appreciate the fact that i am in san francisco and not in oakland and not even in my home town of berkeley california. san francisco really is the city that knows how to do things correctly where law enforcement is concerned, and i really needed to say that. i sat here and i listened or tried to because some people just didn't make any sense to me. there's only so much that the police can do. there's a lot that people need to do taking responsibility for the fact that they want to engage in criminal activity with impunity. they want to engage in stupid activity with impunity. i am on the mack community which the multi-model access advisory committee of mta, and mta had the keep your phone down and your eyes up campaign to get people who are riding on muni to pay attention to the fact that you're not in your own bubble. there's a real world out there and evil does exist and evil is out there and waiting for you to not be attentive. that's on you. you are to pay attention to what is going on. be it that you're going to cross the street and hopefully bicycles not on the sidewalk where you're going and t

a bit like -- what's his name -- daniel ortega who picked up his antiamerican rhetoric in berkeley, california. but i think it's 6:00 to perhaps we can open it up to questions. i'll field the questions. ... one of my question is one thing he didn't discuss it in 1939 japan tried to attack the soviet union. they were soundly defeated with the soviets sending in a lunch of tanks and they just them. good news about not get out? i mean i know that experience deeply shook a lot of the rightist people. didn't that sort of give them pause or was that hushed up and nobody really knew it? >> it was hushed up in the public. the newspapers didn't report it in full details but the army leadership was of course shaken and that is why they decided they couldn't really fight the soviet union after june 22, 1941 and that was very much on their mind. they couldn't really afford to fight the soviet union. they had their neutrality back, so we will just keep things quiet in keep biting china and going into china, so that they can sustain that warring position in china for the time being. >> its like let's attack

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in 1967, he became an assistant professor at the university of california berkeley teaching undergradcalculus and geometry. he was the youngest professor ever hired by the university. but kaczynski was not popular with his students. >> you can get very good ratings as a teacher in berkeley. he was very uninvolved with his students. contemptuous of them. and their minuscule intellects compared to his own. >> during this time, kaczynski was growing increasingly disillusioned with contemporary society. >> this was somebody who was deeply disturbed. and if you can't deal with society as it is or people as they are, how are you going to deal with the society that's changing? >> it was when he was at ann arbor that he started fantasizing about killing people who were tools of the industrial society. but by the time he went to berkeley, he was already determining that he was going to work for a couple of years, save up money, then move to the woods and drop out of society altogether. >> in 1969, kaczynski abruptly resigned his teaching position. he later bought land in a rural area in lincol

daniel ellesburg joins me from berkeley, california.much for being with us, sir. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> you recently said that you believe the nation has been mired in a constitutional crisis since 9/11, but we just didn't know it until edward snowden took action. do you feel any differently now after the president's speech? >> the president confirmed my concern very much for the state of our constitutional system. i would say it was in very bad health. it's sick. the checks and balances are broken, and what we heard from the president was not even band-aids or aspirin for the fourth amendment, which is near death. it was sugar pills, basically placebos. it didn't pretend anything. it didn't, i think, have any effect at all. the president said that this debate will make us stronger. he's certain of that. well, he neglected to say thank you, edward snowden, because is there anyone who believes that this debate, which is wealthy, which is healthy, healthy, would be happening without edward snowden? there's no chance of it at

bond has a bachelor's and masters engineering degrees from university of california berkeley's institute or transportation studies. he is licensed civil and traffic engineer from the state of california, professional traffic operations engineer. he started his career in the private sector working for parsons brinker hoff queen and douglass, working on neuman umerous large transit projects including [speaker not understood] and bart and other cities across the country. and he he also worked for the city of oakland as a traffic engineer. he came to the city back in 1982. this was back when traffic engineering was part of the department of public works. so, he he started in dpw as an engineer. that bureau of traffic engineering and dpw became the department of parking and traffic, lovingly known as dpt in 1990, and bob was there for the first day of operation of dpt. ~ bond he was extremely knowledgeable and professional and well known and respected throughout all of the city's parking and traffic issues, working on litigation matters, on policy matters, on community matters, and developed

we'll go to a professor at university of cauniversity of california-berkeley.nd from seattle, scott hamilt hamilton, managing director of liam company. professor, let me start with you, apart from the scale which is new and big, aren't these trends already established in american manufacturing? right-to-work states trying to pull work out of closed shops, the end of benefit pensions, moving to 401ks and workforce is interchangeable. if we don't make it with you, we'll make it with somebody else? >> they sure are there in force. this isn't a new story. there is a poisonous atmosphere when it comes to unions in the private sector throughout the united states and in manufacturing. the pressures of global competition are very fierce. you bring all that together, and there is terrific pressure on workers and unions. >> did the boeing workers have to take the vote they did to keep the work? and did the state of washington have to give back the potential tax revenue that it did in order to keep the jobs in washington? >> well, on one level what we're seeing here is st

