the first in the china town to have a car. >> i worked in my aunt and uncle's grocery store, earningas a daily wage, that is where i learned the importance of customer service and the value of hard work. drew group up with similar values. his strength in project management, and he has also been known to insist on being in the field, whether installing bike racks. he has been on dozens of projects throughout the san francisco and the bay area and most excited about building out the beer hall. we have both witnessed our family's dedication and entrepreneurial spirit. chaos in the small business world. and we have always dreamed of starting our own business and creating that same work ethic for our family. >> i'm andrew hall. >> if you could ask the clerk to... >> i'm andrew hall and it is very nice to be here in front of you. and late, 2010, i like many people in the bay area and across the nation lost my job and when this happens, after you get over the initial shock, you start thinking about your life and see what your future holds. i saw this as an opportunity, i have worked in cons

program, one is long fellow elementary, the other is art low elementary, that promising is within the china town phase four project. the next 4 projects on your screen are projects that all scored very well in terms of being multi- modal and approximate access and in terms of project redness. gist to give you brief updates of where they are at. the broadway street project is before the mta board and they are working through their secret clearance and hoping to get that cleared as well. they will return to this committee and most like lie along with the bag final recommendations in may with design for the project. the masonic street skate project domestic violence and sexual assault an old older and other pieces of the project. mta is work to go work to go reduce the project and look at what cost a little bit lessor be taken out and m t s an also looking to help offset what is being requested here. >> can i just ask you is there any danger that that may delay that critical project because of the pedestrian safety concerns and the depth on that street. is there any potential that that funding mech

we hardly go to china town. before i came here, i held his hand. now my heart is a chinese box of riddels, no one understands. i blew hot soup for her on foggy nights. she trims the ends of my thinning hair, still she can't forget that day she faced the interrogation officers and said she was my sister. i have not told anyone we move like shadows in a haze of secrets and lies. now stairs fascinate her. she knows the neighbor's house by heart. 21 steps to the door. 9 windows. 1-1/2 bathrooms. she counts every timely visit just to make sure. in case one day she has to know. before i came here, i had a name. >> ships of wind. softly size the swaying trees in the secret place stilled by time. we toil between the deep brown earth crumbs past frommant toant in orderly procession surrounded by crushed new born grass and flattened flowers. many of us have died here. who's secret [inaudible] we do not know. nor the shift of wind the sudden wake that blocked the sun changes the course and brought with it the endless nights. we enl know the passing of formles

dad found a flat in china town and she would have two jobs. she worked for a company called ben david's sowing shop. then -- sewing shop. she would work a lot. i would come home and get dinner ready for the six siblings, the six of us. >> when you got dinner ready did mom lay out the instructions and say follow this recipe you can do this or did you get in the kitchen and make it your own territory. >> well, mom did things. she didn't write it down. i would watch. >> did you like to eat? >> i liked to eat. we grew up in a small resort town in vietnam with a lot of french influence, so, i always liked to eat and i like to cook. the book talks about a little story. i got here and got a gourmet magazine and they took me to a thanksgiving dinner and i decided to study the book. i remembered watching tv to find out how they cut an onion. that was my instruction to cooking, watching that show and the fact i was working in a lot of restaurants. my dad was a janitor and i was exposed to it, the english push where he worked at -- pub where he worked at

in december 2006 mo issued a request for proposals and selected china town as the developers. they have all project approvals and financing in place, which enables them to commence construction in mid to late april. it is integral to the success of the apartments and we respectfully ask for your approval of the ground lease and ask for any questions that you may have. you should have all of the legal documents and we are available for any questions. >> supervisor avalos? >> any questions? >> okay. >> thank you very much. the budget analysts report? >> mr. chairman, supervisor avalos, as we report on page 6 of our report and indicated by the mayor's office of housing this morning, although the city would issue the proposal multifamily housing revenue bonds the obligation to repay the bonds would rest on the project and the obligations of the project developers are such that the city will incur for financial liability from the issuance of such bonds. we also report that the city would based on the amendments to this ground lease the city will potentially have received an estimat

. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it on. i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it. let's go. >> want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. >> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there. it's important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. >> using your safety glasses the gloves. >> you got it. >> you know some places we gashi, people appreciate that. you know, a lot of timeses they say, thank you. >> the time where it's visible. a lot of people put it on the ground. >> i like

china town. tourists. and then this it is a wonderful melting pot. what i am seeing is that middle and lower middle incomes are being chased out of it by the park and rec commission and this disturbs me. i talked to someone from asl hutch and he said what do you think about the projects in marina green, don't do any more i bring my child with cerebral palsy to come down and have a nice night in the event and be on time with him and to come down now. we have to look at what we want for this city. and i am very concerned about this particular restaurant, because of what one of the partners said. and oh, we want to go down there so we can serve a lot on fleet week. i am sitting there going wait a minute, we have bars and restaurants up here that are or have been doing this for years why do we have to have the competition, number one and are we going to have another drunk situation that we had with the union street merchants? so there, not the merchants the fair. so that is it. greg, has been here for, i call it 6 weeks, even though it has been 8 or goin

