hello and welcome to update news. i m sean wince. .and i m elizabeth olveda, thanks for joining us. stress keeps growing on campus as thousands of san jose state students prepare for finals. update news reporter elliot alagueuzian shows us how factors other than studying come into play for graduating seniors. counselor wiggsy sivertsen believes that stress tends to increase for graduating seniors especially before and during finals. so you have essentially spent 17 years of your maybe 25 year old life 23 year old life in school. and now all of a sudden we re saying by you re done. sivertsen says that factors outside of school can affect how graduating students cope with finals. what is it like to leave your friends? you guys get to this place and you re all spread out all over the country and sometimes the world. according to sivertsen some students have gone as far as intentionally failing classes just to stay in school longer and avoid graduation. i ve had students
and. we ll show you how a local law school has gained a national reputation for freeing innocent people from prison. update news starts now! hello and welcome to update news. im tim vantress. and i m briana villalobos. thanks for joining us. three people were injured in two separate on-campus assaults in recent weeks. amanda del castillo has more on the story. amanda. two of the assaults involved students and occurred during the day. san jose is a campus of 30-thousand students, one of those students says she wished she knew earlier about the available safety resources. nguyen: i wasn t aware that they were even available on-campus, so i kind of waited til like. normal hours, cause it happened at one in the morning senior hospitality major, sophia nguyen (new-yen) was assaulted in an on-campus elevator last year. she waited until the morning to contact university police.. . and due to the delay, the suspect was never caught. nguyen: i m aware that they re there now, just
then took off on a stolen yacht. this all started off 3:00 yesterday afternoon. nbc bay area s bob redell is live in south san francisco with all the latest. good morning. reporter: yes. here in san francisco where this abduction started earlier this week. good morning to you, jon. coast guard station san francisco tells us they have located this sailboat, that they have a c-130 flying circles over it, trying to keep an eye on it until a cutter can arrive. one is on the way from treasure island as we speak to that boat s location, which is still about 50 miles off the shore between santa cruz and monterey. south san francisco police believe that christopher maffei and his two young children, age 2s and 3, are on board. he abducted them tuesday from their mother s home in stran and he took them out to sea on a 40-foot sailboat he stole from a harbor in alameda. the coast guard was able to locate them this morning after a tip came in around 4:00 this morning from a commercial