had recommended all the chinese i taught him he would have said josephson we say joe son in chinatown san francisco so i'm glad mohammed thank you. the department of public works for working with the chinatown merchants and working with the chinese-american association of explicit customers the chinese chamber of commerce and all the agencies from chinese development association to the nonprofits to the leader are here and a who have come together at 24 wonderful time of the year pieces and benny were driving up washington street gosh for this day all the graft is done you you know on the corner of washington hopeful that lasts more than one day this is a time when everyone in the chinese community begins to clean up their house and get rid of the old things to get new things the year of the ram means will steadyness and success and collaboration but will be solid direction i want to present that he kind of leadership i know our new supervisor julie christensen will be representing that kind of strong community for this district and the whole district of district 3 coverage including chinatown that

parade, and we like to tell you what is going on, and if if you are headed out, by 8:00 in chinatown, san francisco, the temperatures will drop rapidly once the sun sets. sunday, it is family day at the wharf pier 39 and the temperatures are going the be lovely for you and the family to e head out there. they will have a rock climbing wall and inflatable maze, and so as we kick it off next week, it is the last warm day, and things will change getting into tuesday and the rain will move in as we head throughout early, early wednesday, and you will see it moving n and by 10:00 a.m., the rich moisture passing through the bay area, and keep it going through next week as well. right now, back to you, scott and laura. >> thank you so much. some of the biggest tech giants in the bay area are going to band together to ask the supreme court to allow same-sex marriage nation woowide. 376 corporations countrywide went on the list including google, and apple, and the san francisco giants. the lgbt community is overwhelmed with the support. >> it took a long time for us to come out of the closet in the workplac

this is on saturday, chinatown, san francisco, 5:5 to 8:00. they'll have floats, acrobatics and fire crackers out there. should be quite a beautiful scene. if you want to head out there, grab a jacket because once that sun drops off, temperature also cool rapidly. we'll tell you when that rain moves in plus more events, we're doing our research this morning to find out what you and your family can do this weekend. >>> right now here's mike and your drive. >> i also have it on a tip that chinese new year parade in san francisco saturday might be a little slow on market street, yeah. they closed it off. tri valley it's slow headed up the dublin grade. i turned our camera past the auto mall and dublin interchange, winding road top of your screen is the dublin grade. westbound 80 just past 680 we do have slower drive passing by foothill road because of a disabled vehicle blocking your slow lane. we see the effects of the disabled rig not appreciable as folks approach the dublin interchange. south 680 showing more slowing because of that volume, tr

chinese new year parade in chinatown chinatown, san francisco. big event. you're going to be headed out, bring a jacket because temperatures will drop quickly once we lose that sunlight. in san francisco, big day happening. big day on the wharf for you and the family. family day. pier 39 they're going to have free rock climbing wall inflatable mazes plenty of sports activities for you and the kids. it's a day to get out there and be a local and take back fisherman's wharf for one day only. then the tourists will be right back. they are encouraging the locals to head out there. rainy pattern next week. we're looking good to see the temperatures stay steady through monday and then tuesday, late tuesday into wednesday, we start to get shower activity. now the models are hinting at a little more rich moisture to pass through the bay area. could see moderate to heavy rain from time to time especially in the north bay. that will continue into thursday. and then by late friday everything clears out. the good news is we're still bulls eyeing a half inch of rain in

my name is shirley and i'm a youth leader from chinatown and san francisco has had a total number of 19 fatal collisions in the past year alone and i think that's important for the city to work on improving city streets is is is is is to decrease the total number of collisions from happening. we hope that vision zero will achieve its goal by the end of this year for its 24 projects and i want to thank safety sf sf sf for promoting this and i think that is actually an effective way to do this education outreach since to promote the message that safety is a priority to our citizens while education is being implemented into our communities it's also important for for engineering and enforcement to be also working along and this will also make vision zero achieve its goal more successful thank you. >> thank you and thank you for being here today. good afternoon i'm david yee and i am a resident of visitation valley. last week we surveyed a hundred pedestrians in chinatown during the the street fair and we asked them which intersections did you feel were the most dangerous when you were c

