islander pacific american heritage month >> thank you. (clapping.) >> wow. after that. thank you. i'm humbled i'm honored. i want to give praise and glory first and also i want to pay my respects to those asian pacific islander americans that have laid the foundation for folks like myself to stand upon i want to pay that respect. as far as work it's not a one-man team there's a lot of of us in the room and some out in the neighborhood and also want to make sure that food returns get their credit as well as they're the folks that get us food the team packages it and gives it out there's a lot of us that did the work i've honored (clapping) i want to say one thing we can use a vehicle to distribute that food >> got it (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor cowen and our next presentation will be from our district 9 supervisor campos. >> you thank you very much mr. president, and again, i want to say congratulations to all the incredible honorees it's incredible those people being recognized in every single district it's my honor to add another

it's rapidly growing under asians and asian pacific islander. it's effecting about 10 percent of the population. now the thing when we say sugar the part of showering i'm talking about is frustrate to say it's the worse the reason why it's frustrate to say it's sweet you can make cardboard taste good 80 percent of our food supply has fruit to say. we're talking about most of those calories come in sugar drinks it's leading to fatty liver and excessive fat storage and less in resistance we call that metabolic onto our body buildings we have less fat stored our body is tricked into thinking we have less fatso our body eats more and moves less that's one of the primary reasons it's hard to lose weight. i'm going to give you won memory do add it's called sugar madness it's one page of a quick way to recall the key issues. the first sugar remembers the cause sugar specifically frustrate to say the addictive sugar and fat shortage i'll cover quickly and the treatment is changing our stress and exercise. so the important thing to remember it it metabol

point to a lot of the key problems in asian pacific islander communities. i mentioned shattering the minor myth of the asian-american i think we see that big soda targets asian-americans and asian pacific islander whether hosting significant populations that are asian and asian pacific islander. those are serious issues that the asian pacific islander health equity had focused on as we condition the discussion i wanted to say that the soda take into consideration on the november ballot there's a lot of misinformation from big soda was it taxes and not. i want to hold up a bottle to say that it's very important that we understand that sugar sweetened beverages are harmful but your sod a tax doesn't touch so i based drinks they're not taxed. the reason is even though some contain a little bit of sugar they also include healthy ingredients that have proton and iron that make a a milk substitute and another type of drink it's a begin sing drink they're not taxed like monster drinks owned by the 3 of the big soda companies. this is an important thing it's got 10

the asia-pacific century for the united states, and everybody knows the importance of the asia-pacificto the future of the united states. i do not think it can be overstated. whether it is the economic, the trade type of and is everything that is incorporated as a part of that. things as simple as the tpp that is not necessarily temple but the transpacific partnership. the economies that are addressed in the asia-pacific region, some of the largest economies in the world, china, united states, japan, india, russia, that speaks to its importance. also the trade of the amount of commerce that goes through the re. i will try to cover all those things in the ways that makes sense to folks. as i said, what i will do to start with is doing over give --r -- do an overview here wait, we are not there yet. living.rplanes for a [laughter] i cannot work a clicker. we will leave it here, and hopefully will get to the next light soon -- slide soon. issues we're dealing with, we will start in tappa and worker way further south and west. area and work our way further south and west. in the challenge

-- asia-pacific?ina likes to say we have a growing economy, we have a growing conception of our national interests, so we're just doing what any other great power in our situation would do. is there a way to distinguish between policies anyone else would take in its position versus those if it really wants to dominate in the south pacific? >> well, look at the united states between the end of the civil war and the outbreak of world war sr.. the united states -- world war i. the united states had economic growth rates for most of that period extremely, near double digits almost every year. there was some hiccups here and there. the united states settled the continent, brutally perhaps, but it did so. and what did the united states do? it built a great navy, and it dug the pan pa canal -- panama canal. and it became a great power. and why did that happen? because the united states, you know, after the civil war and the north and south united, the united states developed a great economy and, therefore, i

