.3 >> this is cbs news bay area with reed cowan. >> juliette: violence esca escalating among our bay area youth, from stabbing between students to shoppig mall bra

brawls. what's behind the growing numbe of incident, and oto keep our kids safe? hello.@i'm juliette goodrich in reed cowan this afternoon. today we're digging into a surg in student ve're looking into p solutions for our safety. we'll start our community conversation in a moment, but first let's get caught up on ou weather and our top stories around the bay area. we begin with the medical examiner's office. a body found near san fran francisco's pier 39 yesterday has been identified as jeffrey "jv" vandergrift, the host of wild 94.9. he was last seen exactly a mont ago near his missio bay home. polic say there is no evidence of foul play. wild releasing a statement, "jv we will miss you. you are a bayary icon." a recent storm caused this road in north bay the buckle. this is redwood boulevard in northern nevada next to southbound 101. it's also the main access road

to the olompali state park in novato. traffic, look at this on 580. still impacted. lan erosion on altamont pass. caltrans wrapping up work just about 1:30 this afterno but the two right lanes of eastboun d until stay close tomorrow. let's head to oakland now. th reinhardt-redwood regional park. trees have fallen onto the road. joaquin miller road and castle > well, we hav a little rain to go, juliette. the next system is nowhere nea as impressive as what we've had. the rain will barely hold together by the time it gets there. so there's 6:00, 7:00 tonight. you see a very weak cold front. you won't get much measurable rain out of that. you might get a drop or two thi

evening around sunset. see how the screen lights up fo the wind? nothing like the kinds of winds tng trees down with the last several storms. it will get colder. look at the darker shades of blue start to fit entire the b bay. morning lows tomorrow going dow into the mid mid-30s. you will be in the low 30s by over the weekend, that's the a bit colder in the morning. othe than that, nothin else. daytime highs in the upper 5 50s. seven-day forecast, out of the intoitnextweektil we get back and we are going to be back int it. right now the storm coming our way for monday into tuesday. it looks interesting. widespr rain. perhaps more wind. much more in the detail as we get closer to it. >> darren, see you in a few. stay with us as we continue to cover the impact from the last storm and our we weather in the coming days. we have the latest updates on air, online, and always str commucommunity conversation, t p

uptick in violent incidets involving students all around t bay area. we'r seeing it from the north bay to san francisco to the south bay. many of these incidents are caught on camera now. they are tough to watch, including fights like this one at stonestown mall in san francisco last week. it's a tough one to see. a group appearing to be others.kicking and hittin the victims already on the ground. say this isn't new, and it is happening earlier and earlier. >> it starts early in middle school. like the middle schools around here used to be a lot safer bac when i was starting sixth grade but it just became so violent b the en. e don't really have staff to prevent the fights or to help the kids out. >> juliette: you may remember last monday a 12-year-o was taken into custody after police say he stabbed another teen on muni bus in san fransco. well, we started this month wit reports of youth violence. on march 1st in santa rosa, a

student fatally stabbed another student at montgomery high school in the middle of class. since then students there have held walkouts. they'r demanding the school and police do more to make them fee safer on campus. o in san jose, last wednesd ice took a student into custody at sunrise middle schoo after the student allegedly then two days later, there was stabbing at san frisco middle school in in san francisco's we know school fights are nothing new, but recent incidents have a lot of parents wondering why we seem to be s seeing so much studen violence lately and why it seems to be happening at younger and younge ages. elizabeth cook joining us in this conversation. you got a good perspective from a seventh grader about what was going on. >> it was emotional talking to him. i met a young boy wise way beyond his years. he's only in middle school, seen more violence than any

13-year-old eve ernestovarado i ge geared up to do his favorite thing, bal boxing, but right now he's just trying th @. >> everybody was running. a lot of people were screaming. i heard a lot. yeah. it was terrifying. >> repor: oakland police say a fight broke out on 98 98th avenue just outside of ernesto's school. witnesses say the suspects had gus. >> they announced that there wa going to be a lockdown, and i stayed locked in my classroom. then a bunch of kids came running inside other classrooms. then some kids came running in the classroom i was in. on my classroom door, so then i got more scared, because i thought it was the person with the gun. >> reporter: they ran off before police got there. no arrests were made and a gun was never found on campus, but

