today on getting answers as pro palestinian protests intensify across college campuses is the delicate balance between free speech and freedom to feel safe

or attend class? where should the line be? history may offer answers many cosmetic products have unsafe ingredients, so why are they still allowed? we'll talk to the locally based group working to keep you safe from toxic makeup. she's 22 years old and she's just won election to the city council. we'll meet the history making uc berkeley student and hear about her big goals for berkeley, the city you're watching getting answers. i'm kristin tsay. before we dive into those conversations with our experts, let's run through a few of today's top stories, because our 4 p.m. newscast today will be streaming only to bring you the nfl draft live here on air. all right, so top stories today pleasanton police are trying to determine the cause of wednesday's fatal crash. that killed a family of four. the car slammed into a large oak tree on foothill road near stone ridge drive, killing a mother, father and two children under the age of 15. investigators say speed may have

been a factor. the department has yet to release the names of the victims, saying the coroner's office is still working to notify the next of kin. an emotional memorial service today for oakland police officer jordan wingate. the 29 year old died last saturday from the injuries he suffered six years ago, when his patrol car crashed into a parked big rig as he responded to a call. >> officer jordan wingate's professionalism, courage, commitment to duty and passion to serve represents what it takes to be a great police officer. he was an excellent cop. compassion fit, loyal and shakable heart of the lion. >> wingate had been on the job for only a year when the accident happened, but his work didn't go unnoticed. the oakland police officers association named him rookie of the year. he was the 55th oakland police officer to die in the line of duty. he leaves behind his mother, father, a brother, and a

sister. millions of current and former customers of kaiser permanente may be victims of a data release, according to techcrunch, a division within the oakland based health care conglomerate may have exposed names, symptom searches and other data to company advertisers. the report says kaiser would begin notifying those affected next month. oakland's popular horn barbecue is reopening in a new location. the well known barbecue spot closed its restaurant on mandela parkway after a burglary and severe fire back in november. owner matt horn is reopening the restaurant on eighth street near washington street, in the same space as horn's other restaurant, maddie's old fashioned. we spoke with horn before today's grand opening celebration. he told us it was time to come back from the fire. it was difficult, though. although he felt he owed it to the community. >> we made a commitment to the city as well as to the community. you know, there's a lot of people, despite the challenges that are being faced here in oakland, that support

what we do. and we do a lot of outreach. you do a lot in the community and we don't want to turn our backs on on oakland. >> horn thanked the community for its support in the aftermath of the fire and break in. we are in for a windy afternoon, but sunny and warm and that weather is returning even more this weekend. abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma has your weekend forecast. >> we are looking at a windy evening ahead. the reason why. live doppler seven. along with satellite, we have a cold front that is crossing through as we speak and that's why we have the gusty conditions this afternoon that will continue into the evening. so look at the wind gusts forecast. winds are in excess of 30mph and a lot of spots right now that does continue through the early evening. and the overnight hours. we will see the winds calm down just a bit. but if you have friday evening plans, just know it looks really nice out there. sky condition wise. we have mainly clear skies, temperatures in the 60s slowly falling through the 50s. but just remember those winds will still be pretty active, gusting

between 20 and 40mph. here's the accuweather seven day forecast showing you a windy afternoon on the way behind this cold front. we get a nice looking weekend. saturday and sunday we'll find increasing temperatures nice and mild, and that warming trend continues next week by tuesday and wednesday we'll have 70s and 80s widespread away from the coast. >> now to those pro-palestinian protests on college campuses across the country. hundreds of people have been arrested as police tried to break up those demonstrators, though here in the bay area, it's been passionate but peaceful at stanford, protesters have set up tents in white plaza just as high school seniors who have been accepted and their families are here for the big admitted students weekend. protesters want stanford to pull investments out of companies that play a role in fueling the israel-hamas war. across the bay at uc berkeley, pro-palestinian students have been camped out at sproul plaza all week. there have been no major disruptions there, but columbia university

in new york is the center, the hotbed of this movement right now. the encampments there started more than a week ago and is still going strong, even after police arrested over 100 protesters last week. students are ignoring the university's orders to disperse, promising to stay until the university divests its a complicated era for american universities trying to walk that fine line between enabling free speech and preserving security. joining us live to talk about the issue is robert corn-revere, chief counsel for the foundation for individual rights and expression. robert, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. kristen. >> why are we seeing this playing out right now, mainly at universities. why university as well? >> universities have been a tradition site of protest activity. there's a long tradition of it and a long body of a rich body of first amendment law that uh- covers the ability of all individuals,

but in particular college students, to engage in peaceful protest. >> right? indeed, we think of colleges as kind of a public square, right where ideas are freely exchanged even heatedly at times. but what is the central struggle here for the universities as they consider where to draw the line? they want to uphold free speech. they all have, i think, statements that say we commit to that. but how they define it and where it crosses the line into something else that seems to differ across universities. >> well, that's true. that's always the difficult line because it is, as you put it earlier, a fine line. it's a difficult balance and it is a struggle to preserve the right to free speech. but where you have large numbers of people to also maintain order, uh- and as a consequence, some places get it right, other places, not so much. >> can i just ask you, you know who is doing it, right? i mean, at columbia, you know, we had some arrests last week, but now the tents are still there. the

