. >>> it is all back-to-school time at uc berkeley. incoming freshman begin orientation today. amber lee talked with some of them about their hopes for the future during move-in day. >> reporter: two young men. one from modesto followed by one from toronto canada meet for the first time on this move in day for uc berkeley students. they 10-year-olds are forging a friendship as they venture into college life as young adults. >> we are here. we made it somewhere.

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there is a food pantry at uc berkeley's student union students can go twice a month. some students we talked to say it is a struggle sometimes to come up with enough money for food. to skip am just going to coffee throughout the day and that will keep my appetite down and i will maybe something small for dinner. >> this teaches students how to apply. coordinators say two years ago, it much different. >>> the oakland a's beat the texas rangers 9-0. they now move into first place. >> that when his hit high and deep. >> you knew chris davis had that out of here. he crushed a monster over the upper deck. he was language of the signed by a young fan from the make-a- wish foundation. look at this ricky who hit the first two homers of his career. incredible. the oakland a's play the rangers again today. >> the giants kept their playoff hopes alive winning 2-1 over the new york mets. the giants first run came in the seventh inning thanks to that blooper right there. the giants will try to slip a home run home, but that didn't happen. moments later, brandon crawford hit a pop-

. >>> it is all back-to-school time at uc berkeley. incoming freshman begin orientation today. amber lee talked with some of them about their hopes for the future during move-in day. >> reporter: two young men. one from modesto followed by one from toronto canada meet for the first time on this move in day for uc berkeley students. they 10-year-olds are forging a friendship as they venture into college life as young adults. >> we are here. we made it somewhere. >> reporter: harry chen says he's a new member of the cal marching band. his goal is to work in tech and do something with his -- with his love for music. >> i'm very optimistic. i'm very hopeful of my years at calendar beyond the new were made some into their life at cunningham hall. julian perez says the political activism berkeley is known for motivated him to choose cal. the deep roots with protests or how open we are to these things and all these difficult topics. down the hallway cassandra finance -- fernandez of gilroy is moving in with the help of her mother. the incoming freshman plans to major in molecular biol

a new set of stackable apartments went up in just days a few blocks from uc berkeley. don ford went down to check them out. >> reporter: just how long does it take to raise a four-story apartment complex in berkeley? >> prefabricated buildings from china. probably four days. >> reporter: much larger than a traditional shipping container. stacked together like leg goes. each one a completed 310 square foot studio apartment. finished with cabinets. a small kitchen and of course a large screen tv. >> it is a structural steel box. everything is built within the box. >> reporter: once assembled the building is connected to utilities. the time savings is tremendous. >> this employs a technology that does not exist in the united states now. which is all still unibody construction. >> reporter: 22 units. there is a catch. >> we decided to call this a research and development project. >> reporter: translation, not going to make the expected profit. when completed the entire building is being leased to uc berkeley for grad student housing. each single occupancy unit rents for $21

add to that long term lease apartments and uc berkeley added 836 beds this year on a campus long known for housing shortages. >> i'm committed to doubling the number of beds that we offer our students in the next 10 years. >> reporter: just one year into her tenure here, the new chancellor has successfully slashed the budget deficit and now prioritizing new housing construction on land the university owns, from adding apartments at albany village to people's park. >> we're in the process of looking for a master developer to help us develop specific plans for all eight of these sites. >> i have lots of conversations with people and they say, don't build on people's park, build on the gateway site. we have to build on all the sites if we're going to meet this goal. it's such a critical goal for us to meet. >> reporter: this vacant field

that is why uc-berkeley has created an on campus food pantry.had clinics to help student's -- students learn how to sign up. coming to college, the cost of tuition, books and rent can quickly add up. some students with -- are left with little money for food. >> normally, i spend 30-$35 weekly.>> reporter: she holds down a job and plans to graduate this fall. >> that is all you need? >> reporter: for her, the food pantry has been a lifeline. >> the pantry is an emergency safety net.>> reporter: students can visit twice per month and get free food when they need a little help. >> at the start of the year, you are inundated with staff for your apartment, course requirements, housing. >> reporter: the food pantry is open weekly -- weekdays until 4 pm. they are holding clinics to help students apply for cal fresh, the state's food stamp program. >> in order to be a staff -- successful student community -- successful student, you need to take care of your basic needs. >> in the study we published in december 2017 is a study that identifies that 39% of

