I decided to stay back. I thought it was the wise decision on fat tuesday to attend class. It was the wise decision in the end. Multiple stories i cant share right now. Yes. Back here in the bay area, hope youre having a great morning. In the east bay, there is a debate going on in the California High School in san ramon where a Student Leadership group has decided to no longer include the National Anthem as part of the school pep rally. We have more from alex savaging from san ramon and what prompted the decision. Reporter well, i will tell you, good morning to you, the associated student body here at cal high decided to start skimming the National Anthem all skipping the National Anthem all together at the pep rallies and it is about the concern about the unsung third verse of the an tem which they consider racist and it has a lot of people talking and has strong reactions this morning. I am disgusted. I do not understand how somebody or the leadership of this school, the students, could stake away something that the kids actually look forward to. Reporter the debate here at cal high began after at least one student noticed the star spangled banner was not performed during the recent winter rally. It turns out, members of the associated student body rally committee naid the decision because of the concerns of the verse of the anthem which makes reference to slavery. They thought the song as a whole was offensive and problematic. Some tuneds we talked to were surprised and upset about this decision. They say it was made essentially behind closed doors. I completely understand the concerns and dont get me wrong, i respect the decision that they made, but i just feel like, i also respect the democratic process of this country, was founded upon, and i believe that if they had gone to the student body as a whole, because thats the people that they represent, and gotten the voices of all of the students involved, it may have made for a much fairer process on the decision. Now, for some context here, a couple of years back, there was racist graffiti that was found inside one of the bathrooms here on campus. At cal high. And that prompted some really deep discussions here, among the student body, it is unclear if that controversy a couple of years ago and the discussions that followed factored into this latest decision to get rid of the anthem. But again, it was a decision made by the rally committee, as they were working under the associated student body, the Student Leadership group, here at cal high. And now, this morning, i did reach out to a representative from the School District, and that representative tells me that the district officials at this point are not ready to weigh in on this decision. Back to you guys. Alex, thank you. Our question of the day, is do you agree with the decision to remove the National Anthem from School Events . 31 of you say yes. 69 say no. A lot of tweets and Facebook Comments on this one. Beth says as a veteran, we know the difference between real support and false. This is being used to stir up trouble. Lets show support for our country by actually doing something. Standing for a song, or driving around with a flag on your truck doesnt impress this vet. Here is what andy lee said. I dont agree. There you have it, folks. Your tax dollars at work to pay for staff at the school to make this ridiculous decision. And another viewer says this doesnt mean they cant use a more inclusive song, just because you may not like this decision, by the students, doesnt necessarily mean it is a bad decision. We keep taking your responses through the day. And thanks for using our hashtag. Another debate at another bay area high school. San lorenzo high will try to come up with a replacement for a controversial mascot linked to the Confederate Army and the civil war. Back in 2016, students dumped the character rebel guy, who stemmed from the schools original mascot, colonel reb, a southern plantation owner. Last june, the school board removed the rebel nickname. The chronicle reports the district was going to replace the name with a mythological bird phoenix but scrapped that idea when administrators learned the phoenix image is associated with a white supremacist group. The School District takes up the mascot issue next tuesday. Tonight, the Berkeley City Council will discuss declaring berkeley a sanctuary city for cannabis sales. This comes after the federal government has showed signs of cracking down on sales of marijuana for recreational use. We have more from Berkeley City Hall and the measure has a lot of support. Reporter the proposed resolution is supported by the mayor and two city Council Members. It is modeled after california sanctuary city laws that protect undocumented immigrants. If passed, the resolution would direct City Employees and police not to cooperate with federal agents as they enforce federal marijuana laws. Berkeley was the first u. S. City to declare itself a sanctuary for medical marijuana use, back in 2008. So P Council Members say it is only fitting that berkeley do the same for recreational use. Out of the states with legalized cannabis sales, it is believed this resolution would be the first of its kind. The federal government considers marijuana a schedule one drug like heroin. Berkeleys new resolution was motivated after a u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions rescinded obama era guidelines that limited prosecution of cannabis businesses and individual sellers in states that legalized cannabis. Berkeley has a long history of support for cannabis use. Since 