that pacific reek on. we also have permanent bases in engagend korea and we throughout the rest of asia and we're moving more and more to the south and southwest as we more in asia. you've heard some of the things that have happened recently. we're doing an engagement with australia where we get a there.nal presence also we just signed the enhanced defense cooperation agreement with the philippines. we have presence in singapore that we operate out of. we have a continuous engagement thailand and we're continuing to do that. is other thing i'd tell you places, not bases. we're not building any more bases in the pacific, we won't build any more bases in the pacific. but we will have a rotational presence. in the cold war we had a program called checkered flag we would take state side based union exputs rotate them into europe every 18 months to years. we're trying to do that and becoming successful in doing pacific.he asia about 18 months or two years we intend to have unit and rotate somewhere in the pacif

and i'm honored to recognition this family today for asian pacific islander heritage month. i want to start with the story of pastor wong who came to america in the 70s from taiwan after being abused by his father vermont he came to america he worked in america after coming out of the grace of yard shifty was waiting for a tow truck he noticed a young boy being physically brutal listed not wanting to get involved he drove away with are heavier heart he felt the presence of a divine presence and wondered how it would have felt to be bullied and next day roger and it's father made up up 50 sandwiches and the following week he brought his wife to the tenderloin and then san francisco impact was born it is now a volunteer nonprofit organization that concludes 5 departments today, we have 11 thousand 189 individuals every month through their come up kitchen program they run a thrift shop and offer affordable closing and have block parties. their church does doird outreach and run a k to 12 school program and run a health center it serves 2 hundred and 50 patience it goes on and o

for asian pacific islander impacts and like other communities of color and as dr. pointed out the joslyn asian-american initiative and other i want to thank our health officer and paula jones our head of food systems and the doctor in the medical center. the human stories we've heard help us to shattered the midgets that 5i789s are not impacted by the targeting of mixed soda and the unhthd lifestyles and the offer consumption of sugary sweetened befrngz and the do or say have mentioned i'm sure you're all aware of we refuse to let ourselves be the canaries in the coal mine and not let big sodas impact our community and as was mentioned often it's silence or unseen the horrible impacts of the harmful foods within the asian-americans communities and within those presentations and public testimony has preponderance of the evidence helped us to understand the impacts on the asian-americans community. so mr. chair i'd ask if we could file this hearing >> thank you very much i want to thank supervisor mar so far his leadership on this important issue and thank all the me

and finally, this is the pacific air chief symposium. fourteen pacific air chiefs. we travelled throughout the united states. the most of it. incredibly valuable. again, 14 air achieves. the picture in the upper right hand corner, the u.s.s. arizona. in the lower left. tremendous engagement, a tremendous opportunity to spend time. and i think at the end of this when i would tell everyone, kind of the thesis of the basis for this is as we face problems and see it sequestration has been -- in fact, our relationship with their friends and partners and allies have gotten closer. a greater understanding of everyone's challenges and issues and becomes more and more interoperable. next slide. so the takeaways i will leave you with, no afford to answer your questions, though rebalance in the pacific, it's alive and well. i know people talk about it. it happened. it is, i think, the amount of engagement we are doing has gone up drastically. it is the effort, the emphasis, it is certainly an active rebalance. we were slow down by sequestration. in 13 we had to cancel some exe

clearly this is not done out of the goodness of union pacific's heart.ss to be done out there, right? >> there's real business here and it's the future of our company and, in fact, jim, customer reacceseptivity tells we're probably going to beat our expectation for first year performance for the number of containers that pass through the facility. >> now, there's a number of parts of your business that i know are not necessarily connected to santa teresa but they're very important for you and i look at 2014 volume growth. let's start with agriculture. it seems like agriculture double digit grower this year. why is that? >> you know, we had a terrific harvest in 2013 following the drought of 2012. so that harvest now needs to get to markets. whether it's domestic or whether it's to international, we're pretty well suited to handle that business. we have the equipment, we have people, we have cars and we have access to all the places where it needs to go. so we're expecting that that agricultural business is going to be strong all the way through mid to la

there are three parts to pacification in the first part is security. you have to drive the enemy out in the second part we set up a political park within the village or the hamlet and the third part is the development. you have to develop it. we didn't until after tet have the ability after the americans drove the people out to set down and put the political in place. but they built after tet rfp f. the popular regional forest and something which nobody talks about. the people's self-defense force, they took 2 million people and these people then would settle in the villages so i agree that courts was a wonderful thing. i think pacification took off but it didn't take off until after tet in the summer of 68. they didn't have the means to do it. i think the north vietnamese eventually the program read a lot of the resolutions was just to fight the pacification program that south vietnam was putting in. they were scared to death of that because they were getting the people under their hands. the fact that they wanted and they didn't have a grand strategy

