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KTVU KTVU Mornings On 2 At 5am February 2, 2017

50s and 60s. We will be okay this morning. I think the roads are wet. Lets not there is no standing water i have seen. I hope you are right. So far things havent been that much different from a regular dry drive. If you are driving in tracy right now you see slow traffic on 580 and 205 as it normally is. Driving in through the area. You can see the traffic is going he be slow in some of these areas. 61, i put that an the other side. If you are going out the to tracy. 61. Lets sea what it looks like here. 22 miamis an hour. Westbound. Which is still not to bad getting in to livermore. Once you get to livermore. Lets put it on the westbound 580 and see what this feed says here. Im almost afraid. 68. Not to bad. Driving over to the 88 the 580, 680 interchange. Just a hair more than it should be im afraid. Lets move along and take a look at the drive at the bay bridge toll plaza. Traffic is light into San Francisco. Its wet out there. In san jose northbound 280 traffic is moving well getting up to highway 17. At 5 02 lets go back to the desk. This is clean up day on the Berkeley Campus after violence against an invited speaker last night. Alex sav aps live now. The prosecute test did keep that man from giving had isomers age but some wanted to hear him. Reporter yeah. He was invited to speak. He called himself an internet toll and as soon as the invite to speak at the campus became public many called for this speech to be canceled. School Officials Say that it had to move forward because of the First Amendment. He was on campus when protests broke out about 5 30 last night. Hundreds of people were lined up weighting to get into the theater. Thats what protesters set the fires, tipped over outdoor lighting fired paint balls at police and reporters. They also at one point lit off fireworks and used barricades as battering rams to smash windows that. Point Police Declared unlaughful and ordered everybody to leave that area of the campus that. Left many Ticket Holders for the event and other students disappointed. If this was up to us it would be peaceful. It would be civil. These people this is what they believe this is what tolerance is at berkeley. I understand why people are upset for some reasons but i mean for a campus that was location of the Free Speech Movement its sad we would resort to violence. Reporter whether there is question about who was involved in the violence last night. School officials dont believe that the violence was caused dont believe it was caused by a loosely organized group of students. It took even the people in the crowd by surprise. They were covered head to toe in black. Many of them were carrying packages or what looked like weapons. Im not talking about firearms but sticks and other sorts of device that they had. 42 came in paramilitary fashion. They were marching. They seemed to be well practiced and highley disciplined and dangerous. Reporter cal officials said they called county officials for help in case of violence. They say that other uc campuses sent in some of their Police Officers to help out as well but the officials are not saying how many Police Officers were called in. They say that they dont know this morning of any arrests that were made on the cal campus last night. All right. Thank you. A message to his Youtube Channel criticizing them and saying is he disappointed his speech was canceled. I was evacuated by my security detail and by the police tonight from berkeley. Berkeley of course being the home of the Free Speech Movement both ironic and sad that this campus appears to be no friend to free speech anymore. He went onto say the left is absolutely terrified of free speech and will do anything to shut it down. Just the a couple of hours ago the president weighed in on the berkeley protest. About 3 15 a. M. Our time this is what the president said. Take a look. If berkeley doesnt allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view no federal funding. In the last year they received 370 million in federal funding just for research. Now thousands of pictures to show you this morning of the protests. Coming in on social media. What happened last night on the Berkeley Campus. This first one here. You can see the size of the event on the Berkeley Campus. We have video to show you as well. Take a look. Look at this activity. Men dressed men or other people dressed in black storming the campus at berkeley. The protests were mostly peaceful until this group burst onto the scene. Now i want to show you this. Take a look at this. Here is a man in red. Is he hit by a pedestrian. Look behind him here. Right about there. Is he hit in the head. He was giving an interview to a tv crew and then he tried to run and then people tried to grab him to try to drag him back. The person who record that video said that the man in red was hit with a bike lock. Finally i want to show you this. This is the damage afterwards. There is a shining light in all of that darkness from last night. Cal students out there cleaning up the mesa long telegraph avenue. Thats just the beginning of what will be a lot of cleaning up for local businesses and also there on the campus of berkeley. Our coverage of the protests continues on ktvu. Com. Lue find unedited video of all that chaos out there last night. Mountain view police are searching for a boy who has been missing since yesterday afternoon. The 12yearold was last seen at about 2 00 yesterday at Graham Middle School and castro street. He was wearing a white sweatshirt with the word walden on the front. There is a picture of him. Police havent released a lot of detail on facebook they said they have not issued an amber alert as of yet because it doesnt appear that anyone else was involved. Anyone with any