afghanistan presents both an opportunity and a threat for the central asian, five central asian countries. it's but however, both the opportunity and the threat that weep think. are not really opportunities and threats. in the west, in the committee we assume that an central asians need access to the south to sell their energy, electricity, you know, gas, et cetera. they need access to the seas. they're willing to get -- be we assume that they need equipment and pone and so therefore, they will collaborate with the ndn, the northern distribution network especially now since there are all these discussions in terms of leaving some of that hardware behind when we leave afghanistan. we leave some of it, there's some discussions going on a little bit strange, but i don't know where we're going with that. third one, we are also assuming that central asians would want to have alternatives to the russians in the region and the chinese kinds of complete if you have gone to central asia you would have noticed chinese investment in the roads and all the tra structure and lots of money with no condi

asian. wow. [applause] >> now that the mayor and board chair has helped us through this point, may i invite them up for some pictures? >> thank you, mr. mayor. thank you, tony. let me repeat once again the three qualities we want our visual identity to convey. a new perspective, bold and confident, and asian arts museum invites all to engage. as you may know, this inverted market is from a mathematical science known as a universal quantifier. we whaant everyone to know thate are here to engage you. we want to awaken and inspire. let me show you a couple of examples of how you can use this. we have window treatment for everyone. and then we have a new visitor'' guide, a new membership material, a new look. you can take us with you. and also, out and about. i still strongly about this market because it is very versa tile. you can superimpose images from diverse cultures coming asian, not asian, and we can use this in a powerful way. imagine, we can even commissioned artists to do a rendition of thi

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first asian american to serve as its president.esident chiu, carmen chu, supervisor kim, and eric mar. president chiu: i wish you could see yourselves as we see you. we are chinese, japanese, and caribbean. we are south easton, southeast asian, and filipino. i want to thank the leaders in our community who are here with us tonight, leaders of our benevolent associations, our business associations, and our commissioners. we cannot do what we do in city hall without all of you. we know we have come a long way. it was not long ago that chinese americans were excluded under our city laws. when japanese americans were interned. when filipino tenants were evicted from the international hotel. when the fbi investigated our community. for us to stand here now is amazing. i think finally we have enough asian americans to form our own dragon dance team. it would be a short dragon, but a dragon dance team nonetheless. we would not be here and be able to do that but for the support we have and the work we are all doing together. doing together

central asians want guarantees. this is the message my talk, they want guarantees. this is the word. and so some iranians want respect. that is actually what has not been given a lot of mind. to under this, and i will not even -- the paper we have just talked about on central security complexes, to understand this problem you have to understand that basically central asian countries have three types of interest. internal survival, so, therefore, they would like to feed their population so that there is no problems with that, and that is investment which they can get through the money and roads that can be built. competition with each other. this is uzbekistan rivalry. this is also tuzbekistan is suc a long story that i will not get into but, so therefore, when you have a situation in the region where there's a lot of competition, they draw in the global powers along the lines of their own rivalry and in that region the global powers have a kind of dual approach. either central asia doesn't matter at all. it's a periphery of the periphery, or it is actually the core.

there are 5 million south asian people in the united states. there is not one that south asian gay bar in the united states. this will be owned by two gentlemen who are clear- identified and saturday night at this bar will be a gay bar. other times, it will be a lounge. there are 75 feet away from the burning man building. their 150 feet away from. if you want to put a high-tech along that corridor, it seems disingenuous to say we want you to come in here, but unlike manhattan or other places, we don't want to have a convenient places where you can come and have a $10 cocktail after-hours. if you look at the pictures, you will see not only does that have amazing community support, but it will be a beautiful lounge. it was a beautiful lounge before. this is the place where future bars, it was their first bar. the license that is on there now is tied up in litigation and that's why we had to bring in a new license. this has been a bar for 40 years. to speak of the high-tech workers, one of the main business people was one of the first engineers a

