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Ice operations in San Diego are under scrutiny tonight.

Thank you for joining us.

I'm Maya Tabulsi The issue is of particular concern when local police are called to a scene involving federal agents.

KPBS Metro reporter Andrew Bowen says one city council member is calling for more transparency.

In July of last year, the San Diego City Council passed an ordinance aimed at limiting cooperation between speed and ice.

The law requires the police chief to publicly report when officers are called to a scene where federal agents are doing immigration enforcement.

Council member Sean Elo-Rivera sponsored the ordinance.

He says Police Chief Scott Wahl has not issued any such reports to the public.

I don't think we can have safety without trust, and trust requires transparency.

And with the chief refusing to provide these these reports or provide the information publicly, there is no transparency and it's eroding trust, which therefore erodes safety.

Elo-Rivera says SDPD has notified his office by text message about four incidents in his district two involving Ice, two involving Homeland Security.

Police say those incidents did not involve immigration arrests, so public disclosure was not required.

Elo-Rivera says.

Any time the public sees SDPD officers at a scene with federal agents, they might assume incorrectly that they're working together.

What has not happened is any communication with the public about under what circumstances was showing up, what they did when they were there, how long they were there.

Without that information, it raises questions about what's going on there.

CPD says it has reported on interactions with Ice and makes that information public when it's requested.

Last Friday, the police chief issued a memo outlining new notification procedures going forward.

The memo says, quote, our goal is to ensure that elected officials have timely information about SD PD's involvement and can respond to questions from their constituents with a clear understanding of its role.

The memo also pledges to notify the Council of any interactions with Ice, even when that notification isn't required under the law.

Andrew Bowen, KPBS news.

This afternoon, the U.S.

Supreme Court rejected President Trump's request to isolate thousands of California ballots.

Refusing to intervene allows an appeals court ruling to stand.

The Trump administration argued that 20,000 ballots in California might be cast by people who may not be citizens.

California officials argued the list of question voters is highly unreliable.

San Diego County's top election official says his office is prepared in case anyone tries to harass voters at polling places tomorrow.

KPBS Public Matters reporter Kevin Trevellyan has more.

Nationally, there's been an unprecedented surge in federal election monitors this year.

According to PBS news.

San Diego County Registrar Shawn Brom is expecting at least eight federal teams to monitor local polling places.

Well, we just want to make sure that regardless of the number of election observers that are at any specific location is that they're not interfering with the voters right to cast a ballot free from any intimidation or harassment.

Brom says his office has contingencies in place if any kind of observer tries to overstep their bounds.

The Associated Press reports the Democratic Party and voting rights organizations have been mobilizing masses of their own poll watchers in response to federal efforts.

In California, observers are not allowed to talk to voters or otherwise interfere in the process.

The Trump administration in recent weeks has challenged California elections officials over alleged noncitizen voting.

Judges have rejected their lawsuits.

Brown says San Diego County has received federal subpoenas and complied with the law as needed.

So simply put, their I'm focused on the administration of the election and not focusing, currently on, anything else that might be happening outside of that.

Carl Luna, a political scientist at Mesa College, says the Justice Department usually deploys monitors to make sure people aren't being denied the right to vote.

He says there isn't much modern precedent for using them to look for fraud when it says the Trump administration's pressure on local and state officials is also unusual.

What you saw is seen as something of a flood, the zone sort of strategy, where the Department of Justice is throwing everything it can at the courts to try to get a warrant, to try to intimidate, then poll workers threatening to arrest them.

Witness says the Trump administration could be setting the stage to challenge results after Election Day.

Kevin Trevellyan, KPBS news.

The next 24 hours will be crucial for those who are still studying their ballots.

The KPBS voter hub is here to help.

We're seeing a lot of interest from our audience.

This year's Voter Hub is available in English and in Spanish.

You'll find explainers on dozens of races, along with details on ballot drop boxes and places to vote in person.

The deadline to vote is 8 p.m.

tomorrow night.

Local Democrats could, for the first time, secure a supermajority on San Diego County Board of Supervisors.

That is, if they can successfully take the office currently held by Jim Desmond.

