in to take care of chinatown into the future. it's not just trainees will enjoy the experience. that night like this a the light. many people that said i'm like me separatists to celebrate the quality of that horrific day with a chinese new year parade that is widely recognized as one of the top ten parades in the world. our new cctv severed system. some women think eler and thus emphasis going to bring stewart was the subtitle cctv news. stay with the snow along the way. that night my dad. i was. i use it this and i had it pains me for her to tears. i think the team. since nineteen eighty four. i consider myself lucky because the hobbit and the eagle pub for dinner. and i can eat their backs turned. charity the bus the stairs to the gym and seeing their team is thinking. she was there to get a chance to shake a bit of spirit and she anything phd and she shared before she did decide to go to chris' mom and son of man. at that time in their own the man in the crib in the bin. i don't see tom's of maine. by day she came to korea on

we worked with the architect to build this space out to our needs they studied our needs in chinatown the way we used the space and we can have community space here no workshops and event while entrepreneurs are working on the other side. we have break out rooms that we put together and we're able to plan this out it has been 6 months it was a thought of move. we made this space with alexandra >> what kinds of interactions do you think you'll have here. >> well-being coloring to the clinicians we'll have them right there. we see people walking bye and we wave and whatever we have events it's easier for them to get to so for any of our partners those we work with those being closer to the freeway and being able to park are around here. our partners will say it was difficult to get to the subway it's easier now. super so joel alley draw real estate equities is not only the larger real estate company across the country right but to date most of your tenants have been traditionally bio tech companies; right? with wet labs; right? so digital life is different i'm curious where do you think

chinatown burst into song and dance to be here no force and said they'd been doing a new year to eighteen in the giants get into the spirit of represented by one of twenty islands from the chinese zodiac. i drink an ounce and spring cup it's a dog in his speech that it seems that means me del footy irish offense was so cool in the nineteen festival and eight mom got me nice sheen off the fifteen the city patients ahead of the big d is the background. but the video which is before us so this is a fun day the new year eve. and yes an abatement of a degree the patients into a paste using forgotten band since beating and the clayton homes factories and restaurants that don't go your own cleaning streets of chinatown the system was constantine back to the ideal flushing and good fortune and prosperity and seizing the lead back out the new year has gone by the nazis and witness my nation on earth as hundreds of millions of chinese shouted across the board parts of the deal tuesday the festival are the defending east. we have we set a table. welcome to the bottom of the ride. right into our hous

chinatown did witness a bang today maybe the shortest, loudest parade you've seen. it took a few thousand years of history, a few minutes and a city block with a hrs to enter. having the mayor present may help, too. >> it's lunar new year. you will be looking at korean community, and vietnamese community. >> tourists picked the right day. >> you don't have anything like this in austin, texas? >> no. we have a few stores. >> inside eastern bakery, the owner and his wife can help you with that. ask about hoiz moon cake. >> moon cake highest quality pastries. >> highest in a taste tasty line up that includes radish cake, new year sponge cake. >> no calories at all. >> no calories? >> yes. >> when you have a celebration like your birthday, new year, christmas, anything it's on us. no calories. it doesn't count. >> excellent. in that case, oh. >> that is what it's about. >> from chinatown wayne freedman abc7 news >> and you'll find this happy lunar new year post on our abc7 news facebook page. share it with friends. just visit news. >> the year of the horse has been a ga

. >> and two crashed out there on the chinatown ramp. heading in bound on the dan ryan there are three lanes blocked this point. a rollover crash. possibly people trapped inside. crews of just arriving now. a quick update on the eisenhower. they have just opened it was quickly moved off to the side. >> still more to come including the arrest of a woman who tried to hire a hit man to kill her ex-husband. >> a group sneaks' cameras into the u.s. supreme court recording video of oral arguments for the very first time. >> what paula dean feels like an openly gay football player we will stick explain that. >> and dean reviews the new movies incpolice are looking fon who shot his girlfriend and killed her mother. we will have a live update. >> the developments in the ukraine where protesters season airport overnight. >> the city of chicago announces a new milestone in a pothole filling. >>good morning, i'm dan ponce. and i'm cortney hall in for erin. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. >> it's the weekend. it's cold and sno

and ends in chinatown at 6:45. it will be the year of the horse. you can watch this year's parade right here and with julie cohosting the event there. >> we'll all be there. it's always fun. >> 4:40 is the time now. he was tired to protect homes. did he go too far. reactions where a security guard shot a burglary suspect. >> more bad weather expected on the east coast. a look at the damage so far and the tragic story that had an impact on people this morning. >> we're looking at dense fog and it might affect your drive around the bay and traffic is looking good here west bound. lots of fog not where you are right now, but you heighten counter some if you're commuting in and we'll see if makes it in during the week. blahs . >>> welcome back to ktvu channel 2 morning news. a woman 8 months pregnant was among the people killed by the snowstorm that is bearing down on the east coast this morning. they were loading groceries into their car when a bobcat tractor backed into her. although she died doctors performed a c-section and delivered her baby. the

