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the university of california berkeley allegedly applied a stricter rules for inviting public speakers to conservative student organizations than to other groups. under the schools policy, administration appeared to have almost complete discretion over the times, places, conditions for hosting campus speakers. that discretion allowed them to apply different rules to different people in an arbitrary and capricious way. the group of students argued that that is precisely what the university did, they alleged that by placing unrealistically burdensome requirements on conservative speakers but not on others, the school effectively discriminated against them, made it impossible for them to speak, but everyone on a college campus must have a right to speech. last month a student filed a suit against his college alleging that it prohibited him from distributing copies of the constitution. outside the designated free speech zone. on pierce college. how big was this free speech zone? 616 square feet, the size of a couple of college dorm rooms. outside that space, students did not have freedom o

california,berkeley crowded with thousands of people.ing way in the back of 7000 -- of several thousand people, hanging onto every word. i would comment on the speeches he made going forward. he said why did i stand up? his response was, i cannot segregate my moral concern. that said we must challenge all forms of injustice. segregate moral concerns. are two kinds of leaders. he said there is a second kind riskader who can attempting to shape a new consensus. mean wereted that to had carried the burden of racial, cultural and economic oppression, but we did not have to carry the burden of ignorance, that we had the obligation, the right and the responsibility to enter the arena and educate our people, to help them understand the connectedness, the relationship between and among all issues of oppressision and injnjustice. [applause] of his lessons of education was a statemenent that was so vivid, so powerful. bombs inopping northern vietnam exploding in the ghettos and barrios of america. how poetic and powerful l the vision. he was sayg

a graduate of the university of california berkeley and ucla school of law where he served as a member of the ucla review after a brief stint at the civil litigator he joined the los angeles county district attorney's office, where he went on to specialize in the prosecution of gang members, murderers, excuse me. california magazine named him as one of the most effective prosecutors appointed to the bench at age 33 he became california's youngest sitting judge at the time and his colleagues later selected him to become the presiding judge. in 1994, he was elected at the california state assembly and in his freshman term elected to the majority leader. california magazine named him the most effective legislator and ranked him number one in integrity, number one in the effectiveness. in 1996, he won the first of two terms in congress and was one of only two members to serve on both the house commerce and the house judiciary committee. the house selected him to be the lead prosecutor. president george bush nominated him to be undersecretary of commerce and director of the united states pa

the university of california, berkeley and studied at oxford and was a longtime professor. he taught for 10 years at lsu around the time that huey long was dying. he met huey long only once and he responded, he was terribly impressed and also skeptical about the overbearing this and narcissism that huey long had. he was running for president but he had done a huge amount to make ellis u.s. serious research university. later robert penn warren wins two additional pulitzer prizes for poetry. most people who know his all the kings men episodes do not know that he was a critic and a poet for most of his life. in the field of english, he is known for that. another footnote is he did not really feel all the kings men was about politics. he felt it was about human nature. my it is an my book book about morals, responsibility. politicalgency in the steer to have people be aware of and conscious of their moral responsibilities. said before we started you you saw a lot of the movies that came from the novels and had to read the novel. explain more about that. tom: my task was to look

anyone who has any information about the suspect is asked to contact the university of california berkeley police department. department. (grant) now to our four zone forecast... as we take this live look outside at the embarcadero... joining us joining us now is chief meteorologist lawrence karnow... lawrence karnow: we have seen a variety of clouds around the bay area today. there has been patchy fog and cool temperatures at the coast with highs in the 50s and 60s. and there were high clouds that moved in late in the day but it was still hot inland with highs in the 80s to low 90s inland and 70s and 80s around the bay. monsoonal clouds continue to bring thunderstorms across the sierra and some of the that moisture is headed our way. there is a slight chance of thunderstiorms late tonight and into early tomorrow morning. you can see the storms on the doppler. dozens of lightning strikes were seen over the sierra today. on the satellite you can see high pressure and the monsoonal cloud rotating around that ridge. highs tomorrow will be in the 80s to low 90s inland with partly cloudy skies,

