i rely on public transport and to get to china town.n addition, my wife and i allow neighbors go for morning exercise, and some go there three times a day. >> [speaking foreign language] >> we often hear stories of seniors getting into accidents because they're too slow and cars would always zoom past, blowing their horns and out of the signal. >> [speaking foreign language] >> with such a high density of senior housing in district six the be limited mobility to cross the street. we must improve the streets so all residents will be able to cross safety. >> ♪ [speaking foreign language] >> pedestrian safety is essential to our quality of life and i hope to see more improvements to district six in the future. thank you. mick mick thank you, next speaker -- -- thank you and next speaker please. >> my name is gloria hernandez and i live in district 6. i'm a senior and live at mission street senior community which is exactly one block, one block from the free way. and obviously we're aware of how dangerous it is because during the ball park

we hardly go to china town. >> in a casual way, they had fun with his body. they chained him to the back of the car and did fish tails. forensic evidence suggests his body came loose and they rechained him after rolling back over him to get him. now most of us heard about this. something we don't hear, dragged to death we assume it was -- >> like this. chained to the bumper of a truck. that's not true. it's like this. chained the back of the truck. watching the road behind him as he goes. this poem is called big thicket. jasper, texas. >> to big thicket a crack is a buck shot, a stick broke, cracked headlights. crack, the big thicket we go 2 sticks. drink, drink, light, light. stagger in the road. statistic o statistic broke. the light, buck shot light. >> buck on stagger. what you looking at. the white stick. along the trees, along the trees. the buck staggering home. the crack. big thicket. what are you doing here? >> stick broke. white light. break for home. white homing. ha, ha, go, go, buck shot, kra e crack, crack, crack. hit lights. what you think you

i wanted to let everyone know about two important workshops in the mission and china town where restaurant managers can learn about the fog ordinance. important information will be provided such as what types of restaurants need to install automatic grease removal devices and which don't. information will be provided about financing options for equipment and the information will be provided at these workshops could save your restaurant money. it is important if you own or operate a restaurant to become informed. the first is held on tuesday, may 17th. 2:30 p.m. at 731 grant avenue. the second workshop in the mission is wednesday, may 18th, :30 at the women's building on 354318th street. please contact my office if you have any questions about these fog ordinance workshops. the rest i will submit. thank you. >> supervisor chu. >> thank you madam clerk. a simplely want to adjourn in the memory of richard tuck. he spent much of his years enjoying san francisco's playland at the beach. after founding an extive improvement firm mr. tuck devoted his entire life to collecting and refurbishing cla

after success of similar surveillance systems in china town, the neighborhood crime prevention council recommended the cameras. and the citizens should be protected. >> it's not easy to get the police to be patrolling in the little time and area. so we're hoping this camera system will deter crimes. >> alan: the system was paid for by local merchants and the advisory committee on crime. >> after two days fire crews have contained a stubborn warehouse fire, at the apple storehouse in watsonville. it forced firefighters to battle flames from the outside. a popular apple cider, mart martinellies is stored there. >> in st. louis, lambert airport is expected to re-open after a strong tornado did serious damage. the airport is closed with dozens of flights cancelled, including one to san francisco international airport. the storm damaged hundreds of homes in the surrounding area. richard can thank you has more. >> firs storms, including tornadoes, struck five states. lambert airport was shut down when fierce wind tore the roof of the con expowrs disciplinerred the glass in doors and windows.

castro was part of a neighborhood study which also included an outing to the mission as well as china town. >> the school and the administration see the castroneves ---- castro as a respected community. michael is a friend of the upset parent. he agrees that a field trip to the castro is not the way to teach kids. >> it should be up to the parents at their own pace and their own timing. it's should -- it should not be forced upon them by a school. >> reporter: can you take a tour to the castro and learn about being gay without linking it to sexuality. the school believes so but the parent says they believes those two are linked and she's the one answering those loaded questions. >> interesting. do you know if parents had the option of opting out of this thing for their kids? >> yes. some parents did opt out of this field trip. the school was open about the fact that they wanted to teach their kids about diversity and it included a trip here. >>> aglimmer of hope for millions of people still out of work. the latest unemployment number reflect a turning tide. >>> they are painful to watch, b

