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New security chief,
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spring protests, breaks
silence on safety plan.
By Teresa Watanabe

On the first anniversary

of Oct. 7, UCLA braced for
potentially explosive pro-
tests as hundreds of people
gathered on campus to
mourn and rage over lives
lost, hostages held, families
destroyed and neighbor-
hoods ravaged in the year
since Hamas attacked
southern Israel and Israel
retaliated with a massive
military assault on Gaza. Joe Raedle Getty Images
A tense moment came FLOODWATERS inundate a neighborhood in Punta Gorda, Fla., on Thursday after Hurricane Milton came ashore, causing major damage.
when pro-Palestinian sup-

Milton’s surge cuts through Florida

porters marched into a cam-
pus area off-limits to protest
activities and initially re-
fused to leave after student
affairs staff told them
they were violating campus
rules.
Police were called in. Devastating hurricane kills 10,
They determined protesters
were not breaking any laws.
The protesters moved on
leaves millions without power
and the night ended with no
arrests, no significant con- mobile homes, downing
frontations — and, in an in- By Jenny Jarvie, trees and cutting power to
tentional UCLA effort to cre- Sandra McDonald more than 3 million Floridi-
ate a calmer environment, and Hannah Fry ans.
no visible massive mobili- At least 10 people have
zation of police in riot gear TAMPA, Fla. — Search died during the storm,
wielding batons. and rescue teams fanned Homeland Security Secre-
UCLA, under outside across Florida on Thursday tary Alejandro N. Mayorkas
and internal reviews for its morning plucking residents said during a Thursday
widely blasted handling of a of flooded homes to safety afternoon briefing at the
violent melee, encampment after Hurricane Milton bar- White House.
takedown and protests last reled into central-west Flor- “This is a very fluid situa-
[See Braziel, A7] ida, striking a densely popu- tion,” Mayorkas said. “It is
lated coastline with storm imperative that everyone
surges up to 10 feet and 120- continues to follow the direc-
mph winds and pummeling tion of local officials. Milton
communities across the may have passed, but the

GOP plan state with deadly tornadoes.

After making landfall
near Siesta Key, a barrier is-
danger it poses has not.”
Some of the worst dam-
age took place on the east

targets Mike Stewart Associated Press

land near Sarasota, around
8:30 p.m. Eastern time
Wednesday, Milton cut a
coast far from where the hur-
ricane made landfall. As if
the misery of a hurricane

protected A RESCUE BOAT navigates floodwaters at an apartment complex in the

aftermath of the storm in Clearwater, Fla., where waters rose above waist level.
wide path of damage, flood-
ing apartments, upturning
wasn’t enough, the storm
[See Milton, A6]

U.S. sites
Project 2025 would
Hollywood mentors show them the way ... out
reverse restoration of “Because of these circumstances there is
national monuments Industry turmoil has veterans even less of an opportunity for employment
within the entertainment industry at this
downsized by Trump. feeling the obligation to speak the time,” read an excerpt of the email first ob-
By James Rainey
truth with those trying to enter. tained by IndieWire. “Given this situation we
cannot in good conscience encourage you to
pursue our profession while so many of our
They are sprawling lands By Christi Carras members remain unemployed.”
of seemingly endless vistas It’s no secret that the entertainment in-
and soaring plateaus. The This spring, applicants vying for a spot in dustry is struggling. Contrary to workers’
red canyons are sprinkled the Art Directors Guild’s Production Design hopes, film and TV production hasn’t roared
with ancient rock art and Initiative — a program that offers mentor- back in the wake of last year’s writers’ and ac-
historic Indigenous settle- ship and on-the-job training to future pro- tors’ strikes. Job opportunities remain
ments. Normally noncon- duction designers and art directors — re- scarce as studios attempt to recoup their
frontational paleontologists ceived a troubling email. losses from the streaming wars by slashing
were so wowed by their fos- The message from the initiative’s leader- staff and production.
sils that they sued to try to ship team said that, “due to historic and un- As a result of the challenges in the work-
protect the land. precedented circumstances within the en- force, some prominent industry training Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
Two Democratic presi- tertainment industry,” the program would programs have pulled back. PRODUCTION designer Ariel Kaplan says she wants
dents moved to preserve this be suspended until 2025. [See Mentoring, A9] to ensure industry newcomers are not “blindsided.”
rugged terrain by creating a
pair of national monuments
in southern Utah — Bears
Ears and Grand Staircase-
Escalante.
President Trump radi-
cally reduced the borders of
What voters want from next senator
Priorities in Schiff-Garvey race differ depending on
who wins White House, poll finds. CALIFORNIA, B1
Life out there? Europa Clipper
the two monuments, then
their status was reversed
again when President Biden
took office and essentially
Dodgers are not
ready for golfing
Inflation lowest
since early 2021
poised to probe a Jupiter moon
restored protection of the Team proved it has the Prices rose 2.4% in Sep-
original lands. requisite fire by forcing tember from a year the president about space and will investigate Jupiter’s
Another reversal seems By Noah Haggerty exploration — and specif- icy moon Europa, which is
Game 5, Bill Plaschke earlier, but strains re-
all but certain if Trump re- writes. SPORTS, B10 mained. BUSINESS, A8 ically, a mission still in its in- believed to harbor a vast
takes the White House. Ex- In 2015, Bill Nye was on fancy at NASA’s Jet Propul- ocean capable of supporting
perts say that this year’s Printed with soy inks on Marine One with President sion Laboratory in La life.
Weather partially recycled paper.
election also brings atten- Turning sunny. Obama. Cañada Flintridge that des- “There are two ques-
tion to a broader question: L.A. Basin: 83/58. B6 The television person- perately needed funds. tions: Where did we come
What will happen to millions ality and science advocate After a decade of advo- from? And, are we alone in
of acres of land concentrated For the latest news, was officially there for an cacy from scientists, the the universe?” Nye said. “If
in the West and owned by the go to latimes.com. Earth Day event, but he took mission is expected to you meet somebody who
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In Florida, 12 killed by Helene had chance to live

side.
Some in Gulf Coast The friend “couldn’t get
back in there. He’s not talk-
communities ignored ing to nobody. He’s not even
evacuation orders, talking to us. I’m sure he
blames himself,” Marcum
getting caught in the said.
hurricane’s surges. About 10 miles to the
south in Indian Rocks
Beach, two of Bowles’ neigh-
By David Fischer bors, Donna Fagersten and
and Terry Spencer Heather Anne Boles, de-
cided to ride out Helene in
INDIAN ROCKS their homes as they had
BEACH, Fla. — Aiden done with other storms.
Bowles was stubborn, so Fagersten, 66, was four
even as Florida officials told days from retiring after 35
residents of the barrier is- years teaching, most re-
land north of St. Petersburg cently second grade. In re-
that Hurricane Helene’s tirement, she would have
storm surge could be deadly, time to watch the crime dra-
the retired restaurant owner mas she loved and spend
stayed put. time with her two sons, her
Caregiver Amanda Nor- friends and her cat.
mand begged the 71-year-old Boles told WTVT-TV
widower to stay with her in- that when the water
land, but there had been slammed ashore, she and
many evacuation warnings Fagersten tried to drive
over the years as hurricanes away, but couldn’t. They fled
neared his Indian Rocks into the home of Boles’
Beach home — the storm mother and rushed to the
surge never got more than third floor.
knee-high. As Helene and its After a bit, the storm
strong winds pushed north seemed to weaken, so Fager-
in the Gulf of Mexico, he sten decided to go home and
wasn’t worried — its eye was check on her cat but got
100 miles offshore. Rebecca Blackwell Associated Press caught in the water. She
“He said, ‘It’s going to be DEBRIS FROM Hurricane Helene is piled outside homes Thursday in Bradenton Beach, Fla. Two days before couldn’t be saved. Her cat
fine. I’m going to go to bed,’ ” the storm hit, the National Hurricane Center warned barrier island residents of surges and told them to flee. was found safe.
Normand said of their final Earlier this week at
phone call, on the night of — the National Hurricane will cover. Bowles’ wrecked home, Nor-
Sept. 26. Center issued its first storm “It’s too much,” she said. mand, 34, was cleaning up
In that night’s darkness, surge warning two days be- Then there are the the mess Helene left behind.
a wall of water up to 8 feet fore Helene arrived, telling deaths. She had long worked for
high slammed ashore on the the barrier islands’ resi- Frank Wright had been Bowles and his late wife, Sa-
barrier islands. It swept into dents they should pack up the outdoors type, perfect brina, at the Salt Public
homes, forcing some who and get out. The relatively for living in Madeira Beach, House. They were beloved
had ignored the evacuation shallow waters of Florida’s a small barrier island com- by their employees, she said.
orders to climb into upper Gulf Coast make it particu- munity. But a few years ago, “He was just very genu-
floors, attics or onto their larly vulnerable to storm the 71-year-old got a degen- ine. He was the best person I
roofs to survive. Boats got surge, and forecasters pre- erative autoimmune dis- know on this Earth. Just
dumped in streets, and cars dicted Helene’s would hit Pi- ease. talking about it gives me
dumped into the water. nellas County hard. “He went from being goosebumps,” she said.
Bowles and 11 others died “We really want people to pretty active, outside and She became Bowles’
as Helene — before Hurri- take the warning seriously everything, to being in a caregiver after his wife died
cane Milton’s arrival because their lives are seri- wheelchair,” his neighbor two years ago and he retired.
Wednesday — hit the Tampa ously at risk,” said Cody Mike Visnick said. She took him to the doctor
Bay area harder than any Fritz, leader of the hurricane He thinks Wright prob- and bought his groceries.
hurricane had in 103 years. center’s storm surge team, Amanda Normand ably believed he would be They were each other’s
By far, the worst damage in adding that warnings are ne- “I JUST HOPE that he wasn’t in pain,” caregiver safe, given the prior warn- shoulder to cry on.
the area happened in Pinel- ver issued lightly. Amanda Normand says of client Aiden Bowles, 71. ings that didn’t pan out. But On the morning after the
las County on the narrow, 20- Pinellas County echoed he drowned in the surge. surge, Normand tried des-
mile string of barrier islands the warnings, issuing man- last major storm scored a di- lot of surge problems, espe- “It’s really sad to me how perately to reach Bowles,
that stretch from St. Peters- datory evacuation orders — rect hit in 1921, Tampa, St. cially when you have a large he died. He lived a good life. but the bridge was blocked.
burg to Clearwater. Man- but that doesn’t mean police Petersburg and their envi- storm like Helene,” said He loved the beach,” Visnick She called one of his neigh-
sions, brightly colored sin- force out residents. In Flor- rons have grown from about Philip Klotzbach, a hurri- said. bors, who found his body.
gle-family homes, apart- ida, mandatory evacuation 300,000 combined residents cane researcher at Colorado Farther north in Honey- “Every day I wake up
ments, mobile homes, orders mean that anyone to more than 3 million. State University. moon Mobile Home Park, re- thinking, ‘Was he calling for
restaurants, bars and shops who stays behind is on their Tampa Bay has been in It will take time for the is- tired hairdresser Patricia me? Was he like trying to get
were destroyed or heavily own, and first responders ar- the crosshairs of many lands to return to normal. In Mikos had never before me or something?’ ” Nor-
damaged in minutes. en’t required to risk their storms over the decades, but the 90-degree heat, resi- tempted fate, her neighbor mand said, her voice some-
“The water, it just came lives to save stragglers. they always turned into the dents spent recent days pil- Georgia Marcum said. The times breaking. “I just hope
so fast,” said Dave Beh- “We made our case. We Florida peninsula south of ing water-logged furniture, beach community is on- that he wasn’t in pain.”
ringer, who rode out the told people what they the area or made a beeline appliances, cupboards and shore, but that area was also Her 6-year-old son con-
storm in his home after needed to do, and they chose north into the Panhandle. drywall outside to be hauled in the surge’s predicted sidered Bowles to be a
telling his wife to flee. His otherwise,” Sheriff Bob Helene was never predic- away. Bulldozers pushed path. The 80-year-old al- grandfather and didn’t
neighborhood got hit with Gualtieri said. His deputies ted to hit Tampa — its eye sand back onto the beach. ways fled when hurricanes understand what happened.
about 4 feet of water. “Even if tried to save residents, but made landfall 180 miles Employees at stores and neared, so when Marcum left “He says to me, ‘Mommy,
you wanted to leave, there the surge forced their boats north. But at more than 200 restaurants threw out what the park before the storm to we’re going to go get Mr.
was no getting out.” and vehicles back. miles wide with winds whip- couldn’t be saved, while the care for her 95-year-old fa- Bowles and open the doors
While the property dam- The Tampa Bay area has ping at nearly 140 mph near owners figured out how and ther, she was certain her and get all the water out,’ ”
age was mostly unavoidable, been extremely lucky over its core, it created surges all when they could reopen. friend would also leave. she said. “It just broke my
there didn’t have to be death the last century. Since the along the Florida penin- Some might not. But for some reason she heart.”
sula’s Gulf Coast. Most wer- Laura Rushmore, who didn’t, and as the waters
en’t deadly, but on Pinellas’ has owned the Reds on the rose, Mikos found herself in Associated Press writers
barrier islands, the water Boulevard bar for 20 years, trouble. She called a nearby Fischer reported from
wall came from all direc- might walk away. She cried friend. When he arrived, he Indian Rocks Beach and
tions. as she described the dam- told her, “Let’s get out of Spencer from Fort
How to contact us “It doesn’t require a
storm making landfall di-
age. A cooler full of beer had
been tossed on its side, the
here,” according to Marcum.
But when she went back into
Lauderdale, Fla. AP
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THE WORLD

In Lebanon, anger at Israel but also Hezbollah

as opposed to a locally in-
Critics and supporters grained Lebanese party,”
Daou said.
of the political and Much of the anger at
militant group voice Hezbollah springs from how
quickly the group’s leader-
frustration, accusing it ship appears to have been
of miscalculations. decimated, with Israel dem-
onstrating its spying prow-
ess time and again by pick-
By Nabih Bulos ing off the group’s top-rank-
ing officials. That includes
BEIRUT — As Israel’s in- longtime leader Hassan
vasion of Lebanon intensi- Nasrallah, who was killed in
fies and brings more de- a massive airstrike last
struction to the Mediterra- month.
nean nation, anger among “It’s clear now none of
the Lebanese with Israel is, this was calculated,” said
not surprisingly, at an all- Tony Chakar, a Beirut-
time high. based artist and architect
But displeasure with its who is not supportive of
foe, Hezbollah, is also grow- Hezbollah. “The basis for
ing. them entering the war was
With 1,400 Lebanese dead that they were prepared and
and more than 1 million dis- had more than 100,000 mis-
placed nationwide — a fifth siles.”
of the country’s population “So where are they?” he
— Hezbollah critics and sup- asked. “If you have some-
porters alike are voicing thing, then show it.”
frustration over what many The criticism has ex-
view as the group’s miscal- Hussein Malla Associated Press tended to Hezbollah’s main
culations. A MAN in Beirut looks at buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes on Monday. “This is a war between Iran patron, Iran, with a growing
“This is a war between and Israel on Lebanese territory,” said a Parliament member with a party that is a rival of Hezbollah. suspicion among die-hard
Iran and Israel on Lebanese Hezbollah supporters that a
territory,” said Samy wondered when recovery starting the latest conflict Late last month, Israel flict. There was chaos in the lack of a meaningful re-
Gemayel, a Parliament crew workers would finally with Israel. launched thousands of aftermath, with residents sponse to Nasrallah’s killing
member with the Kataeb arrive. He said the bodies of A day after Palestinian airstrikes across Lebanon, fleeing out into the streets as was proof that the group was
Party, a longtime rival of his brother, sister-in-law militants from Hamas at- hitting Hezbollah-domi- ambulances and firetrucks sold out by Tehran.
Hezbollah. and nephew lay in the wreck- tacked southern Israel and nated areas in the south, struggled to navigate the “This couldn’t have hap-
“Unfortunately, today, age. sparked the Israel-Hamas east and the capital, Beirut, neighborhood’s narrow pened without betrayal,”
we’re all stuck,” Gemayel Hezbollah officials told war last October, Hezbollah even as its forces began what streets said Ali, a Hezbollah sup-
said. him he would have to wait joined the fight by launching the Israeli military called “a Nationalist and anti-Is- porter who lived in a Hezbol-
“Hezbollah is continuing because crews were already a barrage of missiles and limited incursion.” rael fervor is top of mind for lah-dominated area until his
its war. It’s not willing to overburdened due to “the rockets at northern Israel. But Israeli evacuation or- most Lebanese, said Mark home was destroyed in an
stop, and is taking the whole situation.” But workers, he Hezbollah said it was seek- ders keep expanding to new Daou, a Parliament member airstrike targeting what the
country to hell with it.” pointed out, were actively re- ing to aid Hamas and force areas every few days, raising with a bloc not aligned with Israeli military said was a
Family members of those covering the bodies of Israel to fight on two fronts. the specter of almost a third Hezbollah. weapons cache. He asked to
killed in Israeli attacks are Hezbollah members in a de- Some 60,000 people from of the country being under “All Lebanese want be identified only by his first
also blaming Hezbollah — stroyed building nearby. northern Israel and 90,000 in occupation. steadfastness against Isra- name. “Iran stabbed us in
an Iran-backed militant “We appreciate their sac- southern Lebanon were dis- On Thursday, two Israeli el,” he said. “If there’s an oc- the back. It’s clear.”
group and one of Lebanon’s rifice,” the man said. “But placed during a year of tit- airstrikes hit the center of cupation, anyone who is So widespread is the dis-
biggest political parties — they chose this. Don’t tell me for-tat border attacks. Beirut, killing at least 22 Lebanese, no matter their satisfaction with Iran’s level
for lacking adequate plans it’s ‘the situation’ when you The apparent assump- people and wounding 92 oth- sect, it’s their duty to fight of support that Hezbollah
to evacuate, shelter or res- get [Hezbollah members’ tion among Hezbollah lead- ers, authorities said. and resist.” deputy leader Naim Qassem
cue them. bodies] out and leave my ers was that Israel’s exhaus- Israeli media said the tar- But he added that such addressed the issue in a tele-
Slowly picking his way family under the rubble. tion from its Gaza campaign get was a Hezbollah opera- sentiments do not absolve vised speech Tuesday.
through the rubble of what Why should my brother and would mean it had little ap- tive, Wafiq Safa, who has Hezbollah of blame for push- “Iran decides how to sup-
was the six-story building in his family wait to be buried? petite for an all-out war, es- been sanctioned by the U.S. ing Lebanon into war and ty- port and how to give, and it
a Hezbollah-dominated I know I won’t find their bod- pecially against a well- since 2019. ing its fate to the situation in gave [a lot] over the years,”
Beirut suburb where his ies. But give me some pieces armed adversary like Thursday’s attack was Gaza — all at Iran’s behest. he said, adding that “the
brother lived, Mohammad, of flesh I can put in a bag and Hezbollah. That assump- the third to hit the heart of “More and more Hezbol- battle is not one for Iran and
40, who asked to be identi- go bury them.” tion proved to be spectacu- the capital, and the deadli- lah is looking like a purely Iran’s influence in the region
fied by only his first name, Many fault Hezbollah for larly wrong. est so far in the yearlong con- Iran-aligned apparatchik, … but rather to liberate Pal-
estine.”
With Israel focusing its
campaign primarily on
Hezbollah’s loyalist areas,

Israeli attacks kill 27 at Gaza shelter, hurt 2 in Lebanon most of the displaced have
been from Lebanon’s Shiite
community. They escaped
north with little more than
southern Lebanon in strikes whatever they could cram
Military says airstrike that “could constitute war into or atop their vehicles.
crimes.” Those who didn’t find space
targeted Hamas at Several other countries, with family or hastily pre-
school. Separately, including France, Spain and pared shelters now camp
Jordan, also denounced the out in public squares, parks
U.N. peacekeepers are Israeli attacks. and even on sidewalks along
wounded by tank fire. The U.N. peacekeeping Beirut’s famous beach
chief, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, promenade.
said last week that peace- The longer they stay, the
By Bilal Hussein, keepers would stay in their more friction there will be,
Wafaa Shurafa positions on Lebanon’s said Mustafa Alloush, a
and Samy Magdy southern border despite Is- Sunni Muslim lawmaker
rael’s request to vacate areas from the northern city of
DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza before it launched its ground Tripoli, where tens of thou-
Strip — An Israeli strike on a operation against Hezbol- sands of displaced have
school sheltering the dis- lah. found refuge.
placed in the Gaza Strip “The U.N. and Italy can- “So far everyone is behav-
killed at least 27 people not accept orders from the ing,” Alloush said. Some lo-
Thursday, Palestinian medi- Israeli government,” cals are wary of taking in the
cal officials said. The Israeli Crosetto said. displaced for fear of un-
military said it targeted mili- Hezbollah began firing knowingly harboring a
tants, but people sheltering rockets into Israel on Oct. 8, Hezbollah member and
there said the strike hit a 2023, in support of Hamas drawing Israeli fire, but oth-
meeting of aid workers. and the Palestinians, draw- ers have opened homes
Israel has continued to Abdel Kareem Hana Associated Press ing Israeli airstrikes in retali- without concern for sect.
strike at what it says are mil- A PALESTINIAN MAN carries a wounded child after an Israeli strike Thursday ation. “But if it goes beyond a
itant targets across the Pal- in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip. The military also fired on a U.N. site in Lebanon. The fighting has steadily certain point, a social explo-
estinian enclave even as at- escalated, with Israel re- sion is possible,” Alloush
tention has shifted to its war and counted the bodies, the start of the war as Israel after the 2006 war between cently carrying out waves of warned.
against Hezbollah in Leba- many of which arrived in targeted them with Israel and Hezbollah, allow- heavy strikes across Leba- Israel appears to be
non and rising tensions with pieces. airstrikes, but plainclothes ing peacekeepers to patrol a non and launching the banking on disenchantment
Iran. The military launched The Israeli military said Hamas security personnel buffer zone set up along the ground invasion. Hezbollah with Hezbollah. On Tues-
a large-scale air and ground it carried out a precise strike still exert control over most border. has expanded its rocket fire day, in a televised address,
operation against Hamas in targeting a militant com- areas. Israel accuses Hezbollah to more populated areas Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
northern Gaza this week. mand-and-control center in- Hamas has continued to of establishing militant in- deeper inside Israel, causing jamin Netanyahu called on
In a separate devel- side the school, without pro- launch attacks on Israeli frastructure along the bor- few casualties but disrupt- the Lebanese people to
opment, the United Nations viding evidence. Israel has forces and fire occasional der in violation of the U.N. ing daily life. “stand up” and take their
peacekeeping force in south- repeatedly attacked schools rockets into Israel more Security Council resolution Israel says the ground in- country back from the
ern Lebanon said an Israeli that were turned into shel- than a year after its Oct. 7 at- that ended the 2006 war. It vasion, which has focused on group, warning them to
tank fired on its head- ters in Gaza, accusing mili- tack ignited the war. has warned people to evacu- a narrow strip along the bor- “save Lebanon before it falls
quarters in the town of tants of hiding out in them. Hamas-led militants ate from dozens of commu- der, is aimed at pushing the into the abyss of a long war
Naqoura, hitting an obser- Witnesses said the strike stormed into Israel and ram- nities in southern Lebanon, militants back so that tens of that will lead to destruction
vation tower and wounding occurred while school man- paged through army bases, many of which are outside thousands of Israelis can re- and suffering like we see in
two peacekeepers, who were agers were meeting with rep- farming communities and a the buffer zone. turn to their homes in the Gaza.”
hospitalized. resentatives of an aid group music festival in that attack, The attack drew wide- north. The fighting has dis- Analysts say Israel has a
The Israeli military said in a room normally used by killing some 1,200 people, spread condemnation and placed more than a million larger strategy aimed at
it was looking into the inci- Hamas-run police who pro- mostly civilians, and ab- prompted the Italian De- people in Lebanon. turning the Lebanese
dent. vide security. They said ducting around 250 others. fense Ministry to summon Iran supports Hamas, against Hezbollah.
United Nations Interim there were no police in the They are still holding around Israel’s ambassador in pro- Hezbollah and other armed “The reason they’re not
Force in Lebanon, known as room at the time. 100 captives, a third of whom test. groups across the region bombing other [non-Shiite]
UNIFIL, said in a statement The Palestinian branch are believed to be dead. The two UNIFIL troops that refer to themselves as areas is because they want
that its headquarters and of Terre des Hommes, a Israel’s offensive has wounded in the attacks and the “axis of resistance” to create an environment for
nearby positions “have been Swiss aid group, said in a killed more than 42,000 Pal- hospitalized are Indonesian, against Israel. Iran Hezbollah that is very inhos-
repeatedly hit.” It said the statement that members of estinians, according to local Italy’s Foreign Minister An- launched some 180 ballistic pitable,” said Michael
army also fired on a nearby one of its children’s health health authorities, who do tonio Tajani said. missiles at Israel last week in Young, an analyst at the
bunker where peacekeepers teams were killed in the not say how many were The Israeli military ac- retaliation for the killing of Beirut-based Carnegie Mid-
were sheltering, damaging strike, though it did not fighters but that women and knowledged opening fire at a top Hamas and Hezbollah dle East Center. “This sug-
vehicles and a communica- specify how many. children make up more than U.N. base in southern Leba- militants. gests a much more ambi-
tion system. It said an Israeli “There were no militants. half of the fatalities. The war non on Thursday and said it Israeli Defense Minister tious plan than just a matter
drone was seen flying to the There was no Hamas,” said has destroyed large areas of had ordered the peacekeep- Yoav Gallant said Wednes- of securing the border.”
bunker’s entrance. Iftikhar Hamouda, who had Gaza and displaced around ers to “remain in protected day that its response to the Gemayel, the Kataeb
fled from northern Gaza 90% of its population of 2.3 spaces.” Iranian missile attack will be Party lawmaker, fears that
earlier in the war. million people, often multi- The European Union’s “lethal” and “surprising,” such a scenario could bring
Witness: ‘There “We headed to tents. ple times. top diplomat, Josep Borrell, without providing further about a repeat of the sectari-
were no militants’ They bombed the tents. ... In sharply condemned Israeli details, as Prime Minister an bloodletting that en-
A child and seven women the streets, they bombed us. strikes that hit UNIFIL posi- Benjamin Netanyahu spoke gulfed Lebanon during its
Nations denounce
were among the 27 people In the markets, they tions as “an inadmissible with President Biden. 15-year civil war that ended
killed in the central Gaza bombed us. In the schools, attack on U.N. site act, for which there is no jus- in 1990.
city of Deir al Balah, accord- they bombed us,” she said. UNIFIL, which has more tification.” Associated Press writers “As long as there’s hope
ing to the Al Aqsa Martyrs “Where should we go?” than 10,000 peacekeepers From Italy, which has Hussein and Shurafa these people can return
Hospital, where the bodies The Hamas-run govern- from dozens of countries, about 1,000 soldiers de- reported from Deir al Balah home, we can handle it,” he
were brought. It said several ment in Gaza operated a ci- was created to oversee the ployed as part of UNIFIL, and Magdy from Cairo. AP said.
other people were wounded. vilian police force number- withdrawal of Israeli troops Defense Minister Guido writers Kareem Chehayeb in “But once Israel decides
An Associated Press re- ing in the tens of thousands. from southern Lebanon af- Crosetto went further, Beirut and Melanie Lidman to stay, it’s another story.
porter saw ambulances Those officers largely van- ter Israel’s 1978 invasion. The claiming Israel deliberately in Tel Aviv contributed to Then Lebanon will im-
streaming into the hospital ished from the streets after U.N. expanded its mission targeted the UNIFIL base in this report. plode.”
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THE NATION

