>>>the university says uc berkeley can only house roughly 20% of its students. they say that's the lowest amount of student housing of all uc campuses. like many uc berkeley students, cassidy soner walks quite the distance to attend summer classes. 35 minute walk from 1 of my classes. i was just coming from cassidy will be a senior in august, she and other students say housing shortage means paying for higher rents and living farther away from campus. it's pretty difficult to find housing here and you're going to have to expect it to be pretty expensive. the academic rigor here is like is just insane, and it's so much pressure on so many people that the last thing that i think students should be worrying about is just having to know if they're going to be able to afford red or like having a stable place to live. the university hopes they can reduce some of that problem now that the california supreme court has ruled that can build housing at people's park, the university plans to build housing for 1100 undergrads. permanent, supportive housing for more than 100 h

we're talking with the uc berkeley professor to help us break it all down. we'll have that conversation in just a few moments, but 1st a look at your news headlines. to voters and their dogs were rescued after their boat caught fire on the bay. this afternoon. this was off the shore of redwood city, the coast guard says everyone on board managed to get off once it caught fire, and they were rescued by another vessel. in burlingame, macau. caltrain hit a semi truck that was on the tracks about 60. passengers were on board that train. luckily, no injuries were reported. and appeals court just cleared the way for san francisco, to sweep homeless encampments. the ruling brings the city in line with the u. s. supreme court's recent decision on an oregon case, which found that regulating camping on public property was not cruel and unusual. punishment. it's not clear exactly how in force mint will go forward in san francisco. a brush fire burned at least 10 acres near lake devil in livermore. this is time lapse video of the smoke from an alert wildfire camera. the

he wrote that he completed his mba at uc berkeley haas school of business. >> we do have a person ofterest that we believe this is an isolated, isolated incident. >> police have not said who killed ellie, how or what the motive is. >> we have an idea of what may have occurred. however, until we can have conclusive evidence, we'd be in the wrong. >> ellie's godmother would only say the full story of what happened will hopefully come out in the coming days. for now, the focus is on helping the three year old's mom and the family heal and cherishing memories of a precious little girl. i will miss the unbelievable brightness that her smile brought into the room, cohen says the family is working on funeral services. police say they continue to work around the clock to find answers. cohen started an online fundraiser to help ellie's family go to ktvu.com and click on the web link section. >> alex, such a crushing loss for this family. amber. thank you. we have learned a fifth victim has died in last week's domestic violence shooting that happened in alameda, the city of alameda says one ye

professor eric schickler from uc berkeley, thank you so much for joining us today. thanks. great. well, a group of san francisco democrats rallied in front of city hall today in support of the vice president. california is where it all began for kamala harris. she was born in oakland, grew up in berkeley, and won a string of elections from her very first victory, serving as san francisco's district attorney from 2004 to 2010 to being elected california's attorney general, then winning a us senate seat in 2016 and in 2020. of course, joining biden to win the white house and becoming the nation's first black and asian american woman vice president. one of harris's childhood friends in the bay area said that she is excited that harris might become the nominee. >> kamala has always been confident, confident, smart, thoughtful, empathetic, direct get stuff done woman who really cares about lifting people up. >> carol porter has known harris since the 1970s. they were part of the school district's bussing system as berkeley tried to integrate its schools traveling from their west berkel

uc berkeley herman royer, professor of political economy sean gilmore, professor gilmore, thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> i want to start with the challenges facing the democratic party, the split in the ranks on whether president biden should remain as nominee. of course, he's won the nominating process, but the polling doesn't look good. and the gap has only widened since the debate. so now we kind of have this unprecedented tension and power dynamics, if you will, between a party and its president. talk about how that's being tested or changed. >> yeah, it's kind of the worst case scenario for democrats at this point, because there's kind of a slow trickle of party officials and elites and media allies starting to say, oh, maybe the president should drop out or maybe the president needs to change directions, and the president really doubling down and saying today, quite defiantly, i am absolutely staying in this race, answering that call definitively and saying, so. so what the party really wants to be able to do is coordinate at this point on a single, coherent message so

a uc berkeley professor of political science, steve fish. have a good evening, sir. is your vaccine? >> coming up next sports, it was day 2 of training camp brandon aiyuk. you see him there in street clothes. but it was another notable player. arguably more important player to the niners success who didn't show up at a >> it's been hot and sunday. this past sunday was the hottest day ever recorded in the world. according to climate scientists in europe, the global average temperature was about 63 degrees just slightly higher than the previous record, which was set last summer. june was the 13th straight month of record breaking heat, meaning every month for more than a year. now has been the hottest on record. with that. we send it to chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. that's a concerning lawrence. yeah, we're done with the heat around here, right? i mean, it's been hot enough for us. but >> finally going to cool down those temperatures around the bay area starting to see couple patches of fog along the coastline. now, more of that on the way as we head throughout

