Another brazen break-in caught on camera. Another L.A. business owner fed up:
“I voted for Karen Bass. I voted for Biden. I voted for Gavin Newsom. I’m sick of it. At some point you have to give me a reason to vote for you again.”
@FOXLA
.
@Stu_Mundel
was over this wild scene at the top of our noon newscast - a car that had crashed into an apartment complex in Mar Vista area
our crew captured the moment the suspected driver, now identified by
@TMZ
as actress Anne Heche, suddenly arose from the stretcher
At least 6 dead, including pregnant woman and infant, following fiery multi-vehicle crash in Windsor Hills.
La Brea and Slauson
Massive scene and response from
@LAFD
LAPD CHP and
@LACoSheriff
CHP says the 40 yr old female driver of the Mercedes has been arrested and criminal charges are pending
Investigators say she was going over 100mph when she ran a red light, killing 6, including pregnant woman + infant
CHP says she is hospitalized with major injuries
CHP reports 13 people died in this morning’s crash near the U.S. Mexico Border in imperial county when an SUV carrying 25 people collided w/ a big rig 6:15a
SUV driver is among the deceased
Big Rig driver is hospitalizedwith moderate injuries
Cause is under investigation
Nicole Linton in court right now - after DA
@GeorgeGascon
announces the traveling nurse will be charged with 6 counts of murder + 5 counts of gross vehicular manslaughter
Linton cried periodically throughout, her left arm wrapped in a brace
She faces up to 90 yrs in prison
From Drs at LAC USC Medical Center, LA County's largest hospital:
"(Covid) cases continue to decline.. we're nearing a plateau. it's going to be hard to get much lower than we are..."
in last 24 hours, hospital reports 0 Covid positive tests out of 125 tests completed.
#Breaking
Pentagon officially drops COVID19 vaccine mandate for troops
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who instituted mandate in Aug. '21, says his Department will continue to promote + encourage it
Officials say more than 8,400 troops refused to get the vaccine + left military
#BREAKING
Former L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announces he’s running for LA County Board of Supervisor, 4th District, challenging incumbent
@SupJaniceHahn
My exclusive interview with Villanueva Tuesday 10p on
@FOXLA
CC:
@AlexVilanueva33
“This terrible tragedy should’ve been prevented by the legal system”
Sheriff Chad Bianco says the 44 yr old suspect from San Bernardino County who shot and killed a
@RSO
Deputy today - had 3 strikes.
The Sheriff’s message:
Another mask mandate?
LA County is expected to enter CDC’s high Covid-19 category by next Thurs
Once that happens + the county reaches 2 hospital metrics,
@lapublichealth
Dir Barbara Ferrer says she will announce universal indoor mask mandate
That could happen before New Year
to the best of my knowledge, no other PUBLIC health department has disabled PUBLIC comments
@lapublichealth
serves the most populous county in state-some 10 million residents + none has been able to comment since 7/29 the day after Barbara Ferrer announced NO indoor mask mandate
#BREAKING
Covid vaccine Mandate in LA is no longer…
L.A. City Council voted 13-0 vote to terminate the vaccination policy for all current and future city workers retroactive to June 2.
The ordinance establishes a pathway back to employment for terminated city workers, and
37 yr old Nicole Linton, suspected driver in Thursday’s deadly crash, was released from hospital + is now being held on $2M bail
L.A. DA
@GeorgeGascon
could file charges as early as Monday
Linton is a registered nurse reportedly fr Houston who had been working at a L.A. Kaiser
I’m so sorry to our
@KTLA
colleagues and Sam’s family. He was always so great to watch… he made viewers and those he interviewed feel so comfortable. The red carpet will never be the same. RIP Sam Rubin💔🙏🏽
“If I don’t speak up, nothing’s going to get done.”
Vince Ricci gives me his 1st local on-camera interview after, what he calls, a “surreal” experience Nov. 4th when he was ambushed at his L.A. home’s front door by an armed suspect, 1 of 2
@LAPDHQ
tells
@FOXLA
so far no arrests
“we continue to virtually have no patients admitted to the hospital due to Covid…”
LA County’s largest hospital reports:
of its current 35 Covid positive patients, 3 are “arguably admitted due to Covid”
None are in ICU
#BREAKING
@LASchools
is ending its COVID 19 vaccine mandate effective immediately
The District's Board of Education says "in consultation with local health authorities," and citing "evolving medical data," it is aligning with "many
other county, state and federal entities."
1/2
Is L.A. County in for another indoor mask mandate?
