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Onshore flow returns Wednesday, leading to below-average temperatures and a few clouds at the coast.
It will still be a mild and comfortable day with highs reaching the low- to mid-70s.
A weak Santa Ana wind event is forecast for Thursday with warm and breezy conditions across the coasts and valleys.
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Around SoCal
1. LA police investigating if racist recording taped illegally
Los Angeles detectives are investigating whether a recording last year that captured city council members’ racist remarks was made illegally, the police chief said.
Disclosure of the recording earlier this month unleashed a citywide scandal just weeks before Election Day. The council president, Nury Martinez, resigned in disgrace, while two other council members have resisted widespread calls for their ousters.
Under California law, all parties must consent to the recording of a private conversation or phone call. Otherwise, the person who made the recording could face criminal and civil penalties.
2. Curren Price denies de León’s claim he was invited to 2021 meeting
City Councilman Curren Price denied being invited to the October 2021 meeting between three of his colleagues and a top county labor official that led to the City Hall racism scandal, after embattled Councilman Kevin de León said on a radio show that Price was “supposed” to be at the meeting.
“The former council president, she called for the meeting,” de León said. “We came. Ironically speaking, Curren Price was supposed to be in that meeting too.”
Price, who was elected the council’s new president pro tempore on an 11-0 vote Tuesday, responded during a briefing after the council meeting that he was “very surprised” by de León’s claim.
“I certainly was not invited to that meeting,” Price said. “I didn’t know about the meeting.” Price accused de León of throwing him under the bus out of desperation.
3. NFL's Donald, NBA's Brown end their deals with Ye's agency
Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald and Boston Celtics swingman Jaylen Brown terminated their associations Tuesday with Donda Sports, the brand management agency owned by the artist formerly known as Kanye West.
Donald and Brown signed deals with Donda Sports earlier this year to represent some of their interests outside of their sports. Both star athletes emphatically dropped the agency owned by Ye, as the music mogul is now known, amid rising international condemnation of his latest round of offensive and antisemitic remarks.
Donald, the three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, signed with Donda Sports last spring after the Rams won the Super Bowl. The seven-time All-Pro and his wife, Erica, denounced West’s “displays of hate and antisemitism” in a statement announcing their decision.
Around the Nation
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2. Biden gets new COVID booster, encourages others to get shot for 'fresh' start on pandemic
3. Democrats withdraw letter asking Biden to negotiate with Russia to end war in Ukraine
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Antisemitic incidents in LA on pace to surpass last year’s record high, ADL says
Following a recent wave of incidents involving antisemitism across Southern California, the head of the Anti-Defamation League in Los Angeles on Tuesday said the number of hate incidents in the city is on pace to surpass last year's record high.
Jeffrey Abrams, the regional director for the ADL Los Angeles, said he's working on compiling the data before an official release in the spring but has noted an unprecedented number.
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SoCal Snapshot
Hollywood producer Eric Weinberg turns back to talk to defense attorney Robin Sax, far right, as he is taken into custody, at his arraignment Tuesday in Superior Court in Los Angeles. Weinberg, executive producer for the hit TV show "Scrubs," was denied bail after pleading not guilty to sexually assaulting five women who prosecutors said he lured to photo shoots. (Robyn Beck/Pool Photo via AP)