California Prison Proposed Settlement; Oregon & Kentucky Primaries; California Home Sales; Ted Kennedy Diagnosed With Malignant Brain Tumor; Fareed Zakaria
California Prison Proposed Settlement
Larry Mantle talks with Michael Rothfeld, L.A. Times Staff writer, about a proposed prison overcrowding settlement that would reduce the number of inmates in California by moving the low-risk offenders to local county jails and community based rehabilitation programs.
Oregon & Kentucky Primaries
Larry talks with Carolyn Lockhead of the San Fransisco Chronicle, about what the different possible outcomes of today's primaries in Kentucky and Oregon could mean for the Obama and Clinton campaigns.
California Home Sales
Southern California home sales increased 22 percent in April compared to March, as bargain-hunters bought lower-end homes in areas hardest hit by foreclosures. Yet sales were down 19 percent from April of 2007. Larry and his guests Andrew Lepage, analyst for DataQuick Information Systems, and Chris Thornberg, principal at Beacon Economics discuss whether this month's sales increase was an anomaly or a sign of better times ahead.
Ted Kennedy Diagnosed With Malignant Brain Tumor
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have found that a cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Senator Edward Kennedy suffered over the weekend. Preliminary results from a brain biopsy show a malignant glioma in the Senator's left parietal lobe. Larry talks with Dr. Neil Martin, chair of neurosurgery at UCLA's Geffen School of Medicine, about the usual course of treatment and prognosis for this type of cancer.
Fareed Zakaria
In his new book, "The Post-American World," Fareed Zakaria describes a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. Larry talks with Zakaria about what he calls the "rise of the rest" - the growth of countries including China, India, Brazil, Russia, as the ones that will reshape the world.