Good evening. Im thuy vu. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Hundreds of students stage protests this week at the university of california as they consider tuition increases. [ chanting ] president Janet Napolitano says its necessary to raise tuition by 5 a year over the next five years. The move pits her against students and against governor jerry brown who argued against the plan. The governor also expressed outrage over recent salary increases for three chancellors making more than 300,000 a year. Passed the tuition hike on thursday. Napolitano sat down with scott shafer to get her reaction. Thank you for coming in. Thank you. Big vote on tuition this week, 147 vote. You and the governor are sort of at logger heads. The governor saying the University Needs to look for new ways to cut, even though youve already cut. Looking for creativity. Youre saying no, this is important for the longterm stability and viability of the university. Where is the governor getting it wrong . I think the issue i
Lights. Allen martin in the newsroom with more. Reporter major delays because of a problem on the tracks with the tracks. It all started at the end of the morning commute. So its about 9 30. That is when bart crews say they discovered what they are calling a deformity on the tracks. It was between San Franciscos civic center and 16th Street Mission bart. Bart trains at this moment are singletracking through downtown San Francisco. There are limited trains coming into the city from the east bay. Traffic from east bay bart stations has been slowed down with this interrupted service. The Macarthur Bart station is what youre looking at. We saw trains stop for some time before slowly starting to run again. Trains that normally run from fremont to daly city they are stopping there. The only trains running through downtown San Francisco are the ones heading to the airport at sfo and this is the bad part. Bart says this problem is going to take at least five to six hours to fix. Thats what the
A crowd in the thousands is glued to the big screen. Hanging on every pitch of the deciding game of the world series. Kpix 5s ryan takeo is in the middle of it all. Theres excitement right now. But youve learned there s concern about what could happen if the giants win. Thanks ryan theres a smattering of orange in the middle of the sea of blue in kansas city tonight. Several giants fans made the trip, hoping to watch their team win the world series in person. Some even brought bottles of champagne to celebrate should the giants win. Its gonna be good. It s gonna be a great game in really doesnt get any better than this game 7 of the world series no sport has an event like that. This was the last game seven in the world series. In 2011, the cardinals beat the rangers in st. Louis. The home team has won nine straight game sevens. The last time the road team did it. 1979. Well get another update on the crowd at civic center watch party. And Dennis Odonnell live in kansas city a little lat
REGIONAL — The race for the 16th Assembly seat is a rematch pitting Democratic incumbent Rebecca Bauer- Kahan and Republican business owner Joseph Rubay.