great idea to connect up and i know this is at the heart of the feelings of the people who live in china town and whether it is in the projects and the small businesses along stockton street all the way down fourth street right to here and we are going to marvel at why we would not have done this faster and quicker. because we are going to grow with this system and i think in a very short time you are going to see the value of this system moving people as quickly as it does now when you see the subway of market street working a lot of people, and it is going to be the same thing and there is a lot of growth that is happening in the south east corridor and they want to connect up with the north east corridor. and so, this is our future, this is what we have been talking about and it it is right here before us and it starts and i also want to give a big thanks, fong, you and rose, and gordon and so many other people have been such strong leaders of this effort along with the federal partners and the regional partners and to have the nails of the boring tunnel machines that are reflected here, (

evacuated where this stand in china town goes up in flames.what we learned from investigators. >>> a shooting left a person dead. i got off the phone with the police i'll tell you what i learned. >>> it is a critical day in the bart labor dispute. what is happening ahead of the sunday night strike deadline. >>> a controversy tied to the tragedy at sfo all ahead. >>> >>> thank you for waking up with us on thursday morning. >>> would you ask if i can have a good forecast. i have been asking for that. >>> well, thank you. i defer to him. we have a pattern change. some sun on the coast. 60s and 70s. traffic is moving along you from driving on the bridge you can see it is good. the sunol grade looks good as

. >> wait until you see the look on russell's case when he uncovered a health violation in china town. will the food make you sick or him? but if you follow restaurant alert. >> know this is one dirty soap opera with recurring characters. >> we start here at another closure in the 300 block of morris street northeast. and you may recognize this warehouse and market other closures we've reported here. best known probably right there at sam wang produce, including the video and the photos showing evidence of rats. it was january when rats jumped out in front of us at neighboring sam wang's dock. >> i saw two rats. >> health department photos documented rat droppings inside. and now three doors down at divine food, a new closure citing mice droppings and a cross-contamination violation. >> they saw goat and fish in the same container. >> no. >> she said only one fish had fallen in a meat container. >> it is not a big deal. >> they say when goats and fish are in the same container, it creates the opportunity for cross contamination. >> no, you can put it out. >> so can we show it on camer

lazares that i was just talking to and he is already working on the next phase and we have the china townnd many of our china ton including in the front row miss rows pack and mr. gordon chin. and we have a number of members of our community advisory group for the central subway. people who have volunteered their time as everyone else just mentioned has year after year to suffer this project through to make sure that we are doing it well and doing it right. and finally, there is a lot of leadership and support from the communities, from the federal partners and from the government and from city hall that makes all of this happen, but at the end of the day, everybody has to drive this project forward and so i want to acknowledge the subway director, john sungi, since 2006 john has been working day and night living and breathing this project to make sure that it happens, i think that he has a central subway tattoo on his arm. i think that the tunnel manage machine down stairs has spent more time with tom than his family has. he has been bringing expertise and commitment to improving the tra

. >>> new this morning, investigators want to know what caused a fire in china town. this one started about 3 this morning at a shop on clay street not far from the financial district. we were there a short time leader. this where it happened. no one was hurt. the fire caused about $5000 in damage. >>> well this morning the police are investigating a deadly shooting that happened in east oakland. they found the body of a man who was shot and killed about midnight on 80th avenue. they have not given other information about a possible suspect. >>> police are searching this morning for a suspect in an a shooting where a person was killed and another was critically injured. police found the victims about 7:30 last night. they were in that white cadillac on somersville road. the suspect was driving a gold colored car possibly a honda or a chevy if you have information call police. >>> a close call involving a bus and a train in menlo park t broke through a crossing and drove across the strategics seconds before it arrived. a spokesperson said five people were on the bus at

