just gets the job done. >> reporter: mom chung, yeah, you'll be hearing a lot about mom chung and bigthe two boring machines. this is an amazing project. it's one of the biggest transportation projects in the country now. and the cost? it's about $250,000 a foot. so that's a million, that's another million, on and on, $2.2 billion. it won't be done until 2019. south of market, i'm ken bastida, kpix 5. >>> well, we have all been through this right? you sit down to dinner, the phone rings. it's a sales call. on the consumerwatch, julie watts explains why registering your number with that "do not call" list may not keep the calls from ringing through. >>> reporter: >> late afternoon, early evening, very intrusive. [ phone rings ] >> reporter: she is being bombarded with calls from solicitors and she wonders how that's possible since her number has been on the do not call registry for years. >> i got on the website verified i was still on the list which we have been since 2009. >> reporter: in spite of the registry she noticed the robo calls are increasing and so has the ftc. >> they can

okay, mom chung.ho is mom chung in mom chung was the first chinese-american physician to practice here in san francisco. she is always been known as well as being a woman who took care of a lot of servicemen coming back from the war. she would cook meals for them, find rooms for them so san francisco has a soft spot in its heart for her. big alma is the other machine that will be dropped in, in august. big alma is named after alma with the specles family the matriarch of the family very philanthropic of the buildings she spearheaded the building of the legion of honor. so there's your history lesson for today. so san francisco honors two famous women with this project. now you have something to talk about. >> i love these ladies, big alma, mom chung, they get it done. >> let's start digging. >> all right. sounds goosed, thank you, kenny. >>> a bay area student spelled her way into the semi finals of the scripps national spelling bee making us proud. audrey bantug of san ramon made it to round six but

my name is joanne chung, executive director of the san francisco community harmony center. i want to thank our supervisor david campos for giving us a voice and always representing us the best way possible. mayor lee mentioned in the beginning of this meeting, that we need to see the success of our people and immigrants that make up our community. i'm here to represent the asian immigrants in the portola district. many asian immigrants have to go to chinatown to receive services, but they need services in our own neighborhood. sscc with little to no funding has done a lot with what we have, low income, senior housing, social security benefits, job-training, esl, computer classes. what we need to see is more funding for these programs from the city because we need to have a voice as well. i'm glad that we have a lot of latino immigrants here represented but we also need asian representation as well. thank you so much for coming. (applause) >> my name is ellen, one of the volunteers that joann mentioned. the reason we are able -- inds (indiscernible)more than 100 people volun

stephanie chung (applause) and then we have a number of first place winners. i'm sure this is all about collaboration, talking about it, what it means absorbing the purpose and working together. the first place poster altogether for all of us to see. i would like to name everybody. community youth center of san francisco, the young asian women against violence youth participant jennifer chang. kimberly how. erica lam. allie lee. adriana wen (sounds like) diana -- and amy ung. congratulations everybody. (applause) (applause) (applause) good job everybody. thank you. and so at this time supervisor -- or do i give it back to -- nancy. thank you again. >> at this time we would like to call supervisor carmen chu. (applause) >> i think that is part of the program they wanted the winners to perhaps say a few words. >> thank you for choosing our picture. we were really surprised when you did. we are really happy. (applause) >> we were very surprised. thank you very much. (applause) >> i'm tiffany chung, so happy to be recognized in such a way. thank you very much. (ap

(clapping) now i'd like to turn the program offer the rose chung whose the founder of the american pageant by me by i was still standing next to here even though they e she injured her angle. we're here to show our asian pride felt community. some have never been in front of an audience i'd like to ask you to applaud these folks as they come up to the stage. let's welcome our brothers and sisters. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (clapping) >> darling stand by me offer stand by me oh, stand now. stand by me. if the sky that we look upon should be temple and fall or the mountain should crumble to the sea. i won't cry i won't cry no, i won't shed a tear just as along you stand stand by me. so darling, dazzling stand by me. oh. stand by me stand me. stand by me. ♪ ♪ ♪ in in (clapping) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ wherever you're in trouble you can stand by me. woe stand by me. please, please. stand by me. stand by me. darling, dazzling stand by me. woe stand by me. oh, stand by me. stand by me. whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me. oh, stand by me. oh, stand now. stand by me. stand by me. dazzling stand by me. please, ple

