they couldn't deny l.a.'s first mayor her crown. i declare an emergency if you don't like something? i don't like taxes. that's my emergency. so, what does queen karen get? well, $100 million to build houses for the homeless. no oversight. no bidding. queen karen can just give the contracts out to all of her friends and donors. no questions asked. put homeless in swanky hotel rooms. has the power to seize your property and give to a homeless person. don't worry, queen karen says it probably won't come to that. just like when biden said he wouldn't have vax mandates or when he said we wouldn't send patriot missiles to ukraine and then he did. but this time they are being for real. they have the power to take your home and give it to a drug addict. but probably won't do that. now, there are plenty of empty houses in l.a. millionaires, second or third homes. all the celebrities' beach houses but i don't think queen karen is going to send any homeless people there those are her biggest donors. hunter's malibu mansion is empty. is he sha

l.a. magic is still here. [applause] just think about the goods coming through l.a.'ports, that stock the shelves of america coast-to-coast. the ideas and inventions spinning out from silicon beach are powering our future. we stir the soul of the world, we've seen that today with the music, the culture that entertains and influences people all across the globe. so our task is not always to make magic, but to make sure it's sprinkled across every neighborhood and available to every family like it was to my family when i was growing up. [applause] today too many angelinos have no choice but to crowd multiple families into one home and to work multiple jobs just to barely pay rent. tragically our city has earned the shameful crown as being home to the most crowded neighborhoods in the nation. pico union, south l.a., east l.a., the east valley. and angelinos, we know our mission. we must build housing in every neighborhood. [cheers and applause] in every neighborhood. and the very best way for this to happen, the very best way is for neighbors working together and decidin

fifth man: we have enough food in the l.a. market to feed everybody in l.a. and possibly to feed everybody in southern california. we have this pile of food, and we have this much need, but we don't have the bridges. third woman: to understand los angeles today, you have to understand its past. it started as a farm town. fox: many people don't realize that l.a. was the largest agricultural county in the country up until the 1950s. and now we're home to the largest food-insecure population in the nation. we've really gone from extremes here, where this place was once of agricultural bounty. where is that bounty now? woman: we have so many areas that are food deserts, where there's a lack of affordable, healthy food, but they used to be abundant farmlands. some of the places in los angeles that used to be amazing farmland surprise people today when we tell them watts and compton used to be abundant farming communities. gerber: the san fernando valley at one time had 60,000 acres of farmland. that included encino, van nuys, north hollywood, sherman oaks. woman:

>> even with the closure of the l.a.ippendale family. >> enough to warrant actually being parodied on "saturday night live." >> of course that's my favorite "snl" sketch with patrick swayze and chris farley. >> patrick swayze, would have hired him in a heartbeat to be a chippendale no problem. >> farley -- maybe a host. >> despite all his success, banerjee had still grander dreams of global domination. >> in 1991, i was ge had come from los angeles veeen with me, and they had a troupe of dancers called the chippendales, which he wanted to bring to europe.utsic agent, a guy named carl leighton-pope. >> carl had bryan adams, van morrison and deep purple. and the guys from squeeze. >> steve banerjee took me to his club, and i wasn't about to do some kind of pseudo-sex show. >> ladies, what do you what him to do? >> it was just the most extraordinary thing to see, but it wasn't for me. >> wipe your chin off. shame on you. look at that. what a mess. >> but then a friend has an idea for him, which is that in europe, they shoul

i want to bring in l.a. sparks player -- she's also the president of the wnba's players association and a close friend of britney griner. i'm so glad they are here with us today, you must be overjoyed by this news on a personal level and also really, really encouraged by all the work that you and your team mates and players association have really done to throw their support behind her. >> laura, thank you so, so much. you worked tirelessly also to use this platform to highlight stories that needed to be told, and it's been a long road but i am -- i woke up in tears this morning. as many other people did. i was just so thrilled and relieved to hear that bg was coming home. we are incredibly grateful to president biden and the entire biden administration for their work to get her home, and on behalf of all the players, we as women athletes, we do our best to stick together. when we move, we don't leave anyone behind. and we work with intention. we are just so grateful to see all of the support and celebration