1979, the city directed police to back down on marijuana policing. Whenever you can decriminalize marijuana, you get problems with overcrowd and jail situations and you can do a lot of minimalizing, to a point where such a low spectrum when we have serious crimes to worry about. One Council Member says this resolution would affect all people whether they use cannabis or not because it reinforces states rights. That will take place at the City Council Meeting tonight. In berkeley, ktvu fox 2 news. Well, so far, february hasnt seen any rain. But we have had some in january. Steve, are we going to get some more in february . Yes, we are in about 10 days. Just you be patient. Okay. It is on its way. But it sounds right. We havent had any rain. Widespread rain. We are getting a little bit in Southern California but it is a Beautiful Day but it is dry but it is noticeably cooler. And it is going to stay this way, i think, through the end of the month, maybe even into early march. Our last rain was the 25th so so we have gone 19 days without any rain. So the pattern has changed. Not looking at record highs for the first nine days. The sierra got a little snow p and each low that drops in will be a little deeper and a little stronger and they will keep the beat going with a cool breezy to windy pattern for us. To rain yesterday, but i think around the 23rd, it looks really promising. 40s, 50s, a lot of 30s this morning. Including down around santa cruz and in the santa cruz mountains. Some very cool readings. I moved the wind chill map over to the west. Because that is where all of the cold air is going to be. It is not so bad right now. Truckee at 7 degrees. Teens and 20s to the north. Bend oregon was 3 below on the wind chill. Easterly breeze or northerly breeze will keep that going. Especially in the Higher Elevations out to the valley. And so we have a slight offshore breeze but with such cool air in place it is a Beautiful Day. And it just wont get that warm. You can see a little rain in Southern California, and into arizona, a lot of cloud cover moving in. They are looking for pretty good rain starting tomorrow, and then going into thursday, as well. So if you have travel plans, maybe to phoenix, as mike said, what youre saying, it is baseball weather and is is but it is not sunny and 85 down there. Temperatures in the mountains are cold. It will stay really cold tonight. You will see no real warmth here. 59 plight. 62 phoenix. And 56 in l. A. It is cool down in Southern California even. With the clouds. And nution sunshine. 60s on our temperatures. We will get a weak little system tomorrow. No big deal. It will keep the breeze going. And it looks warmer friday and saturday. There is going to be a pretty cold system late sunday, monday, which will give the sierra another round of snow. Things are looking better. Thanks, ed. You got it. A big announcement for the city of martinez this morning. The east bay city has officially been named one of the top five finalists for season three of the tv series Small Business revolution main street, after considering thousands of downtowns across the country. Deluxe corporation announced the top five finalists this morning. The winner will be announced later this month and will receive 500, 000 revitalize the downtown, in the last hour on mornings on 2, we spoke with the executive producer and the show host, about why martinez made the cut. It is an unbelievable community. Full of really residents who have a lot of advocacy for the community itself. And so for us, it was a clear finalist for the Small Business news resolution season three. Martinez needs your help to win. Voting today through next tuesday and we have more on our web site about how to go there and vote. Go, martinez. Coming up, the new Sexual Harassment prevention plan is being put in place for students at Berkeley High. Up next, we will talk live with one of the Health Educators who is looking the sex ed that we probably grew up with up to date for 2018. She was falling farther homeworand farther behind. Ttle. We thought if we pushed harder. But pushing harder didnt work. Sylvan worked. Sylvan worked. Sylvan worked. At sylvan, our certified teachers use personalized programs to help motivate students achieve their personal best. The results arent just in her grades. Her attitude is different. See how sylvan can work for your child. Call 1800educate today this morning, we want to learn more about a plan by Berkeley High school to introduce new self aisle harassment prevention plans. The program will begin this spring and cover Sexual Harassment, healthy relationships, consent, and online harassment. Robin mills is a Uc Berkeley Health educator working with Berkeley High on the new program. Excited to have robin join me this morning. Thanks for being here. Thank you for having me this morning. So what do you plan on teaching High Schoolers that is not currently taught . So one of the things that i am doing is i actually started a company, and it is called Sex Education, which i started in 2006, that does comprehensive sexual heth and one of the things we will be doing for the High Schoolers locally is Sexual Health and harassment which is really enthusiastic and talks to them in a way that meets them where they are and is very tailored to middle and High School Students but it is also tailored in a way that is ethnically diverse and applicable to a wider more inclusive range. Students than the current Sex Education curriculum or the education you probably received as a young person and everybody else out there. Talking with