so, that is your look at chinatown square, here in chinatown. it really is great. i'm exhausted.uch to do and see here. this is this weeks alex around town. now back to my singing. >> ♪ and i will always love you ♪ >> that was pretty good until you went for the runs. >> yes. >> little more echo. >> yes. >> it makes you always sound decent in that case. >> yes. >> people talk bit all the time. >> yes. >> no, don't tell them. >> it is true. >> ear things, yes. >> that is mariah carry. >> okay. >> everything curry. >> karaoke. >> and good day field trip. >> yes. >> all in one, places to eat and, you know, thinks at tenth and race in chinatown. and they are opened every other week and weekends they are opened until like 4:00 a.m. >> so nice. >> i love it. >> yes. >> it was all great. thanks for having me. >> yes. >> let's get some breakfast, speaking of food, bob kelly. >> good morning, bob. >> good morning, you know after running around town, i'm here at honey's sit and eat, exactly what we will do, sit down, kid what did you order. >> i ordered pancake with filling. >> pancake with

in chinatown, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> hungry now. >> me, too. >> it's right down the street.s about a four-minute walk from here. >> from here? >> yes. >> oh, let's go! >> oh, yeah. i'm game. >> somebody broke the rule. there's supposed to be no food stories during the morning show. >> four minutes? that's all, right? wow. that's worth it. >> especially walking. >> as soon as we get off the noon newscast let's go. >> four minutes for your mickey d's too for your junior mac. [ laughter ] >>> all right. now what today is by the way? it's national banana cream pie day. >> did you bring one? >> i couldn't find one. >> there was the whole church thing yesterday with ash wednesday, foot therapy, you know, there was walking the dog after the foot therapy ... there was a lot going on! [ inaudible ] >>> the wind speeds right now with our current air temperatures in the 30s and 40s are pretty calm which is a good thing or we would be talking about a windchill factor this morning. boy, those temperatures nevermind have not been updated. 36 degrees in santa rosa. these are legit temperat

the chinatown and planning area.the property was last legally occupied by a retail sales and service use to shop during business has boomed harvest investment trading until 2014. attendance faces and occupied space by cricket wireless without this required conditional use since 2015 good cricket wireless is a national token mitigations corporation headquartered in atlanta more than 4000 locations worldwide with approved - i'm sorry - roughly 700 san francisco location some of which are still pending planning commission approval. there's one similar wireless store doing business as red pocket mobile within 300 feet. to date the department has received 29 letters of support and no correspondence in opposition to the common finds the project to be necessary desirable for an compatible with this on the neighborhood and recommends that you approve the project with recommendation conditions for the following reasons. the project would not misplace any existing tenant can project would continue to activate a ground-floor sp

. >> a toxic tea that was sold in chinatown. we learned a 56-year-old woman has died after drinking that tea. >> lilian kim is live in chinatown with the story tonight. lillian? >> this is where the woman bought the tea here on grant avenue, she was the first of two customers who became very sick very quickly. the medicinal tea blend has made two people sick since last month. both became critically ill within an hour of consumption. a 56-year-old woman did not recover. she died over the weekend after having suffered through weakness, abnormal heart rhythms and intensive care. the two people bought the tea leaves from the trading company. >> i myself have gotten sick from eating at some places around here. >> i guess they were going in to seek a remedy. >> and they though they would get help, but they didn't. that is really sad. >> san francisco's department of public health says the tea leave s dph says the business is fully cooperating with inspectors to trace the source of the toxic tea. lilian kim, abc 7 news. >>> tomorrow sa

. >> a toxic tea that was sold in chinatown. we learned a 56-year-old woman has died after drinking that tea. >> lilian kim is live in chinatown with the story tonight. lillian? >> this is where the woman bought the tea here on grant avenue, she was the first of two customers who became very sick very quickly. the medicinal tea blend has made two people sick since last month. both became critically ill within an hour of consumption. a 56-year-old woman did not recover. she died over the weekend after having suffered through weakness, abnormal heart rhythms and intensive care. the two people bought the tea leaves from the trading company. >> i myself have gotten sick from eating at some places around here. >> i guess they were going in to seek a remedy. >> and they though they would get help, but they didn't. that is really sad. >> san francisco's department of public health says the tea leave s contained aconite. dph says the business is fully cooperating with inspectors to trace the source of the toxic tea. lilian kim, abc 7 ne

the chinatown and planning area.the property was last legally occupied by a retail sales and service use to shop during business has boomed harvest investment trading until 2014. attendance faces and occupied space by cricket wireless without this required conditional use since 2015 good cricket wireless is a national token mitigations corporation headquartered in atlanta more than 4000 locations worldwide with approved - i'm sorry - roughly 700 san francisco location some of which are still pending planning commission approval. there's one similar wireless store doing business as red pocket mobile within 300 feet. to date the department has received 29 letters of support and no correspondence in opposition to the common finds the project to be necessary desirable for an compatible with this on the neighborhood and recommends that you approve the project with recommendation conditions for the following reasons. the project would not misplace any existing tenant can project would continue to activate a ground-floor sp

. >>> and there is another makeover in the heart of san francisco with's chinatown. a massive new marketplace called china live opened its doors just an hour ago. the 30,000-square-foot complex is on broadway between stockton and columbus. kpix 5's julie watts has been checking out the biggest thing to happen to chinatown in decades. >> reporter: ware among the lucky ones ordering some of the first food to come out of china live. we have actually ordered some dishes here. we have the dumplings, we have the shrimp i have to tell you that the food here is just the beginning of the draw of what's being billed as a culinary and cultural destination. it's the talk of the town a project three years in the making and all eyes are on china live. >> tourists will come because it's fascinating place to visit but locals are very important. >> reporter: the founder and checkive chef george chen promises it will be like nothing ever seen. many hope to will revitalize the tourist destination criticized for losing its culture in the sea of tourist shops. >> it's a way to bridge the

6 presentation of the commission on the environment - environmental service award to sustainable chinatown>> this item for discussion. >> thank you commissioner wan not able to be here she asked i present this award on her behave quite an honor to do so commissioners as you may know chinatown is one the truly jowls of this city and county of san francisco the neighborhood has a thriving community that is so apparent as you walk through the streets and neighborhood leaders have a challenge how to engage the vital maintaining affordable housing protecting chinatown unique cultural heritage and improving the environmental performance the results was a sustainable chinatown campaign through the collaboration between chinatown community development center and enterprise community partners and the san francisco planning department, and the san francisco department of the environment monk others i have to call out the department of the environment rich for your leadership on behalf of the departments thank you for all your hard work and droop a map for at the same time helped the city achieve the

thank you, thank you, thank you to groups like mission confirmation development association and chinatown community, demonstration corporation our land trust our housing corporation and mission housing corporation our tenderloin housing corporation our c hd and mercies and all so many others have been working with that community-based organizations who spent career after career trying to figure out how to build and rehab affordable housing i've got other in some way linked to my public housing now in the community struggling to get their own fund and struggling to make sure they're managing those places well and working with the city to assure and guarantee for the future all this housing can be built and the rehabbed and sustained accelerator wow. that's a big word but represents something that all of us believe in it is taken us too long why ways b.a. because we have a lot of rules to go through every site we have there is 10 others competing to buy that site they have resources they're going to again even though it faster we're slower in building more affordable housing we don't contro

. >>> a san francisco woman was trying to improve her health, but an herbal tea bought at a chinatown store may have killed her. tonight her family is taking action. nbc bay area is live in san francisco. a lot of questions surrounding her death still? >> reporter: that's right. the family is grieving, devastated and want answers. they know where the purchase was made, me, but they want to know where all the ingredients came from and exactly how they were prepared. they know their mom drank the tea, got sick and died. >> it was a horrible way for her to pass. >> reporter: remembering his mother as generous and kind. he says her decline began after drinking a potentially toxic tea. >> she drank it on february 9th an hour later developed numbness of the hand. >> reporter: he says she han uneven heartbeat and needed intensive care. she died saturday. >> the doctor told us basically there's nothing else they can do. >> reporter: he shared a list of ingredients by this trading company in chinatown. >> so far we don't know what's going on. >> reporter: we went to the shop bought woman decli

a new location in chinatown that everyone is talking about.is a food hall with options for even your picky yesterday of friends. they have food, drinks, karaoke. >> hey now. >> sounds like fun, right. >> let's check out alex around town. >> reporter: for this week's alex around to town i'm going to chinatown. actually to be more specific, i'm here at chinatown square. let's go check it out. it just opened. >> alex, come on in. we're open. >> let's go. >> all right. i can't wait. hi, how are you. >> good, good. i'm david. >> my partner. >> welcome to chinatown square. >> it's beautiful. >> ♪ >> so this sounds good. a taste of curry. >> southeast asian curry and japanese curry and four differ types of dishes for you. one is a curry puff. curry dip really good. potato inside. this one is shrimp curry. cat sue curry japanese one and chicken curry. >> basic follow this corner everything on this menu involves curry. >> yes. curry related. >> genius. >> if you love curry this is your spot. >> david i have a confession i reareally love bow buns. i lov

san francisco police say the man was inside a chinatown jewelry store ... knocking down a woma a gun. >>> surveillance cameras captured these images of a would be armed robber. minutes later the man was in a chinatown jewelry store knocking down a woman and brandishing a gun, knocked down jewelry cases and left without taking anything. police are puzzled but still want to find the guy. >> you can see from the person's actions in the video this is someone who is dangerous. he goes inside, knocks someone over, waving around a gun. he has hammers and smashed in the cases. >> this happened at a jewelry store last month on grant avenue. investigators are hoping by releasing the picture and video someone will come forward and identify the suspect. >>> big surprise on a southern california beach, bundles of marijuana washed ashore. people walking on the del mar beach discovered the bricks of pot about 7:30 this morning wrapped with plastic and duct tape. they were too heavy for most people to pick up. the feds may help with the investigation if it turns out there'

tea that she bought from a store in chinatown.he tea looked like. this the woman got sick with an hour of drinking it. she started experiencing abnormal heart rhythms. she was hospitalized for days and died on saturday. the tea came from sun wing wo trading company on grant street. the store is cooperating with the health department's investigation. another man was also hospitalized after drinking the tea, but he has already been released. >>> a wild sideshow on the bay bridge, dozens of bikers and atv riders terrorizing drivers. is this the same group that attacked that lyft driver on 101? kpix5's jessica flores on what the chp is saying tonight. >> reporter: cell phone video captures atvs and dirt bikes surrounding cars driving east on the bay bridge. you can see in the distance one even popping a wheelie. as more and more offroad vehicles illegally take over the freeway, chp says 911 callers reported about 30 riders driving recklessly, even kicking other vehicles. >> there goes the cop. >> we close not to pursue them because we

. >> commissioners dan policy director at neighborhood commercial district cd chinatown people from the light court downstairs they got carries a hopefully, the next time we're able to accommodate for osthose - we'll be attending the next meeting on this matter i don't want to mix word but be contrary from our perspective the proposal that supervisor safai and commissioner london breed and supervisor tang are put forward a step backwards from the stand point of inclusionary housing program that has expanded opportunity and tricks the amount of calling for a conclusion i agree with what people said about the housing crisis but we shouldn't do it on the backs of poor i think we can move in that direction with supervisor peskin and supervisor kim's proposal and i hope we have a conversation for those who are maybe on the other side of the #0i8 let's come together in the coming weeks we need to make our policies strongly we absolutely agree for inclusionary housing and so i again with without repeating some of the things the speakers said the line we draw the voters have a maid that clear e

that was answered today for one of chinatown's loudest advocates. >> abc 7 news at st. mary's square, planting a tree in honor of rose pak, key in getting the central subwith a i to chi chinatown. >> she died in september and the city planted a giko biloba tree to remember pac, native to china. >> it's very strong like she was and yet beautiful. the leaves are like fans. so we're all fans today of rose pak. >> each year for arbor day san francisco plants what it calls a signature tree. >> and reverend fong phrased that beautifully. i've seen many events with him a great guy so nice to see that >> absolutely. >> "world news tonight" is coming up next. >>> tonight, breaking news. no proof, and still, the white house fires back. after senate leaders reveal they have found no indication, no evidence of president trump's claim that president obama wiretapped him. our correspondent asks "does the president stand by his claim?" the white house shoots back. >>> defending the budget. massive increases in defense, and homeland security. and dramatic cuts elsewhere. the white hous

