. >> reporter: at claremont mckenna, college students live by a code of honor. today educators at this prestigious liberal arts college outside los angeles admitted they were the ones who had been cheating. for six years the school submitted false data to the critical "u.s. news & world report" lying about the average math and reading s.a.t. scores of their students, inflating them by 10 to 20 points each. >> there is a violation of trust. people in this country think that colleges and universities are supposed to be pillars in our society. >> reporter: "u.s. news," a tool depended on by families, had been ranking claremont mckenna in the top ten of liberal arts colleges in the entire country. today's cheating scandal could change that. today, students there, who pay a yearly tuition of more than $55,000, were trying to come to terms with what their school had done. >> it's a little embarrassing for the school, i think. >> reporter: do you think it's sort of a double standard? >> yeah, no, definitely. they should be held to a high standard, as well. >> reporter:

. >> reporter: at claremont mckenna, college students live by a code of honor. but educators at this prestigious liberal arts college outside los angeles admitted they were the ones who had been cheating. for six years the school submitted false data to the critical "u.s. news & world report" lying about the average math and reading s.a.t. scores of their students, inflating them by 10 to 20 points each. >> there is a violation of trust. people in this country think that colleges and universities are supposed to be, you know, pillars in our society. >> reporter: "u.s. news," a tool depended on by families, had been ranking claremont mckenna in the top ten of liberal arts colleges in the entire country. the cheating scandal could change that. the students there, who pay a yearly tuition of more than $55,000, were trying to come to terms with what their school had done. >> it's a little embarrassing for the school, i think. >> reporter: why would a school cheat? experts say every notch a school can rise on the rankings is critical. >> what they get in the end is b

. >> reporter: eye scandal at this quiet college in claremont. >> a lot of students are hurt. people feel like they were the ones who were mess led. >> reporter: claremont mckenna college is ninth nationally in the liberal arts colleges ratings but in an email the president of the school sent out to the community, pamela says a school reporter reported inaccurate s.a.t. course for had year's freshman class gaining the school the lofty national ranking. >> i think it was for the betterment of the school that he was trying to do it in some ways. >> reporter: in the email the school president said, a senior administrator in the office of admissions disclosed he had been solely responsible for falsely reporting s.a.t. statistics since 2005. he resigned. u.s. news & world report says it won't modify rankings in spite of of the news. the school administrator reported to the magazine a combined score of 1410. the school president says the actual median score is 1400 a difference of 10 points. >> i think that 10 points isn't that big of a difference and even though the scandal might h

but this is just east of 680 at mckee road and north claremont avenue. so again watch out for that intersection, at least partially blocked. sounds like crews and police are trying to keep people away from that immediate scene because of course with live wires it's dangerous. elsewhere the rest of the south bay major freeways not too bad. here's live look at 280 out of downtown san jose. looks good so far along the peninsula, 101 and 280, both seeing top speeds. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a baby born on the freeway. the super bowl excuse for the surprise delivery. >> and they lost the big game but one tourist hotspot wants to help them out. the luxurious vacation offer to the patriots. talk about that and much more when grace and i come back. sweetheart. we need to talk. i've seen your stunts online. i can explain... jumping a ramp in a shopping cart. so 2005. wait, what? and only 3 likes? honey, it's embarrassing. carol's son got over 12 million views on that dancing squirrel video. don't you want that? i...i suppose. now go make your dad and me pro

one of the publications that claremont mckenna lied to. good morning, brian kelly.g us today. >> good morning. >> how was it discovered and do you think it's isolated? >> the school discovered it. it was one person at the school. it's not the whole institution. they seem to have taken swift action. they've brought in a law firm and doing the right thing. we don't know all the details yet. we've asked for some more information and haven't gotten it yet. but we do think it's a -- it's not a unique situation. it's pretty rare. we've been doing this for 25 years. we've had thousands of schools that we have ranked over the time. you know, we've had three or four incidents like this. any time it happens, it's a concern. we're certainly very disturbed and looking at this closely >> perhaps you shouldn't have been taking these numbers on faith? >> well, you know, charlie, the numbers are -- it's not just us. niece are numbers they're reporting to the federal government, to the bond rating services. they've got real legal o obligations here. we're one consumer of the numbers

a private boarding school in claremont, california. they have a small number of days students and i was one of them. i was a scholarship kid there. it is a great place. it was great for me. it was a great place for me. it helped me to start to become who i was. >> why? >> why was it important? >> what happened there that made a difference? >> it is a small place. you know, my family did not have the means to send me there and i was lucky to get scholarships and stuff like that. small, private education, they tend -- there is more attention. they can give individual attention to students, especially those who are not cut from the typical mold. i was very interested in history and politics. not the politics i write about, but political history. although i did not see it that way at that time, i was, you know, i was only a couple of years away from my mother having died. there is probably, you know, a little more community that was important for me, even though i did not realize that at the time. >> school was in claremont, california. >>

