." > > vo: miguel vasquez graduated last year from san jose state as a double major. since deferred action was not implemented until august 2012, vasquez paid out of pocket for tuition. > > miguel: now that i graduated and my situation is fixed, it's been hard trying to get that chance or just given an opportunity to prove what i can do. it's a big struggle. > > because vasquez says he lacks a social security number, he says finding a job has been difficult even though he feels he is more than qualified. > > sjsu communications director of student affairs fernanda perdomo karp works to provide support to ab 540 students every year. > > fernanda: i think that if we have a society that is educated, everybody wins. in my role, i work with a university community as well as an outside community, and what i try to do is basically bring information to families about college. > > vo: similar to the success story of vazquez, luis martinez is pushing his way towards a better future. > luis: "now i'm in college and i'm working, trying to get more ideas in order to push myself in

it just doesn't make sense. >> tamerlan's high school friend, luis vasquez, later coached dzhokhar in soccer at the cambridge latin school. >> these two guys had leadership traits. one was a leader of his family and really cared for them. and the other was a social leader amongst his friends and our team. he was cocaptain of the wrestling team, the little brother. >> dzhokhar got a $2500 academic scholarship and enrolled at the university of massachusetts dartmouth. on september 11th, 2012, an ironic date in retrospect, he took the oath to become a u.s. citizen. zach betancourt went to college with dzhokhar. >> he acted completely american. i didn't know he was from chechnya. >> he was a very cool kid, very smart. whempb whenever asked to help out he helped out all the time. he wasn't a troublemaker. >> he was a good kid honestly. he seemed like a good kid. every time i saw him. i like thought he was a nice person. >> those who thought they knew the brothers from high school, college, through boxing, now realize they never really knew them at all. the two brothers, outwardly so differ

. >> reporter: luis vasquez med tamerlan as a sophomore at the cambridge rindge and latin score in 2004. >> he could be intimidating because people knew he was a boxer and he had more of a reserved personality to him. but if you went up to him, he talks to you right back and he was very friendly. >> reporter: but were there any clues of the violence to come? >> he never expressed any desires to harm people. they did respect life at one point. they were friendly. >> reporter: after high school tamerlan attended bunker hill community college, studying accounting. until 2008, when he left college. but he continued to pursue his dream. >> good? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: boxing trainer eddie bishop met tamerlan at a tournament. >> he was a fighter that had a lot of skill and a lot of -- a lot of ability. >> reporter: but bishop questioned whether tamerlan could ever become a boxing champ. >> he had all the skill, but he lacked the heart, the fundamental ingredient to make you a champion. >> reporter: the tsarnaev family is from war-torn chechnya and came here to the u.s. more than ten years ag

. >> reporter: luis vasquez med tamerlan as a sophomore at the cambridge rindge and latin score in 2004. >> he could be intimidating because people knew he was a boxer and he had more of a reserved personality to him. but if you went up to him, he talks to you right back and he was very friendly. >> reporter: but were there any clues of the violence to come? >> he never expressed any desires to harm people. they did respect life at one point. they were friendly. >> reporter: after high school tamerlan attended bunker hill community college, studying accounting. until 2008, when he left college. but he continued to pursue his dream. >> good? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: boxing trainer eddie bishop met tamerlan at a tournament. >> he was a fighter that had a lot of skill and a lot of -- a lot of ability. >> reporter: but bishop questioned whether tamerlan could ever become a boxing champ. >> he had all the skill, but he lacked the heart, the fundamental ingredient to make you a champion. >> reporter: the tsarnaev family is from war-torn chechnya and came here to the u.s. more than ten years ag

. >> fbi agent maritska vasquez says the men who frequent these secret brothels should understand they rk >> the truth is when you're told you're going to be working as a prostitute, if you don't do that, they're going to kill your family, your children, your siblings. that's enough to keep you there. you don't have to be in chains because the chains in this case are psychological, not physical. >> in just two years, the fbi field office in houston has interviewed over 100 young women who were held captive, prisoners forced to perform sex acts for 14 hours a day, 6 days a week. >> they were usually young, as young as 14 years old. >> agent vasquez assigned to the harris county trafficking task force says hundreds of young women are held in these seemingly harmless-looking bars and restaurants. >> they look normal from the outside. if you drive by one of them, you would not think more than, what a busy business. >> translator: he raped me. i didn't know him. >> 20-year-old carla sanchez says instead of the restaurant job she was promised, she was beaten and raped within hours of her ar