there were primarily scientists and interestingly many were associated with the university of california at berkeleyand, in fact, president kennedy had been -- had been at berkeley, had been at berkeley months before and had spoken there and in his speech he said, which was accurate that there are as many nobel prize winners of this institution at berkeley than have been produced by nearest rival the soviet union. so they worked on a lot of different issues on -- let's see a lot of work which is beyond my grasp. [laughter] >> but people who did work on physics which were -- which was related to the manhattan project. .. .. had lived at woods hole which was an oceanographic center and she assumed when he is talking about muscles that he was talking about marine life. and she kept talking about the muscles. finally he had to tell her he was talking about muscles. [laughter] >> all right, well, thank you. [applause] in addition to this much of what was going on in the congress was very, very difficult for the average person to discern. people don't remember that were not television coverage. you couldn

former congressman james rogan is graduate of the university of california berkeley and the ucla school of law where he served as member of the ucla raw -- law review. after brief stint as a civil litigation he joins los angeles county district attorney's office where he went on to specialize in prosecution of gang members, gang murderers. in 1990 california lawyer magazine named him one of the state's most effective prosecutors was appointed to the bench at age 33 he became california's youngest sitting judge at the time and his colleagues selected him as presiding judge. in 1994, he was elected to the state assembly and majority leader. california journal magazine named him the a family's most effective legislator and ranked number one in integrity. he won the first of two terms in congress and one of only two members to serve on the house of commerce and house judiciary committee, the house selected him a lead prosecutor in a historic impeachment trial of bill clinton. pres. george w. bush nominated him as under secretary of commerce and director of the united states patent and trade

my name's coco, and i'm a rising junior at university of california berkeley, majoring in media studies. like camille, i'm working as an intern outreach for d.p.a. i would like to characterize my experience as a combination of my academic preparation and my interests, which is something that i was looking for. this internship led me to doing some things that i already enjoy and good at doing, which is media communication and informs others but also led me to exploring areas that my future career interests may lie, which is law. the first thing i was interested in doing was the translation the our brand-new brochures. as camille just mentioned we now stand in the critical phase of reintroducing ourselves to the public and it's extremely important to us that all community members have equal access to our service? so we are offering the brochure in six more languages in addition to english because chinese is my native language, i got to become the second pair of eyes that helped fine-tune the chinese brochure to ensure fluidity and delivering our intentions. this is an example of it? it's,

she's professor of law at the university of california berkeley school of law. where her research and teaching interest include the supreme court, federal court constitutional law, civil procedure and statutory interpretation. she was previously a member of the faculty of the george washington university law school and has been a visiting law professor at harvard, nyu and university of virginia. in 2017, she was visiting senior fellow in the law department of london school of economics. clerked for the second circuit and for justice the supreme court. please join me in welcoming amanda tyler. [applause] amanda, we're here to talk about your new book. and for those in the audience who may not be familiar. maybe we can start off simply. what is this concept of habeas corpus? what does it mean? does it come from? >> the rooting of the privilege of habeas corpus comes from england. as so much of our law does. translated loosely, it is a phrase that references to undergo and receive the body and translate it further still. the rule of habeas corpus is remedy or i sho

bachelors from louisiana university, she then went on to get her doctorate at the university of california berkeley and as was at the faculty at stanford and is now back the faculty as a senior fellow in the center for european studies. her previous book on how west germans behind the iron curtain is a wonderful book but we are here tonight about her leaders book, "asperger's children" which she will discuss with us. this is a book getting very exciting national attention and high praise for its excellence all around. she has broken ground on the life of doctor berger and his name has moved on and then better name known in his life and work. we are here to here with what is a very difficult, challenging story but she tells it in acompassionate and sensitive manner . a review in the new york times review of books, i'm sorry. the time to review and edith sheffer has written a book that defies easy categorization. an important response to her fascinating and terrible subject matter. on that note and please come to the stairs which are not dangerous, the author of "asperger's children". [applause] >> t

