democrats agree. conservative republican steve garvey is the wrong choice for the senate. ...our republican opponent here on this stage has voted for donald trump twice. mr. garvey, you voted for him twice... as your own man, what is your decision? garvey is wrong for california. but garvey's surging in the polls. fox news says garvey would be a boost to republican control of the senate. stop garvey. adam schiff for senate. i'm adam schiff, and i approve this message. san jose. a mobile museum filled

with african american artifacts makes a permanent home in san mateo county, and a new report shows a dramatic drop in california state university enrollment, with some of the steepest declines at bay area campuses. this is ktvu fox two news at 730. >> the california state university system losing tens of thousands of students now struggling to recover. >> good evening. i'm jana katsuyama new data shows among csu schools, sonoma state tops the list of declining enrollment. cal state, east bay and san francisco state also within the top five ktvu tom vacar for tonight. talked with an expert about factors that could be contributing to this troubling trend. >> for many generations, americans believe that a college degree was the promise of a better life on many levels. >> that's what i was told. you know that you go to the to a school to get a degree, and then after that degree you start earning money. but that's not

always exactly the case. as we know, former golden gate university business school dean, an author of a book, critical of higher education, terry conley, says this in 2010, the broad american population, regardless of their politics, really expected, wanted their children to go and complete college. >> okay, right now, that number is less than half the nonprofit campaign for college opportunity found that csu's 23 campuses statewide enrollment declined by 6.5, almost. 28,000 fewer students locally, sonoma state's enrollment is down 34. >> csu east bay down 25, san francisco state down 20. on top of that, the face of the student body is changing. white student enrollment declined by 13.1. black student count was down 5.4. asian students down 4.1, while the latino student count

was up 4.1. >> i think it's always worrying about money. that's firsthand because, um, then you have to pay off like loans if you're taking any. >> conley says crushing debt crushes, amassing other wealth. >> right now, you can't even get in the door of buying a house. if you've got the kind of student loan burdens that people are carrying, half of those ages 18 to 29 told pollsters that a high school diploma and two years of community college is enough to get them through life. >> many others think trade schools, from carpenters to jet mechanics, will get them the high paying, skilled jobs they seek. in that scenario, colleges lose and consider this only 60% of the people who ever enroll in college at any level actually complete the process. tom vacar, ktvu, fox two news. >> student assistants at california state university

campuses made history. today. the group of nearly 20,000 assistants voted to unionize, with 97% in favor of joining the csu employees union. the students said that they want better pay, working conditions and benefits. the csu vice chancellor for human resources issued a statement today following the announcement, saying in part, quote, the csu respects the decision of student assistants to form a union and looks forward to bargaining in good faith with. well, several bell towers in the bay area plan to play ukrainian songs and the national anthem tomorrow, marking the two year anniversary since russia's invasion that started the war. today kicked off the effort with a ukrainian national anthem, playing at uc berkeley's campanile tower at noon. maksim zubov, a graduate student in mathematics from ukraine, launched the effort to bring hope to fellow ukrainians

and supporters. >> a small, uh, let's say, like a sequence of pieces that are going to be played. so the first one is going to be korean national anthem at noon. after that, it's going to be taras shevchenko and three other pieces, the anthem and other songs will be played again at noon tomorrow with a rally scheduled at 11:30 a.m. on the steps below the tower. >> zubov says stanford university's hoover bell tower also plans to play the anthem at 10 a.m. saturday, as a show of support. well, two men painting a building in north san jose were hurt when one of them made contact with a high voltage transmission line. it happened at the crescent village apartment complex on zanker road near vallejo street at about 11 this morning. this view from sky fox shows the rescue efforts. san jose fire battalion chief mark thomas says the two men were working at the top of a boom lift about 40ft above the ground, when one of the victims somehow made contact with the

