the [inaudible] in china town was a success.eds of logos coming together to celebrate the traditions. the events sought largest turn out since the panning demmic making a significant revival for china town. the communities resilience in preserving culture and traditions embracing the vibrancy of lunar new year. the momentum for this year celebration begin with mayor lurie celebration in china town, which set the tone for an exciting start. to the festivities the mayor recognition of china town's cultural and economic significance energizes the community. and carry in the lunar now year celebration. looking ahead, china town is preparing for the record bricking crowd. the chinese lunar new year street fair and parade. one of this year's most significant event for local merchances more than just a celebration. this event serve a vital economic driver. with accidents 30% of the sale during the month festivities. exciting with renewal sense of community spirit, the year of the snake is off to a great start bringing practice perity.

the [inaudible] in china town was a success.ogos coming together to celebrate the traditions. the events sought largest turn out since the panning demmic making a significant revival for china town. the communities resilience in preserving culture and traditions embracing the vibrancy of lunar new year. the momentum for this year celebration begin with mayor lurie celebration in china town, which set the tone for an exciting start. to the festivities the mayor recognition of china town's cultural and economic significance energizes the community. and carry in the lunar now year celebration. looking ahead, china town is preparing for the record bricking crowd. the chinese lunar new year street fair and parade. one of this year's most significant event for local merchances more than just a celebration. this event serve a vital economic driver. with accidents 30% of the sale during the month festivities. exciting with renewal sense of community spirit, the year of the snake is off to a great start bringing practice perity. culture

bring up our forever mayor of china town.s family association the brown family association. and we want to bring up one of his nemesis now friend our longest standing supervisor. give a big round for willie brown and our former supervisor for 27-60 years aaron peskin. >> ts is obviously not the first time we have been together here to commence the new years. over the las 17 years we have done this together. weeen done it beyond that when we done other things including the chinese hospitals famous golf tournament for some 25 or more years. all of that is per of what make this is a special occasi specia collection of special people of so, happy new year to each and every one of you! now peskin. [laughter] so on behalf of the legacy read old elected officials let me translate for mayor brown. what he wants to say is --year, legacy elected officials >> thank you, mayor brown and president peskin we have to welcome you back every year from here on out. >> thank you, mr. mayor and thank you mr. peskin we did not want to let this ch

bring up our forever mayor of china town.yor has his family association the brown family association. and we want to bring up one of his nemesis now friend our longest standing supervisor. give a big round for willie brown and our former supervisor for 27-60 years aaron peskin. >> this is obviously not the first time we have been together here to commence the chinese new years. over the last 17 years we have done this together. weeen done it beyond that when we done other things including the chinese hospitals famous golf tournament for some 25 or more years. all of that is per of what make this is a very special occasion and a special city with the collection of special people of so, happy new year to each and every one of you! now mr. peskin. [laughter] so on behalf of the legacy read old elected officials let me translate for mayor brown. what he wants to say is -- happy new year everybody from your legacy elected officials >> thank you, mayor brown and president peskin we have to welcome you back every year from here on o

bring up our forever mayor of china town.ly association the brown family association. and we want to bring up one of his nemesis now friend our longest standing supervisor. give a big round for willie brown and our former supervisor for 27-60 years aaron peskin. >> this is obviously not the first time we have been together here to commence the chinese new years. over the 17 years we have done this together. een de it beyond that when we done other things including the chinese hospitals famous golf tournament for some 25 or more years. all of that is per of what make this is a very special occasion and a special city with the collection of special people of so, happy new year to each and every one of you! now mr. peskin. [laughter] so on behalf of the lega read oldlected officials let me translate for mayor brown. what wants to say is -- happy new year, everybody from your legacy elected officials >> thank you, mayor brown and president peskin we have to welcome you back every year from here on out. >> thank you, mr. mayor and

. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and r.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 breakfast sta

around union square and it ends at columbus avenue and parade organizers say they are closest to china town. >>> there is all sorts of events now in the year of the snake. ms chinatown program is on friday night. the parade on saturday and the street will run all weekend long. >>> and when we come back, the next phase of the clean up in the burn zones have tens of thou my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis held me back. but now with skyrizi, i'm all in. thanks to skyrizi, i saw dramatically clearer skin. and many even achieved 100% clear skin. don't use if allergic. serious allergic reactions, increased infections, or lowered ability to fight them may occur. before treatment, get checked for infections and tb. tell your doctor about any flu-like symptoms, or vaccines. with skyrizi, nothing on my skin means everything. ♪nothing is everything♪ ask your dermatologist about skyrizi today. >>> last resort needs a billion dollar infusion of cash to pay out the claims from the wildfires. homeowners could be on the hook for some of it. and it is an option for people who cannot get coverage in the

