holding a special election following the resignation of Rep. Duncan Hunter. Also, no local troops are among those who have been deployed to the Middle East following rising tension with Iran. Plus, local Iranians are concerned about what lies head. And Mayor Faulconer marks the completion of a new rapid bus lane along El Cajon boulevard.

A homeless encampment in Spring Valley’s Lamar County Park is growing as people in East County lose their homes and San Diego’s homeless crisis expands. Also, Congressman Duncan Hunter officially resigns after pleading guilty to charges he used campaign funds to fund an expensive lifestyle. And a UCSD study shows when coal plants shut down, human mortality is reduced and crop yields are increased.

San Diego military bases and bases around the country increase security measures, slowing traffic and restricting base access once enjoyed by friends and family. Plus, Santa Ana winds raise risk of wildfires but winter rains have dampened the vegetative fuel. And scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography help populations of grouper fish in the Caribbean rebound.

San Diego Assemblywoman Shirley Weber Looks Forward As Legislative