ppe transmission line. >> we don't know what the sequence of events were that that made the that led to the contact with the transmission lines. one of the workers that was in the bucket that made contact with the transmission transmission lines. and he suffered burns, electrical burns . >> by 3 p.m, rescuers were able to get the men down and take them to santa clara valley medical center for treatment. new. at 730, palo alto residents are being asked to notify law enforcement if they have security cameras on their property. police say the new neighborhood security camera program will help investigators after a crime is committed to contact camera owners who might have footage that can be used as evidence, police said. participation is voluntary and it will be up to the camera owners to decide what, if any, footage they want to share with police officers will not be able to access any of the cameras remotely. well, today we wrapped up our series of interviews with the three frontrunners in the

race to fill outgoing congresswoman anna eshoo seat in silicon valley on the four, we spoke with former san jose mayor sam liccardo about why he thinks he would be effective in congress, working with republicans across the aisle, we know that background checks are incredibly important to improve safety for gun purchases. >> democrats and republicans strongly agree about 75% of americans do so. we yet we have enormous exceptions that enable people to get access to guns without any background check. so let's start with the areas where we can agree. all right. >> liccardo also said if elected, he would advocate for reproductive rights at the national level. we need to codify roe v wade and in fact, there's legislation now in the hopper that would not just do that, but also provide protections in the third trimester, because we know many women experience very serious health issues in that third trimester. >> and so it's really imperative for us to move that bill forward

. now, obviously, there's a challenge, an ad on the topic of immigration, liccardo says that he wants to protect migrants who are seeking asylum in the united states. >> he also mentioned as a former prosecutor who dealt with human trafficking cases, he would work to allocate more resources to secure the border. the former mayor is one of 11 people who are running to represent the 16th district, which stretches from pacifica up to san jose. the top two candidates in the march 5th primary will advance to the general election on november 5th. well new. at 730, another flaring incident is reported at chevron's richmond refinery today. chevron issued the alert just after 230 this afternoon. this is file video of the chevron site. today's event was classified as a community warning system level one hazardous materials incident. local officials confirmed that the flaring has since stopped the level one alert means that the flaring is not expected to have public health impacts.

chevron has reported multiple flaring incidents this month, with the most recent taking place on tuesday. serving and protecting the south bay how you can get involved with santa clara county fire and a signature san francisco event gets underway this weekend, and we'll tell you how police are preparing to keep people safe as they celebrate the year of the dragon. >> and i promise there will be no rain on that parade. but meanwhile, there was something that happened in the bay area today that has not happened all winter long. we'll explain what the bay area forecast that is coming up right after thibrief the economy is simply not working for millions of hard working families.

they're working harder than ever and they still can't make enough to get by to afford food and medicine to even keep a roof over their heads. we need to build more housing that's truly affordable. we need to address this terrible epidemic of homelessness. we need to invest in good paying jobs, union jobs and investments in our future. this, this is why i'm running for the us senate. i'm adam schiff and i approve this message.

"overflowing with ideas and energy." that's the san francisco chronicle endorsing democrat katie porter for senate over all other options. porter is "easily the most impressive candidate." "known for her grilling of corporate executives." with "deep policy knowledge." katie porter's housing plan has "bipartisan-friendly ideas to bring homebuilding costs down." and the chronicle praises "her ideas to end soft corruption in politics." let's shake up the senate. with democrat katie porter. i'm katie porter and i approve this message.

the year of the dragon this weekend. organizers are predicting one of the biggest turnouts ever for this year's chinese new year parade. there will be a new 288 foot long green dragon and san francisco police chief bill scott says as in years past, safety is one of their top priorities. as they look at this, parade goers goers, they say, are urged to be vigilant. >> if you see somebody with a weapon, please call it in. if you see something that looks suspicious, please call it in. and if you see something that looks like it's about to happen in terms of violence, call it in right away. report what you're seeing. we will be there. we will respond. >> police say they also are ready for any protests that might pop up as well. the floats will start moving down market street at 515 saturday night. if you can't makt t in person, you can watch the parade right heren vu channel two and the

fox local app yr smart tv. our live coverage begins at 6:00. and boy, compared to last year, it looks like it's going to be a really beautiful night. roberta. >> it's going to be. what a difference a year makes, right? last year it was pouring. but you were out there. nobody seemed to. the rain still come? yeah, they weren't diminished, but their spirits weren't by the rain. right? yeah. >> it's nice to be able to see people out there enjoying the parade, but certainly without umbrellas. >> that makes it nicer. yeah, it's going to be a party and we will have that forecast coming, but first i wanted to share with you this for the first time this winter season, we had temperatures in the 70s at napa at the airport, also at hayward at 70 degrees, and morgan hill also sported 70. now these temperatures are up from the average high of 63 degrees. look at san francisco with a pair of sixes across the golden gate bridge, also 66 and san rafael.