berkeley say california could be seeing its driest winter in 500 years. make that prediction and said they have not seen it this bad since the 1500s. >>> dry weather upset the food chain in the high sierra. the bears are still awake with the warm temperatures. >> they are on the prowl so kpix 5's don ford is going to tell us that story. >> reporter: yosemite valley, beautiful. warm, weird. >> this is an unusual year because here we are in january and we can look around and there's no snow. >> reporter: the weather is so nice valley bears are not hiberinating yet. normally the ground is covered in snow making it hard for them to find food. but the warm weather created a bumper crop of acorns and bears are still up and eating. >> in the fall bears eat up to 20,000 calories a day, they get fat. for winter and a lot of that comes from acorns. >> reporter: yosemite valley doesn't have more bears than usual, it's just that most of them are still awake. and biologists are keeping track of them with radio collars. special homing antennas help locate them if the b

. >>> scientists at uc-berkeley say california could be seeing its driest winter in 500 years and worset for several decades. they looked at tree rings and sediment cores to make that prediction. they say they haven't seen it this bad since the 1500s. >> it's important to understand our climate history and know when we're in drought and then we also have years of extreme flood. >> droughts like one in the middle ages lasted more than a century. so i guess january is feeling more like june. >> that's right. apparently the bears in yosemite valley feel the same way. that's why they are still awake. normally, bears should be hibernating by now and waking up again by mid-march. but no snow in the sierra so they are out hunting for food. >> they eat anything they can find so -- >> toothpaste? >> sure, toothpaste. >> campbell soup, acorns? >> yes, dead animals. >> wildlife biologists are tracking bear activity by placing radio collars on them. that will help park rangers detect any bears in visiting areas. biologists say if it doesn't snow soon, bears might not hibernate at all this year. >>

is from berkeley, california great democratic caller. early morning to you. go ahead. caller: my governor is governor brown. i think governor brown is doing a wonderful job. i would like to see people back him in reference to the high-speed rail. guest: that is one of the really interesting budget challenges that governors face. and actually they are in this very bizarre positions right -- position right now. governors have a lot of money to spend. the economy is coming back. tax revenues are way up. almost every state has a budget surplus to deal with. one of the things jerry brown wants to do is create a high-speed rail system between san francisco and los angeles. that is going to cost a lot of money, billions of dollars over a very long period of time. jerry brown is thinking big. he is thinking legacy projects right now. canal system and tunnels he is trying to build to improve the state water conditions, which is in real dire circumstances. this rail project will be under construction long after he has left the governor's mansion. that is a big issue i think we w

andrew stewart teaches at the university of california at berkeley.t's often said that statues like this are emblematic of early greek culture. i think they are for four reasons. the sculptor has taken the statue's clothes off. convinced that man is the measure of all things, he allows him to stand free and proud, allows your eyes to roam unobstructed across his body. he's autonomous. the sculptor has stripped away the back pillar and the screen between the legs of the egyptian statues that were his predecessors and has allowed him to walk forward in three-dimensional space. he's beautiful. he's also youthful. the sculptor has chosen that period between 18 and 21 that the greeks believed was the prime of one's life, the acme of one's existence on earth. as a result, the statue could serve one of two main functions. it could be offered to the gods, particularly to apollo, the epitome of this youthful ideal, or it could stand above the grave of a man of any age, reminding his descendants of when he was in his prime, standing youthful, proud, autonomous,

. >> the collegiate 100 is something we started with the university of california at berkeley. we had some members who are graduates of that school, the university, and we're like, when i was in college, it would have been helpful if we had a connection to our local chapter. so we started a collegiate 100 where we identified students at the university who were interested in what we were doing, interested in potentially in the future becoming a member of the 100 after they've kind of gone through their professional career. and said, how do we start making linkages? the linkage for us was a natural one because we could say, not only can we mentor them, they can also help us mentor the kids in high school. because you have tutoring and you have just kind of -- some of our members, we're in our 30s, 40s, 50s, when a high school student sees us, they're like, that's a bit far off for me. maybe i can find somebody who's been in their late teens, early 20s. it was a natural linkage. we've kind of rolled that out for the national 100 where we have other chapters doing the same thing at