one is a former uc berkeley athlete, and the other is from uc davis, one of the bay area's most belovedight, this time as part of the white house delegation in paris. gold medal figure skater and sunnyvale native brian boitano. take a look. first lady jill biden led members of the presidential delegation to the opening ceremony. they met with athletes and watched events. boitano says doctor biden is a true fan and tried to show every athlete that the country was behind them. the delegation included senator alex padilla, basketball coach dawn staley and la's mayor karen bass. keep in mind, la is hosting the next olympics in 2028, and this is actually boitano's second time representing the presidential delegation at the olympics. he went out there on air force two, got a motorcade here. he went to sochi in 2014 with the obama administration. boitano joined us on our 7:00 news, talked about life after the olympics is difficult, no matter how fast or how slow it is. and everybody you know, struggles a little bit with their pivot and getting used to, you know, something else important in the

after the break, uc berkeley is raising ease. >> just students. they're not happy. find out what they plan to do. the top story. this could be the hottest day of week. oh, my goodness. look out in antioch, little more one. way 109. she tracking. >> woman accused of firing shots of deputies attempting to evict him in san francisco has been charged. this happened last week right near the buena vista neighborhood of 14th street and roosevelt way. authorities say the man fired at police to the door. they were trying to remove him from his home. he eventually was taken into custody. no police were injured. mann pled not guilty to multiple charges, including attempted murder of a public official. talk about the student parents of uc berkeley. they're going to hold a rally today. so we've gotten into new fees at the university village. it's a new parking fees. rent increases only furthering the rental burden of the residents on july. first, the university imposing new parking fees. 4 1% increase to rent university village residents, a improve security and safety in their h

researchers at the uc berkeley snow lab say artificial intelligence could help here.king on training ai algorithms using historic data. the measure of water, the measure of water content levels, as well as sophisticated climate prediction models, researchers say. finding the best algorithm will be part of gaining a better understanding of how different water users rely on that data. >> the san mateo superior court system says it will see a reduction in staff and services due to state budget cuts. officials say the 2024 to 2025 state budget closed a $46 billion budget deficit by reducing ongoing funding for state government operations that resulted in a $97 million reduction to funding for trial court statewide. the state chief justice says the cuts will have real impacts on operations and services. the court has also been forced to implement a hiring freeze across all divisions. well, the south bay food scene seen a major boost in visitors. the annual event, aimed at highlighting the diverse food scene in the south bay ok, 500 deluxe garden gnomes. wow. i only meant t

by now when we started we've been able to place uc berkeley and university of tulsa and this is because it's opened up the spaces and saw the value of this isn't just giving the students a chance. they bring wealth to the conversation. [applause] that could be like pathways so right now we are working on 15% and we can achieve this we all come together. that is inviting us into the story so let's keep the thread about what we can do. i mentioned earlier to the national security advisor to tap into the fact that 114 people on the planet are displaced. you know the trauma of this. what can we do? you mentioned a very specific education but as you think about the storyline that you and the other children in the refugee camp what can we do in terms of taking action to address? >> this is one of my best spots. >> talking about the dangers of a single story. right now there's a lot of danger of single stories of refugees. you have so much power humanizing the refugees that come to the states and into the world. mothers, soldiers, parents that have so much to give and we are looking for commun

we're also following new developments in an arson case at uc berkeley. federal grand jury has indicted an east bay man with firebombing a police car. the u.s. attorney's office shared these photos, accusing casey goonan of putting molotov cocktails underneath a uc berkeley patrol car. you see him here? it happened on june 1st amid pro-palestinian rallies on campus. the 34 year old pleaded not guilty, and the suspect's lawyer believes the investigation was political in nature. he told abc seven news last month he thinks investigators want to place blame on the suspect because of his opposition to the israel-hamas war. as we head to break now, let's check in with lisa. how's it looking outside? >> it's pretty cloudy out there. stephanie. we have plenty of drizzle at the coast. it's 56 downtown. you can see all the low clouds here and it's going to take a while to burn back. in fact, around oakland, hayward, san mateo could be pretty cloudy for the early afternoon. we'll talk about our cooldown that continues when we come back. >> lisa. thank you. also ahea

