the hillsdale shopping center. the mall would get a new target store and new luxury movie theaters. that's where we find nbc's cheryl hurd who joins us with the debate. >> reporter: whenever there's progress, there's always a little pain that comes with it. i am live here at the hills day shopping mall in san mateo and the owners want to make some changes but not everyone is happy about it. >> san mateo is changing. >> i'm not too sure whether sears will continue doing what they're doing. >> sears is open for business at the hillsdale shopping center but maybe not for long. >> i think target would really add to the mall. >> the development company which owns the mall is proposing a major overhaul for the shopping center. if it gets the okay it would replace sears and cost plus with a huge target store and a luxury cinema. >> we use tofd a theater there years ago on ela ka mean no. we loved that was so convenient for us. >> reporter: for fun for some but others think that target is not the right fit for the hillsdale center. some note there is already a target 2.2 miles away on the f

make hillsdale more competitive. planning commission meeting happens tonight at 7:30 at city hall. >>> 4:52. the national spelling bee gets underway today in maryland. >> hard to tell what she's spelling but the girl we heard is audry an 8th grader. 281 kids to reach this year's competition. and spelling these words wasn't enough, there is a new requirement. contestants now have to know the definitions of the words. that may help with spelling. always know the origin of the word helps. >> they always ask what is the defend physician. >>> a new airline tax is in the works. how much more you could pay when you go up in the air. >> diary discovery. how a woman found her sweet heart's war diary. >> caught on camera. what made this crane collapse on an apartment building in russia. we'll tell you when we come back. >>> we've got a game today. the bay bridge series continues. partly cloudy. a little cool. game time 7:05. we're watching this breaking news out of san francisco. a triple shooting in the san francisco's missio

at hillsdale, you are all prepared to go forward.arry the torch for freedom so each one of us works to ensure that america remains a shining city on a hill, a beacon of hope and freedom and opportunity for the rest of the world. thank you and god bless you. [applause] >> the university of minnesota morris held a commencement ceremony earlier this month. this year speaker with al franken. the former saturday light spokesperson talk about the effect on national energy policy. this is 25 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. wasn't holly great? [applause] i told her i wish she would have shared one of those 25 drafts with me. [laughter] thank you, chancellor johnson, for your leadership here, for your stewardship of this great tradition of intellectual achievement and engagement, and most of all for that really warm introduction. i want to begin by congratulating some people who truly earned a day of celebration. relax a little bit after lifetimes of taking an impossible journey to get to this day. i'm referring of course to the parents of

cheryl hurd joins us from hillsdale mall from san mateo with the details. i'm familiar with that mall. what is the plan. >> reporter: change makes some people uneasy and the owners of this mall are talking about making changes. and i talked to a lot of people today and some people are really concerned about it. sears is open for business at the hillsdale shopping center in san mateo but maybe not for long. >> i'm not sure whether sears will continue doing what they are doing. >> reporter: that is because the development company which owns the mall wants to replace sears with a target store. >> i think target would really add to the mall. >> reporter: here is an artist's rendition of the proposed project which would not only replace sears with target but would move out cost plus and move in a luxury theater. >> we used to have a theater there years ago. we loved it. it was so convenient for us. >> reporter: general manager said in a statement that the company wants to make changes because we believe the addition of a theater and new dining opportunities in a

classmates or teachers of the teachers at the hillsdale college but i wish i had known of this college. calvin coolidge was our last classically educated president and he would have found comfortable here... >> the new deal historians have their work cut out for them. coolidge proceeded over there one of the largest expansions of economic growth in american history. and he had a lot to say. he gave over 500 press conferences during his presidency and ran for office 19 times and won 18 working his way of a city councilman to president and the of his state's. truly a republican statesman. the last president to write his own speeches and penn three collections and published a thoughtful autobiography after his presidency, and rhoda of successful syndicated presidential column for a my book "why coolidge matters" is to report what coolidge had to say and what he did say in the hope we might restore his view about limited government, american independence and constitutionalism. his thinking of immigration, a civil-rights, for policy policy, government unions and liberal education warrant co

hillsdale could appreciate that. this law of knowledge of truth, something contemporary politicians, especially conservatives ought to consider taking on for themselves. . was right when he said every political party needs in some sense to be progressive rather than reactive but how should we define progress? reading coolidge might give people a good place to start. coolidge's confidence in progress according to the declaration of independence paid political dividends. the god knows from blacks and jews and immigrants and many others. you wentnyere to any audience and the vandalized, delivered the same declaration inspired message. politicians, he noted, avoid the politics of expediency and stick to the politics of principles. perhaps contemporary politicians should do as hillsdale citizens do and read coolidge's speech and the declaration of independence with which i will close. is often asserted the world has made a great deal of progress in 1776, we add new fox and new experiences which have given us a great advan

