the l.a. county jail. with an annual budget in the hundreds of millions, overcrowding continues to be a growing concern. >> as you can see, i've got concrete bars. you know, i don't have any place to expand. i can't make another cell. that's the achilles heel of jail systems everywhere, is how many inmates you have. that's your clients. >> the los angeles county jail has a higher inmate to guard ratio than any other county jail in the country. sheriff's deputies have to deal with the daily threat of getting stabbed, having feces thrown at them, and even contracting aids. for some deputies the stress is too much to handle. >> we've had guys come in just a day, day or two, and they look around and they're like i'm out of here. they'll give us the keys, and they won't even say they're out of here. next day we'll come in and they'll be gone. i'll go down and check it out. they'll be like, yeah, he resigned or -- because this is where you actually figure out if you really want to do this or not. >>

and what is l.a.? l.a. is mexican, central american, filipino, vietnamese, thai, samoan, bangladeshi. everybody who's left their mark continues to shape the town, determine its character. k-town exists right upside its latino neighbors, and i guess it's natural that both cho and choi identify very much with mexican street culture. few things embody that particularly southern california latino street culture more than low-riding. estevan oriol is a photographer. >> estevan: go on the other side of that pole. >> anthony: chronicler of everything iconic at the crossroads of hip-hop, design, tattooing, fashion, and low-riding. >> estevan: the old timers, they used to cut the coils or put bricks or sandbags in their trunk to make them lower. and then around the '70s is when it got popular. >> anthony: why these particular models of cars? >> estevan: it's pretty much always been, uh, late '50s, all the way through the '60s, and into the '70s. and then the '80s came up. they started bringing in the cadillacs

in l.a. now, it's latinos are the largest group, which has scared many people. >> yeah, we got scale. >> you got scale? >> what do you mean? >> well, we're everywhere. it's incredible. immigrants from all over the world come here. and latino immigrants are the same. they're entrepreneurial. they're the risk takers. they're the most responsible. they come with family values. and that's the american story. they make our economy hum. >> so one word i hear, i've heard a lot in my life when you talk about latinos, and also many people of color, communities of color, is the word assimilation. what do you think about that word? >> well, it's a constant. it is actually probably the oil that makes our engine run in america. is that everybody who comes here from another country doesn't know english. everybody that comes here from another country doesn't know the customs and practices. everyone that comes here isn't yet fully assimilated into that american process. but within a generation or two, they'r

we're both l.a. people. we wanted something destination, but not too far. >> e the rain couldn't dampen the mood. >> comes to a certain point where it's out of your c and you just embrace it. >> we handed out umbrellas. >> it was beautiful. it was great. >> the bride wore not one, but custom made gowns. >> classic and beautiful and then wear something fun. iidid both. made it from beginning until end. it was one of the most awesome parts of this wedding. >> more than thousand candles lit the reception. you can read all about it in us weekly. several of her empire co-stars including lee daniels who brought his boyfriend. >> i'm in love with rhonda, i call her. i'm not answering my phone or ma e-mails. >> even though he pulled himself away from work for the weekend, we just had to ask lee about the series. >> we arerevamping empire which is a lot of work. katelyn's story -- rhonda is s out of control. i'm so dying to tyou. i can't tell you. mark my words, you will not believe where she's going next year. >> bb

i need to go to east l.a. i need to meet people and talk to people. >> being chicano means that like we have multiple identities. like we love tamales, and we love burgers. all of us right here, we all got college degrees. three of us right here, we got masters. my brother just got accepted to a ph.d. program at ucla. >> what? >> so the whole idea of the immigrant, of like who are they? they're taking away. they're not giving back. you're looking at us, man, and we're like, we're paying your taxes. we're paying your salary. we're creating music. we're building bridges. we're creating family. that's what we want to see. that's the america i want to see, you know? we don't all have to be the same. it's all good. >> no, it's not about blending together unless you want to blend it all together. i got two of those blended kids. >> so this is afro-mexican music. >> i got the afro. >> you know what, you down to playing? >> i mean i don't -- >> look it, look it, look it. >> so this is an actual -- >> da da boom. do th

