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As California leaders rush to shield the state from a Trump agenda, preserving reproductive freedoms stands as a top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance/\">a special session for next month\u003c/a> to “Trump-proof” California, and he’s hiring lawyers to prepare for Day 1 of the Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it be our fundamental civil rights, reproductive freedom, or climate action — we refuse to turn back the clock and allow our values and laws to be attacked,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When CalMatters first reported on the ultimatum in September, the California Department of Health Care Services didn’t provide specific figures detailing how much the state receives in federal reimbursements for reproductive health care provided through \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/medi-cal/\">Medi-Cal\u003c/a>. The department now says the federal government reimbursed California about $310.7 million for reproductive health care last year, according to California Department of Health Care Services figures. In the previous year, the state received $334.5 million. That funding supports Medi-Cal, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acog.org/advocacy/policy-priorities/medicaid#:~:text=Medicaid%20is%20the%20largest%20single,ensuring%20healthy%20moms%20and%20babies.\">single largest payer\u003c/a> of maternity care in the country. Medi-Cal covers about 14.2 million Californians. All told, the federal government reimbursed the state $90.9 billion for Medi-Cal last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Project 2025, all 50 states would be mandated to report detailed abortion-related data to the federal government, including information such as the reason for the abortion, the fetus’ gestational age, the birthing parent’s state of residence, whether the procedure was surgical or medication-induced, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, California, Maryland, and New Hampshire do not require abortion providers to share patient data with the federal government. Shortly after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the California Department of Public Health said that it does not report abortion data federally because\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/06/abortion-data-california/\"> it is not legally obligated to do so\u003c/a>. States that do collect abortion data typically use it for public health analyses, which can help identify gaps in care and improve access to services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office did not provide details on the projected costs of lawyering up but said the governor plans for legislation to give additional resources to the California Department of Justice and other state agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These resources are intended “to pursue robust affirmative litigation against any unlawful actions by the incoming Trump administration, as well as defend against federal lawsuits aimed at undermining California’s laws and policies,” the governor’s office said. “The funding will support the ability to immediately file litigation and seek injunctive relief against unlawful federal actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 779px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/081423-Project-2025-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"779\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/081423-Project-2025-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 779w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/081423-Project-2025-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Eichamer, center, talks to fairgoers at the Project 2025 tent at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, on Aug. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trump tapped two individuals associated with Project 2025 for roles in his administration. 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His stance on abortion has been notably inconsistent over time. In May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovu7Hu1oEiQ&t=1s\">he expressed\u003c/a> support for unrestricted abortion access, stating he opposed any government restrictions, “even if it’s full term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he later revised his position, advocating for legal \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/abortion/\">abortion\u003c/a> up to the point of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3000858/rfk-jr-walks-back-stance-abortion/\">fetal viability\u003c/a>, the stage at which a fetus can potentially survive outside the womb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Severino, who served as the Department of Health and Human Services director of the Office for Civil Rights under Trump, authored Project 2025’s abortion surveillance plan. He is now the vice president of domestic policy at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025. He declined an interview request.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12015752,news_12013882,forum_2010101906159\"]Severino’s vision for remaking the department is a cornerstone of Project 2025’s effort to impose stricter federal oversight on abortion practices, particularly targeting states like California, which offers greater access to abortion services than most other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, [the Department of Health and Human Services] should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-14.pdf\">the chapter (PDF)\u003c/a> on abortion reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential fallout isn’t limited to California. 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Stone Ridge Christian High School in Merced could face sanctions from California’s high school sports governing body after it forfeited a playoff girls’ volleyball game on Saturday against San Francisco Waldorf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do at Stone Ridge Christian Academy reflects Biblical truth,” Julie Fagundes, campus administrator at Stone Ridge Christian Academy, said in an emailed statement. “Girls must compete against girls in sports because that is how God created us and SRC will not be complicit in a false message about sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fagundes sent a letter to parents claiming Waldorf has “a male athlete playing for their team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really, really hurtful, I think, to take such a tiny little minority community and target them cruelly and attempting to ban them from accessing things that not just that they enjoy, but that actually help them develop into better people,” said Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interscholastic Federation has a policy stating all students are permitted to participate in gender-separated sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007485 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Waldorf has not responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for civil rights and trans inclusion say there is an essential flaw in arguments that excluding trans athletes protects the rights and safety of women and girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can actually go to Riley Gaines’ Twitter, and she’ll specifically say that it was never about [competitive] advantages,” said independent journalist Erin Reed, who covers anti-trans legislation nationwide. “And