. >>> san francisco's chinatown is the oldest chinatown in the country and home to one of the largest asian communities outside of china but the chinese population is shrinking. only on kpix 5, linda yee found out why that threatens chinatown's future. >>> reporter: chinatown has been a gateway for immigrants since the gold rush. a community where they live together, shop for familiar foods, and socialize. >> hi. >> reporter: but something is happening that threatens the survival of this asian community. the 2010 census found on average, a 17% drop in the chinese population in the neighborhoods in and around chinatown in the past 10 years. >> the main reason we're seeing people leave is because they are being forced out. >> reporter: san francisco property values have shot up because of the tech boom. so landlords are getting out of the rental business using the ellis act provision to evict tenants so they can sell their apartment units. on this street in north beach, there are two apartment buildings being converted by speculators. that means at least a half dozen more chinese famili

the rail project could run through the edge of chinatown and the rail authority says it wants to make sure it's not destroying culturally sensitive artifacts like a rumored underground tunnel. most of the old doors between the basements are filled in and locked up today. but families who lived here a long time say they are all part of an underground tunnel network. >> this archway was part of the tunnel. connectors. because the question would be is, why would you have these and a basement? >> reporter: fresno city preservation officer says there is a series of connecting basements but a conditional? >> i define a tunnel as a freestanding subsurface structure and that date, the city of fresno and myself as a trained historian have not documented any freestanding structures like that. >> reporter: so far, archeologists digging in chinatown have found pottery, a doll and fireplace. nothing earth-shattering. but omachi fears the rail line could close the door on an important part of fresno history. >> help us save this historic resource before it's gone. >> reporter: in fresno, sharon chi

on his schedule, a speech in chinatown. people were lining up it today to grab a ticket. >> reporter: a steady stream of supporters line up early to hear president barack obama speak. the president's bay area public appearance is at the betty recreation center in chinatown. the president will use this neighborhood of immigrants as a backdrop for his renewed push on immigration reform. josh wolf says the chinatown location is perfect. >> our country is built on immigrants. and, everyone's story is an immigrant story. >> it is a quick visit. but some say it is sending one clear message. the two-term president is losing his political capitol. take the price to wine and dine with the president at the jazz center. as we get closer to the event organizers slash it. >> he has been here nine times, people are tired of writing those checks to barack obama even in the democratic bay area. >> reporter: he will not watch the speech. he is not impressed. oba about ma care in many states find itself on life support. >>en who of the probl

next speaker. >> steve wu from chinatown cdc. we want to talk about our position on the theep. we have some significant concerns about it demand terms of the reduction in service it's proposing particularly in chinatown. the tep will be reducing the route of the a decks part of the way through chinatown and eliminating folsom. in the area of talking about reducing revenue, we don't understand why there are cuts to service. for the items that will be reducing the service, we are not sure why that's there. the system going through environmental revenue -- review. in planning, you need to make sure with the cuts you have not been able to evaluate fully. thank you. >> commissioner kim? >> actually if i can ask you a question. sorry. thank you. of the 10 projects, actually maybe i can ask the mta staff about the preliminary design of the projects and the additional 5 projects. are you aware whether the 8 axis is included in this list and/or would you like to hold off the approval of the funding for this design until we get more questions and answers? >> we have not moved in that dir

president scheduled a speech in chinatown. mark kelly reports people were lining up today to grab a ticket. >> a steady stream of supporters line up 24 hours early for a chance to hear president barack obama speak. the president's bay area public appearance is that the recreation center in chinatown on monday. the president will use this neighborhood of immigrants as a backdrop for his renewed push on immigration reform. josh wolf says the chinaa town location is perfect. >> hour country is built on immigrants. and, and everyone has an immigrant story. >> it is a great story but it is sending one clear message. the two-term president is losing his political capitol. take the price to wine and dine at the president at the jazz center. as we get closer to the event organizers slash the ticket price from $1,000 to just $500. >> he has been here nine times, people are tired of writing those checked to obama even in the democratic bay area. >> reporter: he will not watch the president's speech. he is not impressed he is talking to