latino or asian. we have surname matched filipino. which one would like to see first? which population group? chairman mcdonnell: latino. >> as you can see this as percent latino population. the darker the color, the higher the population. this is the area around cayuga. cayuga is right here and you see the district boundary in black. chairman mcdonnell: i will start with you with any questions related to the data she sharing. >> this is the present latino population. the black line is that andrea. the darker the red, the higher the latino published -- personages by block. this street here in the center is cayuga and to have the 280 freeway -- you have the 280 freeway right here. chairman mcdonnell: any questions relevant to this data? >> what is the darkest blocke? >> it is 50% to 75% latino. chairman mcdonnell: any other questions related to this data? ok. >> what is the total population [inaudible] >> just one second. >> sure. that is the population of 838 people. would you like to hear the deviati

a lot of asians use to shy away from politics, as you know. we used to -- generations before us, our parents said to not go into politics. on your own business. be a financial person. the lawyer. you went to moscow. be a lawyer, make money. those were safe things. -- you went to law school. to make sure we can be -- as american as anybody else. shore leadership skills and values and share those values that are looked upon as strong. looking out for everybody. making sure that society is safe for everyone and looking at the whole family, as a whole for everybody. our values that i am lucky to share as the first asian american mayor of san francisco. >> we will give you the last word. >> sometimes people ask me, if being mayor as the first asian- american or the first woman more difficult? i would say the asian american community has come into its own. we have a few glass ceilings to break. i am proud of that. that is where the chinese exclusion act and all the anti- chinese legislation started nationally and historically. my family and i helped

and a lot of asian people. 36% asian people. a majority are chinese speaking. a reporter to the police how much they can protect me. and try to arrange a students how to educate them. you are working with the community together. we have 36% asian people. one of them i talked to, he was born chinese. that means they speak broken chinese. can you commissioners' work with police and have something in the evening? [unintelligible] they work, many of them below minimum wage. as a social worker, a volunteer in the community. i work and volunteer in this community for a long time. i appreciate that many of the police put their lives out there. i know it is not easy. i will not be police myself. i am sorry. i salute all you people here. i appreciate anything you do, the best you can. i won the commissioners to hire more people, hire bilingual people. so they can explain to the community that police are not bad people. not just for giving you tickets. we opened a community center, and people who report through these complexes. who wants to come out? he can translate? wh

but asian american, vietnam and -- the american and asian american.the question is, do they want to go back to the big tent party of ronald reagan? if i were them, that is what i would do. they could still get them, or they could play to this increasingly narrow part of their base. >> charles, let me come to you and say that i think there are people who feel under siege by immigrants in this country who think this is not the america big crew of income and they feel like someone needs to be of a voice for them, and much of that has come from the tea party. saying this is not racist to say. many immigrants of all kinds come up a specifically undocumented immigrants. why does this invite the racial backlash? take a first of all, it is never want to be the country you grew up in ever again. all you have to do is look at the census bureau report him look at projections come and that is never want to become and that scares people to death. i think what is happening is republicans are banking on us for system politics, which is the only way to preserve your

so many asian babies are born in cpmc. if you look at the roles of the babies that are born in cpmc and you look at the sur names, you don't just see asian nails. you see the sur names of all of the people in san francisco because that is part of the service that they offer. but beyond just being born in cpmc, cpmc takes care of the health of asian american families as we grow. many of you are aware of hepatitis b disease. hepatitis b is the greatest health disparity for asians in america. hepatitis b is also the greatest cause of liver cancer in the world. for both of these reasons, san francisco has the highest rate of liver cancer in the country. we are doing something about ending that liver cancer in san francisco with the campaign and cpmc has played a leadership role in that. because of the great work that we have done in ending hepatitis b disease, in part we have helped to create a national action plan to end hepatitis in america which was issued last year. in that plan, they called for the firstever national hepa

