Pala Today News – 11/2/26

The following items are part of the award-winning “Pala Today” newscast heard this day at noon on PALA REZ RADIO™ 91.3 FM in Pala.

LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

Tomorrow is Election Day.  All voting Centers are now open during regular business hours and will be open again tomorrow from 7a to 8p.  For locations and full details on how, where and when to vote by are at the website www.SDVote.com for San Diego County residents and www.VoteInfo.net for Riverside County.

The Trump administration is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to sideline 20k disputed California mail ballots.  A divided appeals court over the weekend rejected that request, siding with California officials who say the federal list is highly unreliable and likely includes many people who are U.S. citizens and fully entitled to vote.  Voting has been underway in California since early October.  Officials here say finding and setting aside the challenged ballots at this point would be logistically impossible. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/11/02/trump-administration-california-mail-ballots-supreme-court/

There was a fatal solo motorcycle accident just after 1a yesterday in San Marcos.  A 30-year old cyclist was northbound on North Twin Oaks Valley Road when he hit the center median and was ejected from his motorcycle.  The unidentified victim was pronounced dead at the scene. https://northcountydailystar.com/fatal-solo-motorcycle-collision-san-marcos/

One person died and another was injured when a vessel overturned near Del Mar Jetty at Oceanside Harbor Friday evening.  The report came in just before 7p from someone on board saying another person was missing.  Rescuers found the first person on the rocks and with help from the Sheriff’s ASTREA helicopter, located the missing person by about 7:30p.  CPR was administered but that victim was pronounced dead at the hospital.  https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4977905522220-one-person-dies-after-vessel-overturns-near-oceanside-harbor

A man died after being involved in a fight Halloween night in Vista.  The fight in the 2200 block of Primrose Avenue was reported around 11:10p.  First responders found the adult male suffering from traumatic injuries.  He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.  Detectives have interviewed witnesses and collected evidence, but have not release any details or a possible motive. https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4980849260432-man-dies-following-fight-in-vista-on-halloween

Nine crashes – three of them involving DUI were reported between 5p and midnight Halloween night in Murrieta.  Murrieta Police said rain contributed to the large number.  It’s not known if anyone was injured or how many were arrested.  There were a high number of accidents throughout the region as the rain continued after midnight. https://mynewsla.com/crime/2026/11/01/nine-crashes-reported-on-halloween-night-in-murrieta-including-three-duis/

The flu season has surged early in California this year.  There were 87 deaths, including three children as of mid-October.  The flu season typically lasts from November 1 to the end of April.  The high number of deaths already have health officials concerned about what the traditional peak during the holiday season holds in store and even more strongly than usual recommending flu shots for everyone. https://patch.com/california/temecula/flu-season-surges-early-ca-1-death-reported-what-know

Here are the rain totals for the weekend:

• .53” in Pala – .07” of it yesterday – Pala’s total since October 1 is 3.07”
• .50” in Oceanside
• .55” in Vista
• .57” in Carlsbad
• .61” in Fallbrook
• .58” in Rainbow
• .67” in Bonsall
• .42” in Couser Canyon
• .74” in Pauma Valley
• .45” in Valley Center
• .62” at Lake Wohlford
• .44” in Escondido
• .42” at Deer Springs
• .54” inches at Rincon
• 1.51” inches at Birch Hill
• .99” at Palomar observatory
• .86” inches at Lake Henshaw
• 1.21” at La Jolla reservation
• .97” inches at Mesa Grande
• .74” inches at Santa Ysabel
• .79”at Warner Springs.
• .15” at San Felipe
• .65” at Oak Grove
• .11” at Borrego Springs
• .09” at Ocotillo Wells
• .44” at Temecula
• .40” at French Valley
• .51” at Lake Skinner
• .57” at Anza
• .35” at La Cresta
• .36” at North Lake Elsinore

 

Pala will have sunny seasonable fall weather this week with a warmup into the mid-80s this weekend.  The full forecast is coming up.  (below)

 

SPORTS

In the NFL – The Rams got back to .500 and kept the Chargers winless, beating them 24-9 yesterday.  Other winners were Buffalo, Detroit, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, Denver, New England, Washington, and Cincinnati and Arizona – both in overtime.  Tonight’s game is Chicago at Seattle on ESPN.

In college football – Unranked USC pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the year, beating #2 Ohio State 30-18.  The other three schools in the top four all won their games. #7 UCLA blanked Nevada 27-0.  San Diego State beat visiting Washington State 26-20. 

In the NBA – Yesterday’s winners were Boston, Brooklyn, Golden State over the Clippers 124-112, and the Lakers over the visiting Raptors 131-125 with Luka Doncic scoring 45 points for LA.