you, i reflected on my own sex ed and it was purely science based and there was a message of just dont do it. Yes. How do you think that talk has to evolve by the time men and women, really boys and girls are in the teenaged years. I think the conversation has to evolve way beyond just dont do it. One of the messages that i try to send to young people is how to make a sexually informed decision. So i provide young people with information that they need to know that is ageappropriate, developmentcally appropriate, and making an informed decision is something that can be vary depending how comfortable you are with sex and depending how comfortable you are with communication, and one of the things i try to teach young people is openly communicate wants and desires and boundaries and to be comfortable communicating those boundaries to people. 10th grade is kind of young to talk this frank talk, has anyone said that . I havent had anyone tell me. That and i have told me that they had the exact opposite and they wish it had happened earlier and i work with middle schoolers and i have had people you can work with 6th graders and i have had parents with as young as kindergarten reach out to me to Start Talking to their young people about their bodies and the rights they have with their bodies. So i dont think that 10th grade is too young to start comprehensive Health Sexual education with Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault prevention and the younger we start, the better is, because we can start laying that foundation sot young people can learn and understand healthy aspects of what a healthy relationship looks like and a range from an earlier age and look at relationships from friends and family and apply it to romantic partners. We have been covering the me too movement months now and from victims, when it was happening, i didnt realize it was assault. How can you help young people take control of their bodies and give them words to stop something . One of the things i actually do is to help young people know when they are being sexually harassed and assaulted. It is the kind of talking about flirting. Because the truth of the matter a lot of young people get in trouble for Sexual Harassment because theyre flirting and the flirting starts to feel a little bit creepy and they dont really know when they have crossed that line. So i work with them about when they have crossed that line and it is usually if someone has a type of a physical reaction, or if someone turns around and gives you that kind of side eye look or someone literally says to you, you are kind of creeping me out. And letting people know it is okay to say certain things to people, to do certain things without getting permission. So i know a lot of talking, affirmative consent and enthusiastic consent and making sure you are getting consent every step along the way and that sometimes dont go over as well as the young people. They think it is a little corny. But when we talk about the legal aspects of it, it is a little less corny for them. Are you helping with a program at Berkeley High school. For those parents who are watching whose children dont go to Berkeley High and they want to crack the egg of the delicate conversation, whats your best advice to those . My best advice to anybody out there who is trying to talk to anyone that is younger, or not even a young person about sex and sexuality, is to encourage them to be themselves, and to know what it is that they want from any sexual experience, and when i say know what they want, it includes knowing if they want to engage in the sexual experience with the person who is wanting them to engage in it, in that place and time and mind set and if the answer is no, being comfortable commune caipting that to their partners and their partner dush communicating that to their partners and their partners have to be okay with no is the answer and not necessarily get upset and no doesnt necessarily mean flat out no, but you know what, maybe we can talk about it, and we can do Something Else, and maybe im just not ready to do what it is you want to do, but we can negotiate Something Else that i am comfortable doing. But the bottom line is open and honest communication, communication is lubrication, and the best thing we can do to young people keep it safe and sexy to keep it in the conversation. I tell my little ones, you are in charge of your body. I learned a lot. Thank you very much for joining us. From uc berkeley. It is an honor. It really is. Stay here for mornings on 2, up next, 2 investigators uncovers a Software Glitch that has left contractors unpaid for months. After more than a week of wild swing, the dow jones is still dropping. Though it is only down by one third of 1 . Which feels like nothing compared to the huge drops the past several days. Down by 84 points. The s p down very, very slightly. Nasdaq is essentially flat. 2 investigators has discovered a payment problem that has left thousands of San Francisco contractors waiting for their paychecks. Some have been waiting for as long as seven months. The problem here is with the citys new computerized Payment System which has problems that need to be worked out. Brooks has been looking into the problem and questioning the city about what went wrong. In a city that keeps growing, expanding and building, contractors and construction workers have no shortage of work. But some are being shorted in another way. They are not getting paid. In this letter, united contractors which represents Union Workers says San Francisco has failed to make ontine