historic chinatown once housed a dozen communities including blacks, armenians, greeks and japanese.fall, archeologists with the high-speed rail authority are digging for remnants of chinatown's history. the rail project could run through the edge of chinatown and the rail authority says it wants to make sure it's not destroying culturally sensitive artifacts like a rumored underground tunnel. moses of the old doors between the basements are filled in and locked up today but families who lived here a long time say they are part of an underground tunnel network. >> so we think this archway was part of the tunnel connectors. why would you have these in a basements? >> reporter: fresno's city preservation office says there are basements but a tunnel? >> i define a tunnel as a freestanding subsurface structure and today the city of fresno and myself as a trained historian have not documented any freestanding structures like that. >> reporter: so far archeologists digging in chinatown have found pottery, a doll and fireplace. nothing earth-shattering. but omachi fears the rail line could

come on up, two minutes. >> i'm phil chen with the committee for better parks in chinatown. i've known fei for over 30 years, i just want to share with you an earlier experience that shows her grit and determination. we all know that she's a great development professional, but when chinatown cdc got started, our portfolio was 0 projects, and we met with some people who were developing the levi plaza project, and we sent fei to negotiate with pacific union and in that process, we were able to get our first equity project. since then, obviously chinatown cdc has grown to over 2000 units and clearly the leadership of fei has been key to that. she understands the planning process, she understands financing, she understands design, she understands construction and project management, in short, she understands the entire development process and i don't think you could find a more qualified person to sit on that commission. thank you. >> thanks. >> good afternoon, supervisors, it's a beautiful day. we're here to celebrate a beautiful person, fei. she's not only a former staff, she'

the presidents bay area public appearance is at the betty ong recreation center in chinatown today. the president will use this neighborhood of immigrants as a back drop for his renewed push on immigration reform. josh wolf says the chinatown location is perfect. >> our country is really built on immigrants and everyone's story is an immigrant story. >> it's a quick visit but some political pundants say it's sending one clear message, the two term president is losing political capital. take the price to wine and dine with the president at the jazz centersa we get closer to the event organizers slashed the ticket price from $1000 to just $500. >> he's been here nine times, people are tired of writing those checks to obama even in the democratic bay. >> scott kraner will not be watching the presidents speech. he's not impressed the president is choosing to talk immigration while obamacare in many states still finds itself on life support. >> this is one of the problems i have with politics. it's kind of a bait and switch a lot of the times. it's like oh, this is going bad so let's loo

he does it with music and love our director of the chinatown reverend. wow. we've got a lot more reverend's. they were involved in the community outreach and we did pretty good but reverend where are you hiding rooend a.m. most brown. it's in the spirit of calculation we rebuttal this with the additional community. you all raise our hand if you've met mary. you you know why she - you know, this is like a feast i didn't community project. we need to celebrate on this day. reverend brown townsend please come forward offering you're fine over there. i heard from reverend mccrepe he did a heck of a great job. we have supervisor and the mayor. the mayor is in a rush but reverend cal jones is something for green to give us the invocation >> i have a wonderful high school called balboa high school. >> we were in the same class but i couldn't play football lord have mercy i placed football and i'm praying pr it's a blessing to see you all here. we're trying to make things happen. as i look at reverend brown and side third paint and we figured out if preachers can get

that's your latest traffic, your on your forecast now. >>> really, in chinatown? i might have to wack up and go see the president. wouldn't that be cool? folks around the bay area we are starting chilly in spots maybe patchy frost in the interior valley down into the 30s there under mostly clear skies early on and by the afternoon plenty of sunshine. temperatures are go to be mild outside looks like dry through mid week but after that and for thanksgiving, that could very well change. high pressure holding on for now but you could see a couple weak systems off the coastline starting to en roche on the bridge a little bit. still dry weather continuing and probably the next couple days but then a cutoff low approaches the coastline on thanksgiving could bring us a couple scattered showers. temperatures around the state very mild, 66 in fresno. 63 sacramento, 51 this time of year in lake tahoe and 63 and mostly sunny in the monterey bay. i think our temperatures will be very mild in the south bay, 65 in santa clara, 64 in red wood city, eastbay temperatures could see

thank you. >> steve wu from chinatown cdc.i want to thank the ta staff for a great presentation and laying out a great framework for how to achieve equity in discussions about new transportation revenue. i think it's very important as a board you take a step back and really examine how the revenue being discussed today is being reprogrammed especially with regard to equity. and it's very important to take a look at how new monies will benefit today's everyday transit riders. we haven't seen any analysis of that and i think this lays out a framework of handout you -- how to do that. how new money can benefit transit riders. we look forward to seeing how this framework gets developed and once again, thank the ta staff for producing a great presentation. >> steve, i just wanted to clarify at the last ta board meeting that malcolm was anna pointed member of the task force but you said he was never a ppointed? >> we don't want to elaborate on that. he was on a communication band and he raised a lot of concerns which he felt were no

