belva: good evening, and welcome to this week in northern california. i m belva davis. and joining me tonight on our news panel are josh richman, political and legal affairs reporter with the oakland tribune. scott shafer, host of the california report on kqed public radio. and lisa krieger, higher education writer for the san jose mercury news. lisa, is raising tuition the only option for the regents? is that why this is happening? financing higher education is shockingly simple. you either get the money from the state or you get it from the students. it s not coming from the state, they re hitting up the students. now, the other side of the balance sheet, of course, is expenses. and they re saying this week s crisis, unlike every crisis in previous weeks and in previous years, they re saying they would like to increase the salaries of professors and staff and they d also like to increase the contribution to the pension fund which they need to because it s st
belva: good evening, and welcome to this week in northern california. i m belva davis. and joining me tonight on our news panel are josh richman, political and legal affairs reporter with the oakland tribune. scott shafer, host of the california report on kqed public radio. and lisa krieger, higher education writer for the san jose mercury news. lisa, is raising tuition the only option for the regents? is that why this is happening? financing higher education is shockingly simple. you either get the money from the state or you get it from the students. it s not coming from the state, they re hitting up the students. now, the other side of the balance sheet, of course, is expenses. and they re saying this week s crisis, unlike every crisis in previous weeks and in previous years, they re saying they would like to increase the salaries of professors and staff and they d also like to increase the contribution to the pension fund which they need to because it s st
what s next for oakland. mayor-elect jean quan about what s next for oakland. coming up next. captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman s fund belva: good evening, and welcome to this week in northern california. i m belva davis. and joining me tonight on our news panel are josh richman, political and legal affairs reporter with the oakland tribune. scott shafer, host of the california report on kqed public radio. and lisa krieger, higher education writer for the san jose mercury news. lisa, is raising tuition the only option for the regents? is that why this is happening? financing higher education is shockingly simple. you either get the money from the state or you get it from the students. it s not coming from the state, they re hitting up the students. now, the other side of the balance sheet, of course, is expenses. and they re saying this week s crisis, unlike every crisis in previous weeks and in previous years, they re saying they would like to incr
people out there, but we re not running into them yet. reporter: they tell homeowners to be aware, and ask to see every contractor s license. it proves the contractor has experience and has gone through a criminal background check. a lot of times people don t have licenses, they know they will never be able to passion. you have people convicted of fraud out here doing this work. everything you can imagine just burned. servpro is one of the comp y companies hired by pg&e to go through the houses and remove dangerous chemicals that could cause respiratory problems. right here where we are, we re in the lowest location, everything is going to run this way if it rains. reporter: now, city planning and building officials have come up with a rough estimate of $38 million in property damage caused by this explosion that is just a rough estimate. some say just looking at those homeowners sifting through what used to be their belongings in their homes, how do you put a pri