been month authorities are responding to stanford and uc berkeley >> at 4:30 police at stanford are looking for a man that broken toys to this apartment on campus trying to sexually assaulting a woman. . >> increasing staffing levels and patrolling more after the assault of a graduate student at the escondidos apartments at 9:40 saturday night. police in the woke up to find a man in the bedroom. officers and that she screamed, fog and often he ran away and has not been seen since. officers are working. she you-fought him off--and they expect a dramatic experience like this. >> unfortunately, when you go to a sexual assault like this there's a lot of mental trauma. we are hoping that she is doing all right. the thing she is. hopefully would go back out there and catch him. >>reporter: is unusual for stanford. >> this is not something that occurs that is why we are so focused on getting this taho taking care of. >>reporter: >>reporter: our skin man, fa a dark skinned man, you're wearing blue jeans and a t- shirt. >>pam: recent uc-berkeley assaults also has that campus on edge. one is the life

officials say the current ones confuse visitors. >> and uc santa cruz hopes to cash in with a new academic program and start up lap. university wants to generate more licenses research revenue. something that provides try million dollars a year to both uc sf and ucla. more on the headlines in tomorrow's print edition of the silicon valley business journal. >> nfl season still in limbo would but the draft went ahead as plan. >> business goes on. larry is here tonight. day one of the draft. niners could have taken the quarterback of the future. bolster the defense. we hear the quarterback of the future. bolster the defense. we hear from the newest. sports next sz. >> good evening. 49 ers neat a quarterback there was blaine already waiting when they made the draft pick tonight. they decided to go with defense. took the teammate. niners taking missouri defense end smith. 7 over all. he played two years of college ball. 17 sack in two somebody at missouri came back quickly from a leg injury. his toughness impressed coach harbaugh. >> that struck a chord with me. i know now bones take 4 to 6 wee

. >>> ibm, caltrans and uc berkeley are working on a new traffic information system that could let younow about traffic problems before they happen. when a pattern starts to repeat itself, the system sends a text message or e-mail to people with an application on their smartphone. about a dozen employees in the south bay have been testing this for several months. the next step is to integrate transit and parking information. >>> the pentagon said that u.s. fighter jets are still participating in the libyan air strikes. this comes days after the obama administration said that u.s. militia spokesmen couldn't confirm how many fighter jets were assigned to the nato-led mission. but he did say that u.s. aircraft had carried out a number of bombing raids against forces loyal to leader moammar gadhafi. of efforts would be confined to a support role once nato took the lead in the mission. >>> damage from japan's big earthquake and tsunami could come second most expensive disaster in the world. exact costs won't be known for months. but risk management solutions is estimating the cost -- cost c

, and the entire uc san francisco family on the opening of this major facility. a stunning testament to the inspiring and critical work that will go on within these walls. but i also want to thank and acknowledge the dolbys and rhodes for their generosity, without whom the building would not have been possible. their investment is beyond the physical existence of the building and will pay dividends in the form of ground-breaking research to improve our research and disease preventive medicine approach. of course, i want to thank bob klein and the california institute of regenerative medicine for the significant investment in this facility and also as a reminder that it was day in 2005 that shows san francisco for its headquarters and helping and making san francisco the global center of stem cell research. uc san francisco has been a trailblazer in stem cell research for more than a decade. the opening of san francisco's regenerative madison building affirmed san francisco's place as a leading location for life science research and advanced regenerative medicine.

they say it's not a secret and uc davis employees work in plain sight and often with protest organizers. >>> with the cost of higher education soaring, it's not uncommon for graduates to rack up tens of thousands of dollars in debt. is it worth it? dean reynolds crunched numbers. >> diane owes columbus a lot. she made important contacts and ran up a student loan debt there and at ithica that will keep her in hock for at least 20 years. >> when i was 18, i had no concept of what it meant to go to a school that cost more. >> reporter: her $80,000 in loans are on the high end of the red ink, but student loan debt in this country is now greater than credit card debt. casey is a senior at the university of illinois, who's afraid to even calculate what she owes. will it force you to make certain life choices that if you didn't carry around debt like that you wouldn't have to make? >> probably. probably going to have to work a job i don't necessarily want to. >> reporter: that's not all. >> it can affect choices on getting married, buying a home, saving for retirement, and their own kids educa

