Good Day LA Friday, 11/13/2026

Beautiful sunrise here on this Friday the 13th. I love to see the clouds. And if you look at the distance, you can almost see the showers, which is kind of a little bit. It's kind of cool. Depending on where you are here in Southern California. Yeah, you'll probably, you might be waking up to it. We felt some raindrops this morning, some rumbles, some on it. All the above. Good morning, Jen. Good morning, Bob. Passing showers is going to be the name of the game. The bulk of the system, of the first system, has moved through overnight and left behind is just sporadic showers at times today into the afternoon hours. And boy, if you live in some of those communities that the thunderstorms developed over, it brought heavy rain and even some flood advisories, which the flood advisories currently have all lifted. We did pick up a few isolated Cells that is producing light to moderate rain, especially through Malibu. So please be extra careful on the roads because the roads are still wet. And we've got to look at the broader picture here. Currently on the drier side, extending into the San Gabriel Valley and portions of the IE. But just know that upstream, we've got yet another storm that's going to be coming our direction right now. The northern tier of the state getting some heavier rain activity into the Bay Area. It's going to slide a little further south. Arrival time. Some time this evening into tonight, so if you've got plans, especially if you're heading over to the UCLA and Illinois game, go UCLA, you want to make sure you prepare for the likelihood of rain at the Rose Bowl. Temperatures at 57 degrees in Pasadena right now. Temperature highs today will be on the cooler side of normal, mainly 70s. We'll get a mixed bag of sunshine, some clouds, and yes, additional raindrops, and that applies to our mountain communities as well at 49 degrees. Scattered showers for a High deserts as well. Lower deserts on the dry end with just a 10% chance of a passing shower. More details on your weekend, which looks dry, by the way, much of Saturday and Sunday. So you don't want to miss out on my forecast. In the meantime, we're sending over to Stu with a look at traffic. And it's been tough on the roads. That's right, Sumata, and we're going to first show you a big rain cell. Another one might be headed our way. Maybe it'll kind of just run out of steam before it gets here, but right now it's in the Pacific, and it looks like it's heading towards the Port of L.A. Why are we over the Port of L.A.? Well, if you haven't been watching, let's talk about it. We've got major flooding out here. This is going to be in Wilmington. That's going to be where Harry Bridges meets Alameda. Now, they already got one of those vehicles out of that flooded roadway right there. You can see those two cars still in the water. And that big rig, they do have DWP out here. They're working to clear those drains so they can start draining some of that water out of there. Right now, though, Harry Bridges, where it meets Alameda, is closed between Quay and East E Street down here in the Wilmington area. This is the detour that takes you around the closure of that bridge. So keep that in mind if this is your drive this morning. They already have the detour signs out. But this is going to be here for some time at this part of your drive. Plan accordingly. Sending it back to you all in the studio. Good morning. All right, Stu. Thank you. The man arrested for the deadly crash at the North Hollywood Metro Station could make his first court appearance today. Gigi Garcia, live at the Van Nuys Courthouse with a preview on this. Gigi. That's right. Court's set to open at 8:30 this morning. And take a look at the suspect. He's been identified by police as Ihor Demianenko, seen here on his Facebook page. He is behind bars this morning, booked on three charges of murder. The 61-year-old was arrested after Tuesday's crash that killed three people and injured two others in front of the metro station on Lankershim in North Hollywood. A crash police say he caused because he was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Killed in that crash, Dolores Villalobos. Friends called her Doris and customers, she was a street vendor there, often referred to her as the hot dog lady, along with Maria Peck, another beloved street vendor. The third vendor who died has not yet been publicly identified. And while the legal process moves forward, the victim's families are left to grieve. Yesterday, Villalobos' family, including her daughter, returned to the crash site selling items that their mother had left over to help Help raise money now. But for her funeral, they remembered the kind of hard-working and loving woman they say she was. She was just very dedicated to everything she did, very intentional, and you don't really see people like that anymore, and just the fact that she was just an amazing person, a mother, a sister, a friend, a place of comfort for a lot of people. Now, two more women were injured, including 55-year-old Sylvia Figueroa, who is not a vendor, but she had been there helping her friend Doris. She remains hospitalized in critical condition. Her family says she suffered multiple broken ribs, internal injuries, and she's currently intubated. Now, Demjanenko does remain behind bars this morning, and that's because his bail has been set at over $6 million. And Bob and Jen, it does remain to be seen exactly what the Los Angeles County District He'll charge the suspect with, he