• The 210 and 118 freeways across the upper San Fernando Valley are closed by the wildfire that started yesterday in Little Tujunga Canyon and is now burning buildings within the cities of Los Angeles and San Fernando. LAT
• Red flag restrictions kick in across the hillside areas of Los Angeles at 10 am.
• Government offices and banks are closed today for Columbus Day. Trash pickup schedules in L.A. are unaffected.
• LAPD chief Bratton will front for Measure A, the city of Los Angeles proposition to impose a parcel tax for anti-gang programs. Rick Orlov/DN
• The LAPD will spend $86 million on overtime this year. DN
• By next spring, Sam Zell's Tribune will need to come up with at least $600 million in cash or be forced to renegotiate the terms of its $12.5 billion debt and possibly sell off assets. LA Business Journal
  Also: Five suggestions for the Times by Jack McGrath of GM Communications. LABJ
• V. Lance Tarrance, Jr., who worked for the George Deukmejian campaign in 1982, argues there was no Bradley effect then and won't be one then. Real Clear Politics
• New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in economics. AP
• Diane Keaton argues that tearing down the Ambassador Hotel was bad environmentally as well as for history. LAT Op-Ed
• Some 3,000 people lined up to apply for jobs at L.A. Live. Downtown News

Plus: Week 3 of Run On, Sara Catania's marathon training blog: A fate worse than death (or at least more likely)

From the weekend:
Dodgers get fired up and win
Big layoffs at KNX/KFWB
That smoke and fire smell
KUSC tops public radio ratings here
Gil Stratton, 86, called 'em as he saw 'em
Obama threat, white powder sent to LAT