Today on the show, Obama extends the deadline for ACA enrollment to mid-April. Then, a joint effort between the U.S. and Mexico hopes to revitalize the Colorado River Delta. Plus, our weekly roundup of the latest in sports, Chinook salmon begin their journey to the sea via truck, San Bernardino Airport hopes to woo international travelers and much more.
ACA enrollment deadline pushed to mid-April
Stragglers who haven't sign up yet on Healthcare.gov for coverage under the Affordable Care Act just got a lifeline thrown their way.
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This Monday was supposed to be the hard deadline for enrollment, but citing technical problems that may arise when a rush of people head to the site, the government is giving people a grace period to apply until mid-April.
The official deadline is still March 31, but if enrollees make a good faith effort to start their applications by then, there is some wiggle room for finishing.
For details, we're joined by LA Times health care reporter Chad Terhune.
Joint US-Mexico effort hope to revitalize Colorado River Delta
The Colorado River is a massive waterway that twists through the Western States and into Mexico.
It provides water supply to about 40 million people in seven states. The river has been dammed, diverted and sucked dry to serve farmers and thirsty cities, like Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Now, water no longer reaches the delta where the Colorado used to enter the sea in the gulf of California.
But this week, upstream dams are being opened so that water will once again reach the river's mouth in Mexico. It's part of a coordinated effort between Mexico and the U.S. and scientists are hoping the release will simulate the spring floods that used to happen in the area.
For more on the restoration effort, we turn to Dave Wegner, Senior Democratic Staff for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Chinook salmon begin journey to sea...on a truck
It's the latest sign of how bad this year's drought really is. Federal and state wildlife agencies launched a massive "fish lift" this week.
That's the term for driving young chinook salmon by the tanker from a hatchery at the northern end of the Central Valley, all the way to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. As strange as it sounds, officials say this is the only way any of the commercially valuable fish will make it to the ocean this year.
For the California report, Dan Brekke has the story.
Diego Luna on bringing Cesar Chavez's legacy to the big screen
At the end of the month, California and several other states will observe Cesar Chavez Day in honor of the labor activist's birthday.
Chavez was a towering figure in the civil rights movement as the founder of the United Farm Workers Union. His name has become a familiar fixture of the American landscape, with hundreds of streets in cities and towns across the country named for him. His name is also emblazoned on a number of grammar schools, libraries, public parks, and even a Navy cargo ship.
He hadn't gotten the Hollywood treatment, until now. On Friday, that will change with a new biopic starring Michael Pena in the title role:
Director Diego Luna joins Take Two to talk about bringing Chavez's story to the big screen.
Sports Roundup: NCAA Sweet 16, Dodgers price tag and more
Cinderella takes center stage, the NFL has revised reviews and a big, blue wallet is wide open. For more on what's happening in the world of sports, we're joined by Andy and Brian Kamenetzky, who've covered the sports scene for ESPN and the L.A. Times.
Tomorrow the NCAA college basketball tournament continues with the Sweet 16. There are a pair of 11 seeds left, a ten and an eight as well. Since it all tipped off last week, 14 games have been won by lower seeded teams. It seems as if "upsets" shouldn't be so upsetting anymore?
Any time the NCAA takes center stage the topic of whether college athletes should be paid invariably comes up. There are passionate arguments on both sides, but a story comes out that makes everyone just sigh: Ohio State's athletic director got an $18,000 bonus because a Buckeye wrestler won an NCAA title. In fact he get a bonus anytime OSU wins a title.
Most college teams have a set of rules or guidelines they have their athletes follow, like a code of conduct. The University of Georgia basketball team has one and it's interesting in what they cover.
The Student Press Law Center found that Georgia has very specific rules when it comes to sex:
- No means no, date rape is a serious issue.
- Never assault or intimidate a woman.
- Birth control is your responsibility too.
- Stay out of gray areas, orgies are inappropriate.
- One, not two or three girlfriends.
- Don't spend all your energy in bed all night.
- Hicky's (sic)/passion marks should not be ever noticed by coaches
The NFL owners meeting is going on in Orlando and one change has fans wondering if the league is
(Game referees will be able to consult with the Officiating Command Center in New York on replays. They'll start the review BEFORE the ref even gets to the sideline monitor. They say the final call will come from the on-field ref) EXPLAIN HOW IT USED TO WORK FIRST.
While the Dodgers are already leading Major League Baseball with their two wins over Arizona down in Australia last week, they're also leading the majors in a category that some fans think is critical to success. For the first time in 15 years, a team other the Yankees leads MLB in payroll. The Dodgers are spending $235 million, Yankees a distant second at $204 million.
