Good evening, SoCal. We're wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook.

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After several days of above average and above 100-degree temperatures, we're finally seeing temperatures cool.

Overnight lows into Friday morning will mostly be in the 50s and 60s instead of 60s and 70s. Some of the hottest cities will still see triple-digit heat on Friday afternoon.

So it will still be hot, but at least temperatures are dropping, even below normal, by a few degrees over the weekend.    

The coast will be mild thanks in part to the afternoon sea breeze and morning low clouds delaying any heating. 

Mountain and desert monsoon storms will be isolated to scattered during the afternoon and evening.

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Today's Big Stories

1. Raids, indictments lead to 28 arrests targeting South LA street gang

Twenty-eight alleged members and associates of a South Los Angeles street gang were arrested Thursday in a series of raids carried out by a multi-agency task force acting in response to federal indictments alleging crimes including racketeering, extortion of local businesses and drug and weapons trafficking.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, six indictments targeting the gang named 41 defendants, three of whom were already in custody and 10 of whom remain at large. In addition to the arrests, investigators also seized 47 firearms and varying quantities of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and marijuana, along with $140,000 in cash.

Federal officials said the indictments and arrests were the result of a roughly four-year investigation — dubbed Operation Down the Rabbit Hole — by the FBI and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Task Force on Violent Gangs.

Among the crimes alleged in the racketeering indictment was a March 2020 home-invasion robbery of a marijuana dealer's Woodland Hills home.

2. Operation results in seizure of hundreds of stolen catalytic converters

A law enforcement operation to crack down on vehicle catalytic converter thefts in Perris led to the seizure of more than 400 converters and the identification of unlicensed auto repair shops, authorities said Thursday.

The sweep was conducted Wednesday by the Riverside County Vehicle Dismantler Industry Strike Team, composed of sheriff's deputies, officers from municipal police agencies and inspectors from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

Converters are used to filter engine emissions to cut down on the amount of pollutants discharged by cars and trucks.

The devices, located on the underside of vehicles, average about $1,000 apiece.

3. Monkeypox vaccine eligibility expands to those under 18; new site open in El Monte

Monkeypox vaccine eligibility expands to those under 18; new site open in El Monte

Despite the unexpected shortfall, however, health officials said the county will still begin offering second doses of the two-shot regimen to those eligible for it. The county also announced Thursday an expansion of vaccine eligibility to include those under age 18 who are considered at high risk of infection.

County Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis also said Thursday the county had confirmed its first known monkeypox case at a jail, and the first at a homeless shelter. Details of those patients were not released, but Davis said the county was performing contact tracing and vaccinating people who were exposed.

Meanwhile, Supervisor Hilda Solis announced the opening of the new vaccination site at the Jack Crippen Senior Center at 3120 Tyler Ave. in El Monte.

(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

4. White House official says updated COVID boosters coming 'in a few short weeks'

Updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters are expected to be rolled out “in a few short weeks,” the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator said Wednesday.

In June, the FDA directed vaccine manufacturers to change their designs to start targeting the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants.

According to the CDC, the U.S. is recording about 100,000 new infections a day, although that is believed to be a vast undercount due to at-home tests that are not reported to health agencies and fewer states providing updates. Around 400 Americans a day are dying from the virus.

The next-generation vaccines are expected to be bivalent, meaning they’ll target the new subvariants as well as the original strain first detected in Wuhan, China, in 2019.

5. Judge tells DOJ to propose redacted Trump search affidavit for release

A federal judge in Florida on Thursday said he was “inclined” not to seal the whole search warrant affidavit that justified the search of former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, and he told the Justice Department to submit a copy of the affidavit with proposed redactions for the information it wants to keep secret.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart — the judge who authorized the warrant and presided over Thursday's hearing on the affidavit — said the government should submit that proposed version by next Thursday. Reinhart said he would review it and may meet lawyers for the government and give them a chance to make an argument for why specific information should be withheld.

The decision was made during a court hearing in West Palm Beach, after several news organizations, including The Associated Press, asked a federal judge to make public the affidavit supporting the warrant that allowed FBI agents to search Trump’s Florida estate.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department’s investigation into whether Trump illegally stored classified records at Mar-a-Lago — and potentially violated the Espionage Act — is still “in its early stages,” a top national security prosecutor said Thursday.

Your Notes for Tomorrow

• The Dodgers face the Miami Marlins in Los Angeles
• The LA Angels face the Tigers in Detroit
• Sentencing of ISIS "Beatle" on hostage-taking and terrorism charges
• New York literary event held in support of Salman Rushdie
• Former President Bill Clinton turns 76
• "Madden NFL 23" video game release