Light Rain Expected in San Diego County Tuesday

Wet Weather

Wet weather is in store for San Diego County Tuesday.

A Pacific weather system will move into southwestern California this afternoon and evening, bringing periods of light rain to the region, according to the National Weather Service. The rain will begin along the coast in Orange County and move south and east.

Less than a quarter-inch of rain is forecast for most areas.

"Roadways could be slippery, especially during the onset of the rain and during the afternoon rush hour due to oil buildup on the roads, as it will have been more than two weeks since the last rain," according to an NWS advisory.

Escondido Stabbing

A man was hospitalized Tuesday in critical condition after being stabbed in the chest during a carjacking in Escondido, and police were looking for several suspects, police said.

The man, a woman and child were sitting in a car outside a pizza restaurant in the 1600 block of East Valley Parkway, near North Rose Street, waiting for their dinner, when a white minivan pulled into the same parking lot around 7:30 p.m. Monday, according to Escondido police.

Several men in the minivan got out and approached the car, demanding that the man, woman and child get out, EPD Lt. Chris Wynn said, noting the assailants were armed with knifes. he man in the car and the men from the minivan then broke out. It ended with the stabbing and the assailants fleeing in the car and the minivan, according to Wynn.

The woman and child were unharmed, the lieutenant said.

Escondido police recovered the stolen car about a mile away 15 minutes later near Ohio Avenue and Cedar Street.

Gang detectives were investigating.

Anyone with information about the stabbing was urged to call Escondido police at (760) 839-4717.

Extended Hospital Stay for Jared Loughner

A federal judge in San Diego today gave prison doctors four more months to try to restore the mental competency of a man charged with fatally shooting six people and wounding then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and a dozen others in Arizona last year.

U.S. District Judge Larry Burns, who is presiding over the case against 23-year-old Jared Loughner, extended the hospital stay because the psychologist treating the defendant said he is making "measurable progress" with treatment designed to get him competent to stand trial.

Loughner faces a 49-count federal indictment stemming from the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting spree outside a market in Tucson. Giffords, who was shot in the head, resigned from Congress last month after a year of recovery.

Last May, Burns declared Loughner mentally incompetent to stand trial and the defendant was sent to the prison in Springfield, Mo. Since then, Loughner's attorneys have fought the government's efforts to medicate him with anti-psychotic drugs.

If the defendant regains his mental competency, the criminal case against him can be reinstated.

-City News Service