catholic healthcare west has 20%, and uc, 26%. that is it. you ask if this consolidation phenomenon is you need to san francisco, i would give the same answer the previous speaker did. it exists in san francisco and exists in sacramento, but you do not see it in the los angeles and greater southern california area. supervisor campos: can i ask just a clarifying what about that? those numbers -- is that taking into account the proposed project that they had, where they are increasing the number of beds? >> i did not believe so. those were licensed beds as of december 31, 2010. supervisor campos: so that does not include what is being proposed? >> correct. mr. chairman, i think you already cited these points from the "l.a. times." insurers say the the dominant physician of this particular health care system gives it the upper hand in contract negotiations over prices, so it is a negotiation, but the insurers just are not able to do much about the pricing. part of the reason for that is because their customers, all of us, say we need to have acce

dream act would allow illegal immigrants to apply for financial aid at campuses in the csu system and the uc system and california community colleges. california law, as you already know, provides k-12 education for illegal immigrants and does allow them to apply for in-state tuition, despite their undocumented status. the bill's author says his bills are a step in the right direction. >> it ensures the investment that we've made in these children, because as a matter of law, we've provided them education from k-12. now we've admitted them to our finest institutions. there's really no reason why we shouldn't treat them as other students and this law perpetrmis to do some of that. >> as you might imagine, the bill isn't sitting well with other people, especially in light of the cuts it's still being faced by schools and higher education. assembly man tim donnelly says the california dream act will take away precious scholarship dollars from legal tax-paying californians. both bills still have to pass through the democratic-controlled legislature before landing on governor brown's desk. >>> we

. >> and uc davis professor.ecently led a team of researchers in japan looking at how the earthquake compromised the ground in neighborhoods in tokyo. it is the 1989 quake. >> it is taking on the appearance of liqui. and that is a photoand a cancelled plane region in tokyo. structures left leaning as much as three degrees . others thated below ground level. this breaks all of the utilitis and everything that is underground. you have thousands of homes with no gas, wuter sewar. it is the stress on the soil the earthquake. >> how to make the ground not liquitify. will we'll treat it with the way we treat the fields. >> researchers take the results of the experiments and combine them with data from real life disasters. where earth shook two monts much minutes. uc davis researchers will study for many years to come. we heard from house speaker boehner that no deal was made. >> president obama is about to speak. >> we want to reiterate to people why it is so important. it is so important . from the government shutting

. >> and i am standing in front of the hall here in uc berkleyy and scientist are monitoring the area for radiation from japan. there was a small spike on march 24th. they tell me the readings are very long and well within background levels. >> thank you, laura and stocks fell after the japan raised the severity of the nuclear crisis. the dow dow lost 117 points. nasdaq fell twen . s&p 500 lostt 10 . >> and coming up, it may be the law but 7 on your side discovered a lack of transparency of bank fees. >> and clipped on the tarmac. sending a small jet for a spin. >> and how long will it be before we see a warm up, coming up. >> shuttle mission that will retire in a california museum, the news cococococococococococoo >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. federal investigators are looking into a collision on the tarmac in new york's jfk airport. air france flight bound for paris was taxing when the left wing clipped the plane of a delta commuter plane and spinning it 90 degrees. the air bus flight was the largest passenger plane with a wing span of 260 feet. >> good

. >> my daughter, audrey, when she was a freshman and uc santa cruz and very politically alive came home from her women's studies class one day and said to me, oh, you have no idea what women have gone through. after seven. [laughter] >> thank you, joyce. martha, or more. >> well, in terms of advice to young people were thinking about young and old, i'm a slightly different position than my two fellow panelist in that my poor kids who are now both in their 30's have spent most of their lives telling me to to want. i have high hopes for my grandchildren, that they will be rebels and adventures. >> and didn't use a yesterday, mark, that one of the best things in your life -- and that no i'm not saying it exactly right, one of the best things in your life has been becoming a grandparent? >> that didn't say one of the best, i said the best. it is something i still don't understand. my grandson is only 22 months old, and we have another grandchild on the way. it is something i don't understand, whether it is biological or ego or humility or whatever it is. i cannot compare anything i have eve

