i want to thank the philippine news, the filipino whelm -- filipino womens' network.y, the network has been instructing me about -- to make sure that i know what pinay power is in san francisco. thank you. i said it wrong. you see, they're still teaching me. because as i grew up, all i knew was pinoi. the bay area fashion week, the filipino nurses association of northern california. of course the filipino international book festival. the filipino-american art's exposition, which of course hosts the parade and festival. and then, of course, there is the fantastic san francisco manila sister city. i want to give a special thank you to dennis normandy. thank you for your wonderful leadership on the sister city and for your great work on our commission as well. thank you very much. [applause] we want to recognize the incredible diverse accomplishments of all of our filipino-american contributors to our city and to make sure we look forward to continuing that strong relationship as we go forward in our city. so it is my honor to present today, on behalf of our city and cou

filipinos really love coffee.ughter] seriously, historically as you know, filipinos have been an essential part of the south of market area. that is very inclusive of that area. there is a church near there. there are areas there that are very important to filipino- americans. we want to make sure we keep

filipinos really love coffee.ughter] seriously, historically as you know, filipinos have been an essential part of the south of market area. that is very inclusive of that area. there is a church near there. there are areas there that are very important to filipino- americans. we want to make sure we keep our community intact. thank you for all of your hard work. thank you for keeping the giants in district 6. filipinos love the san francisco giants. we have heritage night on may 2. thank you. [tone!] >> my name is doug comstock. i want to talk about a block north of panhandle. we want to keep this block in the panhandle because we're stronger together. it is a beautiful blocked. it is a victorian blocked. it has nothing to do with the richmond. it is entirely panhandle architecture. it is part of our community. thank you for restoring 11 of the blocks. however, is integral to our neighborhood and battles against st. mary's and their encroachment for outpatient services throughout our residential district. if we w

filipinos really love coffee. [laughter]

there are a lot of filipinos in that area. they have the same interests as a lot of filipinos in the tenderloin south of market. we want to make sure they stay in the district to make sure they have affordable housing, adequate services. [tone!] we want to make sure they of culturally competent services that they receive from the community. we want to make sure you continue hearing the community today and a different resonance speaking to keep district 6 south of market together. thank you. >> thank you, ma'am. >> it is ok. [tone!] >> good morning, a task force members. my name is lorenzo. miami tenderloin resident and a member of the association has a membership base of over 150 filipino residents in the tenderloin. i would like to ask everyone in the task force to consider the impact on district 6. soma/mission/tenderloin has been the starting point for many filipino residents and families historically. the filipino community has been part of that district since the 1920's. this is where we could find affordable housing, ade

could we look at all populations, like even the filipino community. is your request about relative to what changed? >> we were not supposed to be looking at these issues from an ethnic, racial perspective but communities of interest and there are other communities of interest in those two areas. and in order for us to look at this community, we need to look at other communities as well to make sure we do not dilute other communities if we were going to make any changes. >> your request for information or assessment of that is what? in a specific way that we can ask commercial as this data? he said show was all -- show us all. quex in those two areas -- >> in those two areas so we have a comparison. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. >commissioner leighlam: i am interested -- as well as the last move to the ting lee andre. commissioner pilpel: i have a couple of tiny box that do have some population and applications, one of which -- couple of tiny blocks that do have some population areas. at the edge of portola. the more significant areas, south of st. lu

goobuy if i am a filipino ameri. filipinos are bucknethe second t asian group in san francisco. by keeping the enclaves hole and together, you give to the community an opportunity. you have been hearing neighborhoods and streets, and you connect them with certain as economic groups or racial groups or social groups. good there is an economic, her connection. if i say third streets, i am a third-generation filipino. my mother was born here, and if i say filipinos, i do not think of an area in san francisco. i think of daly city. good we have been bouncing around different areas of the city, and does have a generation has been setting roofs of all night, and i hope they keep our on curveenclaves together. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i am a 26-year resident. i look out of the portal. gmy bank is on san bruno. the chinese supermarket are frequent is on san bruno. i have what my dogs of the park. i think the argument is not belong in district 9 is bogus, and i think the argument that the 280 barrier is bigger than the 101 is a bogus argument. >> thank you. next speaker. but i am h

. >> my name is benjamin gonzales, and i am a filipino american born in san francisco. i have been to a couple of meetings. i thank you for being able to stick to the process. i heard in the last meeting only have showed of -- only half showed up, so i am glad you guys as a committee are able to hear what the public wanted. in february i sat in with a group of filipinos, and we asked who we are and what we wanted. i came to the meetings and saw these different groups defending their areas, and the lines you create are going to build those communities the filipino community have not had an actual larry get it was designed as theirs. i heard a long time ago there was a question about japan town becoming little manilla. i am asking and requesting that you recognize there is a filipino community in san francisco, and i hope they stay together in one consolidated area. thank you. >> thank you. at this time and we will take -- >> i did spend many hours 10 years ago of these task force meetings, and i do recall changes were still made on that day, but i do see the value of hav

