. >>> it's been illegal for california public universities to consider race, ethnicity and gender in college admissions since 1996 when proposition 209 took effect, banning affirmative action. since then the state has seen significant drops in the numbers of african-american, latino and native american students on campuses. last year a group of african-american ucla students produced this video to highlight the lack of diversity at the school. >> now, you tell me that i should be proud to be at ucla. but only 35 of us are predicted to walk across that stage. >> the video, made by student cy stokes, went viral. they are considering whether voters can use ballot measures to ban affirmative programs. now ed hernandez want voters to vote on repeeling part of prop 209. i spoke to senator ed hernandez earlier. >> senator, thank you for joining us. why are you proposing this measure? >> you know, it's about diversity, but more important, it's about equal opportunity for every student here in the state of california. >> can you explain further -- since prop 209 passed in 1996, there has been

california about why this university is so special and so important. it touches every aspect of california lives. why the educational opportunity here is so open, why it matters that we have the world's leading public research university in this state. >> you have a lot of firsts going on here. how are those a plus for you? or are they? do they have any bearing to this job? >> i do enjoy the fact that i'm the first woman president. that's a good thicng. in terms of being a non-academic, the president of the system really operates as a chief executive officer. the provost runs the academic mission of the university. so as far as relevance and running a system as big and complexity of the university that's the kind of experience i bring. >> while it may keep her plenty busy, she's happy to be back in the bay area where her own higher ed journey began. >> did you ever think you would come back as the head of the uc system? >> no. but i never thought i would live in arizona. i they ever thought i would be a governor. i never thought i would be a member of the president's cabinet. windows of opportunity open. i think one of the purposes of a g good education is that when those windows open, you are prep

public higher education in the united states, that is gone down 26%. >> per capita. >> per capita. theou're talking about individual states of the 50 states. >> university of california berkeley, university of north carolina. highering cost of public education is closely related to the declining support -- >> they have to raise the price of tuition and everything else -- >> yes. part of what we have to ask ourselves is how do we make college more affordable by being much more cost conscious? we also have to ask ourselves, as a society, what are we willing to invest in higher education, which i firmly believe is a public good. does our society still believe that? >> you raise the question in public statements and speeches that, in fact, the level of support from the federal government to higher education is declining? relatively to where was. >> a significant portion of what we could harvard is research. about 16% of our operating budget -- >> 16? >> comes from federal support. >> and is declining? >> it is declining. thehe last decade purchasing powers from the national institute of health, which is our biggest federal funder, has gone down about 25%. where is the un

here in washington, director of public affairs to th the latinar health, and university of southern california health fellow. tell us about the background of these laws that have come into effect recently in texas. >> as you said the texas legislature cannot ban most abortions but the legislature can and should assure that women have enough information before they decide to have an abortion, and to ensure that abortions are done in a safe manner, comparable to similar facilities done in other procedures done in other facilities. that's what the legislature has done in the last four years. we have an informed consent law, a sonogram law and a law that increases safety standards in abortion facilities, and most facilities are meeting those standards. >> when you say to be sure that the procedures are done in a safe manner. what was the evidence that suggested that they were being done in an unsafe manner. >> that last summer we had a lot of testimony where both sides weighed in heavily and there was compelling testimony from women who had negative experience in some of the abortion clinics in te

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former secretary of labor in the clinton administration, robert reich, he's a public policy professor. university of california at berkeley. here's what i think is crucial to understand about paul ryan. his budgets that he is so renowned for when you talk about poverty, in 2013, 2/3 of the huge budget cuts according to the center, 2/3 come from programs for low-income americans. he can say whatever he wants and make up whatever stories he wants. that is in the numbers where the priorities are. >> yes, but you see, chris, that's exactly what he wants to hide. i mean, what he wants to create. and if it requires a story that is made up, so much the better, i mean, if it makes the point he wants to make, is that welfare dependence is welfare dependence. that as nobody wants to make money from the government, well, it's true. people don't want to take money, but the fact is if they didn't have any alternative, these children would get paper bags without food in the paper bags. i mean, what paul ryan is doing is actually cutting the ability of so many millions of families to get out of poverty, to actually make some

item 16 is a resolution to retroactively authorizes the public health department to have and expend the granted for the university of californiao participate in a program called hiv transition analyze to perform prevention >> same house, same call? this resolution is adapted. item 17. it's a resolution to authorize the general manager to enter into a hundred hundred and $70,000 agreement for software and maintenance for a term term of 5 and a half years >> colleagues what we take this testimony some this resolution is adapted. >> item 18 is to authorize the public health department to extend a hundred and $70,000 grant for san francisco family intervention reentry transition program and same house, same call? this resolution is adapted. >> item 189 is a resolution to authorize the mayor's office of housing you have community development to expand a hundred and 5 thousand dollars south of market you community fund discolors there's for capacity building. >> same house, same call? this resolution is adapted. item 20 is to urge the transportation authority to court reporter a working group and to develop an action plan within 90