(clapping) >> we're going to start off with the on and optional president of board of chinatown cdc. (clapping). >> we're so pleased you're here with the wonderful housing projects. can you hear me? how about this one? okay. all right. . so you know all of those projects take a long time. i've got to note it's been 22 years. it's taken 17 years for the city to issue the questions of proposals for this site to be affordable housing. it took 4 years sirng since we were selected as verbatim or developers to get the 49 total. it took 3 different project managers and two different executive directors but i'm proud to say i promise you this project will be built under one mayor under mayor ed lee. so it takes a lot of people to make a project like this but i'm supposed to announce the lenders because it's the money that makes agree project successful. okay. so we have from the mayor's office of housing (calling names) please stand up yeah. from sf mathematical we have john he's here. thank you, john. from the san francisco human agency their providing the important service grant to provide

this is in chinatown. the president will be speaking here. they have allowed a small group of people into the area, so they can express their political views to the president. some people, but not all, have been protesting this country's immigration policy, asking the government to stop its deportation of undocumented immigrants. th immigration reform is the topic of the president's speech this morning. as you just mentioned, he landed at sfo in the past 20 minutes or so for what will be a five-hour stay in the bay area. his motorcade is en route. he's trying to push congress to change the way the united states treats guests who come here. . >> we want to stop families from being broken up. we want to support the kids, that means the parents as well. >> he's deported more people than any other president in the history of this country. i think he was doing it in part to show he could be tough. really, what we need is not toughness on immigration. what we need is a solution. >> are you still as enthusiastic about him as when you voted for him?

in chinatown, mark kelly, kpix5. >>> once again air force one is due in at 10:30 this morning. the president will deliver his remarks at the betty ohm center about and hour later and then head to the fundraiser at the ss jazz center and back in the air and on his way to los angeles by 3:30. >>> we are rolling out the red carpet he's got a good day in the bay area. >> a little chilly to start in spots. we may see patchy frost out there early on. temperature dropping down in the 30s and 40s outside right now. we do have a couple patches of fog out there as well. still looks like out over the bay not to the day. lights up on the bay bridge and we'll see a very nice afternoon ahead but right now down to 36 in santa rosa. 39 concordant 43 degrees in san jose. i think as we look toward the afternoon though, we'll find sunshine and chilly start to the day but really a mild finish, average temperatures usually in the 60s we'll be a little bit above that about 66 degrees in livermore, 63 in san francisco and sunny and 63 degrees in concord. okay, let's check out your kcbs travel network

today he will be in san francisco's chinatown at 11:15.rancisco jazz center for a lunch at 1:00 o'clock and moves to a private dinner at a pacific heights home and he leaves for los angeles. it will result in big headaches as secret service usually shut down the streets surrounding his motorcade. keep that in mind. >> we will have complete coverage of the president's visit and updates on twitter by following us at abc7 news bay area. >> amtrak train from new orleans to new york has derailed in south carolina. they are trying to figure what caused the train to go east track in south carolina, the northern part of the state. the cars all stayed upright and some passengers were taken to local hospitals but no joe injuries reported. 200 as juries -- passengers have to make the trip by bus. >> 61-year-old vet is plummeted with saving a woman's life after she jumped from the coliseum on the third level. fans shouted telling her not to jump but she did. a 61-year-old main veteran stepped in to break the fall. there is in question that the serious

