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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM April 21, 2016

Students say it went too far. Their line of free speech ends the second you impede on the rights of other people. Everybody likes the freedom of speech but when youre supporting a bigot i think it comes off as hate speech. And it could be not even offensive but also in a sense incite violence. Reporter do you think the university should allow it or not . Should the university allow it . I dont think so. Im not the censor here. Im not going to make that decision. Reporter in another controversial case. Students for justice in palestine caused a stir when they set up this mock israeli checkpoint at the gate. Some people thought that that checkpoint was hateful. We dont find that hateful because we find that as a way for to us show students at berkeley whats happening in palestine. Reporter how do you balance the line between offensive speech and political speech . Well, a lot of as we know political speech can be offensive. Campus communities ought to be places where different points of view are expressed. Reporter chances are we are going to be seeing and hearing a lot of that on campuses because they are where a lot of these candidates from trump to Bernie Sanders are expecting to get their votes. It might be a surprise, just how many conservative votes there are out there on campus. They are quiet. Some people have been political but never in the political process they never backed a candidate and now thats the perfect spot for it. Reporter heres another twist. Talking about politics. Lets not forget that before she was the president of uc and director of homeland security, she was governor of arizona. So she is no stranger to the world of debate often controversial heated, question about hate . Well, its all free. Thank you. Police investigating a possible hate crime today at palo alto high school. On monday School Officials discovered graffiti supporting donald trump an messages reading black lives suck scrawled around the campus. The School District is trying to get student who may know something to come forward. We work very hard to maintain a Safe Learning environment. And so when we see this kind of language on our campus, we have to take it very seriously. Students say the incident has prompted discussions about race and politics both in and out of school. The state is stepping in to help the town of moraga fix a massive sinkhole now that governor jerry brown has declared a state of emergency there. Kpix 5s cate caugiran on why the town says it need the government to foot the bill. Cate. Reporter ken, im standing in one of the most affluent towns in the east bay and they say they had no choice but to go to sacramento looking for a handout all to fix that massive sinkhole right behind me. Moragas sinkhole has turned into the towns money pit. The estimated cost to fix it, 3. 5 million. We are still stabilizing it. We are keeping an eye on it. Theres going to be upcoming rain so of course were very conscious of that making sure the runoff is being diverted properly. Reporter money is on the way after governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency for Contra Costa County to help repair last months storm damage. And moraga says it need it badly. This wipes us out. It wipes out every reserve we have. It put us in a position where if anything happens like an earthquake, which could happen. Reporter the mayor says the town as reserves are not enough to cover the repair bill thanks to low property taxes. According to the town, moragas average Family Income is around 118,000 a year. That doesnt translate to high revenue. Towns have to rely on the state to get these fix and not rely on the people that actually live in the city. As a practical matter, theres always a reliance on the state. You try to do as much as you can locally. Its not like we want to go to the state, you know. Its just we have no choice. Reporter special taxes could be one option to build up reserves for future problems. But the mayor says thats an uphill battle. This is a fairly frugal town. And its always been run that way. And it probably always be run that way. Reporter as far as the people we spoke with im perfectly fine helping out. This is i live in a neighboring community so i would hope that the same would be true if the problem was up there. They spend their money and their budget on other things of a lot goes to education what theyre known for. Reporter the town says it could take another two to three months before that sinkhole is fixed. Live in moraga, cate caugiran, kpix 5. Local water officials made their case today for ending state mandated cutbacks. Last year Governor Brown ordered cities and towns to reduce water use by 25 . But now many local agencies say the wet winter has made those emergency measures unnecessary. The state Water Resources control board held a hearing this afternoon. It will propose revision to the policy next month. Right now San Franciscos Police Commission is getting an update on its use of force policy and use of body cameras. The discussions come after several Controversial Police shootings including this months Fatal Shooting of a homeless man who officers say lunged at them with a knife. And the deadly shooting of mario woods was last december. There is a haze over hippie hill in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park right about now. [ chuckling ] more than 10,000 people celebrating the unofficial pot holiday known as 420. While toking in public isnt legal, police are looking the other way in general for today at least. But we are just hearing that there might be some trouble right about now. Kpix 5s emily turner is out there. Lets check in with her. Emily, whats going on . Reporter veronica, in just the last 15 minutes a couple of things have happened. The first was we were sitting in our live truck and a rush of people went screaming running