hundreds of students from university of california at berkeley there protesting and there were tense moments earlier with police and there have been allegations made that the police were too harsh when they arrested some students. more on bay area news at 7:00 and the 10:00 news. >>> protesters drowned out a press conference today in oakland. >> so -- >> a group of city counsel members want to start a dialogue. the counsel members hopes it will end peacefully but demonstrators say they are staying put and not about to move. we have an update on a story we brought you monday on a donation from "occupy wall street" to the "occupy oakland." the group is depositing the money into a wells fargo account. the group says that was the fastest way to use the money. >>> at the occupy camp in san francisco, justin herman plaza, there are growing concerns about crime. ktvu's rob roth is live where protesters say they are considering pulling up stakes. >> reporter: many folks are having meetings. one group is discussing the pros and cons of moving the camp to civic center plaza. >> reporter: some

pepper spray on november the 18 which led for a call of the resignation of the chancellor at university of california at davis. the students want her to resign. they are also against tuition hikes. davis was one of four campuses connect for the university of california board of regents meeting today. >>> funeral services for james cupoowill be held this wednesday. he was gunned down while chasing a bank robbery suspect two weeks ago. the suspect has been charged with murder. he leaves behind a wife and three daughters. the funeral is 11:00 wednesday morning. >>> and the body of a u.s. marine killed in afghanistan was brought home to danville today. he graduated last year where he -- 150 flags lined the route. kron spoked to the man who organized this event today. >> i want to show this service member, the community is there to support them. we are here to show the family the importance as a community to honor this young 19-year-old marine that paid the ultimate price. >> long the route residents came to show their appreciation for the fallen soldier. >>> new tonight at 11:00, getting closer to solvin

call police brutality at the demonstration two weeks ago as well as other campuses like university of california at davis. >>> thousands gathered at university of california at davis where they demandded the chancellor resign after police pepper spraid demonstrators on friday. ktvu's ken pritchett is there live. >> reporter: we had a large rally this afternoon. thousands of participates. what we are left with now is a tent encampment that was put up this afternoon in defiance of the administration. what they are protesting is the pepper spraying incident on friday. many here say that is not enough. >> reporter: this is the video that outraged some at university of california at davis on friday. police pepper sprayed protesters. today thousands returned to the common area to protest that event. she spoke to the crowd. she was one of those pepper sprayed. >> i describe it, sitting in front of a fire and you get to point, it's too hard and you pull away. >> reporter: two police officers involve were placed on leave. this morning the chancellor announced the police chief was placed on leave. many sa

. >> reporter: a peaceful take over at university of california at davis today as students chanted. this building is home to the finance aid office, a police student spent more time at because of tuition hikes. so today they are striking. skipping classes all day. >> tired of doing nothing. tired of all this. >> reporter: at one point a professor lectured in the staircase. and she blocked an elevator with her own body. she said she had to do something after she saw the video of the student being pepper spray. >> not appropriate if they are not hurting anybody. >> reporter: this morning students took over the university of california board of regents meeting. tuition hikes weren't on the agenda but students changed that. he says he feels for the protesters but he hopes to stop the hikes by working within the system. >> we need to find more revenue, find ways to put more revenue on the ballot that california will support for higher education. >> reporter: although the protests were loud and very big, there was very peaceful gathering out here. reporting live, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a

at davis saying a i am appalled by the way students at university of california at davis were treated. police should know better than to pepper spray peaceful protesters. he saformer university of california reginant. >>> police moved in and removed the occupy encampment from snow park. they gave protesters time to gather their things and leave. >> they asked us politely with no harassment, they gathered together in groups, offered to help us, make sure we could see. >> workers brought in trucks to remove personal belongings. a few protesters remain but all of the tents were gone. >>> in san jose protesters is keeping up the presence across the street from city hall and will hold another gathering in an hour. there were 7 people and they will keep demonstrating till the city gives them what they want a permit to move their protest to the plaza in front of city hall. they also say they will keep the protest on the move. >> city hall may stop us from being stationary but they can't stop a mobile occupation. >> the protesters who spent 26 days on top of a building came down j