Among Haitians, Springfield is a cautionary tale

“That’s what I’m trying to ber for an event that prom-
In Alabama, small do, to be a bridge,” Pierre- ised answers about how the
Charles said. growing Haitian population
cities are taking steps He is not working alone. was affecting the city.
to help integrate the In August, Gerilynn Han- After the event, James
son, 54, helped organize the Wright, the chief of the Ma-
migrant population to initial meetings in Al- Chis Lower Creek Indian
stop fearmongering. bertville because she said Tribe, was sympathetic to
many residents had legiti- the reasons Haitians were
mate questions about how fleeing their homeland but
By Safiyah Riddle migration was affecting the said he worried migrants
city. would affect Enterprise’s lo-
ENTERPRISE, Ala. — Now, Hanson said, she is cal “political culture” and
The transition from bustling adjusting her strategy, “fo- “community values.”
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to a cusing on the human level.” Other attendees echoed
small Alabama city on the In September, Hanson, fears and misinformation
southernmost tip of the Ap- an electrical contractor and about Haitian migrants be-
palachian mountain range Trump supporter, formed a ing “lawless” and “danger-
was challenging for Sarah nonprofit with Pierre- ous.”
Jacques. Charles and other Haitian But some came to try to
But over the course of a community leaders to offer ease mounting anxieties
year, the 22-year-old got more stable housing and about the migrant commu-
used to the quiet and settled English language classes to nity.
in. Jacques got a job at a meet the growing demand. Enterprise Police Chief
manufacturing plant that “We can look at [Spring- Michael Moore said he
makes car seats, found a field] and become them in a shared statistics from his
Creole-language church and year,” Hanson said, referring department that show no
came to appreciate the ease to the animosity that’s taken measurable increase in
and security of life in Al- Safiyah Riddle Associated Press hold in the Ohio city, which crimes as the Haitian popu-
bertville after the political CONGREGANTS attend Eglise Porte Etroite, a Creole-language church in has been inundated with lation has grown.
turmoil and violence that’s Albertville, Ala., that has grown from seven attendees to about 300 in 14 years. threats. “We can sit back and “I think there was quite a
plagued her home country. do nothing and let it unfold few people there that were
Recently, though, as Re- have been growing for three ole, “Welcome neighbor glad Still, Pierre-Charles de- under our eyes. Or we can try more concerned about the
publican presidential nomi- decades, said Robin Lathan, you came.” scribes the last months as to counteract some of that fearmongering than the mi-
nee Donald Trump and his executive assistant to the Al- Dunston said the bill- “the worst period” for the and make it to where every- grants,” Moore told the As-
running mate began pro- bertville mayor. Lathan said boards are a way to “push Haitian community in all his one is productive and can sociated Press.
moting debunked misinfor- the city doesn’t track how back” against the notion time in Albertville. speak to each other.” Moore said his depart-
mation about Haitian mi- many Haitians have moved that migrants are unwel- “I can see some people in Similar debates have pro- ment had received reports of
grants in Springfield, Ohio, to the city in recent years but come. Albertville who are really liferated in public meetings Haitian migrants living in
causing crime and “eating said that “it seems there has When Pastor John Pi- scared right now because across the state — even in houses that violated city
pets,” Jacques said there been an increase over the erre-Charles first arrived in they don’t know what’s going places where Haitian resi- code, but when he reached
have been new, unforeseen last year, in particular.” Albertville in 2006, he said to happen,” said Pierre- dents make up less than out to the people in ques-
challenges. A representative from Al- the only other Haitians he Charles. “Some are scared 0.5% of the population. tion, the issues were quickly
“When I first got here, bertville’s school system knew in the area were his because they think they may In Sylacauga, videos resolved.
people would wave at us, say said that, in the last school family members. be sent back to Haiti. But from numerous public meet- Since then, his depart-
hello to us, but now it’s not year, 34% of the district’s In 14 years of operation, some of them are scared be- ings show residents ques- ment hasn’t heard any cred-
the same,” Jacques said in 5,800 students were learning the congregation at his Cre- cause they don’t know how tioning the impact of the al- ible complaints about
Creole through a translator. English as a second lan- ole-language church, Eglise people are going to react to leged rise in Haitian mi- crimes caused by migrants.
“When people see you, they guage — compared with 17% Porte Etroite, has gone from them.” grants. Officials said there “I completely under-
kind of look at you like in 2017. seven members in 2010 to After the fallout from the are only 60 Haitian migrants stand that some people
they’re very quiet with you In August, weeks before about 300 congregants. He is initial public meetings in Au- in the town of about 12,000 don’t like what I say because
or afraid of you.” Springfield made national now annexing classrooms to gust, Pierre-Charles sent a people southeast of Birm- it doesn’t fit their own per-
Amid this mounting ten- headlines, a Facebook post the church building for Eng- letter to city leadership call- ingham. sonal thought process,” said
sion, a bipartisan group of of men getting off a bus to lish language classes and ing for more resources for In Enterprise, not far Moore. “But those are the
local religious leaders, law work at a poultry plant led driver’s education classes, housing and food to ensure from the Alabama-Florida facts.”
enforcement officials and some residents to speculate as well as a podcast studio to his growing community border, cars packed the
residents across Alabama that the plant was hiring accommodate the burgeon- could safely acclimate, both parking lot of Open Door Riddle writes for the
sees the fallout in Spring- people living in the country ing community. economically and culturally. Baptist Church in Septem- Associated Press.
field as a cautionary tale. illegally. Representatives for
They’ve been taking steps to the poultry plant said in an
help integrate the state’s email to the Associated
Haitian population in the Press that all its employees
small cities where they live.
As political turmoil and
violence intensify in their
are legally allowed to work in
the U.S.
The uproar culminated
‘Dreamers’ on hand as court weighs DACA
homeland, Haitians have in a public meeting where
found refuge in the U.S. some residents sought clar-
under Temporary Protected ity about the Temporary Future of more than
Status — a program estab- Protected Status program
lished in 1990 under which that allowed Haitians to half a million migrants
President Biden last year work in Alabama legally, brought to the U.S. as
authorized up to 30,000 peo- while others called for land-
ple a month from Cuba, lords to “cut off the housing” children is at stake in
Haiti, Nicaragua and Vene- for Haitians and suggested the long legal battle.
zuela to live and work legally that the migrants have a
in the U.S. for two years. The “smell to them,” according
associated press
Biden administration re- to audio recordings.
cently announced the pro- To Unique Dunson, a 27-
gram could allow an esti- year-old lifelong Albertville NEW ORLEANS — Im-
mated 300,000 Haitians to resident and community ac- migrants who grew up in the
remain in the U.S. at least tivist, these sentiments felt United States after being
through February 2026. familiar. “Every time Al- brought here illegally as
In 2023, there were 2,370 bertville gets a new influx of children were among the
people of Haitian ancestry in people who are not white, nearly 200 demonstrators
Alabama, according to cen- there seems to be a prob- outside a federal courthouse
sus data. There is no official lem,” she said. in New Orleans on Thursday
count of the increase in the Dunson runs a store of- as three appellate judges
Haitian population in Ala- fering free supplies to the heard arguments over the
bama since the program was community. After tensions Biden administration’s pol-
implemented. boiled over across the coun- icy shielding the young im-
The immigration debate try, she put up billboards migrants from deportation. Kevin McGill Associated Press
is not new to Albertville, around town that read, in At stake in the long legal YOUNG IMMIGRANTS join a demonstration Thursday outside federal appeals
where migrant populations English, Spanish and Cre- battle playing out in the 5th court in New Orleans, urging judges to maintain protections against deportation.
U.S. Circuit Court of Ap-
peals is the future of about dominated states, have said But in September 2023, to an emailed interview re-
535,000 people who have in court arguments and legal U.S. District Judge Andrew quest. The other states chal-
long-established lives in the briefs that they incur hun- Hanen in Houston said the lenging DACA are Alabama,
U.S., even though they don’t dreds of millions of dollars in executive branch had over- Arkansas, Kansas, Louisi-
hold citizenship or legal resi- healthcare, education and stepped its authority. ana, Mississippi, Nebraska,
dency status and they could other costs when immi- Hanen barred the gov- South Carolina and West
eventually be deported. grants are allowed to remain ernment from approving Virginia.
“I live here. I work here. I in the country illegally. new applications, but left The Immigration Reform
own a home here,” said The appeals court panel DACA intact for existing re- Law Institute is among the
Marea Rocha Carrillo, 37, hearing the arguments cipients, known as “Dream- allies of those states to file
who traveled from her home won’t rule immediately. ers,” during appeals. court briefs.
in New York to join the dem- Whatever it decides, the case Defenders of the policy “Congress has repeat-
onstration. will almost certainly wind up argue that Congress has giv- edly refused to legalize
Carrillo said she was before the U.S. Supreme en the executive branch’s DACA recipients, and no ad-
brought to the U.S. at age 3 Court. Homeland Security Depart- ministration can take that
when family members immi- Then-President Obama ment authority to set immi- step in its place,” the group’s
grated from Mexico, where first put the Deferred Action gration policy, and that the executive director, Dale L.
she was born. She could not for Childhood Arrivals pro- states challenging the pro- Wilcox, said in a statement
get a teaching certificate un- gram in place in 2012, citing gram have no basis to sue. this year.
til the Deferred Action for inaction by Congress on leg- “They cannot identify The panel hearing the
Childhood Arrivals program islation aimed at giving any harms flowing from case consists of judges Jerry
allowed her to build a career those brought to the U.S. as DACA,” Nina Perales, vice Smith, nominated to the 5th
in education. youngsters a path to legal president of the Mexican Circuit by President Rea-
Opponents of DACA wer- status and citizenship. American Legal Defense gan; Edith Brown Clement,
en’t in evidence among the Years of litigation followed. and Education Fund, said at nominated by President
demonstrators. But oppo- President Biden renewed a news conference this week. George W. Bush; and Ste-
nents, chiefly Texas and the program in hopes of win- The Texas attorney gen- phen Higginson, nominated
eight other Republican- ning court approval. eral’s office did not respond by Obama.

North Carolina governor signs Helene relief bill

lion for immediate needs administer elections in the serve, which contained
Bubble The state will use and giving flexibility to agen- coming weeks. $4.75 billion. The enacted
cies and displaced residents. “Recovery for Western measure also waived fees for
Sofa, designed by Sacha Lakic $273 million from The Democrat signed the North Carolina will require people in western counties
reserve to recover measure Thursday, a day af- unprecedented help from to replace lost driver’s li-
ter it was approved unani- state and federal sources censes and identification
from storm and mously by the Republican- and this legislation is a cards, as well as permitting
facilitate elections. led General Assembly. strong first step,” Cooper requirements for some high-
Nearly all the money will said in a news release. way repairs and open burn-
serve as the state’s share The Legislature also ing of storm debris.
associated press
that is needed to meet the agreed separately Wednes- On elections, the General
federal government’s match day to return to Raleigh on Assembly expanded rule al-
RALEIGH, N.C. — North for state and local disaster Oct. 24, when action on addi- terations for conducting
Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper assistance programs. Other tional recovery legislation is elections and turning in bal-
has signed the state’s first money will be used to ensure expected. lots from 13 to 25 counties,
relief package to address public school nutrition em- The $273 million in and it changed the options
Hurricane Helene’s devas- ployees at closed campuses Wednesday’s bill originates people in the region have for
tation, allocating $273 mil- get paid and to help officials from the state’s savings re- turning in absentee ballots.
L AT I M E S . C O M F R I DAY , O C T O B E R 11, 2 0 2 4 A5

Wider use of
public lands
likely if Trump
wins election
[Monuments, from A1] In Project 2025, Pendley
U.S. government? accuses the Biden adminis-
Trump has already tration of “implementing a
shown his desire to throw vast regulatory regime,” be-
open more of the land for oil yond that envisioned by
drilling, mining and logging. Congress, and effectively
And a Supreme Court heavi- banning almost all “produc-
ly influenced by Trump-ap- tive economic uses” of fed-
pointed justices has hinted eral lands managed by the
it would like to review the Interior Department.
power of presidents to cre- Environmental and trib-
ate national monuments. al organizations have ex-
Trump appointees Brett pressed the opposite view,
M. Kavanaugh and Neil M. noting that it was Trump
Gorsuch signaled this year who made the largest reduc-
that they want to review tion in monument-pro-
President Obama’s expan- tected lands in history and
sion of Cascade-Siskiyou who would be likely to grant
National Monument on the even more corporate access Jack Herrera Los Angeles Times
Oregon-California state line. to public lands in a second AFTER the Trump administration reduced the size of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, a nonprofit
And in 2021, Chief Justice term. conservancy purchased adjacent land including Cottonwood Wash, above. But other sites remain vulnerable.
John G. Roberts Jr. an- “Project 2025 is an exam-
nounced his skepticism ple of what it would look like to protect land that is treas- “Some people think that amounts of human waste Pendley’s Project 2025
about another of Obama’s to sell off America’s natural ured by all Americans, not the natural resources of and other trash compared to plan calls for a downsizing
monument designations — resources and public lands just those in a particular Utah should be controlled a group of 12,” Jackie Grant, of Cascade-Siskiyou Na-
of an underwater preserve to corporations with little- state or community. by a small handful of very executive director of Grand tional Monument, saying
larger than Yellowstone Na- to-no regard for the environ- Last week’s vice presi- distant bureaucrats located Staircase-Escalante Part- the area should be governed
tional Park off the New Eng- ment, the climate, taxpay- dential debate offered a rare in Washington,” Trump ners, said in an email. “Hu- by a historic agreement that
land coast. ` ers, or wildlife,” wrote the moment in campaign 2024 in said. “And guess what? man excrement can take predated the monument. It
“Which of the following is Center for Western Pri- which the candidates’ They’re wrong.” over a year to decompose in would allow greater harvest-
not like the others: (a) a orities, a nonprofit that has sharply different views Some Utah residents the desert environment of ing of timber on BLM land,
monument, (b) an antiquity resisted the push to transfer about public lands leaped welcomed the Republican’s the Grand Staircase-Es- creating well-paying jobs
(defined as a “relic or monu- federal lands to state and onto the national stage. new designations and the calante National Monu- and reducing fuel for future
ment of ancient times”) or private ownership. Asked about the crisis in jobs they said looser protec- ment. Now imagine the im- wildfires, Pendley argues.
(c) 5,000 square miles of land Other issues — such as affordable housing, Republi- tions would be likely to cre- pact of 500,000 to a million The Wyoming-reared
beneath the ocean?” Rob- the economy, immigration, can vice presidential candi- ate. But about 3,000 demon- people pooping in a fairly lawyer says that many laws
erts wrote in a statement, abortion and fair elections date JD Vance declared that strators, including tribal limited desert area over the enacted after the Antiqui-
even as the court declined to — have topped the agenda “a lot of federal lands ... ar- members, protested on the course of a year.” ties Act — to protect endan-
take up the case. during the presidential cam- en’t being used for any- day of Trump’s action. They The group size limit is ex- gered species and wild and
And a controversial plan paign, while the environ- thing,” and “could be places said the monument status pected to be reduced in the scenic rivers, for example —
drawn up by conservatives ment, climate change and where we build a lot of hous- helped protect cultural re- Biden administration man- create adequate protections
as a blueprint for the next public land priorities have ing.” sources, including petro- agement plan, which is near- for the outdoors.
Republican administration mostly taken a back seat. Democratic vice presi- glyphs and centuries-old ing completion. Advocates for Cascade-
would have Trump go even That may be in part be- dential candidate Tim Walz cave dwellings. The Trump plan also Siskiyou and other monu-
further if elected: It calls on cause most of the land disagreed. He said open The shifting between opened more remote roads ments say presidents have
him to repeal the Antiquities owned by the U.S. govern- space has been kept that Democratic and Republican to use by all-terrain vehicles. used their monument-mak-
Act of 1906, the law that al- ment lies in Western states, way “for a reason” and that administrations has meant The opening of the V-Road ing power wisely. They point
lowed presidents of both most of which (with the ex- the country needed a better a whipsawing between phi- in the Escalante Canyons to the Grand Canyon in Ari-
parties to make monuments ceptions of Arizona and Ne- solution than saying, “Let’s losophies — with the section of the monument zona and Denali in Alaska as
of nearly 160 archaeological vada) will not be closely de- take this federal land and Trump-era management has left the area — under among the many monu-
sites, historic landmarks cided in the presidential let’s sell it.” plan for the Utah monu- consideration for higher ments that went on to be-
and other outstanding sci- race. Republicans in Utah cel- ments remaining in place protection as a wilderness come beloved national
entific or historic locations. The federal government ebrated in 2017 when Trump while Biden administration area — marred by vandal- parks.
Project 2025 says the owns less than 5% of the land rolled back the boundaries management plans are em- ism, trash and more human Dave Willis, a horse
monument law has been east of the Mississippi River, of sprawling Bears Ears and broiled in a painstaking ap- waste. packer who lives on monu-
overused and that public but nearly half of the acreage Grand Staircase-Escalante, proval process. That damage came with ment land in Oregon, has
lands need to remain open to in 11 Western states in the which lie roughly 100 miles The nonprofit that helps little of the “economic ex- been fighting for creation
a wide range of uses — in- Lower 48, controlled mostly apart in the southern part of oversee conservation and pansion by way of natural re- and preservation of the Cas-
cluding oil drilling, coal min- by the Bureau of Land Man- the state. The then-presi- programs at Grand Stair- source extraction” that state cade-Siskiyou monument
ing and recreation. That fits agement and the Forest dent slashed Bears Ears by case-Escalante says it has officials had promised, for decades. The intent of
with Trump’s pledge, if he Service. about 85%, down to 201,876 been challenging to keep up Grant said. Trump allies to open the
wins a second term, to “drill, Conservatives in many of acres. He cut the second with the flood of new visitors Pendley, the former property to timber harvest
baby, drill.” those states have been cam- monument from 1.9 million that came with the Trump Trump BLM official, has is just part of a “scorched-
Though Trump has tried paigning for decades to try acres to a little over 1 million administration’s less re- been fighting for more state earth policy with regard to
to distance himself from to wrest control of some of acres. strictive policies. The and local control of public all public lands,” he said.
Project 2025, the author of that property from the fed- Trump accused Demo- Trump management plan lands since he served in the “Americans really care
the chapter on the Interior eral government, saying that cratic Presidents Obama allows, for example, a dou- administration of Republi- about their public lands,”
Department, lawyer William decisions about its use and Clinton of setting aside bling of the size of groups can Ronald Reagan. He Willis said. “And when some-
Perry Pendley, already should be made closer to far too much land to protect that can visit the monu- wrote “Sagebrush Rebel,” a one threatens them, they are
served in the first Trump ad- home. the archaeology and other ment, to 25. book about Reagan’s fight not going to take it lying
ministration, as the top offi- Environmentalists have resources that were the ob- “This doesn’t sound like a against what he saw as ex- down. Trying to degrade
cial in the Bureau of Land countered that federal offi- ject of the monument desig- lot, but a group of 25 people cessive federal control of public lands will put you on
Management. cials are in the best position nations. leaves much greater Western lands. the wrong side of history.”