why is everybody avoiding chinatown? white stuff,retty but when you step off the curb, you are dealing with this ess.py, wet m metro has suspended bus service until 5:00 tomorrow morning. that guy clearly did not get the memo. a lot of people were hoping for a quick bus ride home, only to find out a would be toughing it out on foot. >> i'm not just walking up the street, i have to walk over the snow of the hill. are great.walks trying to actually get through the intersections is kind of scary. at least i only have one wet foot so far. >> i have two wet feet, i can tell you. look at some of this video from earlier tonight. three or four hours ago we were getting socked with heavy, wet snow here in the district. it's a little bit snowy right now but for the most part it has seemed to settle down. the road conditions are still very difficult to navigate. d.c. public schools have called and the for tomorrow d.c. government is operating on a two-hour delay. much.nk you very good morning washington will start early tomorrow at

we have in it richmond, i have it in chinatown and tenderloin and one of the thing that we found most effective was that you call the health inspector and you go in with the health inspector and when people realize what's going to happen, then they are more willing to let someone come in and do the cleaning and straighten it up. if not, there is an option if they are severely mentally disturbed heading 5150 and you haven't talked about that. but there are many for whom mental health associations support group is not enough. >>supervisor scott weiner: is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed." this has been a very very helpful hearing. it's been long but i think it shows the complexity that we are dealing with. so many different departments are and sections within those departments are responsible for code enforcement with a lot of overlap, some non-overlap, a lot of times where they need to be coordinating and they are and maybe aren't coordinating or they need to coordinate more. we heard about issues with a lack of centralized data base with depa

i'm applying for the seat of the chinatown collaborative. currently i'm the committee organizer. i have been serving on the task force up for the appointment for twice already. so, on my task force role, i have been working with the task force members on several issues affecting sro tennants. in my work, i have daily contact with sro tennants and my co-workers are also working on tenant issues doing safety and support for sro families and members as well. we have a daily contact with the tennants as well as owners of sro buildings trying to -- the goal is to bring to safety standards in the sro buildings. we do workshops through the fire department and fire prevention and the assistive preparedness as well as doing community workshops and activities on sro safety and conditions. so far we work closely with the dph and working on code enforcement of these buildings. i'm glad to be part of this task force to continue to improve the conditions in sro's as well as seeking opportunities for tennants for better housing. so thank you for your consideration. >>supervisor norman yee: than

this was in chinatown this afternoon. the city will host a number of events, from the miss chinatown pageant to the lunar new year parade. a million people expected to attend that parade saturday, february 15. >>> coming up, credit card breach affecting some hotels now. back in a moment. >>> another credit card breach to tell you about, this one involving hotel chains. marriott, hilton and starwood hotels says it's learned about the potential breach from the same security blogger who first reported that breach at target. so far it appears hundreds of credit and debit cards used between march of last year through december were hacked. it's not clear how many hotels have been affected and whether other chains may be involved in the security breach. >>> let's face it, most of the pictures we take never make it to a printer. but a new app could change that. the app is called flag. every month, the online service will print 20 photos off of your phone and mail them to you. the place tag, free. but of course, here's the catch.

richmond and chinatown can have access as well. the police department has been very helpful in facilitating this program but we wanted to provide the community group with a certainty this will continue in the future and it will expand the program for larger bikes for low income and transit challenged adults laz and expanding the programs and others can benefit and more generations can benefit as well and this will enable bikes to really make a difference in people's lives. lastly today we have related the discussion about the bike registry program as well. that will enable people that lost bikes to reclaim them through the registration process that is available so that's another tool to people that can claim their own bike in the system so this legislation will work in partnership with the registry program. i know mr. crudo has some remarks and we want show the video showing the work in the communities. >> thank you mr. supervisor. i will keep my comments brief. david crudo for the human services agency. i would like to commend sup