california. it's not good for higher education. >> reporter: sca 5 would once again allow public universities to make a mission decision based on race or ethnicity. not just academics. >> i'm worried. i'm anxious. i'm worried about the future of my children. >> reporter: protesters want prop 209 to remain the law of the land. >> 209 in california was passed by voters. >> reporter: the debate is one of the hot topics making the rounds in dr. michael chang's class at the college. >> rolling back portions of the 209 as it applies to education. >> reporter: the proposal to repeal 209 is getting mixed reaction from students. >> it gives everybody opportunities to go to school. it's not based on, you know -- it serves everybody. >> my instinctual reaction as a white student, i don't think it's fair to consider race. >> reporter: a family member has never even had a chance to consider the bill yet. the protesters say that's the point. they plan to lobby assembly members statewide, demanding the bill be killed before it even hits their desks. tonight at 6:00, we'll take a look at what still needs to happen before sca 5 becomes the law of th

public memorial on saturday. >> the new university of california survey shows a fourth of all students and employees have experienced intimidating or hostile conduct or felt ex clued on campus. >> the "contra costa times" reports the survey was part of a system-wise campus-wide study with 100,000 from all campuses, laboratories and medical centers took part in the poll. >> the water district is asking customers to cut become open their water use by 15 percent, and the water district officials unanimously voted to approve the volunteer cutbacks last night so the governor is calling for a 20 percent statewide reduction but contra costa water officials say since the district's primary reservoir is nearly 80 percent full, they don't need quite is much conservation right new. >> interest in drought tolerant plants and artificial turf reached new heights at the largest flower and garden shows in the country the san francisco flower and garden show kicked off at the san mateo event center landscape designers saying they are seeing a new shift to plants that don't use a lot of water and synthetic lawns are a need item rathe

. >> this year california voters will not they have support putting the vote that would overturn part of proposition 209 allowing public colleges and universities to use race as a factor p judging students for admission. opponents are concerned it would help some groups at the expansion of others. >> some cal students matching a plan -- rather, hatching a plan to get president obama to deliver the commencement speech. there is a lot of excitement. you'll be surprised to say only eight u.s. presidents only visited uc berkeley. where does one convince the president of the united states to address cal's graduating class of 2015? you have to first sell to it student senate. last week, 20 members voted to support the plan. that got attention of the student newspaper. >> it's no longer can it happen, it's more of the question of how. >> the student behind the plan, his organization called students for change he'll ask the president to focus on his commitment to public education. >> what we're doing is drafting the help of the organization and chancellor's office. >> noernl influential person is the former dean of the u.s. berkeley school of law. >> s

public sector. i have -- i have -- i mean, it's ironic that she's not here, because where is she? she's in portland addressing a university that is excited about what's happening in california and the work that she's doing. where was she last week? she was invited to cornell university to the african-american studies program to talk to them about public utilities because there ain't no black people. and, so, to see on the web these young african-american and asian and latino women that she spoke to that then felt like there was a place for them in public utilities, so, this is a disgrace, it's an insult. i live -- i grew up in hunters point so i don't want to hear about hunters point and territoriality. people are suffering [speaker not understood], and i don't understand why we're here this evening. so, i would beg you to reject -- and the other thing that concerns me, somebody said, well, this is a bunch of lawyers. well, i'm concerned about a bunch of lawyers who have entered into a -- who don't understand contract law, who have entered into a contract that they have all signed off on, that she has signed off on. i would be concerned about lawyers that didn't understand

retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $108,366 from the regents of the university of california to participate in a program, entitled "hiv transmission cluster analysis to inform prevention," for the period of july 1, 2013, through june 30, 2014. >> i believe that we have susan here from the department of public health. >> please come forward. >> thank you, good morning, supervisors, and i am susan sheer and i am the director of hiv surveillance for the department of public health and i am here with my colleague, and who secured this grant from the national institutes of health. so as a collaboration between ucsf and the department of public hel and this what we are trying to do in this study is to look at hiv, viral sequences among the people who have been infected by hiv and look at the biological data that ucsf provides to see how these infections are linked together and then using the data from the hiv surveillance and department of public health we are going to work with the patients providers and attempt to interview them to see if we can find common characteristics that g