he says he is sorry for criticizing asian-owned businesses in ward 8 and for calling them dirty shops. tom sherwood with the latest on the story first reported here on news 4. >> reporter: marion barry's comment about unwelcome asian shops that are "dirty" came tuesday night. >> we've got to do something about these asians coming in, opening up businesses, these dirty shops. they ought to go. i'm going to say that right now. but we need african-american businesspeople to be able to take their places too. >> reporter: in an interview thursday barry insisted he wants all businesses to clean up in the city's poorest ward, saying more business owners need to hire locally and need to get involved in ward 8 as a community. >> now, i says asians. that wasn't being derogatory because that was just stating a fact of who's there. anybody who comes to ward 8, we're going to try to attract as many businesses as we can, as many restaurants as we can, as many corner stores as we can. they've got to be a part of the community. they can't come in here, take our money, take it to virginia somewhere, d

. >> and also ahead marion barry has lunch with asian business leaders, the d.c. councilman trying to smooth relations following his racially insensitive comments. >> but up next virginia governor bob mcdonnell weighs in on whether he could be the choice for the republican vp nominee. >>> we continue to monitor breaking news in the trayvon martin shooting. these are live pictures now from jacksonville where a special prosecutor in florida has scheduled a 6 p.m. news conference where she is expected to announce charges against george zimmerman. zimmerman is the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed the unarmed teenager during a violent confrontation six weeks ago. we'll carry that news conference coming up at 6:00. >>> with the republican presidential nomination virtually sealed up, mitt romney toured connecticut and rhode island. now talk is turning to who the vice presidential candidate would be for romney. >> one name that's been widely bandied about is virginia's governor bob mcdonnell on. cbs this morning mcdonnell was asked what does the potential vp

so from the central asian point of view, it's not 2014 time line. the only thing would be how much are they going to use the military support they'll get, et cetera, et cetera. but it has to do with larger political dynamics that have to do with the larger dynamic ins of the region and the hedging of the bets in afghanistan, i don't agree with that read. i think that what they're doing is preparing themselves for the worst-case scenario. if there is going to be a situation where the taliban come into afghanistan and there is no national reconciliation and the taliban start pushing north, and then we have the separation and we have a worst-case scenario civil war, which was your scenario, a possibility, then every country would want to have a region where they would insert themselves from the rest. you talked about western afghanistan for iran and we talk about the northern afghanistan for the uzbeks and the tajiks. it doesn't mean that they're going to go into further. it's insulation from their own borders. >> so the answer to your question is yes,

it's drawn anger from the philippine ambassador and local asian advocacy groups. fox 5's audrey barnes with the story. >> you may recall a few weeks ago barry called some asian owned businesses in his ward dirty shops. now he's singling out filipino nurses saying the city should "grow our own nurses instead of hiring people from somewhere else." i spoke with lipino nurse tonight who took care of barry during one of his hospitalizations and she, like many of the district's asian workers, finds barry's remarks hurtful. at a udc budget hearing councilman marion barry made this observation at the nursing staff at local hospitals. >> in fact, it's so bad if you go to the hospital now, you'll find a number of immigrants who are nurses, particularly out of the philippines, and no offense, but let's grow our own teachers. let's grow our own nurses and so that we don't have to be scrounging around in our community having to hire people from somewhere else. >> i think that's very unfortunate. >> reporter: howard university nurse lordiye gerardo from the philippines who took

. >> i apologize to the asian community for anything i said that was harmful. but my record is impeccable. i have fought all of my life against discrimination. >> reporter: mr. barry, how would you have acted if an elected official had said we have to do something about these african-americans coming into our community selling shoddy products. they have to go. what would you have said? >> i would have said if somebody hadn't had a good record on it, i would have said get out of here. >> reporter: but barry says his record is "stellar". apologizes for any offense. but continues to argue the business owners in ward 8 "be part of the community of ward 8, not just take the money and run into virginia somewhere". derek. >> thank, gary. >>> up until now, any evidence about gregg williams role in bounty gate was hearsay, at least when it comes to the redskins. not anymore. new audio evidence was released today from williams talking to his players. kristen berset is here with what was on the tape. kristen. >> we've heard plenty of stories from former players detailing

