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Good morning, San Diego ☀️
Here’s what we have for you today:
- Get ahead of your holiday shopping, and do it local— Mission Trails’ annual Holiday Marketplace is back today and tomorrow.
- Tune into San Diego State’s men’s soccer team tonight as they vie for a spot in the DI men’s soccer tournament.
Andrew Keatts
General manager and editor
Top story
‘National equipment outage’ stops flights for hours at the nation’s airports
At least 297 flights were delayed and 166 canceled Friday at San Diego International Airport, after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights nationwide due to communications issues affecting air traffic control towers.
“There has been a temporary telecommunications outage — out of an abundance of caution all flights have been halted,” the FAA said in a statement at 2 p.m. Friday. “Every flight has been accounted for and international flights will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
The FAA did not immediately announce the cause of the nationwide ground stop — the first since 2023 and second since Sep. 11, 2001 — as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the technicians were still investigating.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said there was no indication of a nefarious act causing the issue.
The rare shutdown led to a total of 297 delays at San Diego International Airport, and 166 cancellations, according to Flight Aware
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Stories you should know about
🎮 TwitchCon highlights live-streaming culture, bringing top content creators, gamers, more to San Diego: Thousands of streamers are descending on downtown San Diego this weekend, as one of the biggest events in the fast-growing live-streaming world comes to town.
🥕 Officials make workforce training part of CalFresh eligibility: State leaders are turning to workforce training programs as a way to keep CalFresh recipients from getting kicked off the program by federal changes enacted by the Trump administration last year, which require recipients work or be enrolled in school for about 20 hours per week.
🚔 Detectives arrest man suspected of fondling 5-year-old in Mission Beach: After police asked the public for help identifying a man accused of committing a lewd act on a 5-year-old girl, they identified the 65-year-old man and booked him into San Diego Central Jail.
What else we’re reading
🏨 Plans for a new hotel on Harbor Island have been delayed once again, with developers of the decade-old project asking Port of San Diego officials for two more years to break ground on the $200 million development. (Union-Tribune)
📝 The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider the legality of the Trump administration’s ban on migrants seeking asylum at the southern border, after lower courts struck it down. (NBC 7)
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What to do this weekend
Need weekend plans? We’ve got you. ⭐ = free
🎨 Barrio Art Crawl at Mercado Del Barrio (Today, 12 p.m.–5 p.m.) ⭐️
🌸 Yokohama Festival at Balboa Park (Today, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.)
🚶 HomeAid San Diego Step Up!, Mission Bay Park (Sunday, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.)