. >> it was not all smiles and laughs. uc students were told they could see tuition sky rocket to $20,000 if an all cuts budget goes into affect. it currently costs students about $12,000 a year plus books and other fees to attend uc schools. >>> california's flagging economy took a hit when 125 people lost their jobs in concord. tickets .com will close its customer service and call center in concord. software produced by a texas firm will replace the people who worked for tickets .com. meantime, a bipartisan group of california lawmakers will head to texas on their own time next week. they want to learn mow about how the loan star state added 1 fest jobs between 2008 and 2010. california lost more than a million jobs during the same time period. >> if we don't get in the game and we don't realize the golden goose is in california, we will have to layoff thousands of teach everies -- teachers and law enforcement. >> but they say much of the job gains in texas are a result of more americans moving south and not companies reloc

things for pedestrians and a lot of the technical and new devices and new technology and there was an evaluation with uc berkeley and look for that. and our final speaker, is ellen, and she's an architect and employed by the city of oakland and -- portland and on a program and to keep the city viable and building the right rail and she's got designing and travel and help me welcome, ellen vanderslice. >> thank you for bringing me to san francisco and my husband came with me and we walked yesterday and today and we walked 29 miles and he husband was grumbling with a sidewalk and i will tell him you are addressing that and portland is like that and it's like graffiti and if you don't address it right away, people take it as their birth mark. and now my first slide, a boy walking with his dad in really bad plaid pants. and that was 1976 and i want to start at the view, and as they talked about, and you can't talk about pedestrian design without starting at the design level. and we have lots of people walking and we have lots of people walking when we have relatively dense jars -- areas that have a mix of u

and on and on. uc the stats. we're pretty much up in every category on arrests. in total violent crime, arrests were up 42%, and we are up 11% on property crime arrests. the total of arrests, we are up 25%, in the same time from his last year. this is more arrests, less crime, less officers. so we are real happy with the results. moving on to what everyone is interested in, the gang violence we have experienced. i took command of the mission district in november, 2009, and for approximately a year we had no gang violence. november 2 of last year, on the 2800 block of harrison street, we had a victim shot in the foot by an unknown suspect, which was gang-related. later that day, 16th and mission, we had somebody shot in the back. his statement was, "i don't like cops, i am not going to talk to them," which is a typical response from gang victims. later the victim was stabbed. about an hour later, a victim was shot a number of times on 25th and cap. on november 19, a gang member was shot by two unknown suspects. november 20, we had a homicide at 2100 mission. the vi

>>pam: 5:30 a series of sexual assaults at stanford and uc-berkeley. to assault at uc-berkeley have that campus on edge. two different assaults. they occurred on these areas. when was in the life sciences building in the other was in the vicinity of this growth. haazig madyun taking a look of the similarities. >>reporter: the crime alert is morning uc students about back to back sexual assault on the campus. similarities in each case. although the occurred on different days one on thursday, one on friday there were both in the same time frame. 10:30- 12:30 victim was both times approached from behind and robbed and then requested to perform a sexual act. the male student was a victim of a sexual assault--before that a female assault was the victim of sexual assault. white male, 5-6, 5-7 with brown hair in a thin/medium build. freddie's victim says that the victim had a bed friday's victims of the the victim had bad teeth. not posted in the crime alert is weather or not uc-berkeley police believe that these two crimes were committed by the same suspect.

our hospitals attract a lot of minds and attention. -- uc california, sf state. >> it looks like we are just about of time. thank you for being on your district supervisor. we have been talking to supervisor at a loss from district 11. join us next time when we will be back with one of our 11 mr. supervisors. -- we have been talking to supervisor john avalos from district 11. join us next time when we will be back with one of our >> welcome to "culture wire." on this episode, we explore what it means to the aged, in today's society -- what it means to be chicana in today's society. chica chic features an array of artwork by five leading chicana artists that addresses a range of issues such as integration, sustainability, and integration. using a distinct visual approach, each of the artist's response to the shifting needs of their communities in ways that offer unique perspectives and multiple points of entry. >> the exhibition is to bring together the voices of a new generation chicana artists, all of whom reference the works of the civil-rights movement in their works, but they are al

