Homeless Camping Ban Lifted in Echo Park

Hour 1 (8.21) The City Council voted 10-3 to lift camping bans at a dozen sites in Echo Park, Silver Lake and Hollywood. Conway went to City Hall and then to the encampments to find out what actually changed.  6:05 PM — Extreme heat warning through Saturday, with the Valley running near 109. We say goodbye to one of our best I.T. guys, Dave Shuttera. Then the camping ban: Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez got 12 anti-camping zones in his district rescinded — the first time the city has ever pulled a 41.18 designation back. Conway went looking for the real reason, and it isn't the one on the council floor.  6:20 PM — Somebody backed a car up to Paramount City Hall at 2:15 in the morning and walked off with the kneeling soldier and the bronze rifle from the Armed Forces Memorial. LASD Major Crimes puts the pair at about $100,000. The same memorial got sawed up in May of last year. Los Angeles is now the wire-and-metal theft capital of the country, and this is what that looks like when it comes to a war memorial.  6:35 PM — We love our listeners, but some of them listen too closely. A green object landed on the floor at Crypto.com Arena during the third quarter of Atlanta's 124-88 win over the Sparks. Angel Reese spotted the guy from the bench, pointed him out, and security had him before he got to the exit. He was wearing a Lakers jersey.  6:50 PM — NOAA's Climate Prediction Center now puts a very strong El Niño above 90% for this fall and winter and gives October through December a 69% chance of an event bigger than anything on the books since 1950. Daniel Swain and the European model have California at 70-100% odds of a top 20% wettest winter. Get the sandbags now, not in December. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.