pacific and user u.s. marine corps. this was real animus, and macarthur carried us into world war ii and they suggested a move is warships from the things -- from the philippines. so macarthur had this animus. and then king appointed kincaid to lead macarthur's navy, 1943 i believe. and kincaid was a very effective officer with macarthur. one of the incidents i recount in the book, he brings them onto his command ship during a battle and have looks at in as the ship opened fire on a japanese held island and he said, from that moment on, macarthur was more royal than the king. he shook his head. he couldn't believe the firepower that the navy brought to the pacific. and he became an advocate for the navy and by the end of the work he became an advocate for the end of interservice rivalry and interservice budget fights and said that the navy, army competition is an obstacle to a quick victory. so macarthur at least recognize the problems between the service rivalries. >> i'm wondering if in your research you

the other is marine time asia-pacific. in these new things, we see that type of power competition coming back. china and russia are the largest continental powers. they come together. in fact, many people had a lot of suspicions, myself included. these two strange bedfellows would not come together. in the last few years, more than a few years it's amazing to nonobservers. these two countries have come together economically, strategically and also militarily. look at the military exercises these two countries conducted in a few days. not a few days. in fact, there was in the water nearby the disputed china-japanese territory. that means russia is back into the chinese claims, and china supported russia on many, many fronts especially on the front against the united states. so i really see a strategic re-alignment taking place in the global stage on the asia-pacific, and the chinese president talked so much in the last few days that asian affairs should be handled by asians. asian problems should be resolved by asians. here

it's because of our nation's interests in the pacific and how important the pacific is to the united states, which is a pacific nation as well. >> over the years, we have seen the importance of that region, particularly at a time when there are tensions beyond north korea. there are concerns between japan and its relationship with china and north korea over the waters there about sovereignty. i know that united states is trying to take a little wait and see attitude, but certainly, this is something that you're keeping close watch on. >> of course, we are. i'm in contact with my headquarters even now. but we viewed the actions if you will by the chinese as the state department said yesterday in the south china sea near the parra sail islands, we view that with concern. it increases tensions in the region. >> fleet week is underway and it's something that is such a grand event and so many people hook forward to it. talk to us for r a moment about what's coming up during this fleet week. >> well, fleet week is a obviously it's an important way for our navy to share with the people who

on shore flow from the midwest coast to the pacific northwest. and a chance of rain saturday evening. as far as rainfall totals over the next five days, again, not going to do much in the way of rainfall an the drought stricken strait of california and nevada. but we'll get it in the pacific northwest. another warm day today. not as hot as yesterday or the day before. >> it looks like temperatures are returning to normal. weather pattern returns to normal. we can all just shake our heads and say, wow. >> san diego with 90 degree weather, beautiful, that quitos, go down to the beach, relax. >> doesn't feel too cool at 95. it is good. >> we're in a weekend mood. >>> worrisome news concerning climate change. >>> plus, a device that could help millions of americans get a better night's sleep. you're watching "early today." >>> and welcome pack. in a widespread look into our colleges and universities, 55 schools face an investigation into anti-discrimination and sexual assault. the schools, ohio state, arizona state, harvard, and princeton, are among

to all pacific units in hawai'i, including admiral husband kim until the pacific fleet and his subordinates in the sea front tiers -- frontiers, and in this document, we have the following text. two days before pearl harbor. says 5 december. imperial japanese navy estimate. information received indicates -- this is a code for the fact that intelligence has produced this information -- that large concentration of surface forces is at this location in the northwest pacific, bearing course 135 300 miles south southeast of adynamic, alaska, with the projected course track placing them within 250 hours of pearl harbor by 0600 on 7 december theme evaluation was the japanese naval task force was in route to attack the pacific fleet in hawai'i. now, anyone who has read about pearl harbor remembers the controversy of the bolt from the blue. the admiral was summarily relieved of command. the navy and army in washington rushed out new leaders. admiral nimitz in particular, and they started to essentially direct the fleet back up from the -- drag the treat from the mud and carry the fight the enemy. yo