The Oklahoma City Thunder announced it will retire Russel Westbrooks’ #0 jersey this season.  Westbrook played is first eleven seasons in OKC after having been drafted by them in the first round in 2008 just days before they moved from Seattle to become the Oklahoma City Thunder. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50360248/thunder-retire-russell-westbrook-no-0

In college basketball – A game in Rome, Italy kicked off the NCAA season yesterday.  Notre Dame beat Villanova 74-72.  Most other schools begin their season today.  UCSD hosts Whittier, USC hosts Milwaukee, USD hosts Biola

In the WNBA finals – Saturday in San Francisco, Golden State won their first league championship in only their second season in a deciding Game 7 against Atlanta.  Final score 68-63.

In the NHL – Yesterday’s winners were Carolina, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Edmonton and the Ducks over the visiting Senators 6-3. Cutter Gautheir had a hat trick in that game.

In Major League Baseball – We’re less than a month away from the expiration of the current contract between the league and the players union. 

Padres bullpen coach Ben Fritz will join the Arizona Diamondbacks as pitching coach.  The 45-year old’s young family already calls Phoenix home.  Fritz had been with Padres in minor league coaching and managing before beginning as Padres bullpen coach in 2020. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/10/30/padres-bullpen-coach-ben-fritz-to-become-diamondbacks-pitching-coach/

In Major League Soccer – This Saturday, San Diego FC hosts Sporting Kansas City, the LA Galaxy is at Real Salt Lake, and LAFC play the Sounders in Seattle.

In women’s soccer – Yesterday, the San Diego Wave won 1-0 against Bay FC.  Their next game is Friday hosting the Utah Royals in the NWSL quarterfinal. https://sandiegowavefc.com/schedule/

In golf – At the VidantaWorld Mexico Open in Nuevo Vallarta, Andrew Novak ran away with it, finishing five strokes ahead of his nearest rival at 25-under par 259 thanks to a tournament-low 61 on Friday, followed by a 62 in Saturday’s third round.  https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – Yesterday at Martinsville, William Byron won the NASCAR Cup playoff race.  Max Verstappen won yesterday’s Mexico City Grand Prix.

Local high school sports

Bonsall – no scheduled games today

Great Oak – girls’ golf at the team division championships all day

Fallbrook – no schedule published

Valley Center – varsity girls’ tennis CIF at Balboa Tennis Club all week

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained just over 1%.  Amazon and Sherman Williams led the charge on the Dow. The S&P 500 rose over a half percent.  And the Nasdaq was up 6 tenths.  Comex gold traded $70.90 higher $3,978.80 an ounce.  The U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures plunged $7.65 to $96.47 a barrel. 

Automakers are leaning into a new type of manufacturing – 3D printing.  It’s reducing costs and increasing speed of production, especially when applied to limited numbers.  Ford and Rivian are using 3D printers to create everything from vehicle parts and accessories to tools for assembly plants and lab testing equipment.  Rivian says it’s spent more than $5m on 3D printers and expects to spend about $1.7m annually on printing material.  In spite of the expense, the company says the machines typically pay for themselves within a year.   Ford and GM have used the printers for years.  Ford currently employs them to supply a vending machine for parts on demand, rather than warehousing and distributing parts.  Ford says it will have 3D labs deployed at more than 23 of its plants by the end of this year.  GM as well used 3D printed parts for some of its low-volume products in addition to research and development, like the others. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/31/automakers-3d-printing-ford-rivian-gm.html

A cyberattack today hit supermarkets in Sweden, Belgium, Luxemborg, Ireland and Estonia, interfering with refrigeration systems, forcing the disposal of some ruined food.  There was a similar attack last month in France.  Fridges and freezers were hacked and set to 122 degrees Fahrenheit.  Companies affected by today’s attack wouldn’t say exactly how many stores were affected with one saying that only 15 out of 700 stores in Belgium had been affected. https://apnews.com/article/europe-supermarkets-freezers-cyberattacks-a8ea5b30d67da47957769f29101fe686

Binance and its founders have long been accused of profiting off of crypto criminals.  Now, they’re the victims.  In what has been called the largest cryptocurrency theft in history last Thursday … $6.3b.  US-based blockchain intelligence firm TRM says an elite North Korean hacking unit was behind the heist.  As of Friday, Binance was beginning to recover money for users with roughly $3b in affected assets frozen.  Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has been accused of keeping funds for drug traffickers, child abusers, terrorists and money launderers.  The company hopscotched its operations through a number of countries to stay ahead of prosecutors.  Zhao eventually went to jail over it, but was pardoned by President Trump, a one-time cryptocurrency critic who became a fan after Binance donated millions to his campaign and 2025 inauguration.  Binance is also a key supporter of Trump family crypto enterprises including World Liberty Financial. https://apnews.com/article/binance-changpeng-zhao-hack-north-korea-trump-world-liberty-3255f83c8ca64131bd52ca9b4033c17c