several people are displaced after an apartment fire in chinatown. kron 4's averi harper is live from the scene with more. averi? (averi) a fire broke out at an apartment building in san francisco's chinatown this morning and crews are currently on the scene cleaning up, fire officials said. at 3:37 a.m., the san francisco fire department received a report of a fire at 39 waverly place. according to fire officials, the two-alarm blaze came from the third floor of the apartment building and caused moderate to extensive damage. there is only damage to a portion of structure and not the entire building. at 4:04 a.m., firefighters had the fire under control. crews rescued one elderly victim who suffered smoke injuries that are not considered life- threatening. officials do not know yet how many residents are displaced, but said that the red cross and city the scene to assist. firefighters are scene cleaning up and investigating the cause of the fire. as of 5 a.m., the 100 block of waverly place is shut down, fire officials said. ( marty @ landing ) thank

(pam) a san francisco woman, who fell critically ill after drinking tea from a chinatown herbalist, has died. kron 4's vicki liviakis is here with details. (vicki) yeah, the woman got sick after drinking herbal tea bought in san francisco's chinatown neighborhood.. and never recovered. her name is yu-ping xie of san francisco.... and she died over the weekend at a hospital where she had been since february. the tea leaves were bought at sun wing wo trading company on grant ave in the city. xie was one of two people who were hospitalized in separate incidents after drinking tea from the store. the other victim, a man in his 30s was hospitalized and later released. early tests have shown that the tea contained aconite, a plant-based lethal poison. officials say the store owner is cooperating to trace the source of the poison. pam? (pam) a five- time felon has been charged with assault on a peace officer and evading police .... after officers say, he rammed a stolen pickup truck into a police car. one officer was injured in the crash. officers say, the suspect- 29-year- old lee adams... th

6 presentation of the commission on the environment - environmental service award to sustainable chinatown>> this item for discussion. >> thank you commissioner wan not able to be here she asked i present this award on her behave quite an honor to do so commissioners as you may know chinatown is one the truly jowls of this city and county of san francisco the neighborhood has a thriving community that is so apparent as you walk through the streets and neighborhood leaders have a challenge how to engage the vital maintaining affordable housing protecting chinatown unique cultural heritage and improving the environmental performance the results was a sustainable chinatown campaign through the collaboration between chinatown community development center and enterprise community partners and the san francisco planning department, and the san francisco department of the environment monk others i have to call out the department of the environment rich for your leadership on behalf of the departments thank you for all your hard work and droop a map for at the same time helped the city achieve the

. >> it's the city's newest nightclub on vine street in chinatown. >> and it is brand new, literally.s is opening weekend. >> it's state of the art in every way. we are upstairs overlooking the giant dj stage. >> it's been in the works for a while and we got a look inside as the project took shape. >> noto has taken over the northern corner of 12th and vine.

the shanghai composite in chinatown fractionally. hang seng in hong kong a powerful 1%. the cost be in south korea fractionally as well. all these tensions between the u.s., japan and the korea and meeting to discuss an emergency meeting to discuss what to do about the missile launches from the north. train to u.k. budget today. watching for the european central bank tomorrow. everything is higher after selling for 600 government the cacm france for example if a 10th of a percent good london ftse up a 10th of a percent. german dax have half of 1%. adidas is the star of europe today over 6%. because of the great sales forecast through 2020. >> is investors trying to take the cue after two days of decline this morning struggling a bit. dow futures higher, nasdaq up three, they could have a green arrow estate for the broader market. nicole: zero.two sessions and tacking on another day of losses. although down 32 cents at 52.82 a barrel. gold down 3.5 but said 1212 the tryouts. lauren: caterpillar accused of using tax and accounting fraud to stack up its price. according to

chinatown thronged with people.wds of locals and tourists suggested that they were determined to ignore any anxieties. we had just arrived in london as it was happening so it was worrying that it has not stopped us. was happening so it was worrying that it has not stopped uslj was happening so it was worrying that it has not stopped us. i have faith that we will be ok. because i come from turkey i am used to these attacks in my country. once we let ourfamilies know attacks in my country. once we let our families know we were ok, attacks in my country. once we let ourfamilies know we were ok, we attacks in my country. once we let our families know we were ok, we are on holiday, so... for years, londoners had been warned that the question was not if but when another attack would come. they had read the signs and heard the advice about suspicious activity and unattended packages, the possibility of being caught up in random violence crosses people's mind regular. it is part of living in a big city. it has been expected