. >>> good morning, we are outside the betty young recreation center chinatown, san francisco, the president is going to be there speaking today and i have a few stops in the bay area, the first is on immigration reform and we will check in on alex savage and we will talk about the complete agenda as it could affect traffic as well. i am pam cook. >> and i am dave clark. >> let's check weather and traffic, how is the forecast. we do have a very stable atmosphere and we have fall spare the air, you know what i mean. high pressure is out here and you can see everything is going out and over the rim of high pressure and san francisco is officially at 50 degrees and although raquel said it feels colder, it is a lot of 30s around concord and i know especially 38 and there is a lot of them, although i have seen an easterly breeze and it will equal a nice day, nights are longer so it is a cold start for most. hazy skies, if you get a north breeze, it is about 30 degrees, highs today, mainly low-to-mid 60s. here is my friend sal. >>> we are looking at a crash in in el cerrito. a police officer happe

what a beautiful sunny day i'm president of the board of supervisors of the chinatown community developmententer and welcome to this wonderful opening of that magnificently project. marilyn fighter fiery firebrand that was mary helen rogers. i first met her when i was a that commissioner in the 1990s. i was parted of the first activist commission for the agency from the urban reluctant days to an agency that put affordable housing at its forefront. i want to recognize commissioner leroy king who's the long time lasting commissioner. whose heart has been in the western edition and i served with him a commissioner for many years and leroy is 98-year-old. thank you la roadway with all your years with the agency. i think that everything that mary helen rogers figure out for abnormal housing and protection for those who are dispolice department because of what happened she was the true advocate for the affordable housing. i hope mary will be part of our new affordable housing for seniors. i'm glad this is being done under the item of mayor ed lee who's legacy he he's known as the housing mayor.

. >> the president's first stop is san francisco's chinatown. he will talk about immigration reform at the recreational center. this is a look at the stage set and ready to go. amy hollyfield has a preview. amy? >> you can tell that the president is about to arrive with security tightening. we have been pushed outside the barricades. people who want to walk through on washington to get to their homes are not allowed. the people who are here and are inside ready to greet the president are very exciteed. san francisco did its usual, cleaning up and blocking off of streets for a presidential visit. the secret service forced the city to shut down cable car service because the first event is across from the cable car barn. with all the inconveniences the supporters still find it thrilling. >> it is exciting because right here in chinatown in the heart of san francisco you look at how many people are here it is exciting. >> the times are not as good for the president as during the last visit in the summer. his approval rating was then 62 percent but n

we just saw well over and chinatown.aisers and the hayes valley district at the san francisco jazz center doing some fund raising their and then a private luncheon where they'll also do some more fund raising and then is expected to come back to sfo and air force one is expected to leave. people what they're going to work. keep in mind if you, to a sudden stop it's probably because they deserve going through san francisco with a word on how to avoid some of those traffic jams. >>darya: we will keep you told. " stay here as well sent his approval numbers are way down. at the last time he visited the bay area was in june and they did a gallup poll showing his approval rating at 62% but a poll taken just a few weeks ago says it plummeted to 39%. 54 percent disapproved of the job the president is doing. something called the knock out the game could be spreading to san francisco. that's where it's uppunches youy random and punches you. and this case it was gay but murray who was punched thursday morning after he sat down on t

we are coming up to street to chinatown. since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go

the president's bay area public appearance is in chinatown. they will use this as a backdrop for his push on immigration reform. josh wolf says the location is perfect. >> our countriry is built on immigrants and everyone's story is an immigrant story. >> they are saying it is sending one clear message. the two-term president is losing his political capitol. take the price to wine and dine with the president at the jazz center. as we get closer to the event organizers slash the ticket price from $1,000 to just $500. >> look, he has been here nine times. people are tired of writing those checks to obama even in the democratic bay area. >> reporter: scott will not watch the president's speech. he is not impressed that the president is choosing to talk immigration while barack obama care, in many statement -- where obamacare is having a tough time. >> it is a bait and switch a lot of times. it is going bad. let's look over here to this other thing that may have a problem. >> reporter: heading into 2014 the president faces challenges, cementings h

for the dpw chinatown broadway, four allocation request starts from page 81 of the enclosure and this is for the design phase of the complete project between broadway and columbus avenue and broadway tunnel including blvds crosswalk and the lighting. the transportation board also okayed funds for the overall project. >> thank you. hello commissioners. the final request in front of you today is on page 1 of the enclosure. a request from sf mta for the transit effectiveness project. the ep t is a comprehensive program to increasing reliability and reducing over crowding and enhancing throughout the system it's for 15 subprojects within the overall program. the recommendation is and these are listed on page 3 of the enclosure. the recommendation is to fund conceptual or preliminary engineering as well as design roots for the subprojects and only preliminary english -- engineering. i can refer to these, but you can also refer to your packet. these typically include route restructuring. these can be pedestrian bulbs, turn lanes, stop optimization or realignments. the tep is currently under

