Here's your midday update on everything happening in San Diego, the nation and the world on Wednesday, October 6, 2021.
TEXAS TRAGEDY
·Police on scene of active shooter situation at Arlington high school, multiple people shot: report
ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
·Hospital system says it will deny transplants to the unvaccinated in ‘almost all situations’
·ESPN Reportedly Suspends Star Following Her Comments About The Vaccine And Obama
·Mike Tyson got vaxxed, but was 'beaten into submission'
·Moderna Founders Make Forbes List Of Richest During Pandemic
·HHS vaccination ads use a new tactic to increase Covid-19 vaccination rates: fear
·MERCK Sells Covid Pill Molnupiravir for 40 Times Cost
·You Got Lost and Had to Be Rescued. Should You Pay?
NEW NORMAL
·Experts Say Prices At Grocery Stores Will Continue To Rise For Year
·The Housing Boom Is Not A Bubble
·You’ve gotten a pandemic refund for your car insurance. You may soon get more
·Texas man sentenced to 15 months in prison for posting Covid-19 hoax on social media
IDAHOLD ON JUST A DARN MINUTE!
·Second-In-Command Bans Vaccine Mandates For Schools While Governor Leaves Idaho
·Idaho lt. gov. tries to send National Guard to border while governor is away
BORDER BATTLE
·Former ICE official blasts Mayorkas: 'He's watching border be overrun and he's proud of it'
·Republicans demand Biden admin outline steps to rein in migrant crisis
·Suspected cartel gunmen flaunt AK-47s, taunt Texas National Guard at southern border, officials say
DEALING DEBT
·Democrats Weigh Filibuster Change to Solve Debt Ceiling Fight
·What benefits are likely to survive in a smaller spending plan
·Sinema and Manchin could pay dearly for their penny-pinching obstinacy
·Biden goes against progressives, says he would sign reconciliation bill into law with Hyde Amendment
·US Department of Education overhauls Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
WATCHING YOU
·Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Searched A Sexual Assault Victim’s Name
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
·Only certain opinions should be freely allowed on social media sites, Don Lemon says
DRILLING DEEPER
·How a coast crowded with ships, port gridlock and an anchor may have caused O.C. oil spill
·Why do we still have offshore oil wells? How do they work?
·We learned nothing from previous oil spills. Will we learn from this one?
WATERWORLD
·Los Angeles shifts water supplies as drought hammers State Water Project
·Drought wants to knock out this small California town. The people who love it are trying to save it
·In California, some buy machines that make water out of air
ONCE BITTEN
·Reality TV bounty hunter's daughter calls Brian Laundrie hunt a 'publicity stunt'