Friday Take Two will discuss how people will deal with the weekend heat wave, if rent control is helping LA, Bill Hader in a new dramatic role, a story of the day after deportation, placebos treating depression, the growing Antelope Valley homeless population and how film and television composer Brian Reitzell makes creepy music for the "Hannibal" series.
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• 9:16
Take Two checked in with a few folks around town to see how they will beat the heat, from a zookeeper to Charles Phoenix, heads a walking tour of downtown L.A.
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• 4:59
California residents slashed how much water they used by 7.5 percent. That's good, but nowhere near the 20 percent Governor Brown called for earlier this year to cope with the drought.
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• 8:41
The President feels he doesn't need approval for airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, former presidents Clinton and George W. Bush show their friendship and how will the Ravens brand and Roger Goodell fare with the Ray Rice scandal? A marketplace reporter and LA Times columnist weigh in.
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• 6:43
Though 80 percent of LA's apartments are rent-controlled, Los Angeles has the distinction of being the most unaffordable city in the nation. KPCC's Ben Bergman explains if rent control has helped or hurt LA.
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• 9:09
When casting first started for the new movie drama, "The Skeleton Twins," Bill Hader wasn't even being considered because filmmakers feared he couldn't do drama.
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• 5:43
A study out of UCLA explores how placebo — a sugar pill that patients think is medication — can help to treat depression.
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• 7:56
Thousands of unaccompanied minors have traveled to the US. And with each one comes a unique story of why they left and what happens when they get to America.
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• 5:29
Thousands of children have traveled from Central America to the U.S. border in recent months, but Mexico has been cracking down in migrants en route to the U.S. and sending them home. A Fronteras Desk reporter shares one teen's story.
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• 5:28
City leaders in Lancaster claim that the number of homeless in the city grows by the day because homeless people arrive from neighboring cities by hopping metro trains. Officials are now moving to shut down the only public transit station linking Lancaster and LA.
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• 5:41
Millions of people still lack heath insurance such as undocumented people that don't qualify for ACA benefits or others who find coverage too expensive or difficult to enroll in.
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• 6:32
One Night Only is a musical-meets-culinary pop-up event in Downtown Los Angeles curated by the band Best Coast, with food by Chef Josh Drew. The band's Bethany Cosentino shares more.
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• 9:16
Music supervisor Brian Reitzell says scary music "should be kind of unfamiliar." The film and television music maker shares more on making scary sounds and the soundtrack for an LA drive.