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California News – 09-10-2021

K Buenavista — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:47:34 +0000

Over the night of September 9, a wave of thunderstorms moved access California and ignited more wildfires
According to a tweet from the National Weather Service in San Fransisco, they estimate that around 1100 cloud to ground strikes have occurred since the night of September 9

On Thursday, September 9, the California state Senate unanimously passed a bill that would allow Los Angeles County to return beachfront land to the descendants of its rightful owners
The land originally belonged to two black owners named Willa and Charles Bruce from 1912 to the early 1920s and they ran a resort that catered to black people
In 1924, the property was seized by the city of Manhattan Beach as they condemned black-owned lots

K Buenavista — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:27:31 +0000

A student attending Scripps Ranch High School sued San Diego Unified School District in federal court and argued that the student vaccine mandate represents religious discrimination
The student is a 16-year old junior and claims that her religious beliefs keep her from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine

On October 25, California experienced a powerful storm that set rainfall records and aided in putting out wildfires
As a result of the rain, roads in the San Bernadino Mountains northeast of Los Angeles have been closed due to mudslides
Northern California has seen blackouts leaving 380,000 homes and businesses without power near San Francisco on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge

K Buenavista — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 20:40:54 +0000

A California dad and surfing school owner has been charged with murdering his two children in Mexico and told federal officials he thought the children “were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them”
40-year-old Matthew Taylor Coleman has been charged on August 11 with foreign murder of U.S. nationals in connection with the death of his 2-year old son and 10-month-old daughter

On August 12, San Francisco city representatives announced that they will now require proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for restaurants, bars, and gyms
This measure will take effect next Friday, but businesses will have two months to verify employees’ vaccination status “to preserve jobs while giving time for compliance”
The new mandate currently does not apply to people ineligible for vaccines, including kids under 12

K Buenavista — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 04:02:50 +0000

In the third most occurring variant in the state of California, the Delta variant is highly contagious and is threatening to those who are not vaccinated
14.5% of all cases being recorded currently in California are of the Delta variant which is 4.7% higher than in May
Those who have received the full Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine course high an 88% higher chance against the Delta variant

Parents of students attending public schools in California are frustrated with the state over the mask mandates that students must uphold during school
This group of Northern California parents have reportedly raised over $45,000 in order to file the lawsuit

Yesterday (Saturday), a 35 year old man was attacked 17miles south of San Francisco at Gray Whale Cove State Beach and suffered from injuries on his right leg
The shark that attacked the man is believed to be around 6 to 8 feet long

K Buenavista — Sun, 16 May 2021 02:31:05 +0000

Despite a policy banning anti-vaccine messaging on its platform, Facebook continued to host frames with claims that users can overlay onto their profile pictures
After CNBC reached out for comment about one such frame claiming, “my immune system works better than the” followed by a graphic of a syringe, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed the image had violated its policies and was removed
CNBC was quickly able to find well over a dozen other examples of profile picture frames that touted similar messages or at least toed the line of Facebook’s policy

The amount of available sublease office space in San Francisco more than tripled during the pandemic, and tech companies are paying the price
Dropbox and Salesforce have taken among the biggest impairments in the industry for their vacated space
Airbnb said in its earnings report on Thursday that it took a $113 million charge in the first quarter “related to office space in San Francisco that we deemed no longer necessary”

The semiconductor chip shortage is expected to cost the global automotive industry $110 billion in revenue in 2021, according to consulting firm AlixPartners
The forecast is up by 81.5% from an initial forecast of $60.6 billion in late January
A number of factors have contributed to the increase, including a fire at a chip supplier plant near Tokyo and weather-related kinks in the automotive supply chain

Dogecoin’s price soared as high as 56 cents early Friday, according to Coin Metrics data
Elon Musk tweeted that he was working with dogecoin developers to improve the efficiency of transactions
Crypto exchange Coinbase said it would offer dogecoin support in the next six to eight weeks