Search for signs of life near Jupiter is poised to begin

[Europa, from A1] Europa orbits Jupiter in write emails, talk with your
says he or she never asks
those questions, they’re not
just 3 1⁄2 days, traveling 10
times faster than our moon.
‘There are two congressmen, come to our
days of action.’ ”
being honest with you.” The intense gravitational questions: Where The Planetary Society, a
Engineered by JPL, the forces from the gas giant Pasadena-based nonprofit
$5-billion Europa Clipper constantly crush and strain did we come of which Nye is the chief exe-
spacecraft is the largest in-
terplanetary probe ever
the moon’s core, heating it
up.
from? And, are we cutive and a longtime mem-
ber, decided to throw its
built by the space agency. Scientists believe hydro- alone in the weight behind a Europa mis-
The probe will launch on a thermal water vents blast sion. Its leadership testified
SpaceX rocket, built in the core’s heat upward, universe?’ before Congress and spoke
Hawthorne. thawing an expansive ocean on Capitol Hill. Planetary
“If we find life on another that sloshes roughly 15 miles —Bill Nye, Society members wrote
world, it will change life on below the moon’s icy crust — television personality and more than 375,000 messages
this one,” Nye said. “It’s the far deeper than humans science advocate of support to Congress and
people who live and work in have ever dug on Earth. the White House.
Los Angeles County who do Observations from Earth In 2014, NASA explicitly
this work that potentially and orbiting probes suggest cides to extend the mission, told scientists and Congress
will change the course of hu- that some of this water which has frequently hap- that it would not fund a Eu-
man history.” works through fissures in pened in the past. ropa mission in its budget
On the heels of the James the ice and blasts through in Clipper isn’t the first mis- request.
Webb Space Telescope and geysers more than a hun- sion to explore the icy moon. “That never happens,”
Perseverance Mars Rover, dred miles high. The Galileo probe flew past said Casey Dreier, the chief
Clipper is one of the last With liquid water and a it in the 1990s, confirming of space policy at the Plan-
multibillion-dollar “flag- source of energy in the form scientists’ hopes that the etary Society. “They never
ship” projects to squeeze of heat, Europa has fasci- NASA/JPL-Caltech moon was more than the just put in a budget request,
through development this nated scientists for decades. AN ILLUSTRATION of NASA’s Europa Clipper quiet rocky ball orbiting ‘We’re not going to do some-
decade as NASA faces If it also harbors organic near the icy moon, with Jupiter in the background. Earth. thing. There’s no money.
budget tightening and proj- compounds such as amino The excitement led scien- Basically, please stop ask-
ect management issues. acids, which form the pro- Jupiter have given scientists study the complex dynamics tists to formally ask NASA ing.’ ”
“I often talk about these teins that make up cells, a rough sketch of the moon, of how the ocean interacts for a dedicated Europa mis- But by the next year,
missions as modern cathe- then Europa could be home but Clipper will help paint a with the icy crust and heated sion in the early 2000s. NASA had asked Congress
drals. They are generational to alien life-forms. detailed portrait. mantle below. This will But NASA always has to for $15 million to start the
quests,” NASA JPL Director Clipper will search for Once Clipper arrives at slowly come into view as the weigh the potential scien- multibillion-dollar probe. A
Laurie Leshin said at a news light signatures of these Jupiter, it will orbit the gas probe uses penetrating ra- tific discoveries of bold flag- congressman from Texas
conference for the Clipper compounds on Europa — giant 80 times over the dio waves to peer beneath ship missions against the who was a champion for
launch. “I’m really proud and any that may be blasted course of four years, making the icy crust — much like an risk of cost overruns, and space funding — and also
that, as humanity, we choose into space by meteorites or 49 Europa flybys, as close as X-ray machine. back then, the agency had held power in the budget
to undertake these difficult geysers. 16 miles from the surface, to “Clipper is going to be the cold feet. process — helped secure
and long-term goals — “If there is something collect data from pole to first in-depth mission that By 2013, NASA had just $100 million for the project.
things like exploring the un- alive — imagine a Europa- pole. will allow us to characterize finished dealing with cost NASA selected JPL to de-
known out at Jupiter.” nian microbe, let alone Eu- Within its first few flybys, habitability on what could overruns on the Curiosity sign and build the space-
NASA has until Nov. 6 to ropanian fish people — scientists should be able to be the most common type of Mars Rover and the agency craft.
launch the probe and was these things would be shot confirm the existence of the inhabited world in our uni- was focused on getting the “It’s not too surprising to
waiting for Hurricane Mil- into space,” Nye said. “If you ocean — all by reading the verse,” Gina Dibraccio, James Webb Space Tele- see JPL win a contract for a
ton to pass over Florida’s sample water in any pond magnetic field produced by acting director of NASA scope into space. All while planetary mission,” said
Space Coast. anywhere on Earth, any- the moon and measuring HQ’s Planetary Science Di- Congress had slashed its Matthew Shindell, plan-
Once the spacecraft where there’s moisture, its gravity by determining vision, said at a news confer- planetary science budget al- etary science and explo-
leaves its Cape Canaveral you’ll find all these viruses how much it pulls the space- ence. most in half compared with a ration curator at the Smith-
launchpad, it begins a and bacteria and microbes, craft. On Sept. 3, 2034, Europa decade prior. sonian National Air and
5 1⁄2-year odyssey — first writ tiny, and so it’s reason- They’ll also get some of Clipper will intentionally So, the Science Guy got Space Museum.
sling-shotting around Mars able we’d at least find orga- the highest-resolution im- slam into Jupiter’s rocky involved. “They really do have an
in early 2025, and then nic compounds.” ages ever taken of the moon moon Ganymede, ensuring “We realized that this incredible track record,” he
boomeranging back around (NASA is virtually cer- and the first readings of the spacecraft doesn’t acci- [mission] would be possible said. “So, they’re one of
Earth in late 2026 before it tain it won’t find fish people, which molecules lie near the dentally strike one of the 10 years ago at the Planetary NASA’s most trusted cen-
speeds toward the solar sys- but that hasn’t stopped sci- surface. planet’s more scientifically Society,” Nye said, “and so ters when it comes to devel-
tem’s largest planet and an entists from dreaming.) Throughout the rest of interesting moons. we just got on it: ‘Look, oping large robotic mis-
incredibly dynamic moon. Previous missions to the mission, Clipper will That is, unless NASA de- everybody, write letters, sions.”
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Hurricane Milton cuts path of destruction

[Milton, from A1]
spawned dozens of torna-
does across the state.
Five fatalities were con-
firmed in St. Lucie County in
the Spanish Lakes Country
Club, a community of modu-
lar homes for residents 55
and older near Fort Pierce.
St. Lucie County Sheriff
Keith Pearson said Thurs-
day afternoon that torna-
does spawned by Milton’s
storm system left a 100-yard-
wide swath of devastation.
“I mean, they don’t look
like homes anymore,” Pear-
son said as rescuers contin-
ued to sift through the de-
bris. “These homes are flat-
tened, there’s nothing left. ...
It looks like you’re at the
dump — just huge piles of
rubble.”
At a morning news con-
ference, Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis said Milton moved
quickly, bringing “much de-
struction and damage.” But
he also expressed relief that
the storm was ultimately not
as powerful as many feared.
Later, DeSantis said at
least 340 people and 49 pets
had been rescued across the
state.
Speaking from the White
House, President Biden said
Americans working with
federal, state and local agen-
cies were “putting their lives
on the line to do dangerous
work.” He condemned those
who, weeks before the Nov. 5
presidential election, were
politicizing the issue of hur-
ricane response and spread-
ing rumors and misinforma-
tion on social media about
last month’s Hurricane
Helene and the response by
the Federal Emergency Julio Cortez Associated Press
Management Agency. THE ROOF of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., which was serving as a staging area for first responders, was damaged by the storm.
“Those who engage in
such lies are undermining a construction crane near a yelled down to rescuers in a traffic through two feet or threats and prevent further Milton approached, they
confidence in the rescue and luxury high-rise onto an of- motorboat. more of water. Traffic lights harm is by taking action now had made peace with the
recovery work that’s on- fice building that houses the “You need to come with throughout Tampa were out — to prepare for even great- thought of losing their
going,” Biden said. “These offices of the Tampa Bay us now!” a man shouted and, in at least one case, er extremes to come and to sprawling ranch home with a
lies are also harmful to those Times newspaper. back. “If you’re not leaving hanging down onto the road. advance the policy and cli- two-story add-on.
who most need help. Lives “While we were spared today, no one’s coming “Please, please stay in- mate solutions necessary to The interior was already
are on the line. People are in the brunt of the storm surge back.” side,” Tampa Mayor Jane cut global emissions,” she bare; they had emptied it af-
desperate situations; have … we still have serious issues In Tampa, more than 130 Castor urged residents at a said. ter Helene brought in eight
the decency to tell them the that we’re working to ad- people — many of them sen- morning news conference. This is not the first time to 10 inches of floodwaters.
truth.” dress,” St. Petersburg May- iors — were rescued from the Castor said one of the Florida has been pummeled Their yard was littered with
More than 100 miles or Kenneth T. Welch said in a Great American Assisted blessings for her community by a succession of hurri- the gutted cabinets, doors
north of St. Lucie County, news conference. Living Facility after water was that Milton did not canes. and other wooden innards
authorities confirmed two “The storm still brought flooded the building, ac- bring the level of storm surge In 2004, four back-to- that couldn’t be disposed of
storm-related fatalities in approximately 18 inches of cording to the Hillsborough meteorologists had predic- back hurricanes — Charley, between storms.
Volusia County: A 79-year- rain and some localized County Sheriff ’s Office. ted. Frances, Ivan and Jeanne — “An impossible task,” her
old woman in Ormond flooding. The storm also Ahead of Milton’s arrival, The third hurricane to barreled through the state in husband said of removing
Beach and a 54-year-old caused damage to our pota- FEMA said it had more than make landfall in Florida this six weeks. Those storms, the debris.
woman in Port Orange were ble water system, our drink- 1,000 responders on the year, Milton came less than ranging from a Category 4 to But their home was still
killed after trees fell on their ing water systems, infra- ground in Florida to conduct two weeks after Helene bar- a Category 2 hurricane, dis- standing Wednesday, the
homes, according to a structure and power.” search and rescue and sup- reled into Florida’s rural Big placed millions of residents pile of debris mostly un-
spokesperson with Volusia In Clearwater, hundreds port hurricane response ef- Bend region, killing more and represented the most touched.
County Sheriff ’s Depart- of people were trapped forts. The federal agency than 230 people in multiple active hurricane season They said it was a mira-
ment. overnight as water engulfed also had meals and water states. since Texas saw four hurri- cle.
A third death was pos- their apartment complex, ready to deploy to feed mil- It cut a path of destruc- canes in 1886, according to a Still, most of their neigh-
sibly medical, and its con- rising to waist level inside lions. tion across the Southeast, National Oceanic and At- bors weren’t home, and the
nection to the storm re- the first floor. By 4 p.m., fewer than including the portion of west mospheric Administration couple looked worried as
mains unconfirmed. As some residents looked 16,000 people up and down central Florida now hit by report. two men representing a
Two people also died in on from their second-floor the East Coast were under Milton. In the northern part of Si- screen replacement and re-
St. Petersburg during the balconies, emergency work- hurricane warnings, but Jennifer Francis, senior esta Key, close to where the pair company put business
storm, according to Police ers worked through the early more than 1.3 million were scientist at Woodwell Cli- storm made landfall, most fliers into damaged homes’
Chief Anthony Holloway. morning, carrying children under a storm surge warn- mate Research Center, roads were impassable mailboxes. They feared bur-
But it was not clear what role on their backs to safety and ing, according to the Na- called the effect of climate Thursday because of debris, glars and vandals.
the storm played in the fa- loading residents in orange tional Weather Service. change on the back-to-back floodwaters or both. Resi- “It’s hard when you’re not
talities; one was medical, he life jackets — and their dogs More than 2.9 million hurricanes “unmistakable.” dents walked barefoot in here to watch your house,”
said, and the other person’s — onto boats and high-wa- Florida customers were Record-warm ocean tem- ankle-deep water, looking Chrissy explained.
body was found in a park. ter rescue vehicles. without power, according to peratures in the Gulf of around at the damage to But it was still light out-
In St. Petersburg, Milton By noon, yellow caution Poweroutage.us, which Mexico have provided fuel their homes as National side.
tore the roof off Tropicana tape surrounded the com- tracks national power out- for stronger storms and Guardsmen went door to Joked her husband, “It’s a
Field, the Tampa Bay Rays’ plex and some apartment ages. more intense flooding, she door to check if residents bit early for that, no?”
stadium that served as a doors were marked with red In Tampa, many side said. needed urgent medical at-
“base camp” for thousands crosses and circles. But not roads were flooded Thurs- “We must face the reality tention. Times staff writer Grace
of emergency workers and everyone wanted to leave. day morning, with law en- of climate change, and the AJ Hershman and his Toohey contributed to this
first responders, and hurled “I’m not going!” a woman forcement officers directing only way to reduce the wife, Chrissy, said that as report.
L AT I M E S . C O M F R I DAY , O C T O B E R 11, 2 0 2 4 A7

New UCLA security chief shares strategy

[Braziel, from A1] governance. expected him to take on.
spring, is drawing some criti- “When you see something Creating the safety office, he
cism for a “militarized cam- thrown together in a couple said, would take several em-
pus” and other concerns, of days that hasn’t been vet- ployees many months to cre-
such as security costs. But ted but has enormous ate a website, complaint in-
the university is trying to power, I have concerns,” take process, training cur-
turn a corner with more ef- Gross said. “There’s poten- riculum, policies and pro-
fective policing and security tial for abuse.” cedures, compliance
protocols. But Braziel’s terms of auditing, staffing and plan-
At the center of UCLA se- employment are signifi- ning for such future events
curity is Rick Braziel, a for- cantly different from public as the 2028 Summer
mer Sacramento police chief assumptions, based on Olympics in Los Angeles.
who was hired in May by Block’s announcement. He Braziel said he was given
then-Chancellor Gene Block is not a permanent employ- no staff or funding for either
as the inaugural associate ee with multiple responsibil- job but agreed to extend his
vice chancellor of a new Of- ities related to campus safe- contract after receiving ap-
fice of Campus Safety. In an ty. Braziel’s original con- proval to hire consultants to
interview with The Times, tract, obtained by The do them.
Braziel laid out his strategy Times, ended Aug. 31 and Although launching a
for overhauling UCLA secu- has been extended until the campus safety office and
rity operations — and re- end of the year. protest response plan is still
sponded to questions and He said he hoped to have in the works, the UCLA po-
criticism from faculty and key changes in place with a lice department’s more ac-
others about his role, which plan to move forward to tive public messaging was
is actually a $52,000-a- hand off to the incoming visible this week.
month short-term position. chancellor, Julio Frenk, who In an Oct. 6 video posted
“My vision is a beautiful Jason Armond Los Angeles Times will take the reins Jan. 1. on social media, Officer
campus where people feel A PRO-PALESTINIAN RALLY at UCLA on the first anniversary of Hamas’ Braziel, 64, who lives in Vanessa Alvarado urged the
safe and comfortable with Oct. 7 attack on Israel began with some tension but unfolded peacefully. Sacramento, said he agreed community in English and
each other and police are to a short-term contract to Spanish to attend com-
seen as part of the family, not of retaliation, said the heavy practices, which had lapsed “If you dress for a riot, review UCLA’s protest man- memoration events in a “re-
an invading army,” Braziel security presence was “com- in some cases. He also said you’re going to get a riot,” agement and suggest insti- sponsible and safe manner”
said. “It’s not a one-person plete overkill” and did not better-trained civilian secu- Braziel said. “The visual is tutional changes to improve and pledged police commit-
fix. It’s going to take a whole make him feel safe. “I don’t rity officers might command super important to the re- safety practices after first ment to safety.
team of experts from inside feel they are on campus to higher pay but UCLA would sponse you’re going to get.” being contacted by the UC On Oct. 7, the depart-
and outside the UCLA or- protect me and my peers,” be able to deploy fewer of He declined to comment Office of the President and ment posted protest rules,
ganization to create positive he said. “I didn’t see them them. on why no university action then Block. and updates on traffic condi-
change.” step in when the encamp- 8 Communications: He was taken against pro-Pal- He has reviewed law en- tions around demon-
By far, the key concern ment was being attacked. has hired Julie Parker Com- estinian students who re- forcement responses across strations, closed walkways
expressed by many campus They had a chance to do munications, a government fused to comply with protest the country in such high- and other information. And
members is what they per- something and they pro- and police crisis communi- rules on approved free profile cases as the elemen- that evening, acting Police
ceive as a “militarized” cam- crastinated.” cation firm, to ramp up po- speech zones and amplified- tary school shooting in Chief Scott Scheffler also
pus with too many police Adam Tfayli, undergrad- lice messaging about cam- sound restrictions. He said Uvalde, Texas; riots in Fer- took to social media to thank
and security officers. Law uate student body presi- pus events, such as protests, police did not arrest anyone guson, Mo.; and the 2013 the community — an unusu-
enforcement officers have dent, said Braziel has been and introduce law enforce- because protesters were not shootout with police killer al step for what had been a
arrested more than 200 pro- responsive, meeting regu- ment forces to the public. significantly disrupting Christopher Dorner. He said generally close-mouthed po-
testers, are working on larly with student leaders, 8 Relationships: Braziel campus operations, the trig- he understood his job as lice department.
about 50 related criminal but they haven’t seen him said he is working to ger to declare an unlawful as- helping UCLA through a It’s all part of Braziel’s ef-
cases and drew outrage deliver much yet on their re- strengthen relationships sembly and cite them if they peaceful commencement forts to keep UCLA a step
when they deployed batons, quests to lower surveillance with external law enforce- refuse to leave. and providing updates on ahead of events — which he
pepper balls and sponge on students and preserve ment agencies and city lead- Braziel also addressed security operations to Block, frequently describes as
rounds fired from launchers their right to free speech. ers, which were frayed dur- questions, raised by faculty, who testified before a con- playing chess, not checkers.
— some of which badly in- But behind the scenes, ing the spring because of over the opaque and hasty gressional committee in The violence of the melee
jured several students — Braziel said he is working to UCLA’s protest manage- process Block used to hire May about campus efforts to and encampment takedown
during protests in April, May improve safety and security ment. him a few days after UCLA combat antisemitism and was predictable, he said,
and June. systems riddled with major 8 Integration: Campus exploded in violence when manage protests. Block looking at what was happen-
Anna Markowitz, an as- flaws. police and civilian security outsiders attacked a pro- stepped down July 31. ing at Columbia University
sociate professor of educa- 8 Staffing: He told The officers need to become part Palestinian encampment “I’m the person coming in and other protest hot spots
tion, said the heavy presence Times that he has hired out- of the campus, he said. It’s April 30 and law enforce- for just a few months, hope- at the time — but UCLA
of officers standing around side consultants to do a deep why he promoted the idea of ment forcibly took down the fully fix things, get them was operating in reactive
“in little packs” made the dive into security staffing UCLA-branded wear for ci- tents two days later. moving down the road and mode.
campus less comfortable, levels, based on such data as vilian safety staff in the mod- Ariela Gross, a UCLA law then somebody else takes “We have to stop playing
ramping up tensions and the the number of calls and re- el of community policing professor, was one of several over when I’m gone,” he said. checkers where you’re wait-
potential for racial profiling. sponse times, to assess the that relies on strong re- who expressed concern Braziel said he never ing for something to happen
Another faculty member optimal mix of civilians and lationships between securi- about accountability as Bra- agreed to set up the new Of- and respond,” he said. “With
said he was shocked to count sworn police officers needed ty forces and those they ziel was hired so quickly into fice of Campus Safety or pre- chess, you’re constantly
14 officers in a half-mile walk to keep the campus safe. The serve. such a senior position to pare a campus response looking four, five moves
through campus. work by Philadelphia-based Braziel agreed that a vis- start a new administrative plan for potential fall pro- down the board to antici-
“What’s the plan to get rid Public Financial Manage- ible, large police presence on office without faculty input tests — tasks that each pate what will happen so you
of this?” Markowitz said she ment is part of a commission campus can be counter-ef- — as is generally required amount to full-time jobs can either avoid it or better
asked at a recent Academic to set up the new Office of fective. Yet the campus must under UC’s system of shared themselves but that many respond to it.”
Senate town hall with Bra- Campus Safety. be prepared.
ziel and interim Chancellor 8 Protest response plan: On Oct. 7, he said, he and
Darnell Hunt. “Is there a He has hired outside help to his team had fully staffed up
plan?” prepare a protest response — deploying all 51 campus
Braziel’s response during plan for fall term and be- police officers available that
the town hall — putting se- yond. The consulting firm, day, tripling normal private
curity officers in friendlier 21CP Solutions, is also con- security staffing to 158 offi-
blue-and-gold UCLA polo ducting the systemwide re- cers, bringing some UC San
shirts instead of the black view of UCLA’s actions dur- Francisco officers to UCLA
shirts that many currently ing the melee and encamp- and requesting LAPD forces
wear — did not play well ment takedown. That review to stand by on campus.
among faculty, who said he was ordered by University of But he kept most of the
missed their larger concerns California President officers out of sight inside
of the tense campus climate Michael V. Drake. buildings, close enough to
created by the stepped-up 8 Training: Braziel said intervene if needed but with-
patrols. he is aiming to expand train- out presenting a negative
Students also have com- ing of police officers and uni- “visual impact,” he said. Po-
plained. One third-year stu- versity leaders, including lice had their riot gear ready
dent, who declined to give state and federally required but did not wear it, an inten-
his full name because of fear emergency management tional decision.

U.S. Senate candidates debate

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BUSINESS
Faux cuisine? France is getting McPlant Nuggets
based chicken products
McDonald’s brings where there is more de-
mand, he added.
the item to another Last week, Beyond Meat
European market — announced that Panda Ex-
press was expanding the
a win for its struggling number of outlets serving a
maker, Beyond Meat. plant-based version of the
company’s orange chicken
to 600 stores across the
By Laurence country.
Darmiento Beyond Meat this spring
rolled out a new version of its
McDonald’s is putting burger, with a lower fat con-
Beyond Meat’s plant-based tent that garnered endorse-
chicken McNuggets on its ments from leading health
French menu, marking an and nutrition groups — a key
expansion of the El Segundo strategy in turning around
company’s European busi- its business.
ness. It will release third-quar-
The Veggie McPlant ter earnings next month
Nuggets, made from wheat that will provide insight into
and pea proteins, will be how well the burger is sell-
served at all of McDonald’s ing.
1,560 restaurants in France It also has released a new
on a permanent basis, the product line called Beyond
fast-food company said this Sun Sausage that unlike the
week. company’s core products
“With a constant increase does not seek to mimic and
in the number of French peo- replace meat.
ple adopting a vegetarian or The sausages are made of
flexitarian diet, McDonald’s fruits, legumes and vegeta-
is responding to changing Christina House Los Angeles Times bles and are certified by the
eating habits,” McDonald’s EL SEGUNDO-BASED Beyond Meat has been struggling as the novelty of its products has worn off and ques- American Heart Assn. and
said in a news release. tions have risen about their healthfulness — something it blames on a lobbying campaign by the meat industry. the American Diabetes
Last year, the chain Assn.
launched its McPlant sumers looking to diversify paign led by the meat indus- closing Thursday at $6.37, plant-based products have Baumgartner said the
Nuggets and McPlant Bur- their proteins with plant- try. down 1.9%, on the Nasdaq. been discontinued at Dunk- new sausages appears to be
ger, also supplied by Beyond based options,” a company Beyond Meat’s sales have John Baumgartner, an in’ Donuts and other North a “hedge product” that ap-
Meat, in Germany, where spokesperson said in a state- fallen since 2021 as their analyst at Mizuho Securi- American chains. peals to traditional vegetari-
they are now permanent ment. losses have grown. That ties, said that the announce- McDonald’s tested the an and vegan consumers. He
menu items. The McPlant A bellwether stock in the has depleted its cash re- ment adds to progress Be- McPlant Burger at stores in called the company’s turn-
Burger is also on the menu to plant-based meat industry, serves, which along with yond Meat has already made the San Francisco and Dal- around efforts a “work in
stay in the U.K., the Nether- Beyond Meat has been short-term investments to- in Europe, but that the las areas, but they did not progress” that has improved
lands, Austria, the Baltics, struggling as the novelty of taled $145 million at the end larger issue is its struggles perform well, and the com- the product line but has yet
Malta and Slovenia, Beyond the products has worn off of the second quarter — af- making headway in the do- pany did not pursue a to show results.
Meat said. and questions have risen ter topping $1 billion in 2021, mestic fast-food industry. nationwide rollout, a “You’re still not seeing it
“We are ... proud to help about their healthfulness — according to FactSet. Its “They haven’t been able McDonald’s executive said in sales, and their cash posi-
bring more choice to the something the company stock is down more than 90% to make it work in the U.S.,” this year. However, McDon- tion doesn’t give them a lot
McDonald’s menu for con- blames on a lobbying cam- over that period, with shares he said, noting Beyond’s ald’s plans to focus on plant- of wiggle room,” he said.