shattered windows as far away as san francisco, and it registered as a 3.4 on the seismograph at uc berkeley. >> it wasn't just property that was demolished. >> 320 men were killed. scores more were injured. >> most of the dead were black sailors. loading. the ships with no training in handling munitions and few safety measures. after the explosions, the survivors refused orders to keep loading the munitions. the supervising officers, who were white, were given hardship leave, but the black sailors, 256 of them, were court martialed. >> there moved to a different location, they were moved to mare island. they were asked to continue doing that work, and they stood up for their civil rights. >> many agreed to go back to work, but 50 held out. they were charged with mutiny. but yesterday the pentagon announced all 256 will now be exonerated. an attempt to rectify the injustice all these years later. >> for us to be able to celebrate our nation, to celebrate our country and say that, hey, we have recognized our past wrongs. >> some historians believe the port chicago disaster and the treatment o

we're also following new developments in an arson case at uc berkeley.deral grand jury has indicted an east bay man with firebombing a police car. the u.s. attorney's office shared these photos, accusing casey goonan of putting molotov cocktails underneath a uc berkeley patrol car. it happened on june 1st amid pro-palestinian rallies on campus. the 34 year old pleaded not guilty, and the suspect's lawyer believes the investigation was political in nature. he says. he told abc seven news last month he thinks investigators want to place blame on the suspect because of his opposition to the israel-hamas war. as we head to break now, let's check in with lisa. how's it looking out there? >> pretty gray. we have the drizzle along the coast and a view of alcatraz this morning where it's 56 degrees. breezy. winds across the bay in oakland, and the cool down continues by another ten degrees for some of you. i'll be back with my full accuweather seven day forecast in a few minutes. lisa, thank you. >> also ahead, more calls for oakland to change its pursuit policy

doctor john swartzberg a uc berkeley infectious disease expert says swartzberg a uc berkeley infectious disease expert says this number could be higher because covid tracking has change. but then the last year not keeping careful track of who's getting covid. >> we're not even keeping very careful track of who's being hospitalized with covid. so again, it is not nearly is as good as it was. you're a ago and that's disappointing. if you look at wastewater data, we see some communities in the bay area relatively low levels of wastewater. >> positivity for covid in other areas that have a very high level. we're not sure what that means in terms of translating tim, many cases we're seeing in each community. he says there are several factors for the increase in cases sharing this past holiday weekend is just a piece of it. >> so waiting immunity with the more transmissible variant. we have major role in the final piece of that formula. is the fact that people being as careful as they were before. fleur is the nickname for several different covid variants that have become dominant in the u.s.

we've reached out to uc berkeley but have not yet heard back. >> 2 north lake tahoe beaches remain closed after 85,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled into the water last week. spill is being lane donna being blamed on a caltrans subcontractor who struck a sewer pipeline. the spill has led to a financial setback for businesses in the area because this is typically a busy time for visitors. authorities are collecting daily samples to measure bacteria levels in the water and 2 determine when those beaches will be safe to reopen. >> a 70 year-old man missing for 5 days in the sierra nevada mountains has been reunited with his family. warren elliott says he went for a walk friday afternoon near lake tahoe and got lost on his way back to his campsite. andrew kahn springs. he survived by drinking water from the river and eating a handful of berries while wandering more than 9 miles in the wrong direction. fisherman reportedly spotted him yesterday near hellhole reservoir and called for help which led to his rescue. his family says elliott was tired but not hurt. he just wanted to go home. those a

, a longtime bay area scientist, she earned her bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from uc berkeley, uc san francisco and stanford, not showing any favorites. nasa hopes to send astronauts to the red planet in the late 2030s, so fascinating. all right, well, neighbors in solano county are being credited with saving houses and probably lives from a fire on the 4th of july, the night of the fourth, illegal fireworks started a fire behind homes on yosemite drive and rio vista. instead of waiting for help, several neighbors, including teenagers, rushed to grab hoses and battle those flames. firefighters were tied up fighting another fire in the area, so for half an, our neighbors worked together to keep the fire at bay. one of the good samaritans was a 17 year old who says he was outside with friends when they noticed smoke in the sky and ran to help do something. this is a very tight community and i know a lot of people here and a lot of my friends live around here, so i don't want to just stand around as someone could be in danger. firefighters say they don't typically encourage peopl

universities like uc berkeley. we have students at university of tulsa, amherst university, and this is because this university opened up their spaces. they saw the value that this is not just giving refugee student a chance, this student brings so much wealth to our campuses. and so --. thank you to all the universities. thank you to all the universities that actually pledge to taking our students. they still are taking and --. imagine if each university could take one refugee. do you know how many thousands of universities there are in the united states alone? that could be like pathways that are being opened to so many refugees. right now with the refugee agency, we are working on our 15 percent by 2030. this we can achieve if we all come together. that to me is giving back. that is welcome. that is inviting us into your story. >> let's keep this thread about what we can do. i mentioned earlier to the national security adviser to tap into the fact that 114 people on this planet are displaced. you are -- you live

