Out, a group of protesters breaking windows and barricading themselves inside Hamilton Hall at the campus. Theyve pushed tables and chairs against the doors. This action comes after a couple of hours from Columbia University, the epicenter of nationwide propalestinian campus. Protests started suspending students. The Ivy League School had set a 2 p. M. Deadline monday for the protesters to leave their encampments at the campus. The university has been trying to avoid calling back the police, whose intervention on april 18th led to more than 100 student arrests. The protesters at columbia have inspired similar propalestine demonstrations on campuses all across the country. Arrests nationwide are now approaching 1000 as the final days of Class Wrap Up and Commencement Ceremonies are just days or weeks away. The protesters demand the universities cut financial ties with israel over the war in gaza, but many jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afrai
Broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. We start in the us and the white house has confirmed that President Biden has spoken to israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the situation in gaza. In a statement, the white house said that the president reaffirmed his ironclad commitment to israels security. It referenced what it said was a successful defence house against irans unprecedented missile and drone attack earlier this month. The two leaders reviewed ongoing talks to secure the release of hostages together with an immediate ceasefire in gaza. And they also discussed increases in the delivery of humanitarian assistance into gaza through preparations to open new northern crossings, starting this week. The statement concludes that the leaders discussed rafah and the president reiterated his clear position although it didnt give details of what that is. In the last few hours its also been announced that us Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken will visit jordan a
Financial aid to israel. Kron fours rob nesbitt reports. This is what Memorial Plaza at Stanford University where they have a camp site set up here. You can see about 25 to 30 tents behind me. They have signs, food and music. It looks like theyre here for the long haul calling for a ceasefire in gaza. The mood was relaxed with music friday afternoon inside whats being called the Peoples University for gaza around. 25 tents set up by students at Stanford University to protest the war in gaza. They dont have you could make that happen. They have left. The tense formed after hundreds gathered for a rally at the university thursday afternoon. One of the organizers, Young Soo Kim says demonstrators are asking the university to disclose any investments that 8 israel in the war. Basically asking us make specific targeted cost for divestment without. Revealing and you the make it even according to the university around 60 students camping out at white Memorial Plaza were handed side letters th
The closures impacting major freeways. From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Hey, good morning. Thanks so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. Im stephanie lin. Its saturday. April 27th has get your day started with a look at the weather with dave sphar. Good morning day. Well, good morning, stephanie. Good morning, everybody. And the marine layer, really hasnt shown up too much for today. Fairly clear skies to get things started. In fact, overnight. So allow those temperatures to fall. But it means a Sunny Afternoon for you both today. Tomorrow up in those temperatures as we go into next week. Heres a live shot of the east bay shoreline. Just a few little bit of wave puppy cumulus off towards the distance. But on balance, were pretty clear and even looking good at the coast, too. Now upstream, theres yet another system that wants to play out and it may spray us with some scattered clouds. Most importantly, maybe a little bit
A lot of building tension over the last couple of days as this region really waited to see how israel would respond to that unprecedented attack by iran last saturday. We didnt know what it would look like in what would happen and some people yesterday thinking it was not going to happen until after the upcoming passover holiday. We now know according to fox news Military Source that israel is responding to iran with these very targeted and specific strikes in the esfahan region. That is roughly 200 miles away from the iranian capital of tehran. This is significant because not only is it close to the capital, but also near the Nuclear Facility. We should mention the site was not hit in the strike appeared to target the nearby iranian airbase. But really clearly shows that israel has the capabilities to hit this area and hit it when it wants to. As it stands, Iranian Media has been downplaying the strike. I havent reported damage from the strike or direct impact. Relieves only comments