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movie box office, the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” moved back into first place, selling another $10.6m worth of tickets in its third week of release.  It swapped places with last week’s #1, “Clayface” which sold $10.4m.  “Wicker” and “Street Fighter” were third and fourth.  Live viewing of “BTS World Tour in Sao Paulo” was 5^th with $2.8m.  The total attendance for this weekend’s top ten films was half that of the previous weekend and the lowest weekend so far this year. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2026W44/

Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums are becoming less affordable.  The open enrollment period for 2027 opened yesterday and will continue through December 15.  According to national health policy research nonprofit, KFF, some premiums are going up by as much as one third.  But the increase varies widely by state.  Vermont is at the low end around 3%.  California is in the middle at about 10%.  San Diego County is at the high end for California at 13%.  The out-of-pocket limit is rising to $12k … $24k for families.  The same higher costs that affect private insurance are compounded for so-called Obamacare because Covid-era subsidies expired last December.  Higher premiums create a negative loop.  Fewer people continued their ACA policies last year because of rate increases then.  And the higher premiums go, the more likely healthier policyholders are to drop out to save money this year, shrinking the risk pool until some insurers begin reconsidering even being in the marketplace.  As of last week, 11 health insurers said they would completely or at least partially exit the ACA marketplace.  Cigna said it’s getting out of all 11 states where it had written policies for 350k ACA enrollees. www.morningbrew.com

On this day in music history – November 2,

• 1958, Tommy Edwards was at #1 with “It’s All in the Game”, whose melody was co-written in 1911 by Charles Dawe, Vice President of the United States when Calvin Coolidge was President.
• In 1963, The Konrads featuring David Jones played a parish hall in Croydon, England.  Jones later changed his last name to Bowie.
• In 1967, Cream released their second studio album, “Disraeli Gears” which went to #4 on the album chart and featured the singles, “Strange Brew” and “Sunshine of Your Love”.
• On the same day, The Beatles were recording their next single, “Hello Goodbye” at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios.  The flip side would be “I Am the Walrus”.
• In 1969, “Sugar Sugar” by The Archies, which had topped the American charts for a month in September hit #1 in Britain and became the longest running one-hit-wonder ever in the UK at eight weeks.
• On the same day, Creedence Clearwater Revival released their third studio album, “Willie and the Poor Boys” featuring the singles “Down on the Corner” and “Fortunate Son” – one of the most popular of all Viet Nam War protest songs.
• In 1974, Stevie Wonder was at #1 with “You Haven’t Done Nothin’” featuring The Jackson Five on backing vocals.
• In 1984, Marvin Gaye Sr. was sentenced to a six-year suspended sentence and probation for the manslaughter of his son.  Marvin Sr. died in a nursing home in 1998.
• In 1999, Foo Fighters released their third album, “There is Nothing Left to Lose” – the first with drummer Taylor Hawkins.  Early copies of the disc included a temporary tattoo, similar to the one on the album cover.
• In 2002, police arrested an international gang who’d planned to kidnap former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and her two children.
• In 2015, Adele was at #1 with “Hello”, the first track on her latest album, “25”. It became the first song to sell more than a million digital copies in one week.
• In 2016, Taylor Swift was the highest-paid woman in music, earning $170m – more than twice her nearest rival, Adele.  Swift had just completed a world tour to support her album, “1989”.
• In 2018, original James Gang guitarist Glenn Schwartz died at the age of 78.  After the James Gang, he’d joined Pacific, Gas & Electric who scored with the 1970 hit “Are You Ready?”

Born on this day …

• In 1936, electronic music pioneer Max Crook who played the solo on Del Shannon’s 1961 hit, “Runaway” using an instrument of his own invention called the Musitron.
• In 1944, keyboardist Keith Emerson from the British progressive rock group The Nice and later as one third of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.  He committed suicide in 2016 because nerve damage in his hands had put an end to his playing.
• In 1945, John David Souther from The Souther, Hillman, Furay Band
• In 1952, Maxine Nightingale
• In 1957, Carter Beauford, drummer for The Dave Matthews Band
• In 1961, Kathryn Dawn Lang, better known as KD Lang
• In 1962, Ron McGovney, orginal bass player for Metallica.  He was only with them for a year.
• In 1965, Bobby Dall, bass player with Poison.

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=2&month=11

 

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Actor David Schwimmer from TV’s “Friends” is 60
• Among those who’ve passed, frontiersman and explorer Daniel Boone was born this day in 1734
• Actor Ray Walston, the title character in TV’s “My Favorite Martian” and Mr. Hand from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” was born in 1914

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date1102.htm

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – Me she miyaxwe tamit?  Sunny with a high of 75 this afternoon … 77 tomorrow … 78 Wednesday … 80 Thursday … 83 Friday … 86 Saturday and Sunday … overnight lows, 52 tonight … 49 tomorrow night … about 52 Wednesday and Thursday night … about 56 Friday and Saturday night

 

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