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Pala Today News – 9/13/24

Written by John Fox on September 13, 2024

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.

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Milder weather is helping firefighters make progress against the three major Southern California wildfires which collectively have burned 113K acres. The largest, the Bridge Fire is now at 51k acres with 3% containment. It’s also the largest active fire in the state right now. The north end of the fire in the high desert remains the most active part. Structure protection is still the highest priority. 408 personnel are assigned with heavy air support. Extensive evacuations are still in effect. Road closures include parts of Angelus Crest Highway, all of Highway 39 north of the 210, parts of 138 and numerous smaller roads. https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/9/8/bridge-fire/

The arson-caused Line Fire in the San Bernardino mountains has now burned almost 38k acres with 21% containment. Over 65k structures are threatened with 11,400 under evacuation orders. Damage Inspection teams have so far identified three as damaged and one destroyed. 3,900 personnel are assigned to the Bridge Fire because so many homes are threatened. There have been three confirmed injuries to civilians or fire personnel. https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/9/5/line-fire/

The Airport Fire which began in Orange County and is now mostly burning near Lake Elsinore is at about 23,500 acres with 8% containment. Ortega Highway and numerous inland Orange County roads are still closed with many areas still under evacuation orders. 771 personnel are assigned to the Line Fire which has destroyed or damaged over two dozen structures and injured 12 people. https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2024/9/9/airport-fire/

According to WalletHub, parts of San Diego County are currently the 6^th worst in the nation for inflation and other affordability factors. The San Diego-Carlsbad area is listed as having 0.6% inflation over the past two months. The annual rate here is 3.5% – a full point higher than the national average. Riverside ranked near the bottom of the list of 25 largest metropolitan areas. Though it also increased 0.6% over the past two months, Riverside’s annual rate is 2.8%. https://wallethub.com/edu/cities-inflation/107537

A few dozen SDG&E customers in Warner Springs and Ranchita lost power last evening just after 7:30p. It’s expected to be restored by 3p this afternoon. https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map

The aftershocks to the 4.7 magnitude earthquake in Malibu yesterday continue. There was a 3.2 shaker this morning just before 5a. It was widely felt throughout LA and Orange County. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci40732519/executive

Remember that week of solid 100-degree-plus high temperatures just a few days ago? Say goodbye to temperatures even in the 80s after tomorrow. It’ll be in the 70s in Pala all next week with two chances of rain. The full forecast is coming up. (below)

Mass at Pala Mission Church is broadcast live on Rez Radio 91.3 and streamed live on the Rez Radio App every Sunday at 8a. It may not be possible to broadcast mass some weeks between now and November due to staffing issues. Regular broadcasts will resume in November.

SPORTS

In Major League Baseball – The Padres, Dodgers, Diamondbacks and Angels didn’t play yesterday. Weekend series beginning today include San Diego at San Francisco, the Dodgers at Atlanta, Arizona hosting Milwaukee, and the Angels hosting Houston. With 16 days left in the regular season, the Padres are in third place in the NL West, a half-game behind Arizona who trail the Dodgers by five games. The Padres and Diamondbacks are still the most likely NL Wild Cards. https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings

In the Minors – The Lake Elsinore Storm completed a two-game sweep of the best of three divisional playoffs, beating Visalia at Lake Elsinore last night 2-1. The league championship series begins Sunday hosting Modesto. https://www.milb.com/lake-elsinore/schedule/2024-09

In Soccer – LAFC plays the Galaxy at Carson tomorrow. https://www.espn.com/soccer/schedule/_/date/20240914/league/usa.1

In the NFL – Last night in Miami, Buffalo trounced the Dolphins 31-10. It was close until halfway through the second quarter. A third quarter interception touchdown return early in the second half sealed Miami’s fate. Miami dominated the statistics, but committed three costly turnovers. https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401671807/bills-dolphins

The schedule for Sunday includes the Chargers at Carolina at 10a on CBS. The Rams are at Arizona at 1p on Fox.