was booked on three counts of murder. That is the recommendation from the Los Angeles Police Department and their investigators. But ultimately, it will be up to the DA to decide what charges he'll face. Reporting live in Van Nuys, I'm Gigi Graciette. Back to you. Gigi, I hate the idea that this woman's family has to sell her belongings to They pay for her funeral expenses. Do they have like a GoFundMe or do they have a website that people can contribute? There is a GoFundMe, and it's an official GoFundMe, and the money, we're told, is going to be distributed to all of the victims. And I believe there are several individual GoFundMe accounts. We'll have that link on our website, foxla.com. The official GoFundMe is a community group, and they're also working with a council member for North Hollywood. All right, Gigi, thank you. Thank you, Gigi. Now to the fallout from the NVIDIA scandal as the tech company looks for a new leader. Jensen Huang stepped down as CEO after admitting to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy and a businesswoman, Alice Wang. He has also agreed to testify before Congress. Lawmakers want to know if Alice Wang helped smuggle restricted AI chips to China and whether secret NVIDIA information was compromised. The company was also downgraded on Wall Street after the affair. NVIDIA named their CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO, but the president... Weighed in on all of this on social media saying he believes Apple's Tim Cook should be the pick. Okay, there's going to be a grand opening today in Exposition Park. The final frontier for the space shuttle Endeavor. Mario is there with more. Good morning. This is very exciting. Good morning. That's right. The Space Shuttle Endeavour has a permanent home 14 years after that unforgettable journey through the streets of LA. So we're going to show you that a little later this morning. They've got the area prepared. They are going to have 30 astronauts. They've got a grand opening ceremony that they're getting ready for. So right now we're taking you inside of a flight. So they've got the mile-high bathroom. This is going to be interesting here. We're going to take you on a flight to Seoul, North Korea, and just take a look at this. They explain how the bathroom works and If we make our way in, I'm going to have Howard take you inside here because we are first class here on this 747 experience. Now, this is an actual Boeing 747-400. It once flew passengers around the world for Korean Air. Now, it's one of the star attractions inside the brand-new Samuel Ocean Air and Space Center. And what you're looking at is the front 70 feet of this massive aircraft, including its two passenger decks and cockpit. And visitors can actually step inside the airplane and take a simulated flight from Los An geles to Seoul, South Korea, I said North Korea earlier, South Korea. So Perry Johnson, Perry Roth Johnson is the curator here. Walk me through what this experience is like. This is pretty cool. Yeah, so this gives people a sense of what it's like to fly on a real 747. What we have done is take all the windows and put screens behind them and even put screens on the front and on the ceiling to give you a really immersive view of what the terrain would look like at different phases of flight. And for people who fly frequently, it's a different experience because normally you don't get to see out front where the cockpit would look if you're a pilot. But for people who've never been on an airplane, it gives them a pretty good experience and a sense of what it would be like to fly on a real commercial airliner. Yeah, that's a good point. So you probably have maybe two dozen people that can fit in here. Thirty-five. Thirty-five? Okay, that's pretty good. Tell me about some of the other parts of the museum here. Thank you very much. So within the 747, this is probably the most interesting thing. We also have in the back parts of the airplane that we've taken apart, and then around it you can kind of see the history of how we got to commercial airliners. We have a DC-3 just outside, which was the first commercially successful commercial airliner. And on the newer side, we have a Joby Aviation air taxi, which hasn't even been certified yet, but that's kind of like an Uber in the sky. Oh, that's so cool. And we just took off, so how much time do we have left before we get to Seoul? About three minutes right now. Okay, three minutes left. So it's much more condensed, guys. We'll send it back to you. Stewardess, is that stewardess right, ready for the champagne here? That's right. First class, baby. Oh my god, all the way. I love it. It's going to be so cool for the kids, too, to come out there. I know, so much to do there. Yeah. 10 a.m. They open at 10 a.m. 10 a.m. Very cool. Thank you, Mario. Thanks, Mario. So Democrats are facing a new leadership struggle as they prepare for a new era in Congress. Doug Zader has the very latest from Washington on this Friday. Good morning. Good morning. Well, initially, it looked like there was only going to be one candidate for Senate Majority Leader. Now it looks like Chuck Schumer is going to have some competition. Confident I will be elected majority leader. That was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday, confident, he said, that his fellow Democrats would once again make him Senate Majority Leader. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen says, not so fast. Yes, I am planning to run for the Senate Majority Leader. He says he saw a clear mandate from the midterms to shake things up, even among Democrats. The call was really to reject the status quo and to reject Business as usual. I'm supporting Chuck Schumer. Schumer already has support lined up and posted this on X last night. I have the votes to continue serving as Democratic leader, but he will face pushback from a progressive wave of incoming Democrats. He's willing to take risks when it matters. And Michigan's incoming Senator Abdul El-Sayed is already supporting Van Hollen and others on the left are open to change. I will not be supporting Chuck. To be reelected as the Democratic leader. And Democrats now wait for the dust to settle. We're Democrats. We always have difference of opinions and everyone's going to express it and we'll see what happens. There's a lot of time between now and then. I don't see a problem with it. Okay, now Van Hollen thinks that he has about 10 votes or so thus far. The way this works is you just need a majority of Democratic senators to become majority leader. And we don't have a final count yet. There's still that race to consider in Alaska. But you're talking about... Half of 55, or one more than half of 55 or 56, depending on what the final count is. It's like Survivor. It's like Survivor, right? At the end, you don't know who you're actually voting for, and then they come up at the end, they're like, one vote for Schumer, one vote for Van Hollen. I mean, they don't really know who's actually going to really vote for them. That just goes to show you, though, I mean, Democrats are kind of split right now between the progressives and the old guard, right? Chuck Schumer, obviously, representing the old guard. And look, Schumer knew, some of the candidates that Schumer supported ran on the idea of new leadership. So Schumer knew that, and he knew that there would have to be some kind of protest votes against him. But the field seemed pretty clear until Van Hollen decided to throw his hat in the ring yesterday. All right, we shall see. Doug was here live for us in Washington. Doug, have a great weekend. Thank you so much. Thanks, you too. Be right back. Okay, welcome back. Let's talk online scams and security because cyber criminals are really upping their game, meaning we need to do the same. En garde, as they say, right? And your first line of defense is to know what to look for. And here to help us out, Google security expert Charles Carmichael. Charles, thank you for being here this morning. This is especially important, right, as we approach the holiday season. More of us are going to be shopping online. Google actually has a security forecast for next year, and let me take a guess, AI is probably a top concern there, right? It is, absolutely. And first of all, thanks so much for having me. In our report, there's really three things that we wanted to highlight. Number one is we are going to continue to see a surge of agentic attacks against organizations. We've already started seeing it over the past month. We anticipate we're going to see it all throughout the rest of this year and throughout 2027. Second point is that the solutions that can be abused by adversaries could also help defend organizations. And those are things that companies like Google and others are trying to use to help defend against these attacks. The third thing is there's going to be more and more scams given the holiday, so we should be aware of that. Okay, so for the everyday person at home, what exactly are you talking about? What are the big trouble spots that you're looking at where all these scammers, these hackers are really targeting? What should people know? Yeah, just be aware of the communications that you receive, either via email, telephone calls, or text messages, all throughout November and December. Because there's going to be a surge of scammers that are going to try to trick us into thinking that maybe we've paid for a service that we didn't actually pay for, where they'll trick you into calling a call center that's staffed with 100 people, that's ultimately trying to get you to provide a credit card number in order for them Thank you for having me. All the things that you would normally have access to just give it some time and play play with it. Get comfortable with it. Yeah. When I think about like, you know, some people will scan documents or just even take a screenshot of documents, for example, medical bills or or anything that has personal information. They won't think twice about running that through, for example, ChatGPT. But it's like now ChatGPT has all this access to personal sensitive information, right? That's exactly right. And the other challenge that people have is we all like to use our favorite passwords. We use that with ChatGPT, we use it with social media, we use it with the banks. And if your credentials get compromised from one place, an adversary could use that to log into other places. And so think about all the places where you upload very sensitive information that becomes exposed if somebody gets access to your password. So, you know... Doing the two-factor authentication, we're seeing that more and more now, and I think it's also kind of cumbersome for people to go like, I've got to go through now two gateways to get to my account here, and that might be one of the reasons why people don't want to go that route. How critical is it now for us to be using this two-factor authentication every single time you go on to some sort of an account? Yeah, I realize it might feel burdensome