campus to build. that will enable us to be in compliance with the current law. i know the whole commissioners will remember this. i would like to review these because i think we have made substantial progress. we promise to increase our charity care and the amount of care we provide for medi-cal patients. there was a 43% increase. the subsequent increases were 34%. we have continued to provide substantial amounts of shortfall which is the fact that they reimburse every hospital in the city with a couple of exceptions. this is roughly $60 million a year. we will also provide $10 million a year and other benefits such as support of to the agencies. the help commission was concerned about our plans to replace lost beds because of the skilled nursing facility beds at the california campus and the st. louis campus will not be we have committed two commitments. one is to maintain our 36 sickbed that the babies campus. the second is to either find, build, or cobuild 62 other beds without taking them from pre

luke's campus for over 20 years. when i first started there, i was a technologist working a couple days a week. it did not take long to realize this was a place i wanted to work. i feel that our patients and my co-workers are family, and everybody is treated like that. as the lead tech in the breast health center, a work with a number of clinics and community groups such as celebes health center, mission neighborhood health center, the lifting of breast cancer agency, and the lyon-martin clinic. for those patients that come to us from those groups, obtaining medical care is often a challenge. because st. luke's is there, in an area that is accessible to them, they get the care they need. our patient population is the first. a lot of people south of market depend on st. luke's to be there. i cannot tell you how often patients expressed their concern about the importance of rebuilding the hospital at st. luke's campus. they want us to continue to be there for them. they trust us to care for them, to deliver high-qualit

they even got construction workers on campus to donate. while the group is working hand in hand with the american red cross individuals are taking up the cause on their own. >> and then the grads some might have some money from -- some money from people. >> the earthquake hit close to home. >> it's close to the point it's center and my family is there close to the city. >> reporter: if you students who are supposed to study abroad in japan won't be making the trip. the chancellor charles reed is pulling the pull on all 22 study abroad programs in japan. they have six students who was scheduled to study, three of which are currently in asia and the other three are still in the united states. >> if there's any sense of danger we tend to air on the caution side. there was real fear in the continuing affects and after shocks and potential dangers from the reactors. >> the three students currently have been asked to return to the united states with the hell f of their sponsors. -- with the help of their sponsors. hundreds of thousands are evacu

campus to build. that will enable us to be in compliance with the current law. i know the whole commissioners will remember this. i would like to review these because i think we have made substantial progress. we promise to increase our charity care and the amount of care we provide for medi-cal patients. there was a 43% increase. the subsequent increases were 34%. we have continued to provide substantial amounts of shortfall which is the fact that they reimburse every hospital in the city with a couple of exceptions. this is roughly $60 million a year. we will also provide $10 million a year and other benefits such a year and other benefits such as support of to the agencies.

luke's campus. as an emissary envoys of the physicians of saint luke, i wish to acknowledge and thank cpmc and the city of san francisco for saving some lives. the blue-ribbon panel achieve by and from all interested parties, medical, political, community, and a remarkable result. over the last two years, the department chairs have been working with architects and planners on our new facility. the medical staff from a supports the proposed plans. as this plan has crystallized, we see it does what it was supposed to do. it preserves critical service lines to a state of the art facility through tertiary distribution of services. st. luke's can access and a bill itself of incredible support from the other campuses, which is already happening. lastly, while maintaining critical inpatient service lines, it also includes a robust plan for the direction medicine is taking, which is an outpatient and preventative care. in all my time, i have never seen the quality of care better than it is today. i am glad

one is to maintain our 36 sickbed that the babies campus. the second is to either find, build, or cobuild 62 other beds without taking them from pre- existing places in the community. that is a commitment we will keep. we spoke about how we would replace lost beds. we are working with other hospitals. all ceo's share this problem to, with a solution. we will honor this commitment. we were asked to commit to operate st. luke's for 20 years as a community hospital. it is our intention to operate all of our facilities in perpetuity. we were asked to implement the blue ribbon panel recommendations about the rebuild of an acute-care facility and we agreed to do that. the health board has committed $250 million to contract -- to construct that hospital. the new hospital will include all of the services that the blue ribbon panel recommended the health commissioner specifically called out our community partnerships. we have made commitments to populations. we have established a network of clinics around the city. we are proud of the bayview center