trip was part of a neighborhood study which also included outings to the mission as well as to china town. he released a statement saying "the school and administration see the castro as a respected community in san francisco, and we want our students to develop an appreciation for whoever lives in our community". michael is a friend of the upset parent. he is openly gay and believes a field trip to the castro is not a way to teach kids about homosexuality. >> that should be up to the parent at their own pace and own timing, not something that should be forced upon them by a school. >> reporter: according to this parent, they were not giving any option, so the kids studied this in class before coming to the field trip here. the only way they could opt out was to keep their kids home from school. in the meantime, the town school says they have no plans to change their curriculum. ken? >> she kept her child home, right? >> reporter: that's right. >> grace lee in the castro, thank you, grace. >>> no way, baby. how some couples are remaining child free. >>> quake in japan rattles the auto ind

. >> denise is the team director at the y in china town.ike andy and the teens accused of killing him, 90% of the kids in her program are from first generation immigrant parents who work long hours. >> these are hard working families. make sure there's enough money for college. there's enough money for food on the table. it's work, work, work all the time for the parents and the kids kind of fend for themselves. >> oftentimes the kids get into trouble if left unsupervised. jefferson believes the why kept him out of trouble. >> i have seen fights before. teens don't know what to do. >> they need someone to listen to them. they need someone to help them navigate through everything. >> that's the message the zang family are stressing to parents and kids. this is an issue that crosses all cultures. there are programs for kids to have a safe haven to go to after school so they don't get into trouble. >> so many influences throughout and a lot of them are negative. thank you. >> well she told police she was just trying to get enough money to get

the difficulty with the j for me is that it's always late, seeing as though i live in china town, that i have to catch the j to get to school. and it's a convenient route for most of the teenagers that attend mission high school. and it causes truancy. like, many students are late so we have to make announcements over the intercom, taking away class time. already they're late. it's already a truancy problem, then we have to take out a little more class time to make an announcement about it or talk about it during class, taking away a lot of class time, causing bad grades, as well. and another problem with the j is that it's the routes are sometimes messed up because of around 30th street, it's kind of like -- they do a lot of construction over there so, like, they have to go off the track or something's wrong with the headway and it's a lot of confusion for many of the people who board the j around the 30th street but after 30th going to glen park area, it's, like, it's not as many people on the j, so some solutions when we had a conversation with -- o.k. -- is that the j could possibl

it's not known if this is related to a assault in china town in february or other assaults earlier this year and last year. in a different case, police believe the same man is responsible for six street robberies yesterday afternoon during a 2 hour period. african american, 25-30 years old. 180-200 pounds. >>> vandals chose this anniversary of the bp oil explosion to sabotage several gas stations. as ktvu's kraig debro reports, some didn't mind the inconvenience. >> reporter: 3 hooded man chained together gas nozzles. the action is out of a protest commemoration of the bp oil spill. >> he said, three guys came and locked the nozzles with a chain. >> there are two other similar protests this morning. the police made a report of one of the incidents and no one was deprived of gas or time. >> i don't think it's catastrophic. >> reporter: some of the few people feel burned are a group caused rising tides. they claim to represent the group. >> we did not chain together gas station pumps. they prohibit the kind of action that happened. >> nothing. >> reporter: they are sponsoring a mass prote

the success of a similar surveillance system in china town urged officials to install the cameras at lincoln square. more than 2,000 people visit the square every day and they should be protected. >> at it not easy to get police to be patrolling in the little town and area so we're hoping this camera system will be deterring crime. >> alan: local merchants and members of the committee paid for the camera system. crime statistics show citizens in central oakland experienced less overall crime in the first quarter of this year than last year. there were 144 fewer violent crimes, property crimes were down by 175 cases, as well as burglaries down by 109 cases. but there were two more murders and vehicle thefts during that period. san carlos, some they're considering putting the fire department in the hands of a private company. >> reporter: firefighters in san carlos are working overtime. >> we're looking for support from citizens like you. >> reporter: they're not fighting fires but they're fighting for what they think is best for the community, now that san carlos needs a new funding p

