u.c. berkeley.s includes undocumented students, and community members. >>> tonight, the group by any means necessary presented the concept at the student government meeting. they want the student-owned and operated hall to be a sanctuary for immigrants. 500 signatures were collected in clear message fort, something that the asuc stands for latinos, muslims and other immigrant students and their families. >> here students at berkeley are also taking the lead and defending immigrants from attacks by i.c.e., attacks by donald trump, and to recognize that everyone in this community with and without papers, all of us belong here and have a right to be here. >> reporter: we reached out to i.c.e. and u.c. berkeley to comment but have not heard back. students say they will continue to fight to get this item on the agenda for a vote. at u.c. berkeley, christian, nbc bay area news. >> christian, thank you. a rigged election at one of the most notable high schools in the bay area. last month berkeley high held

u.c. berkeley republicans. how media affects the public. >>> 4:52. city officials going to break down on construction for historic 125-year-old tennis court. mayor london breed is among those participating in the ceremony. net dropped today at golden gate park tennis center. $27 million renovation nine years in the making. plans include expanding the clubhouse, rebuilding 17 courts, extending the center's hours of operation. it is expected to be finished in 20/20. >> 4:53. coming up on "today in the bay". nbc bay area responds. >>> their airline changed their flights and added a leg. so why did they have to pay for it out of pocket? nbc bay area responds next. >>> and hafppening now, the mayr of yuma, arizona signs an emergency proclamation after an increased release of migrants into the town. the mayor claims there is an imminent threat to the community. they are looking for help of fema and calling on other towns to file suit and declaring emergencies. the state of emergency does not mean crime will be on the rise. they have all gone through backgr

u.c. berkeley campus.for sean spicer when he speaks later tonight, at least nothing we're aware of. that is not to suggest that sean spicer isn't a controversial figure among people on the left who believe he didn't always speak the truth when he was white house press secretary for president trump. the berkeley college republicans invited him to speak tonight on campus about the, quote, media bias and the threat that it poses to our public. he signed an executive order protecting free speech on college kputsz and threatening to withhold funds for universities that don't comply. protests turned violent in 2017 and led the university to cancel a speech. he was back later that year after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on security. if you are interested in hearing sean spicer speak tonight, it will be 7:00 to 8:30 tonight at evans hall at uc berkeley. the event is free. it appears there are still tickets available. reporting live here at uc berkeley, bob redell, "today in the bay". >> thanks so much

u.c. berkeley student reported being assaulted between college avenue and piedmont avenue. police have not released a name of the fraternity or information on a suspect. >>> four bay area teens are facing charges after leading -- the teens robbed a t-mobile store in vacaville. they tried getting back on interstate fficut on to the teentooot,lice belve the group planned this robbery. >> used multiple people to go into the stores. >> authorities say the suspect's car is --tyemergency crews pulled a body from the waters in half moon bay. first responders recovered the remains near near the ritz. authorities have not identified the body, and no word if the body was the student's, but the person appears to be dead for some time. >>> there were questions -- more than 1,000 people came to the irish culture center to hear the democratic candidates. o'rourke talked about cli some countries in the western hemisphere may be able to support human life. he mentioned the impact of climate change in california. >> for two weeks the people of this community were wearing masks on their face

u.c. berkeley sailing team. we've had a number of people speak to their enthusiasm for the treasure island sailing center and the renewal of the lease. i want to speak to something else specifically. with the renewal of this lease that allows tisc to begin fundraising in earnest to support the program that they have. and in my line of work i work as a fundraising and development professional and i want to speak to the enthusiasm in the funding community for supporting projects like this. i think that this is both highly feasible and very likely to be supported well through both private foundations and individuals in the community and nationwide. and so i want to share my enthusiasm for supporting this project and let you know that i feel that this is a very strong likelihood of success. thank you. >> president fewer: thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is alex lanceberg with the construction industry and i.b.w. local 6. i want to encourage you to move forward, 10 year

