Today In L.A. is a local early-morning local newscast airing over NBC's west coast flagship, KNBC-TV, in Los Angeles. It became the first morning local newscast in Southern California when it debuted on KNBC in 1986, as a half-hour lead-in to The Today Show. Kent Shocknek and Pat DaSilva were the original anchors, with Christopher Nance handling weather duties, and Fred Roggin in a taped segment reporting sports. DaSilva, who is Mexican-American also became the first latina to do a morning weekday newscast. DaSilva sat in the anchor chair for more than a year and was replaced by Carla Aragon. Shocknek and Aragon each departed in later years; Shocknek joining rival station KCBS-TV in 2001 to anchor their early-morning and midday newscasts, and Aragon returning to her native New Mexico to anchor the evening newscasts on NBC affiliate KOB-TV in Albuquerque, from 1994 to her retirement from the news reporting business in 2007. Nance left the station under controversial circumstances in December 2002, after 18 years wit