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An SDSU Professor is about to host his 100th student field trip to some of California's toughest prisons. We'll find out why he does it.

How many families in San Diego County go to bed hungry every night? We'll discuss the latest stats on hunger in the county, and talk about what Feeding America San Diego is doing to reduce the meal gap in our community. Plus, learn about the unique challenge of reducing hunger in the Imperial County.

Some features of the landmark health care reform law are already in place. But the biggest benefit for consumers won’t be introduced until 2014. That’s when people will able to use an online marketplace to shop for low-cost health insurance.

Even away from the spotlight, lots of married men stray. But people in public life have a combination of opportunity and sense of self-worth that may make them especially likely to dally.

On Thursday, President Obama makes a major address on the uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa and what those events mean for the U.S. His comments will likely be compared to his speech in Cairo in June 2009, where he went to "seek a new beginning" in the region and the Muslim world.

To ease fiscal troubles, Half Moon Bay — a California seaside town — has made big cuts, disbanding departments and laying off half its workforce. The police department is on the verge of closing, making the town dependent on the local sheriff's office for the first time in 50 years.

Fast economic growth often carries a high price for some of the poorest residents as slums are cleared, sometimes by force. But the Four Regions Slum Network aims to give slum dwellers a political voice.

It's still under construction, but Escondido's new Palomar Medical Center West will get some important visitors tomorrow. Executives from other health care systems around the country will get a look at what's being called the hospital of the future.

France is reeling from the news that one of its most revered politicians and economists, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been accused of attacking a maid as she was cleaning his New York City hotel room. Strauss-Kahn, who denies all the charges, had been expected to run for president of France.

Airs Thursday, July 24, 2014 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV