Good morning! It’s Tuesday, Dec. 2. This is Rob & Omar.

A hazardous fog warning expires at 11 a.m. today, followed by cloudy skies and highs in the 50s. NOAA

Drive-thru Xmas! Christmas Tree Lane opens Wednesday. ABC30

Christmas in Clovis: And the City of Clovis is also getting into the holiday spirit. CBS47

Good news! The Fresno Chaffee Zoo announced the birth of a Southern White Rhinoceros. ABC30

Growing fear: Migrant workers are skipping medical appointments amid anti-immigrant crackdown. KVPR

Worker killed: A 29-year-old man died Monday while removing an oil rig. Fresno Bee

1. New health sciences building at Sunnyside High

Fresno Unified administrators celebrated the completion of a new health sciences building at Sunnyside High School at a Monday morning news conference, Fresnoland’s Diego Vargas reports. 

The new 13,251 square-foot building houses a weight training room, sports medicine and performance labs, a collaborative space for students and four classrooms. It will also be home to two Sunnyside High School programs: the Health Sciences Pathway and the Doctors Academy program. 

Teacher Nick Valenzuela: “We have collaborative activities and projects for them, but most importantly are the hands-on skill components that they’re involved with every day. We try to take things that we learn through the textbook, and apply and practice, in the event that someday they might need to rely on some of those skills.”

2. Mariposa Plaza unveiled in downtown Fresno

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Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer expects the recently revitalized Mariposa Plaza to draw “thousands upon thousands of visitors” to downtown Fresno each year, CBS47 reports.

With the help of more than $4 million in state money, the plaza at the corner of Fulton and Mariposa will host the upcoming Winter Village — which opens Friday with the city’s second annual ice-skating rink — along with other community events like Fiestas Patriase.

Crews installed two stages for entertainment, including lighting, a transformer for acts to set up, shade for the hotter months, and places to sit and enjoy the new space.

The Winter Village plaza is free to use for the public during the day but closed at night. 

3. Parlier mourns young officer’s tragic death

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The Parlier community is mourning the tragic death of a 29-year-old police officer who was killed in a traffic collision over the weekend while commuting to work, ABC30 reports.

Officer Jesus Dario Corona leaves behind a wife and young daughter.

The cause of the deadly crash remained under investigation Monday, but California Highway Patrol investigators indicated that Corona’s vehicle crashed into the back of a tractor hauling farm equipment. Authorities said preliminary investigation suggests speed may have been a factor in the tragedy.

The driver of the other vehicle is cooperating with investigators.

Jenna Chavez, the principal at Parlier High School: “It was so sad because he’s a young man with a young family, and my heart goes out to the mom and the daughter. But then it was, wow, this is like the second officer we’ve lost in a year span. That was hard to swallow.”

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