and i think he would have felt right at home at hillsdale. a school founded on the truth that all are created equal and sent many of the best and bright toast fight and even die so lincoln's home right might -- hillsdale motto pursuing truth; defnlding liberty. for those who understand that those who control the schoolhouse door ultimately control the white house. our subject is education. and what calvin a know collected statesman has to teach us about the contemporary politics in the political order. the late president of the clermont substitute has shown, he wasn't so much -- silent but silenced. the rewrote history to cast cool age as a villain. the new deal historian had their work cut out for them. he proceeded over one of the largest expansion in economic growth in american history. and he had a lot to say. he gave over 500 press conferences. during the presidency. he ran for office nineteen times and won eighteen times working the way up from city councilman to president of the united states. truly a small arm republic and statesman.

let me begin by thanking your presidents, reverent hillsdale .- reverent hillsdale a good friend, and one i admire and respect a great deal. , the think his lovely wife first lady of this institution. i thank the members of the board tremendous for their leadership. those to thank participants in the program this morning. by sturm and then it. -- vice-chairman and it. mayor miller. chairman rice. but i want to begin my comments here today by sharing with you a little experience. i was invitedago, to do a commencement address at another college in this congressional district. i met twoeks later young ladies who told me that they were in attendance for that commencement ceremony. they said to me they thought i had given a very good speech. so i decided that they to play devil's advocate. and i asked them, what did i talk about? [laughter] .hey looked at each other and after a while, one of them said, i don't remember, but it was short. [laughter] so, i gathered from that experience that in order for a commencement address to be considered good, it must be short. [applause] now, you are

at hillsdale, you are all prepared to go forward. carry the torch for freedom so each one of us works to ensure that america remains a shining city on a hill, a beacon of hope and freedom and opportunity for the rest of the world. thank you and god bless you. >> james pieper and has received early one degrees from around the country southing this in carolina. he gave this years commencement address, advising graduates to take chances and never give up. this is about 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very, very much. thank you very much, dr. rice. if i had good sense, i would keep my seat at this moment. but i don't have good sense all the time, so i'm going to spend a few moments with you this morning, offering up the commencement address. let me begin by thanking your president, reverend tisdale. a good friend, and one i admire and respect a great deal. and i think his lovely wife, the first lady of this institution. i thank the members of the board of trustees for their tremendous leadership. i want to thank those part

about graduation with a couple of high schools on the peninsula, first, we go down to arrival of hillsdale high school, wonderful, wonderful weather for the graduates, congratulations, seniors, the world is waiting. here is a look at live doppler 7 hd, notice how quiet the radar is, hardly a cloud out here, and the air is getting more dry each only. we do not have to year about fog or clouds at the coast. we have west win at 15- to 25-knots and fastest at the bay bridge the breezes will pick up a little bit around the bay waters this afternoon at 2:00 and through 9:00. we will head to the ocean and you can see northern winds around 15 to 25 and extends longer from this morning to 3:00 a.m. tomorrow which will create choppy waves. the bay wear is quiet. our winds are only around 17 as sfo and 14 at half moon bay and everyone else is less than ten miles per hour. that is indicative of high pressure taking over and the winds become light and advisoriable if not out of the north the bay waters and breezy. the microclimates are all over the place from 55 at ocean beach, to downtown, the forry b

. >>> san mateo city leaders are set to weigh in tonight on plans to revamp the hillsdale shopping centerlopers are proposing and overhaul of the north end of the mall. the plan would replace sears and cost plus world market with a target store and luxury sinny plex. the -- cineplex. they will meet and discuss this. >>> breaking news in maryland. authorities are responding to a cargo train derailment. this is from the whitemarsh area, about 14 miles northeast of baltimore. you can see flames coming from the train which derailed near an industrial park. witnesses report hearing a loud explosion. hazmat crews have responded to the scene and buildings in the area are being evacuated. no reports of they injuries at this time outside of baltimore. >>> and today on ktvu channel 2 news at 10:00 we're monitoring the breaking news out of los altos. newschopper2 is on the way to the scene right now. an suv rolled over on northbound 280 near the magdelana exit. we know people are trapped inside. lanes are blocked. a crew is on the way. we'll have a live update at 5:00. >>> thank you for trusting ktv

