i come off often to china town and i'll bring my six-year-old son from the bay view to china town. i look forward to seeing all of you on this as we share the story about how generations before made it possible for generations after. happy central subway. thank you very much. [applause] >> next up, district 8 supervisor and chair of the san francisco county transportation authority, raphael mandelman. [applause] >> um, hello, everybody. you know who didn't take 15 ballots to get elected speaker, who didn't have to degrade the office and how owe hue mail ate her several. i'll the chair county of the transportation authority. i'm going to talk about our sales tax and the art. so, and we -- you like sales taxes? you like art? [cheers and applause] so, i want to acknowledge our phenomenal executive director telly chang who is here. director chang, our vice-chair aaron peskin and district supervisor and district 7 supervisor, milgar is here. this was the most transformative project in our half cents sales tax program. creating a direct ride from china town to the light rail. the ta was

ref now to china town. the surrounding neighborhoods. with the opening the central subway we are hopeful that more people will attend the parade through the new subway stations and more individualors throughout the year. this year i'm happy to announce that -- coming saturday this weekend we have in the street fair 100 vendors and in the parade we have over 120 units 26 of them will be sold. 5 will be community and this year we have more community than ever before. finally, mayor, i am and law enforcement chief -- sheriff, thank you for very encouraging word about additional security for the upcoming winninged parade. thank you, mayor, thank you. [applause]. >> we are not following this we are getting out of the script a bill madam mayor would you like to join us we have a special presentation and like to invite the volunteers that have participate al perez the produces the show. and commissioner al perez. thomas li. and kevin chan, please, join us. mayor. new year -- [inaudible]. [applause] make surety cit

my name is (inaudible) a family living in china town sro. today i urge dbi not to cut sro families united collaborative. we share communal bathrooms and showers. problems we face with toilets, leaking faucets and poor sanitation happen all the time. (inaudible) the manager or owner say okay, but it was never done. that has a lot of trouble for us living in the building. because of the collaborative and (inaudible) we always go there for help and then our families have become part of the collaborative too. the organizers came to our buildings, visit us. they were (inaudible) on issues we have. they talked to our building managers and have helped to resolve a lot of issues and safety hazards. the sro family united not only help us improve our poor living conditions, but it also (inaudible) a lot of training that help me understand tenants rights, building codes, fire prevention and disaster preparedness. as new immigrants we learn so much about american history and culture from the collaborative, which helps us better adapt to life here. sro f

ref now to china town. the surrounding neighborhoods. with the opening the central subway we are hopeful that more people will attend the parade through the new subway stations and more individualors throughout the year. this year i'm happy to announce that -- coming saturday this weekend we have in the street fair 100 vendors and in the parade we have over 120 units 26 of them will be sold. 5 will be community and this year we have more community than ever before. finally, mayor, i am and law enforcement chief -- sheriff, thank you for very encouraging word about additional security for the upcoming winninged parade. thank you, mayor, thank you. [applause]. >> we are not following this we are getting out of the script a bill madam mayor would you like to join us we have a special presentation and like to invite the volunteers that have participate al perez the produces the show. and commissioner al perez. thomas li. and kevin chan, please, join us. mayor. new year -- [inaudible]. [applause] make surety cit

our community events have been historically well attended boy the members like china town night out. easter egg hunt. toy give awaves and the like. those are events that help us come together before there is a crisis. and because we do this we are better able to handle a crisis when they happen. i will end by saying thank you to everyone here. thank you to the community members from the city and again, for the mayor's leadership. together, we can make this happen and better. and that is our commitment from the san francisco police department. so, i turn it back over to our city attorney david chu to close us out. [applause]. >> thank you. i have a couple closing comments. of course i want to thank our great mayor. police chief and district attorney for their commitment when we have done is ensure that off the services, all programs geared in the area than i are alined and connected putting protocols and process together to make sure we are working together as a city and working together with communities. the second thing i say is while today is focused on the issues that we have been

ref now to china town. the surrounding neighborhoods. with the opening the central subway we are hopeful that more people will attend the parade through the new subway stations and more individualors throughout the year. this year i'm happy to announce that -- coming saturday this weekend we have in the street fair 100 vendors and in the parade we have over 120 units 26 of them will be sold. 5 will be community and this year we have more community than ever before. finally, mayor, i am and law enforcement chief -- sheriff, thank you for very encouraging word about additional security for the upcoming winninged parade. thank you, mayor, thank you. [applause]. >> we are not following this we are getting out of the script a bill madam mayor would you like to join us we have a special presentation and like to invite the volunteers that have participate al perez the produces the show. and commissioner al perez. thomas li. and kevin chan, please, join us. mayor. new year -- [inaudible]. [applause] make surety cit

