Theyre investigating in a formal statement. They said to date, there has been no disruption of university operations. We will continue to try to respond. Per policy, to any and all claims of illegal conduct for harassment and or discrimination. Some jewish students say theyve been told to request chaperons if theyre worried about walking on campus. As a jewish student, when i see two other jewish graduate students harassed when they enter that encampment and another who was punched and followed to the police station, that tells me that the university is not enforcing their policy around student code of conduct, a spokesperson for the camp told me they dont feel the need to talk with media today, but they do intend to hold future press conferences. This is the last week of classes at cal. Next week is a study week before final exams and graduation. Students walk past the camp peacefully. Its going to suck if graduation doesnt go through. But i mean, theyre, you know, standing up for like a good reason. I just kind of try and ignore it, like just go to class and not not worry about it. At uc berkeley, im leslie brinkley, abc seven news. Students at stanford say the propalestinian protests there have the university threatening unfair discipline. White plaza is the campus space for Free Expression. The university allows informational tables from 8 a. M. Until 8 p. M, and says it has policies that include no overnight camping. Organizers say theyre aware of it and that there could be discipline, but say people who arent involved with the encampment are wrongly facing punishment. They also say the university is targeting certain people. A variation of muslim brown, black or some mixture of any of those things. Only white students that have been given this disciplinary letter were antizionist jewish students. The university issued a statement saying in part. There is evidence connecting individuals to specific policy violations. Those involved are entitled to rights and procedures as provided in the stanford student conduct charter of 2023, and will be able to offer a defense. Police ended the occupations of two buildings at Cal Poly Humboldt, resulting in the arrests of 35 people. Early this morning, the University President issued a statement saying, quote, this is a difficult day. Unfortunately serious criminal activity that crossed the line put the campus at ongoing risk. The takeover began last week. Police at Cal Poly Humboldt detained a reporter as they broke up the protest last night. The reporter from the abc affiliate in redding was there documenting the arrests. Youre watching video from her live stream as officers tell her to move, then call for handcuffs. Officers told her to put her phone in her pocket, but her live stream captures the audio of what happened next. Then put your hands behind your back. Wait, im. Press wait. Can i at least touch my boss . Yeah. She had the opportunity to leave. This is a crime scene. Its been declared a crime scene. The press knows that. Our affiliate says Police Released the reporter shortly after detaining her. She is not facing any charges. More conflict at ucla last night. Police in riot gear got involved after dozens of counter protesters attempted to push past the encampment barricades. One protester was arrested this morning for climbing scaffolding to display a palestinian flag. Things have since calmed down. Students are making their way, their way around the demonstration to get to their midterm exams. I think its important to really see not only your own perspective, your own values, where you come from, but also to see the other side. Its just as important to see why theyre making this demonstration on. I do not think any student should be blocked from any parts of campus. I completely think the Schools Administration should be quick to condone that. But with that being said, you know, this is this is a pretty big issue. Its constantly changing. And theres only so much the campus can do on a day to day basis. A statement from the university today says, in part, theyre committed to safety, supporting Free Expression and minimizing disruption to teaching. And over at usc, university, president carol folt just put out a statement acknowledging a swastika that was drawn on campus. She says she condemns antisemitic symbols and any hate speech. Folt says the symbol has been removed. Shes been meeting with propalestinian protesters, but they say she isnt bringing much to the table to address their demands. Tonight, the white house is calling for an end to the violence and Property Damage on campuses, asking the student protesters to stay peaceful. New Yorks Columbia University just sent a shelter in place order to its campus as those protests continue, the university is threatening to expel the students occupying an academic building. Video from last night shows protesters smashing windows and barricading the doors with furniture. Today on capitol hill, House Speaker mike johnson is defending law enforcement. We called for the police to come in and take care of it. If theyre unable, then we need the national guard. This is not protected free speech. What this is doing is violating the rights of others. Jewish students who are merely on campus trying to get an education. This week, the house is set to vote on a bill to define antisemitism, to enhance antidiscrimination laws. House republicans say its needed to protect jewish students, but democrats argue it would limit free speech. You can follow our coverage of the College Campus protests in the bay area and nationwide on our website, abc7 news. Com. All right, lets move to your voice. Your vote. The results are close to final and still close. And the recount for the district 16 congressional race. Santa clara county confirmed its new totals today. Evan lowe now leads joe simitian by four votes. Lowe gained 11 votes and santa clara countys recount. Simitian gained seven. Were waiting on san mateo countys official tally. If san mateo countys numbers dont change the outcome, it would put lowe ahead to advance with sam liccardo on the november ballot. This would drop simitian from the running altogether. See lion numbers are surging in San Francisco. Check out some live pictures from pier 39. A lot of people a lot of sea lions. There are so many out there. Theres like no room for any more to come. Well, pier 39 says this is the most that they have seen gathered there in about 15 years. Abc seven News Reporter suzanne fan is live at pier 39 with a look at why the numbers are so high right now. Suzanne almost pretty remarkable to see exactly how many sea lions there are out here. Every single one of these docks completely packed. Now we know these animals come and go from this area throughout the year and last week, for some reason, a big number of them just suddenly showed up. Visitors will find a lot to see and do around pier 39. The shops, the restaurants, the ferris wheel. But perhaps the Star Attraction right now are the sea lions. People are here hoping to get their best shot of the sea lions in the water and on the docks. Its very cute. Like it . He sleeps like. The only reason i come down here is to see the sea lions. Theyre like, so funny and so nice. I love them and theyre, like, pushing each other off the in the water. Some visitors have noticed a big difference in the number of sea lions. Tiffany hsieh is from taiwan. Last year i come here, its not like that much. Sheila shander, the harbor master for pier 39, marina, says theyve counted about a thousand sea lions this week. Thats the most in quite some time. We havent had these kinds of numbers of sea lions, probably for over 15 years, chandor says. The surge in sea lions started about a week and a half ago. The sea lions are moving in toward the bay because theyre following the food, according to chandler. Theres a huge herd of sea lions that are traveling south right now to the Channel Islands for mating, and theres a big school of anchovy out by the Farallon Islands thats come into the bay. Its kind of that dinner bell, if you will, thats ringing. And all the sea lions are coming in and enjoying that feast. Adam ratner is with the Marine Mammal center. He says back in october of 2009, about 1700 sea lions gathered at pier 39. Over the years, the numbers have really fluctuated. Ratner believes the recent surge is a sign that San Francisco bay is doing well. We get a sense of the health of the bay, the health of the sea lion population, and theyre coming and going, according to ratner, the large gathering of sea lions is temporary. So my guess is that this is just something happening out in the water right now. A short term phenomenon where the fish that normally would be somewhere else are coming a little bit closer, making the sea lions therefore come a little bit closer. And the harbor master says the colony of sea lions here is stable. She says, its hard to say if you know how many more of these sea lions are actually going to be arriving. But we do know for a fact that the shops and businesses around here, theyre excited about the sea lions. Theyre also excited about all the visitors, because, of course, theyre hoping the visitors will spend a little extra money. Were live here in San Francisco, suzanne phan back to you. This is incredible. And just listen to them all. Thank you. Suzanne. Thats crazy. Well, hundreds of feet of snow days and days of rain. Weve been through a very wet winter. So why are we still talking about the drought . Im meteorologist sandhya patel. 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It took about an hour and a half to get all of the lanes reopened. No one was injured. Fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of a huge fire at a commercial building in concord. No one was injured, but the fire was so intense it caused part of the three three Story Building to collapse overnight. One neighbor saw the flames in the distance while out walking his dog, and saw a large billowing, uh orangish red cloud in the distance, and it was pretty large. It caught my attention as soon as i walked out. I couldnt believe how big the cloud and cloud it was. I mean, i knew it had to be a large fire. The same neighbor says the building has been vacant for several years, but some renovations have been underway recently. Now to developing news just into our newsroom. Just in the last 30 minutes, Oakland City Council approved the contract for the citys new police chief, incoming chief Floyd Mitchell will be paid more than 365,000 a year. Hes on a three Year Contract set to start next month. Mitchell comes to oakland from lubbock, texas. Hes promising change for a department facing huge challenges with crime and recruiting officers. About 15 minutes ago, the Alameda County board of supervisors voted to delay a decision on scheduling the vote that could recall District Attorney pamela price. The supervisors plan to hold a special meeting on may 14th, just to set the recall election date. That came after almost three hours of public comment. Meanwhile, da price is fighting back, calling on state officials to investigate how the recall has been conducted. Abc seven News Reporter anser hassan has the latest on this developing news recall race, recall price. Public safety is priceless, say members of the group safe, who are calling for a special election to recall Alameda CountyDistrict Attorney pamela price, the recall is going to happen right away, and this is it. They gathered in front of the Alameda County board of Supervisors Office ahead of the boards meeting, where they were met with da price supporters. Troc secretary price stop state goalie cries during the meeting, a lawyer for da price challenged the legality of even scheduling a special election, claiming the registrar voters did not follow proper protocol during the signature count. The recall supporters are demanding an immediate vote on the recall election. After three hours of public comment, the board voted to decide the date for a recall election at a special meeting theyll hold on may 14th. That will give the supervisors the option of either scheduling a special election this summer or consolidating the recall election with the november election, possibly saving the county upwards of 20 million. A handful of wealthy folks who want to overturn the election has been rife with fraud, has been rife with harassment of my supporters. Dear price announced tuesday that the california fair political practices commission, or fppc, has opened an investigation into the recall. Da price filed complaints over allegations of illegal signature gathering and financial irregularities by the pac funding. The recall. We know that the pac that was used to raise money initially for safe was not properly designated. There are rules as to how a pac can be designated, and they did not follow those rules. Carl chan with safe says the da is just trying to intimidate the recall camp. Everything you know has to be disclosed so whatever she can claim is fine. But we know we are the people are doing everything illegally in oakland, anser hassan abc seven news. Scientists say a ship strike likely killed the gray whale found floating off the coast of alameda this month. The 40 foot female whale washed up at crown beach two weekends ago. The first whale death in the bay area this year. In fact, the California Academy of sciences and the Marine Mammal center are investigating the whales death. Well, the last two winters were historic snow in the sierra and record rain across the state. A weather events known as snow deluges bailed out california from the mega drought. But as abc seven News ReporterDustin Dorsey explains, experts say we cant bank on another one to keep our water supply stable. When you see snow in the sierra like we saw the last two years, you know its out of the ordinary. Its now officially known as a snow deluge. A super heavy snowfall that creates a deep snowpack that lasts through april first. Abc sevens Spencer Christian says its seen as a once in a 20 year event, but this time it happened twice this year and last. Its rare enough to get a snow deluge like we had this year. Once every couple of decades, which is pretty much the average, roughly the average. But to get two consecutive years like that is just more than more than a smaller than a once in a lifetime thing. Maybe, maybe a once in a two, a couple of centuries kind of event. And the National Academy of Sciences Study reveals a major impact, thanks to the historic snow runoff from the two snow deluges. The latest u. S. Drought monitor map shows are seemingly never ending. Mega drought is completely gone, spencer says its thanks to the late snowmelt in april, which is most beneficial to our water reserves. If the snow falls heavily in january, december january melts in february of march. Thats not as helpful as the snow hanging around as it did this year until after april 1st. But we have to be concerned about how long this current condition will last. California is entering whats known as a la nina year, a traditionally cooler yet drier winter. Oddly enough, it was a la nina year in 2023 when we saw the historic snowfall, highlighting how rare it truly was. California caught lightning in a bottle twice with the back to back snow deluges, but spencer says we cant bank on a meteorological miracle to happen again. Given what we know about the atmosphere right now and the direction were moving with Climate Change is kind of sad to , conclude that well probably never see another season like this. Now we have to think about, the drier years that are likely to follow and what we need to do to conserve. Because as weve seen many times, this decade in california, you never know when the next historic weather event may change everything again. Dustin dawsey abc seven news. Its been an intense couple of years, though it is growing up here, i never stopped conserving even if we get a lot of rain, it is still conserve. Always smart to do so. All right. Meteorologist sandyha patel is here with the forecast. Sandhya. Windy out there today. Yeah. Because of the unreliability of our precipitation. Good idea. Umma and dan thats for sure. Always a good idea to conserve. Lets talk about the wind from our mount tam cam. Certainly a shaky view there as the trees are getting blown around by the gusty winds. Checking out the gusts right now. Sfo 36 miles an hour. San mateo gusting to 30. Even in santa rosa. Its pretty breezy right now. 22 miles an hour. If youre well inland, though, its okay at this hour, but the wind is blowing off the cool ocean water. I mean, so