the issue i've wrestled with in l.a.hould i come back to be with my black ob who i felt very safe with? when i explained it to my white friends in l.a., they sort of made me feel as if i was crazy, doctors are interchangeable. care is the same. a lot of them said just stay in l.a. and have this baby. the question is not really about the outcome per se which is obviously critical, it's the experience. what happened a few weeks ago, i had to meet with another doctor who reviewed some test results which weren't to her liking and what i experienced was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life. i sat in this examination room and within seconds this woman was trying to push on me a highly risky diagnostic test. she was talking about terminating my baby and what struck me in that moment was how quickly she was willing to discard, you know, my life and the life of my baby and i turned up at my ob here in new york sobbing my eyes out. he let me cry. he looked at the data and he saw something completely different. he saw s

l.a.fficials are warning that if the trend will continues, they could consider bringing back indoor mask mandates just in time for the christmas gatherings. you know, folks are concerned that people, some just aren't taking the continued covid situation seriously enough. charles watson is in atlanta, home of the centers for disease control, the cdc, with the latest on this. hi, charles. >> reporter: hey, eric. look, yeah, l.a.'s county department of public health has not definitively said that a mask mandate will be restored, but it is seeing troubling numbers that could the lead public health officials many that direction, and this is what they're talking about. take a look at this. l.a. county currently averaging more than 3,000 daily new covid infections, that is a 44% increase from the week prior and more than three times the cases the county was recording at the beginning of november. with with those numbers public health officials say l.a. county is currently in the medium transition

joining me now lz granderson, an opinion columnist for the l.a. times.t and this is another turn in all of this. in an interview on saturday, deleon said he has absolutely no plans to resign. here's how he put it, my commitment is solid into my constituents. i'm not going to let a group from outside the district bully me or my staff or my constituents. what do you make of the latest episode that you have said before and called a really heartbreaking turn of events? >> it is. and i think each day that kevin decided not to resign from city council is a day in which he shows who he really is. which is really unfortunate because he built his entire political career really showing his heart and soul to the people of the los angeles and the state of california. but now it's getting boiled down to him holding the city hostage. and really there's nothing that the residents can do other than organize and spend millions of dollars on a recall. so, it's either force him to spend money on a recall or he has several years left in his term. there's nothing in place to

the l.a.vere and while activists have been trying for years to fix the problem themselves, she says the new emergency declaration will help create a quote new unified citywide strategy to address the crisis. gadi schwartz is in los angeles. >> this is a sitting room. >> for the past two years, this woman has worked to make this l.a. area house a home. >> this is all donations for the unhoused communities. >> the house isn't hers. she and her two daughters moved into the el cerino property in march, 2020, no rental agreement. >> we are in an extreme time where the housing crisis is a breaking point. >> a few of the 40,000 people in l.a. with nowhere else to go. >> i live unhoused for over a year and a half. the rent was so high, and i was unable to get a job. and we needed to do something about it. >> these houses were among 700 homes that the tate transportation agency cal transpurchased to make way for a freeway extension that was never built. in october of 2020, after months of negotiations,

on the crime beat for the l.a. times. >> i came here in 87.s ever. and the city, and a lot of it was fueled by the crack academic. and gang warfare, and all of that. >> but the murder of ron baker was different. a middle class college student. and the questions that made the news, was this a ritual killing, an occult crime. was it wicket related? the detectives had to know. >> we had to get an education real quick on wicca. we had interviewed one big wicca lady that was very knowledgeable about the practice of wicca. >> that woman was christine. ron's friend from the mystic circle club. and an expert on everything big wicca. >> it is helpful to be able to talk to somebody who not only knows what is entailed in the occult, at least in the terms of wicca. but more importantly to know what ron himself believed, and practiced. >> reyna gave the detectives a crash course on wicca, its history. it's peaceful rituals. it's spiritual traditions. and ron? she told them. >> he had absolutely no involvement in anything that would ever involve human sacri