events on january 8, i attended the inauguration of mayor daniel lure in civic center plaza and the china town night market that evening. and lucky to spend time with our former deputy director jo ann lee. even glen our deputy director in attendance we had a good time at edge on the square. on january 16th we held a reception in the north light court at city hall to celebrate the newest exhibition as part of our art at city hall program. a recent times. dialogue of the personal, political and cultural. it featured the work of 40 fors and on view on the ground floor and the north light court of city hall through june of 25. >> i like to thank and give a shout out to galleries team for organizing an event in partner with photo alliance. on january 18th,ip attended the kickoff of art week icasf. and stopped by fog design and art fair at fortmason that week. and i also went to -- commissioner musey's show he this. and same night as recent times later in the week. and on january 31st. i attended sound box with courtney brian and it was amazing show. thumb's up there. were you there? >> i was -- no.

also in san francisco, a shop owner in china town is left cleaning up this huge mess after his shop was burglarized this morning. the owner says it's the second time in 6 months that they've been burglarized. we've reached out to sfpd for more details, but so far have not heard back. watch where you walk. >> that's the message from san francisco police this afternoon. they what people to be aware that utility covers are being stolen, which leaves holes in the sidewalks. the san francisco public utilities commission has reported more than 400 such thefts in the past 2 years. if you see someone removing one of these things are having one of these utility coverage, you're asked to call police if you later find the utility covers have been removed or know where they should less serious. they say then you should call 3, 1, 1, >> it a police arrested 3 men connected to separate cases of retail theft and attempted kidnapping of one of the men arrested is accused of robbing a business several times in the span of nearly a year. police say freddie spore first, rob, the store located on river par

my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me outd 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 night. joking. this is c

i had this mentor from like the boys and girl's club in china town in san francisco. he was in the navy and got out. and for some reason, i thought that was my only out to get oust house or whatever. you know not really well off as a family. did not have the opportunity to go to a 4 year school. and did not understand school, either. the grants and what not. when i heard like college fund g. i. bill and this stuff. that is interesting. and obviously i think my friend he was like, if you want to be safe don't go marine or army and if you want adventure take navy. you seat world. i went in served from 97-03. stationed uss [inaudible] the destroyer and did my time we did 3 and one south pack got to see a lot of the world. on the ship a lot. and -- so -- just much different life than all my friends had. i wanted to ask how was like that first moment few days of boot camp. for me, i admit i was by the time i got in bed may be 72 hours later i get off the bus i started crying. and like saying what the hell did i do here? even getting off the bus and everyone was shouting ou

. >> good morning juan garcia with the china town development center manages the sro collaborative and within the chinatown alcoholic we work with the tenants and many types of tenants with a family or individuals with habitability and repair requests. we also work with them on providing communication with landlord and they receive a notice or need to provide a notice to the laundry and in neither language within culture alter capacity as well. if any sort of case requires the tenant to file a notice the housing counsel chinatown provides that. the team the rapport with the community through in building training and workshops this is the fire and staff workshops. as we all remember we had not only thank you memorandum a couple of earthquakes and unprecedent tornado warnings those disasters nothing happened and hover rare tenants need to be made aware to prepare for any disaster but if how to help their own tenants and neighbors but how to react with the community this is citywide as we have several subcontractors in the tenderloin anticipate in chinatown. we provide habitability assist

we're going to help deliver the project for in the most recent bond i'll give an example of the china town health center for public health. we're having regular and frequent communications with them and in fact full disclosure i was texting with their ceo before i got up here to speak on this about some elements related to some of those projects. >> so we make sure that we can get on board very quickly but we make sure we do so in a way where we're right sized. >> we don't want to have much larger staff on a project than we actually need and that was something commissioner woolford and i and others have talked about before what level of analytical work are we doing to make sure that we have the right staff at the right level of skills for the right jobs? it's similar to the paving program, the right block at the right time in the right condition. we do the same thing with some of our staffing levels for for any bond or capital program using and then the benefit of those is there's no general fund savings and in fact the more bond programs we get, the more external sources we get. it's very

i had this mentor from like the boys and girl's club in china town in san francisco. he was in the navy and got out. and for some reason, i thought that was my only out to get oust house or whatever. you know not really well off as a family. did not have the opportunity to go to a 4 year school. and did not understand school, either. the grants and what not. when i heard like college fund g. i. bill and this stuff. that is interesting. and obviously i think my friend he was like, if you want to be safe don't go marine or army and if you want adventure take navy. you seat world. i went in served from 97-03. stationed uss [inaudible] the destroyer and did my time we did 3 and one south pack got to see a lot of the world. on the ship a lot. and -- so -- just much different life than all my friends had. i wanted to ask how was like that first moment few days of boot camp. for me, i admit i was by the time i got in bed may be 72 hours later i get off the bus i started crying. and like saying what the hell did i do here? even getting off the bus and everyone was shouting ou

