City News Service

Firefighters spent a second day battling a raging fire Monday aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego, laboring to contain a super-hot, explosive blaze that has injured scores of sailors and civilians and caused extensive damage to the warship.

The order affects all 30 counties on the state's pandemic monitoring list — including San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties.

San Diego County broke a number of temperature records this weekend amid a heat wave expected to keep temperatures high through Monday forecasters said.

Star jockey Flavien Prat tested positive for COVID- 19 before this weekend's horse races at Del Mar, according to Del Mar Thoroughbred Club officials.

San Diego County health officials have reported 558 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths, raising the region's totals to 19,929 cases and the death count remaining at 422.

The mercury will continue to rise in the county's western valleys, mountains and deserts as a result of a heat wave that will keep those areas scorching until Monday, the NWS said.

It is a long-inactive commission focusing on the needs of women and recommending programs intended to fix gender inequality.

Hundreds of people lined the street Monday at an Allied Gardens gas station waiting to get free gas.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning urging people to be prepared for dangerous road conditions on passes and mountain roads.