• Six leading candidates for California governor — Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco, and Democrats Tom Steyer, Xavier Becerra, Katie Porter, and Matt Mahan — will face off in a debate Wednesday evening. KRON4 will be airing the 7 pm debate, which is happening at KRON4's San Francisco studio, and you can expect Porter, Becerra, and Steyer to spar mightily in order to gain some traction in this tight race. [Chronicle]
• As yesterday's storm passed over California, the National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down around 5 pm, 11 miles northeast of Clovis. [KPIX]
• A 26-year-old hiker who dislocated his ankle on Sunday was rescued via helicopter from the Devil’s Slide Trail in Pacifica. [KRON4]
• San Mateo just became the first Bay Area city to ban the sale of kratom, the opioid-esque herbal supplement that has been linked to overdoses, and is not yet banned at the state or federal level. [RWC Pulse]
• UC Berkeley officials have stripped all the posters off the walls at the Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center and have stopped letting students hold events there, in part because of pro-Palestinian artwork that had reportedly made some students feel unwelcome. [Berkeleyside]
• State lawmakers are moving to raise the earliest parole age for sex offenders from 50 to 65. [CalMatters]
• The Supreme Court has sided with state officials in Michigan over a push to decommission an aging oil pipeline which a Canadian energy company did not want to shut down. [New York Times]

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