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Hawaii’s island of Maui is still reeling from a blaze that killed more than 100 people and ravaged the historic town of Lahaina, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Firefighters in Canada are battling that nation’s worst fire season on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, Hilary first made landfall in Baja California on Sunday in a sparsely populated area about 150 miles south of Ensenada. One person drowned. 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Crews pumped floodwaters out of the emergency room at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSSanDiego/status/1693562308709261731\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday was the wettest day on record in San Diego, with 1.82 inches, the NWS said in a post on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. The previous record was on Aug. 17, 1977, when 1.8 inches of rain fell in the area following Hurricane Doreen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We basically blew all of our previous rainfall records out of the water,” Elizabeth Adams, a National Weather Service meteorologist in San Diego, told The Associated Press. In Palm Springs, the inundation on Sunday — of 3.18 inches — shattered the daily record of 0.21 inches set in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center of Hilary passed over downtown Los Angeles at 7 p.m. Sunday, according to the regional weather office, which called it “a day for the ages” in Southern California.[aside label='Stay Prepared With KQED Guides' tag='audience-news']Despite the deluge, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said no significant injuries or damages were reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian told a news conference that the city “was tested but we came through it, and we came through it with minimal impacts considering what we endured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school system, said all campuses were closed Monday. San Diego schools postponed the first day of classes of the school year from Monday to Tuesday. For LAUSD students, grab-and-go sites were set up to provide meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palm Springs Police Department said in a statement Sunday that 911 lines were down and that in the event of an emergency, residents should text 911 or reach out to the nearest police or fire station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tropical storm last roared into California in September 1939, ripping apart train tracks, tearing houses from their foundations and capsizing many boats. Nearly 100 people were killed on land and at sea.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"LA City Council President Paul Krekorian\"]‘Los Angeles was tested but we came through it, and we came through it with minimal impacts considering what we endured.’[/pullquote]As skies were clearing Monday in the state, the National Weather Service warned of flooding underway in the Mount Charleston area of Clark County, Nevada, about 40 miles west of Las Vegas. 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However, parts of this road are completely blocked off by large quantities of water that remain after heavy rains.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1614147590-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial image shows no traffic on Interstate 10 due to flooding and mud crossing the highway following heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary, in Rancho Mirage, California, on Aug. 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Updated 8:30 p.m. Sunday\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tropical Storm Hilary inundated streets across Mexico’s arid Baja California Peninsula with deadly floodwaters Sunday before moving over Southern California, where it swamped roads and downed trees, as concerns mounted that flash floods could strike in places as far north as Idaho that rarely get such torrential rain.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forecasters said Hilary was the first tropical storm \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-tropical-storm-hilary-2347dcf718ad0658ba61311b1afe3d13\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to hit Southern California in 84 years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, bringing flash floods, mudslides, high winds, power outages and the potential for isolated tornadoes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hilary made landfall along the Mexican coast in a sparsely populated area about 150 miles south of Ensenada, then moved through mudslide-prone Tijuana, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least 9 million people were under flash-flood watches and warnings as heavy rain fell across normally sunny Southern California ahead of the brunt of the storm. Desert areas were especially susceptible along with hillsides with wildfire burn scars, forecasters warned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1628495398.jpg\" alt=\"A submerged car in a flooded street with houses on a stormy day.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1628495398.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1628495398-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1628495398-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1628495398-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car is partially submerged in floodwaters as Tropical Storm Hilary moves through the area on Aug. 20, 2023 in Cathedral City, Riverside County. Southern California is under a first-ever tropical storm warning as Hilary impacts parts of California, Arizona and Nevada. All California state beaches have been closed in San Diego and Orange counties in preparation for the impacts from the storm, which was downgraded from hurricane status. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mud and boulders spilled onto highways, water overwhelmed drainage systems and tree branches fell in neighborhoods from San Diego to Los Angeles. Dozens of cars were trapped in floodwaters in Palm Springs and surrounding desert communities across the Coachella Valley. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school system, said all campuses would be closed on Monday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hilary could wallop other Western states with once-in-a-century rains, with a good chance of it becoming the wettest known tropical cyclone to douse Nevada, Oregon and Idaho. Hilary was expected to remain a tropical storm into central Nevada early Monday before dissipating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area, meanwhile, will mostly be spared from the effects of Hilary. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“By Sunday night into Monday there is a greater chance that we’ll see more widespread shower activity across the Bay Area,” said Matt Mehle, lead meteorologist for NWS Bay Area. “When it’s all said and done we’re expecting generally less than a tenth of an inch for most of the Bay Area.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has officials inside California’s emergency preparedness office and teams on standby with food, water and other help.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Southern California got another surprise in the afternoon as an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit near Ojai, about 80 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was felt widely and was followed by smaller aftershocks. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury, according to a dispatcher with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California State Parks closures\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://parks.ca.gov/Incidents\">California State Parks announced temporary closures and camping cancellations\u003c/a> due to potential impacts from Tropical Storm Hilary. All state beaches in Orange and San Diego counties will be closed on Sunday and Monday, August 20–21. State parks in the path of the storm, such as Cuyamaca State Park, Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, will also be closed due to flooding concerns. In addition, all incoming camping reservations for impacted areas are being canceled Sunday–Tuesday, August 20–22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958643\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1625820087.jpg\" alt=\"Empty shelves with just two bottles of Evian water left in a supermarket aisle.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1625820087.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1625820087-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1625820087-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1625820087-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelves are nearly empty of bottled water in a grocery store as people stock up as Hurricane Hilary approaches on Aug. 19, 2023 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"hurricanehilarybayarea\">\u003c/a>How will Tropical Storm Hilary affect Bay Area weather?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hilary reached California on Sunday while still at tropical storm strength.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Bay Area, the National Weather Service forecast unsettled weather with cooler temperatures, cloud cover and chances of showers and isolated thunderstorms, with high chance of rain from late Sunday into early Tuesday.\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?format=CI&glossary=1&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD&site=MTR&version=1\">Read the weather forecast from the National Weather Service Bay Area office.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can I be preparing for Tropical Storm Hilary if I live in an at-risk area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you or a loved one lives in Southern California, sign up to receive emergency weather alerts from the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials use these notifications to inform residents of weather alerts, street and road closures, and evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find your at-risk California county below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.readysandiego.org/alertsandiego/\">San Diego County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.emergencyemail.org/add.asp?lc=25060\">Imperial County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/BF5E205B1D69\">Los Angeles County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/453003085613900/new\">Orange County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://rivcoready.org/alert-rivco\">Riverside County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/index/892807736723794#/signup\">Santa Barbara County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sbcfire.org/alertwarning/\">San Bernardino County emergency alerts \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/1772417038942453/login\">Ventura County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Why is Tropical Storm Hilary happening?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hurricanes are much rarer on the country’s Pacific coast as ocean waters are much colder here than in the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, meteorologists point out that a significant amount of warm water is helping keep the storm together as it moves up the Mexican coast. Ocean temperatures across the globe are on the rise, largely due to carbon emissions, and scientists \u003ca href=\"https://www.noaa.gov/news/ongoing-marine-heat-waves-in-us-waters-explained\">are studying the deadly impact of marine heatwaves on wildlife\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Null says that hurricanes will not become casual occurrences along the West Coast anytime soon. “As the oceans warm, we will certainly see the possibility of some more frequent tropical storms getting farther and farther north. But that being said, it’s not going to be an annual occurrence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe once a decade, maybe it will be twice a decade,” said Null.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press and KQED’s Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí, Madi Bolaños and Christopher Alam.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Updated 8:30 p.m. Sunday\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tropical Storm Hilary inundated streets across Mexico’s arid Baja California Peninsula with deadly floodwaters Sunday before moving over Southern California, where it swamped roads and downed trees, as concerns mounted that flash floods could strike in places as far north as Idaho that rarely get such torrential rain.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forecasters said Hilary was the first tropical storm \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-tropical-storm-hilary-2347dcf718ad0658ba61311b1afe3d13\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to hit Southern California in 84 years\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, bringing flash floods, mudslides, high winds, power outages and the potential for isolated tornadoes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hilary made landfall along the Mexican coast in a sparsely populated area about 150 miles south of Ensenada, then moved through mudslide-prone Tijuana, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least 9 million people were under flash-flood watches and warnings as heavy rain fell across normally sunny Southern California ahead of the brunt of the storm. Desert areas were especially susceptible along with hillsides with wildfire burn scars, forecasters warned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1628495398.jpg\" alt=\"A submerged car in a flooded street with houses on a stormy day.