LA City & County actions over Chavez claims, LA Unified strike date announced, Extreme Heat day 3— Morning Edition

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Today on the LA Report Morning Edition, local and state leaders are already

promising action in the wake of damning allegations about Cesar Chavez.

We have to make sure truth and trust is restored and we have to make sure we're transparent.

LA unified teachers and service workers set a strike date.

The economy is right now, everything goes up, but our pay doesn't.

And SoCal enters day three of a dangerous heat wave.

Good morning, it's Thursday, March 19th.

I'm McKenna C. Bertson, in for Austin Cross, and this is the LA Report from LAest News.

LA Mayor Karen Bass is set to take action today in the fallout from the Cesar Chavez scandal.

She's expected to rename the last Monday of March as Farm Workers Day,

and announced plans to rename City landmarks.

LA County is expected to take similar action.

A supervisor held a salisse saying she'll introduce emotion on Tuesday.

Governor Newsom says he's open to the same on a state level.

You know, we have to be there for the back of the victims,

and we have to make sure truth and trust is restored,

and we have to make sure we're transparent and people are accountable in that context.

The moves are in response to a New York Times story alleging that the labor icon sexually abused female followers,

including minors, and raped United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Wetha.

Workers in LA Unified's largest union say they'll walk off the job on April 14th,

if no deal is reached by them.

The strike announcement from teachers and service employees happened at a joint rally in downtown Los Angeles.

Boyle Heights Art Teacher Danny Martinez says this wouldn't be his first strike.

They're tough, but worth a while.

I mean, the last strike was raining and we're out there and finding for the cause.

You know, we did get a certain raise and stuff, but you know what?

The economy is right now, everything goes up, but our pay doesn't.

There's still time for the unions to reach a deal with the district.

LA USD says it remains engaged in negotiations,

and is committed to agreements that balance staff needs with fiscal stability.

So Callis facing its third straight day of extreme heat warnings.

Temperatures are once again expected between the mid 90s and triple digits across the valleys and inland coast.

Yesterday in Hawthorne, the extreme heat was compounded by all day power outages.

Michael Walton was among the residents who were pretty hot and bothered by it.

Hundreds of people went out electricity.

I mean, people would spend hundreds of dollars on groceries.

People have kids, pets, older relatives, and it's uncomfortable.

That audio is from our media partner, CBSLA.

A number of sites have set daily temperature records each of the last two days,

including downtown LA, Burbank Airport, and Woodland Hills.

Coming up.

Capability to produce more desionation devices over the course of a month than currently exist on Earth.

By the city of Torrance could become the world center of clean water technology.

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More than a year after the deadly January fires,

a whistleblower from Inside LA County's Office of Emergency Management comes forward.

What I ended up finding out over time is that that is complete smokin' ears.

The troubling allegations about emergency response during the eat and fire

and questions about who should be held accountable.

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A SoCal Water Technology Company has announced that it's opening a new

38,000 square foot headquarters in Torrance.

Vital Life says it's designed a portable desalination device that can take

any naturally occurring water source and turn it into purified drinking water.

CEO Jonathan Chris says he picked Torrance because it's a hub of tech engineers.

And their new plant is unlike anything in the industry.

This facility is designed or hiring and manufacturing.

So we will have the capability to produce more desalination devices

over the course of a month than currently exist on Earth.

And that hiring manufacturing is really going to really open up the door to this technology

to people that have been priced out of it.

Chris says the new head of quarters will initially add 70 full-time jobs this summer

and could double that as production increases.

Finally for some sports, the Lakers beat the Houston Rockets 124 to 116

for their seventh win in a row.

One shitch had 40 points.

The Clippers lost to the New Orleans Pelicans 124 to 109.

It's their third loss in a row and they've now slipped back under 500.

In hockey, the ducks lost to the Philadelphia Flyers 3 to 2 in overtime.

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