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( ♪♪ ) feel the power of osteo bi-flex®. taken every day, it's clinically shown to improve joint comfort in 7 days, with significant improvement over time. ( ♪♪ ) from cbs news bay area, this is the afternoon edition. right now on the afternoon edition, student protesters digging in their heels in front of sproul plaza , refusing to
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leave until the university agrees to their pro-palestinian demands. good afternoon. i'm ryan yamamoto. we have the latest on the ongoing protest happening on college campuses all across the country starting at uc berkeley where students have reached day two of their campout. our shawn chitnis has the latest. >> students spend another night in tents on the steps of sproul hall here on berkeley's campus. you can see that their presence is growing in the few days they have been here, explaining to us that they are protesting the war in gaza and showing solidarity with other students who have similar demonstrations at different campuses across the country. their demands specify that they want to see the university cut ties with anyone who has a relationship with israel , specifically related to arms suppliers and that the university also knowledges that israel's actions in gaza are genocide. we spoke to a student today who is a part of this demonstration and she
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explained that while they have not had any of the major incidents we are seeing in other parts of the country, they remain concerned about how the university is treating them. >> one of our demands is that we have a clear financial strategy laid out for the administration to abide by. we also ask that the university condemn the genocide of palestinians and protected student body, which it had not been doing. it has not been making any effort to do so. we also are demanding that we get a palestinian studies program implanted here at uc berkeley. >> university released a statement saying, with three weeks left in the semester, berkeley is prioritizing students' academic interest. we will take the steps necessary to ensure the protest does not disrupt the university's operations and the statement goes on to say, there are no plans to change the university's investment policies and practices. the university is in full swing at this hour with students making their way along telegraph in this main stretch of campus where you can see where pro-palestinian students have had a protest vigil since
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february. that, along with this new effort on the steps here is showing the growing movement by those students who say that they want the response to the war in gaza to be 24/7. >> the protest like the one on berkeley's campus is part of a series of demonstrations on college campuses all across the country. at columbia university and nyu, students are demanding universities recognize israel's actions in gaza as genocide. and, cut ties with israeli colleges and companies that supply the country with weapons. >> no campus has decided to digress from investments in israel or companies that do business with israel. this is a political debate where people have strongly divergent views. >> columbia university has said they will offer classes online for the rest of the year to students who feel unsafe on campus. up north at cal poly humbled, students have been
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asked to stay home and finish their semester online, this after hundreds of pro-palestinian protesters barricaded themselves inside at least two buildings. in the middle east, new propaganda video released by hamas shows berkeley born hostage . cbs news cannot confirm when it was recorded or what kind of pressure he faced. he was captured back in october and the video shows one of his hands is missing. he is one of eight americans still believed to be held by hamas. in sacramento, governor newsom is asking state lawmakers to fast-track a bill that would allow doctors from arizona to perform abortions here in california. the bill, sb 233 would give those doctors emergency licenses to provide abortion related care to patients traveling to california from arizona. this is a direct response to the arizona supreme court. earlier this month, the court ruled that the state can start enforcing a law from 1864 which
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bans all abortions unless the mother's life is at risk. >> no state has more to do and more responsibility to promote what needs to be done then our state. that is the spirit that brings us here together. >> that bill would go into effect as soon as the governor signs it and would last through the end of november. abortion is healthcare! we want it now. >> in the meantime, washington pro-choice protests outside the supreme court building. the biden administration is challenging idaho abortion ban, argument conflicts with federal law, requiring hospitals to provide emergency lifesaving care for pregnant women. this is the first time justices are reviewing a state's abortion ban since they overturned roe v. wade nearly 2 years ago. a live look at san francisco city hall. mayor london breed wants to try to cut down on crime in the tenderloin, a curfew for