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1628495398.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1628495398-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1628495398-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1628495398-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car is partially submerged in floodwaters as Tropical Storm Hilary moves through the area on Aug. 20, 2023 in Cathedral City, Riverside County. Southern California is under a first-ever tropical storm warning as Hilary impacts parts of California, Arizona and Nevada. All California state beaches have been closed in San Diego and Orange counties in preparation for the impacts from the storm, which was downgraded from hurricane status. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mud and boulders spilled onto highways, water overwhelmed drainage systems and tree branches fell in neighborhoods from San Diego to Los Angeles. Dozens of cars were trapped in floodwaters in Palm Springs and surrounding desert communities across the Coachella Valley. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school system, said all campuses would be closed on Monday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hilary could wallop other Western states with once-in-a-century rains, with a good chance of it becoming the wettest known tropical cyclone to douse Nevada, Oregon and Idaho. Hilary was expected to remain a tropical storm into central Nevada early Monday before dissipating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area, meanwhile, will mostly be spared from the effects of Hilary. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“By Sunday night into Monday there is a greater chance that we’ll see more widespread shower activity across the Bay Area,” said Matt Mehle, lead meteorologist for NWS Bay Area. “When it’s all said and done we’re expecting generally less than a tenth of an inch for most of the Bay Area.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has officials inside California’s emergency preparedness office and teams on standby with food, water and other help.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Southern California got another surprise in the afternoon as an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit near Ojai, about 80 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was felt widely and was followed by smaller aftershocks. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury, according to a dispatcher with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California State Parks closures\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://parks.ca.gov/Incidents\">California State Parks announced temporary closures and camping cancellations\u003c/a> due to potential impacts from Tropical Storm Hilary. All state beaches in Orange and San Diego counties will be closed on Sunday and Monday, August 20–21. State parks in the path of the storm, such as Cuyamaca State Park, Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, will also be closed due to flooding concerns. In addition, all incoming camping reservations for impacted areas are being canceled Sunday–Tuesday, August 20–22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958643\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1625820087.jpg\" alt=\"Empty shelves with just two bottles of Evian water left in a supermarket aisle.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1625820087.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1625820087-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1625820087-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1625820087-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelves are nearly empty of bottled water in a grocery store as people stock up as Hurricane Hilary approaches on Aug. 19, 2023 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"hurricanehilarybayarea\">\u003c/a>How will Tropical Storm Hilary affect Bay Area weather?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hilary reached California on Sunday while still at tropical storm strength.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Bay Area, the National Weather Service forecast unsettled weather with cooler temperatures, cloud cover and chances of showers and isolated thunderstorms, with high chance of rain from late Sunday into early Tuesday.\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?format=CI&glossary=1&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD&site=MTR&version=1\">Read the weather forecast from the National Weather Service Bay Area office.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can I be preparing for Tropical Storm Hilary if I live in an at-risk area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you or a loved one lives in Southern California, sign up to receive emergency weather alerts from the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials use these notifications to inform residents of weather alerts, street and road closures, and evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find your at-risk California county below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.readysandiego.org/alertsandiego/\">San Diego County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.emergencyemail.org/add.asp?lc=25060\">Imperial County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/BF5E205B1D69\">Los Angeles County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/453003085613900/new\">Orange County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://rivcoready.org/alert-rivco\">Riverside County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/index/892807736723794#/signup\">Santa Barbara County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sbcfire.org/alertwarning/\">San Bernardino County emergency alerts \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/1772417038942453/login\">Ventura County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Why is Tropical Storm Hilary happening?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hurricanes are much rarer on the country’s Pacific coast as ocean waters are much colder here than in the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, meteorologists point out that a significant amount of warm water is helping keep the storm together as it moves up the Mexican coast. 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A judge gave her an ultimatum: jail, or treatment. She chose treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so thankful that they did that,” said Sweeney, now 52. “I needed that. I think there’s others out there that need it, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she hadn’t been compelled to get care, Sweeney said she wouldn’t be alive today, back at work and reunited with her husband. It’s why she supports California’s new civil CARE Courts, which will launch this fall in eight counties, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952228/san-francisco-to-implement-newsoms-care-court-plan-to-treat-severe-mental-illness\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/psych-treatment/care-court\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and Orange, followed by the rest of the state in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new system, family members and first responders can ask county judges to order people with psychotic illness into treatment, even if they are not unhoused or haven’t committed a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill creating the program sailed through the state Legislature with near unanimous support last year amid growing frustration from voters over the state’s increasing population of unhoused residents, even as it drew vehement opposition from disability rights groups, who argued CARE Courts’ hallmark — compelling people who have done nothing wrong into mental health care — is a violation of civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maria Hernandez, presiding judge, Orange County Superior Court\"]‘We don’t want to punish people. We want them to maintain their dignity.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, that tension — between those who advocate for voluntary treatment and those who say the status quo allows people to die in the streets “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944448/a-war-of-compassion-debate-over-forced-treatment-of-mental-illness-splits-california-liberals\">with their rights on\u003c/a>” — is playing out in the implementation of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its officials are threading a delicate needle: particularly, how to convince people to accept care without coercion, when their illness causes them to believe they are not ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to punish people,” said Maria Hernandez, the presiding judge for Orange County Superior Court. “We want them to maintain their dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955163 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A light-skinned middle-aged woman with long brown hair and wearing black judge's robes smiles at the camera from behind a desk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange County Superior Court Presiding Judge Maria Hernandez says CARE Court will resemble the county’s other collaborative courts, like her young adult diversion court, where compassion and science drive her decisions. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orange County is expecting that between 900 and 1,500 residents will be eligible for CARE Court in any given year, according to the county public defender’s office. Local lawyers, judges and health officials all have aligned in designing their program with a distinct patient focus, endeavoring to make the process as benign and nonthreatening as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on CARE Court' tag='care-court']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said that means modeling the new civil court after the county’s other collaborative courts, where judges often lose the black robe and come down off the bench to work \u003cem>with \u003c/em>people, eye to eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One prototype, she said, is her \u003ca href=\"https://www.occourts.org/directory/collaborative-courts/YAC_Pamphlet.pdf\">Young Adult Court (PDF)\u003c/a>, where, on a day in June, the mood was downright jovial. Defendants and their family members were chatting and laughing, munching on snacks laid out on a table in the back as three young men “graduated” from the diversion program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Judge Hernandez is so awesome,” said Abraham, 25, a former graduate, who asked to be identified only by his first name because he was charged with a felony that has since been expunged from his record. “I don’t even look at her as the judge. She’s just like a mom figure. She’s only trying to push you to be the better you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A minute later, Hernandez walked through the aisle of the courtroom and gave Abraham a hug.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Disaster preparedness’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even if CARE Court is ruled by the likes of Mary Poppins, Orlando Vera, who lives with bipolar disorder, said helping a vulnerable person heal from mental illness shouldn’t involve dragging them into a courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955161 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A very fair-skinned bald man wearing glasses sits in an office setting, smiling and wearing a short-sleeved blue collared polo shirt.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Vera, co-founder of Peer Voices of Orange County, says he and other people with lived experience of mental illness will attend CARE Court proceedings on behalf of patients. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a place [where] you resolve your emotions. It is a very business-oriented environment. So I do feel that this is not the place for it,” Vera said, adding, “Can we stop it? I would say we can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Orlando Vera, founder, Peer Voices of Orange County\"]‘Our focus is how do we support those that are going through the system. We need to be their voice.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article274547296.html\">failed to convince the state Supreme Court\u003c/a> to block the program on constitutional grounds, some started referring to the rollout of CARE Court as “disaster preparedness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://peervoices.org/\">Peer Voices of Orange County\u003c/a>, a group Vera co-founded and runs, plans to install patient advocates at the courthouse to attend any and all CARE Court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our focus is how do we support those that are going through the system,” he said. “We need to be their voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘CARE’ without coercion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Orange County behavioral health director Veronica Kelley is sympathetic to advocates’ concerns. She said CARE Court is not the program she would have created to improve the state’s mental health system. But she serves at the will of the governor and other elected officials who control her budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we end up building the Winchester Mystery House,” she said. “It is a structure that was OK, but then it just started adding hallways to nowhere and basements that are on top of the building. That’s what our system looks like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955162 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with long blond hair and long earrings sits in front of a bookshelf filled with books. She is unsmiling.