the university of california -- californiaedly berkeley, and allegedly had a been to apeakers conservativeroups. they appear to have almost complete discretion over the time, the places and conditions for hosting campus speakers. that discretion of allowed them to have apply different rules to arbitrarypeople in an way. a group of students argued that that is precisely what the university did, they alleged that by placing unrealistic burdens on conservative speakers and not on others, the school effectively discriminated against them, made it impossible for them to speak, but all on our college campuses must have a right to speak. last march a student filed a lawsuit against pierce college in los angeles, alleging that it prohibited him from distributing copies of the constitution. outside the designated free-speech zone on pierce college. how big was this free-speech zone? sizequare feet, barely the of a couple of college dorm rooms. outside that space, students did not have freedom of speech. the student sued and we joined the lawsuit on his behalf. alleged limited speech to 15th 1000 of

it all began in the early sixty's in the usa berkeley california students are fed up. civil rights free speech the war in vietnam social topics that culminated in massive protests with national implications and sparked demonstrations around the globe the rebellion has a soundtrack. the call for change and freedom spreads to germany to west berlin june one thousand nine hundred eighty seven the shah of iran makes an official visit students demonstrate against his authoritarian regime and terrible human rights record police crackdown violently onus all is shot is death fuels the entre. of the student movement. the process though howland the demonstrators specifically playing as newspaper. deaf in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight becomes a catalyst for the student revolt. their leader. the revolutionary his comrades and the authoritarians. is one of the spearheads of the movement that formed in the postwar era as a reaction to boys german society the charismatic head of the socialist students union demands a do not sophistication of the police and other branches of g

more on this with john yu, law professor at the university of california at berkeley and former clerkjustice clarence thomas. i want to talk to you about this and then get to the supreme court. let's ask you about this issue of family separation. the order that came down from the government is that the government had to reunite migrant children with their parents that requires all children under 5 had to be returned by july 6. so you have a situation where the federal government has lots of difference agencies all trying to work on this problem and they're under a court deadline. what do you think is the next step for the government when it goes back to court? >> a good issue to talk about in the context of the supreme court. because one, i think that the government is pursuing the right policy now. they are reuniting children with their parents. they shouldn't have been separated in the beginning and president trump realized that, issued an executive order. the agencies are doing their best and expanding resources to get the policy done because of the president and now because of the

anyone who has any information about the suspect is asked to contact the university of california berkeleyolice department. ( robin )one day after we told you about a woman being fired from her job... because of a racist rant caught on camera ... we are taking a look at the rights employees and employers have - when trouble happens away from the workplace. kron4's haaziq madyun spoke to a legal expert. nats/cellphone road ragethe woman you see in this cellphone video was recently fired from her position at a major multi-national investment bank and financial services company with branches here in the bay area. a spokesperson for the company told me the woman's behavior in the video, which consist of foul language, an obscene hand gesture and a racial slur "is completely inconsistent with the company's values and the individual involved is no longer employed by the firm." sot nats/sutton watching cell phone videowe showed the vi

california. new at six. residents of a homeless encampment on the berkeley waterfront get a reprieve. but no one thinks it's going so >>> resident of a homeless encampment on the berkeley waterfront get a reprieve but no one thinks it will solve the problem. for months, they have been parked in the lot of a now closed his lordships restaurant at the berkeley marina. john ramos finds out why it is turning difficult to get them to leave. >> this is the average neighborhood. is just not in an average spot. >> reporter: ever since they showed up at the marina they have been trying to get them to move. this morning, they were once again supposed to be gone or be towed away. but instead, they ended up at a city council hearing. >> the idea that in berkeley, california we would -- these people is unacceptable. >> reporter: they don't control the area near the water. the state lands commission does. and in 1985 they demanded another encampment at the marina the shutdown. today they proposed a 30 day halt on the evictions, allowing them to stay. but the motion died when the councilman voted no

