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9 Stories You Should Know About Today

Dan Brekke
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Flooding in Pacifica early Thursday morning on Clarendon Road. (Steve Byrne/KQED)

  • CHP defends undercover officer who pulled gun on Oakland protesters (KQED News):

    A plainclothes California Highway Patrol officer brandished his firearm at a group of about 50 people during an Oakland protest Wednesday night decrying police brutality. Full story

  • Our storm moves south to L.A. (Los Angeles Times):

    The storm washed out roads and buried homes in mud and debris across Southern California and continued its march into Orange County, where authorities issued mandatory evacuations for residents near a fire-scarred mountain Friday morning. Full story

  • Storm begins to refill reservoirs (San Jose Mercury News):

    After three years of relentlessly bad news about California's historic drought, the drenching storm that barreled in Thursday from Hawaii finally delivered the state some desperately needed good news. Full story

  • Rainpocalypse 2014: a Twitter visualization (SFist):

    While the rest of us were tweeting about the storm, weather, flooding, etc, one guy apparently decided to take our social media grousing and turn it into something lovely. Full story

  • BART's spiffy new half-billion-dollar Oakland airport train breaks down (San Francisco Chronicle):

    The new BART connector to Oakland International Airport was out of service Friday morning because of a mechanical problem, an agency spokesman said. BART issued an advisory shortly before 10 a.m. about the issue. The disruption on the Oakland Airport Connector means BART riders can’t ride directly to and from the airport. Full story

  • New mayor: 'Come discover Oakland's awesomeness' (San Francisco Business Times):

    Oakland Mayor Elect Libby Schaaf says that despite rising rents, the city is still a more affordable place for people to live and do business than San Francisco. Full story

  • Irrigators' suit against San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy project to be heard in California (Fresno Bee):

    California farmers suddenly care about preserving water supplies for endangered smelt, salmon and sturgeon, at least as a way to jab at San Francisco’s own water use. Full story

  • Support for gun control slips as media loses interest (FiveThirtyEight):

    Gun control advocates had hoped the Dec. 14, 2012, mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, would spark a movement for stricter gun laws. And support for gun control did initially rise. But as we approach the two-year anniversary of the massacre, it’s support for gun rights that is at an all-time high. Full story

  • Jahi McMath: Still hooked to machines a year later (San Francisco Chronicle):

    A year ago, 13-year-old Jahi McMath underwent a tonsillectomy and tissue removal at Children's Hospital in Oakland, California, to treat sleep apnea. The girl suffered massive bleeding, had a heart attack and was declared brain-dead Dec. 12. Full story

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