The Veterans Health Administration is implementing a major new program Thursday that will allow more veterans to see private doctors outside the system. KPBS takes a look at how the MISSION program will be rolled out here in San Diego. Plus, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography study has found microplastics far below the ocean’s surface; a cross-border sewage fix may be coming; and the San Diego International Fringe Festival is back with the beautiful, bizarre and the unexpected.