. >> table tennis robots, one of the more fun elements of the lab at uc berkeley. a big topic of conversation, the not fun consequences of the crowdstrike update that affected airlines to healthcare . >> what struck me, how brittle systems were. in the broad scheme of things, we ought to have been able to isolate and to some extent compartmentalize the damage. the damage release red across the world. >> reporter: he said mistakes happen but that is the reason for sandboxing or testing software in a contained environment , especially something used on this scale. >> having a misconfiguration that has not been caught , it is mind-boggling. didn't you apply that up grade before sending it around the world q >> equally surprised. >> there is a factor. this shows us the systems as of today are interconnected and complex. it is vulnerable . that is important. >> it is a vulnerability embedded in the systems that we depend on and often take for granted. until they fail. >> we see more in the future. things are getting more complex and more interconnected. >> the number of

we're also tracking new developments in an arson case at uc berkeley. federal grand jury has indicted an east bay man with firebombing a police car. the u.s. attorney's office shared these photos, accusing casey goonan of putting molotov cocktails underneath a uc berkeley patrol car. you see here. it happened on june 1st amid pro-palestinian rallies on campus, the 34 year old pleaded not guilty. now, the suspect's lawyer believes the investigation was political. in nature. he told abc seven news last month he thinks investigators want to place blame on the suspect because of his opposition to the israel-hamas war. all right, as we head to break, how's it looking outside, lisa? >> it's pretty gray out there with our marine layer firmly entrenched across the bay area. it is going to be limited. sun right here and temperatures once again just in the low, perhaps mid 60s. we have drizzle at the coast and just in the 70s inland. so that's a below average forecast for the end of july. it continues into the second half of the weekend. but we'll talk about warm

we are between uc berkeley and stanford.e institutions alone stay in the bay area and want to rise up and work here, provide a real opportunity for the start ups to build their companies and companies to grow here so we confident we will absorb a certain amount of office space with ai tech. with that, we are interested in increasing our human capital growing graduates. downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in conversations with uc berkeley we love to have as a partner in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that. as we build back the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. the costs are high. mayor breed and her partners on the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. we waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. there are code changes that will make the conversions easier. there is a ballot measure on the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for

. >> a federal grand jury has indicted an east bay man with firebombing a police car at uc berkeley.ey's office shared these photos, accusing casey goonan of putting molotov cocktails underneath a uc berkeley patrol car. it happened on june 1st amid pro-palestinian rallies on campus. the 34 year old pleaded not guilty. the suspect's lawyer believes the investigation was political in nature. he told abc seven news last month he thinks investigators want to place blame on the suspect because of his opposition to the israel-hamas war. a seven on your side investigation during the height of the pandemic, many bay area schoolchildren took part in what families say was advertised as free covid 19 testing at schools. now, three years later, some families say they're still receiving bills. abc seven news reporter melanie woodrow dug in to get some answers. >> as covid 19 raged during the early pandemic, covid testing at schools was critical and welcomed. the testing was supposed to be free testing that we got that was performed by a laboratory that came to the school sites. debbie, who asked

uc berkeley students, parents and labor union are speaking out about new fees for university village on july. first university impose new parking fees and a 4% rent increase. although they say this will be offset by creating help. the labor group, though, says the fees violate the union contract and they dub and village resident get fair remedies for this. we reached out to uc berkeley, but we haven't heard back. >> well, >> protesters rallying in san francisco calling for the arrest of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu. now this rally was organized by code pink. they want to see him arrested and convicted by the international criminal court for what we've seen play out over the skies of gaza. now, the harvey milk, lgbtq democratic club in san francisco, also attempted to block netanyahu's address to congress calling on elected officials to boycott his speech. the organization released a statement. you see it here on the screen. it reads in part, quote, the continued violence and humanitarian crimes against palestinians remains unchecked. we demand that our state and federal