to a number of folks that have to provide a six-digit code to log in in addition to your username and password, but I can't emphasize the importance enough about how much... Multi-factor authentication actually reduces the risk of somebody compromising their bank accounts, their email accounts, their social media accounts. And look, right now, there's actually some really great technologies that people have where you could put a certain little device in your laptop and just tap it just to authenticate with multi-factor authentication when you log into websites. And so there are things that actually make security more convenient So when we're talking about two-factor authentication, do we also mean, for those of us who have iPhones, the Face ID? A, what exactly do we mean by two-factor authentication? And B, what type of accounts should we use two-factor authentication on? So when we talk about two-factor or multi-factor authentication, we're basically saying that it is something in addition to a username and a password. So to your point, it could be facial recognition, it could be a thumbprint, it could be a six-digit code that gets texted to your mobile device. It is something that... Tries to verify that you are who you say you are when you try to log into a website. And so we certainly recommend that people use multi-factor authentication everywhere that you can. Because again, people use similar passwords across different websites. And if it's exposed in one place, it can be used to get access to other systems, even if you think it's not as sensitive. You know what's crazy, Charles, that I think I'm a pretty savvy person when it comes to looking at a scam, but they are getting so good. Yeah. When you get these emails that look, and it just so happens that, let's say your subscription to something comes up, just so happens to come up and they're sending you an email and then they're asking you for all this stuff and you're like, wait a minute, let me look at the email where this is coming from. They're just getting that good, these scammers. Where are they coming from? Are these international groups? Are these domestic? Where are these scammers coming from and how are they getting to our emails? Yeah, most of these scammers are operating internationally. There's a lot of countries that they operate out of. And you're right, they are getting better. They're getting much more convincing. I mean, just the other day, I got a call from somebody that pretended to be an employee of an airline that said that my flight was canceled, a flight that I never actually booked. And ultimately, they were trying to convince me and get me concerned about fraudulent charges on my credit card. And they were ultimately, after about eight to 10 minutes, trying to convince me to give them my credit card number so that they could refund My account, which of course I never actually used to begin with, it was just a scam, but they're getting good and I'm a cyber person and I thought that it was a quite effective technique. Wow. We could talk to you all day about this. Unfortunately we are running out of time, but Charles, thank you for your insights and kind of breaking this down for us and making it a bit more understandable and less daunting for our audience. We appreciate you. Thank you so much. All right, 7-23. ABC-123 does not work. It doesn't. It doesn't. You've got to change that password, Bob. Also, I mean, this is like only the beginning. It's only going to get more sophisticated. Especially with AI, right? And you're going to have to use your AI to combat that AI. Right, right. I mean, rule of thumb, right, do not give out your social security number, do not give out your bank account number. But that's the thing, if you're running all this information, for example, like through ChatGPT, like help me understand this, it can contain all of that, your address, your social, so you have to be careful there. Maybe you may have to, yeah, re-program. Especially Buddy. Don't let him get in your bank account information box. Did he address you this morning? He did not. Or who's your AI bot, Jen? Mila. Mila, yes. But she's fired. Oh, okay. Oh, she's fired? Yeah, she is. Oh, I need to hear more about that. She told me all day it wasn't a dog. It was just a pasta. She doesn't like... Uh-oh. She got upset with Mila because Mila agreed with me. Uh-oh. And Mila is her... Yeah, that's right. Hey, Mila, you're working for me. You're not working for Bob. Switch out AIs. Yeah, I saw it. Speaking of firing up, we had a lot of thunderstorms and clusters of lightning and thunder overnight as the bulk of the first system moved through. Now things are improving. We are lightening up in just a few spots, seeing some light to moderate rain activity. You can see here on the map through Malibu, but the roads are still slick due to the overnight rain. So make sure you give yourself extra time to leave home to get to your destination safely. And on the heels of the first system, we have another storm. That's coming our direction right now it's giving some rain activity for the northern tier eventually it's going to slide a little further south and bring in another round of precipitation sometime later this evening into the nighttime and overnight hours and with the incoming storm systems we are dealing with high surf conditions high surf advisory in place through the weekend into Tuesday four to seven feet today increasing to seven to 12 feet for LA and Ventura County large breaking waves and dangerous