station are logging population radically and seeing psychosis e sro's in chinatown being pressured for the justification central subways phase one has already cut service drawing not only in north beach the line was also o lost and the 41 and the t and 12 are no longer extended to the wafer we started to lose the connection at fisherman's wharf when it was built now the merchant are wanting more i don't think so and the fta report to offset the operating costs per year and also the central subway phase 2 is only a two car maximum because the station mrafrmd were cut it will never carry full capacity of the market street corridors the phase two eliminates all the bart and metro station that carries hundreds of thousands of riders r will nonetheless have the assessing access connecting market street so the warriors arena is lows trains than it does now because telegraph hill goes to embarcadero all the metro stations gos through that t line connection what is needed a study of hottest trend in the united states free shuttle bus loops looking at the every other city in this country. >> th

loop alignment it connects the loop together all alignments assume the existing tunnels between chinatown and north beach will be used for some sort of service okay. next slide so the 14 alignments are many the 4 colors columbus and the loop is in light green all of them have a two or three stations not a requirement but that's how this plan was laid out and they looked at subway and surface this large number of alignments some under the subway and the subway in the first part and surfaced in the latter part excuse me. on this slide the initial analysis we found that two of the alignments were not feasible for construction purchasing purposes because of grade issues we're brent having to do with getting the subway alignment around an existing very last year sewer that runs from the north point street a cross section of the entire area if you look at the upper right hand corner the triangle unfolded you see the different grounds types of that are out under that is based existing information and older information that came from the construction of sewer project i was talking about it is sho

did phase two project and we're proud we had a major kroichl it/have not been designed to stop at chinatown it implicit makes sense from a prospective to have this enable stopping one stop away it from a major interchange and not serving a residential concentration in the northern part of the city so we're enthusiastic the importance of this extension extension is part of the four corridors plan it has been stated earlier our northeast residential neighborhood have a serious transportation issue i assume you are aware of we have high indents and low automobile ownership yet low transit rider shvp people using it as 32 percent as a whole we had 40 perris but our transit trips are equivalent to the speed of walking that will make a great contribution to the city's rail system and we emphasize you do whatever to get the theatre site that's an essential thing for the project to move forward thank you. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon, sir. >> hello gentlemen and ladies i'm bill schwartz a resident of dog patch and i'm here to say that the loathing of the loop around 18th and 19th and illin

and our existing sfals run time data for a those estimates and the best we can see from going from chinatown north to the i said of the line one station one dwell and under a little over 3 minutes and 3 and a half minutes to go up columbus and the surface links are a little bit longer roughly a 2 to 3 split the ron runway loop is 8 minutes and those are permeate stechlts a quick time comparison the purport box if those alignments were built from chinatown under the construction phase two project that is roughly 14 to 20 miles an hour and the loop will roughly be in that area significantly faster i'm going to turn it over to for bob for the next several side. >> thanks paul mccartney u paul. >> with those large improvements this extension as strong ridership riders about a quarter of those riders will be new trips open metropolitan folks moving to the subway and including the f line he etc. this is a good benefit those lines are over crowded and projected to get norway crowded you'll see this relieving the situation one of the concerns we have with the ridership whether the subway can handle

are permeate stechlts a quick time comparison the purport box if those alignments were built from chinatown under the construction phase two project that is roughly 14 to 20 miles an hour and the loop will roughly be in that area significantly faster i'm going to turn it over to for bob for the next several side. >> thanks paul mccartney u paul. >> with those large improvements this extension as strong ridership riders about a quarter of those riders will be new trips open metropolitan folks moving to the subway and including the f line he etc. this is a good benefit those lines are over crowded and projected to get norway crowded you'll see this relieving the situation one of the concerns we have with the ridership whether the subway can handle it it doesn't includes as much of the area because of the neighborhoods the upper red line shows it is something on the order of 3 minutes train a 2 hundred 5 minute train >> our partners in this study is the planning department analyzed the geographics in the areas those neighborhoods are largely built out there are a few soft sites within a quarte

jobs and to bart it is interesting eave heard this on the warriors the northwest connection with chinatown and fisherman's wharf this could be a tourist line for the city so i want to hear what the other commissions have to say. >> commissioner antonini. >> thank you for a excellent presentation 1942 unfortunate that type of study explicit occur along the ago the logical length of this subway should have gone to north beach and reasonable to fisherman's wharf for the reasons people have stated already which i run into people downtown tourist the first one they want to go to say north beach and the second the wafer most hotels are located close to the central subway where it is going to be located so allow people to assess those areas quickly and is an important thing yes. the up line is a great thing i want to fully it support it's extension but a currently last year type of lines people have to go to the circle and get to fisherman's wharf and the mason this is not competing with the f line that will allow people coming from the ferry building or the financial district but people in the m

it is pitch black from here and no one seems to be in chinatown. traffic headed towards the embarcadero weather is like your i came up from the south of market area which the stop lights are working creek i came up around the embarcadero area, the power is on there as well more towards the financial area with the gates of chinatown and that is where it continues to be out. >> pam:dan kerman reporting from chinatown. >> pam: not much traffic at the toll plaza patrick which is what the chp will hope to get the picture throughout the evening. where people will stay off the road and let the marches to cruised to their work. more news ahead. of shaving stuff. and thankfully, being able to find backups. ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac. ♪ ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac. ♪ ♪ look here, daddy, i'm never coming back... ♪ discover the new spirit of cadillac and the best offers of the season. lease this 2015 standard collection ats for around $329 a month. on brand name mattress sets. years interest-free financing plus, get free delivery

it is there's a serious level of indents on the thirty stockton f of it stopped anothers chinatown i want to get away from the idea a train to no where it didn't make sense to stop there it's a critical line to get to as fast as it has come and is now it makes sense to extend it for sure i want to - i certainly support the idea of continuing to explore and talk about that particularly from the prospective that we are a city that is continuing to be one of the most attractive places to live in the world everybody talks about paris we all love paris paris has a wonderful metropolitan subway underground and comparing the performances from a subway versus on the street i would be inclined to think the subway is going to get more use it will most faster and not be caught up in the affiliation from the street activity that happens in the street i think while it is interesting to entertain the idea of a shuttle in the interim but the reality it there is such a demand already i'm confident that a loop our shuttle system as mr. wong suggested would be quickly overwhelmed and we kind of have t

talking about changing north beach or chinatown but i think the area around fisherman's wharf is under utilized lots of low rise buildings you could upgrade that and up zone it dense, if any, is and get the revenue to complete that thing it would increase the values you should be all in favor we want they know to be worth more not less i like the reports about the there of rifrpd this will provide and the transit times you can look at the finance community as part of it but get some of our revenue from public-private sources urging the land that surround fisherman's wharf area and you are high priority for federal funding a that's on par thing between the serious you can find the money by it's important this be done as expeditiously as possible you have a subway that end in the middle of chinatown that's as far as you get to get to north beach it's an area that is dormant at night which the subway stations end this is 90 in no way subtracting from the downtown extension yeah, that's a top priority we need the funding roadway to make that a reality but if it explicit mean we can't be ex

. >>> new at 10:00, a well known restaurant in san francisco's chinatown is preparing to close its doors. the building is being sold. the empress of china restaurant opened its doors in 1957. it once hosted stars such as jane manslaughter field, and sammy davis jr. it also played an important role for chinese americans. >> you didn't get married, unless you got a date for a wedding banquet at the empress of china. it has a special place in the hearts of many chinese american. it's really the passing of an icon. >> lee says it's a loss for chinatown, however, she says she is encouraged that a bay area native, and noted chef, brandon ju is taking over a nearby restaurant in hopes that the new sight will become the next big destination restaurant in chinatown. >>> concerns that google's g- mail is being blocked in china. large numbers of gmail addresses in china stopped working on friday, and remained blocked today. the traffic in china dropped to zero. china remains control over the internet with the great firewall of china. the chinese aren't saying why gmail is now being blocked. >>> los

and our existing sfals run time data for a those estimates and the best we can see from going from chinatown north to the i said of the line one station one dwell and under a little over 3 minutes and 3 and a half minutes to go up columbus and the surface links are a little bit longer roughly a 2 to 3 split the ron runway loop is 8 minutes and those are permeate stechlts a quick time

