Humpday Headlines: Hurricane Polo Still Spinning Off Mexico

19-year-old Ja’Marion Grace, a College of San Mateo football player, has been identified as the person killed in a crash on Highway 101 on Sunday that injured two others. [KTVU]
Hurricane Polo continues to skirt the Pacific coastline of Mexico as a Category 4 storm, and it is not expected to make landfall as it travels northward over the next few days. [KPIX]
It's generally quite busy in the Pacific, storm-wise, right now, with Hawaii likely to ge more torrential rain this week from another storm currently brewing. [New York Times]
Rather than pay a one-time tax to the state of California, billionaires are pumping millions into a PAC opposing Prop 40, the billionaire tax, including Sergey Brin, who has given $102 million to the PAC so far. [Chronicle]
A 32-year-old rideshare driver from Foster City is accused of sexually assaulting a teen boy earlier this month in San Jose. [KTVU]
A big rig went off the road on 101 northbound near Willits, leading to heavy traffic Wednesday in Mendocino County. [KRON4]
A new report suggests that this El Niño season could cause 451,000 more heat-related deaths than in a normal year, most of them in the global south, though the southern US is likely to be impacted as well. [KPIX]

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