New this morning: Here is the first video of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, featuring Beyonce’s song, “Freedom,” that Harris has walked out to at her first few events.

We won an Emmy! So proud of our mighty little team at Spectrum News 1 SoCal for taking home the award for Best Morning Show in LA this weekend!

Yes, it was an earthquake. An M4.9 (current estimate) east of Barstow. We have seen quakes this size many times in the Mojave Desert.

It appears the security grant motion, proposed after the Pico-Robertson protest of a real estate event at a synagogue, will be withdrawn. The motion authors CMs Katy Yaroslavsky and Bob Blumenfield just put out a joint statement with Jewish Federation Los Angeles.

Trump tells Black journalists that Kamala Harris "is of Indian heritage ... is she Indian or is she Black? ... she became a Black person." Note the audience laughing at him.

Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, Paul Whelan. Free. Amazing. #IStandWithEvan

SCOOP: Trump didn't want to be fact-checked live at NABJ and was refusing to go on stage — a stalemate so prolonged that NABJ president Ken Lemon was prepping a statement to explain why Trump wouldn't show. As Lemon was prepping it, Trump walked on stage. trib.al/PMgEQrD

While wearing plainclothes and driving an unmarked vehicle, Sgt Michael Pounds shot and killed Ricardo “Ricky” Ramirez, Jr. The single shot went through the unmarked car's tinted window and into Ricardo's chest, according to a press release sent this morning. Ricardo was unarmed.

trying to get sources to leak news

Outside the jampacked federal courtroom where #FlagGaiterCopHater David Dempsey will be sentenced, likely to one of the longest sentences of any Jan. 6 defendant to date. DOJ currently playing video of him standing in front of gallows, calling for lynchings.

BREAKING: David Dempsey will serve 20 years for beating and pepper spraying police officers to breach the Capitol on Jan 6. Three months earlier, the Los Angeles District Attorney failed to charge David Dempsey for a similar assault in Beverly Hills.

The journalist Dempsey assaulted, Sean Beckner-Carmitchel (At the DNC), says he believes that if authorities had actually followed up on his case it might have prevented Dempsey from being able to assault police officers.

Dan Boyle helped prosecute Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter, and weeks after leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office he spoke exclusively to Taylor Schaub about SoCal's multi-million dollar world of illegal sports betting: specne.ws/hePars

Back to school earthquake!

Live video of me during the earthquake trying to remember if I’m supposed to get under a table or get in the doorway:

Can Buffy Wicks please explain why a bill to fund journalism jobs includes an "AI Innovation Accelerator?" Journalism is a human endeavor - we call sources, we witness events, we fight for records and data.

Hey, guys! I’m elated to say I’ve moved to anchoring Fridays 12-4pm on Spectrum News 1! Mornings have been fantastic but this new schedule gets me back in the field covering local politics, criminal justice and breaking news. Please send me the great stories I’ve been missing!

Police in California (LAPD and Sacramento PD) this week keep giving more unlawful orders and threatening press at homeless encampment sweeps. Many videos in this thread 🧵. Some officers just make up nonexistent laws. Starting today in Los Angeles: x.com/shoton35mm/sta…