perimeter of apec.the loss of foot traffic and enormous operational difficulties encountered with round things like deliveries. this is all on top of existing challenges with public safety and post pandemic foottraffic and as a update to that, i just learned today through a community leader who spoke with the general manager of the [indiscernible] no fewer then 7 businesses were unable to make post-apec rent largely because of apec related impacts. business owners needed to dip into personal saves. i know the fund isn't solely about individual businesses, we have broader civic interest. neighborhoods like union square, chinadown, north beach, fisherman's wharf are discussed as the tourism that generate significant tax dollars to our city but yerba buena and soma, maybe a little overlooked in that, but the zip code generate more sales tax then any other zip code in the city. that's with the west field mall, moscone [indiscernible] neighborhood health is important to the economic engine and recovery of th

, we see apec is a great opportunity. when things are not as open as we wish they were in issues related to trade and we have to look for other venues and i think apec is a good other venue to start with. some people have to see how it evolves and how, we want to see results. that is what we are trying to do and i think all the other countries in apec o is what we e looking for. >> i have one final question for ambassador williams iba want to take time to open up to the audience what i wanted to get to fiscal trade and the role that singapore's plan and not and the new zealand standard trade agreement. can you talk for a moment about the future of digitalre trade? >> if you would permit me to take a step backward to talk about a new economic architecture that is envisioned in indo pacific. you have the ctt tp and the u.s. is not present. china is knocking on the door hoping to be there. you have the asean to bring together our main dialogue partners in asia. we have china, japan australia and new zealand. the u.s. is not

and doing count work of a single set of objectives with a single idealogy in mind many is having an apec that runs smoothly. >> i basically organ the agency projects and um whatever this is in-person transmissions have (unintelligible) to we're never (unintelligible) i will get a response right now and (unintelligible). >> please check in. >> my role here in the agency to help the cooperation and the way to do that is by sharing information corresponding activities and some cases requesting additional resources when the cfo steady the property of the departments working at the moment and one of the first agencies that was called the energy planning for the agency that we do streets and pipes and others involving a to point b. >> and this activation there are parts of the city cut off limited access points and information is sometimes confusing and so the information that not necessarily always refined for their knowledge and this activation is different from the activation we're waiting for something to happen if or if we don't have the resources available we we have to piecemeal it beca

uh and to very good see get more serious about what their contingents say than what apec has to say as far as demanding a ceasefire and immediate ceasefire permanent cease fire as of beginning toward liberated palestine. protesters march to the headquarters of the pro israel lobby apex. they blimed it for funding the genocide in gaza. the demonstrators renewed calls for a cease fire. at least dozen were arrested during thursday's protest. it was latest rally in new york city in solidarity with palestinians in gaza. other american cities have also witnessed similar protests on numerous occasions since the gaza war. began early october and protesters have pour down to the streets of... yemeni city of saada and yet another rally and support of palestinians in gaza. yemeni protesters wave palestinian flags and chanted slogans against israel and its main supporter the us. they've been holding these rallies every friday since gaza war broke out early october. yemenese helped pictures of their leaders and to show support for their pro- palestine operations, which include targeting israely

combat veteran, uh, it was now an anti-war activist among other things to uh speak out against uh apec and in a larger scope zionism and how it misrepresents judaism, and my demand is for uh us politicians to cut ties with apec uh, and to very good to get more serious about what their contingents say than what ap. has to say as far as demanding a ceasefire, immediate cease fire, permanent cease fire as a beginning toward liberated palestine. now protesters march to the headquarters, the pro israel lobby apec, they blamed it for funding the genocide in gaza. the demonstrators renewed their calls for sease fire, at least dozen were arrested during thursday's protest, it was the latest in new york city and solidarity with. palestinians in gaza, other american cities have also witnessed similar protests on numerous occasions since the gaza war broke out early october. protesters have poured onto the streets of the northern yemeny city of sada and yet another rally and support of the palestinians in gaza. yemeni protesters wave palestinian flags enchanted slogans against israel and its main