east l.a. and the heights which are slightly more latinos that than the rest of us, and by slightly i mean overwhelmingly latino. east l.a. and boyle heights are on the east side of los angeles and geographically not that far from beverly hills, but let's just say that i owe my high school spanish teacher an apology for saying, why would i ever use span ib after i graduate. the culture can be traced back to the 1800s when a revolution caused the biggest migrations of americans. as the city grew, so did the labor opportunity, and the thriving community known as east l.a. was born. if i am going to learn anything, i know that i have to first hit the streets and talk to the people. would you mind talking to us for a second? >> all right. all right. can we talk to you in a moment once you get off of the phone? all right. maybe this not easy. cut to three hours later. i think that the problem is camera guy is that we are in east l.a. and looking for people to the talk to you, and one of the inherent

i'm bringing my l.a. sense of humor, attitude but i'm connecting with the street. >> reporter: along with noodles and salads, you can get a $5 burger or tortilla wrap made with fresh natural ingredients. choi created a craze with his l.a. food truck and made for tv personality but with local, first in watts and now in oakland, he and patterson are making a social statement. hiring workers from communities scarred by racial strife. >> our country isolates. that's what we like to do. we categorize and isolate people from each other. so local is about bringing people together. l.a., san francisco. >> reporter: sitting shoulder to shoulder on plain wooden boxes, diners can't help but come together. it's crowded and loud. and a whole lot of fun. and the chef's enthusiasm is infectious to both the customers and employees. >> where we taking local? how far does it go, the world, right? >> across the world! >> reporter: they want to use the universal experience of food to unite people. but, of course, nothing spi

i'm meeting with l.a. city counsel member who had successful work to get driver's licenses for undocumented. they're the largest group. >> we got scale. >> what do you mean? >> we're everywhere. it's incredible. because immigrants from all over the world come here and latino immigrants, they're entrepreneurial, they come with family values and that's the american story. they make our economy hum. >> one thing i've heard a lot when talking about latinos and many people of color communities is the word "assimilation". >> it's the constant. the oil that makes our engine run in america. everybody who comes here from another country doesn't know english, everyone doesn't know the customs and practices, everyone isn't fully assimilated to that process but within a generation or two, they're doing what everyone else does. shortly, within a short period of time, everybody will have trouble talking to their grandmother. >> that's how you know you've made it. some people feel you should immediately learn english. >>

. >>> if you are an animal in distress in l.a., the best people to call are the guys over at l.a. animal services smart team. this is at a sony building in l.a. this raven is hanging right off the sony sign. fortunately, these guys know what's up. they get to the topf f f of th building. they brought repelling equipment. the guy's repelling down. x marks the spot to where the raven is. i think it's just part of the nesting material that the bird used. because you can tell that it was using the bottom part of the s to create its nest. see, they start pulling it out. i can't tell if it's string. >> it's definitely not natural. >> fortunately, they're able to get to this bird. they pull the bird all the way back up. they did an amazing job. >>> here's another fascinating video that comes from pics on trips from canada. >> please tell me this isn't outside of somebody's bedroom. >> it always is. >> woodpecker is trying to create a hole. it's actually drumming. it's creating its own song. they don't have a tune, so they have to create their own. which is why when they find spot they li

jim florentine. >> people in l.a. still won't give a [bleep] about football. >> chris: bonnie mcfarlane. >> a halftime show starring madonna and she still looks great except for her neck. (laughter). >> chris: it's time to start "@midnight" captioning sponsored by comedy central welcome to "@midnight." i'm chris hardwick. later in the show we'll be giving an all new jaguar xe. (cheers and applause) one of our hashtag how i get around contest finalists, someone might be here in this audience there sitting in this audience, they don't even know it yet. they don't even know they won. obviously we'll milk this for everything it's worth. tonight's comedians performing at the mirage in las vegas tomorrow night, jim norton back on the program. his standup special i'm your savior is available on jim florentine.com and i teuns, jim florentine. (applause) and author of you're better than me, available on amazon and audibles, bonnie mcfarlane son the program. welcome, welcome, welcome. it is now time to admit that olympic has fa

