china town has a large older population. more than 30 percent of china town are 65 and older twice the rate of san flrancisco population. how do we get the home bound seniors eshg vac wait. how do we find out if they are okay? another thing is language and cullural issues. a percentage of china town residents are what we call linguistically isolated meaning no one in the household age 14 or older speak english well. what this means is that all our response plans have to keep in mind that factor the signs and volunteer workers need to community in cantonese and mandarin. our trainings have to be cond t conducted in multilanguages. we convened a preparedness committee composed of organizations in china town. includes the we are fortunate to have 3 medical facilities in china town. chinese hospital. public health center 4 and we also have northeast medical service. these 3 organizations are part of our response network. we have the senior care organization such as self help for the elderly. senior health. the housing service li

when we see the sro buildings in china town it's not unheard to have hundreds of people on a floor sharing one emergency exit it presented challenges for rescue efforts. other things related to the structural conditions of china

in china town, six different sites were looked at. two created off street location so the vast number of riders will be able to get in and out of the underground tunnels which are underneath stockton and fourth streets. so again, the preferred location is at stockton and washington streets. both for construction as well as for operations. the three easement acquisitions as i explained are underneath fourth to get from fourth to market street under the building that currently holds the old navy store. that's 801 market. the second one is at 790 market under what previously had the virgin record store and that is, again, to provide access for the tunnel at about 60 feet below the surface and 1455 stockton street owned by a family trust in san francisco and currently has the bank of america as a lessee. so negotiations are underway with all of the property owners and have been for numerous months. the mta board requested -- is requesting -- did request the board of supervisors for eminent domain on february 26 of this year for the three

all the way up to the china town disaster committee. they have been doing that for 15 years they are further ahead of other neighborhoods but it's an example what can be accomplished when you bring in a variety of community partners. jamie touchod the concept of knowing people's names. the guy who did the bowling alone book. his follow up book shows evidence that links a stronger community with neighbors knowing each other by their first naps. reduction in teen pregnancies and less crimes all tied to the fact that neighbors know each other by their first names. we are trying to build on existing social networks. in our case the issue of disaster preparedness. as much as we can do now we will be better off after a disaster. we have some great questions that have been handed out. and i think we have a microphone. we will have the panelists answer. may be i could have someone or -- may be i will just go down there. >> our first question -- a couple of people had this. are there a list of disaster shelters available to the public so family

. >> reporter: concern other crime and police lay offs is so high here at oakland's china town that some business have been talking about hiring their own security guards. but many think that security guards are not as effective as officers. >> we don't see any officers around here anymore. >> reporter: reporting live in oakland, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and in about an hour, community organizers will hold a meeting which is open to the public to discuss whether to hold more rallies. the oakland general assembly for justice for oscar grant is hosting that meeting which starts at 7:00 p.m. tonight at the continental club in oakland. >>> to see all of those looting photos released bid police, just go to ktvu.com. >>> a 17-year-old turns himself in to clayton police today in connection with a string of street robberies. the teens surrendered just before noon. investigators say he's one of three suspects that are all members of the clayton high school football team. the teens are accused of stealing ipods and cell phones from other students walking down the street. >>> a state sena

i look down powell street, at the edge of china town where there are small businesses right next to residential buildings, almost identical to what i see on this picture here, looking at the photo on the inside of this package. could the department give us an explanation of why we should be supporting this. in light of the fact that we are continuously being confronted with the issue of preserving particularly three bedroom dwelling units. >> certainly. if you look within the draft motion the general plan does address some of these questions and outline a number of thresholds for yourself and the commissioners to determine. i tried to address these issues as best i

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rescuers said to a town in northeast china where flooding has trapped 13,000 people. it is believed that the reservoir in the province has overflowed. china is suffering its worst floods in decades. the prime minister has caused -- called the situation critical. >> engulfing several homes, coming to rest in this residential area. onlookers could only fear the worst. , record levels of water surged along the river and into the reservoir behind the wall. the reservoir was still short of its maximum capacity. the floods had been a disaster for many. hundreds of missing. the rainy season is not yet over. emergency workers continued to battle against the elements, shoring up the fences along the rivers, flooding in food and water to stand residents. >> it has been a tradition in spain for centuries and for the first time bullfighting has been banned in part of the spanish mainland. tens of thousands of people signed a petition calling it barbaric. sarah has the report from barcelona. >> it has been a part of spanish culture for centuries. a ritual in which a matador uses t

rescue workers have been sent you a town in northeast china where it is reported flooding has dropped 30,000 people. it is believed that a reservoir overflowed at jilin province. heavy rains and landslides have claimed 800 lives. with more rain forecast, the prime minister has described the situation as critical. we have this from beijing. >> this river slid down a mountainside, hitting at several homes lining its path. soldiers and rescue workers mobilized to look for those buried in landslides. fear the worst. in another part of china, a massive dam collapsed on wednesday. record levels of water surged into the reservoir behind the dam wall. the river is still short of its maximum capacity. the floods have been a disaster for many. more than 800 people have died. hundreds more are missing. and the rainy season is not over. soldiers and emergency workers are battling the elements. they are shoring up defenses along many rivers. they're bringing supplies to stranded residents. bbc news, beijing. >> it has been a tradition in spain for centuries, but for the first time, all fighting ha