(clapping) now i'd like to turn the program offer the rose chung whose the founder of the american pageantme by i was still standing next to here even though they e she injured her angle. we're here to show our asian pride felt community. some have never been in front of an audience i'd like to ask you to applaud

(clapping) now i'd like to turn the program offer the rose chung whose the founder of the american pageanty me by i was still standing next to here even though they e she injured her angle. we're here to show our asian pride felt community. some have never been in front of an audience i'd like to ask you to applaud these folks as they come up to the stage. let's welcome our brothers and sisters. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (clapping) >> darling stand by me offer stand by me oh, stand now. stand by me. if the sky that we look upon should be temple and fall or the mountain should crumble to the sea.

she just gets the job done. >> mom chung. machine is named after this woman here, the first chinese- american physician in the united states who actually practiced in san francisco. the project should be completed in 2019. >>> other bay area headlines, parking in alameda could soon be more costly. the city council tuesday moved to increase meter rates and parking fines as a way of trimming a budget shortfall. it's expected to generate an extra $375,000 air year for the city's jeb fund -- a year for the city's general fund. >>> an event with the america's cup yacht race begins this evening. concerts begin at piers 29 and 27. tonight's show by the band imagine dragons is sold out. so hopefully if you wanted to see it you have your tickets. >> there you go. >>> 5:21. coming up, a little sports, the warriors losing a key part of their play-off ru this year. >> and barry zito place stopper for the giants yesterday. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> we're watching breaking news. problems on bart delays likely lasting much of the morning co

chung nay dance troop.'s also passionate about sharing chinese culture with the next generation through dance. her teaching style is engaging and her students love the multicultural dance elements in fused in her training performance. she has taught chinese dance in san francisco and is a stanford university dance teacher and was involved in the production of fire and silk and the dance performance for her cure against tumors. today as we are honoring our apa contributors to the community and honoring achievements in the performing arts in my honor to present this certificate to ha yan jackson. >> thank you very much. good afternoon. i'm so surprised and so excited about this special gift. i'm just following my speech. thank you for the award. chinese dance was established in 2007 in san francisco to promote the development of devicement and appreciation of chinese dance and cult you ure in the san francisco bay area. we have been performing in many many communities in san francisco and in the bay area for

underground to see the tunnel bores machine, named after the country's chinese first doctor, mong chung>> we'll be cutting tunnel without any vibration or noise. >> it will be like it is today. >> the mayor and others were signing the equipment kind can of wishing it luck. >> it's going to operate nearly 24 hours a day, five days a a week. >>> coming up a little bit later in this broadcast, the jiants -- giants and a's. >> also, can lebron and miami a void -- avoid the upset. >> we'll tell you coming up. >> and marriage in the ballpark. love is in the air. we'll have more in the broadcast. . >>> for the second time in six weeks, president obama may have been the target of a letter laced with deadly rice in. >> it intercepted a letter this morning. >> the incident began just after the marathon bombings, in shreveport, louisiana. >> three days later, a second letter arrived at the offices of the gun control organization founded by the mayor in washington d.c. and a third to president obama at an off-site mail facility. >>> the suspect shot by the fbi is questioning the details of his deat

his sister kerry chung tells anderson cooper that her brother should not be used as a political pawn.ed and asked for leaders of both nations to please, just see him as one man, caught in between, and we just ask that he be allowed to come home. >> chung says her brother owns a travel agency and was in north korea on business. she claims he visited north korea five times without any problems last year before he was arrested all of a sudden in november. >>> and for the first time ever, a woman is on the fbi's most wanted terrorist list. 65-year-old joanne chesimard, now known as assata shakur was accused of murdering new jersey state trooper in 1973. she escaped from prison in 1979 and has been living under political asylum in cuba since 1984. later this morning on "starting point" a live update from cnn's patrick oppmann in havana. >>> president obama is in mexico city where he will meet with college students before heading off to costa rica. >> economic issues dominated the agenda earlier when the president met with his mexican counterpart enrique pena nieto. brianna keilar has more.

