5 California Things to Know for Today

Your daily look at late-breaking California news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. WILDFIRES CLEANUP

Bulldozers, front-loaders scraping up debris from thousands of homes and buildings destroyed by wine country blazes.

2. NEW PUBLIC BEACH

Mile of shoreline will become Santa Barbara County public parkland in settlement over unpermitted development on huge ranch.

3. UBER

British panel rules Uber drivers are workers, not independent contractors.

4. SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Jenny McCarthy says Steven Seagal sexually harassed her during an audition in 1995.

5. JOHN HILLERMAN

Actor who played stuffed-shirt Higgins in 1980s TV series “Magnum, P.I.” has died at 84.