@lapublichealth
Dir Barbara Ferrer says “depends..on what happens.. these next couple of weeks..”
Meanhwhile, on masks, Ferrer told me a mask “doesn’t prevent an exposure.. it’s a very important layer..”
My
@FOXLA
10p report:
“we have approx 45 covid positives in the hospital right now of whom 5 were admitted due to covid. none of them has severe covid”
Chief Medical Officer of largest LA County healthcare provide says 5 patients are there FOR Covid
LAC+USC Med Center Town:
I learned today
@lapublichealth
Dir Barbara Ferrer has a new worry + being photographed maskless at a concert is not it
I also learned she hasn’t received the
#BivalentBooster
she encourages residents 12 + older to get, telling me she plans to “when I’m cleared”
My 10p report:
“What today showed is law enforcement + a judge seem to agree that what we found… raises a lot of questions”
@BillFOXLA
reacts to the
@SheilaKuehl
raid - 2 years after his award winning investigative reporting uncovered this alleged quid-pro-quo scheme
CC:
@Elex_Michaelson
#BREAKING
LA County is again "strongly recommending" everyone masks in indoor public spaces
@lapublichealth
reports avg daily rate of new COVID19 cases has risen to 100 infections per 100,000 residents
That triggers the strong rec.- which should be noted - is NOT A MANDATE
“We don’t let people choose whether.. they wear seat belts..”
@lapublichealth
Dir Barbara Ferrer tells me why she will NOT align with the state when it comes to her 10day close contact mask policy
27 Supts representing 175,000+ students + 300,000+ parents are asking her to:
Live from Skyfox 8:45p 💥 🚁
something tells me Los Angeles city and county fire and police are going to be very busy tonight 😱
Please be safe out there!
#BREAKING
@lapublichealth
reinstates mask mandate for public transportation within Los Angeles County:
Masks must be worn on commuter trains, subways, buses, taxes, rideshares and inside local transportation hubs including airports.
Effective Friday 4/22
#NEW
CA hospitals are no longer REQUIRED to test every new admission for Covid per updated guidance fr
@CAPublicHealth
@lapublichealth
acknowledges the shift
Dept of Health Services that runs
@LACUSCMedCenter
+ others says it’s “developing new approach to asymptomatic testing
My heart and prayers go out to Chris Burrous’ family and colleagues. I never met Chris, but loved watching him. He was so real and relatable. Such a tragedy. 🙏🏽
We have some sad news to report. Chris Burrous, a fixture on the KTLA 5 Morning News since 2011, passed away Thursday. He was a beloved member of the KTLA family and will be deeply missed. He was 43.
“To have children subjected to 10-day close contact mask mandate means our children end up being masked anyway.. this leads to idiocy”
Some 500 parents oppose
@lapublichealth
student close contact masking policy + take their concern to the
@LACountyBOS
@RoxanneHoge
LA County Covid numbers are dropping WITHOUT an indoor mask mandate + today
@lapublichealth
Dir Barbara Ferrer said projections show declines will continue
Does this give Ferrer pause about the need for a future mandate? + what does she attribute decline to?
“That’s not something at this pt that I would support. I don’t think the public..would follow that mandate”
New Board Chair
@SupJaniceHahn
tells me she doesn’t support reinstating indoor mask mandate
“Let’s learn to protect ourselves.
We don’t need a mandate”
@lapublichealth
Shocked + saddened by death of
#cameronboyce
@bobbydtv
+ I interviewed him in May about the cause he championed for several yrs of his young life: LA’s homeless issue. He was kind, humble, gracious... and excited to work w
@AdamSandler
on upcoming movie
#RIPCameronBoyce
@FOXLA
One of our biggest issues in getting your questions answered fr
@lapublichealth
is zoom format because our mics are cut off after we, reporters, ask our questions so there’s limited to 0 chance of follow-up so I asked today when will briefings be held in person?
Maybe Sept.
“We’re about teaching kids. We don’t want to be the mask police.”
Supt. of Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified tells me why he felt compelled to write letter to
@lapublichealth
@LACountyBOS
urging health dept loosen its 10 day masking policy to align with state.