students trek to a meadow and they light up and moke marijuana on four20. it is not a uc sanctioned event and now the marijuana community is distancing itself from it. >> it is here every year students at uc santa cruz arrive to smoke pot and party and celebrate cannabis. >> in our opinion pot should be legalized if you are over 18. >> some are open about getting the drug. >> i have known a lot of people who have medical card and purchased marijuana for the day. >> much of the pot was grown or came from a dispensary. >> i would say 50-50. there is a lot of cards out there. >> one of the nation's largest medical marijuana dispensaries is bashing the 4 20 event saying the use of can bus is far more diverse than intoxication and the campus community is composed of more than party animals. >> it is a party that some admit not political at all. >> it is a social thing and happeninging out with my friend said. >> rain and kept the expected crowd of a thousand away. but extra officers from three campuses were called in for crowd control and a section of the campus was closed off

parents were divorced when i was 10 years old, and i moved to the east coast for six years before going back to california after high school. i went to school at uc santa barbara, graduated in 19988 -- 1988. i have lived in the excelsior since 1999. i have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community organizer, i worked at a labor organization supporting janitor's working in our high- rise buildings. i was a legislative aide before .wr. i got to see how it all work from the outside, community organizations supporting young people, children, families, working for labor, and saw how city hall could be an effective tool for change and then considered running in 2007, 2008, and somehow, i made it. >> you were raised in los angeles, moved to the east coast. what made you want to come back and live in san francisco? >> i love cities. i never felt like i lived in a city in los angeles, but when i lived in massachusetts, where i live, i was close to boston. i had such a great time in boston but i did not like massachusetts so much because it was cold, the culture was foreign to me. when i cam

s in policy and legislation -- to lead to improvements in policy and legislation. uc-berkeley's department of public health, dr. meredith and others, created the largest studdy of its kind, interviewing with peer research and other innovative methods 400 workers in one neighborhood but though it was focused on chinatown, i know we know it's a citywide issue and even the national employment labor project and supervisor campos laid out shows that this is the national epidemic of wage theft and that we lose millions of dollars each year to our local economy unless we improve the protections and enforcement for workers. lastly i just wanted to say that a number of workers testified at the hearing and have led much of the earths to create better policies -- efforts to create better policies in the city. the chinese progressive association often kind of repeat along with my colleague in my office, lynn chow chin, they say we have to hold government accountable and that local government has to step up for better enforcement of our labor laws. so i would just say that this re

and smoke marijuana. they point out it is not a uc-sanctioned event and now the medical marijuana community is distancing itself from it. we report on the esprint why today. >> it is here on april together every year students at uc santa cruz arrive to openly smoke pot, party and celebrate can bus. >> in our been pot should be legalized if you are over 18. >> and some were very open where they are getting the drug. >> i know lots of people who went to those places who have medical cards and purchased marijuana for this day. >> in fact, many told us that the pot used hear was grown or came from a medical marijuana dispensary. >> i would probably say 50-50. there's a lot of cards out there. >> one of the largest medical marijuana dispensaries in the east bay is bashing this 4-20 event saying the uses of can bus are far more diverse than intoxication and the can bus community is composed of more than just party animals. >> i think they are probably right. it makes it seem like it is just a party. >> it is a party that some admit isn't about anything political at all. >> i'm here, it's more than a social thin

and uc davis employees work in plain sight and often with protest organizers. they asked to communicate with the campus police and request standby support if necessary. >> the driver became more irate, started screaming, forced the couple off the bus with their baby. >>> the latest back eye for a troubled transit system. a family with a baby shouted off a bus by a driver. how munni is responding. >> the baby could say oh, you know they are on vacation right now and this is where they live. >> smart phones and social networking great for showing off when you are on vacation, but be careful. how technology is making things very easy for criminals. >>> you should have free speech. >>> sick of paying big fees to your big bank just to have that chequing account? where millions of americans are finding a better deal. how some banks are making it harder for you to shop around. ,,,,,,,,,, appreciate the easy days, are what keep me coming back for more. [goat sounds] and the customer says, on the carpet." what? gonna be difficult. don't tell me about a dog. a day care f

