Take Two

A roundup of some new laws going into effect in 2019, how to navigate the Rose Parade, what to do to get your financial house in order before the new year begins.

What California lawmakers will be working on when they start 2019, efforts to improve diversity among California voters, the best music of 2018.

How California's Real IDs are conforming with federal guidelines, the Los Angeles Lakers are winning at a quicker pace, new laws on the motorways.

Newly elected LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is making a lot of changes, an LAPD officer explains how higher speed limits will help reduce traffic fatalities, Santa Monica's Valentino restaurant is closing.

We see how the wetland habitat of Malibu Lagoon is starting to recover after the Woolsey Fire, a check on where things stand with the Affordable Care Act, and tips for stressed out parents.

Elon Musk unveils new underground tunnel in the city of Hawthorne, LAUSD teachers are poised to strike, Why L.A. has so many influencers.

Roughly one in 10 buildings in California are in highest-risk fire zones, how will a partial government shutdown affect the state? The latest homeless count numbers.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is out, what might this change if anything? A new Veteran's affairs chair, LAUSD teachers marched, but will they strike?

What's happening in state politics this week, an interview with the potential new chair of the Committee on Veterans Affairs, La Tuna Canyon Road safety improvement.

California doctors head to Liberia to help Ebola patients, the BP oil spill four years later and the Clippers opening their season without Donald Sterling as owner.

A set back for the private space program, people who buy drugs online that are often counterfeit or substandard, and a San Francisco lab studies the Ebola virus.

Ebola response at the state and federal level, a cosmetic surgery convention, and from Game of Thrones, learning to speak Dothraki.

A nurse working in the Ebola zone, why Brazil welcomes immigrants, and why Stephen Hawking joined Facebook.

How ISIS recruits women, the fear of Ebola in light of a case in NYC and an event that tackles Homer's "The Odyssey" with a group reading.

The leaked Michael Brown autopsy, a new book "Who We Be: The Colorization of America" looks at racial attitudes and George Clinton shares the evolution of funk.

Ebola. Some experts say a travel ban is a distraction. Genes protect some Latinas from breast cancer, and gun ranges with high levels of lead.

New L.A. schools superintendent Ramon Cortines, a documentary about boundary-breaking women in war, and remembering designer Oscar de la Renta.

A working nurse describes what she wants to protect health care workers against Ebola, a boom in Chinese investors in an LA suburb, Brad Pitt rules the box office, and a quest for the world's funniest human.

What does it take to run a big city school district, Latino politics, fun and almost-free weekend events and Ebola panic on the Friday Flashback.

On Thursday Take Two will discuss news that LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy is set to resign after iPad controversy and what that means to parents and the district, how responsible parents are for their children's gun actions, a Central California Indian casino remaining closed among a tribal battle, and the Wheel Thing looks at the Indian motorcycle.

On Take Two today we'll talk about the psychology behind the Ebola scare and find out how pediatricians talk to parents wary of vaccinating their kids. Plus we'll get the latest in sports news with Andy and Brian Kamenetzky and talk to California native Christen Press, who's a forward on the U.S. Women's Soccer team.