What The Hal?

In this episode Hal speaks with Steve Lathrop who was diagnosed with male breast cancer. 

And we talk with Dr. Nikki Gidwaney from Radnet and the Marcia Ray Breast Center at Dignity Health Glendale Medical Center about the signs and symptoms of breast cancer, for both women and men.

You can watch these guests from our FOX 11 News In-Depth segment here: http://www.foxla.com/features/fox-11-in-depth-the-air-we-breathe-and-breast-cancer-women-men

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We all do it! In fact, you're doing it right now, right? We're talking about breathing the air around you. The American Lung Association recently issued a report card for cities across the country. In Los Angeles and the counties of Southern California... we got an F. We failed. In fact, we failed in 19 of the last 20 years. To the lung association 80% of that is because of the cars on our roads and freeways. To the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) it's mostly the big trucks.

The AQMD says it has been working hard on converting trucks to zero-emission vehicles. The lung association says that despite the failing grade there has been much progress over the years in improving the air we breath.

But, doctors say they're not necessarily seeing a corresponding improving in patient health. In this podcast we hear from the AQMD's Wayne Nastri and Dr. Philip Fine. Also joining us is Will Barrett from the American Lung Association.

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Sam Herbert is graduating high school this year. You know what that means? He just went through a visiting tour of around 15 colleges across the country. He and his dad, Joe, came to the realization that money was an issue. For many families, that's the case.

Assemblyman Miguel Santiago is the force behind AB2 - an assembly bill to provide two years of community college FREE for first time community college students. To Jerry Lucido, a USC professor who has researched things like college admission trends, that's a good idea. Then a community college student can move to a four-year school for the last two years. To him, it's important for potential college students to know what they want to do as opposed to where they want to go.  

Allison Lopour, with Collegewise.com, also agrees. A lot of parents like Joe Herbert struggle with college admission forms and processes. That's where counselors like Allison come in. Ryan Cornner is a Vice Chancellor at the LA Community College District. To him, there are lots of options especially when it comes to two year colleges.

This podcast aims to help confused parents and students understand what lies ahead.

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Camille Cruz is 26 -- a millennial. She came to LA from New York where she used public transportation all of the time. But, not in LA. Not until Monday, when she took us up on a challenge to give it a try. After all, she lives near the North Hollywood Station and works near the Bundy and Olympic station in West LA.

She's exactly the type of commuter public transit officials are trying to reach. That according to the CEO's from Metro, Metrolink and SCAG that are trying to beef up the transportation their agencies have been working on for years.

In this podcast, we hear from Chief Executive Officer Stephanie Wiggins from Metrolink, CEO Phillip Washington from Metro and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Darin Chidsey of the Southern California Association of Governments. In this episode we hear of their plans, goals and what its going to take to get us moving which very well could include a "congestion charge".

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How do you separate fact from fiction with so much information out there? We're talking about an organization called the News Literacy Project, which helps students learn how to figure some of that out on their own.

For more information, you can visit https://www.eqheadquarters.com

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