by like some kind of a stampede. None of them knew what they were running from or what happened and we havent found out. After that we heard several sirens in the background. [ noise ] these are the shouts from when there was actually 4 20 this afternoon. Of course thats why they are out here. Lots of people here at hippie hill the unofficial pot smoking holiday with every kind of smoking apparatus you can think of and plenty more to go with it. The problem is that the crowd here leaves lots of trash behind. About 10,000 pounds they left behind last year will likely be the same this year. The city and police said they would also be out enforcing the illegal sale of drugs as well as other items. But we didnt see much of that at all. Mostly it was just a bunch of people out here smoking pot and making a mess. Check this out. This is america, right . You have numerous people different denominations different types different everything coming together for no reason just to have a good time and do what we do which is love weed, man. Why not . Reporter the park rangers arent sure why those people went running by. We are working to try to figure it out. As soon as we have that information well tell you. But for now we are live in hippie hill in Golden Gate Park, emily turner, kpix 5. We have obviously people feeling no pain in the park very expressive tonight. And, um, we want to apologize for the nudity that got on the air there. Well, according to a cbs news poll out this morning, more than half of americans think marijuana use should be legal. Thats a slight jump from last year. 51 say they have tried marijuana up 8 from last year. 52 say alcohol is more dangerous than pot. While just 9 think marijuana is more dangerous. A south bay College Student killed in cold blood. Police say they dont know why. The public plea to catch his killers before they strike again. That big fix. Customers cheated by the volkswagen diesel scandal. Early details on the major deal about to be announced in a bay area courtroom. From bay views to bamboo floors we go inside jerry browns zen retreat now up for sale. What you would pay if you would like to buy the home of the governor in the oakland hills. Low clouds increasing right now in San Francisco cloud cover on the increase and the extended forecast one day with some rainfall. Up to a quarter inch of rain. Well talk about when and have your weekend forecast coming up. ,,,,,,, their hands. The executio style shooting of a College Student. It happened saturday night stay police have a mystery on their hands San Jose Police have a mystery on their hands, the executionstyle shooting of a College Student saturday night on lyndale avenue near story road in east san jose. As kpix 5s devin fehely tells you the victim wasnt even 20 years old. Right now, we have very little to go off of. Reporter 18yearold cruz antonios death was as brutal as his life was brief, police say. The victims in a neighborhood minding his Bone Business just walking. For someone to come by, stop the car and then basically ambush him thats pretty sick. Reporter as the gunmen sped off cruz was left lying in the street bleeding to death. Paramedics managed to get him to the hospital where cruz, who Family Member describes as full of life, would later die. Neighbors were stunned and saddened by whats now being described as an execution style murder. The guy was just going for a walk and then Somebody Just pulls up and this is a nice area so i dont know why that would happen. Reporter right now investigators say they dont have many lead. They dont know what triggered the shooting, if cruz was targeted or if the gunmen knew their victim but the fact they killed in cold blood and could do it again. Make no mistake theres a killer on the loose theres somebody that just got away with murder. And its incumbent upon people in our community that have information to reach out to the police department. Reporter in san jose, devin fehely, kpix 5. Witnesses told police the victim and his friends may have been followed before the shooting and one person saw a green honda civic speeding away afterwards. A daring suspect who led San Francisco police on a rooftop chase has been identified. Alexander [ nonenglish language ] of vacaville was booked on charges including burglary and assault with pay deadly weapon. On saturday Police Arrived in the russian hill neighborhood to a burglary and the suspects pointed a gun at them before running across the roofs. He jumped off a for story billion and landed a four Story Building and landed on a car. Commuters on both side of interstate 880 out of luck after two crashes backed up morning traffic. Northbound a minutemy van crashed into a disabled big rig in union city. The vans driver was seriously injured. On the southbound side an suv cut off another big rig causing it to crash into the center divide. Lanes were shut down for several hours. And in oakland, caltrans workers paused to remember their coworkers killed in the lion king. A bell chimed after each name was read. The workers rededicated themselves to the safety of others. The workers were killed in the line of duty. San francisco federal judge Charles Breyer will oversee a deal thats being presented tomorrow. Sources close to the deal say volkswagen will either buy back the cars or repair them depending on the make and the model. About 600,000 diesel powered can, were found to spew nitrogen oxide as 40 times the legal limit. The biggest car charging station in california now open in santa clara. The station on tasman drive has 49 electric car charging hookups. Its across the street from levis stadium and not far from Great America so people can leave their cars to charge while they are out having fun. The station was put together through a grant from the California Energy commission. More charging stations may help improve air quality here in the bay area. A new report by the American Lung association lists several bay area counties