On this edition of “Inside the Issues” host Alex Cohen speaks with Senior Economist at the University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Management Leo Feler on whether the United States is heading into a recession.

For nearly 40 years, Fritz Coleman was a fixture in homes throughout the Southern California region, delivering weather on Channel 4. Coleman comes on to discuss how he found himself in this role even though he was not a meteorologist by profession.

Over the course of 18 years, the height of smoke plumes has been increasing, sometimes by as much as 320 feet per year, with the biggest growth happening in California. Dr. Lucy Jones, founder of the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, explains to Cohen why this is happening.