vehicle encampment in the area, they're now getting a break. >> to even enter any program. they're reduced to one trash bag, one suitcase. >> a deadline today to get rvs off the streets in the south bay. >> and how san francisco became ground zero for the country's birthright citizenship laws. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beil. >> and i'm kristen z. today marks two years since the deadly half moon bay mass shooting that killed seven people and injured one. it happened when a former employee targeted coworkers on two farms. he's pleaded not guilty. the trial is set to begin in april. >> that shooting has shined a light on the challenges facing farm workers, from low wages to housing to health care. and now a permanent memorial for the victims is being planned. but the question is what should it look like and who is going to pay for it? abc seven news reporter luz pena in half moon bay today. >> it's been two years, and even though farm workers are back on the fields, the hole left behind after seven of them were killed

at two separate mushroom farms by one of their coworkers. still tangible. the city is now unveiling three proposals to honor them. >> different colors for each of the victims. this is just the approach of a calming reflection uh- space. >> as the city still works on securing funding for these proposals, the deplorable housing conditions exposed by the mass shootings is still one of the main issues the san mateo county coast is facing. joaquin, it's been two years. what has changed here? >> a lot of things have changed. we, the city have on bay. collaboration with the county is working very hard to open up the new housing site for the farm workers. >> joaquin jimenez is the former mayor of half moon bay. he confirmed the city and county have been paying to house all the families who lived in the farms where the shootings took place. that's about 42 people. and he says more than a thousand farm workers need housing here. >> we had a governor newsom, who spoke, right, that he wanted to

see the housing be developed in half moon bay for the farm workers. yeah, you can speak all you want. where's the money? >> we went to the only site set aside for farmworker housing since the shootings. this is 8-80 stone pine. this is the closest san mateo county. and the city of half moon bay is to providing farmworker housing after the shootings there. getting this lot ready right now for 47 manufactured homes, 28 for farm workers. the county was able to secure a state grant of about $5 million for this. san mateo county supervisor ray mueller said they have space for 70 units here, but housing is not the only thing they've changed since the shootings. >> wactually had a task force go out and look at every farm and ranch in the county. we started an office of labor standards enforcement that's gone out and allows farm workers to actually call in if something is happening at a job site that isn't correct. >> the site is set to open in

may. do you think enough has been done to help the farm worker community? >> no. there's always more to do. >> in half moon bay. luz pena, abc seven news. >> and now to san jose. and a deadline for some unhoused people who are living in rvs. >> today, those rvs must be moved or get towed away. abc seven news south bay reporter dustin dorsey looks at the program and why city officials say it's off to a great start. >> reporter if you were to drive down chenoweth avenue in south san jose, you may notice some trees and trash. but you know what? you don't see rvs. this is what it looked like just two weeks ago. lined with some 30 lived in vehicles. but not anymore. >> those neighbors are happy that they're getting a little bit of relief. after months of a persistent vehicle encampment in the area. they're now getting a break, and people are generally following the rules. >> early successes of the city's olive program addressing oversize lived in vehicles.

chenoweth was the first area designated for a temporary no parking tow away zone. after the two week warning period. mayor matt mehan says there was perfect compliance. >> we are opening a new safe parking site, the largest in the south bay, that will be open next month. we are opening over 1000 placements for various types of shelter in san jose this year, so we have more and more places coming online for people to go, but that has to be balanced with accountability. >> a hands on approach by the city requiring people to abide by a code of conduct and utilize safe, managed places. but advocate sean cartwright says it's not that simple. >> the people in the rvs had homes in those rvs. they had all their belongings. and now to even enter any program, they're reduced to one trash bag, one suitcase. how do you take everything that was in your rv and reduce it to that, even if you wanted to enter a program? >> on top of that, cartwright and mehan both agree many of these rvs are likely to just move to another part of town. with growing concerns over encampments along waterways and

