Berkeley Unified School District is accused of facilitating a culture of bullying for jewish students and ignoring those who have been taunted at school kron fours theresa stasi live for us now in the newsroom with more on todays dramatic hearing. Thanks for joining us. Dramatic and very, very serious berkeley Unified School Districts superintendent for more thole was drilled for hours about those allegations on campus. As engage members of our jewish community, some have shared painful experiences of antisemitism. Berkeley Unified School Districts superintendent facing a steady stream of pointed questions as complaints of surface concerning allegations of antisemitism on School Grounds and how this works. We have. Teachers that teaching hate to our kids and showing it students being a feeling fearful for this. Do they are the founder, this transfer to another school appears that just moving to another place. And this case yeah, i guess thats the question i have what house is being resolved. If we have a concern or complaint about antisemitism or any form of hate, we take it very seriously. We investigate and we take action pending the outcome of that investigate. All right. So i guess the action is not fine is just moving someplace idea what action is. Very subjective, obviously for more full. Also acknowledging the u. S. Department of education has opened an investigation. Saying that it is based on the district failing to address, quote, nonstop severe and persistent bowling in classrooms, hallways, schoolyards since the conflict erupted on october, 7th between israel and palestine, brick teachers that the wars consequences. For palestine are, quote, no water, no food, no electricity in, quote, whereas the consequences for israel are, quote, ceremony is put on hold travel advisories in place and city shut down. Do you think thats a fair representation . The israeli palestine conflict . I not think thats a fair representation. Several parents have detailed graphic cases of alleged discrimination against jewish students on various campuses. One parent said her child was threatened with violence for just being jewish. The Berkeley Unified School board of didectors issuing a statement to kron 4 news saying in support of the superintendent saying in part. We have witnessed superintendent for north will demonstrate both compassion and strong leadership. She continues to meet with parents, students, educators and Community Groups representing all perspectives and has personally attended Many Community gatherings to share the grief and hurt that defines the time. She has consistently and clearly articulated the procedures for affected students. Parents and educators to follow in the newsroom. Theresa back to you. Theresa, thank you. And great School Administrators from other School Districts also testified how theyre handling the rise of antisemitism in their schools. The head of new york city and montgomery county, maryland. School districts also rejected some lawmakers claims that they have allowed hate to go unchecked. The educators say they have had to fire employees and suspend students because of the act uptick in hate crimes. But most agreed theres only one way to cure hatred on school campuses. We cannot simply disappoint out way out of this problem. The true antidote to ignorance and bias is to teach. Were doing a disservice to students if we are not teaching them about the backgrounds and perspectives of all people. Todays hearing was part of a series of hearings from this committee, the first in december led to the resignations of the president s of harvard and the university of pennsylvania. Hundreds of students gathered at sproul plaza at the uc Berkeley Campus yesterday as they called for an end to the war in the middle east. Those camping out say they have been protesting since the war between israel and hamas started 7 months ago and theyll continue to hold these rallies until there is a ceasefire. Campus police have been patrolling the area, but it seems as though that the encampment and the rallies are remaining peaceful and students are staying there. And today the defense secretary confirmed that the u. S. Is withholding a military shipment to israel. This move is coming as israel is preparing for a military invasion of rafah despite us mornings are dcs. Raquel martin has the latest. The Biden Administration is pausing a weapons transfer to israel. We are currently reviewing some near Security Assistance shipments at a Senate Hearing us defense secretary lloyd austin confirmed the u. S. Put a hold on a bomb shipment last week. The reason u. S. Concerns the bombs could be used israel invasion of rafah. A gaza city holding more than a million palestinian i think we should do Everything Possible to ensure that were were protecting civilians. Republicans are slamming the decision. This is up saying it is absurd. South carolina senator Lindsey Graham says pausing aid. Only put a target on israels back. If we stop weapons necessary to destroy the enemies of the state of israel at a time of great peril. We will pay a price. And Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell accused the president of fighting with hamas sympathizers and the campus communists who decided to wrap themselves in the floods. Of secretary austin says u. S. Support for israel remains ironclad. He told senators the u. S. Will continue to ensure israel can defend itself. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer who has been critical of israels leadership during the war, says he trusts the white house strategy. Have faith in what the Biden Administration is doing. Israels government calls the decision disappointing but says its operation in rafah is critical to defeating hamas in washington. Raquel martin. Now the Israeli Military is saying has opened up a major crossing into gaza for the entry of humanitarian aid. This a crossing between gaza and israel was closed over the weekend. After a hamas rocket attack killed 4 Israeli Soldiers who were nearby despite the reopening. The un says no humanitarian aid has entered and just yet. The electric car that a family of 4 was riding in when they died in a fiery crash in pleasanton last month. Had a history of steering issues. This is according to the u. S. Department of transportation. According to a complaint filed by the national highway Traffic Safety administration, the 2023 vinfast the f 8 that the family was driving had an issue in which the Steering Wheel automatically maneuver to the right. The complaint went on to express concerns that the steering failure took place at the time of the deadly crash. According to the Pleasanton Police department, the driver lost control of the vehicle collided with a pole at a large oak tree on foothill road. And then the vehicle caught on fire. The crash remains under investigation. And then the south and number of students at San Jose Middle School reported getting sick today after they started to smell is strange order. And as kron 4 Charles Clifford reports this triggered a hazmat response. Here in san jose on wednesday, a hazmat situation at the middle school right behind me here resulted in 8 students reporting feeling sick. The Fire Department says it may have been a science experiment gone wrong. The san jose Fire Department says that around 9 wednesday morning they started receiving calls about students here at Sunrise Middle School smelling an odor and feeling sick. Full first alarm response was dispatched to the school. When we got here, we found that there was 8 students that had various complaints of dizziness, nausea, general malaise, shortness of breath and the students had been pulled from the area where they originally smell the smell and they are in a safe area for us to assess. 2 students were transported to the hospital for evaluation, mostly out of an abundance of caution. The remaining 6 students are doing well know. Faculty reported feeling ill. The Fire Departments Hazardous Materials team searched the school and they now believe that an experiment in a science room may have created elevated levels of carbon dioxide. They say that the source of the co 2 was removed and that the levels have returned to normal. No other contaminants were found in the air. The Fire Department says they did a wide search to find the cause. Theres very common things that we try to rule out such as cleaning products. This school is clean on regular intervals with us and products like ammonia, etc. And they also scheduled to potentially an experiment with vinegar and baking soda for one of those volcano were trying to isolate and rule out some of the most obvious things. First by late morning classes have resumed here at Sunrise Middle School, although parents who want to take their kids home for the day, were allowed to do so in the south bay, Charles Clifford kron, 4 news. A live look outside on this warm wednesday across the golden gate bridge. Very clear. And sunny out there and pilots here with details on whats going on in the weather department. Yeah, hey there. Weve got a really nice day. A little bit of wind out there and some warm temperatures as just the mention, just the beginning of a warmup that goes through the end of the weekend right into the weekend. Right now, though, you can see that we are pretty impressive. And oakland and san jose showing 80 degrees. 79 in concord, 81 in santa rosa. Some 60s out at the coast. There are a little bit warmer earlier today when happened actually got up to about 71 degrees. 72 degrees. You can see the difference in temperatures here. 24 hours. So we are definitely warmer across the board. And like i said, this is just the beginning, as expecting to see more influence of this High Pressure as we get into thursday and friday, even into the weekend. Now notice High Pressure here, low pressure there. You may recognize that set up. That does produce a little offshore wind. That is the reason that were seeing some of this warmth is because of that. And you start to see that northerly flow. Sometimes a northeasterly flow of wind. And that is whats happening this afternoon. So you can see right now in napa about 18 Miles Per Hour. But 25 in fairfield, some of that wind kind of starting to roll now in spots like San Francisco and oakland to up to about 17 Miles Per Hour. So wind advisory is in place until 08 00am tomorrow for a few spots. One of them interior mountains of the north base. You can see spots to the east of santa rosa there east of the 101 and then calistoga saint helene, a sonoma and then didnt getting down to a parts the estuary into solano and yolo counties there, too. So again, gusts possible up to about 45 Miles Per Hour through 08 00am tomorrow. Ill be back a little bit. Well talk more about those temperatures. Back to you. All