reporting live at uc berkeley jodi hernandez nbc bay area news. >> thanks jodi. >>> jodi hand following the day all day this is a tweet she spent out a few days ago. if you are on twitter you can follow her @jodi hernandez. >> we mentioned the upcoming free speech week at cal. milo yiannopoulos and steve bannon and ann coulter headliners. but there are 17 others we post-ed the full lineup on the front page of the website at nbcbayarea.com. >> as cal notes the pursuit of peace is expensive now we learned san francisco police ended up spending nearly a million dollars on a controversial rally that never took place .patriot prayer ralia was supposed to happen at kristy field last month. that forced extra barricades and extra officers but the rally was cancelled by organizers over fierce of violence how much did it cost sf pd spent $775,000, 98% of that money was for officer overtime. the remainder was spent on water food and transportation costs. >>> still to come at 5:00. traffic is bad here in the bay area. are we in a near constant commute something like los angeles? we have some new da

jody joins us on the phone right now. tell us and our viewers that you are okay. >> reporter: i'm absolutely okay. scary moments here but fortunately everyone is okay. we were on our way to the court when traffic came to a stand still, got out of the van, and walked up to the police line where they had stopped traffic and i witnessed the s.w.a.t. team and all of a sudden shots range out. looked like tier tear gas and s. and they confirmed that the driver did shoot at the officer because it was an exchange of gunfire. he also confirmed that this all started in fairfield this morning with a failure to yield situation. fairfield police began chasing the driver. and richmond police got involved and contacted chp. they tell me they set up a spike strip on the freeway. and when the driver hit the spike strip he lost a wheel, hit a concrete barrier, then came to a stop there in emeryville. and that's where he refused to get out of the car and where the standoff took place. now folks have been out here, as we have, for a few hour

thank you jodi. >>> stay with us for continuing coverage.e'll be live tweeting throughout the night. you can follow us on twitter. >>> an a all-star lineup of conservative speakers will take part. milo yiannopoulos will speak three separate days beginning sunday september 24th. he will also talk on the 26th and 27th of september. the last time yiannopoulos visited it was cancelled. even though he was there on campus and it led to violent protests. james demoore, a google employed fired in august after he wrote the controversial internal mo discussing women's inequality in the tech industry. and the two headliners will be in berkeley on wednesday the 27th, former white house chief strategist steve bannon will be in town followed by author tv and radio personality ann coulter. she was scheduled to speak last spring but after a baths over when and where she would be allowed her appearance was cancelled. >>> berkeley police release add new photo of a investigation into a protest. this man was among a group of people who beat a counterprotesters

alaska air captain jodi was a match. >> pretty fair trade, right?> reporter: the transplant was a success. and that flight attendant and pilot are both back to work and checking in with us. >> i feel amazing. >> reporter: mutual admiration for the donor and recipient. >> back to normal. i have a little more kick in my step. >> reporter: the pilot, who donated her kidney, completed a marathon on a nearly 3,000-foot mountain, and she was right there by her side, my kidney's other half is on that mountain. >> back to running mountains and participating in any outdoor activity i can possibly get my hands on. >> for me to have my life back is extraordinary. i wouldn't be the same if it were not for jodi. >> you're welcome. >> reporter: always coming back to the laughter that got them through. david muir, abc news, new york. >> how cute are they? >> very cute. >> here's awesome. jodi, the pilot's house burned down. >> oh. >> so that flight attendant who received the kidney was the first person on the scene, she showed up with a lasagna saying you don't kn

reporting live at uc berkeley jody hernandez nbc bay area news. >> jodi has been post-ing images of thise protest all day that includes this one. moments after a fire alarm went off as a small group tried to storm and occupy wheeler hall on the cal kafrmz. you can get videos like this on the twitter feed. follow us, the handle is @nbc bay area. >> a warning for anyone using an in santa clara county, four robberies in one day. two -- you two expects seen here robbed at least four people at t o atms on september 8, santa clara, san jose, sunnyvale and camable. teach time they had guns. they were driving a dark gray nissan sent are. a lot of smoke and flames in san jose this afternoon. an auto shop caught fire on king's row near 8 80 half a dos the cars zroipd. hot spots at the auto shop. no word on the cause dys. >>> people before politics diane feinstein plea to california cronk o areenings in congress in a letter she is urging them to video against the health care bill saying if the bill makes it to the house you have an opportunity to top it. i implore you to do so this is about putting

. >> this is my girlfriend, jodie. she's solid. >> i wasn't nice at all. i used to collect for dope dealers and store guys and everyone else in here that made money. i used to get half. that was my hustle. get me half of what he owed you and i'll collect it up for you. i didn't care how bad i had to hurt the guy. the guy could have been a friend of mine. i didn't care. business is business, friends is friends. i'd send you to a hospital, no sooner you come back, smoke a joint, drink a jug of homemade wine with you right afterwards. like i said, business is business. friends is friends. >> alcohol is not allowed in prison. but that doesn't stop the inmates from making it, or correctional officers from confiscating it. >> we're on a wine run today. getting close to the weekend. that means football. they'll be drinking their wine. so we're here to spoil the party. >> inmate-produced alcohol can be made from ingredients as basic as fruit, bread and juice. >> dexter, come on. calvin holmes is considered an expert. >> mine comes off about 25%, 30% alcohol. most

reporting live at berkeley jb jodi, hernandez. >> now, jodi did post-that video of the crowd behind the scenes as the decision was being made and announced at the city council meeting. you can follow her at jodi hernandez tv. >> well spectacular to see but the lightning comes with serious danger, more than a thousand strikes sparked several fires in the bay area. including one in woodside. the crews battling this fire off of 280. off of sky line road about three miles west of wootside. the latest update 60 acres burns no homes threatened >> we're looking toward san jose, toward the south where lightning strikes could come from. our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is keeping an eye within with radar but we begin with dami dami damian. >> we have a difficult fire. >> they make the rounds every 15 minutes. scanning the santa clara valley to the west and. >> we can see when it's clear. and only down to monthera on the south. >> visibility is low today. but yesterday it was a light show on mount copernicus. the strikes sparked seven brush fires and the natural light also came dangerously cl

jodi hernandez is on i-80. frightening momentum ining mome. you were there when the shots were fired. >> reporter: i got quite a scare when officers fired 20 shots at the suspect. interstate 80 is about to reopen. you're looking at the westbound lanes. police tell us it is supposed to open within this hour. an intense hail of gunfire on interstate 80. our cameras were rolling as an armed homicide suspect jumped out his suv. we froze the video before he got shot. police say the man took aim at them forcing them to open fire as commuters looked on. >> in this incident, shots are being fired at the officer so the officers fearing for their lives had to engage. >> reporter: police say it all started just after 8:30 this morning when fairfield detectives located a homicide suspect in richmond. they say he refused to stop and led police on a high speed chase down interstate 80 where the chp set up a spike strip to slow him down. >> the vehicle collided with a concrete barrier. it lost its front right wheel. it came to a stop westbound 80. officers s

we'll bring in jodi hernandez who joins from us cal this evening. what's the story here? >> reporter: raj the university says it has instructed uc p.c. to monitoring illegal vending because of health concerns and in the interest of small business out here. but what happened here to a haut dog surrender over the weekend is raising eyebrows causing a lot of anger. >> i was shocked. i was utterly snokd. >> martin flores says he is angered at hurt and how a uc police officer treated an unpermitted street surrender selling hot dogs outside a football game. the officer demanded the identification but ended up grabbing the the wallet and taking money as well as fingerprinting him. >> i can only assume that he was an easy target, that he carb carb did -- that the officer probably figured i could get away with this. >> are you going to take his hard earned money. >> flores who was a uc berkeley alum recorded with his cell phone. a video that went virile. he says others in the community are outraged. they say the incident sends the wrong message to communities of color. >> even if

reporting live, jodi hernandez nbc bay area news. >> thank you jodi. >>> making sure the music stays off after 10:00. it appears no more concerts during at leave vye stadium. because of the 10:00 p.m. curfew skernts will only be allowed at 0 p.m. curfew is later then at 11:00 p.m. the pop star said he will not play there because of the restriction, the 10:00 p.m. restriction placed by the city of santa clara. the no week night concert protocol kicks in after the cold play concert next weekend. >> a 14-year-old student was stabbed on a san jose campus and two teenagers in custody. we'll tell you what happened and the lingering fears they left behind. >>> also who is paying for the warrior victory parade a couple of months ago? we'll tell but the agreement just reached today and why the warriors aren't happy about it. >>> i'm meteorologist jeff ranieri. after warm weather this week the fog is building back in the coastline. track going for you and let you know the big impact on the temperatures. coming up at 5:20 tonight. tragedy strikes again at el capitan. >>> we want to take you bac

reporting live at uc berkeley jodi hernandez. nbc bay area news. >> okay jodi, thank you. >>> a good way to keep track of what's happening with free speech week, our free nbc bay area app. we sent out the push alert earlier when ann coulter announced she is not keeping. we will track the developments through the weekend. >>> we are also following breaking news regarding the russian election hacking investigation. according to the associated press u.s. homicide says hacker targeted 21 states during the presidential election. but federal officials say in most cases the election systems in those states were not breached. pits unclear if california was targeted. we do have calls out from the california secretary of state office we'll let you know the response. >> she is stick wg the maverick moniker john mccain breaking ranks with gop colleagues saying he will not vote for the parties new health care plan. mccain says there are too many unknowns for him to support the support the graham cassidy bill this in spite of the relationship

nbc bay area jodi hernandez continues coverage joining us from be oakland with more. jodi. >> reporter: some residents are still not being allowed to return to their homes. we're standing on campus drive at -- and this is as far as some people are allowed to go. you can see the police with the road block. folks have been camped out here. there is a long line of people waiting to get in. i'll tell you, it has been an anxious day for people who live in this neighborhood. a traumatic afternoon for people living along campus drive in the oakland hills. asxd a four-alarm fire forced 5 homes to be evacuated. leaving residents in an absolute panic. >> i'm just really shook up right now. i'm hoping our house is okay. we can't get to it right now. so we'll see what happens. upscale neighborhood, parking in driveways to protect the multimillion dollar homes. muz among those evacuate sflood i went over when he came out and talked to to him told i i was trying to get you out he said sorry i was asleep. >> he evacuated. >> clay thompson evacuated as well. >> firefighters later con

nbc bay area jodi hernandez spoke with the attorney today and joins us this evening in oakland. jodi. >> reporter: raj michael bennett's attorney says they have been asking for in video for quite some time. las vegas investigators say the new video exonerates their officers. but attorney john burris here says not the case. you're looking at police body cam video that las vegas investigators say proved police did what they were trained to do when they detained the seattle seahawks player michael bennett oud a casino last month. >> i'd like to start by saying that while i'm responding because of the allegations of mr. bennett i'm not here tos disparage him. as often in the case there are two sides to the story. >> the video shows the crowd at a hotel casino night ground hit the ground at the sound of what they thought were gunshots. taking off running bennett included. but the sheriff says the actions standard out from the rest as aer ran through a row of slot machines then jumped a metal rail outside. the sheriff says he was running with purpose. >> they were all running with pur

yvonne: jodi schneider, joining us with the latest on iran. betty: been so much, jodi.ews now with paul allen. paul: the fed has announced the beginning of the end of an era, saying it will start to shrink its gigantic balance sheet next month. the fomc left rates unchanged as expected. fed policymakers still expect another hike before the end of the year. janet yellen continues to see the economy strengthening with a healthy labor market and rising inflation, but admitted the cpi undershoot is a mystery. >> for quite some time, inflation has been running below the committee's 2% longer run objective. however, we believe this year's shortfall in inflation primarily reflects developments that are largely unrelated to broader economic conditions. paul: legal experts say the facts could get away -- say equifax could get away with just paying one dollar each for the millions of people whose data was compromised. that is based on the millions of dollars that anthem agreed to pay to resolve claims they did not protect customers from a hacked in 2015. faces facts e --quifax la

jodi hernandez joins us live from concord where the heat and haze is making it dangerous for people. >> reporter: definitely dealing with a double whammy. the excessive heat and hazy, smokey air. pg&e is in all emergency response mode. all of the transformers lined up in case other transformers blow. >> this is potentially the largest heat event. most impactful that we will experience since 2006. >> reporter: as the bay area heats up, pg&e says they are ready to response to what could be the worst heat wave in decades. >> we have extra crews and equipment and resources. >> reporter: people are looking for places to keep cool and safe. cooling centers are expected to be popular places. not just the heat folks are trying to escape. smoke from the wildfires have drifted in the bay area. prompting a smoke advisory. >> it is smothering. it is smothering. it comes down on you and it is stifling. >> reporter: animals are also at risk. animal control officers expect to be swamped with calls to rescues. >> a lot of 911 calls are for dogs in cars, not enough water. >> reporter: fortunately thi

reporting live from uc berkeley i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> thanks, jodi. >> jodi has been reporting the story on social media. here a tweet she sent out a few moments ago. if you are on twitter you can follow her. >>> as uc berkeley knows the pursuit of peace is expensive and we have learned san francisco police spent nearly a million dollars on a contention rally that never took place. supposed to happen at crissy field last month. the city put up barricades and extra officers but organizer cancelled because of fierce of violence. still thousands of protesters showed pup how much did it cost the city. san francisco police spent $77 a 5,098% of that was for officer overtime the remainder went to food water and transportation costs. >> >>> notesable developments on undocumented immigrants. today we could have a sanctuary states. today the legislator pass add bill. governor brown must sign the bill by october 15th to become law. also today a federal judge issue add nationwide injunction blocking president trump's from denying funds to antingary cities. ruling comes in respon

jodi. >> reporter: raj, the berkeley police chief brought the pepper spray issue to the council as an urgent request. as you mentioned just within the last 15 minutes the council gave the department the green light to use pepper spray on violent individuals at protests. >> we want you to be able to see for yourself the actual weapons that are being brought to the fray. >> berkeley police chief is asking the city council to lift its ban on the use of pep he spray when members of a crowd get violent. with conservative commentator ben shap err o set to speak at uc berkeley this thursday the chief said the police need the industry standard tool to keep things safe. >> we're facing the prospect of meeting a large armed

reporting live in richmond, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> okay thank you jodi.night we have identified the man at the center of 580 shut down in the east bay. this is the stand off yesterday. now we know the man in the black san leandro. a homicide suspect wanted for>% 9 in fairfield. the police chase ended near the 580 split in emeryville where police surrounded the suv. it ended in gunfire and he died at the hospital. it's unchlorwho fired the fatal shot. >>> was he wrongly convicted we koouk talk exclusively to a man behind bars for a love triangle murder case. the reason he says police set him up. >>> plus parkingqeç headaches i the city. we'll tell you of the plan to try to solve the problem. will it work? >>> and temperatures starting to cool down, 20 degrees cooler at this hour in san francisco. we are tracking what that means for friday forecast coming up in about 8 minutes.9d corruption. nine years after a prominent businessman was gunned down in front of his own house, the main is speaking from his jail cell. nbc bay area damian trujillo soins us fro

reporting live in oklahoma hills, jodi hernandez. >> good news thank you jodi. >>> smoke could be from the fire across the bay. bepetitioned up the video. jeff ranieri joins us now and let's talk about the conditions and the wind. >> that was the big catalyst today to help the fire spread as rapidly as we did. thankfully they got it attacked by air and on the ground very fast. it's a northeast wind coming here at 5 to 10-mile-per-hour. any time that you have dry direction of the wind out of the northeast it's going to help suck the humidity out of the atmosphere. that keeps the fire danger extra high. right now firefighters beginning to see some relief when it comes to weather. we've seen the temperature drop to 88 degrees. humidity on the rise. that's also a good sign. 36%. winds at times here over the past 10 minutes out the of the northeast at 10-mile-per-hour. temperatures drop tonight down to the 70s by 8:00 and 9:00 and 10:00 this evening. that's continuing to help the firefightering effort because there are so many hot spots. speaking of which areas you need to watch out closely

alaska air captain jody hartscamp was a match. >> i lose a kidney, she gets to live. pretty fair trade, right? >> reporter: tonight, that flight attendant and that pilot are both back to work and checking in with us. >> my feel amazing. i'm doing great. >> thank you. >> reporter: mutual admiration >> reporter: the pilot, jody, who donated her kidney, completing a marathon on a nearly 3,000-foot mountain. anje her sipe, "my kidney's other half is on that mountain." >> i took four months off and i've been back to running mountains. >> for me, to have my life back is just extraordinary. i may not be here if it weren't for jody. >> you're welcome. >> the laughter that got them through it from the start. thanks for watching here tonight. iri'm muvid here tomorrow. until then, good night. emergency rescues underway. so far it's killed 119 people, but that number keeps rising every few minutes. >> taking a look where it hit th centered 76 miles southeast of meks city where the mayor announced 44 buildings had collapsed. >> i'm dan ashley. a i'm carlinr ama daetz. >> abc news

