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>> the police officers here, they have got their zip ties ready at their sides and we are told they are ready to make some arrests. we do have a 40 page whistle blower report that talks about how the campus has hundreds of positions which demonstrators say will put lives at stake. protesters say the management staff has been beefed up by 20% at an annual cost of 16 million dollars yet 300 positions have

been cut that directly impact patient care. the report documents skyrocketing executive pay to under sanitized facilities and everyone from state senator leland 83 to board of supervisors here and nurses and patients say what is happening here is not right. >> what we are saying is they need not eliminate the jobs but actually need to increase staffing. they have been dinged with problems with wrong medication, increased bed sores and the jobs they eliminated would actually take care of these problems, instead they are making the problem worse. >> now you ucsf medical officer ken jones says we plan to improve the efficiency of them and negotiate with them, however more than half of our expenses are for our employees and we must also address these costs. now the union here is the largest collective bargaining unit within the university of california system, representing

more than 22,000 service and patient care technical workers at 10 campuses and 5 medical centers. protesters here say that ucsf medical center, their ceo is expected to receive millions so they are out here protesting until 1:00 was the plan but again these officers i have sort of overheard them talking and they are ready to move in shortly. i do expect traffic jams in this area near the ucsf medical center, if you are in the area avoid it for the next hour, tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. >> a bay area women's college team makes history. see and hear the send off they receive on the campus of 1 bay area university. >> steve paulson is coming up in minutes to tell us how much rain we got and whether we are in store for anymore.

a much anticipated announcement from facebook late this morning. we will explain it to you.

traffic near downtown oakland was blocked this morning by a downed power pole and live wires. police say something in the back of a truck may have snagged the wires and pulled the power line down.

it happened just after 7:00 a.m. at 20th and castro streets. pg&e was out there an hour later to do repairs. no word on power outages in the area. facebook this morning unveiled new software for android smart phones that it hopes will give it a leg up on its competition with google. jade hernandez is live with what you have heard from facebook headquarters. good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon, mark zuckerberg has made facebook a realtime experience which begins the minute you turn on your phone, facebook is no longer an app, it is the home page you go to whenever you pick up your phone and he says connecting to those around you is easier than ever because you no longer have to go to an app to make that connection. >> welcome to facebook home, a whole new experience for your phone. >> zuckerberg unveiled this new commercial. the ceo says the new live cover feed comes to live when your

turn on your android phone. scroll through updates with photos that take up the entire face of the phone. >> why do we need to go into those autopsy in the first place in order to see what is going on with the people we care about? because today our phones are designed around apps and not people. >> so we want to flip that around. we want to bring all this -- >> a facebook has created chat heads the easy to move heads are faces of friends you texts, users don't have to read articles or games or respond to them, this comes with a p artnership which was created with it already loaded. he says the new features are made easy by swiping and tapping your phone, putting users that much closer to whole ever they are reaching out to. now for cost, well facebook is working on creating facebook home for tablets but won't be available just yet. the new first phone will be

available through at&t for $99.99. preorders are taken today, for all others it can be downloaded on the same day. how do android users feel about it? we will find out at 5:00 and 6:00. >> look forward to that. the governor of connecticut this morning signed a strict new gun control law. family members of some of the victims from the newtown school shooting surrounded him as he signed the bill. the shooting at the school left 20 children and six educators dead along with the gunman's mother, it restricts those guns and sets up requirements for buying ammo. the campus is on lock-down after reportings of a man with a gun on campus and they

cancelled classes as they searched the campusing south kingstown, they have not found anyone but have extra security. it was in an office that has classrooms and those. he fights for his life in a hospital there. the paramedic was shot at a stop sign in the oakland hills tuesday found. he was found in his car down a ravine, police have not released any information on a motive or a suspect. right now he remains in critical condition at highland hospital. a sheriff's office official says a young woman lost in a forest for days has been rescued, this is video we just got in. kendall jack was missing for