(take sot, frank zimring, uc berkeley law professor) frank zimring, uc berkeley law professor. firstthing you do is make it more expensive and longer and more public and more acromonize and lenghten out the process. alof ot people then suffer especially the families of the victims. they are told this is the ultimate, however, they will end up the paying the largest price of what happens. (continue vo)zimring says in addition to a longer more expensive and emotional trial.. there is the enlongated appeals process... if one is found guilty and put on death row... he says that can stretch on for decades.... wilsons family was in court today... but the left without saying anyting about this... new development in their case. here in berkeley, te (grant) a big story tonight... the man accused of killing m tiet 24-year-old cristhian vera faces a charge of first-degree murder. a five million dollar bond was set in his case... and a preliminary hearing will be held august 31st. the 20-year-old went missing on july 18th after going for a jog... and yesterday we learned her body had been found.

they make up only 3% of the undergrad population at uc berkeley in 2% of the graduate students. often choose to go to other schools because of the expense. this year, a one million-dollar anonymous donation made it possible to offer scholarships. >>> the oakland a's play the houston astros tonight. the two teams are battling for first place in the american league west. >> gonzalez is looking out, and that baby is gone. 4-0, the a's lead to. >> then, the reigning world series champs scored 11 straight runs. the first pitch for tonight's game, 5:10. >>> the giants played the arizona diamondbacks. >> a high drive, right field, it is gone. >> this is a two run homer in the second. that would be the only run the giants would score. that would be enough for them to win. the giants pitcher lead in the shutout victory. the two teams play again tonight at 7:15 at at&t park. >>> we are looking at the faraway commutes. you can see traffic is busy on 205 and 580. this is more of a normal commute. yesterday, it was very slow. there is not as much roadwork as it was yesterday. reducing traffi

. >>> a new scholarship program benefiting black students at uc- berkeley. >> there are no words, but humbled. >> how a fund is helping students who never imagined that they would study at cal. >>> the oakland a's start with a thud. what went wrong in houston. >>> of next, a mother's plea. more than eight months after her son's suspicious death. she believes investigators should look at a next girlfriend. >> it came to light that there was a life insurance policy. >>> the mother of a bay area man who fell from a cliff near stinson beach eioke with the mo who says a life just days before he died. >> my son was worth it. >> reporter: she is demanding answers more than eight months after her son's mysterious death in marin county. >> i am devastated, totaling -- not only with the death of my child, but why there has not been more movement. >> reporter: her son, tyler silva , was last seen on the top of the cliffs. a week later, kayakers found his body about two miles away. heather lundborn says he was with a former girlfriend on the day he went missing. she shares her view that the woman

there is a food pantry at the uc berkeley student union. students can go there twice a month.ay it is a struggle sometime to come up with the money for food. >> it is a pretty common story for students to skip meals. they will say oh, i am going to drink coffee all day and maybe get something small for dinner. >> the campus basic needs committee holds clinics that teach students how to apply. more than 200 students apply two years ago, 1300 applied last year, and as many as 3000 students may sign up this year. texas rangers, 9-0. they have moved into a tie for first place for the american league west. >> chris davis hit that went to new jersey. he crushed it. throughout the game, davis was wearing a jersey signed by a young fan from the make-a-wish foundation, and a rookie went wild. he hit the first two homeruns of his career. the oakland a's play the texas rangers again today. >>> in the meantime, the giants kept their playoff hopes alive. they beat the mets, 2-1. >> that is a base hit. >> the giants first run came in the seventh inning. it stayed tied into extra innings. e

happening today students at uc berkeley are headed back to class the school is welcoming -- welcoming 6100 first-year students this semester. last week and coming students moved into dorm rooms. on monday uc berkeley chancellor carol chris said 81% of this year's freshman come from public high schools, 93% of the transfers are from community colleges for chris says that she will be devoting a lot of attention to the issue of diversity among all the new students on campus. >>> air b&b, the short-term rental website, is teaming up with businesses in chinatown to increase businesses. last night the oakland chinatown can't chamber of commerce hosted this to her. the goal is to get the air b&b host to recommend this area to their guests. >> certainly given me a lot of exposure as far as where to send people. we have a, we're building a guidebook. >> normally when we see people using air b&b mostly their families and they want to have the local experience. >> the oakland chinatown chamber of commerce is excited about this new partnership with air b&b. air b&b hosts who went on the walk last

