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Hello, I'm Juan Devis, Chief Creative
Officer at KCET and PBS SoCal, and I'm
joined by the newsroom of
KPCC and LAist on a daily Reporter Roundup.
Let's start again with you today Frank.
You continue to follow the death of
Dijon Kizzee, shot by sheriff's deputies
on Monday.
-Yeah, questions are being raised about
the tactics of the two
deputies who fatally shot Kizzee. The
family attorney
accuses the deputies of racially
profiling Kizzee,
of stopping him for riding a bike while
Black
in south LA. It's not unfathomable that
this was
a pretext stop, one where deputies were
using a minor traffic violation to see
if he was doing anything else wrong. Cops
would call that good policing and point
out that in the end, he had a gun,
but pretext stops are highly
controversial,
and then there's the question of whether
he was anywhere near the gun that he
allegedly had that allegedly fell out of
his clothing
when deputies opened fire, and why they
fired more than fifteen shots, many after he
was on the ground.
I should note earlier this summer, a deputy
shot an eighteen year old man five times in
the back as he was on the ground
allegedly reaching for a gun.
-We also
mentioned this story yesterday, but
concerns continue to grow among
advocates. So, the Census Bureau is
calling the count
done early. Caroline's been looking into
new claims that some Census workers are
being laid off.
-Yeah, this is a big deal because the
in-person phase of the Census has only
been going for
about four weeks now, and we still have a
whole month to go,
but i'm hearing that census enumerators
are being laid off in LA County, which is
really surprising because this is the
hardest account region in the country,
and we still have a lot of time. To be
fair, this is based on
one woman's experience that I've been
talking to, but she told me that a couple
of her co-workers have been laid off,
and this is really surprising to Census
advocates because
the Census has already been cut short,
and now to see that enumerators are
being let go,
that's an even bigger deal, and they're
just, kind of, questioning how the Census
Bureau can be so far along
with counting people in person when
we've only been going for a couple weeks.
They're raising questions about
the quality of the data, and they're
saying that they're, kind of, expecting
an undercount in LA County at this
point.
-And now for the news your
neighbors are probably talking about:
it's about to get
really really hot. Jacob has been
checking in on this heat wave for us.
What can we expect?
-Yeah, the heat wave is not only going to
be dangerous, but potentially deadly too.
We're going to see temperatures in the
triple digits, so 115 out in Woodland
Hills is possible,
110 in Burbank, places that don't usually
get that hot, like downtown LA
could get up there too, and that's
concerning because many especially low
income families don't have air
conditioning.
They possibly can't afford to run it, so
they and people who work
outside, like farm workers, are at higher
risk of heat stroke
or exacerbating other medical conditions
that say have to do with the heart as
well.
People could die, and on top of all that,
the wildfire risk is even higher than
normal, so
people should stay inside try and stay
cool. Stay safe,
and please don't start any fires.
-And to wrap things up today, a local
utility has been trying to seal a
methane leak at a local power plant.
Sharon's been looking into that.
-Yeah, on this leak of natural gas, the LADWP's
valley generating station in Sun Valley,
it's been known about since
this last spring. The utility
considered it to be a small leak.
The emissions per hour from the mass of
Aliso Canyon gas leak in 2015
were five hundred times as large as what's coming
out of this one piece of equipment,
so a fix wasn't planned until very late
this year
because a hot summer when there's a high
demand for electricity
is not a good time to be shutting down
part of your power plant,
but then JPL detected the leak. They were
using a special aircraft mounted camera
that makes the methane gas leak
visible on video, and JPL notified DWP of
this leak in late August,
so that, plus complaints from
environmentalists and the city council
spurred DWP to go ahead and make the
repairs right now. Those are temporary
repairs,
and they expect the permanent repairs to
still go on late this year, like, in
November.
-Thank you Sharon. I have to ask: is the
grid ready to support
the usage that is going to have over
this long weekend?
-This weekend, Saturday through Monday,
is one of those flex alerts when they're
asking
everybody to conserve their electricity.
They think they can get through it
though, because the western states are
not going to be as hot, so we won't be in
as much competition to buy the power to
serve California
from out of state as we were a couple
weeks ago.
-Thank you Sharon, and thanks to all of
you at the KPCC and LAist newsroom, and
thank you for tuning in. Keep cool, take
care of your neighbor, your family,
your health, and we'll see you tomorrow.
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