channel 2 news. >>> a task force is being formed to look in to the pepper spray incident at university of californiahe president said that former state supreme court justice will chair the task force that will investigate the use of force during the november 18 demonstration. the investigation is being led by los angeles police chief. >>> stay with ktvu for continuing coverage on the occupy movement and all of the recent events. you can also go to our website, www.ktvu.com, we are updated with information, just click on the occupy protest link. >>> concern from family and friends led law enforcement agencies to a tradagy involving a police sergeant and his wife. ktvu's robert handa is live to tell us what happened. >> reporter: we are that home that for part of the day had been a crime scene. as you can see a memorial is growing outside the house as investigators try to figure out what happenedints. >>> the home is quiet today. family and friends called police last night asking officers to do a welfare check because no one had been able to contact them during the weekend. >> once we got into the hom

he gained attention in 2008 at university of california at berkeley when the school was going to cut down a grove of trees. they are letting zachary running wolf be. >>> the occupy camp may be broken up but the political fall out is far from over. ktvu's ken pritchett has more. >> reporter: one of the top advisers resigned after the police moved into the camp this morn. the mayor face as potential recall of potential no confidence vote. but the political damage can be repaired. >> reporter: the police raid this morning ended o-o. it permanently ended dan's position in the mayor's office. >> when it became clear this morning the police were coming to break it up again, i did send the mare my resignation. >> reporter: he says the mare made a mistake calling in police. the mayor spoke briefly. >> he is moving on. i am moving on. >> reporter: it is the second high profile departure since o- o began and a recall effort gained steam. with volunteers gathering signatures. >> there is 160 days that we have to gather the signatures. my estimation is this will occur long before 160 days. >> rig

. >> appalled by ims of university of california students being doused with pepper spray, the head of the uc system is now calling for a special meeting to review application -- police actions. >> the whole world is watching! the whole world is watching! >> this is the latest incident in question. friday, uc davis police used pepper spray at close range on students who were trying to "occupy" the campus. the university of california president said, i intend to convene all ten chancellors to engage in a full and unfettered discussion about how to ensure proportional law enforcement response to nonviolent protests, end quote. the professor at uc davis adds he's like to see the disarming of the university of california police. >> those police were helmeted, visored, assault rifles and chemical weapons, and they were dealing with a group of about 20 students sitting on the grass. >> two uc davis police officers are on administrative leave following the use of the pepper spray. >> alan: in new york city a terror plot averted. police arrested a man suspected of planning to bomb police and p

students at the university of california-davis huddled on the ground in protest and police began shooting pepper spray in their faces. some students scream in pain, while others chant -- >> don't shoot students! >> reporter: the students were part of the larger occupy movement, railing against everything from big banks to tuition increases. the uc-davis chancellor promised to investigate the police response. >> it's very unexpected and very sad and really very abruptly, i would say. >> reporter: but when students stormed the news conference demanding to be heard. >> i'm sorry. i think we have to stop it now. >> reporter: the chancellor disappeared for three hours. >> we believe in peace! >> reporter: students called for her to come out and when she finally did, they made their point, sitting in complete silence during her long walk to her car. pepper spray is becoming an increasingly common weapon for police in their efforts to control occupy protesters across the country. yet, there are questions about whether it is excessive force. at uc-davis, two police officers are now on administrat

. >>> breaking news in university of california at berkeley. a huge demonstration going on. there are hundreds of students at sproul plaza as part of a new occupy protest. ktvu's john sasaki is in the middle of it. john? >> reporter: we are standing outside sproul hall. this is the middle of a heck tick day here outside sproul hall. if you can look right here, you see there are a couple of tents set up here. these tents went up, you can see inside, people enjoying their time therein, this all went up here after an extremely big conflict between these students, a thousand people here protesting the 99% versus 1%, this is "occupy cal" as they call it. i want to tell you, at one point the police officers told the students they could not set up tents so they came in riot gear and told them to remove the tents or they would be removed with force and that's exactly what the police did here. it was 3:45, 4:00 that that went down. students were complaining about police brutality, saying the officers used more force than they needed to. joining me now is peter, a chairman of one of th