investigators say the tea leaves were bought at the sun wing wo trading company in chinatown. health inspectors have removed the product from the store shelves. investigators say the staff at they business is cooperating to try to trace the original source of the tea. >>> the ride-sharing company uber is pulling back from its planned expansion. several thousand employees were expected to move into the old sears building next year. they have decided to take place in a new office near the warriors stadium and will rent out much of its oakland site. people say they support the company despite the problems of late. >> they provide a service that is needed. door-to-door pickup, on demand calls. i think that trump's anything else. >> yesterday, uber president jeff jones was the latest to resign . today the vice president to overseas their mapping system also quit. >>> a lawmaker hopes to make college tuition free for in- state students bite taxing wealthy residents. and woman from stockton proposed the legislation placing a 1% tax on californians earning more than $1 million year. t

chinatown with a light rainfall. and we have heavier rain over the golden gate bridge, the great highway, the sunset district. we have it raining at the bay area bridge. and in an easterly direction, few raindrops on the cameras. temperatures in the 50s and 60s. not much of a spread due to the cover. oakland is 15. ten to 20 miles per hour throughout the afternoon hours. we're checking in with weather watchers. everybody with mild temperatures in the low 60s. three things to takeaway from the weathercast. today and tomorrow, showers, breezy conditions, a thunderstorm possible tomorrow through wednesday, and then thursday evening through friday, the potential for soaking rains. heavier precipitation. about 2 1/2 inches of rain from thursday to saturday. we're taking a look at this system, the second of three. taking aim on the bay area, the first was over the weekend. weak disturbance, mostly cloudy skies, and now a series of storms over the pacific ocean. for the evening commute it will be a wet one. it will be wet i

land you will find anywhere, and there have been some water worse that they made movies about in chinatown, the way los angeles water, from the owens valley.water wars in the state larger than just that little area, largely because 80 percent of the water is number one owned by immigration, 80 percent or agriculture -related activities, at least 20 percent to the rest of the state, including people who like to drink a couple times a day. add to that 75 percent of the water in the state comes from california. these areas and the rain, you know it's from california, 25 percent, two thirds , one third of the water runs through, it's generated in southern california and the problem is southern california's got two thirds of population and the only thing in california they are generous with because a lot of people start north of half of these. don't tell that to the people in rural northern california because as far as they're concerned, the fact that most of the water is in northern california, most of the population insouthern california, that sets up a problem. add to that in agriculture , e

picture got sick immediately after drinking the herbal tea she picked up at a popular san francisco chinatown store. deng says - after having just one batch, his mother ended up in the hospital with doctors recommending amputating her leg in hopes of saving her. jin deng, mother died after drinking herbal tea. we said to my mom that we need to cut off your leg, and she said yes. sadly, deng says the amputation did not help his mother and she died, a few days later. now, he and his family are suing the store where the tea came from and the herbalist, commonly known as dr. chan. natural sound, terisa estacio, "hello, doctor chan, is the doctor in" at the store, no answer. deng says his mother got the tea to boost her immune system. this is the prescription. deng says there are 15 different ingredients including aconite, an herb that he says some herbalist say has medicinal properties but if not procesed properly can be toxic. terisa estacio reporting, the family says its primary reason to sue to make sure others don't suffer what they have, but here in chinatown, there is a different sentiment.

used but changes at the stations regarding change of shift as i mentioned to the response to the chinatownire especially station 2 of the basis of complaint about the points of arrived from during change of shifts and during that time 8:30 the rigs need to be calculates or checked and under coming and off going cruise we don't want them parking illegally but blocking a lane they have to check the aerial and the pump every morning and in regards to response time they'll do it is next to the drivers and they'll check the apparatus and have to clean the apparatus floor sweep and make up that 2, 3, 4 station two this is has happen that part of complaint is not easy to address but members using placards all over the place if they park in a red zone while change of shift that's on their own that's part of the policy the pot is we don't want them using urban authored placards. >> thank you chief gonzales. >> i have directed chief gonzales to regularly let our members know they don't great work everyday but not feel entitled to do something that is illegal it is illegal to park in a red zone outsi