combat veteran, uh, it was now an anti-war activist among other things to uh speak out against uh apec and in a larger scope zionism and how it misrepresents judaism, and my demand is for ' from us politicians to cut ties with apec uh and to very good to get more serious about what their contingents say than what apac has to say as far as demanding a ceasefire, immediate cease fire, permanent cease fire as a beginning toward liberated palestine. the protesters marked headquarters of pro israeli lobby group apec, they blamed it for funding the genocide. in gaza, the demonstrators renewed calls for a cease fire in the war hit territory, at least dozen demonstrators were arrested during the thursday protest, it was latest rally in new york city and solidarity with palestinians. other american cities have also witnessed similar protest on numerous occasions since the gaza war began on october the 7th. a palestinian youth and teenager have been killed and over dozen others. wounded in an israeli air strike in the gennan refugee camp and occupied west bank. according to local sources, young

is a positive aspect not mentioned that i did feel i wanted to express and that was the preand post apec outreach strengthened the relationship between office of economic workforce development and office of small business. i gave a general thank you thin last meeting but i have heard from a lot of businesses and residents how much they appreciate the city has these officers and how helpful thaes have been, so this has been a xirz that is worthwhile and i think will pay dividends for years to come so thank you. of course, my thanks to everybody on this committee and with that i appreciate the opportunity to be here. >> thank you. supervisor engardio. >> thank you. we heard last week a number of taraval merchants came to public comment and described the years of disruption they face and at the mercy of sfmta to finish the muni track replacement as promised by the end of the year and some businesses reported a lot of up to 70 percent of sales so it would be a travesty if we got new train tracks and there were no businesses for people to visit so why i work would the budget chair and with ou

is a positive aspect not mentioned that i did feel i wanted to express and that was the preand post apec outreach strengthened the relationship between office of economic workforce development and office of small business. i gave a general thank you thin last meeting but i have heard from a lot of businesses and residents how much they appreciate the city has these officers and how helpful thaes have been, so this has been a xirz that is worthwhile and i think will pay dividends for years to come so thank you. of course, my thanks to everybody on this committee and with that i appreciate the opportunity to be here. >> thank you. supervisor engardio. >> thank you. we heard last week a number of taraval merchants came to public comment and described the years of disruption they face and at the mercy of sfmta to finish the muni track replacement as promised by the end of the year and some businesses reported a lot of up to 70 percent of sales so it would be a travesty if we got new train tracks and there were no businesses for people to visit so why i work would the budget chair and with ou

proposal to add new penalties for protesters from the blocking of the bay bridge during last year's apec summit to wednesday morning shutdown of the golden gate bridge. >> over the past several months, the bay area has seen numerous protests that have blocked traffic and interrupted vital freeways. >> we are all sick and tired of that, assembly member kate sanchez is trying to change that, sanchez represents the state's 71st district down in orange county. >> on thursday, she introduced a bill that would double penalties for protesters purposefully obstructing the flow of traffic in any way that would prevent emergency vehicles from passing. >> the protesters are trying to score a cheap political point or advance an agenda and quite honestly, that can have real world devastating consequences. >> sanchez cites examples like during last november's apec summit, when around 80 demonstrators shut down traffic on the bay bridge for several hours. that backup delaying the transport of transplant organs to ucsf. >> the response time is so important and critical for emergency vehicles in these in

it didn't just happen because of apec. it happened because of all of those leaders fighting for san francisco and all the work that we actually did to make it happen. and we're seeing the results. no, things are not perfect. but for a while, the headlines were saying one thing. while the work was saying another. and here's the good news. the headlines are finally catching up. the new york times, san francisco montgomery street casino, a downtown revival, bloomberg, san francisco doom loop narrative ignores signs of life. just this week, the economist how san francisco staged a surprising comeback. well, i'm not surprised because we always bounce back. i'm not surprised because i've actually been here. we are not surprised because we have been working on the problems, not just standing on the sidelines watching them. you sense change before it. you see it, it starts a bit of a buzz. it's a feeling. and then boom, it's a fact. in 2023, the san francisco police department doubled the arrest of drug dealers on our streets. we

