Update On Hurricane Katrina; The LAUSD And The L.A. Conservancy Reach An Agreement Over The Ambassador Hotel; Support Grows In Sacramento To Slow Runaway Production; Iraqis To Vote On Constitution, Despite Sunni Opposition; Presumed Consent In Organ Donation
Update On Hurricane Katrina
Water rescue teams from the Los Angeles County Fire Department and Los Angeles Fire Department were due to leave Los Angeles tonight to help rescue victims of Hurricane Katrina. The county fire department team was scheduled to leave the department's Pacoima Technical Operations Office and convoy to March Air Force Base in Riverside, where it will be flown to Louisana. The teams will be sent to several cities in the Gulf Coast region battered by Katrina where their basic mission will be "to locate some of the stranded and rescue some of those trapped by water." Larry Mantle talks with Captain Carlos Calvillo, Public Information Officer for the Los Angeles Fire Department about the team’s rescue efforts in the areas flooded by Hurricane Katrina.
The LAUSD And The L.A. Conservancy Reach An Agreement Over The Ambassador Hotel
The Los Angeles Conservancy and the LAUSD have reached an agreement to allow the school district to tear down the building and replace it with a multi-school complex. The district, in return, will make a $4.9 million contribution to the Conservancy to preserve historic school buildings in the district. Larry talks with Ken Berstein, Director of Preservation Issues for Los Angeles Conservancy, and Glenn Gritzner, special assistant to Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Roy Romer.
Support Grows In Sacramento To Slow Runaway Production
Using tax credits to keep film production in California is an idea that’s finally gathering steam in Sacramento. But with the state’s massive deficit, not everyone is in support of the idea. Larry Mantle talks with California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, Los Angeles Business Journal staff reporter Howard Fine, Jack Kyser of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, and Jean Ross of the California Budget Project.
Iraqis To Vote On Constitution, Despite Sunni Opposition
The referendum vote on Iraq's draft constitution is slated to take place Oct. 15. Iraqis will be asked to vote ``yes'' or ``no'' on whether the proposed constitution should be adopted. Minority Sunnis in the National Assembly rejected the draft, so passage is far from certain. Larry talks with Dan Murphy, Arab World Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor based in Baghdad, Basam Al-hussaini, an adviser for Iraqi Prime Minster, Dr. Ibrahim Aljaffary, and Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and Sidney Stein, Jr. Chair at the Brookings Institution.
Presumed Consent In Organ Donation
Larry Mantle discusses organ donation and the idea of “presumed consent,” whereby it would be assumed that people want to donate their organs unless they specify otherwise. Some ethicists and organ transplant activists are advocating for this, but it is controversial. Larry Mantle speaks with Brian Stuart, Director of Communication with OneLegacy, the non-profit federally designated Organ Procurement Organization serving the greater Los Angeles, and listeners about this subject.