The iconic Ferris wheel on the Santa Monica Pier will light up nightly during the Paris Olympics to cheer on Team USA beginning Friday.

The nightly light display will feature the five colored rings to symbolize the Olympic rings, a 90-foot-tall waving American flag to celebrate Team USA, a French flag for the current host country and the American flag to represent the games returning to the United States, specifically Los Angeles in 2028.  

The Ferris wheel will be lit up from sunset until 12:30 a.m.

The Pacific Wheel is the world’s only solar-powered Ferris wheel, featuring 174,000 LED lights mounted on its 40 spokes and two hubs. The wheel’s lighting system features 16.7 million color value combinations to display dynamic, custom, computer-generated lighting entertainment, according to a news release.

Visitors can visit the theme park from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. to catch a ride on the nine-story carnival ride, which takes riders to heights of more than 130 feet over the Pacific Ocean.

If you can’t make it out to the Santa Monica Pier yourself, Pacific Park offers an online stream of the Ferris wheel.

Police asked the public for help this week in their search for a man who attacked a Target security guard with a skateboard in Santa Ana last month.

The altercation occurred on June 10, when the security guard asked a trespassing suspect to leave the store located at 1441 W. 17th Street, according to the Santa Ana Police Department.

“The suspect struck the victim multiple times with his skateboard, causing injuries, and then fled the store,” the Police Department stated in a post on Instagram.

Video embedded on the post shows the suspect swinging a skateboard at the guard and then running out of the store.

The attacker was described as a White man between 18 and 25 years old. He had a thin build, curly blonde hair, and was wearing a black sweatshirt, light-colored shirt, blue plaid shorts, black socks and black shoes.

Anyone with information was asked to call police at 714-245-8441.

Fire crews in Riverside County were battling a fast-moving wildfire Thursday night that prompted officials to issue mandatory evacuations.  

The “Macy Fire” was first reported around 5:45 p.m. near the intersection of Orange and Macy streets in El Cariso, an unincorporated community in Lake Elsinore, according to a Riverside County Fire Department post on X, formerly, Twitter.  

Fire officials said the approximately 50-acre brushfire was burning at a rapid rate of spread and that additional equipment and crews had been requested.  

Just before 7 p.m., flames were able to jump Highway 74, prompting officials with the California Highway Patrol to shut down both directions of the highway between San Juan Capistrano and Lake Elsinore, City News Service reported.  

In an update at 8:30 p.m., officials reported that the fire had grown to 134 acres and was 0% contained.  

Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for all properties: 

• South of Grand Avenue 

• East of Fairview Street 

• West of Highway 74 

Elsinore High School, located at 21800 Canyon Driver in Wildomar, was serving as a temporary evacuation center, officials said.  

A photojournalist with Inland News, a news video service, reported that at least three structures have been destroyed by the flames. KTLA has not yet confirmed that information with RCFD.

A night-flying helicopter, according to CNS, was requested to make water drops to help crews on the ground. Firefighting aircraft restricted to daylight hours were forced to leave the area.  

So far, no injuries have been reported. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.