colleagues just wanted to make you aware of exactly how much apec cost the city in terms of city funds to know we are accepting the $6.5 million from the special events committee raised for apec to cover some of the police over-time cost, we know that we also have at the budget committee release $6.5 million of the apec reserve, so it is really even out, both from the accepting this money as well as releasing what is on reserve for spending. but on top of that though, the city also has spend roughly about another $20 million with airport, sfmta, department of emergency management related and department public works related to hosting apec. at the end of the day there is debate and questions between the long-term investment of this $20 million for the city and the immediate budget deficits we have to tackle with this $20 million of spending. it is the reason why though we are also have introduce a supplemental support thanks to cosponsors peskin and dorsey because we also are very much aware while there are winners in this apec event there are also losers which are our small businesses,

i will add she did that during apec and does that everyday and works hard for the client and working really well with us and we're very appreciative of you so from everyone at daas thank you. thank you for all of your hard work tiffany. [applause] >> thank you. it's kind of embarrassing but i am very grateful for this acknowledgem and i will just say i will very thankful to all of our community partners who do such hard workday in and day out to serve older adults, adults with disabilities and pretty much anyone who needs a little help, a little food, anything really, and also i've been very, very lucky the last couple of years to have two amazing nutritionists on my team who have really been just such a tremendous joy to work with, and provide such amazing support to community providers, so i'm just very thankful for that and i am always very thankful for all of the staff around us, budget, planning, contracts, and everyone else that supports, supports our little nutrition team and also the community providers and i thank management and melissa, my district supervisor, and das leade

and doing count work of a single set of objectives with a single idealogy in mind many is having an apec that runs smoothly. >> i basically organ the agency projects and um, whatever this is in-person, transmissions have (unintelligible) to we're never (unintelligible) i will get a response right now and (unintelligible). >> please check in. >> my role here in the agency to help the cooperation and the way to do that is by sharing information corresponding activities and some cases requesting additional resources when the cfo steady the property of the departments working at the moment and one of the first agencies that was called the energy planning for the agency that we do streets and pipes and others involving a to point b. >> and this activation there are parts of the city cut off limited access points and information is sometimes confusing and so the information that not necessarily always refined for their knowledge and this activation is different from the activation we're waiting for something to happen if or if we don't have the resources available we we have to piecemeal it be

with brics representatives, said that we will call this group brics plus from now on, something like apec plus, with the presence of countries member and non-member, both new and old countries in brics is one of the important and strategic goals of strengthening multilateralism. mr. labrov strongly criticized the us , which uses the dollar as a weapon to impose its own will, and the brics countries have this opportunity . they have a high population and large economies that face this multilateralism strengthen and end unilateralism , and many meetings have been held on the sidelines, and today will be summarized and concluded . thank you very much , mr. darawi. i bid you farewell. it is being held in moscow. i am talking about this issue with mr. mohajerani, an expert on international issues. mr. mohajerani, hello , good morning. please tell me what achievements our presence in the brics group can have for our country. and all the respected viewers , i also congratulate the beginning of the dawn of the islamic revolution of iran . today, the world is witnessing the dispersion of power and

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zionism, and how it misrepresents judaism, and my... on demand is for uh us politicians to cut ties with apec uh and to very good to get more serious about what their contingents say than what apac has to say as far as demanding a ceasefire, immediate ceasefire, permanent cease fire as a beginning toward liberated palestine. the protesters marched to the headquarters of the pro israel lobby group apac, they blamed it for funding the... genicide and gaza, the demonstrators renewed calls for sease fire in the war hit territory, at least dozen demonstrators were arrested during the thursday protests, it was the latest rally in new york city in solidarity with the palestinians in gaza. other american cities have also witnessed similar protests on numerous occasions since the gaza war began early october. protesters aported onto the streets in the northern yemeny city of saada and yet another rally in support of palestinians in the gaza. the ammunity protesters waved palestinian flags and chanted slogans against israel and its main supporter the us. they've been holding rallies on friday since the

