. >> reporter: his life had been changed but changed again last fall at the university of california berkeley when he met this engineering professor. >> i realized he has the man i had been waiting for a long time. he is so inspiring and he has changed the way i do my work. >> reporter: for 20 years, the doctor has been developing exoskeletons, a robotic way to help. >> he said i have this dream for you, i want to see you walk. >> reporter: he was a history major and joined the engineering students in developing a light weight, low

i went to ucla because i have heard the difference between university of california and the university of pennsylvania was the that the university of california was three. we found that was true. i got a ph.d. for nothing before reagan. but, what i found also was that the campus around the university of california in los angeles, there was a lot of covert discrimination and i took on the naacp coast they weren't doing anything about it and organized them to go down and start picketing those places, which would not lead us work, would not let us live in apartments, would not -- we were just discriminated against all over the place. we could not get haircuts in the neighborhood for example. at about that time, the -- occurred and we started dick airlines at the walworth stores in west would the ucla campus and we want to do more. we just realized that even though we were doing the best we could to show that we were in solidarity with the students who were trying to break down segregation and -- in the south, they have a much harder time. then came the freedom riders for the freedom rider

the carbon actually at the university of california irvine they said that you can research anything you want he said i want to research eighty and he started looking at the genetics of eighty this is a combined study that was done with yale and the university of beijing and university of california and their initial results came to the conclusion that yes this is genetic and yes it has to do with built with me so i wrote a book in two thousand and three titled. the the what's the oh there is the edison gene eighty h.d. and they give to the hundred child and and i said you know this there's a gene or one of the dopamine genes and i proposed that it was the d r d four gene the seventh aliya which is the sort of the variation on the gene that seems to pop up a lot eighty h.t. and i said that gene is actually probably responsible for modern civilisation as we know it and for all the innovations it's obvious that thomas edison had who you know was thrown out of school when he was seven years old it was obvious it was ben franklin had who had thirty five jobs in his life his last job was crea

she is an assistant clinical professor at university of california san francisco school of medicine and she maintains an active clinical practice at san francisco general hospital in the aids clinic. we could not be more and more happy to recognize these two incredible honorees tonight. thank you. [applause] >> i just have to say these are two i my heroes. i have to take the opportunity. our next award is an award that will be presented by jonathan, the executive director of the mexican museum. [applause] >> welcome, jonathan. >> our next honoree may be the most known latino face in the u.s., and his name is benjamin bratt. [applause] >> if that ain't hyperbolic. >> i can't help it. for more than 20 years, benjamin bratt has successfully spanned a career in both film and television, including two critically acclaimed films for which he received a screen actors guild award. he is best recognized as detective ray curtis on nbc's "law and order." please welcome benjamin bratt. [applause] >> we thought it was very important tonight to recognize the work that both you and your brother did by

and this book derived from a course that i thought originally at the university of california university of california, and then at florida atlantic university on violence. the class began as a class dealing with violence in american history, so it don't with war, it dealt with racial strife, it dealt with labor unrest and familiar topics. and it seemed as if every time i taught this course, which wound up being about every other year for the past 12 years now, something horrible happened in the news. some sort of school shooting, some sort of mass shooting. and so, we wound up talking more and more in this history class about current events. we were trying to place these events in some sort of context. we were trying to make sense of what was happening, and when i taught the class in 1997, they were school shootings and west paducah, kentucky. when i taught it in 1999, the shootings at columbine high school in littleton colorado happened. two years later in 2000 on thursday shooting in california. 2003 in cold springs, minnesota. again, 2005 read lake minnesota. i was teaching this cour

i've retired from the university of california at san francisco. one of the big concerns i have is that there is no respect for seniors. i am a senior now and i have to use a cane. the streets have drivers with bicyclist and skateboarders. the sidewalks are not safe for seniors or children. we can't work collaborative lead to bring some respect for each other? the design of the city streets with the bicyclist have been crazy. it is crazy. there is no respect for the drivers. i have a vehicle and i can't ride a bike throughout the city anymore. bicyclist take up the whole street. it is not safe for seniors or children. we need to change the plans of the city. also, i want to mention that it would be good to make in the whole mission historical district has was the western addition. we need to develop those and to save our history. i have been doing that for the last 10 years. we need to preserve our past. we can't forget it. if we depend on bureaucrats, it will never happen. >> this is for you. city pools, all but one are closed on sundays. and of hi

