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Fifth-graders help investigate California bill targeting anti-aging skincare sales to minors | Investigating "Sephora kids" Solutions

Fri, 23 May 2025 01:21:00 -0400

Skincare brands are making billions of dollars a year selling products to tweens: kids under 12. Dermatologists warn that some of those products can be harmful to young skin. So, a California lawmaker wants to require an ID to buy some of those products.

CBS News California investigative correspondent Julie Watts teamed up with her daughter's fifth-grade class and the CBS News Confirmed team to examine the risks of the "Sephora Kids" trend and the proposed solution to help protect children.

BEHIND THE INVESTIGATION: CBS News California investigates troubling trend in skincare industry

WATCH PART 1 - Investigating "Sephora Kid" Concerns: How skincare brands make billions selling products to tweens.

WATCH PART 2 - Investigating "Sephora Kids" Solutions: Fifth-graders investigate California bill targeting anti-aging skincare sales to minors.

READ MORE HERE: How the skincare industry makes billions marketing products to tweens, including some that could harm young skin

CBS News California investigates troubling skincare industry trend | "Sephora kid" Investigation

Thu, 22 May 2025 22:03:00 -0400
If you have a tween in your life, get-ready-with-me videos may be familiar to you. These videos saturate social media feeds, targeting young girls with multi-step skincare and routines.

Popular brands partner with kid-fluencers to create viral skincare products and social media content, and the skincare industry is cashing in, turning many in Generation Alpha into so-called "Sephora kids."

The problem is that many viral products contain anti-aging ingredients like retinol and alpha hydroxy acid, which, unbeknownst to many of these kids, can harm their young skin, and it's hard to tell the products apart.

So CBS News California investigative correspondent Julie Watts teamed up with her daughter's fifth-grade class and CBS News Confirmed to examine the risks and what is being done to protect children.

WATCH PART 1 - Investigating "Sephora Kid" Concerns: How skincare brands make billions selling products to tweens.

WATCH PART 2 - Investigating "Sephora Kids" Solutions: Fifth-graders investigate California bill targeting anti-aging skincare sales to minors.

READ MORE HERE: How the skincare industry makes billions marketing products to tweens, including some that could harm young skin

FAIR Plan Fix: What are lawmakers doing to fix California's insurance and why is it taking so long?

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:44:00 -0400
FAIR plan problems are nothing new, but suddenly, everyone is paying attention to California's insurance crisis. Are we any closer to a fix? CBS News California investigates the flood of insurance-related bills in the aftermath of the L.A. fires and why it's taken so long for lawmakers to take action.

WATCH OUR CONTINUING COVERAGE:
CBS NEWS CALIFORNIA INVESTIGATES California's Insurance Crisis

Forced onto the FAIR Plan: Why are low-risk homes losing insurance?

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:12:00 -0400
California's insurance of last resort is supposed to be for homes with *high* wildfire risk, but our CBS News California data analysis found that the vast majority of people in the FAIR Plan live in areas that the insurance companies classify as "low risk". California's insurance of last resort is supposed to be for homes with high wildfire risk, but our CBS News California data analysis found that the vast majority of people in the FAIR plan live in areas that the insurance companies classify as "low-risk."

Julie Watts investigates why people in low-risk areas are being forced onto the FAIR plan and why new regulations may not help to get them off the high-cost, low-coverage plan and back to normal insurance.

CA Insurance Commissioner to require more FAIR Plan transparency following CBS News California Investigation

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:25:00 -0400
The public is on the hook for the FAIR Plan's debt, but we don't have access to the FAIR Plan's financials. Should that be legal? California's Insurance Commissioner says, "No." Now he's committing to fix it following a CBS News California Investigation.

WATCH THE FULL INVESTIGATION HERE:
California FAIR Plan secrets: Why the state's insurer of last resort is so secretive

FOLLOW OUR CONTINUING COVERAGE:
CBS NEWS CALIFORNIA INVESTIGATES California's Insurance Crisis

FAIR Plan Secrets: Why California's insurer of last resort is so secretive (and why it could cost you)

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:40:00 -0400
There’s a lot we don't know about California's Fair Plan, and now people who don't have the insurance of last resort are on the hook for the FAIR Plan's debt. CBS New California Investigates "FAIR Plan Secrets" and reveals how what you don’t know could cost you.

Denise Huskins, Aaron Quinn use their "American Nightmare" trauma to retrain law enforcement

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:42:00 -0500
Critics blame antiquated interrogation training for their "American Nightmare." Aaron and Denise (Huskins) Quinn take us through Aaron's own interrogation, revealing how traditional interrogation techniques failed them.

Denise and Quinn gained worldwide notoriety when their 2015 kidnapping was detailed in Netflix's highest-rated docuseries of 2024, "American Nightmare." The couple survived, only to be publicly defamed by police and the FBI, who claimed they made the whole thing up. Meanwhile, their kidnapper continued terrorizing other families.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News California, Huskins and Quinn detailed what happened after the documentary ends. Huskins and Quinn are now working with law enforcement. They're using their trauma to retrain officers (and solve crimes along the way).

