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By Tomoki Chien & Claire Qiu

Good morning. It’s Tuesday, and we hope you’ve gotten a good start to your week. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

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An entire San Joaquin Valley city is at risk of flooding over. Historic rainstorms have already left water edging its way up levees protecting the farm town of Corcoran, but officials fear the spring snowmelt could be the final straw that submerges the city of 22,500. The city is in a race against time to raise 15 miles of levee by 4 feet in a matter for weeks — a tall task that’ll require more than 50,000 dump trucks’ worth of dirt.

Kurtis Alexander / San Francisco Chronicle

2.

USC officially dedicated Allyson Felix Field in a ceremony Monday. The field — formerly Dean Cromwell Field — now bears the name of the most decorated American track athlete in Olympic history. Felix, an LA native, was a professional athlete by the time she attended USC to study elementary education; she made her Olympic debut at the age of 18 in 2004.

Staff / Annenberg Media

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California will stockpile an emergency supply of 2 million misoprostol abortion pills after a Texas federal judge ruled against the authorization of mifepristone, another medication for pregnancy termination. The pills are used together in a common two-pill abortion procedure, which can be substituted with a less effective misoprostol-only procedure.

Hannah Wiley and Julia Wick / Los Angeles Times

4.

Metrolink and Amtrak train services will be restored next week after months of stabilizing repairs due to shifting ground beneath a seaside track. The restoration will reconnect LA, the Inland Empire and Orange County to San Diego County. The reopening of the tracks was delayed due to heavy rainstorms in recent months.

Staff / Associated Press

5.

A San Francisco appellate court ruled that “expressive honking” is not protected free speech. The ruling came in the case of an Oceanside woman cited for “unreasonable use of a vehicle horn” after she honked 14 times as she drove past a protest outside a congressman’s home in 2017. The kicker is that the officer didn't show up in traffic court, so the woman could’ve walked free — instead, she filed a civil suit that lead to the ruling.

Staff / The Mercury News

You’re all caught up. Thanks for reading Morning, Trojan, and have a good day. Anna Hsu copy edited this newsletter.

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