a new stud from san diego state university found one-third of all community college students are eithereless or living on the edge of being unable to afford housing. for a closer look i'm joined by kqed reporter laura clivens. she has been looking at problems faced by students. and lorraine harvey started the homeless student union at kell. taylor, why did you feel a need to start the homeless student union? >> i think students identified a discrepancy between the resources for food and security and housing and security. a number of students that i was familiar with came into housing insecurity or homelessness and found that there are a number of faculty that didn't know how to approach them ordeal with the situation, and that there was a lot of -- a lack of support for those students. so it was kind of in an effort to support ourselves and start to form solutions to help ourselves. >> so would you say it was a lack of support from the administration or just they didn't know how to help? >> i think it was both. i think that a lot of faculty and administration and staff and professors di

san diego state. >> escort. attention. >> american two throughout people gathered in a ohio state university auditorium to celebrate the life of john glenn. joe biden attended the service. glenn, a former astronaut, marine corps fighter pilot and senator, died december 8th at 95. >>> while he holidays can be a tough time for people who have been through traumatic injuries we were at st. francis memorial hospital for a special burn survivors party. all the children got presents from santa and mrs. claus who arrived on a fire truck. the fire depth put on the party which reunites survivors with caregivers. >> with a burn injury there's always post traumatic stress and anxieties and actually, being together with people who have had similar experiences is very therapeutic and also therapeutic for my staff to see them healed. >> live music, crafts and food were all part of the festivities. >>> there were a lot of kids enjoying the holidays in the east bay as toys for tots happed out gifts. we were in berkeley as police and firefighters teams up with marines to give back. okay almost came with his great-grandmother to choose his t

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short time ago university of minnesota football team announced it will play in the holiday bowl in san diego against washington statehis month. the team had threatened to boycott the game demanding the reinstatement of ten of their players suspended in connection with sexual assault investigations that dated back to the past september. no charges were ever filed in the case. the school suspended 10 players indefinitely this past week. officials did not say why, citing privacy issues. but minnesota will now play in the bowl game after meeting with college administrators last night. they were told that the ten players will each receive fair hearings judged by a "diverse" review panel. >>> the stanford marching band is being replaced by a high school band to play at the sun bowl in el paso tax. the stanford band was suspended for breaking alcohol rules. they are not allowed to perform. the high school marching band from el paso will fill in. >>> your san jose sharks on a little holiday run back east. montreal last night, they had a big first period. how about a hat trick of goals? san jose with a three spot on the cana