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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Gradual warming is expected for SoCal. The good news: no excessive heat.
Warm temperatures and dry conditions will persist through much of this week, with notable heating for areas west of the mountains on Friday and Saturday.
Increasing moisture this weekend will lead to chances for thunderstorms Saturday through next Monday, with the highest probabilities occurring on Sunday.
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Today's Big Stories
1. LAPD report deems officer's training death a ‘tragic accident’
The death of a Los Angeles Police Department officer during a training exercise was "a tragic accident" that occurred when he and another officer fell to the ground while grappling during a simulation, according to a report released by the department's Office of Constitutional Policing and Policy.
The report countered claims made by an attorney for Officer Houston Tipping's mother, who filed a damages claim against the city alleging in part that the officer was beaten by multiple other officers in a scenario meant to "simulate a mob."
Lizabeth Rhodes, director of the Office of Constitutional Policing and Policy, told the city Police Commission on Tuesday that Tipping died during a one-on-one exercise in which he was playing the role of a suspect confronting a bicycle officer.
Asked about the allegation that Tipping had been attacked by a "mob" of officers, Rhodes said there was no evidence to support such a claim.
2. Garcetti, housing officials announce opening of Section 8 voucher wait list
Mayor Eric Garcetti and housing officials announced the opening of the wait list lottery for Section 8 housing vouchers in Los Angeles for the first time in five years.
Online registration for the lottery will begin at 6 a.m. Oct. 17 and end at 5 p.m. Oct. 30. Very low-income individuals and families are eligible for the Section 8 program, which pays a portion of rent directly to landlords.
Doug Guthrie, chief executive and president of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, told the Los Angeles Times he is expecting more than 365,000 applicants for the 30,000 available vouchers. The recipients of the vouchers will be determined by a lottery.
Nearly 188,000 people applied for 20,000 vouchers in 2017, the last time the wait list was open.
Section 8 is the nation's largest rental assistance program, with 2.1 million households receiving vouchers. More information about the lottery is available at hacla.org or at 213- 523-7328.
3. Yom Kippur begins Tuesday with streaming and free services offered
Yom Kippur begins at sundown with observant Jews fasting and seeking forgiveness for their sins.
According to Jewish tradition, Yom Kippur is the day Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the second set of commandment tablets — he had smashed the first — and announced God’s pardon to the people for worshipping a golden calf.
Observant Jews believe that God inscribes the names of the righteous in the Book of Life on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and seals the book on Yom Kippur, 10 days later. For that reason, the traditional greeting among Jews on Yom Kippur is Gemar Chatima Tova, which means “good final sealing” and conveys the wish: “May your name be sealed in the book of life.”
The JEM Center in Beverly Hills will hold a Yom Kippur Eve service at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. On Wednesday, a traditional service will be held at 10 a.m., a Yizkor memorial service at approximately 12:30 p.m., an afternoon service at 4:45 p.m. and concluding service at 6 p.m.
Click the link above for a list of services in the area.
4. LA's COVID-19 renter eviction protections to expire at end of January
Los Angeles' long-standing renter eviction protections due to COVID-19 hardship will be lifted at the end of January, the City Council decided unanimously Tuesday.
The council voted 12-0 to approve a package of recommendations from a council committee, following a spirited public comment session that featured both tenants advocating for continued protections and mom-and-pop landlords pleading for the restrictions to end.
Under the council action, landlords will be able to resume increasing rent on rent-controlled apartments, which account for three-quarters of the units in Los Angeles, beginning in February 2024.
Council President Nury Martinez called the vote a compromise that "preserves the livelihood of our renters while still transitioning from COVID-era protections to permanent tenant protections."
5. Police: 6 California killings may be work of serial killer
Ballistics tests have linked the fatal shootings of six men and the wounding of one woman in California — all potentially at the hands of a serial killer — in crimes going back more than a year, police said.
Authorities last week announced that five men in Stockton had been slain in recent months, ambushed and shot to death alone in the dark. Late Monday, police said two additional cases last year — a man's death in Oakland and the non-fatal shooting of a woman in Stockton — had been tied to those killings.
“It definitely meets the definition of a serial killer,” said Stockton Police Officer Joseph Silva. “What makes this different is the shooter is just looking for an opportunity, and unfortunately our victims were alone in a dark area.”
Police would not say whether all seven shootings had been linked to the same gun.
6. Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in documents probe
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate.
The action from the former president's legal team comes after a federal appeals court ruled that the Justice Department's probe into the classified documents could continue.
The Trump team asked the court to overturn a lower court ruling and permit a special master to review the roughly 100 documents with classified markings that were taken in the Aug. 8 search.
A three-judge panel from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit last month limited the special master’s review to the much larger tranche of non-classified documents. The judges, including two Trump appointees, sided with the Justice Department, which had argued there was no legal basis for the special master to conduct his own review of the classified records.
Your Notes for Tomorrow
- The Dodgers face the Colorado Rockies in LA at 1:20 p.m.
- The Angels play the Athletics in Oakland at 1:00 p.m.
- President Biden visits Florida to survey Hurricane Ian damage
- SpaceX Crew-5 mission launches to the ISS
- Yom Kippur concludes
- 60th anniversary of the first Beatles single
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UCI professors see enduring unrest in Iran
Protests over the death of 22-year-old Masha Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police have sparked protests worldwide, with some experts worrying that unrest in Tehran will linger.
Two University of California, Irvine professors who observe and study Iranian politics and culture say the country’s unique cultural, political and religious identity makes it unlike any other in the region.
Mark Andrew LeVine, a UCI professor of modern Middle Eastern history, said the history of the nation’s current political structure would make it hard for protesters and the government to find common ground. He called the morality police, the force blamed for the killing of Amini, a “monument of the revolution.”
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