luke's campus and that is really for two reasons. one, definitely my role as medical director of bayview but also as another capacity that i work for cpmc which was when i first started, i also did critical care transport and i had the experience of taking kids in the back of the ambulance from one campus to the next campus to they could have specialized procedure or to have an evaluation done. and just as a pediatrician and as a physician, it's scary. it is much better to have those services all located together in one campus. and that type of high-quality excellent care is the type of care that i want to have available for the patients that i see. the kids that i care for at bayview child health center are roughly 96% medicaid. and none of that is counted as charity care. right? that's the medicaid shortfall that the doctor was talking about earlier. but all of our families have access to the high quality care that we provide to cpmc and in fact, i've been working with the senior management to work on expanding the services that we

well i heard that you actually started the naked banana slugs on campus movement and so i think it's kind of disingenuous for you as a journalist to not disclose that alone or that is not funny i don't know who ever told you that rumor. i rather think i did but i didn't. look at his lessons but if you weren't you were at the founder ok you were not the founder you know this is actually been and all seriousness this seems like a thing that college kids have done for quite a long time right since colleges were invented there have always been scholars who felt the need to run around naked i suppose to let off steam i don't really know. you know it happened in our parents' day it happened in our grandparents' day i'm sure that. when plato was expounding on various important topics to young good looking greek boys there was some nakedness although he may have invited that i don't know i eat if you ban it it's just going to happen more i could say tolerate it and make it as safe as possible get your campus security officers out there make sure nothing to earn toward happens to these childr

they're sporters and campus officials are watching very carefully -- their supporters and campus officialse watching very carefully. we have seen some things change. just about 20 minutes ago when we were showing you a live picture at uc berkeley we saw the protesters unfurl a red banner. you can barely see the corner of it. if we can show you a larger look of what's happening. there are many dozens of people on the ground in frontof wheeler, they say they support the protesters who are on the ledge. let's go to john sasaki. tell us more about what the protesters are demanding. >> reporter: let me point up to the roof there, you can see feet hanging off the ledge. that's 60 feet from the air. that shows you how close they are to the ledge and how dangerous this effort is. hundreds of people here out just watching and supporting these students who are up there protesting. what they are protesting is all the budget cuts and the according fee hikes and the cuts in basic classes and the increase in class sizes and just all the things that go along with these budget cuts. a one hadn't $4 billio

. >> reporter: the cuts are being shared equally on campus. >> there are people higher up in management that are getting nice salaries and paychecks and they are not taking cuts but we are taking the cuts and the teachers are. >> we stand together with our students and our faculty and everyone here on campus in say that more funds and more support for true assessable affordable higher education in california is important. >> reporter: protesters marched through the city college of campus ocean campus this afternoon to rally with other students struggling with higher fees and fewer choices. >> you get more students frustrated and you just may have more students dropping out. >> reporter: a town hall forum on the education crisis is set for 7:00 tonight on the mission campus of city college of san francisco. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson. ktvu news. >>> we sent our cameras to another rally today at uc berkeley. >> demonstrators collected signatures on a petition protesting the education cuts. some were students at oakland high school who ignored pleas from students and

many want a closed campus here at berkeley high. it is not closed right now. they are also calling for some metal detectors or an id system to keep track of the people here on campus. last week two students were arrested after a gun they brought to school actually went off in a bathroom, a third student was also arrested for having an unloaned gun here as well. we'll keep talking about the ideas here, but we are told there will be more security on campus and also a text tipline for students who want to get information to authorities. reporting live in berkeley, christie smith, "today in the east bay." >>> thank you. this morning the corruption scandal for a pleasanton family mourning a soldier killed in afghanistan. jim linscog is the first native of pleasanton to die in afghanistan. his hometown newspaper says the 23-year-old was killed by an ied on the way to a military airport. his mother was met at home by an army chaplain who gave her the news. the body will arrive at dover air force base after noon our time today. >>> those reports about radiation in the

my children were born at the cal campus and lived three blocks awhy from the cal campus but now time at st. luke's. that was actually my very first clinic cal experience was at st. luke's. we took care of a juvenile diabetic mother who was 17 and was 27 weeks pregnant and she was coding off and on. so anyway my daughter now is a nurse at the cal campus in the pediatric so we're all pretty much want to support this hospital and make sure that it becomes -- that it is rebuilt so that we have a state of the art hospital. we also have a success story with the ventilators and the first hnhn case was at lukes and the mom and baby were able to go home. thank you very much. >> they said please read this. this is from the dad. i'm very tired. my wife is exhausted. our child was health departmenty. it was an intense 36 hours of childbirth. there are so many ways it could have gone. it was heartbreaking for me to watch my wife who with inhuman strength and endurance push on and on, night and day, night and day. our saving grace was the magnitude of support and competence of the staff. mid wives

