regents are left with having to make cuts. >> reporter: ucla, u.c. mercid and u.c. davis. instead of the usual 20 minutes alotted for public speaking, regents gave students at least an hour to vent their frustrations. again, about three dozen police officers here, preparing for the mass protests that they were expecting. some from the city of san francisco pd, but they far outnumber the protesters. live in san francisco, i'm damian trujillo. back to you. >> thank you, damian. >>> a somber procession this morning in honor of a marine killed in action. lance corporal josha corale will receive his remains this morning. flags are lining the route. funeral procession will make its way south on interstate 680 to danville. his body will be taken to a funeral home. he was killed almost two weeks ago in the helman province. >>> the suspected bank robber accused of killing a vallejo police officer is expected in court a few hours from now. 47-year-old henry smith may enter a plea this afternoon, charged with killing veteran officer james capoot, shot nearly two weeks ago. smith is be

u.c. regents and chancellor berger now seem to want it to be and alex we're seeing pictures now on the. protest california that turned violent recently what kind of response are you getting from police by. the phrase turn island i find to be a little disturbing in the sense that the images show police attacked students not a single video has surfaced showing a student throwing a punch throwing a bottle or defending him or herself so i would but i would be encourage you to refrain the protests were violently repressed by the police but the students were nonviolent and i'm incredibly proud to say that i think it's very difficult i can speak from experience that you know when you're being beaten by a police officer it's hard not to defend yourself but but that is what we did and we think it's very disturbing that. the university would respond to peaceful protest with violent policing. and that was u.c. berkeley graduate student alex barnard perhaps one of the occupy wall street successes is how it's reached different corners of the loan from india as they had to leave protesters worldwide

u.c. regents meeting. demonstrators say they want to show their support for occupy movements across the country. but they're also specifically protesting recent clashes with campus police at davis and cal. they're also upset about tuition hikes. protesters at davis say they're planning a general strike tomorrow to try to shut down the entire campus. the regents' meeting was supposed to happen earlier this month. >>> still ahead on nbc bay area news, mitt romney takes a hit in the race for the republican nomination. we'll show you who has emerged as the front-runner for in week. >>> and a royal rescue on the irish sea, with prince william leading the way. >>> we're seeing things cooling quickly around the bay area. 40s and 50s right now. watching patchy, dense fog heading into norm morning. fog isn't the only thing we're seeing. gusty winds coming back. it's about building cars in america. it's all about jobs. it's all about respect. security. the american dream. [ jamaul ] good jobs in tough times. a chanc

u.c. regents and chancellor birchenough seem to want it to be and balance we're seeing pictures now on the screen of. protests and power pointed out turned violent recently what kind of response are you getting from police for that. what i ve to phrase turnbull i like i find to be a little disturbing in the sense that. images show police attack students not a single video has surfaced showing a student throwing a punch throwing a bottle or defending him or herself so i would think i would be crazy to be framed the protests were violently repressed by the police but the students were nonviolent i'm incredibly proud to say that i think it's very difficult i can speak from experience that you know when you're being beaten by a police officer it's hard not to defend yourself but but that is what we did and we think it's very disturbing that the university would respond in peaceful protest with violent policing and those kind of orders come from the top and we think it demands an response an immediate response from the university administration and with this protest today what kind of response

u.c. regents and. big cuts to education all across california which could result in eight to sixteen percent to mission heights and so this is where you can see that some of these things are starting to you know if you have some smaller issues that might at the end of the day help this movement go along. now joining me very quickly to discuss all of this is ok that's a rare talk radio host and author of back to our future how the one nine hundred eighty s. explain the world we live in now all right we're still waiting for david we're having a few technical issues here but we're going to try to get him back we're going to try to get him back on the line now the video that you're seeing right now is from the d.c. protest today where people marched over from macpherson square all the way over to the key bridge which as christine for us out showed you earlier spans the area from georgetown to virginia right now we've got david on the line so they have a thanks so much for joining us when we get started i a

u.c. regents with a lot of the cuts that we've seen to education in california as a state's to do feel like it's more of a localized protest than what the occupy movement is protesting nationally i think one of the really spectacular things that's happened with the occupy movement across the united states is that it is together these national issues with local struggles so on use at u.c. berkeley we have really been talking about these fee hikes the privatization of education specifically and occupy oakland it's also been about pretty brutality that's been going on for years and you know the kind of race struggles that are really important at that site so i think that what was bringing them all together are these economic issues and it's been exciting to see how they're differently or to get laid it in different states across the united states now i want to show you a clip really quick last night there was another g.o.p. debate and they actually brought up occupy wall street so let's take a look what they said about it. i would just say that i want to be the president of the ninety nine per

