The LA Times reports more than a thousand of LA's older, concrete buildings are at risk of collapse when an earthquake strikes; Die-hard Dodgers fans talk about their pre-game rituals and superstitions; Central Valley farmworker who are close to fresh food, yet struggle to find some to put on their own tables; Meet the agent who casts laugh tracks for a living; Congressman Adam Schiff about the ongoing government shutdown; KPCC's Erika Aguilar on the growing questions of safety on USC's campus; and more.
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• 5:40
Thousands of concrete buildings in LA are at risk of collapse when an earthquake strikes, and there's little momentum to make them safer.
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• 6:33
Possibly as small as a 6.0.
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• 8:54
There are lessons to glean in what the Governor signed into law.
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• 6:13
Jessica Ortiz struggles to figure out what to feed her five kids while her husband works in the vineyards and almond orchards. Reporter Sasha Khokha paints an intimate portrait of the barriers to accessing healthy and affordable food for the families that harvest California's produce.
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• 4:13
Three artists traveled along Route 66 from Oklahoma to California collecting audio stories of struggle and optimism from people along the way.
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• 9:02
LA Times film writer Rebecca Keegan talks about the now-troubled adaptation of "Fifty Shades of Grey," the Somali immigrant who became a movie star in "Captain Phillips," and the lengths that Hollywood goes to to keep a script from being leaked.
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• 6:53
Lisette St. Claire's job is the world's first laugh wrangler, and she explains what it take to be the best in the laughing biz.
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• 5:13
The partial government shutdown is now in its third week and the country is about to bump up against a borrowing limit. California Congressman Adam Schiff joins Take Two for an update from the Hill.
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• 5:34
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is a key source of water for central and southern California. Amy Quinton takes us on the 700 mile journey following the water supply.
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• 5:08
The Oregon National Guard is delaying training for more than 1,000 troops scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan in the spring because of the shutdown.
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• 6:05
A Mexican mayor has gone on hunger strike, asking for better resources from the federal government for mayors under threat by the ongoing drug wars. Dozens of mayors have already been killed or gone missing in recent years. Reporter Dudley Althaus of Global Post joins the show.