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certain businesses. not all business owners are happy with the proposal. our lauren toms spoke to a man who thinks this idea is just the wrong approach. >> i want my neighborhood back. >> at what cost? >> there is no cost. i used to have a cost but not now. i want my neighborhood back. it is not fair. >> del seymour has called san francisco his home for nearly 4 decades, even being dubbed the unofficial mayor of the tenderloin. after dark, the neighborhood he knows and loves turns into an unrecognizable nightmare. >> when i was on the streets, by 9:00, 10:00, we all went to bed in a tent, on a mattress, wherever. now, the tenderloin don't even start until 10:00. >> that is when the community services leave the area as part of their contract with the city but the city is trying a new
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tactic to crackdown on open air drug markets. mayor london breed announced a plan to banned stores in the area from selling prepackaged food or tobacco products between midnight and 5:00 a.m. >> when we looked at the data around some of our corner store operations, we discovered that that was where we had the most problems, especially at night. >> breed pushed the plan at an event for small businesses in the tenderloin that have struggled and customers in the door because of the scenes outside. >> we got to clean up our streets first. >> the idea restricting sales at corner markets is not welcomed by everyone. we talked to one shop owner who pins the problem on the city's housing struggles. >> it is the same business for being open all night but i don't think that is the issue. this has been going on for 15 years. >> it is a strategy the city has tried before. seymour remembers when the city restricted alcohol sales. even
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25 years later, he is confident it could help but, alone, it is not enough. >> maybe only 30%. that is what i am predicting. we were never just messed up. >> his efforts to return the tenderloin to a place he loves are unconditional. >> it is now up to the board of supervisors to decide whether or not to approve the one-year pilot program. still had and noon, millions -- ahead at noon, millions of americans will get a pay raise. new rules for airline passages that could help save you money on your next flight. why hidden fees on flights may soon be a thing of the past. it is another day with a persistent marine layer. it will hang out al
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>ryan>well. tesla is finding tesla has laid off 27 employees in the bay area. that includes more than 2200 jobs in fremont and palo alto layouts will begin june 14. this comes as rising competition and electric vehicle markets sent tesla's first quarter profit plunging 55%. >> a year ago, they were extremely high. we were seeing sales rising by double-digit numbers year over year. that was very encouraging to companies like tesla whose entire lineup is made up of electric vehicles. they have nothing else to fall back on. now, we are starting to see
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some of the sales growth for. >> tesla has announced aggressive price cuts because of the slump in sales. the tesla model y, x will now sell for $2000 less. elon musk says the model y will cost after a federal rebate and gas savings. millions of salaried employees will be eligible for overtime pay. the biden administration now said starting july 1, certain salaried workers who make less than $44,000 a year will be entitled to overtime pay. in 2025, that cap will rise to more than $58,000. new rules expand the eligibility for highly compensated workers making up to $151,000. president biden signed a $95 billion aid package for ukraine, israel and taiwan but included in the legislation, the potential tiktok ban. the metro gives bytedance, the chinese company that owns
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tiktok, nine months to sell the app or it will be banned in the u.s. the company can also get a 90 day extension if it is clear the owners are making progress toward a sale. tiktok says it will challenge the ban in court. as for the foreign aid, $61 billion will go toward military systems for ukraine, $26 billion is for israel but $1 billion is for humanitarian aid in gaza and $8 billion is for the indo pacific region. a live look at sfo. the department of transportation has announced the new rules that could save you money. those rules say you can get a refund for canceled flight if you are delayed more than three hours for a domestic flight for more than six hours for an international flight you can get a refund if you choose not to fly. when it comes to baggies, they must be refunded if a checked bag is significantly delayed and refunds must be given if any services paid are not provided like oaken wi-fi. airlines are required to disclose what fees they charge
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upfront like a checked bag or carry-on bag and a cancel or change fee. a new report finds that the bay area has some of the dirtiest air in the country. the american lung association says the region ranks a number five when it comes to better quality. we are even worse than l.a. and wildfires are the main reason for the poor air quality. giving you alive look outside at the golden gate bridge, a little hazy and a little cloudy outside. maybe it is fog, maybe it is smoke, maybe it is pollution. who knows. >> we have a change in the weather coming our way that will start tomorrow. take a look at the futurecast depiction of some rain coming down the coast. it does not hold together to get here. it would not be until friday even if it did that. you might see a few showers that show up to our east. it does not look like any of that is getting in the bay. a few scattered showers moving over the central valley. it is not the rain. to see what