well-regarded teacher of law at the university california. he is a proud husband and father. isú9 a scholar of formidable intellect who cares deeply about the law and takes great share in 20 his thoughts and ideas. and he is a person with an commitment to public service. what also comes through when talking with professor liu is his deep appreciation for the opportunities our country affords. he is the son of taiwanese immigrants. his parents came to this country as part of a program that recruited primary care physicians to work in rural areas throughout america. he spent his childhood in augusta, georgia, florida and sacramento, california. he attended public schools where, far from having an easy time, he struggled first to read, and later to master the english vocabulary. he went on, however, to become elected copresident of the president. he was a rhodes scholar at from yale law school. journal. he served as a law clerk on the united states supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, and on the united states court of appeals to judge. official who served as a legal and pol

and university of california approved courses, otherwise knownas a through g. this is one of the many ways the san francisco unified school district is keeping its promise to access and equity to all the students in the city. the commitment of city leaders like the mayor, the board of education, the board of supervisors, to increase summer programming and access to summer school is the strongest sign of keeping a promise to the next generation of san franciscans, providing the summer program for ninth graders -- about 900 students -- who otherwise would be off track and could not continue is just amazing. i am so excited about it. this year makes the 20 anniversary of the children's fund -- the 20th anniversary of the children's fund, and i am happy about having leaders who put the children's fund in impacting lives through the after-school program and child care. we would like at the same time to think the mayor and maria su for working hard with community members to understand the needs that we have. to have the stillness be able to get these o

today she's professor emeritus at the university of california at santa cruz. she's the author of several best sellers and she lectures and travels the world. >> we sit here on the college campus ut santa cruz. forty years ago you were removed from santa cruz, active member of a black freedom struggle. >> actually a little more than 40 years ago i was teaching at ucla. because i was fired from my position in the philosophy department there, my whole story began there. you might say it's a trajectory from one campus to another campus with a lot of very interesting, dangerous and exciting encounters in between. >> one of those major encounters obviously was you being the third woman in american history to be on the fbi's most wanted history. >> that's interesting. i had forgotten. i had actually repressed that fact and was speaking somewhere and someone introduced me as the third woman in history to have been placed on the fbi's most wanted list and everybody in the audience applauded. >> that moment in history, too, it was almost an honor to be pursued in that wa

staff are well trained physicians from institutions such as you see san francisco -- the university of california in san francisco. some of us chose to go to your lungs but then we came back. what we need from you in order to continue to serve our community and to meet the health care needs of a vulnerable population is your support to help move this project along. the information supports the need for the chinese hospital. we need and we thank you for your support. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am the public policy manager at chinatown community development center. i am here to express our support for the chinese hospital, and for getting this through in a timely fashion so that we can begin with the process of approving the project. chinatown community development center is a 34 year old organization that has served chinatown in numerous capacities. we build affordable housing and we engage and work with neighborhoods and residence, and we have been deeply involved with the community planning aspect of chinatown. we were instrumental in 1986 along with a number of

. >> university of california regents are now considering a plan that could charge students more to attend a more popular campuses. students may pay more for u.c. berkeley or ucla than riverside or santa cruz. it would raise funds at a time when tuition hikes are common. opponents say the idea is elitist and could harm the u.c. system. >> california will benefit from florida's decision to cancel the high speed rail project. ray lahood announced that california will get another $300 million towards his high speed law. 15 states were awarded $2 billion. the governor there cancelled the project. california collected $623 million in stimulus dollars last yao year as a result of similar decisions by governors in ohio and wisconsin. >>> tonight the city council will decide whether to cut salaries for firefighters when the city contracts out fire services. plan calls for san carlos and redwood city to create a new combined fire department. redwood city would provide managers with san carlos firefighters being fold in order the department. they report that city staff is recommending cutting firefi

