KCBS In Depth

Our weekly half-hour news interview. On air: Saturdays 5:30a.m.; Sundays 8:30 a.m., 8:30 p.m.

KCBS In Depth: Issues With Bicycles As Transportation

June 17, 2013
KCBS In Depth interviews the executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Leah Shahum.
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June 10, 2013
KCBS In Depth - Super Bowl L in the Bay Area: Interview with Dan Lurie on his role in sealing the deal to bring the 50th Super Bowl to the Bay Area.
KCBS In Depth: A Father Shares What Works, What Doesn't, in the Battle to Overcome a Drug Addiction

June 3, 2013
Journalist and Author David Sheff has written extensively on his son's addiction to meth. His first book on their journey was Beautiful Boy. Now he's published Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy, in which he shares what he's learned about what works, and what doesn't in battling addiction.
KCBS In Depth: The Role of the FBI in the Bay Area, California and Nationwide

May 20, 2013
KCBS anchors Jeff Bell and Jane McMillan speaking with David Johnson, FBI Special Agent in charge of the San Francisco Division, about civil rights and preventing terror attacks, how technology is helping interagency communication, crime risks in Silicon Valley and gang crime in Oakland.
KCBS In Depth: Making Sense of the Complicated and Bloody Civil War in Syria

May 13, 2013
Professor Alan Weiner, Co-Director of the Center on International Conflict and Resolution at Stanford Law School, suggests that President Bashar al-Assad decided that his political survival was much more important than the well being of his country.
KCBS In Depth: The H1B Visa and Silicon Valley

May 6, 2013
Giovanni Peri, a Professor at UC Davis, specializing in Labor Economics, Regional Economics and Economics of Migrations offers one view; Normal Matloff, a Professor at UC Davis specializing in Computer Science and formerly a professor of statistics at UC Davis, provides his own analysis on this controversial topic.
KCBS In Depth: Oracle Team USA Skipper Jimmy Spithill

April 29, 2013
Excitement continues to build on the high seas and along shore, as the clock ticks down to the 34th America's Cup match, beginning Sept. 7 on San Francisco Bay.
KCBS IN Depth: Oracle Team USA Skipper Jimmy Spithill

April 29, 2013
When Oracle Team USA sails for the America's Cup on the Bay this summer, a proven winner will be the skipper. Jimmy Spithill spoke to KCBS about defending the title, plus how he got started in the sport in Australia, plus why he loves it so much.
KCBS In Depth: Fighting Crime in San Francisco

April 15, 2013
Police Chief Greg Suhr is our guest on KCBS In Depth, discussing crime prevention in the city, which includes a new plan to get chronic drunks and drug abusers off the streets and into treatment programs.
KCBS In Depth: The Science of Sleep

April 1, 2013
It's not at all uncommon for Americans to burn the candle at both ends, as the saying goes. Plenty of overworked Americans look to their weekends and vacations simply to "catch up" on sleep. But, it turns out, there really is no such thing. Dr. Matthew Walker, a sleep researcher and Director of the UC Berkeley Sleep and Neuro-Imaging Laborator
KCBS In Depth: Oakland's Operation Ceasefire Generates No Shortage of Opinions

March 25, 2013
When it comes to fighting crime, all eyes in the Bay Area are on the city of Oakland and its multi-faceted effort called Operation Ceasefire. In this In Depth, KCBS gets another perspective on the push to stop the violence, from Alameda County's chief probation officer.
KCBS In Depth: California’s Health Benefit Exchange

March 18, 2013
Get ready to do some health insurance shopping. California implements its health benefit exchange next year and it will be a game changer for both consumers and providers. After the heated debates in Washington over the federal Affordable Care Act, otherwise kn0wn as Obamacare, a new plan for the Golden State is ready. Peter Lee, executive director of the Co
KCBS In Depth: Cyber Scammers, Smart Phone Vulnerabilities and More Cyber Security Issues Facing Users

March 4, 2013
Technology is deeply engrained in our everyday lives, there's no doubt about that. And of course, with all that high-tech usage comes the risk of attack from equally high-tech criminals.
KCBS In Depth: Willie Brown, Politician and Film Buff, on the Oscars and the State of the Motion Picture Industry Today

February 25, 2013
Willie Brown, the politician who prides himself on his movie knowledge, weighs in on his favorite flicks, Academy Awards predictions, graphic violence in the movies, and the element of surprise - or lack thereof - in some recent blockbusters, during his KCBS In Depth interview with our Entertainment Reporter, Jan Wahl.
KCBS In Depth: The State of Journalism

February 18, 2013
Don't put the final nail in the newspaper coffin just yet. The new Dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism is the latest guest on KCBS' In Depth, saying the sky is the limit for those getting into the news business.
KCBS In Depth: Project Homeless Connect's Mission in San Francisco