. >>> a uc berkeley professor has been suspended for three years without pay for sexually harassing a graduate student. nezar alsayyad engaged in a pattern of harassment that created a host file environment. the chancellor would not address it specifically saying doing so would violate the confidentiality of the procedures but she talked about the university's position regarding harassment. >> the campus has no tolerance for sexual harassment. we aspire to be a harassment-free environment and i think we're seeing real progress there. >> the complaint was filed in 2016 by a uc doctoral candidate and he has denied misconduct. >>> a man was run over and dragged three-quarters of a mile before the driver realized he was under her car. it happened on borgess lane near agnes court. live in vallejo with the story. >> reporter: police say it is possible someone other than this driver had already hit this man or that he was already in the roadway. tonight, that driver is cooperating with police. so far she has not been charged or cited. vallejo police say just before 2:00 a.m., a driver called

about the suspension. sota little over 2 years ago uc berkeley grad student eva hagberg fisher accusedne of her archiecture professors of sexual harassment. just last week the university decided to suspend him for 3 years without pay.sot eva hagberg fisher/uc berkeley grad student 18-28a statement from the university says professor nezar alsayyad ...sexually harassed a graduate student. the chancellor found that between 2012-2014, alsayyad engaged in a pattern of unwelcome, manipulative and divisive behavior toward the graduate student and toward his faculty colleagues. this pattern of sexual harassment created a hostile environment. but hasberg fisher says getting to this resolution has been excruciatingsotit took more than 2 years from hagberg fisher's initial complaint to this month's actual discipline... the university says that time table has since been changed, but hagberg fisher says the university has a long way to go...sotstandup dan kerman/ uc berkeley (pam) an effort to level out what some students saw as a sexist clothing rule at one east bay high school... works out in the

. >>> researchers across california, including uc berkeley saving matronly di climate change on the bay state. the 2012 to 2016 drop reduced statewide lotion -- statewide moisture levels. the levels in the bay area has risen eight entries -- eight inches. studies suggest the area burned by those fires will increase by 77%. hellfire says we are already close to having a year-round fire season. state leaders say they are doing what they can to address the climate change. >> we are giving out grants to locals to try to deal with fire preparations. the california natural resources agency commissioned the report based on 40 new studies. >>> preventing sports from being canceled at a public high school, the dosing -- the donations learned saving three girls sports teams from being closed. >>> there is a brand-new on sixemont flunking -- blocking several lanes. we will give you an update when we come back. >>> it is a cool day for us. what about heading towards the weekend? we will take a look. in 2011, california passed a law requiring carbon monoxide alarms in single-famil - [ beep ] ...in s

uc berkeley law professor frank zimring has written two books on the death penalty in the u.s. he says for prosecutors it can be a tool to hammer down the harshest punishment possible for a defendent... however, he quickly adds, for those looking for a closure to a painful event, such as a murder of a loved one... it can be a long drawn out experience - that could stretch out over decades. frank zimring, first thing you do is make it more expensive and longer and more public and more acromonize and lenghten out the process. alof ot people then suffer especially the families of the victims. they are told this is the ultimate, however, they will end up the paying the e of what (continue vo)zimring says currently there are 750 people on death row in california, the largest number in the world... he says california has not executed anyone for ten years.... he adds in addition, because of legalities, the entire trial will now be more focused on the accused, in this case john lee cowell rather than the victim zimring. 'the center of the attention goes to the subject now and the punis

been changed, but hagberg fisher says the university has a long way to go...sotstandup dan kerman/ uc berkeleygrant)topvo coming up... a teenage girl's mother is outraged tonight...after her daughter was suspended for filming this school fight, even (grant)topvo berkeley (grant)topvo coming up... a teenage girl's mother is outraged tonight...after her daughter was suspended for filming this school fight, even though she wasn't in the fight. what other parents are saying about that decision. (vicki) plus... we'll tell you what caused the major muni problems this morning that led to many students being late on their first day of school... (grant) and after the break.. find out how bart is cracking down on another big problem.... getting people who ride without paying. details next... (v bart is considering bank-rolling a major change... in order to prevent fare evaders.(grant) people who ride without paying...cost the transit system about 25 million year....and now bart leaders are considering replacing fare gates...as a way to keep those people off trains. kron4's maureen kelly caught some of t

abc 7 news asked uc berkeley chancellor about the case. she would not address it specifically, saying that in doing so, it would violate confidentiality of the procedures. she did talk about the university's position regarding harassment. >> the campus has no tolerance for sexual harassment. we aspire to be a harassment-free environment. i think we're seeing real progress there. >> the complaint against the man was filed in 2016 by a uc berkeley doctoral candidate. he has denied any misconduct. >> happening today, san francisco's muni director could face a tough performance review after being criticized by the mayor. mayor london breed sent a letter yesterday blasting the agency over a number of issues. it expressed disappointment with service delays tied to the twin peaks tunnel project and the vetting of contractors. you'll remember a worker died at the construction site earlier this month. >>> you are never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. let's head up to the north bay where i'm seeing fog develop right now. v