it just doesn't make sense. >> tamerlan's high school friend, luis vasquez later coached dzhokhar in soccer at the cambridge ridge and latin school. >> these guys had two traits. one was a family who he cared for and the other was a social leader. he was co-captain of the wrestling team. >> dzhokhar got a $2500 academic scholarship and enrolled at the university of massachusetts dartmouth. on september 11th, 2012, an ironic date, in retrospect, he took the oath to become a u.s. citizen. zek bettencourt interacted with dzhokhar. >> he was a cool kid. very smart. very smart. >> i thought he was, like, really a good kid. he seemed like a good kid. every time i saw him, i thought he was a nice person. >> those who thought they knew the brothers from high school, college, through boxing, now realize they never really knew them at all. >> the two brothers outwardly so different, on april 15th, accused of acting together to bomb the boston marathon. >>> incredibly, just days after the bombings, dzhokhar was spotted back on campus. bettencourt saw him at the gym. >> we talked about the bombi

if she is convicted on all her robbery and burglary charges, vasquez could face up to 25 years.7 or less. and shortly after sending his poem, her boyfriend boo reached a plea deal of 4 1/2 years and was transferred to prison. jon antonucci is still awaiting sentencing, but now a local newspaper has just printed a scathing article about him. >> is that article fair? >> with the amount of damage that i've caused, anything's fair. >> the article states that antonucci was a very popular and charismatic karate instructor but also a liar and a thief who eventually participated in the torching of his employer's office building. >> i went from what they called their best instructor to an enemy that now they think is going to come back for retaliation. i don't want to be the enemy. i want to be the best instructor. >> what happens after this article? does that have an impact? >> obviously not favorable. but it's just. the judge is probably going to read it. he's going to see my tangled web of lies, and when i stand in that courtroom and i tell him i'm sorry, i doubt he'll believe a word

joe vasquez tells us another teacher is accused of getting physical with a young student. >> reporter: school officials say it was a substitute teacher this time. they didn't identify her. but she no longer works here. >> reporter: the latest incident happened on the preschool grounds sometime in the month of february. that's according to the complaint investigation report filed by the statee department of social -- state's department of social services. "a child was pinched on his side and had his arms squeezed by a staff member." this is a different and separate incident from the one that got all the headlines last month when a teacher was accused of tying a 2-year-old up with tape after the child refused to take a nap. the pinching incident happened first but wasn't reported until weeks later. the pastor correctly and immediately passed the information onto the state. the e-mail tells parents "we have a strong commitment to take all reports regarding our program seriously, investigate them, and communicate the outcomes in a timely manner." >> reporter: officials say they recently p

employee assistance program, university of maryland medical system, baltimore city, maryland; neli vasquez-rowland, president, a safe haven, chicago, illinois. of those individuals that are unemployed, there was about a 15.7 percent rate of drug dependency among them. of the ones that are employed with a drug dependency, there were 23.3 million people overall, and about 49.8 percent of them were employed. and from the mental health community, there were 6 million people who were served by mental health authorities across the nation, and roughly 21 percent, or about, of the 6 million, were employed. what does that tell us? what types of challenges, david, do these individuals present as they approach the employment marketplace? well, that's telling me that, actually, most people that are, that are served by my agency, which provides welfare or tanf services or homeless services, do not have mental health or substance abuse problems. there- but the percentage is a lot higher than the general population. so probably 20 percent of the people that we're serving in tanf have substance abuse problems and

ed vasquez speaks for the attorney. >> everything that happened in there has to stay confidental. >> the attorney filed this suit against the teenagers. the suit named michael whose daughter attended a party. potts claim the teens had access to an unlocked liquor cabinet. according to parents she passed out after drinking alcohol laced gatorade and spoke woek up without her clothes on and writing on her private parts. >> these crimes are not juvenile. sexual assault is an adult crime. these boys distributed the pictures to humiliate and further bully my daughter if remaining here in detention we're told their living in a facility similar to a school dorm. and they have joyed games to play. >> thank you. >> still to come here at 5:00 airline responds to those impacted by the boston bombings. detail that's is good news for the passenger autos something else forced american airlines to ground flights foremost of the day. >> i'm abc 7 news sandhya patel. breezy now but we're going see near-freezing temperatures. i'll show where and how cold by morning coming up. >> and it's official. lin