. >>> the university of california has hired a high- profile sleuth to lead an investigation into the pepper spray incident at uc-davis. it's one of two new factfinding missions under way for the school system. christin ayers tells us what the school is trying to get to the bottom of. >> reporter: the office of the president making no comment tonight about these investigations. but sources tell me they will get under way soon. uc-davis' reputation could be riding on it. less than a wook after campus police at days of davis were captured on camera brazenly pepper spraying "occupy wall street" protestors the president of the university of california ordered a factfinding mission. my intent, president mark yudof said in a statement, is to provide the community with an independent unvarnished report about what happened at davis. >> resign, resign! >> reporter: after a raucous campus rally at davis monday, yudof tapped former l.a. police chief william bratton now a security consultant to lead the investigation. bratton said he wants to know this about the officers seen spraying. >> were th

, they talked at a town hall meeting. >> reporter: chancellor linda ca at a i had of the university of california davis apologized to students but deflected blame over how campus police handled the peaceful demonstration. >> they explicitly directed the chief of police that violence should be avoided at all cost. >> reporter: but that's not what happened last week when police broke down an occupy camp. footage posted online shows officers pepper spraying over a dozen students protesting tuition hikes. rebuilt camps, it is just outside the packed town hall. it now includes a food station, medical tent and even a community calendar. >> the camp is now double its original size. despite university rules banning tents, the administration is allowing them to stay, at least for now. >> a lot of people in the administration are just as stubborn as we are so hopefully we'll be able to hold out. >> i want us to take back this university. >> reporter: on monday, over 1,000 students and faculty members rallied against the police response. now, the university student government association is calling on calif

the university of california was told by jerry brown, the university of california. the environmental impact. what we have here -- did not take any actions. you don't have the institutional master plan, before you come to this commission. and it will address those impacts. >> if you could keep the door way clear? >> i am the president of the patrol boosters neighborhood association. i want to discuss one particular site, and a flaw in what they are trying to do. we get a tiny bit of discussion on wisconsin, for the institutional master plan. you say that there is no impact on the planning area. but this is not true. there was an exercise we did for the neighborhood rezoning. maybe this will ring a bell. we have been trying to preserve some industrial areas, and not just parts of the formally end -- formally industrial land. the institutional master plan has to have it both ways. this is where we are having the industrial use, and it is the industrial use to have the bus yard here. this is an hour been, a mixed use. you are supposed to keep the parking lots away from

. >>> the police chief at the university of california davis has been put on leave after protesters were doused with pepper spray. and the university president has apologized. >> reporter: chants echo through the center of campus at the university of california davis. thousands of students, including 22-year-old dominick gutierrez protested what happened here on friday. >> it's so casual, like he was watering flowers or something. i couldn't believe it. >> he and a dozen other students demonstrating against tuition hikes had pepper spray shot in their face by campus police. >> you can't when it happens, it burns your skin. anywhere it touches, it burns. >> reporter: the students were camped out as part of the occupy movement. when police asked them to leave, they sat on the ground. the two officers who sprayed them are now on administrative leave and so is their police chief. at the rally, the students yelled for the school's chancellor to address the crowd. she had to wait in line like everybody else. >> it is my responsibility to earn your trust. >> reporter: the chancellor apologized,

students at the university of california davis huddled on the ground in protestament police then begin shooting pepper spray into their faces. some students scream in pain while others chant "don't shoot students." the students were part of the larger occupy move. , railing against everything from big banks to tuition increases. the u.c. davis chancellor promised to investigate the police response. >> it's very unexpected and very sad and really very inappropriate i would say. >> reporter: but when students stormed the news conference demanding to be heard... >> sorry. i think we have to stop it now. >> reporter: the chancellor disappeared for three hours. students called for her to come out, and when she finally did, they made her point, sitting in complete silence during her long walk to her car. the use of pepper spray by police in portland is also being questioned. on thursday 20-year-old liz nichols, seen in this video, was protesting outside chase bank. police put a club to the five-foot tall woman's throat and then gave her a face full of pepper spray. >> it was burning. it felt

