Take Two

Gov. Brown's tour of polluted areas in southeast LA, global sand shortage has some large-scale implications, Canoga Park tries out temperature cooling pavement

The local take on Phillippines unrest, Big Sur and the giant landslide, Panda Express may hold the key to the future of Chinese cuisine by looking back to the past.

The administrations budget proposal would mean big cuts for Calif. Lawmakers mull health care alternatives, and consider limited the autonomy of UC Regents.

President Trump talks peace and security in Israel, how support for charter schools is growing in Los Angeles, the latest news from the Cannes Film Festival.

The DC influence of California Congressman Kevin McCarthy, a few tips on how to get financially ready to buy a house in LA, and East LA hosts its first Comic-Con

LA Mayor Garcetti talks transportation funds and Measure C, DNC Chair Tom Perez on the future of the Democratic Party, the state of LA's bike infrastructure.

Charter-backed candidates win school board seats, Measure C passes adding civilians to police disciplinary panels, designers choosing SoCal for their fashion shows.

Pasadena City Council votes to cut power to dispensaries, DMV rushes to meet federal ID standards, new music from Juanes and La Santa Cecilia on Tuesday Reviewsday

LA city voters head to the polls tomorrow; the science behind a delayed school start time; "King Arthur" suffers at the box office and more from On the Lot.

A political battle is playing out in California, the mixed picture behind LA Unified's graduation rates, and LA's Triforium gets restored

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.