. >> reporter: at claremont mckenna college students live by a code of honor.ducators at this prestigious liberal arts college outside los angeles admitted they were the ones who had been cheating. for six years the school submitted false data to the critical "u.s. news & world report," lying about the average math and reading s.a.t. scores of their students, inflating them by 10 to 20 points each. >> there's a violation of trust. people in this country think that colleges and universities are supposed to be, you know, pillars in our society. "u.s. news," a tool depended on by families, had been ranking claremont mckenna in the top ten of liberal arts colleges in the entire country. the cheating scandal could change that. students there, who pay a yearly tuition of more than $55,000, were trying to come to terms with what their school had done. >> it's a little embarrassing for the school, i think. >> do you think it's sort of a double standard? >> yeah. no, definitely. they should be held to a high level as well. >> reporter: why would a school cheat? experts

this is near mckee and claremont. mckee is the big road and claremont is a smaller city street. if you are driving around, be acare of these things -- be aware of these things. the winds are up there and things like this could happen. let's go to the westbound bay bridge. there was an earlier crash on the span in the 6:00 hour. they cleared it out quickly. but the damage is done, the traffic is backed up at the toll plaza. it's also slow on 580 and on 80 approaching the macarthur maze even before you get to the toll plaza. this morning's commute has been slow in san jose as we push it a little bit here. the traffic on 101 is going to be a little bit busy as you drive up to 880. but again, every commute is slightly slower because of the wet weather. speaking of weather, let's go to steve. >>> on of our -- one of our very good twitters just reported wees down on -- wees down on -- trees down on highway 9. they have gusts up there. so i'm not surprised. this system is falling apart rap i lid because it's splitting. that -- rapidly because it's splitting. now, the system going -- in

. >>> overnight, two people survived a rollover near claremont avenue and el dorado road. the driver lost control and flipped over. the two people inside were shaken but otherwise okay. alcohol was not a factor in the wreck, police say. >>> a woman is expected to enter into a plea for running red light and hitting two women killing them. john harris will take the plea. the okay pants of the car were killed. prosecutors claim that harris knew he could have seizures at any time. >>> republicans in congress are looking to overturn president obama's controversial requirement that employers, including catholic institutions, provide birth control coverage. the requirement is part of the 2010 health care law. it calls for health insurance plans to cover basic preventive care for women. one requirement is that religious oriented group the such as charities, hospitals and universities but not churches, provide coverage for birth controls. democrats are defending the requirement saying it has to do with the health and well-being of women while republicans say it's about religious fr

one of the publications that claremont mckenna lied to. good morning, brian.overed, and do you think it was an isolated incident? >> well, it was really one person. it wasn't the whole institution. they seem to have taken swift action. they brought in a law firm. they're doing the right thing. we don't know all the details yet. we've sasked them for more information. we don't think it's a unique situation. it's pretty rare. we've been doing this for 25 years. we've had thousands of schools we've ranked over the time. we've had three or four incidents like this. but any time it happens, it's a concern. we're certainly very disturbed and looking at this very closely. >> perhaps you shouldn't have been taking these numbers on faith. >> well, you know, charlie, the numbers are -- it's not just us. these are numbers they're reporting to the federal government. they're numbers they report to the bond ratings services. they've got some real legal obligations here. we're just one consumer of these numbers. we crunch them in a formula that we have that pulls a lot of o

in east san jose a giant tree came tumbling down in north claremont, barely missed a car but snapped lines causing a blackout for almost 1,000 homes. crews spent the morning cutting up the tree and clearing it out. collect out the flag flopping in the wind downtown san jose. along with the wind, came the rain. people left the house with rain gear and umbrellas because we have smart people live in bay area, right? >> yes. a nice run of dry weather but much needed for the rain. looks like you're forecasting a lot of it over the next few days. >> we had quite a bit in santa rosa, over hatch of an inch came down. some really cool cloud formations over the city by the bay. you can see from the live picture, also a steadier camera here as those winds have significantly dropped off. but as you can see from your radar picture, we have light shower activity lingering over the east end of the bay area. showers winding down at this point. now just a bit of activity to the east of livermore, moving towards tracy. throughout the day a few isolated showers will make way to breaks of sunshine. grad