bart, me or the new central subway that takes you right into china town in the studio. gayle ong kron. 4 news researchers in teaching assistants from the university of california say they're worried about losing their jobs. >> this after 48,000 workers went on strike in november, they were seeking better wages, more benefits. they eventually won. but now that the pay raises are here, there's a concern that the university it's going to have to hire fewer teaching assistants and researchers to cover the cost of that pay hike. >> parts workers that one they will not be admitting us many a graduate phd's in the future starting in the fall. i'm guessing about a 3rd, but we've also heard that they will longer that will reduce and not number of teaching assistant decisions throughout entire uc by between 20 to 30%. >> well, academic workers have also been told if they were pay for days. they were on the picket line. the university will take that money back to comply with state and federal regulators. now the university says it's working to ensure that the process is dent in th

the route woeful through financial and union area and then china town at jackson and kearney about 3 rainy hours later. san francisco is the biggest lounar new year parade outside of asia and one of the bigef events of the year we are invested with clone you know before and after. team used we had more than 50 folks on the job. street cleaning, working in operations. using broom and weep tors pick update litteder. i think of us the last that follows the bands onfullies. i want to thank our crew for delivering a successful operation. >> as chair mogannam mentioned we launched the 23 season of love our city neighborhood beautification day in january. in district 11. we were joined by more than 100 volunteers. and chair mogannam, thank you for being there. we had our second event this past saturday in district 9, plantingistries and pick up litter in the mission and bernal heights. the rain kept some rolfe tierce home. we had a few dozen who were committed. put on rain pornos and braved the soggy weather. their energy inspired and great work was doneful we had a lots of young people of

good morning commissioners i'm and my family live in china town's sro. i hope the collaborative can stay in the budget and please don't cut our budget. awhile ago or building door light was blinking. and nosfunctioning normally. this has caused an invoens for all tenants living here and was a safety hazzard the building does in the have good lighting to begin with if the lights were out everything will be dark. a lot of seniors and children are live nothing this building. my mother in law has eyesight problems. one time she almost tripped walking update stair case it was dangerous. we tried to contact the landlord and received no response we got help from the commune development center because i anyhow they had chinese speaking staff to help us and they office location was close by. the coordinate with the landlord about belling issue and staff followed through until our problem was solved. they learned more about our building issue regular low to see if we need any help. through the help of staff our building lights got fixed. i'm thankful for the help

in the heart of china town committed to serving its community. the shop credits the winning gala for the usa panellingents and has for more then and there 3 decades. the business participated in one of large event in other large efrnltss including the culture month the queen of classical of san francisco. dragon is committed to prosecute mote traditional chinese major customs through clothing design and techniques they share major and life to young are generation. the chinese community and beyond. staff recommends a resolution to add them to the legacy business program. this concludes the presentations. >> thank you for the presentations at this time we should open up public comment for any of these legacy business applications. if you are in the chambers come forward if you are call nothing press star 3 or raise your hundred on web ex. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for this opportunity. i'm pamela may. i'm with design media. and we are thrilled to be a part of this process. we have been in the mission district for 38 years. and hav

committee on china wisconsin republican mike gallagher bipartisan group of lawmakers to manhattan's china town held a rally at a billing the fbi reportedly rated last month. being used to secretly gather intel on chinese students, bryan llenas in the newsroom with the latest. >> china reportedly operating over 100 authorized secret police stations around the world set up to harass, surveilled, blackmail and control chinese nationals and dissidents who dare criticize chairman xi jinping and the communist party. this morning at a rally outside of one of those suspected chinese police stations and manhattan's china town bipartisan congressional members of the house select committee on the communist party rally alongside chinese dissidents and condemning the ccp's refresh efforts. >> they buy off politicians, multinational organizations, companies and in some cases, law enforcement. they use muscle and threats instead of persuasion and like the mafia, they aren't afraid to make people disappear. >> it's striking fear in the hearts of critics of the ccp. >> the fbi reportedly rated chinese secret p

. >>> did you know that san jose once had five china towns? we will remember a woman known for bringing it to life. >> we have that oral history of my family. >>> the 49ers off-season is turning into a bit of a soap opera with no obvious star. we have some new answers to a whole lot of questions regarding the quarterback position. >>> after a chilly start this morning, temperatures warmed up nicely for this first part of february. still some hay is on the horizon. rain is on the >>> on this first day of black history month, the bay area has lost a trailblazer. >> yeah, charlie walker, the man known as the mayor of bayview hunters point has died at the age of 89. walker was a trucker who was having trouble finding work in 1971 when two tankers collided under the golden gate bridge, spilling oil into the bay. walker was selected to lead the cleanup efforts at stinson beach. >> it was pretty surprising. the country was stealing from the fallout at the end of legal segregation and opportunities like this were rare for black people. walker spoke ab

ref now to china town.eighborhoods. with the opening the central subway we are hopeful that more people will attend the parade through the new subway stations and more individualors throughout the year. this year i'm happy to announce that -- coming saturday this weekend we have in the street fair 100 vendors and in the parade we have over 120 units 26 of them will be sold. 5 will be community and this year we have more community than ever before. finally, mayor, i am and law enforcement chief -- sheriff, thank you for very encouraging word about additional security for the upcoming winninged parade. thank you, mayor, thank you. [applause]. >> we are not following this we are getting out of the script a bill madam mayor would you like to join us we have a special presentation and like to invite the volunteers that have participate al perez the produces the show. and commissioner al perez. thomas li. and kevin chan, please, join us. mayor. new year -- [inaudible]. [applause] make surety city is blessed with

