. >>> hundreds march as a stan fan san francisco state university insists a black student was part of a black hate campaign. they hung a u shaped bike lock over the victim's neck, put him in a closet, and called him rational racial slurs. >> reporter: hundreds angered by the news that an 18-year-old black trash man freshman may have been bullied and torrmented they trapped him in a closet and put a nasi symbol and confederate flag near it. >> they were only being played on him. >> reporter: the victim has not been identified or spoken publicly. the attackers are 19-year-old of clovis, 19-year-old and 18- year-old of bakersfield. charles clifford, kron4news. >>> bart management, tonight there is no agreement on a contract. the board approved everything except one provision, the family leave act. now they have to worry if there will be a strike for a third time. >> reporter: the bart district bored was board was slammed for contract agreements reached and approved by union members. >> there is no taking away from the fact that there was not accidental. it was signed and reviewed. each a

san francisco into a union family and i'm now 78 years old. i didn't start lookbacker work at the ballpark until after i retired of my clear job in san francisco state university as part aof the financial aid, i worked in the loan department of san francisco state for almost 25 years where i retired from and i had to go back to work to supplement my income because i accept support members in my family that should be out and about on their own which includes a great granddaughter now of 17, i'm applying for a contract not for myself because i am retired but for the next generation that includes my son who also works at the ballpark. i want to make sure these people keep their jobs and remain in good jobs. please support us by joining to our boy cut of center place, thank you. >> linda chaplain from the land use committee. i know many of you are concerned about affordable housing, and there was a conditional use appeal of larkin that they voted to change as an emergency measure and they decided to -- the fact that the project for [inaudible] instead of the tndc project which we pontbacker wanted and we felt it was the best sites for senior housing which would ha

once i moved from the city college i moved to study my bachelor's at the san francisco state university where i'm studying now. through ethnic studies courses and through rer -- resources and empowerment center, the hardships i endure, the community organizer and caretaker and single mother. as i receive this award humbled and honored. i would like to thank my professors, friends, mentors who believe in and challenge me and who have helped me see that the struggles i have and continue to endure give me strength. paul menendez, mitchell, walker, theresa. thank you for showing me the meaning of being an aging of change through the work that you do through the work that you do and how you serve the community. i would like to thank my parents for sacrificing what they never had. to my daughter, our future leaders, thank you for being my daughters, my reason for living. i love you. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> as we move to the next phase, i would love to give another round of applause to all of our awardees. i would like to lay down a challenge because i think of the work of tucker

san francisco. while i was in graduate school i lived in the apartment that has to be accessible in san francisco state university. so i was safe. i was an accessible room and i can get in and out with my wheelchair. however during those three 3 years i had the money saved from this settlement. i was looking really hard and working really hard with realtors who a lot of them gave up on me because it was so difficult to find an accessible home here in the city. of course my nervous were really kicking in and after 3 years i finished graduate school. i finally found a home which was a tic option on 89 sanchez street. and it was a ground level apartment. this home surprising to me was actually at the sidewalk was really where my wheelchair was and i was able to get inside the house and even see the house before i purchased it. i didn't have to make any kind of renovations or put a ramp or nothing. i was very lucky. so on that note, i just want to say that i have worked extra hard to get an education and i as a disabled person refuse to depend on the government. i wanted to be independent in every angle of life possi

while attending san francisco state university as an accountinging major, anthony's friend jokingly suggestede make cookies to make ends make. with no formal culinary training he opened his own bakery and is now the no. 1 producer of gourmet cookies in the biarea and thank you for joining us on quick bites. how do you feel? >> i feel great. >> so i want to get to the bottom of some very burning questions. why cookies? >> it was a recommendation from a friend. hard to believe that's how it all started. >> why not pies and cakes? what do you have against pies and cakes, anthony. >> i have nothing against pies and cakes. however, that was the recommendation. >> you were on the road to be an account apblt. >> actually, an engineer. >> even better. and it led to making cookies. >> in delicious ways. >> delicious ways. >> this is where the magic goes down and we're going to be getting to the truth behind cookies and cream. >> this is what is behind cookies and cream. >> where were you when the idea came to your mind. >> i was in my apartment eating ice cream, cookies and cream ice cream. how much f