. >>> the fall out on the university of california davis campus. >> the sister of actress natalie >>>elcome back. i'm wendy rieger sitting in for pat lawson muse who is on assignment this afternoon. >> i'm jim handly. poli in new york city arrest a man they say is a home grown terrorist. this 27-year-old was plotting an attack using pipe bombs on soldiers coming back to the u.s. authorities have been tracking him for nearly two years. they finally moved in when he purchased ingredients for bombs with the help of an nypd informant. >>> oscar ortega hernandez is accused of firing rounds into the white house. there's not enough evidence to charge him. >>> no official word from the so-called supercommittee. now, it appears the panel's debt-cutting mission will end in failure. by midday, they had yet to meet. both parties were blaming each other because they didn't have a deal. >> the expected failure sent stocks tumbling. the dow plunged 247 points. nasdaq off 49 and s&p off 20 points. >>> a former head of the fbi will lead the special committee for penn state. they will investigate the u

we're back with those astounding pictures from the student protest on the campus of the university of california-davis. the story spread via social media. the video shows police methodically spraying students with debilitating law enforcement grade thick pepper spray that's meant to cover like spray paint. now imagine those are your kids sitting on that sidewalk. it has turned that campus upside down as you might imagine. the fallout is far from over in this. nbc's kristen dahlgren live for us there tonight at uc-davis. kristen, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. we're beginning to see those occupy tents popping back up. that video has gotten more than 1.4 million views sparking outrage around the world and calls for some serious changes on this campus. this is the video that spread shock across the internet. police in full riot gear pepper spraying students at point blank range as the protesters sat arm's length making no moves. the demonstrators were protesting tuition that's doubled in the last seven years and for many on the quiet campus it was their first protest ever. >> the s

. >>> and in berkeley tonight, students continue to occupy the plaza on the university of california campus ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ . >>> i am ordering you to removal tents and other camping equipment. >> every hour, police used that bull horn there to order the group to remove their tents and other camping gear that they may have set up. but as often as that order is given, it is just ignored. demonstrators hope for strength in numbers. >> there is not enough people here, then the police could feel like they could come in and bully people. which is what you know they did last wednesday. >> and the uc police are refusing to say if a deadline has been set to evict the group or comment on possible tactics. a spokesperson says that students are allowed to demonstrate around the clock, but tents and camping are against the university policy. our coverage continues on our website at ktvu.com. we are monitoring the occupy protests in san francisco and berkeley and will update the stories throughout the night on line. >>> and we're learning more about the uc berkeley student behind the campus shooting at c

campus cop caught on tape pepper spraying occupy demonstrators during a standoff at the university of california, davis, the video has now gone viral. and the school is investigating. speaking of ron claiborne, here's he to kick off on this story. >> in a little bit of more than 24, viewers have seen video on what happened on the davis campus of the university of california. when police moved in to move out the occupy protesters. what you're about to see in the school's chancellor "chilling." when protesters moved in to move out the occupy protesters. after disobeying police orders to remove their tents from campus the occupy ucd protesters linked arms. then a university police officer wielding a can of pepper spray orders the protesters to disperse and then he occasionally sprays the chemical irritant into their faces at close range. >> it felt like my face was peeling off. i didn't even know where i was at that point. >> reporter: some other students recorded it and posted it on youtube where it has been a viral sensation. >> the police officer had no reason to spray those kids. >> reporter: p

the chancellor at the university of california davis addresses students at a town hall meeting. as we report, she is apologizing for the pepper- spraying of peaceful demonstrators. >> reporter: chancellor linda katehi at the university of california davis apologized to students but deflected blame over how campus police handled the peaceful demonstration. >> i explicitly directed the chief of police that violence should be avoided at all costs. >> reporter: but that's not what happened last week when police broke down an occupy camp. footage posted online shows officers pepper-spraying over a dozen students protesting tuition hikes. the rebuilt camp sits outside the packed town hall. it includes a food station, medical tent, and even a community calendar. >> the camp is now double its original size. despite university rules banning tents, the administration is allowing them to stay, at least for now. >> a lot of people in the administration are just as stubborn as we are. so hopefully, we'll be able to hold out. >> i wanttuse take back this university. >> reporter: on monday, ove

