i report directly to president mark udoff, president of the university of california. >> i thought you were going to say a different president. >> well, he's influential, too. >> no, to the president of the university of california. i report to him directly. it's analogous as if i were chancellor of one of the campuses of the university of california. >> okay. >> that's the position that i hold. but of course, the department of energy is the dominant funder of our research, and we're operated in what's called a kind of goco model, government-owned, contractor-operated. so, really, the department of energy runs a number of laboratories, 17 around the country, different laboratories in that mode, where the research is done for the federal government, but typically operated by a contractor, who then operates the laboratory to make sure that it's effective in its use of resources and so on. >> is it possible the university of california could lose such a contract? that it could be run by the university of -- >> sure, periodically, the contract will be recompeted. for example, when my prede

uc president mark marc udoff has proposed a 9.6% tuition increase in addition to a previously approved 8% increase set to take effect this fall. with the start of classes just five weeks from now, students have very little time to come up with the extra money. >> i'll have to do less of something and take additional loans out and make due. >> now as the students brace for those higher costs, we have also found out that uc regents are expected to approve a pay raise for the chief executive officer of ucsf medical center because they have exceeded their profits. uc employees protested uc regents last night calling on them to share the pain. >>> president obama and congressional leaders will meet again today for the fifth time to try to work out a deal on raising the national debt limit. coming up at 6:15, we are going to have a live report from our washington, d.c. newsroom on what president obama reportedly told republicans at a tense meeting yesterday. >>> time now 6:07. back to our developing news story. ktvu's tara moriarty is at the scene of a sinkhole in san jose. you're standing t