kpix 5's len ramirez joining us where students just wrapped up the fund raiser. len. >> reporter: san jose is home to a great many philippine americans. many of them with very close family ties to the philippines. so it seems only natural for the students here at san jose state to want to help out in between their classes. >> students at san jose dug into their wallets to help aid typhoon survivors in the philippines. besides money, students are also collecting food, clothing, and supplies. they're working with the bay area nonprofit project pearls. the lbc cargo company and the philippine red cross which will get the supplies and support directly to the victims. >> we're collecting canned foods, dry foods, any nonperishable foods or foods they will be able to have over there. >> they set up tents and collected items for passing students throughout the day. it was 85 organize and supported by philippine american student organizations on campus. many of these students have relatives in the philippines and feel a personal connection with the victims who right now la

our len ramirez on how city leaders are hoping to keep these creatures away for good. len. >> reporter: elizabeth, some people might call this the final solution to the pig problem here at the almaden golf and country club. look at the third fairway here. this is very expensive damage to this golf course. these pigs have been coming in here and laying waste to these fairways. there are a lot of shots taken on this golf course, but as part of this problem, the next shots may be right at the pigs themselves. >>> reporter: they're bold, aggressive, wild, hungry. packs of pigs coming down from the hills searching for food, water and grubs laying waste the golf and fairways. but time is running out for the pigs and it may be at the end of a barrel. >> this would allow trappers to just use a gun to dispatch the animal. >> reporter: san jose city council member johnnie khamis is introducing an emergency measure to allow trappers to shoot firearms inside the city limits. the pigs would be trapped then quickly shot on sight. >> this is not a hunting permit that we're talking abo

kpix 5's len ramirez on whether it's a sign of things to come. should we be worried about that, len? >> reporter: well, the scientists say there is no science to back up whether or not these series of quakes relieve stress on a fault or are a precursor to a bigger quake. we're standing at the epicenter of one of the latest quakes. there are six of these epicenter sites now scattered throughout this area. they haven't caused any damage, but they certainly are shaking people up. >>> reporter: some pampering at a san ramon day spa was the perfect follow-up to the stress of going through an earthquake for jane who felt her first quake ever. >> i felt the house move and my daughter said, mum, that was an earthquake. oh, my goodness. the last thing i expected. we don't have those in new orleans. >> reporter: the 3.4 magnitude quake hit at about 9:30 this morning and was centered inside the crow canyon country club. there were no reports of damage, but it was the sixth in a series of small quakes to hit the san ramon area since friday. john sanders felt

>> reporter: in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. >>> here we come, it's time for weather, are you ready? >> it is! of course i'm ready for you guys! hey, you know what? looks like it's going to be a great day ahead but some changes coming our way. outside no dense fog like before so looking like great weather today as, well, looks like high pressure holding on, although some chilly temperatures. if you are stepping outside this morning, you heading on out, mostly clear skies, patchy fog early on, breezy too. temperatures in the 40s and 50s although the napa valley down to the 30s. by the afternoon we'll find some sunshine breezy toward the coastline. sunny inside the bay and temperatures in the 60s and near normal right around the upper 60s in some of the paul vallas. now, we have another area of low pressure that's passing just to our east and then another one dropping in over to the north. that means we're going to watch these systems move through from time to time. it will keep us cool on the weekend and it will be breezy at times too. we may see some occasional clouds passing on thr

as kpix 5's len ramirez reports, the move has left students and faculty stunned. >> i am a student and this is personal! >> reporter: san jose state administrators faced a crowded room full of students and faculty frustrated that more classes are to be cut, more instructors to be laid off. >> i'm done with it! this is a glorified pr seminar. i'm done. [ applause ] >> reporter: late last week, just days before spring enrollment begins, the university told academic department chairs they would have to again make millions of dollars in cuts to stay within their budgets. >> for me, i'm a small department, and i had to go from 20 sections to 17 sections of classes. i had to tell people they didn't have a job. >> reporter: the university is still reeling from a $32 million deficit. although cuts were made over the past two years, $4 million must still be slashed this spring. >> i'm so upset because my funds for college are going away and i planned on attending a four-year university and it's now looking like i'll be here for five or six years. >> it's not unusual for us to be told to do budg

len ramirez is at san jose state... with mo >>> now at 6:30 a rally at a bay area university today sparked by charges of a hate crime. len ramirez standing by at san jose state university with more on what police say happened to an african-american student. len. >> reporter: well, police continued their investigation the d.a. has its own investigation and san jose state officials are investigating why campus housing officials apparently knew about some of this harassment that was going on but apparently allowed it to continue. >> reporter: hundreds of students marched on the san jose state campus in protest over a series of alleged hate crimes against an african- american student by his three white roommates in their shared campus dorm suite. >> we matter. we are here. >> that's right. >> we are here. >> reporter: the district attorney's office has issued arrest warrants for the three white students all 18 years old, logan beaschler of bakersfield, joseph bomgardner of clovis and colin warren of woodacre. >> this is a c

kpix 5's len ramirez shows us how she is now being honored for her work. >> reporter: isabel duran ising into her second career with all of the skill, energy and tenacity she brought to bear in her first. >> i have to believe that each day i do something, it's going to move us towards that new goal or that bigger goal. >> reporter: she is the ceo of latinas against cancer a nonprofit agency for fighting cancer in the latino community. she is a trusted face after capping off a 42-year career as a reporter and anchorwoman. >> they are perfectly willing to die for what they are doing. >> reporter: although she won the first of her emmys covering the kidnapping of patty hearst, the story that really changed her life was when she turned the camera on herself fighting and surviving hodgkin's lymphoma in 1998. >> i began to say, okay, this is the point for that me to do what i have come to do. >> reporter: next we'll she will be honored by encore.org for people who benefit society in the second half of their lives. >> the encore.org purpose prize is certainly giving me the opportunity to tur

live, len ramirez, kpix 5. >> we did some checking. the average person generates 4.5 pounds give or take of trash every day. that comes out to about 1 1/2 tons of trash every year. >>> hundreds of drivers abandon their cars and walk out of the smoky caldecott tunnel this morning. a car crashed in the eastbound bore filling the tunnel with smoke. one man who escaped from the tunnel went back in to help a family are small children. >> we had dust masks and gave them to people and there was a family with little girls and stuff and we helped get them out and they had a baby in and one of the firemen were bringing the baby out too. >> traffic was jammed in both directions of the caldecott. all three bores were reopened around noon. >>> the last time a major fire happened in one of those tunnels was in 2007. commuters ran out of the tunnel when a mercedes caught fire in the center bore during the evening commute. everyone escaped safely. a far more disastrous fire was back in 1982. it killed 7 people. in that case a crash involving a gasolin

our len ramirez picks up our coverage. >> reporter: for families commuting southbound on oil 87 through downtown, they may not be getting home until late because traffic is at a standstill. it's been this way all afternoon ever since this very strong storm hit early this afternoon. the intense downpour seemed to catch everyone by surprise including drivers along the southbound lanes of highway 87 fire that downtown san jose. debris led to snarled traffic all afternoon after lanes were blocked. storm drains clogged with leaves were a problem for palo alto. cars splashed through the water and people in the streets had to sidestep 3" puddles stepped right through. >> it was deep and wet. >> reporter: others ran for cover not expecting so much water to fall in such a short period of time. >> i was surprised that the water had come up about 3" a lot of places and taking me by surprise yesterday. >> reporter: live in san jose, caltrans has been working on the flooded highway 87 problem all afternoon. it seems they have just moved in some high-powered vacuuming equipment to vacuum up whatever

kpix 5's len ramirez on the city council vote that could happen tonight. lenny. >> reporter: well, ken, from go pro devices to google glass, wearable camera systems are becoming very popular with consumers. but here in palo alto, police say that they are becoming essential for the preservation of evidence. like the badge, gun belt and body armor, a high definition video camera may soon be strapped to the chests of palo alto police officers when they head out for duty on patrol. >> those cameras will be worn on the uniform and will follow the officer as they go about their shift or on calls on vehicle stops, things like that and allow them to audio and video record their actions. >> reporter: the lieutenant says the police department will be asking the city council to approve a $300,000 contract for 38 new videocameras most of which will be mounted in police cruisers to replace an existing system. but for the first time, nine officers assigned to motorcycle patrol will wear cameras on their bodies. it will be a sort of beefed up go-pro system for police wor

len ramirez tells us, kind of hard to say right now. lenny, what's up? >> reporter: yeah, there is no science behind the notion that having these smaller earthquakes relieves pressure on some of the faults. that's kind of a myth in the bay area. but what i can tell you is that we're standing at one of what are now six mini epicenters from the series of quakes. they haven't done any damage but coming one after the other certainly is shaking people up. >> my first and hopefully my last earthquake. >> reporter: some pampering at a san ramon day spa what the perfect follow-up of going through her first earthquake ever. >> it didn't frighten me but got my attention, shocked me. when i realized what it was, i went, oh, my! >> reporter: the 3.4 quake hit at 9:30 this morning centered inside the crow canyon country club. there were no reports of damage but it was the sixth in a series of small quakes to hit the san ramon area since friday. john sanders felt the pounding of yesterday's 2.9 quake while stopped in his car. it was centered near canyon lakes drive an

kpix 5's len ramirez explains how the whole thing began with an ad on ebay. >> reporter: this happenedtober 8 but police were just now able to make an identification of the suspect. apparently it started out as a routine ebay transaction with the two parties agreeing to meet in the parking lot of this taco bell. the suspect told the sellers that he wanted to buy this pet for his daughter but he didn't want to pay the price they were asking. they began haggling and then the suspect got angry. that's when the sellers say he became a monster. the nine-week-old female pomeranian pup named kisses had been advertised on ebay for $700. the sellers agreed to meet 38- year-old juan chavez on 700 block of story road at 11:30 p.m. when net the couple agreed to let the suspect hold the dog when they met up. he allegedly held them up and stole the dog. >> they are thinking they are going to settle puppy and again -- to sell the puppy and again that was the whole idea in the meet. then you're kind of presented with a prospective buyer who presents a gun, takes the pet that you are intending to sell

kpix 5's len ramirez shows us how they're using tv to try to solve real crimes. . [ sirens ]. >> reporter: unlike cop shows on tv which always solve the murder case by the end of the hour this reality based program exists because its cases were never solved. it's called make the call san jose. >> please make the call because no one should get away with murder. >> reporter: the program is launching on community based create tv channel 30. it focuses on unsolved san jose killings and invites families on the site with her to humanize the story of their loved ones. >> at least we can is that little bit of peace. >> the idea of this is that if people watch this program and have any feelings at all, will be motivated to do something to ease their suffering and bring justice. >> it happens that both of our kids got killed the same year by a random shooting. >> reporter: the first episode goes into two strangers who are friends because of separate but shared tragedies. anthony santa cruz was stabbed to death while walking home from san jose hy on 21st street. >> two young men stabbed him at the c

kpix 5's len ramirez is there live where officials are celebrating something they have been waiting long, long time for. len, why is this important? >> reporter: well, they have been working for about 4 years on this and patents here in silicon valley as we have seen from the apple-samsung case can be worth hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. it also costs entrepreneurs a lot of time and money traveling to the washington, d.c. area to the patent office to get a patent. but that is money they will no longer have to spend. >> here it the basics of how to use glass. >> reporter: from the heads up video display of google glass to the battery modules of tesla cars and even the so-called rectangular shape and rounded corners of apple's iphone, silicon valley is full of invention. but getting a patent has always been a pain. until now. >> government is coming to the customer rather than the customer going to government. innovators and entrepreneurs don't have to travel 3,000 miles to alexandria, virginia, to meet with a patent officer or a patent judge. they are going to be located

as len ramirez test us, everything seemed fine until something made her want to lie down. >> my favorite pictures of my mother joy and she is waving to the crowds because she considered everybody a friend. >> reporter: san jose's joy johnson was the oldest woman ever to finish the new york city marathon. on monday, just one day after completing the race for the 25th time, she died at the age of 86. >> i knew she had finished so i was -- it was just a real surprise. >> reporter: johnson's daughters from sacramento and san jose tracked their mom's race remotely on the marathon website but johnson's 83-year- old sister faith anderson who was at the race said she fell hard about 20 miles in. >> she had fallen and hit her head. but just like joy, she got up and bruises and scratches and that's when they checked her out at the medical tent but she did finish the race. and she seemed okay as you can be. >> joy johnson, if i can ask, how old are you? >> 86. >> 86. >> reporter: and she still seemed okay wearing a scarf and headband angles when she visited the set of the today show the next mornin

kpix 5's len ramirez on the similarities between the two break-ins. >> reporter: it's a tough lesson to learn for kids in elementary school that someone would break into their classrooms. >> i think that's just -- i don't know. just mean. >> reporter: and steal the computers and tablets that help them learn. >> it's horrible. it affects the whole school. >> reporter: for the third time in a week, burglars targeting expensive laptops and ipads have hit schools in the san jose unified school district making off with about $90,000 worth of equipment. >> it is the same method. they are going in over the weekend taking large amounts of electronic equipment. so we're trying to determine, is this one group of people committing these crimes? is it random? >> reporter: river glen elementary school was hit first losing 31 laptops and 31 ipads. on monday 19 computers were stolen from another school and mother computers stolen from another school. precautions are normally taken. >> they are in locked rooms sometimes in a locked closet. >> reporter: but in at least two of the three cases there we

. >> reporter: len ramirez, kpix 5. >>> we saw tweets from people asking what happened with a radio station. at 7:00 p.m. their transmit started losing power. they found and fixed the problem. >>> in an hour the people at this game stop in san jose will get their hands on the play station 4. the system is one of the hottest items for the holidays. >> huge fan. i am there. excited. >> the model starts at 399. features upgraded hardware and a blu-ray player but it will not work with orlando play station game -- with older play station games. >>> blind man and his guide dog, the man claims they were kicked off a plane leaving philadelphia last night. the airline claims he let his dog run a muck and caused a scene. >> i was not abusive at all. i heard the dog was running up and down the aisle. now, that plane can't be more than 25 feet long. there is not even enough room. >> the plane never left the ground. the flight was canceled after passengers got upset after how the man was treated. >>> what we discovered is about to happen to make this town less asian. >> what is more important for a baby

and as our len ramirez reports, city leaders in san jose are now saying enough is enough. records that's right. a lot of shots are taken on this golf course on a daily basis. the next ones may be aimed at the biggs pigs themselves and the shooters won't be swinging clubs. they are bold aggressive, wild, hungry. packs of pigs coming down from the hills searching for food, water and grubs laying waste the golf and fairways. but time is running out for the pigs and it may be at the end of a barrel. >> this would allow trappers to just use a gun to dispatch the animal. >> reporter: san jose city council member johnnie khamis is introducing an emergency measure to allow trappers to shoot firearms inside the city limits. the pigs would be trapped then quickly shot on sight. >> this is not a hunting permit that we're talking about. it's the ability for someone to discharge a firearm in conjunction with an animal being trapped. and so this is just a humane way of putting down an animal that is becoming a nuisance. >> reporter: the pigs have already caused about $10,000 in damage t

. >> len ramirez showed us she went to lie down at her hotel and never woke up. >> my favorite pictures of my mother, joy, and she's waving to the crowd. >> san jose's joy johnson was the oldest woman to first name the new york city marathon. after completing the race, she died at the age of 64. >> i knew she had finished, so was just a real surprise. >> johnson's daughters of sacramento and diana of san jose track their moms race on the website. johnson's sister, who was at the race, said she fell hard at the 20-mile mark. >> she had fallen and hit her head. but she got right back up. >> joy johnson, this is -- how old are you? >> 86. >> and she still seemed okay wearing a scarf and head bandages when she visited the set of the today show the next morning. >> you look beautiful. >> she down played her injuries, but she complained of being tired. she never woke up, she was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. >> she was doing something she loved until the very end. >> she always said she wanted to go, this is the way she would want to go. running along and that was it. >>

reporting live len ramirez kpix 5. >>> the history of a bay area company that could make containing the outbreak difficult. >>> the bribery scandal of ladygga reaches the navy's highest ranks. >> you're pretty much going to see me in the gym everyday now. >>> a new reason for exfecting moms to get moving. hexereis could make your baby smarter. ,,,,,,,, sick. and as julie watts on the consumerwatch tells us, some worry it could get worse. they're quick and convenien- i think most people think 's a grab and go healthy alternative. but over 180-thousand pound ready to eat salads & wraps ...are being recalled in 8 states.. due to possible eci contamination. - pop dressing top they were sold in california under a variety of names including traderjoes brand . super fresh sold at whole f. and delish salads sold at walgreens. so far. 26 people are sick - some as young as 4 years ol- and two have gone into life threatening kidney failure. i would expect to see these numbers rise food safety lawyer bill marr says s contain ch >>> over 180,000 pounds of redty to eat 158ed as and rats are being rec

it's not csi, but as 11 ramirez shows us they are taking -- but as len ramirez shows us, they are taking a page from the playbook hoping the public will help solve crimes. >> reporter: this reality- based tv program exists because its cases were never solved. it's called make the call, san jose, and it's hosted by former judge and current police auditor ledoris cordell. >> please make the call because no one should get away with murder. >> reporter: the program is launching on community-based create tv channel 30. cordell focuses on unsolved san jose killings and invites murder victim families on the set with her to humanize the stories with their loved ones. >> at least we can have that little bit of peace. >> the idea is if people watch this program and have any feelings at all will be motivated to do something, to ease their suffering and to bring justice. >> just so happens that both of our kids got killed the same year by random shootings. >> reporter: the first episode goes in depth with arnie watkins and elsa lopez two strangers now friends because of shared tragedies. lopez's 17-

reporting live in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. >>> other bay area headlines. flowers and candles mark the spot where a 3-year-old boy was hit and killed yesterday afternoon in san jose. the boy was crossing the street at oak and vine with two other people when they were hit by a car. tore two victims were treated for minor injuries. the driver, we're told, is cooperating with police. >>> check out the damage to a fairy boat that crashed into san francisco's pier 43 this afternoon. we're told the harbor princess lost power as it was coming in to dock. witnesses saw passengers putting on their emergency vest just in case some suffered minor bumps and bruises. the coast guard is investigating what went wrong. >>> flames and smoke displayed people and their dog. talk two hours to put this out. fortunately, no one was home. >>> in an emotional interview, the family of the palo alto man detained in north korea pleads for him to come home. it has been a month since the 85-year-old was pulled off his plane headed back to the u.s. from north korea. the korean war veter

our len ramirez found out the number of deadly crashes involving pedestrians has now doubled last year's>> reporter: that's right, ken. there are a lot of these accidents that have been happening in san jose this year. you can see the soft glow of the candles across the street from me where the 3-year-old boy was struck and killed this sunday afternoon. p one of many memorials that have sprouted around san jose due to this rash of pedestrian fatal. >> a 14-year-old has returned to the accident scene to put up a postfire of her nephew who was -- poster of her nephew who was killed by a hit and run driver sunday afternoon. they were crossing the street when a peck up driver ran them over. >> we were in the middle of the crosswalk. we stopped for a minute. he was acting lake he was -- like he was slowing down and we were like okay, we can go. that's when he hit us. >> a year-old, a 13-year-old and the 3-year-old elisha were hit. elisha was pronounced dead at the hospital. >> he was a gad kid. >> there have been 24 auto pedestrian fatals in 2013, double last year's total and four more than 2

len ramirez in san jose, thank you. >>> the bart board today approved most but not all of that new contract with its unions. they are attempting to dodge a generous family leave section they don't want to pay for. our da lin is live in oakland with how the tactic is going over with the unions. da. >> reporter: well, liz, after six months of negotiations and two strikes, there is still no contract. what's worse, those two unions are even more worked up and fired up after the vote that was given by the board today. instead of voting on the contract, the unions had ratified -- >> i will support it. >> reporter: the bart board of directors voted to accept a contract that leaves out the paid family leave provisions. >> this is a fair and equitable contract for our employees in my opinion. it's affordable and sustainable for our riders. >> reporter: the unions are furious calling it unfair labor practice because bart management previously signed off on the tentative agreement that includes six weeks of paid leave for union workers. bart management says it's a mistake. the provision never should h

len ramirez reports administrators are planning to save money but in places outside of academics. be good news, len. >> reporter: good news for the students. you know, they have been telling me ken that they walk by these construction projects and there are many of them here on campus projects that cost millions on the one hand and then be told there's not enough money for teachers and students it didn't make sense but apparently it does make sense also to the administration. for san jose state students just trying to graduate there is once again light at the end of the tunnel. classes and teachers on the chopping block have been saved. >> reaction, utter relief. the fact this came just 24 hours after the announcement of cuts is a complete relief for everyone. >> how can one explain such expenses? >> reporter: it has been a strange 24 hours beginning with an emotionally charged meeting where administrators came to explain last-minute cuts for the spring semester that would have eliminated classes and faculty. >> i may not have a job next semester. >> reporter: making it harder and

as our len ramirez reports's already happ >>> it could be the next big thing in real estate and finance. crowd sources is already happening in rural monterey county, but the people putting their money down are from all over the country. >> the prune tree shopping center is unlike any other shopping center in america. it's not that the stores are different. some of the biggest national chains are here. what is new is that it's the first and only shopping center ever to be crowd funded online. >> it's merging the offline world with the online world. >> reporter: 33 investors pulled their money through their website to buy the shopping center, starbucks and all. >> even though we're investing online, and even though our investors are doing everything over the internet. here we are, standing on physical property. >> reporter: it skimped on some basic tlc. tenants moved out, and the company want today sell. realty.com found it to still be a money maker and opened it up. the selling price is $15.25 million. unless you are independently wealthy, have a lot of rich relatives or friends, chances

>>> in honor of veterans day, cnn photo journalists are turning their lens on the men and women who served the country. gabe ramirezf wounded warriors in california who soar into the sky to forget the physical and emotional trauma suffered on the battlefield. >> my experience in afghanistan it's a favorite question of people and you know, sometimes i ask do you really want to know, because sometimes it's not good stuff that goes on out there. after my first deployment i had a couple of my close buddies, they died and the corpsmen, too, there's nothing you can do. you feel guilty, i held it in you know, and -- usually i just like to stay here by myself, basically, and that's why the doctor said go out and have some fun, so banding together with guys that have gone through the same things and just basically help us to just get back to normal. >> our program is the wounded service members soaring or gliding program. once a month we take them up soaring. basically put them in a glider and take them up flying. >> yeah! woo! being up there, you really honestly get to see god's landscape, like he painted it so beautiful u