. >> i saw flames and i was coming up hillsdale. as soon as i solid i wanted to check that out. it was a very huge. >> you can see all of the red. you can hear the fire engines as well. >> also making this challenging is because the house has multiple layers are rules because the owner added onto a. they had to maneuver through a lot of spaces. 22 firemen arrived to fight the flames. the investigators will, to determine the cause. >> walnut creek police are looking for a man who they say attempted to rob a woman last night in a parking garage. this this surveillance video of the suspect. just before 9:00 p.m. a woman left a nordstrom store and entered the second story parking garage. the suspect came from behind and grabbed the woman and her purse. another one went to help and then scared the suspect away. the victims purse was not stolen and she was not injured. the suspect was seen fleeing south through the parking garages and down the stairwell. while the creek are asking for your help in identifying him. >> we do not have the expense of cloud cover that we had the past few m

deeper in san mateo to west hillsdale we have a good radar return. some of better runs coming from sunol grade to mission boulevard and fremont toward the parkway and 680 and 880 where they are close for a while. livermore is still looking for the best radar runs. scattered light sprinkles, and a light shower is possible during the only commute. by noon, we will start to see mostly clouds with a stray shower possible. >> we are seeing a couple of accidents working right now if you are traveling southbound along 101 coming from san francisco toward candlestick park a crash is blocking two lanes with more details on that in a little bit and we have accidents on surface streets and this is in livermore so if you are traveling in this area it is shut down because of an overturned vehicle. look at 580 in the westbound direction bumper-to-bumper traffic will take you 50 minutes to get out of tracy to dublin. this is the golden gate bridge coming from sausalito to san francisco with traffic moving smoothly and the construction in the northbound direction ha

i think we enforce serious -- serious trouble many people i like hillsdale is to a large extent it teaches these things seriously the declaration of being classically educated and if we produce people who think only in terms of policy and politics of the moment of the twitter culture that we will not be successful people need to think strategically rather than day by day politics and year by year elections. because those will follow did coolidge averred criticize with the income-tax? >> it is important to understand income-tax with terms of scope it was much lower than it is today. very few people paid in those that did, during his presidency something i have enjoyed mocking my friends that it actually got more progressive so the rich paid more in taxes because of the booming economy but you raise an interesting point*. coolidge starts his career necessity councilman and legislator but becomes president of the state senate and realize is reproducing too many bills to give the administration at chance and to catch up and later when he becomes governor and president he has the same inclinati

don't city official inside san mateo will have their chance to weigh in on a chance to renovate the hillsdaleg center. replacing sears and cost plus with a target store and a luxury cinema. the goal is to make it more competitive with other up-scale malls. >> coming up, bay area student puts her spelling skills to the test. >> and a pizza guy caught with his fingers in the pie. the video that may make you think twice about calling out for delivery. hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. closedwishing you a warmt to you by sleand colorful spring. marijuana laws could put children in jeopardy. researchers found a spike in the nu >>> a new study suggests easing marijuana laws could put children in jeopardy. children treated for accidentally ingesting marijuana after it was allowed for medical use in colorado. most of them ate foods that contained marijuana. colorado is developing child resistant packaging. >> a pizza delivery guy caught on tape helping himself to the toppings. he's in an elevator here. this is in russia. he picks the p

some slow traffic continuing pass to hillsdale.urred near be broadway station which is in berlin game, a pedestrian was struck there. that was the problem was service this morning. for a while they were stopping all trains there and turning them back in all directions. now there is single tracking through out the area that means a major delays of 30 to 60 minutes, perhaps longer if you can find an alternate route this morning you could save yourself some time, this destruction will most likely be with us for the rest of the morning. >> a similar start to the day compared to yesterday, a rise in cloud cover and results. we are however starting to see some breaks of sunshine and our inland areas. we're seeing widespread '50s out there, low 50s in san francisco mid '50s and hayward. we are expecting warmer temperatures today compared to yesterday. there will be a bigger one up into the weekend which i will talk about in my full forecast. >> onto breaking news this morning, texas law enforcement announcing just a little bit ago they ar