days after her companion was found last night. they were found there again both missing hikers have now been found. just minutes from now the cal women's basketball team will head to new orleans for their first ever appearance in the final 4, sal castaneda is live on the cal campus where the team got a big send off this morning. good afternoon, sal. >> reporter: good afternoon, tory, yeah, the rain could not dampen anyone spirits here as the women's team from cal prepared for its first ever final 4. now the cal band, the spirit squad and dozens of fans came to hoss pavilion for a morning rally to send the team off. this is the first time a woman's team have gone to the final 4, many fans say they were aware it was predicteded to do well in the tournament with even the president picking the golden bears to be in the final 4. >> president obama and kobe

bryant did so i am really excited. >> -- on monday that went into overtime. the players and the coach seemed thrilled to be getting this type of send-off. >> we always want to play for our fans and the community but to have this kind of send-off, i think the players are going to take this. we can probably fly without a plane to new orleans right now. >> now as you can see there were a handful of people who even waited around for the players to be escorted by police, cal university of california police did escort them to the airport, as tory mentioned they will be taking a flight at 12:30 from oakland to new orleans and will play on sunday. live in berkeley, sal

castaneda, ktvu channel two news. >> well, now you tossed it to me, that is nice. he looks good out there and the jacket appropriate. cloudy to mostly cloudy, the rain most of it done, through 8:00 and 9:00 wound done the heaviest amount in the north bay, the least amount of south bay, a tale of two different parts one got pretty good rain the other hardly anything. have to go to mendocino county to lake county, an inch and a half, casa deero checked in with an inch and a quart, saint helena 81/100s and up there an inch and a quarter, and 0.75, sausalito had that as well and them some of the other locations maybe familiar with that, santa rosa not bad, 88/100s, kentfield 2/3 over an inch, 45/100s in san francisco, half-inch in napa and

fairfield, then it tails off, fremont 2/10s, livermore 15, mountain view 15 and boulder creek picked up 15, which is nothing for them. we had showers lingering 9:00, 10:00, still clouds out here but i still think we will get sun brakes later, just the low level stuff here but the front is gone, most of the rain as well. you can see cloud cover over us so still mostly cloudy skies but on the back side of this there is not anything. we will wait on that next system. snow level high, most of it rain, 60s already for some even with cloud cover, we started off mid-50, the breeze picked up out of the south 10 to 15 miles an hour but almost due south for everybody. 47 tahoe, 57 ukia, 86 in palm springs, las vegas 78, the system goes through, the rain about diop but still cloudy, some sun breaks partly sunny later on today, breezy at times, highs today in the 60s

for some. we are already in some low 60s already. cooler over by the coast. some of that low cloud deck but everybody might see sun later but a lot of cloud cover but we will take the rain, mostly sunny friday, maybe a week system friday, saturday looks cool, cool windy system on monday tory. >> thank you steve. >> anytime. >> ktvu's channel 2 news at noon continues just ahead we will check on a rather tense situation involving protesters in san francisco. [ female announcer ] this is a special message from at&t.

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stocks edging higher on wall street as investors took advantage of a slump to get back into the market and do bargain hunt in, the dow up 30, the nasdaq down 1, s&p up three. we want to take you back live to a process at uc san francisco. this is a campus at the avenue over proposed lay offs, police are standing by and we did see protesters blocking the street and also see police in the street standing by. we do have a reporter on the scene and will continue to cover this both on ktvu.com as well as our later newscasts at channel -- here on channel 2 at 5:00 and 6:00. looks like police are starting to moving right now, so again

this is a story we will continue to follow, this at the medical center, a dispute over layoffs and looks like there will be police activity. again a story we will continue to follow on our website and later newscasts. thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news, we will see you the next time news breaks. be sure to join us again at 5:00. send comments to comments@captioncolorado.com captions by terry james, caption colorado, llc.