students from the university of california davis are planning a news conference for today amid mounting outrage over the police use of pepper spray against nonviolent student protesters last week. the police chief has been put on administrative leave along with two other officers involved in the incident you're seeing here. in all, ten students needed medical treatment after they were sprayed at point-blank range while protesting tuition hikes in support of the occupy wall street movement. the embattled chancellor, linda katehi is resisting calls to step down. she addressed a rally of more than a thousand people yesterday. >> i'm here to apologize. i really feel horrible for what happened on friday. if you don't think you want to be students in a university like we had on friday, i'm telling you, i don't want to be the -- university we had on friday. >> after that speech, chancellor katehi was escorted to her car by faculty members. an investigation is now under way and there's talk about a possible lawsuit against the school. >>> still ahead here on "way too early," we turn to football

meantime the president of the entire university of california's system said he is appalled and would like the chancellors to get to talk about what police should do in the event of peaceful protests on campus. i spoke with a professor here earlier today who said what were they thinking and why on earth at the university of california would they need full riot gear, weapons and chemical weapons to be used. a lot of outrage here today and you can see the people in many cases holding up signs asking for the chancellor to step down. >> we have been monitoring developments through social media and noted a number of other students from as far a's way as oakland and berkeley, the students have rallied to the cause of those? >> yeah, we spoke with a representative of student government and said she got calls from all over, people offering to come in and help when she said she spoke with the entertainer earlier and he was going to be posting things on his website. this has gotten a lot of attention and also it is believed that the occupy sacramento people will be here as well. they will show t

he's now professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley and author of "aftershock." thank you both for joining me tonight. bob, i for one am very happy with where this situation has ended up with the supercommittee. how do you see it going from here? >> lawrence, i agree with you about the tactical brilliance of the president in terms of pulling this off. my only concern is this. the economy is still obviously awful. it needs a fiscal boost, whether you call it a stimulus or call it liverworst. the paralysis we've seen so far is going to clearly continue right through election day if not beyond which means that the expiration of unemployment extensions, that unemployment benefit extension, and also the expiration of the payroll tax cuts are going to eat into agate demand. there's going to be less and less agate demand. it's going to be harder for any kind of a fiscal boost to emerge. i worry that even by the beginning of 2013, if you want to look ahead beyond the election, the economy is still going to be very bad and there's not going to be any fiscal boost at all

student protesters at the university of california davis have rebuilt their encampment. they pitched tents on the very site where police pepper sprayed demonstrators last week. it's more than double its original size despite university rules banning those tents. >> the occupy camp is back at the university of california davis. >> you want to double check the tent? >> kim and about 100 other students spent the night in 83 tents. the same spot where police pepper sprayed demonstrators last week. she wants the school's chancellor to step down. >> i came here just to show the administration that we're not backing down and that we are a community that needs to be taken seriously. >> on monday, over a thousand students and faculty members rallied. venting their frustration over how campus police handled the protest. officer officers pepper sprayed. now the campus more than doubled its original size. there's a food station, recycling in the back. and there's even a medical tent. >> 19-year-old prelaw student, shannon carter runs the first aid station. the hike in tuition could

>>darya: dozens of demonstrators are expected to rally outside of the university of california board of trustees meeting to protest a 9 percent hike in tuition. the fee hike means students would pay an extra almost $500 annually. that brings the total annual tuition of $5,970. the increase would only be implemented if the state legislature does not approve sufficient funding in the 23 campus system's budget. >>mark: new details of a controversial parcel tax. the texas overwhelmingly turned down by more than two-thirds. the mayor supported the tax to boost the police department, the failure of the tax is seen by some as a referendum against new taxes and a vote of no-confidence against mayor quan. >>darya: here is the computer rendering of the finished statement for the 49ers. this city of santa clara will borrow $6 million from the team. if everything goes according to plan, a $1 billion stadium will be opened in 2015. >>mark: a quick break as the kron4 morning news continues. here is a live look outside. here is what is happening in ohio, a gas line explosion. bev the explosion happe