6 presentation of the commission on the environment - environmental service award to sustainable chinatown>> this item for discussion. >> thank you commissioner wan not able to be here she asked i present this award on her behave quite an honor to do so commissioners as you may know chinatown is one the truly jowls of this city and county of san francisco the neighborhood has a thriving community that is so apparent as you walk through the streets and neighborhood leaders have a challenge how to engage the vital maintaining affordable housing protecting chinatown unique cultural heritage and improving the environmental performance the results was a sustainable chinatown campaign through the collaboration between chinatown community development center and enterprise community partners and the san francisco planning department, and the san francisco department of the environment monk others i have to call out the department of the environment rich for your leadership on behalf of the departments thank you for all your hard work and droop a map for at the same time helped the city achieve the

of redevelopment, a packed house tonight as neighbors gathered to hear new development plans for chinatown. two companies are competing for a plot of land at eighth and vine. the proposals include new housing, stores and green spaces. tonight residents got a chance to weigh in on the plan. >> to have services for the elderly or just a space for community kids to like hang out or whatever. i think that's really important. >> after hearing from neighbors, the philadelphia redevelopment authority will decide which company the property will be sold to. >> a very grateful neighborhood called bellmawr, we want to thank you for your service. >> top honors for a local marine. andrew johnson presented with the flag and a plaque at tonight's town hall meeting in bellmawr. johnson has served in afghanistan, is currently a member of the camden county sheriff's department. good for him. >>> new at 11:00, counterfeit i.d.s. police want to track down a man and a woman in an i.d. theft investigation. take a look. police found pennsylvania i.d. cards and driver's licenses with the pairs' faces on them but

chair from incursion of office into their district so the chinatown is revisited for 27 on our calendard south of market you got do release has been taken over by office space and tech big time and van ness avenue similarly has been up escalated tenderloin is fighting a valiant battle you have a hearing before i was watching that and you spent a lot of time dealing with people feeling extremely not as frustrated not the right word but vulnerable once you on the floodgates to the retail district being worked out changed it go majorly impacts everyone one of the things i have done a lot is traveled around i used to travel a lot. >> and san francisco has a strong tourist attraction because a rightly rail presence that is very unusual we're a big international city and that is one of the reasons why the cpr needs to be protected as the written retail district thank you. >> any other speaks for the item seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> i really appreciate staffs reaffirmation of downtown area plan one of the best pieces i congratulate and thank you all the most i

. ♪ >>> dozen of residents in philadelphia's chinatown came out to learn more about a new project goingay corporation plans on putting up 60 housing units for the communities low income seniors as well as more than 100 condos. the company says the plan also includes retail space that will feature an asian supermarket, a garden and a playground. it's all proposed for the 800 block of vine street. you see it you shoot it. our fresco users are helping to show what's going around you. iain, what's up tonight. >> luce so to night investigators are looking into what started a fire in upper providence township much fresco user jim heck shows us the scene this morning. you can see the flames badly damaging a home on the 400 block of hollow road. it took crews about an hour to contain it no one is hurt and we don't know how that fire start started. >>> police in atlantic city are looking for the person who shot and killed a man late last night. fresco user aj near the scene of the homicide on the 100 block of south vermont avenue. the victim 24-year-old kevin copeland was pronounced dead at the

aherl t boht a chato >>> from tragedy now to anger, an her balanbal tea bought in a chinatown store may have killed a san francisco woman now her family is taking action. the family filed a lawsuit against the store that sold the tea. >> nbc bay area's christy smith is in san francisco with the many questions surrounding her death. >> reporter: this family is devastated. they say that the purchase happened here, but they want to know where the ingredients came from and how they were prepared. what they do know is that their mother drank a tea, got sick and died. >> in the past month, she was a healthy lady and it was a horrible way for her to pass. >> reporter: he is grieving. he remembers his mother as generous and kind. he says her sharp decline began after she drank tea. >> she drank it on february 9th and then about an hour later she developed numbness of the hands. >> reporter: she had an abnormal heart rhythm and needed intensive hospital care. she died saturday. >> the doctor basically told us that there is nothing else they can do. >> reporter: he showed the list of herbs that w