primarily asians and hispanics. with those that are not native americans, can only grow through higher than average fertility. blacks will have some contribution from the caribbean and african populations, but those numbers actually are small in comparison to the asian anti-hispanic populations. -- and the hispanic populations. the two major streams are from south of the border of the central and south america, and to the east, asia. both of these are contributing to the future of a majority, minority united states. this influx of asians and hispanics occurred after the 1965 immigration reform. hispanics surpassed blacks as the largest minority group last decade, around 2002. percentagewise, asians are were hispanics were around 1980. but they are unlikely to grow as rapidly as latinos did. they are also a group that diverges from other minority populations in terms of self-education, income and residential location. i should also note that asians are a very complicated population group and there are some population

about these asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops.t welcome in our community whether they're black, white european, asian or anything else. >> business owners we have spoken with this week say that they are filling a need in the city. they are defending their businesses. marion barry also said tuesday night, he wants to replace these businesses with african american business people, one those businesses are pushed out. >> thank you. 43 degrees outside. >> matt moore still to come. we are learning more about the deadly shooting at the university in california police fear the gunman had more than one intended target. quicksand the howard theatre expected to reopen. >> >> imat the ramp tall discovery center at washington nationals with this giant tortoise. we hope your day is moving at a faster pace than mine is. good morning, washington. >> i would say there morninso. we clinched a playoff spot yesterday. and the nationals won the season opener in chicago. it's fun game to watch. we have a freeze warning along the mason-dixon and west o

we are 10% asian. i think that we delude the asian population there and make it less likely that they will be able to elect another asian candidate. on old maps of the city, we are included as part of the ash burry street. you talked out in the last few days, so that the neighborhood had no notice of it. you're doing it again at the last minute. >> just before you speak, following him will be -- [reading names] >> my wife and i purchased our house on the east side, this is about three blocks south that are going to be out of district 8. that is the neighborhood, and we feel like it will isolate us from both staying in district 9 and, isolating from the neighbors to the south into the west. into the east, we are a long ways from the neighbors. our request is that if we could include the little island for families and homes, and moving them over to district 8, it makes a lot more sense than leaving them over in district 9. we already struggle with the barrier that is greatly improved. maybe we don't want

i do not like asians coming shops.ty >> john gonzalez has more on the comments and how he is trying to s mess.p thi >> marion barry says he is sorry if he offended anybody with his but he is not changing his original statement. he believes some of the restaurants throughout the city should shut down. his wordsbc 7 news commentsn out of the asiane spoke against but heses here in d.c., not backing down from the that he made that some restaurants are dirty and unsanitary. panpresident of the u.s. asian chamber of commerce said in thes worked with barry past and a surprise about what he said. it those who will not do w are not welcome, whether they're black or asian. >> business owners say they are defending their businesses. they say they fill a need here district. once pushed out, he said he o replace these with african american business people. john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> thank you. the caps came through when it counted. the team is now playoff bound. the panthers also made the cut to thebuffalo foell flyers. stephen

please say and do something about marion barry's remark against asians. tyler wrote there are commercial properties available for restaurants. hard to imagine that asian business owners would have to be moved out in order to make room for african-american-owned businesses. >>> the confusion over the winning ticket in maryland, the lottery ticket said no one has come to claim the $56 million jackpot last friday. a baltimore woman told friends that she bought the ticket and clammed up since. the director of the maryland lottery implied he doesn't think she's the real winner. >> it's important to us that in all of the information out there, people not be mistaken and think the ticket is claimed to have the legitimate ticket holder discard their ticket. that would truly be's tragedy in this circumstance. >> the winning ticket was bought at 7:15 p.m. on friday. why not chick the store's surveillance tape? apparently the timestamp probably doesn't match that on the lottery machine. >>> when it comes to the economy, it's about jobs, right? good news. the labor d