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Kelley, behavioral health director for Orange County, will oversee mental health outreach and care provided through the local CARE Court, launching Oct. 1. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Kelley is committed to making sure CARE Court is not a hallway to nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a hallway that I’m going to, at the end, construct a door that opens out to a bunch of different options,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley is shaping the new court process into something its critics can accept. This is why she wanted Orange County to go first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we can help craft it into something that’s not another colossal waste of time and funds, and that we don’t destroy the people we’re trying to serve at the same time,” she told a roomful of patient advocates during a meeting of the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/MH/Pages/PatientsRights.aspx#:~:text=California%20Office%20of%20Patients'%20Rights,training%20and%20technical%20assistance%20to\">Patient Rights’ Committee\u003c/a>, held in Santa Ana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means social workers from her \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochealthinfo.com/services-programs/mental-health-crisis-recovery/mental-health\">behavioral health department\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pubdef.ocgov.com/\">public defender’s office\u003c/a> might visit people 20, 30 or 40 times to build trust, listen and set goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Veronica Kelley, behavioral health director, Orange County\"]‘If someone agrees to do something of their own accord, it is far more probable that there will be long-term success and long-term commitment to the services being provided.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they can’t be convinced, CARE Court isn’t for them. But we’re not going to give up on folks because they say no the first time,” said Martin Schwarz, Orange County’s public defender, who plans to devote eight full-time staff to represent the interests of patients referred into the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the CARE legislation, the court is allowed to fine behavioral health agencies $1,000 per day if they can’t find a patient and enroll them in treatment by certain deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley said her county’s judges have agreed to give her staff the time and extensions they need to do their jobs right. She also vowed that no one who declines services in her county would be institutionalized, as the legislation allows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone agrees to do something of their own accord, it is far more probable that there will be long-term success and long-term commitment to the services being provided,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelley and Schwarz pointed to their success with another civil court process established by Laura’s Law in 2002, where for each individual involved in court-ordered outpatient care, there were another 20 who accepted treatment willingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say they have the same goal for CARE Court, where the focus will be on finding a treatment plan people accept voluntarily — before a judge has to order it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Success is measured by who we keep out of the court system,” Schwarz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new homeless outreach program pairing a social worker with a police officer in Grass Valley, a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, seemed to be working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state-funded effort sent the team to homeless encampments, where they helped build trust among vulnerable people and persuaded them to accept help, according to the nonprofit Hospitality House, which ran the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It blew past its goal of engaging 90 people in three years, instead meeting with more than 200. It even helped move some people directly into housing, including an 80-year-old veteran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the three-year grant paying for that outreach ended in June, there was no money to replace it. So the program came to a screeching halt, to the disappointment of all involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a profound loss to not be able to do this,” said Nancy Baglietto, executive director of Hospitality House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That loss embodies the worst fears of homeless service providers across California, as they struggle to piece together new funding sources after their state grants expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Carolyn Coleman, executive director and CEO, League of California Cities\"]‘It really defies logic that the state budget once again fails to include funding to match the scale of the crisis we are experiencing.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many had hoped that Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders would change that dynamic in the state budget deal they announced last week by committing ongoing funds for homelessness that nonprofits, cities and counties could rely on year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Newsom and lawmakers settled on another round of one-time funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really defies logic that the state budget once again fails to include funding to match the scale of the crisis we are experiencing,” said Carolyn Coleman, executive director and CEO of the League of California Cities, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/04/california-homeless-cities/\">pressed Newsom’s administration for a guaranteed $3 billion a year in homelessness funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Unprecedented’ homelessness funding under Newsom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As California grapples with how to provide for its massive population of more than 170,000 unhoused residents, Newsom has stepped up homelessness funding to unprecedented levels. He’s funneled nearly $21 billion into housing and homelessness since the 2018–19 fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, for the third year in a row, the state budget allocates $1 billion to the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention fund, which local officials can use for housing, outreach at encampments, emergency shelters and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the vast majority of Newsom’s homelessness spending has been in one-time grants, which providers say makes it difficult to fund the kind of long-term programs that could make a noticeable dent in the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11954915 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02.jpg\" alt=\"There are tents, belongings scattered and stacked, RVs in the background, a random shopping cart, and more. Many blue tarps cover the tops of the encampment area.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An encampment in Los Angeles, on June 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie A Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California would need to spend \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/20/what-will-it-cost-to-end-homelessness-in-california-8-billion-a-year-for-12-years/\">$8.1 billion a year for a dozen years\u003c/a> to eliminate homelessness in the state, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calneeds.csh.org/\">a report by the Corporation for Supportive Housing and the California Housing Partnership\u003c/a>, two nonprofit advocacy groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office defended this approach to funding homelessness, pointing out that the state has provided an “unprecedented” $15.3 billion for the issue since he took office at the start of 2019.[aside postID=news_11949327 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58533_080_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg']The governor has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/19/governor-newsom-proposes-modernization-of-californias-behavioral-health-system-and-more-mental-health-housing/#:~:text=Amend%20the%20Mental%20Health%20Services,people%20with%20substance%20use%20disorders.\">proposed a 2024 ballot measure to amend the Mental Health Services Act\u003c/a> that would provide $1 billion a year for housing for people with mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders. That amendment would require voter approval to take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget provides not just funding to address homelessness — it builds in the accountability needed to ensure that tax dollars are being maximized to produce real results,” Daniel Lopez, Newsom’s deputy communications director, said in an emailed statement. “Ultimately, the challenge of homelessness and housing must be met not only with dollars, but it also requires strong accountability coupled with financial resources to make lasting progress for our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be eligible for homelessness funding under this budget, cities and counties must submit homeless action plans — in coordination with other jurisdictions in their region — that detail the progress they’ve made.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Short-term homeless services\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There was some momentum this year to move away from one-time spending on homelessness. More than two dozen state legislators \u003ca href=\"https://www.calcities.org/docs/default-source/advocacy/ad-67-2023-24-budget-request-housing-and-homelessness.pdf?sfvrsn=4fbcd4a9_3/AD-67-2023-24-Budget-Request-Housing-and-Homel\">signed a letter in May supporting the League of California Cities’ demand (PDF)\u003c/a> for $3 billion a year. A coalition led by the California State Association of Counties also called for ongoing funds and drafted bill language it urged legislators to adopt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that proved to be a tough ask with Newsom’s office projecting a $30 billion-plus budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, city and county leaders, legislators and homelessness nonprofits have been clamoring for a source of ongoing funding to tackle the homelessness crisis. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/luz-rivas-1974/\">Assemblymember Luz Rivas, a Democrat from Arleta\u003c/a>, pushed a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB71\">bill in 2021\u003c/a> that would have established ongoing homelessness funding by \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/13/new-bill-would-fight-homelessness-by-raising-californias-corporate-tax-rates/\">raising taxes on large businesses\u003c/a>, but the bill died without making it out of the Assembly. Last year, California voters rejected a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/31/could-betting-on-sports-games-help-solve-californias-homelessness-crisis/\">ballot measure to legalize sports betting\u003c/a>, which would have directed fees and taxes from those wages into a fund for homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baglietto, of Hospitality House, says that type of permanent funding could have helped save her organization’s Grass Valley outreach program.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nancy Baglietto, executive director, Hospitality House\"]‘We don’t know each year where the funding is going to come from. It’s kind of a nail-biting scenario.’[/pullquote]Hospitality House and the Grass Valley Police Department received $575,000 in 2020 through a state violence intervention program. The city put the money toward homeless outreach as a way to prevent unhoused people from experiencing violence in encampments, and also to reduce confrontations between police and unhoused people. By the time the grant ran out this year, Grass Valley’s crime rate had improved and the city was no longer eligible for the money, Baglietto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the first time the nonprofit was forced to scramble because of unreliable state funding. Hospitality House’s 65-bed homeless shelter was once largely funded by state grants. Several years ago, the state changed how that money was allocated — focusing on permanent housing instead of shelter — and Hospitality House’s portion dried up. So the nonprofit cobbled together funding from a dozen different sources to fill the hole left by the state money, Baglietto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Hospitality House keeps its shelter open through money from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/california-medi-cal-reform/\">CalAIM, Newsom’s recent Medi-Cal expansion\u003c/a>. The nonprofit still has a “massive” gap, which it is temporarily filling with federal COVID funds designed to help businesses retain employees. That money runs out next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know each year where the funding is going to come from,” Baglietto said. “It’s kind of a nail-biting scenario.