

9/11 25th Anniversary: Ground Zero to LA
Hour 1 (9.11) Twenty-five years on, the names were read aloud again — 184 at the Pentagon, all 2,977 in Lower Manhattan. Tim's got the whole day, plus a nursing home burning in Glendale. 6:05 — Fire tears through a nursing home on West Mountain Street in Glendale, near Brand Park. Firefighters co…

Sunset Blvd Road Diet: 14 Deaths Since 2014
Hour 2 (9.11) Twenty-five years on, the names were read aloud again — 184 at the Pentagon, all 2,977 in Lower Manhattan. Tim's got the whole day, plus a nursing home burning in Glendale. 6:05 — Fire tears through a nursing home on West Mountain Street in Glendale, near Brand Park. Firefighters co…

El Nino Sea Level Rise: A Foot by October
Hour 3 (9.11) A slow planetary wave is pushing up the coast and will raise California sea levels about a foot by mid-October — roughly what the last hundred years of rise added, all at once. 8:05 — A coastal Kelvin wave that started at the equator hit South America and turned north at about six m…

9/11 Airspace Shutdown: A Pilot Remembers
Hour 4 (9.11) At 6:45 a.m. our time, the FAA shut American airspace for the first time in history — more than 4,500 planes in the air, all of them ordered down. Police helicopters were one of the only exceptions. 9:05 — A massive American flag unfurled down the Pentagon wall in the rain at sunris…

Pests, Payouts & the NFL Down Under
Hour 1 (9.10) Bugs, embezzlement, remembrance, and the NFL in Australia. We start with the pests taking advantage of this heat and humidity, then the FBI arrest of an Orange County booster club treasurer accused of draining more than $400,000 from a high school football program. We take time to rem…

AI Doomsday, a Billion-Dollar Fire & the Wrong House
Hour 2 (9.10) The alarm bells are coming from inside the building this hour. We start with the Anthropic researcher who quit and warned that AI could kill us all by 2030 — and the company insider who agreed with him. Then a billion-dollar lawsuit over the Boyle Heights warehouse fire, plus two Delt…

Popcorn, Pricey Vegas & a $2,000 Phone That Folds
Hour 3 (9.10) The 8 o'clock hour is about what things cost and who's paying. Record box office numbers, and it's not just the movies driving them. Airfare into Vegas jumping at double the national rate. The Rams' trip to Australia that didn't go according to plan. New COVID shots, a shrinking plane…

Quitting, Suing, Squatting & Spending
Hour 4 (9.10) Three stories about consequences and one about a man who picked the wrong place to squat. We open by remembering two L.A. Kings scouts lost on 9/11, twenty-five years later. Then the billion-dollar lawsuit over the Boyle Heights warehouse fire, plus two Delta flights that lost cabin p…

Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill Fights Eviction
Hour 1 (9.09) Eight Dana Point homes red-tagged, one already in the ocean, 75 yards of beach gone. In Sherman Oaks, In-N-Out keeps its lease. Pineapple Hill got 60 days. (155 characters) 6:05 — Football is back, which is the only good news in a day like this one. It's 108 in the Valley, Timmy's wi…

Elsinore Ring: NASCAR Star's $400M Track
Hour 2 (9.09) A retired NASCAR driver wants to drop a $400 million racetrack and 275 garage condos on Lake Elsinore. Membership: $300,000. Rooftop helipads optional. (151 characters) 7:05 — Another 7-foot-high tide tonight between 8 and 10, on top of a week of Tropical Storm Marie swell that damag…