Today, we start with a discussion about Speaker John Boehner's push for a GOP immigration bill. Then, LA's large Salvadoran community to vote on their home country's national election for the first time. Plus, we visit a Chinatown temple preparing for Lunar New Year celebrations. Also, recipes for Chinese dumplings and for kicked up guacamole in preparation for Super Bowl XLVIII, high-tech handbags, and much more.
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• 9:01
House Speaker John Boehner is now calling for legal status for 11 million undocumented workers, and possible citizenship for those brought to this country as children. But not all Republicans are behind it.
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• 3:52
Los Angeles is home to 350,000 Salvadorans, the largest number outside of El Salvador. For the first time ever, they'll be able to participate in the election from abroad.
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• 15:36
It's Friday, which means it's time for another Friday Flashback -- our look at the week in news. Oh what a week it's been. To help us with that we're joined this week by columnist James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times and Nancy Cook of National Journal.
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• 5:56
If you find yourself away from home or your car charger with a dead phone battery, what can you do? A new line of handbags has the answer.
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• 7:40
Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl turns 10. What seemed like an adorable joke at first has turned into an enduring tradition at the cable channel. A Martinez talks with executive producer Melinda Toporoff and referee Dan Schachner.
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• 6:43
Facebook now boasts millions of profiles not for people, but for pets. One such star joins the show (with his owner) to offer insight on why cats rule the Internet.
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• 3:26
Today marks the first day of Chinese New Year – the Year of the Horse. That means big celebrations throughout California’s Chinese communities and communities who have strong ties to China.
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• 3:55
It's the start of lunar New Year today and in Asian homes all over the world people gather together and eat to celebrate the coming year with family, friends and a table full of food. Reporter Sasa Woodruff stopped by a popular dumpling restaurant in Monterey Park to see what might be served up.
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• 4:51
Last year was the Year of the Snake, and this is the Year of the Horse, the seventh designation in the 12-year Chinese calendar cycle. Like every other holiday, some companies and shopping malls are trying to cash in on the Lunar New Year.
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• 4:49
Saturday, the U.S. national men’s soccer team plays South Korea in an exhibition game. The match is a friendly, but a lot is at stake ahead of the World Cup.
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• 3:54
If you're looking to change up your guacamole recipe, you're in luck. We called up Chef Robert Santibañez, a spokesperson for Avocados from Mexico and chef at Fonda Comida Mexicana in Manhattan, for some ideas.
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• 6:33
Dominos alone expects to sell 11 million slices on game day. Chances are most folks probably won't care one bit about the box it came in, but not Scott Wiener of New York.
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• 5:49
Your face wash or body soap may contain microbeads — tiny balls of plastic designed to help exfoliate your body. These microbeads are clogging up waterways like the LA River, acting as a sponge and vehicle for dangerous chemicals as they go.
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• 9:01
When she graduated from college, Brooke Jarvis took a rather unusual job. She worked as a garbage lady of sorts at a leper colony on a remote peninsula of the Hawaiian island of Molokai.