obon is san jose japantown's biggest festival with two days of great food, game booths, the chidori bandiko performances, including from san jose taiko, and over 1,200 dancers in colorful festive wear each evening. the san jose obon will be on july 13 and 14, from noon to 8 p.m., in j-town. then berkeley will have its obon festival on july 13, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. we're on 2121 channing way. then it's san francisco's turn on july 27 and 28, at 1881 pine street. palo alto will follow with its two days of celebration on august 3 and 4, from noon to 9, all around 2751 louis road. and, finally, oakland has its obon on august 3, 3 to 9 p.m., centered around 825 jackson street. now, also going on will be the chevron family theatre festival in walnut creek. festivities begin at 10 a.m. with a ribbon cutting, followed by cultural performances, parades, and other surprises. nbc bay area and telemundo 48 will, once again, partner with the family giving tree with a "build a backpack" booth, an effort to provide school supplies to underprivileged students, teachers, and schools. robert: now stay with

and that is a 12-second horn blasting through san jose's japantown. residents say fic did it on purpose following a board meeting. many sounded off for noisy overnight trains. they said they are required by law to sound its horns when it crosses roads or sees people on the tracks. >> it was way beyond normal. it might have been a little hey, we heard about the meeting, here come the horns. >> they are not planning on making any changes. >> cal train is adding capacity to allow more bikes on trains at peak hours and looking at a bike share system with stations up and down the cal train corridor. when they electric files in 2022, they will have two dedicated bike cars. >>> in san jose, the next time you call a lyft, the nearest ride could be a scooter. they wheeled out 900 of the rides. they have a permit with strict rules on where they can be deployed and you can't ride them on the sidewalks. >> another company bird is swooping into san francisco to swoop up scoop. it is one of wo companies for scooters in the city. if they merger, it is not clear if t

others argue the song is exactly san jose, pointing to kelly's stroll through a ukulele shop in japantownws of agua fresca vendors at the flea market. that was the first time paul rogers reviewed the video. disregarding the debate, he says viewers should be mindful. >> remember this is going to be through the eyes of a 16-year-old. 16-year-olds see things a little bit brighter and a little bit different way. everything is hopeful and whatnot, and that's good. >> reporter: team san jose and the goop of local artists behind the open letter plan to meet in the future. ♪ >>> we have some developing news in the east bay. there are some major b.a.r.t. delays in the east bay tonight because of pg&e cables on the tracks and a damaged train. >> the fruitvale station is closes. pg&e is responding. trains are being turns down at coliseum and lake merritt stations. >>> staying in the east bay for another moment, prepare to dial a 1 when making local calls if you have a 510 area code. a new 341 area code is being added in western alameda and contra costa counties and that starts tomorrow. you have to

our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when

my grandfather was a founder of japantown in the 1800's. my grandmother was a leader of the chinatown -- the first chinatown garment union. the work that we do is deeply rooted in san francisco, all of san francisco. we're considered thought leaders in the arts field, nationally, regionally and locally. we gave the national address to the state of utah's annual arts complex. i'm a committee member of apapa 2020, held in new york. it's the largest convening of arts producers in if the english -- in the english speaking world. we do this because we know from our work nationally that artists of color must not be marginalized. we must be made part of america's culture and identity so we can ultimately impact her psychology to embrace all of us who live her. 45, the number -- live here. 45, the number of artists that we've produced here. 1,000, the number of people this year including women in recovery, seniors who took classes, rehearsed or performed in our studio in the richmond district. 2021, the year we premier and tour a new work about san

initially 18,000 people were without power in the pacific heights area, japantown, russian hill and north beach. now most of those homes and businesses have been restored, but 4,000 people are still without power right now. pg&e says they are working to restore power to all those customers. ers. >>> the alameda county fire department conducted a controlled burn today in the hills near camp parks in dublin. sky fox was overhead as fire crews worked to contain and put out the fire. several acres of dry grass was burned in this customer size. fire officials say they perform these types of controlled burns to reduce vegetation and provide training for firefighters. with temperatures rising the afternoon session of the burn was called off. they also say they only do them when conditions with the wind, temperatures and vegetation are exactly right. >>> obviously we have seen these hot temperatures, triple digit heat inland over the past few days, but the good news is a cooldown is in the works as we speak. >> a cooldown is basically here. there was a sighting of the fog. we're all excited about

. >>> that is a 12 second horn blasting through the city's japantown thursday night.ents in the area say union pacific did it op purpose following a meeting. many sounded off at the railroad for running noisy overnight trains. they said they are required by law to sound horns. >> it was way beyond normal. it might have been a little, hey, we heard about the meeting, here come the horns. >> the city is threatening a lawsuit to quiet the trains but they said they are not planning on making any changes. >>> 5:35 right now. bikes are coming to cal train and more ways for commuters to ride them, as well. they are adding capacity to allow more bikes on trains during peak hours and they are looking at a bike share system with stations up and down the cal train corridor. when it electri files in 2022, they will have two dedicated bike cars. >>> in san jose the next time you call a lyft the nearest ride could be a scooter. they are the first come pane in the city with a permit to do so with strict rules about where they can be deployed. you can't ride them on the sidewalk. mor

for instance, japantown, there were lot of car break-ins there. we do have housing officers, there's foot beats in the housing complexes across the city. >> supervisor brown: don't you take them away for events? >> sometimes we have to, special events. we have make deployment decisions. we have to make those adjustments. that's where the funding come in and it allow us to consistently have officers in those beats. some of the decisions it's matter of priority what's going on. >> supervisor brown: really, we all love the foot beats. we all -- all neighborhoods want them. 13 years i worked on the first beat patrol legislation in the city. also know that when we had a really downturn budget wise in the city and economy, what we did is we gave more money to nonprofits to actually address any violence and things going on before it happened. before proactive instead of reactive. i feel that -- some of the things that we're talking about could actually be the nonprofits that we've been funding to go out there and really engage with people. i understand y