FilmLA is pushing for Redstone backs host of

a ‘vast expansion’ of ‘CBS Mornings’ in clash
Hollywood tax credit over Coates interview
also known to be politically
Paul Audley said in a state- By Stephen Battaglio conservative.
By Christi Carras ment. Redstone made her com-
“More support for Cali- Paramount Global’s non- ments during a conversation
FilmLA, the organization fornia’s film industry, in- executive chair, Shari Red- with Matthew Segal, co-
that handles film permits cluding and a vast expan- stone, publicly broke with founder of ATTN, a social
and tracks on-location pro- sion of the California Film & the CBS News management media content company.
duction in the Los Angeles Television Tax Credit Pro- team over its handling of an The session was titled “Us-
area, is urging California to gram, is required in order to interview with author Ta- ing Engaging Content to
expand its movie and TV tax increase the rate of Nehisi Coates about Israel Fight Hate.”
incentive program to miti- industry investment in our Ron Jaffe CBS that has roiled the news- This year Paramount
gate Hollywood’s produc- state.” A STUDY found filming fell 19.7% in 2023 in the L.A. room. Global agreed to merge with
tion crisis. As The Times recently re- area. Above, a rehearsal for “NCIS: Los Angeles.” Redstone, speaking David Ellison’s Skydance
The Studio City-based ported, entertainment in- Wednesday at a previously Media. There have been no
permit office released a dustry experts and insiders er commercial production dollar-for-dollar with other scheduled event for Adver- formal statements on who
scripted content study on overwhelmingly agree that and salaries for stars and tax credit programs” but tising Week in New York, would run CBS News once
Wednesday revealing that California’s $330-million tax other above-the-line em- reasoned that Hollywood said Paramount Global’s the deal receives regulatory
filming activity in the region credit program — which ployees. But it is widely ac- still has “significant value,” news division leadership approval.
declined by 19.7% when ex- pales in comparison to more cepted that a significant thanks to its robust infra- “made a mistake” in admon- Redstone said she had no
amining titles released in generous and expansive in- overall boost in funding is structure and seasoned ishing “CBS Mornings” co- issue with having Coates as a
2023 versus 2022, while Cali- centives offered by other needed to compete with workforce. host Tony Dokoupil for his guest on CBS News.
fornia’s share of the global states and countries — is Georgia, New York, the “The entertainment in- aggressive questioning of “I’m very glad that we
production market fell from the biggest factor dissuad- United Kingdom, Canada dustry feeds around $43 bil- Coates. The award-winning gave him an opportunity to
22% to 18% judging by the ing studios from shooting and other popular produc- lion in wages into the state author appeared on the pro- speak,” she said. “But we
amount of projects released movies and TV series in the tion destinations. economy,” Audley said in a gram Sept. 30 to discuss his have to also provide the op-
over the same period. state. In a September interview statement. “But how long new book, “The Message,” portunity to challenge him
“Today, Greater Los An- A number of improve- with The Times, Colleen can California subsist — or which examines the Israeli- on what he says.”
geles is one place among ments to California’s tax in- Bell, executive director of help businesses and families Palestinian conflict. George Cheeks, co-chief
many where film, television centive system have been the California Film Commis- thrive — on an ever-thinner Redstone praised Dok- executive of Paramount
and commercial projects are discussed — such as ex- sion, acknowledged that the slice of a shrinking produc- oupil’s handling of the inter- Global, issued a statement
made,” FilmLA President panding the program to cov- state “can’t always compete tion pie?” view, which drew criticism in support of McMahon and
from the news division’s CBS News leadership after
standards and practices de- Redstone made her re-
partment and its race and marks.
culture unit. During the in- “She and her leadership

Inflation hits lowest point since February 2021 terview, Dokoupil said the
book “would not be out of
place in the backpack of an
team are passionate advo-
cates and stewards for CBS
News standards; that won’t
extremist.” change,” Cheeks said. “Rea-
mists closely watch core at a solid 3% annual rate in slew of Fed officials have said Employees upset over sonable minds in a news-
The annual rate was prices, which typically pro- the April-June quarter. they’re still willing to keep the Coates interview con- room will appropriately
vide a better hint of future in- Growth probably continued cutting their key rate but at a ducted an email writing pressure test and debate in-
2.4% in September, flation. at roughly that pace in the deliberate pace, a signal that campaign complaining that ternally to ensure balanced
the government says, Taken as a whole, the just-completed July-Sep- any further half-point cuts Dokoupil’s personal views and objective reporting ex-
September figures show tember quarter. are unlikely. were influencing his report- ternally.”
but some ‘core’ price that inflation is steadily eas- Cooling inflation, solid The Fed “should not rush ing, according to a person fa- Dokoupil has remained
pressures remained. ing back to the Fed’s 2% tar- hiring and healthy growth to reduce” its benchmark miliar with the messages but on the air as the company
get, even if in a gradual and could erode former Presi- rate “but rather should pro- not authorized to discuss has held sessions with em-
uneven pattern. Apartment dent Trump’s advantage on ceed gradually,” Lorie Lo- them publicly. ployees to discuss the mat-
associated press
rental costs grew more the economy in the presi- gan, president of the Federal Management’s issues ter. On a recording of the
slowly last month, a sign dential campaign as mea- Reserve’s Dallas branch, with Dokoupil were dis- Monday call, CBS News
WASHINGTON — Infla- that housing inflation is fi- sured by public opinion said in a speech Wednesday. cussed in an editorial call journalist Jan Crawford said
tion in the United States nally cooling, a long-awaited polls. In some surveys, Vice Inflation in the United with staff on Monday, a re- she struggled to see how
dropped last month to its development that would President Kamala Harris States and many countries cording of which was leaked Dokoupil’s exchange with
lowest point since it first be- provide relief to many con- has pulled even with Trump in Europe and Latin Ameri- to the digital news publica- Coates violated the news-
gan surging more than three sumers. on the issue of who would ca surged in the economic tion the Free Press. room’s policies.
years ago, adding to a spate Overall inflation last best handle the economy, af- recovery from the pandemic, Top CBS News execu- Tensions over Middle
of encouraging economic month was held down by a ter Trump had decisively led as COVID closed factories tives Wendy McMahon and East coverage have been on-
news in the closing weeks of big drop in gas prices, which President Biden on the is- and clogged supply chains. Adrienne Roark told staff going since the Hamas at-
the presidential race. fell 4.1% from August to Sep- sue. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine members on the call that the tack on Israel last year.
Consumer prices rose tember. Grocery prices At the same time, most worsened energy and food interview did not meet the Dokoupil, who is Jewish
just 2.4% in September from jumped 0.4% last month, af- voters still give the economy shortages, pushing inflation network’s editorial stand- and has two children living
a year earlier, down from ter roughly a year of mild in- relatively poor marks, higher. It peaked at 9.1% in ards. Redstone disagreed. with his ex-wife in Israel, was
2.5% in August — the small- creases, though they’re just mostly because of the cumu- the U.S. in June 2022. “I frankly think Tony did cordial during the interview
est annual rise since Febru- 1.3% higher than a year earli- lative rise in prices over the Economists at Goldman a great job with that inter- with Coates. But he repeat-
ary 2021. Measured from er. last three years. Sachs projected earlier this view,” Redstone said. “I was edly questioned the ap-
month to month, prices in- Restaurant food prices For the Fed, last week’s week that core inflation will very proud of the work that proach the author took in his
creased 0.2% from August to increased 0.3% last month much-stronger-than-ex- drop to 3% by December. he did. Yes, as hard as it was book, which compares Isra-
September, the Labor De- and are up 3.9% in the last pected jobs report fueled Though higher prices for me to go against this el’s treatment of Palestin-
partment reported Thurs- year. And clothing prices some concern that the econ- have soured many Ameri- company, I think they made ians in the West Bank to the
day, the same as in the previ- rose 1.1% from August to omy might not be cooling cans on the economy, wages a mistake here.” Jim Crow era of segregation
ous month. September and are up 1.8% enough to slow inflation suf- and incomes are now rising Redstone has been in the U.S.
But excluding volatile from a year ago. ficiently. The central bank faster than costs and should known to express her opin- Dokoupil observed that
food and energy costs, “core” The improving inflation reduced its key rate by an make it easier for house- ions about CBS News inter- the book did not explore the
prices, a gauge of underlying picture follows a mostly outsize half-point last holds to adapt. Last month, nally, but her comments on threats Israel faces from
inflation, remained elevated healthy jobs report released month, its first rate cut of the Census Bureau reported Wednesday were the first in- neighboring adversaries in
in September, driven higher last week, which showed any size in four years. The that inflation-adjusted me- stance of her disagreeing the Middle East. Coates
by rising costs for medical that hiring accelerated in Fed’s policymakers also sig- dian household incomes — publicly with a policy deci- countered: “There is no
care, clothing, auto insur- September and that the un- naled that they envisioned the level at which half of sion at the news division. shortage of that perspective
ance and airline fares. Core employment rate dropped two additional quarter- households are above and Redstone has long been a in American media. I am
prices in September were up from 4.2% to 4.1%. The gov- point rate cuts in November half below — rose 4% in 2023, philanthropic supporter of most concerned, always,
3.3% from a year earlier and ernment has also reported and December. enough to return incomes to Jewish causes, especially with those who don’t have a
0.3% from August. Econo- that the economy expanded In remarks this week, a their pre-pandemic peak. fighting antisemitism. She is voice.”
L AT I M E S . C O M F R I DAY , O C T O B E R 11, 2 0 2 4 A9

Mentoring in Hollywood is now a tougher job

[Mentoring, from A1] typically reopens the appli- “would light up and want to
Since Hollywood’s incep- cation portal for its Access share the fairy dust with
tion, the tricks of the enter- to Action program — which them.”
tainment trades have been gives industry newcomers a Lately, however, Lee feels
passed down largely pathway to entry-level, be- obligated to warn her
through hands-on instruc- low-the-line jobs — once a mentees that they probably
tion and word of mouth. year. won’t be able to make a living
Many aspiring performers, But the studio opted to off performing alone.
creatives and craftspeople keep it closed over the sum- “It never was all glitz and
have broken into the busi- mer because of the produc- glamour and easy,” Lee said.
ness with the help of men- tion slowdown, reasoning “Half the job is making it
tors enthusiastic about that “it wouldn’t have been look glamorous, but nowa-
sharing their industry con- fair to bring in a whole new days it’s even harder with
nections and institutional candidate pool when we the lack of work.”
knowledge. hadn’t really had an oppor- Alyson Dee Moore, a 63-
But the current employ- tunity to provide those jobs” year-old Foley artist practi-
ment crisis has forced Holly- for the previous cohort, said cally born into show busi-
wood veterans — many of Ava Goldson Crews, senior ness as the daughter of char-
whom haven’t seen steady manager of corporate social acter actor Alvy Moore, cut
work in several months — to responsibility at Warner her teeth in the late 1970s and
get brutally honest about Bros. Discovery. early ’80s assisting the
encouraging newcomers to Not all up-and-coming sound teams on classic
pursue their dreams. entertainment profession- shows such as “Dallas” and
“I tell [mentees] that the als enroll in training pro- “Falcon Crest.” (Foley art-
industry ... is not the indus- grams. Many tips, skills and ists physically create sound
try it was when I joined over job opportunities are simply effects for movies, TV shows,
12 years ago,” said Ariel Kap- exchanged from person to video games, etc.)
lan, a 35-year-old produc- person through a sort of in- One of her earliest men-
tion designer based in Silver Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times formal apprenticeship mod- tors was Kitty Malone,
Lake. “Trying to make it so DIANDRA KENDALL LUZON, a film and TV editor, at home in Inglewood. She el. whom Moore described as a
they are not blindsided is so has driven for Uber and recently sold her record collection to stay afloat. When 54-year-old grip petite former dancer who
much more important to me Paul Giacalone launched his overcame industry sexism
than trying to protect their career in the 1990s, his and proved that female Fo-
feelings.” brother showed him the ley artists were capable of
Diandra Kendall Luzon, ropes and taught him how to making some serious noise.
a film and TV editor who has “be respectful and gain re- Moore, based in Sher-
driven for Uber and recently spect through that process.” man Oaks, has honored Ma-
sold her record collection to Giacalone recalled work- lone’s legacy by welcoming
stay afloat, found the Art Di- ing alongside “old-timers” and linking arms with other
rectors Guild’s decision to who would tell him, “Kid, get women in her trade.
suspend its training pro- out,” because the grip As a member of Warner
gram both alarming and val- life was “not what it used to Bros.’ in-house sound team,
idating. be.” she often gives demon-
“Like, ‘OK, so it’s not just “But it’s provided a great strations to students who
me,’ ” said Luzon, who lives life for my family and my- visit the Foley stage on the
in Inglewood with her 2- self,” said Giacalone, who Burbank studio lot eager to
year-old son. “These things lives in the Conejo Valley. learn everything there is to
are happening to everybody, “And I still get excited to see know about the craft.
and ... it’s worse than I the younger people that are “You just have to put on
thought.” starting — when the light that happy face and know
Chuck Parker, the na- turns on in their head and that ... it’s not about me at
tional executive director of they see something that that point — it’s about
the Art Directors Guild, and they didn’t previously see.” them,” Moore said.
Nelson Coates, its president, Following in his brother’s “I really try not to dis-
said in a statement to The footsteps, Giacalone said, he courage people,” she added.
Times that the email was has always been compelled “I’m not going to be the one
sent in error, had not been to give back and tutor in- to take that dream away
edited and did not accu- coming craftspeople. Above from you.”
rately convey the labor or- all, he hopes to impart good Hollywood has experi-
ganization’s stance. The safety habits. enced tough times before.
guild’s position is that the Jason Armond Los Angeles Times “That is probably the When actor, stunt per-
program was postponed to JESSICA LEE, a model and actor known for her work on “Deal or No Deal,” says predominant reason for former and filmmaker Lisa
focus on contract negotia- a mentor helped her navigate difficult situations. Now she’s a mentor herself. wanting to mentor people, is Catara’s former high school
tions that took place this to help them understand the inducted her into its hall of
year between the larger crew working opportunities for ing fellows seeking funding will be capped at around 60 way to do things properly,” fame and invited her to ad-
members union, the Inter- women as well as nonbinary for their films while the in- to avoid spreading the Wom- Giacalone said. dress the student body in
national Alliance of Theat- and trans people, launched dustry remained on hold. en in Film network too thin, Jessica Lee, a model and 2020, her beaming pride was
rical Stage Employees, and the latest version of its fel- “We still made it work,” James said. Nonetheless, actor known for her work on tempered by a sense of pro-
the studios. lowship program right be- said Maikiko James, senior she still encourages people “Deal or No Deal,” benefited found uncertainty. It was, af-
“This labor movement fore writers went on strike director of programs at to apply. from a mentor who helped ter all, the year the COVID-19
alongside our peers and col- for 148 days. Women in Film. “But ... what “Because we don’t be- her navigate difficult situa- pandemic shut down pro-
leagues only strengthens During the work stop- we saw clearly through last lieve that the creation of film tions, such as being asked duction.
our excitement for the future page, certain professionals year was that there wasn’t and television is going to without warning to appear Little did Catara, who re-
of the industry,” the guild participating in the pro- going to be as much happen- cease,” James said. “And as nude in a music video or cently relocated from Los
said. gram — such as writers and ing in terms of active work long as there [are] stories working on set without Angeles to Atlanta, know
The Art Directors Guild entertainment executives — and hiring.” being made and told, we adequate seating, water or how bad things would get
isn’t the only organization weren’t allowed to talk busi- The organization admit- want our participants to food. just a few years later.
that has made changes in re- ness with one another, dis- ted fewer fellows this year have access and the ability Lee paid it forward by “It’s growing increasingly
cent months. rupting a key valve in the or- (60 instead of 87), in part be- to work in that space.” urging aspiring performers hard to maintain that opti-
Women in Film, a non- ganization’s pipeline. cause the lack of employ- Studios are feeling the to nurture their talents. mism,” Catara said, “but I
profit organization that pro- Financing companies de- ment has persisted. Next crunch too. When someone caught the still do believe that anything
vides mentorship and net- clined to meet with produc- year’s fellowship class also Warner Bros. Discovery acting bug, Lee said, she is possible.”

MARKET ROUNDUP

Stocks slip back from highs on warmer-than-expected inflation data

fighting high inflation. level it was at late Wednes- drop in employment,” a tra-
associated press
Lower rates ease the day. The two-year Treasury ditional-sized cut of a quar-
brakes off the economy and Major stock indexes yield, which more closely ter of a percentage point
NEW YORK — U.S. boost prices for invest- Daily Daily % YTD % tracks expectations for the “might even come across as
stocks edged back from their ments, but the pace of fur- Index Close change change change Fed, fell to 3.96% from 4.02% a little aggressive,” said Bri-
records Thursday after re- ther cuts will depend on Dow industrials 42,454.12 -57.88 -0.14 +12.64 late Wednesday. an Jacobsen, chief econo-
ports showed inflation was a whether inflation continues S&P 500 5,780.05 -11.99 -0.21 +21.18 Traders are mostly con- mist at Annex Wealth Man-
touch warmer last month to head toward the Fed’s 2% Nasdaq composite 18,282.05 -9.57 -0.05 +21.79 vinced that the Fed will cut agement.
than expected and more target, as it expects. its main interest rate by a On Wall Street, Toronto-
S&P 400 3,103.71 -13.89 -0.45 +11.58
workers filed for unemploy- Thursday’s report quarter of a percentage Dominion fell 5.3% after it
ment benefits last week. showed inflation slowed to Russell 2000 2,188.42 -12.17 -0.55 +7.96 point at its next meeting, ac- agreed to pay $3.09 billion as
The Standard & Poor’s 2.4% in September from EuroStoxx 50 4,970.34 -12.23 -0.25 +9.92 cording to data from CME part of a resolution of U.S. in-
500 slipped 0.2%, and the 2.5% in August, according to Nikkei (Japan) 39,380.89 +102.93 +0.26 +17.68 Group. But some are hold- vestigations into its compli-
Dow Jones industrial aver- the consumer price index, Hang Seng (Hong Kong) 21,251.98 +614.74 +2.98 +24.66 ing on to bets that it could ance programs related to
age fell 0.1%, after setting all- but economists were expect- Associated Press leave the federal funds rate money laundering. The
time highs the day before. ing an even sharper slow- alone in November. That’s company also agreed to a
The Nasdaq composite down to 2.3%. And after ig- filed for unemployment ben- In the bond market, after many traders this cap on how big two U.S.
edged down by 0.1%. noring the swings for food, efits last week. That number Treasury yields rose im- month were calling for a banking subsidiaries can
Stocks had stormed to gasoline and other energy is relatively low compared mediately after the release of larger-than-usual cut of half grow.
records in large part on ex- prices, underlying trends with history, but it was a the economic data, only to a percentage point, before a Delta Air Lines lost 1.1%
citement about easing inter- that economists say can be a sharper acceleration than then swing up and down as set of stronger-than-ex- after reporting weaker re-
est rates, now that the Fed- better predictor for where economists expected. Hurri- traders tried to handicap pected data on the economy sults for the summer than
eral Reserve is cutting them inflation is heading were a cane Helene and a strike by what it would all mean for wiped out such calls. analysts expected. The com-
as it widens its focus to in- touch hotter than expected. workers at Boeing may have the Fed. “Unless the jobs report pany said bookings for holi-
clude keeping the economy A separate report helped make the number The yield on the 10-year that comes out on Novem- day travel are strong, but it’s
humming instead of just showed 258,000 U.S. workers look worse. Treasury held at 4.07%, the ber 1st shows a dramatic anticipating a drop in flying
around the election.
Oil prices, meanwhile,
rose to claw back their sharp
drop from earlier in the

Boeing pulls contract offer as talks with striking workers stall week. A barrel of Brent
crude added 3.7% to settle at
$79.40. A barrel of bench-
mark U.S. crude gained 3.6%
publicized its latest offer to workers in South Carolina. to $75.85.
associated press
33,000 striking workers with- S&P Global Ratings put That helped drive stocks
out first bargaining with Boeing on its “CreditWatch in the energy industry
SEATTLE — Boeing has union negotiators. Negative” list this week, cit- higher, which kept the losses
withdrawn a contract offer The offer was more gen- ing increased financial risk for U.S. stock indexes in
that would have given strik- erous than the one that was because of the strike. check. Exxon Mobil added
ing workers 30% raises over overwhelmingly rejected “We estimate the com- 0.9% and was one of the
four years after talks broke when the workers went on pany will incur a cash out- strongest forces pushing up-
down. strike Sept. 13. flow of approximately $10 bil- ward on the S&P 500, while
The manufacturer said it The first proposal in- lion in 2024, due in part to Valero Energy climbed 2.4%.
had boosted its offer for cluded 25% raises. The working capital buildup to All told, the S&P 500
union workers for take- union originally demanded support manufacturing slipped 11.99 points to
home pay and retirement 40% over three years. Boeing process overhaul and costs 5,780.05. The Dow fell 57.88
benefits during two days of said average annual pay for associated with the strike,” points to 42,454.12, and the
negotiations. machinists would rise from S&P wrote. Nasdaq composite lost 9.57
“Unfortunately, the Lindsey Wasson Associated Press $75,608 now to $111,155 at the The addition to S&P’s points to 18,282.05.
union did not seriously con- “FURTHER negotiations do not make sense at this end of the four-year con- CreditWatch means there is In stock markets abroad,
sider our proposals. Instead, point,” Boeing said in withdrawing its proposal. tract. an increased likelihood of a Hong Kong’s Hang Seng
the union made non-nego- The union represents credit downgrade, which jumped 3%.
tiable demands far in excess The union said that it could bring to a vote, but the factory workers who assem- could make it more expen- After rising on hopes for
of what can be accepted if we surveyed its members after company wasn’t willing to ble some of the company’s sive for the company to bor- stimulus to prop up the
are to remain competitive as receiving Boeing’s most re- move in our direction,” the top-selling planes. row money. world’s second-largest econ-
a business,” Boeing said in a cent offer, and that it was re- International Assn. of Ma- The strike is stretching Shares of Boeing, which omy, Chinese stocks
statement. “Given that posi- jected overwhelmingly. chinists and Aerospace on as Boeing deals with mul- is headquartered in Arling- slumped earlier this week on
tion, further negotiations do “Your negotiating com- Workers District 751 said in a tiple other issues. It has shut ton, Va., fell 1.8% on Thurs- disappointment that more
not make sense at this point mittee attempted to address message to members. down production of 737s, day, and the stock is isn’t on the way. But there’s
and our offer has been with- multiple priorities that The union complained 777s and 767s. Work on 787s down more than 40% this still hope that more may
drawn.” could have led to an offer we last month that Boeing had continues with nonunion year. come.
A10 FR I DAY , O C T O B E R 11, 2 0 2 4 L AT I M E S . C O M / O P I N I O N

OPINION

EDITORIAL
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ELECTION 2024

No on city Charter Amendment FF

transfer their pensions from the generous for the LAPD, Airport, Harbor or parks de-
L.A. is facing another budget crisis general city worker system to the even more partment.
generous Los Angeles Fire and Police Pen- But that misses the point of the LAPD’s
and can’t afford this pension sion system, which could allow them to col- more generous pensions. They are used to
giveaway to some city officers. lect tens of thousands of dollars more each attract employees to a more dangerous line
year in retirement. of work — and L.A. is already having a hard
For example, an employee in the general enough time recruiting LAPD officers.
harter Amendment FF has pension system would receive roughly 63% Peace officers working at the port, airport

C flown under the radar, and per-

haps that’s by design.
At a time when Los Angeles
can’t afford to replace broken
street lights, fix dangerously damaged
sidewalks or operate safe, humane animal
shelters, Mayor Karen Bass and the City
of their salary if they retired after 30 years on
the job. Those in the police system get 75%
of their salary after 30 years, and 90% after
33 years, The Times reported.
The price of FF would be a one-time $109-
million payout, plus about $6.3 million a year
in ongoing costs. The city’s general fund
and parks certainly face risks on the job, but
they are lower than those faced by LAPD of-
ficers patrolling the streets. And they knew
that it came with a less-generous pension
when they signed up for the job. (Park rang-
ers also don’t carry guns, though there have
been proposals to arm them.) A PARK RANGER carries propane
Al Seib Los Angeles Times

Council are asking voters to spend $23 mil- would be on the hook for $23 million upfront Further complicating matters is that a tanks from a homeless encampment at
lion from the city budget so park rangers and an additional $1 million a year, money portion of peace officers are already the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve.
and some police officers can turn their good that would otherwise be used for basic city enrolled in the police pension system. Previ-
pensions into great pensions. services, such as street sweeping, tree trim- ously, voters approved moving new port It’s understandable that the union repre-
Charter Amendment FF raises signifi- ming, police and fire response. The Airport hires into the more generous pension plan. senting peace officers would advocate for
cant questions about city leaders’ priorities. and the Port of Los Angeles would share the Officers already employed by the depart- the best benefits for their members. But
Voters should reject it and send the mayor remaining one-time cost of $86 million, plus ments were allowed to transfer into the po- Bass and the City Council have a responsi-
and City Council back to the negotiating ta- $5.3 million a year, paid from their depart- lice pension plan but were required to pay bility to be good fiscal stewards, including
ble. L.A. is facing another budget crisis, and ment revenues. the full expense because, voters were told, ensuring that the city can afford to deliver
city leaders need to reconsider the costs and The proponents, including the Los Ange- the move would be cost neutral. The upfront reliable services and maintain public infra-
tradeoffs of their promises to public employ- les Airport Peace Officers Assn., argue FF is cost was so high that only a few officers structure.
ee unions. a matter of fairness. They say that because transferred. Charter Amendment FF would That’s not happening, and voters should
FF would let some 460 police officers and all peace officers employed by the city go now move those officers to the police pen- say no to irresponsible promises like Char-
park rangers in the Police, Airport, Harbor, through the Police Academy, they should re- sion at no cost to them and refund the offi- ter Amendment FF, which will only make
and Recreation and Parks departments ceive the same benefits whether they work cers who previously paid the transfer costs. the situation worse.