abc 7 news asked uc berkeley chancellor about the case. she wouldn't address it specifically. would violate confidentiality of the procedures but went on to talk about the urss position regarding harassment. >> campus has no tolerance for sexual harassment. and we aspire to be a harassment-free environment. i think we're seeing real progress there. >> the complaint was filed in 2016 by a uc berkeley doctoral candidate. he has denied any misconduct. >> san francisco's muni director could face a tough performance review after being criticized by the mayor. mayor london breed sent a letter yesterday blasting the agency over a number of issues. it expressed disappointment with service delays tied to the twin peeks tunnel project and the vetting of contractors. you'll remember a worker died at the construction site earlier this month. >> you are never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. for those of you following hurricane lane as i have, notice it got impressively wound up. now it's a category 4 hurricane. good news, it will as it tracks right south of the i

the move will affect transport -- jan sport. >>> today's a big day for incoming freshmen at uc berkeleyor the first time after leaving home and arriving on campus. amberley is alive -- live in berkeley. >> reporter: the school is welcomfirst-around the bay area and as far away as >> reporter: two young men, one from modesto and one from toronto. they meet for the first time on move-in day. they are forging a friendship as they venture into college life is young adult. harry chen said he is a member of the marching band.'s goal is to work in tech and do something with music. >> i am hopeful. >> reporter: the new roommate settling into life at cunningham hall. julian perez said the political activism that berkeley is known for motivated him to choose >> there how open we are. >> reporter: cassandra is moving in with the help of her mother. the incoming freshman plans to major in molecular biology. >> i want to be an obstetrician and eventually work in third world countries is the dr. >> reporter: this is the first time cassandra has lived away from home. >> she knows not to walk alone. we

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campus to person with a gun. >>> a big scare on the uc berkeley campus tonight.son with a gun. sky ranger flew over tamut o buildings. it turns out it was a false alm. campus police say the person with a gun was an armed guard who had business at the university. >>> california becoming the first state to offer medication abortio abortions. a medication abortion is a non-surgical procedure in which two pills are taken to induce a miscarriage in the first trimester. >>> steph curry and his wife do a lot of things in a big way. that includes a wedding gift. >> congratulate you on an amazing career at elon playing volleyball, all you did for the school and the program and wanted to give it back to you with a new locker room for seidel curry. >> the seidel curry women's volleyball locker room at elon. happy wedding present. >> usually get like a coffee maker. >> maybe a plate. >> this time a whole locker room. the warriors star pulled some strings and dropped a few bucks to have the new holocker room named after his sister. she graduated and played volleyball for the

there is a food pantry at uc berkeley student union. students can go there twice a month.e students say it is a struggle sometime to come up with enough money for food. >> is a pretty common story for students to skip meals. the campus basic needs committee holds clinics that teach students on how to apply for cal fresh. two years ago, more than 200 students applied. 1300 applied last year, and this year, as many as 3000 students may sign up. >>> the muni board is scheduled to vote on remaking one of the busiest routes in the city. the proposal and why some are happy about some of the buses that could be driving in bus only lanes. >>> a colorado man accused of murdering his family is changing his story. the reason he is giving now for killing his wife. >>> we have a problem we are tracking one 238 in castro valley as you make your way onto a 80 southbound. we are going to have an update on that along as traffic is moving very slow on the san mateo bridge. >>> it is a low cloud deck almost everywhere. ♪ flintstones! meet the flintstones. ♪ ♪ they're the modern stone age fam

. >>> the new uc berkeley chancellor one year into the role talked about her commitment to face up tousing crisis, pledging to build on eight university owned parcels of land. abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live with details tonight. leslie, big job. >> reporter: classes start tomorrow here at cal. there are 42,000 students settling into their often expensive crowded hard to find apartments and housing units. but the good news this year is a brand new dorm for 750 lucky students. >> all of the facilities are really great. it almost feels like a hotel. >> it's blackwell hall. a new residence hall getting rave reviews for the ping-pong and pool tables. add to that, long-term lease apartments and uc berkeley added 836 beds on a campus long known for housing shortages. >> i'm committed to doubling the number of beds that we offer our students in the next ten years. >> the new chancellor is prioritizing new housing construction on land the university owns from adding apartments at albany village to the north to building dorms at sites adjacent to the heart of campus. first up for c

accused of sexual harassment has been suspended for 3 years without pay.sot eva hagberg fisher/uc berkeley grad studenta statement from the university says professor nezar alsayyad ...sexually harassed a graduate student. the chancellor found that between 2012-2014, alsayyad engaged in a pattern of unwelcome, manipulative and divisive behavior toward the graduate student and toward his faculty colleagues. this pattern of sexual harassment created a hostile environment.sotit took more than 2 years from hagberg fisher's initial complaint to this month's actual discipline... the university says that time table has since been changed, but hagberg fisher says the university has a long way to go...sot (dan) there are stunning accusations againstone of the most prominent faces of the "me too" movement.. the new york times says actress ah-zeea argento is accused of sexually assaulting a young co-star who was only 17 at the time.. catherine heenan is here with details...includingthe reported pay-off argento made... (catherine) the italian actress was one of the first and most vocal accusers of movi