lingering in l.a. tomorrow.o three feet of snow in the sierras, and then maybe a foot or two of snow in the wasatch of utah. pushing into the plains, koonds of comes in dry and mild, but the rains pick up friday night and saturday and then the rain picks up on sunday from d.c. up through boston. the good news with this system, it's moving pretty quick. david? >> all right, glad you got the hat on tonight, rob, thank you. >>> when we come back here, it was his winning goal that won it for team usa at the world cup. then he was rushed to the hospital. so, will he play this weekend? what he's saying about that tonight. >>> and what we never knew about a famous christmas carol, in a moment. on the shelf like a porcelain doll. but one out of two women over 50 will suffer a fracture from osteoporosis. you should know you can build new bone with evenity® for postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture. ask your doctor if you can do more than just slowing down bone loss with evenity®. want stronger

you're from l.a., right?, you know, i'm a fan of the brilliant game of football. >> jimmy: the game of football in general. in general. i understand. i feel that way too. >> i grew up a rams fan, and then they left. >> jimmy: they abandoned you. >> like my father. and then the stepfather game, the raiders, gang center, all of them black. dudes have criminal record. they play with different color shoes. they're choking dudes out. gouging eyes. and, and, it was dangerous to be a fan. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and you could get gas and a hat at the same place. and it's the only place i've ever seen cholos smile. so we're at the coliseum, and these cholos are all buttoned up, and they're smiling. i have a sheet, and it says east loves the raiders. and they're holding it up, trying to get on monday night football, smiling. and then everybody is laughing. and i can't figure out what they're laughing. and somebody said look at the sheet. and the sheet said "property of the los angeles county jail." >> jimmy: that's -- that

it's playing in new york and l.a. opens everywhere on wednesday. please welcome brendan fraser. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: wow. this must be a fun time in your life right now. >> i'm enjoying it. >> jimmy: good. you've got this movie, you're in the leading role, you're getting these incredible reviews. pyou got the critics' choice award nomination yesterday. [ cheers and applause ] >> yes. >> jimmy: you guys, i remember reading when the movie came out, you were at the venice film festival, is that where it was? >> that's where it premiered. >> jimmy: you got a six-minute standing ovation or something there? >> i think it depends on who's holding the stopwatch, tell you the truth. some italians "it's a eight-minute standing ovation!" "it's a ten-minute standing ovation!" that's a long time. >> jimmy: they do measure the minutes, don't they? >> they do. how do you clap for ten minutes? >> jimmy: i have no idea, i don't know, it would be uncomfortable. >> it would hurt -- it would take a lot of time. [ laughter

how can they have a more private life in l.a.? by the paparazzi surrounding them in l.a.? a more private life. we weren't saying that we wanted privacy, we weren't saying that that's what we wanted we just wanted more freedom so i think they kind of live their lives. we do see paparazzi photos of them at the coffee shop and sarah barbara or whatever, but that's part and parcel to being a celebrity in southern california. you are going to see shots of them. for the most part, i think they do kind of move around uninhibited. >> i think that's different than being chased. they had to have drivers who knew how to do evasive driving, just like diana. that's dangerous. of course harry's traumatize fanatics periods from what happened to his mother. richard let me ask you this to end in the snow. if they had done this documentary and just gone after the paparazzi and media in the uk and left the family alone, you'd be okay with? this >> thing got after them even attack the as institution for the way handled meghan, but revealing the private conversations within the family and then

