Border crossing at San Ysidro closed down for hours after migrants rush port of entry in chaotic scene
LA Times's WENDY FRY/MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKE/CINDY CARCAMO/ALENE TCHEKMEDYIAN: "Weeks of growing tensions in Tijuana over thousands of migrants who have poured in hoping to enter the United States boiled over Sunday when a group of them rushed the border, prompting U.S. Border Patrol agents to fire tear gas to disperse them."
"The clash marked a significant escalation in the migrant crisis at the border as well as the U.S. political debate about immigration policy and border security. President Trump in recent weeks has vowed to seal off the Mexican border and is pushing to keep any migrants in Mexico as they wait to file claims seeking refuge in the U.S."
"A growing number of migrants from Central America has made the arduous trek up through Mexico in caravans to seek asylum or escape economic hardship in the United States. Many are from Honduras, a country plagued by poverty and violence."
Mexico to deport migrants who rushed US border
AP: "The Latest on the migrant caravan pushing toward the U.S. border (all times local):
4:30 p.m."
"The Mexican Interior Ministry has said it would immediately deport Central American migrants who tried to "violently" breach the border with the U.S. just south of California and that it would reinforce the border."
"There were no signs of injury in the disturbance, the captain said, but officers took photographs and made video recordings"
READ MORE related to Immigration: Undocumented teen, in custody for almost a year, ordered released -- The Chronicle's BOB EGELKO; US agents fire tear gas as some migrants try to breach fence -- AP's CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN; Incoming Medxico gov't: No deal to host US asylum seekers -- The Chronicle's AMY GUTHRIE
As Camp Fire reaches 100 percent containment, death count drops due to authorities' error
Sacramento Bee's VINCENT MOLESKI: "The Camp Fire, which has ravaged Butte County and demolished the town of Paradise, reached full containment Sunday morning with the number of reported deaths now standing at 85."
"An error came when two case numbers were added by mistake and the death toll that was reported at 87 around 8 p.m. Saturday. Officials revised the number to 85, according to a news release issued just after 9 p.m. Saturday by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office."
"Authorities found the remains of three people on Saturday, but had previously added two deaths to the number in error, the Sheriff’s Office said in the statement."
READ MORE related to Camp Fire: Some who managed to escape the devastating Camp Fire struggle with 'survivor's guilt' -- LA Times's LAURA NEWBERRY
Paradise educators find resilience amid fire's destruction
EdSource's DAVID WASHBURN/DIANA LAMBERT: "They can’t dwell on what the fire has taken from them, or the losses still to come. So they focus on Dec. 3. That’s the day people responsible for the Paradise Unified School District want school to be back in session."
“What will it look like? We don’t know,” said Kindra Britt, a public information officer with the Placer County Office of Education and one of many from outside Butte County who’ve joined the recovery effort. “People are running on fumes — they’re running on less than fumes. It gives them a lot of hope to know there will be a date, that on Dec. 3 something will happen."
"When that day arrives, it will have been 25 days since Nov. 8, the day the Camp Fire decimated the town of Paradise and neighboring communities, claiming at least 79 lives and consuming more than 10,000 buildings. The wildfire, the deadliest in California history, either destroyed or badly damaged all nine campuses in Paradise Unified along with six charter schools. At latest count, some 700 people were still missing."
Natural disasters will be a priority for incoming governors
AP's GEOFF MULVIHILL: "Governors have a wide range of priorities they want to tackle in the coming year, from tax reform to education. Yet it's a topic that receives less attention on the campaign trail and in their speeches that could determine their success — natural disasters."
"In the last two years alone, storms and natural disasters have killed scores of people, damaged or destroyed tens of thousands of homes and cost tens of billions of dollars."
"Wildfires in the West and hurricanes in the South have been especially destructive, and scientists say climate change is making this more common. As the severity escalates, governors are finding they have to make disaster planning a priority or risk the consequences of inaction defining their terms and enraging voters."
Top California Democrat investigated for sexual misconduct
Sacramento Bee's ALEXEI KOSEFF: "The California Democratic Party is investigating a sexual misconduct complaint against Chairman Eric Bauman after one of his deputies this week called for his removal."
"“I take seriously any allegation brought forward by anyone who believes they have been caused pain,” Bauman said in a statement Saturday night. “To that end, a prompt, thorough and independent investigation of the allegations has been undertaken by a respected outside investigator, ensuring these individuals making the charges are treated with respect and free from any concerns of retaliation.”
“I look forward to putting these allegations behind us and moving forward as unified Democrats,” he added."
49ers release Reuben Foster after string of domestic violence disturbances
The Chronicle's EVAN SERNOFFSKY/ERIC BRANCH/STEVE RUBENSTEIN: "A month before San Francisco 49ers linebacker Reuben Foster was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence in Tampa, Fla., and let go by the team Sunday, he and his girlfriend were involved in another domestic disturbance in Santa Clara, police said."
"In that incident, a neighbor called police on Oct. 12 shortly after 11 p.m. to report a loud argument between the couple at their apartment on Carlyle Court. Police said the two had been yelling at each other “over material found on his cell phone,” according to police Capt. Wahid Kazem."
Storms in Bay Area translate into big Lake Tahoe snowfall
The Chronicle's ASHLEY MCBRIDE: "Storm systems fanned out across the Bay Area this week to dump some much-needed rain and deliver Lake Tahoe its first significant snowfall, just in time to open the winter season."
"Kirkwood Mountain Resort, south of Lake Tahoe, reported 18 inches since the storms began Tuesday, while Northstar California Resort, which is northwest of the lake, saw 13 inches. Meanwhile, Heavenly Mountain Resort above South Lake Tahoe reported 6 inches of snow."
“People always say, ‘Oh, it’s early-season conditions, has the snow really started to fall yet?’” said Stephanie Myers, a spokeswoman for the resorts. “It’s absolutely coming down at Kirkwood right now."
NASA's Mars InSight has traveled 300 million miles. The last one will be the most critical
LA Times's JULIA ROSEN: "On Sunday, about a dozen engineers and scientists gathered in the mission control room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They listened intently through headsets while training their eyes on a curving wall of monitors to follow the progress of the InSight spacecraft as it made its final approach to Mars."
"Had it received their message through 90 million miles of cosmic nothingness?"
"It had. Just before 2 p.m., InSight fired its thrusters and banked a hair to the southwest."
For the principal with the most homeless students in LA, the reality of poverty is personal
LA Times's STEVE LOPEZ: "I didn’t know anything about Jose Razo’s back story when I first reached out to him. I was simply checking in with the principal who leads the L.A. Unified campus that has more students classified as homeless than any other."
"For me, it’s personal,” the 43-year-old Razo told me one morning in a tight office with no room for one more box, folder, motivational poster or paper clip. “I do see myself in the faces of the students who walk through these hallways."
"That’s because years ago, he lived as so many of them do today."
Fox News launches 'Fox Nation' as news networks try to catch streaming wave
LA Times's STEPHEN BATTAGLIO: "Whenever longtime Fox News executive John Finley walks through an airport in Dallas carrying a bag emblazoned with his company’s logo, strangers who are viewers of the cable channel come up to him and say, “Thank you."
"The words are less kind when he’s in politically liberal strongholds such as New York or Beverly Hills. But Finley believes the devotion to the conservative-leaning cable news channel in red states is deep enough that fans will shell out an extra $5.99 a month for an over-the-top streaming channel with Fox programming."
"The service from Fox News, called Fox Nation, debuts Tuesday. It offers commentary programs, specialty shows and documentaries that feature familiar personalities including Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, Laura Ingraham and Dana Perino."
