of course i'll be happy to support working with the city college in terms of partner ship. i guess if the equipment is obsolete and they are going to train students using this equipment, are they training them on obsolete methods also? >> not necessarily. for example for the breathing packs it's more to get used to the weight and have that as an operational impact. what that actually feels like, what it has -- there's air bottles they are going to be doing the replacement of it. it's not obsolete in the sense that no departments use it nationwide, but from the department's perspective we have upgraded to the latest compliance of equipment and no longer need it in our operations. for the ambulance it will be kind of stationed and will get the students familiar with how things are laid out in the ambulance, it's not in actual driving capacity. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. colleagues, any other comments or questions? seeing none, thank you, mr. corso, why don't we open it up to public comment on this item. is there any public comment on this item? go ahead. >> just tw

as i was saying, on monday, city college will be unveiling the city college cosmic pioneer, their very we will still be bragging about our foosball table.

she spent 7 years taking english classes at city college and became a leader among her peers and helped countless people in her community learn english. in her later years she was an advocate and she would travel the state with her daughter rebecca and she was known for wearing vibrant colors and was the first one to get up and dance at a social event and she was also dedicated to art and her art and expression were very important to her and she earned a certificate with her daughter a few years ago personally she was like a mother to me like a member of the family who has been supported throughout different political endeavors over the years after her diagnose of cancer in april of this year she began radiation treatment in in the south bay and she was actually given a certificate by her doctors and caregivers at the age of 92 she was the oldest woman at the facility to ever complete the very harsh 2-week radiation treatment that she went through

. >>> he'll get an update on the status of san francisco city college. school's fate rests in the hands of a judge after the college fought a decision to revoke its accreditation. the accrediting commission for community colleges voted in favor of the move last year, citing administrative deficiencies. congresswoman jackie spear is set to hold a public forum to give an update on the, quote, significant steps the school has taken to correct its i issues. the forum will be held at the city college diego rivera theater, beginning tomorrow morning at 9:30. >>> a bay area connection to the massive hack attack at sony. still to come, how the silicon valley is involved and the latest celebrates bad-mouthed in e-mails from sony executives. >>> then... a celebration of part culture in san francisco. see how the mission district at kaiser permanente, everything you need is under one roof. another way care and coverage together makes life easier. okay, a little easier. become a member of kaiser permanente. because together, we thrive. ♪ >>> new details in the the c

involving city college. >> the future of city college still a big question mark. a local congresswoman is now stepping in. jackie spear is holding a public forum tomorrow, will be updating what she calls significant steps being made to save san francisco's community college. >> you may remember the accrediting commission revoked the accreditation in 2013 that could close the school for good. the ruling is on hold because the city of san francisco is suing the commission in federal court saying the commission's ruling is actually biasedded and unfair. >> this is turning into a difficult san francisco circus story. >> it is and it's going to go back and forth. city college of san francisco has 80,000 students. it is the largest school in california. one of the largest in the country. it's an integral part of the city and granted, there have been problems financially with it and its accreditation but the city doesn't want it to close and they will get big politicos to keep it going. >> it's unfortunate for the students or anyone who even got a degree from the school.

of marin, san francisco city college, san francisco state university no class.are having class in the south bay, including the big one, san jose unified. >> we'll see how everything holds up in the south bay as the storm system does come farther and forth are south. >> it going to be tough for. >> can also check out our nbc bay area app. you can click on a weather tab and get up to the minute radar and of course fantastic reports from all of our meteorologists as well. we'll give you alerts about wind, flooding, outages as well. that's all at your fingertips on the bay area app. >> and we're getting hot zones. >> yeah, some people are already in it. >> i don't know why these commuters are pulled over there. we'll ask mike in a minute. a lot of rain is accumulating and the roadways are starting o to -- right know dangerous conditions. you really don't want to be on the roadway if you can avoid it. >> that's right. if you can work from home, here's your chance. >> christina talked about the slowing at the san rafael bridge, very high winds illustrated by the flags

novato and south san francisco also -- san francisco city college. oakland, berkeley, san leandro and alameda unified are closed. newark, west contra costa, the new haven school district and hayward unified. all annouced closures along with the pacifica school district fremont and san lorenzo unified have also joined the list of school closings due to the weather. delays and cancellations at bay area airports are already kicking in. and more are expected during the windy, wet weather. as conditions are expected to get worse. kron 4's philippe djegal is live at san francisco international airport -- where more than 100 -flights today were cancelled. philippe, what can travelers expect tomorrow? phillipe djegal>>: pretty much the same as indeed pan the airport is in a ground delay. over on hundred and 35 flights were canceled canceled today. his flight from l.a. to san francisco was delayed for over two hours, now the flight home pushed back as well. oliver, jan been on board with the airport called it the short- haul flights, less than two hours long.

