. >> reporter: on the grounds of uc davis, california's flag ship wine program, budding wine growers prune their vines, sharpen their skills, learn about soil and test their micro biology basics, but not everyone is moving at the same pace. not when the under 21st can't actually taste the fruits of their labor. >> it's legal for us to give, present an alcoholic beverage to someone under 21 and put it in their mouth. they need to taste when making wine. they taste the wine as its being made. >> we definitely think the educational experience of all of our students. >> reporter: in an interesting twist. the uc system is supporting and sponsoring the legislation as andrin lopez, director of government relations for uc davis points out, california is actually kind of late to the game. there are 12 states that have already approved this educational exception, and in some like new york, it's been there for decades. >> students have more options on where to go, and these limitations, you know, could cause a student to decide to go to a program in new york or florida as opposed to coming here

the men were air lifted to uc davis medical center. the leak is being investigated. >> clean up in richmond in a hazardous material spill. early this morning a flatbed truck was making a turn when it hit a parked double tanker truck that was carrying diesel fuel that spilled. some leaked into the storm drain. right now the eastbound 580 off-ramp is still closed and the on-ramp is open. also shut down until noon from second to harper and hoffman to harder. >> antioch police arrested three people after stolen car smashed into three other vehicles. it happened at davison drive this morning. the officers say the driver refused to stop. the three people from the stolen car tried to run away. a police dog bit one. one of the drives hit bit stolen car had to go to the hospital. >> we have our annual bad news of the rice of gasoline. it could rise by 50 cent a gallon in the next few weeks and blamed on a number of reasons. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard has more from downtown san jose. cornell? >> this is not good news for commuters. the a

that's because 70% of all the olive oil labeled extra virgin is not according to a uc davis study. a retailer in berkeley who is an expert and sells olive oil says beware of what you are buying in the store. most of what is sold is junk. may not come from the country on the label and may not even come from olives. >> it could be just a cheaper seed oil. it lost all its health benefits and getting lied to by the industry. >> well, the experts with the california olive council are saying -- >> a shooting outside the san leandro mall, this is the crime scene from december 20 after last year. police say two men got into an argument and one of them opened fire. investigators say they identified the shooter as 25- year-old oakland man. detectives tracked him into san antonio where police arrested him and another woman. the fbi is looking for this guy, they are calling him the valentine's day bandit. the same guy is suspected of robbing a chase bank last month. as you can see in that heist, he showed a gun. call the fbi if you know who he is. >> don't feed the pores. don't smack them on t

her colleagues at uc davis used test pipes to plant different species. they were able to compare it to the residue still in stone pipes. >> the residue inside the spaces will preserve over thousands of years, relatively unchanged. >> so when we started obtaining positive results, it was a very exciting thing. >> still, for more accuracy, the microscopic samples were analyzed using advanced technology including glass tomography and glass spectrometers. allen runs the lab at the eugene resource center. >> you have to look at the different fragments of it it so that you can really identify which compound it was. the verdict? tobacco and they say the evidence suggests that native americans in northern california, smoked it more than a thousand years ago and perhaps cultivated it for centuries, fat earlier than first imagined. although it's likely they consumed it much less frequently and for a different purpose from smoking as we know it today. it was more of a ceremonial and ritual, and it occurred in a ceremonial and ritual context that has roots deep, dee

. >> suspected meat ball isn't to uc davis for testing. this is 7 news. >> count down on. strong storm is barreling toward the bay area with another right behind it. here's live look from close close roof cam. clear now that will change. sandhya is here with live doppler 7hd. >> yes. winter is going to return to the bay area. let me show you live doppler 7hd and talk about what is happening rate now. we have low clouds and fog along the coast. that's what you have to watch out for. the rid arrest on mount saint helena close close rid after tracking 2 storms. look at the first welcome back. this is a classic winter storm. it hits wednesday. the second storm quickly behind it on friday and i do want to show you just how much rain with the first system. 1 to north bay mountains. south by mountains 1 to 2 inches. lower elevation half inch to inch of rain. that's just with the first system. i'll be become to tell you all about snow coming to the sierra and gusty winds her in the bay area in a few minutes. >> okay thank you. >> huge fire in san francisco destroyed maintenance ga

. >> suspected meat ball isn't to uc davis for testing. this is 7 news. >> count down on. strong storm is barreling toward the bay area with another right behind it. here's live look from close close roof cam. clear now that will change. sandhya is here with live doppler 7hd. >> yes. winter is going to return to the bay area. let me show you live doppler 7hd and talk about what is happening rate now. we have low clouds and fog along the coast. that's what you have to watch out for. the rid arrest on mount saint helena close close rid after tracking 2 storms. look at the first welcome back. this is a classic winter storm. it hits wednesday. the second storm quickly behind it on friday and i do want to show you just how much rain with the first system. 1 to 3 inches north bay mountains. south by mountains 1 to 2 inches. lower elevation half inch to inch of rain. that's just with the first system. i'll be become to tell you all about snow coming to the sierra and gusty winds her in the bay area in a few minutes. >> okay thank you. >> huge fire in san francisco destroyed maint