that’s why you see bans in things like chess and darts and fishing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Public health experts are using the recent discovery of bird flu genes in raw milk sold in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> earlier this month to underscore the risks of consuming unpasteurized dairy products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The virus was found while testing a batch of cream top, whole raw milk produced by Raw Farm that prompted a warning from the California Department of Public Health. Fresno-based Raw Farm, which sells raw milk, cream, butter and cheddar cheese, according to the company’s website, issued a voluntary recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes several months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986062/bird-flu-hits-us-dairy-cows-raw-milk-drinkers-arent-deterred\">bird flu hit dairy cows\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012121/bird-flu-jumped-from-cows-to-people-now-advocates-want-more-farmworkers-tested\">jumped to people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No illnesses associated with this lot of raw milk have been reported,” the Department of Public Health said in a statement. “Out of an abundance of caution, and due to the ongoing spread of bird flu in dairy cows, poultry, and sporadic human cases, consumers should not consume any of the affected raw milk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts have repeatedly warned that consuming raw milk or raw milk products leads to elevated risks of foodborne illness because raw milk products are not pasteurized, the federally regulated heating process that kills bacteria and viruses such as bird flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidance might change as raw milk proponents have a champion in Robert F. 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If Kennedy, who has been a prominent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015810/rfk-jr-fought-californias-vaccine-mandates-and-lost-now-he-could-set-us-health-policy\">anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist\u003c/a>, is confirmed by the Senate as the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, he could shake up the country’s food regulations and shape vaccine and drug policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12015119 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/479421059_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once bird flu was detected in the state’s dairy herds, the California Department of Food and Agriculture began weekly testing at farms. With about one-third of California’s dairy herds now affected, local public health officials began inspections of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to CDPH, the County of Santa Clara Public Health Laboratory has been testing raw milk products in retail stores as a second line of consumer protection. On Nov. 21, a PCR test found genetic traces of bird flu in a jug of raw milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Raw Farm CEO Mark McAfee pointed out that the sample did not contain the live virus. He added that even if the genetic material could be cultured and grown into a live virus, there is no evidence that cow milk transmits bird flu to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember, the current thinking from the FDA is that this is a terrible virus. You don’t want to have anything to do with it because it may make you sick,” he said. “Well, there’s no evidence of that. Show me one person that’s gotten sick across the United States from consumption of raw milk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has said that he drinks raw milk. In a May advisory on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/dangers-raw-milk-unpasteurized-milk-can-pose-serious-health-risk\">dangers of raw milk\u003c/a>, the FDA stated that unpasteurized milk “can harbor dangerous germs that can pose serious health risks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very inconvenient truth time, as Al Gore would say. This is a time of battle between RFK — Bobby Jr. Kennedy — and the FDA,” insisted McAfee, who said the company’s raw milk continues to sell. “We have never been worse off in America in our health because our gut microbiome, which is 80% of our immune system, is shot. We want to build that back better by building back all the elements found in raw milk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maurice Pitesky, a bird flu expert and an associate professor at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, maintains that raw milk should not be sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2021, he has witnessed bird flu \u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/77e38ab79bfe416ca6d72b796612ee83/\">spread\u003c/a> from a small cluster of cases among wild birds in eastern Canada to the West Coast, evolving along the way. It is now believed to cause not only respiratory symptoms but also conjunctivitis, commonly known as pink eye, which is likely transmitted through close contact with infected animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we going to put a little warning label that says, ‘Don’t rub this milk accidentally on your eyes?’” Pitesky said. “To me, that just seems like we’re playing with fire a little.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since early October, California has reported 29 confirmed human cases of bird flu, according to CDPH. Of those cases, 28 people had direct contact with infected dairy cows and all cases had mild symptoms, primarily eye infections. 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Convincing voters to give the city more of their money could be challenging, though, as the budget crisis has threatened \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">major cuts\u003c/a> and Oakland is navigating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014397/parents-teachers-say-oakland-school-mergers-could-hurt-students-in-the-flatlands\">possible public school mergers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials warned council members last week that Oakland will have to declare a state of fiscal emergency if it can’t cure a $115 million budget deficit by next summer — a task that becomes impossible if changes aren’t made before the new year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is currently implementing a lean \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">contingency budget\u003c/a> since revenue from the sale of its 50% stake in the Oakland Coliseum has been held up by timeline renegotiations and, more recently, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, which has to approve the parallel sale of the A’s share to the same developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the contingency took effect in September, Oakland has implemented a hiring freeze, delayed a police academy class and halted unfinalized contracts and grants. 