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we will feel from this system on friday, we've got to come back to today and change the way we are visualizing this. you can see what we are looking at earlier, this area of low pressure off the coast. let's get rid of that. it is getting forcefully pushed away by a northerly flow in the atmosphere which, by friday, will be able to give us 40 miles per hour gusts on shore. it gets a little breezy thursday afternoon, nothing major. friday is different. friday is a stronger reinforced northerly wind gust along the coast where we will see speed stopping at 40 miles per hour and we will even notice the winds getting into the interior is well with 30 miles per hour gusts perhaps at the top. that gets us to friday afternoon and then it will leave by the time we get to saturday. in the 7-day forecast, after friday windy afternoon and a drop of rain, look at the header. we are more focused on the fact that it
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will be more windy than any rain. or the weekend, we clear it out and we will have daytime highs back into the mid-70s with plenty of sunshine in time for much of next week. film fest is coming to san francisco. we talked to a director who said her movie will make you rethink the way you see math. this is 100% medical grade silicone package. for years, dermatologists and experts have used these on their patients that have scars from surgery or burns to help heal them. we take them out of the sheet, we peel them off. you can put them on the eyes, the forehead, around the lips . when these are on, it will pull the hydration from the levels of the skin to the surface. it will increase your blood flow and collagen production. that is what will plump out the lines, give you that smoothness
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the san francisco film festival kicks off today and we want to highlight a new film on the subject of math. our shawn chitnis has a preview. >> the director of the documentary count it out , never planned on being a film
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maker but when the attorney and parent could not help her kids with their math homework, she started to look into how the fear and trauma from studying it in school affected adults. >> if only a few people get the matthew need to create those technologies that influence our lives, we would have a select few people who are shaping the experience of the world. >> for five years, the team made up of people in the bay area have worked on this film, finding people with incredible stories of how math changed their lives as adults in negative and positive ways, depending on how comfortable they were with it. >> if you think about the 20th century, then you are thinking that, well, you need to know enough math to function at the post office. in the 21st century, we are in a different ballgame. >> vicki says she did well in math throughout her schooling including college but had to take a closer look at how it was taught in the classroom
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once she became a parent. >> i want everyone in our audience to feel seen by the film. so many of us carry a great deal of shame about math experience in school and that impacts our ability to engage with the world. >> you don't need to go back to grade school and take math again but you should feel empowered to ask more questions about medical and financial choices in your life. >> the world we are moving toward has math everywhere and i don't mean this in a, there is math everywhere, kids kind of way. >> the sf film festival is the west coast premiere of counted out and the chance to start a conversation in the bay area. him to silicon valley, it is one more reason vicki is grateful to have it screened here. >> in order for us to identify the problems that we need to solve as a society and to come up with creative solutions for the problems that we all collectively face, we are going
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to have better outcomes if we have more people at the table. >> rethinking our collective view of math as more than just numbers and formulas but a language to make sense of the world. >> that film screens this sunday. you can try to get last-minute tickets by checking the sf film website. structured uc berkeley can soon be welcoming its newest member to campus. officers rove lejos mayor island. and the san francisco international film festival showcases cinema from all around the world, including several films with bay area ties. the winner 23. awards. in the most royal party on broadway. get the best seats to 6 in san jose. when you become a season subscriber today, a broadway
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coming up at 3:00 , we take a deeper dive into the issue of abortion access including the more restrictive laws we are seeing in other parts of the country in california to allow
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access to women from out-of-state. that story and much more at 3:00. we are still on baby bird watch. the fourth and final falcon chick is expected to hatch today on top of the berkeley tower. this is a live look from the falcon's nest cam. you can see the mother or maybe that is one of the fathers that is keeping their chicks warm. as we way to welcome the fourth baby bird, uc berkeley is hosting a hatch party. they have been livestreaming the event on a giant screen. falcon experts and volunteers were there to answer any questions about the birds. >> this is annie's eighth year of producing chicks . she is very experienced. >> they can breed for longer if they are in captivity but in the wild, they have been known to breed maybe 10 or more years. >> annie laid four eggs just last month so we are expecting that fourth chick hopefully
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