i foundation and pacific islander wellness center in 2002. i got put on a housing wait list and i was happy to say nine years later my name came up and i am now able to focus on my work and life without worrying about where i'm going to live. i'm been a peer leader at the wellness center since 2007 and also help people care for people living with advanced hiv. i never believed i would be respected, but i see that people in the community look up to me. there are people out there who are going through what i've been through and i want to give back to the community and to the people who i help. without the help of case managers who were involved in my care, i don't think i would have been able to stay in treatment. if funding is cut, clients will not have their scheduled monthly social network meeting that gives them the safe space to meet work clients receive educational and treatment information. without our help some clients may not be able to navigate the system. if cuts go through, clients may disengage in care and not adhere to their medic

my name is [speaker not understood] and i am the director of programs at the asian and pacific islander wellness center. and our agency lives in the heart of the tenderloin neighborhood and our clients accessing our center are amongst the poorest, the most marginally housed immigrant communities and gay bisexual and transgender communities. and i am here today to ask the board of supervisors to act now to backfill the $3 million shortfall to keep our city's lean hiv/aids services whole. we're not asking for new resources, for new projects or programs, but to really keep our cost-effective model of hiv prevention and care intact for the well-being of the city of san francisco and all its residents. the wellness center looks to receive $195,000 reduction over the next two fiscal years, meaning we will serve 75 less clients who are living with hiv in the heart of the tenderloin. when making your decision, i hope you factor in the following information. according to the data from dph, the tenderloin neighborhood and san francisco's homeless population have the highest hiv community viral lo

. >>> make sure their voices are heard about the immigration debate asian-pacific islanders gathered to discuss their concerns. asian-pacific islanders or api say they make up a huge number of 4 million people that have family visa applications which are currently backlogged at the federal level. >> separation of api family members are devastating for our community members and i think that our priority is to make sure that we have a family unification. >> last week the u.s. senate passed its version of immigration reform. the house is now scheduled to take up the issue. >>> ecuador's president rafael corea says u.s. vice president joe biden called him yesterday and asked him to refuse asylum to national security agency leaker edward snowden. he says he would consider the matter if and when snowden arrives in ecuador. ecuador is trying to get the u.s. to extradite two bankers convicted of crimes in ecuador who are now living in the united states. >>> president obama is in south africa tonight, earlier today his helicopter flew over the hospital where memphisan mandela where nelson man

we also agreed to step up coordination in the asia pacific islands. >> he hopes the two country also promote bilateral dialog at various levels to fortify ties. as maritime nations, the two countries stressed the importance of issues being resolved peacefully without force or provocation in a manner that is clearly consistent with international law. the statement was made with nations such as china in mind. >>> japan and china have been locked in a dispute over a group of islands in the east china sea. taiwan and china claim them. the united states view has been consistent for decades. it says japan has add men traytive control of the islands but has not taken a public stance on what country actually has sovereignty over them. the u.s. position has its origins in 1971. documents to led to this exist, but a recently discovered audio file sheds further light on the issue. nhk world has the story. >> reporter: the okinawa reversion agreement was signed on june 17, 1971. the senkaku islands were returned to japan by the united states along with okinawa. the area had been administered by

by then, the pacific islanders were already 8 -- zero down.earlier, torres had been more successful. his teammates scored a hat trick. the oceana champions struggled with their attack and sell came close to the spanish goal. tahiti fans were hoping their side would score again like they did against nigeria on sunday, but their hopes were dashed. tahiti tried their best to keep spam from reaching double digits, but in the 89th minute, david silva scored his second goal and put spain ahead. >> still sentimental favorites there in brazil. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> a year after a us-led initiative to lift tens of millions out of poverty and hungry -- hunger in africa was launched, we examine the new alliance for food security and nutrition. you're watching "inside story americas" from washington. returned sea. the alliance was formed at the 2012 g-8 summit led by the united states -- i'm shihab rattansi. the stated goal was to reduce

today we have a special roundtable discussion in celebration of asian-american and pacific islander heritage. kristen sze is leading a conversation with local leaders about current issues that face our bay area community. >> eric: we do have a. >> kristen: each worked hard for a variety of causes and there is a real commitment to improving our communities in the bay area. we have billy wong, president and ceo bay tag a nonprofit media producer. welcome. and welcome as well is festival director for asian and american media that funds and distributes films and digital media. and also the director first of kind citywide campaign to fight chronic hepatitis, a disease that affects so many asian-americans. thank you all for coming. look forward to a fantastic conversation. let's start with you. a very successful festival, tell us about that. i know thousands of people attended. >> absolutely. thank you. it starts in march and 11 day festival here in san francisco, oakland and berkeley. we had about 3,000 people that attended. we played over hundred films, many of which were premieres. >> kristen:

thank you for your countless years of service to the san francisco public schools to the asian pacific islander community and the city of san francisco as a whole. thank you, mr. waung. [ applause ] >> hello, there. very new at this. they told me i only get one minute to say something. it will be one minute. let me get my notes here. [ laughter ] >> that's something as an introduction here and it's something i do at school here. i always start off with something that is funny, but i have to say that teaching is not a job. it's an adventure. besides every successful man, there is a great woman. and that's my wife, lynn. [ applause ] and i have to say the other side london breed. she was my asb vice-president 1992. i know, don't tell them, but she was great there. and i really appreciate principal mr. black shear to be here and also i have some of my associate student body officers here and i really do want to recognize norman yee because he graded from galileo and he's done a lot for our school here. that's something i want to pass off an i started student teaching at galileo about 1970. that's

by then, the pacific islanders were already 8 -- zero down.earlier, torres had been more successful. his teammates scored a hat trick. the oceana champions struggled with their attack and sell came close to the spanish goal. tahiti fans were hoping their side would score again like they did against nigeria on sunday, but their hopes were dashed. tahiti tried their best to keep spam from reaching double digits, but in the 89th minute, david silva scored his second goal and put spain ahead. >> still sentimental favorites there in brazil. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

by then, the pacific islanders were already 8 -- zero down.earlier, torres had been more successful. his teammates scored a hat trick. the oceana champions struggled with their attack and sell came close to the spanish goal. tahiti fans were hoping their side would score again like they did against nigeria on sunday, but their hopes were dashed. tahiti tried their best to keep spam from reaching double digits, but in the 89th minute, david silva scored his second goal and put spain ahead. >> still sentimental favorites there in brazil. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> hello and welcome back to nhk "newsline" with the news from tokyo. monsoon rain triggered flooding and land slides in india and confirmed nearly 600 deaths. that number is expected to rise. swollen rivers swept away houses and roads. state government officials say they launched full-scale search operations on thursday. emergency workers found more than 400s on friday alone. the state officials confirmed 576

it's smaller planes with service between the pacific islands.rch it became the first airlines to charge people based on their weight. cheaper tickets, guys, for those eating off the new healthy menu. >> like the way you tie that together. nice work. when it comes to healthy living we think of taco bell. >> right. >> i don't know. maybe if you've got to get on a scale before a flight. >> how about that? luggage scale there. >> what's interesting, when i think of macho nachos i think of reduced fat sour cream. >> balanced. >> 4:47. all you men out there, good morning to you. of course, mothers, women, kids, everybody, come one, come all, gather around the tv, a great looking forecast to tell you about today. it's going to be phenomenal. i can't stress this enough. things are going to change before you know it. we are running cooler by two, three degrees. it's not too bad. in the 50s. more 40s pop up through the next couple of hours. temperatures continue to drop off. one area of low pressure. that reinforced the cool air in place. another within o

he says this on an ocean self-off the coast of the pacific island could be the reminisce of her planeempting to become the first-person to fly around the globe vanished off the island, the last place her monitors lost contact with her. not a trace of her or her plane have ever been found. they believe it actually went down off nikumaroro. i held up what it might look like against his new imagine. >> why do you think that matches earhart's plane? >> we know how it breaks up in a crash. we studied other crashes and we know that the center section of the airplane is the strongest part, the part that holds together. the engines tend to come off, the outer wings come off. it breaks behind the wing. so the size of the anomaly imagine matches the part that hangs together the best. >> he admits there's a chance this isn't earhart's plane. still he's trying to raise $3 million for an expedition there next year. but there's plenty of skeptics of his latest theory and of his work overall. they believe he attached himself to the idea that the remains of earhart's plane are there and they believe

our actual workforce representation is 29% african-american, 22% hispanic, 16% asian-pacific islander, 6% filipino, and 27% white. ~ 26%. so, we are very difficult verse in our staffing. in terms of the other for cultural competency, we offer our clients in terms of access, language line, we have english and spanish publications. also our reception area which is our first contact point, we have multiple language spoken in that area. in terms of overtime, we have zero overtime we we always have ceo overtime. so, keeping up the good fight. ~ zero we do community policing b we offer staff time off, and we give them time to do that. those are two things, we do pink saturday and also halloween in the castro district. but we do not authorize any overtime. staff basically look at that part of our community corrections or community relations opportunity. in terms of the clients that we service, high-risk, high-need as we talked about, substance abuse, 82% of our clients, we do risk needs assessment on our clients and 82% have a substance abuse issue or need to be addressed. vocation and educa