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Havoc’ for California nonprofits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Union Station Homeless Services, which coordinates programs throughout the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County, faces the same issues, said CEO Anne Miskey. Every budget cycle, her team has to spend two or three months piecing together their financing as the funding they get from the state changes or ends. Sometimes, the parameters for a state grant shift and clients Union Station has been working with for years suddenly are no longer eligible.[aside label='More on California’s Unhoused Community' tag='homelessness']“This is just creating havoc in our sector,” Miskey said. “And this is why people are leaving. It’s not the clients. It’s not the work. It’s this piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new state budget has some new language around homelessness funding. It requires that anyone applying for a grant be part of a regional plan that lays out the specific roles and responsibilities of each participant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was something the \u003ca href=\"https://www.counties.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/at_home_-_accountability_details_-_final_5-19-23.pdf?1684533540\">California State Association of Counties pushed for (PDF)\u003c/a>, arguing that currently cities, counties and other groups too often fight over who should be building shelters, offering mental health help or providing other homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also promises that it is the Legislature’s “intent” to provide additional the same funding in the 2024-25 fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not enough, said Graham Knaus, CEO of the California State Association of Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Counties cannot budget based on legislative intent,” he said. “Nobody can. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many had hoped that Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders would change that dynamic in the state budget deal they announced last week by committing ongoing funds for homelessness that nonprofits, cities and counties could rely on year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Newsom and lawmakers settled on another round of one-time funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really defies logic that the state budget once again fails to include funding to match the scale of the crisis we are experiencing,” said Carolyn Coleman, executive director and CEO of the League of California Cities, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/04/california-homeless-cities/\">pressed Newsom’s administration for a guaranteed $3 billion a year in homelessness funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Unprecedented’ homelessness funding under Newsom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As California grapples with how to provide for its massive population of more than 170,000 unhoused residents, Newsom has stepped up homelessness funding to unprecedented levels. He’s funneled nearly $21 billion into housing and homelessness since the 2018–19 fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, for the third year in a row, the state budget allocates $1 billion to the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention fund, which local officials can use for housing, outreach at encampments, emergency shelters and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the vast majority of Newsom’s homelessness spending has been in one-time grants, which providers say makes it difficult to fund the kind of long-term programs that could make a noticeable dent in the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11954915 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02.jpg\" alt=\"There are tents, belongings scattered and stacked, RVs in the background, a random shopping cart, and more. Many blue tarps cover the tops of the encampment area.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/CalMattersUnhousedLA02-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An encampment in Los Angeles, on June 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie A Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California would need to spend \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/20/what-will-it-cost-to-end-homelessness-in-california-8-billion-a-year-for-12-years/\">$8.1 billion a year for a dozen years\u003c/a> to eliminate homelessness in the state, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calneeds.csh.org/\">a report by the Corporation for Supportive Housing and the California Housing Partnership\u003c/a>, two nonprofit advocacy groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office defended this approach to funding homelessness, pointing out that the state has provided an “unprecedented” $15.3 billion for the issue since he took office at the start of 2019.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The governor has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/19/governor-newsom-proposes-modernization-of-californias-behavioral-health-system-and-more-mental-health-housing/#:~:text=Amend%20the%20Mental%20Health%20Services,people%20with%20substance%20use%20disorders.\">proposed a 2024 ballot measure to amend the Mental Health Services Act\u003c/a> that would provide $1 billion a year for housing for people with mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders. That amendment would require voter approval to take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget provides not just funding to address homelessness — it builds in the accountability needed to ensure that tax dollars are being maximized to produce real results,” Daniel Lopez, Newsom’s deputy communications director, said in an emailed statement. “Ultimately, the challenge of homelessness and housing must be met not only with dollars, but it also requires strong accountability coupled with financial resources to make lasting progress for our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be eligible for homelessness funding under this budget, cities and counties must submit homeless action plans — in coordination with other jurisdictions in their region — that detail the progress they’ve made.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Short-term homeless services\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There was some momentum this year to move away from one-time spending on homelessness. More than two dozen state legislators \u003ca href=\"https://www.calcities.org/docs/default-source/advocacy/ad-67-2023-24-budget-request-housing-and-homelessness.pdf?sfvrsn=4fbcd4a9_3/AD-67-2023-24-Budget-Request-Housing-and-Homel\">signed a letter in May supporting the League of California Cities’ demand (PDF)\u003c/a> for $3 billion a year. A coalition led by the California State Association of Counties also called for ongoing funds and drafted bill language it urged legislators to adopt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that proved to be a tough ask with Newsom’s office projecting a $30 billion-plus budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, city and county leaders, legislators and homelessness nonprofits have been clamoring for a source of ongoing funding to tackle the homelessness crisis. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/luz-rivas-1974/\">Assemblymember Luz Rivas, a Democrat from Arleta\u003c/a>, pushed a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB71\">bill in 2021\u003c/a> that would have established ongoing homelessness funding by \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/13/new-bill-would-fight-homelessness-by-raising-californias-corporate-tax-rates/\">raising taxes on large businesses\u003c/a>, but the bill died without making it out of the Assembly. Last year, California voters rejected a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/31/could-betting-on-sports-games-help-solve-californias-homelessness-crisis/\">ballot measure to legalize sports betting\u003c/a>, which would have directed fees and taxes from those wages into a fund for homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baglietto, of Hospitality House, says that type of permanent funding could have helped save her organization’s Grass Valley outreach program.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hospitality House and the Grass Valley Police Department received $575,000 in 2020 through a state violence intervention program. The city put the money toward homeless outreach as a way to prevent unhoused people from experiencing violence in encampments, and also to reduce confrontations between police and unhoused people. By the time the grant ran out this year, Grass Valley’s crime rate had improved and the city was no longer eligible for the money, Baglietto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the first time the nonprofit was forced to scramble because of unreliable state funding. Hospitality House’s 65-bed homeless shelter was once largely funded by state grants. Several years ago, the state changed how that money was allocated — focusing on permanent housing instead of shelter — and Hospitality House’s portion dried up. So the nonprofit cobbled together funding from a dozen different sources to fill the hole left by the state money, Baglietto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Hospitality House keeps its shelter open through money from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/california-medi-cal-reform/\">CalAIM, Newsom’s recent Medi-Cal expansion\u003c/a>. The nonprofit still has a “massive” gap, which it is temporarily filling with federal COVID funds designed to help businesses retain employees. That money runs out next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know each year where the funding is going to come from,” Baglietto said. “It’s kind of a nail-biting scenario.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Havoc’ for California nonprofits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Union Station Homeless Services, which coordinates programs throughout the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County, faces the same issues, said CEO Anne Miskey. Every budget cycle, her team has to spend two or three months piecing together their financing as the funding they get from the state changes or ends. Sometimes, the parameters for a state grant shift and clients Union Station has been working with for years suddenly are no longer eligible.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is just creating havoc in our sector,” Miskey said. “And this is why people are leaving. It’s not the clients. It’s not the work. It’s this piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new state budget has some new language around homelessness funding. It requires that anyone applying for a grant be part of a regional plan that lays out the specific roles and responsibilities of each participant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was something the \u003ca href=\"https://www.counties.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/at_home_-_accountability_details_-_final_5-19-23.pdf?1684533540\">California State Association of Counties pushed for (PDF)\u003c/a>, arguing that currently cities, counties and other groups too often fight over who should be building shelters, offering mental health help or providing other homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also promises that it is the Legislature’s “intent” to provide additional the same funding in the 2024-25 fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not enough, said Graham Knaus, CEO of the California State Association of Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Counties cannot budget based on legislative intent,” he said. “Nobody can. We certainly can’t make multi-year commitments based upon intent where there’s no clarity about what’s going to happen next year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "More California Armenians Are Moving Back to Their Parents' Native Land",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hovik Manucharyan got on a plane and flew to a country at war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was fall 2020 and he felt drawn back to his home country of Armenia to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not alone. Many Armenians who’ve grown up outside the country — often in California — are moving back to their homeland in a kind of reverse migration. They’re seeking a closer connection to their culture, and community, and are using skills they gained in the U.S. to make a difference in a country that many know more from stories than from experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This reverse migration is making an impact. Californian transplants have started businesses and nonprofits. Some work in Armenia’s government. Others have helped expand Armenia’s tech sector or work to develop infrastructure in this small country that is still recovering from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nagorno-karabkah-drones-azerbaijan-aremenia/2020/11/11/441bcbd2-193d-11eb-8bda-814ca56e138b_story.html\">44-day war\u003c/a> with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18270325\">Nagorno-Karabakh\u003c/a>, which is populated by ethnic Armenians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armenian immigrants in the United States, like Manucharyan, rallied to send aid to Armenia during the war when entire towns fell to Azerbaijan and thousands of Armenians were \u003ca href=\"https://www.unhcr.org/am/en/persons-in-refugee-like-situation\">displaced\u003c/a>. The conflict with Azerbaijan was one of many reasons that Manucharyan and his wife, Suzanna, decided to move their family to Armenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just sort of feels less stressful being here [in Armenia] than far away and hearing about your homeland and not being able to contribute,” Manucharyan said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mikael Matossian, Yerevan, Armenia resident\"]‘I just felt like I wasn’t doing enough in LA knowing that people my age, or younger, were being displaced or killed by the war here.’