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automobile? Plan on a two- much healthier planet.

day trip and an overnight Yeah, the economy as we
stay in a hotel using public know is going to tank, but
transportation. 3% growth, year over year, is
You’ll get the key to my not sustainable.
car when you pry it from my Whether you believe me
cold, dead hands. or not, if we implement
Phillip Gold solutions, the world will be a
Westlake Village better place. On that I stake
my life.
Gregg Ferry
Solidarity with Carlsbad

storm victims
Re “After Helene, don’t tell
What Israel
climate tales of false hope,”
Opinion, Oct. 9
needs for peace
Re “When will Israel be held
Hurricane Helene accountable?” Opinion,
flooded my brother’s home Oct. 7
near Tampa Bay, and I am
certain it fared worse when Daoud Kuttab appears
Milton hit. Op-ed article oblivious to the undeniable
writer Anna Jane Joyner will reality that Israel has every
have to stretch her imagina- right to defend itself against
tion to fashion a screenplay terrorists and an oppressive
more horrific than what regime that seeks its com-
happened in idyllic western plete annihilation.
North Carolina, where I In this context, Israel
vacationed every summer in must employ whatever
childhood. means necessary to neutral-
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times As a physician, I feel a ize immediate threats and
THE GEMINI solar project is seen while under construction in southern Nevada near Las Vegas. special responsibility to ensure that Iran and its
advocate for aggressive proxies can no longer inflict
legislation to address the harm on innocent civilians.

The desert isn’t a wasteland health effects of a warming

world, including the mental
health impacts that Joyner
Putting Hamas’ massa-
cre on Oct. 7, 2023, in the
context of Israel’s occupa-
mentioned (post-traumatic tion is deeply troubling.
Re “Biden’s imperfect Western Solar Plan is good-faith effort” column, Oct. 7 stress disorder, suicide, Additionally, his omission of
substance abuse and de- any mention of the remain-
limate columnist Sammy Roth has done an admirable job explaining solar energy, but from a perspective that is

C fundamentally flawed.
There are two kinds of environmentalists: Those who live in, say, Delaware, and those who live in the deserts of
the Southwest. A perception exists among some of the former group that ridding the country of fossil fuels is worth de-
pression).
My response to Joyner is
to express solidarity based
on shared loss and re-dedi-
cate myself to calling out
ing 101 hostages held by
Hamas in Gaza is egregious.
This glaring oversight disre-
gards the fundamental
principle that hostage-
stroying desert “wasteland.”
Those of us environmentalist types who live in that wasteland resent that viewpoint, because destruction of nature is misguided climate deni- taking violates interna-
alism. I will also advocate for tional law.
not a path to restoring biological diversity. And there are many other steps that should be taken, among them the use of
finding the political will to I would remind Kuttab
every last developed piece of land as a solar electricity generator. Rooftops (especially of mega warehouses), freeway
accelerate the transition that overtures made by
rights-of-way, parking lot shade structures — all of these and other developed lands should be utilized to their fullest away from poisonous fossil Israeli leaders to the Pal-
extent before any more destruction of habitat occurs. fuels. estinians aimed at estab-
Rooftop and parking lot structures are particularly valuable, since electricity generated at the end-use point is particu- Our nation must rapidly lishing their own state —
larly efficient. In addition, the desert’s famous sunshine is only moderately more conducive to power generation than electrify, impose a carbon- including significant territo-
areas of low sunlight levels. fee-and-dividend system, rial concessions and the
Figuring out ways to destroy the desert in moderation is not the way forward. partner with every tree still acceptance of East
Denys Arcuri, Indio standing and get out the Jerusalem as its capital —
vote for the most climate- have been rejected.
forward candidates. Kuttab concludes, “The
Gary Stewart war must end, and so must
Instead of putting solar to the National Safety Coun- phones while behind the I am just grateful that Laguna Beach the occupation, so that
panels in open land where cil’s injury facts report, data wheel. when renewing my license, Palestinians and Israelis
we would have to run miles from 2021 show that al- Toni Wellen that I have one less thing to :: can one day live in peace,
of wire to connect them to though there are fewer teen Carpinteria worry about. each in their own recognized
the grid, how about we drivers on the road than Joyce Jacoby We’re not out of the country.” I agree, but with a
mount them above the senior drivers, teens ac- :: Los Angeles woods, yet. In fact, we’ve critical caveat: The war
nation’s highways? count for more crashes. just put our little toe into must end only when Hamas,
There, they would not Ask the insurance com- I am 74 years old. I ap- :: the woods. Hezbollah, the Houthis, the
take up raw land and would panies: Teens are more plaud the DMV’s new no- When I watched Al Gore militias in Syria and Iraq
shade vehicles from the sun. likely to get into crashes and knowledge testing system The controversy over in the 2006 film “An Incon- and their backer Iran cease
There would already be make mistakes because for most senior drivers — DMV testing requirements venient Truth,” I was ho- their rocket and missile
infrastructure to get to they have less experience not because I fear failing the for seniors seeking to renew hum until I saw his graph of attacks, recognize Israel’s
them, and the hoods cre- and pay less attention. On written test, but because their license fails to account temperature swings in- right to exist and renounce
ated by the panels could average, teens cost more there were too many ques- for the impact of the 2nd creasing. It conveyed a violence.
capture pollution from than three times the aver- tions that have nothing to Amendment to the U.S. crucial point: The climate is Once that happens, and
vehicles and improve air age to insure. do with one’s actual ability Constitution as applied to a system that is totally out when Palestinians are pre-
quality. Soon, my over-70 license to drive. mobility in Southern Cali- of control. pared to negotiate in good
Don Martens must be renewed. My con- The main reason I need fornia: Even if we stop the pro- faith, we will have a genuine
Pomona cern with taking a written to keep driving is necessity. “A well-maintained duction of all greenhouse opportunity for peace. I
test is being packed in a My 78-year-old brother and automobile, being essential gasses, right now, the sincerely hope I live to see
room with potentially sick I share a house. He is no for travel in Southern Cali- weather is going to get a lot that day.
Older drivers are people, answering ques-
tions unrelated to real-
longer able to drive, so that
leaves just me. Neither of us
fornia, the right of the peo-
ple to drive, shall not be
worse. And it’s going to last
for many, many years to
Rabbi Reuven H. Taff
Sacramento
not the problem world driving conditions.
I have a lifetime with no
married or had children.
There are too many trips,
infringed.”
To those who suggest
come. At this point, all we
can do is make it not so bad
Re “A driving retest idea accidents. No points for outings and places to go to public transportation as an — that being, humans sur- HOW TO WRITE TO US
splits readers,” column, Oct. that? Test my vision — I always be taking Uber. I am alternative to driving for vive. Please send letters to
6 don’t wear glasses. We looking into alternatives to seniors, I ask them this: I also consider that I may letters@latimes.com. For
should be concerned about driving, but I haven’t yet Have you ever tried to get be wrong. If I am, the solu- submission guidelines, see
Who are problem driv- people driving drunk or found a good option. I guess from Thousand Oaks to tions to mitigate climate latimes.com/letters or call
ers? Ask Google. According drugged or operating the beat goes on. Santa Monica without an change will only lead to a 1-800-LA TIMES, ext. 74511.

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OP-ED

RFK Jr. and

Trump puts another dent in the
armor of collective security. In-
cluding their own nuclear
deterrent.
Treaties and promises are, ul-
timately, mere scraps of paper.
They only matter if leaders are
the GOP
trusted to follow through. After a
decade of undermining Washing-
ton’s commitment to NATO, in-
cluding four years as president,
won’t make
Trump has no reservoir of reliabil-
ity among our partners, at least
those that remain beyond the grip
America any
of their own strongmen. During a
second Trump presidency our
most meaningful allies would be
healthier
certain to further their own secu-
rity arrangements without U.S. in- By Christopher D. Cook
volvement and thus, without U.S.
input. After all, would you buy a n the first four minutes of a re-

THEN-PRESIDENT Trump at a NATO meeting in 2019. His rhetoric, and falsehoods, matter.
Nicholas Kamm AFP/Getty Images
second car from a dealer that
threatens to disregard the war-
ranty on your first?
Trump’s prevarications under-
line his unreliability. He will say
anything that leaps to mind, or
anything he thinks will help him
I cent video for his “Make America
Healthy Again” campaign pro-
moting Donald Trump for presi-
dent, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pre-
sents a seemingly compelling case
about how America’s toxin-laden food
system harms us and, worse, our chil-
win, no matter the veracity or col- dren, contributing to chronic and

Why much of the world

lateral damage. A presidential often fatal diseases. He features un-
candidate willing to lie about healthy products such as Cap’n
immigrants, FEMA, military Crunch cereal, Cheez-It crackers and
chiefs or a hurricane’s expected Doritos chips.
path can’t be trusted to tell the Then, much like other moments in

fears another Trump term truth about future crises.

Worse still is his tendency to
double down rather than admit-
ting error. If Trump’s putting
America First means risking the
RFK Jr.’s strange political trajectory
— which has included peddling con-
spiracy theories on vaccines and other
issues — his “MAHA” campaign
plunges into outright falsehoods.
How trite. The professor in the press corps amazed by his laconic well-being of Ohio schoolchildren, While Kennedy is correct that
As his lies reverberate, ivory tower reminds us that words response. But Bush knew presi- continuing to push the Big Lie Democrats have often allowed corpo-
retain meaning. How very 20th dential triumphalism at that pre- that he won the last election or re- rations to put a toxic array of additives
our allies question our century. Does he not realize that carious moment might spark a defining the Jan. 6 Capitol assault into our foods, he bizarrely (and false-
nation’s policies — and our legions of bots and ChatGPT en- hard-line backlash. “I’m not going as pure patriotism rather than ly) claims Trump banned such chemi-
able today’s policymakers to forge to dance on the wall,” he said pri- partisan violence, why would our cal additives. In fact, Trump and Re-
fundamental reliability. the algorithmic reality they de- vately, forgoing personal political foreign friends trust his judg- publicans have overturned and op-
sire? gain to preserve America’s Cold ment? posed efforts to rein in the deadly
Presidents must be held to War triumph. Trump’s falsehoods are un- chemicalization of our meals.
By Jeffrey A. Engel higher standards. Their quips Presidents are supposed to matched in presidential history. As one former Trump administra-
move markets. Their words invite care more about the nation’s fate Franklin Roosevelt promised that tion Environmental Protection
ords matter. or ward off aggression. Save or end than their own. Barack Obama’s Americans would build 50,000 air- Agency official told NBC News, “There

W Especially when
uttered by a
president, and
especially over-
seas. “Speak softly, and carry a big
stick,” Theodore Roosevelt ad-
vised, though he never envisioned
lives. Examples abound of even
experienced leaders forgetting
their rhetorical reach.
Dwight Eisenhower’s 1956
promise of aid inspired Hungari-
ans to revolt against Soviet con-
trol, leading most to their death or
reputation suffered when he re-
fused to back up his own “red line”
against Syrian use of chemical
weapons in 2013, but he ultimately
reasoned his promise to avoid an-
other Middle East quagmire mat-
tered more than his own tempo-
craft a year to combat Nazi ag-
gression. Asked by aides where he
got that big, round number,
Roosevelt responded he’d made it
up, noting that defeating fascism
required Americans to think in
larger terms than ever before.
was a huge amount of pressure to ap-
prove chemicals” despite the risks
they pose to public health.
It’s one of the many strange things
about Kennedy marketing Trump as a
president who would make America
healthier: The facts show the oppo-
a successor would prove capable to exile. Ike never thought they’d rary loss of prestige. Joe Biden’s Abraham Lincoln fibbed as well, site. The evidence from his first term
of obliterating cities half a world take him so literally. He meant decision to keep his promise to telling newspaper readers in 1862 shows that if elected this fall, he would
away in under half an hour. That moral and rhetorical aid, the end America’s generation-long that he was not considering eman- make America less healthy — again.
nuclear stick is pretty big indeed, thoughts and prayers kind. Hun- fight in Afghanistan showed con- cipating the Confederacy’s en- Here are a few of the many ways in
capable since 1945 of keeping our gary’s freedom fighters expected sistency even when retaliation for slaved people when he’d already which Trump undermined food safety
most virulent adversaries, includ- guns, or better yet American losses endured during the evacua- decided to do so. Even the greats and public health in his first term:
ing Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and troops that Eisenhower never tion might have helped him in the sometimes lie, albeit for national 8 Millions of Americans lost
Pyongyang, from their most reck- meant to imply would be forth- polls. Better to demonstrate pru- rather than personal gain. Trump healthcare coverage under Trump. As
less ambitions. It also keeps allies coming. Desperate people heard dence, he reasoned, than to rashly lies for himself. Capital & Main reported, during his
in line. What do Japan, Saudi Ara- what they wanted to hear when reverse a well-considered decision International politics is not presidency the number of uninsured
bia, Germany and South Korea the man in the Oval Office was un- in hope of temporarily saving face. best overseen by saints or soph- people rose by more than 440,000
have in common? Each is but a clear. This is why the prospect of a ists. We are forced to trust the per- across the key battleground states of
day away from joining the nuclear Words mattered at the end of second Trump presidency is so son we put in charge of our securi- Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan,
club. That day is when their lead- the Cold War, too. Ronald Reagan terrifying: His unconsidered ty to use their words judiciously. North Carolina, Pennsylvania and
ers stop believing the president of called the Soviet Union an “evil words reverberate. He was the But Donald Trump shuns what Wisconsin, census data showed. By
the United States will come to empire” against his own State De- first president since Harry Tru- Ike learned, Reagan deployed, contrast, in the first two years of his
their aid. partment’s guidance, which also man, which is to say the only presi- Bush restrained and Obama real- presidency, Joe Biden increased
This is why I fear a second tried to stop him from saying “Mr. dent ever, to cast doubt on our ized: The big stick of American healthcare access by more than 3 mil-
Trump term. A world increasingly Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” commitment to defend our NATO power requires speaking not so lion people, expanding the Affordable
riven by renewed great power ri- lest such a direct challenge rile the allies. “Does that mean that you much softly as reliably. Care Act and reversing Trump poli-
valries and historic animosities is Kremlin. But that was precisely won’t protect us in case — if we FDR and Lincoln knew when cies that made it harder to apply for
further weakened by Oval Office Reagan’s point. Another word for don’t pay, you won’t protect us they were lying. Does Trump? The coverage.
instability, exemplified by ill-ad- “rile” is “catalyze,” which is what from Russia,” Trump boasted a world should fear another four 8 As president, Trump rolled back
vised remarks, ill-timed threats Reagan hoped to do to the foreign leader lamenting. “I said, years of wondering if he can tell regulations and bans on toxic chemi-
and outright lies. Calm captains of rumblings of change behind the ‘That’s exactly what it means.’” the difference. cals including pesticides applied on
the ship of state struggle to navi- Iron Curtain. Perhaps this was more bluster our food crops. Trump’s EPA rejected
gate the world system’s waves and George H.W. Bush also under- than extortion, a negotiating tac- Jeffrey A. Engel is the founding a ban that the Obama administration
shoals. An erratic one won’t help. stood the power of presidential tic to encourage tight-fisted allies director of the Center for initiated in 2016 on chlorpyrifos,
Especially one whose obsessions, proclamations and was thus to boost their defense spending. Presidential History at Southern “which is used on more than 60 crops,
personal grievances and loose re- largely mute when the Berlin Wall Either way, the story has become Methodist University. He is at particularly in California, and has
lationship with the truth make finally fell in 1989. “I guess I’m just part of Trump’s standard rally work on his 15th book, “Seeking been blamed for sickening farm work-
others question not only Ameri- not an excitable guy,” he told CBS repertoire. Our allies, meanwhile, Monsters to Destroy: How ers and causing development disabili-
ca’s policy but more fundamen- reporter Leslie Stahl and a simi- inch closer to creating their own Americans Go to War From ties in their children,” Yale Environ-
tally our reliability. larly bewildered White House security guarantees every time George Washington to Today.” ment 360 reported.
8 Trump initially denied and dis-
missed the deadly COVID-19 pan-
demic, putting millions of lives at risk,
and later promoted untested and dan-

Atoning for my part in Israel’s occupation of Gaza gerous “treatments” such as hydroxy-
chloroquine. Trump’s Occupational
Safety and Health Administration
blocked efforts to minimize workers’
munity of Los Angeles stand in un- exposure to airborne diseases, even
After being part of the equivocal solidarity with our while he ordered food industry work-
homeland,” despite growing evi- ers and others to stay on the job as the
military machine, I feel dence of alleged war crimes. pandemic raged on.
a duty to model another Additionally, some in my com- 8 Despite his many promises to
munity have been so focused on “drain the swamp,” Trump tapped a
way of being Jewish. the necessary grieving for the former American Chemistry Council
more than 1,200 Israelis killed in executive to help oversee toxic chemi-
Hamas’ attacks on Oct. 7 that cal regulation, and selected a former
By Aryeh Cohen they have not been able to ac- coal lobbyist to helm the EPA as well
knowledge and grieve the killing of as a former oil lobbyist to run the Inte-
orty-one years ago, I more than 41,000 Palestinians, rior Department — putting industry

F was posted with the Isra-

el Defense Forces as a
soldier in the Palestinian
village of Tekoa in the
West Bank. From the roof of the
school building my unit was based
in, I could look into a Palestinian
many of them children, according
to Gaza’s Health Ministry, after
Oct. 7 in both Gaza and the West
Bank. In the Nova exhibition, for
example, which documents the
Oct. 7 massacre and recently
came to Los Angeles, there is not a
interests ahead of public health and
our environment.
8 The Project 2025 plan developed
by dozens of Trump’s former staffers
and associates calls for major cuts to
food and nutrition assistance to
lower-income Americans, directly
family’s backyard. Every once in a word about Oct. 6 or Oct. 8, 2023. harming their health.
while when I sat there on guard Damian Dovarganes Associated Press In other words, there is no context Regrettably, Democrats in Con-
duty, M-16 across my lap, I caught AMERICAN JEWS and allies, including rabbis like the writer, except Israeli suffering. The occu- gress and the White House bear some
the eye of a woman bringing in her demand a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. pation is not named; Palestinians responsibility for corporations prolif-
family’s laundry. There was dis- are not named. erating toxins in our food and agricul-
dain, bordering on pity, in her eyes is committing human rights viola- Kippur services. It is written in The children who were dis- ture, and under both parties, the EPA
that I felt deep in my soul. I was al- tions. We invited AIPAC to join us plural, to signal that each individ- placed from the school my fellow and FDA have often been feeble in
ready rethinking the morality of in calling for a hostage and pris- ual accepts responsibility for the soldiers and I occupied 41 years regulating these threats. But the evi-
the IDF, and the woman’s con- oner deal and immediate cease- actions of the community. As we ago are now entering middle age. I dence shows that Trump and Repub-
tempt knocked me off balance. fire. consider what we have to atone for think about them as I teach the licans enable more harm, packing
Today, I live in Los Angeles. I’m Decades ago, when preparing this year, I think these transgres- students in my classroom now. I these key agencies with industry lob-
a rabbi and a professor who trains for my reserve duty, I resolved to sions listed in the Al Chet are a hope these soon-to-be rabbis byists and executives, reversing and
future rabbis. During the four act with kindness and justice. I good place to start: “For the sins learn by my example that there is stalling action to control dangerous
years I studied Torah in a West would refuse to take part in any we have sinned unknowingly. For a rich and vital Judaism that op- chemicals, and gutting regulations to
Bank settlement, I saw and en- unnecessary or unprovoked vi- the sins we have sinned openly. poses oppression, violence and protect consumer health. Would Vice
countered many Palestinians but olence, I thought. However, once I For the sins we have sinned with war. I hope they learn that stand- President Kamala Harris make
I never had a real conversation donned the IDF uniform I quickly intention and deception. For the ing in opposition to wrongdoing is America healthier? Her record sug-
with even one of them. We lived in realized I was part of the military sins we have sinned with internal a mitzvah, a Jewish sacred obliga- gests so. In a rare move, Scientific
different countries, but some- machine that allowed Israeli Jews thought.” tion. American endorsed Harris, citing her
times it seemed like different plan- to live in what Sara Yael What sins in particular? To My protests, my call for a support for expanding healthcare ac-
ets. Hirschhorn, a scholar of the Isra- start, some in the American Jew- cease-fire, are part of the way I am cess (which, studies show, improves
This year, as Jews celebrate the el-Palestinian conflict, calls “occu- ish community have indiscrimi- still responding to that moment, people’s long-term health), capping
High Holy Days, I feel a responsi- pied suburbia,” while forcing Pal- nately supported the state of Isra- decades ago, when I locked eyes prices on life-preserving prescription
bility to model a different way of estinians to live in constant fear. el, even though in January the In- with my Palestinian neighbor car- drugs such as insulin and acting to di-
being Jewish. For this reason, ear- As one Israeli soldier put it in 2014: ternational Court of Justice found rying her laundry while I held an minish the deadly harms of guns and
lier this month I joined a protest at “The whole thing is, ‘We’re here, it plausible that the Israeli govern- M-16 and felt ashamed. As a rabbi climate change.
the offices of the American Israel fear us, we’re in control here.’” ment was committing genocide and a teacher of rabbis, I’m re- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could indeed
Public Affairs Committee, the This Yom Kippur, the Jewish and ordered it to take measures to penting this Yom Kippur for hav- be a force for a healthier America — if
largest Jewish pro-Israel organi- Day of Atonement, my time as an stop. Israel has been criticized for ing been a part of the occupation. he followed the evidence and en-
zation in America. IDF soldier has me carrying a not complying by groups includ- dorsed Harris instead of Trump.
We were demanding that need to repent for the occupation ing the United Nations and Hu- Aryeh Cohen is a rabbi and a
AIPAC stop pressuring Congress and call urgently for a cease-fire. man Rights Watch. And yet, the professor at American Jewish Christopher D. Cook is a journalist
to continue funding Israel’s war in There is a long list of sins — the Al website of the Jewish Federation University in Los Angeles. He is a and the author of “Diet for a Dead
Gaza; the U.S. should halt military Chet — that traditionally is re- of Los Angeles proclaims: “Our signatory to the “Rabbis for Planet: Big Business and the Coming
aid to Israel as long as we believe it cited several times during Yom Federation and the Jewish com- Ceasefire” letter. Food Crisis.”
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Priorities
in Senate
race hinge
on fate of
Trump
Voters’ agendas differ
depending on who
wins the White
House, poll finds.
By Laura J. Nelson

If President Trump is
elected in November, Cali-
fornia voters have a clear
message for the Golden
State’s next senator: Protect
us.
If Kamala Harris is
elected, however, Califor-
nians want to see their next
senator focus on legislation
that helps the state as much
as possible.
Those divergent findings
come from a new poll re-
leased Friday by the UC
Berkeley Institute of Gov-
Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times ernmental Studies, sizing up
“WHY ARE they moving the goalposts now, during fire season?” L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said of the policy reinter- how voters feel about the
pretation. “The timing couldn’t be worse.” Above, a CH-47 Chinook demonstrates its firefighting capabilities in 2020 in Calabasas. two Senate candidates:
Democratic Rep. Adam B.

