it's right directly in japantown, right across the street from the japantown plaza. all the surrounding area's all rchant, so i d't see any residential around the area. the closest one is probably closest residential.yhe two karaoke rooms out there, sobeay one of those i'll be renting out whenever it's ssible, of course. i did look at the security -- well, the police conditions. the security camera, i did update of them. i have a total of 16, two on the exterior door, one at the back , at the ence comg in, so i kind of took care of that condition before this evening came up, because of course i want to make sure that all my stuff is up to date, too. and about the two security on friday-saturday, which i can work with, so i don't have any issue with the police department there, what they put on the conditions,h.ea >> okay. great. i don't -- do you already have two security guards planned for your place? >> yeah, on friday and saturday. >> on friday and saturday? that seems kind of excessive for a karaoke bar. >> i agree. >> same conditions as lounge, though, so i thin

(michelle) in the south bay...historic japantown in san jose is at the center of a crime wave.(jr stone) several businesses were broken into these past few months and most recently this week. kron 4 's ella sogomonian spent the night down there and picks up the story. it's a pattern that has this tight knit historic community on high alert. several of these family owned businesses have had their glass doors smashed and cash registers swiped.(nats:greetings)warm hugs welcome customers at the door of kazoo sushi restaurant in historic japantown in san jose. although it's all smiles today - it was glass and shattered hearts on friday as e broken into using a cement sewage block....and the cash register gone.sot: sean yang, kazoo restaurant owner// "a small shop like us we don't have a lot of cash to steal, we are just making a day to day living."it's the latest in a series of burglaries in the past few months in the area. japantown is made up of about two dozen family owned businesses who have become targets and are now shaken by the crimespree.sot: lyra halprin, customer// "i won

as most of you know, i've been very involved with the japantown cultural heritage area. and have been so before jhs and bmp and the community downtown task force. when i looked at this legislation, i was very concerned because it did not come to japantown through our jhs process. it did not come to our cultural heritage commission because we asked and we were told, there are amendments on the way. so we waited for the amendments. and we never got a complete copy of the legislation that we could review and give a recommendation to the japantown task force. the passage of the legislation itself through the board of supervisors from the time it went to the rules committee was so fast that there was no time to analyze and give a good, solid recommendation based on the experiences we had as the first jhs in san francisco. and i think that we have some really good insights. one of the things i'm really pleased about is that the staff recommendations are completely in line with the issues i saw. and i think that's really important. it speaks very well to how staff looks at thes

we'll have important information on the upcoming obon season in the bay area japantowns, the northernalifornia soy and tofu festival, asl e performance from one of the show's featured stars, all on our show y. well, did some of you raise an eyebrow when you heard reggae being featured on "asian pacific america?" well, we understand, and we're here to enlighten. the key to remember is island reggae. joining me to help do that is musician sammielz, a prominent reggae artist born and raised in new zealand, who first came onto the scene as the lead singer of dss, da soul sound. this year, he released the ep "love process" and we'll start the "love process" tour on july 27 with samu and latasha lee. and also with us, fresh from his job with san jose, our old friend, the organizer of the seventh annual island reggae festival, danny osi perez, the driving force behind this unique cultural event. welcome and welcome back, good to see you. sammielz: thank you for having us. robert: give me an idea, we've been followingfesta. what's in store this year? danny osi perez: we kept it more back home

san jose's japantown is at the center of a crime wave.es have had their glass doors smashed and cash registers swiped. kazoo sushi was the latest restaurant targeted on friday. the thief used a cement sewer cover to get through the front door and get to the register. and a few days earlier... kumako ramen also had its register stolen. a nearby coffee shop owner saw the burglar in action and called police. <"the restaurant is going to be your baby and coming home to see your baby all scratched up it hurts. but at the same time you can only do so much."> ( will ) since january... three other businesses have also been burglarized. business owners say they'd like to see more police patrolling the area. ( darya ) in the east bay... a man is in custody after a stabbing at a bart station. it happened over the weekend at the el cerrito del norte station. police say it's unclear what started the violence... or if the two men involved knew each other. the victim was taken to the hospital....and carl johnson was arrested for the stabbing. the condit

my name is sandy morey, and i'm here as an individual who's active in the japantown community and japanese community as a whole. i'm supporting the resolution that spree yee has put forward and supported by supervisor ronen. my understanding is the rec and park commission has the authority to remove the name from the playground, and so according to -- to according to its policy, this commission may change the name of an existing recreation and park facility if there are most extraordinary circumstances of city or national interest, and so the exclusion of chinese and other asians from the united states is a shameful and extraordinary part of our nation's history. given similar imminent threats to immigrants today against which the city and county of san francisco has taken a stand. it is important that the city remove the name of a man who represents hateful, racist, antiimmigrant policies from the popular playground in san francisco. so thank you, supervisors, for making this move. >> good morning. my name is roy chan. i am a chinatown community planner at c.d.c. in 1940, my dad was a tee

we'll have important information on the upcoming obon season in the bay area japantowns, the northernornia soy and tofu festival, asl e performance from one of the show's featured stars, all on our show y. well, did some of you raise an eyebrow when you heard reggae being featured on "asian pacific america?"

