Just when you get to know a virus, it goes and changes on you.

That appears to be the case with COVID, where we may not be looking at the "usual" symptoms anymore. So we will go In Depth.

And as we learn more about changing symptoms .... the Delta variant has cases on the rise again. There's still a significant vaccination gap.

Speaking of vaccines, what's taking the FDA so long to give full approval. There seems to be *plenty* of evidence the shots are safe, right?

Turns out there's a downside to a year of masking and social distancing: our immune systems are a little out of practice. How are your allergies? Have you caught a cold?

New research shows that the record-shattering heat-wave in the Pacific Northwest would almost certainly NOT have happened without climate change.

And we'll tell you about new phishing scams that are very, very clever.

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Los Angeles has a new logo! No, it's not the seal of the city........and you can be forgiven if you never realized that we had a logo to begin with........but the city of angels has some new branding and it's got a very nostalgic, 80's vibe to it -- will it work? We'll go In Depth.

Former President Trump is filing lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube arguing that the social media giants violated his rights when they booted him off of their platforms.

And the Olympics are set to begin in Tokyo in less than three weeks -- right when the city will be put in a state of emergency, thanks to the COVID outbreak.

So you, your family, and your teenage kids are all fully vaccinated against --- but your youngest child, still too young, is attending summer camp. How worried should you be with the Delta variant out there?

We're taking a closer look at working mothers, who after carrying a lot of the responsibility during lockdown ... are getting left behind in the economic recovery.

And how does a 4-day work week sound to you? Research suggests it might be just as productive as working the full five.

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Leading up to the 4th of July holiday, city officials in Los Angeles--from the mayor to the police chief--promised that this would be the year they would successfully crackdown on illegal fireworks. Well after a weekend when L.A. sounded an awful lot like Baghdad, and fireworks were visible pretty much anywhere you turned in the Sunday night sky..........how did that crackdown work out? We'll go In Depth.

We might be done with the novel coronavirus, but it certainly isn't done with us: there is now a new COVID variant starting to make the rounds and more breakthrough infections from the Delta variant on fully vaccinated people. How concerned should you be? We'll ask.

And have well all pretty much quit caring, in general, about the COVID pandemic?

It was a very violent July 4th holiday in just about every major city across the country; we'll go In Depth on the sustained rise in gun violence that seems to keep on getting worse.

The International Olympic Committee is starting to get awfully nervous about political and social protests from athletes at the Tokyo games.......

And on this 6-month anniversary of the January 6th insurrection on Capitol Hill, we talk with Congressman Adam Schiff about his select investigative committee starting up its work.

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Perhaps, the first shoe has dropped!

The Trump Organization, the company headed by the former President, has been criminally charged in a tax evasion scheme by Manhattan's DA; while Trump and his children were not personally charged, his chief financial officer was..........and the future of former president's company is now very much up in the air.

Not guilty pleas entered all around.

We will talk with the former lawyer to the president, Michael Cohen, coming up on In Depth. 

Also on today's show: the Supreme Court upholds voting restriction laws in Arizona, with major implications for the coming fight over voting rights.

Can a liberal and a harsher, punitive approach to California's growing homeless crisis be married together in one sweeping initiative? We'll talk with the Mayor of Sacramento about his plans to do just that.

And the NCAA clears the way for student-athletes to earn a little extra cash on the side.

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Pennsylvania's highest court seemed to suggest Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction was built upon a foundation of Jello. And so, the court overturned the conviction and set Cosby free. 

It came as a shock to a lot of people and we will go In Depth

It looks like tomorrow will be a historic day for the Trump organization. And not in a good way. We'll explain.

Californians got refunds on their auto insurance premiums over the course of the pandemic ... but watchdogs say it wasn't *nearly* enough.

LA promises a crackdown on illegal fireworks. But don't they always ?? 

And. Forget self-driving cars. How about a self-flying car? What happens when the traffic jam is OVER the 405?

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If you're planning to get out of town for the holiday weekend ... you better leave now! You'll have A LOT of company ... as Americans are itching to vacation after being stuck at home.

Just a few weeks after California public health officials gave the green light for fully vaccinated people to remove their face masks in indoor settings, LA County says to put them back on. We will talk with Dr. Barbara Ferrer.

And people who put off their dental issues throughout the pandemic are now rushing back into those chairs, making it harder to get an appointment.

Hotshot firefighters work the riskiest wildfire jobs ... going into deep into remote areas. But now they're quitting in droves due to poor pay and benefits.

A Marine Corps veteran is setting off to walk the nearly 2,000-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border, calling attention to US veterans ...who ended up deported.

And robocalls...too many of them... and help could be on the way later this week.

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It gets hot in the summer ... because, it's summer. But it's not supposed to get THAT hot in the Pacific Northwest -- records falling in Seattle and Portland. We'll go In Depth and up to Pudget Sound. Also: what's at work there? Global warming, or just a one-time anomaly?

And as crews continue digging through the rubble of that collapsed condo building in Miami, are we sure that inspections and upgrades are up to date here in California?

The World Health Organization with a curveball: saying even fully vaccinated people should continue to wear face masks and distance. Because of the Delta variant.

We have new research on just how early COVID was with us here in the US. But will we ever really grasp the full impact?

And later on...meet the new member of humanity's family tree.

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Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, offered his condolences to the Floyd family but didn't offer much else during sentencing today--he was then sent to prison for 22-and-a-half-years, we will go In Depth 

Search and rescue teams have been searching through the rubble of that collapsed condo building in the Miami area with the grim task of finding survivors -- and victims. We'll talk with a member of LA County Fire's elite rescue team.

And the Justice Department takes aim at Georgia's new voting laws.

Another big legal story today: it appears likely that the Manhattan D.A.'s office will soon be filing criminal charges against the Trump Organization.

We're talking with California's Chief Technology Officer, who promises that improvements to the state's online vaccine verification system are on the way.

And the fate of a flagpole planted in the sand for decades in Newport Beach.........hangs in the balance.

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