bush, also a law professor at the university of california at berkeley, great to see you today, john.almolive paul manafort sen time if the charges are against him? >> oh, yes, harris, he is registered not registered as a foreign agent, and he could spend five years in prison, maybe more. >> harris: the witnesses that we know about, 35 of them, what are the things that did they would be asked to talk about with regard to paul manafort? >> if you look at the indictment to that mueller's team filed, they are accusing him of tax evasion, may be money laundering, so part of that will be was manafort hiding assets and intentionally trying to move cash around to avoid the irs and the treasury department, what was he doing when he was spending millions of dollars on things like clothes and rugs and houses? he was living a lavish inside the swamp lifestyle, but was he diverting the cash to other things? >> harris: this was not just a couple of years ago, this was not just before the trump campaign looked at him, and there have been many critics who support the president to say, you know, ther

been said chase him for more than thirty years apart from a short span of the university of berkeley in california to geophysicist has never wanted to be anywhere around us today he's a member of the russian academy of sciences and an internationally recognized expert on akihito systems i'm toward me. the research station is now run by his son nikita. right now. about one of the big our earlier but you're a bit more but to hear more of the call more the thing about those got a prison camp at risk of a number of additional residuary were. these are completely different tragedies unfolding here the melting of the permafrost the vast underground in a sea and that stretches from siberia to alaska more than twenty percent of the planet's land area. in the words of google yahoo we're into money you are the only place in the world where you can actually see with your own eyes more than ten kilometers of permafrost because the river has swept away the embankments what shining over there is ice the location is interesting because you can see the permafrost thawing right in front of the executive good with

rolling in on the coast as we speak. >>> the voices of thousands including singers in berkeley filled the air across california around the world today. ♪ ♪ we all need somebody to lean on ♪ >> sound great. you are looking at a video from live stream produced by big sing california. choruses perform ten songs in six venues from sacramento to san diego. organizers tell us the idea was to have fun by sharing the joy of singing and making music. hundreds came out today to help preserve a piece of radio history here in the bay area. abc 7 news was at the california historical radio society in alameda for their annual radio by the bay fundraiser. it raises money for a society which operates an education center and vintage radio museum. attendees had a live performance and got a chance to bid on radio equipment and historic memorabilia from heyday. >> accuweather forecast from drew tuma. >> afternoon sunshine last week, the weekend shaping up similarly. live doppler radar showing you cloud cover right along the coast kind of stretching over san francisco right now. look what's happening to our east around lake tahoe

both my brother and i grew up here in oakland, california, and u.c. berkeleyand operated under a previous brand, and five years ago opened up fitness s.f. we presently have seven locations in the bay area. nearly 400 employees, and we are committed to this site, we are very excited about it. our budget for this location is between 8 and $9 billion of investment to put this deal together. we have operated successfully all around the bay area, stretching from santa cruz, up to santa rosa. and particularly focussed on san francisco. some of our other locations right now are twitter, mid market, we just opened up embarcadero center two. we are at the fillmore center, up in noe and market and the castro. ninth and division at selma. and also have locations in marin, oakland and looking forward to this location. we have already engaged our architects, already on our ninth revision of our plan and work with lincoln and colliers to come up with a really strong plan for this location. already started positioning staff and resources to get this thing, this project going

both my brother and i grew up here in oakland, california, and u.c. berkeleyand operated under a previous brand, and five years ago opened up fitness s.f. we presently have seven locations in the bay area. nearly 400 employees, and we are

a little blurb from a document saying that under berkeley hill's preservation, the city of berkeley, california supreme court state, that a potentially significant environmental effect may to be due to unusual circumstances, for exceptions to apply in borrowing from the guideline section. unusual circumstances could be schools and-- >> thank you very much. >> after the hearing has been closed. >> okay. so, at this hearing has now been held and is now closed. this matter is in the hands of the board of supervisors. >> thank you so much. i want to address some of the public comment that i heard today on both sides of this issue. the people and the residents who came out from the mission, supporting this appeal, i just want to say, that i hear you. that the pain that's been caused from the uneven development in the mission, up so much luxury housing, and so little affordable housing, has decimated the community and has changed it in ways that are unfair to low income and the latino community. i just want to recognize that, and i want to acknowledge that i work every day to try to mitigate the impa