unfortunately those cases are very, very difficult to prosecute so our females in china town in san francisco are continuing to be victims. we want to thank you to make as many arrests as you can. our elderly sometimes are ashamed of being victimized. their family blamed them formal spending their whole savings you, you know, and all the valuable jeweler and whatnot and brought it over to those perps and i asked the officers to treat them with respect and kindness. we've talked about this blessing scam a hundred times on radio station and television and his officers also come to our senior centers and talked about it really. yet their elderly their isolated and they don't read the newspaper or watch tv we hope you, you will continue to protect the seniors. i have to echo every speaker that central station has the best captain the most caring were we run a wellness program we rented that clubhouse from the park and rec and garrett knows we've been calling for help especially, when there their thirty officers we're still borthd by the people who want to come in and bother the seniors. it's a di

you have two china towns wisconsin you have a commercial chinatown and a there's where the chinese people live and work but come back to it i filed a complaint for exactly what that african-american went through it happened to me 18 years ago. i got beat up by 3 police officers and thrown in a squad car. i don't put that on the police department in chinatown but as a whole. if the occ had been taking care of of my complaint but after many complaints i've never had one be escalated even though i was beat up. they couldn't find a case or find a verification of me being beat up. in terms of chinatown has changed a bit and a last but not least is this. the taxi business has a big problem with a lot of offbeat taxis gyp i didn't taxis operate off of chinatown where black cars but they're not taekdz. when bars close you is a see a proliferation of those cars picking up people left and right and don't pay the fees i pay to san francisco. the mta sucks $6 million out of taxi drives they don't get a dime - >> excuse me, sir your i am not is up. >> i thank you for your time on this issue. >> captai

the china town association and other groups have sued the state over the ban. say the ban is cut from the sharks and then the sharkers throw them back into the ocean to die. chinese say the charges are caught -- sharks are caught humanely. >>> san francisco public utilities commission took up part of a plan that would move a clean -- several groups in favor of that program including the sierra club and lean energy u.s. spoke outside san francisco city hall. they urged the commission to approve the not to exceed rate which they call a step to clear power sf. >> through clean bauer sf the city has the ability to deliver on thousands of mega watts of new distributed local renewable power and bringing the new jobs that come along with that. >> the city first approved the sf plan last september. >>> the official numbers are in from today. it was hot in the bay. warmer than yesterday. let's take a peek, you can see we had 94. 97 in liver more. so definitely a warmer day today. temperatures tomorrow very similar. the reason for that is the marine layer, see how it's b

. >> reporter: in 2007, 6 months after he took office the fbi raided his city hall offices, china town flower shop and homes in san francisco and burlingame. prosecutors had video tape of him accepting $40,000 in $100 bills in an attempt to shake down the chinese immigrant owners in the sunset district. he pled guilty to bribery and extortion charges he was accused of lying about living in san francisco when he ran for supervisor. i did talk to him briefly by phone he says under the rules of his reentry program he is not allowed any interviews with media until his sentence is fully served that will be some time next year n. san francisco. linda yee kpix 5. >> he will remain at the halfway house for a few weeks and be on house detention for the rest of his term. >>> crews are close to knocking out a 1500-acre wild fire in river side county. large piles of ash covered the sky creating a brown haze. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes but so far, no houses have been destroyed. >>> chevron has agreed to pay almost $2 million in fines for that refinery fire in richm

. >> i have a group i town down and china town and the north tunnel. ady for le] the >> 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 when tourists come and say, you do this for your city and you get paid for that? >> we use the [inaudible] for the holes and the retaining walls.

something that wilson said, i had the pleasure of attending the lion's club meeting last week in china town where our council member harriet wong was promoted to the role as president and it was a really great community to see how the people came together in support the harriet and i was happy to have been there. so this concluding my portion of the director's report and i like to ask heather kettle, our coordinator to give us her reports and complaints that our office have heard over the last 12 months. thank you heather. >> good afternoon council. in the past two months our office received 223 inquires, 91 percent were from the public and 9 percent of these inquires were from city departments. our office provided information and referrals forle 8 percent of these contacts and provided technical assistance for 33 percent of these contacts and conducted service request for 70 percent. the topics of -- it was about disability accommodations and housing, businesses, education and employment. contacts also requested information about affordable housing, benefits and employment resources. we re

. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti

four occurred in san francisco in bank branches stretching from west portal to china town. the fifth occurred at a cafe bank branch. >> reporter: so, what you ear looking at now is -- what you're looking at now is another guy the fbi is interested in called the up close bandit. these are photographs of a robbery he pulled just a while ago. he is accounted for at least two robberies in the bay area in the past several weeks. this guy is a little different. he likes to walk in, pretends he has autobahn and then he whips out a note and gives it to the material. like i say, he has made off with the proceeds from several banks in the last couple months. police are asking for the public isohel 7. the fbi says if you're -- help. if you are outside of a bank or inside, look at the people, study what they are wearing, if they say anything, try to remember that, what they look like, if they get into a vehicle, the description and a license plate if you can. reporting live from gary street in san francisco, i'm ken bastida kpix 5. >> kenny, thanks. >>> ac transit executives are hoping

i'll tell you, a group called pie it forward will be at china town metro at 6:00 giving away pie andch on washington. they are encouraging others to be kind and share. get out there and get free pies and be kind. "fox 5 morning news" back after this.  >> our facebook fan of the day turns "fox 5 morning news" and feels like we are part of her family. like our facebook page and post a comment below tawana's picture. that does it for our 6:00 news hour, now we turn it over to wisd wisdom. >> gun fire rings out in a georgia elementary school. >> we'll take a look at how security is being stepped up in local schools. >> shooting someone because they were bored, teenagers accused of killing a college student just because. >> average joe. average day. >> a plumber and an angel, how a plumber and dr. oz helped save a woman's life. "fox 5 morning news" at 7:00 starts now. >> this is "fox 5 morning news." >> good morning to you, another foggy start to our day on this hump day, wednesday. cupping of seconds away from 7:00, it is wednesday, august 21st. i allison seymo

. >> thank you to the dbi staffers, whose staffed dbi booths at the annual china town festival held on the 18th. there was an excellent community out reach to inform and it was an klent community out reach and gave us the opportunity to inform the public about the dbi., services, the special thanks to the acting director, tom hewe y who not only attended the festival but also played a match against mayor ed lee, who he let win who was very sharp with his padal. and congratulations to the ping-pong team led by the team captain (inaudible) and it is an excellent showing against the top talent of the multiple departments that he have. >> acting director, also joined supervisor david chiu and the mayor's office, in a term of the discussion on july 31st, for the asian american contractor association and provided the important tips on the new, mandatory seismic law for the soeft story buildings and the audience of more than 100 contractors working this information from the city, and on july, they approved a total of 150 properties on 2000 delinquent properties. the properties are lien proper

new location, the new exporatorium becomes part of san francisco third district which includes china town, and fisherman's wrap and a water front under going a remarkable rebirth and civic transformation, supervisor chiu who represents this district and led at proval process publicly and behind the scenes for unanimous support as we talked about, that is rare of this project is a leader in this transformation and president of san francisco's board of supervisors that his vision has been crucial to bringing us to this point, please welcome supervisor david chiu. >> thank you. >> the sun is shining on the exporatorium today. [ applause ] >> on behalf of my constituents in the north east neighborhoods i want to welcome the neighborhood to the best district in staoet with the exception of any other district represented here. we all know the saying that it takes a village to raise a child and i want to thank each and every one of you that you look around this crowd today. we are the diverse crowd and the diverse village of san francisco that is going to bring in half a million people a year to