san francisco because they can no longer afford the rent generations the latino families are also leaving i've seen that happy in the fillmore with the acknowledging community and eventually this would happen in chinatown as well san francisco could lose it's ethnic and cultural diverse and such a small city san francisco should have the planning department monitor the balance between new market rate housing and new affordable housing as well as low income and senior housing research should be done on the demographics of who is presently living ethnicity and low income seniors, etc. and research should reflect short-term rental or lee's or are vacate the commission should defines affordable housing i was at a meeting thousands of people were there and no one would afford affordable housing including teachers and other professionals that work for the city of san francisco future permits for what to build in the future should be based on the needs of the san francisco community not the needs of developers and real estate interests but more interested in profits than serving the culture of san francisco. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello i'm the co-chair with the mission burr no chapter of a

chinatown. san francisco does it right. city to check out the parade and it is certainly ooed and awed. the most popular attraction, dragons. despite this being the year of the ram, sheep or goat there were the dragons. elementary and high schools taking part in this. going to remember this for the rest of their lives. lots of marching bands. the parade started at second and market street and slowly immediate its way to its final destination here in china town. some three hours later and spectators from all around the world say it's going to special -- come together. i think that's really cool. >> i think that's the energy is the best thing i'd use right now. that's probably a good thing. >> my favorite -- the music, the fire crackers. and then all of the come -- >>> and good morning. tracking temperatures around the bay area. 40s and 50s out the door. 43 degrees, 48 for downtown san francisco. full look at forecast and your neighborhood when we return. >>> today we're at the plastic surgery center. talking about -- tell ou

. >>> happening now, a live look at san francisco's chinatown, crews have a lot of cleaning up to do because just about an hour ago thousands drilled the streets for the chinese new year's parade. officials say it is one of the biggest, thousands came out to see the elaborate costumes, and bands, you get the idea. they used hundreds of pounds of glitter and miles and miles of decorative paper and red and gold because the colors system symbolize good fortune in their history. >> it symbolizes lost dragons. >>> the parade celebrated the year of the ram. people born in that year are said to be tender polite and kind hearted. >>> now to a look downtown at the trans america building cooling down after a warm day. and rob mayeda may have been born in the year of the ram. i don't want to say bore or pig, because that doesn't have a good ring to it. but good luck here for the chinese calendar. you see the temperatures warm day there, 81 in santa cruz and right now temperatures with clear skies, cooling down fog free in the bay area. changes closer to the coast, 60 in san jose and in dublin 5

. >> it was nice and try for thousands who gathered in san francisco a francisco's chinatown for thenese new year parade. red and gold symbolize wealth and fortune. it is the year of the ram, who are said to be tender, polite and kind harded. >>> former governor, arnold schwarzenegger, in a matchup against an eight-year-old. emma chang is one of the best chess players in the nation. it was one part of the match in columbus. i'm pretty sure schwarzenegger told emma he had to bee bop. >> we'll be back tonight. thanks for making us a part of your morning. >>> more local news tonight at 5:00, 6:00, and 11:00 and all day at nbcbayarea.com. have a great day! >>> this sunday, hillary's e-mail trail. why did the secretary of state go around the government and set up a private e-mail system? and could the controversy damage her presidential ambitions? >>> plus, politics. >> i've been to iowa where my dad lost and i've been there when he won. i like the winning part better to be honest with you. >> jeb bush makes his case to republicans in iowa. our new poll explains why he has big problems wi

because they don't want the job stopped but not fearful of that they've been working in san francisco go to chinatown you don't have that big construction job that's them building that station not one ounce of dust don't anyone exclaim i complain about and the same people doing that work over there is here it is wrong in a community where black people live this is all it is we've been confronted with lamar and every other white contractor they'll not follow the specifications and no one does anything about it because it is the general attitude oh, don't worry about them they're to die anyway, that's white people's general attitude someone needs to have the power to say stop the job stop the job one time and we'll not have the problem as long as you tell them oh, the building inspector probably bart is coming a train is coming they think your or you're crazy if you're not going to do anything about it they don't care that's their general attitude attitude. >> good morning with green action for height and environmental justice i'm here in support of retained bayview hunters point i live there and had d