joe vasquez says the paycheck isn't adding up to what it used to. >> we heard from the expert. >> it's the new normal. >> and we have seen the numbers. the u.s. economy is technically recovering, but is it really? new numbers released by the bureau, ever since the economy hit rock bottom, the median income decreased. >> i was looking for work since august and i was going to take anything that i could get. >> darlene finally found work at san francisco general hospital, transcribing doctors notes, but it's part-time and no benefits. >> if this is a new norm, i'm scared. >> some jobs are simply becoming extinct. take a look at the cvs pharmacy in the city. just one clerk. the rest is self-serve. in fact, the u.s. lost almost 2 million clerical jobs since 2007. retail workers lost ground to internet shopping. some are growing, but here's the thing. it pays substantially less. a clerical worker last year made an average of $34,000. a personal healthcare worker, $24,500. michael, former director of california's labor department says fast moving changes are to blame. >> used to have six or s

joe vasquez, kpix5. >> makes it extremely lightweight. it has one pilot and exactly 11,783 cells.onverts sunlight into battery power and something else i found out, peanuts are free. >> oh really? you get free peanuts. >> there you go. we have a lot of solar today. >> we had some cloud cover moving in tonight. change coming. downtown san francisco, a 30- degree drop over one day. all we did was change the wind direction. here's a live look outside. behind the pyramid, we have the clouds lurking. the coast and the city will wake up foggy tomorrow. let's show you a different vantage point. what a gorgeous sunset. what a nice day it was. a lot of you got toasty. that is not going to happen tomorrow. let's talk about the strings in our pattern. it's going to be a 2 or a 10 scale. only at 2, the fog will be confined to the city and the coast and portions of the peninsula. san ramon, only 76 with sunshine, but not as warm. you're going to see morning cloud cover on thursday and a high of 71 degrees. we are trending downward temperature wise and all that changed is the big dome of high p

joe vasquez was there. >> she was taking part in the spring break party near uc santa barbara. she disappeared friday night. a jogger discovered her body at 8:00 saturday morning, floating in the water. some surfers saw her body right after that. >> said that it looks like her back was broken and black and blue. it was really sad. >> it has gotten so routty that police blocked off the beach. so young people mob the streets of the town instead. in fact, just hours after jazelle's body was discovered, several people were hurt after a downtown balcony collapse. one person was taken to the hospital. 23 arrests and 71 criminal citations this weekend. for everything from fights to public intoxication. several hundred people gathered here at santa rosa high school tonight. this is where she graduated less than a year ago. t me show you pictures. this was the vigil tonight. people holding candles and telling stories and just standing here in gut wrenching disbelief at the loss of jazelle. the girl with a gorgeous smile. that girl who always lit up the room. her sister says, you know wh

kpix5's joe vasquez tells us, legally speaking, in california, it's a bit hazy. >> the strain is called blueberry train wreck. >> how much pot do you have to smoke before you have trouble driving? >> i feel normal. >> our cbs station in seattle conducted a test where three drivers got high and drove on a controlled track. turns out, all of them slow down significantly. when this driver measured seven times washington state's legal limit for marijuana -- >> i hit a cone. i see it. >> she hit a cone. the instructor said she is still okay. >> not yet. >> well, you do drive slower. >> these teenagers had mixed feelings about the subject, but they do believe alcohol is way more dangerous. >> it says, stoned driver will stop at a stop sign and wait until it turns green and a drunk driver will run that stop sign and it doesn't turn green. so, safe drivers. they are safe. >> it has very little effect on the cause of accidents. >> clint is the author of marijuana, gateway to hell. >> if people compensate and more thoughtful when they're driving while they're high, then they're driving better. >>

kpix5 joe vasquez following the story in the newsroom with the latest. >> reporter: there are very manynts at work right now and one of the thins we talked about, we just saw it in boston a couple of days ago where first responders are running in while most people are running away from this horrible catastrophe. that is what we were seeing tonight. firefighters were responding to this fire and they got injured. i want to show you this video again. look at. this the man has his daughter in the car. >> oh, my god. >> please get out of here. please get out of here. >> she is saying please get out of here. we are hoping she is okay. there is nothing on youtube to suggest otherwise. can you just see what the damage was there now. we are getting conflicting reports of dead and injured and suffice to say, hundreds injured. they just won't say how many people dead although our cbs affiliate in dallas is saying as many as 60 possibly. i mentioned that first responders were rushing to the scene. listen to this one first responder talk about the initial moments after the explosion. >> it was every

kpix 5's joe vasquez shows us evidence that suggests he isn't so sorry. >> disgraced former santa clara supervisor resigned last month, he admitted he used public money to fuel his gambling habit and to say for many personal expenses. in a new 20-page report filed to the judge, the district attorney reports shirakawa took more than a hundred thousand dollars in public money he apologized when he resigned last month and admitted he needed to take responsibilities for his action, but how serious was he? take a look at this picture. it's a text message he sent the very day he resigned to second in command of the da's office joking that, quote, you can't be associated with felons. three days later, he was gambling at thunder valley casino and was comped a meal at the restaurant. in fact, the mercury news had more details that he lost $200 gambling that day but that the restaurant gave him a free meal worth 110 bucks and that the gift shop gave him more than $170,000 in merchandise. >> to hide behind a conviction when you broke the law is a weak excuse. he lied and he got away with it until