things were adopted downtown (inaudible) was adopted in 1984, and it provoked around the downtown china town plan and north of market plan and south of market plan. there was a community-based planning processes to establish and keep the boundaries, at the same time. and you don't respect the community doing planning. you respect the people that you pay not the volunteers who do the hard work. i am also raising for the third time at this chair, the question of sea level rise, it is huge, this corridor you have it. i am not hoping that some of this on the screen. this is the second report or the second to 6th street corridor, it is all bay street hill and what i remarked about earlier, it happened in this area and i could take you to the sites where they occurred and there were poor people and so they didn't count, there was enormous loss of a life and of housing and of buildings in south of market and the planning department should plan for people, and they are not. they are planning for architectural wonderment. and my priorities and i think that john's priorities is people. and low income

. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it on. i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go.

china town. tourists. and then this it is a wonderful melting pot. what i am seeing is that middle and lower middle incomes are being chased out of it by the park and rec commission and this disturbs me. i talked to someone from asl hutch and he said what do you think about the projects in marina green, don't do any more i bring my child with cerebral palsy to come down and have a nice night in the event and be on time with him and to come down now. we have to look at what we want for this city. and i am very concerned about this particular restaurant, because of what one of the partners said. and oh, we want to go down there so we can serve a lot

. >>> we're going to take you now to one community in china town in new york where they're asking whereir rooms are basically cubicles. only 54 square feet. >> that's amazing. just imagine that. now the living conditions are deemed dangerous and they're being forced to leave. >> poppy harlow shows us this is all about the chinese immigrants and this is all they can afford. >> mr. wong has lived in this tiny room for more than 30 years. he came to the u.s. alone in 1977. we met mr. wong when we reported on the conditioned where he and his fellow chinese immigrants were living. >> good to see you again. can we come in? >> here on the fourth floor of 81 bowery. they work low-wage jobs. many live two who three to a room, with rent just a few hundred bucks a month, it's all they can afford. this week mr. wong and the other residents were evict ed, told te conditions are too dangerous. many residents are still at work. when they come home they're going to find out they can't stay here because of concern over the safety of the living situations here. >> the amount of debris and fire breeding c

they were friends before amanda went to italy and reported the couple lives together in the city's china townl music and specializes in guitar. her life here far from the legal battles she faced with her exboyfriend, raffaele sollecito. infamously filmed kissing and cuddling after finding out about meredith kercher's murder. sollecito says they remain friends. >> we talk about family, relationship with friends, movie, books, music. anything. like friends. we're good friends. we are now almost brother and sister. we push through a lot together. >> and says he's even visited amanda in seattle. upon returning from italy amanda also went back to school studying creative writing at the university of washington where her current boyfriend also attends classes. she will take a semester off to promote the book she's written, a memoir about the four years she spent in an italian jail. the book "waiting to be heard" will be published next month. kyung lah, cnn seattle. >> if you want to know more about her life, crime and trial, watch an anderson cooper special report "murder abroad" airing this friday

china. residents of smog-choked towns and cities are fed up. so they're pressuring authorities to act now. nhk world's makato oda has more. >> reporter: the city of tangsha lies at 150 kilometers east of beijing. it's a major steel producer. ahead of the 2008 beijing olympics, the chinese government directed the city's biggest steel plant to relocate here. it was to reduce air pollution in beijing. residents are complaining about health hazards. >> translator: it's troubling me. >> translator: everyone here has lung trouble because of the air pollution. >> reporter: she lives here. last june he suffered a stroke. he's been bedridden ever since. his wife suspects air pollution has something to do with his illness. >> translator: my husband had a terrible cough for a long time. he must have inhaled all sorts of pollutants. >> reporter: researchers are now looking into how to determine the health risks of pm2.5. experts at pay king university says 8,500 people. they all died from lung cancer and other ailments. >> translator: the figure startled me. it's obvious the health of chinese people i

china. >> vice president joe biden was in town at the same time. there's a little bit of tension between the united states and china. joe biden is over there to try to smooth it out economically and politically. >> in fact, biden attends the first game the hoyas play which goes on without incident. but he isn't there the next night, when they take on china's rockets. a team with players from the people's liberation army. >> their team has a little bit more of an edge because of a military affiliation and from the beginning of that game, a lot of fouls, a really physical type of game. >> although dubbed the china/u.s. friendship match, this game is anything but friendly. >> the officials did not do a good job controlling the situation. foul after foul after foul being called against georgetown. by halftime, this was one alarming stat to me, georgetown was called for 30 fouls whereas the chinese team was called for only 10. that was an indication to me that something bad could be happening in the second half. >> hoya's coach john thomas iii says tensi

town. the people are are struggling to make ends meet and china is littered with ghost towns, these empty commercial spaces built during a speculative building boom. >>> here's when is trending online. a new research paper is claiming mother teresa may not be as saintly as you think. academics from the university of montreal was satisfied with housing the poor in bad conditions even though she had access to a lot of funding. the researchers say she was more likely to pray for the sick, than ensure they got proper medical care. she won a noble prize and fast track to saint hood. cnn "news room" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> school closings, power outages, hundreds of flights canceled. a look at that winter storm causing delays along the east coast. then knives allowed. the tsa says e it is okay to bring knives on planes. we will explain why. and drones could be used to target americans with links to terror. how attorney general eric holder didn't rule this out as an extreme possibility. this morning, the dow hit another milestone topping 14,300 shortly after the opening

