And so we're encouraging folks how we represent Los Angeles by saying hello, getting to know your neighbors and building bridges, especially right now in this moment.

Learn to say hello in a different language.

It can have such an amazing effect for non-English speakers.

So you can let them know that LA is for everyone and we care about them.

And we're trying to show the world what LA is really about.

Well, my dear friend Ugo was talking and reminded me that we had our hello moment too.

I get elected to the City Council.

Ugo gets liked to the city council.

Folks were just assuming who we were and telling us who we were and that we wouldn't get along.

You know what we did?

We just said hello.

We had coffee and we sat down and we talked, and as we are talking, we realized what is inevitable in every one of these conversations that you have with someone who you don't know.

You create connection.

Begins with hello, but it it ends with what do we believe together.

Just say hello is una campagna que serve com un recordatorio atelinos que para connectarnos.

El desir hola, el decid buenos días, buenas tardes, buenas noches.

People just saying hello, it seems like a small gesture, but it goes far.

And we want to be intentional to give people that vehicle to know that it's okay to just say hello to break down barriers and to build bridges for a better Los Angeles.

LA City Wreck and Parks department joined with the Clippers and took a pickup basketball league to a citywide level.

Opening up sports as an outlet for young men has been a game changer for them, both on and off the court.

Been going on for years.

We've been running it here, and this is a special league.

The league been around for a while.

It used to be pickups throughout the city with just different communities and stuff like that.

The Clippers took it over and working in conjunction with Wrecking Parks.

Every community has a wreck and park.

Yeah, people not sure if they could come here and play and stuff like that, but people like us, we make sure everything is safe for those different communities that can come here.

You know, with recreation and parks, our kids be here from four to like they 16 years old.

And then after that, you know, they all bone they own.

They go to high school, they go to college, and then, you know, they don't have nothing to do.

Now if they don't make it in college or they just out there in the streets, anything could happen to them.

You know what I mean?

So it's important that we cater to our 18 to 25 year old because you know that's still development.

We gotta have something for those kids to do too as well.

Sports has opened up many doors for me to be who I am now.

I go to Cal State Dominguez called Toros.

As of right now, I'm a physical education teacher.

Right now that's my major at uh Cal State Dominguez.

I got two degrees from LA Harbor College as well.

So, you know, but I'm an inner city kid that made some a lot of mistakes, but uh that's why I'm here to share my knowledge.

They need to have more programs like this.

For the kids that have these kind of opportunities is just no comparison.

We get all walks alive.

You got people that actually are in college that maybe to be able to get to a bigger, higher level.

We have people that are not in college that actually gets in because of this program.

It's something that is that they need all of us need it.

It's a good thing for all of the communities because you got some real competition out here.

You got a lot of dudes that's upscale and in basketball talent.

These are the kind of things that we try to provide and have these young men come together and have a good time.

The city's emergency management department is making sure a new generation is prepared.

And it's Camp Ready LA.

Young Angelino's got insight into emergency response procedures and the opportunity to check out careers in the field.

We're here at the City of Los Angeles emergency operations center, and this week is our fourth annual Camp Ready LA week in the City of LA.

So Camp Ready LA is a week long program that we facilitate here at the emergency management department.

It's designed to expose 18 to 24 year olds about the profession of the emergency management and other public safety sectors and disciplines.

The campers go through a number of different activities over the course of the week that will familiarize them with emergency management planning topics, emergency response procedures like fire extinguishers and first aid.

And ultimately, they'll leave at the end of the week with a better skill set and familiarization with the emergency management profession.

I've enjoyed learning more about emergency management, about CRT, the crisis, a response team.

I didn't know that existed, especially here in Los Angeles.

We had a course on the bleed out.