boil over on another california campus is not your home. our university leaders handling these protests the right way. they should not be facing consequences if they are engaged in peaceful protest. we're talking to congressman ro

khanna, who made some headlines today in washington, d.c. also, the recount is over. there's no longer a tie in that high stakes bay area congressional race, but there's still controversy and artificial intelligence being used to help people buy and sell their homes. we'll explain. the pros and cons. good evening. this is nbc bay area news tonight. i'm raj mathai. we are following a few breaking news stories at this hour. one at columbia university, where nypd officers are marching in. but we start near san jose state. a man is in critical condition after a crash. it happened on 10th street, right near campus. investigators are piecing together what happened. they tell us a man was riding a scooter when a crash occurred involving two cars. paramedics rushed him to the hospital with life threatening injuries. right? right. right. now, we're not sure if he was a student or

not at the university streets, though in this area were shut down for a little bit, but have since reopened. another developing headline, the recall against alameda county district attorney pamela price. the board of supervisors is debating about an election date for that recall, but we have just learned the board decided to push back its decision for two more weeks ahead of tonight's meeting. both supporters of the district attorney and those looking to recall her held dueling rallies in oakland. you see him there, those pushing for the recall say the da is too soft on crime. they want the special election to happen immediately, but others want the recall in november with the general election, in order to save money, a standalone special election could cost between 15 and 20 million bucks. the district attorney is accusing recall organizers of breaking the law. i am concerned for our community that people would be able to come in with money and

overturn an election, that people would be able to come in and bring people in who would lie and mislead the public. how many people have been convicted? how many people have been convicted of murder? how many people have got a plea deal? how many people have been released? that's her job to give that information to the community. while she's worried about what we're not doing. i'm gonna need you to do that. recall organizers deny the allegations, saying they've done everything by the book. the state is investigating pamela price's claims and our other breaking news story. now, the nypd is on the move as we speak. police officers are confronting protesters on the campus of columbia university. this is just one of several campuses across the country where protests are happening over the israel hamas war within the last few minutes. now, let's take it to new york. we've seen the officers in riot gear entering hamilton hall at columbia. you see that right there in riot gear going up that ladder of the

fire truck. it looks like this is the same place where protesters took over overnight. you can see police using that truck to get inside that window. there are about 60 protesters inside of that building. it's not clear if all of them are students, but university officials there at columbia have said that any students that are occupying the building face expulsion, and students occupying other parts of campus risk being suspended as they go back home. it's not your home. palestine is not your home. here's another hot spot. cal poly humboldt overnight officers in riot gear moving in on the protesters. this happened around 3 a.m. the protesters had been occupying two buildings for several days. like the protesters on other campuses, they're calling for the university to divest from companies doing business in israel. some of the protesters clashed with police officers. at least 35 people have been arrested so far here in the bay

area. the protests continue at uc berkeley, san francisco state and stanford. all, though, have remained peaceful. but stanford officials have threatened to suspend students who are camping overnight, which is against university policy. and here comes another flashpoint. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing to invade the city of rafah. this is in the southern part of gaza. there's rafah right there, right along the border with egypt. rafah is currently housing more than a million palestinians who fled other parts of gaza when this war began. there is a deal in the works for a cease fire, so those people could flee before the israeli attack. the proposal on the table would call for hamas to free 33 hostages in exchange, israel would agree to a 40 day cease fire and the potential release of thousands of palestinian prisoners. however, prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel will move ahead with an attack on rafah. that's not sitting well with

many members of the u.s. congress, including bay area representative ro khanna, president abbas has said, quote, it would be the biggest catalyst in the palestinian people's history. and yet this morning, i read that prime minister netanyahu is saying, with or without a hostage deal, he plans to go in to rafah. joining us now from washington dc is congressman ro khanna, who represents the silicon valley. congressman nice to have you back on the program. two ways. i'd like to go at this, if you don't mind, from the college protests on campuses to what you did today on capitol hill. let's start on campus. what should happen when these protests turned violent or destructive? what should the colleges do here ? well, first of all, thanks for having me back. there's no excuse or justification for anything that turns violent or that engages in vile attacks or toxicity against jewish

students, muslim students, or any ethnic group. so of course, if a incident is engaged in violence, then you have to report that to law enforcement. and if someone is saying kill the jews or, globalize the intifada, there need to be consequences. but i will say that the vast majority of these young students, many of whom who i met at university of michigan, wisconsin, nevada, at home or engaged in peaceful protests because they want the war to end and they should not be facing consequences if they are engaged in peaceful protest. congressman, what are you hearing from your constituents here at home? what stands out to you? well, overwhelmingly, people in our district and my district, which is the heart of silicon valley, san jose and the peninsula and east bay, want the war to end. i mean, they if in my town halls, people are saying, stop giving more bombs

to netanyahu, too much loss of life. i mean, the entire district was condemned. and, the october 7th horrific hamas attack, they want the hostages released, but they've seen too many deaths. and they want this war to end. your comments to the secretary of defense, lloyd austin, earlier today, what do you think will happen here from your political stance viewpoint there in washington? will israel invade rafah? well, i certainly hope not. and you know, after secretary austin, we met with the national security adviser, jake sullivan, they are hopeful that there could be some deal in the next couple of days, israel has agreed to taking less hostages that the ball is now in hamas court, and i certainly hope that, hamas would agree to release these americans and innocent hostages and that we can get some pause on on the