Aerial firefight on the ground

Schiff and Republican Steve
Garvey.
The poll, co-sponsored
by the Los Angeles Times,
shows how the largest state
in the nation may act as a

Forest Service is enforcing ban on local oversight above federal land political counterweight if
Trump is elected in Novem-
ber — or as an ally to Harris,
goalposts now, during fire season? Congress requesting an investiga- person. if she becomes the first Cali-
By Alex Wigglesworth The timing couldn’t be worse.” tion into the issue. At the heart of the dispute is the fornia Democrat to win the
The dispute is the latest to have “This policy application defies Quick Reaction Force, a 24/7 aerial White House.
An aerial firefighting task force local fire authorities at odds with common sense at a time when we all task force staffed by the fire depart- With less than a month to
has been thwarted — and some- the Forest Service amid a punishing know wildfire is, if not the worst ments of Los Angeles, Orange and go in the race to replace the
times grounded — by a new inter- season that’s seen more than a mil- threat to public safety in the state of Ventura counties. Its fleet consists late Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
pretation of a U.S. Forest Service lion acres of land burn across the California and throughout the of three night-flying helitankers, a the poll shows that Schiff
policy that prohibits contractors state. Some county chiefs have also West, pretty close to the top,” he mobile base that can mix 18,000 gal- has maintained his wide ad-
from providing flight supervision spoken out about Forest Service said. lons of retardant per hour and an in- vantage over Garvey. About
over federal lands, according to staffing shortages they say resulted The Forest Service said the pol- telligence helicopter that is typi- 53% of likely voters say they
Southern California fire chiefs. in delayed federal responses to re- icy is a long-standing business rule cally staffed by pilots under con- prefer Schiff, a number that
“I don’t understand why they’ve cent fires, including the Airport fire that applies to aviation operations tract with the Orange County Fire hasn’t budged all year, while
chosen this time to reinterpret this that destroyed homes in Orange nationwide. “We had a lack of clarity Authority who manage the airspace about 36% prefer Garvey
long-standing procedure,” said Los and Riverside counties. on the policy, so some people were and tell the other helicopters where and 11% remain undecided.
Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Orange County Fire Authority using it inappropriately,” said Adri- to make drops. The poll of 3,045 Califor-
Marrone. “Why are they moving the Chief Brian Fennessy has written to enne Freeman, an agency spokes- [See Firefighting, B4] nians was conducted Sept.
25 to Oct. 1, before this
week’s testy debate between
the Senate candidates in
Burbank.

Students’ Measure fundamentally flawed Schiff ’s high-profile posi-

tions as chair of the House
Intelligence Committee and

math and lead manager of Trump’s

first impeachment trial
vaulted him to national

English Proposition 36 won’t solve problems it promises to fix prominence.

At the Tuesday debate,
Garvey tried to portray

scores rise ANITA CHABRIA

Proposition 36 is con-
Schiff as someone too
caught up in a vendetta
against Trump to focus on
issues important to Califor-
fusing a lot of people. nia voters, asking him: “How
Depending on can you think about one
Gains, especially for whom you ask, it will man every day and focus on
provide treatment for that when you’ve got mil-
disadvantaged pupils, addictions, not pro- lions of people in California
aren’t enough to offset vide treatment for to take care of?”
addictions, stop retail But if Schiff is elected to
pandemic setbacks. theft, crack down on the Senate and Trump is
drug dealers, return us to the “three elected to the White House,
By Kate Sequeira strikes” era of locking up Black and California’s likely voters
brown people faster than toothpaste want to see the Burbank
Test scores for California in a Target and maybe even cost congressman continue that
public school students are taxpayers millions. Or not. role, said Mark DiCamillo,
trending upward — espe- Officially, Proposition 36 is called director of the Berkeley IGS
cially among Latino, Black the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, poll.
and low-income children — and Theft Reduction Act and seeks, “Schiff has portrayed
but still lag behind pre-pan- among other things, to address all himself as the anti-Trump,
demic scores with a majority three of those problems through a and these data conform to
of all students placing below new class of crimes called “treatment- that,” DiCamillo said.
grade-level standards in mandated” felonies, which would Nearly 6 in 10 likely Cali-
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
math, English and science, force some perpetrators to either fornia voters would want to
according to state data re- successfully complete addiction A HOMELESS man packs up in Playa del Rey in August. Proposition see the state’s next senator
leased Thursday. [See Chabria, B2] 36 would create a class of crimes requiring treatment for addiction. [See Poll, B2]
Statewide, economically
disadvantaged students
showed the strongest gains,
with an increase of at least
1.4 percentage points of
those who met grade-level
standards across the three
subject areas. These gains
Bird flu spreading rapidly among dairy cows
come as the number of stu- presumptive cases of human covered cows.
dents facing socioeconomic By Susanne Rust infection. All five cases were At the same time, some
disadvantages grows — among Central Valley dairy epidemiologists fear that as
nearly two-thirds of all Cali- As a rapidly increasing workers who had no known the virus spreads among
fornia public school stu- number of California dairy connection. California farms, it greatly
dents in 2024, an increase of farms suffer outbreaks of State and federal health increases the odds that it
more than 60,000 from 2023. H5N1 bird flu, industry ex- authorities insist that H5N1 can mix with a human virus
But even with the up- perts say it remains unclear poses little threat to humans and create a health threat
turns among these students, just how the disease may af- and that it is safe to drink for people.
their scores were sobering: fect the nation’s milk supply milk that has been pasteur- Although the number of
36.8% were proficient in Eng- or pricing. ized, because the process outbreaks has had little ef-
lish, 25% in math and 20.7% As of Oct. 9, the nation’s kills the virus. fect on overall milk produc-
in science. The proficiency largest milk-producing state However, dairy farmers tion, some experts warn that
rate measures what per- had reported 93 H5N1 out- and veterinarians are re- the number of infected
centage of students have breaks in dairy herds — porting far greater rates of farms could grow substan-
met the California learning nearly doubling in the span mortality among infected tially in the coming weeks.
standard expected for a cer- of a week. herds than anticipated and “Things are going to get Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
tain grade or subject matter. There have also been steep drops in the rate of worse before they get bet- SOME EXPERTS say the number of infected dairy
[See Scores, B3] three confirmed and two milk production among re- [See Bird flu, B2] farms could rise substantially in the coming weeks.

SPORTS ON THE BACK: Dodgers refuse to go quietly this time, Bill Plaschke writes. B10
B2 FR I DAY , O C T O B E R 11, 2 0 2 4 L AT I M E S . C O M

Anaheim Proposition has flawed premise Voters’

changes [Chabria, from B1]
priorities
would hit programs or be incarcer-
ated.
I am voting no on Pro-
in Senate
homeless
position 36. I think it lumps
together those three emo-
tional issues — crime,
election
homelessness and addiction
— and makes it seem as if all [Poll, from B1]
folks without a home are prioritize “protecting Cali-
By Gabriel San Roman thieving addicts, which is fornia’s interests and oppos-
simply not true. ing federal legislation that
Anaheim may soon ban But in the odd and tem- would undercut existing
sleeping on sidewalks, sell- peramental place that is our state laws and policies” if
ing bike parts at parks and state Capitol, sometimes Trump wins, the poll found.
smoking near bus stops. necessity makes for strange More than 4 in 5 Schiff
The changes, which the bedfellows. supporters, and more than
city concedes will largely af- half of undecided voters, say
fect homeless people, were protecting California’s inter-
approved this week by the
A fairy tale of a ests should be a top priority.
Anaheim City Council with a failing society But California’s likely
unanimous initial vote. A Once upon a time in voters also want to see their
second vote is slated for Oct. California, because of the next senator reaching
29. If passed, the bans would pandemic, poverty, fen- Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times across the aisle to work with
take effect in late November. tanyl, housing prices and a ONE OF the authors of Proposition 36, a district attorney, calls it “an act of com- the other party, with 50%
“We are creating ordinan- general social malaise, passion” to save lives. Above, police clean up an encampment in Playa del Rey. saying he should focus on
ces to further enhance the people started stealing a lot passing bipartisan legisla-
toolbox for our law enforce- of stuff from stores — some- lawbreakers basically got a ’em-up kind of guy but went there are plenty of prose- tion. And 49% said that if
ment to better serve our city, times in an organized fash- warning, then another through an evolution that cutors who would be per- Trump is elected, the state’s
but it really is also a compre- ion. warning, then maybe a made him believe in second fectly willing to slap a felony next senator should pri-
hensive approach,” Council- Stores got mad and couple of months in county chances. on a repeat offender every oritize “standing up to the
woman Natalie Rubalcava locked everything up. jail. If the cops bothered to But he is frustrated that chance they get. president and challenging
said. “These ordinances, al- Then shoppers got mad arrest them, which many D.A.s have little leverage to So there’s a fundamental his executive orders.”
though some people may because who wants to push had grown weary of doing, force people into treatment flaw in Proposition 36, which The priorities of the Cali-
feel that they are heavy-han- a button and wait to buy even though technically it is because in his experience, is that it criminalizes addic- fornia electorate shift dra-
ded, they’re really necessary deodorant? And, besides, their job. most people don’t change tion and risks creating more matically when considering
... to keep our community we were already mad be- So many of these offend- unless they have to. In 2014, felons without ensuring that a Harris administration.
safe.” cause there were homeless ers remained in poverty and before Proposition 47 went more folks actually get A 56% majority said they
Last month, Rubalcava people everywhere, which addiction, and nothing into effect, his drug-diver- clean. would want California’s next
and Councilwoman Natalie we are not going to com- really changed for the better sion court had 420 partici- Almost certainly, it will senator to prioritize policies
Meeks asked staff to review plain about because we are in their lives or ours. Except pants. In 2024, there were 14. lead to putting folks in jail and laws that bring as many
how the city could strength- not horrible people. But for this huge fact: With all He’s seen it in his own for failing treatment. benefits as possible to the
en its laws governing the use also, there were homeless the money we saved not family. state. Meanwhile, 48% would
of parks and rights-of-way people doing drugs every- incarcerating folks, we His nephew developed a Practical issues want to see Schiff or Garvey
after the U.S. Supreme where, and some of them funded an entire Pro- heroin addiction in 2014, he But I also have a practi- collaborate with the Harris
Court ruling that camping seemed kinda scary. position 47-mandated infra- said via text. Now that cal beef with Proposition 36. administration on her legis-
bans are constitutional. We got fed up, because structure of treatment and nephew has progressed to We don’t have enough lative agenda, while 31% said
Anaheim first passed a we had approved billions for anti-recidivism programs — meth and fentanyl, and has available spaces to mandate he should prioritize defend-
camping ban in 2014 as tent the government to fix these which will probably be gut- been homeless in Sacra- treatment. Many counties ing Harris from partisan at-
encampments popped up at problems, but nothing ted if Proposition 36 passes. mento for years. have no residential treat- tacks in the Senate.
public parks. That law pro- seemed to work. But faced with this “He has no desire or ment available. The poll found that Gar-
hibits people from putting And don’t forget the merry-go-round of offend- intention to voluntarily It’s not going to magi- vey, who played for the Los
up tents and storing person- stealing. ers, the district attorneys choose treatment. He is too cally appear because a judge Angeles Dodgers and San
al property. In strength- The people who own the bundled retail theft with sick to have insight into his orders it. Proposition 36 Diego Padres for nearly two
ening the city’s enforcement stores went to their friends drug charges and some own illness,” Reisig said. “To backers think they can get decades, leads Schiff in the
hand, the new law also seeks in the Legislature, to whom other stuff (like longer sen- me, Prop. 36 is an act of money from Gov. Gavin Inland Empire and the Cen-
to ban people from leaving they had given a lot of mon- tences for dealers) and compassion to save his life Newsom’s Proposition 1, tral Valley. The two men are
property or lying down on ey over the years, and asked wrote a proposal to change and so many others.” passed in March, which in a dead heat in Orange
sidewalks, bus benches or for help — stiffer sentences the rules of Proposition 47. theoretically opened up County, with 46% of voters
medians. to stop the big stealing. But They want to make it so Forced change more funds for substance supporting each candidate.
Citing an average of 255 also the little stealing, which that the third time someone There’s a battle between abuse treatment. But that Garvey, DiCamillo said,
bicycle thefts per year in An- was annoying even if the is charged with possessing folks who believe mandated money is largely already tied “is doing fairly well for a Re-
aheim, another ordinance data didn’t back up their drugs or committing one of treatment is ineffective up, and trying to raid it publican statewide.” Still, he
targets bicycle “chop shops,” claims of financial ruin. But those currently minor because you can’t force would in effect steal from faces the same “structural
where bikes are disassem- their so-called friends didn’t crimes like petty theft, it can people to change, even one program to pay for problem as any Republican
bled and sold for parts at move fast enough. be charged as a felony if the under threat of prison, and another. running statewide.” Among
public parks. So the store owners went first two crimes resulted in a folks like Reisig who think So that makes Pro- California’s registered vot-
Shoring up the changes, to the prosecutors of the conviction (albeit a “treat- the status quo is a failure. position 36 what the state ers, Democrats outnumber
Anaheim is looking to up- California District Attor- ment mandated” one that I’m splitting the baby. I calls an “unfunded man- Republicans by almost 2 to 1.
date its smoking ban to in- neys Assn., who were also could be dropped if a person think mandated treatment date” — a law we can’t pay Schiff has maintained a
clude public parks. Smoking fed up. The D.A.s were see- successfully went through won’t work for a lot of peo- for. wide lead in California’s two
of cigarettes, cannabis and ing the same people come an addiction program). ple, but it will work for some. So either the Legislature most populous areas, which
vape pens would also be pro- through their courts over But the Legislature had But should the price of has to come in with a clean- represent nearly half the
hibited within 25 feet of bus and over again with few just spent a decade-plus failure be a felony record, up that includes money (cue electorate. In L.A. County,
stops and 100 feet of any consequences. trying to fix the racially which makes it almost the laugh track). Or the 59% of likely voters planned
school or day-care facility. This is actually a legit biased justice system that impossible to get a job and treatment mandate be- to back Schiff, and in the San
“These proposed ordi- complaint. Some folks who led to the over-incarceration housing? comes a false incentive that Francisco Bay Area, nearly
nances apply to everyone in use drugs and are homeless of Black and brown people. Almost all people with ends in incarceration — or 7 in 10 said they would.
the city,” said City Atty. Rob or poor (because remember, So many lawmakers were addictions fail at quitting an empty-threat law that Garvey said at Tuesday’s
Fabela. “However, we recog- rich folks also use drugs but not interested in helping the multiple times before com- just makes things harder for debate that he has voted for
nize that they will likely im- aren’t as bothersome to D.A.s lock folks up. ing out on top. I can’t stress everyone. Trump three times, includ-
pact those who are un- society) are so deep into Even if that made their this enough — it takes mul- Because if you can’t ing in the 2024 presidential
housed and are using our their addictions that steal- still rich big-box store- tiple tries for most people to access the treatment the primary. But he hasn’t
public rights-of-way as living ing is a way of life if they owner former-friends mad. quit drugs. court has ordered, is it your sought Trump’s endorse-
spaces.” want to keep buying drugs. But Proposition 36 bar- Proposition 36 support- fault you’re still doing ment, which Trump said last
According to the latest Which, to be fair, is bad. reled forward. ers say prosecutorial discre- drugs? Or the state’s fault month was “a big mistake.”
homeless count, 1,417 un- tion will keep the new laws for promising what it can’t “If he doesn’t have
housed people live in Ana- Good intentions from being misused to lock deliver? MAGA he’s got no chance,”
Solution becomes
heim, with 601 of them un- Here’s where it gets up people for little things or If Proposition 36 passes, Trump said, referring to the
sheltered. the problem complicated. Some of the punish those with sub- the law itself will probably acronym for his motto,
In considering the But California voters in district attorneys who wrote stance use disorders simply end up in court as we try to “Make America Great
changes, Anaheim joined 2014 had passed Proposition Proposition 36 aren’t just for their addictions. figure out how to require Again,” and his political
several other Orange 47, which made a bunch of out to lock up everyone who Still, a previously con- treatment when none is base.
County cities that have serious-felony crimes into can’t remember to hide victed re-offender techni- available. The data suggest that
sought to strengthen their little-misdemeanor crimes, their pipe when a cop walks cally could face jail time for So both philosophically Garvey does, in fact, have
enforcement hand after the and often did away with by. possessing personal and practically, Proposition support from Trump’s loyal
Supreme Court ruling. sending folks to prison, or I have a lot of respect for amounts of hard drugs or 36 is a bad fix for a bad prob- fans. Among respondents
Newport Beach recently even jail, for personal drug one of the principal authors, stealing just about anything lem, despite some good who characterized their po-
banned storing of belong- use. Or shoplifting, or Yolo County Dist. Atty. Jeff — a piece of pizza, a bottle of intentions. litical views as MAGA, 92%
ings on sidewalks and other bouncing not-huge checks, Reisig, who I believe has vodka, a carton of cigarettes said they planned to sup-
public properties, and or even stealing a car if that good intentions both with — if the prosecutor wants to A version of this column port Garvey. By contrast,
beefed up its anticamping car was really crappy and this initiative and for the try. originally appeared in the Schiff ’s support was highest
law to include people sleep- worth less than $950. people it would likely cause If every county had a L.A. Times Politics news- among people who identi-
ing in cars. A lot of times, these to be charged with felonies. prosecutor like Reisig, letter. To subscribe, visit fied as progressive (89%)
Duane Roberts, a long- bush-league but prolific Reisig once was a lock- maybe it would work. But latimes.com/newsletters. and pro-choice (79%).
time Anaheim resident and
blogger, criticized Ana-
heim’s proposed sidewalk
law as a potential affront to
civil liberties and urged
council members to table
discussion.
He considered the excep-
Bird flu spreads among California’s dairy cows
tion for people who sit on the
sidewalk “for purposes of [Bird flu, from B1] He said looking at the ex- since March, and the spread Milk production is initially partly the result of rapa-
viewing a legally conducted ter,” said Michael Payne, a tent of the reported out- into California could knock stimulated by the birth of a ciousness of the virus, but
parade or similar lawful or researcher and outreach co- break, about 4.8% of the na- something closer to 0.5% to calf. It ramps up in the weeks also an artifact of the state’s
permitted event” to be too ordinator at the Western In- tion’s dairy cows have been 0.8% off U.S. milk production after birth — peaking be- efforts to test every herd
broad and vague. stitute for Food Safety and infected. for October,” Donnay said. tween weeks six and 10 — within six miles of an in-
“It ignores the fact that Security at UC Davis. However, the actual “Either way, it is a rela- and slowly tapers off over the fected herd, as well as any
the 1st Amendment does What this means for the number may be “much tively small impact,” he said. next several months. herd that has an epidemio-
give people the right to sit on nation’s milk supply — and higher since many cases In order for there to be a While the cow is milking, logical tie with one that’s
a sidewalk if they are en- milk prices — remains un- have gone unreported.” significant effect on national she is impregnated. Roughly been infected — shared per-
gaged in free speech activ- clear. The drop in milk produc- milk production, Donnay two months before she is to sonnel, equipment or veteri-
ities,” Roberts said. “Some- “So far, there has been lit- tion for an individual cow or said that 500 or more herds give birth again, she is taken narians, for example.
body could set up a movable tle industrywide impact of farm can be quite large — re- would have to be infected in out of the milking barn and He said Colorado was the
chair and table on the side- the disease on share of cattle cent reports from California a month. “dried out.” Then, after she’s only other state that ex-
walk in front of City Hall and affected in California, so lit- show that an infected cow California has roughly given birth again, she’s put ploded in the same way that
distribute political or reli- tle impact on marketable can lose up to 100% over a few 1,100 herds and 1.7 million back into the mix. California has — and again,
gious literature.” dairy production,” said Dan- days, and later return to 60% cows and produces 20% of The first cows infected in the high numbers were prob-
Some Anaheim Resort iel Sumner, an agricultural to 70% of typical production. the milk produced in the Texas are only just now re- ably the result of mandated
hoteliers hailed the changes. economist at UC Davis. Elsewhere, that number country. entering the mix, and it’s still testing.
“We need to take back our “There is almost no bird flu has been closer to 5% to 10%. Fortunately for dairy too early to tell whether He said when testing was
bus stops,” said Laura on dairies outside Califor- However, when compared farms across the nation, those first infected cows will finished in Colorado, some-
Watkins, general manager of nia, and that means farm with national milk produc- milk prices are high, and come back to pre-infection where between 60% and
the Best Western Plus. milk prices have not risen tion, or production in indi- feed costs are down, Donnay production, or stay de- 100% of the state’s herds had
“[Housekeepers] are petri- measurably.” vidual states, the effect is said. pressed, Payne said. been infected.
fied to go out to the bus stop He said that unless many much smaller, Donnay said. That means profitability Donnay said statewide If the same can be ex-
in front of my property be- more herds are affected in For example, U.S. De- margins for the nation’s milk production is variable pected for California, he
cause of the element that is California or elsewhere, partment of Agriculture dairy farmers are looking across time, but looking at said, the state could be look-
at the bus stop.” “farm milk prices and con- data for heavily affected “very, very good” — even the 14 states that have had ing northward of 600 cases in
Council members stres- sumer milk prices are un- states such as Texas, Idaho with the raging viral out- bird flu, there are clear sig- the next few weeks.
sed the city’s efforts in re- likely to rise measurably.” and Colorado showed a 1% to break. natures in the data: a John Korslund, a retired
cent years to provide serv- Nathaniel Donnay, direc- 3% drop in year-over-year Of bigger concern is the marked drop in production U.S. Department of Agricul-
ices and shelter to unhoused tor of dairy market insight milk production. outstanding question of that lasts for a few weeks. ture veterinarian epidemiol-
people. Last month, Ana- with StoneX, a financial In Colorado, where 60% whether infected cows will He said it is clear — from ogist, said if that were to
heim became the third Or- services company, agreed of the farms suffered out- rebound in their next lacta- data and his conversations happen — and he said he has
ange County city to partner that production impacts breaks, milk production by tion cycle — after they’ve with farmers — that there reason to believe it will — “I
with CalOptima’s street have been relatively small; cow dropped only 2.6% since had time to “dry out” and has been vast undercount- would estimate that the Cal-
medicine program. however, “It only takes small last June, Donnay said. heal. ing of the disease in the na- ifornia dairy outbreak is the
changes in supply or de- H5N1 in dairy cattle has According to Payne, at tion’s dairy herds. most serious and wide-
San Roman writes for the mand to have a big impact been “knocking 0.2% to 0.5% UC Davis, a typical dairy cow He said the explosion be- spread infectious animal
Daily Pilot. on prices.” off U.S. level milk production milks for about nine months. ing seen in California is disease outbreak in history.”
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CITY & STATE

Plastic surgeon
is charged with
felony battery
her body that included her
Arian Mowlavi, who abdomen, thighs, back, but-
tocks and hips.
branded himself ‘Dr. During her initial consul-
Laguna,’ had settled tation she was told to dis-
robe and Mowlavi examined
with former patients. her without a female chaper-
one in the room and without
By Hannah Fry wearing gloves, according to
the accusation.
Dr. Arian Mowlavi, a plas- At one point, the accusa-
tic surgeon who branded tion alleges that Mowlavi
himself “Dr. Laguna” on so- had Patient C’s bare but-
cial media, is facing two fel- tocks up against his chest as
ony counts of battery with he sat on a stool while dem-
serious bodily injury months onstrating what the results
after he reached a $6-million of the procedure would be
settlement with three dozen post-surgery. While being
former patients. examined, Mowlavi alleg-
On social media accounts edly called the woman “girl-
and his websites, Mowlavi friend” and “babe” and told
touted himself as a “re- her he would make her look
nowned body sculptor” and “hot” and “snatched,” ac-
charged tens of thousands of cording to the accusation.
Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times dollars for some procedures. Another patient, identi-
A LOS ANGELES Building and Safety official will receive a $3-million settlement after alleging fraudulent But in recent years, Mowlavi fied in the accusation as Pa-
billing and other wrongdoing by the department, which is housed in the Development Services Center, above. has come under scrutiny tient D, was interested in a
from the state medical Brazilian Butt Lift, but dur-

L.A. whistleblower to get board and former patients,

who allege the doctor pres-
sured them into additional
procedures, made lewd com-
ments when examining
ing an examination the day
before her scheduled
surgery, Mowlavi recom-
mended that she also get
high-definition liposuction,