KPBS North County Reporter Alexander Nguyen has more on the candidates vying for the seat?

Democrats have never had a supermajority on the county Board of Supervisors, so this would be uncharted territory for them.

But it wasn't that long ago that Republicans controlled all five seats.

The current Democratic majority was a recent development that happened in 2020, when Nora Vargas and Tara Larsen remote won their seats.

Joining Nathan Fletcher on the board, winning a fourth seat would give Democrats greater control over the county's budget and policy priorities, bypassing the need for Republican buy in.

The best chance for Republicans to influence county government is in district five.

That seat is currently held by Republican Jim Desmond.

He is termed out and is running for Congress.

Seeking to replace him are Republican Rebecca Jones and Democrat Kyle Cahill.

Jones is currently the mayor of San Marcos.

She's been on the city council there for nearly 20 years.

She's running on that record touting her mayoral successes.

Those include making the city a major healthcare hub.

Kaiser Permanente recently opened its hospital there, and Scripps has announced plans to finally build a hospital that's been in development for around 20 years.

As the Sandag board member, Jones has pushed for projects to ease congestion on highway 78.

She's declined multiple interview requests from KPBS and other news outlets.

Krahel is a former deputy chief of staff for Congressman Mike Levin and chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party.

He says his top priorities are housing and affordability.

Our teachers, our firefighters can't even afford a house in most of the communities in North County anymore.

So I want to try to change that.

Build more housing of all kinds, attainable housing for regular folks, as well as trying to address the massive cost of living increases caused by Republicans in Washington.

The tariffs, the diesel prices are.

Price of gas is crazy.

He wants to make it easier for developers to build in San Diego, while also recognizing that some high fire danger zones aren't suitable for housing.

That's only going to make it more dangerous for folks to make their homeowners insurance even more expensive, so they can't afford their mortgage rates.

So being smart about where we grow is is key as well as actually growing.

The race is officially nonpartisan, meaning voters will see a DRR next to the candidates names, so name recognition matters greatly.

Jones outraised Craig 3 to 1, but Craig Hill says he's not concerned.

It helps to have some money to be able to bring that out.

But folks are so upset at the state of our country and how expensive it is to afford to live here in North County, that they're doing the research.

Folks know which candidates actually starting to fight up and fight back against these costs.

Voters will decide tomorrow if Democrats will have a supermajority.

Alexander Nguyen, KPBS news.

And at the national level, a lot of attention is on voter turnout, especially for a handful of House and Senate races that will determine which party controls Congress.

Maddie Gannon has an update from Washington.

Mile ending pitches.

Look at who we are.

Look at what we've done for the state of Georgia.

It's crunch time for candidates in this year's midterm elections.

With just hours left to convince voters to head to the polls.

We can do a lot damn better in this country, I know.

And that's what this race is about.

Candidates in this year's most competitive Senate races are spending their final hours on the trail.

Many are wrapping up weeks long bus tours or holding canvasing events as they try to reach undecided voters or drive their base to the polls.

Well, the pattern in past cycles has been that in these red state races, and this is really where the Senate is being fought, the undecided vote has collapsed and fallen in line with Republicans towards the end.

We're not seeing that happen in polling, which is good news for Democrats.

It follows a whirlwind final weekend on the campaign trail, with a major shake up in Michigan Senate race in particular.

Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed saw his primary opponent, Haley Stevens, throw her support behind his Republican rival in the race, Mike Rogers.

You know, the sort of thing about polls and how is this going to change the race, etc., etc.. I, you know, we run like we're ten points down.

And major figures in both parties want to say in the final word.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in California Sunday night, and President Donald Trump delivered his closing remarks at the Reflecting Pool in Washington Monday afternoon.

I've traveled all across the country, spoken at all of these rallies I've done over the last two and a half weeks, and America is ready to go.

They're ready to vote.

I hope they're ready to do the right thing in Washington.

I'm Maddie Gannon And here's a look at what you can expect on election night right here on KPBS.

Evening edition will be preempted by live coverage from PBS NewsHour.

And that starts at 5 p.m., but we will have live local cut ins, and that starts at 8 p.m.

as we get initial results of local races.