coming up claims of anti- semitism at san francisco state university. the campus celebration that sparked it and how the school's president and student group is responding. >>> and bart officials approve a contract just not the one they already signed. but could it mean another trip to the bargaining table? >>> good morning. we have very windy conditions. you can see 880 north and southbound our cameras shaking. and also why bart service will not start on time. >>> wind advisory with gusts up in the hills over 60 miles an hour but will we see a decrease in the wind or stronger as we go into the weekend. >>> good morning. we have breaking news. there is no bart service due to major computer issues. bart is still saying they hope to have service restored by 5:00 a.m.. but some are saying now that that may not happen. we'll let you know what happens. we are live at least one of the bart stations but again you may want to make other plans getting to work other than bart for the time being. at 4:45 let's go back to the desk. >>> that is the sound we will pro

san francisco examiner. he taught at san francisco state university and at cal and was a vocal advocate for diversity in journalism. raul ramirez was 67. their hands on >>> situation in the philippines is so desperate tonight that survivors are doing anything that it takes to get their hands on food. some shaky video for you there shows hundreds of people looting a barge that the typhoon sent crashing onto land. they're taking sacks of rice off that boat. >>> well, a big thank you to everyone who donated to our typhoon relief fund with the red cross. we have been able to raise with your help $410,000 you can still donate at kpix5.com/donate. >>> the dryest year on record makes water a more precious commodity than ever. it's waking up old feuds. currently delta water is pumped out of this station near tracy feeding into twin canals to meet the central valley and southern california's water demands, but linda yee says a plan to build a $24 billion underground canal raises questions about who is getting the water. >> he doesn't have a voice, so we're going to be his voice of. >> reporter: delta sport fisherman bobby

university college of dublin. i went back to the states and went to law school at university of pennsylvania. then i came back, and choosing to live in san francisco was natural to me. when you are a child, you do not realize what you had until you leave home. i had the opportunity to live in los angeles, abroad in ireland, and there is no place like home, when you are from san francisco. i have been a corporate attorney at palo -- in palo alto. i became an >> i worked in the finance industry about 5 1/2 years. in the summer of 2009 i joined a venture capital firm with two other partners. >> we are all excited about the americas cup here in district two but one thing if you think about it everyone knows what fleet week is like here in the marina. this is fleet week on steroids. think about fort mason, these will be the most brings taken places to watch the americas cup. what we're working on and working to continue to work on and want your input on, how do we make it a positive experience for the people that live here. >> i'm happily married and my life and -- wife and i live around laurel village. we have two children, five around they. we are pr

my main job has been doing social work for san francisco state university. i have been a community organizer, a social worker, but i have also been a legislative aide. i worked mostly for community- based organization supporting kids and families, working for labor. i got to see how city hall could be an effective tool to create change. i looked at running in 2007, 2008, and somehow i made it. i have been in politics for so many ways, doing work around central america, supporting people in central america against u.s. imperialism, their right to live, self determination. i did a lot of work on that on campus when i was in college. a bit of work on apartheid when i was in college as well. >> i never got involved in supporting a candidate. i never thought a candidate was someone that i would support. then when tom ammiano ran against willie brown, i got inspired. i thought, someone with integrity and honesty, if they can run for mayor, maybe i can be somebody who represents what is true about our people. that is what inspired me to run and be a candidate. one

among the other tributes to the fallen president, a special performance by the san francisco state university choir. ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> they performed verdi's requiem just like the choir did two days after the president was shot and killed. >>> as a statesman and president, kennedy left an immeasurable legacy on foreign affairs, civil rights, and economic policy. but as unfair as it sounds, that legacy is largely overshadowed by the circumstances surrounding his death. >> reporter: from the moon landing to 911, we now take for granted that there is a conspiracy theory for everything. >> reporter: think of kennedy's death as the mothership of modern conspiracies. there have been two official government investigations. and no fewer than 2,000 books suggesting gunmen on nearly every rooftop, behind every fence, even in sewer drains. and still ask most people and they'll tell you this remains an unsolved crime. >> lee harvey oswald has been shot. >> tonight we have the story of one man who went down that rabbit hole. like so many others, he had to know what happened. >> until he realized that quest