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"content": "\u003cp>Five years ago, hundreds of people crowded the halls of the state Capitol, protesting legislation that sought to tighten California’s vaccine rules. Outside, music blasted something about a revolution, and people carried signs that read, “Vaccine mandates violate bodily autonomy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the sea of red-clad protesters emerged a familiar face idolized \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-QfrVFUoD8\">by the anti-vaccine activists\u003c/a>: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the guest of honor in one of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/09/california-legislature-protest-menstrual-blood-ani-vaccine/\">biggest public health showdowns\u003c/a> the state has seen in recent years. Ultimately, he and his followers lost — \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276\">the Legislature passed a law\u003c/a> to clamp down on fraudulent or inappropriate medical exemptions for required childhood vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Kennedy finds himself on a bigger stage with potentially far more influence and power. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated the former environmental lawyer turned controversial vaccine critic to oversee the nation’s health policy as secretary of health and human services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been known to make false, and at times dangerous, claims about medicine and public health. Perhaps most infamously, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/robert-kennedy-jrs-belief-in-autism-vaccine-connection-and-its-political-peril/2014/07/16/f21c01ee-f70b-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html\">linked vaccines to autism\u003c/a> — a claim that has been debunked over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with Kennedy in the running to lead the federal health department, health leaders and advocates in California and across the country are voicing their concerns and preparing to combat a potential wave of medical disinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a vaccine skeptic at the helm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, some say, could lead to more Americans refusing to be vaccinated and potentially putting lives at risk. It could also embolden the anti-vaccine movement in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/richard-pan/\">Dr. Richard Pan\u003c/a>, a pediatrician who, as a state senator, authored the 2019 medical exemption law and a separate law that eliminated personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccines, said having a health secretary who casts doubt on vaccines is “a danger” and “disturbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I imagine we’re going to see a lot more direct attacks on individual scientists, individual people. I’m anticipating that I’m probably gonna be hoisted somewhere by those guys as well. I don’t think RFK Jr. has forgotten about me yet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan said he met Kennedy twice when Kennedy traveled to Sacramento to oppose his bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrying those laws made Pan the subject of harassment and attacks, and at one point, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article234231737.html\">anti-vaccine activist shoved him\u003c/a> while Pan was walking in a Sacramento street. At protests, anti-vaccine activists plastered Pan’s face on posters with the word “LIAR” in red letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, people who rallied against his vaccine bills are celebrating Kennedy’s potential spot in Trump’s cabinet and calling for “justice” via social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of their last quarrels, Pan publicly called for Kennedy to be banned from social media platforms when Kennedy promoted COVID-19 disinformation. In response, Kennedy \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article249557493.html\">told the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> that Pan’s request for censorship was anti-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, Kennedy has taken a more measured approach when responding to questions about vaccines. Following Trump’s win, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fMfOnKUfik\">he told NBC News\u003c/a> that he isn’t looking to take vaccines off the market but rather is advocating for informed choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can RFK Jr. do as health secretary?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Kennedy is confirmed as head of health and human services, he would oversee a $1.7 trillion budget and about a dozen agencies. He would be responsible for managing pandemic preparedness and would be in charge of issues ranging from health insurance to food safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that any controversial changes would likely be met with litigation that could slow or derail Kennedy’s proposals. Still, there are several ways anti-vaccine sentiment in the federal government could undermine public health gains in states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, school immunization mandates are issued by states, and while the federal government cannot directly change those, it could decide to withhold public health funding, such as grants sent to states to help fund vaccination efforts, said Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Law San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As health secretary, Kennedy would also have the power to appoint members of an advisory committee that makes recommendations on immunization practices to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiss added that the health secretary also has the power to expedite or limit access to new vaccines, which would become especially important in the case of another pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the secretary of health and human services who declares a public health emergency and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization\">issues emergency use authorization\u003c/a> for unapproved vaccines. When COVID-19 shots were first made available to the public in December 2020, they were allowed under this emergency designation. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration fully approved the vaccine for people 16 and older nine months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A secretary hostile to vaccines could block or remove the emergency use authorization. That means the vaccine manufacturer “would have to either apply for full approval at the moment or not sell the vaccine,” Reiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy told NBC that he wouldn’t have “directly blocked” the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines had he been secretary at the time but rather would have made sure that “we have the best science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, at the height of the pandemic, Kennedy helped fuel mistrust of the coronavirus vaccine. In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/no-covid-19-vaccine-not-deadliest-vaccine-ever-mad/\">he called it the “deadliest vaccine ever made”\u003c/a> in opposition to a Louisiana proposal that would have required school children to be vaccinated against the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California vaccine mandates\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2010, the California Legislature passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/hn/pertussis.asp\">a law that added a booster of the pertussis vaccine\u003c/a>, which protects against whooping cough, to the immunization schedule for teens to attend school. Catherine Flores Martin, the executive director of California Immunization Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for vaccines, remembers when lawmakers were considering this bill, roughly about 18 people or so showed up in