. >>> a joint solar project between stanford and uc berkeley is getting a $25 million grant from the federal government. a san jose company svtc technologies received a similar grant. the money comes from the energy's department sun shot initiative which is looking for ways to reduce the cost of solar power by 75% before 2020. >>> time now 6:21. the number of american teenagers who get pregnant has reached a 70 year low according to new federal government figures. 410,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 19 had babies in 2009. and that translates to 40 teenagers out of every 1,000 who gave birth that year. in 1991 the rate was 70 out of every 1,000. so the number has dropped 37%. however, the teen birthrate is still nearly nine times higher than most other developed nations. >>> time now 6:22. san bruno residents are speaking out and the heartbreaking stories they are telling to change the way pipelines are tested. >>> also there's hope this morning for profootball fans. how some big nfl stars may help end the lockout. >>> good morning. traffic 680/24 moves along very nicely. tell yo

and the economy. liz says it was weighing on the minds of many today as they tour uc berkeley. >> blue and gold pride shined on the uc berkeley campus for cal day. an event for prospective students and their parents. a change of pace from the usual grim news. >> mary and matt smith have five kids to put through college. tuition talk is big news around the dinner table. >> we'll save our pennys to send our kids to college. >> the cost of a uc education continues to go up. the governor recently warned an all cuts approach to the state's budget crisis could lead to a doubling of tuition. to as much as $25,000 per year. cal is megan's first choice, but tuition hikes means she may have to go somewhere else. >> i am sad about it. i mean, i really want to go here, but it all depends on the cost, i guess. >> protests are nothing new to this campus. but students say the proposed cuts have made life on campus more difficult. >> it's like oh, people are right again, you know. it's very frustrating. it's like when you are trying to go to school, i don't want to walk on campus and see a bunch of police surrounding

sinclair retired in the '90s and died at the age of 81 in 2003. he graduated from uc-san francisco medical school. >>> we are getting details on an ugly incident this past weekend that happened just before a san francisco giants game. a fan at at&t park said a pitching coach used gay slurs, made crude comments, and even threatened him. what's worse, he says it all played out in front of his young daughters. robert lyles on what about behind is involved. robert. >> reporter: elizabeth, at the center of this controversy is a once popular pitcher with the new york mets. but a giants fan says what roger mcdowell pitched from the field here at at&t park was a vile threatening and homophobic rant and he said it all happened right in front of his 9-year-old twin daughters. now, it all happened last saturday during batting practice just prior to the atlanta braves taking on the giants. roger mcdowell, who is now pitching coach for the braves, was on the field when allegedly three men in the bleachers started hedging him. mcdowell in turn is accused of shouting sexually sugges

our hospitals attract a lot of minds and attention. -- uc california, sf state. >> it looks like we are just about of time. thank you for being on your district supervisor. we have been talking to supervisor at a loss from district 11. join us next time when we will be back with one of our 11 mr. supervisors. -- we have been talking to supervisor john avalos from district 11. join us next time when we will be back with one of our >> good evening, and welcome to the 31st annual mfac awards. [applause] hello, everyone. i am your mc tonight for the good government awards, and i'm so excited tonight. we have such great winners, exciting guests. first, i want to quickly acknowledge some of our fabulous officials in the house. we have supervisors chu, elsbernd, wiener, mar, mirkarimi, chiu, former supervisor alioto-pier, our treasurer, the mayor's chief of staff, and our controller. let's give them a round of applause. [applause] the mfac awards have become sort of like the oscars of city hall, and you're going to have a great show tonight. before we get to that, i want to think -- take a qui

tax extensions and told california hospital association today uc fees could go up as high as $25,000 a year if forced to cut another $15 billion in spending. >> this is not free f you want to have the fire department there, this costs money. investing in a great university costs money. that is where we are. >> brown says he'll resort to painful cuts if the legislature pro fuse -- refuses to put his proposals on the ballot. >> more jobs left california for texas. and there is a delegation headed to the lone star state to figure out how it's luring company as way from california. >> costa mesa based tickets.com announced it's shutting down it's call center. a texas firm's software will handle jobs 125 californians

of animal abuse and of trying to cover it up. >> someone is cooking the books at uc davis. omeone is withholding information. we don't know who. >>> the group stop animal exploitation now says university appears to be deleting and altering records when requests are made for information about the deaths of research animals. it says uc davis, rather usda investigation found more than 15 incidents of traumatic injurys to a single primate despite a single record that claims the animals were well kept. >> places like uc davis have far less to do with human health than they have to do with human greed. >> reporter: the ohio basted animal group says its information is coming from a whistle-blower inside uc davis. the university is appealing the investigation saying its facilities are regularly inspected and that its animals get daily health checks and expert veterinary care. >>> four police dogs are a bit safe every tonight thanks to some custom fit bullet-proof vests. those vests give the dogs protection while still allowing them to move around. the department paid for the vests w