uc berkeley students, parents and labor unions.y're speaking out about new fees at the university village on july. first, the university impose new parking fees. 4% increase to rent. they say the new fees and rate increases are creating a financial burden for residents. labor group says these fees violate the union contract and are demanding village residents receive a fair remedy reached out to uc berkeley. we haven't heard back yet. happening today, the california supreme court expected to make a decision on proposition. 22 proposition 22 became law back in 2020 allows at base transportation and delivery companies classify their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. but carly, the pro conflicts with article 14 of the constitution, 5 of any the legislature from providing complete workers compensation protects about 1 million at based drivers. monitor this story and bring you a decision. cut locks stolen candy baseball clubhouse up in flames. rohnert park firefighters are currently investigating a radon a little

some of that power has since been restored, though one expert from uc berkeley's institute, energy institute at haas, says things could be much worse. that's because of the massive upgrades the state has done to its power grid in recent years to help reduce the chance of flex alerts, which asked californians to reduce their energy use. >> the biggest change we've seen over the last few years is a massive installation of batteries. if you go back four years, california had essentially no batteries to store power. >> cal iso says the state's power grid is currently stable and they are not forecasting supply shortfalls. they say they've gone into what's called a restricted maintenance operation. that means operators will avoid taking equipment offline for routine maintenance, assuring that all generators and transmission lines are available to supply higher loads. the good news is no flex alerts have been issued, so far this week. live in walnut creek, lena howland, abc seven news. >> thank you lena. the contra costa fire protection district is advising you to avoid hiking trails. many local an

he wrote that he completed his mba at uc berkeley haas school of business. >> we do have a person of interest that we believe this is an isolated, isolated incident. >> police have not said who killed ellie, how or what the motive is. >> we have an idea of what may have occurred. however until we can have conclusive evidence, we'd be in the wrong and it wouldn't be right for ellie. >> ellie's godmother would only say the full story of what happened will hopefully come out in the coming days. for now, the focus is on helping the three year old's mom and the family heal and cherishing memories of a precious little girl. >> i will miss the unbelievable brightness that her smile brought into the room. >> cone tells me the family is working on funeral arrangements. police say they're investigating round the clock to find answers. amber lee, ktvu, fox two news the latest victim in last week's mass shooting in alameda has died. >> the city of alameda says one year old wesley died of his injuries at a hospital. authorities say he, along with his six year old brother, his mother and two grand

kron 4 news >> well, a man accused of setting a uc berkeley police called fire has been charged with count of maliciously, damaging property. police say 34 year-old casey grew non carried 6 molotov cocktails onto campus back in june. officials there in the stills from surveillance video that showed the suspect period placed explosive right underneath the fuel tank of a patrol car and igniting them. the vehicle did not explode. police say the car was towed from the damage. we're plea. not guilty. sentencing is set for sometime in september. oakland police arresting 4 people after seeing a car in east oakland want to in connection to the strong arm robbery. the car was found thursday around the 5800 block of kingsley circle. the help from a patrol copter helicopter. police recovered 4 loaded firearms at large quantities. marijuana crack cocaine ecstasy from the car. get to hang out because a motorcyclist was killed over the weekend after crashing into an suv. this happened on 10th street right in front of box, right? you're highly for saturday night motorcyclist was taken to the hospit

students and parents of uc berkeley will hold a rally today.y say new parking fees and rent increases are only furthering the rental burdens of residents. that rally said today at 11:00am. >> well, officials in contra costa county issuing a danger advisory after finding harmful algae blooms in discovery bay. will the heatwave might have some flocking to the water officials urging people avoid doing so. he was also avoid eating fish from discovery bay and keep animals away from it. he waves a been scorching parts of alameda county as a stop families from infant in livermore. families are going to places like boomers early during the day to try beat the heat. >> kind of interact. you know me, you know, just come up you know, the pandemic. you know, it's been well while recovering, you know, we just going to kids interact, enjoy a little bit of trying to get back in before the heat. >> plus, a the families out their to protect kids outside of salt he'd make sure lots of fruit and water and you spray bottles and not just the kids, the adults to. th

doctor john swartzberg a uc berkeley infectious disease expert says this number could be higher because covid tracking has change. but then the last year not keeping careful track of who's getting covid. >> we're not even keeping very careful track of who's being hospitalized with covid. so again, it is not nearly is he's good as it was. you're a half ago and that's disappointing. if you look at the wastewater data, we see some communities in the bay to low levels of wastewater. >> positivity for covid in other areas that have a very high level. we're not sure what that means in terms of translating tim, many cases we're seeing in each community. he says there are several factors for the increase in cases sharing this past holiday weekend is just a piece of it. >> so waiting immunity with the more transmissible variant. we have major role in the final piece of that formula. is the fact that people he is careful as they were before. fleur is the nickname for several different covid variants that have become dominant in the u.s.. >> and people are experiencing the traditional covid sympto

