Im Gasia Mikaelian pro palestinian protests continue to grow on us College Campuses. Overnight, dozens of protesters were arrested on the campus of New York University as police moved in. Some protesters took to the streets of manhattan demanding a cease fire in the war between israel and hamas. More than 30,000 people in gaza have been killed in 200 days of war. Activists at Columbia University continued to demand the school divest from Companies Selling weapons to israel. The climate has changed, and now were more and more confident that we will be able to achieve our demands. Most classes at columbia will be hybrid for the rest of the spring semester, due to tensions on campus, students at uc berkeley pitched tents at the sproul steps near the schools sather gate. Its their latest demonstration calling for an end to israeli attacks in gaza. Ktvu james torres explains how the school is handling the protest. What youll see here at uc berkeley is not nearly as intense of what youve seen at College Campuses across the country. You see the number of tents that are pitched in front of this building here, along with the flags that are flying and as you can see, many of these protesters are, for the most part, staying out of everyone elses way. Students at uc berkeley are quiet this morning, but they hope their demonstrations are still heard loud and clear. This sit in is an extension of their more intense protest, seen on campus monday. As a palestinian, as a human being, i feel like standing in the face of one of the most welldocumented genocides, one of the most welldocumented mass killings of people because of their identity, its essential that we stand up. I would like the United States to stop funding weapons for israel. If we cut off the funding for weapons, then the conflict will have to stop. Berkeley administration told students they were in violation of the schools time, place and manner rules. Theyre respecting the freedom of speech while also making one message very clear. And well take this a day at a time. Weve got three weeks left in the semester. We want to avoid conflict. We want to avoid violence, but we also want to make sure that students who do want to attend classes, who do want to finish the Academic Year , can do so. So far, the sit in is staying out of most peoples way. When asked to explain their sit in, students here simply said the tents and signs speak for themselves. Its a different scene compared to that at cal poly humboldt, where classes are now fully remote until wednesday as a result of students locking themselves into a School Building and clashing with leaders. Theres no telling how long this demonstration on berkeleys campus will last. But these students say until the war in gaza is over and until the University Changes its Investment Policies so that tuition dollars no longer go toward aid in israel. Were taking this a minute at a time, an hour at a time, a day at a time. Reporting from uc berkeley. Im james torres. Ktvu, fox two news. More google employees of the cloud. Google cloud have been fired for protesting inside the google offices. 28 google employees were fired last week after a sit in and protest at google offices in sunnyvale, seattle and in new york. They oppose the companys 1. 2 billion contract with the Israeli Government called project nimbus. There are now reports that more than 50 workers have now been fired. They accused google of quashing dissident google. In a statement , said that it took time to identify some workers who were wearing masks. The company also said, quote, every single one of those who whose employment was terminated was personally and definitively involved in the dispute of activity inside of our buildings. We carefully confirmed and reconfirmed this end quote. Todays San Francisco mayor, london breed, will propose requiring some businesses to close overnight to try and reduce crime. The Mayors Office tells us that she wants the board of supervisors to force shops that sell tobacco or prepackaged food to close from midnight to 5 a. M. In some parts of the tenderloin. It would not apply to bars and restaurants. The goal is to limit the places that people can hang out and possibly sell drugs. The mayors proposal has the support of the police department. The socalled tiktok ban that several lawmakers have been pursuing for many months has become a reality. Now, the senate is expected to pass that legislation as soon as today, after the house attached it to a foreign aid package. But as Rebecca Castro reports, it could be some time before theres any action. For all the tiktokers out there, your days of scrolling on the popular social media app could be numbered. The senate is poised to pass a bill forcing tiktoks Chinese Parent Company to sell the platform or be banned in the u. S. Its not really about tiktok. Its about bytedance, the company that owns tiktok and is indisputably controlled by the Chinese Communist party. With bipartisan support. The house passed the legislation last month, but the senate didnt move on. It so whats changed over the weekend . The house attached the tiktok provisions to a major foreign aid package for israel, ukraine and taiwan. The senate could still shut it