high salaries great standards of living and impressive infrastructure and restricted town for the employees over china mobile nuclear power plant week it was regarded as the pride as the plural of the soviet union it was not only constructed to look like a perfect socialist city but the people who live here were also the best of the best the best musicians sports man. the best professionals in nuclear energy all of them live here all of that changed on april the twenty six nineteen eighty six when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experience carried out in the wrong hands. of the reaction was almost completely out of control in april twenty fifth but it could still have been saved and management pushed for a completion of an experiment personal hesitated were locked into and eventually couldn't go against the authorities we'll know the result. and meanwhile the town's population had no idea about the disaster people were enjoying and then usually sunny saturday outdoors. and we were away from school pleated beach we returned home or called in mud to my mother asked me where i had been i

to haunt the now abandoned town of pripyat which was built to help those working at the chernobyl power plant artie's alex they are such a visitor to go sound report on china we'll talk. twenty five years ago the town of the plateau was a place any soviet person could dream of high salaries great standards of living and impressive infrastructure and restricted town for the employees of the chernobyl nuclear power plant treat it was regarded as the pride as the pearl of the soviet union it was not only constructed to look like a perfect socialist city but the people who live here were also the best of the best the best musicians sports man the best professionals the nuclear energy all of them lived here all of that changed on april the twenty six nineteen eighty six when the chernobyl reactor exploded the result of an experiment carried out in the wrong hands which will both react it was almost completely out of control in april twenty fifth and it could still have been saved and management pushed for a completion of the experiment personal hesitated and were reluctant to eventually couldn't go against the authorities wielding of the reason old radio meanwh

china. the world's emerging economies. as he sells. president but it was speaking to a chinese head of a visit but today where he'll be meeting with this town to. the other members of the brits really china of course brazil india and south africa be discussing amongst other things how best to respond to the old playing situation in libya remains torn with the civil conflict that the president warning other the situation really is a real risk of collapse that. one should understand that the viability of the libyan state itself is now at stake. i mean the international community and certainly the people of libya have a single libya or several states given by puppet governments and even by new pretty radical six trina's this strange it's quite realistic that now we should look into the future hold politicians there should decide for themselves make responsible decisions for the sake of the libyan people somebody will have to make such a serious maybe fateful decision to leave allowing his country to develop i think this would be for the good in every respect to suppress the fate of making it clear that all the cool side gadhafi is certainly to

china operations around the day. twenty five years ago the entire fifty thousand population over ukrainian town of previous was evacuated within three hours. could you please step aside and working and you getting in my short thank you they left the what they had here as they were told they were leaving only for a couple of days but none of them has ever returned both thing they saw leaving their homes around what the fourth floor of the chernobyl nuclear power plant. explosion. where we going number not sure we need to go to previous post office. we recently i received an altercation to pick up a letter here in three parts the national that's impossible that post office isn't working for twenty five years i don't think it's for real. show me. storms range but according to the stamp this really has come from here you know where this post office is yes i know the big. if. if it. but if it is a little bit of snow all these trees that you see they've all grown since the accident and right now we're going to be passing the house where i was born. feel that. we came to the chernobyl exclusion zone to investigate a very stran

china turns and can you attract men? early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, a small town bird from minnesota finds adventure in south america. but will he find success at the box office? >>> coming up, a couple of odd sets in the stanley cup playoffs and an amazing slide that have have you scratching your head. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning. the japanese government is ordering the operator of that country's damaged nuclear plant to pay about $12,000 to each household forced to evacuate to avoid radiation leaks. individuals would get about $9,000. while officials say more compensation is expected, some of the displaced have already slammed the handout as too little. the free ride is over for california ledge laters. a state panel has voted to end the practice for senate members insurance repairs and unlimited gasoline. they are receive $300 a month to offset transportation expenses. >>> friends and families are mourning the passing of the world's oldest man who died of natural caus