you won't find anything to l.a. until after the 30th and trips headed north to seattle are booked until january 2nd. others drove hundreds of miles from l.a. and even oregon to drop off or pick up stranded family members. >> we're doing everything we can to return to a normal operation and please hear that i am truly sorry. >> reporter: he acknowledged the situation was unacceptable and said they're working with impacted travelers. some tell us they got their money back plus vouchers. >> now i get to see my mom for free on thanksgiving and get my money back. >> reporter: stephanie magallon for "today in the bay." >>> now our consumer investigator chris chmura is tweeting about southwest travel chaos. he posted a step-by-step guide on helping you get reimbursed. you can check it out on his twitter page @chris underscore chmura. >>> in mandarin way yesterday afternoon police say a woman was shot in the head. paramedics rushed her to the hospital where she died. officers found the gun at the scene. investigators are in

l.a. takes the shootout, 2-1. they win the game over san jose, 3-2. sharks are back on home ice tonight against calgary. well, no game for the 49ers on saturday, but they were still in play. the team was minutes away from moving up to the two seed in the nfc. then minnesota rallies for the greatest comeback in nfl history. >> and the kick -- is good! it's a winner. >> wow. what a game. minnesota rallies from an nfl record 33 points down to beat the colts, 39-36 in overtime. the vikings clinch the nfc north division and hold on to that number two seed. the 49ers remain number three. they would have jumped up to two if the colts would have won. business or pleasure, how about both? the san jose state football team is in boise for the famous idaho potato bowl. they're going to face eastern michigan. it's cold over there. yes that is snow on the ground. the spartans in their second bowl game in three seasons for the first time in 35 years. but, there's a balance between playing in a bowl. have fun and enjoy all the bowl game festivities, but don't forget

what negative impacts with this have not just on l.a.ut the country including where you are in the central valley 3 yards north of l.a.? it is scary because of what it sends to victims and relate to the prosecutors in the office because what it sounds like in its core is sanction preferential treatment for decisions of who does and does not get charges filed against them. quite frankly i'm surprised no one else was talking about this because as a prosecutor, that is a very scary concept, and i think george gascon needs to step up and described to the citizens of l.a. and the prosecutors what exactly this policy means. it is open for interpretation, but we see and have seen that l.a., the influence extends to other parts of the states. and the other thing that we have seen is without a doubt the soft on crime policies are creating a vacuum. the criminals are exploiting that vacuum. we have seen it unfold with our retail stores, retail theft. i'm afraid this since message as an invitation to do crime in l.a. and you will get preferential t

had at a local station in l.a. but these very seldomly and is a bit of a gimmick. they said the city's giants. whenever we get to a news event it is over, thely fire blazes ot when you get to see the flames for the car crash everyone has been airlifted or ambulance out of there. how do we get there faster so we can see it's happening a real time? with got to do it from the air. they built this business called los angeles new service. they change journalism as we know it. at first it was for good you can see these things happening in realal time. i mean they captured some videotape that held authorities accountable in a way as they had not been held to account beforeo see hp beating the living daylights out of a group of migrants who would cross the border just a few miles north of san diego just beating them terribly. that would never have been seen had my parents not been above it with the helicopter and trading their hair budget it didn't make the many friends. they could capture and hold authorities accountable in a way they'd not been held before. this is a rea

if you had plans to travel to l.a., you probably want to do that now.'ve got pretty clear conditions all the way through bakersfield and the l.a. area. in the hour-by-hour outlook, things are going to change. i want to timestamp these so you can plan your afternoon. your window of opportunity to prepare is right now, because of all of these nice breaks we're seeing in the rain. by 1:00 p.m., notice we start to see heavier pockets picking up through the north bay through about 4:00 p.m., the majority of that rain stays up there. that's actually when the flood watch goes into effect for the north bay. then it becomes a little more scattered, a little more widespread between 4:00 and 6:00. we'll start to see pockets pushing through san francisco at around 6:00, concord, oakland, and then by midnight we'll get other areas of heavier downpours through santa cruz, gilroy. pretty typical stretch through there. the big impact, notice the timestamp, i'm going to take you through the 5:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m. hour. we get a bull's-eye over the santa cruz mountains sta

