These amazing families are going to have the opportunity to receive a huge fire safe to protect all of those valuables in their homes.

Thank you so much.

In light of all the recent events that we've had going on in the city of Los Angeles with the Palisades fire and the repetitive nature of brush fires in the Southern California area.

This is just an opportunity to remind the citizens of the importance of being prepared.

As far as the fire department helping, I really appreciate that it's something within my local neighborhood that I could have access to.

We've had, I would say over 200 uh households that have come through or are coming through right now.

I know that this is gonna be a difficult holiday season for a lot of people.

One for all of those families that were impacted by the fire, and I just think about the families who are not at home right now because they lost their homes in the fires.

The whole point is to support the community, right?

We identify a need in the community and we reach out and uh try to form a public private partnerships so that it benefits the community.

So we want you to know that your city still stands with you and will always stand with you.

So stay safe, stay strong.

Angelinos, we will always stick together.

The city's economic and workforce development department is connecting Angelinos to job opportunities.

At a recent fair, the department provided personal resume and interview coaching for those seeking jobs and brought in employers who were hiring on the spot.

So that's the first day of going and signing here.

Right now we're at LA Mission College, and this event is a partnership between LA Family Housing and AJCC, and it's job fair higher hope.

So first, of course, they need to enroll in our program.

After that, we do have resume workshops, interview workshops, job ready workshops.

So once you accomplish those three, your job ready.

And then you can attend any of these events because we want you to be job ready.

A lot of these city jobs are sticking out because you don't find these everywhere.

This is a good resource for that.

So we have the LAPD here, the Marine Corps here, retail T warehouse work.

I feel good about the city putting on events like this because this is very necessary.

We're hiring on this spot, uh, no barriers here.

You can just walk right in, sign up at our sign-up table, and receive any of the services.

Yeah, I want to say I really recommend this event because it's got a lot of resources and a lot of jobs that's hiring right now.

If you feel hesitant or unsure about coming out to one of these events, there's a place for everyone and there's a resource for everyone.

Speak one-on-one with the employers.

So we're all here to lift you up and help you.

We try to eliminate all the intimidation here and bring the resources to you.

Jackie Goldberg is a community legend at the junction of policy, law changes, civic engagement, and leadership.

In a fitting tribute to her many accomplishments, a junction on Sunset in Silver Lake has been renamed in Goldberg's honor.

We're here in the heart of Silver Lake Sunset Junction, but today we are renaming it Jackie Goldberg Sunset Junction.

We know that she was a councilwoman for many years, an assembly woman, a school board member, resident of this district, and so we're honoring her for all the things she's done to make the city a better place.

She sent everything from authoring LA's landmark living wage to domestic partnership law that I co-authored with her that allowed all the rights of marriage to same-sex couples.

It's hard to talk about all the things that she accomplished.

But it's great that we're recognizing her with five different signs for Jackie Goldberg Square, each one talking about some of her major accomplishments.

Very few will actually be able to say that they did so much for so many, as Jackie, no doubt can say.

For the school district, Jackie is an iconic leader.

She was a teacher.

She's been a leader, a board member, a board president.

She has always advocated for that which is right, righteous, and rightful for everybody.

It is a great day for Los Angeles.

Jackie is somebody who is such a tenacious fighter, and she is unapologetic about her values and a woman who represents the LGBTQ Plus community.

She's representing a big voice that is sorely needed in all the positions that she served, and she's somebody that I look up to.

And I'm getting the honor, which I think is quite remarkable, but I'm I'm overwhelmed.

Mayor Bass announces the stormwater capture from the recent rains.

And LA Zoo is celebrating the birth of a new baby gorilla.

The stories up next on City Beats.

Mayor Karen Bass announced recent rains in LA have helped to push the captured stormwater total to over five billion gallons.

Since October 1st, LA's Department of Water and Power estimates that close to 5.5 billion gallons have been captured, enough to meet the annual water needs of around 68,000 households.

The department captures rainwater using residential rain barrels and cisterns, stormwater infrastructure, and large spreading grounds like those in Tahunga.

Mayor Bass noted that city investments are helping to improve local water supply, reduce runoff into the ocean, and enhance LA's overall resilience.

For more information, visit mayor.lacity.gov slash press.

The Los Angeles Zoo is celebrating the birth of a new baby gorilla, bringing the number of great apes born at the zoo this year to five.

In the last four months, the LA Zoo has seen the birth of three chimpanzees, one orangutan, and this new baby gorilla.

The new baby has not been named yet, and its gender has not been identified so far.

They have a sister, Angela, who was born in 2020, and the whole family can be seen at the Campo Gorilla Reserve area of the zoo.