manus: jodi, thank you very much. jodi schneider giving us the latest. parker, good to see you this morning. waking up this morning, and again, it sounds as if the war of words, the actions and reactions, are mounting. here we are, facing the prospect of a test of a hydrogen bomb. is this a new shift in risk? bob: i think the answer to that is yes, but look at the reaction in markets. whether you look at risk indicators like the swiss franc, the yen, the level of gold, what is happening in global government bond markets, whether it is the vix, or other volatility measures. or wrongly that investors are not that concerned about this. investors are assuming that the war of words, the rhetoric, will remain fairly intense. i think in addition, there is an element of fatigue because no one really sees the endgame here. you can make the assumption that we are going to have constant tension and rhetoric, but actually no massive escalation, and that explains why all the risk indicators still remained very subdued. morning to you. this is the constant rhetoric th

the i-team jodie has an update on where the boys are headed now, jodie. >> it's being a trying month. the brothers have been living with relatives in el salvador after spending nine years here in maryland. now just today, the brothers learned they will be off to nicaragua to continue their education while they fight to get back to the u.s. >> this photo of dee their porch is a far cry from the smiling pictures with their family and friends back in maryland. >> they don't feel good over there. they get bored because they're not doing anything and they're scared to go out. >> they came to the u.s. illegally in 2009 at ages 10 and 13. parents and older siblings were already here. they went to an i.c.e. check in and never came home. earned a soccer scholarship. instead, i.c.e. detained both brothers then deported them within days. >> they don't even know what's the name of the president when they got there. they have family, friends. >> the brothers are montgomery county soccer stand outs. teammates, coaches and the families rallied to keep the boys here. lack of opportunity in working to

jodi: that's right.nistration is putting a lot of muscle behind this, and congress must does, too. this is something paul ryan, the house speaker who used to be the chair of the ways and means committee, the tax-writing committee in the house, really wants to see. however, tax reform is extraordinarily hard to do. the last full rewrite of the u.s. tax code was in 1986. we just saw the difficulty congress had repealing obamacare, which they had vowed to do, had been trying to do from a seven years now. it is going to be a very, very heavy lift. yes, this is something that will be priority one on the republicans agenda. yvonne: it seems to be that is where the focus is from the president as well as he does head to indiana on wednesday. what is the focus of the speech in particular? a lot has to do with the senator in indiana and convincing him to go through or support the gop tax overhaul. jodi: yeah, it is going to be about taxes. the president is going to be stumping for taxes now. he wants to change the

. >> reporter: jodi's eyes light up when she thinks of the glitz and glam she experienced this summer. >> going to l.a. and up on the stage with all the people, like i was getting an emmy. >> reporter: the 52-year-old was honored with an award win the u.s. department of health and human services for her work with veterans experiencing mental health and addiction. the road to the bright lights were filled with hurt and depression. >> i swallowed 100 as xanex bas i had enough. >> reporter: she lives at the coatsville veterans affairs medical center. she was addicted to drug and alcohol for 17 years. she helps 150 veterans. >> when i get lost, or have ptsd or go through moments. >> you have to be comfortable with myself. >> her boss and friend for more than a decade nominated her for the award it made it possible to open up a brand new center in north philadelphia augur the same mental health and addiction service. >> without the work jodi has been doing in coatsville and the success and outcome of the program, i don't know that the federal government would have awarded us this new progr

jody?imagine getting a fancy new present christmas morning and letting it sit on the shelf a year before you can use it. we heard this from police officers because the wait to use two new driving areas was driving them nuts. >>> many officers consider their patrol car their office. constantly on the move, racing from call to call. >> it's one of the most critical areas because we spend so much time driving. >> reporter: he is an instructor at montgomery county's public safety driving area. it cost more than a million dollar and opened late last year. >> that was immediately recognized, this could potentially be very hazardous to the recruits. >> reporter: when officers started driving the new track, they noticed this small hill where they actually lose sight of the road on the other side. he training for veteran officers, but rookies who don't have driving experience could lose control. >> we have a potential for it going up on that berm. >> reporter: some areas of the track have guardrails

. >> reporter: jodi's eyes light up when she thinks of the glitz and glam they experienced this summer. >> in l.a. with all the people in the lights like i was getting an emmy or something. she was honored by the 2017 voice award from the department of health and human services for her work with veterans battling menal health issues and addiction. but the road to the bright lights was filled with sadness and addiction. >> i wanted to swallow 100 xanex. a friend found me and dragged me to the store. >> she describes it's recovery home for vets and she herself was addicted to drugs and alcohol for two decades and was clean for 17 years, she helped 150 veterans and residents last year do the same. >> when i get lost or being you know from ppsd and go to the moments -- >> how to be comfortable with myself. >> her boss and friend for more than a decade jess, nominated her for the award and made it possible to open up a brand new center in north philadelphia offering the same mental health and recovery services. >> and the work jodi is doing and the success with the program. i don't know if

jodi schneider is in hong kong. speechpresident trump's being received?received i some in the room and it has received wider reaction since then. with hiswas pleased own speech. he came and did what he had meant to do in terms of calling iran inh korea and particular but also in trying to make a point about national sovereignty and the primacy of national sovereignty. he made that .21 times in a 42 minute speech. it was well received by benjamin netanyahu who called it a great speech but less well received a other world leaders including emmanuel macron of france who later on when he gave his own speech made some changes to it to respond particularly on the issue of iran. others were concerned about the whole focus on national sovereignty rather than on the world body and solving things as a world organization especially given that the speech was given at the u.n. manus: this is another where [inaudible] what is the position, saudi wants to ratchet things up much trump we understand wants a little bit of applause for thought in the middle east for -- in t

and the university this this just goes on and on jodi. >> reporter: it does.erkeley patriot members tell me they are finalizing the list of speakers. but they insist the event will take place and the university says they'll be ready. as cal students gear up for tomorrow's big football game against usc they are also bracing for what's expected to be an bigger event on campus. four days of controversial ultraconservative speakers, including milo yiannopoulos. >> we have a lot of outside organizations from our school coming in. and they're disrupting

recording live jodi hernandez nbc bay area. >> we'll keep eye close watch. >>> a couple of hours ben shapiro retweeted jodi hernandez's tweets showing the boarding up and the business preparations for tweets. >> saying yes let's pretend this is all done in fear of conservatives. here is ben shapiro? born in l.a. to a partly russian jewish family. he graduated from ucla in political science. he the grat are graduated from harvard law school. he start add political podcast in 2015. it is now the second most popular itunes podcast in the country. behind only oprah. he has more than 2.5 million followers on facebook. >> this isn't just about politics and free speech. it's about business. local businesses are clamping down on security measures some closing up shop early while others taking more drastic measures. sam brock continues our coverage from berkeley along the avenue. >> reporter: for most of the afternoon it was business as usual on cal's campus except for the added security measures from police and from berkeley businesses. luis medina manages mobile banking services for several

jody. >> reporter: that's right the debate is taking place as we speak inside council chambers. now police have been band from using pepper spray in a crowd here in berkeley the past two decades. but the chief says it's time to rethink that. >> we want you to be able to see for yourself the actual weapons being brought to the frey. >> berkeley police chief is asking the city council to live the band on the use of pepper spray when members of a crowd get violent. with conservative comment at that time tart ben sharp o set to speak thursday. the police said they need the industry standard tool to help keep things safe. >> we're making the prospect of meet ago large, armed coordinated group prepared to use explosives clubs projectiles. >> what we have seen in berkeley in the events is the rise of the growth of extremist groups. >> berkeley's mayor agrees. he says the proposed new rule would allow police to use pepper spray on violent people in a crowd but not for crowd control. >> this is only going to be used against a specific individual who is engaged in vienlz to minls. >> city

i'm jodi hernandez. >> jodi was stuck in that traffic and heard the gunshots. she's been tweeting updates throughout the day. you can follow her. >>> getting around the east bay was a mess today but all lanes are back open and things are starting to get back to normal albeit slowly. how does it look out there? >> it's looking much better than it had been since 9:00 in the morning when this traffic camera spotted the activity. as you see all lanes westbound have reopened. they did during the 5:00 newscast. we see that eastbound benefitted greatly because the distractions no longer there. folks are able to get away from the bay bridge just fine. we have all the back upcoming down out of richmond and downtown towards the bay bridge. that's the reason why traffic is still very slow and it's very slow on city streets. it's a big issue. a lot of traffic getting across the bay bridge jamming up the approach in san francisco. i'll be with you tomorrow morning the see how this shapes up. a lot of folks didn't make it into work today. got some time to make up. send it ba

and the university this this just goes on and on jodi. >> reporter: it does. berkeley patriot members tell me they are finalizing the list of speakers. but they insist the event will take place and the university says they'll be ready. as cal students gear up for tomorrow's big football game against usc they are also bracing for what's expected to be an bigger event on campus. four days of controversial ultraconservative speakers, including milo yiannopoulos. >> we have a lot of outside organizations from our school coming in. and they're disrupting our education. >> today ann coulter told the associated press she won't be coming. but student organizers with the berkeley patriot tell nbc bay area while the list of speakers is in flux the event is still on. >> the only chance i consider that mill of not coming is if something is wrong with his guarantee. i can't guarantee the event is going on. >> if the speakerers comes we'll be ready. >> the university is in the dark about who is and isn't coming. but are determined to keep the campus safe. >> we are going to

jody?> jim, the brothers are moving to nicaragua, a country they've never visited and no family and friends. what they will have is two soccer scholarships to continue their american education at the campus of a u.s.-based university. >> everything is completely different. we barely go out. we barely have friends. >> with a wi-fi signal spotty at best. the brothers attempt to reach out to the world they left behind. from the front porch of their aunt's house in a tiny village. their parents and siblings still back in maryland. >> it's really hard. waking up in the morning and you don't see them. it's really hard. >> la sandro and diego came to the u.s. illegal i in 2009 at ages 10 and 13. their parents and older siblings had come a few years earlier. they have never been in bl august. >> we were handcuffed, they put a chain around your belt. a i mean, it was as if we had -- >> lass androwas about to move to north carolina to start college on a scholarship. >> all my dreams were put in the t

let's begin with jodi hernandez near the fire lines.lly starting to let some residents back in. you can see the cars lined up. they are actually checking addresses. some are being allowed back in others are going to have to wait a while. i'll tell you, it has been a tense and scarey afternoon for residents of the 100 or so homes evacuated. a dramatic afternoon for people living along campus drive in the oakland hills as a four-alarm fire forced 50 homes to be evacuated. leaving residents in an

let's begin with nbc bay area jodi hernandez on campus with the latest.odi. >> reporter: raj, we are inside the perimeter in front of zellerbach hall. those who have a ticket have lined up here as you can see. and they are getting ready to go in. we are told the doors are about to open. now these folks have all gone

nbc jodi hernandez joins from us uc berkeley. a lot of mixed messages what's happening this evening there. >> reporter: raj as you mentioned the speakers didn't show up. but the security force certainly did. you can see the orange barricades that are out here in the plaza. where the so-called free speech week was supposed to take place. instead things have been relatively quiet. >> as a student i'm sad that somebody who supports free speech i'm sad. >> the editor of the berkeley patriot sat alone on the steps of the hall this afternoon. thinking about what could have been. mike wright says calling off so-called free-speech week features controversial conservative speakers was a tough decision. >> didn't feel safe didn't feel like we were being backed up by the university under the possibility that if something went wrong the university implied we'd be liables. >> milo yiannopoulos came to campus for a brief visit anyway yesterday. well today speeches are cancelled. barricades remain up and police are still out in force. and all o

jody fleischer, news 4 i-team. >> you've got monday behind you. how much longer are we going to be in summer? >> we'll be in summer through wednesday and as we look to thursday it'sing go to be our transition day. by the weekend i mentioned 40s earlier. some of us will be in the 40s on sunday morning. >> ooh. all right. >> it's only monday. there may be a lot to process. you're hearing 40s on sunday we're feeling like summer around here through wednesday. our high today 91 degrees. we keep the humidity tomorrow we are a little cooler. hot out there. thursday we start to change back to more fall-like weather and then this weekend feeling very much like fall. you can turn off the air-conditioner. might even have to turn on the heat in your home, especially if you live in the more rural areas. currently it's balmy outside. 77 in washington. down to 68 degrees in honey town. 72 in the leesburg area. tomorrow we start out the day 78 right around 72 degrees. nice but unlike the blue skies we had this morning we'll already have more clouds out there and

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