railroad tracks. she wants to see permanent solutions. >> people are just trying to move to where they think that they can survive. and sure, some people are going to take housing, but they're going to drop out of housing if people aren't graduating into permanent supportive housing, they are not going to stay in interim housing. they just don't. >> boyton avenue is next for enforcement, but mehan says most rvs are already gone. he hopes early compliance can lead to long term successes for the unhoused and the greater community in san jose. dustin dorsey, abc seven news. >> california is one of 15 states that today announced a major settlement with a pharmaceutical company over the opioid crisis. this is a $7.4 billion agreement with purdue pharma and the family that owns it. the company makes the addictive painkiller oxycontin. >> purdue pharma and the sackler family, under the guise of a mission to develop healthier communities, deceptively marketed opioids, and played a major role in contributing to our nationwide opioid epidemic.

their marketing and sales practices misled health care providers and patients about the addictive nature of opioids, and has led to overprescribing and serious addiction. >> this settlement will deliver funding directly to communities across the country that have been affected by the opioid crisis. that money will go toward addiction treatment, prevention and recovery programs. >> there's anger and disbelief over the bombshell announcement that sonoma state university will eliminate all of its athletic programs and some degrees to address a looming budget deficit. >> and today, we're hearing from a famous sonoma state alum who went on to play for the l.a. dodgers. abc seven news reporter cornell bernard has more from campus. >> if i'm being honest, man, it just it hurts for sure. >> dixon says it was a curveball he didn't see coming. he's a former sonoma state baseball player who got drafted by the l.a. dodgers in 2011. he can't believe all sports programs will soon be gone on the sonoma state campus. >> it just doesn't make sense. and i'm frustrated, and i know

how much sonoma state meant to me in my career, because if it wasn't for sonoma state, i don't know if i would have had a chance to get drafted. >> on wednesday, sonoma state university announced sweeping cuts of programs, degrees and faculty to address a nearly $24 million deficit for the 20 2526 school year. >> the reason i've had a job is for because of the student athletes. >> marcus ziemer is sonoma state's longtime men's soccer coach, soon to be out of a job. >> i'll be fine, but the thing just guts me is, is the programs gone, the history we've won, national championship, all these players, and you're out there coaching and, you know, it just it's just so sad for, you know, men's soccer for all the sports. it's just gone. >> some academic programs have been chopped. senior jennifer wiley just applied to the english master's program. now eliminated. >> i'm furious. i can't believe that they would do this at the last minute to students. i had no prior notification of this. like everybody else. >> sonoma state president emily contreras said in a statement the move to close the budget gap

wasn't an easy choice, but we have yet to speak with her in person. right now, i'm inside salazar hall. the president's office is on the second floor. i'm leaving because for the second time today, the president has declined abc seven's request for an interview. csu's chancellor says she supports sonoma state's choice to cut programs. each of csu's 23 universities budget circumstances are unique, and each makes budget decisions based on their specific needs and priorities. meantime, dixon says he plans to meet with other alumni. even the governor to find a solution to keep sports on campus. he makes this promise to student athletes. >> we're going to find a way to make sure that there's still baseball, there's still basketball and everything else and all the sports. we're going to find a way to make sure you guys still have an opportunity. okay. >> at sonoma state. cornell, bernard abc seven news. >> onto whether the new drought map is out. not good news for southern california. severe drought there has expanded, and

now extreme drought is back across los angeles and san diego. as for here in the bay area, the abnormally dry area has expanded from last week, still similar to what we saw, let's say three months ago. and all that white in the picture indicates that we were not in a drought this time last year. we had a ton of rain. abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel is here now with the first look at the forecast. hi, sandhya. >> hi there. and larry, that's precisely why the problem is here. we haven't had much rain here in the bay area this month, and now the drought monitor is showing it. a third of the state is in severe to extreme drought. and that is focused on southern california. looking at the bay area, there were only ps of the inland east bay that were abnormally dry. that is now starting to expand into parts of the south bay indicated by the yellow there. so once again, we are back in this dry, mild pattern, unseasonably warm for this time of year. in some places like san jose and fremont in the 70s, 60s and many other areas. it is a sunny view, but we are

