In hour 1 Chris Merrill dives into the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown and its very real impact on Southern California — from LAX staffing shortages to Joshua Tree closures and delayed SNAP benefits. Then we shift to a developing corruption case tied to Governor Newsom’s former chief of staff, a decade-long romance-scam identity theft involving a Palm Springs trainer, and the county-wide emergency alert misfire that had half of L.A. wondering what went wrong. A full hour where national politics crash directly into SoCal life.

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