Mar 11 Watch U.S. Pacific Rim on High Alert After Japan Quake Triggers Tsunami Along U.S. West Coast, Tsunami Warnings Heeded Amid Some Damage… Continue watching
Mar 03 Watch In California, Rising Health-Insurance Premiums Spark Outcry Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on increases in health-insurance premiums in California and the resulting outcry for government investigation. Continue watching
Mar 02 Watch Go Fish? Not in Pacific Ocean Sanctuaries off California’s Coast The battle over dozens of no-fishing zones off the California coast. Continue watching
Feb 18 High Tech and High Fashion as Obama Woos Silicon Valley Leaders President Barack Obama talks with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg; White House photo by Pete Souza The splashy news out of President Obama's trip to the high-tech haunts in the West is that the CEO of Facebook, Mark… Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch California Program Stresses Early Detection, Treatment of Mental Illness Spencer Michels reports on a California organization working to identify mental illness in young people before their problems become worse. Continue watching
Feb 01 Brown Looks to Spend Political Capital on Fixing California’s Budget Mess Jerry Brown -- California's new Democratic governor -- is getting away with something that most politicians these days can only dream about. He has plunged into California's huge budgetary mess -- the state is short $25.4 billion --… Continue reading
Jan 03 Jerry Brown to California: ‘Here I Come (Right Back Where I Started From)’ Jerry Brown wasn't movie-star smooth at his inaugural ceremony Monday. His head bobbed up and down as he read from a script without a teleprompter. But there was something real about him, which is probably part of the reason… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch New Governors Confront Daunting State Budget Woes The New Year rings in the start of some new governors' terms -- and nearly all of them face budget shortfalls. Gwen Ifill discusses state budget woes with three public media reporters: John Myers of KQED Public Radio in California;… Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch California Forges Ahead Implementing Health Reform Changes Spencer Michels looks at how the nation's most populous state is moving ahead on the new federal health care law. Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch Same-Sex Marriage Case Plays Out on Live TV in Federal Court Lawyers on both sides of the ongoing legal battle over California's same-sex marriage ban made their cases in a rare televised hearing Monday in federal court in San Francisco. Jeffrey Brown walks through arguments on both sides and what's to… Continue watching