columbia administration is negotiating with students. and in texas, though, we saw governor abbott calling in the state troopers on day one, and they made arrests right away, sending the message, no, we're not even going to have this. what do you think the lines or the considerations should be in terms of, you know, allowing it to kind of continue and watching it versus making arrests or shutting it down? >> well, the line is peaceful. protest is permitted. and as you pointed out earlier, campuses are traditionally key centers for, a public forum for the engagement of ideas, but there are certain rules that do apply. for example, content neutral time, place and manner rules. you can draw those lines. and if people choose to disobey them, there may be consequences. civil disobedience is where someone knowingly violates what they know, the law or the rules to be. and while, that is to be permitted when it's peaceful, there can be consequences. like if you are trespassing in an

area that that's not permitted, violence is a hard line to the first amendment does not include the, engagement in violent acts and so that's something that can be enforced as well. but you use texas as an example. and that is sort of a prime example of where the officials got it wrong, where they went too far, announcing in advance, we're not going to tolerate protests and then engaging in mass arrests. >> right. what about what usc did in terms of canceling its commencement, right after initially just canceling the valedictorian speech because she publicly supports palestinians, in that case, we haven't seen any violence or conflict, although i think usc administration was thinking that could happen. so what is the rule with regard to taking action? because you fear something that could be, but hasn't happened? >> well, i think you have to be able to demonstrate that that concern is, legitimate. and then

you should adopt the minimally restrictive way of addressing that. it seems to me that canceling the exercise, rather than looking for ways to maintain peace, was an extreme reaction. >> i mean, many people say that. i mean, they are holding the smaller individual department graduations, but not the whole big commencement. so, and at stanford, you know, it was very interesting because here the encampment is just now coming back after being forced to end in february. but protesters have been there for four months with tents. why didn't it catch fire that time? what is the tipping point? why now? why the columbia one that kind of sparked everything? >> it's really hard to say what the factors are here, there is a history at columbia. of course. i mean, going back to the 1960s where you had mass demonstrations in 1968, in columbia, wanting the school to disengage from any, contracts or activities that supported the

vietnam war, occupation of student buildings. and then those protests radiated through the country, hard to say why it's columbia again at the center of this, other than the fact that there is this large encampment and it has led to confrontations and arrests, do you think considerations should be different for private versus public universities in terms of what they allow of their students in the protests? >> i mean, i know they treat us, the media, differently in terms of access, but how about when you know, their students are at the center of it? >> well, under the law, public universities are government bodies and they're obliged to follow the constitution, including the first amendment. private universities, can operate on somewhat different rules, but most private university rs do, provide guarantees in their student handbook and in their policies to follow constitutional limits, and in california, the private

schools are obliged to follow. so by statute, constitutional requirements as well. so there are differences between them. but in terms of, how they respond to campus protests, they are all facing the same practical considerations of how to permit protest within their policies and also find a way to prevent, violence or other, other destructive activities. >> so the clock is ticking, if you will, on universities, because we're coming to the end of the school year in 2 or 3 weeks, you know, the school year will be over. all the students will go home. then what does the movement end? do these protests end, and what does that mean nationally, well, it's hard to predict the future on these things, obviously, the international situation is volatile. people are reacting to that, and, and, how that will continue as a, a form of protest

will remain to be seen. we saw this with the occupy wall street movement, where it was resulted in encampments across the country for a long period of time. and then ultimately that that died down. i expect with this, since it's tied to international events, that the protests in the united states will end around the world, will track what happens abroad. >> yeah. all right. robert corn-revere, chief counsel for the foundation for individual rights and expression, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, christian. >> the makeup and skincare were applying in the morning can have a lasting impact after we've wiped it off for the day. why potentially harmful chemicals are still in many beauty products,

hair and other beauty products can have an impact on our bodies . joining us live now is janet nudelman from the campaign for safe cosmetics, a group working to clean up those ingredients. janet, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. how does nice to be here. >> really nice to have you. how did your group start? >> well, we started exactly 20 years, as of yesterday, in response to a directive issued by the european union, the eu decided to ban 1100 chemicals from beauty and personal care products and a group of activists working on trying to get chemicals better regulated here in the united states. took a look around to see how cosmetics were regulated by the

fda and discovered that we were only of banning 11 chemicals out of the 10,000 ingredients used in cosmetics here, and got really concerned and decided to launch a campaign to do something about the problem. >> so you've been doing a lot of advocacy, and i think you've had some successes. but. right now, what are you most concerned with? which harmful chemicals are still not banned yet are common in the makeup that we buy , well, there's a lot, a lot of chemicals, as i said, really one of the starkest contrasts is in the 20 years that have passed since the campaign for safe cosmetics has been around, the eu has doubled the number of chemicals that they've banned, again, 20 years ago, they started by banning 1100 chemicals from cosmetics. and today they've now banned 2400.