u.c. berkeley's chu hall, walk-in side the door you'll get an education of sustainability.een it is now the only academic building in the world with a platinum certification. meaning it generates zero -- zero waste. no trash bins in the building. everyone who walks in has to think like a camper. pack out what they bring in if it's not recyclable. so whatever you bring in, you're going to take with you. >> i can't leave my wrapper there, my napkins there? >> nope, nope. you have to bring it in. >> and don't leave your food, all your other things. your containers, you have to take them with you. >> we're very clean -- yeah, are you calling us -- >> i do sit next to him. >> we have a clean -- >> you would know. >> that's it for us here at 11:00. thanks for joining us. we'll see you tomorrow. >> bye-bye. t, jimmy fallon! ♪ [ cheers and applause ]

u.c. berkeley seismograph has been quiet with little quake activity. >> sometimes there can be stress build-up along a fault. >> reporter: experts say the bay area has been particularly quiet since the great earthquake of 1906 destroyed much of san francisco. there have been only three quakes magnitude six or higher including loma prieta in 1989. in the 1800s, there were 14 big quakes. the hayward fault which runs through most of the east bay concerns dr. chung. one reason why she helped develop an alert system which sends warnings to your cell phone. it was tested in oakland last week. >> can't predict earthquakes. but what we can do is to tell you that an earthquake has started and that you're about to feel shaking. >> i feel like we're like playing a gambling game with the house, hoping like we will win. and that the earthquake won't hit before i do my retrofitting. >> for me it's been a steady rush of work. we can't keep up. >> reporter: structural engineers are seeing a six-month backlog of people wanting to seismically retrofit their houses. he's developed a new cheaper method of bracing

u.c. berkeley researchers that they did provide to the board of supervisors, and so i was wondering if we could schedule a presentation here. >> president hirsch: okay. do we have a sense of how long it is and how many people are involved? >> commissioner dejesus: i do not have that information. >> no. we can probably deal with that offline. >> president hirsch: okay. commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: yes. i was going to ask to schedule a 1421 update. i believe that we've get -- i think it just needs to come before the commission. there was one area of discrepancy, but i wanted to calendar it so we could figure out a date and perhaps get some of the people that worked on the lemgs lation for 1421 to come to the meeting and answer any questions that the commissioners may have. so i just wanted to get an idea of when we could schedule that. >> president hirsch: has the working group finished whatever the working group can do on that? >> commissioner elias: yes. we have one area that is -- not an area of dispute, but one section -- there's a difference in language, so the thought is

u.c. berkeley put together an independent team to review the procedures for the retesting of parcel a and >> these are trusted institutions. they will provide an independent analysis so the public can feel confident in the results. we also have to break the gridlock that is on our streets and create a more functioning transportation system. people may continue to choose to drive in san francisco, but that can't be their only choice. i will work with supervisor peskin on a measure that will charge our ride hail companies to relieve congestion on our streets. [applause] >> we have to keep pushing forward street facing invasion zero projects, including building protected bike lanes on high injury corridors, like the one we are building by upside on valencia street that made it so hard for you to get here. [applause] >> we will also continue investing in helping our transgender residents with housing and services, and to those in washington, d.c. who continue to try and erase transgender people, it won't work back not here in san francisco. [cheers and applause] >> now more than ever, as the

u.c. berkeley encouraged its students to get vaccinated. >> new details now at the college adds mission scandalmilies from china are accused of paying the most to get their children into schools. they paid rick singer 6 1/2 million dollars to get their child into a leading school. that's what the source told abc news confirming an earlier report in the "wall street journal." it is by far the largest payment known to date among dozens of parents, some from the bay area. court documents show another chinese students family paid $1.2 million to get her into yale university. 50 people are now facing charges. >> hundreds of guns are off the streets of san francisco afty cy according to the group brothers against guns, 25 guns were traded in within the first 30 minutes. and that includes an m-16 rifle. one person brought in 14 guns in total. the group teamed up with police and grace cathedral to hold that event. $100 cash was offered for handguns, $200 was given for rifles and assault weapons. >> people dropped off prescription drugs, no questions asked. abc7 news was in alameda where one site was op

