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December 7, 2016

Politico
Trump: "We're going to work something out" with Dreamers

Donald Trump is adopting a softer tone on young undocumented immigrants granted work permits through an Obama-era directive that the president-elect has vowed to repeal once he's in the White House.

Berkeley News
Campus mourns five killed in Oakland warehouse fire

The campus will hold a memorial service Thursday, December 8th from 12 to 1 pm at Zellerbach Hall.

The official death toll from Oakland's warehouse fire has been updated to include two UC Berkeley students, two recent graduates and a community volunteer at the campus radio station.The Berkeley campus is grieving the losses and is mourning along with the families, wide circles of friends, coworkers and others who knew the young people in and out of the classroom, and in the Bay Area arts community.

The Daily Californian
UC Berkeley student Vanessa Plotkin, alumnus Griffin Madden confirmed as victims of Oakland fire

Vanessa Plotkin, a UC Berkeley student, and Griffin Madden, a UC Berkeley alumnus, have been identified as victims in the Oakland fire that occurred Friday, according to a press release issued by the city of Oakland on Tuesday night.

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SF Gate
Griffin Madden recalled as gifted and ‘luminous’ by UC Berkeley professors

"He was probably the most memorable undergraduate student I've had in my years of teaching," said Luba Golburt, an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, recalling the young man who was among 36 people to die in Friday night's horrific warehouse fire in Oakland.

"He had a luminous away about him, a quest for knowledge, and an enthusiasm for learning things," Golburt said, adding that her colleagues shared the same sentiment. "We all remember him very fondly."

December 6, 2016

SF Gate
Investigators find the area where the deadly fire began

The death count from the Oakland warehouse fire remained at 36 Tuesday morning, and officials said they do not expect to recover more victims from the ruins of the building. "Based on the areas that remain unsearched, I don't anticipate it going up," Battalion Chief Robert Lipp said of the death toll at a 6 a.m. press conference.

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The New York Times
An Outpouring of Support in Oakland

For Americans horrified by the fatal fire in Oakland, many did the only thing they could: open their wallets.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have poured into two principal fund-raising campaigns since the warehouse fire in the city's Fruitvale neighborhood on Friday left at least 36 people dead.

"We are overwhelmed with the amount of support," said Josette Melchor, founder of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco, which set up a fund-raising drive on Youcaring.com on Saturday.