Today we examine the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting from multiple angles: The gun control question, school security, gun permitting and more. Plus, we meet a Syrian rapper who infuses revolutionary messages into his music, and much more.
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• 8:29
Funerals for some of the young victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting will be held there later today, while law enforcement officials continue their investigation into shooter Adam Lanza.
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• 5:33
Gun control advocates hope the tragic shootings in Newtown, Conn., will be the tipping point in the conversation about guns. But are they right?
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• 4:45
The events in Newtown, Conn. on Friday put the gun culture of this rural area into the national spotlight. The area around Newtown is home to many public and private shooting facilities, including a gun training school called Connecticut Gun Permit.
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• 6:22
As parents dropped their kids off at school today, one thought ran through nearly everyone's mind: Will my child be safe?
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• 5:29
Mondays, L.A. Times entertainment writer Rebecca Keegan joins us to talk about Hollywood.
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• 9:54
Syrian-American rapper Omar Offendum joins the show to talk about his connection with his homeland and how he incorporates recovultionary messages into his music.
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• 5:48
Remember that crazy demon sheep political ad from a few years ago? The guy who made it, Fred Davis III, is back, working for a candidate who's running for mayor of L.A.There's a primary scheduled for March 5th, and if no candidate wins a majority there will be a runoff in May.
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• 4:42
Fred Davis has created ad campaigns for some of the biggest names in politics, including John McCain and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But like a lot of Angelinos, he doesn’t pay much attention to local elections.
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• 4:11
If the nation plunges over the fiscal cliff, it would have an immeasurable impact at the U.S. Mexico border. From the Fronteras Desk in Tucson, Michel Marizco reports.
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• 6:54
An Associated Press poll out today finds nearly 80 percent of Americans believe temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done to combat it.
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• 9:36
Columbine shooting survivors Stephen Houck and Paula Reed, tell us about coping with PTSD and the lasting effects of this kind of tragedy.