California Fires Intensify, White Supremacist Indicted, Nordstrom to Close, L.A. Spends Mansion Tax Funds

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

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California fire season is off to a dangerous start, with experts warning of a severe year ahead. A California man is indicted for sharing a hit list with a white supremacist terror group. Nordstrom announces it will close its Santa Monica store after 15 years, amid concerns over safety. And the L.A. City Council approves a $425 million plan to use “mansion tax” funds for affordable housing and homelessness programs.

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0:00.0	This is an LA Times Studios podcast.
0:10.0	Hi, I'm Angelica Cornado at LA Times Studios. Here are some of today's headlines from the Los Angeles Times.
0:18.4	Fire season in California is just starting with recent blazes in Riverside and San Bernardino County.
0:24.4	Grace Tui reports that experts are warning that SoCal's modest rainy season may lead to bad fires this summer and fall.
0:31.9	Director of the Wildlife Conservancy, Matt Ron, says the state is quote, on track for a devastating year overall. He added that all
0:40.2	signs are pointing to a hotter, drier months ahead. Meteorologist Sam Zuber says recent fires were
0:45.9	caused by these dry conditions. In addition to the Riverside and San Bernardino County fires,
0:51.1	blazes have broken out in Jerupa Valley, Ordway, and Cable Canyon.
0:55.0	The Weather Service has issued air quality warnings because of the flames, and officials
1:00.0	warn Northern California could soon see fires start to spark up.
1:05.0	A California man shared a hit list of federal officials with a white supremacist group on telegram, according to an indictment.
1:13.0	Reporter Nathan Solis says Noah Jacob Lamb's list included photos and addresses of people he felt
1:19.3	were, quote, an enemy of the cause of white supremacist accelerationism. Lam shared the list with
1:24.9	the Terror Graham Collective, which is a white supremacist group designated as global terrorists by the State Department.
1:31.3	The group has been linked to a 22 LGBTQ plus bar shooting in Slovakia and a knife attack at a mosque in Turkey.
1:38.9	U.S. attorney Michelle Beckwith says people on the list were targeted because of their race, religion, sexual
1:44.8	orientation, or gender identity.
1:47.0	Lamb is in custody in Sacramento County and is facing eight charges, including soliciting
1:52.6	the murder of federal officials.
1:56.2	Nordstrom is officially closing its Santa Monica location this fall. Reporter M.D. Fasasler Rahman says the store's last business day is August 26th.
2:06.1	A spokesperson did not say why the store is closing after 15 years at this location.
2:11.6	Rahman points to safety concerns in the area, including high-profile robberies as possible reasons for the closure. In one recent
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