that we will end it here in chinatown as well. the grant is there for your assistance as well. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. for many years, i get called to do a radio debate, all kinds of debates. they always have some vandal trying to explain to me why what they are doing is right and that kind of stuff. i keep on scratch my head saying, i do not understand why these vandals are defacing other people's property. it is that simple. is it that they do not have a place to go? what is going on? anyway, i have had the opportunity to meet someone that has been having a lot of discussions about what to do with these vandals. is it a place to go? is it lack of training from when they were young? i am trying to figure this out. throughout the process, i was able to meet lewis, the director of the commission cultural program. i said, we are having this today. why don't you come and share with us your thoughts on why these metals are committing these acts. maybe we can design a program or something for people who feel they

thank you, first of all, to all our friends in chinatown for welcoming us back. my first sunday streets started out back here. was it three years ago? it is amazing it has been that long and we have grown so much. i want to echo and really recognize what mayor lee said. this really is about connecting our neighborhoods. when do we see folks from neighborhoods across the city coming out on their bicycles, their skateboards, their strollers, on their two feet, and walking, enjoying linking neighborhood to neighborhood. i love to come here and sample some of the amazing food, to go to fisherman's wharf and the they're not as a tourist, but as a local, go to the mission and check out the flavor of 24th street, to connect to ocean beach at golden gate park. this event is about displaying the best of san francisco, for those of us who live here. it is not only healthy and great for the environment. not only a great way to give the family activity at a low cost, but it is a great way to increased -- to appreciate our city, and that is what i love. i want to share also t

we have chinatown. people have immigrated here.y did not carry the immediate language, but they're just as valuable to everybody here in the whole city. they live in vulnerable buildings and neighborhoods. i thank god we have a great fire chief and fire department. i have been working with them all hours of the day and night. we use these disasters as tools for ourselves. we ask ourselves what we have forgotten and what we can do better. we know the biggest gap is that our population changes dramatically every five years in the city. we have a host of new people that come in to occupy our buildings, to become residents. they do not have what we did five years ago. some of them do not know what we have just trained ourselves on a year ago. they do not have the. -- they do not have it. they are not ready. reminding ourselves every year, every few months, go through those drills. make sure we are accessing 72. org, we have the culturally competent sirens going in every neighborhood. i just left our newest director of dem in my office

chinatown. i have over three decades of experience as an educator. planting and maintaining trees, [unintelligible] beginning in the mid-70s about an arts center that resulted in

>> i represent the chinatown cdc. i am delighted to to be here. let me congratulate you and the mayor for the two ended million dollars. this links of some of the dances neighborhoods in san francisco. this is a very critical project. we remain steadfast in our support. i have presented 15,000 petitions in support of the project. right here from not only chinatown but for the northeast sector. i am very happy to urge our strong support for this project and got to get this project built. >> good afternoon. >> i have served on this in the first year. we serve the same purpose, to bring the area all the way into downtown. we were notified her that this is expensive. if we hear anyone coming into protests, we keep this one for one reason or the other. we will go between union square and chinatown. is this right thing to do? thank you for your support. >> i can to speed gun and other issues coming before you. i feel compare of -- i feel compelled to talk about this. from what i've heard, this is a lot of money spent with very little good return. i ride

this property has an appearance which existed before pre chinatown -- that existed before chinatown. there is the problem of serial permitting. there is absolutely no objection on my behalf or any of the hundreds of the people that have nurtured my work over the last 12 yearsthe cooking school thatt into the building has been put into the building. we are here to discuss how we properly take care of this that has not been properly taken care of. there are laws that are supposed to be overseeing this project. those continue to be made. it is inappropriate. for further taxpayer monies to be put into this project until a global plan is in place. there has to be a proper order for things. not to continue to take out a permit after permit. i can show you a few pictures that may interest you. in my brief, i discussed at the entrance to the storefront, number 731 note was an ornate wooden door. that was at a time for tax payers to receive the best. this store has replaced this. there was some level to copy what was there. it is not recognized in historic preservation. the duplication of eff

we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time. just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different par

you will find dead zones within chinatown. we are talking about a continuous signal, a cohesive signal between cell towers. we are not going to go out and throw away our cell phones because somebody wants to go back to drums and sending carrier pigeons. they are demanding environmental impact reports. the city is in a financial crisis. to do eir's on projects like this is irresponsible. we have america's cup 2012 coming up. where is it going to take place? along fisherman's wharf, along north beach. you are going to have the upper class tourists coming. if they are here trying to use their cell phone and they're smart phone and their laptop and we get system busy, are they going to recommend that their friends come to san francisco and bring us tourist business? i do not think so. we all know what happened when we had the giants celebration downtown. we had dead zones. people could not call people. what we are talking about here is a very low impact environmentally and architecturally. it is not creating a huge health hazard.

you will find dead zones within chinatown. we are talking about a continuous signal, a cohesive signal between cell towers. we are not going to go out and throw away our cell phones because somebody wants to go back to drums and sending carrier pigeons. they are demanding environmental impact reports. the city is in a financial crisis. to do eir's on projects like this is irresponsible. we have america's cup 2012 coming up. where is it going to take place? along fisherman's wharf, along north beach. you are going to have the upper class tourists coming. if they are here trying to use their cell phone and they're smart phone and theirap