. >>> researchers across california, including at uc berkeley, saying they have made troubling discoveries about the effects of climate change on the bay area and across california. the 2012-2060 and right reduced statewide -- 2012-2016 sea levels have goneientists have c though california has started initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures will keep a 50% in large wildfires in california by the year 2100. the study also suggests the area burned by those fires will increase by 77%. cal fires as we already close to having me around fire season. state leaders say they are doing what they can to deal with climate change. >> we are doubling the numbers of acres we are treating. we are giving out grants to locals to try to deal with fire preparation. >> the kelly pointer -- the california national resource agency since it was based on several new studies. >>> right now, we want to check in with sal. >> i am looking around here pam and dave, there is not a lot going on when it comes to the traffic. for example, northbound 101, there is a lot of roadwork as you drive into the

. >>> a uc berkeley law student is believed to be dead after falling from an embankment while taking photos in oregon. he crossed a safety fence to get a photo when he slipped and fell sunday afternoon. rescuers have not yet been able to reach them. officials say his family has been notified. according to his linkedin page, he was set to graduate in 2020 with a special interest in public law. >>> a 17-year-old and 18-year- old died after a car they were riding in plunged off highway 24 near the 680 interstate. both were pronounced dead at the scene. the 18-year-old driver of antioch and two other women, both 18, were critically injured. >>> firefighters in san francisco on looking for the cause of a fire that forced 10 people out of their homes. it happened yesterday morning on ralston street. firefighters say in may have started in the attic of the home. four people have been living in the upstairs unit. for adults and two children were living in the bottom unit. >>> also happening today, caltrans is reminding drivers that a stretch of highway 1 in the north they will be shut down a

forbes is the third leading publication to rank uc berkeley as the nation's top public university.o did u.s. news and world report. the forbes list also ranked cal 14th overall. now we're including private schools. harvard was number one, followed by yale, stanford and m.i.t. >> still not getting into cal. >> that was even harder. >> florida alum, miami alum. >> we'll see you at 6:00. lester holt is next. >>> tonight, president trump responds after michael cohen implicated him in a crime. mr. trump now admitting he knew about those secret hush money payments to keep women quiet before the election. >> later on i knew. later on. they didn't come out of the campaign, they came from me. i tweeted about it. >> the president also praising convicted felon pl manafort for quote refusing to break. tonight our look at the candidate who said he'd have -- >> the best people. >> and now has five former top aides facing possible prison time. >>> chilling new details about the man accused of killing mollie tibbetts. what he was doing as so many others desperately searched to find her. >>> a mons

. >>> uc berkeley has a new scholarship program to attack -- attract and retain black students.e undergrad student body and 2% of the graduate students. cal officials say african- american students who are admitted to uc berkeley often choose to go to other schools because of the expense. this year, a one million-dollar anonymous donation made it possible to offer scholarships. >> i fit right in, within three days. three hours of getting here, i automatically felt like i was right at home. >> they were not choosing berkley because they felt like the campus was unwelcoming. there were not enough african- americans here to make them feel that there was community. >> school officials say a survey found that many african- american students were offered better financial aid packages at other universities. >>> a disney fan in los angeles brought in more than $8 million in an auction of his collection. richard kraft has been collecting disneyland park rides and props for more than 25 years. his collection grew to over 900 pieces, including an original flying "dumbo" ride car. that piec

okay, that's roger bales, adjunct professor at uc berkeley.time. >> thank you so much. >>> today, mineta san jose international airport until new technology, beefing up security while speeding up security lines. the biometric technology has been in place since june but today was a public rollout. the machine scans a person's eyes and nose to match them against an existing photo. officials say technologies have reduced the wait time at san jose from 29 minutes to 10 minutes. >> we've figured out a way to do it that is paperless, tokenless, simple, and very passenger friendly to do. so, we are solving again, a very collocated security mandate by focusing on the traveler experience. >> officials say the goal is to have the system set up at all departing and arriving international gates at mineta san jose by the end of fall. >>> coming up, the government's star witness in the trial of paul manafort admits to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the former trump campaign chairman. we'll have an update on the testimony that was given tod

i have a son at uc berkeley now things have calmed down for his sake. governor reagan was law and order and definitely had the cops cracking down on the universities and demonstrations. steve: another significant player, senator eugene mccarthy. david: that was mccarthy in los angeles in 1968 during the campaign. he was the first sort of mainline politician to rise up against lbj. steve: thomas is joining us from maryland, democrats line. >> i find it very interesting in the conversation that the journalists are having because it seems like they are coming across as, to me, a voice in a white supremacist world with perks, whether you are liberal or conservative. it was still white supremacy. the reason i'm going this way is because i realized you are talking about reagan, and you showed the first clip of cronkite. you were talking about what was addressed to white people for white people by white people. you haven't talked about the south or anything that dealt with minorities and the great suffering that was going on internally in this country. white s

