L.A. County Plans To Expand Mental Health Services; North Korean Disarmament Agreement Hits Snag; A Return To The Moon?; Is Your Computer Safe? The Dangers Of Keylogging; The Fall TV Season
L.A. County Plans To Expand Mental Health Services
Last November California voters approved proposition 63, which will impose a 1% tax on millionaires to expand mental health services for the poor. Los Angeles County has now completed a spending proposal for its share of the money, which is estimated to be about 89 million a year. Larry talks with Dr. Rod Shaner, Medical Director of the LA County Department of Mental Health, and Mark Refowitz, Deputy Director of Orange County Mental Health Agency.
North Korean Disarmament Agreement Hits Snag
North Korea may have thrown a wrench into the new agreement aimed at getting it to abandon nuclear arms. The deal was just signed early Monday at six-party talks in Beijing. But now the North says America must give it a light-water nuclear reactor. Larry Mantle talks with North Korea expert Thomas Henricksen of the Hoover Institution.
A Return To The Moon?
NASA has announced a 13-year plan to put astronauts back on the lunar surface. This will mean retiring the Space Shuttle in the next few years and developing a new fleet of rockets based partially on shuttle components. Larry talks to Bruce Betts, director of projects at the Planetary Society, who is in Toronto at the Lunar Conference, and Michael Coats, a former shuttle astronaut and current vice-president of Lockheed-Martin, which will compete for the new crew exploration vehicle.
Is Your Computer Safe? The Dangers Of Keylogging
Your virus checker is up to date. You’re running the newest version of Windows. You’re computer is safe from hackers, right? Think again. An innocent click on an email link can infect your computer with a “key logging” program that will record your every keystroke – including when you enter bank passwords – and send them to thieves all over the world. The result: people are getting their bank accounts wiped out. There’s a race to stop these hi-tech thieves, but, so far, law enforcement is losing that race. Larry talks to Wes Hsu, Deputy Chief of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section at the United States Attorney's Office here in Los Angeles and Andrew Brandt, an editor at PC World in San Francisco, about what you can do to protect critical information on your computer.
The Fall TV Season
Larry discusses highlights of the Emmys, new Fall season, programs entering their final season, ratings, new shifts/trends in TV programming, HBO vs. networks, and gets an update on reality shows with Chris Lisotta, Senior Reporter for Television Week. He covers primetime network programming and syndication.