yoon chung junk has been fired as spokesperson because of a case of alleged sexual harassment. the president spoke about the scandal for the first time on monday. media in south korea say yoon sexually harassed a female temp worker at the south korean embassy in washington. yoon denies the allegation. park was on her first trip to the u.s. since taking office. >> translator: i am deeply sorry that my former staff member disappointed south koreans. i want to apologize to the woman and her family from the bottom of my heart. >> park called the scandal a grave matter for her country and its people. she urged public officials to discipline themselves. her chief public relations secretary is doing just that. he says he will resign to take responsibility. >>> former prime minister of pakistan nawaz sharif is making a political comeback. his party looks set to form pakistan's next government. now people are waiting to see how the outcome will affect pakistan's role in u.s.-led anti-terrorist operations. barack obama released a statement saying they look forward to cooperates with a ne

. >> the first impression on seeing mom chung. that's one of the two tunnel boring machines, that's the name they gave it mom chung, that will dig their way towards north beach from south of market. this doesn't just dig. it also builds the subway tunnel. >> so what this machine does is it excavates out the ground and it erects a lining behind it. and then track work and systems are just installed inside that tunnel. those are called cutters. and the holes in the cutter head are for the excavated material to come inside the tunnel. >> of course, this project comes at a cost. boy, does it. about $1.5 billion. we asked the mayor if he is having any second thoughts. >> a lot of discussion about the cost of the project the whole planning phase. now that you're down here and you see the thing sitting underground, what's it mean to you? >> obviously, it's expensive. we know that. it's going to be -- when we look back at it, it will have been well worth the effort. i think no less incredible than bart has been for the whole bay area regi

i am amy chung representing elderly -- our workforce programs and b top programs today. we look upon these public hearings as precious moments when our seniors can directly look at all of you in the your eyes and let you know that they really exist, and exist in a major way in every one of our districts in san francisco and mayor thank you very much for always listening to our seniors and to the providers who provide them services. many of us in the senior center, anderson and nutrition programs have come to various staff to talk about the infrastructure of senior services is breaking up in san francisco. we are an elderly city and county-- 19%, we don't even have enough money to support the services that we are providing to the seniors now, not talking about the growing number. i hope that you will hear from -- our one-stop center in district 3 about the need for workforce; you have heard me talk about needing restoration for all the nutrition programs and you heard from our senior about b top continuation and all the centers. i have three simple words: do not forget ou

we bring in stephanie chung who joins us in san francisco where a source has been narrowed down to a cafe in inside of in order some. >> it's inside the stones storm in order storm. only 3 to 400 cases of the typhoid fever in the u.s. each year but this is the first time that the typhoid fever has been linked to a food handler. the number one way of contamination is food and drink and that's the way typhoid fever is passed on. a line cook at the nordstrom cafe has typhoid fever. >> it is not highly transmissable but it can be transmitted through food that's been touched by someone who has had an infection if contaminated. the doctor says the cook likely got infected after his recent trip outside the country. symptoms show up one to three weeks after infection ranging from fever to stomach pain, headaches, nausea and loss of appetite. >> the majority of people do not progress to very serious illness although some people can become very sick out treatment. >> anyone who at it there april 16, 20 and, 20th through the 27th is at risk. >> if people are really sick, there ou there shouldn'

. >> annie chung and lisa spenali. >> i guess i will go first. hi i am the director of the sunset neighborhood beacon center in district four and i am representing youth services she had to cancel last minute because her son qualified for a music competition and he is a senior in high school. on behalf of those of us, and i think that i have interacted with them talking about the youth and family in district four. which is what i am here to talk about. working in the outer sunset is a real challenge when it comes to the conversation between absolute numbers and percentages. so, in the budget process, i really encourage all of the decision-makers to think about absolute numbers. the beacon center will work at five local schools and they are obviously more than that. 3,000 children, more than 3,000 children attend those schools. percentage wise, only about half of them or little over half of them qualify for free or reduced lunch which is a major metric that means that more than 1500 children are hungry every day and that is what is just on the reg