last picture of san francisco, evening city college of san francisco, better to be off the roads and at home during all of this. oakland, novado, sausalito, marin city and all of san rafael city schools will be closed. alameda, berkeley, and son nom ma county, this is just a partial list, you can see the complete list of our closures here on our techer. no closures at least thus far announcement in san mateo and marin county. >> nbc bay area's michelle roberts is in palo alto and crews have been replacing santd bags all along the creek and obviously the concern is flooding nearby? >> reporter: 2,500 of these sandbags, as you can see lined all the way down wood land avenue, they say this is a very vulnerable spot, back in 2012, this area was completely flooded. they hope their efforts now will be enough. a giant pile of sand drew a crowd in burrling game. >> i'm making sachbtd bags to protect my shop for the impending doom tomorrow. >> monica says there's some preschools in a vulnerable spot. she's pitching in to help with a dozen sandbags. >> one of the classrooms is on the ground lev

of marin closed, san francisco city college closed, san francisco state university will not meet. there are some exception and south bay is it. san jose unified are not cancelling classes today. the district says teaching and learning there will continue, even if there are power outages and the maintenance staff is on hand in case gutters overflow. also, sam, businesses closed as well and people can e-mail us using their business address, make sure it's in there, let us know about businesses, large businesses, the yahoo!s, the goog ls, let us know about those kinds of things. >> thank you very much, scott. >> we have some new video to show you this morning of work crews trying to fix a damaged transformer in petaluma. a drowned tree blocking part of the road. has much changed, stephanie, since we last saw you? you're still hanging on to your hat. >> that's right. still hanging on to my hat. i just got an update from our producer who says the total in petaluma since 6:00 last night is now 1.4 inches up from 1.07 that was reported an hour ago. it's an

the city will decide whether the commission treated the college unfairly during the process. >>> it looks like a mountain rescue but it was something quiet different right in the heart of san francisco as ktvu's tom vacar shows us the city is doing it as a safety precaution in an effort to stabilize the hillside before this week's powerful storm hits. >>> suspended on repelling gear 150 feet off the ground. a gio technical stabilization crew hired by the city of san francisco is racing the clock to get as much work done before thursday's storm hits. by taking these massive rocks down now in a controlled way, we're not likely to have the massive slide that we had in heavy rains two years ago. in january of 2012, a weaker storm caused a huge slide sending down car sized boulders that smashed a car and damaged the apartment building as well. it's been a problem here for generations. >> traditionally this was a quarry that was undocumented. they left it in a pretty precarious position. >> reporter: the sand stone rock face is not only easily cracked by weather. earthquakes have also made it u

. >>> today, we are expected to get an update of san francisco city college rests now in the hands of a judge after the college wanted a decision to revoke the accreditation. siting administration deficiency. and congresswoman speier will hold a public forum for an update on "significant steps the school has taken to correct issues." the judge will officially rule next month. the forum is held at city college theater at 9:30 this morning. >>> hard to believe after the success of the past three years but the 49ers are out of layoffs. >> it hurts. they lost to seattle seahawks yesterday deficitting the knife. they took a lead at half time but could not hole it at the defense clamped down. final is 17-7 and scarlett and gold are now 7 and hear what the cope has to say about his future at the conference. >>> and they were never maybe only for the first continue minutes before the first quarter. chiefs had 31 and the raiders were 13, and silver and block fall to 2-12 over the zone but they still have bragging rights over the 49ers. >> but that is not much to brag about. >> we are bragging