[/pullquote]Both Manucharyan and Suzanna moved to Los Angeles from Armenia when they were younger and spent most of their adult years in California. But they still feel strongly connected to their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Armenians, the 2020 war provided the impetus to leave California behind. The Manucharyans are part of a growing trend of Californians moving to Armenia full-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt like I wasn’t doing enough in L.A. knowing that people my age, or younger, were being displaced or killed by the war here,” said Mikael Matossian, 28, who relocated to Yerevan last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little Armenia\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are actually more Armenians \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/development-through-diversity-engaging-armenia%E2%80%99s-new-and-old-diaspora\">living outside\u003c/a> the country than there are inside Armenia. Starting in 1915, hundreds of thousands of people fled the Armenian genocide, \u003ca href=\"https://gsp.yale.edu/case-studies/armenian-genocide\">committed\u003c/a> by the Ottoman Empire — which was succeeded by modern-day Turkey — and wound up all over the world. Another large wave of immigration from Armenia started in the ’90s after the Soviet Union collapsed and Armenia became an independent country.[aside label='More on Immigration' tag='immigration']Los Angeles County has the largest population of Armenians in the world outside Armenia, with the city of Glendale — sometimes called Little Armenia — considered the epicenter of Armenian language and culture in California. Armenian is widely spoken in Los Angeles, with Armenian restaurants and schools scattered around the city. For many, the Armenian diaspora in California provides a grounding community. But for some, it can sometimes feel suffocating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to get out [of the community] because I really needed space to be myself,” said Kyle Khandikian, who grew up in L.A. and went to an Armenian school in Encino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khandikian, who identifies as gay, said that when he was growing up, LGBTQ issues were a taboo subject in L.A.’s Armenian community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a kid, I didn’t feel like I could be out and I wasn’t out,” Khandikian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with short facial hair and glasses is photographed outdoors near a stream flowing through snowy terrain.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Khandikian hiking in Yeghegis, Armenia. Growing up, Khandikian wanted space from the Armenian community in L.A. that he grew up in, but as an adult he decided to move to Yerevan to immerse himself in his family’s culture. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kyle Khandikian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he started college at UCLA, Khandikian tried stepping away from the Armenian community. But being Armenian continued to be an important part of his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that if you asked one of my friends from UCLA, ‘Who is Kyle?’ One of the first things they will say is, ‘Kyle is Armenian,’” Khandikian said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kyle Khandikian, Yerevan, Armenia resident\"]‘Maybe one of the reasons why I wanted to come here is to let go of some of the baggage that I was given just by way of being born into this place and this people.’[/pullquote]Once Khandikian got some distance from the Armenian community during college and became comfortable with his sexuality, he felt like his different identities — Armenian and queer — could coexist. That made him want to wholeheartedly embrace his Armenian side in a way he felt like he couldn’t before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he moved to Yerevan to immerse himself in Armenian culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe one of the reasons why I wanted to come here is to let go of some of the baggage that I was given just by way of being born into this place and this people,” Khandikian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A reverse brain drain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many Californians got the bug to move here after volunteering in Armenia during college.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nanor Balabanian, Yerevan, Armenia resident\"]‘We had a common purpose and passion for our people, and I think I realized the power of our unity.’[/pullquote]Nanor Balabanian, 33, visited the country one summer with students from UC Santa Barbara. They set up a computer lab in a remote Armenian village using equipment they bought after fundraising at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a common purpose and passion for our people, and I think I realized the power of our unity,” Balabanian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balabanian turned the work she started during that first summer into a full-fledged nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.hiddenroadinitiative.org\">The Hidden Road Initiative\u003c/a> that helps expand access to education and provides leadership opportunities in rural Armenian villages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Four people and one dog walk down a sidewalk in a city wearing winter clothing.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanor Balabanian, far left, walks through Yerevan, Armenia, with several young Armenian women she works with as part of her nonprofit, the Hidden Road Initiative, on February 9, 2023. Balabanian formerly worked as a teacher in California and now helps provide young Armenians with educational and leadership opportunities as part of her organization. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Balabanian’s work is an example of a reverse brain drain happening in Armenia. Instead of educated, skilled workers moving away from their home countries for opportunities in the U.S., Armenians from Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the state, are bringing their skills back to Armenia.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mikael Matossian, Yerevan, Armenia resident\"]‘I think there’s a really important role for diasporans to play here to support the ongoing development of the country.’[/pullquote]Mikael Matossian, a 28-year-old who grew up in the San Fernando Valley, used to work in the renewable energy industry in Los Angeles. Now, he helps Armenia make its energy system less dependent on Russian gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a really important role for diasporans to play here to support the ongoing development of the country,” Matossian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A sense of community\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even though Matossian had never lived in Armenia full-time before moving to Yerevan last year, he said the country immediately felt like home. Just hearing people talking in Armenian everywhere, the language he spoke with his parents and grandparents back in L.A., gave everything a sense of familiarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But moving to Armenia isn’t a seamless transition for many who grew up as part of the diaspora. Matossian — and many other Californians — use a dialect called Western Armenian commonly spoken by the descendants of those who fled parts of the country that were annexed to Turkey during the genocide a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a beard stands on a a sidewalk in a city.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikael Matossian, 28, stands in central Yerevan on February 12, 2023. Matossian moved to Yerevan last year and rents an apartment from an Armenian man who moved to L.A. ‘I feel like we traded places,’ Matossian said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Californians who move here have to master the local dialect, Eastern Armenian, spoken in the capital. 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The family, who formerly lived in Glendale, moved to Yerevan, Armenia two years ago, to be closer to the country they love. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Manurcharyan’s 17-year-old daughter, Vardine, said American students don’t really care when a new kid shows up in class. But in Armenia, students crowded around her on her first day at school introducing themselves and offering to show her around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools [in Armenia] are more like family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians living in Yerevan described a closer connection to their ancestral homeland now that they live in Armenia. Their families survived a genocide that tried to extinguish Armenian culture.[aside postID=news_11841878 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1920_IMG_2213-copy-1020x574.jpg']But the survivors carried it with them when they fled as if their traditions and language were burning embers that they later rekindled, in places like Glendale, into big roaring bonfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving nearly halfway around the world makes Armenia more palpable, something you can touch without getting burnt, and carry with you when you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Matossian — and many other Californians — use a dialect called Western Armenian commonly spoken by the descendants of those who fled parts of the country that were annexed to Turkey during the genocide a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a beard stands on a a sidewalk in a city.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikael Matossian, 28, stands in central Yerevan on February 12, 2023. Matossian moved to Yerevan last year and rents an apartment from an Armenian man who moved to L.A. ‘I feel like we traded places,’ Matossian said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Californians who move here have to master the local dialect, Eastern Armenian, spoken in the capital. Matossian said he felt self-conscious at times when he spoke after arriving in Yerevan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to fit in here, but I’ve since kind of abandoned that idea — I’m comfortable with my dialect,” Matossian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older Californians like Hovik Manucharyan — who moved his family to Yerevan after volunteering during the 2020 war — say they want their children to grow up with a closer connection to Armenian language and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move was a big change for Manucharyan’s three kids, but they felt welcomed when they arrived at their new Armenian school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Five people, two adults, two teens and one younger child sit at a table laid out with food.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Manucharyan family seated at their home in Yerevan, Armenia, on February 13, 2023. The family, who formerly lived in Glendale, moved to Yerevan, Armenia two years ago, to be closer to the country they love. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Manurcharyan’s 17-year-old daughter, Vardine, said American students don’t really care when a new kid shows up in class. But in Armenia, students crowded around her on her first day at school introducing themselves and offering to show her around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools [in Armenia] are more like family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians living in Yerevan described a closer connection to their ancestral homeland now that they live in Armenia. Their families survived a genocide that tried to extinguish Armenian culture.