joe hernandez was a medical student at the university of california san francisco.oday, classmates graduated and the family was given a degree with an emotional ceremony. with everybody, including his father. >> everybody since my son was a little boy, he wanted to help people. he wanted to help and i just wanted a to think the public's help. he was a very good son. >>reporter: and people i spoke with spoke highly of joe hernandez. surveillance video of a man of the applause also believed in this case. i will show you at 5:00 p.m. surveillance- video. >>pam: traffic is wet the bottom highway 1 0 1 traffic southbound toward the peninsula moving slowly. the top = 80. towards the bay bridge, the lower deck but it is barely moving. we have a programming note. coming up this friday we will be having nbc programming will the giants will be on nbc. that means that dateline will be shown at 8:00 p.m. right here on kron 4 public life especially edition of kron 4 news at 10:00 p.m. we will be right back. ow#ç3 (music) >> jacqueline: a live look from san francisco. that rain i

. >> reporter: his life had been changed but changed again last fall at the university of california berkeley when he met this engineering professor. >> i realized he has the man i had been waiting for a long time. he is so inspiring and he has changed the way i do my work. >> reporter: for 20 years, the doctor has been developing exoskeletons, a robotic way to help. >> he said i have this dream for you, i want to see you walk. >> reporter: he was a history major and joined the engineering students in developing a light weight, low cost exoskeleton. strapped into the legs of the prototype he became a testing subject. he stood on his birthday, last november. he could stand, by the goal was to walk. the team decided austin would be doing that by graduation day. and today, in the long line of graduates making their way across the stage, it was finally his turn. his chance to show there is a reason for hope for anybody who believes they will never walk again. >> austin whitney. >> reporter: and what is an amazing day for every graduate, austin whitney took a particularly big step into th

the senate was eight votes short of the 60 needed to end debate and give goodwin liu, a university of california law professor who is viewed as a liberal, an up or down vote on his nomination. >>> and who knew the centers for disease control has a sense of humor? in a blog post, the cdc gives ways to prepare for a zombie apocalypse. the post got so much attention, it actually crashed the cdc website. they say it was just a satyrical way to get attention for the real issue of preparing for hurricane season. mission accomplished there. >> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,605 after gaining 45 points yesterday. the s&p inched up two points. the nasdaq added eight. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei shed 13 points, but in hong kong, the hang seng was up 36. investors hope linkedin's impressive wall street debut is a preview of what's in store for other social networks planning to go public this year. shares of the professional network jumped 109%, rising from an initial price of $45 to close just over $94. tha

in my experience in williamsburg, stanford, university of california, mt.ainier national park and other places is projects that get studied thoroughly always come out better, the ones that are rushed through. historic preservation commission is absolutely essential to taking san francisco, which is tiny and filtering out the developers who want to do something here which are big. we need h.p.c. badly to see we come out like harvard, yale and other area universities. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> about afternoon. i'm peter worefield. i would like to make four points. the fairness of the hearing here is very much in question. i think the city needs more rather than less landmark review and more systematic review. i think the library has not always been a good stewart of its facilities and complexities of the process generally makes it difficult for ordinary citizens to participate or even know what's going on. with respect to the fairness of the hearing, you have given tons of time to departments, more than an hour, three to five minutes you asked

he was teaching at the university of california, berkeley. >> your gallery celebrated the 50th anniversarycontinuous operation. you are a pioneer in introducing the work and representing him. >> i have represented him since 1966. i was not in business until 1961. he made a big deal out of working in clay. the things he was doing was something never seen before. >> it is a large scale bronze. it has been sitting here of the hall of justice since 1971. talk about what happens to the work of art out of the elements. >> the arts commission commissioned the piece. they did not set aside money for repair. it has slowly changed color. it was black. it has been restored. >> it has been restored to the original patina. >> there was no damage done to its. i do not think there were any holes made in it. they have been working on it for six or eight weeks. it is practically ready to go. i am very excited to see it done. >> over the course of the arts in richmond program, we have added almost 800 works of art into the public space. maintaining that is not something that the bond funds allow us to do. t