$3-million city settlement

them and in some cases a pubic skin resection and a
botched their surgeries. mini-tummy tuck.
A criminal complaint Mowlavi allegedly
filed in Orange County Su- reached his arms around the
perior Court in July offered patient, who was nude, and
few details on the alleged manipulated her lower ab-
Building and Safety. A one- done to ensure the fees were computers for the mayor’s crimes but referenced dominal skin to show her
Building and Safety time building inspector was justified and the city wasn’t office. Mowlavi using “surgical what post-surgery results
sentenced to 21⁄2 years in violating the law, Ongele That money was taken tools” during the commis- would look like. During the
official claims he was prison in 2014 following a fed- claimed in the lawsuit. from special funds meant to sion of the felonies, which process he allegedly used a
fired after raising eral investigation into bribe- In response, Chan put his be used only for activities re- prosecutors say occurred in crude word for vagina.
taking. hands up in the air and lated to building permits July and August 2021. At a follow-up visit after
ethical concerns. In 2018, several employ- replied, “Arrest me,” accord- and plan checks, according The two victims are not her surgery, the accusation
ees in the department’s ing to the lawsuit. to Ongele’s lawsuit. named in the criminal com- states, Mowlavi brought an-
By Dakota Smith technology services bureau Chan was found guilty The suit also alleged that plaint, but a police report other prospective patient
resigned amid an internal this year in an unrelated fed- in 2016 Ongele learned that obtained by The Times de- into the room where Patient
A former high-ranking investigation into unauthor- eral criminal case involving several employees at the tails allegations made by D was lying undressed and
Los Angeles Building and ized purchases and falsified former City Councilman building department had several former patients, in- told her to “flex” her abs. The
Safety official who claimed invoices. José Huizar and downtown been paid overtime illegally cluding those who sought accusation states that
he was fired after alleging That investigation also real estate developers. Chan over multiple years. Ongele treatment from Mowlavi in Mowlavi never returned to
fraudulent billing and other revealed that some employ- was sentenced last week to reported the information the summer of 2021. The examine her.
wrongdoing will receive a ees were subjected to unusu- 12 years in prison on racket- to Bush and “insisted that criminal complaint states The action by the medi-
$3-million settlement from al forms of punishment by eering conspiracy, bribery, the employees refund the that Mowlavi “took advan- cal board is the second it has
the city. their immediate supervisor, fraud and other charges. money,” according to the tage of a position of trust taken against Mowlavi, re-
Steve Ongele had sued including eating an entire An attorney for Chan lawsuit. and confidence.” cords show. In August 2021, it
the city, alleging whistle- pizza within a short period, didn’t respond for a request Ongele complained to Mowlavi pleaded not filed an accusation that he
blower retaliation after he according to a personnel re- for comment Wednesday City Council deputies and guilty last week to both committed gross negli-
was terminated from his job port prepared by the city. about the claims in Ongele’s aides to Garcetti after he charges. His attorney could gence, aided the unlicensed
in 2019. For the prior six Ongele served as chief of lawsuit. spoke out and his job duties not immediately be reached practice of medicine and
years, he had raised con- Building and Safety’s Re- Ongele, who joined the were reduced, but nothing for comment. overstated the number of
cerns about allegedly illegal source and Management city in 2000, also alleged in was done, his lawsuit Mowlavi also faces accu- procedures he’d performed,
and unethical practices at Bureau, overseeing con- his lawsuit that a person claimed. sations from the state medi- among other violations.
the Department of Building tracts, purchase orders and who was friends with Chan Meanwhile, Ongele was cal board, which filed in July In September 2022, the
and Safety, according to the fees. submitted a claim for a re- also sidelined during the an updated formal accu- board suspended Mowlavi’s
lawsuit. In 2017, he questioned a fund of more than $160,000 2018 internal investigation sation that included allega- license for 90 days and
In response, city officials nearly $300-million surplus for work done for several into the purchases and in- tions that he committed placed him on probation for
repeatedly scaled back his that was the result of the de- buildings. voices, according to the law- gross negligence, created a 10 years, documents show.
duties and ultimately fired partment overcharging its Ongele refused to ap- suit. false medical record, made In a series of malpractice
him, the suit claims. customers, including the prove the claim because it When he tried to disclose false representations, was lawsuits settled this spring
The City Council voted 12 federal government, accord- did not meet the require- the fraud, which amounted dishonest during his treat- by Mowlavi, more than 30
to 0 on Wednesday to ap- ing to the lawsuit. ments for a refund. It was to about $4 million, to the ment of two patients, failed patients alleged that he un-
prove the $3-million settle- Then-general manager later approved by another city controller’s office, he to maintain accurate medi- necessarily forced them to
ment. Councilmembers Frank Bush didn’t take ac- building department execu- was instructed by his super- cal records, failed to report be nude for an examination,
Monica Rodriguez, Kevin de tion, the lawsuit alleged. tive, who told Ongele, “This visor to state that only to the board an adverse made inappropriate com-
León and Curren Price were Bush, who has since left is for Ray’s friends,” or words $300,000 was misappropri- event involving a patient ments about their bodies,
absent. the department, has previ- to that effect, the lawsuit al- ated, the lawsuit said. and exhibited “general un- touched them without con-
Ongele’s attorney, Greg ously denied Ongele’s leged. In 2018, the L.A. County professional conduct.” sent, pressured them to
Smith, declined to com- claims. In 2016, Chan became district attorney’s office also The board accusation de- have more expensive pro-
ment. A representative for A few years earlier, On- deputy mayor for business opened an investigation into tails Mowlavi’s alleged inter- cedures and in some cases
City Atty. Hydee Feldstein gele told the then-executive development under then- the allegations. actions with four patients in bungled their surgeries. Pa-
Soto didn’t immediately officer, Raymond Chan, that Mayor Eric Garcetti. Chan A spokesperson for the 2020 and 2021. tients said in court docu-
provide comment. the department was collect- then sought money from the district attorney didn’t im- One woman, identified in ments that they were left
The $3-million settle- ing more fees than it was Department of Building and mediately provide comment the accusation as Patient C, with unsightly and unex-
ment follows a string of scan- spending. Safety for raises for his staff Wednesday about the status sought out Mowlavi’s serv- pected scars and infections
dals at the Department of Studies needed to be as well as new furniture and of the investigation. ices in June 2021 for areas of after surgery.

Disadvantaged students show strongest improvement

[Scores, from B1] when California campuses crease among California stu- graphic improved,” Los An-
Black and Latino stu- closed and schooling for dents, with 35.5% meeting geles Unified Supt. Alberto
dents also saw increases many went online for nearly grade-level standards, up Carvalho said in July, when
across each subject of at a year. The incremental nearly 1% from 2023. Still, he released partial district
least half of a percentage score gains come as children nearly two-thirds of stu- data.
point. and teenagers are still strug- dents did not meet state Only once before has
The Los Angeles Unified gling with mental health is- standards and scores re- LAUSD seen test scores im-
School District — and sev- sues and academic recovery. main more than 4 percent- prove across all grade levels
eral school systems includ- Stanford University pro- age points below 2019. since the testing system be-
ing Compton Unified — fessor Thomas S. Dee said Science scores are lower. gan in 2015, according to dis-
showed particularly encour- the state still has far to go to Proficiency increased to trict officials.
aging scores. reach pre-pandemic levels. 30.7%, and was under 1 per- Still, Dee said the data
State education leaders And at the rate of the in- centage point below 2019. need to be examined more
focused on the bright side of creases, hitting those levels But put another way, about carefully, since the student
the data. won’t happen any time soon, 69% of California students population has changed sig-
“Today’s results suggest he said. did not meet grade-level nificantly over the last few
that California’s public “In many ways, society standards in science. years.
schools are making encour- has moved on from the pan- Al Seib For The Times State education officials “I wouldn’t want to cele-
aging gains in all of the key demic, but its impact on our LOS ANGELES Unified Supt. Alberto Carvalho also called attention to score brate it without careful scru-
subject areas, and these kids’ learning is still very greets students at Main Street Elementary School. jumps at the sixth- and tiny,” he said. “Whether they
gains are largest for our much with us,” he said. eighth-grade levels. The av- are genuine improvements
most vulnerable groups of Tyrone Howard, profes- state and federal funding addressing academic per- erage score for sixth-graders of student learning or some-
students,” State Board of sor of education at UCLA’s from the pandemic dries up. formance, which suffers increased 3.4 percentage thing related to composi-
Education President Linda School of Education and In- Districts are facing a tough when basic needs such as points in English. Eighth- tional change.”
Darling-Hammond said in a formation Studies, said it decision over what pro- food and housing aren’t met. grade math scores were a At Fallbrook Union Ele-
prepared statement. was rare and encouraging to grams and targeted inter- Investment in high-quality particular bright spot, in- mentary School District in
The Department of Edu- see gains across so many ventions they are able to instruction and addressing creasing 6.2 percentage San Diego County, math and
cation has administered the subgroups of students in keep. That, paired with the chronic absenteeism will points year over year. English proficiency in-
Smarter Balanced California, but agreed that ongoing decline in also help districts through Scores jumped signifi- creased by at least 5 percent-
assessments, which mea- districts have more to do to enrollment and chronic ab- academic recovery, Dee said. cantly in at least three age points.
sure whether students are make up for pandemic senteeism, will make for an Low-cost parental messag- school districts, including In Compton Unified,
meeting state standards, losses. uphill battle in the years ing could help them make L.A. Unified. California’s math and English profi-
since 2015. Students are “The overwhelming ma- ahead, Howard said. headway. largest district and the sec- ciency increased by at least
tested in math and English jority of those kids are still “The question becomes, The percentage of all Cal- ond-largest in the nation 2.5 percentage points when
in grades three through not proficient,” he said. “I will we then see a stagnation ifornia students meeting saw increases that outpaced compared with 2023. Supt.
eight and 11. They are tested just hope we don’t let the air of this growth? Will we see a grade-level standards in overall state jumps. English Darin Brawley, in a state-
in science in grades five and get taken out of the room by regression of it? Because a English rose slightly to 47% and math scores increased ment, attributed the im-
eight as well as once in high saying that we’ve seen gains. lot of resources that were this year, up less than half a in nearly every grade level proved test scores to its tu-
school. We need to put those gains in used to get us to this point percentage point from 2023, and demographic group, ac- toring efforts, regular evalu-
Pandemic setbacks for context of how many stu- are no longer there,” he said. but remains more than 4 cording to the California De- ation of performance metri-
many students remain deep dents are still not really He called wraparound percentage points below partment of Education. cs and the professional
more than three years after where we want to see them.” services and community pre-pandemic scores. “This is quite stunning development provided for
education was upended This year’s gains come as school investments vital to Math saw the biggest in- that every single demo- its teachers.
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Ex-CFO at Girardi’s
law firm to plead guilty
on trial together this sum- fendant Kamon to ‘do it any-
Christopher Kamon mer, but a judge separated ways,’ ” Kamon said in the
their cases after defense at- plea agreement. “This was a
agrees to admit role in torneys argued that their common practice at Girardi
defrauding clients in a strategies were in funda- Keese of which other senior
mental conflict: Each lawyers in the firm were
deal with prosecution. planned to blame the other. aware.”
At Girardi’s trial, his at- Kamon also acknowl-
By Matt Hamilton torneys repeatedly sought to edged that from 2013 to 2020,
shift the blame onto Kamon he and others devised a so-
The former chief finan- and said it was the man over- called side fraud in which he
cial officer at Tom Girardi’s seeing the firm’s dozens of embezzled money from Gi-
law firm has agreed to plead bank accounts who had rardi Keese, using sham ven-
guilty to federal fraud masterminded the large- dors to generate fraudulent
charges, acknowledging scale fraud. invoices that he billed to the
that he and Girardi worked As part of the plea deal, law firm. With money pil-
side by side to swindle cli- Kamon swore to the accu- fered from the firm, Kamon
ents out of millions in settle- racy of a seven-page state- financed construction proj-
ment money. ment in which he admitted ects at his homes in Palos
In a plea agreement that he and Girardi worked Verdes and Encino, accord-
signed and filed Tuesday together to perpetrate a ing to the plea agreement.
afternoon, Christopher Ka- long-running scheme to de- The charges to which Ka-
mon, the former CFO of Gi- fraud and mislead clients. mon pleaded guilty carry a Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times
rardi Keese, said he would Kamon, who ran the maximum penalty of 40 THE DISPUTE is centered on the Quick Reaction Force, a 24/7 aerial task force
forfeit $3.1 million and plead firm’s accounting depart- years in prison, along with staffed by the fire departments of Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties.
guilty to two wire fraud ment from 2004 onward, said fines and three years of su-

Forest Service change stirs

charges in exchange for the that Girardi called him each pervised release. Under the
dismissal of all other charges morning to ask about the agreement, federal prose-
against him in Los Angeles. law firm’s bank account bal- cutors will seek a two-level
He faces a separate indict- ances. reduction in his sentence
ment in Chicago.
Kamon, 51, is scheduled
to enter the plea Friday in
downtown L.A. He has re-
“When the Girardi Keese
operating accounts were
low, defendant Kamon
would relay this information
and also recommend “the
low end” of the prison term
specified by federal sentenc-
ing guidelines.
controversy in firefighting
mained in custody since his to defendant Girardi,” the The agreement does not
arrest in December 2022. plea agreement states. Gi- appear to affect another [Firefighting, from B1] is deployed to these fires, it “I think it’s worth taking
Reached late Tuesday, his rardi would then instruct pending case for Kamon. He The task force has been generally must be overseen a hard look at this policy, be-
attorney, Michael Severo, Kamon to transfer money and Girardi are facing operating for several years by an aerial supervisor who cause the QRF is really, to
declined to comment. from client trust accounts charges in federal court in without issue. But in July, is an agency employee. my knowledge, a singular ex-
The deal comes weeks af- and log the transfer as “at- Chicago, with prosecutors the local agencies received The Forest Service has 11 ample of this particular sce-
ter a jury found the 85-year- torney fees,” according to accusing them of misappro- word from the Forest Serv- aircraft capable of perform- nario,” he said. “But the con-
old Girardi, once a superstar the agreement. priating $3 million from set- ice that contractors could no ing this supervision in Cali- sequences are high.”
plaintiffs’ attorney, guilty of Even if attorneys fees had tlements belonging to wid- longer provide aerial super- fornia, but only one — an air- The Forest Service may
four counts of wire fraud. already been withdrawn, ows and orphans of a Boeing vision over fires burning on plane — can do so at night, deviate from the policy when
Both men were set to go “Girardi would instruct de- 737-Max crash in Indonesia. federal land. When the QRF Freeman said. That plane is it’s in a unified command, or
at times unavailable be- if there’s imminent threat to
cause it’s already deployed, life or property, he said. Gar-
has logged too many flight cia has done so at least two
hours, needs to refuel or re- or three times since July, en-

Obituaries
quires repairs or mainte- abling him to use the QRF
nance. helicopter for aerial supervi-
“As a result of that, we’ve sion. Such supervision is
had to pull off of some fires needed only if more than two
that were threatening com- aircraft are flying over a fire,
munities,” Fennessy said. he added.
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For instance, as the task Garcia acknowledged
force fought the Bridge fire that confusion over the new
the afternoon of Sept. 11, the policy interpretation has at
Patricia K (“Pat”) Allen Forest Service airplane su- times resulted in some de-
October 8, 1930 - May 29, 2024 pervising the effort, AA-52, lays in decision-making, but
had to return to base, ac- said that hasn’t affected the
cording to Fennessy and a outcome of any fires in Ange-
Patricia Koestner (“Pat”) Allen, a popular, inspiring and written statement provided les National Forest. The
beloved teacher, mother, wife and friend, passed away peace- by Ken Craw, an aerial su- probability of success in
fully in Santa Monica, California on May 29, 2024 of cardiac pervisor who was flying keeping the Bridge fire small
arrest after a long physical decline. She was 93 years old.
Copter-76 under contract was low from the start be-
with the Orange County Fire cause of hot, dry conditions
Pat grew up in Eagle Rock, California and graduated from Authority. and steep, rugged terrain
Eagle Rock High School. She attended UCLA where she joined Richard Block Rather than call in that hadn’t burned in more
a sorority, majored in Home Economics and worked at the gas Richard (“Dick”) Block, Copter-76 to relieve the than 100 years, and the
company demonstrating appliances. passed away on September plane as supervisor, all air Fork fire was contained rela-
30, 2024, at the age of 97. operations — six helicopters tively quickly at 301 acres, he
After growing up in San and two water scoping air said.
Then, while at Sunset Hall, the Unitarian residence, Pat met a politically active woman Francisco, he served in the tankers — were shut down The California Depart-
whose political philosophy had a huge impact on her and changed her life’s path. As a result, Merchant Marine and Coast until another Forest Service ment of Forestry and Fire
Pat returned to UCLA and earned a Masters Degree in Sociology. Guard. He also graduated
plane could arrive a short Protection also prohibits the
from Stanford, with which
he had a life-long association. time later, Craw wrote. use of contractors as aerial
“In my opinion the choice supervisors, a policy that
Pat began her teaching career at Bancroft and Fulton Junior High Schools, and then at of AA-52 to shut down the was formalized this year but
Monroe High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She then taught Sociology aerial firefighting opera- was in practice for a couple
at Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) for many years. Dick led a storied career
in radio and television that tions instead of using years before that, said Nick
spanned seven decades. His Copter-76 put the public and Schuler, deputy director of
work included developing firefighters at risk, and re- communications for Cal
In 1959 Pat married Jim Allen, also a public school teacher, and their happy, loving marriage
lasted over sixty years, until Jim’s death in 2019. During those years Pat and Jim adopted and and managing stations with duced the efficiency of the ef- Fire.
raised two sons, Matthew and Tony. They bought and refurbished a fine old craftsman style Kaiser Broadcasting, where he forts to contain the Bridge But that hasn’t posed as
home in Mar Vista, a home that was the scene of gatherings not only of extended family pioneered UHF. Later, he cre- Fire,” he wrote. much of an issue to the QRF
members but many political and social groups as well. Among the many guests over the ated the Travel Channel and A similar situation re- because Cal Fire has agree-
years were Cesar Chavez and Gore Vidal. Game Show Network. Recent sulted in a two-hour delay in ments with Los Angeles, Or-
decades saw him consulting QRF helicopters dropping ange and Ventura counties
extensively, including for retardant on the Fork fire in for them to provide initial at-
Known for her vitality and passionate support of local and national causes, she helped the Rose Parade to promote the Angeles National Forest tack fire suppression in
her students find purpose in their own lives and engagement in community issues. An avid international coverage. A
on July 19, Fennessy said. many areas where the task
reader and activist, she shared her concerns for student and teacher welfare and women’s passionate educator and
mentor, Dick produced Helicopters also were re- force does its night flying
issues. She supported the United Farm Workers and the Southern Poverty Law Center among leased from the Borel fire in work, Fennessy said. As a re-
many other causes. She was a leader and one of the founding members of AFT 1521, the biannual College Career Day
events across the country the Sequoia National Forest sult, the counties dictate op-
union representing community college faculty in the Los Angeles Community College District. the night of July 28, even erations within those areas,
During her long career with the union, Pat served in many official roles as an Executive Board for 18 years, and he taught
broadcasting at the University though they had hours of he said.
member, a Grievance Representative, the Chair of the Good and Welfare Committee, and the
of Southern California (USC) flight time left, he said. The timing of the Forest
Chapter President for LAVC. However, for anyone familiar with the union, her influence went
from 2006 to the current Fennessy and other Service’s change in policy in-
well beyond any of these official titles. Pat was the unofficial union historian, a welcoming
voice for new members, a passionate advocate for social justice, and, in many ways, the semester. Southern California fire terpretation has left him
personification of the values that make the labor movement worth fighting for. chiefs have met and ex- scratching his head. The
changed letters with Region contract pilots are “the best
Dick, son of Charles and 5 Director Jaimie Gamboa, of the best,” with all the ap-
At the same time as tending to their professional careers, and the child-rearing and the Bertha (Margolis) and brother sharing their concerns. propriate training and quali-
political activities, Pat and Jim had time for their social and cultural lives. They belonged to of Harryette (Nestel), was mar- The requirement that an fications, and no one has
a camping group, they were season ticket holders to theater and concert companies. For ried twice (to Cecelia Ulfelder agency employee supervise raised safety concerns about
many years they were volunteers at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival. Pat and Jim were and later, Marilyn Quinn). He night operations is impracti- them, Fennessy said.
members of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles for many years. Pat coordinated the is survived by two children,
cal when that employee is He wonders whether the
annual canvas dinners to raise money for the church and its mission. For the past twenty five Julie Grunsky (Curtis) and
Nick Block (Patricia), four flying a plane, which circles shift was retaliation for a
years Pat and Jim were members of the Friendship Fellowship of Los Angeles, an organization thousands of feet above heli- 2022 “60 Minutes” episode in
created primarily by former members of First Church. Members met in each other’s homes grandchildren, and five
great grandchildren. Dick copters and has limited vis- which he said the Forest
and created a speaker’s bureau. ibility into what’s going on Service was slow to use the
passed peacefully in Santa
Monica from heart-related below, some of the county QRF to fight the Caldor fire
complications of amyloidosis. chiefs said. in Northern California and
And with it all, she maintained a great sense of humor, and her love, affection, care and
A celebration of his life will “The helicopter coordi- only greenlighted its use
concern for all who knew her shone through.
be held at the USC School nator position is more bene- when he threatened to take
of Cinematic Arts. For more ficial during nighttime heli- the helicopters back home.
The following paragraph, written by one of her students and a fellow professor at LAVC, information, or donations copter operations than a “It caused a lot of tension
Denice Labertew, illustrates the life-changing impact that Pat had on countless students (in lieu of flowers), please fixed-wing aerial supervi- between the agencies —
throughout her long and accomplished career: contact dblockmemorial@ sion platform that’s way too L.A., Ventura, Orange — and
gmail.com. high above the fire,” said the Forest Service,” Fen-
Marrone, who was previ- nessy said. “That’s the
I met Pat Allen when I was 25 years old, and a newly single mother of a 1-year-old. She ously in charge of the coun- only thing I can think of be-
was my professor in a community college class, the Sociology of Women. She changed my Dick’s wit, wisdom, and
ty’s air operations. cause why now, years into
life. This wasn’t my first attempt at college, but at the time my life was very tumultuous... generosity will never be
forgotten. He will be deeply Robert Garcia, fire chief this?”
when I ended up in her class I was at my wits end and on the verge of giving up...having just of the Angeles National For- Freeman of the Forest
left an abusive relationship and working part time at jobs I knew couldn’t be for a lifetime. missed.
est, has called on the QRF Service vigorously disputed
She was unapologetic in making space for women’s voices in her class. In response to some many times, as he has just that allegation. “No one gave
hecklers in the back of her class shouting “What about men?”, She told them that they could one night-flying helicopter that a thought, and we con-
go to any other class at the college and it would be about men...”but not here”. As a class
— the Forest Service’s only tinue not to,” she said.
assignment she encouraged us to go out in the community and “do something good”, so I
night-flying helicopter in the The Forest Service has
started volunteering on a local domestic violence and sexual assault hotline. That work later
became my passion and career. Her class led me to continue my studies in Sociology and nation, he said. been working to beef up its
Women and later to law school. Her passion for gender justice and her mentorship guided me Garcia said the Forest night flying operations, in-
as I helped countless survivors of abuse find their voices and claim their own space as she had Service plane can provide cluding by changing policy
done so many years before for me. Later, when I was inspired to teach by her, she stepped up adequate nighttime super- in Region 5 so that its em-
to serve as my mentor and advocated for me every step of the way. Today, she remains with vision to helicopters be- ployees can fly in contract
me as I advocate for women around the world and close to home. She is who I aspire to be... cause it has technology on aircraft to gain experience in
an advocate for women, unapologetically committed to women and their potential. Pulling board to monitor the effec- nighttime aerial supervi-
women along with her and lifting them up. It’s difficult to comprehend that she is no longer Stories live on. tiveness of drops. sion, she said.
a physical presence in my life...but she will really always be here. She’ll be in my classroom Still, he said, he’s ex- “We have worked incred-
when I teach, she’ll be in my students’ lives when they recognize the potential in their own Tell theirs. pressed concerns about the ibly hard to try to get to a
lives, she’s in the lives of countless women and survivors of abuse I’ve been able to support placeanad.latimes.com/obituaries policy interpretation to oth- place where we can utilize
and advocate for. She is truly a Shero...I am blessed and honored to have had her in my life. ers in the Forest Service be- the QRF as well as all the re-
cause of his forest’s reliance sources in these counties,”
In partnership with on the QRF intelligence heli- she said. “This shouldn’t be
There will be a celebration of Pat’s life on Friday, October 18th at noon in the Monarch Hall
copter to provide relief when about who has what. This is
Multi-Purpose Room at Los Angeles Valley College.
the Forest Service plane is about trying to figure out
unavailable. ways to work together.”
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ment is true and correct. (A registrant who declares CHENSHI ZHUANG, an individual the decedent, you must ile your claim with the LLC NAME: Hayutin & Associates, Inc. Signature:
as true information which he or she knows to be false court and mail a copy to the personal representative Amy Hayutin Contreras/Secretary. This statement was
is guilty of a crime) REGISTRANT/CORP/LLC NAME: appointed by the court within the later of either (1) filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on
Traffic Management, LLC. Signature: Christopher H. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF:
Spano/President. This statement was filed with the (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE) four months from the date of irst issuance of 8/27/24. NOTICE- in accordance with subdivision (a)of
SHENZHEN GREAT WALL DECORATION GROUP CO., letters to a general personal representative, as section 17920 A Fictitious Name Statement generally
County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 8/29/2024. expires at the end of five years from the date on which
NOTICE- in accordance with subdivision (a)of section LTD., a limited liability company organized under deined in section 58(b) of the California Probate
it was filed in the office of the County Clerk except, as
17920 A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires the laws of the People’s Republic of China. Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it
at the end of five years from the date on which it personal delivery to you of a notice under section expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth
was filed in the office of the County Clerk except, as 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other
provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other
expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth against you without your being heard unless you California statutes and legal authority may afect than a change in the residence address of a registered
respond within 30 days. Read the information your rights as a creditor. You may want to owner. A new fictitious business name statement
in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this
than a change in the residence address of a registered below. consult with an attorney knowledgeable in
statement does not of itself authorize the use in this
owner. A new fictitious business name statement You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons California law. state of fictitious business name in violation of the
must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this and legal papers are served on you to ile a written rights of another under federal state or common law
statement does not of itself authorize the use in this You may examine the ile kept by the court. If you
state of fictitious business name in violation of the response at this court and have a copy served on the (see section 14411 et seq. Business and Professions
rights of another under federal state or common law plaintif. A letter or phone call will not protect you. are a person interested in the estate, you may ile code). Dean C. Logan, Los Angeles County Clerk.
Your written response must be in proper legal form with the court a Request for Special Notice (form BY: Lakeisha McCoy, Deputy. Published 08/29/24,
(see section 14411 et seq. Business and Professions 09/05/24, 09/12/24, 09/19/24, 10/11/24, 10/18/24,
code). Dean C. Logan, Los Angeles County Clerk. BY: if you want the court to hear your case. There may DE-154) of the iling of an inventory and appraisal of
10/25/24, 11/01/24.
Heidi Valtierra, Deputy. Published 08/31/24, 09/07/24, be a court form that you can use for your response. estate assets or of any petition or account as
09/14/24, 09/21/24, 10/11/24, 10/18/24, 10/25/24, You can ind these court forms and more provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request
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Today in Southern California Today in North America