. >> in 2007, six months after ju took office, the fbi raided his city hal offices, his china town flower shop and homes in san francisco and burlingame. federal prosecutors said they had videotape of ju accepting $40,000 in $100 bills in an attempt to shake down the chinese immigrant owners of tap owe yeah drink shops in the city's sunset district. after being suspended from office, jew pled guilty to bribery and extortion charges. jew is also accused of lying about living in san francisco when he ran for supervisor. he and his family actually lived in burlingame. i did talk to him briefly by phone. he say that is under the rules of his reentry program, he is not allowed to do any interviews with media until his sentence is fully served. that will be some time next year. in san francisco, linda yee, kpix 5. >> jew will remain at the halfway house for a few weeks and be on house detention for the rest of his prison term. >>> right now in southern california, crews are close to knocking out a 1500 acre wild fire in the lake area of river side county. large clouds of ash covering the sky cr

investigators want to know what caused an early morning fire in china town. >>> and this morning policere looking for a shooting last night a person and injured. and every the victims were found in a white cadillac. they think the suspect was driving a gold stored car. >>> and a critical day in the labor dispute. the union leaders will issue a strike notice in today's negotiations. that 72 hour notice could come later today or tomorrow morning. two workers were robbed and beaten at sites. at 5:15 last night two armed men walked up to a site and took the worker's money, wallets and cell phones. they beat them with their gun as one gent off but no one was shot a contractor who did not want to show his face said they are targeted office. they come out. they target latinos. and they have cash on them. they are searching for the men who robbed the workers. and a tip led to the arrest of an attack during gay pride week. people in the district say they are not doing enough to protect them. that's why he headed up a forum. they handed out whistles. >> i was pushed to the ground. someone was on

four occurred in san francisco in bank branches stretching from west portal to china town. the fifth occurred at a cafe bank branch in milbre. >> reporter: there are two different bank robbery group. i want to show pictures of another individual the fbi is very interested in. this guy is being called the up close bandit. he likes to walk into banks. he pretends he has a gun. then he shows a note to the teller and demands money. he has hit at least two banks in the last several weeks. police and the fbi say with the public's help they think they can catch, at least get some leads on both of these bruce. >> the pictures are incredibly the clear. it is rare you get such clear faces from security cameras. >> yeah. we're getting better digital photos in bank. they are asking people, liz, to just keep an eye out. this bank is on a very busy street. a lot of cars went by in the middle of the day and probably saw that vehicle either pull up or pull away. they say anything that looks suspicious, give the fbi or san francisco police department a call. >> kenny, thank you. >>> they're

barns playing ping pong in china town over the wean.this summer and hosteding basketball camp everywhere steven school in pebble beach in charm of one of the warrior many basketball camps. this individual could yo provided to us by the warriors. >> kids have fun going step by step with you. simple cross-over manufacture and get better atxd it. lead to good play during 505 game. >> that's learning. thanks colonel help is. >> that's this edition of 7 news at 9:00. from all of us hope you can joan us again at 11:00 o'clock over on the big 11:00 o'clock over on the big 7. goodbye for now dennis: mac, you've got to see this movie, dude. dee: really? i thought it was boring. boring? it's about the end of the world, dee. "an inconvenient truth" is not about the end of the world. it is about how, if we don't stop global warming, we are gonna destroy this environment. i think it sounds cool. i'll check it out. it is. it's awesome. dude, come on. what the hell is that?

china town summer celebration in san francisco going on this weekend. the indian tomorrow night. and the weather looks fantastic. thunder threat doesn't arrive until late sunday night. >> no wirs >> thanks very much. mention the a at the atlanta braves ballpark last night. different kind of bat made its way on to the field. look at this. third baseman scooped it up into the glove before it was rescued by a bat boy. he was even wearing his jersey with big bat boy written on the bac back. very appropriate. game announcer spoke what everyone was probably thinking. >> promise you somebody down in the dug out. don't bring it down here. >> the that player certainly didn't want it. bat eventually relessed and it flew off. got to be careful about that. they can have rabies sometimes no. harm no foul. >> larry is here. >> keep the bat to yourself. >> don't touch him. in sports tonight. never mind all the alex talk the. another quarterback steals the show and 49ers who is backing up now. 49ers who is backing up now. if. >> come up tonight at 11:00. getting ready