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story will no longer be updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nUpdate, 4:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The death toll from Saturday night's mass shooting at a Monterey Park ballroom dance hall rose to 11 on Monday after health officials announced that one of the 10 people initially injured in the attack had later died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victim was a woman in her 70s, according to officials. Her name was withheld pending notification of the next of kin. All except one of the other people killed were 60 or older, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office, who on Monday afternoon began identifying victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those identified so far include Mymy Nhan, 65; Lilian Li, 63; Xiujuan Yu, 57; and Valentino Alvero, 68. Two other women in their 60s, three men in their 70s and and one man his 60s also were killed in the massacre, but officials had not yet announced their names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nhan's family said in a statement that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-california-dallas-98c7124322ca58ad5911f26b2b8efbf8\">she was a loving person whose kindness was contagious\u003c/a>, and that she was a regular at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, where the shooting happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what she loved to do. But unfairly, Saturday was her last dance,\" the family said. \"We are starting the Lunar New Year broken. We never imagined her life would end so suddenly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators seeking a motive in the largest mass shooting in Los Angeles County history searched the suspected gunman's home on Monday — located in a gated community for older adults in the town of Hemet, roughly an hour away — and said they found a rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and evidence he was manufacturing gun silencers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna said investigators have not yet established the suspect's possible motive in the massacre during a celebration of Lunar New Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What drove a madman to do this? We don’t know, but we intend to find out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, identified as Huu Can Tran, 72, allegedly fired 42 rounds in the dance studio, ultimately killing 11 people and injuring nine others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran is believed to then have driven to another nearby dance hall, where Brandon Tsay, who works at the establishment started by his grandparents, wrested a weapon away from him and saved “countless lives,” Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's the hero that disarmed the suspect,” Luna said. “What a brave man he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsay took a 9 mm semi-automatic assault weapon from Tran at the Lai Lai Ballroom, Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran was later found dead in his van from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a previous conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm in 1990, but otherwise had a limited criminal history, Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have shared little about Tran, who once owned a trucking company based in Monterey Park, according to California business records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do understand that he may have had a history of visiting this dance hall and perhaps the motivation has to do with some personal relationships. But that’s something that I think investigators are still uncovering and investigating,” said Monterey Park Mayor Henry Lo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran had visited Hemet police twice this month to report that he had been the victim of fraud, theft and poisoning by family members at least a decade ago, Hemet police spokesperson Alan Reyes said. Tran had said he would return to the station with documentation but never did, Reyes added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Authorities searched for a motive for the gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club following Lunar New Year celebrations on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Sunday in the van that authorities say he used to flee after attempting to attack a second dance hall. The mayor of Monterey Park, where the shooting occurred, said Tran may have frequented the first dance hall that he targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials said the rampage could have been even deadlier. A 26-year-old man whose family runs the second dance hall, in nearby Alhambra, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/us/monterey-park-hero.html\">confronted the assailant in the lobby and wrested the gun from him\u003c/a>, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> reported. The assailant then reportedly fled from the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA County Sheriff Robert Luna stressed that the motive for the attack, which also wounded 10 people, remained unclear. Speaking at a Sunday evening news conference, Luna said all of the people killed appeared to be over 50. No other suspects were at large, according to the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect was carrying what Luna described as a semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine, and a second handgun was discovered in the van where Tran died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:30 p.m. Sunday: \u003c/strong>LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said the shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park left five women and five men dead and wounded another 10 people. An armed gunman, believed to be the same person, then entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra roughly 20 minutes later, but was prevented from opening fire and quickly fled the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities believe the two events are connected. They offered no details about a possible motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect in both cases was described as an Asian male. He entered the Alhambra club with a gun, and people wrestled the weapon away from him before he fled, Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By midday, police in tactical vehicles and bomb-squad trucks surrounded a white van in a parking lot. Hours earlier, Luna said authorities were looking for a white van after witnesses reported seeing the suspect flee from Alhambra in such a vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe there is a person inside of that vehicle. We don’t know their condition, but we’re going to handle that in safest manner that we possibly can and try and identify that person. Could it be our suspect? Possibly,\" Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a question, Luna said it was possible that the person barricaded in the van was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities said Sunday they know the suspect's name but declined to release it because it could complicate their ability to apprehend him. But they did release a photo showing an Asian man wearing glasses and a winter hat. The image was taken from the attempted shooting in Alhambra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff declined to say what type of gun was recovered in Alhambra. He said investigators believe the gun used in Monterey Park was not an assault rifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting and manhunt sent a wave of fear through Asian American communities in the Los Angeles area and cast a shadow over Lunar New Year festivities around the country. Other cities sent extra officers to watch over their celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massacre was the nation's fifth mass killing this month. It was also the deadliest attack since May 24, 2022, when 21 people were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people on the eastern edge of Los Angeles and is composed mostly of Asian immigrants from China or first-generation Asian Americans. The shooting happened in the heart of its downtown, where red lanterns decorated the streets for the Lunar New Year festivities. A police car was parked near a large banner that proclaimed “Happy Year of the Rabbit!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebration in Monterey Park is one of California’s largest and had attracted tens of thousands throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days of festivities, which have been attended by as many as 100,000 people in past years, were planned. But officials canceled Sunday’s events following the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Lai, 35, of Monterey Park was stunned when he came out for his early morning walk to learn that the noises he heard in the night were gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mass-shootings\"]“I thought maybe it was fireworks. I thought maybe it had something to do with Lunar New Year,” he said. “And we don’t even get a lot of fireworks here. It’s weird to see this. It’s really safe here. We’re right in the middle of the city, but it’s really safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wynn Liaw, 57, who lives about two blocks from the Monterey Park studio, said she was shocked that such a crime would happen, especially during New Year's celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chinese people, they consider Chinese New Year very, very special\" — a time when \"you don’t do anything that will bring bad luck the entire year,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She took a picture of the activity outside the studio to send to relatives and friends in China \"to let them know how crazy the U.S. is becoming with all these mass shootings, even in the New Year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 8 a.m. Sunday: \u003c/strong>A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club Saturday night at the tail end of a Lunar New Year celebration, setting off a manhunt for the suspect in the fifth mass killing in the U.S. this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Sunday that the wounded were taken to hospitals with conditions ranging from stable to critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer said people were “pouring out of the location screaming” when officers arrived at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. He said officers then went into the ballroom and found victims as firefighters treated the wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer gave no description of the male suspect or the weapon he used, or why police gave no information on the shooting for hours while the shooter apparently remained on the run. He also said police were investigating another incident in the nearby city of Alhambra, where a similar business, the Lai Lai Ballroom, had police tape across its front door and an officer guarding it. Detectives could be seen working near the open back door, where a woman wearing gloves was carefully examining the door handle as though checking for fingerprints. Officials gave no details on what had happened and it was unclear whether this was the incident investigators were examining to see whether there was a connection to the Monterey Park shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer said it’s too early in the investigation to know whether the gunman knew anyone at the ballroom or whether it was a hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will look at every angle,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting happened in the heart of downtown Monterey Park where red lanterns decorated the streets for the Lunar New Year festivities. A police car was parked near a large banner that proclaimed, “Happy Year of the Rabbit!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park is one of California’s largest and had attracted tens of thousands throughout the day. Most of the residents of Monterey Park, a city of about 60,000 people that sits at the eastern edge of Los Angeles, are Asian immigrants from China or first-generation Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days of festivities, which have been attended by as many as 100,000 people in past years, were planned. But officials canceled Sunday’s events following the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tragedy marked not just the fifth mass killing in the U.S. since the start of the year but also is \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2022/08/18/mass-killings-database-us-events-since-2006/9705311002/\">the deadliest since May 24, 2022\u003c/a>, when 21 people were killed in a school in Uvalde, Texas, according to an Associated Press/USA Today database on mass killings in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The database also shows that 2022 was also one of the worst years ever in terms of mass killings, with 42 such attacks — the second-highest number since the creation of the tracker in 2006. The database defines a mass killing as four people killed, not including the perpetrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest violence comes two months after five people were killed at a Colorado Springs nightclub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House said that President Joe Biden was briefed on the situation by Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall: “The President has been briefed by the Homeland Security Advisor on the mass shooting in Monterey Park. He directed her to make sure that the FBI is providing full support to local authorities, and to update him regularly today as more details are known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Merrick Garland was also briefed, Justice Department spokesperson Dena Iverson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting occurred at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a few blocks from city hall on Monterey Park’s main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with strip malls full of small businesses whose signs are in both English and Chinese. 