In college football – #20 Arizona is at #14 Kansas State tonight on Fox. Among tomorrow’s matchups, #4 Alabama is at Wisconsin at 9a on Fox. #18 Notre Dame is at Purdue at 12:30 on CBS. #1 Georgia is at Kentucky at 4:30p on ABC. UCLA hosts Indiana at 4:30p. San Diego State is at Cal at 7:30p on ESPN. https://www.espn.com/college-football/schedule

In the NHL – For the first time since a proposed class action suit was filed against the NCAA and 10 universities claiming eligibility rules violate anti-trust laws, a school has accepted verbal commitment from a professional hockey player. Braxton Whitehead from the Canadian WHL team in Regina wants to play for Arizona State in the 2025-26 season. Current NCAA rules prohibit any player who has appearing a major junior hockey game from playing college hockey. Both the school and Whitehead express confidence the restriction will be lifted before Whitehead joins the Sun Devils next year. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/41243185/whl-braxton-whitehead-commits-arizona-state-challenging-ncaa-rules

In golf – At the Procore Championship in Napa, David Lipsky had yesterday’s best round at 7 under par 65. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – The NASCAR Cup playoffs continue Sunday at Watkins Glen. The Indycar season wraps up Sunday at Nashville.

In local high school sports:

Bonsall – boys’ basketball tryouts all afternoon

Great Oak – girls’ tennis hosting Linfield Christian at 4p; boys’ water polo at the Western High Tournament at 4p and again all day tomorrow; varsity football hosting Norte Vista at 7p; Tomorrow – freshman girls’ volleyball at the Valencia High Tournament at 8a

Fallbrook – field hockey at Chaparral at 4:30p; girls’ volleyball at Mission Hills at 4:30p; football hosting Imperial at 4:30p; Tomorrow – cross country at the Laguna Hills Invitational

Valley Center – varsity girls’ tennis hosting Classical Academy at 3:30p; girls’ volleyball hosting Bonsall at 4:30p; football at San Pasqual at 4:30p

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up across the board. The Dow gained 8 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was up six tenths. That’s five straight sessions of gains for the S&P. The Nasdaq rose ¾ of a percent. Comex gold gained $31.60 to $2,612.20 an ounce. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures fell 21 cents to $68.76 a barrel but will finish slightly up for the week.

33k union members walked off the job today at Boeing after overwhelmingly rejecting a proposed four-year contract with the aircraft manufacturer. The first strike at Boeing in 16 years will virtually halt commercial airplane production. Depending on how long it lasts, it could disrupt nearly 10k suppliers in all 50 states. Boeing employs a total of 150k Americans and estimates its contribution the US economy at $79b with direct or indirect support of 1.6m jobs. The rejected deal would have given workers a 25% raise over four years plus job security with a promise to build Boeing’s next new model at a union plant. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/business/strike-boeing-vote-iam-751-hnk-intl/index.html

Boar’s Head has indefinitely shut down its deli meat plant in Virginia due to an outbreak of deadly listeria. The plant’s 500 workers will be given severance and offered relocation. www.nytimes.com

Hyundai and General Motors have agreed to work together to develop new vehicles, supply chains and technologies to cut costs and be more market-agile. It’s not just to combat the threat from Chinese automakers – especially those that market EVs. The two auto making giants will collaborate on developing all future clean energy technologies involving internal combustion, hydrogen and electric vehicles. GM is currently the largest US auto maker. Hyundai is the world’s third-largest by sales. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/12/cars/south-korea-us-hyundai-gm-partnership-intl-hnk/index.html

The Social Security System is currently paying out in benefits more than it collects in payroll tax and drawing from reserves to cover the difference. Once the reserves are gone, the law says benefits have to be cut. According to a report by the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, if Congress doesn’t act soon, retirees will only receive 79% of their scheduled Social Security benefits beginning with the first year of underfunding in 2033. About 10k retirees nationwide enter the Social Security system every day. Even an estimated 21% cut in benefits could wreak havoc on the lives of the four out of ten seniors who live solely on an average monthly Social Security payment of $1,907. According to Chris Towner, the policy director of the CRFB, the longer lawmakers wait to fix Social Security, the worse the problem will be. Towner told CBS MoneyWatch that a 27% payroll tax increase or a 21% cut in benefits to all current recipients could solve the problem right now. Waiting until 2033 would cause the necessary tax increase to grow to 32% and the needed cut to 25%. Although dollar cuts in benefits would be less for lower income retirees, it would still be a greater share of their income. The system will never completely run out of money. But with no action by Congress, the automatic benefit cut would grow from 21% across the board in 2033 to 31% by 2098. https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/cuts-to-social-security-benefits-could-top-dollar21000-for-high-income-couples

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

New movies opening in wide release this week include a remake of the thriller, “Speak No Evil”, the action adventure thriller “The Killer’s Game”, the animated sci-fi action feature, “Transformers One”, the concert documentary “Usher: Rendezvous in Paris”, and the faith-based dramatic sequel, “God’s Not Dead 5: In God We Trust”. https://www.movieinsider.com/movies/september/2024?view=list

Actor Chad McQueen, the son of Steve McQueen has died at the age of 63. He’s best known as the bully, Dutch in the first two Karate Kid movies. He died Wednesday of organ failure at his ranch in Palm Desert. He’d been injured in a fall in 2020 from which he never fully recovered. Like his father, Chad loved auto racing. A crash at Daytona while practicing for the 24-Hour event ended his racing career in 2006. The family has requested donations in his name to Boy’s Republic in Chino Hills. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/chad-mcqueen-dead-karate-kid-steve-mcqueen-1236000439/

Released yesterday as a preview, OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence model is said to be able to “reason” and solve harder science, math and coding problems than its predecessor. Examples of uses for OpenAI 01 include use by healthcare researchers to annotate cell sequencing data and by physicists to generate “complicated mathematical formulas needed for quantum optics.” In a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, the new AI models correctly solved 83% of the problems. One concern for future improvements to AI is the amount of power it’ll take to allow new AI models to think not just for seconds at a time, but for hours, days or weeks. The electrical demand could worsen global warming. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/tech/chatgpt-openai-o1-human-reasoning/index.html

On this day in music history – September 13 …

1958, before being allowed to make his BBC television debut to perform “Move It”, Cliff Richard was required to shave his sideburns – a look favored by British bad boys at the time.
In 1960, following a payola scandal, the Federal Communications Act was amended to make it illegal for radio stations and their employees to accept cash or gifts in exchange for airplay of records.
On the same day in Britain, a campaign was underway to ban the Ray Peterson hit “Tell Laura I Love Her”. It was denounced as likely to inspire a teen-age “glorious death cult”. The song describes a lovesick boy who drives in a stock car race to win the love of a girl. He crashes and speaks the words in the title just before he dies.
In 1963, Graham Nash fell out of The Hollies touring van after a show in Scotland. He was checking to see if the door was locked. It wasn’t. They were going down the road at about 40 miles an hour at the time.
In 1965, the Paul McCartney song “Yesterday” was released as a single in the U.S. With McCartney singing solo and playing acoustic guitar, and backed by a string quartet, it was essentially the first solo record for a member of The Beatles. It was not released as a single in England until 1976.
In 1969, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, Bo Diddley, The Doors and Alice Cooper all played at the Rock & Roll Revival Show in Toronto. The members of Lennon’s band were so hastily thrown together, they had to rehearse on the plane from England. Lennon later released the performance as one side of the Live Peace in Toronto album.
In 1985, “We Are the World” won Best Group Video and Viewer’s Choice at the MTV Video Music Awards. Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” won four trophies including Best Video. Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It” won Best Female Video. Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” won Best Male Video.
In 1986, Berlin had the #1 single with “Take My Breath Away”. It and the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’” were both featured in that year’s movie blockbuster “Top Gun”.
In 1987, Michael Jackson began the first of six weeks at #1 on the album chart with “Bad”.
In 1991, Geffen Records threw a party to celebrate the release of Nirvana’s single “Smells Like Teen Spirit. The band got thrown out of their own party for starting a food fight.
In 2005, Jimi Hendrix’ childhood home in Seattle was spared from demolition at the last minute and moved to a site opposite the cemetery where he’d been buried 35 years earlier. The house was repurposed as a community center.

Born on this day …

in 1941, David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer for Blood Sweat & Tears.
In 1943, Ray Elliot, keyboardist for Northern Irish band, Them whose lead singer was Van Morrison.
In 1944, bass player and singer for Chicago, Peter Cetera.
In 1963, David Mustaine from Metallica.
In 1965, Zak Starkey, son of Ringo Starr.
In 1977, Fiona Apple.

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=13&month=9

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

Actor, producer, director Tyler Perry is 54
Actor Ben Savage is 43
Actress Lili Reinhart is 27
Among those who’ve passed, author Roald Dahl, best known for “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was born in 1916
And real-life Willie Wonka, Milton Hershey, founder of the Hershey’s chocolate empire was born in 1857

https://www.famousbirthdays.com/september13.html

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 82 today … cloudy through mid-morning, clearing to sunny and 83 tomorrow … mostly sunny and 79 Sunday … a 30% chance of light rain Monday morning, clearing to partly sunny and 71 in the afternoon … 75 Tuesday … 74 Wednesday … another slight chance of showers Wednesday night into Thursday morning, then clearing to sunny and 74 … overnight lows, 51 tonight … 49 tomorrow night … 50 Sunday night … about 46 Monday and Tuesday night … 49 Wednesday night

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