president's first visit to the bay area since november when he and other world leaders attended the apec summit. >> a portion of highway 84 in alameda county will remain closed until at least friday after heavy rain caused a part of the roadway to collapse this week. this is affecting niles canyon road between sunol in fremont. you can see why it's unsafe. crews have been working on this the past couple days trying to make some repairs. caltrans will reevaluate the situation friday morning and go from there. the main detours for now, southbound 6.80, west bound 5.80, to the north in the south bay highway 9 through saratoga is expected to remain closed for a couple more weeks. mudslide brought down a tree and shut down the highway between sanborn road in redwood gulch crews say this is the same area that had a mudslide a few weeks ago. caltrans estimates here the highway will reopen march 8th. want to head now to chief meteorologist lawrence karnow who's been tracking all the storms that have caused all of these lawrence, finally, it looks like we have a dry patch. yeah. how about that? i

the last time biden was in the bay was in november when he attended the apec conference. >> take a look at this. drones are going to now be acting as first responders in fremont. the city council ok the new joint project between firefighters and police. the drones will help firefighters spot active flames and hazardous spills from a safe distance and help identify potential rescues for police. the drones are expected to help officers better assess dangerous situations. it's the first of its kind program and the country. the countdown is on for san francisco's chinese new year parade. it set for saturday night in chinatown, actress and comedian aquafina will be the parade's grand marshal. and today the san francisco chinese chamber of commerce and the lunar. >> new year parade organizers gathered to discuss security for the event. >> we want to make your san francisco police department standpoint. yeah, people come to the chinatown. come to san francisco and enjoy themselves. this is a great event. is a great it year in year out and we intend to make sure that we do everything we can con

as a way to pay back losses during the apec summit.irst reported last week, supervisor connie chen introduced a new bill that would create a $2 billion relief fund for businesses in the south of market neighborhood, many of which said the apec summit ended up negatively impacting their business. the bill would also implement $250,000 to be directed at providing free public transit and parking to encourage more people to visit chinatown for lunar new year celebrations. the preliminary report from the national transportation safety board has been released regarding that failed door on an alaska airlines jet. it shows all four bolts that are supposed to hold the door plug in place were missing. it's not clear why that wasn't caught in the manufacturing and inspection process. >> plus, the fact that they have these different reporting structures and sign off requirements, etc. and that they just weren't done it, you know, is doubly shocking. it's not that they didn't know what they should do. they knew exactly what they should do. and they

last time the president was in the bay area was back in november when he attended the apec conference. republican presidential candidate nikki haley is vowing to stay in the gop primary race. that's despite the fact that poll show she is far behind in her home state of south carolina kron four's catherine heenan live in our newsroom with the latest. catherine? yeah, south carolina primary is saturday where polls show haley. >> remains way behind front runner donald trump. even there where she did serve as governor. but haley is digging in. some of you perhaps a few of you in the media. came here today to see if on dropping out of the >> well, i'm not. >> nikki haley delivered what amounted to a state of the race speech insisting she is the unite or america needs and vowing to stay in the race until the last person votes. >> they point to the primary polls and say i'm only delaying the inevitable. why keep fighting when the battle was apparently over after iowa. the reason i'm running the reason i continue to run. is to remind everyone. what it means to be an american. >> yeah, you kno

far fewer merchants near the moscone center will get from interruptions caused by the international apec event last november. >> they were inconvenienced for a week. yeah, all i know that. so they ended up at $2.5 million of it. we ended up with $1 million of it. we've been inconvenienced for five years. yeah, well, i'm down 3 million bucks. >> i don't think that this was really worth it. i think it ended. up being a whole lot more money spent. there's not they're not going to regain the value for what they've put into it. >> an apologetic muni had this to say to the merchants. >> so at the same time that we are replacing the rail tracks on taraval, the sewer and water lines are also being replaced and those are things that take a long time for the sfpuc. >> instead, color of the new sewers and pipes equally responsible for the long delays, chose not to respond to ktvu inquiries. tom vacar ktvu of fox two news and turning now to our weather. >> here's a live look now at the bay bridge. you can see that there's mostly clear conditions today. just a little gray and cloudy. those clouds tel

they're now demanding president biden will be in the bay area later today, his first visit since the apecunning s

