How are sequester cuts affecting CA's ability to fight wildfires?; Immigrant spared from deportation over pot bust 20 years ago; The woman behind the chemistry on 'Breaking Bad'; Can relocation save the endangered Mojave desert tortoise?; How does Netflix's algorithm know what you want to watch?; 'Real World' star and AIDS activist Sean Sasser dead at 44; Ask.fm is the latest hotbed of cyberbullying among teens, plus much more.
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• 6:01
More than 1,400 firefighters and six helicopters are working around the clock to battle the Silver Fire, and that doesn't come cheaply.
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• 1:54
A California Supreme Court ruling yesterday could help immigrants who've had minor brushes with the law. As the California Report's Scott Shafer says, the decision could make it easier for some people to avoid deportation.
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• 15:56
It's finally Friday. Time for a little analysis of the biggest news stories of the week. Joining us from Washington is Atlantic editor Garance Frank-Rutah and back in the Flashback chair here in studio is James Rainey of the LA Times
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• 6:17
As AMC's hit series returns this Sunday, KPCC's Take Two pulls back the curtain on the real-life chemistry professor who provides the science behind Walter White's blue meth
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• 8:52
Back in 1958, legendary singer Nat King Cole released his first album that was completely in Spanish. Recently his daughter, Natalie Cole, followed in his footsteps by releasing her own spanish album: 'Cole En Espanol.'
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• 5:40
Ask.fm is all the rage among teens these days. Unfortunately, it's also become a popular site for cyberbullies.
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• 7:53
Almost 20 years before gay marriage became legal in California, he traded wedding bands with his partner Sean Sasser, who was also HIV-positive.
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• 7:08
Before humans moved in to the Mojave desert and began building tract homes and army bases and solar farms, it was the land of the tortoise.
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• 4:30
One of the Mexico's most isolated indigenous groups, the Tarahumara, has won a significant legal victory, protecting its land. Mexican courts have suspended logging permits affecting old growth forests in the group's ancestral territory in the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico.
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• 7:23
The House's Gang of Eight, now down to just seven members, still hasn't come up with its version of an immigration reform proposal.
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• 5:49
Have you ever taken a look at your Netflix's "Suggested for You" queue? It's an algorithm-generated list that's supposed to take all the stuff you've watched and tell you what else you might like.