we're joined in japantown with more. >> reporter: the owner of minato tells me that meeting anthony bourdain was an experience he'll never forget. he said several people came in to have lunch at the restaurant after they found out about his death. >> he could eat anywhere in the world and he chooses 20 or 30 restaurants a year. >> reporter: in san jose, he chose minato, the oldest japanese restaurant in the city. >> he chose this one, sat where you are right now. two years ago. >> reporter: the restaurant is owned by gene, who shares these pictures with us of him and his family with an industry icon. >> we didn't know what to expect but he turns out to be a real good guy. exactly how he is on tv. >> to millions of us who travelled the world through his eyes, anthony bourdain wasn't just an award-winning television show host and chef. >> it's his social conscience i think, and the way he writes stories and gets into the cultures, beside the food, politics even. >> fellow travel ers, which is what you want. >> perfect introduction, conclusion to all of his shows. >> reporter: cnn said he was t

because of all of those experiences, the emperor of japan honored him for his service to the japantown community. >> he always had a contagious smile and very positive. happy. loving. and he was very committed to the japanese community. he was very involved. >> reporter: he was also known for helping the eagles scouts. he died last month at the age of 95. today people remembered him with speeches and performances. and in fact, back here live, you can still hear some of those performances continuing w group. now his granddaughter, ali, delivered the eulogy. reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >>> still to come, growing demonstrations at the border. immigration activists taking a stand against strict enforcement of the law forcing families to be separated. >>> plus clean it up, why people were swapping out beach towels if orange buckets on the shores of san francisco today. >>> inland temperatures right now, 70s and low 80s inland. good enough for about a 3 to 10 degree jump in temperatures today and see the same again tomorrow. who could be seeing 90s in their

our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when

first force is based in district 1, but we also work in japantown and chinatown. we have a cohort of artists who teach and perform, we have an annual home season, a quarterly artists series, but men ton artists, we do large scale community development projects. we've received money from grants for the arts. we service about 10,000 san franciscans a year. our budget is mal but our impact is strong because we move hearts and minds, by telling our stories, we contribute to the culture -- >> good afternoon. i'm with a.p.i. legal outreach. i'm here specifically to ask for the stop of a cut that's occurring this year with the help of supervisor fewer and the mayor's office, we were able to provide services to survivors of domestic violence and violence against women in the workforce development area and also in a separate area, those facing eviction, seniors and families in the south of market and tenderloin areas. again, those programs are being cut this year, and we ask you to restore that money at about 150,000 for both programs. on behalf of the a.p.i. council, and

if you're going to the soy and tofu festival in japantown in san francisco, it's going to be very nice. you can enjoy that cooler weather. now if you're going up to lake shas at shas ta, it's going to be rough. 92 on saturday. and on sundays 101 degrees. it's also going to be warm in l.a. with 70s but some of those inland areas are also going to be reaching into the triple digits. in santa cruz this weekend, one great place to go cool off. 72 on friday. a few clouds, we'll also see partly cloudy skies throughout the weekend especially during the morning but highs reaching the upper 60s and natural air conditioning all around. we're going to see those temperatures still nice and cool today and i'll have a look at that temperature trend coming up in three minutes. >> thanks so much, kari. >> it's 5:39, coming up next on "today in the bay," what will the google village mean for downtown san jose? today is your chance to have your opinion. mike traffic tease >>> it is 5:42. we walk out the door to temperatures in the 50s this morning. let's take a live look outside in san jose, check out h

many years ago japantown started a process to designate themselves as a special area, as a cultural district. calle 24, about three, four years ago was created via resolution by supervisor david campos at the time to have this kind of special designation to be able to bring more attention and resources to the area, knowing that a lot of the small businesses and the people in the area were getting displaced. and then, with time, we've had a lot of other cultural districts created, and it's been a little bit haphazardly. it's been great that city departments have been very interested and very supportive in the process, but we really haven't had a formalized process, and it's also never been codified. the cultural districts have been worried that if we don't coddify them, for any reason, we could have city departments make not invest as much resources as they've had so far, so we wanted to make sure that we coddified it, that we institutionalized it and make sure that it's the importance that the city has been given to the cultural districts. and we're making sure we have more details as we con

statewide legislation, which is referred to as s.b. 307, to recognize the last three remaining japantowns in the state of california. prior to world war ii and incarceration of japanese-americans, there were 40. now there are three. so we wanted to do something to make that happen and that didn't come up through planners or legislators. it came out through oral history discussions and meetings in the community. so i definitely get it. i definitely get that community input is important and each district is important. what i think the staff is trying to do is just to put as mr. buehler said some consistency to -- and to make sure that this legislation will have the clarity and will be stronger, as it goes through its implementation process. and i'm pretty sure that you know that we have a cultural heritage assets committee and commissioner hyland and i sit on that committee and we're really looking forward to having a conversation with supervisor ronen's office before this was passed. but that invitation is open and we hope we can continue to have dialogue with you. this is a very important

