The Midday News Report

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. Riverside County returns to the most restrictive purple tier under the governor’s color-coded coronavirus regulatory scheme.
2. A feared jump in coronavirus hospitalizations hasn’t happened, instead falling by 15%.
3. Californians are voting on Prop 24, which would tweak the state’s new digital privacy law.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. The San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters says early voting numbers are up compared to the 2016 election.
2. Environmental leaders in California are meeting this week to brainstorm how to reach climate goals by the year 2045.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. California’s annual Great Shakeout earthquake drill is happening today, virtually.
2. DEA announces biggest meth bust in U.S. history in the southland.
3. Meteorologists expect dry, warm, and windy weather in Northern California, which present the perfect conditions for more wildfires.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. The bulk of Riverside County’s CARES Act funds are already spent or committed.
2. California voters will decide on Proposition 15 this fall, which would raise taxes on big businesses.
3. Proposition 22 would allow companies to classify gig company workers as contractors and that would require the companies to offer new benefits to drivers.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. A Big Bear firefighter who went missing September 20 may have been picked up by a car.
2. A local Red Flag warning has been declared until 7pm across the entire region, with various fires still burning.
3. Amidst wildfires, experts are looking for real fire solutions and calling for cultural change in California.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. Last week, San Bernardino’s School Board became the first in the Inland Empire to make student voter education a requirement.
2. To respond to the 2020 Census, fill out the paper questionnaire mailed out in April or go to my2020census.gov. You can also respond by phone by calling 844-330-2020 or visit the Census website for a phone number associated with your preferred language.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. Full containment is expected October 1 for the Snow Fire burning near Palm Springs.
2. On National Voter Registration Day, voters are urged to make a plan.
3. Governor Newsom announced $230 million to create homes for the homeless population to protect them from COVID-19.
4. Wildfires and hurricanes disrupt the final weeks of Census 2020.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. Affordable housing is not only an essential solution for fighting wildfires, but for addressing climate change.
2. A $1.2 billion program aimed at building housing for homeless people has been plagued by delays and soaring costs.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. COVID-19 hospitalizations and active cases continue to fall in Riverside County.
2. Firefighters are bracing for the challenge of Santa Ana wind conditions.
3. Governor Newsom says the PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoffs are  based on better protocols than last year.
4. Governor Newsom has relaxed coronavirus restrictions in five more counties, including San Diego, Orange, and Santa Clara.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. Riverside County reports drastic increase in coronavirus recoveries.
2. Healthcare workers rally for more PPE and passage of SB 275.
3. Some children who have struggled with learning remotely can go back to in-person school, which is important for children experiencing homelessness.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. Both Riverside and San Bernardino county case rates and the testing positivity rates are still too high to be removed.
2. Inland Empire businesses are having difficulty providing exact change due to a national coin shortage.
3. Fire crews from Nevada and Arizona are joining the battle against the nearly two dozen major wildfires burning in California.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. Dome Fire in Mojave National Preserve burns 42,700 acres.
2. California adds 5 counties to virus monitoring list and drops 1.
3. California physicians say safety precautions in place for COVID-19 could also help keep down other respiratory illnesses.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. A stretch of brutal heat begins Friday in Riverside County.
2. COVID forces major changes to prison education programs.
3. Governor Gavin Newsom proposed a handful of new pandemic relief measures for businesses, workers, and renters, but many of them would require legislative approval.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. Virtual classrooms open for fall term at Riverside Unified School District, with nearly 42,000 students enrolled.
2. Weather changes could test control of Apple Fire.
3. A heat wave is expected this weekend in Riverside County.
4. President Donald Trump is proposing new expanded unemployment benefits, but Governor Newsom says the plan won’t work in California.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. The “Festival of Lights” in Riverside will go ahead as planned during the Christmas season, but with limited city funding.
2. Youth sports are allowed to resume in Riverside County amid Coronavirus protocols.
3. The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians made the decision to cancel California’s largest pow wow which was planned for October.
4. New research shows that atmospheric rivers and snow droughts could become more common.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. The Apple Fire, which started Friday afternoon near Cherry Valley, is continuing to spread with 26,850 acres burned.
2. Health officials advised San Gorgonio Pass residents to avoid outdoor activity to minimize spoke exposure and ash from the Apple Fire.
3. Cases of COVID-19 in LA have surged since June and many suggest that the Black Lives Matter protests are to blame for the increase.

Monday through Thursday at lunchtime, Empire KVCR News has your daily news rundown. Stories highlighted today include:

1. Some state lawmakers want to raise taxes on the wealthiest Californians to boost funding for schools and unemployment benefits.
2. Governor Newsom announced a broad plan to help prevent future water challenges.
3. California lawmakers advance three bills spurred by the coronavirus.
4. Some California schools want waivers to allow classroom instruction despite the coronavirus.