S.D. COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION (KUSI) – All public schools in the state of California will require students and staff, regardless of vaccination status, to wear masks for the upcoming semester. It comes a day after the California Department of Public Health revised their guidance stating districts should send students home if they don’t comply with the mandate.
In a tweet they said it would now be up to each individual district to decide how they enforce the rule. San Diego Unified School Board President Richard Barrera acknowledged the confusion but reiterated the district’s stance.
“Unfortunately it’s not new for us. Throughout the pandemic we’ve often gotten conflicting and contradictory guidance by the state and federal officials,” said Barrera. “In the case of opening up in the fall, we will be requiring that all students and all staff wear masks while they are indoors.”
But relief will begin arriving Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.
A strong high-pressure system centered near Las Vegas will weaken through Tuesday, but Monday temperatures will remain hot everywhere except coastal areas, forecasters said.
An excessive heat warning will be in effect until 8 p.m. Monday in the deserts. A less severe heat advisory is also in effect until 8 p.m. Monday in the mountains.
High temperatures on Monday are expected to be in the low-70s to low- 80s in coastal areas, the high-70s to mid-80s in the western valleys, the low- to mid-90s near the foothills, the low-90s to low-100s in the mountains and the high-100s to mid-110s in the deserts.
SOLANA BEACH (KUSI) – The iconic Belly Up Tavern will open their doors to a sold-out show Wednesday for the first time in over a year.
“We’ve been waiting too long for this and we’re so excited to be at this point,” said co-owner Phil Berkovitz. “It’s going to be a bit surreal; we had a private event last night and Steve and I were just looking around at people having fun after a 15-month break.”
Belly Up is celebrating their return to the stage with an LL Cool J inspired swag that you can purchase here: https://www.bellyuplive.com/shop/comeback-black.php
SEAPORT VILLAGE (KUSI) – San Diegans are noticing the record-breaking number of tourists spending time from the beaches to the bay, most choosing America’s finest city as their first post-pandemic vacation. The Independence Day weekend clocked in as the second-busiest day for travel ever recorded.
Doug Shupe with Automobile Club of Southern California said this could be a forecast for the months and years to come.
“If these travel numbers are any indication of what’s to come, we’re expecting very busy roadways and freeways in Southern California,” Shupe said. “New travel bookings in June of this year were 6% higher than travel bookings in June of 2019, before the pandemic. And that was actually our busiest year on record for travel.”
DOWNTOWN (KUSI) – On Tuesday the city of San Diego announced a lawsuit to void its lease-to-own agreements in the 101 Ash Street and Civic Center Plaza building deals due to an advisor allegedly receiving millions in undisclosed compensation for negotiating the transactions in violation of state law.
Now the former City Attorney, Michael Aguirre elected to serve in 2004, is demanding more answers about what Mara Elliott and other elected officials knew about those payments.
Reports show Jason Hughes represented himself to be a “special volunteer for real estate services” who was negotiating the deals on the city’s behalf for free “out of a sense of civic duty.”