the amazing young people from the tobacco youth reduction force, whether they were working from city college san francisco, state or the high schools that you came from, supported by youth leadership and institute or the vietnamese youth development center but you are a great example of creating policy from the bottom up and educating all of us to make the communities healthy and better and so i am just standing up to give you tremendous props as we introduce this legislation today. >> thank you, chair. [ applause ] >> so this policy, i think, is an example of the tireless focus, leadership, research and commitment to the city's public health by the young people and the tobacco free coalition as well. without their efforts we would not be here today. this initiative and this act will set san francisco as the city with a strongest comprehensive effort to limit tobacco licenses in our communities and there is about 1,000 right now, according to the research, and this is a reasonable way to limit them over time so that we protect the health of our community and in san francisco, low income area

the forum is at city college theater at 9:30 this morning. >>> this morning, members of the santa clara board of supervisors are scheduled to discuss how to step wage nest in the county which involves failure to pay wages, refusal to pay for legally mandated paid meal and rest periods and throats against worker whose speak out against abuse. it includes the implementation plan to suspend permits of employers committing repeated wage theft violations and will vote on phase one of the plan tomorrow. the county received the highest number of wage theft complaints in the nation. >>> in palo alto the city council is expected to make a much more difficult for anyone to spoke downtown. the city council is likely to extend an existing smocking ban to all commercial areas including downtown and stand ford and all dining areas. cigarettes banned 25' of doors to businesses. the new ban includes e-cigarettes. the committee is expected to be asked to lock into abolishing smoking in apartment complexes. >>> hard to believe we are saying this after the success of the past three years but the 49ers are

san francisco city college, city college of san francisco, i should say, and newark schools..com. heavy rain heading our way. futurecast for a glance ahead to tomorrow morning at 9:00, look at that band of heavy rain setting over petaluma. and we're going to be seeing the heavy rain all through morning hours, we're going to time it out on futurecast coming up in just a few minutes. [chris]still smoking up a storm? [tom]yeah.pathetic,isn't it? [chris] ever try to... [tom] quit?of course! my best time was six days. the worst was ...uh...23.4 seconds. [chris] so can i ask you... [chris & tom] why are you still smoking? [tom] [sarcastic] "it's so much fun." [chris]why not call the smokers' helpline? the program's free,and... [tom]and they'll tell me..."you oughta quit." [chris] not so. just tell them you're ready to quit. then,they'll tell you how. [tom] really? you wouldn't have that number on you,would you? >>> menlo park police are confirming they are investigating an altercation involving 49 mcdonald, it happened early friday at the rose wood sandhill hotel, but police say mc

educate my peers i can say i learned more in one class of high school in four classes anothers city college've learned any critical thinking a lot of people don't think that a position has anything to do anything with racism but i feel that ethnic studies has taught me to have self-value we need to climb up the ladder together we can empower people to build the pyramid the aztec foundation is the 67th wonder of the world someone that took offer any people has a beautiful saying that warms my heart to see everyone i almost started crying please i love ethnic studies and, yes ethnic studies sorry - >> (clapping.) >> next speaker >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi sorry my name is jimmy and thank you i gown to freshman sorry i worded that wrong when i went to homeroom in my freshman year i got a schedule it said ethnic studies i if not it so i switched out now a regret it so but i had a track with the teacher and i like learn a lot about history when i interact with people and what i've noticed it that our history shouldn't be an locomotive class i feel it should be required because it

including championship a new central subway for the chinese town city college and the renovation of the kwoirt i'm happy we'll have a very long advocate at our state assembly i know i certainly look forward to working with you in that new capacity i know that his staff is here today with you in the chamber justin and amy and as well as others your past katherine and all of them were wonderful staff to work with so i wish you all the best in our next endeavors so with that, said president chiu i wanted to begin ta to thank you for all you've done and want to take the opportunity to acknowledge other supervisors supervisor wiener. >> supervisor tang and for your words i have to say this a sad day because i have enjoyed working with a number of colleagues but really am going to miss having david chiu as a colleague in this building i've known david for 20 years since he was a year ahead of me in law school and we ended up think the board of supervisors sometimes agreeing and sometimes fighting by also doing what is the best for people of san francisco i have continually been impressed davi

projects in it's neighborhood including championship a new central subway for the chinese town city college and the renovation of the kwoirt i'm happy we'll have a very long advocate at our state assembly i know i certainly look forward to working with you in that new capacity i know that his staff is here today with you in the chamber justin and amy and as well as others your past katherine and all of them were wonderful staff to work with so i wish you all the best in our next endeavors so with that, said president chiu i wanted to begin ta

