Day Around the Bay: New Battery Fire Erupts at Moss Landing Power Plant

Local:

• Flaming batteries at Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County caused a fire to break out on Friday morning, forcing local officials to issue a "shelter-in-place" order to nearby residents. This is but the latest blaze at the facility following multiple related fires in 2025. [KRON4]
• The young mountain lion that was tranquilized and captured by California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials after it was spotted in San Francisco's Sunset District on Thursday evening was safely released back into the wild on Friday. [NBC Bay Area]
• Marin County Sheriff's Office officials have identified the man found dead at the base of a cliff in the Marin Headlands earlier this week as Roseville resident Michael Young Han but have yet to provide a cause of death. [Chronicle]

National:

• President Donald Trump shared via social media that news outlets CNN, MS NOW and Politico are now banned from the White House. Trump's post cited the news organizations' alleged "constant ‘reporting’ [of] FAKE NEWS!” in justifying the decision. [NBC Bay Area]
• Six officials within the Pentagon say that a higher number of US troops have died during the Iran War than the public numbers reflect, per a new bombshell report. [Washington Post]
• The versatile screenwriter, Bob Weir songwriting partner, and character actor Gerrit Graham (Phantom of the Paradise) has died at the age of 77. [Hollywood Reporter]

Video:

• There was a rare sighting of a humpback whale in the Sacramento River on Wednesday. The animal was seen in the Delta near the Rio Vista Bridge by onlookers who captured the rare moment. ABC7 reports that the previous day, a fisherman near Benicia also spotted the humpback.