. >> reporter: sam mitchell is a senior at claremont mckenna college.e chose the school because of its growing reputation. >> you know, it's a really cut- throat world for schools, especially sort of up-and-coming institutions like this one. they have to do anything they can to climb the ladder. >> reporter: his school was ranked number nine among the best liberal arts colleges in the latest "u.s. news and world report" rankings. for five years, a school official falsely inflated the incoming s.a.t. scores of incoming students by 10 to 30 points, a small change but enough to move up on the coveted rankings. >> they are probably the single most important attribute in the minds of families and applicants. >> reporter: barmak nassirian helps run an association for college admissions officers. he thinks rankings confuse students. >> they simply look at the number and assume-- quite incorrectly-- that number nine is better than number ten. and as long as families believe that, institutions will go to great extremes to be number nine as opposed to number ten.

this is a satellite image of the home on the 200 block of south claremont avenue.ou can see the pile of trash wrapping from the front to the back of the house, covering the entire yard. the home reportedly belongs to a man named richard baker but it's unclear if he lives there. neighbors say the home has been a problem for decades but got much worse about ten years ago after baker's parents passed away. they are now calling on the city to clean it up. >> they should clean it up, and another thing too that they might just have to -- as much debris that's in that property there, if they start to clean this thing up, there's going to be heaven only knows what's going to pop out of there. >> it's been growing for years. the county supervisor says the mess will be cleaned up in a matter of movanths. >>> myth busters return to dublin tonight. no apology necessary this time. instead, they got a warm welcome from students attending the engineering and science fair at dublin high. you may remember the show got some bad press back in december when one of their zany experimen

. >> sam mitchell is a senior at claremont mckenna college.ose the school because of its growing reputation. >> it's really cutthroat world for schools, especially sort of up and coming institutions like this one. they have to do anything they can to climb the ladder. >> his school was ranked number 9 among the best liberal arts colleges in the latest rankings. for five years, a school official falsely inflated the s.a.t. scores of incoming students by 10 to 30 points. a small change but enough to potentially move up on the coveted rankings. >> they are probably the single most important attribute in the minds of families and applicants. >> this man helps run an association for college admission's office. he thinks rankings confuse students. >> they simply look at the number and assume, quite incorrectly that number 9 is better than number 10. as long as families believe that, institutions will go to great extremes to be number 9 as opposed to number 10. >> in a survey last may, 87% agreed or somewhat agreed that rankings encourage what they c

in the cartoon where the grand piano falls from the ceiling and squashes the troll referring to claremont crime rate some tweeters simply refer to the prosecutor as monte saying this day with monty is so embarrassing and everything points to monte doing her damnedest to lose today in a big way now those thoughts are according to supporters of a but the question now remains where the swerve the swedes wrong to approve this european arrest warrant will take anywhere between a month to three to find out what the lords decide but meanwhile jennifer robinson explains what's at stake in this hearing. if he doesn't win it means that anyone can be extradited from the u.k. be arrested prince attention at the behest of any prosecutor anywhere in europe we're not having to show any evidence without being charged and without proper judicial oversight. so if assad is extradited to sweden he may also have to temporarily temporarily surrender to the u.s. to face charges stemming from his organization wiki leaks sharing thousands of diplomatic cables and more with the world so for now it's a waiting game

. >> our crew arrive on the scene and also a tree came down, mckey towards claremont in eastern san jose and pg&e crews are not even getting in because of the downed tree. it looks like it just missed some cars here and they have the street blocked off in this residential area. some are without power and there could be some traffic lights as well, at least you know why the power may be out or if you are watching from somewhere else, they should get up because maybe their alarm clocks are not working. let's go to the bay bridge and the upper deck is recovering slowly and it is gusty on the span. moving along to dumbarton and san mateo traffic is looking good 880 southbound, we have slowed traffic south to union city. it is 6:40 let's go to steve. >>> very good rainy morning, the good news is it made it hills are brown, bad news it is splitting big time now the wind is cranked up at the pass, and 68, 25 to 35 locally and our system continues to move in. it lowers the energy source. it is heading down to southern california and as it does, right here from the peninsular to half-moon bay, cr

on claremont, chp has gotten rid of it and there could be some traffic affected in the area.ack to the desk. that traffic is moving along well, let's go back to the desk. >>> same sex marriage, just hours from now, what a san francisco court announced and what both sides are nervous about this morning. >>> also firefighters battling this morning at an east bay restaurant, the challenges they face trying to