getting stuck in traffic in l.a. not big news. the way you pass the time when you're stuck in traffic is getting lots of -- we saw the story on kebz in l.a. a new challenge called the freeway challenge is getting a lot of attention and a lot of videos are popping up online about it. check this out. numb skills like this skateboarding on traffic-filled freeways and highways in and around the l.a. area. the california highway patrol has seen these video ss. this guy has been identified as a professional skateboarder. this guy popping out of a car that appears to be stuck in traffic taking his skateboard and pulling tricks in the middle of the traffic. >> that's so stupid. somebody is going to get run over. because something could happen on the other side of the freeway and affect you. this is stupid. >> not to mention illegal. but it's starting to become a trend. we contacted the california highway patrol ourselves. they say they are investigating this freeway challenge. if these guys are caught, which keep in mind, shouldn't be ter

>> would i go to l.a.? i mean -- >> at some point. >> at some point? i mean, if -- yeah, if his -- if the show goes, yeah. i mean, eventually, i would have to go, right? and then i could be a hollywood wife. >> ripa was quick to reassure the show's executive producer. >> don't worry, i'll take you with me. it will be called live from my backyard. >> we spotted michael strahan today after "live." sources tell us he has asked for a low-key final show on friday. and we talked to audience members about the kelly/michael chemistry during commercial breaks. >> certainly weren't together. >> they went their separate ways. one went one way, one went the other. >> michhel joins gma full-time in the fall. meanwhile, kelly tells people magazine she was pivotal in speeding up michael's po announcement exit from "live". that she wanted him off as soon as possible. >> she was able to point out, this isn't going to work. if you want us to be able to launch our new season in september just as gma is launching their new season with michael in september, we need to star

obtained by the l.a. times, many of the e-mails mocked muslims, including one saying, "you can't wash off the smell of donkey." the muslim public affairs council calling this particularly troubling because of angel's high rank. >> all the sheriffs that work beneath him look to him as the standard bearer. >> reporter: last year, 19 south florida officers centraled. some of them creating this disturbing video. and last week in san francisco, three officers found exchanging racist e-mails, triggering this demonstration. >> no one can say that they didn't know what was or wasn't acceptable in the workplace. >> reporter: the l.a. sheriff's department is now saying it will institute a new system that will allow it to randomly check officers' communications. david? >> matt gutman from california tonight. >>> now, to detroit. hundred office teachers in a massive sickout over pay. almost every school was closed today. some fear they may not be paid over the summer, because of lack of money. teachers also concerned

>> would i go to l.a.? battle with her neighborhood. my exclusive with minnie tonight. >> then a disturbed taylor swift fan cuffed. new details about the scary encounter. >>> plus, we grill ryan gosling about his new baby girl. >>> then, only our cameras are rolling as an empire star says i do. >> you are free to the bride. >> the bride's two custom couture dresses nearly ruined by rain and the reception fun with co-stars. >>> and all the gossip from the cannes film festival. >> justin timberla pregnant blake, clooney and julia opening up about their close friendship. >> happy hour somewhere. >>> now for may 11th, 2016, this is "entertainment tonight." the countdown is on. only two days before live with kelly and michael is m strahan's rear-view mirror. >> for the first time since blind by the news he was leaving, she's talking about the whole thing went down from her perspective. >> and how is their relationship now. and then could kelly be moving the show to hollywood. >> my daughter's like, are we moving t should i start applying to

they leafed a tesla model x believing people traveling from l.a. to las vegas would want to make the trip in a luxury car for $85, slightly more than what it costs to fly one way l.a. to vegas. >> what surprised me is how much people like the experience. i think it's a combination of the car and the convenience of driving and getting dropped off close to where you need to be. >> reporter: one key to the business plan is not paying to power its fleet, that's because it can recharge for free at the super charging stations. and as tesla ceo looks to add more super charger stations around the country, tesloop plans to expand with it targeting routes where it can offer one to five hour rides in cities with commuters. >> there's so many people that commute daily or weekly and all we have to do is get a small fraction to become profitable. >> reporter: the owners believe the discount prices will drive more people to become customers. >> it's nice. it's a tesla and that's fun. i always wanted to ride the model x and that's my chance to do that. >> reporter

