it's happening up here in may, at stanford university. there is the web address. final thoughts from you about this great event, frank? >> yeah. i think one of the things that in mentioning closing the achievement gap and really building tonight latino pipeline, is this year it's going to be the first year we honor a visionary leadership award that's going to victor adias. victor is a board of trustees emeritus. he is an mba from stanford. he works for corn ferry, the largest executive firm search firm in the country, and a person that is very humble, person from humble beginnings to extraordinary success. >> that's 2011 leadership summit at stanford university. thank you for what you're doing in educating and empowering our community. >> thank you so much. >> up next on "comunidad del valle" speaking of entrepreneurship, stay with us. >> they are helping people start their own businesses. sharon miller is a ceo of the renaissance entrepreneurship center and also with us is a business professor there at this academy. can i call it an akatd me? this is a fabulous p

stanford is interested. the universitynt says they are pursuing this opportunity that would allow stanford to be an intellectual incubator for new york like it has been for silicon valley. this is not a done deal. stanford students won't be take the subway anytime soon. there is at least 19 world class institution that are competing for this opportunity including mit and cornell to open up the engineering school. so this is a competitive process that will take years. but we can definitely say that stanford is in the running and i'm sure that based on its reputation, the fact that so many startup companies have been founded by stanford grads, new york is going to be very interested in bringing stanford to the big apple. that is the latest from here in san jose. back to you guys. >> everybody at stanford saying bring it on. they are very competitive. we'll see what happens. matt, thanks very much. matt bigler. >>> 6:38. a big party going on in san francisco this weekend. mayor ed lee is here to talk about a very special hono

twitter, netflix and the ppresident of stanford university. --and it is just amazing! that this is part of our ongoing dialogue with the business community on how we can win the future, strengthen our economy in support of japan or ship. and increase exports. getting people back to work and-support of entrepreneurship. this is the goal of hiring, expanding, and look at apple and google! with the imagine to works of networking. >>pam: absolutely. >> and we can even learn from them on what they are door that is working. >>pam: to move forward and advancement. >> and with to hire locally. and to not outsource. the one interesting thing i spoke with the tech analyst. and with zuckerberg. and he brought up a great point. zuckerberg might be the most important person to meet with tonight. a 26 year-old with the political impact. >> zuckerberg represents the next generation of technology companies coming up. they demonstrate a demographic that is been very supportive of him. personally has he has gone to his election campaign. also critical for his reelection. not to mention

pg&e is being hounded for its records by several organizations and politicians including now stanford universityuniversity knows that there are at least two high pressure gas lines that run underneath the campus. they are asking pg&e for the records. pg&e says they don't have to release the records but they are interested in answering any of stanford's questions. frank. >> anne makovec, live at san bruno, thank you, anne. >>> was it a random shooting or was somebody aiming for a specific bus passenger? police in richmond are trying to answer that question this morning after a shooting near 3rd street and grove avenue last night. someone in a group standing on a corner opened fire on an a.c. transit bus. nobody was shot but one passenger was taken to the hospital after being cut by flying glass. >>> the egyptian government is threatening an army crackdown by martial law on the 17th day of protests as thousands of anti-government protestors are gathered in tahrir square in cairo. they are still vowing not to leave until president hosni mubarak steps down. those protestors are now getting additiona

. >> reporter: to stanford university. egyptians like marla farab are smiling for their home. >> the best thing right now is the atmosphere of hope is much bigger than the atmosphere of fear and that's a great thing. >> you don't want to jump the gun and get too excited because there's still a lot of work that has to be done. >> reporter: abuse says that because there are so many one party dictatorships in the arab world, mubarak's departure may mean democracy can spread throughout the arab world. >> fine ly the crack is starting to form. and it's very exciting. >> reporter: the country now needs to regroup and plan for fair and free elections says sulemi. and back live now at u.n. plaza where this peaceful crowd, really a mixture of all ethnic backgrounds continue to rally. at one point chanting, egypt is free, egypt is free, now time for democracy. reporting live tonight in san francisco, mike mibach. ktvu news. >>> google executive thinks that the real problem has been solved. >> you guys paid the price, are still going

. >>> a middle east expert speaking today at stanford university had some harsh words for the president hosni mubarak regime. joel says the google executives shows how they repeal tolerance. they ruled with both an iron fist and velvet glove and gave the opposition enough rope to hang themselves. >> reporter: student protesters called for president hosni mubarak to step down. the muslim students organized the rally. they say it was not just a call for freedom but anest to get -- an effort to get students more involved. >>> especially with the reopening today of shops and banks, the protests still continue in the troubled country. 2000 people took to the streets with renewed demands that president hosni mubarak step down. they marched chanting anti- president hosni mubarak slow dance. >>> the families of the jailed speaking out in their spying trial in iran. shane bauer issued a statement saying now that the court has heard their testimony firsthand, we hope and pray truth and justice will at least prevail. they testified in a closed session and sarah shaw pled not guilty. >>> protesters