he will arrive in san francisco this morning and hold a rally at the row creation center in chinatownscuss immigration reformal. then he will head to a fundraiser at the home in pacific heights and then take off for los angeles. the visit comes amid record level approval rating with 56 percent of members disapprove of his performance an all-time high. 41 percent approve. it is probably due to the n.s.a. surveillance video scandal and the botched obamacare rollout. >> mileses scott will not be around to see the president. the obama administration wanted the president to meet up with batkid during the bay area visit but the scheduling didn't work out. batkid in new york city this morning for an appearance on "good morning america." he taped video congratulating batkid on the day san francisco turned into gotham city. we will have a preview of batkid's appearance on "good morning america" next. >> frightening moments aboard a flight from san francisco to new york after a bird strike at john f. kennedy airport. the pilot had to declare an emergency moments before landing after smelling sm

it encompasses north beach and chinatown. we have the city's famous hills.e have for the world comes to work, the financial district's, where the world comes to shop in union square, where the tourists spend time on fisherman's wharf , and the wonderful polk street neighborhoods. my district encompasses the ethnic and economic diversity that exists throughout the city. i think my district is emblematic of the entire city. you can find every political perspective you can possibly want in district 3. oftentimes, the interests of my district and the city are aligned. i do not have to think about those differences quite as often as some of my colleagues may have to. >> let's talk about the budget situation. we have been faced with some tough budget decisions again, including where to make cuts and whether or not to increase taxes. how will you approached these hard choices? >> our budget is one of the very top challenges facing city government right now. over each of the years i have served, we have had to balance budget deficits that were around $500 million. t

chinatown trip has been around for 37 years.and in those 37 years we've often worked with munis, we often fought with the munis to make sure that our community gets what we need. the mere fact of our existence suggest that there is a strong need for an internal mechanism within city government that assures equity for all communities especially low income communities in san francisco. we strongly support the proposal put forth by the staff and we have confidence in this body to lead the efforts to ensure that equity. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chen. next speaker? >>> hi, jackie sacs from the cac. i have said this before and i will say it again. i was on the task force regarding this funding process. now, the thing is, before you think about looking into these funds, look in prop k. what has not done in prop k and what has to be done and in a few years you have to go before the voters again to reauthorize the prop k to get it completed. now, there is a b

last few weeks is that as we have gone to events, demonstrations, marches, you have people from chinatown, people from the mission, people from knob hill, people from you name it, going to different neighborhoods saying what happens in one neighborhood impacts me. and there is a poet who said that individually we are one drop, but together we are an ocean. and i think that this ocean of unity, this ocean of people, is going to make sure that we remain a city that works for everyone. so i want to thank all of you, i want to especially thank the people who had the courage to come out it this hearing and share their own individual stories. it's not easy to do that. it was heart-breaking, it was very moving and the fact that people are themselves going through a very tough time and yet they are coming here not just because of their own experience but because they want to do the right thing for other people and help other people, that's san francisco at its best. and i think that san francisco has the ability to change the course of what's happening and i know that this is only the beginning a

and last month we broke ground to house youth that was formerly in foster he care we were in chinatowng ground for homeless families and protecting residents. all of those housing developments have supported services on site to make sure our residents live healthy lives. it won't stop there. let me repeat it will not stop as a matter of fact, 25 percent of all the housing that's being built in san francisco 25 percent of them are affordable that continues a strong commitment from our city. last september of this year we annuity more resources to stop unlawfully evictions for our citizens and because of our cities careful planning we have to plan for the future and to understand the problems now not just to react to them our city it tripling the amounts of funds the human services provides which is nearly $8 million for the defense services for those who need it the most. some of those funds are coming from something we did last year the housing trust fund it was a measure overwhelming passed and to the tune of $1.5 billion in the next thirty years. we are also in the midst of revigil o