. >> university of california regents are now considering a plan that could charge students more to attend a more popular campuses. students may pay more for u.c. berkeley or ucla than riverside or santa cruz. it would raise funds at a time when tuition hikes are common. opponents say the idea is elitist and could harm the u.c. system. >> california will benefit from florida's decision to cancel the high speed rail project. ray lahood announced that california will get another $300 million towards his high speed law. 15 states were awarded $2 billion. the governor there cancelled the project. california collected $623 million in stimulus dollars last yao year as a result of similar decisions by governors in ohio and wisconsin. >>> tonight the city council will decide whether to cut salaries for firefighters when the city contracts out fire services. plan calls for san carlos and redwood city to create a new combined fire department. redwood city would provide managers with san carlos firefighters being fold in order the department. they report that city staff is recommending cutting firefi

but university of california students told us they draw the line at charging different tuition at different uc campuses. >> yes, i do think it's definitely a bad idea. i don't think that there should be kind of like a hierarchy involved. it is not like ucla is more important than uc santa barbara. it just doesn't work that way. >> reporter: these students worry the uc system could very soon work that way if a recent report by the uc commission on the future has anything to do with it. >> where we're at with the state we have to consider everything. >> reporter: everything, including tuition variation. it could mean a student at lower demand would continue to pay just over $11,000 a year in tuition. while a student at more competitive ucla would pay 6 to 10% more. >> it turns me off a little bit. >> reporter: a former student worries it would put california's more selective schools out of reach for students like himself. >> it will basically limit the types of students that will come to this school just to people who have money. >> reporter: others argue the university of california will be

they're going to a variety of schools from city college, 7 cisco state, davis, seattle, and university of california berkeley. you already met maria. she scored twice in the scholarship lottery. would also have brendan from washington high school. joanne from washington high school. [reading names] [applause] president mendoza: i am going to take the liberty to a knowledge three people that he acknowledged he the mayor's principle of the year award. they are still here with the court schools and all of our administrators. she is not here? >> may 16 was the revisory council's last meeting. when talk about our summer plans, the graduating seniors, and we discussed what worked well. and also improvements for the next school year. and they are somewhere in this crowd. [applause] >> stand up so that they can technology you. -- acknowlege you. >> where do they go to school? >> lowell high school. president mendoza: i just went to a knowledge of the student delegates that participated in the white house used roundtable a couple of weekends ago. and give voice to raise a community that focuses around you. i

and university of california approved courses, otherwise knownas a through g. this is one of the many ways the san francisco unified school district is keeping its promise to access and equity to all the students in the city. the commitment of city leaders like the mayor, the board of education, the board of supervisors, to increase summer programming and access to summer school is the strongest sign of keeping a promise to the next generation of san franciscans, providing

. >>> the university of california may consider a flex plan. the uc spokesman said that there is not currently a formal proposal but it could be a contingency if the state moves forward with an all cut budget. the ten campus-system could case $500 million in cuts if certain tax increases are not extended. >>> federal regulators are considering new rules that would require home buyers to put down more money. the fdic is proposing a minimum down payment of 20% to qualify for a home loan. the thinking is it will keep people out of homes they cannot afford. buyers can purchase mortgage insurance to get around it. a realtor says it would soften the bay area real estate market. >>> commodity prices rebounded today and the dow and nasdaq closed higher. >>> police are warning residents about dangerous rattlesnakes after several dogs in the south bay have been bitten. there have been sightings. pet hospitals have run out of antivenom see rum due to a spike in the demand. >> this is the first time in eight years that we have seen any bites let alone mult

of robbing two pharmacies this afternoon. >>> the california nurse's association says its nurses approved a labor deal with five university of california medical centers. the 11,000 nurses ratified the contract this week. it covers ucsf, los angeles, san diego and irvine. the deal gives the nurses an 11% pay increase over the next 26 months. >>> a large shipping company is reducing air pollution at the port of oakland. american president lines is running the ships on port power. california mandated that half of the shipping traffic has to use the trite trystdy ty by shore by 2013. >>> over the course of the year this process will eliminate 50,000 pounds of nitrogen oxide emissions at the port. >> american president lines received nearly $5 million in grants from the state and the bay area air quality management district to retrofit the ships. >>> this is the new route you will be taking off the bay bridge on sunday. how you can drive it right now, right at home, coming up. >>> it assumes i'm a white supremacist. >> students react to allegations that shut them out of senior prom. >>> it will not feel like the last weekend of

