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Today will look and feel different from yesterday.
Mid and high-level clouds will stream in from the southwest, leading to a partly to mostly cloudy start to the week.
Temperatures during the day will be three to 10 degrees cooler than yesterday’s highs.
Tomorrow, clouds clear a little more and then Wednesday will be a sunny day.
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1. Rams rally to Super Bowl with stunning 20-17 win over Niners
Travin Howard made a game-sealing interception with 1:09 to play, and the Los Angeles Rams rallied from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to secure a spot in the Super Bowl at their home stadium next month with a thrilling 20-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC championship game Sunday night.
Cooper Kupp caught two touchdown passes from Matthew Stafford for the star-studded Rams (15-5), who began the fourth quarter down 17-7 after wasting a multitude of scoring opportunities.
But after Kupp’s second TD catch and a tying field goal on a drive extended by Jaquiski Tartt’s brutal dropped interception, the Rams drove for Matt Gay’s go-ahead, 30-yard field goal with 1:46 to play.
Los Angeles' defense then won it when Aaron Donald got hold of Jimmy Garoppolo and forced him to fling a pass toward JaMycal Hasty. The ball caromed high in the air off Hasty’s hands and came straight down to Howard, who didn't miss it.
“I’ve got total trust and confidence in that defense, man,” said Stafford, who passed for 337 yards in the third playoff victory of his 13-year career. “They’ve been unbelievable all year. Way to freakin’ ice the game. I loved it.”
Los Angeles will welcome the Cincinnati Bengals in two weeks for Super Bowl 56 in Rams owner Stan Kroenke’s multibillion-dollar SoFi Stadium.
2. LA County’s coronavirus hospitalizations drop for sixth consecutive day
The number of COVID-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals has dropped for six consecutive days, decreasing 146 to 3,852, according to state figures released Sunday.
The number of patients in intensive care rose 14 to 759.
Officials have said that some of these patients likely entered the hospital for other reasons and only discovered they had the coronavirus after a mandated test.
The county reported another 40 deaths associated with COVID-19 Sunday as the winter surge in infections that drove up hospital rates continues to produce high fatality rates.
Another 16,835 new positive COVID tests were also logged Sunday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The number of cases and deaths are likely to reflect reporting delays over the weekend.
3. Dozens of guns among items stolen from cargo trains in LA
Dozens of handguns and shotguns were among items stolen by thieves who raided cargo containers aboard trains near downtown Los Angeles for months, authorities said.
Police arrested three people last summer carrying new .22-caliber handguns, The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. A trace of the weapons revealed they came from a batch of 36 handguns reported missing as they were being shipped by train to Tennessee, police officials said.
One of the suspects said the guns had come from cargo trains in LA’s Lincoln Heights rail yards, where widespread thefts have been reported. Shortly afterward, LA police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested two other suspects with shotguns. Those weapons were determined to be part of a missing shipment of 46 shotguns, the Times reported.
Only a handful of the 82 guns known to have been stolen from trains passing through Lincoln Heights have been recovered. Investigators are not yet sure how many other weapons may have been pilfered, Capt. German Hurtado told the Times.
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A remarkable journey from teen mother to CEO
St. Anne’s Family Services in the Rampart district offers support programs to struggling expectant mothers and young families so they can get the help they need to live their best lives.
When Lorna Little moved to Los Angeles to serve as the nonprofit’s president and CEO, she brought more than just her work experience to the role.
Little herself has faced many of the same challenges as the women she serves. She became pregnant in high school and felt the fear and shame associated with becoming a teenage mother. Making it through the difficult time and coming out on top, she now wants to show the young girls at St. Anne’s that they can do the same.
“I want to have that opportunity on a systems level for these young people so that they can see: Yes, these challenges we face are real, but we can make it through,” Little said.
In this episode of “LA Stories,” Little describes to host Giselle Fernandez another challenge she overcame. In her 30s, she discovered she was adopted. She was the result of her biological father’s affair. His wife, who could not have children, adopted Little and accepted her as her own.
SoCal Snapshot
Brandy sings the national anthem before the NFC Championship NFL football game between the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers Sunday at SoFi Stadium. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)