union pacific north blind dealing with today'line trains are running behind because of a derailment near of waukegan app. >> severe weather moved across the plains and midwest yesterday, 26 reports of tornadoes. one tornado caused heavy damage in a town in nebraska. one person was injured. gov of missouri declared state of emergency on sunday. third severe storms created flash floods and high winds in the chicago area. >> these are some of the areas that took a beating from a sunday evening storms. this was a deep tunnel blast, it is not the first time that if this happens. this is in near the intersection of burnham avenue at heritage, last night the pressure inside a deep tunnel cause an explosion and sent a wave of water and mud. police have been here all night to keep people away from this area, and no injuries reported but a lot of debris scattered. >> the below two years ago as well and then they put something bigger on that, but they never had a crater this size this is on the real. >> there is an apartment building at to the right here, sixth of vacant apartments were damaged. >>

it is hurricane season right here in the pacific side of the world. the atlantic side of the world the hush season begins this sunday, june 1. we do have our first hurricane of the season right in the eastern pacific ocean. it's name, amanda. and over the weekend, amanda peaked at 155-mile-per-hour winds making it a category 5 hurricane. therefore, it is now the strongest hurricane ever reported in the month of may in the eastern pacific. it caused lots of rain and lots of wind in throughout manzanillo, mexico. now its location roughly under 600 miles off the tip of the baja. it's moving ever so slightly and weakened considerably. so if you want to know more information about amanda or the naming of hurricanes, in fact the next one up in the eastern pacific will be named boris, visit us online at kpix.com. reporting high above baker beach in san francisco, roberta gonzales, kpix 5. >>> san francisco has someone hiding cash and seattle has someone leaving free pot out. why police aren't going after this mysterious weed fairy coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,, gri

become everybody this the may first thank you for jefferson city us for the celebration of asian pacificit's the international looibd to celebrate of the success around the world and may first, it the the state of hawaii with this we have a special, special hawaii culture and the asian panicking american heritage thank you for american ails for the hawaiian airlines thanks to hawaiian airlines. i know that ms. sue thank you. >> happy day. we're going to go around and you know the other neighborhoods. let's go back to the business of 14rg9 the business we have is telling the truth year in the city and county of san francisco many of you know apa heritage is at the national celebration started in 1978 around the country a lot of countries celebrate by in 1995 we celebrate a special time of the year with the apa family to come together and have our own celebration and get to know each other a little bit better we are troud from 2005 on we're celebrating our tenth year. we're excited it's not easy to start a new tradition we're happy this new tradition is here to stay. i was informed and rec

the other is marine time asia pacific. in these new power configurations, we see that type of the power come back. china and russia as the largest continental powers come together. many people had a lot of suspicions, myself included. these two strange bedfellows would not come together. in the last few years, more than a few years, it has been amazing to a lot of observers. these two countries have come together economically and militarily. look at the military exercise these two countries conducted a few days. in the last few days. in fact, there was in the water nearby the dispute. china, japanese territory and that means russia has into bought into the chinese claims and chinese supported russia on many fronts against the united states. so, i really see a stattegic realignment taking place in a global stage on asia pacific. and chinese president talked so much in the last few days that asian affairs should be handled by asians. they are underlying a big merge, the de-americanization. china tried to get asia to be handl

of the clients are white and 12 percent of the residents are latino and then 3 percent are asian pacific island and her so in terms of diagnosis and conditions that we show in that system. >> supervisor mar? >> could i just ask another question. >> yes. >> i can see the disparity with the african americans and latino population, there is a new report on asians and pacific islanders that was released i think this week. >> okay. >> i think that it highlighted the hidden poverty for the pacific islanders and south east asians and i am wondering if you could include the sro population within the broader homeless population and then i think that the latino numbers would go up significantly and chinese and various asian pacific islanders as well and my hope is that you could do the data so that we could see where there is tremendous need, even within the asian and pacific islander population. >> i think that i will be going to some of the reports that joyce will be looking to and i think that you are right in terms of families and women in general that we have a lot of people in sros that are

