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2 weeks ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Jonathan Lloyd |Genesis Miramontes
Homeland Security Investigations officers were conducting "wellness checks" Monday on children who arrived unaccompanied in the United States when they visited two Los Angeles Unified School District campuses, a department spokesperson said Thursday. The LAUSD said that people who identified themselves as employees with the Department of Homeland Security showed up Monday at two elementary schools, but were not allowed entry.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Missael Soto |Jonathan Lloyd
A small whale that drew crowds of people after consecutive sightings in the Long Beach Harbor has died, officials confirmed Sunday. The cause of death is still under investigation. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration took tissue samples from the deceased whale to conduct exams and determine the possible causes of death. "Sometime in the night, it came out and went up this way, got stuck and passed away," said Justin Viezbecke with NOAA.
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1 month ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Brittany Hope |Genesis Miramontes |Jonathan Lloyd
LA County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced Monday that his office is ready to move forward with a resentencing hearing in the decades-old Menendez brothers murder case.
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2 months ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | John Klemack |Jonathan Lloyd
About 1,500 truckloads per day will haul debris starting Monday from neighborhoods in the Altadena area destroyed by the January wildfire. About 2.5 million tons of debris from 9,000 properties will be hauled by large dump trucks to Lario Park in the Duarte area, where protests have been held over use of the location. The trucks will travel three different routes to the sites.
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2 months ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Conan Nolan |Jonathan Lloyd
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass addressed questions this week about her leadership during the deadly January wildfires in Los Angeles and her trip to Africa before the fires erupted. Bass acknowledged publicly for first time that her Africa visit during the Jan. 7 fires, which broke out in an anticipated Santa Ana windstorm described by firefighters as among the worst conditions they've ever seen, was a mistake. "Yeah, absolutely," Bass said in an interview Thursday with NBCLA's Conan Nolan.
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2 months ago | 
nbcsandiego.com | Missael Soto |Jonathan Lloyd
A magnitude-3.7 earthquake in the Malibu area Friday night caused shaking in parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Widely felt shaking was reported just before midnight in Malibu, Agoura Hills, Thousand Oaks, Camarillo, South Bay communities, Long Beach, the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Los Angeles. A second quake in the Malibu area was reported early Saturday morning.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
nbcnewyork.com | Jonathan Lloyd
An Eaton Canyon couple captured video that illustrates how quickly flames from the Eaton Fire spread in the minutes after it ignited on an extremely windy night in the Altadena area. The video shows flames near an electrical tower casting a distant orange glow Jan. 7 in the Eaton Canyon area.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
nbcchicago.com | Jonathan Lloyd
Winds will gain strength Monday when a red flag warning goes into effect for parts of Southern California ahead of an more severe fire weather warning as two large wildfires burn in Los Angeles County. The red flag conditions return after a weekend when winds diminished, allowing firefighters to increase containment of the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, two of the most destructive wildfires on record in California. The fires started Jan. 7 during a powerful Santa Ana windstorm.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
nbcchicago.com | Jonathan Lloyd
Anyone who believes a family member or friend might be missing in one of Los Angeles County's wildfires should report that person to authorities, Sheriff Robert Luna urged Sunday. Luna said there are about 14 people believed to be missing in connection with the fires, including the Palisades Fire on the Los Angeles County coast and the Eaton Fire northeast of Los Angeles. Both fires started Tuesday in a chaotic windstorm that fanned flames, destroying entire neighborhoods.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
nbcchicago.com | Jonathan Lloyd
Two wildfires burning as a heartbreaking week draws to a close in Los Angeles County are now among the five-most destructive fires on record in California. The Palisades and Eaton fires broke out Tuesday on a day of widespread red flag fire weather warnings in Southern California. Wind gusts of 60 mph to 80 mph were in the forecast, contributing to the dramatic spread of the fires, two of five still active Friday morning in Los Angeles County. Ten deaths have been reported in the fires.
