please welcome commissioner who claudine at chiang -- commissioner claudine chang. >> [speaking chinese

the students alliance, the san francisco lodge, the commissioner in the corner, commissioner claudine chang, the filipino american chamber of commerce. local 38 plumbers' union, the san francisco bay chapter in american women's organization, and the san francisco sister city committee. thank you for making this possible and making this an incredible kick off to our apa. two months. -- our apa heritage month. [applause] >> the main reason we're gathering is to find out the winners of the heritage award. we will be announcing them. as the mayor and everybody has said there are many celebrations in the city in the month of may. we have three very important partners in this celebration with us. we have the director of the asian-american museum, the director from the asia-pacific fund. ted is not yet year. we've been like for them to come up. and say a few brief words about their activities. would you like to say anything else? >> i am delighted and honored to be here. the asian art museum shares the same mission as apa heritage month, to honor asian-american contributions to the culture that we

claudine? >> reporter: they have changed operations now that they have this fire out and you can see firefighters are up there. they were able to determine that the floor was still structurally sound and they were able to go and clear things out but there is no roof and that's completely gone, destroyed by this fire. if you look down at the bottom level, you can see fire damage but the fire started on either the second or third floor of this building. what you are looking at is a lot different of a situation than what we saw because when we got here flames were coming out of the roof. firefighters initially were on top of the roof but they had to get down because it got too dangerous. over the next hour we saw them dumping water from several different directions and finally they were able to get ahead of this fire. we did speak with neighbors and they say it did get them out of bed. >> are you worried about your home at this point? >> i am worried about all this smoke, it is making me a little nauseous. >> you can see the smoke is gone and the fire is out and we are in clean up mode. as far as ho

the church building in the mission district, you see officers and this situation is changing as i am saying it. claudineg is there and she will have much more details on the 6:00 hour, we will keep you posted. >>> 15 minutes ago, we confirmed that a suspect who was the focus of a police hundred was found dead. police say he was inside of a car and it appears he was -- it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound that took his life. he fired shots at sheriff's deputies when they tried to pull him over. >>> and they are following a very long day of violent mayday protests and our cameras were there on 14th and prod way, police made at least two dozen arrests. >>> federal investigators have not made any arrests. now the individual claimed the agents hired strippers in el salvador and the investigation has turned up nothing. the allegations surfaced when 12 agents were not cooperating and would not take lie detector tests. they were among the first to get booted. they are trying track down two more. time is now 546 and the coast guard plans to lift an offshore sailing band. the marin sailing independent panel has

now the situation is changing by the minute and let's check in with claudine wong who has been out there all morning. claudine? >> reporter: you can see behind me yet another sheriff's haven't is backed up to this property on turk and got as they begin to bring protesters out. that one is out and i'm not sure why but it has been a steady stream and what they do is pull up a van, load it with protesters ride off and pull up the next van. you can see a large police presence in front of this building and here comes yet another couple of protesters outside of the building to be loaded into the van. it has not happened with any major incident, we have spoken with at least one protester who was not arrested and he said it has been calm and peaceful through the night and even this morning when police went in. they went in a little before 5:00 this morning after keeping an eye on the building all night long, the protester said everybody was asleep when it happened and here is what happened. >> we were totally sleeping. >> what was the first indication something was happening? >> well, when they

change at any moment. we will keep an eye on it. you can see security guards walking in here now. live in albany claudine wong. >>> we have new video of an arrest following a high speed chase from solano to contraction -- contra costa county. independent viddographer -- videographer captured this. the chase ended on highway 680 at monument boulevard. the driver faces charges of drunk driving. driving with a suspensed license and resisting arrest. >>> the man accused of kidnapping two girls and killing their mother and older sister is now dead. authorities in northern mississippi say they repeatedly ordered adam mayes to surrender yesterday but he shot himself in the head. the two girls ages 8 and 12 were found alive. they were treated add the hospital and released early this morning. the girls disappeared from their tennessee home two weeks ago. authorities say mayes killed the mother and 14-year-old and kidnapped the younger girls because he thought they were his daughters. >>> vice president joe biden has a apologized to president obama for forcing his hand on the same sex marriage issue. he pushed the

changed her plan for today. i talked to her customers. we'll talk to her and bring that to you coming up in about an hour. claudinewong, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> there's also a new poll coming out. we'll give you the details of the poll at 7:46 and the changes amongst the registered voters for president obama and mott. >>> nancy reagan is still recovering after breaking her -- and mitt romney. >>> nancy regularen is still recovering after breaking her ribs. she was supposed to attend a speech by paul ryan but her doctor does not want her traveling to large gatherings right now. the audience was told mrs. reagan has at home watching the -- watching the event on television. >>> contra costa county firefighters will try to figure out what caused a house fire in clayton that sent three people to the hospital. >>> a couple and their adult son were rushed to the hospital. the two family dogs died in that fire and damage estimated at $150,000. >>> gusty winds took down a big tree in the martinez area overnight. the 75-foot pine fell on pacheco boulevard just after 10:00 last night. take a look. it blocked both lanes of t

changes will cut positions by 13,000 nationwide and save $1.2 billion a year. no word on layoffs in the bay area. >>> american canyon replacing the wiring at veterans memorial park. ktvu's claudeeen -- claudine has more. >> reporter: crews raised the flag that veterans memorial park in american canyon. something they don't normally do but something they have to do, thanks to copper thieves who stole the copper wire that runs all the way through this land. >> what they did is popped the lids over here and cut the wires and then they sneak in and pull it out. >> reporter: when they did that they plunged the park into the dark and forcing the city to take the american flag down. those flags are flown 24 hours a day, according to the code, a flag can only be flown at night if it is lit, so those lights don't work so the flags had to come down. >> effects what time i can walk the dogs and keeping the place lights for safety. >> reporter: we saw contractors taking measurements so they could submit bids for repair. >> when you ad up everything -- add up everything might get expensive. >> reporter: repairs are expected to cost 5 to $10,000. time is also a factor. on memorial day the city wants to ra