that is including china town and aapi community so for that i'm so grateful to you. you really helped me understand what we as a community need to continue to do not just for the past and lessens we learned but carry the lessen into the future. you also have taught me as a public servant now serving on the e board of supervisors, that the basics are important. you bought $400 million to fix the golden gate bridge, $200 million to fix presidio. those are not small sum of investment back to san francisco, and for that i learned that those are the basics, those are not the glamorous that grab the headlines solutions and policy work but they are important work. they are important work not just for now but for the future generation s and that's what is what our work should be about, to lay the solid foundation for generations to come. for all the occasions, i think very similar to supervisor ronen has mentioned, many occasions i witness you from afar and just watch you for many people. you have always pay attention to those who are not high positions. you remind the worke

. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfas

my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at

community and china town trip relating to improvements.oin t. a staff in thanking our assembly member does in the represent this district for his successful efforts providing more money above and beyond had the voters provided in bond financing for this and this is a complicated project. this is -- a garage on top of one of san francisco's original 3 parks. as people are aware and as this board and most members previously voted t. is connected boy a concrete bridge. to the -- once was -- holiday in now hilton cross the street approximate this bridge is going to -- be removed which will turn utility to the park. and i wanted use this opportunity because i have been trying to conduct meetings between the various agencies ranging from dpw to rec and park to the mta ask mr. leafy, i know that -- we have been waiting for [inaudible] cost break downs from rec approximate p and i understand this it is over a million dollars but i wanted to use this opportunity to find out where rec and park is on the cost estimates? >> mr. levy. >> good morning.

that is including china town and aapi community so for that i'm so grateful to you.lped me understand what we as a community need to continue to do not just for the past and lessens we learned but carry the lessen into the future. you also

our community events have been historically well attended boy the members like china town night out. easter egg hunt. toy give awaves and the like. those are events that help us come together before there is a crisis. and because we do this we are better able to handle a crisis when they happen. i will end by saying thank you to everyone here. thank you to the community members from the city and again, for the mayor's leadership. together, we can make this happen and better. and that is our commitment from the san francisco police department. so, i turn it back over to our city attorney david chu to close us out. [applause]. >> thank you. i have a couple closing comments. of course i want to thank our great mayor. police chief and district attorney for their commitment when we have done is ensure that off the services, all programs geared in the area than i are alined and connected putting protocols and process together to make sure we are working together as a city and working together with communities. the second thing i say is while today is focused on the issues that we have been

however, beijing has been pretty firm to denounce the anti china town and the antique china hysteria, the wave of hostility to china. we're now hearing in american media now there is a social media bonanza going on. of course, all kinds of names and images, people, invoking star wars, the death star, all kinds of science fiction. you know, there's memories of spot neck in the panic in the united states. back in the 1950s, in response to the soviet union was launching the the spacecraft and you know, people are making all kinds of comparison. there's been the talk of american media . however, at this point, china is pointing out. this is the unintentional violation of us aerospace by a balloon that could not really threaten to anyone that has no danger, even according to us experts. they're saying that their territorial integrity was intentionally violated by nancy pelosi. she went on to china's territory. and sy juan, without the permission of the us, recognize chinese government. the u. s. government recognizes one china. so china is pointing out that while they are not intentionally

however, beijing has been pretty firm to denounce the anti china town and the anti china area, the wave of hostility to china. we're now hearing an american media. this was a complete accident caused by a force, missouri, and the facts. a very clear china has always strictly abided by international law, respected this aren't internal integrity of all countries, and has never intentionally violated the territory and airspace of amy sovereign country. some politicians and media in the united states have taken advantage of the issue to attack and discredit china. china firm that opposes this. now there is a social media bonanza going on. of course, all kinds of names and images, people, invoking star wars, the death star, all kinds of science fiction. you know, there's memories of spot knack in the panic in the united states. back in the 1950s, in response to the soviet union was launching the the spacecraft and you know, people are making all kinds of comparisons. it's been the talk of american media. however, at this point, china is pointing out. this is the unintentional violation of us

my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at

. >> china town had their own remembrance event.ir goal is to bring attention to the successful movement. >> it was really only with the black liberation movement in the 1960s that japanese became more active in both trying to reclaim their own history and to also fight for equality. >>> at the same time, the late nor maneta was honored. the former san jose mayor and transportation secretary who died last may was interned in a wyoming camp for several years when he was a child. the smithsonian honored him today for advancing get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. contact your volvo retailer to learn more. about the mult identifi flying object flown over canada. at least one thought to be that chinese spy balloon others civilians. >> it's putting a lot of scrutiny on what exactly is buzzing over our heads at any given moment. >> so we thought it was worth a story. gitner spoke about what exactly is out there flying. >> when a chinese spy plane was found flying it caused several emotions. >> people found out there's a balloo

my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at