. >> suspected meat ball isn't to uc davis for testing. this is 7 news. >> count down on. strong storm is barreling toward the bay area with another right behind it. here's live look from close close roof cam. clear now that will change. sandhya is here with live doppler 7hd. >> yes. winter is going to return to the bay area. let me show you live doppler 7hd and talk about what is happening rate now. we have low clouds and fog along the coast. that's what you have to watch out for. the rid arrest on mount saint helena close close rid after tracking 2 storms. look at the first welcome back. this is a classic winter storm. it hits wednesday. the second storm quickly behind it on friday and i do want to show you just how much rain with the first system. 1 to 3 inches north bay mountains. south by mountains 1 to 2 inches. lower elevation half inch to inch of rain. that's just with the first system. i'll be become to tell you all about snow coming to the sierra and gusty winds her in the bay area in a few minutes. >> okay thank you. >> huge fire in san francisco destroyed maint

-uc-davis study suggests 70% of olive oil labeled extra virgin is not. a retailer in berkeley who sells high-end olive oil says the labels on some bottles are misleading. >> it could be just a cheaper seed oil cut with extra virgin. they are getting a lower grade oil that's refind and lost all health benefits and getting lied to beauty street. >> the california olive oil council says the false labeling hurts the domestic industry. >>> doctors are calling a new treatment for hepatitis "c" a revolution. the problem, who can really afford $1,000 pill? kpix 5's elizabeth cook has more. >> reporter: here's the pill that is drawing praise. >> we have a cure! >> reporter: and protests. >> the price is staggering. >> this is the start of a new future. >> reporter: sovaldi is a breakthrough drug for hepatitis "c." the wholesale price for the recommended 12 week treatment, $84,000! that's $1,000 a pill. >> the thought of dropping one on the floor and not being able to find it, you know, is very scary. >> reporter: but experts call the once a day pill a game change

. >>> uc davis researchers say an insecticide that's been banned for household use more than a decades still lingering in people's homes. scientists looked at 90 families in northern california and found evidence of the banned chemical in 99% of their tests. in addition, traces of another legal insecticide were found in two-thirds of the tests. scientists say more research is needed into the long-term health effects of those legal compounds, especially on children. >>> well, time now for another check on our weather. bill says we're in for more rain starting tomorrow and another system moving in on friday, and that's really just the beginning of a system. >> it's the beginning, julie. both these systems, there's two of them. wednesday's and friday's are really going to impact those commutes. they're going to mess with the wednesday commutes, and friday commutes. before we get to the rain, let's look at the temperatures. it was 68 in antioch. 65 in concord. nice warm day. system one up front, that gets here tomorrow. talking about earlier, see that moisture getting ahead of it? the dyn

it will move up toward uc davis. the winds are strong. we ramp up to 30 to 45 miles per hour and five o'clock we will be that fast at 35 miles per hour and then a tapering overnight with the strong storms moving away. light rain and drizzle this morning and most of us are dry. by noon we will be wet with showers containing thunder and brief, heavy rain that will taper to moderate and light rain when the storm moves off. temperatures in the low 60's today. >> we have clear conditions despite the fact we had the rain brushing through the bay area so we have mostly dry conditions and as we move into san jose, a look at a dry san jose at 66 miles per hour along 101 headed beyond the san jose airport and 280 is if go shape making the drive to cupertino and highway 85 with no delay as we move through and up to cupertino and sunnyvale you are in go shape. along the peninsula, to the north, 101 through redwood city 72 miles per hour. 66 miles per hour on 280 approaching highway 92. in san francisco we had the green that has dissipated so the rain

there is a new class at uc davis that's manning to keep students awake.emical engineering class called design of coffee. it teaches students how to brew, roast and grind coffee into a perfect cup. the class consist of a one-hour lecture every week and two hours of lab time. fradz are based on who -- grades are based on who brews the best cup with the least amount of energy. >>> there is an art, you know, to catching a criminal and the mountain view police tpt sketches of suspects really standout. this is police officer kevin anyone. he's a classically -- wynn. he uses a computer tablet to to it. but most of all, he uses his ears. he says by listening closely to witnesses, he's able to help solve cases. >> this is not my drawing. this is your drawing. and this is based off your memories not mind. >> he brings so much more to the ability to identify people by what he draws than the standard sketch artist. >> the police chief says these very realistic sketches have been very helpful in solving crimes in mountain view. other bay area police departments are no