doctor john swartzberg a uc berkeley infectious disease expert says this number could be higher because covid tracking has change. but then the last year not keeping careful track of who's getting covid. >> we're not even keeping very careful track of who's being hospitalized with covid. so again, it is not nearly is as good as it was. you're a half ago and that's disappointing. if you look at the wastewater data, we see some communities in the bay area relatively low levels of wastewater. >> positivity for covid in other areas that have a very high level. we're not sure what that means in terms of translating tim, many cases we're seeing in each community. he says there are several factors for the increase in cases sharing this past holiday weekend is just a piece of it. >> so waiting immunity with the more transmissible variant. we have major role in the final piece of that formula. is the fact that people he careful as they were before. fleur is the nickname for several different covid variants that have become dominant in the u.s.. >> and people are experiencing the traditional covi

a man accused of setting uc berkeley police car on fire is charged now with one count of maliciously, damaging property. 34 year-old casey goon in carried 6 molotov cocktails on the campus in june. and you can see the images showing that car being a lit on fire by those being put by the gas tank. the feels like didn't explode. but the car was totaled. the san francisco police. i started the department public health. they're recommending that you start wearing a mask again, especially if you're indoors without a lot with a lot of people on x. they posted that people should consider masking in crowded indoor spaces. it's never a bad idea to be a little too cautious. the contra costa county animal services are asking for your help. they are full again and they're saying is showing you some of the pets that are up for adoption there waving all the adoption fees this month. and if you can't do that permanently, just be a foster home. there are hundreds of pets, 170 dogs to be exact. a new mural in richmond. take a look at one of the largest community mural project in that city's history lo

we reached out to uc berkeley, but we haven't heard back. >> dialysis workers in san jose are demandinger working conditions and better wages. hundreds of them from satellite healthcare rally to 26 different kidney dialysis centers across the state, including this one in san jose. >> they are severely short staffed and instead of trying to hire more dialysis, caregivers, they're intimidating us and distributing it discriminating against since we've unionized. i haven't gotten a raise in over 2 years and instead of giving us a raise, they have given the non-union clinics raises and actually give them bonuses. >> well, in response to what the union members are saying, their satellite healthcare released a statement which claims that their centers are staffed according to federal standards and employees are paid competitive wages. we'll take a break 6.41. coming up on the kron 4 morning news. redwood city officials want to help small businesses by making sure that big businesses are paying their fair share of taxes. >> we'll explain how they plan to make that happen. and after the break, g

we have reached out to uc berkeley haven't heard back yet. we'll let you know when we do.manding safer working conditions and better pay. >> hundreds of workers from satellite healthcare rallied at 26 different kidney dialysis centers across the state, including this one san jose. >> we are severely short staffed and instead of trying to hire more dialysis, caregivers, they're intimidating us and distributing it discriminating against us since we've unionized. i haven't gotten a raise in over 2 years and instead of giving us a raise, they have given the non-union clinics raises and actually give them bonuses. >> in a statement, satellite healthcare claims that their centers are staffed. according to federal standards, employees are paid competitive wages. >> it's a 52. we'll be right back. a 55 in schools around the corner. look at everybody. get ready. i know thousands of students getting ready to get back and get some help from the united way. bay area. you can see dozens of their volunteers here and a back-to-school event in san jose where they give away backpacks to st

some of that power has since been restored, though one expert from uc berkeley's energy institute at haas says things could be much worse. that's because of the massive upgrades the state has done to its power grid in recent years to help reduce the chance of flex alerts, which ask californians to reduce their energy use. >> the biggest change we've seen over the last few years is a massive installation of batteries. if you go back four years, california had essentially no batteries to store power. >> and cal iso says the state's power grid is currently stable and they are not forecasting supply shortfalls. they say they've gone into what's called a restricted maintenance operation. that means operators will avoid taking equipment offline for routine maintenance, assuring all generators and transmission lines are available to supply higher loads. and the good news is there hasn't been a need to issue any flex alerts so far this week. live in walnut creek. lena howland, abc seven news. >> thank you lena. the contra costa fire protection district district is advising you to avoid hikin