also the director of food systems for san francisco paula jones and many asian and asian pacific islander organizations and leaders we have dr. lawrence chung who's the president of the medical society and i think today's hearing on the impact of sugar sweetened drinks on the asian pacific islander communities is a historic occasion to use fats and experience and data to shatter the minor things that the asian pacific islander are not impacted by the sugar beverages. as documented by an overwhelmingly body of

all part of asian pacific their taj month. there will be live readings and a cooking contest. it runs from 11:00 to 5:00 at alameda's south shore center. >>> what will be weather be like, lisa? >> it's going to feel like spring. it has the past couple days. we had our significant cool down yesterday where east bay valleys saw numbers into the low 70s to mid-70s. and today, yeah, we are still going to have the wind at the coast. here's a look at live doppler 7hd. there's an approaching system in the pacific northwest that is allowing for the on shore flow to continue and wrap up. as we get started this morning, skies are partly cloudy. here's a look from emeryville right now. temperatures, with the upper elevation winds, are keeping things a little milder. notice a lot of mid-and upper 50s. oakland good morning, 57. san carlos 57 for you and 50 along the coast. morgan hill 59 from our sutro tower camera. it should be a very pleasant morning for the runners. 59 in novato, 53 napa, and upper 50s concord and livermore checking in at 58 this morning. from our roof camera, partly cl

"south pacific." >> so it's set in -- in the south pacific during world war ii and it's basically about two love stories between a frenchman and an american nurse who works for the army and then a -- island girl and a -- an american lieutenant. and a lot of the play -- it's a beautiful play with wonderful music. and at the heart of it is the theme of racial tolerance. because these two couples who -- you know at that time wouldn't be seen together or wouldn't be able to be together tried to fight to have a -- have you know, love for each other. >> i play the character of -- you play the character of bloody mary, any challenges to performing outdoors? >> sure you know it's a really large house, 4,000 feet and there's elements. it's hot somedays. and other days it's cold and you know foggy. but -- and you know there's a sound element too but they did do a wonderful job making it with sound wonderful and the orchestra is amazing. and you know, it's a sacred mountain and to be able to create art in that space is magical. and a privilege. >> and i'm sure the great weather that we've been hav

all part of asian pacific their -- heritage month.here will be live readings and a cooking contest. it runs from 11:00 to 5:00 at alameda's south shore center. >> for those of you who like the scorcher, got your way last week. for those of us who like a cooler, we are going to enjoy this week. >> but got that right. yesterday much of the east bay valleys cooled off significantly, bringing them back to where they have been for the past several days along the bay and around the coast, which is much cooler. here is live doppler 7hd. we are looking at more low clouds entering the pick it up. the live shot shows that some of the low clouds are overtaking the cameras. here's sutro. you see the low clouds at the lower part of your screen and high clouds above. temperatures mainly in the mid-and upper 50s. the breeze has allowed for the mild start. good morning morgue again hill. upper 50s for you and 54 in san francisco and 52 in half moon bay. temperatures low 50s santa rosa, 56 by the delta. and livermore right now is at 55 degrees. and ab

the first demonstrate that pacification, but not all wars do this. some worse rather than producing bigger come safer societies break down this mueller, mark violent ones. this medieval. we've got 1200 year period from 82 to 1400 or overall this is what wars do. they break its societies to smaller, poorer, more violent ones. this then gets reverse after the year 1401 gunpowder to knowledge he allows the empires to close down and shut down these migrations. europeans, combinations of them and chips exported around the world and basically wage of 500 years war and the rest the world between 14 and 15 and make you 14 roughly. europeans are columnists like here in the u.s. rolled 84%, just astonishing. so that is one way in which i think this medieval. in some portends of understanding the big story. the second way is that i'm sure many will know. i'm not the first person to point out the great decline. one of the many people have strong attention to this recently. the great disagreement over what caused this decline. this book remain at all. i think thi

pacific fleet at pearl harbor. request from the assault that stunned military and political leaders from pearl harbor washington. over the past 72 years naval historians, researchers, and journalists have searched diligently to find what they call the smoking gun of the conspiracy for pearl harbor which was that essentially roosevelt and his military commanders somehow knew the japanese were heading to attack pearl harbor and yet chose to do nothing to keep the local military in the dark so that the blow would fall and in the nation would be rising to defeat the empire japan. and this is what the smoking gun document would look like. this is essentially a communications that was sent from the commander in chief of the u.s. fleet to all units and hawaii, including admiral of the pacific fleet, the frontiers. and in this document we have the following text. today's before pearl harbor. five december, imperial japanese navy estimate, information received in the case this is the fact that intelligence is produced disin

