The LA Report

Here's what we're following today:

• Hurricane remnants to bring relief to heatwave
• Radford and Fairview Fires
• Gov. Newsom signs emergency budget package to fight monkeypox
• Water use down

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Good morning! Here's what we're following today:

• California sets record for most energy used in a day
• Route Fire caused serious damage to Northbound lanes of the 5
• Flooding incidents at Twin Towers jail cause a number of problems
• Charges filed against three young men accused of committing a series of "daytime robberies" in the past several months
• A live recording of a 1969 Jimi Hendrix Experience show at the Forum is finally being released and KPCC is giving you the first listen

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Here's what we're following today:

• State seeing an historic demand for electricity
• Feds investigating LAUSD hack
• Two-week outdoor watering ban begins in L.A. County
• Farmworkers say they face retaliation and threats of deportation when voting in person

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Good morning! Here's what we're following:

• L.A. County residents required to suspend all outdoor watering
• Energy demand expected to reach "all-time record levels" again
• Brush fire in Hemet takes two lives and injures another
• Phasing out of local oil drilling to take 20 years
• New bill encourages Californians to go car-free
• LAUSD confirms ransomware attack

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In this Sunday edition: In honor of Labor Day weekend, we talk with California's foremost labor leader and former assembly-member Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher about this moment in the labor movement. 

And we continue with our multi-part series on dyslexia and California's education system. Today, we'll talk about some of the challenges faced by K-12 and college students.

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In this weekend edition: Grammy-award-winning Ozomatli is headlining a big free concert hosted by the Music Center in Downtown LA. We talk with singer and guitarist Raul Pacheco and the show and performing in the band's hometown of LA.  

Asian Americans support abortion access at some of the highest levels among racial and ethnic groups surveyed. We'll talk about what effect it could have on some upcoming local elections.

Then, an introduction to LAist Studios' newest show, How To LA, where this week host Brian De Los Santos explored the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Here's what we're following today:

• Day three of the five-day heat wave
• How to beat the heat
• Youth mental health crises
• L.A. City Council appoints Heather Hutt to fill in for former county supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas
• Federal judge tosses indictment against the captain of dive boat that caught fire off the Santa Barbara coast three years ago killing 34 people 

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Happy Friday! Here's what we're following today:

• Slightly cooler temps today
• Hot asphalt playgrounds
• Evacuation orders lifted near wildfire in the Castaic area
• Diablo Canyon plant shutdown deadline extended
• Updated COVID vaccine as soon as next Wednesday
• Telluride Film Festival

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