information on him is asked to Call Mountain view police. The San Francisco Police Department is suspending its relationship with the Fbi Joint Terrorism Task force. The original agreement was signed in 2007 and authorized Police Officers to collect intelligence on groups exerting their First Amendment rights from protesting to attending religious services. Last month local minority and civil Rights Groups drafted a let tore the Police Commission asking the department to end its cooperation with the fbi. They are worry that under the Trump Administration the task force may violate San Franciscos sanctuary city policy skin crease surrender vail an on muslim communities. A berkeley committee thats look agent the schools is Sexual Harassment policy is recommending major reforms. They are were created offer several case of high profile protessors accused of harassing staff or students. The committee as recommendations include changes to the investigation process, giving alleged victims a role in the early resolution and also ending the three year rule that sets a time limit for disciplining staff. A high school in livermore loose its its accreditation and now there is a concern of if classes will count for college. Livermore valley charter prep had its certificate pulled last july but administrators appeal that decision. The east bay times report thats schools appeal was rejected this week which means that its lack is retroactiv oh, july. The group that issues it found several problems including a Foreign Exchange program where the School Charged Chinese Students more than 30,000 a year. Its not clear whether colleges will credit students for their classes this school year at that prep school. Toysments wrap add round bart cars. The latest idea to bring in new revenue for the transit agency. And in case you didnt know today is groundhog day. There is phil. We will tell you what he saw this morning. If we will have six more weeks of win interest or an early spring. Its 5 12 and has been a busy week at the white house with a new secretary of state sworn in. A tough warning to an enemy and more cabinet nominations advancing and at the same time on capitol hill democrats are trying to do their best to slam on the brakes. Gary is here now. Tell us what is happening in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Its been a whirlwind of a week here in washington as it seems every day is now. Republicans in the senate are describing this confirmation process for the president s cabinet as a slowly but surely ordeal. Now its not just democrats who are pushing back against one of those nominees. The prospects tightening for secretary of education. I cannot support this nomination. Reporter two gop senators announced wednesday they will not vote for her confirmation. Three other nominees progressed toward the final vote on wednesday as well despite democrats efforts to hold up the picks. Newly confirmed secretary of state was sworn in yesterday and one of the many issues he inherits is the irans behavior. Already the administration is issuing this warning. Instead of being thankful to the United States in these agreements iran is feeling emboldened. We are officially putting them on notice. Reporter meanwhile on the southern border Homeland Security secretary is getting a firsthand look at the challenges for his Border Patrol agents and said he hopes to have the wall built with in the next two years. I like to think its beneficial on both sides and i would really like to work closely with the mexicans. Reporter the president kicks off another busy day this morning by attending the National Prayer breakfast where he just arrived with the Vice President and the kick of jordon and this afternoon he will meet with Union Leaders as well as executives from harley davidson. All right. Thank you. Well new this morning the groundhog has spoke and he it looks like winter is not going to be over any time soon. Ladies and gentlemen; phil. The last hour. They got him out of bed. The world famous groundhog and his handlers say that he saw his shadow meaning no summer. See a perfect clear shadow of me. Six more weeks winter it shall be. Well the groundhog tradition dates back to the late 1880s. Succession of critters has made 131 predictions. Phil is famous. He isnt the most accurate. He has been right half the time about. I depend on california steve. All the time. Also depend on sal to get to you where you need to go this morning. Thats right. Thank you very much. We are looking at a drive that is going to be just a little slower because of the wet weather. The wet weather isnt having a huge effect and we hope it stays that way. Gilroy to san jose. This gilroy drive looks good through the gilroy area. We dont see a lot of standing water. Steve said that maybe later or tomorrow or maybe even a few days now when the storm really hits and there is more water we may see traffic issues here. Right now it doesnt look bad in to the south bay. Silicon valley. Lets talk about interstate 880 north and southbound. The photograph sick of moving well in front of the oakland coleself. At the bay bridge toll plaza you can see westbound bay bridge is still right. Now at 5 16 lets bring steven. That is correct. I think this morning not to bad here. We are getting a little bit of a break though its wet pavementsw. Have our first system coming through. It does look like over the next five to seven days areas north. North of maybe even santa rose a Russian River look to be taking the brunt of whats coming in. We are scaling back on some of these rain totals for areas soup. We will take it day to day. Massage that forecast as we head into it. Vinnie martin is up in east santa rosa in between santa rosa. We have had two thirds of an in. Nothing crazy. But thats the most i have seen. The system is barreling throught. Lost