i am alan auerbach, professor of economics and law at california berkeley and your moderator for this evening's program. i am delighted to introduce my friend and colleague, dr. edmund phelps. he was the 2006 nobel laureate in economics and is the author of many books including a one called "mass flourishing: how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change". this book examines modern economics and what makes nations prosper and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. edmund phelps teaches economics and is director of the center on capitalism and society at columbia university. he has long studied the sources of economic growth and the causes of unemployment. on announcing his nobel prize the prize committee specifically cited his work on key trade offs in economics between inflation and unemployment and current versus future generations. he is also known for the breadth of his approach to economic drawing as he does in this book important contributions from philosophy, literature and the arts. few other economists could comfortably site aristotle and l

them better than everyone out if so you want to be only one researchers at the university of california and berkeley recently conducted a series of studies to see if rich people in america really are jerky or that people who have less money one of the studies involves having two people play a game of monopoly one player started out with twice as much money and an extra dice to roll every single time the game was played this way the players recognize that the game was radiant but as the game went on the rich player became more visible noxious the rich person even started talking and moving around louder and even ate more free pretzels than the player who wasn't given the advantages but when questioned about why they want the end of the gain all of the rich players talked about their strategy to use as if there were a novel east hills where the reason for their success is not the fact that they had been given twice as much money or the extra for no reason so overall the rich player in every game became louder took more free stuff and was prideful about advantages that they did nothing to deserve in ot

francisco we're joined by james prob innson, professor of health economics university of california at berkeley. thank you very much for joining us. professor, in 2008 they expanded medicaid through a lottery given a rare chance to observe the effects of the expansion alongside a controlled group of people who did not receive coverage. what did you find when you started looking at what expanded medicaid coverage did for people? >> we looked at the multifaceted effects of medicare, benefits of financial protection and potentially improved physical and mental health and we found that expanding medicaid to low income adults dramatically increased their health care utilization, including not just the emergency department but also hospital use doctor's office viforts and prescription visits and prescription drugs. comes along with benefits for beneficiaries. >> in fact you found that emergency room visits increased by 40% which was a pretty big number. >> yes, it's a substantial increase. you can imagine a beneficiary sitting home with a set of symptoms perhaps a sprained ankle that might be broken

according to the work of a professor at the university of california berkeley, during the post-recessionf 2009 thrown 2012, the rich snagged a greater share of total income growth than they did during the boom years of 2002 to 2007. under president bush. in other words, inequality has been more pronounced, not less. >> rich people have pulled away, largely because the top 1% has been doing quite well, and disproportionately doing quite well under president obama. remember that the stock market has doubled in value since president obama took office. and at least 80% of those gains have gone to the top 10% of the income distribution. all told, income inequality has tended to get worse under president obama. >> when we come back, brit hume with his analysis of president obama and income inequality, and later, another brushback pitch from a new jersey mayor against a governor desperately trying to stay in the presidential game. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request

. >> the california ski company in berkeley would be bustling with customers renting skis or getting fitted for boots. this is the third year in a row that's been rough. >> slow, slow, slow right now. we were fine until the middle of december, and i think people sort of lost hope. >> that's not how the season started with an early monster storm that pounded the sierras in late october. >> expectations couldn't have been higher. >> everybody is stoked. there's a lot of electricity in the air with all the snow. >> fast forward three months and business is down 40%. employee hours have been cut. >> yesterday would have been, it looked like a frat party, and i let everybody but two people go home to watch the game. >> die hards are still getting equipment to ski in wyoming and utah as well as on the man made snow in the sierra. this is what it looked like today from lake tahoe tv. dominick and amanda pearson just returned from alpine meadows. >> 70% of the lifts were closed and 50% of the runs were closed. it was a fun weekend. but it just needs to snow. >> there's a lot more rocks and t

ambassador chris stevens, a university of california at berkeley graduate and three other americans. we reached out to the u.s. ambassador chris stevens' family and they said they haven't seen the report. >>> coming up, a expert breaks down what is behind these crimes and what the surveillance videos reveal about the fire bug and the 49ers solve their parking problem, the trade off the team is making for make room for monday night football. ; >>> complete bay area news coverage continues right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00 p.m. >> cameras caught an arsonist in the act several times and spotted a suspicious man walking around this neighborhood. and now neighbors are hoping for word of an arrest. >> we have been telling you about the search since suspicious fires started a week ago. tonight ktvu's robert handa asks what the videos reveal about the motivation of the arsonist in a neighborhood that is filled with cameras. >> reporter: san jose police detectives were out examining the fires set by the serial arsonists in the neighborhood during the past week. the police departm