l.a.arning it could reinstate an indoor mass mandate. to the outraged taxpayers at house report revealing $80 billion might've been stolen via covid ppp loan fraud. an tiktok response to the report that china use the platform to sway voters in the midterms attacking republicans like ted cruz, marco rubio and greg abbott. even the democrats editor admitting trump was right pushing to ban tiktok in this country. i am jackie deangelis emperor elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. jackie: good evening and welcome everybody. ceo elon musk releasing details on twitter's suppression of the hunter biden laptop story. were waiting for the details. kelly o'grady has the latest. >> you can always count on elon musk for wild news on a friday. how many times have we done this sitting here at 5:00 p.m. he tweeted this out earlier today. if we could bring up the tweet he says what really happened with the hunter biden suppression story by twitter will be published on twitter at 5:0

and i don't know what the heck you're talking about. ♪ >> steve: far left l.a.orge gascon is being sued by his former chief of staff who claims she was a victim of being demoted. victoria adams, who spent more than 35 years in the office claims gascon demoted her because she questioned his policy. the lawsuit says she was given, quote: no meaningful work to perform. no supervisory responsibility and no work-related communication with anyone in the office except her secretary. at least she got to keep the secretary. the vice president of the association of deputy district attorneys eric is i dal joins us right now. eric, she complained on the first day forward his policy that he was trying to institute were illegal and apparently he didn't want to hear that. >> right. and we actually know they're illegal because the court of appeals of california said that some of his policies are illegal. and the problem with george gascon is he has surrounded himself with people who are really political patrons, giving political patronage to people and really ignored the advice

by the time we get to l.a. at 5:00 or 6:00, then you will be smack dab in the middle of l.a.ther. if you leave early during our storm system, you might miss the rain pushing through bakersfield and l.a. that's just a little side tip. a lot of people travel through the grapevine. saturday ukiah, santa cruz. expect to see the heaviest of the rainfall totals. you're going to see that in the rain totals once we get through the system, avalanche watches in the sierra through the weekend. long-range outlook now, our next system continues to the start of 2023. mike, how are the roads doing? >>> they're still making progress here. a much clearer shot. our photographer josh, i have to give him credit out in the elements and figured out a way not to get a blurry lens. a shattered windshield, we have a second tow truck on scene. there are a couple of other vehicles in addition to this big rig that has to be cleared north 80 around the high street on ramp. the location for another crash. flashing lights, caltrans, all shutting down traffic for the northbound lanes in the mist, drizzle an

l.a.ents say high school choir students, choir students, were hired to sing at a private holiday party at the home of the district's school board president. they say the students were encouraged to socialize with the adults at the party and were even offered alcohol. >> they were offered an open bar and to socialize with the half-naked men, the dirty santa, that offered and made disgusting comments to our children. >> school board says it is taking the allegations seriously and held a special session yesterday where some parents called for the president to resign. police are also investigating that one. >>> also in southern california, more trouble for embattled l.a. council member kevin de leon. he was involved in a scuffle at a holiday event last night. >> reporter: kevin! >> this video was shot by a member of a grassroots group called for his resignation. the council member has been the target of intense criticism since his part in a meeting where racist and insensitive comments were ma

it was a gamble and the next day the "l.a.coming it and they said it was a marriage of tragedy -- >> and technology. >> and technology. >> voyeurism. they called a voyeurism news and it was the beginning of the era when you could carry events alive, and it wasn't just an evening network broadcast it would be a 15-second live chat but the ongoing rolling live coverage of an event where you don't know at the time he did know those in the car, you did know what they've done, what their w motives were, they're a good guy, a bad guy, and you're just a voyeur. you are just observing. >> it'ss the context. >> is without context. and, of course, you could argue okay it's a o criminal, the cops on the side of good but the principle of taking the coverage without any information is the same principle that goes into taking any kind of like political event without any surrounding -- >> kind of stealing the fun of my point that i was -- >> go ahead, please. [applause] i am a man and i like to explain. [laughing] >> our pillow conversations

mostly sunny, 50's and 60's from l.a. to sacramento. l.a., a forecasted high of 80 degrees. for christmas eve, we have mild conditions, mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the 60's. the plan the next seven days for you. foggy conditions this morning with showers and evening, lots of sunshine for the holiday weekend. next week we will track days of rain as the storm door reopens. reggie: "good morning ameri is coming up here on abc seven. kumasi: have a look at what is ahead. >> the massive holiday which are emergency and the chaos, our team is tracking the blizzard conditions cold temperatures wreaking havoc on christmas plans. hundreds of flights are canceled. the american woman released from a russian prison after a year returning to the u.s. on the same day as brittney griner sharing her story of abuse in her first national tv interview. kumasi: a new shake shack is opening up in san francisco at the galleria. they will be endo-and outdoor seating with a window for walk-up orders. this is the third shake shack in the city. a ribbon-cutting ceremony is assessed for 10:3

it's hard to imagine l.a. without him. been removed or shot immediately upon detection. l.a. said no, we want to coexist. we want this wildness here. it's his home, not ours. >> los angeles became p-22 the biggest champions, cheering him on until lighting when he was seen on streets or in backyards. p-22's existence planted the seeds for the creation of a wildlife crossing, a crossing that did not come soon enough for him, but will hopefully help future wildlife coexist and thrive in the heart of los angeles. >> just heartbroken. that was dasha phillips reporting. let's go now to a developing drama this holiday season. a nationwide christmas tree shortage is forcing many to choose and cut farms to close their door days. in some cases, they close weeks earlier than previous holiday seasons. let's go to marissa power who was on a farm in bath, pennsylvania. what is going on and what happened all the trees? >> well, it's a shame for people who have not picked them all like myself here. let's go to the scene. we are at a farm

amtrak in san jose tells you you can't find anything to l.a. until after the 30th.. ahead on the "today" show in moments live coverage with everything you need to know about this winter travel mess. >>> meanwhile, here in the bay area we have a little break from the rain. >> if you had maybe considered driving somewhere today is the best day to do it because by tonight into tomorrow rain will be an issue on the roads again especially, though, the biggest storm friday into early saturday morning so be mindful of that and plan ahead. >>> if you are traveling on 101 you can make out the yellow arrow. there are cones blocking part of your right lane and one of the lanes for the exit north 101 at willow is really the only alert i have. everything else is light. >> relatively light. i think a lot of people are maybe stuck at the airport. >> perhaps. good morning, airport. >> or they have time off. >>> we thank you for spending time with us. join us for the news at 11:00 a.m. >> have a wonderful day. another day, another massive wave of travel delays is getting home from t

matt gutman is there. >> reporter: tonight in l.a. county, there are fewer hospital beds available than at any time since the pandemic began. 242 open adult beds for a population of 10 million people. l.a.'s northridge hospital at over 90% capacity. so many of the patients are children. so, what are you seeing right now inside these hospitals? >> we are slammed, not only in los angeles county, but all around the country. we are slammed. >> reporter: nationwide, hospitals buckling under the strain of a tripledemic of flu, rsv, and covid. in idaho, st. luke's health is running low on common drugs and is rationing. doctors are not withholding treatment, but they are being asked to consider alternatives. >> it just blows me away that we're struggling with things like this, but children's liquid tylenol, ibuprofen, amoxicillin, augmentin, albuterol. >> reporter: for weeks there have been spot shortages of over-the-counter medications on store shelves. still, the white house insists the country has enough supply in the pipeline. david, manu

