Berkeley. We learn that University Officials blame cooper thieves. And the damage is extensive. Ken wayne is now live at the campus, where hes been getting updates from Campus Police, ken. Reporter the campus is still closed. You can see behind me Campus Police are t parked right in between the campus plaza to keep people from coming on campus and using loud speakers to tell people to turn around. And the area is dark. This all started with a power outage around 4 30 this afternoon. About two hours later a tremendous explosion. Reporter heavy smoke and some flames sparked from an underground vent. One man said he was walking by when he heard a tremendous explosion. I turned around and i saw this unbelievable fire ball. It was huge. Reporter the blast caused several injuries and at least one person was taken to the hospital. And uc Officials Say all of the injuries are minor. Officials say that they believe cooper vandals are responsible for the explosion. The explosion knocked out powe
Of a wild morning. Carolyn. See you often this morning, lisa. Thank you the windy, rain weather is turning up the waves in pacifica. Thats where kera is with us. Good morning. Good morning. It is windy here and it is a steady, moderate rain as we said it will only get worse as the day pro grosses. Moderate right now but steady on our drive from pacifica through San Francisco this morning. Luckily the people who were on the roads were driving quite slowly, taking heed to the potentially dangerous conditions this morning. Things right now in pacifica, the gates are supposed to be open on the pier, we saw a group of about ten crappers hoping to go cracking but they couldnt because the gates were closed. One gentlemen approached us and asked why are the gates closed . Our assumption is it is a precaution because the weather will only continue to get worst. The water hasnt exceeded the seawall yet, but chance are they will. We are standing back so we wont get hit by the water. Wind is comin
Leads for their investigation. Reporter the new system uses realtime recording which could allow muni or Law Enforcement to listen live. It also allows recordings to be wired live to police who dont need a warrant because its considered public. We dont have the infrastructure to watch real time whats going on in our entire system. This is only for investigative purposes. We are able to pull the video and hand it to authorities. Reporter still, the system raises concerns for a law professor. Even if only the authorities that are looking at it, theres a possibility that hackers can get into this kind of technology and communication and catch something that may be important and private and something nothing to do with threats to the government or crime and use it against somebody. Reporter people are getting more and more used to technology, they dont necessarily get on to a bus or train and think about their conversations being recorded. It is big brother. Theres no way around it. Its ju
Could sell. There are 50 to 60 homes for sale in an average month at a time when he could sell about 150. Buyers there are increasing the pressure down here. They come out in this area, where we have a little bit more houses at a little bit better prices. Reporter growing interest in bedroom communities like gilroy mean rising prices. The average price is 842,000, more than a quarter million more than in april 2012. Welcome news for people who already live in the south county. Things have gone up. So thats a good thing i guess. Reporter this woman is saving for a house and looking for a new job. Though she suspects shell work in silicon valley, she doesnt mind commuting to morgan hill. A person could get a house here now, then in a couple years it would be like having a house further north. Reporter a cold well Banker Real Estate projects that through 2015 there will be more demand than there will be supply. But the agent says the Interest Rates are still pretty low, so it is a very go
Area, what do we know at this point. The latest homicide victim is a woman who apparently was stabbed to death by someone she knew. In fact, police say the suspect, man w man, was one of two people who called 911. When officers arrived shortly after 5 00, he was still here and was arrested immediately. First responders rushed the victim to Regional Medical sent are but she later died. Investigators are working on a motive and tried to figure out the relationship that they believe the suspect at one point lived here. Detectives recovered a knife at the scene and describe the residence as grizzly. Any time somebody gets stabbed, theres a lot of blood. The scene was not pretty. The victim died violently. Now it is our job to make sure have justice for the victim. We spoke to numerous neighbors and many didnt know the people who lived at the home. They did mention they think a teenager also lives here. But no indications a child was present during the murder. No names as of yet have been r