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catie beck, nbc news, fort collins, colorado. >> a guy we'll want to that's "nightly news" for this thursday. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news thank you for watching and good night. . >>> right now at 6:00, ready to come back, the steps cal is taking to keep the university safe with ann coulter come for a visit. >> a new plan for the housing crisis, but it's going to cost taxpayers. >> fights on campus, exclusive video and the reason for spike in violence in the south bay. the news at 6:00 starts right now. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai. some high schools in the south bay are on high alert, vicious fights and fearful students. the superintendent of the east side union school district says there's a spike in gang fights. damian trujillo joins us with the exclusive story. damian. >> reporter: raj, the folks here at the mayor's gang prevention task force mobilized as soon as these fights started breaking out. we have video of one of those incidents. and the experts here say this could have gotten out of control. a police officer stands guard at the high school in san jose

into the street with cars honking and i was saying but i don't think he could actually float from fort collins to but here's my question for you chicken or the egg is it in the media is it their fault did the media create this did we feed it back to the media who was responsible i mean no we clapping the stones or the stones playing for us do we encourage it i don't know but notice how these people now say well we're looking back at this had mr whose it's been there at the time he would have been a part and parcel of it but there was something to use the old crowd theory this is a goosed of the bone you know this idea that we were all like murmuring starlings in schools of fish we were psychically connected and by verge. 2 of you going back into the thread to help with that we lived there you were you not even embarrassed that a woman of your mental acumen your degree of mentation brobdingnagian mange intellect self forward book. i saw that i was like oh. well you have to put that on television because i fell 400 percent at least for a little bit and then you see me like an hour later i'm goin

in fort collins, i met with truly dedicated public servants from across the federal government, people who specialize in land management and climate adaptation and had gotten together to coordinate their efforts. these exceptional public servants spent their careers protecting our public lands. they are witnessing firsthand the devastation wrought on our public lands by climate change. they described to me their battles to safeguard stands of old growth sequoyahs, a national treasure, to rebuild beaches and dunes in the face of rising seas and stronger oceanic storms. and even to cover melting glaciers with sheeting to try to help prevent them from melting quite so quickly. they love these lands. they work all their lives to help and save and protect these lands. they do everything in their power to honor and serve these lands, and the fact that they battle on in spite of the heartbreaking pace and severity of the destruction climate change is causing is a human inspiration. and speaking of inspiration, i closed out my trip with an event organized by the group p.o.w., protect our winte