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The sunshine remains in abundance as we head into a new week.
Aside from morning low clouds and fog to the north of Ventura County, skies remain clear through the day.
Afternoon temperatures will remain slightly above-average.
Monsoon flow sticks around for another week, which bumps up the moisture and brings isolated afternoon thunderstorms for mainly the mountains.
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Around SoCal
1. School back in session at LAUSD Monday amid eased COVID-19 rules
Amid more relaxed COVID-19 protocols, classes resume Monday for thousands of LAUSD students — and Superintendent Alberto Carvalho will mark his first opening day as head of the LA schools with a tour of numerous district sites.
Carvalho will start Monday early, with a scheduled meet-and-greet with school bus drivers at 5 a.m. at the LAUSD depot on San Julian Street. He will then visit two bus pickup sites: Plummer Elementary at 7:45 a.m., followed by Vena Avenue Elementary at 7:55 a.m.
The superintendent will next make five classroom visits — to Vena Avenue Elementary, Porter Ranch Community School, Marina Early Education Center, Marlton School and John H. Liechty Middle School.
Carvalho will wrap up his day with a school assembly at Ellen Ochoa Learning Center at 1:15 p.m., where backpacks and school supplies will be distributed. There will also be an end-of-day news conference at King-Drew Senior High Medicine and Science Magnet at 2:15 p.m.
2. Stretch of Hollywood Boulevard to be closed for Nipsey Hussle star ceremony
Hollywood Boulevard will be closed between Gower Street and Argyle Avenue between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Monday to accommodate the expected large crowd for the unveiling of the Hollywood Walk of Fame star honoring slain rapper Nipsey Hussle.
The ceremony will be at 11:30 a.m. at 6212 Hollywood Blvd., in front of Amoeba Music. Hussle’s longtime girlfriend, actress Lauren London, and Hussle’s sister, Samantha Smith, are set to speak at the ceremony. His grandmother Margaret Boutte will accept the star on behalf of Hussle’s family.
The ceremony comes on the 37th anniversary of Hussle’s birth. It will be streamed on the Walk of Fame’s website, www.walkoffame.com.
3. Anne Heche, star with troubled life, dies of crash injuries
Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career contrasted with personal chapters of turmoil, died of injuries from a fiery car crash. She was 53.
Heche was “peacefully taken off life support," spokeswoman Holly Baird said in a statement Sunday night.
Heche had been on life support at a Los Angeles burn center after suffering a “severe anoxic brain injury,” caused by a lack of oxygen, when her car crashed into a home Aug. 5, according to a statement released Thursday by a representative on behalf of her family and friends.
She was declared brain-dead Friday, but was kept on life support in case her organs could be donated, an assessment that took nine days. In the U.S., most organ transplants are done after such a determination.
4. Emergency vouchers are golden ticket to nowhere for some of LA's homeless
In the heart of Skid Row, Anay Castillo is still holding onto the promise of a golden ticket — a federal Emergency Housing Voucher that will pay her rent.
If only she can find a landlord to accept it.
Castillo is waiting patiently while living at the Midnight Mission. She is currently separated from her daughter after being told there is no family housing available.
She’s been waiting nine months.
In March 2021, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development gave Los Angeles County about 7,000 Emergency Housing Vouchers through the American Rescue Plan, where it’s estimated there are about 66,000 people living on the streets and in shelters.
But only about 7% of those vouchers given to the city’s housing authority have led to leased apartments, according to HUD’s online dashboard. There are 19 different agencies distributing the vouchers to mixed success.
Meanwhile, thousands of homeless Angelenos are holding on to their vouchers while living on the sidewalks and interim housing, as frustration over LA’s broken housing promises boils over at City Hall.
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The sounds that defined legendary music producer Jimmy Jam’s career
On the latest episode of “LA Stories with Giselle Fernandez,” James Samuel Harris III — famously known as Jimmy Jam — opens up on his iconic career, which gained him five Grammy Awards, a star on the Walk of Fame and dozens of No. 1 Billboard hits.
“I breathe music,” he said. “The thread of the quilt of life is music. It’s the things that show us our commonality, not our differences. That’s a tremendous responsibility. We take it as a privilege to be able to do it.”
He’s already been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in the fall of 2022, he will be inducted into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame. For Jam, music is everything.
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Long snapper (42) Matt Orzech of the Los Angeles Rams snaps the ball against their cross-town rivals, the Los Angeles Chargers, in Saturday's preseason football game. (AP Photo/Jeff Lewis)