Good Morning, I’m Annica Colbert….it’s Friday, Might twenty seventh.>>>>

College students demand motion

Extra on that subsequent. However first… let’s do the headlines….

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Covid-19 instances in San Diego county proceed to extend forward of the vacation weekend. Greater than 88-hundred (8,854) instances had been reported within the county this week.

That’s 26% greater than the week earlier than.

The variety of instances solely displays instances reported to hospitals or the county.

With at dwelling testing extensively obtainable it’s possible the precise variety of instances is way increased.

The rise in infections has officers reminding residents that, if you happen to get covid-19 you will get handled without cost.

Should you take a look at constructive for covid-19 and have signs, name 619-685-2500 to make an appointment.

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San Diego county water authority employees on Thursday proposed growing charges for its 24 member companies.

Below the proposal, charges would improve by about 5% for handled water and nearly 4% for untreated water in 2023.

The Water Authority mentioned the value will increase are wanted due to inflation and different growing prices.

The Water Authority Board is predicted to vote on the proposal at its assembly on June 23, following a public listening to.

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Voting facilities for the june seventh major election open Saturday at 39 areas within the county.

The facilities will likely be open every day from 8am to 5pm, together with on Memorial Day Monday.

Go to the registrar’s web site at SD VOTE DOT COM To discover a voting heart close to you.

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Stick with me for extra of the native information you want.

College students throughout the nation staged walk-outs to demand motion after the Uvalde elementary faculty bloodbath. KPBS reporter Kitty Alvarado says these stroll outs occurred throughout San Diego County too.

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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a listening to on WEDNESDAY to vet the Biden Administration’s second nominee to move up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The listening to was already scheduled earlier than the mass capturing at a Texas elementary faculty had occurred.

In her opening remarks, California Senator Dianne Feinstein famous a horrible irony: only a 12 months in the past, this similar committee was vetting the Administration’s first nominee for this function.

“The morning of that nominee’s listening to a gunman in San Jose, California opened fireplace on a mass transit facility and killed 10 folks.”

Feinstein has repeatedly launched the ‘Age 21 Act’, a invoice to restrict youngsters’ capability to purchase assault weapons.

The shooters in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas had been each youngsters.

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The state Senate on Wednesday handed a invoice implementing Governor Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court docket proposal.

The plan would compel remedy for folks with extreme psychological sickness and drug dependancy – together with many experiencing homelessness.

The invoice handed unanimously.

However some Senators, like Sacramento Democrat Richard Pan, say the measure nonetheless wants modifications to make sure native governments aren’t caught with a monetary burden … and that contributors will likely be on the entrance of the road for housing.

“I notice there could also be different folks in line however if you happen to’re on the level the place it’s a must to require CARE Court docket, you get to chop in entrance of the road since you’re in appreciable straits. The opposite factor I am simply going to say briefly – I feel it may be necessary that our county behavioral well being system, which we’re additionally relying on to make the CARE Court docket work, must get funding as properly.”

Below the CARE Court docket plan, first responders, regulation enforcement, behavioral well being suppliers and members of the family may refer folks scuffling with dependancy and psychological sickness.

A decide would then order a care plan that would embrace remedy, providers, and housing.

The invoice strikes subsequent to the state Meeting.

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Authorities in San Diego and Imperial counties are more and more turning to a smartphone app to trace migrants below their watch.

Inewsource reporter Sofía Mejías-Pascoe has the story.

MEJIAS PASCOE: Slightly-known smartphone app referred to as SmartLINK is now monitoring greater than 5,000 people in California’s southernmost counties.

The app makes use of facial recognition and GPS to watch these below the watch of Immgration and Customs Enforcement.

Officers invoice this system as a humane different to detention facilities. However critics like Saira Hussain from the Digital Frontier Basis say there are massive questions on this system and its developer.

HUSSAIN: “We actually wanna know precisely what data the app has entry to. And this has been removed from clear so removed from the corporate.”

For KBPS, I’m inewsource reporter Sofía Mejías-Pascoe

inewsource is an independently funded, nonprofit companion of KPBS.

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Arising…. With recruitment down, the navy has excessive hopes for the New high gun film.

“Individuals are going to see it and it’s the Navy tradition. It’s a celebration of the Navy. It’s a celebration of aviation. It’s a celebration of the spirit, I feel, of our nation.”

We’ll have that story and extra, subsequent, simply after the break.

A start-up firm in San Diego is creating synthetic limbs with a 3-D printer.

They are saying their digital system could be a cheaper, quicker option to customise prosthetics.

KPBS science and know-how reporter Thomas Fudge has the story.

Individuals lose limbs because of traumatic accidents. Some because of diabetes. Right this moment they’ll get

synthetic limbs, made by a 3-D printer, from a start-up firm referred to as Limber P&O. Joshua Pelz, firm co-founder and PhD scholar of engineering at UC San Diego, reveals a decrease leg prosthetic comprised of light-weight, customized plastic..