. >> chung way international group is buying a smith field which is going to be a deal if it is approved.s. government. this organization is buying it. it is like chinese organizations buying a car company. >> everyone is worried about the bacon and where it is going to come from. don't worry we are doing this because we want it growing in demand. it is changing there and quality bacon quality will not change. >> we are not going to be getting our pork from overseas it will still be here in the united states. >> that is what he is saying. >> jolene kent great to have you on board with us. >> a fox news alert we are about to hear from the american mom who was 7 who was just released from a prison after officials dropped her drug smuggling charges. do you really need to take a class on r and r? this is what some congressional staffers are now doing. and no surprise here they are doing it on your dime. >> beyonce is once again in the middle of a sole doe fl-- solo . she thinks something is wrong with this picture and she is mad at somebody. h, he's a fighter a. since aflac is helping with h

chung. a sister machine called big alma is set to arrive next month. that will dig thenorthbound tunnel. >>> an accident snarled traffic on interstate 80 for hours. the crash happened in vacaville at 7:00. the toyota flipped over and was hit by another car. the chp still has not releaseed the woman's identity but says she was from vacaville. the over drive was not hurt. police shut down three lanes creating back up. >>> a judge upped the bail for a man suspected of driving a car that crashed in culma earlier this week killing three passengers including his fiance. paul diaz faces three counts of vehicle manslaughter. authorities say he was drunk at the time of that crash. police say the ford mustang crashed into the back of another car with such force it split the car in two. diaz is being charged with an enhancement for a prior dui. >>> an officer is being called a hero. tom cob says he got the call that a 5 -month-old girl stopped breathing. when he got to the day care center he was flagged down by someone outside. and found a woman inside giving the

his sister terri chung says her brother shouldn't be used as a political pawn. >> we just prayed and asked for leaders of both nations to please just see him as one man, caught in between and just ask that he be allowed to come home. >> chung says her brother owns a travel agency. he was in north korea on business. she claims he visited north korea five times without incident last year before he was arrested in november . >>> we're learning more about a man who opened fire near a ticket counter at houston's bush intercontinental airport. he's been ideaed as 29-year-old carnell moore. officials say he fired shots into the air yesterday sending everyone ducking for cover before a federal agent confronted him. the agent then reportedly shot moore at the very same time the suspect was shooting himself in the head. >> there was two shots about six or seven second delay and two more and then the final one. a bunch of screaming, people running. >> a tsa agent told us we should get down and we made our way to the back and exited the elevator down. >> moore left behind a suicide note indicati

. >> chung pomuk, seaweed and jaely mung beans. noodle with shiitake mushrooms. and vegetables.s, fried squid and shrimp. potato pancake. often at the choe house there's a few mexican dishes sprinkled in as well. it is always a great meal. i can tell you that. >> thanks, mom. this is delicious. >> this is awesome. >> it is indeed. thank you. >> i love it. >> during the riots of '92, jim and jane choe worked as real estate agents and property managers, so the destruction in koreatown had a direct impact on their lives. the choes watched from home as the chaos unfolded on tv. after the riots jim wrote a letter to the editor that was published in the "l.a. times." >> "i'm extremely angry with the lapd for their outrageous action. while the cops let looters run wild and rape our city they somehow had time to bother korean shop owners guarding their stores. how can the owner of a business just sit back and watch his life be burned to the ground?" >> david would have a very different reaction. >> my brother stole a car, and we went into like all the neighborhoods, and then quickly rea

chung. a sister machine called big that will dig thenorthbound tunnel. >>> an accident snarled traffic on interstate 80 for hours. the crash happened in vacaville at 7:00. the toyota flipped over and was hit by another car. the chp still has not releaseed the woman's identity but says she was from vacaville. the over drive was not hurt. police shut down three lanes creating back up. >>> a judge upped the bail for a man suspected of driving a car that crashed in culma earlier this week killing three passengers including his fiance. paul diaz unts of vehicle manslaughter. authorities say he was drunk at the time of that crash. police say the ford mustang crashed into the back of another car with such force it split the car in two. diaz is being charged with an enhancement for a prior dui. >>> an officer is being called a hero. tom cob says he got the call that a 5 -month-old girl stopped breathing. when he got to the day care center he was flagged down by someone outside. and found a woman ins

. >> i had connie chung on this show and she talked to me about competing with barbara.. >> it was so -- >> they can't find that tape. let me go to this one, though, that i really wanted to ask you about, carole. she had a knack for making people cry. let me show you a little of that. >> it was so destructive. it was so destructive. >> i don't know that person. >> why is it making you cry? >> shoot. i wasn't going to cry here. um, it's making me cry because i'm thinking about how much i probably have never told her that. >> you know, there are certain questions i ask you, mike, about your father and the tears come to your eyes. >> i didn't know it showed. >> i made it my passion, that i was going to make that man proud of me until i tied. >> tissue, please? >> i mean, you say she -- everyone wanted to be interviewed by her. she asked the questions no one asked. she made people cry. why did everybody want to be interviewed by this diva, as you call her? >> well, she had good ratings. i mean, people watched barbara walter specials and so on. these people wanted publicity a

