{"slug": "monday-morning-headlines-dreary-weather-should-end-soon", "title": "Monday Morning Headlines: Dreary Weather Should End Soon", "summary": "Santa Cruz-based Joby Aviation announced Friday that one of its autonomous aircraft completed a cross-country journey from Concord, California, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina without any assistance from its onboard safety pilot. The flight marks a milestone for the company's autonomous aviation efforts.", "body_md": "- **This dreary, persistently gray weather has been thanks to a cutoff low pressure system that is slowly moving out of the Bay Area.** A warm-up is, thankfully, supposed to come on Tuesday. [[Chronicle](https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/hub-neighborhood-residents-drugs-22437400.php?ref=sfist.com) ]\n- **As Antolin Garcia-Torres heads back to trial in the Sierra LaMar murder case, after his previous conviction was overturned, Santa Clara County prosecutors and the defense were scheduled to make pre-trial motions Monday morning.** Defense attorneys are trying to exclude any discussion of sexual motives in the case, while prosecutors say that a sexual motive is \"an entirely proper inference\" given the evidence. [[KRON4](https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/ahead-of-retrial-prosecutors-present-motives-in-sierra-lamar-case/?ref=sfist.com) ]\n- Longtime San Francisco Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper announced that he is being treated for throat cancer, saying it is unrelated to the cancer he was treated for five years ago. [[KPIX](https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/duane-kuiper-san-francisco-giants-announcer-throat-cancer-diagnosis/?ref=sfist.com) ]\n- A male passenger went overboard on a Carnival cruise traveling from Puerto Vallarta to Long Beach on Saturday night. [[ABC 7](https://abc7news.com/story/passenger-goes-overboard-carnival-panorama-cruise-ship-puerto-vallarta-long-beach-california/19854718/?ref=sfist.com) ]\n- The Chronicle is now highlighting how residents of \"The Hub,\" the city-created zone that isn't quite a neighborhood around South Van Ness and Mission, are complaining about how Tenderloin and Civic Center area drug activity has been pushed to their doorsteps. [[Chronicle](https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/hub-neighborhood-residents-drugs-22437400.php?ref=sfist.com) ]\n- Santa Cruz-based Joby Aviation announced Friday that one of its autonomous aircraft successfully made a cross-country journey, from Concord to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, without any assistance from its onboard safety pilot. [[Engadget](https://www.engadget.com/2263406/joby-aviation-completed-a-fully-autonomous-flight-from-california-to-north-carolina/?ref=sfist.com) ]\n- Presley Gerber, the son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber and brother of actress Kaia Gerber, has died at age 27 while at a rehab facility. [[ABC 7](https://abc7news.com/post/cindy-crawfords-son-presley-gerber-dies-27/19853806/?ref=sfist.com) ]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/monday-morning-headlines-dreary-weather-should-end-soon", "canonical_source": "https://sfist.com/2026/09/21/dreary-weather-should-end-soon/", "published_at": "2026-09-21 16:25:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-21 16:54:53.936714+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["autonomous-vehicles", "robotics"], "entities": ["Joby Aviation", "Concord", "Outer Banks", "North Carolina"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/monday-morning-headlines-dreary-weather-should-end-soon", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/monday-morning-headlines-dreary-weather-should-end-soon.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/monday-morning-headlines-dreary-weather-should-end-soon.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/monday-morning-headlines-dreary-weather-should-end-soon.jsonld"}}