The lockdown that was placed on the campus was lifted late last night so they are expecting to have a normal day at berkeley today. Reporting live at berkeley, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. And this video, look at what happens to this woman in the red hat in the middle of an interview. Pepper sprayed in the face. She was there hoping to hear yiannopoulos talk and was speaking with abc7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman when that protester reached out and did that. The woman told wayne that shes doing okay. Now to the president s harsh words for uc berkeley this morning. Jessica at the live desk with that story. President trump already starting a fire storm this morning, tweeting about last nights protest. Heres that tweet. If uc berkeley does not allow free speech and practicing violence on innocent people with a different point of view, no federal funds, question mark, and that no federal funds all in caps. The question could imply that federal funds for the school would be on the line, but h
Can be seen throughout the city. School leaders are speaking out and so is the man that the demonstrations were about. Good morning to you, it is thursday, february 2. Im natasha zouves. Thanks for joining us, im reggie aqui. Well have more on the fallout from those protests in just a second but first, our other top story, another storm moving in. Yeah, storm watch. Hi, everybody. Lets go to live doppler 7. I have it up on the north bay. Thats where were seeing some yellows and oranges, some moderate rain falling down into rohnert park to petaluma, all the way down to big bend. And as we zoom on out, you can see its moving from southwest to northeast. In fact, look at some of the puddles right here on the roof camera. A quick look at your 12hour day planner, waves of rain all day. Alexis. And weve got plenty happening on the roads this morning as well. One of our quiet spots, the bay bridge toll plaza, no metering lights yet, so everything looking okay for the moment. Of course right a
Crashes working right now. Next traffic update coming up around 6 10. New this morning, President Trump is threatening to take away federal money from uc berkeley because of last nights violent protests. Heres what he tweeted this morning. If uc berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view, no federal funds . Abc News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is in berkeley with how all this started. Reporter good morning, reggie. Let me show you the damage that extends further from campus. It didnt just happen on campus. This is on shattuck at center street. The wells fargo here, the atms were busted last night, so were the windows. You can see they have patched those up. Heres a look at what it looked like on campus, some angry demonstrators set fire to a generator. This happened outside the Student Union building. There were about 1500 people who turned out last night to protest Milo Yiannopoulos. He was coming to campus to speak, but pr
Divisiveness playing out. Appearance by milo was canceled. Just part of the story. Heres what we are doing and seeing. Throughout the night. The fire on the left of the screen, set by protesters on campus. In the 6 00 p. M. Hour. Late tonight, damage offcampus at local banks. On the right of your screen. A lot of that damage by splinter groups of protesters. Now a wide look from our nbc chopper. Things are calming down. Thats where it all began there on campus near the plaza at student union. Throughout the night, waves of protesters and varying degrees of officers in riot gear. This is something that capturing the attention of the nation. Especially in this political climate. We have multiple reports for you tonight. Reporters have the been on scene all night throughout the demonstrations. To begin with, cheryl hurd. You were there to see the arc of the demonstration change from peaceful to violent and then again to dissipate. Reporter thats right, jessica. It has been a long night. I
50s and 60s. We will be okay this morning. I think the roads are wet. Lets not there is no standing water i have seen. I hope you are right. So far things havent been that much different from a regular dry drive. If you are driving in tracy right now you see slow traffic on 580 and 205 as it normally is. Driving in through the area. You can see the traffic is going he be slow in some of these areas. 61, i put that an the other side. If you are going out the to tracy. 61. Lets sea what it looks like here. 22 miamis an hour. Westbound. Which is still not to bad getting in to livermore. Once you get to livermore. Lets put it on the westbound 580 and see what this feed says here. Im almost afraid. 68. Not to bad. Driving over to the 88 the 580, 680 interchange. Just a hair more than it should be im afraid. Lets move along and take a look at the drive at the bay bridge toll plaza. Traffic is light into San Francisco. Its wet out there. In san jose northbound 280 traffic is moving well getti