and the fda has only added two additional chemicals to the list that have been been banned here in the us, you're looking at our chemicals. glossary of concerns. concern learn that consumers can find by going to safe cosmetics .org. there you'll see chemicals that are used to preserve cosmetics. for example parabens, consumers can find those on ingredient labels, if they look for ingredients like ethyl paraben, propyl, paraben, methylparaben, these are endocrine disrupting compounds. they're hormonally active. they're linked to early puberty in girls. other chemicals were concerned about are for formaldehyde releasing preservatives like parabens. they also preserve a product, they show up on labels with words like dmdm, hydantoin, and

also so, quaterniu result in sensitization and allergic reactions and also can cause cancer, talc is a real problematic ingredient that shows up in mineral makeup and also in talc based baby powder. consumers have heard a lot about this ingredient because it can be, contaminated with asbestos dose, if you can believe it. and then lastly, i want to tell you about this one word, which is a real cause for concern. and that word is fragrance. it shows up on a product label that one word, either fragrance or perfume, and it can hide anywhere between a dozen to a hundred ingredients, some of which can be linked to hormone disruption, cancer, birth defects, reproductive harm, asthma, learning disabilities

and the list goes on. and on. >> well, janet, obviously, you know, if europe is able to ban them, i know they have makeup. so certainly the companies there found a different way to still make those products in a way that is still satisfactory, because i think their models look pretty good in pictures, too. so, right, so i think people will have to learn more about that by going to your website. but real quickly, is your advice for people to always read the ingredients or labels? that's what it sounds like to me. >> yeah, well, to become smarter shoppers, read labels. there's apps that consumers can can find, we recommend claria. it's c l e r y a uh- they have a web extension so that when consumers are shopping online in, a little window pops up and will tell them about chemicals of concern. but also you can take a picture of a product label and get that same window, and it will advise consumers about the products in

their own makeup bag. that's great. >> great information. janet nudelman, thank you so much. from the campaign for safe cosmetics. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> a uc berkeley student is making history with her first post grad job. already decided berkeley's first ever undergraduate city council member will join us

cecilia luna parra and urban studies major at uc berkeley, has just won a special election to represent the city's south side, which includes the university campus. the previous council member resigned in january. she beat out another uc berkeley student for the office, joining us live now, berkeley city council district seven representative to be cecilia luna parra. hi, cecilia. >> hi. thank you so much for

having me. >> big congratulations to you. hey, when do you take your oath? >> on monday. >> okay. all right. well, congratulations. look, people are amazed that you're only 22 and haven't even graduated. but you're here. tell us your path getting to where you're at and getting this office. >> yeah, absolutely. so i spent most of my time, as an undergraduate at organizing students, creating a coalition of united progressive students, to have a solidified voice in local government, given that their decisions impact our everyday lives, and with that, and, you know, as our former council member resigned and student leaders came together to begin this campaign to elect a representative that is really directly close to the community, accountable to the constituents, and is committed to representing the interests of students in the city, as well as realizing the goals of a student supermajority district. >> all right. so given that, what do you think they are? i

mean, what is it that you want to accomplish in your time in office? i understand you're an urban studies major. i imagine you want to put that to use. >> yeah, absolutely. one of our biggest, one of the biggest things that i've advocated for alongside with student groups is the car free telegraph, we've held multiple rallies and, successfully gotten the ball rolling on a car free telegraph, but this needs to be pushed forward, and there's a lot of ideas like that, to kind of solidify this, progressive ideal that we have into our civic infrastructure, into our, our, city's infrastructure. >> i know you really want more housing in berkeley, specifically affordable housing. and of course, the university right now, it's containers that are sitting there on the old people's park. but the university wants to build dorms and also some low income housing. as you know, there's some lawsuits tying it up, and there are some neighborhoods that wanted to keep it as a community space. what's your view on that? >> so i support, keeping people's park as a community

space for a couple of different reasons, and part of it is because i am so committed to increasing, housing in the, in the area, i think that the universities kind of obsession with this specific project has actively delayed housing at other sites, i also think that this space is a crucial, monument of, of berkeley's history and also very directly and materially, affects people's uh- allows people to have resources, especially unhoused people in our, in our area, the resources that they need specifically through mutual aid, so i would like to see people's park stay a green space. and right now it is kind of up in the air. but, hopefully we can advocate for more housing elsewhere while making sure our community is safe from any sort of, police or institutional violence. >> well, your predecessor was also 22 when he was elected, though he had graduated from berkeley already. and you're still a student. he was kind of a rising star and suddenly

resigned in january, citing stalking and harassment and burnout. does that worry you at all, i think it's definitely something to take into account, and it's a difficult position. regardless, i hope to be able to kind of build bridges between students and the rest of the city to hopefully alleviate some of this discontent, but overall, it's something definitely on my mind that i'm hoping to be able to lean on the people around me to get there. >> right? i mean, is it too early to talk about future ambitions? congress governor, president, i actually i want to be a high school history teacher in the future, this is kind of i'm doing this very specifically because i care a lot about this community and think it deserves representation, but it isn't actually something i want to do in the long run. >> well, refreshing and fantastic. congratulations, cecilia luna parra, city council member at berkeley next monday as of monday. congrats. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> coming up next on abc seven world news tonight with david

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