it will showcase local artists and vendors as part of the pacific heritage month. there will be live music and cooking contests and readings. it will be today at alameda south shore center until >>> girls from three south bay high schools spent yesterday building. they teamed up to build hand prothesis. a group called helping hands sells the kits to schools and companies and then distributes the finished product. the program has grown from twelve students to more than 40 in the past three years. up next on the abc7 sunday morning news, did an animal lover go too far? the story of one man's search for his missing dog. and an assisted living facility in the bay area encounters a serious problem, leaving residents with only weeks to find a new home. >> welcome back, everyone. we are starting this half-hour with a look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. >> hi, carolyn, good morning to you. here's a look from our roof camera. clouds in the picture. temperatures in the 60s. we are from two to six degrees warmer than yesterday at this time. it is breezy fro

but we'll keep a watchful eye on hurricane season here on the pacific. reporting for mobile weather treasure island roberta gonzales, kpix 5. >> what about hurricane roberta? who knows? >>> the mystery millionaire is at it again. coming up at 5:30, where and when the man behind the hidden cash phenomenon is striking next. >> i'm dennis o'donnell. we had a triple header. the giants, a's were at home and the u.s. soccer made its debut at the candlestick park. coming up. >> what's cool about your school? ? email your nomination to coolschools@kpix.com. we may come and feature your school on the show. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> good morning. here's a live look across the san mateo bridge and right now, it will take you 13 minutes between hayward and 101. a lot of the overnight roadwork has just been cleared within the last 20 minutes. so we're monitoring any hot spots out there. a full look at your "kcbs traffic" is all coming up. >>> good morning, everyone. before team usa heads to brazil for the world cup is will play three exhibition ga

and nearly three times that for pacific islanders now armed with findings, activists say they will ask to help those in need. >> vic lee abc7 news >> governor brown signed a bill aimed at shedding light on what is known as dark money. without disclosing the source. this after groups from arizona poured $15 million into california in 2012 to fight proposition 30. supporters say it helps close the loophole ensuring where the money trail started >> city of palo alto going to take down security cameras that made people angry. the city installed cameras like this one around town. resident doesn't like it because it's trained on his driveway. he says it's a violation of privacy. >> whatever is recorded is recorded who owns data? maybe third party. maybe the city. what happens afterwards? in the end, you know next time, next time, maybe we have. >> he was told the camera and others will be taken down next week. officials say they were counting the number of cars and how fast they were going. the city says the footage will be discarded when the project finished >> a new wave of buses just purc

that this this attempt to construct the trans-pacific partnership fails son in washington. many people talk about washington's overreach militarily and its alliances here again how does it balance all of that because it has commitments all over the place right now it's baiting russia it's we have the president going to the pacific saying they're going to defend south korea defend the philippines defend panick cetera et cetera i mean this is a very interesting point in history for the united states because it has so many different commitments and with allies that have very different agendas yes we yes we have different agendas egypt it is a part of the which is which is perceived by by by china as containment but you know you are to. guess are making. a big deal and i don't want to share that number one number two they are discussing united states in the past as if the united states and united states dominance in democracies is a done deal what i'm arguing is that in the medium of dipolar war or russia russia's. interests have to be respected and that is something that is be

navy had always argued the correct way to defeat the japanese was through the naval through the of pacific. and that was the navy's more and macarthur campaign was an afterthought. it was not through the philippines which would be a bloody campaign but where they army air corps got want and to determine which avenues united states would go. and admiral halsey was not the conference that he said fighters over to be plucked more quickly than they could go to for all sub. with the navy admirals you will find 1944 they actually agreed with macarthur's proposal will be attacked through the philippines much to set stricter in one dash to the chagrin who hated macarthur who would rank through the u.s. army. and roosevelt during his campaign was always fight in the philippines. why is everyone criticizing me? at there he is. a good republican fighting the fight to. and he allowed that to be used people write about battle books it is a political book if you would like to read about battles those are in here but not the most important thing of world war ii but organizing to shape the american respon