San Diego’s Air Pollution Control District is forcing industries to reduce cancer risk in San Diego.

There was a major change this week in how many canceer-causing toxins local industries were allowed to spew in the air. We sat down with environment reporter MacKenzie Elmer to talk about what goes into these standards, what local industries had to do to alert residents of the risks and what changes are coming. 

And a San Diego-based nonprofit Saved in America says they save people from human trafficking. But do they?

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