CC:
@hamill_law
Many of you pointed out a week ago commenting was disabled fr
@lapublichealth
social media accts, including here on Twitter
I asked Health Dir. Barbara Ferrer if this was her decision + she tells me she wasn’t aware
We followed up
Her Chief Comms. Dir. sent us a statement:
“The problem is in how
@California_ISO
manages grid. They’re only grid op. in US that has a problem w/ sustained high heat”
Fmr
@californiapuc
Pres Loretta Lynch claims CA has enough power + blackouts are unnecessary
She calls on
@GavinNewsom
to stop Cal ISO fr exporting power
#NEW
L.A. County's mask mandate for workers in health care settings is ending
@lapublichealth
says the order is rescinded effective Fri. Aug 11th
The one-way masking policy, in place since April, was set to be reconsidered later this year
Orange County Sheriff says he hasn’t seen
@GavinNewsom
’s order yet, but says his intention: “is to not take enforcement action on this order. But again, I haven’t seen it yet”
@FOXLA
#BREAKING
10th bus from Texas arrives in Los Angeles carrying 39 migrants, including 12 families + 21 children
The 10th bus comes 5 days after the last
Earlier this week,
@MayorOfLA
told me "LA has not extended an invitation asking for people to come. This is a political act"
Barbara Ferrer opens
@lapublichealth
briefing w/:
“we’re in a much different January than expected”
Goes on to announce L.A. County has moved to LOW Community level
which means masking moves from “strongly recommended” to“individual preference” in (most) indoor public spaces
I’m starting a list of people who don’t hear back from
@lapublichealth
so if you’ve emailed,called or DM’ed the department and haven’t received a response, please let me know.
Goal accomplished (sub 4 hours)! We did it in 3hrs 51 min - w/ 8:49 average pace 🙌🏽 I couldn’t have done it without my incredibly motivating husband
@JBColletti
who fuels me + inspiration that is
@empoweringher
love all of you! 💖 🏃🏻♀️🙏🏽 🏃🏽 thank you for all your support!
@FOXLA
🚨 some personal breaking news 📺 :
I’m filled with gratitude to announce
@FOXLA
is launching a new p.m. newscast anchored by me! 🙋🏻♀️
Good Nite LA debuts tonight 1/29 at 11p
You can expect a 30-min newscast M-F right after
@devinenews
+
@elexmichaelson
at 10p.
Please join us!
The search for
@NayaRivera
continues on Lake Piru... it is now considered a recovery effort as the Glee actress is presumed drowned.
The search crew includes jet skis, patrol boats, and a helicopter.
37 yr old Nicole Linton, suspected driver in Thursday’s deadly crash, was released from hospital + is now being held on $2M bail
L.A. DA
@GeorgeGascon
could file charges as early as Monday
Linton is a registered nurse reportedly fr Houston who had been working at a L.A. Kaiser
“I..will continue to be opposed to a mask mandate”
@kathrynbarger
is 2nd LA County Supervisor to come on this week + publicly oppose another mandate
It takes 3 Supvs to override
@lapublichealth
Do they have 3 votes?
Says she’s hopeful it won’t come to that
@Elex_Michaelson
Gov. Newsom says state is monitoring 15 counties due to increasing positivity rates:
LA
Riverside
San Bernardino
Santa Barbara
Ventura
Imperial County of greatest concern w 23% positive rate
Contra Costa
Fresno
Kern
Kings
Sacramento
San Joaquin
Santa Clara
Stanislaus
Tulare
This is the 18yrold who is missing - after going for a swim off the Huntington Beach Pier last night. Jessy Cook is her name. This afternoon the search for her was called off.
@FOXLA
#NEW
CA will no longer require masks in healthcare + high risk settings incl. senior/long term care/correctional facilities and homeless shelters, effective April 3rd
@CAPublicHealth
released new guidance today, citing end of Covid Emergency:
#Breaking
Stanford University says it has fired sailing coach John Vandemoer.
Vandemoer was charged with accepting a total of $270,000 in contributions to the school's program for agreeing to recommend two prospective students for admission
@FOXLA
#collegeadmissionsscandal
.
@LASDHQ
confirms the Instagram account linked to suspected shooter posted yesterday “Saugus have fun at school tomorrow” but that post has since been changed indicating either a hacker or someone friendly w the shooter who knows his password changed it.
@FOXLA
#BREAKING
the 10-day close contact mask mandate will end in L.A. County Monday March 13th
@lapublichealth
’s Dr. Ferrer makes the announcement saying identified close contacts SHOULD but are not REQUIRED to mask for 10 days after being exposed to
#Covid19
Is it a credibility issue?
@lapublichealth
reports just 16% of eligible L.A. County residents have received the newest
#covid19
booster, which mirrors the national trend.
Health Director Barbara Ferrer says the low rate is due to confusion and apathy.