. >> reporter: l.a. x., a flurry of planes, travelers and lines of travelers. tacked with keeping things i've and flowing. the l.a.x. police force. while they're easy to spot in the terminal, you're less likely to spot them here. at their firing range next to the runway. or here senator he will bite you. >> reporter: training their canine units how to stop an attacker. or here at their long range rifle training. the airport police in a cop stant ballot to stay ahead of the bad guys. because of the rise in terrorism, brussels, pairs and now san bernardino, l.a. x. is up to speed and staying on top of terrorism. one of the main things we have is the weapons knows weapons are and even this. a tactical bearcat armored vehicle. the officers hanging off it members of l.a. x.'s s.w.a.t. equivalent. the esu. emergency services unit. blug. it's around the clock 12-person team. >> constantly training being proficient with our firearms, the rifles and shotguns we carry and sidearms. >> esu working hand in hand with the airport's canine unit. exact number of bomb-sniffing

but more people there are now hopping the train at least for the six-mile run from downtown l.a. to the beach in santa monica. part of a nationwide revival in mass transit. and ben tracy tells us all about it. >> reporter: when you think of los angeles, you probably think of this. and not this. >> pretty amazing that people think there is no public transportation here. >> reporter: phil washington the ceo of los angeles metro, l.a. county transportation agency. he took us for a ride on the new train to santa monica dubbed "the subway to the sea." it runs parallel to one of the city's most congested freeways. >> we know the 10 is right there. there is a certain satisfaction you get from sitting here knowing other people are sitting in their cars. >> you are zooming by. you are zooming by. and they're in the one vehicle, you know, looking straight ahead. >> reporter: in the past 25 years, l.a. county's rail system has grown from 0 to 106 miles of track. its color coded lines extending in all directions. but having spent 1.5 billion on the 6.6 mile extension to santa monica, will th

but not in the car in l.a. >> but not in the car in l.a. >> seth: you have to wait till you get home. >> you'd have to wait, yes. >> seth: and, "two broke girls." this is the fifth season? >> yes. >> seth: uh, still broke? >> still broke, y'all! [ laughter ] >> seth: all right, well that's great. >> still broke. >> seth: that would really turn it upside down if that changed. >> i know. >> seth: permanently. >> we had a little, like, flavor of success where we went to l.a. this year, which was so much to play, with, like, "what they're like rich, but now they're broke again." >> seth: all right, well, i am so happy for you to hear that. >> thank you. >> seth: and congratulations on the play. i can't wait to see it. >> thank you. >> seth: thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> seth: beth behrs, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] the season finale of "two broke girls" airs thursday night. we'll be right back with music from thomas rhett. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ how does this world, help you experience this world? i'm glad you finally made it, dad. you have to experience t

it's not l.a. they get really excited about celebrities. my dad in particular is not great with the idea. he thinks that i'm the type of famous where people are like did you cut my hair in 2007? no one has any idea, and i go yes. that's what i did. and so -- but he thinks that i'm, like, julia roberts. it's sweet. we'll be at star bucks and he'll be like this is a coffee for chloe bennet. [ laughter ] >> and they'll be like great. okay. and he'll be like from "agents of shields". i'm not kidding. he's done that. first off, i'm not getting a coffee. >> jimmy: what is he doing? >> i don't know. there's one particular run in which is just horrible. we were walking in sew hoe, new york, and out of the corner of my eye i see paul rudd. preant man. when i see celebrities i never bring it up to my dad because he'll go be super weird with them. i see paul rudd, i'm like cool, and all of a sudden my dad is next to me and i see him going this way toward him, and then all of a sudden, can you be paul rudd? he goes up and says hi. i see my dad punching

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and that of course is designed to make sure it does not get stuck in l.a.'s notorious traffic. >> that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the "morning news" and "cbs this captioning funded by cbs >>> it's thursday, may 19th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking news. an egyptair flight disappears from radar over the mediterranean sea en route from paris to cairo with 66 people on board. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin this morning with breaking news. another commercial airliner has

it led to a protest march in a very uncomfortable location in l.a. this young woman whose brother has been murdered was trying to keep her elderly parents from getting thrown out of their home and put in a homeless shelter, she and supporters marched up to the bel air neighborhood in los angeles to a gated community there, and specifically marched up to a $26 million mansion that was the home of the guy who ran indy mac. one of those billionaire rescuers who took over indy mac and turned it into one west and then kept throwing tens of thousands of people out of their houses as they made hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves. they marched on his $26 million house, which from the coverage at the time you can tell was cathartic for a lot of people that were there and watching that happen in l.a. it was reportedly terrifying for him. he's talked about it to the press since then and talks about it, having been very afraid when those protesters came to his house. but that one bank and what those billionaire rescuers did with that bank is kind of t

you said you were in l.a.? >> yep. based in l.a. the average price for a solo bedroom in l.a. is $70 to $80. when you think of hotel prices generally 200 some dollars. >> in the future, are you getting seed money? are people dumping into overnight here? >> we have raised some money. >> how much? >> we raised $2.5 million. >> nice. congratulations. >> thank you. >> favorite places to visit, stay in someone's bedroom? >> i love l.a. but my favorite city is amsterdam. >> where you can overnight on the ship behind us. >> could you use this? >> my goodness, how much does that run a night? >> put it on overnight. >> do you use your app to stay here in the bay area? >> i did. and i have used it in other cities as well. using your own products i think is an important thing to do. >> do you think you will be in every major city in the u.s. by 2020? >> 2018 i would hope to be global. i mean -- >> that's how fast it goes? >> yeah. we have been in market for four months and we are in our fourth city. >> congratulations. >> thank you so overnight. it's hot here in san francisco. >> all rig

but then i ended up - we went to l.a. and i did my show from universal and i drove past the carl's jr. and they're closing down, they're tearing it down. and that made me laugh. so that's me laughing hysterically at the carl's jr. just to redeem myself. [ laughter ] it's not carl's jr.'s fault. [ applause ] >> jimmy: no, i love carl's jr. that's just a bad memory for me so i had it destroyed. i want no bad memories to exist. >> oh, good. >> jimmy: this one like gave me nightmares. i just want to know what this is all about. >> okay. okay. that's fair. that's fair. >> jimmy: look at the dolls' faces. well the one especially. >> okay. so these are my actual stuffed animals. >> jimmy: no. >> yes, they are. yes, they are. >> jimmy: oh, my goodness. and that's tilda swinton. >> jimmy: who i love, yeah. >> and sandro, her boyfriend. and he paints stuffed animals. so i commissioned him thousands of dollars to paint these stuffed animals. >> jimmy: which did he -- which one exactly? >> this cute one here. >> jimmy: no, no. that i

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"endeavour" is now parked at the california science center in l.a. >> it's an amazing machine. so we wanted to show the whole thing and help explain how challenging it is to go to orbit. >> reporter: it's one thing to want a fuel tank. it's quite another to get it delivered. et-94, as it's called, was housed at a nasa warehouse in new orleans. an 1,800-mile drive to los angeles. >> this is a little too big to go on a road because it's just too large to go under any bridges or overpasses. >> reporter: so instead the giant fuel tank was loaded onto a barge, sailing through the gulf of mexico and the caribbean sea, through the panama canal, up the pacific coast by san diego, and now just outside of l.a. the six-week, 5,000-mile journey cost $3 million. now just 16 miles remain. the toughest 16 miles. from the marina to the museum. it's a familiar path. one that captivated southern californians 3 1/2 years ago when "endeavour" made one last flyby, then a slow victory lap. [ cheers and applause ] navigating space may have been easier than navigating l.a. streets. the fuel tank will

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. >> right here in l.a. nonprofft organization, wildlife warriors. >> i love when steve said we have to have kids so we c leave all of this conservation work and zoo and everything to our kids. take over australia zoo. >> okay. >> give it a shot. >> and that's exactly what is happening. >> back to the event, a ton of the dancing crew will be there. tom bergeron wi hosting. bendi is growing up so fast. >> she is. >> stay with is this pregnant star having a girl or a boy? can you guess? the news next t the dancing with theessars drama she is dredging up. it's all at e.t. online.com. >> ncis l.a. star having a baby in the fall. is it going to be a boy or girl? >> she broke the news right here when she stopped b but it's a little more complicated than is it a girl or a boy because sarah is expecting and married to eric and you know that he is the on screen love interest to daniela that's married david alton who is his older brother. that makes them sister-in-laws and now let's get to the baby news. >> good. i ha