Food, Water Safe From Radiation, Health Dept. Says

1. Los Angeles County health officials insist there is no danger to local food or water supplies due to radiation leaking from a nuclear power plant in Japan. Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the county Department of Public Health says no harmful levels of radiation have reached California to impact food produced in the state and the state's livestock and there is no danger in food imported from Japan.

2. A magnitude-3.3 earthquake struck three miles southwest of Malibu Monday night but there were no immediate reports of damage. A sergeant at the sheriff's Malibu/Lost Hills Station says several residents called to ask if there was an earthquake. 

3. Rudolf C. Montiel has been fired as president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles housing authority. A member of the board that voted to fire Montiel says the board has lost confidence in his ability lead the agency. Chief operating officer Ken Simmons has been chosen to oversee the agency on an interim basis while a search is conducted for a permanent replacement.

 4. At 7 p.m. tonight, the Hammer Museum will present a lecture by New York-based writer Tim Griffin, editor-at-large for Artforum on the museum's current exhibition, All of This and Nothing. 

5. Weather today: Partly cloudy with highs in the lower 60s. Tonight, partly cloudy with lows in the upper 40s.

City News Service was used to compile this report.

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