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. >> it was named one of the top ten parades in the world by international festivals and events associationmerchants in san francisco are enjoying the rush of business from the lunar new year celebration. the festival brings thousands of tourists to the city. business owners in china town say sales are booming because of the floods of customers. >> all the restaurants in china town they are all busy. >> it gets probably about 99% in terms of our occupancy. that is the chinese new year coupled with a few other things going on. chinese new year definitely bumps it up. >> visitors plan to spend $1500 to $2,000 in the city this weekend. >>> mitt romney has stopped the losing streak after a narrow win in maine's caucuses. as reporter molly line tells us it gives romney a much needed boost. >> winner is mitt romney. >> reporter: maine republicans picking the former massachusetts governor but romney didn't run away with it. ron paul getting 36% of the vote. >> this is an unofficial nonbiding poll that simply shows a snapshot or takes a current pulse. >> reporter: the straw poll does not a locate a

it was named one of the top ten parades in the world by international festivals and events association. the chinese new year parade draws hundreds of thousands of people to san frances he co each year. coming up, how today's event affects local businesses and why the timing couldn't be better. if you can't make it out watch it right here. >> that's right, we will begin broadcasting the parade live right after this newscast. all the fun starts at 6:00. our own julie haener will be hosting. >>> singer whitney houston has died at the age of 48. the star was, of course, one of the world's best selling artists in the 1980s and '90s. her hits included i will always love you and how i will know. she had publicly struggled with drug use in recent years and had gone through rehab. the cause of her death as to where she died, neither is yet known. we will have much more for you on the death of whitney houston coming up for you tonight on the 10:00 news. >>> pleasant hill police are working to track down the person responsible for a deadly drive-by shooting. ktvu went to the neighborhood and talk

wanted to read a poem that was sent by the poet that i invited to the recent san francisco international poetry festival from iraq i've been in touch with for more than a year and a half. after the united states would not give him his visa, i asked him -- i told him about mutanabbi street and he wrote a poem and he wrote it in english, though he writes in, of course, in arabic. but this one he wrote in english. so i'll read it. one figure in the poem you should know, humbaba, which is an ogre, a monster of immemorial age. that was a special big garden, a forest, where all types of trees and flowers grew. the trees bending down gently flinging branches. our orchard grew like a crown on the sun's eyebrow. where did humbaba come from? his mother was just a cave, his father unknown. who made him a friend pretending guardian of the orchard. did those nice shrubs need fear to go begging for a garden and have humbaba in his treachery ilk. those plants and flowers were like books everyone could read, not cut and throw away. their different fantastic colors had formed our blood so our veins ran smoothly, our 7 w

wanted to read a poem that was sent by the poet that i invited to the recent san francisco international poetry festival from iraq i've been in touch with for more than a year and a half. after the united states would not give him his visa, i asked him -- i told him about mutanabbi street and he wrote a poem and he

of course the filipino international book festival.ino-american art's exposition, which of course hosts the parade and festival. and then, of course, there is the fantastic san francisco manila sister city. i want to give a special thank you to dennis normandy. thank you for your wonderful leadership on the sister city and for your great work on our commission as well. thank you very much. [applause] we want to recognize the incredible diverse accomplishments of all of our filipino-american contributors to our city and to make sure we look forward to continuing that strong relationship as we go forward in our city. so it is my honor to present today, on behalf of our city and county, the filipino american history month proclamation. you may join the council general, and please, the honorable hydra mendoza, president of our board of education, and of course, kyra rodriguez from our filipino channel. please take this problematic -- proclamation declaring this is a filipino-american history month in san francisco. [applause] >> ladies and

control program, which represents artists from multiple cultures, as the san francisco international arts festival has mentioned. the city can maximize its economic impact. thank you for your consideration. chairperson chu: before the next speaker, let me read the rest of the cards i have in hand. anita venevedes, christina carniverale, jennifer cleary. >> good evening again. my name is antoinette. i am representing 124 gallery, located in bayview hunters point. the america's cup is a great opportunity per helping to support small businesses, especially local arts organizations, to provide activities, entertainment, and fun for people after each day of the america's cup event. as we know that san francisco really prides itself on small businesses, which are asking you guys to look at putting together the program for the arts community, so these hard- working artists can benefit economically. again, we do support the america's cup. we just ask delaware to progress in. -- we just ask you to plug us in. san francisco has so much to offer in the arts and cultural community. we have restaurants. we hav

we now that the international arts festival is fund raising to try to do something. we're celebrating the 450th anniversary as the leadoff to that and we are ending with the opening of the bay bridge. 2013 is a year unlike any waterfront has seen and i am looking forward to a. supervisor kim: do you want to welcome supervisor campos? >>supervisor campos: thank you. just having to get a little more explanation. the assumption behind the revenue. i'm not sure you talked about that the you can go deeper into how you came to where the assumptions that provide these numbers? >> they were taken from a november 2010 budget analyst report that made assumptions about how tax revenues will be collected. it was based on the bacon report. >> where are split between the general fund and many to make sure this was meted out the wrong -- right way. that was added by their analysis. supervisor campos: thank you. >> a question for the budget analyst? on the revenue assumptions that were just provided. do you stand by these numbers? >> these numbers developed two years ago. for a repo

control program, which represents artists from multiple cultures, as the san francisco international arts festival has mentioned. the city can maximize its economic impact. thank you for your consideration. chairperson chu:

more than one hundred fifty thousand people get together each year at the international poetry festival of men to. demonstrate to the entire world that in a country that's so drained by war. shows to humanity the whole world's problems. that suffering is every war but also lives in the world. without pay since i live in such a big country. that everything is far. less. education food. health now the house and. my country still be the justice doesn't extend to all. there is abuse of power and greed when that trial resources because we are the children of a planet a planet that we had to plead with wars and everything. that was wrong.

my name is andrew would, with the san francisco international arts festival, and i would like to oppose that not be part of the amended resolution. i think this is our last opportunity to require the america's cup event authority to actually work with us. i don't think that we can have lots of different things happening. there has to be a guiding idea, there has to be something that is holistic and works with us. i think it will be in the interests of the city of the artsmi