. >> we are bringing toys down to chinatown and give them to the chinatown development center. >> he has been doing this for 11 years. now his son will be taking over and spreading the cheer. >> i will be taking on the program. this is my ship to run. >> they are one of those who benefits. it is leftyodoule's who does it. >> we have had people drive up and drop off toys. >> the goal was to collect 10,000 toys by 9ing on p.m. that goal was met, but there were gifts needed for the older girls and boys. >> lefty odoule's is about baseball. a bat and a glove. >> these toys were packed up, special presents on christmas day. they will be delivered by firefighters. as they pick them up and took them off site, they wished them merry christmas to all and to all a good night. abc7 news. >> well done, sergio. we invite you to give where you live this holiday season. abc's parent company, disney, donated $10,000 to toys for tots help children have a brighter holiday. find out how to help on abc7news.com/toys. >>> "the interview" is out. sony released the controversial movie on-line and on demand

. >> we are bringing toys down to chinatown and give them to the chinatown development center. >> hehas been doing this for 11 years. now his son will be taking over and spreading the cheer. >> i will be taking on the program. this is my ship to run. >> they are one of those who benefits. it is leftyodoule's who does it. >> we have had people drive up and drop off toys. >> the goal was to collect 10,000 toys by 9ing on p.m. that goal was met, but there were gifts needed for the older girls and boys. >> lefty odoule's is about baseball. a bat and a glove. >> these toys were packed up, special presents on christmas day. they will be delivered by firefighters. as they pick them up and took them off site, they wished them merry christmas to all and to all a good night. abc7 news. >> well done, sergio. we invite you to give where you live this holiday season. abc's parent company, disney, donated $10,000 to toys for tots help children have a brighter holiday. find out how to help on abc7news.com/toys. >>> "the interview" is out. sony released the controversial movie on-line and on demand

complete in april of i 2015 and it the on time and on budget and on schedule this is a shot of the chinatown station contract perimeter walls will be completed by the end of this year and the mass excavation for the head house about begin early next year currently 38 of the panels have been completed now this is a unique view of the union square market street station i probably haven't seen from underground you're actually looking at underneath stockton street and the roof of the future union square market street tradition now where can union square has been temporary paced for the holiday season and stockton street has on temporarily returned back to the public for the holiday shopping season hopefully some of you have seen it we actually, you turned it over to the public on the day before thanksgiving now this is a shot of the yerba buena moscone center station the walls are complete along fourth street and the panels that will complete the balance of the excavation will be installed at the gas station site and it should begin early next year finally at last surface station work has gone s

. >> tonight we received a number of complaints regarding massage establishments in chinatown that are not operating with permits. >> her redbook posting says it's nancy, asian, chinese female. friendly, yet playful. >> the task force includes sergeant tony flores from the special victims unit. with more than 25 years on the job, flores spent the last decade working domestic violence cases, developing skills that translate well to cases of human trafficking. >> they are similar as far as the victims not wanting to come forward. the victims distrust of the police. the victims, if there are immigration issues, those issues come in to play. >> the frustrating part for me is that you can almost see in their eyes that they want to get out but they don't know how to get out. >> when you're ready, i'm ready. >> it is a little after 6:00 p.m. when the team assembles outside of their first inspection location, top therapy academy on clay street. at first, everything appears to be in order. customers receive therapeutic massage from male and female practitioners. but upstairs, investigators disc