expecting some changes. look at the lack of rain this month. san francisco only 6% of where it should be 19 hundredths of an inch. last time you had rain measuring here was almost three weeks ago. kristen, i'll be back to tell you about the possibility of rain coming up. >> all right. sandhya. thank you. the state public utilities commission is considering a change that could raise the cost of watr for about 2 million homes and businesses. cal water has applied to increase its base rates in each of the next three years. to modernize its water systems, the company says it needs to collect an additional $140 million in 2026 just to keep up with operational costs. the cpuc still has to approve the increases. >> president trump has followed through on another campaign promise, and this one is probably going to interest many americans today. he signed an executive order to release files related to the assassinations of former president john f kennedy, former attorney general robert f kennedy, and martin luther king jr. the jfk files are set to be

released in 15 days. the rfk and mlk files within 45 days. >> the president's plan to end birthright citizenship hits a roadblock and a look back at the bay area connection to the law. another fire breaks out in southern california during today's new red flag warning and the south bay plan that could help

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southern california burning. this map from cal fire shows all of them, including one that started in sepulveda overnight. that one is a little smaller and another one that broke out today in ventura county. so many at once. >> new video shows the firefight over the eu's fire near santa clarita as crews did water drops today. over 10,000 acres have burned so far. containment is at 24%. reporter leo stallworth, from our sister station in los angeles, spoke to some people who were surprised by what they found when they returned home. >> i saw the black clouds in my backyard yesterday. i've never seen snow smoke that close that bad. it was terrifying. >> jackie rincon, grateful in the aftermath of yesterday's aggressive, out of control fire, forcing her to evacuate and even contemplate the possibility of returning to her home in a heap of ashes. it still stands. >> i'm beyond words. grateful to our firefighters. i know a few,

and i know they're amazing men and women who put their lives on the line. >> the huge fire swept in fast and furious, torching more than 10,000 acres, leaving residents panicking as they fled their homes under a mandatory evacuation order. >> it was panic. panic in the streets. really it was. everybody was running. >> the fire igniting and taking off yesterday morning around 1030. turning the sky black with ash. battle weary firefighters attacking the blaze from the ground and air. the valiant effort working. not one home lost. this morning, governor gavin newsom was on the ground at the hughes fire, getting a briefing from cal fire and first responders with the fire. 24% contained. grateful evacuees returning to their homes, confident the worst is behind them. >> so grateful because i've seen so many uh- and i know several people who lost their houses in the palisades. >> the recent palisades fire and eaton fire in altadena, destroying thousands of homes and leaving dozens dead. with that haunting, reality gripping

residents in castaic. they were bracing for the worst as the hughes fire got within a breath of their homes. >> just, you know, just prayed and hope that my house would still be standing. >> and it is still standing. to our firefighters, our angels and yellow. >> oh my goodness. absolutely. they are the best. >> leo stallworth, abc seven news. >> meanwhile, firefighters quickly got a handle on another fire in ventura county. the laguna fire started this morning and grew to 50 acres, briefly threatening the cal state channel islands campus. crews were able to respond within minutes because they had been pre-positioned, knowing about the red flag warning. firefighters have stopped forward progress on the sepulveda fire that broke out last night by interstate 405, right near bel air. that fire is holding at 45 acres, 60% contained. evacuation warnings in bel air and brentwood have been lifted. >> the wildfires have highlighted a plan approved less than years ago or a year ago in the south bay, and it could help santa clara county prepare for a

similar disaster. >> abc seven news south bay reporter zach fuentes has more on that plan that aims to protect lives and properties when an emergency strikes. >> the southern california wildfires have brought a daunting reminder to communities across the state that they could face the same. in santa clara county, officials remind that its cities face not just wildfires, but earthquakes, floods and even tsunamis. but the same county plan that highlights and informs of those threats is also a roadmap in navigating them. >> the multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan is a countywide plan that identifies risks and threats in our county, and it helps us learn what they are and how we can minimize the damage of any natural or human caused disasters. >> that plan brings together 18 cities in the county and also unincorporated areas, ranking the biggest risks each faces. collaboration that's key. in an area as big as santa clara county, with some cities at higher risk of certain threats than others. for example, the

city of santa clara is at highest risk for earthquakes, followed by gilroy and morgan hill. palo alto, los gatos milpitas ranked some of the highest among the cities for wildfire risk. >> a overall whole community approach when we're doing this, because if there is an earthquake, for example, loma prieta, it didn't only affect that area of the county, it affected actually the whole bay. correct. but at least our whole county and all our cities and special districts understand the hazard risk levels. >> the most recent plan was approved in february of 2020. for a hard or more official review is done every 2 to 5 years. still, the county said the plan is consistently monitored and updated in between, something it says is especially critical as officials and the entire community see events unfolding in southern california. >> we're very focused on making sure that we plan, prepare, mitigate so we can respond and recover from disasters. >> but it's not just governments that officials say have to have

a plan. they remind everyone to protect themselves by having emergency plans and staying informed by signing up for emergency alerts in santa clara county. zach fuentes, abc seven news. >> all right, let's turn to the forecast now, because the weather obviously impacts the fires and how they spread. really mild conditions here. but in southern california it's dangerous. >> yeah. let's see if those winds are going to die down. what's the situation there now. >> yeah. so right now the winds are still gusty at this hour. kristen and larry, those winds will slowly subside, but critical fire weather conditions continue. take a look at the latest information on the hughes fire. it is now 24% contained, but it is over 10,000 acres. now winds in southern california earlier in the day maxed out over 80 miles an hour at magic mountain truck trail. so just an fyi. it has been very gusty. and near that fire, the hughes fire. it is still very dry. relative humidity 6%. gusts to 46 out of the northeast. so this drying wind continues. the santa ana

winds. you're looking at 62 at browns canyon right now. camp 949. the red flag warning in effect until 10 a.m. tomorrow, 55 to 70 mile an hour gusts, along with very low humidity will continue looking at the wind gusts, hour by hour is still pretty gusty. and then the winds slowly start to go down as we head towards 11 tomorrow morning. meanwhile, our weather really quiet. just a bright view from our exploratorium camera from our tam cam a little haze. mid 60s san francisco oakland. right now it is 73, in san jose, 70 in redwood city and 59 in half moon bay. it is clear. view from sfo camera 67 santa rosa and concord 65 napa. you're at 64, in livermore. high pressure providing us with the offshore winds and the unusually warm weather that we are experiencing. but changes are coming beginning tomorrow. so let's take a look at that as we look at the breeze coming in tomorrow. cloudier temperatures drop this weekend. possibility of showers and a gusty pattern is setting up with the strongest winds in the

hills. it will certainly turn cooler for everyone this weekend. mid 30s to the mid 40s. tomorrow morning you will notice more cloud cover. not quite as cold as this morning. tomorrow afternoon it's a cooler day anywhere from the upper 50s at the coast to the upper 60s around places like san jose, with increasing cloud cover throughout the day. then the wind advisory goes up for the north bay mountains tomorrow night until sunday morning. those winds out of the north northeast, gusting to 50, could take down a few tree limbs and certainly cause some outages. so this low is going to drop down from the north. and saturday morning we have the potential for a few showers to first develop in the north bay. very spotty around the region saturday afternoon and evening. look at sunday morning. isolated maybe, but possibility of some snow showers over mount hamilton. i know it sounds a little crazy. very limited and moisture, but the big thing is going to be the gusty winds and the cooler weather that you will notice. the accuweather seven day forecast clouds up. it cools down tomorrow. those temperatures continue to trend lower and we do have

gusty winds for saturday. a chance of a few showers. the shower chance will continue into sunday morning. before we go back to our dry pattern for a few days. we certainly are desperate for rain now and it looks like thursday. larry and kristen. we have a chance of some rain next week. >> significant. >> right now. it is too soon to say now that could continue into that following week. >> okay. >> so that's encouraging. maybe february will bring the wet weather. >> we take every drop. >> keep watching the percentages for us. thank you. >> thanks. >> after a brief delay the oscar nominations are out. up next, who made the cut this year? >> and later, the story of a bay area baseball

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leads the way with the most nominations. >> reporter george pennacchio, from our sister station in los angeles, has a look at the nominees. >> 15 cash up front. >> jill and nora is one of ten films hoping to win oscars best picture prize in alphabetical order. here are the other nominees. the brutalist a complete unknown conclave. dune part two amelia perez i'm still here, nickel boys, the substance and wicked. >> i'm not afraid. it's the

wizard who should be afraidf me. >> wicked star cynthia erivo is nominated in the best actress category. so is karla sofia gascon for emilia perez, the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for an oscar. also in this category, mikey madison for honora. demi moore, the substance and fernando torres for i'm still here. actors bowen yang and rachel sennott announced all of this year's nominees, including best actor. >> the nominees are adrien brody in the brutalist timothee chalamet in a complete unknown colman domingo, and sing, sing! ralph fiennes in conclave and sebastian stan in the apprentice. >> stan's costar in the apprentice, jeremy strong, scored a supporting actor nod. so did yuri borisov for honora. kieran culkin a real pain.

edward norton for playing folk singer pete seeger in a complete unknown. and guy pearce for the brutalist. the brutalist. felicity jones got a nomination for her supporting role in the film, also in the supporting actress category. monica barbaro for complete unknown. ariana grande. wicked. isabella rossellini for conclave and zoe saldana. emilia perez in los angeles george pennacchio for abc news now. >> the song is nominated in the best original song category, will not be performed live during the oscar show. that move was announced in a letter to the membership yesterday. it said instead, the show will celebrate the nominated songwriters through personal reflections. you can watch the oscars on sunday, march 2nd, right here on abc seven, and for the first time, it will also be live streamed on hulu. >> the plan to end birthright citizenship hits a roadblock. plus. >> you might have been born in san francisco, but that doesn't make you a us citizen.

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part of, with 17 other states. >> now, birthright citizenship is also getting a lot of attention. right now, not everybody knows the role that san francisco's chinatown had in making it a basic right in this country. >> oh, yeah. case here. president. abc seven news reporter lyanne melendez has a look at the history. >> you see the sign camera zone over there? that is the location of where wong kim ark was born. >> the story of birthright citizenship as we know it today begins here on the corner of grant avenue and sacramento street. >> wong kim ark was a person of chinese ancestry, born to chinese parents who were immigrants. >> wong kim ark was born in 1873. his parents, like many chinese immigrants, came to california for opportunities after the gold rush, but competition for jobs led to resentment. >> we have asian hate today. nothing like what they were 1870

to 1890. they were murder burned out, hung. massacred. >> the u.s. then passed the chinese exclusion act of 1882, preventing chinese laborers from coming into the country. >> so if you were a chinese in america after 1882, you were totally excluded not only from coming, but if you were here in america, you cannot be a naturalized citizen. >> even though wong kim ark was born in the u.s, his citizenship was questioned in 1895 as he was coming back from a visit to china. he was detained at the port of san francisco. >> and they say, look, you might have been born in san francisco, but that doesn't make you a us citizen. yes. black people, white people, everybody else who's born in the united states is a us citizen, but not

chinese. >> wong kim ark was a cook. he was in his early 20s. he had no money. so the community realized how important birthright citizenship is fr chinese in america. >> san francisco's chinatown at the time was run by a coalition of community groups. >> this is the chinese six company. this is the city hall for chinatown. >> the chinese six companies raised money from chinatown residents and hired high powered lawyers. they took the case all the way to the supreme court. >> and the question was whether race mattered with regard to birthright citizenship. are you a birthright citizenship if you're born in the united states to noncitizen parents, even if you're not white? >> the country had been debating the issue throughout the 19th century. in the 1857 dred scott

decision, the u.s. supreme court ruled black people born in the united states were not citizens. but then the civil war ended slavery, and the country adopted the 14th amendment. >> 14th amendment says all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the united states. a lot of courts said this is very clear. any person born in the united states is a citizen. it doesn't say white people, doesn't say black people. it says all persons. and so it applies to chinese. >> the supreme court agreed. but those who want to get rid of birthright citizenship say the words subject to the jurisdiction thereof, makes undocumented immigrants ineligible. >> to be subject to the jurisdiction of the united states. if we go and live outside the united states, the government still has some purchase over us. we have to file tax returns. a non-citizen

who leaves the united states once they are outside the territory of the united states. the united states government has no authority over them and cannot require anything. here. we're talking about people who are here illegally. the children will be recognized as a citizen of whatever country those parents came from, but that doesn't mean they should be recognized as citizens of the united states. >> the citizenship clause of the 14th amendment doesn't say anything about your parents. it says any person who's born subject to the jurisdiction of the united states, even if the parents have relationships to some foreign jurisdiction, the child doesn't. the child is born here. the child is subject to draft registration, subject to pay taxes. it doesn't say the parents have to be subject to the jurisdiction of the united states. >> birthright citizenship was later adopted by congress. >> they put it in the u.s. code. that means, regardless of whether it's right or wrong as a

constitutional matter, it is the law as a matter of statute, unless congress wants to change it, which they can, it's going to stay. >> this is a picture. >> of my father. >> the debate is personal for norman wong. norman's father was either wong kim ark son or grandson. records of that time leave some doubt. >> i have a fractured family history. >> that fractured history includes his mother. >> she was still. >> 16, probably when they had to leave. >> the picture shows his mother's family with their bags packed. during world war two, they were forced to leave their san leandro home and sent to a u.s. concentration camp in utah simply for being of japanese descent. >> you deny your own people their citizenship rights and live as a total underclass forever. and their children. that's not supposed to be the

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for karina has dropped in. so let's get this started with sandhya as well. you guys, a new traffic feature in san francisco's inner sunset is driving some motorists crazy. it's called a neck down. it's not a massage or anything. you guys. it's a look at this two way traffic is squeezed down to just one lane on kirkham street between ninth and 10th avenues. drivers headed east have to yield to those traveling west. the sfmta says it will decide whether to keep the neck down after evaluating its effectiveness. it's been there since october and it's a pilot program. the idea is to mimic a narrower street, to slow it down, if you will, to try to curb traffic accidents and things like that. what do you think? i was looking at the video and i'm already confused. i mean, you see, when you approach, i'm assuming it's the same idea as a roundabout, right? it's for safety to slow people down and move through that street slower. so it makes

sense safety wise. but i don't know if i were to approach that, would i know what to do? looking at it, i'm a little bit confused. yeah, because some people accidentally go into the bike lane and then veer to the right, the cyclist. >> what i was going to say, at the risk of getting the bike people upset at me, if they just minimize the bike lane or maybe, you know, one or the i don't know how you would do it, but then you could just put a yellow line down the middle and you wouldn't have to do this. >> well, why are you so anti cycling? >> i'm not anti cycling. >> i'm anti traffic. >> sure larry okay. yeah i mean this is going to be controversial. they're trying so many different things right. because they're not anywhere near vision zero. >> it just requires cooperation. yeah. spirit airlines making some changes to its passenger dress code. clothing that exposes private parts is no longer allowed. what am i going to wear? nor is lewd, obscene or offensive clothing or body art.

the new policy comes after two women were kicked off a spirit flight for wearing crop tops. i don't know. >> well what's considered a private part, right? because a crop top just shows your belly. yeah. and so it's the style now. everyone's wearing all the cleavage, wearing crop tops, maybe cleavage. yeah. the younger kids are wearing crop tops, for sure. but i think also, you know, maybe they have this image that it has to be very professional. no distractions. >> maybe that's why. have you been on a plane lately? >> yeah. have you been to the airport? >> there are enough distractions. >> yeah. >> from a practical standpoint, i cover myself from head to toe because it's so cold on planes. >> that's true. >> it is cold. and a mask is not bad either. so. >> all right, you guys, humans are getting bigger. but apparently men are growing taller and heavier at a faster rate than women. a new study finds men have increased in size at twice the rate of women and sexual selection. evolution may be the reason. in general, women prefer taller men, and in

contrast, so the taller men get to reproduce and that the genes get carried on where they're taller as well. that's how evolution works. so that's in contrast with women's height isn't a key factor for attracting men. so that's what's happening. you're talking to three petite women here on the. >> set though, so we're. >> not getting any taller. >> no. >> i mean this just rules out my son ever being able to play basketball and make a basketball team because we're both short, i guess. ping pong. it is. maybe he'll take after grandparents or something. no, we got nothing. >> okay. real short. yeah. it's okay. >> at the risk of asking the wrong question here, would you say, in general, since you're all petite, that you're attracted to taller men? >> or would they have. >> to be taller than me? >> yeah. well, you prefer that. >> that's five feet tall. >> so that's 5 to 5. one and a half. >> you are not five two. but. okay. >> okay. you're in such big trouble there, it's not even funny. >> yeah. >> knocking my. >> height thursday. >> yeah exactly. but it's interesting. they're getting taller and bigger too. that

seems to be not healthy. but apparently. no no no. >> let's get to the food. >> all right. tasty thursday and a new tasting menu from san francisco's merchant roots. the menu is based on the humpty dumpty nursery rhyme and explores the idea of broken. it includes break his fall, which features a wall and a falling egg, and break the bank, a dessert served in an in case of emergency break glass box. >> joining us today is chef ryan shelton. i got to tell you, this is such an incredible concept. when i was reading about it earlier and i thought, who thought of this? this is brilliant. >> oh, you might need to turn your microphone on. >> you might. >> oh you're fine. okay. actually, i'm told you're fine. it's us. >> all right. great. >> okay. >> we got you. >> look at that. perfect. yeah. one of our guests had eaten way too many eggs in one sitting and had a nightmare about humpty dumpty. and we thought that was

too funny. we just wanted to find a way to turn it into a menu. the missing context we needed was that a humpty dumpty menu of eggs needs to be broken, like him himself. so we've. got broken bread, a broken record. >> so tell me what i'm supposed to do here. because i've got the egg and i'm supposed to just. >> why don't you hold it from about a foot and a half above the plate and go ahead and give it a good drop? >> is this going to go all over me? >> not if you're careful. >> not if i'm careful. how about. >> how about right? kristen sze? yes. no. >> keep it. >> away from kristen. you're fine. >> there you go. >> successfully broken. yeah. >> i feel like a chef. >> now, since this comes at the end of a menu where we have all egg shells and eggs. this is us being a broken record. the egg shell here is edible coconut mousse, mango, passionfruit curd. on the side is a little bit of macadamia nut streusel. >> nice. >> okay. what about mine? it looks like a churro, but it's savory. and then there's some. exactly egg concoction in here. >> yeah, so that's our dippy egg. we call this course breaking bread. we broke tradition. instead of having toast soldiers to do the dippy

egg. we've got savory churros, sesame and spice inside the egg, onion, potato mousse, bacon, shallot jelly, and egg yolk jam. wow. >> i just took a bite. that's incredible. >> wow. >> i've got to say, i was gonna fight kristen for her. for her tray. >> yeah. >> but i think mine's better. >> no, i think mine's better. >> fantastic. >> tell me about. this whole idea of storytelling through plating and through your food. >> you know? yeah, we just love a theme that's so much about what we're about. you know, we are a multi-course tasting menu restaurant. like a lot of places, we're a team of chefs here, and we all just brainstorm these ideas we like to start instead of from the food out from the theme in. so this menu started with humpty dumpty, and we kind of brainstormed from there down to all of these individual dishes that had various kind of idioms about being broken and break a leg, break his fall, etc. and we just kind of that's how we built each quarter. so next season is going to be a menu of edible flowers.