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

i am angela and a youth organizer at chinatown development center and work with [inaudible] and serving the needs of the community. last summer we did a survey with three dozen children living in the neighborhood and not bigger than 8 x 10 rooms and only a fraction, a third at most knew how to bike but everyone was interested in having one. when we asked what are the barriers? the kiz said we don't have a bike and they don't think about having a bike as a top priority and this will get them into the neighborhood and they will have a comprehensive program and what is the front end and what is bike safety and getting helmets and fixing them up and it's a tool for empowerment and somebody said it's recycling the bikes but it's a teaching mechanism in the neighborhood so we hope that you guys support this. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good morning supervisors. thank you so much for having this hearing. thank you for introducing the ordinance. i am oscar with the organization [inaudible] and first i want to give credit to the video videographer who is a resident balboa park high school gra

will be busy again this morning for the annual chinatown community street fair.one of the last celebrations for the lunar new year. there's a lot of entertainment, food dancing and shopping and we talked to a few people who make it a point to go to the fair each year. others just kind of stumbled on to it yesterday. >> my wife picked this hotel location because it was right in chinatown, and did you know there was estreat fair today? >> we did not know that. that was a bonus. >> oh, we go shop around and we get in line, so many free stuff. >> lots of free stuff? >> yes. >> are you going to see any of the dances later? >> yes. >> are you going to dance? >> no. >> love that free stuff. well today is the fares last day. it starts at 9:00 this morning and it's going to be crowded about a half million people expected to attend this weekend. >>> hundreds of thousands of people celebrating the year of the horse at san francisco's annual chinese new year parade. the parade had floats, marching bands and city officials along with miss chinatown usa and her court. it took

december 31, 2015.vacant seat 7, succeeding angelahu, term expired, must be a representative of the chinatown, succeeding joyce lam, resigned, must be a representative of the families unexpired portion of a 31, 2105.vacant seat 9, succeeding victor nelson, term expired, must be a sro tenant ending december 31, 2015.1/3/14; received and assigned to the rules committee. the clerk: sf 51234 >>supervisor norman yee: okay. now we'll hear from the applicansted. first person is dan jordan. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is dan jordan, a resident here in an sro hotel in san francis and i work as a collaborativ peer counselor. in my position we work with people in these hotels on a daily ba help them solve their if it means to call in city agencies to do so. liketment of building inspection, department of public health adult protection services and the likes. have to go to their hotels and and t to solve the problem there. usually we can get letter or making a phone call. sometimes we have to work with these people four or five weeks at a time to this is a situation i you help me come up with

we have tenderloin housing clinic and the srl collaborative and chinatown and families in residential hotels. all of those outreach emphasis, those vendors work with the complaints, the property owners, the site manager and property manager and every other stakeholder to encourage if there is a violation that it be addressed at the lowest level possible so that if there is an issue with trying to get into the property to coordinate and mediate the issues that go along with code enforcement that it's achieved. we also have as i mentioned before the landlord responsibilities to act on a way to the properties and let the property know if there is a violation and to accommodate these section. we talked about the complaint of the affidavit. how do we achieve the safe and functional housing in addition to enforcement in addition to organization, the third pilar has to do with inspection. what do we do as far as those? we do systemic enforcement and look at certain buildings every 5 years, the common areas of apartment buildings and hotels and we perform inspections based on complaints that

the streets will be packed again today for the chinatown community street fair. more than half a million people are expected to attend the two day event. there will be some street closers. you see them highlighted in yellow on the map. it includes stretches of grant and pacific avenue, as well as jackson and washington streets. it began at 9:00 this morning and runs until 5:00 p.m. let's get a check on the accuweather forecast with meteorologist lisa argen. >> carolyn, it's nice and sunny around the bay. the fog is gone. temperatures in the low 50s. we are returning to the same old pattern but there is a chance of rain in the extended outlook. i will have the details when we return. >> thank you. also ahead, a new storm hitting the east coast. why officials are concerned about all the recent snow piling up in the region in the past week. also ahead, do you know how much exercise your dog is getting in we will look at the new activity tracker designed for your dog's collar. hales corners, wisconsin. nice pass by alyson dudek. can she hang on to that spot? and she

the streets will be packed again today for the chinatown community street fair. more than half a million people are expected to attend the two day affair. there will be some street closers. i am see them highlighted in yellow on the map. it includes parts of jackson and washington streets. the street fair runs from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. today. >>> let's get a check and see how the weather is going to be for all those activities. here's lisa. >> good morning. the mist and drizzle is all but over. it's been clearing in the north bay the past few hours. cooler conditions there. and we are in the 50s here. northwest winds take over today. it will be a cool but dry afternoon. i'll have the details in a few minutes. >> thank you, lisa. there is a concern about all the snow piling up in the east coast the last week. also do you know how much exercise your dog is getting in we will look at our new activity tracker designed for your dog's color. but now you can use them to make pizza night awesome, too. unroll, separate, add sauce, pepperoni, cheese, and fold. behold: we