. >>> saying good-bye to a chinatown institution. >>> the pleasanton clorox plant was burglarized today for the second time in less than a week. the thieves made off with thousands of dollars worth of electric cables metal and other items. today's break-in involved two suspects, one of whom was arrested. the previous burglary took place on christmas day. four suspects were arrested in that incident. >>> a family pet died in a house fire in east san jose this morning. the woman who rents the house had spent the night elsewhere and came home to see her garage on fire. her son apparently jumped out a window when the flames got too close. fortunately, he's okay. the family car is destroyed. no word on how that fire started. >>> 16 state firefighters have been placed on paid leave as part of an investigation that started with allegations of a sex tape. investigators now call it unfounded. investigation began in may after the battalion chief was charged with murdering an escort. his estranged wife said she had seen a video showing the victim having sex with firefighters on fire trucks. invest

. >> in chinatown, streets are buzzing and restaurants crowded. many say it's a christmas tradition. >> we seem to always come to chinatown for christmas because it's always open and vibrant and we celebrate hanukkah. we need to find a place to eat gone see a movie. >> the theaters are busy and so were the wells fargo center for the opening night of the popular frozen on ice. >> walnut street may be quite christmas night but the sales signs are up as stores are getting ready for what's sure to be a busy friday with people spending those christmas gift cards and making returns. in center city, i'm diana rocco cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> meanwhile christians throughout the delaware valley celebrated the holiday by gathering with family and friends at local churches. ♪ >> hundreds attended christmas mass here at cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul in philadelphia. archbishop charles chaput was there to help lead the service. >>> at the vatican, pope francis delivered his christmas blessing to tens of thousands of wop shippers were saint peter'

not so in san francisco's chinatown. the neighborhood is bustling today with just about every store open for business. it looks like a regular day just about all the parking spots taken. you need to do some shopping or find a place to eat this is probably your best bet. we found many tourists who decided to get out and see the city today. >> um, we spending christmas like every other year out of the house just because we are far away from home. we just want to just come over and basically see the city. >> another man told us he and some friends were over at the wharf and got urge for chinese food so they walked down to chinatown. not a bad idea. >> a lot of people got out on the golden gate bridge too. >>> days after pope francis' sobering speech for church leadership, he addressed catholics at the vatican. anna matranga with the message from the pope and the startling interruption that had the crowd gasping. >> reporter: pope francis delivered his christmas message to tens of thousands gathered in st. peter's square. it

whitney jones the director of the housing development form chinatown ucu. first i want to thank the city staff who are moving this process forward. thank you, guys. many city sites have been held by agencies for years without a process for moving them forward to meet overall city needs. so this process of starting to move these sites are consider uses for these sites is a great one. we support the chao choo-choo paper presented to you earlier earlier and highlight a couple of points that i think you have heard a couple of times already. a couple of simple points with my heard at the public meetings, the emphasis was on affordable and middle-income housing. we think with that emphasis to set a great emphasis on affordable and that sites that offer the opportunity to develop 100-200 units should also be prioritized for affordable housing and should be 0-200 should be prioritized for affordable housing. with those simple tweaks to what has been presented to you, we think it's a great program and we look forward to working with it. thank you. >> thank you. next

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

people are coming from all over the world over the holidays as well as from chinatown, north beach, from taravel and sunset to have good reasons to be here. have a safe successful warm holidays. remember, rain is good. it's about prosperity to everyone, it's about world series too and to say again, whenever you come to this place, i just wanted you to know that the people who created this space had in mind to bring lots more people together and thank and support all of our local businesses here in union square. we meet challenges, not with sad stories. in san francisco, just as they did 100 years ago when they did the panama pacific world fair exposition. we celebrate by meeting these challenges by innovation. is this park innovation? you got to say yes, it is. this spirit which i think will dominate all of our holidays. thank you. have a great holiday. thank you, everybody, for working together. [ applause ] >> as i have often said, two eds are better than one. here is the other ed working very hard. today we were together at the new improved san francisco mta's traffic management cente

