KBUU Newswire – Your Complete Edition of Malibu’s Only Local Daily News – Thursday
Written by 991KBU on April 2, 2020
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Day 510 – the Thursday Headlines:
- = The backbone trail is closed … except where it is open … and it will close this weekend. We will explain.
- = Should you wear a mask to the market? Yes says the mayor of L-A.
- = Crackdown on construction workers violating COVID-19 guidelines.
- = One day after making nice … another fight between the sheriff and the Board of Supervisors.
- = And the Planning Commission will try to get back to business Monday.
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Malibu’s Only Local Daily News … from Radio Malibu …. F-M 99 point 1 K B U U. Good morning … I’m Hans Laetz reporting.
Traffic is … coronavirus light.
The weather is …. light drizzle/mist in parts of Malibu this morning.
And the surf is … off limits.
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LATE UPDATE: Five COVID-19 cases now confirmed in Malibu, but infection rate here seems low according to new calculations. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/malibu-has-5-confirmed-covid-19-cases-but-infection-rate-here-appears-low/
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The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area has not closed its hiking trails. Until now. But only on weekends, and only in Ventura County. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/nps-closes-its-trails-but-only-on-weekends-crazy-quilt-pattern-of-covid-closures-in-local-mountains/
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For the first time since the Coronavirus crisis hit … the Malibu Planning Commission will meet next Monday. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/cuthbert-house-goes-beforeplanning-commission-over-the-phones-monday/
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Malibu officials are looking at construction workers … and demanding they practice social distancing rules on the job. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/city-demands-builders-to-obey-health-rules-to-prevent-sickness/
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In any other circumstances … this would be suspect as a bad April’s Fools Day joke.
Yesterday, April First, the state government announced that all school classes will be cancelled until summer.
Distance learning only.
No more classes … no more books … as Alice Cooper would say.
All energy by the state’s school districts is to be poured into distance learning.
Santa Monica-Malibu superintendent Ben Drati alerts parents that teachers and principals are working on additional details regarding our continued plans for distance learning … and additional resources for our families during this difficult time.
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The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department has sent 209 employees home to quarantine because of exposure to the coronavirus.
And the Los Angeles Times reports that issues over their pay have caused another squabble between Sheriff Alex Villanueva and county leaders.
Villanueva is asking for the county secure retroactive pay for quarantined employees.
He says they have had to dip into their personal sick leave prior to Wednesday, when federal benefits for workers impacted by the virus took effect.
Villanueva said there was at least one employee exposed to the virus on patrol who had not accrued enough sick time to stay compensated through the quarantine period.
The sheriff writes that the least we can do is fully compensate these men and women for their daily sacrifices by covering their COVID-19 related absence from work.
The county’s chief executive, Sachi Hamai, fired back, according to the L A Times.
She says that Villanueva continues to bring issues to the news media “with the sole purpose of picking a political fight.”
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“The Sheriff is responsible for his own decisions if he ordered employees to be placed on home leave,” Hamai said in the statement. “As a department head, he should be well aware that employees he orders to stay at home should be placed on paid administrative leave.”
That story is reported by the L A Times.
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(((( A deep marine layer will keep clouds locked over the coasts/valleys until late this morning, then sunshine )))) … highs (((( 64 )))) beaches … (((( 70 )))) mountains and canyons.
Downcoast winds … ((( up to 10 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 7:16 )))).
After that … ((( windy )))) tonight … low (((( 52 )))) beaches … (((( 45 )))) mountains and canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( much the same )))).
Right now here at the KBUU studios in Trancas … it’s (((( )))) degrees.
Leo Carrillo beach … ((( ))).
Paradise Cove … ((( ))).
Big Rock … ((( ))).
In upper Malibu Canyon … ((( ))).
Calabasas … ((( ))).
And Civic Center L-A … ((( ))).
In the ocean … it’s (((( )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
Mo says the waves at Surfrider Beach today are (((( )))) feet high ….
Those are (((( fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to Mo.
((((( tide is at
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