rip currents stay out of the water. Breaking down the seven-day forecast. We've got 71 degrees with a chance of on-again, off-again showers. A drier weekend, so that's good, with more rain on the way next week. Now, let's check in with Stu with a look at traffic. Morning, Stu. Good morning. Hey, good morning, Samantha. Good morning, everybody. This traffic report brought to us by My Home Sold. Taking a look at that drive, this is going to be the 105. Linwood is where we are. Taillights, those are going to be the westbound lanes coming away from the 710 out towards The 110 freeway. It is going to be a slow and go drive for sure. Give yourself plenty of extra time. Headlights, kind of the same deal. Roadways are still wet, so keep that one in mind also if this is your drive this morning. Just give yourself that little bit of extra time and just be safe out there, everybody. No crashes on this freeway. Let's try to keep it that way. Let's take a look at some traffic hot spots. Hi, I'm Adrian with My Home Sold and we want to buy your house. We buy any house in any condition, no commissions, no closing costs and no repairs. Go to myhomesold.com for a free same day cash offer. That's myhomesold.com. Welcome back. Doctors say a new trend on TikTok is bad for your health and not to mention it's just disgusting. Okay, we're talking about so-called Pheromone maxing. Everything's maxing, right? Now we're pheromone maxing. So there's a myth going around that men who ditch hair washing, showers, and deodorant can trigger a primal attraction for women. The trend relies on primal attraction theory, which proposes that modern hygiene products wash away or mask natural chemical signals and that skipping soap makes a man biologically irresistible. But medical experts say there's no science to it, and they warn that lifestyle could have dangerous consequences, like unwashed sweaty skin, for example, can grow bacteria and lead to painful lumps and conditions requiring surgery. Wasn't this based off of some study where women had to smell a man's, like, underwear or something? Or, like, maybe it was, like, a sweaty T-shirt or something? I've seen these videos, right, where, I guess... Specific pheromones, someone's specific chemistry is attractive to, like, specific people. Right. Right. I dated a guy once who would only take a shower, like, once a week. And he, as he explained it, your body's natural flora is, it's like a self-cleaning oven. I'm like, take a shower, you smell disgusting. Sometimes you don't smell yourself, right? Right. So, like, he probably thought that he smelled good, but you're like, this is not good. Yeah, I'm sure he did. I'm sure he did. It is a thing, I will say, it is a thing for some people. Some people do like that. I don't understand it, but... Some people like their natural musk. Some people, well, not their own, other people's. Let me just ask you something. Could you sit next to me if I didn't take a shower for days and days and days? No. Exactly. And vice versa. Awful. Awful. Don't do it. Shower. Take a shower. Go take, you know what, go right now. Go take a shower. All right, Amanda's off today. We've got you covered in the entertainment world. Entertainment is sponsored by Yama Valley Resort. Sorry, should we bring Amanda back? I'm sorry we bored you. Yama Valley Resort. A classic Christmas novel retold, a chilling book-to-screen horror adaptation, an action-packed heist thriller. Ashley Dvorkin has a look at what's new in theaters and streaming. Tis already the holiday season in Hollywood, Ebenezer is in theaters. Those ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future pay Johnny Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge a visit in a Thai West twist on A Christmas Carol. Known for his horror resume, the director brings a dark PG-13 supernatural tale full of haunts. Let's make some content. Nicholas Hoult, Pete Davidson, Zoe Kravitz, and John C. Reilly lead the R-rated action of How to Rob a Bank. Courtesy of The Fall Guy director David Leitch, the high-adrenaline thriller follows robbers-slash-social-media stars with an FBI agent and hacker on their trail. I feel this darkness inside me. Michael Monroe stars in the R-rated book-to-screen gothic horror slasher Victorian Psycho about a governess at a remote manor where strange occurrences take increasingly twisted turns. There's no such thing as good girls. Netflix has Heartland with Jessica Chastain as a singer who comes out of seclusion to investigate the disappearance of her missing niece. Apple TV adds Being Human about disability rights issues. Activist Judy Heumann, who in 1977 led a historic 26-day sit-in leading to the signing of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Plus, the streamer has the heist thriller series 12-12-12, starring and executive produced by Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, centered around a heist with 12 months of planning, 12 hours to do it, and 12 days to escape. Tell me the truth. Peacock debuts The Good Daughter, with Megan Fahey and Rose Byrne about sisters working on a legal case which forces them to face their own painful past as buried secrets in their small hometown resurface. All six episodes of the limited series are now streaming. In Hollywood, Ashley Dvorkin, Fox News. Thank you, Ashley. A Star Wars prop just sold for an eye-popping price at auction. Darth Vader's iconic lightsaber from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi sold for $5 million. He's been through a bunch of fights. $5 