Warmth continues inland: The recent warmth will persist in areas away from the coast through the start of Hurricane Milton leaves flooding: Hurricane Milton has left behind a
the weekend. Temperatures will be 5 to 10 degrees above average. Onshore flow will bring daily rounds of swath of widespread flooding, power outages and wind damage; howev-
nighttime and morning low clouds and fog to the beaches. A cooling trend will set in by Sunday, with tempera- er, the weather should be calm for cleanup efforts. Meanwhile, chilly
tures dipping below average. weather will cover areas of the Northeast.
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High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.
Temps –0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ Rain T-storm Snow Ice
L.A. Basin Valleys Beaches Mountains Deserts
Today 83/58 86/59 72/58 73/33 103/70 Winnipeg
60/43
Turning sunny Mostly sunny Clearing Warm with sunshine Mostly sunny; hot Seattle Montreal
Saturday Partly sunny 80/58 Sunny 83/57 Turning sunny 72/59 Sunny 69/33 Sunny; hot 100/68 65/47 62/48
Billings
Sunday Mostly sunny 75/61 Mostly sunny 80/56 Sunny 69/61 Mostly sunny 69/35 Sunny; hot 98/69 70/47 Minneapolis Toronto
Monday Partly sunny 75/59 Clouds, sun 76/58 Mostly cloudy 71/58 Mostly sunny 69/34 Sunny; warm 98/69 73/48 71/49
Tuesday Partly sunny 70/62 Partly sunny 74/58 Mostly cloudy 68/58 Sunny 64/38 Sunny; hot 97/65 Detroit
78/53 New York
San Francisco 69/58
Air quality Good Moderate Unhealthful for: Sensitive people All Not Available 70/57 Chicago
84/59 Washington
SANTA Santa Clarita South Coast Air Quality Management District forecasts air quality 71/51
VENTURA CO. Denver
BARBARA CO. Santa Paula 90/55 Hesperia 74/53 Kansas City
Ojai 79/53 LOS ANGELES CO. 91/51 Los Angeles 89/60
Santa
Barbara 81/53 Simi Valley 83/58
Chatsworth SAN BERNARDINO CO.
70/55 84/54 Burbank Monrovia
Ventura Camarillo 86/59 Atlanta
87/57 89/58 MILTON
68/55 74/53 Yucca Valley El Paso 76/53
Pomona/ 94/61 Houston
UCLA 91/59
Oxnard
Westlake 78/58 L.A. Downtown Fairplex Ontario San Bernardino 92/64
69/56 Woodland 83/58 90/59 93/59
Village 92/60
Hills Whittier Chihuahua
Miami
82/57 Chino 90/56
87/57 Monterrey 86/77
Santa Monica Hills 93/53 Riverside RIVERSIDE CO. 88/58
72/58 84/58 Fullerton 91/53
Surf and sea Torrance 84/59 U.S. cities
POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO 72/60 Santa Ana
Inner waters: Light wind early, Long ORANGE CO. Hemet Palm THURSDAY’S EXTREMES AS OF 2 P.M. FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES
78/60
becoming northwest 10-15 knots. Beach Newport Irvine 96/52 Springs High 106 in El Centro, Calif. Low 20 in Angel Fire, N.M.
Seas 1-3 feet. Swell west 2 feet at 81/60 Beach 81/59 103/70
6 seconds and south 2 feet at 14 Mission Viejo
seconds. 72/61 Temecula Thursday* Today Thursday* Today
Laguna 84/58 City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Sky City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Sky
Surf zone: A moderate risk of strong 93/55
Beach San Albany 57 41 -- 66 51 Su Seattle 60 47 -- 65 47 Pc
rip currents at the Ventura County 72/61 Clemente Albuquerque 86 57 -- 86 56 Su Tampa 81 71 3.28 84 67 Pc
beaches. All other area beaches will
76/58 SAN DIEGO CO. Anchorage 45 33 .17 47 41 R Tucson 102 73 -- 102 68 Su
have a low risk. Aspen 72 37 -- 70 37 Pc Tulsa 87 54 -- 89 61 Su
Oceanside
Atlanta 78 63 -- 76 53 Su Washington, D.C. 67 51 Tr 71 51 Su
County Height Period Direction Temp Sun and moon 86/52 Austin 94 57 -- 94 62 Su Wichita 88 60 -- 90 57 Su
Santa Barbara 1-3’ 12 sec WSW 64 Baltimore 62 40 -- 69 49 Su
Today’s rise/set
Ventura 2-4’ 12 sec WSW 64 Escondido Ramona Boise 75 51 -- 79 52 Pc World
Los Angeles 1-3’ 13 sec SSW 67 Los Angeles Co. Orange Co. Ventura Co. 89/51 92/48 Boston 59 47 -- 66 57 Su Acapulco 88 73 .03 89 69 Pc
Orange 1-3’ 14 sec SSW 67 Sun 6:55a/6:24p 6:54a/6:22p 7:00a/6:27p Bufalo 57 44 Tr 66 53 Pc Amsterdam 59 54 .56 55 41 R
Moon 3:06p/12:03a 3:04p/12:02a 3:11p/12:06a Poway
San Diego 1-3’ 13 sec SSW 66 Burlington, Vt. 50 47 Tr 63 51 Pc Athens 86 66 Tr 84 70 Pc
80/52 Charleston, S.C. 77 65 .06 74 49 Su Bangkok 91 81 .33 90 79 Sh
Charlotte 72 57 -- 72 47 Su Barcelona 70 63 .03 73 62 Pc
Tides San Diego Chicago 73 53 -- 84 59 Pc Berlin 66 61 .07 56 36 Su
L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. 76/60 Cincinnati 71 51 -- 75 52 Su Cabo San Lucas 90 73 .01 92 73 Su
Oct. 17 Oct. 24 Nov. 1 Nov. 8
Today 7:15a 3.9 Hi 10:50a 3.5 Lo Cleveland 61 38 -- 75 57 Pc Cairo 89 72 -- 91 73 Su
4:34p 4.9 Hi ------ Lo Columbia, S.C. 75 60 -- 74 44 Su Dubai 97 86 -- 99 83 Su
Sat. 7:17a 4.2 Hi 12:15a 0.2 Lo
Almanac Columbus 66 40 -- 75 50 Pc Dublin 50 37 .04 52 41 Pc
Thursday Downtown readings Dallas/Ft.Worth 89 69 -- 91 69 Su Havana 84 74 .01 88 73 Sh
5:49p 5.2 Hi 12:04p 2.9 Lo Denver 83 55 -- 74 53 Cy Ho Chi Minh City 90 77 .35 92 79 Ts
Temperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura* Precipitation Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura* Detroit 64 40 -- 78 53 Pc Hong Kong 84 77 -- 84 78 Pc
UV index High/low 83/61 79/62 70/59 24-hour total (as of 2 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.00 El Paso 94 62 -- 94 61 Su Istanbul 75 70 -- 80 66 Pc
Minutes to burn for sensitive people Normal high/low 79/61 81/60 75/54 Season total (since Oct. 1) 0.00 0.00 0.00 Eugene 71 39 -- 72 46 Pc Jerusalem 83 61 -- 82 57 Su
High/low a year ago 76/61 76/62 70/57 Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 0.00 Trace 0.00 Fort Myers 85 71 .09 85 70 Sh Johannesburg 81 52 -- 86 64 Su
Las Vegas, 45 Phoenix, 45
Record high/date 107/1991 103/2015 96/2015 Season norm (Oct. 1 to date) 0.14 0.11 0.13 Hartford 62 47 -- 69 53 Su Kuala Lumpur 88 76 .85 89 75 Sh
Los Angeles, 45 San Francisco, 45 Record low/date 46/1890 50/2013 41/1949 Humidity (high/low) 89/70 100/48 90/68 Honolulu 89 77 .08 88 73 Pc Lima 68 59 -- 68 59 Pc
Houston 91 60 -- 92 64 Su London 54 49 -- 54 42 Su
California cities* Indianapolis 74 51 -- 79 55 Pc Madrid 68 55 Tr 66 60 Sh
Thu.* Today Sat. Thu.* Today Sat. Thu.* Today Sat. Jacksonville, Fla. 76 65 .50 76 59 Pc Mecca 100 79 .01 100 77 Ts
Kansas City 83 52 -- 89 60 Su Mexico City 73 47 -- 71 45 Su
City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo Knoxville 74 52 -- 75 43 Su Montreal 54 45 -- 62 48 Pc
Anaheim 81 56 .04 84 58 83 57 L.A. D’ntown/USC 81 59 .02 83 58 80 58 San Diego 75 59 -- 76 60 75 62 Las Vegas 98 71 -- 96 69 Pc Moscow 47 39 Tr 59 46 Su
Avalon/Catalina 69 64 -- 79 66 76 59 L.A. Int’l. Airport 70 58 -- 71 59 70 60 San Francisco 69 53 -- 70 57 74 61 Louisville 77 54 -- 79 53 Su Mumbai 88 77 .18 92 78 Ts
Bakersfield 92 64 -- 88 58 83 58 Laguna Beach 65 59 Tr 72 61 71 61 San Gabriel 82 60 -- 87 59 83 57 Medford 82 55 -- 78 51 Pc New Delhi 91 72 -- 92 72 Hz
Barstow 99 62 -- 95 60 90 58 Lancaster 90 55 -- 89 53 87 55 San Jose 79 55 -- 77 56 79 61 Memphis 82 56 -- 85 58 Su Paris 63 54 .11 57 47 Pc
Big Bear Lake 73 32 -- 73 33 69 33 Long Beach 76 59 -- 81 60 78 61 San Luis Obispo 71 56 -- 71 52 75 57 Miami 88 76 Tr 86 77 Sh Prague 63 54 .08 50 36 R
Bishop 87 42 -- 86 40 85 46 Mammoth Lakes 67 32 -- 69 34 68 30 Santa Ana 77 59 -- 78 60 75 62 Milwaukee 67 50 -- 83 56 Pc Rome 76 68 -- 74 53 Su
Burbank 85 60 -- 87 57 83 57 Mission Viejo 82 59 Tr 84 58 79 56 Santa Barbara 69 58 -- 70 55 73 54 Minneapolis 82 50 -- 73 48 Pc Seoul 75 61 -- 75 53 Pc
Camarillo 72 56 -- 74 53 74 56 Monrovia 87 61 Tr 89 58 84 58 Santa Clarita 87 58 -- 90 55 87 57 Nashville 81 51 -- 81 49 Su Singapore 86 79 .22 88 78 R
Chatsworth 85 61 -- 86 59 83 55 Monterey 64 48 -- 67 52 69 58 Santa Monica Pier 71 58 -- 72 58 72 59 New Orleans 85 69 -- 85 63 Su Taipei City 79 73 -- 82 70 Pc
Chino 94 53 -- 93 53 88 52 Mt. Wilson 75 56 -- 64 54 61 52 Santa Paula 77 56 -- 79 53 79 54 New York 61 49 -- 69 58 Su Tokyo 73 63 -- 73 63 Hz
Compton 76 58 .02 80 58 79 60 Needles 106 71 -- 105 71 100 67 Santa Rosa 82 46 -- 74 52 71 57 Norfolk 64 61 -- 69 51 Su Vancouver 56 46 .04 58 46 Cy
Dana Point 68 60 -- 73 61 72 60 Newport Beach 68 59 .02 72 61 71 62 Simi Valley 85 57 Tr 84 54 82 52 Oklahoma City 85 63 .04 91 60 Su Vienna 69 48 .20 64 43 Su
Death Valley 105 75 -- 97 78 99 74 Northridge 86 59 .01 87 57 84 54 Tahoe Valley 72 33 -- 71 36 65 33 Omaha 86 50 -- 87 53 Pc
Del Mar 71 57 Tr 68 57 68 59 Oakland 70 56 -- 70 58 73 62 Temecula 90 54 -- 93 55 88 50 Orlando 75 69 1.01 84 67 Sh Key: Su sunny; Pc partly cloudy; Cy cloudy; Fg
Escondido 88 53 Tr 89 51 85 53 Oceanside 83 50 -- 86 52 82 55 Thousand Oaks 78 57 Tr 80 55 84 54 Philadelphia 63 49 -- 70 54 Su foggy; Prcp precipitation; Dr drizzle; Hz hazy Sh
Eureka 62 44 Tr 64 54 66 54 Ojai 80 57 -- 81 53 79 54 Torrance 72 60 .03 72 60 73 63 Phoenix 108 78 -- 106 76 Su showers; Ts thunderstorms; R rain; Sn snow; Sf
snow flurries; I ice; Rs rain/snow; W windy; Tr
Fallbrook 85 54 Tr 89 54 83 49 Ontario 90 60 -- 92 60 88 57 UCLA 72 58 .01 78 58 76 57 Pittsburgh 62 41 -- 69 51 Su trace. Notes: National extremes exclude Alaska
Fresno 88 61 -- 88 58 84 59 Palm Springs 104 74 -- 103 70 100 68 Van Nuys 89 62 -- 90 58 87 56 Portland, Ore. 73 43 -- 74 51 Pc and Hawaii. * - data estimated.
Fullerton 81 58 -- 84 59 82 60 Pasadena 83 61 .01 85 58 83 56 Ventura 66 57 -- 68 55 67 56 Providence 61 45 -- 66 53 Su Thursday’s readings as of 2 p.m.
Hemet 92 52 -- 96 52 92 49 Paso Robles 90 50 -- 83 44 83 51 Whittier Hills 80 58 .01 84 58 84 58 Raleigh/Durham 70 57 -- 71 47 Su
Hesperia 84 55 -- 88 56 84 49 Redding 89 53 -- 85 56 81 55 Woodland Hills 89 60 .01 87 57 85 54 Reno 84 48 -- 82 48 Su
Huntington Beach 69 59 .02 71 60 73 61 Riverside 93 52 -- 91 53 87 51 Wrightwood 76 55 -- 75 55 72 51 Richmond 68 51 -- 71 47 Su Forecasts by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2024
Idyllwild 80 58 -- 80 57 76 56 Sacramento 85 52 -- 81 54 81 56 Yorba Linda 84 55 .01 86 55 83 53 St. Louis 83 51 -- 88 62 Su
Irvine 77 57 .01 81 59 79 58 San Bernardino 94 59 -- 93 59 90 57 Yosemite Valley 74 48 -- 78 48 75 44 Salt Lake City 86 63 -- 87 62 Pc

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caraz. Nadal hasn’t played ous capacities with the Clip-
since. His goodbye also will pers, most recently as an as-
Rafael Nadal is retiring come while representing sistant coach and player de-
from professional tennis at Spain, in the Davis Cup. velopment coach in a dual
age 38, he announced in a vi- “Your legacy won’t be role with the NBA team and
deo message Thursday, af- matched,” said Alcaraz, who its G League affiliate, the
ter winning 22 Grand Slam is widely seen as Nadal’s heir Agua Caliente Clippers.
titles — 14 at the French in Spanish tennis. Nakase was a walk-on at
Open — during an unprece- In addition to his French UCLA, serving as a team
dented era he shared with ri- Open triumphs, Nadal won captain for three seasons.
vals Roger Federer and No- four trophies at the U.S. She played professionally
vak Djokovic. Open and two apiece at for two years in the NWBL
Nadal has competed in- Wimbledon and the Austral- with the San José Spiders
frequently the past two sea- ian Open, giving him a ca- and San Diego Siege.
sons because of injuries and reer Grand Slam.
said next month’s Davis Cup The WNBA will expand
finals will mark his farewell Veteran French player its Finals next year to a best-
to the sport. He had hip Richard Gasquet will retire of-seven format.
surgery last year and en- after the French Open. ... Al-
Bryan R. Smith AFP tered just two of the last caraz’s 12-match winning Danny Green, the sharp-
TROPICANA FIELD lost most of its roof, which was made of large panels of eight major tournaments. streak was ended by Tomas shooting guard who won
fiberglass coated with Teflon and designed to withstand winds up to 115 mph. “The reality is that it has Machac 7-6 (5), 7-5 in the NBA championships with
been some difficult years, Shanghai Masters quarter- three teams including the

Hurricane Milton rips off

these last two, especially. I finals. Machac will play top- Lakers in 2020 and an NCAA
don’t think I have been able ranked Jannik Sinner, who championship at North Car-
to play without limitations,” beat Daniil Medvedev 6-1, olina, is retiring at 37.
Nadal said. “It is obviously a 6-4. ... Second-ranked Aryna

Rays’ Tropicana Field roof

difficult decision.” Sabalenka rallied from a set Columbus Blue Jackets
Nadal’s unrelenting, down to beat Yulia Putin- captain Boone Jenner is ex-
physical style of play — every tseva 1-6, 6-4, 6-0 to maintain pected to miss most of the
point pursued as though it her undefeated record at the season after having shoul-
were his last, sprinting and Wuhan Open and rise to the der surgery the day before
tent. last year to build a new $1.3- sliding into place for that top of the WTA rankings. the season opener.
Elsewhere, Lightning The Rays said only es- billion stadium adjacent to high-bouncing bullwhip of a Coco Gauff advanced to the
sential personnel were in- the 34-year-old Tropicana left-handed forehand — quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-1 Jeff Ulbrich shook up the
postpone their home side the ballpark, and all of Field, with hopes of moving made him one of the greats rout of Marta Kostyuk. Jes- New York Jets’ struggling of-
opener and the Magic them were safe. Earlier this there by the 2028 season. of the game and the unques- sica Pegula lost to 51st- fense in his first major move
week, the Florida Division of Video out of Tampa on tioned King of Clay, the sur- ranked Wang Xinyu 6-3, 7-5, as interim coach, replacing
cancel an exhibition. Emergency Management Wednesday night showed face on which he dominated. while Paris Olympics gold offensive coordinator Na-
said the stadium would be flooding on the field at the His record 14 French medalist Zheng Qinwen ral- thaniel Hackett as the play
By Chuck Schilken used as “a 10,000-person open-roof Raymond James Open championships are lied to beat Leylah Fernan- caller with Todd Downing,
base camp at Tropicana Stadium, home of the NFL’s more than anyone, man or dez 5-7, 6-3, 6-0. the passing game coordina-
Tropicana Field lost Field to support ongoing de- Tampa Bay Buccaneers and woman, won at any one of tor and quarterbacks coach.
most of its roof Wednesday bris operations and post- the University of South Flor- the sport’s four major tour-
as Hurricane Milton came landfall responders.” Rows ida Bulls. naments, a dominance cele- ETC. Quinn Ewers will return
and brought winds up to 120 of cots had been set up inside The Buccaneers left for brated by a statue of Nadal as the starting quarterback
mph to parts of Florida. the ballpark, but all workers New Orleans on Tuesday that stands near the main Nakase to coach for No. 1 Texas against rival
The St. Petersburg sta- and equipment were re- and have been practicing entrance to the grounds of No. 18 Oklahoma after miss-
dium is the home of the moved after it was learned there all week for their game Roland Garros and in the WNBA team ing two games because of an
Tampa Bay Rays. Its dome the roof might not stay in- Sunday. Earlier this week, shadow of its main stadium, abdomen strain.
roof — which was con- tact under the force of Mil- South Florida postponed its Court Philippe Chatrier. The Golden State Val-
structed of large, triangular ton’s winds. scheduled home game In a result that symbol- kyries, the WNBA’s new ex- Henrik Norlander and
panels made of fiberglass “As it became clear that against Memphis from Fri- ized where things stood for pansion team, turned to for- Matt McCarty shot a nine-
and coated with Teflon — there was going to be some- day night to Saturday after- his body, and career, he mer Marina High star Nata- under 62 to share the lead in
was largely shredded, with thing of that magnitude that noon. Central Florida also is exited in the French Open’s lie Nakase to be their coach. the Black Desert Champi-
some sections missing en- was going to be within the planning to play Saturday in first round this year, a Nakase, a longtime Clip- onship as the PGA Tour re-
tirely, exposing the inside of distance, they redeployed Orlando. straight-sets loss to runner- pers assistant who spent the turned to Utah for the first
the only Major League Base- them out of Tropicana,” The Tampa Bay Light- up Alexander Zverev. last three years with the Las time in 61 years.
ball stadium with a roof that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ning will not play their home Nadal returned to that Vegas Aces, is getting her
is not retractable. told reporters Thursday. opener Saturday; the game site in southwest Paris for first head-coaching job with Horse racing’s federal
It was not immediately According to the Rays’ was postponed with no the Summer Olympics, the Bay Area team that be- oversight agency and the
clear if there was significant media guide, the stadium’s makeup date announced. where he lost to old rival gins play next year. Jockeys’ Guild are collabo-
damage inside the stadium; roof was designed to with- The Orlando Magic can- Djokovic in the second Nakase helped the Aces rating on an initiative to sup-
the team said it may take stand winds up to 115 mph. celed a preseason game round of singles and reached to back-to-back WNBA port jockeys with access to
weeks to determine the ex- The Rays announced plans scheduled for Friday. the quarterfinals of men’s championships in 2022 and mental-health care.