Professor is accused of teaching in the classroom that have students and faculty saying they want him out. But first election day just four days away in just a few hours bay area voters will have even more options when if comes to their casting their ballot. It may be down to the wire but its not too late. You have a few days to cast your vote. Nbc bay areas jean elle has more from San Francisco. Reporter options for dropping off your ballot are about to expand in the bay area. Starting tomorrow sport franchises will begin offering space. Here in San Francisco will be a ballot drop off location. People in the bay area are voting early. Were getting pretty close to election day and i just really really want to make sure it gets in there. Reporter many want to hand in their ballots themselves. Veronica walked 20 minutes to San Franciscos drop off location instead of putting it in the mail. I actually feel by actually dropping it here not i dont trust im sure theyre doing a lot. Reporter
Can afford our food. This is a really exciting day for Affordable Housing. Reporter heres how apple will divide the 2. 5 billion. 1 billion going into an Affordable Housing Investment Fund in california. A billion for Housing Assistance for first time buyers. 300 million will be apple owned property for construction of housing. 150 million will help Housing Trust Silicon Valley. And 50 million will support the homeless. The homeless problem is a big deal around here. We have programs in place. Reporter he plays apple money will go to work. Were Funding Service providers to offer Homelessness Prevention services but were not doing it to scale. We have almost 10,000 people on the streets in santa clara county. This impacts so many of us. Scott joins us now near an development being built for low and middle income. Apple and google, facebook also getting involved in this. Is this a proactive move to avoid government regulation or pressure here. Reporter i think a Proactive Movement and i
You should be good to go for the most part. Were seeing no major delays. You see traffic is light. An easy ride out of the east bay. This is across the upper deck. And traffic looks good as well. Most of our area bridges are very quiet. Not a lot of cars on the roadway right now. If youre wondering how 80 is doing, all lanes are open. This was closed yesterday due to a fire. This is highway fire and crockett and hercules. Were seeing a lot of censors. So both directions look good. The east shore freeway, it will take about you a 14 minute drive. Highway 4 going good with good with 26 minutes. Crews this morning are still on the scene of a large fire that destroyed two storage tanks at a fuel city in contra costa county. It began just before 2 afternoon at the new star energy facility. It was finally contained last night after burning for more than 8 hours. Jackie ward is life on the scene where the crews have been out all night. Reporter we have seen people Walking Around here behind m
The committee on crime terrorism and Homeland Security will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyone to todays hearing on women and girls in the criminal Justice System, and i now recognize myself for an opening statement. I am very pleased that the subcommittee is holding this hearing today. After decades of policies that led to mass incarceration, we are finally added point of examining the policies and the consequences. What has been missing from the discussion of criminal Justice Reform is the special and specific impact that tough on crime and has had on women and children. Todays hearing begins a a discussion about women in the criminal Justice System. It is critical we understand how and why women become involved in the system, what happens to them when theyre incarcerated, and what their trajectory is once released. We need to examine the impact of the war on drugrelated policies that specif
Hearing on women and the criminal Justice System in the criminal Justice System. Members questioned the witnesses on jails for female prisoners, highlighting several examples including solitary confinement, emotional distress, lack of resources when entering reentering society. This is about two and a half hours. The committee on crime, terrorism and Homeland Security will come to order. The chair istion, able to call recess at any time. For annize myself opening statement. I am very pleased this subcommittee is holding this hearing. After decades of policies that led to mass incarceration, we are finally at a point of examining the policies and the consequences. What has been missing from the discussion of criminal Justice Reform as the special and specific impact the tough own crime arrow has had on women and children. Todays hearing begins a discussion about women and the criminal Justice System. It is critical we understand how and why women become involved in the system, what happ