Judge orders release of Mary Virginia Jones after 32 years in prison
After spending more than three decades behind bars, Mary Virginia Jones is finally free.
Jones was sent to prison in 1982 after she was convicted in the fatal shooting of two drug dealers, even though she didn't pull the trigger. Her boyfriend at the time, Mose Willis, did.
The 74-year-old woman was released earlier this week thanks to work done by USC Law School's Post Conviction Justice Project. Mary Jones and her attorney Heidi Rummel join Take Two to talk about her experience.
App Chat: 3 apps that'll help you handle rough relationships
Relationships can be wonderful, beautiful things. They can also be miserably devastating things that take years from our lives. Regardless of where you are in your relationship, the apps below can help you if you're stressed out about what is or what was.
So, let's use cold heartless technology to soothe our woes.
Here's my list of three apps that'll help you handle rough relationships:
1) Romantimatic: For the couple that has trouble communicating
We all get super busy, and sometimes, we forget to stay in touch with the ones we love. Romantimatic wants to fix that. It lets you schedule reminders to send your loved ones sweet notes.
When it's time to send a note, the phone alerts you, you go into the app and you select from a list of greetings what you want to send. You can customize your own, but the app is full of canned responses so that you can really take any sort sincerity out of the process.
They start sweet: I love you... I miss you...
If you're busy you can say: I'm headed into a meeting, but wanted to tell you I'm thinking about you.
And if you're feeling extra creepy: Hey, I've got this extra back rub here. Do you know someone who might want it?
2) Personal Zen: For the couple that needs to take a breath and calm down
According to a paper in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association of Psychological science, the app has been scientifically proven to help curb anxiety.
You fire it up, calming music comes on, an angry face and a happy face pop out of a grassy scene. Then you're then supposed to trace a path to the happy face with your finger. The idea is that the app's training whoever is playing the game to ignore the angry face and concentrate on the happy one.
Apparently it uses a technique called attention bias modification training (ABMT) to help curb anxiety, which gets you to concentrate on happy or neutral things. According to the paper, a significant portion of the 75 people in the study who played the game for at least 25 minutes had their anxiety curbed.
While 75 people isn't a huge sample size, tests around using technology and ABMT have been done before to positive results.
3) Cloak: For exes that want to avoid one another
It didn't work out and now you never want to see that person again. Cloak is your new best friend. It was created by Brian Moore in New York who wanted to avoid is ex-girlfriend, who he kept running into.
You have to input your Foursquare and Instagram information. Then the app tracks on a map information from those two programs of where people are posting from. You can then watch the map to see who's near you.
The problem? If your enemies/exes don't post to Instagram or Foursquare or if they don't use location services in those programs, then it's completely useless. The obvious lesson: only date tech savvy people who you'll be able to track when you inevitably break up.
Can Candy Crush's parent company survive on the stock market?
Well, Candy Crush isn't exactly on the stock market. It's King, the game's parent company, that began trading on the New York Stock Exchange today at $22.50. However, after only a couple of hours the stock had already dropped a couple of dollars.
While it's way too early to tell if the company is in trouble, investors might be a bit bearish on mobile game companies after the Zynga went public back in 2011 and subsequently tanked.
There are optimists that say King's 408-million monthly active users and big profits are enough to keep it afloat. For example, the company generated $1.89 billion in revenue in 2013.
However, as Privco pointed out, "Only 4 percent of King's monthly unique visitors are paying customers on a monthly basis," and that in Q4 of 2013 "Candy Crush represented 78 percent of total gross bookings for King..."
They think that King could be relying too much on the success of Candy Crush. King is fishing for its next big hit though, with 665 employees working to put out game after game.
, editor at large at CNET, says there's the possibility of a hit. "They've launched hundreds of games at this point and really they're just waiting to see what takes off," he said on Take Two. "They're really taking quantity over quantity right now."
Regardless of where they're headed, the IPO raised King around $500 million, and in the end, we'll have to wait and see if the king remains on the throne.
San Bernardino Airport hopes for international travelers
It’s not every day that you get to walk into a brand new, empty airport terminal, but I got a recent tour of the San Bernardino International Airport.
Last month, San Bernardino officials showed off the airport's new international arrivals terminal. It represents the last phase of a $200 million effort to convert the former Norton Air Force Base into a regional airport that commercial airlines can use. The problem so far: commercial airlines haven't shown up to use it.
TSA report recommends law enforcement at checkpoints
Today, the Transportation Security Administration made 14 recommendations about how to improve security in the wake of the deadly shooting there last November. Here with more is KPCC's crime and public safety reporter, Erica Aguilar.