i am david chen and i am representing the asian-american community city. we are a small community center, but we are here for the last 12 years. we see other cbo's come and go. but we stay. we are serving the underprivileged asian community immigrant communities. they don't have the means or language skills to do better in their life. so we are helping them in many other ways. and also have small business owners to enhance. and how to strive in a bad economic time. i am telling you that district 10 and bay-view hunter's point is the future. so i ask seeking your attention to come to this area and look for the future. here we are, we are not doing very good economically, but we are rich in spirit and we are rich in talent. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chen. and now district 11 community representative, rachel ebora and nicole agbiyone. and then we have omar community collaborative, gwen brown. >> good afternoon, i am the executive director of burnle heights. >> good evening, our organization works through the vitalized commission street in excelior planning

merchant walks and, of course, not to mention the new year press conference organized by safe, david chen who is in the audience. so, needless to say we are very, very passionate about what we do, but we are also very, very fortunate that we have the support that we do. we know nothing would have been possible without the support from the building department. thank you very much. and it's so good to see captain long and captain here in the audience. thank you. again, we don't take it for granted. and, of course, supervisor mar, supervisor tang, supervisor farrell board of directors, thank you so very much. supervisor mar, we just started a new and exciting program with your office, bike registry to address a growing problem with bike theft in the city. we're looking forward to many, many new projects. and again, many, many thanks. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> supervisors and mayor lee and city officers, i want to speak today as an ihhs home care worker who serves seniors and disabled. points have been made, but let me just state we're not coming to ask for

david schimmel taught tae kwon do at a children's birthday party today, his way of maintaining a sense of normalcy after yesterday's harrowing flight on asiana airlines flight 2014. >> the master chen of us to compete, a testing, train. >> reporter: the 19-year-old said he won a gold medal in the competition and the trip was trouble free until they approached sfo yesterday. >> first bump wasn't that scary. it was rough, but felt kind of like a roller coaster there. so it was kind of fun at first and thenwe once got sideways then we started fetal position and getting scared. >> reporter: he described the chaos that surrounded their group seated together in the middle of the plane. >> there was people hurt. there was luggage, everything fell, too like everything fell apart. there's people kind of trapped climbing over stuff to get out. >> reporter: as the story of survival started to spread, friends started dropping in to show support. >> i think it's a miracle that they walked away from that. >> reporter: some of the parents we met at the elite martial arts academy say they only just found out about the school's connection with the crash. >> all of a sudden i walk into a little kid'