we reached out to uc berkeley, but we haven't yet had a comment back. >> well, let's talk more for yourg overnight that they're going to do away with something they've been doing for like 50 years. the tradition is 24 hours at the before your flight. you hit, you know, check in so you can get in a gray right? because it current site, right? it's open seating crawford's. michael thomas is live at the airport in oakland with the big change. michael. >> good morning, everyone. it's been like this for about 50 years. open seating and the airline says. >> the change is actually coming because of the survey. they did. and they see 80% of its customers actually want it this way. take a look. you can see these lines already packed this morning. many customers saying they didn't even know about the change. and right now there's really no specific date as to when southwest airlines plans to ditch the first come first serve policy. but it said to improve customer experience and could generate more revenue for the airlines along with boosting financial performance now, premium seating options will

doctor john swartzberg a uc berkeley infectious disease expert says this number could be higher because covid tracking has change. but then the last year not keeping careful track of who's getting covid. >> we're not even keeping very careful track of who's being hospitalized with covid. so again, it is not nearly is he's good as it was. you're a ago and that's disappointing. if you look at wastewater data, we see some communities in the bay area relatively low levels of wastewater. >> positivity for covid in other areas that have a very high level. we're not sure what that means in terms of translating tim, many cases we're seeing in each community. he says there are several factors for the increase in cases sharing this past holiday weekend is just a piece of it. >> so waiting immunity with the more transmissible variant. we have major role in the final piece of that formula. is the fact that people being careful as they were before. fleur is the nickname for several different covid variants that have become dominant in the u.s.. >> and people are experiencing the traditional covid sy

. >>> a swimmer training at uc berkeley is heading to the olympics. he will not be representing . >>> a local swimmer has qualified for the olympics but not able to represent his home country could be an expensive trip to paris. you have me very intrigued with this story. >> well, jules, the olympic games in paris. the entire teams parading through the big stadium, country by country. >> right. >> as they get introduced but not this bay area import. >> every single time, dreams of going to the olympic games, the biggest meet ever. >> reporter: he punched his ticket to paris in may when he qualified for two events. but he will be on his own. >> i think i am going to put my last name on it. >> reporter: he is competing as a neutral athlete because his home country of russia is banned from the olympics. >> i am still going to be living in olympic village. >> but he has to pay his own way. he started a go fund me to cover some of the cost. >> i used to just swim and had fun with it. now, i am my own manager, you know, answering the emails, talking to the

well, one of the 4 young peregrine falcons that hatch to uc berkeley this year has a broken wing knocks which is short for equinox, was found yesterday injured. rescuers say that he was in the water at the berkeley marina and could also be suffering from head knox was transported to a local wildlife hospital for treatment. the hospital says it's unclear whether surgery will be possible. anyone wishing to donate to knocks treatment, knox's playing, hide and seek with us and help other injured wildlife at the hospital. there we go. peek-a-boo, you do do so over at the discover. wild care. >> dot that little brace on his little wing >> in san mateo malnourished coyote pup was rescued by firefighters this morning. crews say they've previously seen the pup running around with its mother. but this time they've noticed the mom wasn't there. the pup was a bit disoriented. so they offered him some food and water before animal rescue was able to become nice thing to help. we've heard of buns of steel. these are buttons of gold. us. just one ingredient used to create the world's most expensive bur

joining me now is professor olaf broke from uc berkeley to give us some insight on silicon valley support. very interesting, dynamic kamala harris, obviously from here has history here in the bay area, but j. d. vance was a venture capitalist in silicon valley. so who do you think wins silicon valley support >anne>they're always happy to be here, liz. so look, let's be clear. silicon valley is by and large democratic. some 70 plus percent of elected officials are of the democratic party, so i think in terms of the pure electorate count, it's a democratic win. but when it comes to the capital elite, so the stratosphere of venture capitalists people with big money we're talking in excess of $100 million and the billionaires. then it's more of an even picture. and so those people are now i think. to some degree looking at trump advance for various reasons. there are others on the democratic side, like eric schmidt and uh mark benioff, founder of salesforce that are on the democratic side as well, of course, but it's more of an even picture >liz>there. i think a little bit more about that. su

uc berkeley and the city of oakland need to step up by installing high capacity trash receptacles having regular cleanups and blocking off problem spots for illegal dumping. >>>>motivation from andy. why not come out here and try and help my community? smile. when i hear about that. >>>it's not hard to see andy's contribution to society, but he wants to take it a step further. >>>>really. eager to work with city share my ideas on ways to prevent the illegal dumping. you know, i've come up with some innovative like ideas, and i really, really wanted to share them with the city's >>>21 bags and a whole lot of debris later, >>>>so much better. unhappy. >>>andy has transformed yet another bay area street. you asked him why he'll say why not? >>>>i'm just an average guy just trying to help out as much as he can, because i care, and i want each and every city in the bay area to thrive. >>>a selfless person with the power to inspire a prettier picture of the place. we call home. >anc2 mic>we need more andy's in the world. well, the east bay trash pandas have a big cleanup scheduled for july. 4t