it was 63 degrees, and throughout the tri valley and almost 70 degrees in morgan hill. now check this out and i want to thank both christopher and allen in our tock, our engineers providing us with this beautiful view of the full moon. tonight we're able to see because the clouds are finally partying tonight with partly cloudy skies. we have temperatures dipping into the 40s. it will not be as cold tonight as it was last night. meanwhile let's forge ahead to your weekend because we have a lot of things going on. first things first, we do have this area of low pressure offshore. that's where we saw the deck of cloudiness from today. those clouds are going to be out of here for your saturday. watch what i'm talking about right here. official sunrise tomorrow morning is at 647. most see sunny skies, a shield of clouds over southern california takes a dive to the south and exit to the east. but wait. after we get through our saturday, here comes our sunday. mostly cloudy skies at sunrise. and then this right here will produce a slight chance of rain on sunday evening

into your monday. and then it's out of here. so if we do see any precipitation, computer models do suggest we could see about 6/100 of an inch of rain in san francisco and about 2/10 in san jose. since all that activity is in the south and lifting to the north. meanwhile, if you're getting away this weekend, it's going to be glorious in the high sierra, 48 degrees a nice day, but things change on sunday. it turns breezy. it clouds up and light snow does fall on monday. please make plans for that if you're going to be traveling back on monday to the bay area, here's your forecast. few high clouds on saturday, but it's going to be the warmest day of the weekend, with the clouds thickening on sunday and that slight chance of showers, we'll keep that chance of showers and monday's forecast. look at the temperatures. take a look at your neighborhood. how about 75 in cupertino and in campbell, saratoga and los gat is 72 degrees in hayward and castro valley. then the temperatures drop on sunday and we have a string of sunshiny days on

tuesday and wednesday. and janet, just a heads up by friday. the first day of march, rain returns. >> ooh. in like a lion. all right. thank you. so much, roberta. well, the us forest service says that they plan to spend millions of dollars to protect california landscapes this week, the service announced it is investing $179 million in order to protect california's forests from wildfires. this is part of a larger, $500 million national effort to expand work on the wildfire crisis strategy. this strategy aims to protect wildlife and communities from fires. the county receiving the most funds will be stanislaus county, which is set to receive more than $57 million for projects. there and an opportunity to get involved in fire service right here at home. santa clara county is accepting applications for new volunteer firefighter recruits, volunteer recruits will be trained in fire suppression, emergency response, fire prevention, community outreach and other skills. march

4th is the deadline to apply. you can find the online application at ktvu .com. slash weblinks. more supportive housing is coming to oakland. the new grant that is helping homeless seniors find a place to call their own. but first, celebrating black history in san mateo county. the special mission of redwood city's newest museum, introducing an all new way to watch ktvu news live on your big screen search fox local on your tv streaming device and download it for free. >> access all fox two newscasts plus exclusive features like the ktvu video vault archives search fox local on your tv streaming device, or scan the code for how to stream kttv. what do i see in peter dixon? i see my husband... the father of our girls. i see a public servant. a man who served under secretary clinton in the state department... where he took on the epidemic of violence against women in the congo. i see a fighter, a tenacious problem-solver...

