Sense. A useless degree for a job that doesnt exist anymore, yeah, and 200,000 in debt. Reporter the Obama Administration wants to write a new chapter on College Costs proposing ideas like, more federal aid for colleges that keep costs down and capping student loan payments at 10 of income so students dont earn a seconddegree in personal debt. I avoid loans as much as i can, but i do have to you have to get loans. Its almost impossible. Reporter until then, parents will pinch pennies and students will study hard hoping when they graduate, they dont move straight into the poorhouse. Im just excited that she gets to do this. Its something that i wanted to do for myself but i get to experience that with her together. Reporter now, it costs about 3,000 a semester here, nothing to sneeze at. Because prop 30 passed tuition is lower this year than last year. One more number to wrap your head around. These freshmen are part of the clash of 2017. Reporting live in San Francisco, im brian webb,
Its 6 00. The weekend is almost here. We begin with developing news as you wake up this morning. 50 major wildfires are burning across the west the worst in northern california. The rim fire burning near yosemite only 1 contained. People in 1300 more homes and campsites have now been evacuated. 63,000 acres have been burned. And we are getting a rare look into those firefighting efforts. We have a shot from a blackhawk helicopter of an aviation Battalion Team fighting the fire from the air. This team scooped up water from a nearby lake and dropped it on the flames. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran has the latest. Reporter the plumes of smoke from the fire are dwarfing everything around it. Some smoke columns up to 40,000 feet high. At this point its turned know an air war. This fire is growing fast, faster than firefighters can put it out, and we just heard its nearly quadrupled in size. The rim fire is turning this area into an inferno. Trees are exploding as flames, some 600 feet high,
Died and it was supposed to be those teens first day of school. Instead, they will be mourning the loss of one of their own. The accident happened just before 9 00 last night. You can see just how badly this car was damaged. Danvilles police chief says the car was going northbound an el capitan drive in a well lit area when the driver lost control and hit a tree on claridge drive. Too early to tell. Theres no obvious signs of anything. Thats what our investigators will be working on to make sure that they can pinpoint speeds and other things. Theres nothing obvious such as cans of alcohol or anything like that. Reporter the teen killed was a passenger sitting on the right side of the car. He died at san ramon regional hospital. The driver and the other passenger were taken to john muir medical center. Police say they are in critical condition. Officers say all of them were males. The teen killed was 16 years old. The driver and the other passenger were 17 years old. The cause of the cr
International boulevard. The fire was first reported about 3 hours ago. There are no reports of any injuries. And the cause is under investigation. Now the rim fire. Its burning near Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National park and it has spread to 160,000 acres at 20 containment. Crews worked through the night on three spot fires started by embers flying over the firelines. They are making a little progress. Teresa garcia trees is in Tuolumne City cbs reporter Teresa Garcia is in Tuolumne City with more. Reporter definitely feeling like theres finally light at the end of the tunnel here. When you hear numbers like 20 compared to when we were speaking with you yesterday it was only 7 containment but still there is a lot of concern out here. We are in Tuolumne City, and this is the Mountain Community under an evacuation advisory for many days now. Thats what has brought hundreds of firefighters here. They basically built up a major base camp. They are ready to spring into action if
This is kinds of final stretch. Its that final dash to the finish line. Caltrans updating the progress of the work on the new bay bridge. So far everything is on schedule. And taking a live look at our clock. Counting down to the opening of the new eastern span. Bridge Officials Say things are looking good for a 5 00 a. M. Tuesday morning opening if not sooner. Kpix 5s bring quan webb took brian webb took a tour of the new span. Brian . Reporter were almost to the end of day three. Crews are still hard at work over here on the oakland side. You can make them out doing some striping and some asphalt work back there and officials tell us unless something strange pops up like an unexpected rainstorm, by tuesday morning, the bay area will have a brand new bridge. The new bray bridge with bay bridge with 150 year life span is just a few days away. Heres the construction update. Construction continues on schedule. The progress has been good. Reporter we facebook a tour on the took a tour on