L.A.'s Small Lots, Zumba, Cirque du Soleil, The Importance of Hats

Designed to encourage home ownership, Los Angeles is allowing developers to build single family homes on very small lots. The ordinance, however, is also triggering evictions of low-income tenants and home designs that neighbors find unsightly.Reporter Derrick Shore goes to a community meeting, meets with homeowners and tenants, and looks at the long-term impact of this controversial development trend.

Three nights a week in a neighborhood in El Monte women do their hair and make-up as if they were going out on the town. Instead they are headed to an intensive exercise class. Reporter Cara Santa Maria discovered how a Zumba class can do much more than burn calories; it can unite a group of Latinas who are making their bodies, friendships and community stronger.

What goes on behind the scenes at the spectacular Cirque du Soleil? Anchor Val Zavala meets the performers as they rehearse; finds out how they became members of this world class circus; visits the make-up artists, costume designers and the artistic director whose imaginations create a magical world under the big top.

A love for the elegance and beauty of hats is still alive on Sunday mornings in African-American churches across Los Angeles. What has kept this unique tradition alive? We go to the West Angeles Church of God in Christ and Leola's Hats in South L.A., the heart of hat fashion.