the protesters marched to chinatown and lay down on the streets for several minutes. no arrests were made. wassituation in ferguson the topic of meetings at the white house today. just a short time ago, we heard from president obama as he talked with his cabinet, civil rights leaders, and law enforcement officials. >> when any part of the american family does not feel like it is being treated fairly, that is a problem for all of us. >> karen travers has more. later in the fallout from the ferguson grand jury decision continues. march is taking place across the nation, including washington d c , where demonstrators blocked traffic. matters, not only black life, but all life matters. >> in new york and philadelphia, and even the white house, where inside, president obama was holding a series of meetings focused on what we can learn from ferguson. he called for a spending package that includes standard police training programs, $75 million to subsidize up to 50,000 more body cameras for local police officers. >> it's a positive message. that's all we are trying to do. >>

. >> we get toys from different organizations and in chinatown and we give it to chinatown child development center. >> he is a police officer doing this for 11 years. now his son is on giving and taking over and spreading the clear. >> i will carry this on and take on the program and this is my gift. >> this is just one group that benefits from the generous gifts but lefty o'doul's does this each year and makes the giving so swift. >>> people drive up, drop off toys, people walking by drop off bags of toys. >> the goal was to collect 10,000 toys by 9:00 p.m. the goal was met but there are still some gifts needed for older girls and boys. lefty o'doul's is all about baseball, a bat, a glove, anything to did with the sports. >> the toys were packed up, special presents if christmas day, and they will be delivered by firefighters, given away. as they picked they up and took them off sight, they wished a merry christmas to all and to all a good night. >>> firefighters in san francisco will drive through the ten december line neighborhood distributing toys and bicycles to low income children run

. >>> san francisco's chinatown was packed this christmas day. streets were filled with people one reason could be because chinese food is the most popular food on christmas day according to an internet survey. just about every shop or store had its doors open. some were there to get some shopping done or maybe just grab a meal. others it was just a chance to get out of the house and for those in town for the holiday, it was a chance for them to play tourist. >> so we're here in chinatown spending the afternoon here and then we are going to go from here to santa cruz and spend the evening in the boardwalk and then make our way down to monterey and check out the aquarium tomorrow and head back on friday evening. >> we have been taking lots of photos along the way, lots of laughter. >> we found one couple from houston that was looking to find a good chinese restaurant. they had plenty of options to choose from. i'm starving right now. >> sometimes it's just good to get out of the house. we'll get you some food. >>> last-minute christmas eve shopper

in washington, demonstrators blocked traffic for hours in chinatown. they would lie down in the middle of the street in what they called a die-in. crowds shut down a major interstate highway in miami also. it was a rainey night in new york. that kept many protesters at home. chris welsh was out on the streets with the demonstrators and talked with us earlier from the east side of manhattan. >> tonight was a very different night than the last two nights, a much calmer night. you can see around me right now, it's very clearly raining. right here is where you see this cop car right now, there was a big protest group here within the last hour and a half or so. we've been told by colleagues there could have been maybe 500 people. that's really essentially the largest we would have seen tonight. as you saw from the pictures from last night, people, groups marching all over the city last night. obviously many, many more than 500 people then. but what we know from tonight, things were a little more natural, a little more organic. things kind of happened so to

your parents are proud of you i'm looking forward to a different relationship thank you for serving chinatown and north beach and district 3 it's been an honor to serve with you david. >> thank you supervisor mar supervisor kim. >> thank you. i think enough has been said about your work and office over the last of years i think i have the special privilege i had a personal experience with defied he was one of the first people i met in san francisco in 1999, i started with a lot of friends that david is familiar with a group called thursday we had monthly panel discussion around the chinese americans how articulate you were on issues facing our community and everyone rushed to they knew you were someone that contributed a lot and soon after that devastating and i found ourselves out of housing your restrooms were leaving we were interviewing sublets at a variety of apartment and an hour later i having had a roommate we lived together 3 years when i was a youth organizer that's a ride that doesn't end here starting as friends and roommate that we worked open a lot of projects together i will sa