the jcc says it continues to receive money each month, about a few thousand dollars every month.onty francis, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> in palo alto that a cherry blossom tree was planted today. this tree was special significance to that city. the government of japan gave palo alto the tree as a thu for support after the earthquake. that city raised more than $16,000 in relief funds to help with the recovery. palo alto has close ties through the neighbors abroad organization which aims to promote international friendship. >>> dozens of high school teachers around the bay area gathered in san francisco today for a high-tech lesson on the holocaust. 70 teachers gathered for day one of a thee-day education summit. the united states holocaust memorial museum is simulcasting sessions to the american jewish university in los angeles and csu pakers field. the goal is to show teachers how to best educate their students on the complex subject. >> holocaust is not only part of our state standards of teaching students in history but complex subject matter. so it is an important t

he lets the day care is would-be private day cares, jcc, booker t., those are the big ones. there are some others floating around. >> if you look on this list, had is one -- that is one line. it is the same bus route in the afternoon. most of those schools are losing service after this year. thank you. vice president norton: my question was about special ed students. i have heard a few reports and i think there is some confusion out there. as this is starting to seep out, the people are upset that bus routes are changing. i have been contacted by a few families who are worried that their special ed children are losing transportation. i know that we are not proposing to do that. in some cases at the middle school level and some elementary, there are students riding a big yellow bus who have iep's. they did not get a door-to-door route and instead got a big yellow route. are we making sure that those who have transportation needs and iep's are not going to lose transportation because of this? i have gotten some queries from parents who are being told that their kids are losing

extra security can be seen outside the gates of several jcc locations. they are checking cars and looking for anything suspicious. it's in response to a shooting today in a jewish school in france. a man on a scooter opened fire, killing four people, including three children. >>> next, rescue at sea. two bay area boys out for a swim almost didn't make it back. >> the wife of a u.s. soldier accused of killing afghans speaks out. >> it's called erotica for mommy. why ebooks are making an x rated topic very popular. >> the hype continues. jeremy lin jumps into the car business. >> i'm jeff ranieri in the weather center. spring equinox arrived and it's fitting that we are tracking spring showers on the radar. we will detail your chances of rainfall coming up in my seven-day forecast. >> swept out to sea. it took an army to rescue three people off the coast of sonoma county. they are getting much-needed rest after a terrifying and exhausting ordeal. investigators say two 12-year-old boys got caught in a rip tide while boogie boarding north of bodega bay. one

the arab league and jcc have wrapped up their pressure. the eu enter key -- and turkey, a close friend, have done the same. the un general assembly voted 137 to 12 to democrat down. two weeks ago, the senate passed unanimously a resolution introducing -- introduced by this committee condemning the regime for its brutal crackdown. there are still serious questions about various opposition organizations. including especially the syrian national council and free syrian army. they share the goal of getting rid of assad they have travel some distance in the last year. they have not yet unified in the way that the libyan transitional national council did. i believe it is time for us to re-double our efforts to update with the political opposition to try to ship their thinking to understand it and identify the leadership. to encourage them to coalesce into a coherent political force. with the creation of friends of syria group, there is now a multilateral mechanism for supporting the syrian national council and other political groups with technic