for ernesto, the fear, anxiety, and chaos at his school is hing new. >> almost every day. ere's a lot of people fighting at school. >> reporter: it's why he comes here. here. i can get it out when i'm doing boxing. >> reporter: the east oakland boxing association is an aft after-school program that does more than just teach kids how t blow off steam in a healthy way. it's a place to keep them safe. they come here for help with homework, a healthy meal. >> i want to ask you a question. who can give me an example of a fruit? >> repor: and escape from reality. tanya allen is the program's executive director. >> we it is in this area of eas violence. there's a lot of home and food insecurity. our students are suffering from that. when they come here, they know they are not going to be bul

bullied. they know they are not going to threatened. th know they are not going to have any gang affiliations when they're in this four. >-block radius. >> tanya has seen the violence among young kids in her community increase dramatically s past year. >> i won't put it all on covid, but i will tell you, this being homeor two years and not able to socialize and engage in othe students. >> ernesto has seen it firs firsthand. >> i think all the stuff that's happening the people's lives, people just can't take it. they just harm other people so they don't feel harmed, like they don't feel hurt. they hurt other people. boxing association is one of several after-school programs i now, the school district provides them as well, but it's still not enough to accommodate just the sheer number of students. this program relies solely on grants and donations to keep it going. as you can see, these are safe places, and they are essential to help keep kids out of tro

>> juliette: that is so key. middl school is a tough time. we all remember that bully, right? well, this has escaled. we're talking about social me media we're talking about weapons on campus ahank you for that story also his openness. >> reporterhe was incre incredible. he was so open and articulate. eyes, choking back tears becaus he was still so afraid to go back to school, which is sup supposed to be safe. >> mel: we need more of those programs. liz, thank you. the san francisco supervisors unveiled a plan this week in response to the recent violence. we'l

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youth violence. this week they did release an action plan that will expand eral existing s programs. that includes putting more violence interruptors in school who are trained to diffus dangerous situations. mental health support and hire more muni transit ambassadors who are trained in deescalation techniques. francisco supervisor joel en thank you so much for joining as a parent and for parents who that's a tall order, a great checklist, and it's been quite month at our schools. tell us what's t the plan. >> well, my colleague, she represes the district in which stonestown ma is, and so after that violence that happened, sh

was able to convene that weeken different departt heads to try to come up with plan. i'm the vice-chair of what's called the public safety committee. so in the coming weeks we'll be hearing of that committee, to talk about this plan, to bring istrict and department of chool children and youth and family services, the police department to talk about ways that we can ?ies i love the conversation. i'm just curious the time line. we need this fast, because now we're just talking about a plan. sowhat'sthe time line,and e - what's the reaction been from s on campus? >> well, when it comes to a tim line, you need to address the immediate action, and that is t make sure we don't have mob vence happen again. so right now the san francisco police department, they are d patching extra patrols to sttown in particular just to

be visible, to make sure that @ we go on, we have to talk about the longhat is mental health is. what are kids doing after sc are the programs good for them? those are the things we'll be king about in the hearing in the coming weeks to address the roo causes, but for the here police presence and visibility. >> juliette: i like hearing about ambassadors on the campus. dults, just having people rs or observe things about other kids is. that what we're talking about? >> there are many different t francisc, but the one thing in common is ambassadors are not armed. they're unarmed. presence, you know. some have radios so they can call in if there is a problem, but the police department, they hire retired officers who are

seasoned with experience, and they just carry radios. they up d at theboard supervisors, we just authorized a police budget supplemental to pay for some ambassadors. sometimes it's e e. coli eaec it's even that janitor who know. do we know why we're seeing thi >> i think that's what we're going to examine with our hearing. centional wisdom is we've all been through the pandemic and, youow, many kids came of age during the pandemic, and this i a tough time, going through puberty, this type of age, it's tough enough without the ssses of a pandemic. so we're in uncha uncharted ter. we don't know what all the effects of the past three years wi have on this generation, so we need the really be present and focused and catering to their needs as they grow up

>> juliette: it is a tough .- time. we all remember middle school. i love the conversation. today. we'll cinue to follow up on this is soimportnt right. thank you, joel. still ahead, we'll look at the statewide view on all the consequences for acting out at

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the statewide level. joining me now is state senator scott wiener. thank you so much for joining u this afternoon. why don't we give the state a report card, shall we? where do things stand statewide and what we're trying to do as stat to curb it. >> first of all, will the me st by saying, you knw, what happened in toed at stonetown n unacceptable. kids. that doesn't usually work very we. but we need to make sure our pol and schools and stone 't are working togeth on this. but we're coming out of the pandemic where a lot of kids baslly for several years stopped learning how to sociall interconnect with other kids in self-regulat in public sett settings.