los angeles has the reason foundation a claremont nearby. there is the manhattan institute. the madison center at princeton. these are independent sources of criticism and thought, but i think it is very important -- i think it is risky that there are so many think tanks in this political hothouse of washington where it could become more and more difficult to sustain the really really important work that we do. i just want to say that the ambition of being able to think about politics, about how we can achieve solutions that are compatible with the contentiousness of our politics, the diversity of our political community, is enormously important. i do not think it is bombast. i think the work we do is tremendously important so that those of us in think tanks on the left, on the right, have to realize that our purpose is not to be in politics, not to go along for the ride, but to improve our respective parties and to improve the political system as a whole. if we keep that in mind, that is our best protection. so those are my thoughts, and we are now going to turn to the pane

los angeles has the reason foundation, claremont nearby, there's the manhattan institute, the pacific research institute, universities like hoover in stanford and the medicine center at princeton have, these are independence sources of criticism and thought. but i think it's very important, i think that it's risky that there's so many think tanks that are in this political hothouse of washington where it could become more and more difficult to sustain the really, really important work that we do. so i just want to say that the ambition of being able to think about the politics, about how we can achieve solutions that are compatible with the contentiousness of our politics, the diversity of our political community is enormously important. i don't think it's bombast but i think the work we do is tremendously important. so that those of us in think tanks, on the left, on the right, have to realize that our purpose is not to be in politics, not go along for the ride, but to improve our respective parties and to improve the political system as a whole. and if we keep that in mind, that's o

there blocking an intersection causing a power outage 10 customers without power at mckee and north claremont. power lines, a tree came down knocked out some power lines. there were live wires in the area. pg&e crews are on scene working to fix it. otherwise, the rest of the south bay quiet. live look at 280 out of downtown san jose picking up steam in the northbound lanes heading out of downtown towards cupertino. coming up, we'll get a check of mass transit. in the meantime, back to you guys. >> thank you. 6:21. mcdonald's new campaign comes back to bite the chain. the ad that's offending pit bull owners. >> and catch that kitty, a mad dash on a soccer field. that and more coming up. (car horn) paying with your smartphone instead of cash... (phone rings) that's a step forward. with chase quickpay, you can send money directly to anyone's checking account. i guess he's a kicker... again, again! oh, no you don't! take a step forward and chase what matters. anything not moving forward is moving backward. [ tires screech ] [ engine turns over, tires squeal ] introducing the 2013 gs. with the lex

this is on south claremont avenue. the-inner burned trash in the chimney.ion ignored for years. >>> a hell's angel medical on the run is now in custody. steven ruiz is accused of killing another hell's angel at a funeral at san jose's cemetery last year. police arrested him at a motel in fremont saturday night. investigators say they are surprised he was hiding out just a few miles away from the scene of the im-- scene of the crime. >>> from him to be caught where he was -- a lot of times in homicide case like these, the suspect gets as far away from the scene of the crime as is possible. you can see ruiz's appearance is different. >>> new this morning, vandalism at the state capitol. police say they arrested the young man who caused all of this damage. they say he did it by causing rock -- throwing rocks. >>> more than 18,000 girls have been given dresses and accessories over the last ten years for the prom. you can get more information on where to donate from a link on ktvu.com. just look under "web links." >>> well, starting next month b.a.r.t. will hold

an admissions officer has resigned at claremont college over falsifying the entrance exam scores.l's president says that the officers inflated scores for incoming freshmen since 2005. if a composite score on the scholastic aptitude tests were exaggerated by 10 to 20 points. those scores were used in various comparison in colleges all across the country including the u.s. views and world report's the prestigious race in the school was listed ninth among the u.s. liberal arts colleges. >>jacqueline: we have seen cloudy conditions throughout the day. the storm is passing us through the north i will have more details coming up. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our town. [ dog barks ] for our country. ♪ for our future. ♪ this isn't just the car we wanted to build. it's the car america had to build. ♪ the extended range electric chevy volt. from the heart of detroit to the health of the country, chevy runs deep. i've seen your stunts online. i can explain... jumping a ramp in a shopping cart. so 2005. wait, what? and only 3 likes? honey, it's embarrassing. carol's son got over 12 million views