. >>> stanford university is demanding that pg&e give it a detailed account of pipelines and maintenance inspection history. the san bruno pipeline reportedly snakes through the palo alto hills and cuts through stanford before reaching the neighborhood that suffered from the deadly explosion in september. and that is just one of two gas lines that passes under the university. >>> the anti-government movement in egypt is expanding. the government is threatening an army crackdown by imposing martial law. thousands of demonstrators are gathered in cairo's tahrir square for the 17th day in a row. they are still vowing not to leave until president hosni mubarak steps down. protestors are getting some additional support. egypt's public transportation employees are going on strike. organizers are reportedly calling on all 62,000 transportation workers to take part but there have been some buses seen on the streets today. the u.s.-based group human rights watch says about 300 people have been killed since the protests began. >>> this morning a republican congressman from new york has resigned ov

. >> mark: officials from the big apple extending stanford university an invitation.t want them to create an engineering campus within the city. if stanford university except the new campus would be larger and more permanent than their rigs and the existing centers. >> darya: antioch father behind bars right now facing murder charges. police say he brutally beat his two month old baby, leaving the child brain-dead. he confessed to hitting his son, to make the boys stop crying. that's what he told police. the child was taken off life support and declared brain dead. prosecutors say they will seek murder charges once the boy is officially declared dead. we have new details in the investigation in sexual acts at a school. no criminal charges are going to be filed, the investigation is closed. children reported to students engaged in sexual conduct in their second grade classroom last month. oakland police say no doll was involved in the incident. so the case is closed. >> mark: we will be back as the news continues until 11:00 a.m.. dry conditions here for now. in san ro

frank frankle is a journalism professor at stanford university. next to him is ron dellens, the mayor of oakland. he has served 14 houseyears. next to him is a former writer and publisher. he and embed the publisher. next to him is david calloway, editor in chief of marketwatch.com. next to him, sandy close, the director of new american media. she is also my executive editor and i get to hold the microphone up to her. let's begin the discussion. >> thank you. let's start with a question that is on many people's mind. with cutbacks and technology shifts, what has that done to the quality of news, barry parr? >> when i worked at the "mercury news" back in the 1990's, we were trying to compete with the paper. i am here to stay mission accomplished. it has been a tough 10, 20 years. i have to tell you, some of the greatest innovation and highest quality work is coming from the ground up. if you look back over the last year, one of the most crucial issues that has concerned in this country, health care reform, we really have to say the traditional medi

two weeks ago, i attended the caltrans summit at stanford university. some very interesting information. the metropolitan transportation commission, i would like to see if we could have that permission made available to us. -- information made available to us. somebody from san jose has been involved in transportation issues for a long time. i talked about a long-term approach. there are 27 different transportation agencies in the bay area. this is the first time they have been considered. caltrans gives it a new sense of urgency. i would like to hear some more about that. >> i am going to talk about that and the information you suggested go to the entire board. we will give it to the board secretary and she will address the rest of the board. >> executive director's report. executive director ford: good afternoon members of the board and the public who are with us here today. i like to recognize our staff for the outstanding service and contributions they have made to the agency and the city and county of san francisco. this month's report will be goin

in 1899 he was a student at stanford university. with his disability he figured he would have a career in law. he had an adventurous spirit and some opportunities that many of his colleagues didn't. he actually take advantage of some of them. what i mean by that is that the fellow on the left, k'ang yu-wei, was the principal adviser to the emperor of china and 1898. of westernize reforms. wanted to help westernize china and advance forward. there was a huge conservative backlash in china and the emperors had a palace coup and faced the emperor under arrest. that's fine. chinese politics k'ang yu-wei left for the price on his head establishing a chinese society called protect the emperor association with branches all over the world. he was calling to launch a large-scale military operation in china to free the emperor and restore him to power. now, 1899 when a branch of this organization was established in san francisco homer lea heard about it, was interested, and approached the chinese telling them he was a brilliant military strat

relations i'm joined by joel beynon in stanford he's a professor of middle east history at stanford university in washington we cross to use of moon air he is the executive director of the jerusalem fund for education and community development and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger for a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect.