they're filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the company in chinatown. trying to trace the source of the tea leaves that contain the plant based toxin. >>> new at 11:00, abc 7 news has learned work to repair the seismically anderson dam in morgan hill won't start for another three years. >> that has nearby neighbors very concerned. katie march zulle low has the story from morgan hill. >> under the original plan, to retrofit the dam, construction would have begun in 2018, the dam needs more work, which will take more time. that doesn't sit well with residents who live in harm's way. >> joanne bebe lives in san martine, she got an e-mail from the city of morgan hill, about the safety of anderson dam. >> in the event of a major earthquake, i would have 40 minutes to run for it. the water would be about 15 feet high. >> joanne was one of 200 people that gathered at the morgan hill community center to get an update to retrofit the dam. new studies show more problems with the dam than originally thought. >> we were ready to go, we had the permits and we were r

. >>> and also this morning a fire broke out at an apartment building in san francisco's chinatown. crews are still there on the scene at the 100 block of war waverly place. the two-alarm fire broke out around 2:30 this morning and on the third floor of an apartment building causing extensive damage there. police rescued one elderly man who suffered smoke-injuries. no word on how many live in that building. >>> a professional dancer is a victim of a hit-and-run in san francisco recovering now from serious injuries that happened at the corner of market and 16th in the castro. that intersection can be especially dangerous and needs to be changed. surveillance video of the driver hitting 30-year-old nick steadenbed from the crosswalk sunday night, there on the left-hand side of your screen. steadenbed says he had the green light. it looks like the black car made a right, and hit him and sped away. leaving the professional dancer facing an uncertain future. >> i love being -- fed, love teaching people how to be fed, being out doing art using my body. without being able to do those, it's

>>chinatown in singapore -- theveil of night still lies over the district.but chan hon meng's lights are already on.the staff is getting ready to work their wonders and transformthis cold, uncooked chicken intoto a culinary sensation.chan hon meng's soy sauce chicken has taken singngapore bystorm. it's simple and cheap, andrecently awarded a coveted michelin star. >>we make all our sauces hereourself. nothing is shop-bought. the herb sauce for the rice.or the sauce for the noodles. and we make our soup by boiling100 chicken heads. it's guaranteed to be betterthan anything you can cook at started for chan hon meng.a modest food stall in a foodythig "global 3000 court.thihis is whe hihis prize-winning soy sauce chicken was born.chan has been cooking here for as long as he can n remember, from7:00 in the morning until late at night. >>it took a long time until imanaged to perfect the soy sauce.and now the chickens are put in a nice soyoy sauce bath. >>one day, u unbeknown to him, amichelin inspector turned up ad ordered his soy sauce chicken.his life changed overnight. >>that's the rath

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a chinatown restaurant will transform into a pop up wedding chapel where pizza loving .ouples get married it is part of a tradition that began in 2015 which is turn into the shop class trademark. airbus has come up with an idea that could end traffic jams forever called a pop up to cedar they can drive on the road two seiter that can drive on the road or fly. does not expected to debut for another seven to 10 years but that is something we could use on the beltway. can you imagine? it just picks you up and takes you right over traffic. into and everybody crashes each other and makes a bigger problem, right? what training would you have for that? jummy: i'm sure they would rollout phases. skies, breezy and called this afternoon, much colder tonight. next week we may be at it again with another chance of snow monday night and tuesday and the possibility of a coastal storm. jummy: you cannot ride in my flying car. have a great embarrassed by hair loss or suffering from thinning hair? you have a personalized, proven solution right here. welcome to hair club.

that's the health warning about a toxic herbal tea sold in a chinatown shop.wo people from san francisco are now in the hospital in critical condition after drinking it. "today in the bay" sheryl hurt that details. >> reporter: the herbal tea purchased from sun wing wo trading company on grant street in san francisco's chinatown. health officials say two people got violently ill after drinking it. >> purchased tea leaves and the leaves provided in a plastic bag. >> reporter: the tea looks similar to this. the bag had no labeling. >> both patients developed symptoms about an hour after consuming the tea. >> reporter: public health doctor aragon says one of the patients is a woman in her 50s. the other a man in his 30s. one purchased the mixture of tea in february. the other in march. it is unknown if the toxic tea was prescribed for a particular ailment. the only common denominator is the tea contained the ingredient aconite. >> this aconite poisoning, which can come from chinese herbal teas, if not processed correctly, it can affect the heart. it can give them