down, but thats unlikely as both sides of the aisle support more funding for those u. S. Allies and are worried about tiktoks ties to the chinese government. The idea that we would give the communist party this much of a propaganda tool, as well as the ability to scrape 170 million americans, million americans personal data. It is a National Security risk. If the tiktok ban makes it out of the senate, along with the foreign aid, President Biden is expected to sign it, but the app wont go away immediately. The matter is sure to be tied up in court, as tiktok plans to claim the potential ban is a violation of free speech. It really is a way to get messaging out that can be positive, but ultimately it needs to be sold to an american company. I think so that we can at least have some regulation on it. The bill gives bytedance nine months to sell tiktok, but also gives President Biden the ability to extend that deadline. If a deal is in the works in washington. Rebecca kaster, ktvu fox two news. Former President Donald Trump is back in a new york city courtroom. His criminal trial is continuing with a gag order hearing and more witness testimony. Eric shawn outside that courthouse with the latest developments. Were coming on november 5th. Were coming big. It is day six. A former President Donald Trumps hush money trial in new york. Before bringing about the jury, judge juan merchan held a hearing to determine whether or not trump repeatedly violated his gag order by publicly attacking witnesses and posting on truth social. Trumps team denies he broke the order, but prosecutors are asking court to find the former president and hold him in contempt. Meanwhile the prosecutions first witness, david pecker, the former publisher of the national enquirer, is returning to the stand on tuesday. Attorneys argue that pecker, trump and the former president s then lawyer, michael cohen, conspired to influence the 2016 president ial election by buying negative stories about trump and suppressing them. On monday, pecker confirmed the tabloid used checkbook journalism and often paid for stories he said he would keep his ears open for bad stories, potentially about him, and then help to kill them, which is not illegal. Theyre using him to paint a picture of trumps general mindset, but its actually not specific to the case before them. Trump is facing charges he falsified Business Records to cover up the illegal payments. But experts say prosecutors have a challenging task ahead of them. They are going to have to prove not just that there was a records violation, but also that the purpose of the records violation was to violate federal election law. Pecker will likely be on the stand for a few days. Court is wrapping up early today for the passover holiday at manhattan criminal court. Im eric shawn, ktvu, fox two news. President biden is in florida this noontime speaking on reproductive freedom. The president is set to attend a Campaign Event in tampa. He plans to denounce floridas policies, especially a six week abortion ban, which takes effect next week. Theres also an amendment on the November Ballot that would extend the ban to 24 weeks. Analysts say President Biden is making a pitch to independents and undecided voters, plus democrats. According to a recent poll, 42 of voters plan to vote yes on the amendment, 25 no, 32 are unsure. Local leaders and Community Organizations celebrated the start of construction of a new Affordable Housing tower near lake merritt. Ktvu sally rasmus shows us what it will look like and what you need to qualify to live there. One, two, three. We go. There were smiles and cheers of applause as the first shovels went in the ground at east 12th and Second Avenue in oakland. This is where a new Affordable Housing project will be built near lake merritt. This area is majority renters. Its majority people of color. This is one of the areas that has been highly impacted by gentrification. Thats going to help keep people here in oakland and stem the displacement that we have been grappling with for many, many years. The building will have 91 apartment homes, including studios one, two and three bedroom places. 23 of the apartments will be set aside for people who are formerly homeless , transitioning to permanent homes. Who gets to live here . People who qualify for Affordable Housing. That means families living in this building must make between 30 to no more than 95,000 a year per household. People who work in retail, people who work in our emergency services, our hope is that some of our teachers will end up responding to the opening of the waitlist. The total cost of construction 102 million. The money comes from state and local governments and Nonprofit Community groups like the east Bay Asian Local Development corporation, the Unity Council and jordan real estate investments. Some of the money for the project is also coming from oakland taxpayers, who approved measure u two years ago to build more Affordable Housing. This is the First Construction project in oakland to use some of that measure u funding. The apartment is expected to be built by 2026. In oakland, ali rasmus ktvu, fox two news. Alameda County District attorney pamela price reexamining dozens of Death Penalty cases going back years after she says her office found evidence of discrimination by former prosecutors, plus tributes pouring in for a man who dedicated his life to lifting up those forgotten or rejected by society. A look back at the life of reverend Cecil Williams and how his work at glide Memorial Church continues. Then a live look outside. Its much cooler now than it was this time yesterday. Steve paulsen has your complete forecast coming up as we take a live look at san f nc co why did i keep missing out on this . Before you were preventing migraine with qulipta . 