would like to welcome you to the third annual statewide celebration and recognition of asian-pacific islanderrican heritage month. this event is hosted by the mayor. i will tell you a little bit more. it is a non-profit, non- partisan. since 2001, our focus has been on educating the public on public policy. and fostering the future leaders from our minority communities to serve at federal, state, and local levels. the mission is to empower patients and pacific islander americans in civic and public affairs to education, active participation, and leadership development. >> civic engagement, leadership development, and community servthe theme of tonight's evens a celebration of the achievements and accomplishments of asian-americans in the state of california and our nation. >> ok'ing. -- ok. i would like to introduce our host for this evening. very well known as the first asian-american mayor in san francisco history. mayor lee championed balancing the budget to keep san francisco safe, solvents, and successful. he reformed city pensions. his focus is on economic development, job creation, and

for that population, although asian-pacific islanders households comprise 28% of the 50-80 ami, they compose 60% of people that are in the ownership pool. african-americans are underrepresented, as are latino and hispanic families. african-americans are about 7% citywide in that demographic, just about 1%, very low number in our ownership units. latinos 13% citywide and 5% in our bmr units. in terms of the outreach and the marketing for those units, because i think those demographics automatically lead to those questions. through the time i have been there with the department, so i started there about 2005, we have had grants to a number of strategic community-based organizations in order to increase our outreach, specifically on the homeownership side. so we have worked specifically the asian, inc., with san francisco housing development corp., san francisco's lgbt center, et cetera. specifically to try to target outreach to the api lgbt latino and african-american communities, as well as working with homeownership sf, which was a elaborative of all the different homeownership organ

asian americans comprised 5%, latinos 13% and native-american and pacific islanders, 1%.inchants who declined to state their race comprised 17% of our complainants in 2011. we are located on the 7th floor of 25 van ness avenue near the corner of van ness and market. we're easily accessible by public transportation and we receive walk-in complainants monday through friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.we also receive complaints by telephone, email, mail and fax and we're currently working to provide online complaint filing, which we anticipate will be available to the public early next year. for after-hours complaints we have an answering service. and one can also file a complaint at a district

a delegate from the pacific island nation of palau says financial support to protect the lives of people there is indispensable. >> we don't have the resources, and we are also being threatened by climate change. financing is part of our survival. we need finances to survive. >> the delegates are running up against a deadline, the conference scheduled to end on friday. now, the ministers come to the table with competing interests. they come from nations with a range of environmental and economic challenges. nhk world has morerom doha. >> the meeting taking place this year in the oil rich qatar has entered the final stretch. delegates are making the final appeals. >> doha must mark the transition from the old system with the two tracks and the future system with one track. >> delegates have been trying to piece together a new agreement on curbing carbon emissions. they hope to forge a framework, succeed the kyoto protocol that goes to the end of this year. they want a stricter limit on greenhouse grasses in growing countries such as china and india. they're currently not committed to targ

. >> the south pacific island nation of samoa has been lashed by a cyclone. the storm and damaged buildings, uprooted trees, and caused flooding. officials have declared a state of emergency. no injuries have been reported. >> an autopsy has confirmed that the prisoners committed suicide after being caught up in a prank phone call -- that a british nurse committed suicide after being caught up in a prank phone call. two australian radio jockeys have apologized for the prank. a suicide note was found near where the nurse was hanged. >> a special report on japan, which goes to the polls this sunday. >> we will be back in one minute with more. stick around. >> welcome back. japan's voters are heading to the polls this sunday. many are saying the current government's days are numbered. >> there was a slump, the tsunami, the earthquake, the nuclear meltdown. >> there has been political deadlock in the country for months, with conservatives blocking the government's financial reforms. >> for decades, japan was the textbook model of progress -- the cutting edge, hig

asian americans comprised 5%, latinos 13% and native-american and pacific islanders, 1%.

many people for their work to strengthen communities to show the history of the asian and the pacific islander experience in their art and also how they fight for more cultural equity in our communities. please join us at 7:00 p.m.. another key part of the celebration of 25 years of asian improv arts is support other artists and wang wallace and others and lucy lynn and the director of the grant frs the san francisco arts commission but it's also unveiling a new piece by john chang and one key piece will be a portrait where i am narrating part of it and a chance to work with the jazz and improv community and also that support the cultural equity in the neighborhoods and i will narrate a key piece with that. thank you. >> thank you supervisor. supervisor avalos. >> thank you. colleague i want to recognize two that have passed in the nation and george mcgovern and my first election then when i was paying attention to anything and his significance under the campaign in the country gave a lot of strength to millions of people in this country that still last today although people don't always see t

it is hispanic, pacific islanders, white, native americans, it is everybody. when they leave that room, they go back to their communities that are segregated. they, too, do not like it. it is a barrier that has to be torn down. i know it works. being in there for the last four years, we make it a point that everybody mixes up, even the seating. you do not just sit with a black person or a white person. it is about all of us, or none of us, and that is the bottom line. it has to be that mentality. >> it is a way to control the prisoners. it takes the pressure off the guards and everybody else. they say we want to stop violence, but you promote a violence by segregating. when an individual comes, the first in the asking, where are you from? what is your nationality? that is how to divide and conquer. that is the way the united states is made up. that is how you work. north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates

there are a total of 12 female officers, one asian-pacific islander, three african-americans, seven caucasian and one latina. richmond officers also speak a variety of languages of we speak, et cetera. year-to-date our violent crimes are down 17% for aggravated assaults, homicides we have one last year and we have had one this year and robbery, is down 5% and rape is the same as last year, five rapes. we have really focused the lion's share of our efforts on reducing violent crime and i think it shows in the numbers. your year-to-date property crimes are up. we have met repeatedly to streamline what is going on. in march and april people start to vacation places in golden gate park and that is where we see the rise come. we work with the assistant district attorney to try to streamline that, and really figure out exactly and pinpoint where the crimes are and how we can impact them the most. some of the things that we're doing to impact that is we also -- our community policing advisory board again rock stars. they started a merchant camera program and about a month ago we held our first meeti

what we're trying to do is work in cooperation with them so the police department and the asian pacific islander outreach, we want to work with them providing available assistance to them for crime victims of human trafficking residing in san francisco. we will do the investigation, they will do the support and outreach to them to get them out of that and preventive services to help them live their life, gain control of their lives again. >> so will the money be used it hire people or train people in this area that are already employees of the department? where are the dollars actually? >> we already have human trafficking unit together under special victims unit. we have two full-time -- we have inspector flores along with officer brian keebler investigating full-time and also have two officers working on a rotation basis right now but we'd like to keep them for a little longer. we're not looking to hire anybody else, we're using the funds to continue doing what we're doing. >> i have to acknowledge this is inspentor antonio flores he's about as senior and capable a investigator for special vic

it's not just in this country but a tiny island in the pacific will be wiped off the face of the earthontinue to rise. today they arranged to buy 6,000 acres of land in fiji so they can move the entire population there there if the island becomes inhabitable as scientists are predicting. now, the issue of climate change cannot be ignored any longer. coming up, one of the favorite lines used by climate change deniers. so james balog made an extraordinary new film that does just that. >> that landscape is gone and may never >> jennifer: injureyou're back inside "the war room." i'm jennifer granholm. we have movies that matter series. i'll tell but a movie that is causing a buzz. it's called "chasing ice"." >> i never imagined you could sees glaciers disappearing in such a short time. the initial goal was to put out 25 cameras for three years. shoot every hour as long as it was daylight to show you how the landlandscape was changing. >> the landscape is gone and it may never be seen again in the history of civilization, and its stored right here. >> jennifer: the photographer is james bal

and previous to that it had only widened every year meaning the gap between african-american, pacific islander latino students versus white and asian-american students. now we are finally narrowing that gap so district is on trap, we're doing the work we need to do. this small amount of money will help the school district do the work that it's doing to get our kids to graduate. >> president chiu: supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: thank you. i have almpúu question to the s budget office. we have not received a deficit forecast for the next fiscal year. i think that's probably coming soon. can you just give an update on that because there was a reference before to having a better budget picture. so i'd like to get some specifics on that. >> through the chair, supervisor wiener, kate howard, mayor's budget director. you're right, we haven't issued budget directions or -- we haven't projected a deficit. that will be coming next week. i can say that the outlook has improved since last year, but we still will be projecting significant deficits in the first year and in the second year. for a

he broke barriers and paved the way for countless asian american and pacific islanders in public service. in my role as chair of the congressional asian pacific american caucus, i truly valued aze guidance as founder and longtime executive board member of our caucus. he was a tireless advocate for both the people of hawaii and the broader asian american and pacific islander community. all of us who had the honor to know and learn from him will dearly miss his leadership and the honor and integrity that we need -- that he brought to the job my heart goes out to his wife, irene, and his son, daniel ken inouye jr., and the many family, friends, colleagues and constituents for their tremendous loss. so aloha, senator inouye, thank you for your lifetime of service. while your passing has left us with a great void, we know that your legacy will continue to live on in the many accomplishments you leave behind and in the generations you've inspired through your service to our country. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from hawaii is recognized. ms. hanabusa: i yield such time as she may co

here, celestial navigation is taught on a south pacific island. we begin to learn language and other symbolic systems at birth. in time, they become a part of who we are and how we perceive the world. still, it's difficult for those of us in one culture to fully understand the symbolic systems of another. for archaeologists, the task is even more complex. the cultures they study can no longer be directly observed. archaeologist david webster. webster: suppose i came into this stadium a week, or even a century, after all the people left. how would i figure out what happened here ? what this arena was used for ? this is the dilemma facing archaeologists. symbols are of fundamental importance in understanding any human culture because they're so laden with meaning. but they're not very durable, and even if we find them, often we can't decode them. in this case, though, i'm in luck because of this -- writing. writing is a set of graphic symbols that is directly or indirectly related to language. keach: we use writing to convey very specific informatio