u.c. regents who cancelled a meeting scheduled for today for fear of violence. california state trustees approved a 9% tuition hike protestors were ejected from the meeting. they confronted police demanding to be allowed inside again. during the confrontation a glass door was broken. the clash got more violent. now with more on the demonstration and what the hike meanings. >> this was the scene after the audience was kicked out of the auditorium. cal state university police were keeping us and other reporters behind them and protestors outside when something happened to prompt this action by police. while the yelling got louder outside, police detained three people, one claiming to be a san diego student. as police were taking her away, i heard this. >> reporter: two ors were hurt. one suffered from glass shards on his arm and other a small cut above the eye. they tried to restore order. some officers used pepper spray to get the crowd to leave the area. >> they used pepper spray, they did a wide swath. i didn't know if he was aiming at me but he nailed me right

they are calling on a strike when the u.c. regentld vote on raising fees, one of the protesters' biggest complaints. claudia cowen, fox news. >> shannon: still ahead we'll meet the oldest front line warrior in afghanistan. but first, will president obama end >> shannon: drug maker merck will pay $950,000,020 resolve investigations in the marketing of the painkiller vioxx. that will settle the criminal and civil cases. merck pleaded guilty to marketing vioxx as treatment for rheumatoid arthritis before getting fda approval. major league baseball contract has new limits on smokeless tobacco. the players agree not to use it in the pre-game or post game interviews or carry packages or tins in their pockets but they did not agree to ban on the use during games. from smokeless tobacco to a burning issue in washington, entitlement reform. normally it's republicans who are accused of pushing drastic changes in programs like medicare. chief washington correspondent jim angle reports now the political shoe is on the other foot. >> even before

they are calling on a strike when the u.c. regentld vote on raising fees, one of the protesters' biggest complaints. claudia cowen, fox news. >> shannon: still ahead we'll meet the oldest front line warrior in afghanistan. but first, will president obama end medicare as we now know it. ake it work. booking a flight by itself is an uh-oh. see if we can "stitch" together a better deal. that's a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? booking your flight and hotel at the same time gets you prices hotels and airlines won't let expedia show separately. book it. major wow factor! where you book matters. expedia. where together, we're transforming tomorrow. your husband put this all together when emma was born. he was an amazing man. this is for you. it's all paid off. ♪ and this is for emma. so where do you think she'll go? anywre she wants. [ male announcer ] we're making people a more secure tomorrow. what can we make with you? transamerica. transform tomorrow. >> shannon: drug maker merck will pay $950,000,020 resolve investigations i

u.c. campuses where regents are scheduled to meet by teleconference. monday's agenda expands the time for students to talk from the usual 20 minutes to an hour. students say they will complain about tuition hikes and express outrage over the videotaped pepper spraying by campus police. they plan to repeated their call for the dismissal of chancellor and attempt to shut down the campus with a general strike. the protest locations include u.c. san francisco, u.c. davis, merced and ucla. >> numbers of occupy san francisco are promising this morning to retake their market street encampment. they indicate they are setting up in front of wells fargo bank near the federal reserve. there is a post on twitter they set up an information table this morning, but have not tried to put up any tents which you might recall police ordered removed last weekend. yesterday they joined forces with other groups marching for immigrant rights. >> the crowd marched from justin hermann plaza to 16th and mission street and up mission to 24th. that comes one day after dozens squa

u.c. campuses where regents are scheduled to meet by teleconference. the "mercury news" reports monday's agenda expands the time set aside for student voices from the usual 20 minutes to one hour. students say they will complain about system-wide tuition hikes and express outrage over the pepper spraying of protestors by campus police. they will repeat their call for the dismissal the uc davis chancellor, and attempt to shut down the campus with a general strike. the protest locations include uc. san francisco, uc davis and uc l.a. andmer schedule. >>> and members of san francisco protestors promise to retake their encampment. they are setting up near the federal reserve. a post says they have set up an information table this morning but have not tried to put up any tents which police ordered removed last weekend. yesterday they joined forces with other groups to march for immigrants' rights. ♪ >> the crowd marched from justin herman plaza to 16th and mission street and up mission to 14th, the heavily populated latino district. that comes one day after