opposition, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to 2015 and 2019, opposition to vaccine legislation evolved into mass protests of hundreds of people. “It’s gotten wild,” Flores Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of parents still vaccinate their children,” she said. “We hear a lot about hesitancy, but hesitancy doesn’t convert into not vaccinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Richard Pan, former state senator, speaks in a news conference after visiting a Kaiser Permanente warehouse in Downey on Saturday, March 18, 2023. He wrote California laws that tightened childhood vaccine mandates. \u003ccite>(Ringo Chiu, AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 2021–22 school year, 94% of California’s kindergarteners had received the required vaccines, the state’s public health department reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flores Martin acknowledges that it has become more challenging to pass vaccine legislation as opposition has become louder in California. She attributes this in part to the growing role of misinformation shared on social media platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State public health officials did not respond to an interview request by deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Health News' tag='health']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year 2014 was notable in public health for a couple of reasons. That year, whooping cough infections peaked, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/pages/immunization/pertussis.aspx\">with more than 11,000 cases reported in the state\u003c/a>, the most ever. Also, in December of that year, a measles outbreak at Disneyland contributed to \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8828106/\">the highest number of measles cases reported in the U.S.\u003c/a> in two decades. Most of the cases were among unvaccinated children. The outbreak resulted in hospitalizations, but no deaths were reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the vaccine that protects against measles, mumps and rubella is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/IMM-231.pdf\">among the required doses for kids (PDF)\u003c/a> to attend school. So are the polio vaccine and the Hepatitis B vaccine, among others. It was this measles outbreak that led the Legislature in 2015 to remove personal belief and religious exemptions for required shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2019, lawmakers came back and approved a second law that allowed the state’s Department of Public Health \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-rejected-6-of-medical-exemptions-for-16556125.php\">to review and revoke inappropriate medical exemptions\u003c/a>. Medical exemptions have to be made by a physician and are reserved for small groups of people, such as those who are allergic to vaccine ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the 2019 law, the rate of kindergarteners with medical exemptions \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/2021-22KindergartenSummaryReport.pdf\">decreased to the lowest levels since 2015–16 (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the state’s public health department. However, research shows that because of disruption in routine doctor visits during the pandemic, the number of \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2810396\">kindergarteners who were not up to date\u003c/a> on their immunizations ticked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health advocates and experts say that it is now more important than ever to instill confidence in vaccines and proven public health measures. Flores Martin said doctors and health advocates will have to band together and push vaccine education to maintain high immunization rates. The messaging matters, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit www.chcf.org to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It could also embolden the anti-vaccine movement in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/richard-pan/\">Dr. Richard Pan\u003c/a>, a pediatrician who, as a state senator, authored the 2019 medical exemption law and a separate law that eliminated personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccines, said having a health secretary who casts doubt on vaccines is “a danger” and “disturbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I imagine we’re going to see a lot more direct attacks on individual scientists, individual people. I’m anticipating that I’m probably gonna be hoisted somewhere by those guys as well. I don’t think RFK Jr. has forgotten about me yet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan said he met Kennedy twice when Kennedy traveled to Sacramento to oppose his bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrying those laws made Pan the subject of harassment and attacks, and at one point, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article234231737.html\">anti-vaccine activist shoved him\u003c/a> while Pan was walking in a Sacramento street. At protests, anti-vaccine activists plastered Pan’s face on posters with the word “LIAR” in red letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, people who rallied against his vaccine bills are celebrating Kennedy’s potential spot in Trump’s cabinet and calling for “justice” via social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of their last quarrels, Pan publicly called for Kennedy to be banned from social media platforms when Kennedy promoted COVID-19 disinformation. In response, Kennedy \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article249557493.html\">told the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> that Pan’s request for censorship was anti-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, Kennedy has taken a more measured approach when responding to questions about vaccines. Following Trump’s win, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fMfOnKUfik\">he told NBC News\u003c/a> that he isn’t looking to take vaccines off the market but rather is advocating for informed choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can RFK Jr. do as health secretary?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Kennedy is confirmed as head of health and human services, he would oversee a $1.7 trillion budget and about a dozen agencies. 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When COVID-19 shots were first made available to the public in December 2020, they were allowed under this emergency designation. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration fully approved the vaccine for people 16 and older nine months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A secretary hostile to vaccines could block or remove the emergency use authorization. That means the vaccine manufacturer “would have to either apply for full approval at the moment or not sell the vaccine,” Reiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy told NBC that he wouldn’t have “directly blocked” the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines had he been secretary at the time but rather would have made sure that “we have the best science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, at the height of the pandemic, Kennedy helped fuel mistrust of the coronavirus vaccine. 