this is a live look at 101 near hillsdale exit. taillights moving northbound this morning. a nice smooth ride toward san francisco for now. hotspot westbound 580 approaching airway boulevard. an accident there, another motorcycle crash blocking one lane and it's really stacked up through the altamont pass. that is traffic. back to you guys. >> thank you. >>> the 12-year-old calaveras county boy accused of killing his 8-year-old sister says he didn't do it. isaiah fowler pleaded not guilty yesterday to second- degree murder. he was arrested two weeks after his sister was found stabbed to death in the family's home. he told investigators he saw a man running from the house and gave police a detailed description. he is due back in court in july. >>> it is 6:39 now. federal investigators are dealing with yet another tainted letter case. this time the target is new york city mayor michael bloomberg. two letters laced with the poison ricin. one was addressed to bloomberg and was intercepted at a manhattan mail facility on friday. the other was sent to bloomberg's gun control lobb

a new accident as southbound hillsdale boulevard, traffic is luggage from millbrae.rom the san mateo bridge. looking at the san mateo bridge, an easy ride here. drive time is still 12 to 13 minutes, a little heavy. the golden gate bridge ride is foggy again. a smooth ride through ran for 1 01 southbound. >> 9:22 a.m. and we will be back with more in just a couple of minutes. [ birds chirping ] [ inhales, exhales ] [ announcer ] cigarettes are not just dangerous when they're smoked. [ rat squeaking ] they're dangerous long after. cigarette butts are toxic. they release chemicals that poison our water... and harm wildlife. and millions... are polluting our environment. [ sniffing ] [ seagulls squawking ] >> small business owners continue to struggle to revive traditional health care benefits to their workers, but some are providing other unusual perks as an alternative to help attract and retain employees. a new report released this morning by bank of america found that only 33 percent of the small business owners its survey provide traditional health care benefits. 31

many half hi professors were classmates or teachers of the teachers at the hillsdale college but i wish i had known of this college. calvin coolidge was our last classically educated president and he would have found comfortable here...

it was in colma on hillsdale boulevard near sand hill road. but there have been three other fatal accidents on bay area road-ways this holiday weekend. early sunday morning.a popular dancer was killed on 101 in burlingame. ten other people were injured when a party bus they were in collided head- on with a car. well-known burlesque dancer sarah klien of san mateo died in the car. her husband, who was driving, was critically injured, after their car hit the center divider on 101.then stopped facing oncoming traffic. klwabueque world as "sparkly devil," and you're watching video of one of her performances. police say her husband, raul padilla, did have alcohol in his system. depending on how much, he could be charged with drinking and driving or vehicular manslaughter. finally, two more fatal accidents. one person was killed in walnut creek saturday afternoon. that accident at trinity avenue and california boulevard. and a motorcyclist died friday night at 280 and 101. two teens remain in the hospital after their car slammed into a tree early th

. >> i saw some flames we were in alameda coming of hillsdale. as soon as we we checked it out.was pretty big. >> you can see the flames from all the way down there. >> yes. you could hear the engines from down there too. >> it has actually gotten darker as the morning progressed. the fire crews turned off their lights up they have pointed at a home. most of the fire was in the first floor attic. off due to the ramada construction crews say there were a lot of boys and spaces in the home they had to maneuver through. because the fire is under investigation were expecting a fire investigator to arrive on scene between 9:00 this morning. >> darya. >> thank you mike. walnut creek police are looking for a man they say attentive to robert woman. we have surveillance that photograph of the suspect happening before 9:00. if a woman was leaving the nordstrom store and enter the second story parking garage. the suspect came of a mining grabbed the woman and her purse. another woman with to help in this year the suspect. the victims' purse was not stolen. the suspect was fleeing south to

we have an accident northbound 101 at hillsdale, we have an accident on ralston and slow traffic on theheading out to the high rise. this whole area is really a mess. i would -- if you are a drivinger use 280. if you take caltrain, service has been stopped because of a fatal accident in burlingame. the commute does not look all that bad here. if you are driving to the toll plaza this morning, it's light for you. 7:55. let's go to steve. >>> a lot of low clouds, drizzle as well. especially from the coast, parts of the bay. in fact, over highway 92 over to brisbane along the coast there's been some pretty good drizzle. some of that fog is reducing visibility. that's a sign high pressure is building in. the drizzle, though, is in place. i think it will be back today and tomorrow. it will be right down on the deck. inland areas will wake up. cool temperatures. we rebound. it will be warmer away from the coast. still 50s for many. things warmer than that in antioch right now. temperatures in the 50s. you can see the cloud cover moving north because high pressure is building in. but a few of