. >> he's talking about the machine known as mom chung. and that was mayor ed lee's first impression upon seeing her. this is one of two tunnel boring machines that will dig their way from north beach to south of market. and this digging machine is under ground laying the ground wok for the subway tunnel. >> the actual digging will start in june but they are under ground right now and setting everything up and that was the big boring machine that will take it through. so we saturday down with mayor ed lee and former mayor willie brown. our first question is how much of this entire subway project has to do with the politics of china town and taking down the embarcadero freeway. >> clearly the embarcadero freeway coming down was a boom for the whole city. now we have to look at how people will move in and around the city. i think we always needed a north and southbound ability. we don't have anymore more rooms on the streets. so we have to go under ground. this is the future of san francisco. i think the movement of people will be important.

. >> various community community is headed lower fourth street to see the bore machine as a mom chung named after the country's first chinese american physician. >> the 354 long 750 device will grind through salt and rock nearly 24 hours a day five days a week. the goal is to get 1.7 mi. to china town within 12 >> i challenge all of us not to stop in chinatown. we should continue to come together quickly. with a vision of where our central subway to go next. to no. we and to fisherman's wharf. >> what those spearheading the projects signed it. the second machine will arrive this summer. >> if all goes of plans, the central subway should be opened for business in 2019. >> our big developing story this evening while fire that is growing at a rapid break in southern california just north of las angeles. >> powwows are being ♪ [ male announcer ] wouldn't it be great if all devices had backup power? the chevrolet volt does. it's ingeniously designed to seamlessly switch from electricity to gas to extend your driving range. no wonder volt is america's best-selling plug-in. that's american i

it's named after the country's first female chinese american doctor " mom chung ". >> and police arrested dance instructor and novasto sang he molested a teenage girl. kron4 terisa estacio reports, parents called police when they found out about what allegedly happened. >> the owner of this studio told kron 4 that this teacher never taught classes' and that he was only a paid trip. he stated that his fiancee and marge schott at this situation. they offer we blessings to still does and that the victim's parents contacted them after a dance even in april allegedly that he molested their daughter. they will not reveal what evidence that they have or whether or not they have pulled in the video from the dance studio. they stated that they are concerned there could be more victims out there. at the facility on thursday, the students stated that the called him ricci is surprising. >> i am shocked to hear that he has been arrested and charged. >> he was a really, really nice. he helped everyone, he was very helpful. >> he is currently in custody and no bill has been set. he is scheduled to make

. >> the aurora shooter was able to buy 6,000 rounds online and tommy chung went to jail for buying aing about? [ overlapping speakers ] >> that's a lie. [overlapping speakers] >> caller: you are talking about registering every weapon -- >> how is that taking away your second amendment right. >> stephanie: why is it okay to register your car -- >> caller: you trust the government way too much -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> so you don't like the worlds well regulated in the second amendment, right? >> caller: well regulated -- >> what do you think -- >> that means well regulated. it means keeping track of the arms. >> it does not. it never says that. >> it says well regulated. >> stephanie: well what does it refer to bowel regularity. >> caller: the second amendment was formed to stop a tyrannical government. >> what do the two words well regulated mean to you. >> caller: a well regulated militia, the courts have never stated that that means the government should have control of all weapons -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> what does that mean to you? [overlapping speakers] >> stephanie:

so bad that one airline, hong kong air, is now giving its flight crews mandatory training in wing chunga martial arts form ideal for confined spaces. but for herrera, it was fellow passengers who kept a bad situation from getting worse. herrera faces a hearing later today on a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew. savannah? >> mike taibbi in portland, thank you very much. >> i don't care that you're technically not supposed to be able to open one of those doors because of the locking system. that would panic you if you see someone heading toward it, trying to open it. >>> you've got the rest of the morning's top stories, natalie? >> that's right, good morning, matt and savannah. we begin with the memorial day traffic tragedy that claimed five lives. police say that four of the victims were thrown from a car that struck a tree in newport beach, california, monday evening. the impact split the car in half and the wreckage caught fire. the cause of the accident is under investigation. >>> the pilot of u.s. air force f-15 fighter jets that crashed into the pacific ocean off japa