last year we conducted 28 cases in spanish, 5 in cantonese come in one in mandarin. and as i said earlier this evening, if anyone would like additional information, see your investigator reaching the senior investigator is here to answer your questions. thank you very much. that concludes my remarks. >> we will give an opportunity to ask questions. 2c, commission reports. >> one brief report. i spoke on saturday night of the pine lake neighborhood association here and i explained what the commission does, and there was a request that people would like to have the next meeting in terriblrivale statio. >>-- tarabelle. >> i would second that. i live in the district. >> commission announcements. >> line item 2d, commission announcement. >> 2d, commission announcement. one of the big announcements, the youth commission police commission on march 7 that will be at city hall. i believe it is in room 205 it. 0. also, charges filed against [inaudible] to commissioner for assignment, and that will be assigned to commissioner kingsley. also a charge against ernest tatahero, als

one hour of cantonese news and one hour of mandated -- one hour of mandarin is. challenges are daunting and hard to overcome here in the past, we were protected by our own language. we are the only game in town. but once you are online, that advantage will go away very quickly because those people will go on line -- everybody is your competitor. even if you have your language, there are hundreds of thousands of chinese websites. how do you overcome that? there is no silver bullet. for me, i think the right thing to do is really build up your community. you empower your community. the part of your community, and people -- it is not the you have a story that only i reported it, which is great, but it is not going to happen every day. so what do you give your audience for your readers to keep them coming back to your site or tv station to try to find the news they want? it is really up to how you feel your community -- how you connect and go into your community, make your voice known, make my face known to my community. i think once you establish that, it is very ha

>>mark: a quick break as the kron4 news cantonese. let's check out the roof camera in san francisco. a nice start today. fast first half for four high ahead how >>mark: the weather forecast is on a " side. rain and wind tomorrow this dominion. fear is a live look if traffic is moving some fairly is living on the bay bridge. on the golden gate no real problems coming through marin county. in a news around the bay, san leandro police arrested a man on suspicion of drunk driving after he arrived at a hospital to check on a friend who had been thrown from the window of his ford mustang. police say a south san francisco man allegedly tried to run over another man has now been arrested. the victim fled on foot and then called 911. police say while the victim was on the phone sphere the man tried to run him over with his cart. the suspect was arrested for a gang-related assault and booked into the san francisco county jail. right now the dow is just over 100 points. >>mark: here are three live shots 40 over san francisco, a maker golden gate

. >> and police say they speak to victims in cantonese and usually approach while they're walking alone. >> are kids getting any smarter but doing home work every night? apparently not. researchers found achievement results are lower in countries where students spend more time doing home work. this shows the elementary school kids don't get any benefit from home work. middle schoolers just a little. only students who benefit are 11th and 12th graders recommending replacing home work with 20 minutes of exercise. >> where is that study when i was a kid? >> ftc shut down what they're calling a company. >> there is a good chance they called you, too. the company is based out of los angeles and known as sbnperipeherals. this is one of the call autos we have critical information about your automobile warranty that is about to exexpire sent several notifications by mai. have you yet to respond. >> and yeah, investigators say nearly 13 million people bought into the scheme buying what investigators say are worthless auto warranties. ftc confiscated $1 million from the company's account and put

we are able to provide our services, follow-up questions in english, spanish, cantonese, and mandarin. and then -- and then, roger, you will -- >> yes. i am an attorney in private practice. the laws in this area are strict compliance laws, and they are very specific. the federal law since 1990 indicates issues from 1998. all businesses, such as a grocery store, a dentist's office, restaurants, a doctor's office, virtually anything that a member of the public comes into the -- comes into needs to be a barrier-free. we will go over what barriers are. every public accommodation needs to be wheelchair-accessible. there are also other other forf disability. most of the issues we are hearing about are wheelchair accessibility issues. there is a small group of private individuals who are wheelchair-down that go around the city and they look at small businesses. and i dare say anybody in small restaurants have some accessibility issues. it is another attempt at making your building wheelchair accessible. i am not sure which of you may be merchants and which it may be landlords. the law applie

they speak languages including cantonese, mandarin, spanish. two of our investigators are bilingual because the largest number of non-english interviews we conduct our in spanish. we also have interpretation services for languages that we do not cover. now, we will talk about youth- oriented policy issues. >> thank you for all your work. >> good evening, commissioners, members of the public, i appreciate your patience. i will be brief. i want to talk about the unsung heroes in this room and those who are invisible. the work we have done has been in partnership with the use commissioned for almost a decade. because of complaints filed by a youth and family members, we were able to investigate those complaints and formulate recommendations to the police commission and to the police department. it was through the partnership with the commission, through some many meetings. some of you have been at those meetings. you have bet -- met with different members of the department to talk about instances of enhancing policies between the police department