there was an accident off the freeway at hillsdale and it did back of the traffic on the bridge.over 15 minutes now for the san mateo bridge ride. we may be forced to much longer see some slow traffic back here near the toll plaza. a good morning so far for bart, caltrans, based train, and muni metro. >> we are seeing some sprinkles out there in fairfield, portions of solano county i still encountering some drizzle. as we take a look at your temperatures outside is cooler than 24 hours ago. we're waking up to 53 in downtown san francisco, 57 in oakland. satellite and radar monitoring the moisture for you, you can see some showers are around here just north of the san francisco bay area. we have light rain in the sierra nevada but this pressure strain is staying closer to arizona. future cast four by noon today, it will be cloudy one, 60s some seventies . we will see some breaks of sunshine and by 8:00 p.m. temperatures and below '50s and '60s. fremont 68, had spurred antioch 73, 65 castro valley. downtown san francisco 63, low seventies for napa. 7 day around the bay forecast out

southbound traffic is backed up getting down from hillsdale all the way into mountain view.r. 1 01 northbound is still going all the way up to 87 interchange. only a short break before its heavy at 237. 85 is backed up from the guadalupe parkway almost always in mountain view. the bay bridge alternates, the san mateo bridge is a hot spot. it has been jammed up with dry times running from 18 to 22 minutes in the westbound direction. the rights of the golden gate bridge is a problem free for 1 01 southbound. >> we're taking a live look outside from our roof cam, it is a sunny start to the day. today is kicking off a warming trend. and then highs getting into the low 80s. temperatures jumping almost 10 degrees tomorrow into the '90s. over 70 for the bay upper 60s for the coast and we will gradually climb into the weekend with temperatures can close to the triple digit mark on saturday. >> of 6:00 a.m. and an attempted robbery outside a high and department store in walnut creek. a live look at the golden gate bridge where we have a lot of sunshine ♪ [ man ] get the 20 piece mcnu

senator ted cruz delivered his own remarks to hillsdale college, the class of 2013.urse, is the republican senator from texas. here's senator cruz. >> 55 years ago, my father fled cuba. he had been imprisonned and for toured as a prisoner in cuba. today my father is a pastor in dallas. to this day, his front teeth are not his own because they were kicked out of his mouth when he was a teenager. when he landed in austin, texas, in 1957, he was 18, couldn't speak a word of english. he had $100 sewn into his underwear. i don't actually advise carrying money in your underwear. but he went and got a job washing dishes. he made 50 cents an hour, and he worked seven days a week and paid his way through the university of texas. and then he graduated, he got a job, and he went on to start a small business and work towards the american dream. now, imagine if at that time the minimum wage had been $2 an hour instead of being able to work for 50 cents. he might not never have had that opportunity to get that first job and work through school and work towards the american dream.

chp report, there is a wir9z down, 101 hillsdale, san mateo, expect slowing there.s. we'll be back with our next local news update at 10:26. we'll see you then. >>> from nbc news, this is "today," with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. ♪ if i could turn back time >> all we have to say is -- thank you. >> and happy birthday to cher, she's 67 years old today. >> she's had her coconuts done a few times, that's why those coconuts still look darn, darn good. >> in mine in reality are way down here. >> i'm just sipping and that's where mine are, that's sad. i'm doing it because the rest of the today show, we're the only ones left behind. >> why? >> because it would be nothing but trouble if we went on the road. they wanted to minimize the things that could go wrong, so they left the two things that could go wrong, at home. fine. >> this is called a lava flow. it's got, it's half pina colada and half strawberry daiquiri. >> i don't think you can have it, hoda? >> what's in a pina colada. >> who cares. >> hoda, you can't be doing th

peninsula, a crash 101 in hillsdale. what you would normally wear, for a summer excursion and events. >> let's pretend we, kathie lee and i are going to a barbeque. what should we wear? >> you would probably normally wear an easy throw-on dress. >> bring out britney. >> or jeans and a top. but we are going to get a little more adventurous. this is britney and she has on a little t.j. maxx ensemble. and i've experimented with bright color and print. she's wearing shorts from t.j. maxx, which we love because they're designer items for half the price and then what's so cool is we've added a print on the foot. and these are aerosoles and they feel like slippers, they use comfort technology. the way to add personality without wearing too much print. >> they're just adorable. >> little touches. >> thank you, britney. >> not your normal barbeque outfit. >> in this case, we're going to a sunday brunch, what would we wear? >> probably a dress. right? >> but not ashley. >> i don't know if you guys are seeing in fashion, a lot of p