asian america in part. to the west we've got higher income communities to the south, the beige area is daly city in south san francisco where there are large number of latinos. and certainly in some courses there's pressure to create, try to maximize the asian-american population in those districts. certainly coalitions recognize the limit of the law but also really, i think worked was informed i the kinds of priorities that they had, the work they were doing were folks were really, felt like low income, asian-american immigrants would be better served by were drawn into the same district as low-income latino districts. so this was, these are districts that were adopted that more or less resemble their proposal that we had submitted to the commission. so hopefully that gives you a sense as to what we did at how changing demographics impact of our work. as a look to 21, and we expect, i don't know if i will be your, but we expect greater geographic and ethnic diversity, possibly majority asian-american statu

think about asian american businesses, they think of chinatown. but truth be told they are all over the city. tonight he did apologize, but he said there is a. that still needs to be made. >> i apologize to those who that i of this respected them. that kind of stuff. marion barry told us he never meant his words to be taken all asian-american d.c.esses in the he says there is still a point to be made about some businesses. do the interview takeout chinese restaurant he says is filled the. he says these businesses should go. >> they are not welcome in our whether they are european, asian, or anything else. >> he received support from southeast residents we spoke to. >> i support him wholeheartedly. they need to not only cleaned inside but outside as well. >> one worker inside the restaurant defended the place. if he did not miss to beak -- is a did not speak it major disappointment. >> susan allen says she has with barry in the past and a surprise to would say that. like says asian american are filling a need. >> the people did not need their be in

. >>> the asian tiger mosquito has shown up in southern california. coming up, i'll show you what vehicler control leaders are doing here in the bay area in case the disease carrying pests show up here. >>> my life's starting all over again, i got something that was missing. something was missing, part of my heart was missing. >>> still ahead why this east bay war veteran is feeling a sense of relief tonight. >>> good afternoon, i'm jeff ranieri in the medication bay area weather center, after some rain the past 24 hours, the sun is starting to build along with waives, small craft advisory for our coastline, we'll have more on that, and also, details on how warm it will go for y.utes >>> demolition crews are preparing to take out doyle drive this weekend. it was built back in 1933. a massive closure is scheduled to begin at 8:00 tomorrow night and run until 5:00 a.m. monday morning. caltrans officials are urging people to stay away from the area. access to 101 from marina boulevard will be shut off. traffic will be diverted on to a temporary bypass th

. >> 20 years ago i read an essay about san francisco being an asian city. and it took a long time to elect a nation-american may year. why do you think it took so long -- to elect an asian-american mayor. why do think it took so long? >> if you know the asian community, and this applies to chinese, japanese, filipino, korean, many of our previous generations came from countries that had a very hard, a kind of, sometimes, like for a better word, history of dictatorships. so when they come to america, and i have had these conversations with my parents, and they experience the freedom that americans have, they are going to be shy about politics. they are going to be shy about law enforcement. those are things that are not naturally things they engage with in their countries of origin. you have to know that history. once you understand that, there are generations of my parents and so forth that say we do not want you involved in politics. it is dirty. how can you compromise yourself when there are so many different interests of there? i think that generations h

>> i apologize to asian community for anything i said that was harmful, hurtful.ut my record is impeccable. i have fought all of my life against discrimination. >> reporter: mr. barry, how would you have reacted if an elected official had said we have to do something about he has

i can go off and preach about the fact they think so many of us asian american authors and asian authors in general tend to go back and write about our ancestors and write about things in our past not our specific past but may be of of ancestors and mothers and grand mothers. we have been telling their story. i think the generation to come, will be telling stories of living here. it will be different stories. but the oppression of our voices have been for so many, many years, if you think back the first writer who was read in terms of asian american was maxine kingston. i read her in high school and was greatly affected by reading about the woman warrior. before her there were few. there were some but didn't make that economic splash. they were never read in a large way. maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. she was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. so much of it is timing. it meant all the history and the voices before then had been silent. my generation of writers came in and we heard stories of women and men and the family of a