look at these pictures of ghost towns in china. building after building, mall after mall, but no people to live in them. essentially, china has a two-speed property market. one is booming and the other is languishing. you might say china has a property bubble, but not a big deal. they don't have the kind of mortgage and credit card problems that americans had in 2007. it was our debt that caused the problem. and the chinese national government is suddenly doing fine. the consumer is doing fine. but there are those who say china actually has a huge hidden debt problem. according to morgan stanley, china's total public and private debt has soared to more than 200% of gdp, the highest level in the developing world. points specifically to private debt, a category that includes all kinds of quizy state borrowers. if you look at the rate of increase of private debt, china's levels are at dangerous highs. they are higher than the peaks experienced by many countries before they entered a crisis. japan in 1989, the united states in 2007, sp

is after china completed reassigning its top jobs this week as correspondent town way reports it comesamid many challenges but also promising forecasts. there used to be a superstitious believe almost in china about that eight percent growth rate of the national g.d.p. for that little number has been slowed down to about seven point five percent it has to be a slow down number because china is doing this transition from a growth quantity growth in quality many argue it is extremely important to do reform reform really has been the key word for the new generation of leaders coming into power recently mr legal challenge wasted now the cut chinese premier he's been talking about reform is the largest dividend china can be enjoyed for its post for the progress president mr xi jinping after being elected was calling him a delay two of president obama and he advocated if the two countries could have mutual respect and openness to one another things can be better and he's been talking about a new kinds of relations between new powers and that of course the definition is not being given by the

but let's move on to our next story china's new leader is expected to formally take over from incumbent huge in town later this week the world's got a close eye on the once in a decade power transition in the fast rising global player and second biggest economy beijing's been rapidly growing over the last few decades at a speed which has brought it close to the traditionally major economies including the u.s. and even allowed its a pass europe's powerhouse germany that slowed down a bit recently but china is still expected to overtake the u.s. as the world's biggest economy in twenty seventeen the economic rivalry comes amid the battle for influence in asia between the two i stay with us for some analysis on china's new generation of politicians later this hour also ahead for you. hundreds take to the streets for another night of anger in brooklyn ny with the deadly police shooting of a teenager these and other stories after the break. i . speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you. but we'll turn to angles stories. that the spanish find out more visit. mission fr

china's new leader is expected to formally take over from incumbent huge in-town later this week the world's got a close eye on the once in a decade power transition in the fast rising global player and second biggest economy beijing's been rapidly growing over the last few decades at a speed which has brought it close to the traditionally major economies including the u.s. and even allowed it's the past europe's powerhouse germany that slowed down a bit recently but china is still expected to overtake the u.s. as the world's biggest economy in twenty seventeen the economic rivalry comes amid the battle for influence in asia between the two analysts james corbett explains how this will develop under the new chinese leadership. we've already seen how this is starting to play out with the confrontation for example between china and japan over the at the sink islands and we've seen some some indications of how this is going to happen through u.s. proxies in the region rather than a direct converse that confrontation between the u.s. and china and i think that that plays into everyone's

town of taipei. about 900 dead pigs have been found floating in the river in china.ey find these pictures disturbing. crews have been fishing the carcasses out of the river which is a water source for the major city of shanghai. people do not know if they were dumped or they died. azana the tavis and stored in all sports. in annual dog sled race. the shoes humans and dogs to the limit. it took more than eight days to complete the journey. >> so begins one of the more grueling sporting events in the world. this is a 1600 come into --, enter trick. the man is called a musher, meaning "to go." the first official race was 41 years ago. it is growing to national profile has led to increased competition with a new record set almost every year. some say global warming has come into play. >> competed in 26 races. he says the snow has a huge impact. >> when it softens up it reduces the speed. and makes them more lethargic. sled dogs really operates at 25 below zero. >> these have been huskies are the original dog. all deadlines -- alt -- old bloodline suited for the condition

hello and welcome across town for all things are considered i'm can the brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa reinvent the international system can they collectively challenge the germany western dominated trade and finance or do they merely want to greater say in how the world is run and for whom .

hello and welcome across town where all things considered i'm going to relive though can the brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa reinvent the international system can they collectively challenge the hegemony of western dominated trade and finance or do they merely want to greater say in how the world is run and for whom. to cross out the bricks i'm joined by yet a slightly so bola here in moscow he's the chief economist at deutsche bank russia in washington we have brian becker he is the national coordinator for the answer coalition and in new york we cross to and we she is an adjunct professor at new york university and the author of the book what the u.s. can learn from china crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it yourself when i go to you first do the brics want to take on the west is that kind of relationship they have. well i think not necessarily but in some respects it seems as this is the trend in terms of the recent policy measures that we're seeing from the brics one of the measures is to combine the foreign exchange reserves