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Catherine Flores Martin, the executive director of California Immunization Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for vaccines, remembers when lawmakers were considering this bill, roughly about 18 people or so showed up in opposition, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to 2015 and 2019, opposition to vaccine legislation evolved into mass protests of hundreds of people. “It’s gotten wild,” Flores Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of parents still vaccinate their children,” she said. “We hear a lot about hesitancy, but hesitancy doesn’t convert into not vaccinating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Richard-Pan-RC-AP-01-CM-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Richard Pan, former state senator, speaks in a news conference after visiting a Kaiser Permanente warehouse in Downey on Saturday, March 18, 2023. He wrote California laws that tightened childhood vaccine mandates. \u003ccite>(Ringo Chiu, AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 2021–22 school year, 94% of California’s kindergarteners had received the required vaccines, the state’s public health department reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flores Martin acknowledges that it has become more challenging to pass vaccine legislation as opposition has become louder in California. She attributes this in part to the growing role of misinformation shared on social media platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State public health officials did not respond to an interview request by deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom announced Monday that he plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960500/california-will-end-electric-car-rebates-to-subsidize-lower-income-car-buyers\">resurrect California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program\u003c/a> if President-elect Donald Trump cuts the federal tax credit for zero-emission vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump had promised on the campaign trail to end the credit — which the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 expanded — and the right-wing policy agenda laid out in \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a> urges the next Republican administration to “end federal mandates and subsidies of electric vehicles” as part of ending “the war on fossil fuels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, California is pushing to have zero-emission vehicles \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985611/is-california-still-on-track-to-meet-its-goal-of-100-clean-power-by-2045\">make up 100% of in-state sales of new vehicles by 2035\u003c/a> — a goal that would be complicated by the possible fight from the Trump administration and a potential state deficit of nearly $2 billion. 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It \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/clean-vehicle-rebate-project\">offered car buyers up to $7,500\u003c/a>, funded nearly 600,000 vehicles and saved more than 456 million gallons of fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the revamped state program could come from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund through the state’s cap-and-trade program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, bringing the program back will require the Legislature’s approval. Even though Newsom has vowed to fight Trump’s climate change-denying policies, the reality is that the state will simultaneously be dealing with a budget deficit that could limit how California pushes back. Though the estimated deficit is significantly smaller than in recent years, the \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4939\">Legislative’s Analyst Office projects\u003c/a> that “revenues are unlikely to grow fast enough to catch up to atypically high spending growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014817 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240111-TransitFile-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom does bring back the state rebate program, Scott Moura, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley, hopes it will be available to people who want to lease a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the United States, more people lease cars than buy them outright,” he said. “That’s a loophole, a back door where people who don’t meet the income requirements can still gain access to an electric vehicle if they lease the vehicle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moura said Newsom’s decision about electric vehicles must benefit all Californians because the rebates have “disproportionately gone to people with higher incomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the goal is to impact societally on health and climate, we need strong policies so that the lower 50% in terms of wealth distribution can access or use emission vehicles,” Moura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also unsure how Trump’s alliance with Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, will fare for electric vehicle sales. 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They aren’t going to make us give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 500 Marriott Marquis workers join nearly 2,000 employees across five other Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott hotels around Union Square who have\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011319/sf-hotel-worker-strike-enters-sixth-week-no-deal-in-sight\"> been on strike since Sept. 22\u003c/a>, demanding better from three of the largest hotel chains in the city. A steady stream of strikers has circled the entrances of multiple iconic San Francisco hotels, rain or shine, banging drums, chanting through megaphones, and trading off cooking meals for picketers for more than 70 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waechter said that the strike was spurred by cuts the hotels have been trying to make since workers’ contracts ended in August. 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The Palace Hotel’s annual afternoon tea with Santa will be affected, Waechter said, since some servers are striking, and out-of-town visitors coming to ice skate at Union Square or peruse Macy’s flagship store — possibly during its final festive season — will have service impacts at many of their usual hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marriott’s St. Regis and W Hotels in the city also authorized strikes last week and could join the picket line at any time. If they do, it’ll be one of the largest hotel worker strikes San Francisco has had in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waechter said that’s because the stakes are so high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “not just the futures of these 2,500 workers who are on strike, but also what the future of San Francisco is going to be,” Waechter said. “How do you approach a downturn in a city … are you going to cut and run, or are you going to double down and invest in a recovery that ultimately will profit everyone?