. >> a scare on the uc berkeley campus. sky ranger shows a swarm of police cars after reports of a be a false alarm. on campus. t police say the person was an armed guard who had business at the university. the incident caused a brief lockdown of two buildings. >>> they're doing it in vancouver, maybe now in san francisco. we're getting a clear picture of what a safe injection site might look like. the mayor turned a mock facility today, said up at glide memorial church. lawmakers approved a bill to launch a three-year pilot program to give the cities 22,000 injectable drug users a clean place to shoot up with medical personnel standing by. it's based on a model in vancouver that our investigate tich un unit profiled in may. >> we are doing everything we can to look at creative solutions. >> but there is plenty of opposition here from the feds. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is writing a piece that says the sites would be illegal. >>> in the south bay, a different approach. santa clara county health officials handed

they caught up with the group at uc berkeley. >> citizenship for who? >> citizenship for all! >> this immigrant youth just arrived in san francisco. they have been on the road for three weeks and cycled almost 1,000 miles south from seattle. >> there is so much emotion going uphill. i keep asking myself why am i doing this and going through all this pain? >> her family immigrated from korea when she was a child and she is now a college student that all immigrant communities deserve equal opportunity. >> i'm doing it for the community, but i wish i did more training before this. >> i have seen my parents targeted and i know other groups are also vulnerable to depo deportati deportation. >> she is from the texas border town. she is a daca recipient and activist and feels the system values some groups more than others. >> to really address the problem, i wouldn't want my community to be against another community. we are just going to be fighting and never address the charger problem which is systemic. >> journey to justice will continue their ride at 8:00 in the morning. they hav

greg grew up in the san francisco bay area and attended uc berkeley. the best school ever. the weekly standard has called the most dangerous man on television. going on to say that god felt stuff is actually subversive. a stink bomb rolled into every faculty lounge, mainstream newsroom and nonprofit boardroom in america. so buckle your seatbelts and welcome to the commonwealth club, greg gutfeld. [applause] [applause] >> first off, i better get more applause than tucker carlson. tucker, you already know tucker which is basically just to stare into the screen like a dog staring at a butcher shop. [laughter] then, after he says thanks for coming on sumac have you mastered the tucker stair? it's just like this. it's like a dog staring at laundry in a dryer. i love tucker. in a totally platonic way. or maybe not, who knows. who cares. i'm having a conversation with myself. it happens. >> we have some questions from the publisher, they're kind of safe there some edgy and brilliant questions for me. even better questions coming in from the audience. i would like to start with the

. >>> a swift response and some serious panic at uc berkeley today after report of a person with a gun. sky ranger flew over the campus shortly before noon to find multiple police cars and students scaurrying out of buildings. it turns out it was a false alarm. campus police say the person with a gun was an armed guard who had business at the university. >>> this is a somber day for many americans. it could have been senator john mccain's 82nd birthday. instead it was a good-bye. an honor guard rotunda in phoenix today.te ceremony, mccain's family gathered with friends and colleagues. after that, you can see his wife cindy there pausing to rest her cheek on the coffin. with the outside temperature at a blistering 105 degrees, the long line of well wishers was admitted early. they came from all across the western u.s., including dozens of vietnamese immigrants from orange county. >> we should remember him for 60 years of service to our country. >> i had to be here today. >> john mccain died saturday from an aggressive form of brain cancer. at tomorrow's memorial, father edward reese of

. >>> uc berkeley police are looking for man caught on video breaking into cars. the man was bancroft way. just before 2:00 the sa the suspect was driving a tan19 california license plate four dws 261. anyone with information should call police. >>> an investigation underway in menlo park after man was found dead outside of his home. police responded to a report of a man lying in an alley on willow road just after 8:00 last night. when they arrived police found the 79-year-old man with a visible head wound. he was pronounced dead at the scene. >>> oakland police are investigating a fatal shooting in east oakland. police say one person was killed and another person entered on 72nd avenue. shortly before 8:00 last night . the victims names and ages were not immediately available for police did not release ve n arrest. >>> there were also two shootings yesterday morning in oakland that killed two people. one took place on e st. at 1 am , two people were shot. one person died there. about an hour later another shooting happened near 11th and international. police say