for you this morning, happening today, an honor for a group of workers to make sure the san jose's japantown is ready for an emergency. city council will celebrate the community group and san jose state students who worked last month to select emergency supplies. >> okay, so talk about unwanted guests here, take a look at this wild surveillance video. if you can look closely, you see there that's an al gator, it's rearranging the furniture son this florida porch. the couple woke up and realized all of the patio was moved overnight. they looked at the security camera and figured out what happened. they caught this 5 or 6-foot alligator doing redecorating there. the gator did not stop until every piece of furniture was actually lined up against the front door. >> wow. >> then i said, hey, do you know why did you -- why is the furniture in front of the front door? i thought maybe when he was mowing the yard he had moved it. >> we've seen gators in the neighborhood in the ponds and stuff but nothing coming up in people's yards. this was a first for us. >> you know i don't like my patio furniture

we are here again, grandfather was a founder of japantown of the 1800s, my grandmother a leader of chinatown garment union and we are vested in san francisco. we know how important it is to support culturally specific performing artists, we strengthen our communities by telling our story and passing forward history. we are part of the a.p.i. council. asking for 77k and the funding is expiring. we know you have many pressing items on your plate, please, in the midst of crisis and chaos, a song still sooths the soul, moving hearts and minds galvanizes will. with will, we can do anything. thank you. >> good morning, dean taylor for the a.p.i. council, with the a.p.i. legal outreach also. i'm speaking toward the city-wide cuts of our a.p.i. programs. services to the majority now population of san francisco, voters that will remember the cuts in services we are losing eight programs being cut city-wide for almost $800,000 this year. we have only made some brief progress in services, and now we are being cut back. please reconsider these cuts. >> executive director development foundation, south of

this is what i was talking about in japantown and san francisco on saturday. weather for that highs in the low 70s and sunshine. just perfect but look at how hot it's going to be in lake shas at a this weekend. 91 degrees on friday. 98 degrees on saturday and 101 degrees on sunday. you'll want to go swimming. looking at los angeles where the highs will be mostly in the low 70s but inland empire will be also heating up in the upper 90s and as we look at santa cruz, we're going to have some beautiful weather for our beaches and santa cruz will be nice with some mid to upper 60s all weekend long. we'll have to deal with those low clouds and fog for a couple of hours during the morning. i'll have a look at our south bay temperature trend for today coming up in about three minutes. >> i was in santa cruz last night and love the sunset. thanks, kari. >> 6:40. coming up next, what happened leading up to the mysterious murder at the southern california camp site. plus, what will the google village mean for downtown san jose? what you can do today to make sure your opi

in other news this morning, happening today, in honor for group of workers making sure san jose's japantown is ready for an emergency, city council will celebrate the community group and san jose students who worked last month to collect emergency supplies. developing in central america, the search for survivors continues in guatemala. it's still too hot in many of the places to pull those bodies out. some are really thickly coated with the ash. first responders say that they look like statues. this morning, we are actually seeing the moment the volcano of fire started erupting this weekend. we expect the number to keep rising as the recovery teams move into those areas most impacted by the lava. right now over 3,000 people have been evacuated. >> new video for you and when you think the word shark with rescue, you may not how you normally picture it right here, but after a few pictures, to capture that moment right there, a man in south carolina came to the rescue of a black tip shark. it became stranded on the shore. this is after a fisherman reeled it in using the tailfin as the kind of

san jose's japantown is at the center of a crime wave.veral family-owned businesses have had their glass doors smashed and cash registers stolen. kazoo sushi was the latest restaurant targeted on friday. the thief used a cement sewer cover to get through the front door and get into the register. a few days earlier... kumako ramen also had its register stolen. three other businesses have been burglarized since january.. business owners say they'd like to see more police patrolling the area. (catherine) some ducklings were rescued in sunnyvale this morning. these pictures show officers rescuing the baby ducks -- after they got stuck in a storm drain. they say the mother duck was watching nearby as the ducklings were rescued. everybody was eventually happily reunited.. (vickki) in the north bay-- police are looking for a man who stole a computer from a person he planned to meet through crgslist. it happened over the weekend near h and first streets in petaluma. the thief was bringing the computer to his car... and told the victim he needed t

san jose's japantown is at the center of a crime wave.several family-owned businesses have had their glass doors smashed and cash registers swiped. kazoo sushi was the latest restaurant targeted on friday. the thief used a cement sewer cover to get through the front door and get to the register. and a few days earlier... kumako ramen also had its register stolen. a nearby coffee shop owner saw the burglar in action and called police. <"the restaurant is going to be your baby and coming home to see your baby all scratched up it hurts. but at the same time you can only do so much."> ( darya ) since january... three other businesses have also been burglarized. business owners say they'd like to see more police patrolling the area. ( will ) still ahead... hundreds of people in the bay area wear orange to bring attention to gun violence. you'll hear from supporters coming up. ( will ) plus... a horrific case of animal abuse. bay area police are looking for a man who kicked a dog to death. plus... tomorrow voters head to the polls. and right ni