.
@kathrynbarger
speaks out against LA County indoor mask mandate calling it “polarizing” and “unenforceable”
She is the only Supervisor thus far to openly oppose it.
Full statement:
#NEW
Masks are mandated again in L.A. County healthcare facilities for employees, patients + visitors
@lapublichealth
cites Covid hospitalizations
The dept. tells me the County entered the CDC's Medium Level for admissions Friday, the 1st time in months, triggering the mandate
.
@LACoSheriff
identifies mass shooting suspect as 72 year old Huu Can Tran and confirms he is the same man found dead inside white van in Torrance.
Suspect died of self inflicted gunshot wound.
Sheriff says a handgun was found inside the van.
7 victims remain hospitalized
#NEW
L.A. County vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has ended
The order was rescinded - effective Friday August 4th
The info was included in
@lapublichealth
8/3 press release.
Scroll to 6th paragraph.
I’m sorry I didn’t see it sooner.
.
Page after page of public comments - submitted to
@LACountyBOS
vast majority opposing
@lapublichealth
10 day close contact mask mandate, others asking for the ability to comment on the dept’s social media accounts…
1,388 comments
BOS meeting in person today
#breaking
@lapublichealth
Dir Barbara Ferrer says the county is NOT reinstating indoor mask mandate as cases and hospitalizations continue to decline.
Ferrer says she is “pausing” implementation, while strongly recommending masks indoors in crowded settings
@FOXLA
“I’m going to keep pushing”
@kathrynbarger
with me after pressing
@lapublichealth
Dir. Barbara Ferrer today about aligning 10day close contact mask policy w the state
“Parents are frustrated. They feel like they have not been provided a seat at the table”
Exclusive reporting from
@WestsideCurrent
finds after spending $550 million, more than 70% of L.A. County’s Project Homekey rooms designated for the homeless are vacant.
Reporter Jamie Paige spent 40 hours visiting nearly all of the 32 sites and, by and large, found unattended,
I attended today’s
@lapublichealth
covid/Monkeypox briefing - the first IN PERSON briefing in a long time
Several cameras
1 reporter there asking questions: Guess who? 🙋🏻♀️
Will you, the public, be able to comment on
@lapublichealth
accounts again? What will it take to do so? I asked Health Director Barbara Ferrer that today and the short answer is “no.”
Her full answer is here:
#BREAKING
federal jury orders Los Angeles County to
pay Vanessa Bryant $16 million + co-plaintiff Chris Chester, $15 million, in damages over actions of first-responders who took + shared gruesome photos from helicopter crash scene
Both lost spouses + 13 year old daughters
#BREAKING
The death of
#RobertFuller
has been deemed a suicide, per the medical examiner which issued its final autopsy report and delivered it to the LA County Sheriff’s Dept.
One of the 6 victims, a known convicted felon, bailed out days before
#Goshen
massacre, after being arrested for parole violation by Tulare County Sheriff’s Dept
Sheriff says “CA is soft on crime. We need to hold people accountable”
“We’re estimating 15-20% of deaths we’re counting right now- those designations might change”
@lapublichealth
Dir Ferrer responds to my: are we overcounting Covid deaths?
LA Co. just surpassed grim milestone of 35,000 deaths while well known Dr calls for honest count nationwide
It’s more than just the weather
@SouthwestAir
’s “old technology” is also to blame for today’s mass flight cancellations, according to travel expert Peter Greenberg who joined me tonight on the Special Report
which explains why many passengers didn’t get notifications
Where is
@UCLA
leadership? Where is law enforcement? We are nearly two hours into our coverage of the violence and anarchy unfolding on the UCLA campus on
@FOXLA
“What she should do is resign.”
Riverside Co Sheriff Chad Bianco is calling for the resignation of the San Bernardino Co. judge who set bail for the now deceased suspect who ended up killing
@RSO
deputy Isaiah Cordero.
Sheriff says if she doesn’t quit, she should be recalled
“The excitement for Los Angeles Chargers football is at an all time high.”
Former NFL All-Pro and Former
@chargers
@marcelluswiley
reacts to Jim Harbaugh becoming the Chargers new head coach, calling the move “a dream realized,” saying Harbaugh’s “reputation precedes him.”
.
@lapublichealth
reports 90% of the approx. 60 Covid patients currently hospitalized in the county’s 4 DHS hospitals are there WITH Covid.
Therefore, 6 patients are hospitalized FOR Covid.
The majority tested positive upon admission for something other than Covid.