russia of to being washed into a river by floods in northeastern china officials say they could reach the border within a week oh she's in a town in. an eight. year old happened in a chinese province on the north east of a country. in the river which is a subsidiary to the river which connects russia and china and right now those barrels are heading to russia very quickly according to the estimations they could reach russian waters by the fourth of august which is less which is in less than a week russian emergency services however a saying that there is no information yet about whether there has been any leakage of chemicals out of those barrels but russian authorities have already do munda the assessments of potential environmental consequences of this from that from china china is promising that there will be no natural catastrophe but in the past twenty four hours after the barrels were washed into the water only four hundred them out of seven thousand were taken out of the water but the chinese are saying that only three thousand over them contains chemicals and there are other four thousand were completely harmless howeve

flooding to have hit china any years now claim some one hundred fifty lives dozens of people are still missing roads and rail lines of blocked due to landslides triggered by the town halls nearly six million people have had to flee their homes officials say water levels of china's long. over the galaxy have reached dangerous highs of the still rising. israel's attack on the gaza bound aid fertility has been holding the headlines for me is two months now but one israeli m.p. believes that was a clear provocation and that attempts to gain the world's attention. my point was that we are here are we are fighting in a war of ideas and there is an effort even i would say a cordon a good effort to isolate israel to portray it as illegitimate state and we let ships four times throughout the path and nothing happened because all family it's all about the story and it's all about the media and if the media's not interested it disappears had we just let it go through no one in the media the story would have fizzled within a day and it would have fizzled within a day no one would have been interested in israel's blockade a moment later. and you can hear more from israeli m.p.

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going off there reporting from very close to the russia china border and a little bit later on in the program here on our close up team visits the town of boats in the kaluga region of russia it's where traditional architecture has become a canvas for contemporary art and satirical cartoons. veterans who sided with the nazis during world war two against the soviet song gathering in the north east of the baltic states it has sparked outrage over why the country's authorities are welcoming such fascist sympathizers and some of those who wanted to oppose the meeting have been barred from entering. investigates. during the years of the second world war nazi forces established twenty labor and concentration camps here in the stony and this is the site for one of the violet a concentration camps where thousands of jews were executed between the years of one nine hundred forty one and one nine hundred forty five today members of a stone in latvia and lithuania anti fascist organizations laid flowers lit candles and paid their respects to all of the victims of the nazi killing machine but they are a minority here in the baltic states specifi

china's flood season. rivers turned to torrents and this is the result. people stranded. this year's flood is the worst they have seen since 1847. the old town submerged and sunday. half a million people affected. at no. 24, we found mr. and mrs. lo. it is a hopeless task. the water reached up to the ceiling, he tells me. he says it will take five years for his business to recover from this disaster. these floods have been devastating but they pose a challenge to china as a whole. the rain has been falling for days. all this water flows down into the yangtze river. it is under more stress than in any time since it was constructed four years ago. it was controversial and costly. its operators say it is preventing catastrophic floods. catching in storing up to half the flood water. the reservoir is 600 kilometers long. water levels have risen four meters in the past day. tame thefforts to destructive power of the river has not stopped the flood happening. more rain has been following -- falling below the dam. 13 million people have been forced from their homes. theyuntless other cities, cannot escape the summer flood. >>you are watching "bbc n

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china's lucrative >>> welcome back. a north coast vacation spot is facing a fifth consecutive year of long delays for emergency fire and medical service. the problem is in the town of jenner. it has a fire station, but no bridge for its engine to use. abc 7's dna ashley reports. >> this picturesque town has been drawing visitors for decades. jenner is nestled at the foot of the rusher river along the pacific coast, a stunning spot where sometimes you can find more harbor sales than humans. only 125 people live here year round. but jenner still needs emergency services for thousands of tourists who pass through. at the moment, though, those services take a long time to get here. >> it is problematic. >> reporter: he's talking about the volunteer fire department and their engine. here it is. ready to go at a moment's notice. but there is a big problem. the bridge from the fire station into town has been condemned. so the engine can't cross it. >> while we have a fire station here that has a fire truck, we don't have any way to take the fire truck in and out of the station in a satisfactory manner. >> reporter: the bridge crosses jenner creek, usually a pleasant st

china. germany is torn between holding human rights and protecting its citizens as preventive detention comes under scrutiny. and we take you two hundred kilometers southwest stop the russian capital to see how the farming town of kaluga to put a staple in every dinner table in the country. and coming up in the business that they will be looking at the new goal which bans insider trading in russia and also news that we could solve because of the drought which has been plaguing the country harvest all the details in about twenty minutes time. live from moscow this is welcome to the program. well efforts are underway to recover hundreds of barrels of hazardous chemicals which are floating down a chinese river towards russia they were swept away in a recent flood moscow is concerned about the possible consequences should the toxic material cross the border so forth is that the chinese embassy here in moscow and she brings us the latest the chinese media reporting that thousands of these barrels have now been retrieved from the song. thousands more remain in it floating towards towards russia now of course the song was a subsidiary of the a mui for which it joined in russia's far eastern territory and it would t