it is hispanic, pacific islanders, white, native americans, it is everybody. when they leave that room, they go back to their communities that are segregated. they, too, do not like it. it is a barrier that has to be torn down. i know it works. being in there for the last four years, we make it a point that everybody mixes up, even the seating. you do not just sit with a black person or a white person. it is about all of us, or none of us, and that is the bottom line. it has to be that mentality. >> it is a way to control the prisoners. it takes the pressure off the guards and everybody else. they say we want to stop violence, but you promote a violence by segregating. when an individual comes, the first in the asking, where are you from? what is your nationality? that is how to divide and conquer. that is the way the united states is made up. that is how you work. north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates

of which over 58% are asian or pacific islanders and 39% speak none or limited english. and over 30% of the seniors age 60 and older lives alone. the senior center located in district 1 and senior center located in district 4 serves over 200 seniors a day. in the past year with the budget cuts and nutrition program we have to limit our service. we had to turn away seniors who simply want to find a place to stay out of hunger, a place to hang out with friends, a place where they call their second home. besides our nutrition program, betop is another program for our seniors. three hours on the day of the press release, all of our places are filled and we have to generate a very long waiting list. we need the funding to provide the tech support, system maintenance in order to keep our seniors connected to the world to get roots and to their distant loved ones. on behalf of our seniors i would like to thank you, mayor lee, supervisor mar, supervisor tang, and [speaker not understood] for the engagement over the past years and future support in self-help nutrition programs an

visitation valley, and the patral, hill and the students are african american, hispanic and pacific islanders please keep the people who support our struggling families the most. ace members and closed the gap coalition will be keeping a close eye on you how you choose to spend the additional revenues coming from the states. and we want to make sure that these resources go to school sites themselves for direct services to students. and help teachers do their jobs. we ask that you make public, the plans for your multitiered system of support. and the common core, we are very concerned about special education money, being swept from our school sites. remember, this is our, discuss me this is our footing, our schools, our children, and our future. >> good evening, board of education commissioners and superintendent carranza, i'm susan soloman, i am here representing the closed gap coalition, gordon was here and was not able to stay to speak. where many items that i will try to keep it short as short as possible. and we have a number of concerns, one is about many of the funds that are being swep

had three more. .spain sets a confederations cup record for the largest nothing rout of the pacific islandershiti the travelers championship in crmwell, connecticut hoabout backdidn' we then'll be right back after break ifback in a moment 13th hole charley hoffman sinks the winding eagle putt his 2nd eagle on the day 18th hole hoffman makes the short birdie putt to finish with a 28 on the back 9 holes one off the pga record of 27 for a 9 hole par 35 course he shot a 9-under 61 on the day and leads by one shot ok since it's our news director aaron pero's favorite story - redfoo one more time stefan gordy, aka redfoo of lmfao fame - trying his hand at tennis. this is last night in salinas - gordy trying to put together a string of wins to qualify for the u.s.open as a wild card. gordy showed he can play a little - but not enough - he lost his singles match to and just moments ago gordy also bowed out in mixed doubles - despite the setback. he says he will be back next year you can catch the latest news, forecast and traffic conditions whenever it's watch live on kron4.com or on comcast channel

and we have advisory groups that now total -- we have asian pacific islander, we have african-american, latino, gay, women, youth, middle eastern group, middle eastern muslim arab, and we're now getting very close to starting one with the jewish community. we also convene regularly round table discussions with the media to make sure that the message and the mission of the office is being publicized in those communities. and that pretty much completes the presentation and i'm available for any questions you may have. oh, one of the last things, we looked at the suggested budget by the budget analyst. we agree with three of the areas. there is one area we do not that we are very close to it and we really feel we'll be able to reach an agreement by next week. >> great. thank you, mr. gascone. colleagues, do we have any questions or comments at this time? thanks very much, mr. rose. why don't we go to the budget analyst report: , please. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, page 70 recommended total [speaker not understood] 13-14 of that amount, 276.38 are ongoing. [speaker not under

know a small town it's kind of rural city it's very multicultural full of you know a lot of pacific islanders aboriginal people macedonian people and so i feel like it's really important that this side of history. which is often not talked about or not represented a multicultural sort of i think it's important for me to speak about that as someone of a of a mine or. the background and it's sort of the same here you know because oftentimes you get fed one narrative and i think it's really important to complexity and different facets to the idea of a struggling identity absolutely and it seems that you embrace a lot of dark things about humanity and a lot of positive things about humanity especially a generation x. i mean our generation. with homes like my generation and also to slam poetry that you gave it for ted at the sydney opera house really highlights kind of the darkest and best things how do you juggle the relationship between the two concepts of this person is an optimism that you see one of my favorite writers is a nigerian god and he talks about how you can't deal with a lot unless