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Two other women in their 60s, three men in their 70s and and one man his 60s also were killed in the massacre, but officials had not yet announced their names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nhan's family said in a statement that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-california-dallas-98c7124322ca58ad5911f26b2b8efbf8\">she was a loving person whose kindness was contagious\u003c/a>, and that she was a regular at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, where the shooting happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what she loved to do. But unfairly, Saturday was her last dance,\" the family said. \"We are starting the Lunar New Year broken. We never imagined her life would end so suddenly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators seeking a motive in the largest mass shooting in Los Angeles County history searched the suspected gunman's home on Monday — located in a gated community for older adults in the town of Hemet, roughly an hour away — and said they found a rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and evidence he was manufacturing gun silencers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna said investigators have not yet established the suspect's possible motive in the massacre during a celebration of Lunar New Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What drove a madman to do this? We don’t know, but we intend to find out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, identified as Huu Can Tran, 72, allegedly fired 42 rounds in the dance studio, ultimately killing 11 people and injuring nine others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran is believed to then have driven to another nearby dance hall, where Brandon Tsay, who works at the establishment started by his grandparents, wrested a weapon away from him and saved “countless lives,” Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's the hero that disarmed the suspect,” Luna said. “What a brave man he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsay took a 9 mm semi-automatic assault weapon from Tran at the Lai Lai Ballroom, Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran was later found dead in his van from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a previous conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm in 1990, but otherwise had a limited criminal history, Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have shared little about Tran, who once owned a trucking company based in Monterey Park, according to California business records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do understand that he may have had a history of visiting this dance hall and perhaps the motivation has to do with some personal relationships. But that’s something that I think investigators are still uncovering and investigating,” said Monterey Park Mayor Henry Lo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran had visited Hemet police twice this month to report that he had been the victim of fraud, theft and poisoning by family members at least a decade ago, Hemet police spokesperson Alan Reyes said. Tran had said he would return to the station with documentation but never did, Reyes added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Authorities searched for a motive for the gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club following Lunar New Year celebrations on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect, 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Sunday in the van that authorities say he used to flee after attempting to attack a second dance hall. The mayor of Monterey Park, where the shooting occurred, said Tran may have frequented the first dance hall that he targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials said the rampage could have been even deadlier. A 26-year-old man whose family runs the second dance hall, in nearby Alhambra, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/us/monterey-park-hero.html\">confronted the assailant in the lobby and wrested the gun from him\u003c/a>, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> reported. The assailant then reportedly fled from the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA County Sheriff Robert Luna stressed that the motive for the attack, which also wounded 10 people, remained unclear. Speaking at a Sunday evening news conference, Luna said all of the people killed appeared to be over 50. No other suspects were at large, according to the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect was carrying what Luna described as a semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine, and a second handgun was discovered in the van where Tran died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:30 p.m. Sunday: \u003c/strong>LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said the shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park left five women and five men dead and wounded another 10 people. An armed gunman, believed to be the same person, then entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra roughly 20 minutes later, but was prevented from opening fire and quickly fled the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities believe the two events are connected. They offered no details about a possible motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect in both cases was described as an Asian male. He entered the Alhambra club with a gun, and people wrestled the weapon away from him before he fled, Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By midday, police in tactical vehicles and bomb-squad trucks surrounded a white van in a parking lot. Hours earlier, Luna said authorities were looking for a white van after witnesses reported seeing the suspect flee from Alhambra in such a vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe there is a person inside of that vehicle. We don’t know their condition, but we’re going to handle that in safest manner that we possibly can and try and identify that person. Could it be our suspect? Possibly,\" Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a question, Luna said it was possible that the person barricaded in the van was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities said Sunday they know the suspect's name but declined to release it because it could complicate their ability to apprehend him. But they did release a photo showing an Asian man wearing glasses and a winter hat. The image was taken from the attempted shooting in Alhambra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff declined to say what type of gun was recovered in Alhambra. He said investigators believe the gun used in Monterey Park was not an assault rifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting and manhunt sent a wave of fear through Asian American communities in the Los Angeles area and cast a shadow over Lunar New Year festivities around the country. Other cities sent extra officers to watch over their celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massacre was the nation's fifth mass killing this month. It was also the deadliest attack since May 24, 2022, when 21 people were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people on the eastern edge of Los Angeles and is composed mostly of Asian immigrants from China or first-generation Asian Americans. The shooting happened in the heart of its downtown, where red lanterns decorated the streets for the Lunar New Year festivities. A police car was parked near a large banner that proclaimed “Happy Year of the Rabbit!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebration in Monterey Park is one of California’s largest and had attracted tens of thousands throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days of festivities, which have been attended by as many as 100,000 people in past years, were planned. But officials canceled Sunday’s events following the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Lai, 35, of Monterey Park was stunned when he came out for his early morning walk to learn that the noises he heard in the night were gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We’re right in the middle of the city, but it’s really safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wynn Liaw, 57, who lives about two blocks from the Monterey Park studio, said she was shocked that such a crime would happen, especially during New Year's celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chinese people, they consider Chinese New Year very, very special\" — a time when \"you don’t do anything that will bring bad luck the entire year,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She took a picture of the activity outside the studio to send to relatives and friends in China \"to let them know how crazy the U.S. is becoming with all these mass shootings, even in the New Year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 8 a.m. Sunday: \u003c/strong>A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club Saturday night at the tail end of a Lunar New Year celebration, setting off a manhunt for the suspect in the fifth mass killing in the U.S. this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Sunday that the wounded were taken to hospitals with conditions ranging from stable to critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer said people were “pouring out of the location screaming” when officers arrived at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. He said officers then went into the ballroom and found victims as firefighters treated the wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer gave no description of the male suspect or the weapon he used, or why police gave no information on the shooting for hours while the shooter apparently remained on the run. He also said police were investigating another incident in the nearby city of Alhambra, where a similar business, the Lai Lai Ballroom, had police tape across its front door and an officer guarding it. Detectives could be seen working near the open back door, where a woman wearing gloves was carefully examining the door handle as though checking for fingerprints. Officials gave no details on what had happened and it was unclear whether this was the incident investigators were examining to see whether there was a connection to the Monterey Park shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer said it’s too early in the investigation to know whether the gunman knew anyone at the ballroom or whether it was a hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will look at every angle,” Meyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting happened in the heart of downtown Monterey Park where red lanterns decorated the streets for the Lunar New Year festivities. A police car was parked near a large banner that proclaimed, “Happy Year of the Rabbit!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park is one of California’s largest and had attracted tens of thousands throughout the day. Most of the residents of Monterey Park, a city of about 60,000 people that sits at the eastern edge of Los Angeles, are Asian immigrants from China or first-generation Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days of festivities, which have been attended by as many as 100,000 people in past years, were planned. But officials canceled Sunday’s events following the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tragedy marked not just the fifth mass killing in the U.S. since the start of the year but also is \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2022/08/18/mass-killings-database-us-events-since-2006/9705311002/\">the deadliest since May 24, 2022\u003c/a>, when 21 people were killed in a school in Uvalde, Texas, according to an Associated Press/USA Today database on mass killings in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The database also shows that 2022 was also one of the worst years ever in terms of mass killings, with 42 such attacks — the second-highest number since the creation of the tracker in 2006. The database defines a mass killing as four people killed, not including the perpetrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest violence comes two months after five people were killed at a Colorado Springs nightclub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House said that President Joe Biden was briefed on the situation by Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall: “The President has been briefed by the Homeland Security Advisor on the mass shooting in Monterey Park. He directed her to make sure that the FBI is providing full support to local authorities, and to update him regularly today as more details are known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Merrick Garland was also briefed, Justice Department spokesperson Dena Iverson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting occurred at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a few blocks from city hall on Monterey Park’s main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with strip malls full of small businesses whose signs are in both English and Chinese. Cantonese and Mandarin both are widely spoken, Chinese holidays are celebrated, and Chinese films are screened regularly in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business offers dance lessons from the tango to the rumba to the foxtrot, and rents its space for events. On Saturday, its website said it was hosting an event called “Star Night” from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seung Won Choi, who owns the Clam House seafood barbecue restaurant across the street from where the shooting happened, told \u003cem>The Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> that three people rushed into his business and told him to lock the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people said to Choi that there was a shooter with a gun who had multiple rounds of ammunition on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong Wei, who lives nearby, told \u003cem>The Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> that his friend was in a bathroom at the dance club that night when the shooting started. 