the name was changed from the equal access to services ordinance to the language access ordinance, or lao, and since 2009 ocea has been responsible for ensuring city-wide compliance with the law. we work closely with both the 26 named chair 1 department as well as most of the city departments that are designated as chair 2 who may or may not think they need to comply with the law. but anyone who provides information or services to the public, we consider to be covered under this law. and while the lao has not always been easy to implement i would say the majority of city departments today take it very seriously and we we have seen significant improvement in the provisioning of language access services over the past 5 years. so our job in ocea is to help city departments successfully meet and serve the language access needs of our residents for whom english is not a first language. you know we can always do better. we've made a lot of progress, but for the 45 percent of the city that doesn't speak english and can't participate in the way that they would like to this is important. we also h

or thailand. and there was nothing like this in laos. factory processes scrap iron into construction materials and other items and then sells what it makes. last year it processed more than 10,000 times. the engineers and skilled workers are all vietnamese. company director khamlo khamlon sengsavone used to power procure iron in vietnam and sell it in laos. he came up with the idea for this business after the laotian economy began to grow, producing mass amounts of scrap iron. his plan was to take advantage of a nascent construction boom and reprocess locally collected scrap iron to turn it into low-cost construction materials. >>> the pay workers can earn at the factory is slightly higher than vietnam. we met a young vietnamese man who came to laos five years ago with no funding or special skills. he now runs his own business. kim hieu hieo is the third son of a farmer. hieo is a junk and scrap metal dealer. right after he got married his father-in-law said he should come to laos to start a junk dealing business. but because selling jun

photos of facebook twitter or our kron-4-dot-com >> pam: new way the way and not a tree on to all home in concord this afternoon. area consider the tree that blow over and fell into laos. and out around 2:00 this afternoon. the way and even interrupted our interview with the homeowner. here you can see our umbrella getting blowed inside and out. in between and wet gauze the home owner told us about our experience >> pam: everybody inside the home is ok and end of the area had damaged fences because of the strong winds. >> pam: in the north bay concerned about the russian river in sonoma county. j.r. stark reports from guernville where people are hoping a rubber will not spill over its banks. >> reporter: it is business extremely wet the outside onto the russian river was all eyes on the russian river because right now we're approaching 7 ft. the river is on the rise but the flood level is at 32 ft. warning levels will be at 29 ft.. at so that's a good amount time from now right now we're approaching just 7 ft. area area is this all front lighting on friday our very limited. at this in the vineyard that i drove by they're really hoping that this will have a major upset