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A widespread power outage hit South Florida this afternoon, affecting up to three million people at one point. The outages struck the wider Miami area, extending from Boca Raton south to Key West. Disabled traffic lights created problems throughout Miami, and several hospitals switched over to emergency power.

The Navy wants to expand its training operations at the Silver Strand Training Complex. How will the expansion of naval operations along the Silver Strand effect the area's ecosystem, and the residents who live nearby?

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Officials and homeowners throughout the Red River Valley raced to finish levees and lay sandbags as the Mississippi, Red and St. Croix rivers began to overflow in some places. In Minnesota, Gov. Tim Pawlenty has called out the National Guard to help vulnerable communities prepare, and officials in St. Paul declared an emergency.

Local illustrator Kadir Nelson captures legendary baseball great Jackie Robinson in the new children's book "Testing the Ice: A True Story of Jackie Robinson."

Senior Metro Reporter Alison St. John joins us for an update on food stamp participation in San Diego. And, the chairman of the San Diego Food Bank joins us to talk about the needs of low-income San Diegans during the holiday season.

Laid-off furniture factory workers in Lenoir, N.C., studied information technology with the hopes of landing a job at a new Google data center. But when their dreams of a job with Google didn't come true, they still found a way to stay employed.

This is not opera as we know it. French composer Pascal Dusapin's chamber opera "To Be Sung" combines new music with a Gertrude Stein text. The graduate students at UCSD's Department of Music perform an ambitious production of "To Be Sung" in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall this week. We'll talk with the director, soprano Susan Narucki and members of the creative team.

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