. >> reporter: police say thieves speak to the victims in cantonese and approach while they are walking alone. >> what is being preyed upon are the people's superstition. in the chinese culture, superstition, we believe in ghosts, ancestors, things like that. the people -- the suspects know what the victims are thinking, they prey upon them. >> reporter: this has been happening in the sunset district the last indent happened friday. police say don't talk -- don't talk to strangers promising wealth or health don't hand over jewelry or valuables, money to anyone you don't know. if you can help them of this crime, you are hoping you give the san francisco police department a call. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> neighbors in an oakland area are devastated by the death of a 92-year-old woman in a fire at her home. friends say she was considered the godmother of the block. katie marzullo has the story of miss jimmie and the friend who tried to save her. >> door was hot, everything was hot, it was too much smoke a few minutes later the fire department showed up. >> reporter: she didn't think o

. >> reporter: police say thieves speak to the victims in cantonese and approach while they are walking alone. >> what is being preyed upon are the people's superstition. in the chinese culture, superstition, we believe in ghosts, ancestors, things like that. the people -- the suspects know what the victims are thinking, they prey upon them. >> reporter: this has been happening in the sunset district the last indent happened friday. police say don't talk -- don't talk to strangers promising wealth or health don't hand over jewelry or valuables, money to anyone you don't know. if you can help them of this crime, you are hoping you give the san francisco police department a call. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> neighbors in an oakland area are devastated by the death of a 92-year-old woman in a fire at her home. friends say she was considered the godmother of the block. katie marzullo has the story of miss jimmie and the friend who tried to save her. >> door was hot, everything was hot, it was too much smoke a few minutes later the fire department showed up. >> reporter: she didn't think o

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> of the community clean team gathered in district 11. after the rally, the mayor and the supervisor at 20 teams went to work at a new mold around young trees. school children worked with adults while the youngest volunteers were entertained. the bill planters and learned about waste reduction. led by the department of public works, the main focus was on a tree maintenance. the city is looking at the health of the new trees, making sure they are able to stand on their own. this year's arbor day was dedicated to the memory of an environmental activist they used the planting as a community building activity in kenya. san francisco's leaders

it is a major center for cantonese food. it has a strong focus on seafood, the top restaurants in hong kong like to use shark fins, dried abalone and other seafood products from japan. up until last year, one of hong kong's most important sources of japanese abalone was tohoku, but last year's earthquake knocked out the seafood industry there. now, producers are aworking to resume shipments to these markets. >> reporter: this abalone is prized not just for its taste, but also for its appearance. >> translator: abalone produced in japan has a rich flavor. abalone from other countries never tastes as good. >> reporter: but experts of abalone have been badly hit by last year's disaster. supplies dropped by a quarter and prices have risen as much as 50%. this led to more people buying cheap eer abalone from the midd east and china. >> translator: japanese abalone is expensive so customers have started buying other abalone. >> reporter: they have been exporting dried abalone to china for more than 60 years. this man has been in t

joining me now to talk about it is politico's david cantonese. david, thank you for joining me.out, yes, i know this is a problem for whoever the republican nominee is in 2012, but in some ways, it's a bigger problem for the republican party as we move forward to 2014, 2016, 2020. i don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves, but in 2008, we saw republican john mccain lose the hispanic vote, basically 65/35. if that continues, the republican party is no longer a majority party in this country. am i correctly reading the demographics on that? >> absolutely. remember, in 2004, the last successful republican nominee for president, george with w. bush, carried about 42% of the hispanic vote. now a new fox latino poll is out showing mitt romney at just 14%. he cannot win a nationwide election just grabbing 14%. and it's republicans who are coming forward with this concern. you know, republicans that are in the romney camp, and also people on capitol hill, saying, this is going to hurt our candidates down ballot if we don't get this right. >> one stat i was struck by, i'm a nerd, so

executive producer of the "daily mandarin and cantonese newshour." next to him is the director of multimedia and technology programs at the night digital media center at uc-berkeley. next is the managing is theidd -- managing director at idd ventures sf. nexus' the editor in chief of marketwatch.com, part of news corp. -- next is the editor in chief. the co-founder and senior community manager of oakland local, a nonprofit media that promotes public discourse on issues. in the front row is a media analyst, who publishes an was a key developer of the mercury center. next to him is an assistant professor of broadcast and electronic media at san francisco state university. next is the managing editor for local news at -- i'm sorry. he is not at yahoo!, right. he is editor-in-chief of patch.com, a division of aol that provides news to specific communities. very local. after him, we have the managing director for local news at yahoo.com, guiding the company's local coverage nationwide. last but not least is the senator who represents san francisco and san