and a town dynasty china surely never imposed anything any other country because confucius thinks you live the way you live i leave it where i live. diversity is a precondition for civilization to advance we all can make mistake together then you can think right maybe five hundred years later could be totally wrong so you need to pee poor lift the weight differently to preserve the diversity and you can argue that this is a form of checks and balances that americans like so much you have different ideas different mentalities and love them you know continue with each other lead them discuss their differences openly rather than imposing one particular right way but coming back to the game theory this reference to you know one zero sum game or what the chinese call win win was also stressed last month when the chinese president xi jinping visited the united states and i guess such references are good for diplomacy but i wonder whether there is anything more to it because. what essentially. the chinese are asking americans is to abandon america's all s

to cross-town china's rise i'm joined by john in washington he's a visiting fellow at the hudson institute we also have dan bolts in cincinnati he's a coeditor of new politics a journal of social science and in philadelphia we crossed him when he was a political commentator and writer for a counter-puncher a gentleman cross-talk rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it lynn if i go to you first in philadelphia won't what will the world look like today if china were the same military strength had the same military strength of the united states you know on par it won't be a cold war i think it will be a series of wars by a proxies because both countries need. quite a bit of energy quite a bit oil natural gas to survive and we are past the point of cheap oil and cheap energy these countries would have to jocky each other out of the way and they will fight each other frankly it is already happening and it will only intensify in the future and this is not necessarily a china's fault because it has to do this to survive. you know it needs to. import ha

notion of diversity is maybe the precondition for how money so one china was the center of global economy global civilization you and the town dynasty china truly have never imposed anything any other country because confucius thinks you live the way you live i leave it to id. diversity is a precondition for civilization to advance we all can make mistake together then you can think right maybe five hundred years later could be totally wrong so you need to people lift the weight differently to preserve the diversity and he can argue that this is a form of checks and balances that americans like so much here have different ideas different mentalities and love them. you know compete with each other let them discuss their differences openly rather than imposing one particular right way but coming back to the game theory this reference to you know one zero sum game or what the chinese call win win was also stressed last month when the chinese president xi jinping visited the united states and i guess such references are good for diplomacy but i wonder whether there is anything more to it because. what essentially. the chinese ar

it is also a symptom of china's property bubble. ghost townses, are increasingly common sites in china. in this case it seems instead of going to fake paris, the chinese are going to the real city of lights. 1.4 million chinese visited france last year. a 23% increase to 2011. the question to our gps challenge question was a tie. austria and portugal both grant their workers 22 days of vacation time plus 13 paid holidays for a grand whopping total of 35 paid days off. if you guessed the united states, you must not work here because u.s. workers have no legal right to any vacation time. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. >>> hello, everyone. i'm fredericka whitfield. welcome to the "cnn newsroom." syria makes a new promise to u.n. teams investigating chemical weapons allegation and the u.s. weighs its options. we'll tell you what they are. >>> in california, a massive wildfire shows no signs of slowing down. the threat to yosemite national park and san francisco. >>> plus, the baffling disappea

it is also a symptom of china's property bubble. ghost townses, are increasingly common sites in china. in this case it seems instead of going to fake paris, the chinese are going to the real city of lights. 1.4 million chinese visited france last year. a 23% increase to 2011. the question to our gps challenge question was a tie. austria and portugal both grant their workers 22 days of vacation time plus 13 paid holidays