china is making our products. i look at places like newton, iowa, where maytag moved out and moved into mexico and devastated the town. if you put a tax on chinese

comes just a week after another shootout in the same town where two people were killed and more than two. a fire in a shopping center in northwest china has killed one of twelve others over two. hundred firefighters were dispatched to put out the huge blaze and evacuate those still trapped inside this still battling to contain the flames tonight bellatrix of the gas have been shut off of the complex to stop the plane train from spreading a cause of the fire hasn't yet. rush is preparing to celebrate mankind's first foray into space as the u.s. retires its iconic space shuttle fleet with no replacement in sight and our resident takes the streets of new york had to find out just what happened to america's space missions. this month marks the fifty year anniversary of the first human caused and not yuri gagarin to ever fly into space so whatever happened to the space race this week let's talk about that are you proud that man once walked on the moon. my proud that man was walked out of my proud that man once crossed the atlantic ocean and failed america i think it's a good thing for people who for mankind to do new things and explore and

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so-called breaks brazil russia india china and south africa is seen as an attempt to develop a unified approach to global economic challenges and there have been some towns where the russia should be in the club given its different level of development but jacob now from morgan stanley believes russia is a good fit. and industrial or is a couple of generations ago and that sets it apart from the other brics who tend to have a young population growing population and a much lower incomes recap to put russia is big and it's got huge resources and it's got great potential so in the sense of being an economy that could grow for state has great potential but means to undertake fundamental structural reforms to achieve the kind of prosperity you see in the developed world i think russia has a lot in common with the other groups. let's look at how the markets are performing after spending most of the day on the water they need a gain momentum by the end of the trading day among the leaders that tech stocks with top rising two percent and an e.c.v. three percent in hong kong spots edge low in quarter straight ahead of friday's inflation data from china and it has

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we've talked about tensions with china and russia perhaps you haven't mentioned iran is that the next target you think as well i think iran has been targeted for some town and if you watch the propaganda about syria washington is now claiming it. is is helping syria. oppress the protesters. you know what's different. syria about clojure in both cases we know for a fact the united states government is supporting. opposition groups is not as far as we know in tunisia or egypt. and so it's it's only in those two countries where washington head. opposition forces are funding the. united states has an interest in intervening. in both cases there is a strong presence to all of us. moving. in syria paul paul will have to leave it there it's very interesting at bearing in mind your experience as a former reagan administration official to hear what you have to say about the ongoing developments there in the middle east and north africa thank you very much paul craig roberts joining us live here in arctic thank you. well that brings us now to twenty five minutes past the hour business is next here with me tree. welcome to business it's good to have your company r

towns. >> we all benefit. and the key is flexibility and education. the next phase of this is that china is not got cheap labor anymore. i already know some u.s. multinationals that were at the forefront of putting things in china to produce because of cheap labor. they are no longer doing it. >> charlie: where are they putting it. >> mexico is probably the biggest beneficiary of this. you could offer i think in hindsight argue that nafta was killed by china and didn't get the benefits it should have got. now that china is rising up the income scale, perhaps this is mexico's chance to reap some of those benefits. and at the margin in many so areas i think it's going to compare to the u.s. the whole idea with outsourcing to india which is big in parts of the uk and europe and of course here in the u.s. that's probably not far finishing either. so we'll be out sourcing other places that we probably don't even know about anymore. this is another reason why north africa and the middle east are on my radar. if you're running a big manufacturing entity around the world, particularly if you're

the equation with the rig trade with china, other half of the equation really goes to the importing and dependence and the strategic importance of oil. we had a town hall last night here at osu that was a really an incredible response and crowd but i do want to play a little bit of boone pickens' thoughts of trade and energy and get your thoughts. >> when they come back and the historians look at us, that if we don't do something about the problem, two thirds of the trade deficit is purchase of foreign oil, we'll go down in history as the dumbest crowd that ever came to town. >> you agree with that? >> yes, i do. the only cautionary note to sound here is i am not a big believer that government does a good job in picking winners and you have to say one word -- ethanol -- to really be persuaded of that so i think what government needs to do here is put a fair price on carbon. put a tax on gas, maybe one to fluctuate with the price of oil so when the price goes down on the markets the tax picks up the difference and then have incentives but incentives which are neutral to get the renewa e renewables otherwise the government will back the pink elephan