the property on south claremont avenue is filled with mechanical parts, furniture, garbage bags, animals: "if that thing catches on fire, there's so much debris back ttere, if it catches on fire, it'd be bad." the oriiinal owners, robert and bessie baker, died in the 19-80's. and neighbors say the son, richaad baaer, is aajunn hoarder -- who disappears for long stretches.. neighbors but were told because of budget problems...senior says: "they can't do nuthin. and that's not right. i don't believe that." change. this morning -- the santa clara county board of supprvisors -- led by george shirikawa -- is expected to declare the property a ublic nnisance... the first step to allow crews to, lawfully, clean it up. neighbors who asked not to be on-camera say crews will encounter junk and animals. mos says: "they kept having kittens and stuff, so ended up trapping, likee 23 cats, kittens, two possums and a raccoon." one looters.mos says: "what of bothers me more is hat i'm seeing all different kinds of people coming over and taking stuff rom the yard." coming up on good day baltimore... a ne

this is in the tomb of a blog of claremont ave. fined for health violations and has been ordered to clean it up. vacaville police have arrested a sex offender that authorities believe removed his gps much ring device. he is a parolee convicted of sexual assault of a child. authorities believe he took office baristas sometime in december. they located him friday in roseville. >>darya: we're back with more in a couple of minutes. here is a live look outside. we will be right back. >>darya: a british singer is awarded nearly $1 million in the news of the world phone hacking case. churlish church -- charlotte charge says that she was hounded by journalists. in the meantime, despite the turmoil that continues around his media empire, murdoch launched a new tabloid this week called the son on sunday and replaces the news of the world which was shut down after the phone hacking scandal last year. american airlines is running out of time to make changes in labor contacts needed to get out of biggest protection. they're trying to cut 13,000

los angeles has the reason foundation, a claremont nearby. there is the manhattan institute.adison center at princeton. these are independent sources of criticism and thought, but i think it is very important -- i think it is risky that there are so many think tanks in this political hothouse of washington where it could become more and more difficult to sustain the really, really important work that we do. i just want to say that the ambition of being able to think about politics, about how we can achieve solutions that are compatible with the contentiousness of our politics the diversity of our political community, is enormously important. i do not think it is bombast. i think the work we do is tremendously important so that those of us in think tanks on the left, on the right, have to realize that our purpose is not to be in politics, not to go along for the ride, but to improve our respective parties and to improve the political system as a whole. if we keep that in mind, that is our best protection. so, those are my thoughts, and we are now going to turn to the panel, an

when i came to washington in 1986, i was working for the claremont institute. through a series of serendipitous a sense i got to talking to claris -- through a series of serendipitous events, i got to talking to clarence thomas. it was not policy-oriented or very specific at all. he deepen his understanding of american political principles, and then he could go out and choose among what the real think tanks were actually doing. i guess i am asking, who reads your stuff what effect does it have? and thomas acknowledged his debt to those of us who work in think tanks in his autobiography. >> ask a question that goes to the heart of any think-tank scholar, who read your stuff and is there any value to this? it is an existential question that is challenging to all of us. one of my former bosses said in that world you are only good as the last piece you write. >> we have come to the end of our discussion, and i would say that one piece of evidence of the value of think tanks has been these wonderful presentations. thank you very much. [applause] [captions copyright

tql down in claremont county, people working down there, young people, what they do they have no trucksy take virtual trucks and match them with loads and they ship things all over the country. 1,000 people down there -- i was told the average pay pay is $70,000. it was like going to google or to paypal or to, you know, the place where you buy all the shoes, you know, where all the people get excited, you know? it's young people excited and let me also tell you bx solutions in toledo, we lost 700 jobs and turned around a couple of weeks later and because of a great young man up there who created 550,000 new ones but we have to do better job with our infrastructure. now, let me just say something to you. we didn't take your highway money. i don't want to be misleading people anymore. oh, yeah, you want a road, we'll give you a road and it's just not true. we are 1.6 to $2 billion short. no one's leveled with you. we didn't take the money. and i didn't put this thing out now so i can get the turnpike. that's just baloney. that is not what this about. it begins to tell the truth to people

when i came to washington in 1986 i was working for the claremont institute. three series of serendipitous events, i was talking to clarence thomas. he sort of hired me as a think tank. subsequently we hired two other political people. we did some thinking. we read some serious books. it was not policy oriented or anything specific at all. he deepened his understanding of american political principles. he could go out and choose among the what the real thing tanks were actually doing. i guess i am asking -- who read your stuff, and what affect doesn't have? thomas acknowledged his debt to those of us who work with him in his autobiography and various other forms. >> you ask a question that goes to the heart of any think-tank scholar or writer. who read your stuff, and is there any value to it? it is an existential and a difficult question challenging to all of us. he said, in that world you are only as good as the last piece you're right. >> we have come to the end of our discussion. i would say one piece of evidence for the value of one think tanks to have be