birds such as owls and hawks are being affected as well as household animals like cats and dogs. uc berkeley wildlife management professor says victims are being found not just in urban areas but in places like yosemite too. >> this was just very surprising to me that here we are studying animals out in wilderness area and they are dying of rat poison. that's not good. >> reporter: jenny papka who is founder of dog connection says she protecting her animals in a very natural way. >> we invite people to let these animals into their backyard. >> reporter: the federal government is banning the most toxic poisons from hardware stores. although farmers will still have access to the stronger doses. in oakland, jim vargas, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> in news of the world tonight in the libyan city of mozorata, rebels are swarmed against gadhafi forces. the french defense minister says the nato air strike mission is hampered. rebels have been in command of much of the country since mid- february but have been unable to make their way into tripoli. >>> jonathan appears to have handedly won the

and this year, many families are touring the uc campuses with more than the usual list of questions. elizabeth wenger on why some are wondering if the university of california system is a sound choice. >> reporter: blue and gold pride shined on the uc berkeley campus for cal day. an event for prospective students and their parents. a change of pace from the usual grim news about cutbacks and fee hikes. >> we don't want to pay more but we will do what we have to do to get our kids in the college. >> reporter: mary in walnut creek has five kids to put through college. the tuition talk is big news around the dinner table. >> we save our pennies to send our kids to college. >> reporter: the cost of a uc education continues to go up. the governor recently warned an all cuts approach to the state's budget crisis could lead to a doubling of tuition to as much as 25,000 per year. and cal is megan's first choice but tuition hikes may mean she will have to go somewhere else. >> i'm kind of sad about it. i mean i really want to go here. but it all depends on the costs, i guess. >> reporter: prot

and start up lab. university wants to generate more listening research revenue. something that provides 30 million dollars a year to both uc ucla. >> more on these headlines in tomorrow print edition of the silicon valley business journal. >> back and update sparkling forecast spencer is here with that. it is sparkling indeed. 8:00 o'clock tomorrow morning pretty cold temperatures in the upper 40's to around 50. see some upper 50's and low 60's by midday and then by late afternoon we are looking at upper 60's to low 70's in the warmest locations. here's accu-weather 7 day forecast. speaking of warm. warming up tomorrow and through the weekend and midweek next week mid 80's inland. upper 70's around the bay. mid 60's on the coast. that's what i call spring weather. >> thanks very much. >> the toddler who is a soccer phenom. look at this kid. 18 month old dutch boy became an overnight celebrity after his father posted this you tube video of him shooting balls in the toy box. pretty good. now the boy has signed a 10 year deal with his country's soccer team. he just needed a little help from his father to put crayon to paper.

and it shows. students we spoke with today at uc berkeley say somemethe classes they want and need are not being offered. many times they find classes are at the overflow point. >> i needed a chemicals. i didn't get it at first -- i needed a chem class. i didn't get it at first. i was wait-listed. >> this is the time of year parents visit the campus. >> reporter: respectish students we spoke to are not -- respective students we spoke to are not worried. >> it's a great school with a great education. >> it's a great school and i feel like there is a lot of diversity and different classes and a lot of interesting people here. >> on the other hand, some parents have concerns. >> we were talking about that, can you get classes and fin itch in four years -- finish in four years or does the school limit you? yeah, that's a concern. >> the reality is that uc does not have the capacity problem as much as it has a funding problem. >> reporter: pamela burnet adds -- adds next year could be worse if they don't take in any money. one way to bring in money is to bring in a lot of out of state and foreign students wo

and they are concerned. >> we are looking at tuition increasing to 20 to $25,000 is a big jump from the previous year. >> the budget plan would cut $500 million each from the uc and csu systems and $400 million from community colleges. without tax extensions the cuts could go even deeper. >>> earth day is a week away but hundreds of volunteers across the state got off to an early start and helped clean up 30 parks across the state. the effort comes at a time when the state park system is struggling. >> reporter: with the san francisco skyline as the backdrop east shore park looked peaceful in the distance. but volunteers on the grass were amazed by what they found. >> cigarette filters and high per determinic needles. >> reporter: shotgun casings and bottles of sunscreens. >> just a few steps to throw it away but people trash it in the water. >> reporter: led by workers from berkeley, an army of 300 volunteers cleaned things up. and it is not just trash these plants are not nayive the area and have to be thrown out. >> reporter: it is part of the earth day cleanup. you can see scenes like this at dozens of parks across the state. >> we are at 36 sites all ove

