Today, we start with a discussion about the increase in California's minimum wage to $9/hour. Then, California extends paid family leave benefits. Plus, Robert Townsend on his film "Hollywood Shuffle" and the roles black actors are offered today, President Obama plans to sidestep Congress on Immigration, Prescott community still healing from Yarnell Hill Fire tragedy and much more.
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• 4:57
As California's minimum wage increases to nine dollars an hour and eventually $10 in 2016, it's still under the ambitious minimum wage plans in Seattle, where it will increase to $15/hour in 2017.
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• 5:39
For the past decade, workers have been able to receive paid time off while taking care of a sick child, parent, spouse or domestic partner.
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• 4:12
On this day year the community of Prescott, Arizona was waking up to the horrific news that 19 of their own had died in the Yarnell Hill Fire.
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• 5:51
Immigration reform continues to stagnate in Congress while 11 million undocumented immigrants are waiting for some kind of action. President Obama announced he's taking charge in the immigration debate with bold steps on reform through executive order.
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• 6:06
The World War II GI Bill sent millions of veterans to school and helped create the American middle class. But what about the new GI Bill for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan?
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• 3:53
Texas produces more natural gas than any other state, and it also leads the nation in wind energy production. But solar? Not so much.
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• 5:26
The southern resident orcas of Puget Sound, Wash. have been on the Endangered Species list since 2005, and new research suggests they still struggle to survive.
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• 10:28
Music supervisor Morgan Rhodes and Oliver Wang from Soul-Sides.com bring us new music by Iman Omari, Miles Tackett, Vacationer and more.
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• 9:14
It's been a year since Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took office. Southern California Public Radio political reporters Alice Walton and Frank Stoltze take a look at just what he's accomplished in these 365 days.
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• 5:12
A new report by UCLA finds that Orange County is home to fast-growing Latino and Asian communities and a changing economy.
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• 6:11
At the World Cup in Brazil, six teams have qualified for the quarterfinals with two spots left. Today, Argentina faces Switzerland and the U.S. takes on Belgium.
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• 4:25
Starting today, consumers in California no longer will be able to buy a potent and popular form of rat poison, because the compound has been getting into the food chain of wild animals.
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• 4:27
More than a dozen spider species have been found that catch and eat fish, and they live on every continent except Antarctica.
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• 9:16
Robert Townsend wrote, directed and starred in the movie, and its being celebrated as part of L.A. Magazine’s look at the '80s.
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• 4:48
Fashion Trend Daily's Michelle Tyree Dalton joins Take Two to talk about how the jumpsuit is making a comeback and how it may or may not be fashion's next cash cow.