CBS News Confirmed examines Gov. Newsom's "fact checks" on California fires

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:37:00 -0500
California Gov. Gavin Newsom set up a fact-checking website to counter what he calls "lies" about the Los Angeles-area fires from President Trump and the conservative media — except, they’re not all lies. So we asked our CBS News Confirmed team to fact-check Newsom's fact checks.

California Senate Insurance Committee remains without chair amid corruption probe

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:15:00 -0500
Democratic Sen. Susan Rubio was the Senate Insurance Committee chair for the past six years. As of Wednesday, that committee is the only committee in the entire legislature without a chair.

"American Nightmare" victims Denise Huskins, Aaron Quinn reveal timeline of kidnapper's cold-case crimes

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 01:49:00 -0500
In an exclusive interview with CBS News California, Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn reveal a 30-year timeline of Matthew Muller's cold-case crimes. Crimes they helped solve.

The survivors detail how it took a decade, a documentary, a small-town chief, and a rural district attorney before anyone would listen.

What happens to retail theft ringleaders? | TOUGHER ON CRIME - CHAPTER 2

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:22:00 -0500
In the lead-up to the election, California Governor Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta publicized thousands of statewide organized retail theft arrests, but what the press releases didn't say is what happens to the retail theft ring leaders after the arrests. No one could tell us how many of those people arrested for organized retail theft were actually sentenced, let alone how many went to jail, received treatment, or reoffended. It turned out no one was keeping track. So we tracked down a few ourselves.

The intersection of homelessness, addiction and retail theft | TOUGHER ON CRIME - CHAPTER 1

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:18:00 -0500
Voters passed California's "tougher-on-crime" Proposition 36 with the largest margin of any measure on the ballot, despite vocal opposition from Democratic Leadership inside California's state Capitol. This highlighted a bit of a disconnect between state lawmakers and the people they represent. The initiative's official name is "The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act." The name references three issues that supporters believe are intertwined. We begin our examination of Prop 36 at the intersection of addiction, homelessness, and retail theft.

TOUGHER ON CRIME: What Prop 36 means for California

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:49:00 -0500
Crime was on the 2024 ballot in California, and the decision by voters was decisive. Despite vocal opposition from Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic Party leaders, California voters overwhelmingly passed Prop 36. This year-long investigation takes a closer look at the many components of California's new "tougher on crime" law, from retail theft to drug treatment courts to the governor's fight to keep Prop 36 off the ballot.

Playing Politics with Alexandra's Memory | TOUGHER ON CRIME - CHAPTER 3

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 03:00:00 -0500
While retail theft and drug courts are key components of Prop 36, a warning for fentanyl dealers known as "Alexandra's Law" pit democratic leadership against grieving parents and exposed how things really work in California's State Capitol. Alexandra's story provides a glimpse of California politics through the eyes of two grieving parents who say powerful politicians played politics with their daughter's memory.

Digital Democracy: Lawmakers V. Grieving Parents

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:47:00 -0500
One of the hardest-fought political battles in 2024 happened inside California's Capitol between a group of grieving parents who lost their kids to fentanyl… and a handful of powerful California politicians who were opposed to increasing criminal penalties. This year-long investigation combines gripping statehouse investigative reporting with groundbreaking AI-assisted data journalism to provide an unprecedented look at how California's one-party supermajority legislature systematically avoids transparency and accountability by killing controversial legislation without voting on the record.

Is retail crime in California really up, and will Proposition 36 help?

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:09:00 -0400
California voters will soon decide on a high-profile ballot measure that would increase penalties for certain drug and theft crimes. Here, we examine whether retail theft is really on the rise in California and whether the tough-on-crime Proposition 36 would actually help combat those crimes.

How California lawmakers played politics with a young woman's memory

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:38:00 -0400
Fentanyl took her life. Now her parents say Governor Newsom and Democratic leadership in California's Capitol misused her name and played politics with their daughter's memory

Bill to help protect California seniors from scammers waits for Gov. Newsom's signature

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:23:00 -0400
Credit card companies are responsible for fraud loss, under federal law. But there's no penalty for big banks when venerable victims wire thousands of dollars to scammers.

Mill Fire Update: 3,900 acres have been burned, thousands still under evacuation

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 01:45:00 -0400
The Mill Fire has burned 3,900 acres and is 0% contained.

Siskiyou County fire threatens hundreds of homes

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:05:00 -0400
A massive fire in Weed, California, is threatening hundreds of homes.

Body discovered in lake where Kiely Rodni went missing

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 01:17:00 -0400
While an independent dive team says they found the teenager's car, authorities have yet to confirm the identity of the body discovered inside.

Folsom native fatally struck by lightning remembered as "incredible young man"

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 01:53:00 -0400
Brooks Lambertson, 29, was among three people killed by a lightning strike outside the White House in Washington D.C. The banking executive was in the nation's capital for business.