want to mess. all of that and more is coming up. in the good sunday morning to. you i am katie phang. as the saying goes, those who don t know history are destined to repeat. it s now this juncture after this conservative super majority on the supreme court got affirmative action in higher education instruct down where is it biden s plan to forgive more than 400 billion dollars in student debt, i think it is time that we talk about how those two things have been leaked for decades. higher education in america did not always come with such a hefty price tag. in fact through the 1950s it was largely free and treated as a public goods. why? because graduates used their education towards the betterment of society. that all changed in the 1960s when anti-war and civil rights students activism hit college campuses and universities. and those colleges and universities responded by developing of hidden action policies to diversify their overall on the right student body. southern cal
Jails. Limiting the number of substance abusary. Mentally ill out of the jail. The new program raise as threshold needed to book a suspect into jail from a 5,000 arrest warrant to a 15,000 arrest warrant. That means many people accused of crimes like indecent exposure child neglect and vaned alism wont have to spend time behind bars as they wait for bail por a court hearing. I dont like it i think its ridiculous. Police officers across the county are furious with the new guidelines, especially coming on the heels of propositions 47 and 57 which decriminalize certain crimes across the state. If we cant arrest them for the crimes at the right level and cant winnebago them into jail what are we employing to do hug them and let them go . Because thats what its getting to. The corrections staff has the right to override the guidelines when need the. Police officers say the added regulations are limiting their ability to keep the streets and homes safe. In san jose, damian trujillo, nbc bay
Is on to keep fire debris out of the water in wine country. Ktvus tom vacar joins us from petaluma where a company is making a key element to keep those toxins out. Tom. In order to prevent wholesale contamination of the watershed you need do something very important, which is what this factory is doing. You need to manufacture tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dams, called wattles, in order to prevent the watershed from being grossly polluted. Pretty much everywhere you look in the burn areas, you will see barriers placed around storm drains. They keep toxins from washing into the drains. That blocks debris flow into the storm drains and creeks. We are also adding compost rolls to add additional filtering to reduce the potential. Reporter nobody is sure what and how many toxins are in the ash but some think its a lot. We are planning to do Water Quality sampling to determine whats running off into our creeks and waterways. Reporter they will be looking for toxic heavy
Moment. Harassment on the job whether we are puck works, cleaning up an Illegal Dumping sight. Reporter hundreds of local Union Workers gathered outside the plaza this afternoon to begin the strike. They marched to 14th and madison at the Islamic Cultural Center where mayor schaaf will be giving her address in 30 minutes. Three city is operating at the same time as the recession and the mayor is touting the growth that the city is seeing. The workers are feeling the brunt of the growing pains and bargaining isnt going well and they have been at this for six months. They want to see action, too. Most workers are part time with no health benefits. We are told the majority of the workers if not 50 50 are now part time whereas opposed before 2018 it used to be more than half of the workers so mayor schaaf did say that she respects the right to protest. Yeah. We have been bargaining in good faith for a long time for five months. And i am very optimistic that we will reach a resolution. This
These are again hardworking people. They feel theyre being betrayed. The president sounding optimistic as he heads off to asia. Ill be back in 11 days. Reporter mary bruce, abc news, the capital. The new tax plan could have big implications for new homeowners in california. The proposal would lower the mortgage interest for deduction cap to loans of 500,000 or less down to the current 1 million, since the house price is 768,000. This could impact a lot of homeowners here. This could eliminate thousands in tax savings. And if youre thinking you can try to sneak in a home purchase before this takes effect, youre out of luck. This applies as of tomorrow if the bill passes. And the electric car industry stands to suffer if it becomes law. It would eliminate the 7500 per vehicle tax credit on electric cars. Analysts say this could kill the electric car market. The incentive is a significant draw for buyers. Of course, a lot of people in california are buying electric cars. Only one person i