with low or failing grades when it comes to ozone and airborne particulates. The data was tracked between 2012 and 2014. Some of the worst air is recorded during the winter months because of wood smoke from heating stoves, fireplaces, the report says the trains, ships and idling trucks at the port of oakland also contribute to our regional pollution. Salinas was the only California City on the report with no days of unhealthy air quality. Bakersfield topped the list for having the most unhealthy days from airborne particles and los angeles leads the nation in the most ozone pollution from car tailpipes. And today, air quality regulators in the bay area acted to force Oil Refineries to better track pollution from their plants. The five refineries in the region will have to install more monitors to detect releases in neighborhoods and they must provide details about the levels of toxic substances in their crude oil stock. Regulators will use the data to see if stricter measures are needed to curb pollution. Not too sure about air pollution out there but it really is a beautiful day. Fantastic. Couple of days before a little too hot, couple of days from now metropolitan a little too chilly. Today was the sweet spot. Perfect. Nice looking temperatures. Likely one of these temperatures on the Television Screen that youre going to see in a second close to maybe what your favorite temperature is. Fremont is at 77 degrees for you. That was your high today. San francisco is 71. Concord one of the few spots in the 80s. San jose 79. Wildly comfortable the wine country napa 78 degrees. Nothing on the radar now. But by tomorrow night the north bay yes, by friday morning the rest of us absolutely. These numbers are close to normal. The water year began on october 1, so we are exactly normal for San Francisco. 100 of average. We are 102 for livermore and san jose. 92 for santa rosa. So frankly i was hoping those numbers would be higher but lets be happy it felt really wet outside and guess what, we just were getting average rainfall. Gone will be the 40s on this map. Let me show you the overnight lows tonight generally in the mid50s. San jose 54. Napa 50. Concord 54. Redwood city 55. Tomorrow cloudy with an onshore flow changing temperatures. We will not be as warm tomorrow. So we have the mid to upper 70s today. A few of you in the low 80s. 67 in San Francisco. San rafael 69. Friday morning commute rain is coming. Its going to be moving in exactly in tune with the morning commute. Tomorrow its all about the cloud cover. There may be a sprinkle or two that will last a minute or two, thats it. Rain moves into the north bay late thursday night friday morning and well stop the clock at 5 00. Before the morning commute starts, thats when the steadier rainfall will arrive. We could see up to a quarter inch of rainfall coming up friday morning so a wet morning commute not tomorrow, but the day after. This will be a very nice weekend with highs around 70 degrees with mainly sunny skies. Saturday, sunday and monday. And next week not the 90s or 80s. Well see highs in the mid to upper 60s. Sometimes we forget what normal is like because it gets really warm and cold. This is what well have for the next couple of days, its normal for this time of the year. Its only april so 68, 69 degrees, perfect, exactly where we should be. Thank you. It looks more like a zen temple than a governors mansion. Jerry brown is cashing out. We go inside his unique home that just hit the market. And how california could make it easier for First Time Buyers to save up for that dream home. , rd ,, before earning enough cash back from bank of america to buy a new gym bag. Before earning 1 cash back everywhere, every time and 2 back at the grocery store. Even before he got 3 back on gas. Kenny used his bankamericard cash rewards credit card to join the wednesday night league. Because he loves to play hoops. Not jump through them. Thats the excitement of rewarding connections. Apply online or at a bank of america near you. Digs. Are now going on the market. Governor jerry brown is cashing out of oakland. As kpix 5s don ford shows us, browns old digs are now going on the market. Reporter doesnt look that special from the outside. I mean, its a beautiful home. And a nice neighborhood and all. But it belongs to the governor, jerry brown. And he is selling it. Asking price, 2. 9 million. Neighbors say they will miss him. Jerry brown and i, great neighbors. We love to have them around. We hate to see them go. Reporter being the governor, of course, there was security. And the property has cameras everywhere. Some almost camouflaged like this one in a tree. Inside is a different story. Understated and elegant. One room complete with garage style doors that opens the whole space to the decks. Thats a little different. Sometimes the governor would even go for a walk. Once in a while, blue moon, sunday, sunday afternoons i would see him walking his dog. Okay . It was a cute dog. Reporter now the house is for sale. And someone else is going to move in. Did you vote for him . Uhm [ pause ] youre being reluctant. [ laughter ] once. [ laughter ] yeah. We had to see him go. Reporter open houses start this week. In oakland, don ford, kpix 5. As california housing costs skyrocket, a new bill in the assembly would help first time home buyers save up. It would allow them to open a Home Ownership savings account, specifically for money toward their first home. Individuals could contribute up to 10,000 a year. The account would be exempt from income tax as long as the money is used for a first time down payment or closing costs. Coming up in our next half hour, a sea of smokers at Golden Gate Park but its not all highs on 4 20. From the traffic nightmare to the trash how the cannabis celebration is turning a bay area neighborhood upsidedown. And change for a 20 . The women who will soon be getting top billing on our money. P

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