February 9, 2013
Because the issues that drive a person to homelessness are varied and many, so are the solutions needed to re-house them. The nonprofit Project Homeless Connect is not only connecting the City's homeless with these much-needed services, but has becoming the starting point for those searching for loved ones, as well. Project Homeless Connect Executive Di
KCBS In Depth: Carmen Policy Predicts Another Super Bowl Win for the 49ers

January 28, 2013
The man who helped guide the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl victories thinks the team is primed to bring home yet another Lombardi trophy. Carmen Policy, who was at the helm during the Niners' glory days, was a guest on KCBS' most recent In Depth, reminiscing about the team's winning years, and pondering whether the streak can resume.
KCBS In Depth: The Future of American Health Care

January 18, 2013
KCBS In Depth - UCSF Chancellor Dr. Susan Desmond Hellman discusses her take on the future of American health care.
KCBS In Depth: Baseball's Hall of Fame Debate

January 14, 2013
The announcement earlier this month that no players had been selected by baseball writers for induction next summer in the Hall of Fame ensures a complicated issue will be discussed for at least another year. For only the eighth time since voting began in 1936, the voting membership did not elect anyone to Cooperstown. Bay Area sports writers Carl Steward of
KCBS In Depth: Predicting the Big Political Story of 2013

January 7, 2013
Without a doubt, the big political story of 2012 was the reelection of Pres. Obama. Considering the victory of a White House incumbent, political pundits are now left to answer the question: what, if anything, will be different in Washington in 2013? Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution Research Fellow specializing in current events and political trends with an e
In Depth: Giants Star Relief Pitcher Sergio Romo Thinks the Team's Future Looks Bright

December 31, 2012
Can the Giants win the World Series again? Romo says yes. With so many of the playoff roster players returning, combined with the chemistry in the clubhouse, the way the team was able to cling together and play for each other, playing for the same cause, the same reasons and essentially pulling on the same rope at the same time this past season, he thinks th
KCBS In Depth: Struggling to Come to Terms with the Tragedy in Connecticut

December 17, 2012
As the investigation into the mass killing of nearly two dozen children in their Connecticut elementary school progresses, all kinds of information will be uncovered. But, American will likely always be left to grapple with the "why" and "how" of it all: why did it happen and how can we prevent it from happening again? It's human nat
KCBS In Depth: Crisis In Egypt

December 10, 2012
Compared to the thousands of years of Egyptian civilization, its fledgling democracy is a mere speck on the nation's timeline - so far. Experts and citizens alike are worried the current upheaval so early in its inception could damage the political progress in Egypt for years to come. We hear from Middle East expert Larry Diamond and Egyptian-born SF St
KCBS In Depth: Can Giants Re-Capture 2012 Magic In 2013?

December 4, 2012
The off-season goal of the World Series champion San Francisco Giants is simple. “We’re going to try to keep the team together as much as possible,” Giants CEO and President Larry Baer said in a half hour interview on KCBS In Depth, “and fashion a team that can take a good shot at defending the championship."
KCBS In Depth: SF Giants Move Forward With Plans for New Waterfront Village in Mission Bay

December 3, 2012
While the Golden State Warriors are on a full court press to build their new arena near the Bay Bridge - specifically, at Piers 30 - 32 - the San Francisco Giants are quietly pursuing their own waterfront development plan.

Picture dated 1950's of the Golden Gate Bridge

KCBS In Depth: The History Of The Golden Gate Bridge

What is it that sets apart the Golden Gate Bridge from all the other bridges in the world? According to historian and author Dr. Kevin Starr it’s a magnificent engineering achievement as well as a consummate work of art.

2012/05/27

A homeless man sleeps in the doorway of a closed store in San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

KCBS In Depth: Homelessness

Former SF Supervisor Bevan Dufty has been appointed director of homeless policy in a city persistently plagued by the homeless and their needs and the lack of services for them.

2012/02/26

In Depth: High Speed Rail in California

This week on In Depth, the new chair of the state’s high-speed rail authority explains some revisions and funds necessary to achieve an on-time delivery of 220 mph trains from Northern to Southern California.

2012/02/05

Bruce Miller #49 of the San Francisco 49ers gets tackled by Brooks Reed #58 of the Houston Texans

Daily Madden: Why Football Is The Second Toughest Sport

It took defending champion Novak Djokovic five sets and almost five hours to beat Andy Murray in the Australian Open in Melbourne.

KCBS–2012/01/27

KCBS In Depth: Bay Area Jails & Prisons

Outgoing San Francisco County Sheriff Mike Hennessey looks back at a 32-year career, his accomplishments and the state’s prison realignment program.

2012/01/08

KCBS In Depth: Big Money in Politics

Lawrence Lessig author of “Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress” is a former Stanford Law Professor and founder of Stanford Center of Internet and Society.

2011/10/30