. >> he is a professor of biomedical engineering at city college in new york. >> it means you can engineer carefully safe devices and makes people think some how anybody can do this without any control or thought. >> he recently co-founded a company that manufactures td~ cs devices for use in clinical trials. >> as it is done in hospitals and research centers is considered very safe and very well tolerated. that is a very specific set of protocols and environment and set of devices. >> he showed me how his research team builds computer models to predict how current hits the brain. >> this is what shows up. warmer colors represent more color flow. the red square is the anode and the blue is the cathode. the anode is the positive terminal of the battery and the cathode is the negative terminal of the badry and your head is the circle. >> when applied in lab settings it is about the amounts needed to power a small led light bulb. the amount that reaches the cortex of the brain after going through layers of skull, skin, fat and spinal fluid is smaller. >> the brain is bathed in a low level of

. >> one idea is city college, for example has a veterans group and social events open to everyone sponsored by such group maybe one way to enhance interactions between the civilian population and veterans. i think organizations, volunteer activities. i know the mindfulness community has started to reach out to the veteran population and are holding meditation retreats open to veterans and also their families and maybe expanding those sorts of social possibilities may be a way to move forward, maybe the various faith traditions can allow for activities that would provide more opportunities for people to meet each other. but it is, you know, one of the challenges is that with returning troops, based on, depending on what they have experienced is they really don't feel like they can connect with someone who has been where they were so they don't feel they can relate. so that is a huge challenge, and unfortunately as a society, we are not exposed to that. we are protected from that. back in the 60s we saw the war come into living room on television every night, but now we are insulated. we don'

been meeting -- the 13th meeting is going to be held this month and meeting every other month at city college, the ocean campus and we currently have five voting members out of nine and all members have been present since 2013 so they're very committed and pretty much they provide input to the community and oversight and helping prioritize the implementation of transportation and other public improvements and some of the projects include the balboa park station area and plaza improvements, muni forward which is the transit line changes, the ocean avenue corridor design and the i280 off ramp realignment so if you have any further questions i am available. thank you. >> thank you. did you want to say anything? >> [inaudible] >> okay. any questions? well thank you for bringing this forward. even though the balboa station isn't in my district it's just close enough to the district where it has a lot of impact and i am certainly supportive of the extension. any public comments on this item? seeing none public is now closed. [gavel] supervisor campos. >> thank you. i would like to move this item fo

. >> save city college. >> and the university of california set off student protests when it announced substantial tuition hikes. rising housing hikes left many feeling priced out. some silicon valley high-tech darlings created controversy for disrupting traditional industry from transportation to hospitality. new surveillance technologies make it increasingly easy to spy on ordinary citizens. it was the 150th anniversary of yosemite national park. and the 25th anniversary of an earthqua earthquake. while a major quake in august shook napa valley anew. there was the passing of robin williams. concerns over the new span of the bay bridge. in sports, the giants won the world series for the third time in five years. november's midterm elections were a treasure-trove for politics. one east bay district voted a republican into the state assembly for the first time in years. the bay area sparked national debate over taxing soda, banning plastic bags, and upping the minimum wage. violence against women spurned outrage on college campuses and the nfl. and 2014 ended with a flurry of storms tha

. >> this notice is greeting students and staff at san francisco city college where school is called off due to the weather. >> i think if classes were not canceled i would have found a way to get here and get to class. it is raining. i brought my umbrella. >> athena is just glad to know her kids will be safe and dry. he can't believe he gets to stay home. >> no school tomorrow. we can slack off. >> well, it is not just students in san francisco who will be staying home. thousands of students in marin county, oakland, west contra costa county and south san francisco are also among those whose schools are closed. we have put together this map highlighting counties where at least some of the schools are shutdown as a precaution. we have a detailed list at abc7news.com. please check that out when you have a moment. the san francisco chronicle is reporting golden gate bridge officials are keeping an eye on the high winds tonight to determine whether they need to shutdown that span. the last time the bridge was closed due to wind was back in 1983. only the third time in the history of tha