. >> reporter: she has a psychology from university of california at berkeley but it is not enough for the family of 5. >> reporter: her unpaid full time job now is at home. >> we home school. >>> for the first time ever households headed by working age people are the largest users of food stamps. one food bank veteran sees it every day. >> 15 years ago it was homeless and single parents and now today it is everybody. working families. both of them working. they still can't make it. >> keeps us afloet. that is what -- aploat. that is what he need -- a float. that is what we need. >> the mayor says it is bigger than mayors, governors, even presidents. >> concord represents the working middle class and we are a testament of the widening gap. >> reporter: johnson said the war on parvety is a war -- poverty is a war we can win. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >> more details now. as of october of last year there were 4.2 million people on snap in california. that means that about 1-9 people in california use food stamps. >>> deep dutes the food stamp program -- cuts to the food stamp progr

there was a 2013 poll -- 2013 study out of university of california berkeley which found that in the years between 2009 and 2012, those beginning recovery years in the obama administration, the top 1% of wage earners in the u.s. captured 95% of the income gains in those three years and that, again, during the recovery. so 95% of the top 1%. so that's increasing -- so far it would seem to me that policies of the obama administration have increased that gap. >> this has been a trajectory the government's been on for a very long time. president has taken several key steps to try to slow that trend and reverse it. passing the affordable care act which will do as much to deal with inequality in this country so americans aren't one illness away from bankruptcy. big fight over the fiscal cliff a couple years ago where for the first time in a very long time the president would get republicans to raise taxes on wealthy to make our tax system more progressive, more fair. they did more to reward work as opposed to wealth. >> it is kind of hard to argue about, we've really got to do something wh

joining us now: harley shaiken, a professor at the university of california berkeley who specializes in labor issues. and richard gritta, a professor of finance at the university of portland and expert on the airline industry. start us off, explain the pension and other issues here and the dilemma for the union members voting on this? well, it's a real dilemma. this was a very tough context for the union in that as you mentioned, boeing could have put this new production in many places. the fact that it may go to seattle is an important game long term, possibly very important for unionized workers and for the machinists union itself. but to do this the union had to give certain critical concessions. the most con februaricious is the pensions-- contentious is the pensions. the workers are going to be going from a traditional defined benefit pension plan to a 401(k). it's an older workforce, almost half are over 50 years old. they're very worried about the security of that. also the context in which the vote is taking place, i think, has contributed to some of the tensions, the fact th

a lawney lopez is professor at the university of california, berkeley, focusing on the area of raciale in u.s. legal system. he also may be one of the only few people who can lay claim to being a classmate of president obama's on two separate occasions -- in high school in hawaii, and years later as law students at harvard law school. welcome to democracy now! talk about the title "dog whistle politics." >> it is a term out there in the conversation, but i don't think the meaning has jailed. it says, look, politics is occurring and coded terms like a dog whistle. on one level, we hear clearly -- racial a sense of agitation, and then on the other side, nothing about race at all. newt gingrich is saying obama is a food stamp president. reagan and the welfare queens. that is triggering racial sentiment, anxiety. on another, newt gingrich can turn around and say, i didn't mention race, i just said food stamps. he can go further and say, it's a fact, as if there's some sort of racial undertone. >> in the 2012 republican primary, newt gingrich was widely accused of employing the so-called s

. >> the california ski company in berkeley would be bustling with customers renting skis or getting fitted for boots. this is the third year in a row that's been rough. >> slow, slow, slow right now. we were fine until the middle of december, and i think people sort of lost hope. >> that's not how the season started with an early monster storm that pounded the sierras in late october. >> expectations couldn't have been higher. >> everybody is stoked. there's a lot of electricity in the air with all the snow. >> fast forward three months and business is down 40%. employee hours have been cut. >> yesterday would have been, it looked like a frat party, and i let everybody but two people go home to watch the game. >> die hards are still getting equipment to ski in wyoming and utah as well as on the man made snow in the sierra. this is what it looked like today from lake tahoe tv. dominick and amanda pearson just returned from alpine meadows. >> 70% of the lifts were closed and 50% of the runs were closed. it was a fun weekend. but it just needs to snow. >> there's a lot more rocks and t

. >> the california ski company in berkeley would be bustling with customers renting skis or gettingfor boots. this is the third year in a row that's been rough. >> slow, slow, slow right now. we were fine until the middle of december, and i think people sort of lost hope. >> that's not how the season started with an early monster storm that pounded the sierras in late october. >> expectations couldn't have been higher. >> everybody is stoked. there's a lot of electricity in with all the snow. >> fast forward three months and business is down 40%. employee hours have been cut. >> yesterday would have been, it looked like a frat party, and i let everybody but two people go home to watch the game. >> die hards are still getting equipment to ski in wyoming and utah as well as on the man made snow in the sierra. this is what it looked like today from lake tahoe tv. dominick and amanda pearson just returned from alpine meadows. >> 70% of the lifts were closed and 50% of the runs were closed. it was a fun weekend. but it just needs to snow. >> there's a lot more rocks and trees sticking th

indirectly benefits the corporations researchers at the university of illinois in the university of california berkeleyfound that american taxpayers pay a staggering two hundred forty three billion dollars a year in indirect subsidies just of the fast food industry that's because the fast food industry pays such low wages that we the people are forced to hand over two hundred forty three billion dollars to pay for the health care and food stamps there in the else public benefits for fast food workers meanwhile our tax code which favors billionaires and corporations saves corporations on average two hundred billion dollars every year so you and i have to pick up the slack it's that same tax code is allowing giant corporations like apple and g.e. to hide their money in corporate tax havens to avoid paying their fair share in corporate america is now getting new handouts from the government on a routine basis the boston globe looked at tax legislation that was passed by congress in the first few months of two thousand and thirteen and found that the legislation contained forty three corporate friendly tax

welsh of vermont and former secretary of labor robert reich, professor at the university of california at berkeley. representative welch, assuming this bill makes further progress in the united states senate, which is not at all certain at this point, what are the prospects of some kind of action in the house of representatives? >> well, it's pretty uphill, because we're having this debate as though extending unemployment benefits is going to solve the problem. what it will do is mitigate the impact on individuals and on the economy, but, in fact, what we should be doing is incorporating a discussion about what job creating policies will help, things like building our infrastructure, best time we can do that is now. it increases employment and demand. second, subsidize job program that was a partnership between republican and democratic governors in the administration and employers that put people to work. then third, i think we should be raising the minimum wage. you do those thing, you're actually going to increase demand, increase the base of employment. >> robert reich, i would like you to tak

immigrant from korea actually was a very highly intelligent person, went to the university of california at berkeley californcaliforn iowa and went to uc berkeley which is a hard school to get into. got an engineering degree and graduated with honors with an engineering degree. un knew his passion was in food and food service and hospitality and so un decided to become a bartender in a fine dining restaurant in california. in california there is no difference between the wage for tipped workers and nontipped workers. everybody gets the same wage of $8 an hour. actually we are part of a coalition that just raised it to $10 an hour. california is the largest in vast is growing restaurant industry in this united states. and that could have the city with the largest restaurant industry in the u.s., los angeles which has a larger restaurant industry to new york city. it is thriving. in fact there are seven states in the united states that have the same wage for tipped the nontipped workers. five of those seven states have faster restaurant industry growth rates in the restaurant industry growth rate nati

. >> sreenivasan: arlene blum is a visiting scholar in chemistry at the university of california at berkeleybeen leading the charge to get flame retardants out of homes. she's the founder of the green science policy institute which studies chemicals in consumer products. and one of the first products she tested came from her own home. >> these are the cushions from my old sofa which contains a flame retardant chemical now banned by the european union called penta which has been linked to cancer. >> sreenivasan: blum, who earlier in her career successfully advocated for removing a suspected cancer- causing flame retardant from pushing for state legislation to get rid of the chemicals. >> the chemicals are continuing coming out of the couch and they're heavy. they drop into dust. and then you get some dust on your hand, eat a french fry, would be the classic and they end up in your body. toddlers who crawl in the dust have high levels. >> sreenivasan: blum and other concerned advocates have been pushing for state legislation to get rid of the chemicals. efforts which have been defeated after h

barbara of the university of california at berkeley has been studying the long-term impacts of hungerwo decades. and says it all means the nutritional odds are stacked against low income families. >> so we have the stressful situations where you know, the body is saying i need some energy, reach for the cookie. and at this point in time, and inn the united states, cookies and snack foods are everywhere. so not only is the income restriction leading to purchasing energy dense foods, but it's the stress as well that absolutely leads to the perfect storm of gaining weight, possibly developing chronic disease and it might be associated with later chronic disease for children. >> that's why with one in five children sometimes going without meals in the community surrounding disneyland orange county has begun approaching the issue like a public health crisis. it started when oc public health officer dr. eric handler ran into the director of the orange county food bank recently and had two basic questions. >> one, is there enough food in your food bank and he said no. and i said it if we wer