well, she's been at uc berkeley for 30 years. and despite for ncaa championships, 5 pac, 12 championships and being an olympic coach back in 2012. that was not enough for uc berkeley. the keeper on campus. and that's why she has been relieved of her duties. the athletes, well, they're also trying to go after jim knowlton, the athletic director claiming that uc berkeley has known about these allegations as early as the 90's and back in as recently as 2010 but did nothing about it. teri mckeever, she has come back swinging, claiming that she did nothing wrong, that she's been transparent throughout this whole time and that she has hired an attorney and she claims sees me. the attorney says that they will file a lawsuit against uc berkeley claiming that she was let go because of gender bias. but this case obviously is a big deal on uc berkeley's campus as well as the swimming community and perhaps even workplace environment that despite everything, despite all the accolades that if you come back and you violate the company and accor

>> it is none of the court's business where uc berkeley decides to build housing on its land. >> and a housing battle at cal the ruling against building new housing at uc berkeley and how state leaders are planning to fight back. good morning. thank you for joining us. lisa has the forecast. we are talking more rain today and a little bit of snow in the higher elevations. lisa: the snow levels will be lowering. today is the first system. you can see scattered showers pushing through the bay area. go to the north and you can see highway 29, a light shower in san rafael, mill valle pescadero, west of 280, some showers in the santa cruz mounds, so you can see snow around mount hamilton. this is a level one system come anywhere from -- anywhere around a half-inch of rain today. we will see some sun later on with onshore winds, temps keeping them in the mid 40's. so the plan throughout the day, scattered showers increasing through 9:00 a.m. then it will clear out in the north bay. and we will talk about another system getting ready, a stronger one, the come on monday. liz: mount diablo is

it is not the court's business where uc berkeley decides to build housing on its land. >> californiate senator scott weiner says the ruling is not in my backyard. he says the court is arguing that the california environmental quality act requires looking at what kind of people are going to move-in. >> you can imagine the stereotyping of low income people and people of color. that is not how we do things in california. >> in a statement abc 7 news, uc berkeley says they will appeal the decision to the california supreme court and that the new decision bestows new privileges and power to the privilege and powerful while arming neighbors with additional weapons to obstruct the development of all new urban housing. >> basically, if anyone who has the money to hire a lawyer can use this to try to kill anything they don't like, even if it is super pro-environmental. >> the new ruling overturns a july 2022 ruling that allowed construction for housing for 1100 students and 120 five lower income and on house residence. >> it appealed to me as kind of positive. >> from your tees is glad the co

they turned it over to uc berkeley. uc berkeley said it was in their best interest to part ways with teri mckeever teri mckeever has been here for 3 decades, very decorated. she says that she's always been transparent with uc berkeley that she denies all allegations and that she is not going into the night quietly chains and daria, but she says through her attorney that they plan to file a lawsuit claiming gender bias. but of course, this has made national news. this is already on espn. as far as the reports of a swimming coach, especially one as decorated as her, that she has been let go of her job. but the accusations they don't stop with their according to the swimmers. they also want athletic director jim knowlton fired, saying that he has known this for years but ignored all of the allegations until the independent law firm came back and back them up. >> back to you. all right. thanks a lot. we'll >> good morning, get to the point. return. i know the was a pretty big deal last time. so when i woke up this morning,

it is none of the court's business where uc berkeley decides to build housing on its land. liz: and housing battle at cal, the ruling against building new student housing at uc berkeley and how state leaders are planning to fight back. good morning. it is sunday, february 20 sixth. i am liz kreutz here with lisa argen. thank you for joining us. this last week of february is flying by. lisa: it sure is. if we look closer at live doppler 7 picking up on a few sprinkles of rain through vallejo and a little bit further to the south, around golden gate bridge and crossed over into oakland, nothing major. the system is to the north of us. it is a level 1 system that will bring light to moderate rain in the morning hours and into the afternoon. snow levels at 3000 feet. it is gray outside, san francisco, so by 9:00 it is raining in the north bay, san francisco by noon time. we will sweep through the south bay peer we get sun in the north after about. 2:00. . it should move out of here relatively quickly. we have a break and a stronger system arrives for your monday. liz? liz: all

