Larry Mantle checks on Southern California fires still burning. First, with KPCC reporters Patricia Nazario and Steven Cuevas, live at the Station and Yucaipa fires. Then, what happens if the Station fire reaches Mt. Wilson communication towers? Larry talks to Scott Mason of CBS radio. And, how prepared are Southland communities for fast-moving fires? What are the ecological implications of the fire? Will nature bounce back? <a href="http://www.scpr.org/in/questions/Fires0908/">Share your fire stories with KPCC.</a>
At the top of the 10 o'clock hour, Larry checks in with KPCC reporters on the status of the Station and Oak Glen fires. <a href="http://www.scpr.org/in/questions/Fires0908/">Share your fire stories with KPCC.</a>
As the health care reform debate rages on, a new study sheds light on the plight of the under-insured. According to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, more than 2 million Californians have medical debt and two-thirds of those incurred the debt while insured. These individuals are also twice as likely as those without debt to postpone needed health care. Does your health coverage provide enough protection?
Deadly heat waves are becoming more common in California. Historically, California cooled down at night, but climate scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography say episodes of extreme nighttime heat are on the rise. They attribute the trend to climate change and expect it to escalate.
Larry checks in with KPCC reporters Patricia Nazario at the Hansen Dam, Frank Stoltze in La Crescenta and Steven Cuevas from Yucaipa on the status of the Station and Oak Glen fires. <a href="http://www.scpr.org/in/questions/Fires0908/">Share your fire stories with KPCC.</a>
The Walt Disney Corporation announced this morning a $4 billion deal to buy Marvel Comics. Disney will now have access to Marvel's Spiderman and X-Men series. Larry gets the details on the deal from LA Times reporter Dawn Chmielewski.
When his father died after acquiring preventable complications during a hospital visit, media and technology executive David Goldhill began a quest to better understand the health care industry. In the September cover story of The Atlantic, Goldhill argues that the proposed overhaul being considered in Congress will fail to fix the system, and what we need is a new health-care model centered on the consumer, not insurers or the government. Larry talks with Goldhill about the provocative solutions he proposes.