joe vasquez is there. joe, this just sounds crazy. >> this is very unusual and very serious, though. you know, at&t says that's why they are now offering a $250,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. >> we have a big crime scene right now. >> the sheriff says tab tours struck above and below ground. they lifted up heavy manhole covers and cut the underground at&t fiberoptic cables. they did that in two places on monterey highway just south of san jose. that knocked out 911 systems in the area as well as some phone service for a short while. about 15 minutes later up the road gunshots rang out. the sheriff says somebody fired a high-powered rifle into pg&e's met calf substation damaging several transformers and related equipment and causing an oil leak. >> we believe that the perpetrator or perpetrators were familiar with systems. they knew where to go for the fiberoptic. they knew where the cut. they also were able to take out some very, very critical parts of the pg&e substation. >> sort of s

we sent joe vasquez to find it tonight.n he got back, he told us it looked like a big seagull. >> with remarkably long wings and a determination to make history, the solar impulse took off this morning just after sun vise and spent the day flying over the bay area. the solar impulse crossed the golden gate bridge around 2:00 this afternoon, then slowly zigzagged near the bay bridge all through the evening hours, top speed 43 miles per hour. it's not carrying any passengers, but the swiss scientists who built the solar impulse say it's carrying an important message about saving energy. >> were used everywhere in the world, the world would divide by its energy consumption and produce half of its neesd with renewable sources sgli think that would be fwraet for everybody because if we all run on solar power then we'll save the oil. we won't have all these problems overseas with everything else, all our war. >> the sun is going down, i'm concerned for them. >> yeah, i hope they have enough battery power. >> actually, that should

luis vasquez, appreciate you joining us very much. >> take care. >> obviously there are a lot of peopleew these two, who have a lot of questions tonight as law enforcement does, as well. peter bergen is also still standing by. peter, in past cases where we have seen people, american citizens, naturalized american citizens, become radicalized, i think back to a number of somali youth who ended up going to somalia. if memory serves me, the first suicide bombing in somalia several years ago was actually an american. >> yeah. i mean, i think, you know, the -- the kind of conventional wisdom is that americans would never engage in suicide operations, as you point out, anderson. there's now been three cases of american committing suicide in somalia. once you have americans committing suicide overseas in a way kind of a big barrier is breached. we saw british citizens conduct suicide operations overseas, and then we saw them attack in london in 2005. and i think one of the questions for investigators here is the extent to which these two brothers went into this knowing that they would die. you

always be trying to rush to be the first ones to break a new piece of information local blogger luis vasquez knew both brothers while he was here since he was little and if you didn't know joe hart is a name you would just assume that he was an american around here we have a very diverse community and it's normal to hear for someone to go back to their country he says over sensationalizing that's our knives background doesn't get any answers to the question why being answered temple and even from coaching with his brother they would never go around pounding their chest about their religion the most. conversation i've had about about their background is them telling me where they're from that's it that's it and then after that all this talk about boxing let's talk about lines that said samuel went to high school. joe hart who has now been charged with the use of weapons of mass destruction the media has a way of doing things of course and with regards to his nationality to me it doesn't matter. it shouldn't matter what his religion is either when i graduated there were forty five languages sp

joe vasquez has been looking into their backgrounds. joe, what do we find out about them? they have a foreign influence. >> as a matter of fact, the fbi has been talking to the older brother as of two years ago, according to cbs news. the fbi met with him because an unnamed foreign fwovt was worried about his contact with extremist elements. the fbi agents checked him out. they determined he was not a threat. how little they knew about both brothers. >> crazy how you can know someone, and you never know what they're planning. >> 19 year old dzhokhar tsarnaev now known as suspect no. 2 or white hat came to this country at the age of 7 or 8. he became a u.s. citizen last year on 9/11. he has lived in cambridge most of his live life. he's a second-year premed student at university of massachusetts dartmouth. people knew him as social and happy go lucky. >> there's nothing about him that would suggest anything like this, politics, nothing. >> as for his older brother, tamerlan, suspect no. 1, he's a different story. in recent months family members and fellow boxers say he'd be