. >> yes, to support the university of california, university of north carolina. so the rising cost of public higher education is closely related to the declining support -- >> charlie: if they can't support, they have to raise the tuition and everything else. >> yes. so par part of what we need to k ourselves is how do we make college more affordable by being more cost conscious. all of us in higher education have to do that. we also need to ask ourselves as a society what are we willing to invest in higher education which i firmly believe is a public good, and duds our society still believe that and will it invest in it. >> charlie: you raise the question that, in fact, the level of support from the federal government to higher education is declining? well -- >> charlie: compared to where it was as a percentage. >> a significant portion of what we do at harvard is research. >> charlie: right. and about 16% of our operating budget comes from -- >> charlie: 16? 16. comes from federal support for scientific research. so what happens when that declines across the united states? >> charlie: and

california lives. why the educational opportunity here is so open. why it matters that we have the world's leading public research university in this state. >> you have lot of firsts going into this job, first woman president here, first nonacademic. how do you think those are a plus for you or are they? or do they even have a bearing to this job? >> well, i do enjoy the fact that i'm the first woman president. i think that's a good thing. in terms of being a nonacademic, you know, the president of the system really operates as a chief executive officer of the system. the chance hors run and the provosts run the academic mission of the university. so, in terms of relevant experience for running a system as big and complex as the university of california, that's the kind of experience they were looking for and that i bring. >> while budgets and regents meetings may keep napolitano plenty busy, she's happy to be back in the bay area where her own higher ed journey began. so, you went to santa clara university. did you ever think when you were there you were going to come back, visit the university at one point as the head of the uc system? >> no. but i

. >>> california lawmakers are scrapping a push to repeal the state's ban on affirmative action at public colleges and universities. the proposed november ballot measure sought to overturn part of prop 209 which voters approved back in 1996. that measure bans schools from using race and ethnicity as a factor. after three asian american state senators including lelang yee from san francisco all of whom voted for the legislation pulled their support. >>> and these are the guys in charge of the very water we're supposed to be saving. >> we ask why this precious resource is being recycled. >>> and the pattern is changing, i'll pinpoint how much temperatures should rebound as we head through the week. >>> a teenager stabbed to death in the park. but there's another sign to this story. why the suspect told ktvu he was forced to defend himself. >> i'm really sorry about all of this. >>> new video tonight from the end of a police chase. a suspected stolen vehicle crashed. two suspects ran but they were later captured. >>> a deliberate attack or self- defense. that's the question behind the stabbing of a man. >> i'm really

. >> a new report says the most segregated public schools are the most racially diverse parts of the united states. the university of california says new york schools are severely segregated. in many, less than 10% of the students were white. the authors wrote: >> charter schools are less diverse, and the majority, less than 1% were white. james merriman c.e.o. of the charter school centres say: >> it can be helped by policies intending to promote diversity. >> according to the study. new york is not alone. illinois, california, michigan are highly segregated. >> straight ahead, what does the latest delay in obamacare mean. >> the split of kris martin and g winneth palt roe shine -- >> if you didn't complete your enrolment for obamacare by next monday, you were supposed to pay tax penalties. the white house did just that. now, if you say you had issues signing up or come under a bunch of exemptions, you likely have two weeks to enrol. of course, washington split along party lines. >> if he hasn't put enough loopholes into the law, they are restarting to an honour system to enforce it. what the hell is this. a joke. >> the joke

. >>> california lawmakers are scrapping a push to repeal the state's ban on affirmative action at public colleges and universities. the proposed november ballot measure sought to overturn part of prop 209 which voters approved back in 1996. that measure bans schools from using race and ethnicity as a factor. after three asian american state senators including lelang yee from san francisco all of whom voted for the legislation pulled their support. >>> and these are the guys in charge of the very water we're supposed to be saving. >> we ask why this precious resource is being recycled. >>> and the pattern is changing, i'll pinpoint how much temperatures should rebound as we head through the week. >>> a teenager stabbed to ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> new video tonight from the end of a police chase. a suspected stolen vehicle crashed. two suspects ran but they were later captured. >>> a deliberate attack or self- defense. that's the question behind the stabbing of a man. >> i'm really sorry for all of

a proposed measure to repeal california's ban on affirmative action at public colleges at universities will not be on the november ballot. the measure sought to overturn part proposition 209 which bans school from using race and ethnicity as a factor in the admissions process. but democratic lawmakers have abandoned their effort to repeal the ban. that's after three asian- american state senators, including leland yee from san francisco, pulled their support. >>> 7:11. san francisco officials are overhauling the graffiti policies. london bree, dennis herrera and other bills will make an announcement at noon, saying this will help fight a widespread problem as well as approve the quality of life in all neighborhoods and reduce costs. according to the you department of public works, san francisco spends more than $20,000 a year cleaning up graffiti. >>> killed on the freeway. chasing down a car thief. the clue found in this video moments before the crash. the chp hopes it will help solve the claim. >>> good morning. we have slow traffic all over the bay area now due to a lot of problems.