if you are not familiar, we currently have a california campus and a pacific campus, and the plan is to build a bigger campus and consolidate those services into one larger hospital at the old cathedral hill spa on van ness, and that is going to have a huge impact, both in terms of the neighborhood in district 2, not only the new campus, but what happens to the pacific and california campus. also, is a huge job creator. we're making sure to do it in a way to we have every constituent buy into the project, create a ton of new jobs, and move forward with a health care system that benefits all of us. otherwise, some of the other issues coming up -- francisco reservoir in russian hill is going to be an issue that comes up. we have a huge project on doyle drive that is getting finished in the next couple of years. we need to make sure we wanted to the impacts. it is going to be a big deal. after leaving here, i am going down there with the mayor and the head of our department of transportation to really make sure we understand exactly what is happening at this point in time in the project

it is a campus about the creative process at all times. >> the theater was part of a second phase of capital fund raising and community support. the previous one had renovated the space where the rehearsal studios are and the school is, sell what does that sort of say about the importance of the odc in the community? >> i think it's spoke to the two very different tracks of our organization. part of what we do is education and outreach. part of what we do is performance on the part of our company, odc dance, and a third part of what we do is this presenting an incubation stage. when we came to people to talk about the theater as a second investment after having built the dance commons, the distinct purpose of the theater really came through. what we were going to do with our venue was invest deeply in creativity, deeply in our regional artists, and we were going to do something that most mid-size san francisco venues have struggled to do. >> talk to me a little about the group other than odc that have used this space. >> one of the great pleasures in our opening season was to go back

. >>> campus police moving in. four hours and counting, that's how long protestors have been chained together on a fourth floor ledge. you're looking at a live picture right now. those protestors are on the ledge of uc berkeley's wheeler hall protesting among many things fee hikes. cheryl hurd has been on campus all day. tell us about the police now arriving. >> reporter: well, jessica, the protestors are above, and police are just arriving. just moments ago they just kind of swarmed the about 200 protestors below. they said they had a plan. it looks like the plan is effect. they're surrounding the protestors below, and if i had a crystal ball, i would suspect they're working their way up to the ledge up above to get the protestors from up above. we're going to hang on this just for a little while, but in a moment let's roll the videotape so you can see what's up above. we shot videotape earlier today so you can see the protestors above. protestors are chained together, arms covered with a metal material. it's diff

. >> the school district will examine a report on crimes on the berkeley high school campus. there have been six gun-related incidents during the school year including a shooting death, though that was off campus. the district is thinking about installing metal detectors, and issuing i.d. badges. one student says the unlocked gates makes it easy to get on campus. >> the land slides of our rains are causing problems for homeowners from hercules to san pablo. dozens of homeowners packed the council chambers in hercules. many own homes an carson street in the path what if is now called the carson slide zone. real estate agents say if you might be buying a house in a slide zone you need to do your home work. >> i'll ask questions to the neighbors, how's this house, have problems with it. how long have you lived here. then i'll request the seller, banks excluded, that they order what's called a natural hazards disclosure report. >> santa cruz supervisors declared a state of emergency as well. flash floods, the tsunami caused more damage than the county can handle. the state of eme

. >>> why a bay area leader in technology is trying to attract hackers to their campus. . >>> good evening, it is march 3rd, this is bay area news at 7:00 i'm gasia mikaelian. >>> people are high atop the haul at uc berkeley campus. we brought you continuing coverage but this is new developments at 7:00. we are live at the campus to show us what is happening right now. >> i think they are talking to us right now. this is what is going on right now. the standoff with riot police people here started a protest centered around eight students who are on a ledge and they are protesting the budget cuts that have been happening here at the university of california berkeley and the uc system as a whole. they have been doing that for the past, oh, six or 5 1/2 to six hours or so. finally it came to a head about right about 6:00 after the vice chancellor came out and spoke to the students and gave them a statement. here is what he said. i have bye-bye working hard in sacramento -- i have been working hard in sacramento to change this. you have chosen a way of protest that i can not support. >> [ booi