Lita Martinez
Producer, All Things Considered
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About 80 endurance athletes and their support teams are heading to Death Valley this weekend, gearing up to kick off the 44th running of the Badwater Ultramarathon, which starts Monday night. -
The latest daily tally tops 1,100 confirmed cases, along with 12 additional deaths from the virus. -
Officials say a one-mile stretch of water from Dockweiler RV Park to El Segundo is off-limits to swimmers due to a massive, overnight raw sewage spill. -
He sold his first board out his parents' garage. -
An uptick was expected with the rollback of pandemic restrictions. Health officials continue to urge everyone eligible to seek vaccinations. -
The governor has earmarked over a billion dollars to help with statewide trash clean-up efforts over the next three years, and to create some 11,000 jobs. -
The vast majority of new cases are happening among unvaccinated people. -
A kayaker who was bitten on the hand by a shark off a remote part of Catalina Island was airlifted to the hospital for surgery on Wednesday morning. -
Los Angeles County health officials are now recommending that everyone, regardless of their vaccination status, should wear a face mask while in public places indoors due to the rapidly spreading Delta variant. -
Why? Because any protection you have from a previous infection wears off at some point.
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