. >> a philadelphia lawmakers wants the cities colleges to adopt a yes means policy on sexual consentno means no requires rape victims to show they said no. both parties engaged in sexual activity must give on-going affirmative conscious and volunteer consent. reynolds brown will hold hearings in january. >> they have to put a paradigm shift no means no to yes means yes. before we can get to where california is we need to first listen and see what's in place at our area colleges and universities. >> supporters of the policy say it shifts the burden off victims and compels colleges to more thoroughly investigate sexual assault allegations. >>> philadelphia city council is again debating the merits of paid sick leave. councilman bill green lee proposed new bill that would require companies with 10 or more employees to offer workers five paid sick days per year. companies with less than 10 employees would be required to offer five unpaid sick days. green lee says this bill is close to what the mayor's task force is recommended. opponents say many small businesses can't afford to offer th

live in the neighborhood and i have often said that why are they not pulling these kids from the city college right down the street and stay into these businesses, through the limited live. and so i am glad to see something like this happening in the area. >> great, thank you. >> and commissioner perez. >> thanks for come ng and i also live near ocean avenue and we are excited to see that there is this movement to have the entertainment in that area. and i was just wondering what type of music that you plan to do? >> well, you know, being born and raised in san francisco, that the music that the people produce and can do and it is huge. and so, one of the things that i feel that the ocean avenue association wants to push is jazz and they want to do that and we also got approached for the karaoke which is not music, but it is. but we just want to give the students things to do. and i mean, that it is really important, and it is like i said, it has been forgotten and overlooked for so many years. >> have you done any community out reach? >> sure. and we have to support of the street life commun

a shelter is set up at san mateo city college. dozens of mobile homes are red- tagged and many people spent the day bailing water. some are wondering where was all the attention when they needed it the mo he is? >> last night, this morning, we were drowning. nobody came and stopped and said do you guys need help? now that the water is gone, oh, my god, everybody is here. why? that's so unfair. to me, that's bs and just a big sur cuss. >> we talked to the manage of the trailer park. she blamed the city for not maintaining the canal next to the park. >>> in southern california, a wall of mud and rocks has forced people from more than a dozen homes. a hillside in camarillo springs gave way. the debris has come up to the roof on some of the houses as you can see. others had rocks and mud flow right through them out into the street. barriers with put up but did little to stop the debris from flowing down the hillside. just about all the homeowners were evacuated. no injuries. this was an area burned by fire last summer. >>> and this we

"san jose mercury news" reports a federal agency is looking into evergreen valley and san jose city collegesoup of faculty whistle-blowers say the schools don't have enough police, don't send alerts about incidents, and don't encourage victims to report attacks. school leaders say the colleges comply with federal law. dozens of colleges across the country are under similar investigations. >>> chevron doing damage control. thousands of people were alarmed when they saw that massive flame at the richmond refinery plant. chevron says it was normal procedure, what they call flaring. the release of gas burned as it's released. they say last night's flare was part of a regular process to shut down part of the factory and the white smoke is actually steam. however, flames could be seen all the way from the bay bridge, raising fears of another refinery fire like the one we saw there at chevron in 2012. >>> a serious health warning about prepackaged caramel apples. illnesses and as many as five deaths are reported in california and nine other states. cdc hasn't identified the specific brands involved

been meeting -- the 13th meeting is going to be held this month and meeting every other month at city college, the ocean campus and we currently have five voting members out of nine and all members have been present since 2013 so they're very committed and pretty much they provide input to the community

. >> this notice is greeting students and staff at san francisco city college where school is called off due to the weather. >> i think if classes were not canceled i would have found a way to get here and get to class. it is raining. i brought my umbrella. >> athena is just glad to know her kids will be safe and dry. he can't believe he gets to stay home. >> no school tomorrow. we can slack off. >> well, it is not just students in san francisco who will be staying home. thousands of students in marin county, oakland, west contra costa county and south san francisco are also among those whose schools are closed. we have put together this map highlighting counties where at least some of the schools are shutdown as a precaution. we have a detailed list at abc7news.com. please check that out when you have a moment. the san francisco chronicle is reporting golden gate bridge officials are keeping an eye on the high winds tonight to determine whether they need to shutdown that span. the last time the bridge was closed due to wind was back in 1983. only the third time in the history of tha