. >>> cert -- police are searching for the man accused of sexually assaulting a c member -- a uc berkeleytaff member at the university garage on bar anyone with information is asked to call police. >>> smart trains in the north bay should be back on schedule this morning after a pedestrian was hit and killed yesterday. police say 29-year-old man walked in front of the train at about 5:40 just north of the rohner park station. witnesses say they saw the man walking with his head down with headphones on and looking at something in his hand the. police say they are not sure if you walked in front of the train by accident or on purpose . the man's name has not been released. >>> police still searching for the person involved in a shooting on a south bay freeway. we told you yesterday morning that it happened on northbound 680 in san jose near mckee road. the man told investigators he was driving on the freeway when someone in another car started shooting. he was wounded in the back but was able to get off the freeway and called the chp. his car was hit several times. the female passenger in t

. >> reporter: uc berkeley economist stephen pitts is an economist at the center for labor research and says the increases were put into law decades ago. >> back in 1990, a law was passed that was designed to equalize salaries between the private and public sector. they found they were having difficulty attracting and retaining employees. >> he says the president has the power to freeze raises but that is usually done during times when the economy is struggling. >> the difference is the economy. right now, have very little unemployment. even trumps trumpets of the great nature of the economy. >> reporter: earlier this month, the senate approved a 1.9% increase for federal employees, but the house has not voted on that budget item, and even if it does pass congress, it would still need the president's signature, alex? >> the timing of all this is interesting. janet in our newsroom tonight, thank you. >>> senator john mccain was remembered today in his home state of arizona, as a man who embraced friends across the political spectrum, and from all walks of life. >> navajo flutist played a

. >>> uc berkeley suspended an architecture professor for harassing a graduate student. he won't be paid for the next three years. a campus investigation found he engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment that created a hostile environment and abused his faculty powers. the graduate student first reported the allegations two years ago. the chronicle reports that he was barred from teaching the next semester but continued to collect his six figure salary. he has denied any misconduct. >>> dozens of tenants in mountain view are at risk of being priced out of town. it's becoming a familiar story. a developer plans to tear down an apartment complex on rock street and replace it with more expensive town homes. betty yu on the change driving working class families out of silicon valley. >> reporter: this two bedroom apartment has been home to jackie frederick and her husband for the past five years. now they're getting out moving boxes since they received this notice they'll likely need to move out. >> the news is quite scary to me because we weren't really sure and the whole

they're trying to scrt for another day and f >>> dozens of animal rights activists gathered at uc berkeley today with a message for amazon. they want the online retail giant to stop selling products they say are linked to animal cruelty. activists accuse amazon of selling meat and eggs from factory farms that abuse animals on a daily basis and say many products promoted as humane are not. the group has launched a website that highlights the issue. >> one-click cruelty can direct people to our website to show you about all the cruel products amazon is selling including fur though that's been banned if berkeley and san francisco. veal. and eggs that are coming from factory farms like petaluma farms. >> we reached out to amazon for a comment but the company did not respond. >>> some good news today from yosemite. firefighters say the ferguson fire burning near the park is ly contained. it took more than a month. that fire tore through 96,000 acres of forest. two firefighters lost their lives battling the flames. the ferguson fire also forced the closure of parts of yosemite national park for

lots of new faces on campus in what will be uc berkeley's 165th year.ll you about day one. >> reporter: dave, good morning. 150 years young and it is for the upper class men, this i is old. been there, done that, but if you're a freshman here at cal, this i is a big deal. you'll be calling cal home for the next nine months. the toughest task for the new, incoming students is navigating the campus. it is a pretty good size. 1,200 acres, two square miles large. just trying to find your way around is a chore in it self. it takes a week or two. for many it is the first time away from home as well. every incoming freshman has big dreams. they hope berkeley is the perfect start to a life time of success. >> i wanted become an obstetrician and work in third world countries and become a doctor. it is important to be happy and help others. that is all i want to do in life. >> reporter: just to give you an idea of how hard it is to get admitted to cal, here are numbers, 78,918 applied. 13,321 were accepted. by the way. if you're doing the math, that is 17%. for e

