Sen. Padilla responds to Noem's firing, Palisades mobile home lot for sale, Riverside County donkey attacks — Evening Edition

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Tonight on the L.A.

Report, evening edition.

Two L.A.

Leaders layout different visions for the city's homelessness agency.

Senator Alex Padilla responds to the firing of Homeland Security Secretary Christy

Nome.

And a rare source of affordable housing in the palisades was lost in the fire and is now

up for sale.

It's Thursday, March 5, I'm Julia Paskin, and this is the L.A. Report Evening Edition

from L.A.S. News.

As the L.A. City Council weighs polling funding from the Regional Homeless Services Agency,

two top elected officials are laying out conflicting visions.

Mayor Karen Bass and County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath each issued statements yesterday.

After the City Council discussed polling $300 million in annual funding from the Homeless

Disagency, known as LASA.

Bass is urging the council not to pull the funds too quickly without a plan.

She pointed to an upcoming city office meant to strengthen oversight.

Horvath says the current system is not working, and that's why the county's polling ITS funding

from LASA.

Horvath says she's ready to work with the City Council, which could decide in the coming

weeks.

Nick Urda, L.A.S. News.

President Donald Trump has fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Nome in a social media

post today.

He said Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullin of Oklahoma will replace her.

He needs to be confirmed by the Senate to take the role permanently.

California Senator Alex Padilla, who called on Nome to resign at a Senate hearing this

week, says this was long past due.

Starting off of the deadliest year, the highest number of people dying in ice custody in

2025, and we're on pace this year for even more, it couldn't come quick enough.

Padilla was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference in LAS last

year, coming up in a moment and update on mysterious attacks lately on wild donkeys

in Riverside County.

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A dozen wild donkeys or bros have been mysteriously attacked in Richie Canyon in Riverside County

in the last three months.

Madison Amand, with our California newsroom partner KVCR, reports local donkey advocates

are baffled.

Herds of wild donkeys have roamed the canyons between Riverside and San Bernardino County

for more than a century.

Recently, some have been found with deep gashes in their hind legs.

Others have had their ears and tails ripped off.

Leslie McDowell works at the SoCal equine hospital, which has treated the burrows.

She says burrows have been attacked in the past, but this is unusual.

These are very violent, whatever it is that's attacking them is really doing a number on

them.

McDowell says two dead donkeys were sent to a state lab to try to figure out what caused

their injuries.

That's KVCR's Madison Amand.

A Pacific Palisades mobile home park could be permanently lost now that the owners have

quietly put the burned property up for sale.

David Wagner has more.

Before last year's fire, the beachfront Palisades Bowl was a rare source of affordable housing

in the neighborhood.

Residents want to return and rebuild, but LAS obtained a confidential sales document

pitching the park as a blank canvas for redevelopment.

A lot of our residents are already traumatized and still grieving.

John Brown is president of a group of displaced residents.

But the park owners communicating with us, we don't really know what's going on.

Owners did not respond to LAS requests for comment.

Local politicians say they're fighting to get residents back to their former homes.

David Wagner, LAS News.

LAS Metro and the Department of Transportation broke ground today on a protected lane to

connect a three mile gap of bikeway in the San Fernando Valley.

When the Chandler path extension is finished, it will result in a 21 mile continuous protected

bicycle lane from Chatsworth to Burbank.

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