Morning Wrap: 5/3/12

Top of the morning’s news:

• Health officials are investigating how a rare bacteria strain appears to have killed a 25-year-old researcher at the VA hospital’s diseases lab in San Francisco. Mercury News
• UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo can’t be sued by a convicted terrorist for helping craft the Bush administration’s torture policy, a federal appeals court ruled. Mercury News
• Faculty members in the Cal State system authorized a strike that could delay the start of classes for 400,000 students next fall. Chronicle
• San Francisco Unified School District violated more than 100 special education regulations in the past year, a new report by the state Department of Education says. The Bay Citizen
• After a winter of light snow, Yosemite’s Tioga Pass Road is expected to open Monday. AP