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"content": "\u003cp>Art Laboe, widely credited as the first DJ to play rock and roll on the West Coast, died earlier this month in Palm Springs at the age of 97, after a broadcasting career spanning some 80 years. He coined the term \"oldies but goodies,\" and his beloved radio show drew a racially diverse audience from across California and beyond. California Report Magazine host Sasha Khokha got a chance to interview him for a 2019 story. This week, we're reprising that piece as a tribute to Laboe. Listen to the story in the audio link above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, Feb. 8, 2019:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>[dropcap]I[/dropcap] never knew who Art Laboe was, or what he meant to so many Californians, until I moved to Fresno, and started dating someone who grew up on Laboe's music. We would drive on country roads lined with orange groves and tune into Laboe's Sunday radio show, where people from all over the state would send in lovey-dovey dedications to each other. And then there was Laboe's signature on-air smooch into the microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My now-husband Karl was a low-rider growing up, cruising in his Nissan mini-truck with tinted windows, custom-painted graphics on the side and a booming stereo. He would blast Laboe's show, which played songs by artists like Rick James, Teena Marie, Tierra and the Temptations — from the 12-inch woofers, while waxing his car and cleaning the custom spoke wheels with a toothbrush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time I met Karl, he had moved away from the low-rider lifestyle, but not Art Laboe, or the love songs. He's one of generations of Californians — especially Chicanos and Latinx folks — who've grown up on Laboe's music, first listening as their grandparents did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut-800x958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut-800x958.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut-160x192.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut-1020x1221.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut-1002x1200.jpg 1002w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe developed a radio persona that was daring and rebellious for its time. Here he broadcasts from the Palm Springs studios of KCMJ in 1946 while getting a haircut. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Art Laboe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After all, Laboe has been spinning oldies and love songs since 1943. He coined the term “oldies but goodies” and was one of the first DJs on the West Coast to play rock 'n' roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He still takes to the airwaves from a Palm Springs studio six nights a week from 7 p.m. to midnight, hosting \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ArtLaboeConnection/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Art Laboe Connection\u003c/a> — a show broadcast on more than a dozen stations across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch a tribute to Art Laboe produced by videographer Bryan Mendez:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx6zqCY8GMU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe spends hours every day playing songs that are about the heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Love is a powerful medicine, whether you’re falling in love, or out of love,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Connecting loved ones, in and out of prison\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These days, many of those calling in with regular dedications have loved ones in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's just an amazing DJ. I would listen to him until my last breath,\" says longtime listener Rosie Morales, of Sylmar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 351px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11723897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-1200x797.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe receives thousands of letters from incarcerated people each year. Some envelopes contain a week's work of dedications for their loved ones. \u003ccite>(Bryan Mendez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She calls in every single day with a dedication to her husband Scrappy, who's serving a life sentence in Kern Valley State Prison in Delano. She can't call her husband directly right now, because he's in solitary confinement. But she can hear Laboe smooch kisses sent by her husband into his microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's able to communicate to our loved ones when we can't,\" Morales says. \"He brings that spark into relationships.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re there, man and wife, every night, man and wife, doing it to each other, dedications,\" Laboe laughs. \"Conjugal, but not conjugal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some incarcerated people send in a week's worth of dedications to their spouses or lovers, with a different love song for each day of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723729\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe has been spinning love songs for 75 years. \u003ccite>(Bryan Mendez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Art’s so concerned about the prisoners, because for every person that's inside there can be 10 or 20 family members on the outside affected by that person being in jail,\" says his longtime audio engineer, Joanna Morones, who answers phones to take dedications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He really caters to that family dynamic, you know, and connecting them. We're told every night, ‘I can't go visit him. I won't be able to go see him for two weeks, but I can talk to him on the radio.’ The guys in prison sit there and wait to hear their wives’ voice on the radio,\" Morones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Getting his start — thanks to the WWII draft\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Laboe's obsession with radio started when he was eight years old, when his sister sent his parents what he called \"this box that talked.\" He set up a ham radio station in his bedroom at age 14, broadcasting to his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 18, he walked into radio station KSAN in San Francisco and asked for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no real experience, and he hadn’t yet honed his rich baritone. But he did have one thing: a radio operator’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The station had lost its engineers to the draft — this was World War II. The manager offered him a job on the spot. As long as he changed his last name, which the manager thought sounded \"too ethnic\" for the airwaves in 1943.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Art Egnoian — the son of Armenian immigrants — took the name of the station’s receptionist and became Art Laboe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11723557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35134_1945-KPMO-Art-Laboe-w-Eddie-Rodriquez-s-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35134_1945-KPMO-Art-Laboe-w-Eddie-Rodriquez-s-qut.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35134_1945-KPMO-Art-Laboe-w-Eddie-Rodriquez-s-qut-160x195.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laboe claims to have invented the on-air dedication, where listeners write or call in to send music and love notes to each other on the air. Here he reads dedications with Eddie Rodriguez in 1945, at radio station KPMO in Pomona. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Art Laboe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But his music, and his fan base, have never been whitewashed. Laboe has built a huge fan base, starting with the teenagers who attended his live concerts or dances back in the 1950s. He made a name for himself hosting rock 'n' roll concerts in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte, pioneering racially integrated, all-ages dance parties with live bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can do some nice talking in Armenian. But I can do almost that good in Spanish, too,\" Laboe smiles. \"I’m happy that [our concerts and shows appeal to] everybody. If you come to one of our concerts, you’ll see a mixture, a complete mixture of what we have in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723561\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"Laboe pioneered live broadcast events, talking to listeners from drive-ins and concert halls, and sometimes even pulling stunts like trying to get a lion to roar into his microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laboe pioneered live broadcast events, talking to listeners from drive-ins and concert halls, and sometimes even pulling stunts like trying to get a lion to roar into his microphone. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Art Laboe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 94, Laboe is still hosting live shows across California and the west, wearing his signature bedazzled track suit and a sparkly bowler hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe says he knows people his age always say this kind of thing, but he is nostalgic for the old days — a time when people used to have a little more kindness for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be good if we had a little bit more of what we used to have in the world,\" Laboe says. \"Nevertheless, people are people and they still have the same basic wants and needs. 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I would listen to him until my last breath,\" says longtime listener Rosie Morales, of Sylmar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 351px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11723897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-1200x797.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe receives thousands of letters from incarcerated people each year. 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But she can hear Laboe smooch kisses sent by her husband into his microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's able to communicate to our loved ones when we can't,\" Morales says. \"He brings that spark into relationships.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re there, man and wife, every night, man and wife, doing it to each other, dedications,\" Laboe laughs. \"Conjugal, but not conjugal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some incarcerated people send in a week's worth of dedications to their spouses or lovers, with a different love song for each day of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723729\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe has been spinning love songs for 75 years. \u003ccite>(Bryan Mendez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Art’s so concerned about the prisoners, because for every person that's inside there can be 10 or 20 family members on the outside affected by that person being in jail,\" says his longtime audio engineer, Joanna Morones, who answers phones to take dedications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He really caters to that family dynamic, you know, and connecting them. We're told every night, ‘I can't go visit him. I won't be able to go see him for two weeks, but I can talk to him on the radio.’ The guys in prison sit there and wait to hear their wives’ voice on the radio,\" Morones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Getting his start — thanks to the WWII draft\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Laboe's obsession with radio started when he was eight years old, when his sister sent his parents what he called \"this box that talked.\" He set up a ham radio station in his bedroom at age 14, broadcasting to his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 18, he walked into radio station KSAN in San Francisco and asked for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no real experience, and he hadn’t yet honed his rich baritone. But he did have one thing: a radio operator’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The station had lost its engineers to the draft — this was World War II. The manager offered him a job on the spot. 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Here he reads dedications with Eddie Rodriguez in 1945, at radio station KPMO in Pomona. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Art Laboe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But his music, and his fan base, have never been whitewashed. Laboe has built a huge fan base, starting with the teenagers who attended his live concerts or dances back in the 1950s. He made a name for himself hosting rock 'n' roll concerts in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte, pioneering racially integrated, all-ages dance parties with live bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can do some nice talking in Armenian. But I can do almost that good in Spanish, too,\" Laboe smiles. \"I’m happy that [our concerts and shows appeal to] everybody. If you come to one of our concerts, you’ll see a mixture, a complete mixture of what we have in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723561\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"Laboe pioneered live broadcast events, talking to listeners from drive-ins and concert halls, and sometimes even pulling stunts like trying to get a lion to roar into his microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laboe pioneered live broadcast events, talking to listeners from drive-ins and concert halls, and sometimes even pulling stunts like trying to get a lion to roar into his microphone. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Art Laboe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 94, Laboe is still hosting live shows across California and the west, wearing his signature bedazzled track suit and a sparkly bowler hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe says he knows people his age always say this kind of thing, but he is nostalgic for the old days — a time when people used to have a little more kindness for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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