china noble as ukraine and the rest of the world really marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster stay with us throughout the day for our special report on prefects a ghost town which in soviet times was full of dreams but turned into a nuclear nightmare. this time saw the trajectory. twenty five years ago on the entire fifty thousand population over ukrainian town to prepare for the american way to within three hours. plus now which most recently some people started receiving social justice telling them to pick up letters at this post office in. the stories of the world long gone. after he took. me to the diaries of. our choosing. with us here live from moscow now italy says it will join the allied airstrikes on colonel gadhafi as army in libya despite its earlier refusal to take part in the bombings this comes after a kid our fees compound in tripoli was hit by nato on monday temporarily taking at least three t.v. channels off the air however fierce fighting continues to still try to take over the rebel held city of misrata at least ten people have been killed in the past twenty four hours it's over a month now since the coalition forces started the operati

china; the trials for 9/11 suspects; and veterans moving back to the civilian world. but first, with the other news of the day, here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: libyan rebels made modest gains in the oil town of brega today. and at least five people were killed in misrata, when forces loyal to president moammar qaddafi shelled a residential area. on the diplomatic front, a plan is reportedly being floated for qaddafi's sons to take over power. we have a report from neil connery of independent television news in tripoli. >> reporter: for 42 years libya has known only one leader. but could these be colonel qaddafi's final days of power? as diplomatic efforts to end this crisis continue, suggestions that some could take over as a transitional leader were dismissed by his father's ever faithful supporters who say only one man can lead here. >> moammar qaddafi. >> reporter: no one else? >> moammar qaddafi. >> reporter: no one else? >> moammar qaddafi. >> reporter: libya's deputy foreign minister flew to athens yesterday to meet the greek prime minister at the start of a new diplomatic push from tripoli. he says the colonel wants an end to the fighting but the move was dismissed by italy's forei

china where it will be mass produced. a copy will cost $1,500 to $2,000. >>> the royal wedding in london may be getting all the attention. but a washington state town had a royal wedding of its own. >> we are joined here today and for our families, friends, guy and the incredible staff of burger king. >> reporter: samantha joe howard and hardwick got married in a burger king over the loud speaker. >>> and the falcon chicks are looking for names. the ten names were chosen by san jose school children. the online voting ends on may 6 when the winning names will be announced. >>> time now 7:57. atlanta braves coach is suspended after being accused of using anti gay slurs at a giants game. >>> and charlie sheen brings his act to san francisco tonight. how his show is also serving as a fundraiser to help injured giant fan bryan stow. >>> a state of emergency has been declared in alabama where the death toll now stands at over 200. >> volunteers will be donating their time and supplies for more than 70 volunteer projects in the peninsula alone. it's all part of a nationwide effort to rebuild communities. >>> and following the much anticipated wedding of p

china drop. starting factories back in the country. host: also, more on the president's schedule. today he will hold a townl in northern virginia to discuss his vision for reducing the nation's debt and deficit. on wednesday, he will look a town hall at facebook headquarters in california to explain his plans for the debt and the deficit. also, other news for you this morning. here is the associated press reporting that arizona gov. brewer vetoed a bill that would have required president obama and other presidential candidates to approve their u.s. citizenship before their names could appear on the state's ballot. host: governor brought word, the republican in arizona, be noted that legislation. out of kentucky, rand paul, the new republican senator, who has talked about possibly running for president, filed to seek reelection to the u.s. senate in 2016. cleveland, ohio. maxine is a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. i absolutely believe that s&p is just political. however, we probably needed to see that. we need to be talking about it. i believe that since we for started the entitlements, socia