and some serious mental health challenges for preteens. soe ry me a huge youth mental health. i think we're going to be able the governor is very committed to this. the legislature is. we know that mental health issues tend to arise during and we have not done enough for te kids. we also have in recent years really expanded funding for k-1 so many of our non-teacher role in public schools have been hallowed out. councilors, nurses, other sort staff, because it shouldn't just be on the teach ers. these kids and to identify if a kid is spiraling or experiencin blems. so we are working during this deficit year at the state level to try to protect the gains tha

we made in funding public schools. but this is a tough issue, and we just can't give up on these kids or write them off. they're our future. >> juliette: we can't. i appreciate what you're laying right now. consequences, are we talking about restoative justice, school suspensions? what needs to be done to hammer home the pilot that this can't happen anymore? >>i mean, school suspensions and expulsions, we have proved away from those because they tend to make the problem worse when a kid, you kick them out o scl, sometimes that kid all of a sudden gets better from whatever behavioral issues they have, so like if you start processing kids through the criminal justice system, you people who are doing like reall atrocious things, but we traditional, even for crimes like getting into a fight, have put kids in the criminal justic sem. this just makes everything wo

worse. so we have to have better sy systems in place, yes, res restorative justice is abso absolutely part of it and menta health support and working with families, and accountability. ther should be accountability. but accountability could take a ot of forms, not just punitive by expelling or in incarcting where you ensure that kid is going to be put on a very negative path and it will have issues.y even worse behavioral >> juliette: it's a fine line. >> juliette: it's a fine line. officers.and school resource we'll continue to follow up on this. i appreciate your time this afternoon. let's keep this conversation going. we'll see you soon. so coming up, are let's dive into the science behind our k kids' behavior and the factors that may be leading them to

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call jacoby & meyers, justice for you since 1972. >> juliette: so these recent about at schools have a lot of us wondering abou about the roo caus of youth violence. it could be timing. at middle school age, there could be a mismatch between the part of the brain that oversees decision making and the part that oversees emotions. their actions.can lead the a d- not to mention all the other llenges and factors our youth are facing right now. one of them, social media. euroscientists at the university of north carolina studied brain scans of middle

schoolers ages 12 to 15, and they found kids ching social media more often are becoming hyper sensitive to dback from their peers. whether that'snecessarily good or bad. nce it could keep them conne nects oren the other hand depression. another factor in play, the pandemic, a december study by stanford shows pandemic stress is act has actual altered some adolescents brains. appear several years older than compara peers before the pandemic. they stress unclear whether the findings are permanent or linke to changes in mental health. at to unpack, and joining me now is dr. robin gear witch, a criminal psychologist and professor at duke university medical center. this is really interesting when we talk about younger and yo younger ages some why don't you us. >> sure. i'll give it a shot.

so we think about we know the first five years of life are when the brain is really gro growing, and the second largest as fast as possible is those ng middle school years. it is rapid brain growth. we have physical changes where our middle schoolers are trying to figure out how they fit in. puberty is at the door. then we have all those soci social/emotional changes. so yes, absolutely. the part of the brain that is really supposed to be dealing makinggoodjudgmentisn't cision quite connected to the part of the brain that is really lookin at our emotions, and so there i that challenge right now at the dle school year. and i think you summed it up. that where we are now has been impacted by what's happened ove

the last two and a hal, three years. impactthatthe pandemicabout e all of the health and mental health disparities that we've seen, i think the surgeon general put it best. he said, we're in a real state our youth, and our middle sc schoolers are right in the middle of that. >> me ?iesm i'm pretty action orcorrected. i think any parent is. if they're listening and their kid is coming home from school, i want to know what i need to d right now. >> sure. i tell you what, the best thing we can do and what we know that will make a big difference, thi is a time that it is so ortant that we talk to our kids about the values that we have and how we think we need t each other.

one that can make the biggest difference in o how our kids succeed and thrive is having a trusting relationship. so what can you do?@talk to you. start a conversation, even if it's hard. there has been a lot of violenc the schools lately. le the me what you know. get there input about it. >> julietti love that. >> ask them how they're feeling. >> and sometimes they may not answer, but they'r processing it. maybe they'll circle back. we could talk forever on. t i appreciate your time. we'll talk another time about this conversation. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. good luck. >> we'll see you for sure. we want to thank all of you for tuning in today. his is certainly a very importa conversation. our guests added a lot of perspective on how we can work this conversation. any solutions or any stories you'd like to tell or things that are working for you and your child. we want to know. in the meantime, local news coinues streaming on cbs news

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