Local:

  • A 28-year-old worker died on the job at SFO on Sunday night. John Lacayanga, an employee with the Dubai National Air Travel Agency, appeared to have had an accident on a vehicle service road at the airport involving a cargo pallet he was towing. [NBC Bay Area]
  • Marches for MLK Day in Oakland and San Francisco featured plenty of signs saying "ICE OUT" and "We stand with Minneapolis." Mayor Daniel Lurie gave a speech saying that local leaders "all have a responsibility to recognize the struggles San Franciscans face and respond together." [Chronicle]
  • Two men were killed and one woman was injured Sunday afternoon in a shooting that took place at the Stockton Flea Market. [KTVU]
  • The largest solar radiation storm in 20 years may make the Aurora Borealis visible in parts of Northern California once more tonight and tomorrow. [KRON4]

National:

  • An underground bunker constructed beneath the East Wing of the White House during World War II is being refitted with new technology to become a modern sort of bunker, while Trump's new ballroom gets built above ground, though details have been kept secret. [CNN]
  • Part of a high-speed train derailed and caused a major collision Sunday in Spain, killing 40 people, and Spaniards, who take pride in their train system, are in shock. [New York Times]
  • Disturbingly, a new study finds that anti-gay bias has risen sharply since 2020, both among conservatives and liberals, and among young people as well, and the explanations could be many — but one may have to do with anti-establishment backlash against what had become, before the pandemic, an establishment position of acceptance. [New York Times]

Video:

  • You may not know this, but BART's engineers have arranged, for 50 years, for there to be a "Grand Meet" at MacArthur Station every night at 12:51 am. Four trains arrive and hold at the station for each other in case of delays, so that theoretically, anyone on any of the trains can get anywhere in the BART system via that one transfer point on the last train of the night. The video below explains more.

Top image: Photo by Sohan Shingade