san francisco state university say all courses for spring of 2014 will be restored. this week, the school announced they would eliminate dozens of classes to keep the budget balanced. academic programs had exceeded the total budget by $3.8 million. under a new plan the school will take funds allocated to campus infrastructure and other projects and re-direct them to academic units. >> investors are waiting do see how twitter stock will perform in the second day on the new york stock exchange. yesterday, because of early trading, it opened at $45.10 and went up to $50 before closing at $44.90. the i.p.o. was 73 percent higher than the $26 price that twitter set. they new is $2 billion to spend on growth. the day planner shows a lot of fog this morning with the fog crossing the bay and coming into san francisco so if you are traveling the bay bridge it will be foggy the entire fan. you can see a lot of the western and eastern section with the new sail sticking above the fog. two hours ago when i drove through it was difficult. temperatures are in the 40's to low 50 thr

san francisco had a chance to catch up with this student. his name is 24 ju hong, a student at san francisco state university.t an invitation to this event, so it is not like he snuck in. >> i need your help. >> you know, i was going to say the president -- you know, he didn't have the hecklers thrown out. actually, he turned around, engaged them with a little conversation. he has done this before. but usually once again, like i said, they're from the audience when he deals with them, not usually people standing behind him. >> and this young man, ju hong, he feels passionate about this event. we learned he was undocumented, originally from south korea, and because of his undocumented status he can't go back and visit his sick grandmother, his family in south korea, so he sort of feels stuck here. and he wanted to speak on behalf of all undocumented students across the country and he said that the president should use his executive order powers to basically legalize all the undocumented immigrants out there, stop the deportations, get the legalization going, as the president explained he just can't do that. >>

on the two attended san francisco's states and the university of denver the peculiar personality his two children were born in the us. he was first a diplomat at the age of nineteen twenty revolution happen in tehran. he was projected that the helmet the confluence of the run in sentences go. then when some for long that my career and yet stints as iran's ambassador to the united nations where once interviewed him. a decade ago and had some conversations off the record conversation that at the time. and so he's clearly of the different costs and then many other iranian officials. he is the ease with the media he knows how to get little bits but also understood to be diplomatic. so he's a very interesting character in the pivotal one right now because some hardliners the wrong i'm not too happy to see him there. he knows he has a few months to make it happen on the diplomatic process you must make it happen is meeting right now with his french counterpart often used. it was funny cool um venue iranian foreign minister is mark was saying no stranger to the main political scene. and i h

in san francisco the only university in the united states named after kennedy. >>> couple held three in their london home for 30 years. >> the human trafficking unit deals with many cases of forced labor. we have seen some case wheres people have been held for up to 10 years. but we have never seen anything like this before. >> police say it was not sexual in nature. the victims were a malaysian woman, 69, an irish woman, 57, and a british woman, 30 who spent her entire life as a slave. >> all three women were traumatized and taken to a place of safety where they remain. they are in the care of a charity who deal with people who are traumatized. >> police arrested a man and a woman both 67 as the captors. authorities rescued the women after one contacted freedom charity. >>> now at 6:00 p.m. gusty winds are whipping. we are tracking the wind speeds right now. >> preppations are underway tonight -- preparations are underway tonight. >> and buckled concrete is a sign of a larger problem. looking into a growing threat to our water system and how it will impact us in the bay area. >> com

long way to go to san francisco from here in the cars and they are asking both sides to think of them, the commuters, who need the trains. >> this morning, three san jose state university students facing hate crime charges accused of tormenting a roommate because of the color of his skin. santa clara county district attorney says flee white students targeted the freshman because he is black and put a u shaped bicycle lock around his neck and locking it calling him racial slurring and trying to look him in a closet. they hung a confederate flag and placed nazi symbols around the dorm at san jose state. matt keller will have more in the next half hour. >> the apaches of vallejo high school fade interest history at the end of school year. a vote bit school board put an end to the apache mascot to be retired in june. the mascot has been a source of ten from those would believe it honors the apache and those who feel it is offensive. the districts is outlined a plan to pick a new mascot with a school designed developing ideas voted on staff and students and revealed in january. >> neither north korea or united states officials are speaking about an 85-year-old palo alto vet

