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The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to open the Morganza Spillway near Baton Rouge on Saturday. Opening the gates for the first time in 38 years will unleash the river on a wild ride, putting hundreds of thousands of acres and several thousand homes at risk of flooding.

How will local farmers be affected by the light brown apple moth quarantine? We speak to a nursery owner and the county's agriculture commissioner about the risks the moth poses to local agriculture, and the challenges the quarantine will create for farmers who ship products out of the state.

U.S. foreclosures matched their highest level on record at the end of 2010, and Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, says scores of homeowners who qualify for help aren't getting it. Barofsky, who is stepping down in March, says the Obama administration's program to prevent foreclosures is broken.

Vista school officials say the number of homeless students in their school district has quadrupled over the past three years. There are currently more than 2,500 homeless students in the Vista Unified School District. That's about 10 percent of the overall student population.

The director of the White House Office of Management and Budget says the skyrocketing deficit can actually be helpful during an economic crisis. But, Peter Orszag says, it can put a drag on early stages of recovery. He says reducing that debt while not cutting back too soon on stimulus programs is a tricky situation.

Federal officials have arrested more than 130 undocumented immigrants in San Diego during the last three weeks. It’s the latest blitz in a national effort to round up more than 570,000 immigrants who

Picher, Okla., was once among the nation's largest Superfund sites. It was a town prone to cave-ins, from years of overzealous mining. The federal government was in the process of buying out the people who hadn't left yet. Over the weekend, Picher was destroyed by a tornado, and it's unlikely anyone will rebuild.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown is suing mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Brown was in San Diego today to talk about the effort to end a freeze on funding to homeowners for energy upgrades.

As the back-to-school shopping season approaches, retailers hope shoppers can afford to buy lots of backpacks and jeans. But reports show most shoppers are still watching their pennies, and the biggest back-to-school shoppers -- teenagers -- are having trouble finding work.

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