We'll also have regular updates @kpbs.org, our social media channels, as well as on radio on KPBS FM.

I'm Geoff Bennett.

Tonight on the NewsHour, a wide ranging interview with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.

That's at seven after Evening Edition on KPBS.

I'm Ariella Scalese coming up tonight, 56 degrees under a clear sky at a much quieter weather week ahead, will be dry and will actually be turning a bit warmer through the end of the week and then the upcoming weekend.

A closer look is coming up.

Across generations, high schools in southeastern San Diego have produced a statistics defying number of professional athletes.

Despite the obstacles.

In part one of this special series, KPBS reporter Katie Hyson takes us back to the early days of a remarkable legacy.

In the 20th century, the sports superstar has become the American hero.

I'm sitting on the couch at Wally Henry's house.

He's a Lincoln High alum and former Eagles wide receiver and kick returner.

We're watching an old TV special about him for Afro-Americans in particular, a people who have been brutalized by 200 years of institutionalized racism, the violent denial of the human rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

The athlete was the most visible image of success and manhood.

We're surrounded by photos of Wally's life, some from his 1950s and 60s childhood in Logan Heights.

Sports was seen as the way out of the ghetto.

At that time, sports made college possible for kids like Wally.

We were all trying to get out of Southeast San Diego.

We were trying to make something of our lives.

Our parents didn't have that kind of money to send us to college, so the only way we can get to college is to get a scholarship.

College was also one of the only ways out of the Vietnam draft.

The Wally on the screen is younger, sporting a crop top training tee and an impressive afro.

I had a different hairstyle back then and super fly surrounded by NFL giants.

Wally was small.

Five, eight and 170 pounds.

This little guy can't do that when they see me knocking down people.

That's how I made the team doing extra 5 in 1 incredible punt return.

We watch Wally burst from the melee, dodge players twice his size, and zip all the way down the field for a touchdown.

Just making the NFL is an extraordinary feat.

Each year out of over a million high school football players, only a few hundred do.

That's according to the National Football Foundation.

It's like getting struck by lightning.

But Wally is very matter of fact about it.

Deep down inside, I knew that this was just another test for him.

I had to overcome, and I will, and I did.

He credits that mentality all the way back to the Boys and Girls Club in Logan Heights.

Having confidence in yourself to do what you can do and not not be a boy.

You know you can't fool yourself.

I mean, and people would say, it's got a big head or you're cocky.

Well, so be it.

If you think you're the best and you act the best and you are the best, you are the best.

Period.

He says the communities in southeastern San Diego then were close knit, but everybody kind of kept up with everybody.

It was more like the village raising, you know, the kids, you know, parents worked hard, you know, and, actually, we didn't really know, you know, too young to realize that you were poor by the late 60s, like, now, the area was mostly black and Latino and low income.

It wasn't always that way.

When Lincoln High opened in 1955, it served mostly white students.

But San Diego demographics were changing.

Redlining and freeway construction funneled racial minorities into the southeastern neighborhoods and white families out.

Willie Jones's Lincoln, Class of 65.

He says he witnessed white flight.

It was a predominantly white school and 64 by the time that I graduated.

You could count the number of different students on on a couple of hands.

Alumni say the visual of a lot of black and brown people in one area drew overpolicing and stereotypes.

The news media was bombarded.

You know, society with, you know, this.

Lincoln High School in southeast San Diego is, you know, it's a rough place to live.

Even many black families like Wallace avoided Lincoln.

At first, his mom sent him to San Diego High.

But the civil rights movement was unfolding across the country, and Lincoln gave black students a chance to explore their identity.

It offered African-American studies, and it hired the district's first African-American high school principal.

It was awakening time.

Future Olympian Jackie Thompson ran track for the school.

Then she says that most schools students weren't allowed to wear afros.

They couldn't be themselves.

It was different at Lincoln.

We were proud.

You know, we're proud of who we where we are.

You know, finally, you know.

So why do you say in black.

And I'm proud.

You know, while he says the civil rights movement sparked a decision for athletes from southeastern San Diego.

