"California Attorney General Rob Bonta dropped a lawsuit against the federal government for freezing $4 billion in funds that were allocated for the California high speed rail. California is still moving forward with the project, utilizing $1 billion in state funding from the annual cap-and-trade instead, which was approved this year, along with potential private partnerships. Residents in Daly City's Broadmoor neighborhood experienced waist-deep flooding Christmas morning due to outdated drainage pipes combined with the torrential rain."
"In addition to BART fares increasing by 6.2%, tolls on seven Bay Area bridges will go up by 50 cents January 1, including the Bay, Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael and San Mateo-Hayward bridges, but not the Golden Gate Bridge. The 60 tenants who were displaced by the large fire in the Tenderloin earlier in December still haven't been able to retrieve their belongings from the building, and they're demanding answers from Mosser, the building's management company."
A surfer at Dillon Beach reported being smacked from below by a presumed great white that left a nose imprint on his surfboard; the surfer was uninjured. A hiker in Redwood City's Edgewood Park was stranded overnight on Christmas Eve after getting lost around 9:30 pm and losing phone power; he was found uninjured the next morning. Attorney General Rob Bonta dropped a lawsuit over frozen federal high-speed rail funds, and California will proceed using $1 billion in cap-and-trade funds and potential private partnerships. Torrential rain caused waist-deep flooding in Daly City's Broadmoor due to outdated drainage. BART fares rise 6.2% and tolls on seven Bay Area bridges increase by 50 cents on January 1. Sixty tenants displaced by a Tenderloin fire still cannot retrieve belongings from the building. Raw oysters are suspected in a salmonella outbreak affecting 64 people across 22 states, with about 20 hospitalizations and no reported deaths.
#shark-encounter #flooding-and-infrastructure #transit-fares--bridge-tolls #high-speed-rail-funding #salmonella-outbreak
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