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democrats agree. conservative republican steve garvey is the wrong choice for the senate. ...our republican opponent here on this stage has voted for donald trump twice. mr. garvey, you voted for him twice... as your own man, what is your decision? garvey is wrong for california. but garvey's surging in the polls. fox news says garvey would be a boost to republican control of the senate. stop garvey. adam schiff for senate. i'm adam schiff, and i approve this message.

a $2 million state grant to establish a learning center in redwood city. the museum was created by carolyn hoskins. wife of former 49ers player bob hoskins. she created it to help her grandson domini and other bay area children learn about the wide range of black americans contributions to american music, politics, innovation, sports, and social justice. and i think that it has been on too long that that even within 2024, the history is still not taught in the schools. >> there's more than malcolm x and martin luther king. there's thurgood marshall, there's ida b wells, there's katherine johnson, there's philip emeagwali. there is a lot of people that have really paved the way for us to learn about themselves, to. >> the new museum and learning center is located on jefferson avenue, right across the street from city hall in redwood city. this weekend, san francisco is

holding its fifth annual black history month parade. the celebration kicks off tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the bayview opera house near newcomb and third, after the parade, there will be a block party that's expected to begin at 1230 at the southeast community center near evans and third. organizers say saturday's events will feature live music, retail and food vendors, a gumbo cookoff, a kids zone, and horseback rides. our special program, voices for change, returns this weekend for its season five premiere. join us as we continue to celebrate black history month with a number of impactful interviews. we'll speak with the founder of the black cowboy coalition, an organization focused on sharing the joy of horses and ranching with underserved communities. also, a conversation with the driving force behind the new peanuts special, welcome home, franklin, the new addition to the beloved comic strip, tells the origin story of its first black character, franklin franklin was coming into this

established group from the outside when it badly to fit in here. >> i was coming into this established thing called peanuts worldwide, wanting really desperately to fit in. and here i was, uh, a black person representing something for black people. and on some level, franklin feels that you can catch a brand new episode of voices for change. >> this sunday morning at 930 on ktvu. plus and at 630 in the evening right here on ktvu. 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the oakland tribune tower. how the oakland roots is paying homage to one of oakland's tallest and most iconic buildings. then, later tonight on the 10:00 news, ransomware attacks hitting two bay area cities. what we've learned from officials. plus new developments tonight regarding san francisco's effort to clean up encampments on city streets. we'll have those stories and more tonig

"overflowing with ideas and energy."

that's the san francisco chronicle endorsing democrat katie porter for senate over all other options. porter is "easily the most impressive candidate." "known for her grilling of corporate executives." with "deep policy knowledge." katie porter's housing plan has "bipartisan-friendly ideas to bring homebuilding costs down." and the chronicle praises "her ideas to end soft corruption in politics." let's shake up the senate. with democrat katie porter. i'm katie porter and i approve this message. caltrans pavement replacement prt.he closure will be between north dutton and santa rosa avenues. it's scheduled to rough 5 a.m. monday. closuresast will alternate between full closures at night and partial oses during the day. drivers

should plan for detours and prepare for delays along highway 12. also new at 730, oakland is getting $14 million in additional funding from the state to shelter homeless seniors. the latest award from california's homekey program will fund support of housing in east oakland. the 40 unit dignity village on eads avenue and clara street will become the ninth oakland project created through a state pandemic program . the city's eight previous homekey awards have facility booted the conversion of existing buildings, such as motels and dorms, into the supportive housing the city of oakland is also contributing $6.3 million to the project, covering 15 years of operations. mayor shengtao, writing on social media today, said homekey has been an incredible program for our city, helping us secure 467 new units of permanent supportive housing since 2020. this aligns with oakland's goals of expand supportive housing with wraparound services to get

more neighbors off our streets and parks into safe, dignified conditions. the oakland roots sports club is launching their 2024 jerseys celebrating oakland and the 100th anniversary of the oakland tribune tower. they are available online now, but people attending tomorrow's grassroots a's fans fest will be able to pick one up in person. the kits have a black base with overlaid geometric shapes. kaleidoscope colors symbolize the diversity and unity of the oakland community. the chief marketing officer says dropping a new jersey is another way to uplift the people, and the places that make the town the great city that it is. and you see all of those photos right there of the oakland tribune tower. well, that does it for us tonight. we appreciate your watching us. and we will be back here tomorrow at 730. make sure to download the fox local app to your smart tv. that's where you can stream our newscast stories and find exclusive content right on your

smart tv. we'll be out for the chinese new year parade in san francisco, so this weekend, have a great

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