anti government protest is have gathered and back all too busy tourist area of chinatown for the final day of march is in the capital trying to stop the election. the government is pushing ahead with the poll despite protests is threats to disrupt the vote and still can't act of crime in this reduction was partly from returning to power. this lead acid ted talks about and has called for a brocade home runs in the city. but in the same breath has vowed not to stop people but to me meanwhile the electoral officials started to prepare a ballot boxes on the eve of the poll. on friday evening auction a lot. it's the anti government protest is not to hinder the elections saying it's a stage full people to express their opinion. i knew that i urge you to cooperate to guarantee people's right to vote. because it is to write to everyone. i don't want to see any action in during the elections. i hope everything to the series uses speed action as a threat for the city council their own voices. for more out correspondent o'brien also joins us live from bangkok to get very like this one from ryan a

the chinatown community development center and the san francisco community land trust for working with my office on this. in the coming weeks i plan to work with the broader housing community to develop parameters of our legislation including identifying buildings in neighborhoods where this program would generate the highest impact and success. san francisco must further create affordable housing models to protect our tenants from displacement and preserve our existing housing stock. we need to do more to put housing in the hands of san francisco tenants who are in danger of being evicted by speculative investors. the rest of my items i will submit. >> thank you, mr. president. all of those items will be appropriately referred, mr. president. that concludes roll call for introductions. >> thank you. i'd now like to go to our 2:30 special order. i believe supervisor avalos has several commendations. >> thank you, president chiu. i have two commendations. the first is for the national alliance, filipino concern known as nafcon. we have june cruz who is here to receive the commendation.

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and brought out people behaving badly in chinatown. >> pam: kron4's stanley roberts catches people arguingparking spot -- >> pam: in this edition of people behaving badly. (male announcer): now, here's stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly. >> reporter:the san francisco bay area has been getting hammered with people getiing hit by cars no pun intended >> reporter:if you want to see why just head over to stockton and broadway streets in chinatown >> reporter:where people seem to enjoy playing run at the last second or walk at the last second to cross the street game, because we all are in such a rush ot not >> reporter:but before i get started. i need to show you this. see this big delivery truck? it's partially blocking the crosswalk >> reporter:and half of stockton street forcing traffic over the double yellow lines, why? because of his blue mini van illegally parked in the loading zone >> reporter:the driver of the truck is trying to reason with the driver of the min van to move but she is not having non of it >> reporter:you can't pull up because they are blocking your sp

the streets will be packed again today for the chinatown community street fair.ore than half a million people are expected to attend the two day event. there will be some street closers. you see them highlighted in yellow on the map. it includes parts of jackson and washington streets. the street fair runs from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. today. is the rain gone in let's check with lisa argen. >> it's really clear out here, carolyn, and temperatures continue to drop. yes, the rain is gone. we are looking at numbers in the 40s in the north bay. there is fog around the bay. here's emeryville. you can see the wet pavement. low 50s for you. we will talk about how warm it will get today and the president's day holiday coming up. >> thank you, lisa. and as you know, a new storm hits the east coast. why officials are concerned about all the recent snow piling up in the region in the past week. also, do you know how much exercise your dog is getting? we will look at the new activity tracker designed for your dog's collar. so yso you can happily let the grlife get in the way,

. >> if you heard sounds in chinatown today, either 4th of july or lunar new year. >> they were but you've to kick out the year of the snake. >> embrace the year of the horse. loudest one-block parade ever to send you to an audioists. >> first day of chinese new year. >> in tradition this is a time for family and feasting. inside of the world-famous eastern bakery, the owner and wife can help you with that, asked about his moon cake. >> moon cake. yes, highest quality pastries. >> this establishment so well known, bill clinton stopped near 1996. they have pictures. >> what about bill clinton eat? >> moon cake. >> it's a new year tradition. there is almost always a line here but does move fast. >> how are the cookies? are you doing new year thing here today some >> no. >> sorry. >> no calories? >> yes. yes. >> when have you a celebration, birthday, new year, christmas, anything, it's on us. no calories. it's not count >> more reason order seconds. >> that is what it's about. >> and this happy lunar new post. you can share it. >> dry again here in the bay area after that drizzle we've had bu

. >> huge crowds will line the streets of san francisco to chinatown for the chinese new year paradetside of asia and taking place in the city for 150 years. i took part in it one year. 100 groups will celebrate the year of the horse, rain or shine. we will talk to mike about that. it starts at 5:15 at second and market streets and ends in chinatown around 8:30. >> i remember that first one, 150 years ago it did not rain and then there were a series of storms on chinese new year. >> you are not that old, but, it often rains, mike. >> it does. love to see the peoples. we are going to have rain tomorrow. take an umbrella or something to keep dry. it may not rain not going but it will at the end. here is san jose, down in the south bay, it is easier to see 280 and 17 this morning than yesterday and the clouds are starting to get thicker this, and san rafael, 101, it looks clear here but we do have thick fog developing around novato and headed up to petaluma and santa rosa. we will have sunny spots in the afternoon and mild temperatures again today and light rain, and get ready tomorrow

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