Pala Today News – 10/19/26

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

The Henderson Fire on Camp Pendleton is now 95% contained at 3,260 acres.  There have been no reported injuries or structural damage.  The far more devastating Norte Fire just to the north in the hills east of I-5 in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano is now 60% contained at 570 acres.  It began Friday around noon and destroyed at least four expensive homes.  Some areas remain under evacuation orders, but evacuation centers in San Clemente and Capistrano are now closed. https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

A Hemet man died at the scene of a collision that was reported around 4:30p Saturday at the intersection of E. Stetson Avenue and Lake Street in the unincorporated community of Valle Vista.  Jesse Uria was on a motorcycle that collided with an SUV.  The cause of the fatal wreck remains under investigation.  According to preliminary information from the California Highway Patrol, two people were riding the motorcycle but it’s unclear who was piloting the bike. https://patch.com/california/murrieta/young-motorcyclist-killed-crash-near-hemet-idd-local-man

A two-vehicle crash reported just before 1p Saturday on northbound I-15, just south of the Winchester Road offramp, resulted in only minor injuries, but caused severe traffic back up for a couple of hours.  Firefighters had to extricate one person from the wreckage, and two people were transported to a local hospital. https://patch.com/california/temecula/temecula-crash-interstate-15-leaves-2-people-injured

A motorcyclist was airlifted to a regional trauma center Sunday following a crash on the Ortega Highway near Tenaja Truck Trail, west of Lake Elsinore that also sparked a small brush fire.  Firefighters responded to reports of a collision involving a passenger vehicle and a motorcycle south of El Cariso around 9:37a. https://patch.com/california/lakeelsinore-wildomar/details-released-weekend-ortega-highway-crash-injured-motorcyclist

One person suffered burns and was airlifted to a burn center after a backyard fire in Oceanside Sunday around 1:50p.  The Oceanside Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire near Clementine and Surfrider streets.  They found debris burning in a backyard.  Crews contained and extinguished the flames, preventing the fire from spreading to nearby properties.  While searching the area, firefighters found a person with burn injuries who was unable to escape because of debris blocking their path. https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/burn-victim-airlifted-after-backyard-fire-oceanside

A pedestrian was transported to a local hospital after being struck by a vehicle on S. Main Ave. in Fallbrook. Emergency crews responded to a reported collision involving a pickup truck and a pedestrian in front of the Bank of America on Saturday evening just after 7p. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/10/15/news/pedestrian-struck-by-vehicle-on-south-main-avenue-in-fallbrook/83053.html

At about the same time, CHP responded to a three-vehicle hit-and-run in the 1100 block of Alturas Road in Fallbrook.  An ambulance was dispatched.  No further details released. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/10/15/news/three-vehicle-hit-and-run-collision-reported-on-alturas-road/83056.html

119 firearms, including 15 assault rifles, were collected during a gun buyback event Sunday at the Sheriff’s station on South Melrose in Vista.  Participants received $100 gift cards for handguns, rifles and shotguns, and $200 gift cards for assault weapons. Free firearm lock boxes and gun cable locks were also distributed. https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/119-guns-collected-during-buyback-event-north-county

Pala will have two more days with high temperatures in the 80s, then rain moving in as soon as Wednesday afternoon.  Amounts could be substantial if the storm picks up moisture from a tropical storm near Baja, otherwise only about half to ¾ of an inch are expected. The full forecast is coming up. (below)

 

SPORTS

In Major League Baseball – Tampa Bay won games 4 and 5 in Cleveland over the weekend to take 3 games to two lead in the ALCS.  Game 6 is tonight in Tampa Bay at 5p on TBS.  If needed, Game 7 will be tomorrow at 5p.

In the NFL – The Chargers have lost more games than any other team so far this season … six, including yesterday’s 22-6 embarrassment against Kansas City.  The Rams lost a close one to the visiting Cardinals 18-16 on a last second field goal.   Yesterday’s other winners were Houston, Chicago, Cleveland, Tennessee, New England, New Orleans, Carolina, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Green Bay.  Tonight’s game is Washington at San Francisco.

Philadelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts will miss the rest of the season with multiple blood clots in both legs.  https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50218378/eagles-jalen-hurts-season-due-blood-clots-lungs

In college football – It was a wild Week 7.  Unranked Auburn upset #1 Georgia 27-24.  #8 BYU upset #2 Notre Dame 28-24.  #3 Miami needed double overtime to beat unranked Florida State 43-35.  #4 Ohio State prevailed over #5 Indiana 19-15. #14 Tennessee upset #6 Alabama 26-10.  Unranked Florida knocked off #7 Texas 27-24.  #12 UCLA won its game hosting Wisconsin 17-7.   San Diego State beat Fresno 26-23 with a last-minute field goal.

In Major League Soccer – LAFC and New York tied at 1 and the Galaxy and San Diego tied at 2 on Saturday. 

In the NBA – The regular season begins tomorrow with three games including Boston at Detroit at noon, Philadelphia at New York at 4p, and Oklahoma City at San Antonio at 6:30p.  All three will be on NBC.

In the WNBA – Golden State won the first game of the finals 68-64 over Atlanta game 2 is tonight at 5p

In the NHL – Yesterday’s winners were Minnesota and Calgary.  Four games tonight including the Ducks at the New York Islanders.

On Saturday, the Florida Panthers became the first team in NHL history to have natural hat tricks in three consecutive games.  A natural hat trick is when a single player scores three goals in a game without any other player from either team scoring in between them.  Carter Verhaeghe had the history-making natural hat trick Saturday, while Sam Bennett scored his first three goals of the season in the 8-3 win over Seattle.  Brady Tkachuk had his natural on Tuesday against Columbus, followed by three more on Thursday against Vancouver.  Florida is now also only the third team in 30 years to have any king of hat trick in three consecutive games. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/50206303/verhaeghe-bennett-keep-panthers-hat-trick-streak-tact

In racing – Yesterday in Phoenix, Tyler Reddick won the NASCAR Cup playoff race.

Local high school sports

Bonsall – no scheduled games

Great Oak – boys’ water polo at Chaparral at 7p

Fallbrook – no schedule published

Valley Center – girls’ varsity tennis at Escondido at 11:30a

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed.  The Dow fell a small fraction.  The S&P 500 gained a half percent.  And the Nasdaq was up 1.2%.  Gold fell $23.30 on the Comex, trading at $4,157.80 and ounce.  The U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up $1.74 at $103.15 a barrel.

Air travel is changing – mostly in the form of new classes of seats designed to increase profits for airlines as they struggle with the high cost of fuel. Though airlines contract for fuel long ahead of time, increasing fuel costs are now finding their way into new airline contracts.  Bargain carrier JetBlue is beginning a new first-class option as part of a broad seating overhaul.  BlueFirst will begin December 8 on 30 select routes not already covered by the carrier’s Mint business service and will include perks such as reclining seats, extra legroom and Group 1 boarding.  There will be three tiers of BlueFirst beginning with Base.  Regular BlueFirst adds an extra checked bag for a total of two, free seat selection, and no charge for cancellation.  Flex adds refunds for cancellation and no fees for same-day switches or standby. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/jetblue-bluefirst-first-class.html

Meanwhile, Southwest is replacing its two tiers of frequent flier status with silver, gold and platinum, similar to other carriers beginning January 1.  Southwest has spent the last couple of years undoing many of the differences between it and its competitors including getting rid of two free checked bags and open seating.  It now charges for those things, just like other carriers.  The new Silver status will require 35k tier one qualifying points or 25 qualifying flights.  Gold will need 65 TQPs, which is lower than the old top tier.  Platinum requires 140k TQPs or 100 qualifying flights.  Boarding is in order of tier and there are bonuses for customers in between status tiers. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/southwest-rapid-rewards-tiers-a-list.html

All of that said, if you’re flying this holiday season, book now.  Flights are filling up on all airlines and there won’t be as much selection as in the past.

As for future flights, Elon Musk say’s he’ll give every kid in America a share of SpaceX stock.  Today’s pronouncement came one day after intelligence company Anthropic announced it will commit 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund.  Neither company provided extensive details except that Anthropic’s donation will be handled by a new entity within the company. https://apnews.com/article/musk-spacex-anthropic-donation-ai-b3312da37a0e340be275295073055e00

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movie box office, four of the top five films were debuts.  “Street Fighter” led the pack with $31m in ticket sales on 3,500 screens.  “You Can See Everything” was second with $15m, but on only 855 screens for by far the largest per-screen average of the weekend.  Last week’s #1, “Other Mommy” fell to third place with less than one third the sales of its debut last weekend.  Other newcomers, “Whalefall” and “Sense and Sensibility” places fourth and fifth with low totals for debuts.  Overall ticket sales were up 19% compared with last week to better than average for this year.  https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2026W42/

On this day in music history – October 19,

• In 1966, The Yardbirds arrived in New York for their first U.S. concert tour with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page both on lead guitar.  Two dates into the tour, Beck quit the group, going on to form The Jeff Beck Group, which gave Rod Stewart his first major exposure.
• In 1967, with “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” still at #1 on the US album chart, it dropped to #2 in Britain for the first time since its release in June.  The new #1 album was the soundtrack to “The Sound of Music” which had been on the British charts since 1965.
• In 1968, on its farewell concert tour, Cream performed at the LA Forum where live recordings were included on their “Goodbye Cream” album released the following year. 
• On the same day in London, 18-year old Peter Frampton met Steve Marriott at a show featuring Small Faces.  Upon striking up a friendship, they began planning a new group that became Humble Pie the following April.
• In 1973, David Bowie released his 7^th album, “Pin Ups”.  It was a collection of his favorite covers including songs originally by Pink Floyd, The Who, The Yardbirds, and The Kinks.  Supermodel Twiggy was on the cover.
• In 1985, Norwegian trio, A-Ha was at #1 with “Take On Me”.  The music video for the song featured pencil sketch animation combined with live action and won six out of eight categories for which it was nominated at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.
• In 1989, guitarist Alan Murphy from Level 42 died of pneumonia related to AIDS.  He’d also worked with Kate Bush, Go West, and Mike & the Mechanics.
• In 1995, jazz trumpeter Don Cherry died of liver failure at age 58.  He’s credited with developing the genre of world fusion music, combining Middle Eastern, African, and Indian music into his songs.
• In 1997, original Alice Cooper band guitarist Glen Buxton died of pneumonia at age 49.  Buxton and Alice – then known as Vincent Furnier attended high school together in Phoenix.
• In 2005, a survey concluded that the average person spends about $42k on music during their lifetime including concerts, recorded media and equipment.  Real enthusiasts spend at least twice that.
• In 2010, Elton John told Britain’s Radio Times magazine that today’s songwriters were “pretty awful”, pop music was now “uninspiring” and talent shows like American Idol were “boring”.

Born on this day …

• In 1944, George McCrae who had the 1974 #1 hit “Rock Your Baby” and reggae star, Peter Tosh
• In 1945, Jeannie C. Riley who had the 1968 #1 hit “Harper Valley PTA” which won her a Grammy for best female country singer that year
• In 1946, Keith Reid from Procol Harum
• In 1947, Wilbert Hart from The Delfonics
• In 1948, Pat Simmons from The Doobie Brothers
• In 1960, Jennifer Holiday

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=19&month=10

 

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Noel Blanc, son of cartoon voice actor Mel Blanc and who took over much of his father’s work is 88
• Actor John Lithgow is 81
• Producer, director and actor Jon Favreau is 60
• South Park cartoonist Trey Parker is 57
• Actor, comedian Chris Kattan is 56
• Among those who’ve passed, LaWanda Page who played Aunt Esther on Sanford & Son was born in 1920
• Robert Reed, who played father, Mike Brady on TV’s “The Brady Bunch” was born in 1932.
• Actor, singer and drag queen Divine was born in 1945

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-dd/2080-date1019.htm

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 88 this afternoon … patchy morning low clouds and fog clearing to sunny and 85 tomorrow … mostly sunny and 79 with winds gusting up to 20 miles and hour and a 30% chance of up to a quarter inch of rain beginning in the afternoon … rain likely with possible thunderstorms Wednesday night and Thursday when the high will be 71 … sunny and 75 Friday … 81 Saturday and Sunday … overnight lows, 55 tonight and tomorrow night … 54 Wednesday night … 48 Thursday night … 50 Friday night … 52 Saturday night

 

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