. >>> asian pacific islanders are bringing up their biggest concerns right here in the bay area. they packed a town hall meeting yesterday in oakland. they say they make up a large number of the four million people who have family visa applications that are backlogged at the federal level. >> separation of api family members are devastating for our members. >>> and i think that our priority is to make sure that we have family unification. >> last week, the senate passed its version of immigration reform. the house is scheduled to take up the issue after the 4th of july vacations. >>> starting tomorrow, student loan rates are going up. congressional lawmakers failed to reach a deal, so they're going to double to 6.28%. a congressional committee estimates the hike will cost the average student more than $2500. >> we're asking too much of our college students. we're narrowing and narrowing the field of who can be a college student in the country. >> the senate can decide to take up the topic of student loan rates again after it reconvenes after the july 4th holiday. >>> the state ga

today we have a special roundtable discussion in celebration of asian-american and pacific islander heritage. kristen sze is leading a conversation with local leaders about current issues that face our bay area community. >> eric: we do have a. >> kristen: each worked hard for a variety of causes and there is a real commitment to improving our communities in the bay area. we have billy wong, president and ceo bay tag a nonprofit media producer. welcome. and welcome as well is festival director for asian and american media that funds and distributes films and digital media. and also the director first of kind citywide campaign to fight chronic hepatitis, a disease that affects so many asian-americans. thank you all for coming. look forward to a fantastic conversation. let's start with you. a very successful festival, tell us about that. i know thousands of people attended. >> absolutely. thank you. it starts in march and 11 day festival here in san francisco, oakland and berkeley. we had about 3,000 people that attended. we played over hundred films, many of which were premieres. >> kristen:

marooned themselves on a deserted pacific island and lived to make an excellent video out of it."survivor" while this guy may look like matthew mcconaughey it's not the summer blockbuster. this is jeff flake, republican senator from arizona on a survivalist trip last week with his two youngest sons, 15 and 13year-old. what is the inspiration. >> four years ago a took a similar trip, 20 miles, stayed for 7 days and 7 nights. first thought was where's a cheese burger. and the next thought, this would be more fun with my kids. >> reporter: just getting there was ambitious. from phoenix to hawaii to the tiny thousand foot wide island, 10,400 miles round trip. what did they bring with them? >> we brought no food new york water about but desallen eighter pumps to pump sea watter. >> and a lobster trap lost to the shark. >> a speared a grouper, a big one, and it riggled the spear out of my hand and i had to dive down 20 feet to retrieve the spear with the fish on the end of it. by that time, four sharks closed in on the fish. we were about 50 yards out but didn't want to lose our meal.

his name is art jackson and he received a medal of honor for the pacific island n of pelalu in world >> storming the beaches, jackson seventh marines unit was pinned down by murderous japanese fire. he stormed bunkers single handily taking out 12 of them. according to citations he contributed to the complete annihilation of the enemy. president truman put the medal of honor around his neck, but few on years later on a hero's tour he left his medal in a room at the hotel. when he returned it was gone. 42 years later, in 1987, jackson got a call that his medal was on display a tv repair shop. owner said he bought it for $300 at a gun show in charlotte. he agreed to send the metal back but what he sent back wasn't his medal of honor. it was fake. for the next 25 years, f.b.i. agents shot he had kept the real medal for himself and give jackson a fact simply. after we started looking into it new evidence came to lighted that shockingly may have never possessed the real medal and what he bought at the gun show was a fake which means art jackson's medal of honor is still out there somewhere

they marooned themselves on a dese deserted pacific island. while this guy may look like matthew mcconaughey, this isn't a blockbuster either. this is jeff flake, republican a nor from arizona. what is the inspiration for this? >> four years ago i took a similar trip 20 miles from here and staid for seven days and seven nights. my first thought after getting off that island is where is a cheeseburger. and the next thought is this would be a lot more fun with my kids. >> reporter: just getting there was ambitious. from phoenix, to hawaii, to atoll to the tiny island of biggarenn. what did they bring with them? >> no food and no water. be . we brought some desalinater pumps. >> reporter: one predator provided the flakes with their most dramatic moment. >> i speared a grouper, a big one, and it wriggled the spear out of my hand and i had to dive down 20 feet to retrieve the spear with the fish on the end of it. by that time, four sharks had closed in on the fish and we were about 50 yards out but didn't want to lose our meal, so we grabbed the sp

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