worked in china town before so having you four from youth commission join today is very interesting to hear your thoughts and concerns and what you are talking about from the youth commission and your generation your thoughts. let's get into it. start with introductions. your name. grade rkts school. and what lead you to become into the youth commission? could start with emily. >> so, my name is emily, she her pronouns. (inaudible) in san francisco. and i joined the youth commission because growing up i relied on public transportation and a lot of community organizations such as (inaudible) and through these organizations they introduced me to a lot of community organizing movements happening and that is when i learned of the youth commission because my friend was also on it at the time and i was interested because i saw a benefited from a lot of public service in san francisco and wanted to insure all youth in san francisco could have opportunities to benefit from these services as well and these services would be available to everyone. that's when i applied to the youth commission an

. >> 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 outgo 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 night. joking.

carl an attorney at the asian law caucus in san francisco china town where i direct or work on civil i thank you supervisors and reaif he wering our city to the sanctuary ordinance. president trump issued executive orders how we will take apartim grant communities enlist law enforcement and use baseless legal threat tos scare cities like san francisco to backing away from our commitments. we must not allow fear to over ride values of inning cluz and protection for residents. sanctuary keeps loved 1 together and communities safer this is a time as this body has don double down keepingim grant community safe and a time to stay alert how the trump add station may circumvent the policy. left we're's orders are reshaping the missions of law enforcement agencies to special mass deportation. one federal law enforcement agency once helped secure unt for undocumented victims of human trafficking assigned a mission of combating the presence of aliens in the united states. new cross agency information relationship that is considered by the mayor's office. threatens to make information that san

take effect what we heard from badging is swift criticism, saying that these meshes will run town to to us. china corporation. aging has also pledged to take up this method directly with the world trade organization and file a case that we are waiting to hear what towns emissions, aging has in mind, does say that they will be some on the way. it is of course, important to look at the broad economic context, chinese economy don't space a number of challenges at this moment. we look at things like unemployment, low consumer spending, property sector crisis with exports, exports remain a bright score for the economy. in fact, in 2024, the latest data from just january shows that china requoted a trade surplus of more than $990000000000.00. of course us china trade remains crucial. and these terms will have an effect, particularly on businesses that focus on that us market. but it is important to note the lessons that china learned from the 1st round from the 1st trump administration. when of course, it did feel the heat of those terrorist impose by that administration. one of the lessons was the imp

. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brotherrst 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 breakfast stapl

. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother 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 breakfast staple.

very adamant that the use of the needs to catch up with us in china speak of the us, j defense, the vice president is also going to be in town those out a meeting, a manual micro now terms old, some of the aims of the song as well. so i'm is really going to try. it says uh you open eyes and say, change the perspective on a i for the pub. there are many people who are simply really scared about what it means that the everyday lives they worry is going to take the jobs will threaten to mount a, c, e. and then the idea of this, i'm is to say, look, there are many, many benefits to every 40 when it comes to it's not only about risk. and we'll also talk about trying to make a more ethical, sustainable motive. but it's more accessible to everyone, not just the few people who are a i a, the does. i'm is also going to talk about regulation now here in your proposed regulation, i don't. strict johnson is in places like give us that we talk about trying to make some sources international corporations on regulations possible in the coming future. it's ashley. thank you very much for that natasha button. every 14 from the i summit in pa

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town. but again, you know, this is china knowing very well the wounds, the shots that the russia chuck, because of this really happened to china as well. so that relationship is together and i understand totally why those 2 are sitting with the americans. it's not going to be rushing united states and then we'll invite china. not happening. it will not happen. the chinese, uh, you know, government will surely support uh, vladimir putin of course, to try to bring peace to the area. but economically wise, they exactly know what the americans are up to, and it might be a good time to talk tariffs. i think it'd be a good time to talk to get it all done in one shot. why not all i also want to, i mean, you mentioned that these are mazda cot. i also read that out. of course, the irony is a visa, or mastercard itself locked out, right? because in the meantime, brush recreated its own system. i know that when i go to the shop, now i use the internal kind of switch system that's been introduced and created by ross. so there's always there need for the these are most called anymore. but kind of looking at