public affairs programs. next, kentucky senator rand paul speaking at students at the university of california berkeley, and thenremarks by the afl-cio president, and then "q&a" with author ibis sÁnchez-serrano. \ the communicators on c-span on c-span2. on wednesday, kentucky senator rand paul spoke at the university of berkeley about government surveillance and privacy issues. he criticized the mistake surveillance by the intelligence community and called for an to oversee committee intelligence gathering. this comes in the wake of what was said by dianne feinstein, that the cia may have searched computers. after his speech, rand paul sat including on a possible presidential run in 2016. this is about 40 minutes. wereenter him if we collecting records, and we said congress is getting the same treatment as everyone else. yes, yes, they are spying on congress. digest exactly what that means. if congress is spied upon without their permission, who exactly is in charge of the government? last week, we learned something new. the middleenators in of this. we learned that the cia is uniquely searching the computers of

university. it is also the measles that has the attention of public health officials in several state. afs yesterday, the c.d.c. reported 84 cases in 11 state. california tops the list with 34 cases followed by new york state with 24. let's go to washington and dr. anthony fauci, the executive director of the national institute for allergy and infectious diseases. doctor, we've gotten used to the idea in this country over the last several generations that vaccinations have sort of reduced the threat of measles and mumps. what's going on here? >> what we're seeing is a failure to have as much vaccination as you really feel to completely control these types of outbreaks and one of the problems is that usually mothers who are concerned, understandably but really without any real scientific basis, about the adverse events associated with vaccines, balanced against the serious consequences of the disease itself. and when people don't get their children vaccinated, that's when you see these types of outbreaks that we're seeing, which is really very unfortunate for the children who get infected who could have been protected had they been vaccinated. >> axelro

california without actually disqualifying them from federal subsidies under the aca. during the process thats was followed by the universal health care council, staff and the mayor's office, the department of public health, and the city attorney's office vetted the question with federal officials, and i believe that they were all satisfied that the city mra funds could be used for these purposes. because of that, i have asked the city attorney's office to explore how we can best codify the structure of the city option as receipts of employer funds and assignment of enrollees to receipt sets of benefits with the aim of ensuring that the funds are most efficiently used to encourage enrollment and health insurance and to provide useful benefits to medi-cal beneficiaries. the third point that i want to make is that while the combination of the aca and the hcso have the potential to make health insurance truly affordable in san francisco, coverage will remain unfortunately unaffordable for significant numbers of individuals beyond the most frequently cited group of undocumented immigrants who are categorically excluded for -- from eligibility for subsidies. as tom ammiano said, there will be people wh

university of california at berkeley is turning its stadium into a hub of activity. officials announced plans to expand the stadium to a multi purpose facility. coming soon a visitors center and school of public policy. it will increase revenue to help pay for the complex. >> can't wait for the bears season to start. >>> right now beautiful weather out there. >> temperatures all over the weekend incredible. low 80s. mid-80s south of san jose. highs from today, cool down today. we had a lot of wind along the coast and in the hills and that dropped temperatures 15 degrees today. concord 70 degrees. livermore 69. 72 fremont. high temperatures tomorrow low 70s. warmer tomorrow. high pressure setting up over the top of us for a couple days. not going going to give us strong off shore winds like over the weekend. this will be a summer like pattern. an opportunity for the fog to reform. feeling like spring out there. clear and cool and breezy still tonight and with the breezy conditions, visibility, like this last week, visibilities are great. you can see a long way out there. santa actually oakland, 66 degrees. tomorrow 50. 8:00 a.m. 50. lunchtime upper 50s. by 2:00 p.m. 63 degrees in oakland. nice

universities. it does not affect you if you are at a publix eight school -- public state school. it is not that wide-ranging. >> that is right. each of those states have laws. in californiat regulates public sector employees make these decisions. they can work out that way. >> the players understand. this is the most important issue. as a collective unit, they are talking about these sort of things. the ncaa can no longer hide behind the terminology. >>does not work anymore stop the kids and their families in a certain way, it is convincing them that this is the best thing. it is wonderful. you can play in europe. >> that's right. >> football you can't. a lot of these kids don't even think about those leaks. >> duping is a word that i have heard. misdirection. that i have heard. you are on the right track. what is amazing to me is how angry some people get about this. we have some viewers right now were very angry as they listen to this conversation. >> they tried to unionize factory workers. there are a lot of the same ties. correct people don't like the idea of student athletes being paid. they are effectively professional athletes. i want to thank you for joining us i