u.c. berkeley extension. i think it's excellent that he's been part of the process to bring in both the historic and cultural aspects of the design. nature, i think is key and would be a wonderful aspiration to the project. that would be my chief point at this point in time. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner matsuda? >> yes, thank you. i just wanted to ask a couple of questions about procedure. what happens to our nomination? >> the nomination is currently on hold. >> mm-hmm. >> if nomination is to move forward, we would update the designation report and the ordinance to reflect the changed setting. >> changed setting to the plaza. >> right. >> okay. >> so commissioners, just to follow up on that, it would come back here. we'd have to pull it from the clerk, you'd have to re-review it and revise the ordinance with the city attorney's office, and naturally, the japantown community would be informed of this and we'd likely go back to the japantown community to discuss those changes. >> i guess i have some d

u.c. berkeley and she was the epitome of class and if you ever walked into her apartment on russian hill you could see she way she addressed and whether she was wearing a brightly colored t-shirt showcasing everything from her favorite north beach bar to an environmental organization she volunteered for but she had earlier in life a career in business where she bumped up against the grass ceiling and she was courageous and was a force of nature and loved nature as many of us who knew her knew all the time she would have been very happy with the vote that happened in the land use committee yesterday where we vacated the paper street on the francisco reservoir. she was part of the early movement working with then supervisor alioto and other preliminary ber to get -- members to get the land transferred to what will be san francisco's newest park. she was involved in pretty much everything from the russian hill improvement association to the pr pr area and was a dedicated member of the board of director for people for parks and i spent time with her before she passed about the community campaign

u.c. berkeley researchers is developing a hormone-free birth control for men and women. the product can be consumed by men and women to inhibit the action of sperm. >>> for the thirst year in a row, austin, texas is recognized as the best city in america to live in. u.s. news and world report released the annual list yesterday. some factors include crime rates, median household income and how many people are moving to and leading the city. denver grabbed the top spot. san francisco and san jose were 7th and 14th. new york on the list. >> your taxes? >> they are done. >>> coming up next, we are in the heart of tax season. scammers, we should remind you, work all year around. coming up, an irs criminal investigator joins us live in studio to talk about the schemes that fool the most tax savvy people. >>> passengers at san jose's international airport will soon have another option for when they are hungry. one group says visitors might get the wrong message. >>> welcome back. tax day is coming up next week. while many of us have filed a tax return, there many scams we shoul

u.c. berkeley and ken starr, a former whitewater independent counsel. ken, this looks like a new battle brewing between the obama intel folks and the new trump doj team. >> well, there seems to be hyper sensitivity, laura. here's my take. i'm being precient or whatever that word was. >> laura: nice pick-up, ken. >> here's my take. bill barr knows something, laura. he knows something. he said, i have a concern, and i believe i have a basis for that concern. anyone that knows bill bar knows he doesn't just say things. he thinks about them and he's careful about what he says and i think if bill barr says i think there's a basis for my concern, he doesn't say what it is. he said i'm not going to say what it is. that is a stay tuned, america. >> laura: john, there was -- staying on the clapper for a moment. way to play a flashback and something he said about this whole deal. let's watch. i think we have it. we have it -- >> the other thing, i started to look into trump's ties to russia in the summer of 2016. he said it's spying, bigger than waterga watergate

u.c. berkeley and the controller's office to develop a robust and accountable measuring and verification system for this program. how does this really work in practice? the short program is we fully in ind integrated into our robust process. and we began by embedding language and solicitations for provincial services and alternative delivery contracts with an anticipated contract value of $5 million or more. firms can receive up to 5% of the total r.f.p. points, but they can still leave it blank and the proposal is still deemed responsible and competitive. in the areas of education, environmental justice, workforce and economic development, and/or social innovation. those categories may sound familiar because, indeed, they're the same categories from our community benefits policy. and a separate panel of experts reviews the proposals and scores them by evaluating how those outcomes that they're trying to achieve can actually be met with the resources on the fable. table. and this is designed to ensure that the focus remains on the outcomes for the community, and to control against any sort of "

u.c. berkeley campus. you can see that marine layer in the bay.an expect, tracking our next weather system and what that means for our weekend, kenny. >>> investigator are looking into a deadly explosion at a southern california airport. the accident happened before 8:00 at fullerton municipal airport. this twin engine was fuelled with -- killing the lone pilot. the plane banked left for some unknown reason and nose dived straight into the ground and the explosion shot a thick plume smoke into the air. >>> this morning, we've learned california has experienced ten times more earthquakes than previously detected. it's from a study published in the journal science. they can detect -- they have found undiscovered faults and can measure faint shocks that come before earthquakes. they have documented under 2 million quakes over the past ten years and science scientist says quakes rock southern california every three minutes rather than every 30 minutes. >>> a group of scooter riding thieves are facing charges in southern california. police say they mad