from the board because stocks he associates and from faculty and students throughout the university of california and since i've been in distributed a letter i've received thousands of e-mails from people around the world expressing their support and i know your letter where i think was the first i read at least i found the things were actually coughing up blood forty five minutes after they were sprayed what one of the students tell you. well just today we've had a rally on campus at u.c. davis attended by you know what i would us today as a crowd of around five thousand people and at the beginning of that really students spoke and testimony about what happened. testimony that was harrowing included descriptions of announced that i won't mention in the letter. but they also you know express the fact that there's a sense of how long and psychologically and emotionally they speak about not being able to sleep at night the students have spoken about being followed around campus by university police since friday. and this is something you know often follows police brutality trauma and serious emotio

may have seen this video over the weekend but it bears showing again this video from the university of california at davis. was. that was the right thing you see just how close these police officers are standing and spraying the students some of whom were apparently trying to cover their faces with their clothing a police officer was actually forced open their mouths and pushed way down and that's what's so because of what you're seeing here the u.c. davis campus police chief along with two officers have been placed on administrative leave paid leave i should add but students and faculty at davis are now calling for the chancellor linda katehi to step down as well one of those faculty members is nathan brown assistant professor in the english department at u.c. davis he wrote a letter to the chancellor describing in detail some of the effects the pepper spray had on the students he also called for the chancellor to step down i want to read just a part of this letter he says you are responsible for because this is what happens when you see chancellors were police on to our campuses to just spursto

>>a police chief at the university of california at davis has been placed on the administrative leaveer spring student protesters to officers were caught on camera last friday spring nonviolent protestors at point-blank range those officers are also on administrative leave the students were protesting higher tuition costs 10 people were arrested before she was disciplined the chief appear to defend her officers' actions >>ice t pepper spray as a tool for diffusion like every tool we carry annualized we hope and pray that it is used correctly according to policy in that the after effects and a terrible >>to believe it was used correctly here? >>unfortunately i cannot give you my comment because of the ongoing investigation >>friday's incident has led to the calls for resignation of the school chancellor she said she shares the students outrage and promises a full investigation >>it group in portland is found a way to protest peacefully with their dogs the group was demonstrating against to banks in the area they also wanted to voice their opposition of how police used pepper spray duri

university of , welcome back. 5:15. a look at the morning's top stories. today, the university of california recents are holding a meeting that was canceled earlier this month, because of security issues. and protesters are expected at the four campuses where the regents will gather to ask the state for more funding. >>> and a tense situation in los angeles right now as occupy protesters have defied a 12:01 a.m. deadline to remove, to step away from their campground and police are keeping a close watch and they just keep asking the protesters to pack up and move out. >>> and the shopping hype continues today. this is cyber monday. the monday after thanksgiving. of course, the traditional start to the online holiday shopping season. and it started years ago when people shopped at work, on high speed internet. the internet, lawrence. >> can you get in trouble with that, shopping at work? >> try it and tell me. >> thank you very much. folks, if you're headed around the bay area today, looking at dense fog early on this morning. it is a thick go. especially in some of the valleys, be very carefu

dental schools like this one at the university of california san francisco say some students don't want to practice in shortage areas for financial reasons. and are increasingly turning to specialties because they can make more money. it's accepted that the number of practicing dentists will start declining, just as five million children will begin to get dental care under medicaid. that's in 2014 when a provision of the new federal health care reform law kicks in. >> open up for me. >> reporter: finding a dentist who will see them is another issue. because medicaid reimbursement rates are notoriously low. >> individuals who are covered by medicaid right now already have a very difficult time getting dental services. there's a pretty low participation by dentists in the program. so it is hard to find somebody who will accept that insurance. >> reporter: doctor calmon who practices in rochester new york accepts medicaid patients but he said he loses money. >> there are parameters that will allow us to do certain things that they'll pay for and certain things they won't pay for. i would s