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A stronger ocean influence will bring more coastal clouds late week.
A dry pattern will hold as we head into the holiday weekend.
Plenty of sunshine in store for SoCal as we mark the unofficial end to summer on Labor Day.
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Today's Big Stories
1. Health insurance providers to fund street doctors and clinics to serve LA's homeless population
A public agency and private health insurance provider are teaming up to build a system of street doctors and clinics that will provide medical care to Los Angeles' homeless population, including routine preventive medicine, officials announced Wednesday.
The goal is for homeless residents to see primary care physicians long term, rather than sporadically through visits from resource-strapped street medicine teams that struggle to make follow-up appointments or ensure patients receive their prescriptions, said Dr. Sameer Amin, chief medical officer of LA Care Health Plan, a Los Angeles County agency that provides health insurance for low-income individuals.
Officials with LA Care Health Plan and Health Net, a U.S. health care insurance provider, said they will commit $90 million from the state over five years to the effort.
LA County is the nation’s most populous, with about 10 million people. More than 10% of all homeless people in the U.S. live in the county, according to a 2023 federal count.
In the City of Los Angeles, more than 45,000 people — many suffering from serious mental illness, substance addictions or both — live in litter-strewn encampments and where rows of rusting RVs line entire blocks. The spread of homelessness has had cascading effects on drug overdose deaths, especially from the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
2. Heading out of town Labor Day weekend? Expect traffic
This Labor Day weekend is expected to be the busiest on record. The Transportation Security Administration said it is preparing to screen at least 17 million people between Thursday and Wednesday — an 8.5% increase compared with last year.
The busiest day will be Friday, when the agency expects to screen 2.86 million people.
“People are traveling more than ever this summer and TSA along with our airline and airport partners stand ready to close the busiest summer travel period on record during this upcoming Labor Day weekend,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske said in a statement.
The TSA said the agency’s top ten travel days in its history have all happened this year since May 2024.
Even more people are expected to drive this weekend. The American Automobile Association expects domestic travel to be up 9% over the Labor Day weekend compared with last year, following a record-breaking number of travelers over the 4th of July weekend and Memorial Day, when travel numbers hit their second highest level since 2005.
3. United flight attendants vote to authorize strike
Flight attendants for United Airlines have voted to authorize a strike. Of the 90.2% of United flight attendants who voted, 99.1% said they will strike if the airlines’ management does not agree to a new contract to improve wages and working conditions.
“We deserve an industry-leading contract,” United Chapter President of the Association of Flight Attendants Ken Diaz said in a statement. “Our strike vote shows we’re ready to do whatever it takes to reach the contract we deserve.”
United’s flight attendants are seeking double-digit pay increases, pay for time at work on the ground and retroactive pay as well as schedule flexibility, job security and better retirement benefits.
“The United management team gives themselves massive compensation increases while flight attendants struggle to pay basic bills,” Diaz said.
Arlington National Cemetery confirmed an “incident” with Trump campaign officials during a visit by former President Donald Trump on Monday resulted in a formal report being filed after reports of an altercation with cemetery staff over photography and political activity.
“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign,” the U.S. Army-managed cemetery said in a statement. “Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants. We can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed.”
“To protect the identity of the individual involved, no further information about the incident is being released at this time,” the cemetery added.
The cemetery did not immediately clarify who they filed a report with, and U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Division assistant deputy director Mark Lunardi said in an email that they did not receive such a report. According to Department of Defense and Army policy, “Army CID would investigate any criminal allegation meeting identified thresholds which occurred at Arlington National Cemetery,” Lunardi wrote.
Your Notes for Tomorrow
- Loran Cole, 58, scheduled for execution in Florida. Cole was convicted of killing John Edwards, and raping his sister Pam, in the Ocala National Forest in 1994.
- Unemployment weekly claims.
- Play gets underway in PGA Tour Champinship, the last of three FedExCup events.
- Paris 2024 Paralympic Games continue. U.S. teams are in action today in men's wheelchair basketball prelims against Spain (4:00 PM CEST), and the mixed wheelchair rugby prelims against Canada (1:30 PM CEST).
- Medal events today in para-cycling track and para-swimming. Other sports today are boccia, goalball, para archery, para-badminton, para table tennis, para taekwondo, sitting volleyball, and wheelchair basketball.
In Case You Missed It
Journalists question deal with Google to fund newsrooms
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks announced the results of closed-door negotiations: a deal to provide $250 million in private and taxpayer funds to print and digital newsrooms over the next five years.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said the public-private partnership will lead to hundreds of new journalism jobs.
However, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association joined the chorus of journalists denouncing the compromise.
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