we've reached out to the l.a. police department, fred. at all faces criminal charges. >> keep us posted on that. nadia romero, thank you so much. >>> a moment of silence during the university of idaho's winter commencement ceremony this weekend, the school honoring the four students killed in an off campus home last month. police still have no suspect and have yet to find a weapon. investigators are now searching for at least one person they believe was inside a white hyundai elantra sedan like this one seen near the crime scene around the time of the attacks. officials say they believe the person or people in the car may have critical information to share. they say information about the vehicle came from the thousands of tips they have received about that case. >>> coming up, ukrainian forces launch missile attacks on russian-occupied territory while russian drone strikes leave the port city of odesa in the dark. . the rent-a-car industry is the definition of boring. and the reason can be found in the name itseself. rent - a - car? you d

san bernardino county is located northeast of l.a. and home to 2 million people. voters to spread an advisory ballot proposal. a call from local officials to talk about the possibility of seceeding from the state. >> i do think that the rural counties don't get their attention as much as l.a. or san francisco. that seems to get the bulk of the money from the state. we need to figure out how we shed some light. i think frankly, the taxpayers of this great state to see whether monies are going. >> political experts say the county breaking away as a long shot. the state legislature and congress would have to approve it. the measure is defined to get the decision makers' attention. >>> a holiday piece at pier 39 is no longer. you have seen it. the christmas treat with up. a lot of fanfare just before thanksgiving. fast-forward to today. the 60-foot tall trees no longer there. instead, you will have to find a festive christmas bush shapes like a seal with a santa hat. officials tried to save it, but the trade dried out , and the recent high winds damaged the branches.

l.a. county will federal the cdc mandates. >> todd: have we learned no lesson from the failure of mask, all we know now about the danger of lockdown to the economy, to the human psyche, to our children, how could you consider continuing such draconian policies again into the winter and beyond? these people, barbara ferrer, that you saw there, pushing masking, they are power hungry and refuse to acknowledge covid is something we cannot prevents, but something we have to deal with. >> carley: l.a. can do what they want, the rest of the country is rolling our eyes, you have to learn to live with this virus at some point. l.a. county covid-19 numbers came out, 4000 new cases, 1116 new hospitalations and 14 deaths, we don't know if those people were hospitalized or died for another reason and tested positive for covid on the aside. a doctor says i do not consent to masking my kid ever again, no one, not law enforcement can mask my kid, doing so is akin to assault, please don't try, parents do n

not only experts tracking him but really l.a. and the nation. unfortunately experts saying about a month ago they started to see some changes in his behavior. he was going deeper into urban areas. he was getting closer to people. attacking dogs, dogs on a leash. experts thought maybe he was in distress and it was best to capture him. that's what they did on monday. and then he went to get a medical evaluation. this medical evaluation revealed a number of things. they already believed he had been hit by a car. but thief discovered trauma to his eye, to his head, to some of his internal organs and pre-existing illnesses. there was kidney disease, some infections in his skin. there was arthritis. just a bunch of different things they took into consideration and then decided it was best to put him down. some of the experts that had been tracking him for years, they spoke out this week and said that his data will live on. here's one of those experts. >> he's been an incredibly interesting animal. we have gotten a lot of great information from him. he

some include new york city, l.a. and maricopa county. the u.s.dr. ashish jha said this week we have the tools, we have the infrastructure, and we have the know-how to manage this moment. one of those tools is testing. the government saying they are reopening covidtest.gov for a limited time. each household can order up to four that will ship as early as next week. the white house is emphasizing people who test positive for covid should be treated with pax paxlovid, especially those 50 and others and with chronic conditions. it's important to remind americans about the booster so they can begin generating antibodies just in time for christmas and new year's. boris, amara. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the frustrating search for affordable housing. families priced out due to lack of inventory, inflation is and overregulation. a factory is finding innovative ways to address the problem. >>> and america has a drinking problem hitting women hard. all new this is life with lisa ling. how the pandemic pushed them from casual drinking into the disease of