Look, if we all went to Lincoln, we can dominate the city, you know, and then show them what you know.

This black power is really all about, you know, in a positive way.

Instead of running from the stigma.

They'd return and prove it wrong.

Let's change the idea of what they think about us.

Period.

That decision was a turning point in a remarkable legacy.

More than 70 athletes from southeastern high schools have gone pro.

Katie Hyson, KPBS news.

And again, that is the first in a series that we'll have this week from Katie Hyson.

Part two will air Wednesday on Evening Edition.

Taking a look at our weather headlines here.

A calmer week of weather ahead.

Between the coastal flooding, those showers.

It's nice to have a little bit of a quieter pattern on the way.

Now, outside of that, there will be a little bit of a breeze and some coastal clouds Tuesday into Wednesday, and then temperatures certainly start to turn warmer.

High pressure in control A weak offshore flow starts to increase a bit by the weekend, so we'll eventually turn even warmer for our first weekend of November.

All right.

For tonight, a lot of 40s and 50s along the coast here.

San Diego, 56, Oceanside 49, Chula Vista 54.

Inland valleys will drop to the 40s and near 50.

Borrego Springs 48.

Mount Laguna at 42 degrees.

All right.

As we get into the day Tuesday, pleasant weather stretches across a lot of the southwest.

There will be some showers across Northern California, but will stay dry across San Diego County.

Let's take a look at temperatures.

High temperatures for the day tomorrow.

I mean, pretty consistent outside of the mountains.

We're all into the 70s with some sunshine.

How about Oceanside and San Diego?

Escondido at 75 degrees, Chula Vista.

We can tag you on there as well.

And then Borrego Springs, 78 degrees and Mount Laguna and a cool 58 degrees.

All right through the day on Wednesday.

Continuing to have a pleasant stretch of weather, US showers and even some rain and snow make its way back across Utah and Colorado.

A beautiful week ahead.

But as I mentioned, things will turn much warmer by the weekend as mid to upper 70s become 80s on Saturday at the coast.

All right.

How does that trend for the inland valleys?

Well, we'll be into the mid to upper 70s for the remainder of the week.

But then Friday into Saturday low to mid 80s with lots of sunshine.

All right.

For the mountains we stay cool and actually get a little bit cooler by Thursday before temperatures return to the 60s on Saturday and into the deserts.

We'll stay comfortable Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

By Friday and Saturday, highs only into the lower end of the 80s.

For KPBS news, I'm Ariella Scalese.

Students at Cal State San Marcos are raising money to support people with rare diseases.

The fundraiser was inspired by a marine veteran who is part of the university community and is now battling a rare cancer.

KPBS military and veterans reporter Andrew Dyer has more from the campus.

It's drizzling on and off at Cal State San Marcos, but there's no weather delays in this kickball tournament.

Students are raising money for the National Organization for Rare Disorders.

Ignored.

Marine veteran Jason Beyer says he chose to help raise money for the nonprofit after being diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer.

I was recently diagnosed with a very rare form of skin cancer called portal carcinoma.

Porocarcinoma is a cancer of the sweat glands.

Beyers receiving treatment from the VA medical center.

He served two tours as a marine in Iraq and served in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor.

Ten years ago, he survived a battle with testicular cancer.

He thinks it's all connected.

I can count on several here on both hands.

How many veterans I know in my personal life that are coming down with several severe cancers.

And eventually the Pact act was passed that acknowledge, hey, there's something going on with these veterans that have been exposed to environmental health exposures.

A Pact act, expanded health conditions the VA considered related to environmental factors like Agent Orange in Vietnam and burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The VA was testicular cancer among those conditions.

Porocarcinoma isn't on the list.

If I can get healthy enough, then that's going to be the next step is trying to connect the dots.

Beyers connection to the university goes back a decade.

That's when, as an undergraduate, he joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

They really came through and supported me during my time when I had to secure their cancer.

Jonah Arue is a senior at CSU San Marcos and a member of Kappa Sigma.

Well, obviously it's a small school, but, we do have a Greek life here, too.

We try to do everything we can to support, wherever.

