California

Extensive coastal development in the past 50 years has been a detrimental to California's natural landscape and the famous surf spots.

"There”s no question that California”s population has doubled in the 43 years since I’ve been here," said Gary Griggs, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California-Santa Cruz. "It's gone from 19 million to almost 39 million people. And most of the those people, 75 percent of them are living in coastal counties."

New legislation recently turned law prohibits states, cities and counties from mandating the use of E-Verify.

For several years, groups against illegal immigrants made cities in California adopt ordinances to verify each employee's legal status.

Several cities required businesses to enroll in E-Verify, an online program that uses federal databases to check the immigration status of workers. Businesses that refused to check could face fines or revocation of their business licenses.

After an unprecedented Supreme Court decision on May 23, 2011, California prisons began moving inmates last week in order to decrease its prison population. The congressional mandate requires California to reduce the number of inmates by 11,000 over the next three months and 34,000 over the next two years. 

Witnesses say they thought it was a missile launch, but the Pentagon is not ready to say exactly what was seen in the sky above the southern California coastline.

According to CNN, a helicopter took the images of a plume in the sky off the coast of California on Monday at sunset. Witnesses characterize it as a contrail from a high-altitude rocket, but the Pentagon has yet to explain the exact nature of the images.