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being robbed at gunpoint. >> the east bay, a uc berkeley student using a dating app was robbed early this morning. now 4 people are in custody. a crown charles clifford has details. >> well, the berkeley police department says that this is a case of someone who was lonely looking for companionship and unfortunately, it didn't work out well, according to the berkeley police department sunday evening, a male uc berkeley student had used a dating app to arrange for a woman to come to his home here along prospect street when the student opened the door for the girl around midnight, she wasn't alone. >> they ended up >> coming in coming inside, along with several other suspects. who then held him at gunpoint and robbed him of cash and electronics. >> the berkeley police department says that 4 arrests have been made in this case. a 17 year-old female, a 19 year-old man and 2 juveniles. they say this is not the first time this has happened. said we've had other instances where people have been taking advantage of like this. >> through dating apps other online applications. police are also o

in the east bay, an appeals court has ruled that uc berkeley may not move forward with plans to build student housing on people's park until it addresses problems within the project's environmental impact report, but state leaders and the university plan to appeal to the california supreme court. we have been next steps in this battle. >> last summer, protesters stepped into -- protesters attempted to stop construction at people's park. according to an ruling, uc berkeley cannot move forward with plans to build student housing on people's park because it failed to assess potential noise impacts from loud student parties and residential neighborhoods near the campus, i long-standing problem. >> the courts are micromanaging. it is none of the court's business where uc berkeley decides to build housing on its land. >> california senator scott wiener says it amounts to nimby is him -- nimbyism backyard. >> you can imagine the stereotyping of low income people and people of color. that's not how we do things in california. >> in a statement to abc 7 new uc berkeley says it will appeal the

this after an 8 month investigation, uc berkeley hired an independent law firm. they looked into allegations made by 27 swimmers and parents, current and former may date back to the 90's claiming the coach mckeever racially discriminated some verbally and abuse some of their swimmers of her swimmers. also body shamed and made them swim in compete when they had medical records proving that they were injured. they looked into this after a newspaper. did the investigation last year, despite according to the swimmers and the parents that the school knew about this for decades and did nothing about it. but it was an investigation last year that prompted uc berkeley to look into this. the law firm came back and basically supported the claims by the swimmers and the parents. now, they also want to go one step further. the swimmers and the parents want. athletic director jim knowlton fire claiming that the school knew about this for years and did nothing about it. coach mckeever. well, she denies all allegations and she is swinging back at the school and this law from as

you so much for that live perspective on that story. >> and a longtime women's swimming coach at uc berkeley has been fired following allegations of harassment and bullying kron four's will tran is in berkeley with the latest. >> for ncaa championships, 5 pac, 12 championships. the olympic swim coach in 2012. all of those things were not enough for uc berkeley to keep teri mckeever on the job. this being on the job after 30 years as head coach for the swim and dive team. this after an 8 month investigation, uc berkeley hired an independent law firm. they looked into allegations made by 27 swimmers and parents, current and former may date back to the 90's claiming the coach mckeever racially discriminated some verbally and abuse. some of their swimmers of her swimmers. also body shamed and made them swim in compete when they had medical records proving that they were injured. they looked into this after a newspaper. did the investigation last year, despite according to the swimmers and the parents that the school knew about this for decades and did nothing about it. but it was an investigatio

a statement ruling has ramifications beyond uc berkeley case. it is a dangerous precedent that will undermine california's effort, to build new homes and do so sustainably. >> a large fire damages a dock in several boat. you can see the flames and smoke that enveloped the dock at around 9:00 last night. calfire says that the fire burned between 10 and 20 boats. cruises say it's a tricky firefight. >> when they went out on the scene they tried to attack it from other boats using pumps to suppress the fire. as that fire continued to burn. it separated so that the burning parts detached from the main dock and it floated out. >> a frightening sight. all of this happened at berkeley clove -- berkeley cov no word yet on what caused that fire. taking a live look outside you can see that the scene is pretty clear, getting a break from rain. you will need umbrellas once again soon. let's get to meteorologists, let's talk about the arrival of the next run. >> it's arriving tomorrow. and not only will you need your umbrella, we might need snowboots in part

why uc berkeley is appealing turning into student housing. kumasi: how long it will take for renewal applications. reggie: the big winners of the sag awards and what it coul reggie: saudi arabia has agreed to supply ukraine with $400 million in aids in its fight against russia. the announcement coming before vladimir putin sat down for an interview. he falsely claimed the west is trying to ruin russia and called it a fight for survival. kumasi: oakland police investigating a string of islands over the weekend. by people have been shot along international boulevard. officers found a person shot near 84th and international. police located a second victim who had crashed into a pole. both were taken to the hospital in critical condition. on friday night, three shootings left three people dead, two of those along international boulevard. a landmark talking about housing for students. an appeals court moved construction cannot move forward until the environmental impact report are addressed. it says the uc berkeley from parties which neighbors cal

. >> it's 807, and new this morning, a longtime women's swimming coach for uc berkeley has been fired up. this comes after she was investigated for allegedly harassing and bullying under her watch and kron four's will tran is at the campus in berkeley with more on this will. >> an infependent law firm hired by uc berkeley. they did the investigation and they came back and basically backed up the claims by 27 swimmers. and 21 parents, current and present that this coach here, you might not have heard of or because it'spnot a major sport, but nonetheless, a prominent sport on campus swimming. her name is teri mckeever and she's been at the school for 30 years now. the swimmers they claim that coach mckeever racially discriminated some verbally and emotionally harass some of her swimmers as well made them train and compete during times when they were injured and they had medical records to prove that they were injured. and they also claim that she body shamed them. now the allegations actually came out last year when a newspaper did the report. but according to the swimmers current and p

the park is located just south of uc berkeley's campus.is a landmark of the social rights movement but in recent years has become a spot where unhoused people live in encampment. an appeals court ruled that plans cannot move forward intel environmental impacts are addressed. the plan says uc berkeley failed to consider labs, noisy student parties, something some neighbors call a monks in problem. thomas libby helped in the lawsuit. >> if you are going to do something that causes significant and permanent impacts, look at alternatives to that proposal that would reduce those impacts. you see -- uc the two even though my clients asked them to do that. reggie: last summer, protesters took on police in an attempt to stop construction at the park. uc berkeley says it will appeal the decision to the california supreme court. the cdc is warning the nation of the rising right of a brokers bacteria. it is -- it usually affects young children. the agency is seeing more cases among adults, specifically populations of and who have sex with men, people

on friday, an appeals court ruled uc berkeley cannot move forward with its student housing plan untilt addresses problems with the project environmental impact report. that report says the university failed to consider loud, noisy student parties. some -- some neighbors near the campus call it a long-standing problem. >> if something as a government which you see as causing significant environmental impacts, you need to look at alternatives to that proposal that would reduce those impacts, and you see -- uc simply did not do that. they refused to do that even though my clients asked them to. dion: in a statement to abc 7 news, uc berkeley says they will appeal the decision to the california supreme court. now to the lively event once the bay area today celebrating black history month and the black experience of history and culture. you may have watched the black joy parade live on the website for the abc 7 streaming app. >> i am having the best time out here. dion: what a party! abc news anchors hosted today's coverage along with taylor crenshaw. rain certainly could not dampen the jo

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those are second floor written does at the uc berkeley snow lab. they anticipate they will be fully covered by wednesday. but as darin peck explains, all that snow may not translate to itas much water as we all might think and hope. >> we are about to see one of the most impressive storms in the sierra in terms of snow amounts. 76 inches, that's standing feet of snow. but it's important to understand about the snow fall, this is a very cold storm. let's bring in a pad of snow and explain how very cold temperatures can change how deep the snow piles up. in the sierra typically for every 10 inches of snow you get, let's just say that was 10 inches. we are not going to do this to scale, but ratio. for every 10 inches of snow in a typical storm, if you took that snow and melted it down, the amount of water you get -- so fill our rain gauge -- would be an inch. it's a neat ratio in that way, 10 to 1. only when the storms come in cold, they tend to pull in a lot more air and the snow tends to become a lot more fluffier. we are not going to have a 10 to 1

nikki jones, uc berkeley of sociology professor. dr. lorenzo former deputy sheriff from massachusetts. we also have the executive director of the anti-police hero project and just as teams and martin reynolds, co-executive director of the institute that n representation in media and critical analysis of how the news is covered. thank you all for joining me this afternoon. i will jump right into the first question here. we have seen what could be called relatively swift action taken by both the police chief in memphis and the da, and the firing of some but not all the officers involved in filing word -- filing murder charges against five of the officers pyramid is that the appropriate response to the awful instance of police brutality that we have seen? lorenzo, i would be able -- love to be able to start with you as a former law enforcement officer. lorenzo? ok, it sounds like our guests have lost audio, we are going to work on getting that to them in just a moment. we will take a short break. we will be right back. (vo) wells fargo let

uc berkeley, political science professor steve fish joins us now live to talk more about this. with that right there with the. >> putin withdrawing or at least suspending the arms control agreement with the united states. and we understand that an icbm missile was fired during biden's speech over ukraine, which apparently that missile test failed. are we seeing a renewed cold war era kind of arms race? it could be beginning between the united states, the west and russia. >> we're way past the cold war where this is a much hotter. we're than anything we were involved in during the cold war. in fact, relations with russia are much more tense than they were. then look, putin withdrawn from this arms control treaty doesn't mean this much. this has been a dead letter for some time. russia has an interest in n? h- entering into arms control negotiations. negotiations with the u.s. because they can't possibly keep up with the united states in a nuclear arms race. for now, though, any kind of talk of nuclear arms control or any kind of negotiation with russia, of course, is going to go