. >> uc berkeley students, parents and labor unions are speaking publicly about new fees at the university village early this month. the university impose new parking fees and a 4% rent increase. they say the new fees and rent increase are creating a financial burden for residents. the labor group says these fees violate the union contract and they're demanding village residents receive a fair remedy. we've reached out to the school for their comment here but have not heard back. >> whether time now as we get a live look outside at the golden gate bridge shrouded fog as often see at this time of year. yeah, hard to know. it's a bridge, lawrence. guys like that oh, good. we're going to plenty coming your way. the next few days really get the help to cool down the bay area. of course. >> help the firefighters with fires around the state. so big change in the weather pattern. high pressure that has been overhead. almost all of july, bringing the very hot temperatures. the bay area. well, it's finally weakening and that's allowing for dipping in the marine. there you see that fog now just the

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. >> reporter: table tennis-playing robots, one of the more fun elements of professor's lab at uc berkeley. the big topic of conversation here today? the very not fun consequences of the crowdstrike update that effected everything from airlines to health care systems. >> what struck me is, you know, how brittle it was, how brittle our systems were because in the brooder scheme of things we ought to have been able to isolate and to some extent compartmentalize the damage. the damage really, you know, spread across the world. >> reporter: he said mistakes happen and that is the reason for sandboxing or testing software in a contained environment especially something used on this scale. >> having a misconfiguration which has not been caught it is really mind boggling to me.. >> didn't you apply the upgrade on anything before sending it to all around the world? >> reporter: cal state east bay professor equally surprised. >> yes, sir. yeah, and there is a wow factor, okay. so, this shows us that how our computing systems right now as of today in the world, interconnected and complex and it is v

you know, people like them along with state fish is a political science professor at uc berkeley should be into bill clinton can should barack obama. absolutely. but the way to do that is not just letting us know stances on issues is letting us know who she is. but first, first things first. she has to get the delegates for political analyst michael yaki. he says before she considers who might be on our ticket, she must secure the vote. good to be more than joe biden. joe biden has good things for the sky country. even great things. >> but joe biden was not look like it was not going to win this election. and it's more than just it. from county there's always been for the past 6, 7, months, distancing. >> of of of affection and willingness to vote. >> she's got to go there. grab that. >> pull it back and addressing fact. we have learned that 1000 delegates and pledge their support for harris before the democratic national convention that is set to take place in august. that is half the number of delegates needed to wrap up the nomination in the newsroom. theresa kron, 4 news and ahead a

hablemos ahora de temas de salud para contarles que un estudio reciente de uc berkeley indicó que unae se sabe que cualquier nivel de plomo es perjudicial para el ser humano. y oiga esto por lo menos 22.000.000 de personas viven en condados que han sido considerados como desiertos de cardiología. esto quiere decir que están en zonas donde no cuentan con cardiólogos. así lo indica por lo menos un estudio del colegio americano de cardiología, que también explica que en estos lugares habitan personas que tienden a tener problemas médicos complejos y que en algunos casos hasta deben viajar hasta 90 millas para recibir algún tipo de atención médica especializada. hablemos ahora de temas de tecnología en donde los desarrolladores desarrolladores de las aplicaciones del teléfono continúan haciendo cambios en ellas para innovar y también dicen para ayudar a las personas que tengan algún tipo de discapacidad. eric jiménez nos cuenta al respecto recientemente creadores de aplicaciones que utilizamos a diario se reunieron en la conferencia mundial de desarrolladores de apple. sus ideas innovador

doctor john swartzberg a uc berkeley infectious disease expert says this number could be higher because covid tracking has change. but then the last year not keeping careful track of who's getting covid. >> we're not even keeping very careful track of who's being hospitalized with covid. so again, it is not nearly is as good as it was. you're a half ago and that's disappointing. if you look at the wastewater data, we see some communities in the bay area relatively low levels of wastewater. >> positivity for covid in other areas that have a very high level. we're not sure what that means in terms of translating tim, many cases le're seeing in each community. he says there are several factors for the increase in cases sharing this past holiday weekend is just a piece of it. >> so waiting immunity with the more transmissible variant. >> we have major role in the final piece of that formula. is the fact that people being as careful as they were before. fleur is the nickname for several different covid variants that have become dominant in the u.s.. >> and people are experiencing the traditi