. >> reporter: his life has been changed, but changed again last fall at the university of california-berkeley he met an engineering professor. >> i realized he is who i have been waiting for. he is so inspiring and has changed the way i do my work. >> reporter: he has been developing exoskeletons, robotic suits with the potential to help the disabled walk. >> i will never forget this. he said i have this for you. i want to see you walk >> reporter: a history major, he joined the engineering area and developing a lightweight, low-cost exoskeleton. strapped into the motorized, computerized legs of the prototype, he became a test pilot. the first time he was able to stand was on his 22nd birthday, last november. he could stand, but the goal was to walk. he would be doing that by graduation day. today, in the long line of graduates making their way across the stage, it was finally his term, his chance to show there is a reason to hope for anyone who is told they will never walk again. >> austin whitney. >> [ cheering ] work out what was a momentous day for every graduate, for him it is a particul

. >>> well, students may see a steep increase in tuition at the university of california next year if the governor's bunett plan dwuz president -- budget plan doesn't pan out. they say in state undergraduate tuition may climb by 32% for the winter 2012 term. that's if the university system has to cut $1 billion from its budget. the california residents would pay nearly $14,700 in annual tuition that does president -- doesn't include room, board and fees. >>> tuition is not the dilemma facing bay area college graduates. next month they hit the workforce, or try to. the outlook for new jobs is grim. abc7's alan wang has the disappointing statistics they are facing and a few encouraging signs. >> i am looking for a job in the healthcare field. in administration aspects of the field. >> when he graduates with a degree in healthcare sciences from cal state east bea, he will be facing some tough statistics. a poll shows salaries are down and just over half of college grads are being hired and they are having a harder time paying off student loans. >> i even have some friends right now that

. >> reporter: his life had been changed, but it changed again last fall at the university of californiaerkeley when he met engineering professor kuminu . >> i realize he's the man i've been waiting for, for a long time. he's so inspiring and has changed the way i do my work. >> reporter: for 20 years here has been developing exoskeletons, robotic suits with the potential to help the disabled walk. >> i'll never forget this, he told me, "austin, i have this dream for you. i want to see you walk." and smsing in anyone in a wheelchair would do anything to be able to do. >> austin, a history major, joined the engineering students developing a light-weight, low-cost, exoskeleton. >> we have the engineers here in the lab, in front of us. he is, you know, sitting in a wheelchair waiting. i mean that was inspiring for us. that was a motivating force to get to work every day. >> reporter: strapped into the motorized, computerized legs of the prototype, austin became a test pilot. the first time he was able to stand was on his 22nd birthday last november. >> here i am standing, here i am six feet

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janeiro a professor of international security at new york university's department of politics and irvine we have mark divine he's a professor of history at the university of california irvine he's also author of the book heavy metal islam rock resistance and the struggle for the soul of islam and a new buy we have banned editor in chief at pakistan. pakistan's alternative policy institute and news service this is cross-talk air you can jump in anytime you want here mark obama said the world is a better place it's a safer place and importantly he said justice has been done over the last ten years over the last ten years on the war on terror has justice been done. but i think as a new yorker a lifelong new yorker until recently certainly. i'm certainly happy to see that bin laden is gone and that is not what i think would be just then but i think the other arguments that the world safer i'm not sure that they're really true at this point because most people think he hasn't had any kind of operational command of al qaeda and the franchises that have grown are in fact more dangerous than al qaida is a central is of the moment and you know his death itself is probably go

university of san francisco. i've always talked to my sons. one son's a fourth year medical student at university of california, spent his time today talking about this, as well as my other son who lives with us and is right now overseas on a federally sponsored graduate fellowship from morocco. we've lived in san francisco since 1978. we've lived in two-unit buildings, we lived for 10 years in the western division in a highrise. i know the city well. we loved our place in the western edition. it was a 60-unit complex, i was on the board. we moved, i brought my father out, a disabled veteran, not enough room there. that time, our sons were born here, we had a choice of moving. we looked outside the city. we were thinking of moving up to marin county to have more space and we discovered cal hollow. we bought our home there because it gave us the choice, that's what the beauty of cal hollow is, we have a choice in the city of different neighborhoods. for a time period, that was western edition highrise was perfect for us but then with a family you have another choice and what's the beauty of san francisco is we have a real neighborhood, a real nei