a new this morning, a longtime women's swimming coach at uc berkeley has been fire and this comes after she was investigated for alleged it harassment and bullying with kron four's will tran standing by live at the campus with more on the story. will. >> well, james, for ncaa titles, 5 pac, 12 championships being an olympic coach at one time were not enough to keep teri mckeever on the job despite being here for 30 years now, uc berkeley hired an independent law firm to invest the allegations that came out in 2022. last year by report from another newspaper. they started looking into it and they came back. the independent law firm claims that teri mckeever, as you mention, bullies, her athletes at times use racial discrimination, verbally abused them in some athletes even claim that she body shamed them and also said that she just disregarded medical report said they were injured, making them work out and even compete when they were not able to do so. now this all stems back to 2001, james and because according to the athletes and even some parents, they claim that uc berkeley has known

the ruling says that uc berkeley failed to assess potential noise impacts from loud student parties in residential neighborhoods near campus. the court also ruled that the university failed to justify its decision not to consider other locations to the people's park project. you see, berkley says it plans to appeal that ruling. still the common. exp area prison guard sentenced to federal prison what he smuggled into san quentin while on the job, so prices are going down at oracle park for the upcoming baseball season. the discounted items you can expect to see this spring. can't wait for that. so san francisco had a record low at 39 degrees early this morning. how low will it go tonight? we've got the details as the news continues, right here on ktvu backs, too. welcome to alaska airlines, how can i help you? one ticket to maui, please. of course! you know, my friend funshine would have loved this trip. well our companion fare is just $99 with the alaska airlines visa card, to anywhere alaska airlines flies. with no blackout dates? yes, so your friend can come along with you! next time

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our top story this hour comes from the east bay where uc berkeley student using a dating app said that he was robbed earlier this morning and now they're for people in police custody. kron four's charles clifford has the latest. >> well, the berkeley police department says that this is a case of someone who was lonely looking for companionship and unfortunately, it didn't work out well, according to the berkeley police department sunday evening, a male uc berkeley student had used a dating app to arrange for a woman to come to his home here along prospect street when the student opened the door for the girl around midnight, she wasn't alone. >> they ended up >> coming in the coming inside, along with several other suspects. who then held him at gunpoint and robbed him of cash and electronics. >> the berkeley police department says that 4 arrests have been made in this case. a 17 year-old female, a 19 year-old man and 2 juveniles. they say this is not the first time this has happened. said we've had other instances where people have been taking advantage of like this. >> through dating

and you can see it's not looking quite as winter is the uc berkeley snow is up in the sierra nevada.f snowfall for some of our highest peaks here in the bay area. later on this morning, i'll tell you exactly where to expect it. as of right now, we're still pretty calm out there. we do have some showers now moving into sonoma county. the heaviest stuff, though, that's still well to your north. if you're heading north of uk on 1, you're running into solid snowfall up there. sierra still looking at snow and as james and darya mentioned, we still got multiple feet of it ahead of us from today. through wednesday, another round of energy pushing through that is moisture packed. it is going to add more rainfall here in the bay area now around 07:00am to expect some brief light showers for the peninsula as well as a sprinkle or 2 in the east bay. 07:00am really start to see that heavy rain picking up up in the northern part of sonoma county, drifting further southward by 08:00am line of heavy rain making its way through orange and red. you know what that means? that's the heavier intensity r

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now. 703 governor, newsom gave a very strong reaction to a court ruling, which halts uc berkeley from building student housing at the people's park. his office posted a statement to twitter yesterday with the caption. a few wealthy berkeley homeowners should not be able to block desperately needed student housing for years and even decades. it's official statement called. at a so called not in my backyard stance. he thinks some people have an issue. their statement goes on with california cannot afford to be held hostage by nimbys who weaponize ce que a the california environmental equality act to block students and affordable housing. the selfish mindset is driving up our housing prices. and making our state less affordable court ruled that the university failed to justify its decision not to consider other locations to the people's park project, and it failed to assess potential noise impacts and residential neighborhoods near the u. c campus. uc berkeley says it plans to appeal that ruling and xing quentin prison guard has been sentenced to 20 months in federal prison. keith christ

reggie: this comes at 15 months after tesla moved its headquarters to austin, texas. 6:00, uc berkeley'salcon just got a new name -- lou. kumasi: this is ann man. the name lou kellogg, a berkeley alum. alexander was an explorer and naturalist who founded the museum of paleontology. reggie: if you do not know, annie has been through some things. kumasi: she can keep a man. drew: she can. kumasi: to has been cited. one of her men got killed. did he die? drew: i think he left. kumasi: he is that she stepped in to help take care of her babies. reggie: he was a good interim man. we do not know what happened to him. kumasi: and has got a new man annie has got a new man. if she should teach a class. drew: how to keep a man and how to throw away a man. reggie: it is a class on grief and growth. drew: are going to see. heavy snow expected in our hills late tonight to early tomorrow morning. we break it down by elevation. the north bay will see higher snow, 4-8". the marine county hills 3-6" east bay hills could see 2-6". the santa clara hills w the highest snow totals, 6-12". it is possible we co

the snow was coming down and the wind blowing at uc berkeley central sierra snow lab. you can see in this video here. the lab says it's received an inch of snow over the last day. and snow is continuing to fall there. it says it's expecting 6 to 9 defeat to fall through wednesday. of course, there's there at soda springs. we do want to get you a check of the forecast. taking a live look tonight at the san mateo bridge. and it looks like the winter weather is not going anywhere. outrage got to. >> look at the winter storm. yeah, that's right. winter storm warning currently in effect for the sierra and that's going to be replaced by a very rare blizzard warning in the sierra, believe it or not. so even for sierra standards, it's pretty where to get blizzard warnings, but they're going to see several feet of snow and gusty winds starting tomorrow morning through wednesday morning. so let's take a look at this. winter storm warning currently in effect until mid-morning monday. that's when it's going to be replaced by this intense blizzard warning. so we're expecting severa

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a california court is blocking uc berkeley's plan to build housing on people's park. the appeals court says the plan failed to address environmental concerns. this ruling brings to a halt the project until the university can conduct a new environmental study. the proposed 17 story building would occupy half of people's park. it would house more than 1000 students. twitter keep shrinking. elon musk announced just another round of twitter layoffs, at least 50 employees are going to be fired as he continues to try to cut costs. the firings will affect product managers, engineers and data scientists all who help keep twitter's various features online. so twitter now the workforce has been. whittled down to less than 2000 people. and one must took over the company october. they had 7,500 workers at twitter. >> a warning now for iphone owners this morning. investigators say the smartphone thieves are spying on you while you're entering your pass codes in public places and then they come by and steal your device. in some cases, even assaulting or intimidating the victim in t

. >> coming up at 10:30pm, tonight, a political science professor with uc berkeley will join us live for his insight as we approach the one-year mark of russia's deadly and destructive invasion of ukraine. new at 9, 7, teo police have arrested a man who they say stabbed another person. police say. >> happened around 10, 30 sunday night on south norfolk street near the shopping center plaza there. investigators say the suspect is 51 year-old jose rodriguez. they say he was drinking with the victim when they got into a fight. police say the victim was stabbed on the back of his head and stabbed in his left arm. the victim also told police rodriguez threatened to cut his throat. rodriguez was booked into jail for attempted homicide. well, san francisco police meanwhile, are asking for your help finding a man who they say stabbed a 67 year-old woman. police releasing this picture of the suspect described as a hispanic guy, his 20's or 30's, about 5, 6, heavyset build dark hair last seen wearing a black sweater and blue jeans. the stabbing happened near leavenworth in be street last summe

about this fresh layer of snow is lead scientist and manager of the central sierra snow lab at uc berkeley. doctor andrew schwartz, thanks for joining us. >> thank you for me so where we asked the season so far. we're looking great so far this for a little bit of reference our windows here on the second floor of the building. and we have boards on and make sure that the snow doesn't shatter and that's because we average about 30 feet of snow per year. and so far this year we've had both our snow pack and our water moving forward into the spring are looking very good. >> cass tech well, is this unusual more than 16 inches in 24 hours? >> it's not unusual up at these higher elevations. occasionally will see even a 2 to 3 year 3 and a half feet in 24 but it's kind of this relentless storm track. that is a little bit unusual because we're seeing just continual amounts of snow come in and up. >> and when was the last time that we saw something like this happen? >> realistically was in early january. we had those big atmospheric rivers come and deposit a lot of rain. lot of snow. and so we're se

. >> at uc berkeley, some of the turkish friends were also collecting material for the flight. it is comforting to see so many willing to donate. >> it is whatever this is. >> seeing the photos and videos, make some of the things i was doing unimportant. if it is not that, at least i can do what i can to help. >> individual efforts may seem small. if the question is, how much can one person do to make a difference. the answer is, whatever they can. >> the relief flight will leave tomorrow morning. there will be others and volunteers will be taking donations through friday. we posted information on what they need, where to drop it in other ways you can help on www.kpix.com. those images might suggest that the buildings are not up to the standards we are used to in california. it turns out, i were building codes are similar . turkey is not an example of unprepared areas. the usgs says we only need to look at our own history to see what shockwaves can do. >> it is important to understand that earthquake shaking can impact structures and far distances. a good example, the 1989 eart

. >> according to preliminary data for uc berkeley, nearly 3/4 of the homes approved so far are affordable to those earning less than the area's median income. >> we have another vantage point of the deadly house explosion. that destroyed one home and forced to other homes to spoke to a man standing across the street when the house exploded. >> reporter: surveillance video shows albert standing next to a light pole in front of his home. he and his next-door neighbor were talking when a house across the street blew up. >> all of the sudden, we just heard an explosion, boom. then we saw the fire. >> reporter: the impact pushed him several feet away. it took him a few seconds to regain his balance. he called 911. >> you could see the grass, the garage doors -- >> reporter: the force of the explosion blew open the back door of this white previous. the driver later came out and appeared okay. the explosion also knocked out many windows and doors on the 1700 block of 22nd avenue. >> reporter: there's not a scratch on you? >> no. >> how do you feel about that? >> lucky. that's all i can say is lu

uc berkeley has taken a name off of one of its buildings because of racist views of its namesake. took down the lettering outside moses hall, which is named after former history professor bernard moses, the building houses, exhaustively department and other programs, philosophy, graduate students and faculty conducted a review of moses is work and concluded that he believed indigenous populations in latin america were genetically inferior. a new name, has not yet been chosen five buildings on the u. c. berkeley campus have since lost their names since 2020 over similar circumstances. riders in the east bay should expect delays next weekend due to track repairs at the orinda station partners, replacing more than 7000 ft of track way between rockridge, orinda and lafayette over the president's day weekend transit agency says a free direct bus will be available for bart riders from rock creek station to lafayette station to get around the closure. bart officials say regular scheduled service will return on monday. february 21st during this black history month. one woman is making his

jim wilcox, economics professor at uc berkeley's haas school of business. good to see you. thank you. yep. thank you. and whether a beautiful day out there are lots of sunshine. temperatures were expecting a bit of a warm up and that was the case for today. we're gonna hold on to this pattern for one more day into your thursday, so we've taken a look at some of the highest from this afternoon. lots of sixties to report here in the bay area, taking a look here petaluma in the upper sixties richmond 66, while the creeks 64 in san francisco 63 degrees, so widespread sixties and tomorrow will be the same story. in fact, tomorrow, maybe a few neighborhoods approaching the 70 degree mark. you can see the satellite right now. in fact , you can see the upper level wind circulation is a big area of high pressure out here in the pacific. so that's keeping us dry and also warming us up here in the bay area, so right now, lots of clear skies, maybe a few high clouds approaching the north coast of california right around cape mendocino, right around eureka and current numbers out there

we are joined now by franklin zimring, a criminal justice professor at uc berkeley . professor thank you for taking the time you heard there, the governor and state lawmakers they are looking to ban anyone under the age of 21 from getting a permit to carry their gun concealed and require permit holders to have more training on how to use and store those guns. on this piece of legislation specifically how much of a difference do you think it can make in reducing gun deaths in california? well modest at most. but uh, probably in the right direction. if it has any measurable impact. why do you say it can only make a modest difference. oh well, because it is uh, not going to have a tremendous impact. uh on the availability of weapons. uh, that are already out there. uh and. in an awful lot of households. uh it will not impact the availability of weapons to, uh to young people. uh so if you're not going to impact the number of guns at risk uh and i'm not going to create any a significant, uh. uh for gods that are in uh, millions of california homes. uh, for the kids. just

there's a court that's blocking uc berkeley's planned best housing at people's park. the appeals court says the plan failed to address environmental concerns. this ruling brings to a halt the entire project until the university can conduct a new environmental study. the propose 17 story building with occupy half of people's park and what house more than 1000 students? twitter continues to shrink. elon musk just announced a new round of layoffs, at least 50 employees are going to lose their jobs as he continues to try to cut costs the jobs that will go. product managers, engineers and data scientists who help twitter's various features. stay online. twitter's workforce is now down to 2000 workers or less, and one must took it over october. they had 7,500 workers. >> we will take a break here at 7.37. still ahead on the kron, 4 morning news votes jet caught fire at a lake area. so we're going to tell you how it happened. >> how much was damaged? plus, the irs now pushing back the tax filing deadline for some parts of california will tell you you are included. and we've

andrew schwartz from the uc berkeley central sierra or a snow lab. appreciate you. sharing the situation there where they are ready for two stories worth of snow in the sierra andrew take care if we appreciate it. thanks for checking in. thank you guys have a good one, too. okay we are getting a lot of snowy pictures from viewers. so we want you to please keep them coming. want to show you now? photos they are from danela up in ukiah from earlier this morning. and if you have some good weather photos that you would like to share again. please send them our way. we'll post them online and also here in our shows just email us at ktvu photos at fox .com. okay this black history month we are celebrating black wine bankers in the bay area after the break. today we will talk live with the founder of black vines, and we'll also talk about how they're getting ready for tonight's toast to bubbles event that's happening up in napa. alright, we've got kind of a fun weather night coming our way we're going to get rain, but not too much of it. we're going to get some snow in pla

ktvu spoke with andrew schwartz, lead scientists and manager at the uc berkeley snow lab at donner passe impact of snowfall on california's drought. with a storm like this. we're seeing about 16.5 inches of snowfall for about one inch of water. on average are sierra cement hill here actually gets about 10 inches or so of water. so this is called drier snow that we associate with like the rockies rather than this year in nevada, but there's plenty of it, so it's still good. the uc berkeley snow lab says some of the higher elevations in the sierra could get several feet of snow had some amazing photos and videos sent in by our viewers. this is video from a viewer in santa rosa. we're told it's along st helena robot car. they're covered in snow and in marin county, mount tam is covered in snow this morning. it's east peak is just under 2600. ft. in elevation tina lewis, it's larkspur sent us this photo this morning. thank you, tina. and we'd love to see your pictures and videos of the weather. you can email them to us, said ktvu photos at fox .com. you can also tag ktvu on twitter, instagr

we asked uc berkeley economist severin bornstein on the four today if the moves would make a difference issue here is that those taxes actually go for things they go to pay for infrastructure, and the proposal really doesn't address. well if we're going to reduce taxes, uh what? how are we going to pay for roads and bridges? the governor's office responded, saying newsom welcomes ideas on how to tackle rising gas prices . in a statement, his office said republicans are quote avoiding the core problem on industry that operates with zero accountability and too much power over prices of an essential commodity. alright it's gonna be chilly tomorrow morning, but much colder on thursday and friday morning when we could see frost advisories and things of that sort as you notice. it's very cold outside and it's going to stay that way with those strong winds developing tonight and lingering through tomorrow when that wind advisory gets dropped. in the meantime, we've got this system coming down from the north. you see, it's relatively dry. that's why it's not all white over us, right. so this is

also a uc berkeley student thought he was having a first date but ended up getting robbed .hat happened coming up a little later tonight. first, though a new report says money is facing a $130 million deficit , how the agency could address the shortfall. i'm a vegas hotel. i know what you're thinking - it's cool, i don't want anything too serious either. just a fun, spontaneous thing. i'm looking for someone who will let loose. dress up a little. see a show. order the steak and the lobster. some people say i'm excessive, but who cares. i'm just looking for a saturday to remember, and a sunday by the pool. think you can keep up? sharply during the pandemic, a report released by the public policy institute found from march of 2022 july of 2021 felony arrest, dropped by 5% and misdemeanors dropped by 40% police stops overall dropped by 35% and new admissions into jails went down by 30% the study attributes viewer social interactions in general due to covid lockdowns. for the drop. santa clara county deputies are investigating the deaths of three men at a home in gilroy from sus

last week berkeley police arrested four people accused of using a dating app to meet up with a uc berkeley person and rob him at gunpoint. we spoke to the fbi and a dating coach about the red flags to look out for. >>> love is in the air with valentine's day, but it is also a time when dating and romance scammers are looking for the next and. >> i create a complete strategy for my clients. go from being super confused about dating, to going on awesome dates and finding really the love of their life. >> reporter: juliet is silicon valley's dating coach. she teaches her clients how to master the art of dating. her clients are looking for love, but also looking to not get scammed . >> one of my clients, before he started working with me, he had a date set up with a woman who did not look like her pictures at all. she did not have a job, even though she said she did, she did not have a car, although she said she did, and so my client was just completely just dumbfounded when he went to the date. you know, obviously questioning her intentions, and made for a really bad experience. >> reporter:

back to >> and the east bay, a california court is blocking uc berkeley's plan to build housing at people's park. the appeals court says the plan has failed to address environmental concerns. the ruling effectively brings the project to a standstill until the university can conduct a new environmental study. the proposed 17 story building would occupy half of people's park and would house more than 1000 students. governor gavin newsom's office reacting to the ruling on twitter saying in part, quote, california cannot afford to be held hostage indies who weaponize the california environmental quality act to block student and affordable housing. this set selfish mindset is driving up housing prices and making our state less affordable. >> developing news we are following tonight, another violent night in oakland. police are investigating after 3 more people were shot. one of them killed saturday night. the first shooting was reported at international an 85th just before midnight. the victim is in critical condition. police say just an hour later, a second shooting took place. this one downtow

she was the first chicana to receive the phd in political science at uc berkeley.davis, was denied tenure, but she stayed on to build the program, and i was very fortunate to be part of her circle, and her circle included being part of an amazing group of chicanas who were in higher education. so, i mean, i might be a shero, but i had a lot of teachers. i had a lot of excellent examples of how you want to be mentored and how you wanna bring people into academia, and so i consider myself very privileged. i don't know if i'm a shero, but i feel like i'm doing the work that i was trained to do, starting from ada, and so she's the person that has given me the, i guess, the wings to do what i'm doing, even though she wasn't a librarian. but, you know, i think i've also been fortunate to have very excellent chicana and chicano librarians in academia that have also been excellent teachers for me. damian: well, we appreciate your work, and congratulations on the well-deserved award, the, oh, "i love my librarian" 2023 award recipient, kathryn blackmer reyes. kathryn: thank

. >>> uc berkeley central sierra snow lab this morning got 26 inches of the white stuff, bringing their three-day total to 45 inches. they are expecting another 7 to 14 inches today before a break in the snow tomorrow. >>> the weather is creating dangerous driving conditions in parts of southern california. one problem is in the town pass in the san bernardino mountains. delivery driver says he has never seen anything like this. >> this is unusual. i have lived in california my whole life. i've never been in a snow flurry before. >> crews say they have mostly been dealing with minor accidents and spin outs in that area. >>> let's come home now back to our bay area. you can see there a creature spotted right up there. this is a coyote spotted around 2:00. this animal looking around saying, wait a minute, this is supposed to be california. we have been getting these sweeping views of the snowy peaks all afternoon. watch out for that coyote. we captured quite a few animals and natural habitats including deer right there in the diablo range. >>> time now for a look at our forecast with firs

a uc berkeley student learned that the hard way.thought he was inviting over a person he met on a dating app early monday morning. he invited her to his apartment. she showed up, but police say so did her friends. they came through the door and held the student at gunpoint, stealing cash and electronics. when the 19-year-old victim told berkeley police, they got on the app and set up another meeting with the suspect. then they said they found all four suspects in a car and arrested them at the berkeley marina. that included a 19-year-old man and woman, a 16-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. police said they found stolen items, a bb gun and a handgun in the car. >>> if you have been wondering what is next for the oakland police chief amber department, it has probably felt like a long 19 days without answers. it perhaps felt even longer for laurent armstrong, and his supporters have not been quiet about their demands. >> today is the day to say we have your back. >> reporter: the supporters have grown louder. they want him back on

the falcon that watches over uc berkeley has found a new mate. latched onto her third partner now. her longtime partner died last year. his successor is also nowhere to be found. researchers are hoping you will help name the new mate. you can submit your idea on social media pages by thursday. a list of finalists will be made friday and everyone gets to vote on of the winter. the warriors were looking for a win before the all-star break. larry: klay thomps back-to-back nights for the first time since 2019 when the warriors having a fire power against the clippers in l.a.. sports is next. larry: after beating the wizards last night the warriors in l.a. tonight hoping for back-to-back wins before the all-star break. the logo, jerry west saying hello to klay thompson. jordan poole with a miss. he was flying around all night long and jordan poole hits the triple. warriors up for the half, leonard unstoppable. seven of nine from deep in the game. three points for the clock. klay thompson playing his first back-to-back in almost four years. back and fo

. >> in the east bay, a california court is blocking uc berkeley's plan to build housing at people's park. the appeals court says the plans failed to address environmental concerns. the ruling effectively brings the project to a standstill until the university can conduct a new environmental study. the proposed 17 story building would occupy half of people's park and what house more than 1000 students. governor gavin newsom's office has reacted to this ruling on twitter. saying in part, quote, california cannot afford to be held hostage by nimbys who weaponize the california environmental quality act to block student and affordable housing. the selfish mindset is driving up housing prices and making our state less affordable. >> today in oakland, the rain didn't stop people from celebrating the 6th year of the black joy parade. the free event featuring more than 200 black owned vendors with food drinks, clothing and more. there were 2 stages for performances. >> along with games and what was called the healing village. there was also a procession which has been deemed the largest bla