right. Coming up, well tell you about the big water main break richmond. Its won the streets there and has left nearly 2 dozen homes without power and also staying in richmond. They voted for a big power change their after years of complaints over pg and e will see what happens next. And the president set to come to San Francisco tomorrow. What we know so far about history. A large water main break caused a big mess in richmond today. The water rushed into several streets. Kron fours will tran reports. What youre looking at is the epicenter of the water main break. Look at how the road just went up. I just talked to east bay mud. They said all that water was so strong that when it pushed up, it also pushed their roadway. So they are cleaning up the mess. I just found out that 21 homes along carlson and 45th to 47th. They will not have water at least the next 10 to 12 hours. So that should put them well in 2 the evening hours. So the afternoon they cannot use water, of course, because its not available to you. Now. I can tell you this all started at around 5 oclock this morning when for some unknown reason the pipe just burst and they have an excavator on scene right now. They want to obviously break the roadway. Down there and then replace the pipe and then get the water back going. But when it was at its full steam, it sent thousands of gallons of water onto the roadway, which is why you see all of the mud right here on carlson. Theyre actually cleaning up the mud just so they can get closer to the roadway and then do their work. This is a long stretch. So im pretty much standing on 45th right now will swing the camera over here. One direction of carlson is going. This is being handled by east bay mud for several blocks because down at the other intersection, you can see them. They took it over as well. So one, they have to repair it and to obviously to find out the cause of all of this. But we do know that approximately 21 households dont have water. And if you do the math, who knows how many people are in each household, but its safe to say maybe around 82 or maybe even more than 100 people woke up this morning trying to turn on the water. But instead of the water inside their home, it was outside their home in front of the street. You can see the excavator about to break ground. The city of richmond passed a resolution for the states to jump start a nonprofit Electric Company instead of using pg and the vote is symbolic. But the vice mayor says for years the city has dealt with Power Outages and other problems, including the failure of pg and e to supply energy to city parks. In a statement pg and e says it does not support the idea of a statewide public utility because it would not benefit customers. Taxpayers, local communities or californias economy and staying in richmond, there is a nonprofit organization, pogo park. It has won a state grant to build a new wreck center. That will double as an emergency shelter. The 10 Million DollarGrant Program will construct contra costa countys first recs center at harbor 8 park construction is already underway for hard work call. It is set to be done by the end of this year. This 10 Million Dollar project will include 6 Million Dollars for physical infrastructure. 3 Million Dollars for program. At programs and events and 1 Million Dollars for the evaluation and General Program support. Hundreds of people looking to enter to the workforce gathered at San Franciscos Ferry Building today for the hospitality and Small Business job fair. Dozens of companies connected the job seekers all hoping to fill positions to support the revitalization of downtown workforce resources that help residents during the job. Search also attended todays event. Businesses and candidates say that this inperson application process is beneficial than trying to secure a job over zoom. We get to shake hands and meet people up front close and personal and its really nice actually candidates percent. Feel like inperson events actually bring more candidates Virtual Career fairs that we did during the i think, you know, video screen more resources and job fairs from the office of economic and Workforce Development can be found on its website. The city of oakland is going to have to pay more than 2. 5 Million Dollars to an employee after a jury decided that they failed to protect her from harassment. At a Senior Center in this lawsuit, the victim, Patricia Toscano says that she reported a supervisor for reported is supervisor for sexually harassing her to the citys Human Services department in 2016. But attorneys representing her say nothing was ever done about that situation. And Alameda County jury sided with the scott allan. Now the city will have to pay her 2. 6 Million Dollars. Happening tomorrow. President biden will be visiting the bay area for 2 days. Hes expected to fly to San Francisco tomorrow before attending to campaign receptions on friday. The president last in San Francisco in february when he went to 2 events in support of his reelection campaign. A live look outside at the city of San Francisco, very sunny and warm out there today. And the wind is going to start within meteorologist logan here now with details really already is in some spots now. Yeah, a little offshore wind thats getting going. So, yeah, its kind of flying trashcan. Whether everybody, if you are in the spots in brown and you can see this out, everyo