researchers at stanford university found that look at an image of a romantic partner reduces pain by 36 to 44%. that is as much as a narcotic like cocaine. >> wow. students' brains were sunday to mri scans while -- subjected to mri scans while heated was applied to their skin. when it focused on the loved one's image, it dulled the area of the brain that processes pain. >> that way you will have a life-sized poster on your dis. >> you know when you is sexiest? >> when he is fixing something! >> like your flat tire. >>> prince william and kate middleton returned to the place where they met and fell in love today, that's at saint andrews university in scotland. they came to celebrate the school's 600th anniversary. thousands of fans braved icy winds to catch a glimpse of the royal couple looking fetching i might add. at the university william and kate studied art history together and shared a house with friends in town. they were just friends at first but we know what happened after that. >> this is a very special moment for catherine and me t feels like we are coming home. >> the two

great opportunity as a review panel, and first, i would like to introduce gary graves from stanford university, who is one of our panel members that lives here locally. we had a good amount of experience on the team, and we are very fortunate in the opportunity of reviewing this very large program. i would like to just share a few of my observations and then go over a few of the answers to some of the questions that were posed to us and then some general recommendations we have quickly. first of all, certainly a very large and complex program. the wsip team has performed in an exemplary fashion. great support from the commission, and we interviewed a few of you as well as other top management, and there seems to be great support for all of the aspects of this program. exceptional safety record. we learn that over 1 million man hours were brought in with just one lost time accident, which is exceptional. i think the time and dollars spent on the environmental work and community relations work has really paid off and very few concerns over the life of this project. just the volume and number of

at stanford university, the former head of mideast studies at american university in cairo says it is a tactic he has seen the mubarak government use in the past. >> the first time i saw it was actually on april 6th 2008. they want to demonstrate to the domestic audience and the international audience and especially president obama, it is either us or chaos. >> supporters of president mubarak turned their anger on the foreign media. they say supporters are sympathetic to the protesters. anderson cooper was one of those physically attacked. he was punched in the head several times. and kristi anne was confronted. >> why do you hate them? >> they are not good person. >> as she left the scene, they hit her car with their fists before throwing a rock that cracked the windshield. >> and as for communications, the government has reinstated some internet service after cutting it off for days. t state tv announced a nighttime curfew has been shortened from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. >>> there is growing concern about the safety of egypt's antiquities. the egyptian museum near the heart of the protest i

. >>> there is talk about stanford university setting up shop in new york city. the "san jose mercury news" says new york city has invited stanford to consider establishing an engineering school there. for a city that has just about everything, they don't have a high level research and graduate school for applied science. analysts say that's why new york has fallen behind metro areas like san jose and boston when it comes to attracting new high-tech companies. >>> facebook users now have more options to declare their relationships status online. civil unions and domestic partnerships are now among the choices offered in the drop- down menu. it's not going to be available everywhere, just in countries where facebook says users asked for it. that's here in the united states, canada, the uk, france and australia. the gay and lesbian alliance against defamation applauds the move and says it's lobbied facebook for the additions >>> and if you have a borders gift card it's still valid. you can still use it. the bookstore chain filed for bankruptcy but a judge is allowin

stanford university in the gates foundation and others, to help us be able to perform quality research and evaluation of both the outreach that is koran during our program and the results we see in terms of savings -- both the outreach that is currents during our program -- current during our program and the results we see in terms of savings. that pretty much coverage -- covers what i wanted to do in the program. i am joined by the assistant superintendent, and we have the program director who is here with us this evening, and i am really excited thatne

coming up, stanford university may expand their borders. we'll tell you why the school could soon go coast to coast. "today in the bay" begins right after the break. and here's a live look outside this morning as we are keeping tabs on your friday and weekend forecast. hopefully not as rough as it was yesterday, but we'll have details in a few more minutes. 3q a wipe is a wipe unless it's also a scrub. lysol complete clean dual action wipes have 2 sides that go beyond ordinary wipes. you can feel the difference. one side for everyday touchups. and one to scrub tough messes. all while killing 99.9% of germs. for tips on a healthy home visit lysol.com/missionforhealth. >>> new this morning, the judge continues to make decisions regarding the trial of barry bonds. we'll take a look at what he'll decide today. >>> and a live look outside from the south bay this morning. a very cold start to your friday morning. it is february 18th. this is "today in the bay." >>> good morning. thyo

relations i'm joined by joel beynon in stanford he's a professor of middle east history at stanford university in washington.

gyptian relations i'm joined by joel bain in stanford he's a professor of middle east history at stanford university in washington we cross to use of moon air he is the executive director of the jerusalem fund for education and community development and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i think go to a. statement made by netanyahu recently about the events playing out in egypt and this is what he has to say about the treaty that was the result of the camp david here we go he israel israel believes that the global community must demand that any egyptian government preserve the peace treaty with israel joel if i can go to you first i mean is that an unusual demand i mean here's a country israel demanding that a sovereign country and hopefully an elected government out to get through all of this violence. keep to a peace treaty that that is genuine generally not popular in egypt right now. it is an unusual demand but it's very much in line with the kind of demands that israel routinely makes i

