gates are open, everybody is available. and they do it all night. reporter: maryellen says the officer got the kind of response all neighbors have been begging for since burglaries started spiking in almaden in november. when it s some poor person down the street who doesn t have a san jose police badge, you know, they don t even take fingerprints. reporter: slow or no police response to burglaries forced the neighbors to hire their own private security patrols at a cost of $40 a month each. as of today, we have seen a lot more activity from a police perspective on the streets. they have been driving around. they have been looking at things. maybe with a different eye. reporter: last night s burglary at a police officer s house was one of actually six burglaries that happened all in the almaden area last night. veronica, there s been about a 400% increase in burglaries here in almaden over the last three months. all right, len ramirez there live for us in almaden,
hard look at the uc system s finances. i m frank mallicoat. i m anne makovec in for michelle griego. the students did not get as far as they wanted. they were stopped by security after jumping a barrier trying to deliver a letter to the uc president, janet napolitano. the university of california s governing board is meeting in san francisco for the second day today discussing. uc funding and reviewing a recently approved 5% annual tuition hike. hey hey, ho ho, tuition hikes have got to go! reporter: you can hear students are not happy about the move. governor brown and napolitano plan to form a two-person committee to agree on how much state funding the system should receive in order to avoid that tuition hike. san mateo authorities announced they have successfully extradited the man they think is responsible for two cold case murders on the peninsula. 66-year-old was moved from oregon state prison to san mateo county. he is charged with two counts of murder in 1976.
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