million. It makes it the most expensive Star Wars item ever sold. It was the one, the very one used in the famous I Am Your father duel. Wow. Yeah. That's the one. That's the lightsaber you want to have, right? Five million bucks. For that much money, I hope it truly is the one, right? Hey, let's check in on our poll because it's pop, pop, popping off again. What's your favorite must-have Thanksgiving pie? Most people say the pumpkin, of course. How did banana cream pie get 13%? I love banana cream pie, but... I love a banana cream pie. It's not a very Thanksgiving. I mean, at least key lime pie is not up there. That's very summery, right? Sure, sure, sure. Hey, hey, chocolate. What's up with chocolate? Look at this. Lisa from Sun Valley, what happened to the sweet potato pie? You're not the only one who mentioned that, Lisa. There's other people in our newsroom like, what happened to sweet potato pie? That's right. That's our family's favorite pie. It definitely has to be homemade. Yeah. I bet it's really good. I bet you it is. Sonia from San Bernardino, good morning to you. Apple pie is a must for turkey day. Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, nap, nap, nap. Trip the fan. Evan from Huntington Beach, pecan pie for the win. All those chewy nuts. The sweetness, yum, can't go wrong. I do like a good pecan pie. Me too. Robert from San Dimas saying mince. Hands down, what does he mean by mince? Mince pie. It's like a meat pie, right? It's a meat pie. Is he British? British? How do you even make mince pie? I don't know. Joe from Santa Clarita, pumpkin is king. All the rest of the pies are just subordinates to the almighty pumpkin. All hail the pumpkin. People like the Costco pumpkin pie. They say it's good. I've never had it. They say it's good. Is it good? I don't know. See, if you're going to go with the pumpkin pie, it's all about the consistency, and the crust. I think you've got to have a sweet crust. Doesn't that go with every pie? No, no, it's not no. Not really. You could say that about any pie. Banana cream pie. It's all about, you know, it's the consistency. I like to put a pie somewhere around. Someone give me a pie. You know, sweet potato pie. It's about the consistency and the crust. Stop it. Stop it. Stu. Okay, Martha Stewart. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Stu, what's your favorite pie? Please. Help me out here. What's my favorite pie? Yeah. The holiday pie? Yeah. You know, I totally get that banana cream pie thing. You know, I don't think banana cream pie is a holiday pie. I'm going to have to go with the... Pumpkin. I do love the pumpkin pie, but I'm picky. I'm picky. I'm picky. Let's do a little bit of traffic. This one brought to us by Jacoby and Myers Injury Lawyers. The rain's starting to come back down out here in the Wilmington area. We're taking a look at that closures and the flooding. One of the vehicles has been towed away. The others are still down there. This is going to be a closure as well as just a flooded out road. Harry Bridges in Alameda. We're in the Wilmington area, and if those streets sound familiar, I know you're one of the ones. That drive the Vincent Thomas Bridge. Yes, this is part of the detour. Right now, though, they have an extra detour around the detour already set up for you. So if this is your ride, just keep that one in mind. We're not seeing a lot of traffic. The heavy duty. Sucker, to clear out those drains, has just arrived out here. Hopefully they'll have this dried out and opened up shortly, but just be wary. A lot of the rain is still moving through. We're just getting some rain right now out here. The roadways are wet. Give yourself extra time no matter where you need to be. Be safe out there. Let's take a look at some traffic hotspots. Insurance offer for a bike accident, $5,000. Jacoby and Meyers' result, $500,000. Call to see what your case is worth. 1-800-5-MILLION. Because you deserve justice. And welcome back. I'm meteorologist Samada Khan and good day LA weather brought to you by My Home Sold. We are watching the rain clouds shifting back and forth on again, off again, rain activity is possible, especially coming from overnight. We had some really heavy downpours associated with thunderstorms that roll through during the overnight hours across Southern California. That's part of the main forecast. First main part of this first system, and it's slowly starting to improve. Just to know that later on this afternoon, just pockets of widely scattered showers is possible. We'll bring in a little bit of sunshine in the mix for your lunch hour, and temperatures will be trending just slightly below normal. Nice little break in between rainstorms. The next rainstorm expected to arrive later this evening into the overnight hours, but I have additional good news. Your weekend, Saturday afternoon into Sunday, They mainly dry before Before yet another system moves through Southern California early next week, we are picking up pops of precipitation along areas of PCH through Malibu, a little heavier cell there, and also through Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach, picking up some moderate showers. So just a heads up on your drive. Roadways continue to be slick and we look upstream this area of low pressure, a different system right now delivering rain for the Pacific Northwest into the northern tier of California. Eventually it's going to slide a little further south down the California pipeline and give us another. Another round of rain. Taking a closer look at