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That afternoon in the tenderloin glides holiday jam benefit concert in november, celebrate the 94 year old, who retired earlier last year as ceo of the foundation. This is just the beginning. Every day is the beginning. Every hour is the beginning. Williams became pastor of glide in 1963. What we see is a people that needs love, a people that need also to say to each other, i care. I will be with you. Im not going to give up on you. Ktvu sat down with williams five years ago under his leadership, glide Memorial Church grew to 10,000 people and the tenderloin church became world famous leaders including warren buffett, nelson mandela, oprah, maya angelou, barack obama and Hillary Clinton met with williams. He fought for racial equality and lgbtq rights. He did so alongside people like angela davis and the black panthers. The church became a safe haven during the aids crisis and provided hiv screenings. Williams has dedicated his life to helping people who are hungry or homeless or battling drug addiction. I reach out to people all over the world. Im not afraid of anybody. Im just i care. Glides foundation is the largest provider of social services in San Francisco. Williams ran the church with his wife, janice mirikitani, a poet, activist and first glide president. She died in 2021. The one that took me and said to me, im going to make you a better human being. Williams said glides foundation and legacy is love, which leads to liberation, justice and freedom. Cecil him. Hes always into something. Hes always doing something. My theology, basically, its in the doing that was ktvu. Betty. Betty. Lou. Reporting for us this afternoon. Now to this story about three dozen Death Penalty cases in Alameda County are now under review after District Attorney pamela price says her office found evidence former prosecutors illegally kept black people and jewish people off the jury. The allegations surfaced after prices office found handwritten notes from a 31 year old murder case. Her office says the notes show prosecutors automatically excluded jurors based on their race and gender. Price says a number of prosecutors were involved in this effort. My Office Discovered evidence of a pattern of misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct that may well impact all of the Death Penalty cases in Alameda County. The cases that will be reviewed could go as far back as 1977, she says. The review will start with Death Penalty cases and suggested this practice may have been used in other cases as well. Meantime new at noon, the push is on to get the Alameda County board of supervisors to set a date for a special recall election for District Attorney, attorney pamela price. The group save alameda for everyone or safe, held a rally this morning in oakland, outside the county administration building. They say the board of supervisors should have started the process at their meeting last tuesday, and under the county charter, now have until april 30th to set a date. You got the approved signatures. You have hundreds of thousands of people that want this on the ballot and want to constitutionally have her recalled, and we need that done as soon as possible. Safe projects that the recall election will take place around august eight. Were seeing much cooler weather today than what weve seen in the past couple of days across the bay area. A live look here at the golden gate. Its time now to check in with ktvu meteorologist Steve Paulson for what we can expect today and the rest of the week. Well, welcome to may gray june gloom july no sky. Oh my goodness april fog bank that has just taken over not only locally but up and down the coast and well out in the pacific. If you have a flight from any of the airports here locally and youre on to hawaii, you may not see any blue until youre about three quarters of the way there. Thats how big that fog bank is pushed well, well inland. Not only that, some high and mid level clouds as well have also filtered in. That did trigger some thunderstorm activity right there along i5. Boom boom, chico, maybe Northern Lake county, mendocino county, colusa, corning. So thats a little bit that activity got going at 630 in the morning. Little unusual to fire up that early in the morning. All responsible that low there to the west. The main message for us and its a big message screaming message is cooler, cooler, cooler. Weve dropped from the 70s and 80s to the 50s and 60s, and maybe for a while, look how many degrees cooler we are compared to yesterday. Double digits cooler for novato, also concord and san jose,