A look at the shooting of Feras Morad in Long Beach, the homeless and their struggle with getting IDs, the week in sports with the Kamenetzky brothers.
Vigil planned for student killed in Long Beach
Tonight, family and friends of Feras Morad will be holding a candlelight vigil to remember him. Morad was shot and killed last week after a confrontation with a Long Beach police officer.
To give us the latest developments, we were joined by Gregory Yee, Public Safety reporter for Long Beach Press-Telegram.
NSA gets new reforms under USA Freedom Act
President Barack Obama has signed the USA Freedom Act, a bill that reforms the NSA's surveillance program. Dustin Volz has written about this for the National Journal, and he joined the show to explain more.
California woos TV and films back to the state
The California Film Commission on Tuesday announced some of the television shows that have been approved for the new expanded tax credit program.
Shows like HBO’s "Veep" and Fox’s "American Horror Story" will receive millions of dollars in tax credits because they will relocate to California.
Variety’s Dave McNary tells more about the tax credits, and Michael Seitzman, executive producer for the upcoming TV series "Code Black," talks about starting up production for the show in L.A.
Union Rescue Mission's Andy Bales talks helping homeless
Andy Bales with the Union Rescue Mission in downtown L.A. tells more about the struggles homeless people face on a daily basis, in addition to not having proper ID.
What it was like scouting locations for the 'Entourage' movie
They're back! Vinnie, Ari, Turtle, E, Drama and Ari.
The boys of the hit HBO show Entourage now have a film of their own, called... "Entourage."
The plot is pretty straight forward. Movie star Vinnie Chase is looking to take his Hollywood career to the next level - directing!
The film stars Adrien Grenier as Vinnie and Jeremy Piven as his agent, along with cameos from people like Liam Neeson, Billy Bob Thornton and Mark Wahlberg.
But much like the TV show, the "Entourage" film also stars Los Angeles.
From amazing mansions by the beach to trendy eateries, this movie shows off all the glitz and glamour of LA and Alex Cohen recently had the chance to talk to the man who "cast" all of those places, so to speak.
His name's Chris Miller and he was the film's location manager.
How he would describe the job of location manager:
"The best was I can describe it is it's sort of like bringing a circus to town. It's places for people to park. Tents that need to go up, literally sometimes. The location itself... maps to get there... it's really accommodating a 150 man crew at a place that's really not made for that in most cases, especially with a lot of the locations in "Entourage" that weren't so easy to access, with mansions and things like that.
"So, it's really about just coordinating and getting in with the cities and permits and police and fire and all that stuff and just making it work..."
The challenges of filming in Los Angeles:
"They're so used to filming here that you end up with people that are often very tired of it, because it does get tedious if it's a frequently filmed location...
"Other things that we ran into on "Entourage" was the types of houses that Doug [Ellin] wanted to shoot, several of them were very difficult to actually get to. Up very narrow winding roads, where you can really only fit pickup truck size vehicles and we had to... try and get the same amount of equipment that we do anywhere else up on a cliffside. And we did this with several of the locations that we shot at... it was just a constant train of trucks going up the hill... and everybody waiting patiently for their piece of gear."
How he convinces rich people to rent out their fancy houses for film crews and party scenes
"The Entourage name has some mileage on it... if they were fans of the show, which there were a lot of them, it seemed to open doors.
"We do put a little of money in the budget for repairs and things like that... we know ahead of time that we're going to do a little bit of damage. It's inevitable."
To hear the rest of the interview where Miller reveals more secrets about location scouting, click on the embedded audio at the top of the post.
The man behind LA's very own 'love lock' bridge
Couples visiting Paris, the ultimate city of l'amour, have long left a permanent display of their affection on the Pont des Arts footbridge.
Star-crossed lovers put their names on padlocks, clip them to the 'love lock' bridge, and throw the key into the river Seine as a symbol of their eternal love.
That is, until this week.
Paris officials are removing the estimated one million love locks because of concerns about damage to the historic bridge and potential safety hazards.
But the tradition isn't limited to Paris. Similar bridges exist all over the world, including here in Los Angeles.
Billy Vaughn and his husband put the first two locks on a bridge over the L.A. River in Atwater Village in 2013, and it's taken off with other couples since then.
Vaughn joined Take Two to talk about importing the 'love lock' tradition to L.A.
Want to make your own addition to L.A.'s 'love lock' bridge? It's located between Los Feliz Blvd. and the Hyperion Bridge, off the west end of Sunnynook Drive in Atwater Village.
How the "Water Witch" kept Las Vegas hydrated
For nearly 30 of the 100 years it's been around, Sin City has lived under the threat of running out of water, but that hasn't stopped the city's growth, only the housing crisis did that. And the oasis in the desert has continued largely because of one woman who's been able to find water in the most unlikely of places.
is a Senior Reporter at Pro Publica and he's part of a team that's put together a series of stories about the water crisis here in the West, including one with the "Water Witch."
The bitter legal dispute keeping holograms from taking Hollywood by storm
From Tupac's surprise performance at Coachella in 2012 to Michael Jackson's appearance at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, hologram technology has proven it has the wow factor.
Even beyond bringing stars back from the dead, many in the entertainment industry can see big potential for holograms.
But it's been slow to hit the big time, in large part due to a bitter legal fight between rival companies with competing claims to the technology.
It's a story that Eriq Gardner, senior editor at The Hollywood Reporter, has been digging into. He joined Take Two to break it all down.