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Today on the LA Report, an LA jury has found meta and YouTube liable in a social media
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We'll talk about an upcoming vote from Metro that will decide whether or not to extend
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And how a California flower rapidly evolved to save itself from a historic drought.
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It's Wednesday, March 25th, I'm Niddy, the Moreno, and you're listening to the LA Reports
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Afternoon Edition from LAS News.
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An LA jury has found meta and YouTube liable for causing harm to kids who use their services.
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The jury sided with lawyers for the 20-year-old woman who brought the case, and they argued
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that she got hooked on using YouTube and Instagram at a young age, leading to long-term mental
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And they said the companies were responsible for designing their platforms in a way that
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was meant to addict users and that that negligence played a role in the woman's mental health
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Snapchat and TikTok, who were also named in the case, agreed to settle before the trial.
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Metro's board is expected to vote tomorrow on whether to extend the K-line through Mid-City
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Our transportation correspondent, Kavish Harjai, joins us now to explain why this decision
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has become a political test for Metro leaders.
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So, Kavish, can you briefly tell us about this extension?
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So, the K-line currently runs from Redondo Beach to Crenshaw.
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The Metro staff recommended route would extend it through Mid-City into West Hollywood and
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stop at the Hollywood Bowl.
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According to Metro staff, this would serve 60,000 daily trips.
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They would also get to the most residents and jobs compared to other alternative studies.
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It would connect to the D and B lines.
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There'd be nine total stops, including three in West Hollywood, and that's really important
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because the city has been campaigning very, very hard for years for this extension.
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Coming up, we'll learn what residents have to say about the potential K-line extension.
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So Kavish, there are residents along the proposed route who are speaking out, right?
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What are their concerns?
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So there's pressure from an historic neighborhood in mid-city where homeowners there are continued
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to be concerned about tunneling under their homes despite studies and years of Metro,
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tunneling, disproving that there would be any surface level disruptions.
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They're also concerned about the demolition of a nearby grocery store, which Metro,
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if this item is approved on Thursday, will commit to relocating an adjacent property.
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Two Metro board members have actually publicly recuse themselves from public meetings about
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this item because they live in Lafayette Square, one of the neighborhoods in that area.
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And the mayor, Karen Bass, has a seat on Metro's board, right?
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Has she said anything about this project?
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She said she supports the K-line North extension in a social media post on Monday.
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And this post came after weeks of discussions of what is going to happen because also at
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a committee meeting earlier this month, Metro board members decided to move it ahead without
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So that was kind of a red flag for supporters of the extension.
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In her statement, however, Mary Karen Bass did say she wants to move the extension,
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quote, full steam ahead, unquote, on Tuesday, streets for all a transportation advocacy group,
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published draft text of emotion that the mayor could introduce Thursday,
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emphasis on the draft, if that's what the mayor ends up putting forward,
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would call for additional studies along for that mid-city segment and wouldn't necessarily
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confirm what the full route of the train would be.
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Well, we will keep an eye on that.
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That's transportation correspondent Kavish Harjai.
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Kavish, thank you so much.
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For the first time ever, scientists have fully recorded the process of evolutionary rescue
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when an organism evolves over time to save itself from environmental change.
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As Kato Hernandez reports, that flower is from California.
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That plant is the scarlet monkey flower.
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It needs a lot of water, so during the drought of the 2010s, many suffered.
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Amy Angert at the University of British Columbia and senior researcher on the study says it
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was heartbreaking to watch them die.
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When we saw that some were actually doing well and even starting to thrive again,
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it was exciting to see that resilience in action.
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Through genome sequencing, the team figured out that genetic differences that helped
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monkey flower survive in hot and dry places were showing up more frequently.
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This suggests other plants could be resilient, too.
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Kato Hernandez, Elias News.
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