this is excellent to the american people have had enough of our politicians selling their sold to apec, getting israel's interest of all america's interests and sacrificing thousands and thousands of children in the process. america is complicit in the murder of over $12000.00 palestinian children in counting every single day of hundreds of innocent defenseless l. some children are blown up to pieces with american weapons and american support. and i think the american people had enough and it is our duty to speak out to condemn these politicians in every chance we get. we cannot let them get away with this, a claim to speak out for freedom and justice while in reality, providing weapons in violation of both of us law and international law that is used for dominant against civilians in fort worth. it weighs um they are right there criminals and they will be called out for the family when is ready was of is killed by the idea of the mom's account of a seat behind the foot investigation into the into native i boss was shot dead on until the 8th is running full of his mistook him for a how

. >>> security at the super bowl is considered to be on the same level as the bay area saw for apec ands' norah o'donnell is also here in vegas and went on a tour with homeland security and even got a look inside allegiant stadium. here is what she told me earlier today. take a listen. >> i know you've got rooting for the 49ers. good luck. it was interesting as we went inside the stadium today, it was great to see the quarterbacks' faces emblazoned all over the place. this is really an exciting super bowl and it's a new stadium, a bit smaller than i think some of the ones in california or texas where i'm from, but they have got it locked down, everything from kind of the physical security that we're used to, but also cybersecurity they're concerned about, also the threat from drones, which is a new type of threat that they're dealing with as well. >> let's just have a good game, win or lose. how about that? >> i think it's going to be a good game. >> i won't put you on the spot who to root for, just keep it impartial, but have a good game. >> i'm looking forward to it. >> thank you. we'

the last time biden was here was in november when he attended the apec conference before he gets here, though, the president landed in la today. air force one touching down at lax earlier. he's also attending a fundraiser down there during a stop in la earlier this month in bellaire. president biden's campaign reports he raked in 15 million dollars. >> i am excited to be here in partnership with my friend cynthia germanotta and her team at born this way foundation >> senator le fondre butler has announced a partnership with lady gaga was born this way. foundation butler joined born this way. foundation is co-founder and president cynthia germanotta in east oakland today where the 2 held a panel discussion on the youth mental health crisis and potential solutions to helping young people. >> any attention at we can to this to this organization and to this community is incredibly important to how i choose to me. issue of youth mental is a real crisis for us. >> butler says she wants to ensure young people are being given every chance to succeed. she feels more money needs to be invested

it was a two-night event to kick off the apec summit in san francisco. really colorful, really fun. but now it's going to return as a monthly event. this is a story you'll see exclusively on nbc bay area. these night markets are happening thanks to an unexpected partnership between the event's organizers, aunt lily, the founder of the nonprofit be chinatown and manny yuck attell, a high-profile business owner and community organizer. the two connected at the original night market. now yuk attell's nonprofit is giving the event a $100,000 grant. the money is enough to cover expenses through november. >> joining us now is manny yucatel. nice to have you on the program. i was there in november with my family. i loved it. what inspired you to get involved here? >> when i walked down that closed street and i saw the thousands of people dancing and eating food and supporting these small businesses, i knew this was an idea and this was an experiment that could be one of the things that delivered our city back to our fullest potential. so i danced in the street. i ate amazing food, and i th

um, for example, while a lot of the soma businesses is impacted by apec, which they say, you know, is only ten days, instead of five years, and there's, you know, projected some millions of dollars of relief coming there. so the little bits of relief that may come down the pipe, um, do not seem like enough. and supervisor melgar, who her district is the district of the businesses i spoke with for my article. um didn't respond to comment. my request for comment. so, you know, the business is there. they really feel like city hall is not listening to them. um, they have been told to file complaints with the city and with the sfmta that they will then deny so that they can transfer those complaints to the construction company because they say the construction company is the one is at fault for breaking the plumbing of various businesses. so it just becomes this total, byzantine, tangled, bureaucratic nightmare that these businesses are going through. and they have, you know, windows that are broken and plumbing that's not functioning. and, you know, all that's related to this ongoing con

big push for visitors comes as the area tries to recover from the economic losses suffered during apec. the lunar new year festivities kick off this weekend with the flower market fair ending with a parade on saturday, february 24th. >>> still ahead, a mother on trial after her son went on a shooting rampage at a michigan school, what she had to say about his mental say the. >> they expressed those concerns to me but not to a level where i felt he needed to go see a psychiatrist. >>> parts of southern california underwater right now and things are only expected to get worse. we'll show you what the community is facing. >> that was an eye opener to me, scary moment, thinking something like that could happen to me. >> as we begin black history month, we're honoring trail blazers here in the bay area, how an attorney who argued some of the biggest several rights cases in california history got inspired to get involved. growing up, my parents wanted me to become a doctor or an engineer. those are good careers! but i chose a different path. first, as mayor and then in the legislature. i ens

when san francisco hosted apec last november, chinese president xi jinping hinted california could oncen see pandas return. >> mayor london breed even made a formal ask on the tarmac. then peterson got the call on christmas day, we received news that there were visitors and experts coming from chengdu. >> they want to get a sense of the zoo, a sense of our community, our sense of our dedication to conservation, also to medicine and to animal wellness. >> so does san francisco stand a chance in being gifted these pandas from china? i consulted with the leading panda conservation expert who has been advising zoos for decades, choosing pandas is common of financial, political uh- conservation oriented, and a legal town has advised zoos for decades on what it would take to host these black and white giants, and believes our city has the edge over san diego, whose zoo is also in the running . >> the lead up you have is that your san francisco uh- and you have a, you know, a very strong asian community. >> even if san francisco has loaned the pandas, the cost would be significant. before the

. >> the last time he was here was in november for the apec summit, live in san francisco at marina green. suzanne phan back to you. >> all right, suzanne, thank you. pro palestinian demonstrators are trying to send a message to president biden while he's in the bay area. this is a live look at a protest that's underway right now at alta plaza park in san francisco . protesters continue to call for a cease fire and an end to u.s. support of israel in the middle east conflict. it's the latest in a string of pro palestinian protests in san francisco this week. >> as we mentioned, at the top, president biden started his day in los angeles, where he touted another round of student loan forgiveness. the president announcing that roughly. 150,000 more borrowers will soon receive an email telling them they qualify for relief. those who qualify borrowed less than $12,000 for their education and have been paying the loans down for ten years at least, or more. >> so we never see this. there i have a don't touch me, don't touch me! where are you? i'm not going to touch this document. >> this a viole

this is excellent to the american people have had enough of our politicians selling their sold to apec, putting israel's interest of all americans interests and sacrificing thousands and thousands of children in the process. america is complicit in the murder over 12000 . tell us to be insured in counting every single day of hundreds of innocent defenseless allison children are blown up to pieces with american weapons and american support. and i think the american people had enough and it is our duty to speak out to condemn these politicians. and every chance we get we cannot let them get away with this. a claim to speak out for freedom and justice while in reality, providing weapons in violation of both the westlaw and international law that is used predominantly against civilians in fort worth. it weighs they are right, there are criminals, and they will be called out for the election commission of pakistan has risk, has scheduled re pulling at multiple loading sides from february 15th, following the verification of complaints regarding the snatching and damaging of materials and thu

but you know, they need to really like they did with apec. clean the whole city up. everybody's safe. it's fine. that needs to be. >> 365 an ad. >> that's right. 365 keep it up. we'll see if they can do that. but i know our stephanie sierra is following up on that story. and barkley's comments. so thank you so much. yeah. welcome. >> good to see you again. >> yeah. all right. >> see you at four. all right. for sure. >> all right. is all the recent stormy weather bringing you down. in fact, does winter have you singing the blues? up next, what is seasonal depression and how you can get a sunnier outlook whether you have it or outlook whether you have it or not. conservative republican steve garvey is the wrong choice for the senate. ...our republican opponent here on this stage has voted for donald trump twice. mr. garvey, you voted for him twice... as your own man, what is your decision? garvey is wrong for california. but garvey's surging in the polls. fox news says garvey would be a boost to republican control of the senate. stop garvey. adam schiff for senate. i'm