[ chanting ] now at 11 00, they could lose their jobs at midnight, but uc grad students arent backing down. The battle that spread across the University System including a takeover of a bay area dining hall. Were kind of steeling ourselves for the potential that we are going to be fired. Were hearing from the son of a Santa Clara County woman who vanished from a vacation rental. We are accepting now a tremendous loss. How he says hes dealing with the fading possibility of finding his mother and her husband alive. Reporter as oakland looks for its next police chief, some say this was the wrong time to fire chief kirkpatrick. Now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area. Im elizabeth cook. And im veronica de la cruz in tonight for ken. Right now hundreds of uc grad students are facing a midnight deadline that could cost them their jobs and much more. Theyre on strike demanding higher pay, but kpix 5s maria medina says administrators have demands too. Reporter uc santa cruz graduate students
Surprised. Reporter but tonight the uc president napolitano said shed extended an invitation to the graduate and professional council to discuss several issues including cost of living and housing. As the chair for our union shes not reached out to me as far as i know. Reporter the grad students are on day 10 of their strike thats gained National Attention and support among the uc grad system. This is video of a solidarity rally at uc berkeley today where students took over a dining hall. Its a big risk for them to fire us. Reporter but threat of losing their jobs means more than just a financial loss to many students. For International Students it means losing the entire opportunity to be here. We cant pay tuition. We put our visas in jeopardy. Its r ey doncare about graduate students when they make threats like that. Reporter for now theyll continue to withhold undergrad grades and strike until the university gives them an offer they say is only fair in one of the most expensive area
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She said that their understanding is that the russians want to elect donald trump. Their preference is donald trump. The republicans, we are told, again confirming maggies reporting, were irate. One of them told the president who was also irate and kind of the rest is history. But what happened, what should have been a very important meeting to talk about strategy for defending the most important democratic action, which is elections, turned into what we see all the time now, a very, very partisan brawl. Do we know, maggie, from your reporting with your colleagues what part most upset the president about this . I think theres two aspects. One is clearly related to russia. The president does not want to hear information about russia and election interference. He, according to a number of aides, sees this as an asterisk on his election from 2016. He does not want to hear this is potentially happening again. I do think the fact this was related to adam schiff in the sense that schiff was