a little bit of punch but that makes sense. Plus that southeast breeze can about a half inch. There could be isolated areas, Russian River north. They pick up more than that. The gust is more of a wind event than any rain event. Sierra dealing snow. The wind advisory goes until 3 00 a. M. Friday. Some rain moving through. Just move over santa rosa. Some of the heavier snow this are moving quick. Up toward lake and northern napa. San rafael. Some along the peninsula. The san mateo coast. There a good band now stretch agriculture long san mateo coast to the Santa Cruz Mountains. Thats kind of the theme here today. Band comes in and you may get sun. 40s. 50s. We warmed up. There is a good gust. They had gusts of 23. The low is responsible for sending in these waves as it gets closer tomorrow i think that will provide a little bit of instability and maybe thunderstorm activity. Today will be just wait the a couple minutes and then we will start to see them rotaten. There are noticeable breaks here. Look how this is developing. That will retaste in. We do get a break on the weekend. Look at monday, tuesday into wednesday. Notice the heavier amounts in to santa rose a. Up to i buy in completely. Less every amounts to the south. That seems to be the trend and i will go along with that for now. They wont move much over the next few days. The weekend looks okay. It wont be dry dry but some be okay. All right. Thank you. You are welcome. Just three days until super bowl li. We are take you live to houston and will preview the big game and see how thousands of fans are being welcomed. Plus here at home last call at leftys. The final night for a San Francisco landmark. . Q . Q. Welcome back. Its 5 22. Today College Football coaches all over the country can take a brief break can and take a look at who they have to work with for the coming football season. The next four years i plan to attend stanford university. Stanford. He is going to be a cardinal many. How about that . The experts say stanford signed one of the best incoming classes in the the country including the Top High School quarterback. The number one tight end and the top two offensive line men. A big change in direction from stanford just a couple of generations ago. Sanford has three different player that we signed this class that are in the top ten. Overall in the nation. Stanford had two top ten player understand the previous 15 years combined. This is a group that belongs here at stanford and early on we felt that way and now its just great to get here and be able to talk about it. Yeah and what makes the class more impressive the fact that they have to meet all the tough academic admission requirements. On the other side cals new coach announced it was in his first class of new recruits there. Are 14 new cal bears for next season have youing the grandson of mohammed ali. The only new recruit is kyle harmon in oakland. Before this mornings storm it was raining threes inside oracle. The warriors made a season high 21 three point shot. Seth churchy. Yeah. One of them almost half court. Come on seth. His fellow splash brother made six threes on his way to 29 points. They just beat up the hornets this rein loss also tonight this he will play the la clippers. It was last call for a famous bar and restaurant in San Francisco near union square. Leftys welcomed customers for a final meal and drink last night. Hefty opened the restaurant almost 60 years ago and over the years it has attracted regulars and tourists. And was a San Francisco landmark. Its home for so many to come in. The. They have been coming in every morning for 18 years. Immaterial the manager and the land lord are in a bitter legal battlel over who owns the bar and the priceless items inside. Their next Court Hearing february 14th. Thieves using an old trick and ena new way to steal your information. How criminals are putting card skimmers where you cant see them. Also we just found out about a death in that long standoff at ayodele del maximum security prison. New developments involving the confrontation over night. Good morning. We are looking at the East Bay Drive and the traffic is going to be slowing down at the bay bridge toll plada. Likes like they may have turned those lights on. We will be back to this picture and more when we come back with more traffic. Some getting some okay rain but there is a pretty good band now approaching the coast and working inland. Get ready off and on rain will take news to the next week or so. The price you see is the price you pay, unlike cable. [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh the price you see is the price you pay, unlike cable. Welcome back. The state will do its monthly snow pack measurements. We expect good news for our water supplies. Water managers say that the snow pack is at 177 of average. The most snow since 1995 and the water content there at 108 of the usual average for april. Despite all that though drought restrictions expected to stay in place because of extremely low ground water levels. Thank you for joining us. Women come back. Thursday february 2nd. Im dave clark. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Lets check in with steve. Seems like maybe the storm is not as big as some thought. No just the first of many pieces to come through. They were releasing a lot at folsom. Taillights probably a good thought. Rain is back. March can be a wild month. A lot of the forecasts warm and dry. Steven in fort bragg. Its from the west southwest. Two thirds of an inch while were you sleeping. While many were sleeping. I heard the rain on the top of my castle roof this morning. Some of this has moved through. Things calmed down for a few. Especially up fortht. Will probably pick up later. Out toward napa. Over toward fairfield l

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