berkeley and the state of california have since strengthened standards on the construction of balconies to prevent this type of tragedy. >> to require that balconies be built with much more durable materials so they would not be prone to collapse. >> reporter: aside from the new plaque, the two strawberriy trees -- strawberry trees behind me were planted in 2015 to honor the victims. >>> the power of social media. how instagram could decide your next vacation. >> it is the battle of the bay. the san francisco giants facing off against the oakland a's. and tonight the a's are expected to make history at the coliseum. >> we might make history because of the contrast between this, the fog over the city, and the complete warm temperatures coming inland! expected when the a's take on the giants tonight in oakland. so big... in fact...the a's say it will probably be the largest ever... for a baseball game at the coliseum. kpix five's katie nielsen joins us from the coliseum field. katie: you can already see fans >> reporter: we're only about 45 minutes away from the first hit in the battle of

berkeley took extraordinary action to make sure he was going to be able to speak. milo had come to my campus and affect everything university californiacampus had berkeley police officers to make sure that as many people to my possible. since were going to protest but that's an example of a point exercising their free speech rights. berkeley-based something that no campus in history of the planet in north america has ever faced which is about 150 antifa blackbox protesters with bats and helmets and body armor and materials to start fires coming to campus to start a riot. and it's true berkeley didn't stop that from happening, but not to a lack of effort. and, in fact, i don't know of the campus that could have managed that without having note and it has such a thing could happen. i never knew that such a thing could happen. as a result of that when milo decided he didn't have enough but in january of 2017 and is going to continue to troll the university and creek is what turned about -- turned out to be this very fake free speech week, the beginning of the summer, the last academic year, berkeley now knowing what possibly they would f

california. three local. here's the map. berkeley second safest nationwide. palo alto ranking in fifth. untain view in seventh. davis, california, actually tops the list as the safest city in america. as for the most dangerous, l.a. is number one. >>> did you get a chance to check out the san mateo county fair this year? apparently a lot of folks did. attendance was up. the daily journal reports more than 127,000 people visiting during the nine-day fair. officials say that is up 9% compared to 2017. >>> happening today, concord officially dedicates a brand new sta true. if you live in the area, you might have seen it. it's a life sized bronze statue of the concord's founding father. that statue sits at the grant street entrance as tatos santos plaza and the commemoration happens today. the city turns 150 years old. >> good looking statue. we have seen some dozzies lately. >>> the bay area is short on marijuana. weed watchers predicting that there could be a pot shortage in northern california in a few weeks because new state regulations just kicked in and a lot of dispensaries weren't re

by the way - california voters legalized recreational pot nearly two years ago. new this morning - a new record at berkeley. the campus paper reports: the university raised over 569- million dollars last school year. that )s the most ever. the money comes from donations , grants, and pledges... and comes from about 66-thousand donors. the paper says the largest share goes to program support. another big portion goes to research. coming up on today in the bay-- nbc bay area responds... but first happening now.. a new muni line is rising in costs. the s-f examiner is reporting the "mission bay loop project" is going up more than a million dollars. the project will bolster service for warriors and giants games. the total cost around 10 milion dollars. plus -- facebook looking to launch it )s own satellite network. "wired" says the social media network wants to connect people to the internet using the low orbit satellites. more news after the break. francisco. all this week, nbc bay area responds to families getting ready for back-to-school. consumer investigator chris chmura joins us now with some simple ways

according to the san jose mercury news, the number of california freshmen admitted to the most elite schools including uc berkeley and uc l.a. dropped by more than 1300 students. >>> on the subject of higher education tonight, bad news for students who attend the art institute of california. the school's san francisco campus announced today it will close at the end of the year. the university in alameda owned by the same company will also close. about 900 students in total in the bay area are affected. thousands more will be across the country. dream center education holdings will also close campuses in more than a dozen states. the decision is partly because of a shift in demand to online classes. >>> california's effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is paying off. the state air resources board says emissions have fallen below 1990 levels, putting the state well on its way toward meeting long-term goals to fight climate change. california law had required that emissions return to 1990 levels by 2020. the next benchmark calls for california to reach 40% below 1990 standards by the year 2030. >>> look who is