. >>> san francisco police are now hoping some key evidence can help them find the shooter who killed a man in a car early this morning. >>> an emergency meeting at san jose state university as the school faces millions of dollars in cuts. >>> good afternoon. i'm tori campbell. right now, a statewide amber alert is in effect for an infant missing from sunnyvale. ktvu's robert handa joins us live with more on where police believe the baby might be and some insight into what led to the disappearance. >> reporter: good afternoon. things have calmed down quite a bit here at the apartment complex on helen avenue in sunnyvale where the mother lives. as you heard during the morning newscast, the law enforcement focus has shifted from the family home here to the san diego area where the father has been spotted by people as well as detected in locations by tracking his cell phone. the search is on for 22-year- old mesut guler, the father suspected of abducting his 2- week-old century, henry guler. police say the father who works as a barrista at the mart courtyard -- marriott courtyard, sent the mother a text saying she was leaving the state if she called police. she did call poli

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san francisco this morning. they say tech companies getting corporate tax breaks are to blame for rising rents and evictions in the mid market and tenderloin areas. >>> students at san jose state can breathe easier tonight. the university's president says spring classes won't be cut after all. yesterday, school officials threatened to eliminate dozens of classes due to a nearly $4 million budget short fall. but today, they said they are changing course and will redirect money from infrastructure to cover the difference. >> he's not getting your average merit badge for this one. how an eagle scout is helping chemoplanes flying safely over thebay area. >> making your food healthier. the ingredient the government wants to get rid of all together. >> and we just can't get enough of this hospital dance party. how a bay area cancer patient is inspiring her colleagues and even strangers. ,, woah, this kitchen is beautiful! give him the tour. let me show you! soft-close drawers, farm sink! where's my room? we had to take just a little bit for the kitchen. because your kitchen dreams can be big. female narrator: sleep train challenged sleep train challenged its manufacturers to offer even lower prices. but the mattress price wars

support into community colleges and the california state university system. >> the city attorney is going to court to prevent city college of san francisco from losing their accrued dangerous. the city is asking for an injunction against the community college accrediting commission in northwest he has revoked the college accrued dangerous but the education department has called the actions illegal. the requested injunction would allow the schools' accrued dangerous to remain intact and prevent the commission from taking similar action against other community checks. >> president obama is in los angeles this morning wrapping up the west coast tour. he left bay area yesterday after a whirlwind visit that included a speech on immigration reform. in san francisco in chinatown, that appearance is drawing national attention when a graduate student from san francisco state interrupted the president's speech. >> please, use your executive order to halt deportation of the 11.5 undocumented immigrants right now. >> if i could self all these problems without passing laws in congress, i would do so. we are also a nation of laws. >> he treated me lic

university of the san francisco organization. and they are so expiring in what they do and fair faculty to their advisors as well. but i taught at sf state before becoming a member of the board of supervisors and dan and many of the faculty from the folks that came out of the third world strike were combrooirg to me. there is a struggle here in the universities that is xektd and we stand on their shoulders. i think that this gentleman stands on the shoulder of bill and others from the hotel. they stand on the shoulder of phillip and others and i just wanted to say as and organized in the san francisco and serve the people it's my honor to be supporting them. so i didn't you have u.s. f and sherry (clapping.) we would like to thank everyone for thanking us and we wanted to continue to honor and serve the community. >> we appreciate every opportunity we as a constitute organization gets to serve our immediate community. so thank you (clapping.) i just want to say thank you. again. u.s. f used to be known as the university of spoiled filipinos but i think the work of those students this new generation is challenging that nickname. we're no

. >> now, only four universities in the nation have veterans affairs programs on campus. san francisco stateened a veteran's center and let students with military experience socialize and get services. >>> several dozen low income veterans got help today to get them back into the work force, donating suits to 50 vet translooking for work. organizers hope the clothes will help open doors for better job opportunities. st. anthony's celebrated two laws passed to help veterans get food and housing assistance. >>> still ahead a discount airliner, spirit taking advantage of bullying drama. new ads to lure customers. >>> a weather mishap. snow made for a rough morning but it wasn't mother nature's fault. >> then, security changes in san francisco general hospital today. a missing woman was found dead a few weeks ago in a stairwell. >> now, breaking news, pardon me this, is the skyway. you're looking at a heavy approach on the left side of the screen. now switching over to san mateo bridge. you can see the approach to the bridge. traffic on the righthand side, flames there, jammed up. just two lanes

san francisco this morning before headed to an event at the chinese recreation center. he will attend two democratic fundraisers before leashing -- leaving for southern california. >> the naacp is calling for an investigation at san jose state universityl abuse. four white students are accused of torment an african american roommate for several months. groups want the district attorney to file felony charges against the students rather than misdemeanor charges. >> a 61-year-old marine veteran is called a hero for saving the life of a woman who jumped removed by officials when the plane was about to take off. >> san francisco and now batkid is taking over times square, northern california's miles scott is in new york city ready to take on the penguin and the joker for a special adventure on "good morning america" at 7:00 in a few minutes after our morning news. >> six, you can see it hanging in the air, the haze from the east bay hills cam remarks the worst air quality in the north bay but all of us are banned from burning wood. early sunshine, hazy sunshine. high clouds this afternoon. temperatures are close to average and upper 50's to low 60 at the coast and low-to-mid 60's for the rest of us. >> seven, only 16 minutes to get you aw

san francisco bay. water quality officials are testing the water after the spill and they will have to give the all clear when the time comes. >> new this morning, more scrutiny for san jose state university after an in-depth sunny submitted to the administration about campus racism is made public. our media partner, the san jose mercury news, reports that the 100-page report was commissionened by a previous president and submitted to the incoming president in 2011 but it was never publicized. the president disbanded the advisory vote to start his own committee that met only once in the fall. last week four white students were accused of a string of hate crimes on a black student sparking protests. black students say they experienced troubling and sometimes racist behavior from other students, coaches, and even professors. >> this downtown santa clara, or santa rosa, a protests with arrested and 12 cited yesterday in the demonstration after andy lopez was shot and killed by a sonoma county sheriff deputy. the protesters were cited for blocking lanes after half a dozen requests by police for the mannerrers to move to the sidewalk. a man was arrested after he starting fighting with an offic

university plans an independent investigation. in san jose, abc7 news. >> american indian tribes meeting in san francisco taking aim at team mascots. the gathering brought together tribes are from several western states. it's organized by american indian movement. the group scored a victory last week when vallejo high school was forced to change it's apache name and mascot. next target allegra s.going to be harder. washington redskins owner resisted calls to change the team and mascot. >> these mascots dress up in traditional sacred article of clothing of indian people and run around like they're crazy when someone scores a touchdown. >> the american indian movement plans to use civil rights laws to make changes. >> just ahead, derailed california's bullet train hits a speed bump. why the project is now stuck in neutral. >> plus, pan doera's genetic box. a company defies the government after being told to stop what it's doing. >>> birth control warning a couldn't septemberive that may not work for some women. >> shopping online without paying sales tax? that story when >>> firefighters not only put out this fire, but they saved a dog from a burning home in campbell. police provided the video after br

states, but the dangers of smoking remain a huge concern. we are joined by dr. david joplin. he's the program director of the thoracic oncology lab at the university of california san francisco. you started to talk about a lot of changes, improvements and ways of treating lung disease. >> well, it's happening for lung disease, for biology in general, we are with precision medicine which is a buzz word. it hasn't quite lived up to the excitement yet, but it it will. it's just a matter of time and technology and that is the idea of understanding whether it's a cancer of the lung or the colon or the breast and not of the organ and the pathways and the signaling and the stem cell it came from and the carcinogens and other exposures as well as other diseases and emphysema and we can interrogate these issue fishes and if you, god forbid, are diagnosed with a cancer and it is so important because we can learn so much about the tumor and direct and then guide the therapy based on that. >> you can design a therapy just for that particular tumor? >> right. exactly, so the excitement around these designer therapies or personalized medicine, because clearly that's where it needs to be. n