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This is the California Report. I'm Madi

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Bolaño since San Francisco, and here are

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some of the California stories we're following.

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An annual report from the State Water

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Resources Control Board found that the drinking

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water for nearly a million Californians did

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not meet state requirements. According

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to CalMatters, almost 400 water

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systems don't meet the requirement for

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safe and reliable drinking water supplies.

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And fixing the problem would cost

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the state billions of dollars. More

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than two-thirds of those failing systems serve

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communities of color, and more than half

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are in places struggling with poverty and

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pollution. In 2012, California became the

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first state in the country to

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recognize clean, safe, affordable, and accessible

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drinking water as a human right.

1:02

Fresno Police Chief Paco Baldurama

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has resigned. As KVPR's Carrie

1:07

Cline reports, the announcement yesterday

1:09

followed an investigation that cleared

1:11

Baldurama of wrongdoing after an

1:13

internal complaint stemming from an

1:15

affair with an officer's wife.

1:18

City officials announced the chief did not

1:20

violate city policy or abuse his power

1:22

when he had the affair. A

1:25

city investigation began earlier this year after

1:27

an officer alleged that a promotion he

1:29

didn't receive was related to the affair.

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City Manager George Ann White said that is

1:34

not true. This allegation was

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not sustained, and

1:38

evidence to the contrary was presented.

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Still, Mayor Jerry Dyer referred

1:43

to Baldurama's affair as quote,

1:45

inappropriate and disappointing. We

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do believe this resignation by the chief

1:51

is in the best interest of the community, the

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police department, and our

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employees. Last week, KVPR reported that

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the officer who alleged the abuse of power

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was Jordan Wamhoff, who was also

2:02

an elected Madera County supervisor. According

2:05

to a text message KVPR reviewed, Wamhoff

2:07

appeared to pressure at least one city

2:09

council member to force Balderama to resign

2:11

and give Wamhoff a new job in

2:13

exchange for not filing a lawsuit against

2:16

the city. Other outlets

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followed with stories that corroborated KVPR's

2:20

reporting. For the California Report,

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3:14

If you found yourself at a makeup

3:16

store recently, especially in the mall after

3:18

school, you might have noticed more young

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people around you. Like, really

3:23

young. Like elementary and middle school

3:25

young. This is a trend, and

3:27

it has a name, Sephora Kids,

3:29

and their purchases are doing damage

3:31

to more than just their parents'

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bank accounts. From KCRW in Los

3:35

Angeles, Kaylee Wells has the story.

3:38

Walk into the Century City Mall Sephora

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in West LA on a Saturday afternoon,

3:43

and it's a sea of perfect tween

3:45

age complexion. A couple dozen

3:47

girls wander the aisles. Among them

3:49

are 10-year-old friends Talula and Micah,

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with their moms following dutifully behind.

3:54

Micah was coy about her skincare routine.

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I probably just brush my teeth and um... Her

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mom, Dana Michaels, set the record straight. Are

4:04

you kidding me? We have all the masks,

4:06

the high masks, the scrubs, the, you

4:09

know, they see it all on TikTok

4:11

and then they come in, they want

4:13

to come in and go buy everything

4:15

they see. Countless influencers on TikTok recommend

4:17

these products, including wrinkle creams. And

4:20

elementary-aged kids like Tallulah and

4:22

Mykin eat it up. These

4:25

anti-aging serums and creams are

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packaged in neon-colored bottles and

4:29

tubes. Even their applicators

4:31

are fun and satisfying to use.

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Products can cost $70 a pop. Michaels

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says she can barely keep up with her daughter's

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requests. I mean, it's bananas.

4:41

It's like, I feel like I'm fighting a

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losing battle. I don't know if it's a

4:45

battle, but just a reality. The

4:48

reality is a result not just

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of social media, but also of

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old-fashioned social pressures. Tallulah has no

4:54

problem identifying those. Everybody at school

4:57

is also wearing it. And another.

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I don't know, it makes me feel maybe

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more grown-up, I guess. More grown-up? Yeah, that

5:04

makes sense. Neither of those explanations surprises Karen

5:06

North, who's a psychologist and a social media

5:08

professor at USC. Pretty

5:11

much forever. We've seen kids

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try to, you know, act a little

5:16

bit more grown-up, try on the fancy

5:18

clothes, put on mom's shoes, put on

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makeup. But times have changed. Now

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it's not just moms or friends

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or big sisters. Now we have

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TikTok as the older sibling to

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emulate. North says also these cosmetics

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have become collectible status symbols. Just

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like kids used to collect baseball cards

5:37

and, you know, Beanie Babies. The stakes

5:39

are higher than just bragging rights because

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you got the new Nintendo DS or

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the expensive True Religion jeans. Speaking

5:46

from middle school experience here, some

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kids are actually hurting their skin.

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Just ask dermatologist Yvette Ramsey. You

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get irritation, redness, burning,

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and also photosensitivity

5:58

or sensitivity to the skin. sun, which

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then can lead to sunburn. All

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of those are side effects of

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anti-aging products. They're designed to increase

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cell turnover rate, and that's great

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if you're a teenager or adults

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with acne or want to soften

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wrinkles. Not great for

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a young child's more sensitive

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skin. They're used too often

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by an inappropriate age group,

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and they are using too many

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combinations of products that can be

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irritating together. Those combinations even have

6:29

a name. The kids these days

6:31

call them skin care smoothies. California

6:33

lawmakers are trying to protect kids. Bay

6:36

Area Assemblymember Alex Lee wrote a bill

6:38

this year to ban the sale of

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some products, especially the anti-aging ones, to

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kids under the age of 13. That's

6:45

a really concerted effort to be like, if we get them

6:47

hooked on our product at age nine when they have no

6:49

wrinkles, when they're nice and wrinkly at 39, then

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they'll have been spending hundreds of dollars every month. A

6:54

cosmetics industry group called the Personal Care

6:56

Products Council opposed the bill. They said

6:59

in a statement that the law was

7:01

well-intentioned, but said it wasn't realistic to

7:03

make cashiers verify kids ages to enforce

7:05

it. Lee says he may tweak

7:07

the language and reintroduce it next year. For

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the California Report, I'm Kaylee Wells in Los

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Angeles. That

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is the California Report for Wednesday, June

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