winnie yu is an applicant who works in chinatown and also speaks cantonese, mandarin, and another dialect of chinese, and i think it is important to have representation from that community as well, and given your experience working at the one-stop the last two years, i certainly would like that perspective. originally, i was going to speak on behalf of jamie brewster, who works for asian work and design and does an amazing job of working with our young adults, particularly the ones coming out of our criminal justice system into the construction work force, but he was not able to make it today, and you know, did not have a chance to present before the committee, so for the remaining two seats, i was really impressed, of course, with sheryl davis, whose work i'm also very familiar with in the western addition, and i appreciated some clear ideas you like to prioritize on the wicac for your term, and thank you so much for your service. erris edgerly clearly brought a lot of folks from the community support you, but i think your work in janitorial and culinary and in the western position is an

now, look -- bin luk did request a cantonese translator in the courtroom today. but when it came time to address the judge he did speak in his broken english say egg wants the public defender to represent him and he feels that it's in his best interest. in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> the search for missing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar took to the south bay's water ways today. sky 7 was there when search and rescue crews launched boats into the water where the area where lamar was last seen, hundreds of volunteers assembled for another day of ground searches. the disappearance being described nows a probable abduction. >> west oakland residents mourning the death of a 92-year-old woman killed in a house fire, crews pulled the woman from her burning home about 5:30 this morning and moments earlier. she was described as god mother of the block. >> she was proud and didn't want to use a walker, stick or cane and always concerned about looking good. >> everybody knew she's getting older, everybody tried to help her out. and stuff, but this -- it's crazy. >> and

middle-aged females all working together in speaking cantonese convinced that these teed bracelets aret of money. -- jade. between 2000-15,000 that are only worth about $10. reporting live, grant lotus. >>robin: taking a look at the san magoo breach with plenty of cloud coverage in the background. the san mateo -- bridge. >>robin: that storm showing activity but late tonight/early tomorrow. the future cast rainfall totals is what we can expect could see to tents. and even a seven-tenths in the north bay. with-2/10ths.. even gusty winds. putting this into motion by 7:00 p.m. is one that will of ride. already 20 m.p.h. in oakland! what we can expect for this weekend. >>grant: osama bin laden was not hiding out. not even close this is his youngest wife. she has spoken out to pakistan investigators that he has been to five different homes and fathered four children before his death after 911. this 30 year-old is the youngest of his three widow is say that he she s given birth to his children. and she would only stay in the hospital after just giving birth. this is an islami islamabad. and

all women working together, speaking cantonese that these jade bracelets are worth a lot of money andpecial good luck charms and convince the people they need to buy the bracelets. well, the victims have, paying between 2 and 15,000 dollars for these bracelets. the bracelets are worth about $10 each. >>> the supreme court wrapped up the third and final day of oral argument on the future of health care reform. the main provision is the provision that forces people to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. that part of the plan would that effect in 2014. candidate rick santorum touched on the subject during an appearance in wisconsin today. >> one of the reasons the left always sought to get health care under their umbrella of government benefits is because once they do, then freedom as we know it, individual liberty as we know it is gone. >> santorum is expected to be in the bay area tomorrow. there is the information. he is scheduled to attend a private fund-raising event in alamo. the tickets range from $125 to $2500. >>> former president george h. w. busch will endorse mitt romney.

however, the cantonese speaking scam artists are convincing enough to tell these victims' that it isth at least 3000-$10,000 per bracelet. >> mitt romney is ahead of a wreck santorum. -rick santorum. take a look at the numbers. 33 percent. ron paul = 11%. only 8% have gone with newt gingrich. meanwhile, the chairman of the house budget committee announced his support. and even george w. bush also showed support. rick santorum went to wisconsin yesterday. lending a home-hand in a phone bank. maryland, washington and d.c. are all on the list. . newt gingrich is continuing to campaign even though his 1 1/3 campaign staff has been laid off. asking what happened with mitt romney in louisiana? he would only say that they spoke about the president of, for the same thing that he is spoken to rick santorum about. meanwhile, as the budget release is maintaining tax relief for the wealthy obama's is recalling his tax on millionaires. this is a symbol of this democrats portraying himself as the champions. >> in the last decade we've spent hundreds of millions of dollars which was supposed to be

any tips can be made anonymously in either english, cantonese, mandarin and spanish. >>> it's 8:08.eck in with sal, and apparently some traffic air delays at san francisco airport? >> you have to bring out the angry birds to play because it's going to be plenty for about an hour and for an hour and 20 minute delays because of low ceilings and clouds. so just watch that. and make sure you -- plan for that. let's go out and look at northbound 280 up to 880. that traffic is moving along relatively slowly but that's normal for this time of morning. just in cases you first day commuting. northbound 87 little slow traffic there as well. this morning's commute on 237, we have some slow traffic which is typical but when you get to 10 one it's been not all that bad today. show you the bay bridge toll plaza is little dryer than it was, it was definitely windshield wiper weather for a lot of the morning but now it seems this front seems to have passed. but why take my word for it? let's dry in mark. >> i can agree that confirmation, the front is passing across the bay area, still quite a bit o