>> i represent the chinatown cdc. i am delighted to to be here. let me congratulate you and the mayor for the two ended million dollars. this links of some of the dances neighborhoods in san francisco. this is a very critical project. we remain steadfast in our support. i have presented 15,000 petitions in support of the project. right here from not only chinatown but for the northeast sector. i am very happy to urge our strong support for this project and got to get this project built. >> good afternoon. >> i have served on this in the first year. we serve the same purpose, to bring the area all the way into downtown. we were notified her that this is expensive. if we hear anyone coming into

i spend a lot of time in long beach and chinatown. sometimes they do not work good in the area, especially at my restaurant. the signal is even cut off. it affects our community. honorable supervisors kamala please do something about this. -- honorable supervisors, please do something about this. in the case of emergencies. so many seniors are in the chinatown area. on the hill, people do not have to look at antennas. please, no more delays. thank you for your consideration. >> good evening, supervisors. we have a specialty general contractor. we are located on third street. we are the telecommunication workers that make yourself ands -- cell phones work. we employ roughly 120 employees. we are a union contractor. we love these jobs. in the 16 years, we have never had health damage from rf exposures. for the general public, there is roughly zero risk. the cordless phone provides 150 times as much radiofrequency exposure as do these micro antennas. baby monitors provide as much as 10 times more exposure. the last keynote is that the co

we are an organization established by members of the chinatown housing project. we of more than 400 households in the development. most are low income modeling goal, immigrant families and seniors. we are here to support the effort of the san francisco 10 and communication to solve the bedbug epidemic. we understand the plight of low- income tenants living in substandard housing conditions. there needs to be more out of reach done in the community. oftentimes, i hear from other tenants that they have bedbug problems, but they do not know how to properly deal with the problem. i call on the board of supervisors and the mayor's office to find a solution with adequate resources to solve this problem. thank you for your attention. supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello, good afternoon, supervisors. i am one of the tenants on broadway street. i have lived there for about three years. the last two weeks, i went to the emergency hospital. i got sick. the doctor said there are three reasons. i have terms and my blood. first, ammoniac. second, i have a gum disease. the third

chinatown community development center completed in roughly 2007 a building in chinatown called the internationalel. a beautiful new project on the corner of jackson street. 101 units. even though there was only 101 units in the building, whenever we opened up the application, on the first day, there was a line spanning about to reveal a blocks, and we ultimately ended up getting 10,000 applications for 100 spots. i think that really speaks to the need and demand for affordable senior housing. these types of draconian cuts are not just going to impact senior housing and cdbg. they are going across the board, and i think the kind of devastation they could bring to volatile communities in the city and across the country are really profound. i really applaud the city and supervisor chu for bringing up this issue. supervisor chu: what was the impact, do you think, from that potential cut? >> this was proposing to zero of that program. i think for me, the impact would be that it would be near impossible, i think, to create that kind of deeply affordable senior housing if those cuts are actually impose

the 20 rollehowever, a chinatown sel assault and fabric is also a possibility in chinatown-- and the month of february. he is also believed to be possible irresponsible. >>pam: firefighters--this 20 year-old man is still a suspect for the february attack in chinatown. >>pam: this watsonville cannery will still be under fire fighting efforts. rob fladeboe has more. >>reporter: continuing with 3 million gal. of water trying to douse the fire whit and millions of gallons is going to be used in the next three-four days with a 10 million gal. of water being used in the next three-four days. fresh produce, cold storage and other products martinelli's apple juice products along with redwood insulation. with the smoke drifting into other areas of the city. the voluntary shoulders are in order and anybody with respiratory voluntary- shelters are in order. anybody with respiratory issues are told to stay inside. ammonia used in refrigeration has dissipated without a continued risk for the firefighting efforts. >>pam: prostitution of and on the east bay when 25 year-old of stockton. based in op

well, now they have been installed in oakland's chinatown at a park. we have a report on how they did it without a dime from the city. >> reporter: two of the cameras are watching lincoln square park. they are a big relief to the thousands who use the park and rec center every day. >> reporter: hundreds of people came to lincoln square in oakland's chinatown today to celebrate the security camera project. >> here in chinatown, this community does such a great job of working on public safety. >> reporter: getting the cameras installed was not easy. an oakland police officer led the effort to raise $17,000 in donations because of such things as robberies, fights and even stranger danger. >> the elementary school use it for playground, charter schools and seniors who come to dance, play ping pong and they wanted a extra measure of security. >> reporter: it senior knows the crime problem well. she and her 82-year-old husband were nearly robbed here last year. >> the two young men with the hood saw them and tried to chase after them. perhaps they thought so

. >> when you come down to chinatown be sure to smile.nd don't try to cheat on your wife an bring your girlfriend here. >>> cameras pointing to the public. how one community has taken crime fighting into its own hands. >>> mystery solved? one scientists theory about what killed a dozen leopard sharks in the bay. good evening, i'm juliette goodrich. ann notarangelo has the night off. surveillance cameras capturing the chaotic scene as a powerful tornado roars right through st. louis' lambert field. plate glass shattered and a roof was ripped off. tonight the airport remains closed parts of it badly damaged. just one of several areas that was affected by the twister. more now on the work ahead. >> reporter: a tornado that struck the international airport in st. louis tore off part of the roof and blew out half the main terminal's windows. wind howling in and employees running to safety as parts of the ceiling come crashing down. >> we got to the terminal. lights were out. there was glass everywhere. blood everywhere from where people had be

chinatown. i have over three decades of experience as an educator. planting and maintaining trees, [unintelligible] beginning in the mid-70s about an arts center that resulted in a new city park that transformed about 7 acres of their land -- derelict land into -- in those early days, we have and gardens in the middle of the 101 interchange. since then, by nonprofit, the farm was an early life frame. it was used each month at six schools in san francisco in three neighborhoods. exelsior, vernal heights, they are transforming their neighborhood and school campus into a green, and unique living libraries. two of the branch living library and think parks are part of the watershed. another initiative that i am actively engaged in is developing a nature walk linking parks, schools, housing developments, other open spaces and streets leading to the creek at the south end of st. mary's park. we have already planted over 600 california native trees that have been funded by the california department of f