Jason Beyers has done a lot for our chapter, and we wanted to work hard this week just to give back to him and support him through this hard time of dealing with this rare disease.

Kappa Sigma raised more than $4,000 for Nord during its fundraiser.

Beyers also works with veterans in North County, where he runs the Veterans History Project at the university.

He records stories from veterans that are archived at the University Library and the Library of Congress.

That project is on hold while he again battles cancer.

In San Marcos, Andrew Dyer, KPBS news.

And another good resource for election night coverage is our public media partner, KQED, in the Bay area.

Their latest Political Breakdown podcast dives into changing voter sentiment and how people are absorbing information.

Here's a portion of that episode with host Marisa Lagos.

Hey there from KQED in San Francisco.

This is political breakdown.

I'm Marisa Lagos.

Today on the breakdown, the bulwark CEO and publisher Sarah Longwell has spoken with thousands of American voters over the past decade.

A former Republican strategist who left the party after President Trump's first election.

She's become one of the nation's preeminent experts on voter sentiment.

Thanks to the hundreds of focus groups she's led, she recently wrote a book about what she's learned in those focus groups and her own political journey.

It is called How to Eat an Elephant, one voter at a time.

On the eve of the midterm elections, I am thrilled to welcome Sarah Longwell back to the break down to talk about the state of U.S.

politics in 2026.

Hey, Sarah.

Hey.

How you doing?

Thanks for having me.

Well, let's talk a little bit about the sort of current state of affairs.

So you kind of alluded to this, but I wonder, like, what do you feel like has changed most dramatically among Trump voters and Republicans more broadly since you started these focus groups nearly a decade ago?

And is that driven by just like, the politics or is the media ecosystem like other elements?

You know, part of that?

Yeah.

I mean, one of the chapters in the book that I like the most is where I talk about the way that voters get their information, because to me, this has been one of the big it's not an imperceptible shift, but I think sometimes until you really lay it out for people, you're like, I've heard a lot of people talk to me about that chapter being like, I hadn't really thought about it that way before.

And I'll give you an example, which is I talk about the difference now between news seekers and news receivers.

So those of us who are sort of sick in the head stick in the head.

That's right.

Yeah.

Right.

But it it used to be that, that most Americans spent time with the news at some point.

Right.

They read the newspaper in the morning over breakfast or they watched the evening news, or maybe they watched cable, but like they had this time that they spent to gain information.

And over time, the amount of incoming for voters that is on their phones, that is just them scrolling.

That is the extent to which politics permeates.

Like there's not specific time with the news.

There's just an algorithm that washes over people.

And so we ask voters in the groups and have for years and years where they get their information.

And it used to be that people could tell you where they were seeing some information, and now they say, I don't know where I saw this, like the constant state of I heard this somewhere, I saw this somewhere, I have no idea.

Which means they had no way to adjudicate in their minds whether that information was correct.

It was a scrolling headline.

It was their favorite cooking influencer.

It was on TikTok.

It was on Instagram.

They heard a celebrity say it like they don't know.

And so we've always had this phrase called low information voters.

And I don't have a new phrase exactly.

But I sort of want it to be like like information overwhelmed voters.

Which, again, is to say, people who are not purposefully seeking out the news or information and their ability to adjudicate it, it's that it hits them from all these places and it kind of levels up to a thing that political scientists would never call it this, but I will vibes, right?

And I talk a lot about the rise of the vibes voter.

And I think we used to have this.

It used to be axiomatic that politics was downstream from culture, and now I think culture and politics is just much more fuzed, in part because of the way the information environment is hitting us all, because it's changed so much.

Political breakdown is available wherever you get your podcasts.

You can also find KQED coverage of state wide election issues@kqed.org.

Dia de Muertos events wrap up tonight.

One place where you can find local tributes to departed loved ones is@kpbs.org, and we would like to thank everyone who participated in this year's display.

Our digital ofrenda is available in English and in Spanish, and we have had more than 500 submissions from the local community.

Thank you so much.

And you can find tonight's stories right there on our website kpbs.org Thank you for joining us tonight.

I'm Maya Trabulsi.

Enjoy your evening.

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