“That is the Limber unileg. It’s a single piece prosthesis that’s 3-D printed in simply half of a day.”

Pelz says their course of of creating the prosthetic begins with a scan of the decrease physique, utilizing an iPhone with FaceID.

We take that scan information and produce it into the pc as a three-D mannequin.

One amputee who has used a man-made leg from the Limber firm is San Diegan Diana Zambrano. She says utilizing a brand new prosthetic limb is kinda like placing on new footwear. They don’t at all times really feel or match proper.

“On this case, the Limber leg. I don’t know if it’s the know-how or what it’s, however the minute I wore it I used to be in a position to stroll, very comfortably.”

Thus far the corporate has centered on creating synthetic decrease legs, beneath the knee. Pelz says printing the knee joint is within the firm’s future. SOQ.

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Confronted with a good job market, the Navy is banking that High Gun Maverick can assist rescue naval aviation from a pilot scarcity– 36 years after the unique movie broke recruiting data.

KPBS Army Reporter Steve Walsh says it’s a part of an extended relationship between Hollywood and the army.

On a sunny day at a Navy base close to San Diego, Tom Cruise is on message:

“It’s a celebration of the Navy. It’s a celebration of aviation. It’s a celebration of, I feel, our nation.”

Cruise was at Naval Air Station North Island for the premiere of High Gun: Maverick. A number of scenes had been shot on the base. Surrounded by sailors in entrance of the bottom theater, Cruise labored the purple carpet. The megastar mentioned he shares the Navy’s excessive hopes for the long-awaited sequel.

Paramount paid the Navy greater than $5 million. A lot of the cash was spent to retrofit actual F-18 Tremendous Hornets with cameras. Actual Navy pilots do the flying, placing the actors, and the viewers within the cockpit. It’s a part of an extended custom of Hollywood working with the army. Nick Cull teaches media and historical past at USC.

”On the Pentagon facet of issues they needed to have the perfect of the US army represented they usually knew that if filmmakers needed to have tanks and plane carriers and plane featured of their films they’d be prepared to concede sure points of inventive enter.”

Although it may be powerful for the Pentagon to stay as much as the Hollywood hype, Cull says.

“Why cannot we reach Iraq or Afghanistan? The problem of working in these sorts of conditions are underestimated when we’ve got these fantasies of exaggerated competence.”

“I do assume that the nation is aware of that they will see a film they usually could make their very own judgments.”

Rob Newell directs the Navy program that works with the leisure trade. He says the Navy opinions the script to see if it upholds the values of the service – realizing fewer folks have a direct connection to the army.

That has began to wane and so folks haven’t got, and communities haven’t got, these connections that they used to….everyone cannot exit to an plane provider, however everyone can go to a movie show.”

And the Navy may use a success proper now. The unique movie is known amongst Navy recruiters-, driving up curiosity in naval aviation ten years after Vietnam.

Capt. Kevin Ferguson was the Navy’s technical advisor on the High Gun sequel.

Standing in entrance of an F-18 on North Island, he admits he turned a pilot after seeing the unique movie within the 80s. Ferguson flies for each the reserves in addition to Delta Airways – business aviation at all times attracts army pilots.

And the competitors for pilots, he says, is heating up.

“You must retire at age 65. So that you do the mathematics. You bought lots of people which are falling off the cliff there. The Airways, all of them didn’t essentially plan prematurely. After which COVID hit and lots of people took early retirement and left. What we’re left with now could be a large resurgence in journey demand and never sufficient folks to fill it.”

Exterior the premiere a bunch of younger sailors had been ready for the filmmakers. A few of them admitted they both hadn’t seen the unique, or had watched it the night time earlier than. Seaman Recruit Charles Poindexter used to observe it along with his dad as a child.

“My dad, he was excited. ..he mentioned, aw, you’re about to see Tom Cruise. You understand, that’s my favourite actor. I referred to as him yesterday. You bought to get some photos. Complete lot of images.”

Whether or not on the field workplace, or the recruiters workplace, we’ll know quickly sufficient whether or not the franchise can deal with one final mission. Steve Walsh KPBS Information.

San Diego Worldwide Fringe Competition returns subsequent week (June 2nd) in Balboa Park. This 12 months’s Fringe brings again the play “Shelter.” It’s a one-woman present about Homelessness that premiered at Fringe in 2017. It’s by actress and playwright Renee Westbrook. KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando spoke with Westbrook outdoors of her rehearsal room on the San Diego State College campus.

That was Beth Accomando talking with actress and playwright Renee Westbrook.

Her play “Shelter” runs June third by way of seventh on the Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater through the San Diego Worldwide Fringe Competition.

That’s it for the podcast as we speak. As at all times yow will discover extra San Diego information on-line at KPBS dot org. This podcast is produced by kpbs senior radio producer Brooke Ruth, and me, Annica Colbert. Thanks for listening and have a terrific day.