violence. but i made it clear to secretary austin he could see my interview that the american people do not want netanyahu to go into rafah. and he basically said, yeah, we there will be a lot of people who will be killed if that happens and they aren't able to evacuate a million people. and it's hard to evacuate a million people. so the question is what the president would do if that happened, and secretary austin and others have said he'd basically will keep all his options on the table. but there could be significant consequences for netanyahu, president biden has been talking for months about a cease fire here. why can't he get this done ? well, one, i think he does need to have more, consequences, on both, both sides to say, look, we've got to get, the hostages released and a peace, i mean, to, to do that, some of it is out of his control. we have very little leverage on hamas, and on netanyahu. we don't have

as much leverage as we must. we should have. but i do think the president's tone, needs to be at continue to get tougher on, on on the parties. congressman ro khanna from washington, appreciate your time tonight. have a good evening. thank you. raj, one more note to add here. former secretary of labor and current uc berkeley professor robert reich sharing his thoughts about the protests. anti semitism should have no place in america, not at on college campuses or anywhere else, but there is nothing inherently anti-semitic about condemning the ongoing bloodshed in gaza. the mission of the university is to coach students how to learn, not tell them what to think. peaceful demonstrations should be encouraged. secretary rice goes on to say he believes that having armed officers at peaceful protests is not acceptable. well, also tonight, the recount is finally over. we're talking about the high

stakes congressional race to replace ana eshoo. the tie has been broken late today. santa clara county released its results for the recount for district 16. before the recount, evan low and joe simitian were in a tie for second place. now after the recount, evan low was ahead by four votes. that means if the recount results stick, the top vote getter from super tuesday, which was sam liccardo, would face off against evan low in the november election. before the recount, he was set to face both lowe and simitian. we should note san mateo county also is re tallying ballots, re tallying the ballots they finished last week but had no change in their results. here's the curveball on all this. there are 16 ballots that are being investigated because they arrived after the deadline. san mateo county and the postal service are looking into the postmarks on those envelopes to decide whether they should be opened and counted. it really

gets wild here. joining us now is political science professor melinda jackson from san jose state. professor nice to see you. so in the recount, they added votes to each candidate. where do those newly counted ballots come from? how do they add votes here? yeah. well the everything was rescanned. but in the process of going through all the ballots and double checking everything, in santa clara county, they did find a few, votes that were not counted the first time, and even a couple of ballots that were counted twice because the machine had jammed and things were re scanned. and so you know, normally we're talking about just a handful of ballots here. and normally the margin of victory, you know, is going to be hundred at least. so it doesn't really make a difference. but obviously in this case every single vote matters. and i think it's been a learning opportunity to see, you know, the various ways that that these minor for, errors, you know, human errors as part of this process can occur so that

hopefully the process can be fixed so that it doesn't happen next time. and we're confident that every vote is counted accurately, but i think the seriousness with which this recount has been conducted can reassure us that the registrar of voters does take this very seriously, and their job is to make sure that the votes are counted correctly. professor, you talk about normally, is there anything normal about this? how rare is this? not just here in the bay area, but across the country? yeah. i've never seen anything like this before. i'm this really is kind of, you know, one for the record books for sure. and we still don't have a final outcome because there are still a handful of ballots where they're checking postmarks, you know, it's really , really unusual. and i think one of the things that may come out of this is, a call to change our state election law. so that recounts in cases like this where the margin is so, so close, would become automatic. many states have that rule, but

not every state election laws are governed at the state level. and so we do see differences across the states in voter registration rules and, election rules like this around recounts. very interesting. all right. as for those 16 uncounted ballots in san mateo county, who has the final word here? the post office , because we're talking about postmarks. is that the registrar or maybe or maybe governor newsom jumps in, well, the decision will be made by the registrar of voters in the county. i believe they're waiting for some additional information from the post office to try to verify those postmarks . yes, so we'll have a decision at the county level, then the results from both counties will be tallied and certified at the state level, you know, the way things are going with with this, election, i wouldn't be surprised if there are more questions between now and then, so, you know, at this point, it still could go either way, i think, in terms of who's on that

ballot in november. amazing. all right. professor melinda jackson from san jose state, by the way, this would make a great case study for your students down the road. thanks for joining us. absolutely. up next, real estate companies including zillow, now using artificial intelligence. so how does it work and what are the downsides of ai when you're trying to buy or sell your house, you're

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live picture right now from columbia university in new york city. you can see the police officers there in riot gear surrounding the university. this is at 116th and amsterdam, the upper west side. there of manhattan, right at the university. dozens of new york police officers arrived on campus after issuing a dispersal order and declaring a riot. right there. it looks peaceful. they're there to remove the dozens of students who have taken over at least two buildings on campus. officers also headed toward encampments and removed students from the campus with their hands zip tied behind their backs. this was about 20 minutes ago when they entered hamilton hall. there, the university students demanding the columbia, as well as other colleges around the country, divest from israeli linked companies. also tonight, the ambitious billionaire backed plan to build a new city in the bay area. that plan is moving one step closer to reality. over