u.c. berkeley and ucla, they've been a great partner to our departments in the city helping us all do some new, cool things with our data and our data together to really better understand kind of the challenges we're facing. and according to an analysis that's is driving the work of our safety and justice challenge, and the population fall into key cat gov he's, it's people in and out quickly. it's people who are in and out for relatively short periods but over and over and over and it's people who are there for a very long time and the second two bullets points are the people that come to mind for us. folks who are continually cycle north and out for low-level offenses and maybe not getting attached to the services they really need and the people who are in behavioral healing court waiting a long time for that bed. so the role of the project is to look at those three populations and figure out what we need to do differently as a jurisdiction. one of the key strategies that the group working on it that is collaboration of our departments has been focused on, is to address people specifical

u.c. berkeley labor sensor. the researchers there are already stuck it -- studying the gig economy, and that partnership could potentially provide aggregate anonymous data from on-demand workers in san francisco by examining tax returns over many years for a partnership with the franchise tax board. i also want to add that the partners experience with ensuring the confidentiality of those who participate in the survey. they have a plan to keep all of this information storage and an encrypted format. it is an impressive proposal, and i'm thrilled to be able to work with every one of those partners to come up with a series of policy recommendations to address the problems and the issues that we find in the survey, i am now entering into contract negotiations with professor benner and the rest of the team. i hope to bring a contract to you for approval at our may 17 th meeting. there is no action required on this item today, but i am very excited to move forward. >> it sounds very exciting. commissioner singh? >> s

u.c. berkeley campus on wednesday night. the university spokesperson says the school looks forward to welcoming mr. spicer and that over the past year there's been a number of conservative speakers. >> coming up, robbed and ignored. a troubling call for help when we come back. strangers rushing someone in trouble. this is surveillance video of a subway station in washington, d.c. a visually impaired man, >> it's a remarkable video now. strangers rushing to help someone in trouble. a visually impaired man using his cane to find the end of the platform. he doesn't realize how close he is to the edge. he falls down and a train is coming into the station. passengers run out to pull him out of the way. they get there in time. a close call. the man was not even seriously hurt in the accident. great job by those people. >> he was held up at gun point in a bart parking lot and then turned to us after a bart officer tried to convince him not to file a report. senior investigative reporter vicki left us with one final report. a report

u.c. berkeley. welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners.the project before you as a conditional use authorization for the proposed project between fourth and fifth street to establish an amusement arcade use in the western soma mixed-use district, also called the remote district and to establish a restroom -- restaurant and bar use within the soma and family especially use district. as part of the recently adopted 2018 central soma area plan, the subject property was rezoned to mixed-use residential zoning district. preplanning code section 175.1, the project needs to be exempt from the central soma zoning controls and instead be subject to the previous controls, since an application was filed before february 15th, 2018. the project sponsor currently occupies the subject tenant to space and doing business as -- -- you no commercial tenant will be displaced. the space is approximately 6,000 square feet and is located on the ground floor and mezzanine level. with an existing two story commercial building. the space is being used as a retail s

u.c. berkeley, why students say there were regulations in place to keep it from happening. >>> good morning. right now we have traffic that is mostly normal for a tuesday morning commute including in fran near the 80 split. (dad) this ice cream cake needs a freezer. (mom) freezer's full. (vo) only frigidaire's custom flex temp drawer can switch from fridge to freezer. (son) nice save! (vo) that's using your frigidaire. >>> time now is 7:12. a fraternity at uc berkeley has reportedly ceased operations after reports of a sexual assault during a weekend party. the national headquarters of sigmaifyeps ln confirmed it happened sometime between midnight and 1:00 last sunday morning. a student who attended the party said the university sent an email out saying the person who reported the assault is a cal student. a member of the chapter took the female victim to the hospital and told officials what happened. uc berkeley officials have suspended all parties in 2016 after reports of other sexual assaults. events resumed after the organization included to rules that included telling party goers that