some alerts. Earlier this morning, we had flood advisories due to the thunderstorms that rolled through portions of Orange County and Malibu. Those conditions, or at least those alerts, have lifted. But what's still in place high surf advisories going on into Tuesday. We've got surf heights today, 4 to 7 feet for L.A., increasing to 7 to 12 feet into tomorrow. Be careful. Stay out of the water. We've got large breaking waves. Stay off those rock jetties and dangerous rivers. Rip Current's High Surf Advisory for Orange County will extend all the way through Sunday. And taking a look at our November highs, we've been dealing, if you remember yesterday and the days before that, consecutive days of above average temperatures and we were dry. And now our overall weather pattern is changing due to the fact that we have a series of storms marching through at least the rest of this month. But there will be, again, sun breaks in between. How much rain have we gathered up so far for the downtown LA area? Just under two tenths of inch of rain. If you recall the Halloween storm, It came through, so it did give us some nice rain. We're anticipating perhaps another quarter of an inch or even an inch of rain from this latest system. Taking a look at our temperature trend, Ontario, we've got cooler than normal today, mainly 60s, rain into the overnight into early Saturday, but drying up, a little pop in the ridge in between systems and we've got a dry Sunday for you before yet another storm is going to be marching through sometime Monday and into Tuesday. Take a look at our future cast. Again, pockets of light. Night rain in moderate times, but also mixed in with some dry conditions and sunshine. Again, this is for this afternoon. And here comes that second round of widely scattered showers. Late tonight, we'll get heavier rain activity as well before another dry pattern going into this Saturday and Sunday. So looking good for the weekend. So you can go ahead and plan a way before more rain early next week. So I'm back over to you, Jen, Bob. All right, Samara, thank you. So it is one of the most uncomfortable conversations that you can have with your parents. We're not talking about the talk. Nope. This talk tends to come later in life about having a plan for when your parents pass away. No one likes thinking about death, talking about death. But some conversations, they really just have to happen, especially when it comes to planning what happens after. How can you open the dialogue with elderly parents who might not want to go there? Our next guest had to do just that. They don't have to be elderly, to be honest. Sarah Kavanaugh's mother was dying of cancer, yet she never asked her mom what she wanted. Her book, Peaceful Exit, is not only Sarah's experience, it's also what she wished she had done herself. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for being here. Thank you for having me. So you kind of wrote the rule book or the guide book for people who might want to open that tough conversation with their own parents. Death is not, it's a part of life. It's something that everybody experiences, but why are we so hesitant to want to have a conversation about it? Well, I wrote this book, Peaceful Exit, to make the hardest conversation in the world ten times easier. 90% of Americans want to talk about death. But only 27% feel comfortable doing so, and when my mother was ill and she had aggressive cancer treatment, she was far away from her loved ones and I really just didn't know what to say or how to ask her what she wanted. And this book is the book I wish my family had had at the time. Right. How do you break that ice? There doesn't ever seem to be, like, a good time to talk about it, really. You know, what's the most opportune time to start talking about it? You were in a situation where you knew that she was likely terminal. Yes. So you feel like you had to have that conversation at some point. So how do you know when it's the right time to really do it? Well, what I recommend in the book is actually to kind of go through a window. Don't go through the front door and sit down with your folks and say, you know, do you want to be cremated? Really go through the window and And lead with love and say, what matters to you, Mom? I don't want to be guessing. What really matters to you? And you can start with one object in the house and tell a story about it. Find something that you love, that your parents have, and start telling stories about it. I think about this all the time because I have parents who are aging. They love talking about it. And I'm like, can you scale back on that just a little bit? But there's this thing called, and I'm sure you know what it is, Swedish death cleaning, right? Where it's like you make sure that you have everything. You kind of scale back yourself. Yeah. And your possessions and you already have everything lined up as far as which child gets what, what you want to keep, what you want to do away with. It's something that in that particular culture is frankly like a part of life. It's a part of the aging process and just getting your affairs together. Yeah. Yeah. It's not so common in America. Yeah. I think we have a consumer culture. We collect things. There's three sections in the first part of the book. making peace with your relationships, but the second part is making peace with your possessions and the third part is making peace with your body and in my eight years of research, these three areas just came sort of to the surface about