. >> reporter: dennis baldachi is a uc berkeley professor. he says smoke like this could impact california agriculture. they're also looking at how the smoke could have unintended positive effects. >> it causes light to come in many angles. it can pen drat deeply into the forest that way. >> reporter: bottom line, the smoke could be altering our ecosystem, especially if these layers of smoke linger like they have for weeks or even months, and become part of a normal summer pattern, given all the increasing fires we've seen, dan. back to you. >> leslie, thanks so much. >>> so what can we expect from air quality tonight? of course this weekend. let's check in with meteorologist sandhya patel. >>> yeah, kristen, take a look at a live picture as leslie mentioned, we're starting to see signs from improvement from our mt. tam cam. still smoky, don't get me wrong. there's a spare the air alert up for today. poor air quality in many areas today. take a look at the weekend, air quality advisory through sunday but you do start to see an improvement wit

a team of scientists at uc berkeley designed, built, and operates one of the instruments.aft is expected to reach the sun by november. >>> okay. star gazers around the bay area are getting ready to watch a display of shooting stars tonight. a meteor shower is making its annual return to the sky. >> who are these guys? >> these guys are in bosnia gathering around a campfire to watch it. people will be able to see it best in the northeastern sky. away from city lights and where there's a little pollution. >> where there is -- >> where there is little pollution. >> no pollution. >> light pollution, yeah. not like this fog. >> yeah, fog is, like, a whole different factor that will also affect -- >> yeah, if you're in outside lands, you're not going to see this. >> not at all. hopefully you'll see janet jackson. >> that's. what what we care about. >> share those pictures, too. i don't mind that. doesn't have always be weather related with me. i love how you are experiencing outside. peninsula 86. south bay dropping into the 70s already. believe it or not, tomorrow, that's going

they want the online retail >>>s coulds of animal rights activists gathered at uc berkeley with a message for amazon. they want the online retail giant to stop selling products they say are linked to animal cruelty. they accuse animal of selling meat and eggs from factory farms that apews animals on a daily basis and many products promoted as humane are not. the group launched a website that highlights the issue. >> one-click cruelty can direct people to our website to show you about all the cruel products amazon is selling, including fur, even though that's been banned in berkeley and san francisco, veal, and eggs that are coming from factory farms like petaluma farms. >> we reached out to amazon for a response but so far have not heard back. >>> investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a fire at mcnair brickyard in san rafael, spotted smoke from the building this morning. the fire sparked near the kiln as the oven baked the brick. the building and the roof are completely scorched. fire crews say they faced unexpected challenge when they arrived on scene. >> part of the proble

he got a ba in economics from uc berkeley, and an mba in strategic management and leadership from claremont graduate university, and has been a management consultant and global development advisor for governments, financial institutions, corporations, and nonprofits. welcome to the show. arturo noriega: thank you so much. it's an honor to be here. robert: oh, well, thank you for being here. give us an overview, in terms of centro community partners. arturo: absolutely, we provide entrepreneurship training and education to minority and women entrepreneurs all over the bay area and beyond, but we really focus on how to bring that information to people who haven't had access to that type of mentorship, access to capital, and the type of training in the classroom, that we haven't seen that before. robert: what made you decide to do this? so, did you see a lot of people out there with ideas and nowhere to go, or didn't have an idea of where to go? arturo: absolutely, what we kept seeing over the years, and prior to starting centro community partners, and in different parts of the world, but here

. >>> there's new fallout for a uc berkeley professor who's accused of sexual harassment. he's been suspended for three years without pay. after a complaint two years ago, a campus investigation found that he sexually assaulted a grad student. the professor hasn't taught since that investigation, but he was still collecting a paycheck. fisher says the university should have held the professor accountable two years ago. a lawyer for al sayyad says he denies the claims. >>> a persistent problem b.a.r.t. says it is now forced to address. rider after rider hopping the gates without paying. b.a.r.t. has been trying to put a stop to this in years but a surge in crime is putting a new solution on the fast track. sam, what's the plan? >> reporter: well, they have to come up with one because we interviewed a b.a.r.t. spokesperson today, five or six different news stations, we were watching people leapfrogging these fare stations with police around. you just stand here, push this to the side and walk right through. b.a.r.t. is looking at a complete low different system that could co

. >>> a false report of a gunman caused a scare at uc berkeley today. police locked down two buildings and told people to avoid the area. one student who was studying in the student center told us that she heard yelling, and two people ran toward her telling her to get out of the building. >> my first thought was like a school shooter. and because of that, i think because of the specific time we're in, i didn't questin it and i just ran out. it was definitely really scary. >> uc police later said the armed man was an armored guard who was on campus for business reasons. >>> devastating fires last year in the north bay, and this year in redding, in clear lake, are having a ripple effect on homeowners in the bay area. some can't get their homeowners insurance renewed due to high fire danger. new at 5:00, laura anthony has the story from the oakland hills, talking about people who weren't even in the fire zone, laura. >> reporter: that's right, kristen, this is hiller highlands, which did burn, but it was 27 years ago. certainly there have been some terrib