. >> reporter: in towns and cities in kenya kick-start has set up 450 retail shops to sell pumps made cheaply in china and has set up demonstration stations. the foot operated pumps are sold for $100, a lot of money for an african subsist ens farmer. they work on small plots of land, up to two acres. they are often operated by a husband-and-wife team. streams and lakes provide the water, but the pumps have supplanted the old method of buckets carried by hand. daniel saved for months to come up with the money for one hip pump. it worked. now he's thinking of more. >> i want to cultivate a large piece of area where i can grow more crops. >> reporter: for fisher, it takes a lot of stories like this man's to make a difference. are you making an impact or is it a drop in the bucket? >> you're right. it's really a drop in the bucket. we've got basically by now half a million people out of poverty. that's 100,000 families out of poverty but the potential for these pumps in africa alone is somewhere between 15 and 20 million pumps. >> reporter: a huge problem in rural areas with poor communications is getting

town and state. we are competing with india, china, and germany. to give them the opportunity to succeed, which have to raise student achievement. that means investing in facilities, like in providence. we are building a modern, safe building for education. it has the best technical academy in the northeast. we have school funding. we have fairness in funding public education. >> on the central falls issue, are you saying you are against the firing? >> what i am saying is the approach we used in providence, to work in partnership. we are the first district in the state where teachers are not hired based on seniority. we have merit-based tire. >> you are not giving me the answer to that question. >> i do not believe the wholesale firing of teachers was good for the students, the community, or the teachers. there is a better way to do it. the way we did it was by real partnership. at the end of the day, we are accountable to our kids for the quality of their education. >> mr. lynch, should twitter's be held accountable? >> ahsha course they should be

china shop, and -- it really -- >> jimmy: were you destructive? >> not on purpose. >> jimmy: right. >> but i was sort of nominated as the defacto peacemaker when she would come back in townnew york. so when she would come back in town, it was my job to intercept her. so, those chairs, like, were they important to you? >> jimmy: really? >> at any point in your life? were they heirlooms? are they fixable? just asking. >> jimmy: you were the sweet talker. >> i was nominated as that. >> jimmy: did she eventually throw you guys out? >> we all moved on. people went and got jobs and careers. >> jimmy: did she move on, as well? >> i think she's still there. >> jimmy: really? >> i think there's a new crop -- >> jimmy: she's sitting on the floor. >> she has no furniture. >> jimmy: and a pile of firewood around her. >> she can burn plenty of kindling. >> jimmy: wow, that's something. you should stop by every once in awhile, say, hey, sorry about the chairs. everything okay? can i smash something? >> here's some new stuff. >> jimmy: "mad men" is a great show, and you must be very proud. [ applause ] >> thank you, thank you. >> jimmy: i heard -- and this is really unusual, president

town and state. we are competing with india, china, and germany. to give them the opportunity to succeed, which have to raise student achievement. that means investing in facilities, like in providence. we are building a modern, safe building for education. it has the best technical academy in the northeast. we have school funding. we have fairness in funding public education. >> on the central falls issue, are you saying you are against the firing? >> what i am saying is the approach we used in providence, to work in partnership. we are the first district in the state where teachers are not hired based on seniority. we have merit-based tire. >> you are not giving me the answer to that question. >> i do not believe the wholesale firing of teachers was good for the sdents, the community, or the teachers. there is a better way to do it. the way we did it was by real partnership. at the end of the day, we are accountable to our kids for the quality of their education. >> mr. lynch, should twitter's be held accountable? >> ahsha course they should be h

town and state. we are competing with india, china, and germany. to give them the opportunity to succeed, which have to raise student achievement. that means investing in facilities, like in providence. we are building a modern, safe building for education. it has the best technical academy in the northeast. we have school funding. we have fairness in funding public education. >> on the central falls issue, are you saying you are against the firing? >> what i am saying is the approach we used in providence, to work in partnership. we are the first district in the state where teachers are not hired based on seniority. we have merit-based tire. >> you are not giving me the answer to that question. >> i do not believe the wholesale firing of teachers was good for the students, the community, or the teachers. there is a better way to do it. the way we did it was by real partnership. at the end of the day, we are accountable to our kids for the quality of their education. >> mr. lynch, should twitter's be held accountable? >> ahsha course they should be

town. the people in kansas city have lost theei obs. plans are going over to china to be maintained. it is time to put a stop to %+is. enough is enough. i look forward to yourn.%- questions. >> thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman. since most of my analysis today resembles my testimony before thisscommittee two years ago, my first recommendation, as foreshadowed by the gentleman from haaaii, is that congress ought to hold retrospective hearings. has it accomplished its stated objectives? has competition been adequately protected? i do not have the answers. there is no question that the daacerr would be invaluable. in art -- the answers would be invaluable. it might make sense to actually delay the consummation of this merger until a fully credible study of the prior merger can be takee into account. the essential point of my written statement is the following -- this is an industry in which thhre are substantial number defects. the incremental cost of expanding an already large network may offset the network the industry is already concentrated on a national basis, but this geneealiz