Running back Keegan Jones #22 of the UCLA Bruins leaps over defensive back Jermari Harris #27 of the Iowa Hawkeyes for yardage in the first half of a NCAA Football game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Friday, November 8, 2024.

A man weeps as Los Angeles City firefighters try to save his burning home behind him on Toluca Lake Avenue in Toluca Lake on Monday, August 19, 2024.

Ezinne Kalu (23), and Promise Amukamara (10), of Nigeria, celebrate in a women's basketball game against Canada at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France.

Quarterback Riley Leonard of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish dives over cornerback Jacobe Covington #14 and Vance Jr., Greedy #21 of the USC Trojans for the first down in the first half of a NCAA football game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles on Saturday, November 30, 2024.

A native of Long Beach, California, Albert is a 38-year-old Romani-American man and part of the conservative Machvaya nation whose traditions date back more than a thousand years ago to their native India. The Machvaya spent considerable time enslaved in Romania and as part of the militia in Serbia before immigrating to the United States in the mid-1800s. Albert is a descendant of a proud and upstanding Romani family that is well know in California. Like many American minorities, some Romani families are experiencing severe economic hardship while other individuals struggle with homelessness. Albert has been living on and off the streets since the death of his mother many years ago. He is currently living in his car.

TEMPLE CITY, CA - DECEMBER 6, 2024 - - A pedestrian’s reflection is caught in the storefront window of Kang Kang Food Court along E. Las Tunas Dr. in Temple City on December 6, 2024.

Hollywood, CA - March 10: Emma Stone celebrates back stage with Sally Field after winning the Oscar for Best Actress at the the 96th Annual Academy Awards in Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, CA.

TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA - Colin McGorty-Weir, 15, has been helping his family clear out their backyard pool which is still full of mud and a “catio,” which got torn off the house during the monsoonal storm on August 1, 2024 in Twentynine Palms, California. Many residents who were hit with severe flooding don’t live in a flood zone so they don’t have flood insurance and are facing the prospect of recovering without and help from their insurance companies and little government support.

The year 2024 was another bad 12 months for wildfires in California. Climate change has contributed to the frequency and duration of these fires. Drought conditions combined with Santa Ana wind conditions fuel the blazes. By the end of July, 726,00 acres burned. That is five times the average for that part of the summer. In one week in September, three major wildfires scorched 117,500 acres and burned 234 structures. Wildfires in California are no longer seasonal. They are year-round.AGUANGA, CA - The plume from the Nixon fire burns over Beauty Mountain and has left 4,500 acres of burned landscape in its path on July 30, 2024 in Aguanga, California.

A couple embraces and finds happiness in an area of Anaheim Street in Long Beach, California, that has many unhoused people living in the area. Although Long Beach has experienced a decrease in homelessness since 2023, there are 3,376 unhoused individuals living in the city; 49 percent of them are chronically homeless. Nationwide, drug and alcohol overdoses are the primary causes of death in the homeless population.

Carrying his own dog Mimi on his shoulders, dog trainer Taky Cheung, of Pasadena, walks along Hollywood Boulevard with clients’ dogs on Thursday, January 4, 2024.