always be trying to rush to be the first ones to the big new piece of information local blogger luis vasquez knew both brothers while he was here since he was little and if you didn't know joe harvey's name you would just assume that he was an american around here we have a very diverse community and it's normal to here for someone to go back to their country he says over sensationalizing that's our knives background doesn't get any answers to the question why being answered temple and even from coaching with his brother they would never go around pounding their chest about their religion the most a. conversation i've had about about their background is them telling me what it from that's it that's it and then after that all this talk about boxing let's talk about lines that said samuel went to high school with joe hart who has now been. charged with use of weapons of mass destruction the media has a way of spinning things of course and with regards to his nationality to me it doesn't matter. it shouldn't matter what his religion is either when i graduated there are forty five languages spok

always be trying to rush to be the first ones to break a new piece of information local blogger luis vasquez knew both brothers while he was here since he was little and if you didn't know to harras name you would just assume that he was an american around here we have a very diverse community and it's normal to here for someone to go back to their country he says over sensationalizing that's our knives background doesn't get any answers to the question why being answered temple and even from coaching with his brother they would never go around town. asked about their religion the most. conversation i've had about about their background is them telling me where they're from that's that's and then after that all this talk about boxing let's talk about lunch that's some you'll want to talk about joe hart who has now been charged with the use of weapons of mass destruction the media has a way of spinning things of course and with regards to his nationality to me it doesn't matter. it shouldn't matter what his religion is either when i graduated there were forty five languages spoken just in my

congressman ed bass was -- vasquez from new york. comedless of where you from, whether it is ireland, no matter where you come from she has stood up to defend the rights of immigrants, congresswoman eve up claa clark. [speaking spanish] and our new colleagues from florida joe garcia. the time is >> no. w. >> we voted in november. we watched on a election night. i do not care if you were watching on english tv or spanish. or in some other language. if you saw how the very educated television experts, one after another, said it was latinos and asians and african immigrants, it was their children and their friends and their families, committed to their communities that returned barack obama to the white house. we deliver the votes that delivers states life florida to the democrats. they came with a great deal of hope and trust. the people who returned president obama to the white house but trust in him and the democratic party to deliver on what was promised. it is not simply that they rejected the other candidates approach. they reject

ed vasquez, a spokesman for pott family attorney robert allard refused to talk about the outcome of a detention hearing for three under-age defendants here at santa clara county juvenile court tuesday. the three saratoga high school students were arrested last week in connection with the alleged sexual battery and cyber- bullying of 15-year-old audrey pott, who passed out from drinking at a party in september of 2012 and then took her own life when photos of the assault were digitally passed among classmates. on monday her parents said the boys should be tried as adults in open court. sheila pott/audrey's mother also on monday, pott family attorney robert allard says there is evidence the boys used a marker to scribble messages on audrey's breast and body. robert allard/pott family attorney but on thursday, allard and the pott family had no comment, nor would attorneys for the defendants or the prosecutor say anything about the case. jaron shipp/prosecutor one court observer compared the sudden silence to a kind of unofficial gag order, speculating the attorneys and their clients were

luis vasquez who befriended him said he last saw tamerlan three years ago.rifted to radical islam -- >> the only thing i can think of, i only want to say what i'm sure of, that one of the sources of this could have been some kind of dissatisfaction of the bad, slow transition to coming to another country from a different one, as a teenager. that's never easy. >> vasquez now shares the sentments of those at the mosque, perplexed as to why the man they knew drifted in that direction, and angry he did it. >> lots of unanswered questions. brian todd, thanks very much. >>> one bostonian that was uncomfortably close to tsarnaev's gun fight with the police tells his story to cnn. a bullet went right through his roommate's desk chair. >>> plus, another dramatic cnn interview with the mother of the bombing suspects, who insists they were framed. [ male announcer ] if she keeps serving up sneezes... [ sneezing ] she may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec®. powerful allergy relief for adults and kids six years and older. zyrtec®. love the air. and kids six years

. >> luis vasquez was friends with tamerlan in high school. >> that's where he's from.hat's where he told me he had struggled. he didn't really elaborate. >> there's a whole generation of chechens who grew up with their families being displaced, relatives being killed and so on. >> thomas devaal has studied and written about the region. >> for most people that's a traumatic experiment, but obviously for a small minority, this is something that is in their dna that drives them. >> and like many displaced chechens, tamerlan may have struggled to fit in. chechnya is still home to militant separatist groups, and the home tamerlan's father grew up in has been destroyed by war. relatives still live here. tamerlan traveled here during his trip last year. >> translator: he came to see me. we talked. i said come here, guy. are you studying, i asked? i'm stud eliying, he said. there was nothing criminal about him. >> there,region has also seen a growth in extremism becoming more anti-western and anti-american. >> if you're a young jihadist from this region you sort of blame russi