my name is marie and i i'm a community organizer at the development center in chinatown and there's a couple of building in chinatown that experienced similar issues with the timers and here's what i learned from what the tenants have said. it's absolutely outrageious that the time they spend in the shower is limited to two minutes or a minute and a half and as previous speakers have said already a lot of the folks who live in these sro buildings are seniors. i am abled body and i am young and no way can i finish washing my hair and be clean within two minutes. more than that other than seniors there is young children who need their parents to help them shower and no way they can finish in two minutes or even five minutes and make sure that their young children are getting what they need, and there has been no notice or notice discussion about whether it's going to be two to five minutes in the buildings before they're enforced the tenants wake up one day and there are shower timers. i think it's disrespectful and not dignified that they paid the rent and to the services they're getti

they're filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the company in chinatown. they're trying to trace the source of the tea leaves that contain the plant based toxin. >>> new at 11:00, abc 7 news has learned work to repair the seismically anderson dam in morgan hill won't start for another three years. >> that has nearby neighbors very concerned. katie march zulle low has the story from morgan hill. >> under the original plan, to retrofit the dam, construction would have begun in 2018, the dam needs more work, which will take more time. that doesn't sit well with residents who live in harm's way. >> joanne bebe lives in san martine, she got an e-mail from the city of morgan hill, about the safety of anderson dam. >> in the event of a major earthquake, i would have 40 minutes to run for it. the water would be about 15 feet high. >> joanne was one of 200 people that gathered at the morgan hill community center to get an update to retrofit the dam. new studies show more problems with the dam than originally thought. >> we were ready to go, we had the permits and w

from chinatown and los angeles she's very chinese but when she opened her mouth she like an la valley girl. for many decades she was an amazingly transfixing star in both our films and in china. interestingly, the chinese react to that was again schizophrenic. on one side when she landed in the dock in shanghai visiting china she was mobbed by people because it was a great movie star but on the other side, the chinese conservatives and communists criticized her as being a sellout to western values because she wer scanty close and danced in movies, et cetera. in some ways this has continued to this day. >> you tell the stories but are also looking for patterns. what do you see as the key pattern that you derive from this history that you think are useful lens going forward? >> simply put, it's a cycle of enchantment and rapture and the idea that china will make us all rich or that america will save china and battle against xy and z. almost inevitably by crushing disappointment. if you then basically, they insanity is doing the same thing twice but expecting different results but they g

he is suspected of breaking a window at a chinatown jewelry store and snatching $100,000 worth of items. it happened the afternoon of february 24 in the 100 block of waverly street. if you recognize this man, police ask that you give them a call. >>> a unity rally is planned for later today at albany high school. the campus has been rocked in recent days by a series of racist incidents. kpix 5's anne makovec on how students and administrators are responding. >> reporter: signs on the front door of albany high school show the effort to pull together after several incidents. >> albany for all! >> reporter: this rally on sunday was just a part of the healing process after a group of teen boys posted racially offensive photos of their classmates on instagram. the target, black girls. some posts with nooses and kkk images. >> i would never say any of those things to entertain people so obviously you have to be a little racist to find any of that funny. >> this is a hate crime. they hated these girls. >> reporter: then there was a group of students walking the halls giving each other a nazi s

. >>> the family of the woman who died from a toxic tea she got in san francisco's chinatown is taking legal action against the store where she bought it. kpix 5's anne makovec has the story. >> she is a healthy lady and it was a horrible way for her to pass. >> reporter: he is talking about his mom, yu-ping xie, who died on saturday at a hospital where she had been since february 9 when she drank tea made with leaves bought at sunwing wo trading company on grant avenue. >> about an hour later, she developed numbness of the hand. she was not able to talk for a moment briefly. and then she also got palpatations and a very tight and painful chest. >> reporter: her family says the herbs were predescribed by the shop's owner who calls himself a doctor. she tried to improve her immune system. early tests show the tea had aconite, also known as monk's hood. when processed it's an herbal remedy for bruises and pain but raw can be deadly to the heart. the health department removed the products from the store and is working with the owner to trace the source. this wrongful death lawsuit was fil