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Demolition is currently underway for the University Garage in order to accommodate more housing for UC Berkeley students.

Berkeley Law graduate pays tribute to his mother in touching social media post By Sharon Song BERKELEY, Calif. - Some of life’s sweetest moments are those that mark the coming of a full circle. On Friday, when Savelle Jefferson walked across a stage to receive his degree from UC Berkeley Law, he celebrated not only his own hard work and accomplishments but also a decades ago moment, when his own mother walked a Berkeley stage, in cap and gown with him in her arms. In a powerful and touching "...

union officials announcing that bart workers are striking this morning-- leaving hundreds of *thousands of bay area commuters to find another way to get around. we have team coverage of the strike. good morning, im anny hong. and im james fletcher. we are expecting a rough monday morning commute, with bart and their union workers not being able to come to an agreement before their contracts expired at midnight, lets start in the traffic center with geor...

good morning im katie marzullo in for eric thomas. and im kristen sze. beechwood school in menlo park will reopen after a fire last week. we first brought you the story live here on abc7 news thursday morning. the flames destroyed the administrative offices and a third grade classroom. the menlo park fire department says the cause was a faulty kitchen appliance. many records were salvageable. >> a year ago today the world was introduced to the occupy movement. today protesters are ma...

here in fairfield have been cancelled to make sure kids are indoors. city officials are urging people to stay away from the fire. weve talked to several people who came here just to check it out because they are seeing that huge plume of smoke for from miles away, and it is quite the sight to see. again, it is not safe. you can get in the way of fire personnel on the ground. urging people to stay away. weve also been told from fire officials that they should have this blaze completely ...

that lease office space and to the state are also not getting paid. finally, a handful of projects have been delayed because there is no state budget. after 90 days of nonpayment the states credit card can also be deactivated. that is used to purchase various goods, services like toilet paper for rural parks. that means this could run out sometime in october if there is no budget. dan kerman, kron 4 news. >> and most entities, san joses redevelopment agency is on hard times. the agency...

effect. kate thompson, kron 4 news. >> the reality of losing overnight service is starting to hit home for a lot of people that depend on ac transit buses in order to get a round. several writers reported that haaziq madyun and how difficult it will be. several commuters. to lose their transportation. >> how are you going to get to work? >> i do not know, i did one boss, and in another city boss. and i cannot wait or take my children. >> it is terrible. if you do not have a vehicle it ...