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that's the only one in l.a. county. >>> the happiest holiday shoppers in the bay area took over a south bay store this morning. some 200 uniformed officers made this happen. this is the 15th year for the annual shop with a cop event. not only do the kids get to pick their own gifts, they can also choose presents for their family members. what a wonderful event. >>> okay. that's it for the news at 4:30. gia and garbin are working on the 5:00 newscast. we're back in a few minutes. - life is uncertain. everyday pressures can feel overwhelming it's okay to feel stressed, anxious, worried, or frustrated. it's normal. with calhope's free and secure mental health resources, it's easy to get the help you and your loved ones need when you need it the most. call our warm line at (833) 317-4673 or live chat at calhope.org today. >>> right now at 5:00, brittney griner finally on her way home after being confined to a russian prison for months. all the fallout of her release, and what's next for another american still being

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l.a. is asking for the same as covid hospitalizations in california have soared 150% over the past month. in reno, nevada, valerie primo is grateful her 2-month-old daughter emily, once seriously ill with rsv, is back home from the icu. >> that's when the thought she might di crossed my head. it's really scary, especially for the little ones. >> reporter: back in connecticut, jennifer barnett has been a registered nurse for 20 years and never seen this many respiratory illnesses colliding at once. >> it's hard for the staff. it's hard for patients it's hard for families it's just a tricky situation that we haven't seen before. >> reporter: the cdc says that the flu hospitalization rate in the u.s. remains at its highest level in more than a decade lester >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. >>> we are watching a major winter storm developing in the west that will bring heavy rain, snow and strong wind gusts to the western third of the country this weekend heavy snow expected in the northwest toni

the victims and population in l.a. deserve better. >> julie: despite the supreme court's ruling to keep title 42 in place rampant human smuggling and drug trafficking continue at the border. agents in arizona making two major busts wednesday. in a tweet cbp officers announcing they seized 1.2 million fentanyl pills. four pounds of fentanyl powder and nearly 40 pounds of meth. the former u.s. border patrol chief and former acting director of ice joins me now. these numbers are astounding when you talk about millions of pills. that's potentially hundreds of deaths, thousands of deaths. and we don't seem to see any urgency on behalf of the administration knowing that our youths are dying daily and we are doing nothing about it. >> i agree we're in the middle of the worst crisis on the southwest border we've ever seen. the cartels are making millions of dollars every week smuggling people and smuggling drugs and because the men and women of cbp are distracted with the overflow of human beings coming across the border illeg

l.a. county granted her request with a pre-unicorn license.stical creature. >> i felt happy and excited i could be able to have a unicorn if i could find one. because of their magical horn, it can produce shooting stars. >> it started when she wrote a letter to l.a. county animal care and control asking for permission. animal control received the letter and plan for her to visit a shelter to meet some animals and surprised her with her permit and plush with a tag. >> we just all thought it was so adorable and sweet and we wanted to encourage her. >> animal control did issue the permit with conditions. in order for her to have a pet unicorn, it must be exposed to an abundance of sunlight. she says she is already in the works of taking care of that. >> i'm going to build a barn with a glass of roof so it can see the night sky. >> the response has been overwhelming and to see all of the joy and happiness that it has brought so many people, we are so incredibly thankful. >> she plans to go find a unicorn in scotland because it is scotland's nation

we report isolated crime events throughout the year particularly in l.a. and new york but the national crime picture often gets ignored. when you look at the year it was it takes your breath away or at least it should. this is video of linda fricke, a 73-year-old grandmother from new orleans who was in her car when four teens rushed it, forcing her out. she got caught in the safety belt and they dragged her, it severed her arm from her body and she bled to death in the street. at least they capture her four attackers but so many times these cases go unsolved. this is just one of the more than 260 homicides in new orleans since the start of the year. my hometown of new orleans is set to become the murder capital of the country this week with a 52% in homicides since 2019. today another man was shot in the french quarter and just two days before christmas comedian brandon boogie b. montreal was visiting his family for the holidays. he went to the grocery and was shot to death. possibly by a stray bullet involving a shoot-out between others. his mother, mrs.