20,000 solano residents have signed the petition. yeah, they're happy today. the ceo of california forever announced his company has gathered enough signatures to qualify an initiative for the november ballot. it would ask voters to rezone areas to clear the way for their project. california forever wants to build what it calls a green community in east solano county. it would include thousands of homes, walkable neighborhoods, shopping, dining and open space. but many local and federal leaders oppose it. the county registrar of voters says it may take several weeks, by the way, to verify the signatures before it actually goes on the ballot. in november. and, well, another use now for artificial intelligence. tech companies are now using ai to help boost our housing market. in terms of buying and selling a home. let's bring in our business. the tech reporter scott budman. it's only a matter of time. ai and real estate ai is getting into everything here. what companies are using ai

right now and how does this work? what are we talking about? talk about the two things bay area talking about at the same time, ai and housing. there's one company called real flow. they're looking at it from a seller perspective, trying to identify sellers before they sell their homes, thinking about things like. so i'm not even thinking. i'm thinking about selling, but haven't listed yet. exactly. but maybe you live in the northern part of town, but you subscribe to a magazine or a newsletter about the southern part of town, or perhaps you've had two incomes and all of a sudden you have one and you're thinking, gosh, they're smart. yeah so they're sort of digging into that zillow. they know a lot about housing. they're focusing on sort of the match between buyers and sellers. think about it like a dating site using algorithms to try to figure out who you might be comfortable with in a dating scenario. but this is buyers and sellers. you put in all the data that you would want in a house in the home of the future. they collect all that, they being the machines by the way, and match you up with a house that's on the market already. what don't

you need a real estate agent? what you really are using here? machine learning and ai. it's not quite there, but this is what a lot of housing companies and even cities are starting to turn to, to try to figure this out. well, nothing with ai is quite there, but everything is almost. they're getting close. what do you see in terms of downsides here? i think the downside that comes to me, and this is true of a lot of ai data, is privacy. you know, it's one thing to say, hey, i appreciate a dating site that helps me find someone, but what about the middlemen, the advertisers? i don't want them to know my private information. and this is also private information that would be known by companies and by machines. and we don't know how well safe it is along the way to finding us a home. and so we also know that ai makes mistakes and so do real estate agents sometimes. but there is something about a human touch to get to know. you and perhaps your partner and what you're looking for. and that would be at least a little bit missing if it's all the machines. any word here from the national association of realtors

or whatever that organization is in terms of trying to eliminate that middleman, it wouldn't be so much eliminating it sounds like two sides that are trying to work together, and perhaps ai can be used to make the house hunting quicker, not only for you, the potential buyer or seller, but also for an agent. they don't have to visit quite as many homes in a town. if the machine can narrow it down to 3 or 4 that we know it's you're going to like, it's remarkable. we'll see where this goes. thank you. scott. you bet. let's take you outside now on this beautiful tuesday evening, a live look at the bay bridge. talk about our weathn us next. er

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pursue it. look at the city behind you right now. it's awesome. sunset. it is. i know lots of blue sky out there and we are going to see things change, including the possibility here of some rainfall. we got a lot to get to. let's move it into that microclimate forecast and we're going to start it off right here with tomorrow morning. and i do see as we roll through the morning temperatures in the 40s with a few coastal clouds. so overall a nice start for us through the afternoon. we'll get into some wind gusts really going to be the highest in the mountains up to about 45mph winds coming out of the northwest. and that's going to help temperatures to warm up. low 80s for concord, napa, santa rosa down to san jose right there at 77. let's move it into those rain chances. i see that happening once we hit saturday. this storm system looks to be moving closer and closer. so widespread rain chances

saturday. temperatures also much colder in the 60s. look at these early estimates. quarter to a half inch quarter inch for the south bay and averaging about a half inch for the rest of the bay area. certainly an unusual late season storm for us. not only rain chances look at this sierra snow, likely over a foot as we head into saturday's forecast right here in that inland forecast. we're drying out on sunday and then dry weather next monday, and tuesday. so right now, saturday looks like the storm day for us and not going to be wet all weekend long. so kind of that split picture for us. odd to see that as we begin the month of may. thank you jeff. back to our breaking news. now before we go in new york city, ny, ny, pd police officers in riot gear at columbia university. take a look. what we're seeing in the last few minutes. we expect a lot to happen now in the next few hours. people you see there are being arrested and or detained. we'll have a full update at 11. this is happening right now in new york. we'll also check in with the protesters at various colleges

across the bay area and across the country. but about 30, 40 minutes ago, the all the nypd was called in to get these protesters who were camped out there in the buildings to get them out. and start to arrest people again. this is what this look like right now at columbia university in the upper west side of manhattan. that's going to do it for us here at seven, for everyone here at nbc bay area, including our director of operations, mark villareal. thanks for joining us. we hope you enjoy your evening and we'll see you at 11.

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