town on the moon. imagine not knowing people were united with his brother den started a new life in china, but it was not the freedom he expected. danger looked around every corner. human rights groups say that could be as many as half a 1000000 north koreans living in china. with 80 percent of them, we mean it's estimated about 2 thirds of these fee amounts effective be sold as prostitutes or wives to chinese man. china is one child policy preference for boys created a chronic gen to imbalance, leading to the trafficking of women. they lived their husbands for not always nice . from the husbands perspective, there is a sense that they have bought. but i'm both. he's wise. not doing any legal status . they live in the shadows, unable to gain local employment for access basic health services. many of them, thousands of them are still are known to live in this kind of condition. almost 20 or 25 years later, the security came from the catering business in london, england and the biggest north korean gasper in europe. june 8 noticed the risks facing north korean women in china. she was the 1st of 3 sisters t

millions leave behind the homes and families and return to the reality of china is migrant. workers, those who move away from their home, towns for jobs make up almost 300000000 people. $3060.00 junction ball is one of us that is making the trip from the north to the eastern city of ching dow journey of almost 700 kilometers. i'm trying to save money and then get married and do the house this year. it was hard to find a job, so i'm going further away for a better salary. he tells me he's found a job in an electronics factory working 10 hour shift and with 4 days off each month. as they leave the home towns many people, he told us the challenges of the coming year waiting on the mines, domestic economic challenges like the property sector, crisis and low consumer spending and making it more challenging to find a job. competition for jobs is fuse across all demographics. unemployment, particularly for young people, is pressing issue for the government, which is set a target of creating millions of new of in jobs. exports remain a bright spot of the chinese economy in 2024. the country requoted a trade surplus of more than $9900

china. but it remain settled and sunny invasion, the protest, correct towns in full disappearances and corruption. the past, the most special about the cost of living. unfortunately, the light it has to be lost, but the yeah, the way to live has to be lost. lives would take people with shot in the head maybe has and goes head to head with canyon politician kimani ition was kind of curious. you know this, i have never had performed anything for the party. there was about $7000000.00 pet to head on out. his era fight thing is intensifying an eastern democratic republic of congo. the one, the bank to m $23.00 group is making further territorial advances. so with diplomacy failing one of the risks, the conflict may escalate into a know the regional war. this is inside store the .

china is migrant workers. those who move away from their home towns for jobs make up almost 300000000 people. $3060.00 junction ball is one, is that he's making the trip from the north to the eastern city of to del, a journey of almost 700 kilometers. i'm trying to save money and then get married and do the house this year. it was hard to find a job, so i'm going further away for a better salary. he tells me he's found a job in an electronics factory working 10 hour shift and with 4 days off each month as a lead the home towns. many people here told us the challenges that the coming year waiting on the mines, domestic economic challenges, like the property sector, crisis and low consumer spending and making it more challenging to find as keep a job. competition for jobs is fuse across all demographics.

he's begun efforts to transform a remote town near the border of russia and china into a must see vacation destination. cnn's senior international correspondent, will ripley, takes a look at the secretive country's tourism plans. >> reporter even. >> by. north korean standards, rason is not exactly a tourism hotspot. a remote economic zone closer to china and russia than the capital, pyongyang. rason is known for its shoe factory and banking system. there's also a textile factory and sea cucumber breeding farm. a typical workday includes outdoor exercise. weather permitting, in almost any other place, tourists probably wouldn't be lining up for the chance to open a bank account. but this is north korea. the secret state has chosen rason as its first post-pandemic destination for western tourists. allegedly. >> will it happen. >> next week? >> entirely possible. but will it be. >> delayed? entirely possible. >> longtime tour operator simon cockrell knows there are no guarantees when it comes to north korea. simon's made nearly 200 trips, he says traveling there is not for everyone. >> you'r

kim jong un has apparently begun efforts to transform a remote town near the border of russia and chinanto a must see vacation destination. but is it worth the effort of applying for a special u.s. passport just to go, or the risk? cnn's senior international correspondent will ripley, takes a look at the secretive country's tourism plans even by north korean standards, rason is not exactly a. >> tourism hotspot. a remote. >> economic zone. >> closer to china. >> and russia. >> than the capital. >> pyongyang. rason is known. >> for its shoe factory and banking system. there's also a textile factory and sea cucumber breeding farm. >> a typical. >> workday includes. outdoor exercise. weather permitting. >> in almost any. >> other place, tourists. probably wouldn't be lining up for the. >> chance to open a bank account. >> but this is north korea. the secret state. >> has chosen rason. >> as its. >> first post-pandemic. >> destination for western tourists. allegedly. >> will it happen next week? entirely possible. but will it be delayed. >> entirely possible. >> longtime tour operator. >> s