they will be enjoying dinner in chinatown and soaking up all of the festivities. in san franciscollip e jagal, krom 4 news. >>> racial tension rising after police shoot and kill an african-american teen. and a growing terror threat from i.s.i.s. as another dangerous group pledges allegiance to the islamic state. and a california college party with thousands of students turns dangerous quickly, and it's all caught on tape. >>> a party brought down the roof, literally. police say several thousand college students flooded the neighborhood. alcohol fulled the party does stood on the garage until it came crashing down. 2 girls at malice aforethoughtty described the scene. >> it just happened so quickly that it didn't register until after the fact, when everyone was cay ating. i. >> we were on the roof, and then there were too many people coming onto the roof, so people couldn't get off. >> this happened near cal poly. at least 8 people were hurt. police cited others for underage drinking. >>> a olympian et fitness member says she was shocked when she lost her membership over a complain

san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. 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

there are so many events and chinatown is the mag nent of bringing tourists into san francisco and we have to do our part and there is no way that our agent or rec and park or all of the agencies together and get the city cleaned and your extra hands are very much appreciated so give yourself a hand for coming out and keeping our community clean. [applause] i am going to introduce someone who i call a cheerleader of neighborhoods and someone that taking care of neighborhoods has been his priorities, and also former director of public works but now our mayor ed lee. please welcome him. >> thank you muhammad. good morning everyone. i want to thank muhammad and the entire dpw crew. you know muhammad he's going to be the grand marshal this year at the parade. all right. i can just visualize him. he will say he doesn't have to piece a garbage up because he's the grand marshal and i want to thank you for can i -- kicking off the chinese new year and valentines day. muhammad where is my flowers? >> [inaudible] >> i want to say thank you to all of the community groups that are working togethe

with these elements in place here's an example of what we might do with san francisco's cca this is a multiuse building in chinatown we could work closely with all of the rate payers here we can we can start with the ground floor commercial spaces and do our lighting programs and also work with the restaurant in the downstairs space expand upon or current pilot project to more accurately account for and pay for expensive equipment like this and do combustion safety testing and with an ability to use actual energy savings we could finally address the boiling the boilers in the basement they are too expensive to remove and replace. finally once the load is which widdled down as much as we can we'll create a micro grid for residential and commercial customers on site and the result for the program is more comprehensive projects and providing long-term savings and more efficient with our project management time and marketing dollars and avoid stranding the most expensive measures after the easy low hanging fruit is done. we know that energy cost savings have a positive cost savings and we know that many businesses that

san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown.verything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily h

street public safety is very important on behalf of the san francisco police department specific central station we're concerned about safety in chinatown it's a proprietor for me and public safety is very important i'd like to say that as we start the new year as we continue with the mayors vision and vision zero eliminating pedestrian fatality i'm asking those who come to chinatown who enjoy the experience follow the rules of the road in terms of the public safety i'm grateful to the mta adding a traffic light and if you follow the rules and look if we don't walk unless the hand is white and not jaywalk we'll stay safe loovthd lubricate for bicycles and coarse and pay attention i think if everyone does they're part we'll have a good start the other thing for personal safety when we're in crowds the mayor talked about people coming down and having a great time and the merchants we want everyone to be mindful to save guard their values and be aware of their surrounding one of the things i'm adding extra patrol making sure that every police officers know what's going on so we add to the safety by having a presence of officers so we're ex

san francisco. the financial district to chinatown is the parade route. this is the year of the ram.an is 1100 floats will take part in the parade and a 268-foot dragon that takes about 100 people to carry. the parade gets underway at 5:15. >> mayor ed lee raised a flag agreed celebration of irish heritage ahead of st. patrick's day on march 17th. abc7 is a proud sponsor of the st. patrick's day parade and it it will be hosted live next saturday right here on abc7. >> this gives you the advice that you need to be a mart homebuyer. but first a live look outside our sutro tower camera. time right now is approaching 5: 40. it's shaping up to be a warm weekend. lisa argen will have the full forecast in just a few minutes. plus customers of comcast, dish and directv can now use watch abc to see abc7 news live. we have episodes of all your favorite ab shows on your smartphone, tablet or computer. you can download the free app by hey! i found my true love livin' in a sweet dream. singin' my favorite song and it all starts with you. whoa-oh-oh-oh, all this goodness... what matters most shoul

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. >>> in chinatown, many say the new wage law will put them out of business. according to the san francisco chronicle the chinatown chamber of commerce says at least 10 businesses closed since january because owners were worried about raising wages. oakland's minimum wage jumped from $9 to $12.25 an hour for all employees on march 2nd. the city held a community meeting to discuss the wage hike and several merchants claim they were told they would not have to raise worker pay because they are small businesses. >>> in his first state of the city address san jose mayor sam liccardo predicts a bright future. >> it's the time and place to renew san jose's great promise to generations of families. here on the east side and throughout the city of san jose. a safer, more prosperous san jose will herald our city's great renewal. >> an estimated 1,500 people packed into the gym of independence high school yesterday for the speech. the mayor repeated a plan to raise the number of police officers, currently below 1,000 to more than 1,200 by the end of this decade. he also pledged to continue to look fo

in less than an hour the streets of san francisco will be filled with dragons, firecrackers and also thousands of people. the annual chinese new year parade in chinatown is one of the largest across the country. that's where we find nanette miranda. it's the year of the ram. >> reporter: yeah, year of the ram. very exciting. take a look at all these people. with the weather so nice here in san francisco, a large turnout is expected tonight. that's a high school marching band from alameda starting at the beginning of the parade. those kids are excited to be in it this year. parade watchers are really excited. many got here early to get a good spot. veterans are used to watching this parade in the cold. so many brought blankets and jackets. they might need it later when the sun goes down. but there will be 90 attractions. lots of red and gold which symbolize wealth in the chinese culture. there will be 100 pounds of glitter and a few miles of decorative paper. we found folks in the parade for the first time and watching it for the first time. >> very excited. because you can say hi to everyone and you can dance and sing. >> i figured it was going to be

america me i've been on market since 1998 in san francisco for thirty years worked 20 years in the after-school programs and 3 years in the preschool in chinatown and as a teacher i've seen a lot of teachers can't afford to live here families are struggling there are people that are moving out of town can't afford to raise the family in the city there's about 80 unit of prices that used to be affordable housing in our building i think for the good of the tenants here and also just for the future of san francisco we're losing our teachers we're losing our public servants and people we need more the city and all over the i hope the interim controls are reinstated like most of the tenants here i'll probably have to leave the bay area there is no place we're just regular folk anymore and a lot of us in the building are older or do have a lot of money some are disabled so thank you so much for putting those controls into place and please run state them thank you thank you, thank you very much. >> raymond please come on. >> hi, i'm amy a member of 1049 market street that purchased the buildings in december of 2012 as well as a member of the ownership

in less than an hour the streets of san francisco will be filled with dragons, firecrackers and also thousands of people. the annual chinese new year parade in chinatown the largest across the country. that's where we find nanette miranda. it's the year of the ram. >> reporter: yeah, year of the ram. very exciting. take a look at all these people. with the weather so nice here in san francisco, a large turnout is expected tonight. that's a high school marching band from alameda starting at the beginning of the parade. those kids are excited to be in it this year. parade watchers are really

san francisco chinese chamber of commerce for their leadership we're going to have a wonderful two weeks of celebration actual very much to the asian presiding officer's you saw their display along with the chinatownown community children's center weren't they wonderful i look forward to seeing them march throughout the parade with them that's a glimgsz of what we're going to see in a couple of weeks with the celebration of the parade but also for the most part you're here at the empire jeff asian pacific islander elementary school home the empire is standing next to us imper pa elementary thank you for inviting us to our palaces in chinatown we call it the pal lists because the emperor is here he has lots of fun this is one of the opportunities to step out of his suit and the real suits he always want to be in and his cowboy boats at the same time the dallas rams thank you to you and the ownership here the investors here your been wonderful partners not only on this event but this year with the kinks e connections to our chinese community you're wonderful large community of operations with or that we have going for this new year please come out and enjoy the community fairs the 10 k run autopsyin