u.c. san francisco campus where the regents held a day-long meeting to discuss budget problems. but not all of the regents were there. why that made demonstrators even angrier. >> reporter: that's right, elizabeth. the protestors turning out here, a small force but loud one. they showed up here and on three other campuses and shouted down the reg ends, ending the meeting early despite a lackluster turnout. it wasn't the rocket protest expected. just a few dozen protestors holding signs in a meeting that was specifically called on a day when students wouldn't show up. >> 150 people signed up at four campuses for a regents meeting that was deliberately called the monday after thanksgiving because regents didn't want to face thousands of students. >> reporter: and the regents didn't have to. it was teleconferenced, a move that infuriated protestors but that gavin newsom called it worth a try. >> i think it's a worthy experiment. >> reporter: the circumstances worsened earlier this month. first it was protestors at uc berkeley clashing with police. the you tube videos went viral. an

u.c. board of regents meets today in the wake of police action at cal and the davis campus. are back on this fun day monday with "today's buzz" affirming you with celebrity news you want to share with your friends. >> here is maureen o'connor. how are you? >> good to see you. >> look at miley cyrus in the news. it was her birthday. >> 19. >> what did she -- she tweeted something that got everyone's attention. >> somebody shot a video at her birthday party. >> they always do. >> somebody always does and somebody sells the video. the video appeared. they are giving her her bob marley cake. they said you're such an fing stoner and makes jokes about being a pot head. >> so what was the blow back from that? >> we all know she knows how to use a bong because we've seen that on video, too. kelly osborne makes a joke, isn't your thing the salvia? >> which is legal. >> kelly osborne tweeted in her defense, she can't be a stoner, look how hard she works. it was just a joke, get over it. >> miley said, is she trying to distance herself from her disney deal? >> seems like it. she's gone

u.c. president says the amount is what the school system needs to be able to boost enrollment and avoid raising division. the board of regentsexpected to vote on that request next week. >>> in the intrerim, don't take my pay and don't raise tuition. that was from instructors from san fresno state. all 23 campuses are having informational picket lines today. some will do it tomorrows, as well. they they, administrators went back on their pay increase. >> should faculty be stopping work? i see us fighting for the education of our students. >> instructors who have the day off may go to cal state east bay to show support. they are notifying students to make advanced plans. >>> another wild day on the campaign trail. gop candidate, herman cain, firing back after accusations of sexual misconduct. >> janelle, first, herman cain, very adamant about the fact he could take a lie detector test. but he seemed to soften that stance. >> he backed off that a bit. he would if it came to that. he held his own news conference today. restating he had never acted inappropriately with anyone, period. >> these anonymous allegations are false. and

u.c.-davis police officers put on leave yesterday. the school's chancellor plans to meet with protestors today amid growing calls for her resignation. uc regentsident mark yudof said he is appalled by the images and is calling for a systemwide review of university policies. >>> a raid early this morning closed the last remaining "occupy" camp in oakland cleaning up this morning. police took away about a dozen tents from snow park in a peaceful raid. but some people remain there this morning. >>> a man is alive thanks to some heroic strangers who helped save him from a burning car. >> they managed to get him out just before the whole car burst into flames. the driver crashed near the corner of 13th and folsom streets in the south of market area and at least three people picked up the fallen road sign to break the windows. it was the same sign that he ran into. police used a knife to cut the seatbelt. police say he will be booked on suspicion of dui. >>> and a massive fire in reno fully contained but crews are still watching for some of the hotspots there. more than 30 homes were destroyed over the weekend. about 4,000 homes were saved by the f

u.c. davis have joined students in sacramento today to put pressure on state lawmakers to bring more funding back to higher education. students have planned to protest outside the board of regentsng was called off this week. san jose state students are planning a protest of their own. they will stage a walk-out this afternoon to protest tuition increases. the csu board of trustees is set to vote today on tuition hikes for next year. let's check the morning commute. here's mike. >>> accident southbound 280 at black mountain has cleared. a new one south of 380, causing more backup out of pacifica and daly city. 101 is bearing the brunt of the ripple effect. that pushed back over toward san mateo. still recovering. and southbound 101 past menlo park, typical slowing. >> thank you very much. another local ns ewupdate in half an hour. hope to see you then. i joined the navy when i was nineteen. i spent four years in the military and i served a tour in iraq. all the skills that i learned in the military are very transferable into the corporate and real world. chase hired me to be a personal banker. the 100,000 jobs mission has definitely helped me get my foot in the door. chase is gi