. >> at stanford university, the former head of mideast studies says using plain clothes police and hiredgs to break up demonstrations is a tactic he has seen in the past. >> for the first time i saw it, was actually on april 6th, 2008. >> the fact that the army is going along signals that the generals are fighting with mubarak's choice of successor in omar suleiman. >> he has been in charge of internal security apparatus since 1993 but he doesn't represent any significant change. >> anti-mubarak demonstrators are calling for another mass rally this friday. the professor at stanford says it may be the last best hope for forces to regain momentum that they lost today. >> mark, you talked about the journalists earlier. we are hearing they are not feeling safe. >> christiane ammanpour and anderson cooper. they were chased and i heard he was beaten maybe a dozen times. >> whatever president mubarak does leave office he will not be hurting for money. the net worth of his family is where between $40 billion and $70 billion. fortune was built largely from military contracts as an air force offic

. >>> a group of stanford university students are going to prison. they are doing this as part of a university lead workshop. it allows them to get an insiders knowledge. ten students per suing degree -- pursuing degrees will work with 20 inmates. they have all received an associate degree through the prison university project. they will hold sessions on sunday afternoon in a classroom. >>> santa clara city leaders want to make sure money set aside to build a football stadium don't disappear. the city council plans to meet tomorrow to look at ways to insure the $40 million promised for the project is not cut from the states budget. gore knob -- to educaten. >>> this years centennial run of the bay to breakers is scheduled in may. jade hernandez is live to tell us why this race could be the very last one. good morning, jade >> reporter: good morning. runners are very with where we are live this morning. the question this morning is whether or not it will be an uphill battle to keep the race alive next year. >> besides the rare occasions for the wild th

. >> today wood is doing post doctoral work at stanford university and has inspired other students. katie diaz was a student. diaz tutored high school students there is first generation high school students. and they understood the way i communicate in math with them. you can just see light bulbs coming in. >> today there are intervention problems for students having trouble with math and last month she was awarded for distinguished college teaching of math. she was as excited as she was when she solved her first rubik's cube in her parent's car, nonl fifth grade. and that achievement led to many more. >> and it worked right there in the car. i screamed! just like oh! and to me, that was equivalent to me, personally. >> we salute her for sharing her love of math with her students and with us. >> she's remarkable. >> she is. >> and let's update weather again. and i want to show you what's happening. there is a mix of rain and snow around the sonoma county coast. you can see it's snowing up. there is snowing now. we're starting to see mixed precipitation showing up. you can see just w

. >>> stanford university researcher had a front row seat to the start of the unrest. she was in cairo attending a conference last week, when the demonstration started. now she is back in palo alto, and using email to keep in touch with friends and colleagues in egypt after the egyptian government restored service to some sites today. >> i was up at 5:00 a.m., and one of my friends in egypt said that this was the first email he is sending. >> her friend said she is physically safe, but the country is bleeding. later this hour, we will take you to a bay area museum that specializes in egyptian art. see artifacts, much like the priceless antiquities that are now threatened in cairo, coming up at 10:30. we will be monitoring the live pictures out of cairo throughout this news hour for any developments and you can go to ktvu.com for the very latest, including a slide show of pictures from there. >>> we have new information about the death of giuliani calinas the little boy died from drowning. an autopsy shows the 4-year- old's cause of death was drowning. the body of the k

. >>> stanford university researcher had a front row seat to the start of the unrest. she was in cairo attending a conference last week, when the demonstration started. now she is back in palo alto, and using email to keep in touch with friends and colleagues in egypt after the egyptian government restored service to some sites today. >> i was up at 5:00 a.m., and one of my friends in egypt said that this was the first email he is sending. >> her friend said she is physically safe, but the country is bleeding. later this hour, we will take you to a bay area museum that specializes in egyptian art. see artifacts, much like the priceless antiquities that are now threatened in cairo, coming up at 10:30. we will be monitoring the live pictures out of cairo throughout this news hour for any developments and you can go to ktvu.com for the very latest, including a slide show of pictures from there. >>> we have new information about the death of giuliani calinas the little boy died from drowning. an autopsy shows the 4-year- old's cause of death was drowning. the body of the k

. >> reporter: students and american egyptian community rallied today in stanford university part of ongoing campaigns to rally american support against the muabarak run government. people believe that a google executive has been incarcerated for taking part of protests. a google spokesperson told us today the company is doing everything it can to locate him, but can't confirm if video is authentic. he had sent a twitter message before the violence broke out. and that he did plan to take part in protests against the president. gonin's disappearance and other disappearances is turning the tide against the government. >> now our parents are waking up. like many of our parents are going down the street and saying, we can't take this anymore. it woke them up. >> people like gonin is one of those who stands up and takes part. and we need to follow his lead. >> reporter: to get the homeowner and e-mail address to send google information about him you can go to the web links at ktvu.com. >>> egypt's official news agency and it's new vice president is offering different numbers on just how m