how we live a better life now and then we're able to be at peace and share what we wish for at the end of our lives. How much of a big difference can this make when it comes to having your stuff together and having a plan and knowing what's going to happen for, you know, your children? As opposed to not having a game plan at all. I mean, it really does put the burden on the child, right? Well, and we've all heard horror stories about someone passing and there's a huge mess to clean up, right? And so this is a gift. It's a gift of love to your loved ones, whoever's left behind to take care of your end of life. I think of when my parents... passed, but they really never had these conversations with us, and we were the ones who had sort of had to think about all those things. So the roles sort of reversed, and you have to have those conversations and start asking what it is they want. I wish I had a book like this, because what are some of the most important things when you start to have those conversations that you really need to start asking? Well, one of the things this book recommends is that you do your own work. And then approach them and say, hey, I read this book, Peaceful Exit, I've kind of sorted things I wish for, and that starts a conversation. The other way to start a conversation is to go to my website, PeacefulExit.net, listen to a podcast together, and then you're talking about a story that's a third-party story. One of the arcs in this book, too, is your death story, because we all grow up with a certain... Education around death like did we have a big loss when we were a kid did did in childhood? Did our parents deal with loss or grief in a certain way that carries with us into adulthood? Yeah, so looking at that death story for me. It was like silence. No one talked about it We didn't talk about grief. We had lots of loss, but no one had the language around it, right? And so then by the end of the book Being able to rewrite that, if you have a negative death story, you come out of it with a positive death story and the ability to talk about it. So it's like working up to that moment where you start to maybe make the plans and ask those kinds of tough questions. Exactly, because I'm fascinated with what holds people back. Why don't you have the conversation or why don't you make a plan? You know, people put it off. It's probably just sad to talk about it, right? I don't know. But it's not sad, though. We celebrate birth. We celebrate marriage. Right. And, you know. You know, it's almost like a good way maybe to get into it is like you're talking about the life first. Tell me about, you know, because everybody wants to know their own family history. Exactly. Right? For a multitude of reasons. But if you take them on that journey, let's talk about. Uh, you know, something that maybe you want your grandkids to know, or we're like, maybe, maybe you can, is there anything from your house that you would like to see passed on to, you know, your, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren, and then you start to get into those kinds of conversations, right? Exactly. Exactly. My first grandbaby was just born, and I'm already thinking about what is it that I want to pass on to her? Right. Like, what's important to you? What is important to me so that I can pass it on to her? Mm-hmm. Yeah. So maybe we should start thinking about this. When you're younger, I mean, like, you don't wait till you're 50 and your parents are older, you know, like, I mean, even to have a will and even for parents right now who are thinking as I get older. You know, in reverse, how to start talking to other kids about, you know, someday we're not going to be around and this is what we love. I suggest talking to kids from the very beginning. There's beautiful books out there, children's books about grief. You know, build emotional intelligence in those kids so they're not afraid to talk to you about anything. And once they're not afraid to talk to you about anything, then grief is just part of life. It's just... Loss is part of life and it's much, much easier. Yeah, I would imagine a lot of your audience too, as you said, is the sandwich generation because you have it on both ends, right? You have like the people who are taking care of their aging parents and then also having to take care of their children. That's right, that's right. It's a really tough place to be in if your parents have made no plans and you don't want to be stuck with the logistics and the, you know, there's lots to happen at the end of life and you don't want to be stuck with that while you're grieving someone's loss. And I suggest in the book that you create a pexit pod, which is the pod of people that you meet with once a year. So you normalize the conversation and once you normalize that conversation, it becomes easier to plan. Normalize it. Use this book as a vessel, right, to have those kinds of tough conversations. Sarah, thank you so much. Thank you. Sarah's book, Peaceful Exit, is available now. And her Peaceful Exit podcast can be found on Spotify, Apple, and, you know, all the usual suspects, the usual places. Right. If you want to talk to Sarah, she's going to be at the Santa Monica Proper Hotel on Saturday to talk about her book. Maybe you can get a little advice here. It's a free event that starts at 10.30 tomorrow morning. I like how, you know, it's so painful to a lot of people, but I like how you also said, you know, it could be beautiful. Absolutely. Thank you. Yeah. Be right back.