we have the country's only filipino bilingual school. we have health centers, parks, churches with filipino residents and their families. we still have a concern about the recent move to push the border north to 13th street. is higher than the previously proposed 15th street northern border, which was in the map as recently as april 4. it is higher than the community unity map version with the district 9 border at 16th street. it is important to filipino community stays unified and has a voice politically. [tone!] our people come out for community matters. they want to be involved. we urge you move the northern border of district 92 least 15th street and extended from valencia to harrison street. i cannot convey to you enough how important is that the filipino community stay together. we bear the brunt of a lot in the city in terms of policy development. [tone!] we want to make sure our voices are unified and heard. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> my apologies again for stepping in. my name is dan doat from the bayview distric

it supported the filipino community organization. i am here today to speak about the proposal for the cpmc hospital on and van ness and how this project will affect low- income residents in tenderloin. i know that affordable housing in the tenderloin is a very hard to find. most families in tenderloin share with relatives and friends in a small one-studio unit because they cannot afford the rent. some employees of cpmc plan to come into the neighborhood, causing displacement among low- income families. we have been in the tenderloin -- [unintelligible] wherever these people -- this will help address their housing needs. that is why it is very important for cpmc to follow the van ness and area plant requirements to build affordable housing. therefore, i demand that cpmc should it do more affordable housing in the community. we cannot add to the housing problem of the community, but in said -- but instead, we want cpmc to help our community housing needs. to help the low-income families in our community. thank you very much, commission

find out how the filipino and faster is responding. >> how t >> checking our top stories.have made an arrest in the death of a north carolina at teenager. police arrested her older sisters ex-boyfriend michael johnson. she went missing while visiting baltimore in december 2010. her body was later found in the river. the nfl draft pick place tonight in new york. the redskins are willing to make a pick. they have to make a few trades to make that happen. exciting news to fans. this is overtime of game 7. they could play i did the rangers, the flyers, or the devils depending on what happens tonight. >> a virginia tech police officer who died in the line of duty will be honored today. he will be added to the national law enforcement officers a memorial in northwest d.c.. he's making a traffic stop when he was shot and killed. it is not clear why he did this. >> and exercise will take place in maryland today. it will test the ability to respond to mass casualty incident. it'll take place from 9:00 a.m. to 3 caught p.m. it will involve a simulated air drill. they will test the a

we have the country's only filipino bilingual school. we have health centers, parks, churches with filipino residents and their families. we still have a concern about the recent move to push the border north to 13th street. is higher than the previously proposed 15th street northern border, which was in the map as recently as april 4. it is higher than the community unity map version with the district 9 border at 16th street. it is important to filipino community stays unified and

. >> i m director of the steel which is a filipino arts organization. i am here to talk about district 6, and i am here on behalf of the filipino american forum on redistricting. i am passing out a map right now. is it possible to use the overhead? >> is possible. >> rate. -- great. the reason i'm here, i want to say on behalf of the filipino american community that we are very happy with all the hard work that you put into this. i am happy for you that it is almost over and you get to rest. there is one concern that we do have with the recent working draft. there is a proposal to actually make the border of district 6 right here along thirteenth, and as you concede that we have a very high concentration of filipino americans that reside here. it would cut off a big chunk of the population. we wanted to bring that up and see if you can bring it up to 15 between harrison. >> i am the executive director of the japanese community council. i am here again tonight to urge you to adopt the current draft of the northern border of district 5. as an organization

>> my question is, is the filipino community corridor on mission street recognized neighborhood? i think there was a map submitted that was called the filipino corridor. >> i don't think we have that on our list of recognized -- of our list of submitted neighborhoods. >> yes, we did, it was submitted. ms. tidwell: i guess it was not clear to us at that time. >> i am trying to get to the member proposal. >> i'm sorry, what did you say? >> it was not clear to us that was a neighborhood a proposal, so we did not digitize it. >> so, how are we -- how can we resolve that? >> is it a neighborhood or more properly a committee of interest? >> i thought it was a neighborhood, the way the map was submitted, but i realize that was not digitized. >> so, yeah, do you have the map with you? >> i do. give me a few minutes, though. mr. mcdonnell: we can't want to hurry up and slow down at the same time. it does not work that way. for the purposes of ms. tidwell and the edits that need to be made, there is the adding of the individual member submissions as agreed upon in to the lessons and recomm

this time the controversy centers around filipino nurses. it's drawn anger from the philippine ambassador and local asian advocacy groups. fox 5's audrey barnes with the story. >> you may recall a few weeks ago barry called some asian owned businesses in his ward dirty shops. now he's singling out filipino nurses saying the city should "grow our own nurses instead of hiring people from somewhere else." i spoke with lipino nurse tonight who took care of barry during one of his hospitalizations and she, like many of the district's asian workers, finds barry's remarks hurtful. at a udc budget hearing councilman marion barry made this observation at the nursing staff at local hospitals. >> in fact, it's so bad if you go to the hospital now, you'll find a number of immigrants who are nurses, particularly out of the philippines, and no offense, but let's grow our own teachers. let's grow our own nurses and so that we don't have to be scrounging around in our community having to hire people from somewhere else. >> i think that's very unfortunate. >