it is also a symptom of china's property bubble. ghost townscities are increasingly common sights in china. in this case, it seems instead of going to fake paris, the chinese are going to the real city of lights. 1.4 million chinese visited france last year, a 23% increase from 2011. the correct answer to our gps challenge question was actually a tie. austria and portugal both grant their workers 22 days of vacation time plus 13 paid holidays for a grand whopping total of 35 paid days off. if you guessed the united states, you must not work here because u.s. workers have no legal right to any vacation time. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. stay tuned for "reliable sources." >>> there's not been a news story quite like it in 50 years. the 1963 march on washington. >> now back to roger mudd. >> here at the lincoln memorial, the sight that is almost something no washingtonian has beheld. >> news reports from the march along with coverage of the civil rights movement helped change minds about th

like the time that man stood in front of a tank during the tiananmen square massacre in china in 1989. in the town of ismael ya today, amid an attack on protesters, the man in the lower left of the frame with the white had stood up and stretched out his arms. we thought it best not to show the rest of the video. he stood there ten second or so and then a bullet passed through his chest and he went down. we do not know his name or pro icily what he meant to say with his sacrifice. a "60 minutes" investigation is shedding new light tonight on baseball's drug scandal and why new york yankee alex rodriguez received a suspension four times longer than anyone else. the investigation found that members of rodriguez's inner circumstance until february leaked the names of other players suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs. don dahler picks up the story. >> reporter: the leaked names include rodriguez's own teammate francisco cervelli and former m.v.p. ryan braun. sources close to the matter tell "60 minutes" the purpose of the leak was to show rodriguez was not the only star using drugs. rodrigue

my little town of east liverpool of ohio used to be the pottery capital of the world dominating the industry of molding plates and dishes. now chinaal of the world. the next town over, midland, pennsylvania used to be home to one of the largest steel mills in the country. they employed thousands but now that you is all but defunct. that's going to replace these jobs? that's the real question we need to focus on, the heart of preserving the american dream. do you need a job and hone to buy a house and now we're going to go to the president live. >> i want to say thank you to the thunder for hosting us here today. well, we are so glad to be here. i want you to give it up for somebody who's been fighting for homeowners and working families every single day who is with me today, secretary shaun donovan. there he is right there. give him a big round of applause. we've got congressman ed pastore is here, as well. we've got your mayor here doing an outstanding job. and to all the mayors and state legislators and tribal leaders here today, thank you. give jorge a big round of applause for his introduction. to your superintendent, dr. kenn

china. >>> sunday marked two years and five months since the march 11th disaster. the residents of a townbout 10 kilometers from the crippled fukushima daiichi plant have visited family graves before the buddhist holidays. many grave stones were washed away by the tsunami and weeds have grown around the foundations. some people have difficulty finding the graves. residents of namiatown had to evacuate after the fukushima daiichi nuclear accident. they can only visit some parts of the town and are not allowed to live there. this eremoved weeds, and offered incense and left flowers. they also prayed for their ancestors and missing relatives. >> translator: it took me a while to find you. >> translator: my dear, i'll come back next month to see you again. >> in another disaster hit area, volunteers are searching for people still missing after the tsunami. about 60 people took part in the search on a beach in the miyagi prefecture. junior and senior high school students participated from across the country. 15,883 people have been confirmed dead in the disaster. while 2,656 are still unaccoun

china. all of these buildings were built by him. he was such a figure in this town, this road is supported to be named after him. he offered returns after 24 to 80% attracting investors like this retired math teacher who didn't want to show his fair for fear of reprisal by government authorities. >> translator: more than 90% of families were engaged. you would be a fool not to. people here have no way to invest. >> reporter: his lawyer admits to pay out the returns he used income investor money while waiting real estate to bare fruit. he intended to pay everyone back in full. in 2008 he says new officials took over and ordered a crackdown on shadow finance. he was accused of defrauding investors out of half a billion dollars, was jailed, assets sold off. this summer he was executed. his family not informed until he was dead. >> translator: it seems as though he's still alive. i never saw the body. >> reporter: his daughter begged an uproar. >> wow, coming up, in life, in business, who you associate with is always important but when it comes to paying for college, th