according to governor brown's proposed budget, the csu and uc systems are set to get $500 million less from higher education budget -- from the higher education budget. the governor has proposed a system. similar protests are taking place in other states, including, new york, michigan and ohio. kraig debro, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, kraig. >>> overnight in bay point, two people were forced to run for their lives after a fire swept through their home. this happened on madison avenue. when the firefighters got to the scene, they saw the flames shooting out the back of the home. they say the home's old age made it tough to get to the attic where the sparks ignited. firefighters say this is not a suspicious fire. investigators are expected to go back to the house to try to find out what caused this. >>> it is 7:02. new this morning, investigators are trying to determine what triggered a hazmat scare at an east bay gas plant. it lapped last night at mathieson gas on central avenue in newark. alameda county firefighters say two two separate alarms went off indicating the presence of

program is not going to be eliminated. >> this is the home of california golden bears baseball and today uc berkeley announced it will remain the team's home for years to come because baseball has been saved. >> thanks to the passion and the commitment and the generosity of our community. >> reporter: to save the team supporters had to raise $10 million. so far they've collected 9 million. >> what's happened here is unprecedented. >> reporter: this afternoon the grounds crew did some work around home plate, but there won't be any baseball here at evans diamond this week because cal is in tucson taking on the university of arizona. head coach dave esker toll his players the good news -- told his players the good news this morning. last fall the school announced it would be cutting five sports including baseball and gymnastics. the other sports except for men's gymnastics have been saved. cal baseball is currently ranked 13th in the nation. >> i think our team has said hey, let's make the most of being together this year and a lot of kid put off decisions going other places until they absolut

program is not going to be eliminated. >> this is the home of california golden bears baseball and today uc berkeley announced it will remain the team's home for years to come because baseball has been saved. >> thanks to the passion and the commitment and the generosity of our community. >> reporter: to save the team supporters had to raise $10 million. so far they've collected 9 million. >> what's happened here is unprecedented. >> reporter: this afternoon the grounds crew did some work around home plate, but there won't be any baseball here at evans diamond this week because cal is in tucson taking on the university of arizona. head coach dave esker toll his players the good news -- told his players the good news this morning. last fall the school announced it would be cutting five sports including baseball and gymnastics. the other sports except for men's gymnastics have been saved. cal baseball is currently ranked 13th in the nation. >> i think our team has said hey, let's make the most of being together this year and a lot of kid put off decisions going other places until they absolut

. >> he tried to get into uc berkeley with a 4.0in high school and he didn't tl get to get accepted. >>reporter: uc system says it accepted just under 70% of california freshmen for the fall of 2011. that's down more than a percent from last fall and about 2% the year before. >> i think it kind of sucks honestly. >>reporter: meanwhile uc is accepting 9 percent more out of state students than last fall l mostly because they pay more. about 23,000 dollars more annually. >> i feel in like we are to be meant for california students. >>reporter: fact is we are admitting out of state students on top of not at the expense of california students. >>reporter: uc spokesman vasquez says the system doesn't have a capacity problem. it has a funding problem. >> if you think all the students are paying for the california students who were admitted to berkeley. >>reporter: uc agrees saying fee from international students are helping maintain salaries. meanwhile 16,000 california resident are on a waiting list to get into uc schools. but to put things in perspective uc says it still out paces most maj

. >>> it is crunch time at csu and uc systems. both systems are turning students away. >> csu is going to reject 10,000 csu students. linda is vice president of planning and enrollment management and student affairs. good morning, linda. tell me, what is the situation, are you guys turning away lots of students? are you seeing lots of students transferring out? >> we certainly aren't able to admit, the impact on our campus is about 1,000 students. if you want to put that in perspective. >> can you talk about what the campus is doing to make sure that those students do not transfer out? i know you said they're not right now, but are there steps being taken to make sure that doesn't happen? >> they can get classes they need to graduate. >> is there any hope you can offer? you talk about students finding classes. that's a frustration when there aren't budget cuts. long-term, as you prepare for the future, what can you offer in terms of advice and just a look at the situation? >> advice to the students is to talk with their advisors so