. >> we do not have filipino population. what we do have is the major population groups that are reported in the senses. we have latino and asians but not sub groups such as the appeals -- filipinos or koreans or chinese within this group. >> we can look at the latino or asian trade we have surname matched -- we can look at the latino or asian. we have surname matched filipino. which one would like to see first? which population group? chairman mcdonnell: latino. >> as you can see this as percent latino population. the darker the color, the higher the population. this is the area around cayuga. cayuga is right here and you see the district boundary in black. chairman mcdonnell: i will start with you with any questions related to the data she sharing. >> this is the present latino population. the black line is that andrea. the darker the red, the higher the latino published -- personages by block. this street here in the center is cayuga and to have the 280 freeway -- you have the 280 freeway right here. chairman mcdonnell: a

i am a member of the tenderloin filipino american community association. cpmc should address all of important issues that our communities in demand like affordable housing, access to health care, local hiring, and traffic impacts. tenderloin will be most affected by the projected over 1400 new households. the new cpmc employees will find housing in nearby communities. what will happen to our housing market if they do not sufficiently addressed housing needs? the low-income community will be competing with them for affordable housing. second, we do not agree to the proposal to hire only 40 people a year for five years from the community. we cannot agree to a neighbor that is unresponsive to our needs. we want more jobs, more local hiring, and more opportunities. we demand for peace and local hiring for all the jobs they plan to create. -- 50% local hiring. how well cpmc addressed the traffic impact? van ness is already highly congested. so these cars will surely find other ways through the tenderloin, and that will cause more traffic and jeopardize the safe

why from moscow on the right for you the filipino fury as a war. angry crowds outside the us embassy in manila against your country's controversial workings in china backyard. first the belorussian president has released two political prisoners one of which is the former presidential candidate alexander lukashenko unexpected move follows pressure from the e.u. that's been highly critical of the regime after a harsh crackdown on the opposition ten years ago let's hear a sense of the house the details. few if any had expected such move from the man often described as europe's last dictator alexander the leader of the bell or was now presidential candidate under the sun you can thank you so close counterpart. a dozen opposition figures arrested in december twenty town following the presidential election accused of instigating massive street protests that was certainly a very serious crackdown on the opposition with all of those so so many people arrested and being sentenced to prison terms the sign you were sentenced to five and two years in prison re

there are many filipino students in texas concerned. more games represent us playing a big brother role in philippine politics and there are many people in philippines we're concerned it's becoming well so we're in it for the national interest to u.s. interests so i think that in these protests are a sign of a lot of discomfort with the traditional filipino over reliance on u.s. military muscle american ships have gone back and forth over the pacific. and this especially trade i think a lot of it is an inertia of the fact that for a long time america has been running a separate and you know it's natural used to get deals deferring to other powers but i think that for the future of world peace i think in the future america will need to sort of go shooting we were trying to create a framework to share it it could distribute and it starts trying to see. in other news afghanistan's president says summers attacks across the country showed an intelligence failure on part of local and nato forces kabul saw eighteen hours of fierce fighting and

there's no category for filipino officers, but if you put the two together -- asian officers and filipino officers -- not far away from the 45%. languages spoken -- mandarin, korean, cantonese, hindi, spanish, and tagalog. our crime staff -- this is one of the things i used to gauge how well i'm doing. if it is going down, i think i'm doing ok. if it is going up, i think i needed to better. these are the statistics for 2009, 2010, 2011, and year-to- date 2011, year-to-date 2012. this is april 1, 2012, these numbers are current. homicides last year, 2011, we had three. year-to-date at the same time last year, we had one. right now, we have one. rapes -- total of nine last year. we already have seven this year. i look at all the reports, and am looking to see if we have any serial crimes happening. most of these are people that the victim knows. robberies have gone down. last year at this time we had 60. right now, we have 51. assaults, which include domestic violence. last year, we had 80. right now, 64. these are the part one violent crimes. our part two violent crimes -- burglary rehas g

this time he targeted filipino nurses drawing ire from filipino ambassadors. barry made the statement monday. >> it's so bad. you go to the hospital now you find a number of immigrants who are nurses, particularly philippines. no offense but let's go our own teachers and our own nurses so we don't have to be scrounging around in our community clinics and other places having to hire people from somewhere else. in a statement on the embassy web site, the filipino ambassador said council barry's penchant blaming asians for wanting to work for their american dream fuels discrimination and violence. he owes an apology for his latest tire rad. >>> the prostitution scandal in columbia was part of a senate hearing. janet napolitano told senators that there have not been any other such encounters record in the last 2 1/2 years. >>> another big story, a huge night for sports fans in our area. the caps taking down the stanley cup champions. >> they pulled off a major upset winning game 7 against the boston bruins. melanie alnwick has the team reaction. good morning. >> r