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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An earlier warning for San Francisco was reduced to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1860113598502297745\">a watch\u003c/a> after the rain there backed off around 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alerts came as a stronger band of the storm moved south over San Francisco and the Bay Area, driving up rainfall rates along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On northbound Highway 101 at Interstate 280, the fourth and fifth lanes were \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CHPSanFrancisco/status/1860088117195100655\">blocked by flooding\u003c/a>, the California Highway Patrol said at 2:30 p.m. It was not clear when they would reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday afternoon, nearly 500 flights had been delayed and more than 60 canceled at San Francisco International Airport, the most in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"https://www.flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today/KSFO\">according to FlightAware\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, multiple days of heavy rain have saturated soils and swelled waterways, raising flood dangers. The CHP reported flooding on Highway 121 in Sonoma County, closing all lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intense rain over Sonoma County pushed several creeks to their maximum, flooding streets across Santa Rosa. Officials said floodwaters trapped a person in a car in front of a Starbucks, and 150 people sheltered in place at a Santa Rosa medical center and Hampton Inn when floodwaters cut off access to the buildings, said Paul Lowenthal, division chief fire marshal for the Santa Rosa Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a report of several vehicles potentially floating away under the volume of water,” Lowenthal said. “They were essentially stranded because of floodwaters. No one was able to leave those facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 20 inches of rain falling in Sonoma County mountains, forecasters are also watching a half dozen streams and the Russian River approach flood stages. A flood advisory is in effect for Sonoma County through Saturday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We weren’t expecting that since it’s November,” said Dylan Flynn, a lead meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office. “It’s rising incredibly fast. If this had happened in February, it would have been catastrophic since the river started so empty. But it could get worse if the rain overperforms today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first storm dropped nearly a foot of rain on Santa Rosa, and Friday’s atmospheric river could break records in the city “by a lot,” Flynn said. Santa Rosa is nearing an all-time mark for the most rain in three days since record-keeping there began in 1902.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Possible Flooding’ in Marin City on Nov. 22, 2024, during a storm bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mountain communities like Occidental, west of Sebastopol, have already received more than 21 inches of rain. Nearly 20 inches of rain has soaked Venado, north of Guerneville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said the first major rainfall of the year has already become the Santa Rosa area’s wettest rain event over two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not in Venado or the coastal hills where we get these double-digit totals every winter,” he said. “This is in the flatlands of the valley in Santa Rosa proper, having about 12 inches of rain in a 48-hour period, and it’s still pouring at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1935067 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/ARstormcurrent-672x372.gif']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain said Friday that the rain totals in Santa Rosa for Thursday looked like the storm could be a 100- to 200-year event. Since rainfall will continue to add up on Friday, he said the two-day totals could veer into the 500-year event territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said the rainfall totals are a first for Sonoma County in over 100 years. “This amount of rain doesn’t compare to the historical record,” he said. “We haven’t seen this much rain focused in the North Bay for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Bay could get up to 3 more inches of rain on Friday before starting to “thankfully finally dry out,” Flynn said. Two smaller systems are expected to bring scattered showers across the Bay Area into early next week, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While atmospheric rivers are normal for California and have “always happened,” Flynn said, human-caused climate change — brought on by the burning of fossil fuels globally — is “raising the benchmark” and adding more “moisture to the atmosphere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks on Haight Street in the rain in San Francisco on Nov. 22, 2024, during a storm bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell you what we would have gotten from the storm without climate change, but just know that on average, on the whole, it kind of sets that floor just a little bit higher for these types of atmospheric rivers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the storm triggers wind advisories stretching from the North Bay to Monterey County, tree companies across Sonoma County are receiving an influx of calls for downed limbs on houses, crushed cars and smashed fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Slater, owner of Slater’s Professional Tree Care, said his crews handled many calls on Thursday. On Friday morning, he was on his way to a Santa Rosa home where a eucalyptus tree snapped and potentially crushed the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A huge 100-year-old oak tree fell across somebody’s driveway, and the client was trapped in his house,” he said. “With this amount of consistent rain, it’s definitely causing damage to homes and the local natural habitat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Sherwood, assistant general manager for Sonoma Water, lives in a neighborhood near the flooded area of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015605\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Matthew Macale, Jasmin Macaraeg, and Keizha Macale take photos at the Vista Point overlook near Golden Gate Bridge north of San Francisco on Nov. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole cul-de-sac and the parking lot was a pond,” he said. “It was totally unexpected. I have never seen that area flood like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four hours, people were able to leave the area once the water receded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 30 roads were closed Thursday due to flooding or downed power lines. Only one street was closed as of 9 a.m. Friday, Lowenthal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12015125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-02-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, with several more inches of rain on the way, Lowenthal said he expects overflowing creeks and nuisance flooding across the city on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With us getting roughly 10 to 11 inches of rain just in the last 48 hours, it’s not going to take much for those creeks and streams to rapidly rise once again and lead to a lot of ponding and nuisance flooding,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a water supply perspective, Sherwood said the two early season storms benefit the North Bay. Over the last two days, the first storm added more than 16,000 acre-feet of water to Lake Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s incredible and pretty much unheard of for this particular time of year,” he said. “Right now, our reservoirs are in prime condition to hold a lot of this water\u003cem>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherwood is looking forward to a lull in the rain after this weekend but said he is hoping this isn’t a “one and done storm system. We do need the continued precipitation through January, February and March.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still too early to know if the early-season rain is an indication of a wet winter, and Sherwood said his agency will keep as much water in reservoirs as possible. He noted some past winters that had big storms in November and December, “then the spigot was turned off by Mother Nature, and then a three-year drought started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz and Juan Carlos Lara contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:15 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Two people have died in Sonoma County following the record-breaking storm that’s now making its way out of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Sheriff’s office said it discovered a person in a submerged car in Guerneville near Highway 116 around noon Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A flood warning remains in effect for the Russian River near Guerneville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Rosa police department said it recovered a 60-year-old man’s body in Piner Creek at Guerneville Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Piner Creek, at that area, in fact all creeks in Santa Rosa, were extremely high and have been experiencing flooding during this storm,” said Sergeant Patricia Steffens with the Santa Rosa Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department could not confirm the circumstances surrounding the death, but said it is investigating whether nearby flooding was related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 4:59 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Flash flooding was reported in San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County on Friday afternoon as the Bay Area was lashed by a third day of heavy rain and strong winds from the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015275/another-strong-storm-to-slam-california-raising-flood-risk-in-north-bay\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> to hit this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flash flooding was reported in San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County on Friday afternoon as the Bay Area was lashed by a third day of heavy rain and strong winds from the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015275/another-strong-storm-to-slam-california-raising-flood-risk-in-north-bay\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> to hit this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for northwestern San Mateo County — including Daly City, Broadmoor and Pacifica — until 5 p.m. In the East Bay,\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NWSFlashFlood/status/1860095722013806833\"> flash flood warnings\u003c/a> are in effect from San Pablo south to Hayward and Castro Valley until this evening. An earlier warning for San Francisco was reduced to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1860113598502297745\">a watch\u003c/a> after the rain there backed off around 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alerts came as a stronger band of the storm moved south over San Francisco and the Bay Area, driving up rainfall rates along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On northbound Highway 101 at Interstate 280, the fourth and fifth lanes were \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CHPSanFrancisco/status/1860088117195100655\">blocked by flooding\u003c/a>, the California Highway Patrol said at 2:30 p.m. It was not clear when they would reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday afternoon, nearly 500 flights had been delayed and more than 60 canceled at San Francisco International Airport, the most in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"https://www.flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today/KSFO\">according to FlightAware\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, multiple days of heavy rain have saturated soils and swelled waterways, raising flood dangers. The CHP reported flooding on Highway 121 in Sonoma County, closing all lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intense rain over Sonoma County pushed several creeks to their maximum, flooding streets across Santa Rosa. Officials said floodwaters trapped a person in a car in front of a Starbucks, and 150 people sheltered in place at a Santa Rosa medical center and Hampton Inn when floodwaters cut off access to the buildings, said Paul Lowenthal, division chief fire marshal for the Santa Rosa Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a report of several vehicles potentially floating away under the volume of water,” Lowenthal said. “They were essentially stranded because of floodwaters. No one was able to leave those facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 20 inches of rain falling in Sonoma County mountains, forecasters are also watching a half dozen streams and the Russian River approach flood stages. A flood advisory is in effect for Sonoma County through Saturday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We weren’t expecting that since it’s November,” said Dylan Flynn, a lead meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office. “It’s rising incredibly fast. If this had happened in February, it would have been catastrophic since the river started so empty. But it could get worse if the rain overperforms today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first storm dropped nearly a foot of rain on Santa Rosa, and Friday’s atmospheric river could break records in the city “by a lot,” Flynn said. Santa Rosa is nearing an all-time mark for the most rain in three days since record-keeping there began in 1902.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Possible Flooding’ in Marin City on Nov. 22, 2024, during a storm bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mountain communities like Occidental, west of Sebastopol, have already received more than 21 inches of rain. Nearly 20 inches of rain has soaked Venado, north of Guerneville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said the first major rainfall of the year has already become the Santa Rosa area’s wettest rain event over two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not in Venado or the coastal hills where we get these double-digit totals every winter,” he said. “This is in the flatlands of the valley in Santa Rosa proper, having about 12 inches of rain in a 48-hour period, and it’s still pouring at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain said Friday that the rain totals in Santa Rosa for Thursday looked like the storm could be a 100- to 200-year event. Since rainfall will continue to add up on Friday, he said the two-day totals could veer into the 500-year event territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said the rainfall totals are a first for Sonoma County in over 100 years. “This amount of rain doesn’t compare to the historical record,” he said. “We haven’t seen this much rain focused in the North Bay for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Bay could get up to 3 more inches of rain on Friday before starting to “thankfully finally dry out,” Flynn said. Two smaller systems are expected to bring scattered showers across the Bay Area into early next week, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While atmospheric rivers are normal for California and have “always happened,” Flynn said, human-caused climate change — brought on by the burning of fossil fuels globally — is “raising the benchmark” and adding more “moisture to the atmosphere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks on Haight Street in the rain in San Francisco on Nov. 22, 2024, during a storm bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell you what we would have gotten from the storm without climate change, but just know that on average, on the whole, it kind of sets that floor just a little bit higher for these types of atmospheric rivers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the storm triggers wind advisories stretching from the North Bay to Monterey County, tree companies across Sonoma County are receiving an influx of calls for downed limbs on houses, crushed cars and smashed fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Slater, owner of Slater’s Professional Tree Care, said his crews handled many calls on Thursday. 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They like his policies on kitchen table issues, such as the economy, and described feeling a growing discomfort with what they perceive as the extreme social policies on the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations with these women about their journeys reveal complex voter sentiment. Their transitions underscore how responses to concrete local events like growing antisemitism or vaccine policies can realign political allegiances. The women remind us that voters are not monolithic but dynamic individuals whose choices are shaped by lived experiences, shifting narratives and a hope for a safer, more transparent society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Democrat’s transformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sara Dudley, a Jewish lawyer and mother of an 11-year-old in Sacramento, still considered herself a staunch Democrat as recently as last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was blue no matter who,” she said of her long allegiance and activism on issues like climate change, worker protections and LGBTQ rights. But then came the Sacramento City Council push for a Gaza cease-fire resolution proposed by leaders in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article286837715.html\">region’s Jewish and Muslim communities\u003c/a>. At that meeting, Dudley said protesters shouted antisemitic slurs at her and created a threatening atmosphere. Twelve people were arrested, and Mayor Darrell Steinberg cleared the chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders eventually passed the cease-fire resolution and championed it as an example of the community coming together — Steinberg said at the time that “we are not at war with each other here in Sacramento.” But Dudley saw this as another example of rising antisemitism in California and thought the Democratic party leadership response was not only indifferent but permissive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I expected my elected officials to condemn this behavior, but they were silent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley was also disappointed by media coverage of the event, which led her to explore more conservative sources of information, which began to reshape how she saw the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about foreign policy — it’s about what’s happening here in California, in our schools and in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From her perspective, Republican representatives at all levels of government are attacking antisemitism more aggressively and “supporting Israel unconditionally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These events drew her to the GOP, but it was Trump’s aggressive positions on border security and energy independence that further swayed her. Suddenly, Trump’s call for more domestic energy production started to make more sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re not developing that fossil fuel here in America with good paying union jobs, where are we getting our fossil fuel and gas from?” she said, adding that she trusts Trump to combat terrorism, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republican plank is actually really important for national security. As a mother, I’m concerned with my son’s health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Policy over personality’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Marilee Saurenman, a social worker and mother of three in a suburb east of Los Angeles, said she feels cautiously optimistic about the incoming administration. “It was policy over personality,” she said, explaining her decision to support Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her mind, she separated his controversial rhetoric — which she didn’t like — from his campaign promises, which she did. Saurenman identifies as a biracial feminist, but Harris failed to win her support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t feel that Vice President Harris was really feeling the entire pulse of the nation,” she said. “Just because you’re a female is not a good enough reason for me to vote for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was specifically disappointed in Harris’s handling of border security during her vice presidency. “As a mother, I want my children to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saurenman said her values have shifted increasingly right over the last decade, influenced by her pro-life stance and perception that conservatives are more focused on issues that are important to her, like family, education and safety. For example, she would like her school district to provide more transparency over what topics and framing of history will be taught to her children so she can opt in or out of lesson plans that do not align with her Catholic values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she feels quickly judged by liberals for her support of Trump, cast as a person who is uneducated or supports criminals, which she finds “really upsetting.” In the future, she hopes people can listen more and share ideas constructively. “Although you may not agree with me, we can have mutual respect,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In four years, she hopes the country will be less polarized, and parents will be more involved in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A stand for parental rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alayna Nord, a mother of two adolescents in a Los Angeles suburb, voted for Trump in the last three elections. She said his core motivations match hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Christian values first and foremost,” Nord said. “And, I would say the biggest thing on my list is parental rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was put off when California passed a new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1955\">law\u003c/a> that prevents schools from disclosing information about a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Proponents of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/16/nx-s1-5041437/california-bans-school-rules-requiring-parents-notification-of-childs-pronoun-change\">legislation\u003c/a> said it will help protect LGBTQ+ students who live in hostile households. 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