Voters in Mexico go to the polls on Sunday, and the country could get its first female president. No matter who wins, though, residents of Tijuana will be watching what the new president does about one specific issue: the environmental problems plaguing their city, on the US-Mexico border. Gustavo Solis of KPBS in San Diego has the story.
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