we're going to be trying to brainstorm different ways that flowers are beautiful and presented, and follow those kind of ways with the food as well. it's a lot of fun. we're always really proud of these themes after we end up spending six months working on them, and they only serve for about three months, so it's a pretty fun process. >> can i just say that, you know, some people might think, oh, this is gimmicky, but can i just tell you the food is amazing? >> yes. >> so it's really you've got the food to back it up. but what a fun experience to walk people through, right? >> yeah. i mean, if, you know, if you're going to go out to dinner, i think it should be fun. >> yeah, true. >> i assume you have foods that you don't have to break in order to eat. but i also know you have kind of a small restaurant, right? you only see 12. >> yeah, 12 at a time. twice a night, five nights a week. we get to really experience every guest when they come in. it's like a little dinner party. so we like to keep it intimate. just over 100 people a week.

that works well for us. we're a small team, you know, we have only cooks. that's the only staff here. so it's really just a great way to kind of be together with the guests and interact and have a lot of fun. >> chef ryan, can i just ask you, did you have some sort of either literary background or, you know, something that connected you to this desire to, like, tell stories? and also as miss moffat, is it muppet? which one is the one with the spider? i can just see that nursery rhyme becoming one. >> of your. >> yeah. >> you know, you know, we are doing a menu of bedtime stories and nursery rhymes later in the year. we're pretending it's like our pajama party, our sleepover. so yeah, absolutely. you have us figured out. no. you know, we just love what we do. we have a ton of fun. when you're a young chef, you only think about flavor. and then that turns into plating and context. and, you know, this project's been around now five years, and we've just gotten to the point where we want to think of the richest, most vibrant story possible because it's going to influence really special food. >> real quick. the address. >> we're at 1148 mission street here in selma near civic center.

>> all right. well, it was so good. thank you so much. thank you. >> oh, delicious. >> thank you. such a pleasure.

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is just 23 days away. it is the largest lunar new year event outside of asia, and a celebration of the contribution chinese americans have made to the region. that legacy is on display in the south bay for all to see. >> we took the architectural drawings of the original temple and built this as a replica, and wanted to make it to show the history of the chinese american communities from the early 1850s up to the present. >> that's our goal, is to educate, preserve and promote

the chinese american culture. >> this is our mission to show those second and third generations what it was like to come here, because they wanted to come and make a new life for their families. we're in history. san jose park, which is owned by the city, and, it was built to show the different cultures and the diversity of who lives in san jose and who developed san jose. so the chinese came to san jose as early as the 1850s. this building is a historic building, a replica of a building that stood in san jose's last chinatown from 1888 to the late 1940s. >> this building was a community center, a place for people to

gather. it was a place for chinese school, so kids would go to regular school, but they would come here from 5:00 to 8:00 to learn how to read, write and speak chinese. >> this altar is the largest existing altar in a museum being presented in the united states, and we are so proud of it because it took many people thousands of labor hours to preserve it. all of the pieces of this altar had been stored under the municipal stadium, under the bleachers. can you imagine? outdoor for over 50 years. that much about chinese american history, the sacrifices and the hard struggles that the early

immigrants faced when they were here. >> i think with more understanding then you have better communication and you have better. everybody is better. >> chinese americans have contributed so much to the building of california and this country. abc7 is a proud sponsor of the 2025 san francisco chinese new year parade. you can watch the live parade saturday, february 15th, 6 p.m. right here on abc seven and wherever you stream abc seven news. that's it for the news at for abc seven news at five is next.

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