they were airlifted to uc davis. >>> the fire district may soon hire more than two dozen. the times reports the district has been awarded a federal grant and they want to hire more firefighters. george miller said the district and others across the state have been spread thin by wildfires and the tough economy and the current drought conditions. >>> proactivityers protesters are expected to rally against google shuttle buses. the agency is considering a plan to let private buses to use its bus stops and some in the neighborhood say they believe the well paid employees are driving up rents and contributing to the evictions of long time residents. the protest is scheduled to get started at 10:30 at mission high school. >> i stepped out see you before we walked in and got a breath of fresh air and it was -- the word perfect popped in. it's beautiful. >> yeah. how about this shot. >> great. >> the golden sunrise over the golden state and another pretty day around the bay area. we do have low level fog creeping its way up over parts of the bay area. santa rosa, nevado reporting

the meatballs were sent to uc davis if debting. -- for testing. no arrests have been made. no suspects have been identified. >>> thank you, amy. it could be a new backlash against tekkies in san francisco, a woman was taunted and robbed over her google glass eyewear. the "san francisco chronicle" reports she was in a bar on friday wearing the google glass and someone tore it off her face and a suspect said she and her friends were "destroying the city." she chased down the suspect who gave it back but they did get her purse, phone and wallet. google nasa is a small head mounted computer with a screen and camera and is not yet available to the general public. >> a business owner faces charges of master minding a violent attack on a former employee. he was upset over a labor dispute settlement with a worker and tried to hire a hit man to disfigure him. he is in jail on $1.5 million the owner of an enterprise in antioch a plastic and aluminum company. >> santa cruz will hold a public ceremony to remember two believes killed in the line of duty last year. sergeant butcher and d

marching bands from cal policy and uc davis warmed up at justin herman plaza before.he crowd an impromptu concert as they worked out the preparade jitters. what about this parade makes it an honor? >> this parade, of course, in san francisco, which is a very beautiful, big city for us to be in, and the chinese new year parade, is a very -- very old traditional holiday that we have a lot of respect for and enjoy learning about. so that's definitely a great part of this. >> reporter: and right at 5:15, with an eruption of fire crackers, the parade launched down market street, there's tremendous civic and cultural pride tonight. a lot of children performing in the parade and a lot of children in the crowd watching it, too. just listen to the band for a few minutes. reporting live in san francisco, debora villalon, ktvu channel 2 news. ♪ >> looks like a lot of fun. another reminder that you can watch the parade live right here on ktvu. our coverage begins right after this newscast at 6:00 with hosts julie haener and ben fong torres. you can follow along on twitter, using

an on-line petition against the chain posted by uc-davis students has got more than 27,000 signaturessity officials said they cannot change the calendar. >>james: los gatos is the next city to see a plastic bag a ban. according to city officials, retail stores in los gatos are now banned from single use plastic bags. you have to either bring it reusable back or pay 10¢ for a recyclable paper bag. restaurants and nonprofits are exempt. stores that provide services like dry cleaning are also exempt. the ordinance was adopted back in september. los gatos to against 23 other cities in san mateo and santa clara counties in the campaign to prevent environmental damage. >>darya: san francisco city attorney denis curtin era-- herrera has filed a lawsuit against a social networking site sing it with miners at risk. meet me.com is a popular social network inside that allow strangers to interact. herrera says, the pennsylvania based company violates california laws by relying on legally invalid consent for minors ages 13 to 17 to rebuild their personal information to strangers. the suit alleges

the two victims were airlifted to uc davis medical center. there's no word on their condition.r is i love jesus christ and i hear a smash. >> now, a los angeles tv news cruise captured a man attacking a police car. this happened yesterday afternoon on the hollywood walk of fame. victor bargas called 911 after seeing the man smashing the police car's windows. he was still rolling as the man reached into the police car and stole some things. he was later arrested by police. >>> 8:54. continuing coverage now of a channel 2 investigation that's prompted a state assemblyman to take action. our story exposed a loophole that allows drivers to dodge bridge tolls by using dealer placards that come on new cars. that caused the state millions of dollars in uncollected tolls. now kevin mulllond plans to require all vehicles sold by dealers to leave with a temporary plate. that would display a unique identification number and expiration date. >> we believe the cost will be relatively minimal given the fact we're not cre hating a brand-new system. it's simply dovetailing with the existing el

commercially in california, one of the most popular being the albion variety that daren worked closely with uc-davis to develop. >> it has several advantages over other varieties. first of all, the production is high. i mean, this thing will produce anywhere from 6,500 to 8,000 trays a year, ok? the second thing that it does, it has that beautiful red color, probably one of the prettiest berries that you can buy on the market. it also has shipping ability. so what it does is it allows us to ship it full color. now, that has been something that has eluded us for years. >> once the berries are picked, they are then rushed into the cooling facility where huge fans draw out field heat. once cooled, they are then trucked off for same-day delivery to a variety of places, including one of northern california's most famous berry businesses, shari's berries. started in 1989, this is the place where strawberries go on a unique adventure. here, they are drizzled, dipped, dunked, and no doubt devoured by those lucky enough to receive one. >> you talk about how a company succeeds. it's got to have a product with