the senator tweeting ucsc grad students are fighting to have the labor rights acknowledged. i stand with pay us more ucsc. >>> and officials released a statement saying the deadline hasn't changed and those who do not turn in withheld grades won't be eligible for a spring teaching appointment. also future employment as an academic student employee will be assessed on a case by case basis. >>> three people were killed and at least 18 others injured after a bus crashed down an embankment in san diego county. it happened this morning off interstate 15 in pa la mesa. fire investigators say several passengers were thrown from the bus after the driver swerved off the rain-slicked highway. >> given the weather conditions, the slope and the terrain, that this simply adds to the difficulty of such incidents. thankfully, heavy rescue systems you know, ropes and those types of things were not required in order to extricate the victims. >> officials say there were no seat belts on bus and varying injuries were reported. >>> and coming up, where you can cast your ballots before march 3rd

at ucsc, maria medina, kpix 5. >> uc officials released a statement tonight saying the deadline has not changed, and quote those who do not turn in withheld grades will not be eligible for a spring teaching appoint. also future employment as an academic student employee will be assessed on a case by case basis. >>> tomorrow marks a week since a palo alto couple went missing in marin, and searchers ouagain looking in the morning. but the focus will be on recovery from the waters of shell beach at the state park. that's where searchers say several cadaver dogs have indicated alerts. the son of 77-year-old carol kiparsky has been helping in the search and believes his mother and her husband ian irwin somehow ended up there. >> we are accepting now a tremendous loss even though we don't have a positive confirmation in the form of recovered, recovery. um, we have accepted that this is a loss and it's hard. >> in spite of to dogs leading them to the water, volunteers will search above the beach tomorrow morning just to be sure they haven't missed anything. >>> new data from bart shows police

. >> reporter: in a statement ucsc said the 11:59 deadline remains and point out that those who do meet the deadline will be eligible for future teacher assignments and a $2,500 annual housing stipend and serve on a committee to work to improve conditions for grad students. we're not sure if that is part of the process that janet napolitano is now calling for but it is a step in that direction. but as long as this midnight deadline remains, the clock is still ticking. live at uc santa cruz, robert handa, nbc bay area news. >>> we have developing news out of contra costa county. a brush fire on dear valley road west of brentwood. the fire grew to about 7 hours -- sorry 7 acres before firefighters were able to knock it down. it is now fully contained. no word on what started this fire. >>> we are learning more tonight about the murder of a woman at at san jose airbnb. a suspect is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death. appeared before a judge and was charged with murder, the stabbing happened on mountain view avenue. sheriffs found the body on tuesday. but during a search of the hom

. >> sometimes ucsc side effects where the winner in iowa such as barack obama in 2008 doesn't always win the new hampshire primary, hillary clinton won in 2008 but barack obama came back and won south carolina and took the nomination so sometimes you have that pattern. that happened with george w. bush, he won iowa but john mccain won new hampshire but won south carolina. we can see that affect this time. but it is hard to say. sometimes the new hampshire winner goes on to win at all. that happened with donald trump. he lost iowa but won new hampshire and won the nomination. so it can shake up the race. what is different this time is we are not in a 2-person race. we are in 3, 4, five person race still. that creates a whole different dynamic. >> that would probably be the case moving forward. a lot has been said about southern strategy. south carolina up next. explain how past winners in new hampshire fared in the palmetto state and as we discussed that we can bring up some numbers from the past just to compare. >> with george w. bush, he really did badly in new hampshire but came ba