. >> we got to do something about these asians coming in opening up businesses, dirty shops. they ought to go. i can tell you that right now. but we need african-american businesses people to be able to take their places. >> reporter: in an interview thursday barry insisted he wants all businesses to clean up in the city's poorest ward saying more business owners need to hire locally and need to get involved in ward 8 as a community. >> no, i said asians. i wasn't being derogatory. i was stating a fact of who is there. anybody who comes to ward 8 we're going to try to attract as many businesses as we can, as many restaurants as we can, as many sources as we can. they have to be part of the community. they can't come in here, take our money, take it to virginia somewhere, don't support little league, don't support nothing. and that's what i'm talking about doing is making our community a better place to live. >> reporter: but late thursday barry tweeted a clear apology. i'm very sorry for offending the asian american community although taken out of context by many about the co

but asian american, vietnam and -- the american and asian american.the question is, do they want to go back to the big tent party of ronald reagan? if i were them, that is what i would do. they could still get them, or they could play to this increasingly narrow part of their base. >> charles, let me come to you and say that i think there are people who feel under siege by immigrants in this country who think this is not the america big crew of income and they feel like someone needs to be a voice for them, and much of that has come from the tea party. saying this is not racist to say. we have too many immigrants of all kinds come up a specifically undocumented immigrants. why does this invite the racial backlash? take a first of all, it is never want to be the country you grew up in ever again. all you have to do is look at the census bureau report him look at projections come and that is never want to become and that scares people to death. i think what is happening is republicans are banking on us for system politics, which is the only way to prese

whether they are black, european, asian, or else. >> here receive support from southeast residents we spoke with. i support them wholeheartedly. need to clean the inside and outside. one worker at the restaurant defended the police. we are cleaning every debt. it's a major disappointment. >> interviewed the president of pan-asianba conference. she says that she is surprised, because she has worked with marion barry before. >> if people did not use that service, they would not be in business. >> 43 degrees. >> if you plan on driving city, there's a traffic alert. >> the governor of texas service the tornadoesm this week. what he says about seeking more help. >> >> the governor of texas is at the damage from tuesday's devastating tornadoes. homes were destroyed dallas-fort worth area. obama fork president federal disaster funds. i want to look at traffic and weather as we do every 10 minutes. with adam caskey. it is a little chilly. >> it will be for the next s especially when you in the wind. dress the kids in long sleeves t.d you need a light coa 37 in frederick and winchester berkele

he had criticized asian owned businesses in ward 8 calling them, quote, dirty shops. news 4's tom sherwood has the latest developments. tom? >> doreen, barry apologized today and he tried to clarify what he meant. marion barry's comment about unwelcomed asian shops that are, quote, dirty, unquote, came tuesday night. >> we have to do something about these asians coming in, opening up businesses, these dirty shops and they ought to go. i'll just tell you that right now, you know, but we need african-american business people to be able to take their places too. >> reporter: in an interview thursday barry insisted he wants all businesses to clean up in the city's poorest ward saying more business owners need to hire locally and get involved in ward 8 as a community. >> i said asians. i wasn't being derogatory because i was stating the fact of who is there. anybody who comes to ward 8 we're going to try to attract as many businesses as we can, as many restaurants as we can, as many sources as we can. they have to be part of the community. they can't come in here, take out

there might be an occasional asian party put on. i forgot to mention, duc luu is not with us tonight. i'm fully prepared and will answer any questions you might have concerning -- concerning any of the other business operations. i know when we were here the last time, there were a number of issues. if i might just briefly cover that, i -- as you know, jocelyn can back me up on this, i have a lot of nightclub clients. i have pretty much the most successful young nightclub lines in san francisco, including vintage 415, atonic boys, red bull, mayhem, a couple of more things. i also have mr. luu. the sake lab sale was pending. he was the most successful asian promoter in san francisco. he held parties in places, such as at&t park. he did city hall. he has a party on halloween and new year's eve in fort mason's that is always attended by approximately 3000 young, asian, college-and vacated professionals. there has never been one party -- college-educated professionals. there has never been a problem with those parties. i would have to st