a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city, and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overwhelmly. the california street cable railway was purchased by the city in 1952. there were cut backs on the cable car system and in 1957 only thr

he might have to avoid the chinatown and over by cross street at 101 later on in the afternoon.president obama is going to need a lot more support this time around. when he visited the bay area in june a gallup poll showed his approval rating and 62% but a poll taken just a couple of days ago shows his approval plummeted 39% with 54 percent disapproval of his job performance. a rally and news conference today at san jose state university to condemn the accused actions of four white students suspended for hate crimes against their black roommate. the naacp is calling for the santa clara county d.a.'s office to increase the current to misdemeanor charges to felonies and and false imprisonment to the list. they will also be asking the university to conduct a thorough investigation into why it took so long for this to be brought to light. according to police, the white students under investigation on the confederate flag in their dorm room barricaded their african-american roommate inside and forced him to wear a u-shaped a bicycle lock around his neck. the rally is planned for noon

i wanted to thank the co-sponsors and my colleague and the chinatown development center folks and the tenderloin clinic and the san francisco tenant union for their work on this legislation. i also want to mention i have two technical amendments we want to clarify the first is to closure there are several years of review to look at how this new preference is doing so we're adding 3 additional years to the process. that was language that was suggested by the planning commission and from the rent board it was suggested we clarify that it turns out someone resends their notice the tenant would not be impacted by that. so with that, i'd like to ask the planning department for comments and thank you, mr. ram and planning staff for being here today >> good afternoon chair wiener. sophie hayward we considered the draft and passes is it 6 to zero in support of the preference program. the planning commission recommended one clarification and that is to require the new preference system be reviewed by a committee thoughtful board and the commissions recommendations specifically suggested the 3

the president will speak today at the betty ong recreation center in chinatown. last visit to the bay area and jim. during his visit today, mr. obama will also participate in two democratic party events. for $500, the public can attend one event at the new s f jazz center and hayes valley. the other is a private function, a tech roundtable at the home of sales force dot com ceo marc benioff. state-owned to kron4 for continuing coverage of the president's visit to san francisco. also, you can check out our facebook and twitter page for the very latest. >>darya: a santa rosa team found bloody and unconscious over the weekend at montgomery high school remains in critical condition this morning. police said the boy was found by a man walking his dog on saturday afternoon. the city of man has a history of participating in par-core an up and coming extreme sport that involves taking their devil leaps from walls and railings. police are asking anyone saw the team before he was her to come forward. the mccabe fire burning in sonoma county is now 65 percent contained. the

it's chinatown. >> that's the very famous ending to the movie "chinatown."rs, that would be robert evans. he sits down with lee cowan to talk about a revealing new story. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." >>> 43 years ago that school changed sports history. producer ross greenburg in our toyota green room. he'll show us why the game between the crimson tide and the usc trojans was so important to the nation. that's ahead. >>> right now it's time to show you headlines from around the globe. the feast will cost $49.04. that's 44 cents less than last year. the reason, higher turkey production and more birds in cold storage. how appetizing. >> the times of london says a british design group is revealing an adjustable seat. it creates a hammock like effect. the invection would allow airlines to charge passengers by how much room they want. >> that's how you want to fly, like you're in a hammock on a plane with 200 other people. fine. >>> the "star-ledger" in new jersey says a waitress in bridgewater got an anti-gay note instead of a tip. they wrote, i'm sorry,

there's two more meetings including one at chinatown north beach at the 9 so 50 clay street and the final community meeting will be in the mission control area 8925 shot well street from 6 to 9:00 p.m. we encourage all our families to come out and have their voice heard as we look at renewing peace. as a point of personal privilege i think this would be sad to not recognition a recent retired director ms. claudia in helping to restore our initiate in san francisco. i hope our you're on vacation somewhere but thank you 80 from all of us and that golden globe has your name written it it as well. so thank you. >> oh, wait. scott don't leave >> don't leave. >> we're on item c which is actually, the real item. i think superintendant gaga restraining order has a few things to say that i congratulations everybody see you later (clapping) all right. we're going to move on to item d. students delegates report >> should we wait a second for the room. >> let's pause for a moment and wait until the room clears a little bit. all right. mr. logan and ms. way >> all right. the most recent f ac meeting w

clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband