for the african network and the organizing center the asian-americans advancing just the asian pacific islander outreach and chinese for follicle and the costs delores community services and the other organizations. and people organizing to the village and economic rights. i'm grateful for the work that sf island has bun doing in san francisco pushing for comprehensive immigration reformer and pushing for a accessible legal services and community education, and councilmember taylor the immigrant population in san francisco for so many years since 2006 when they were created it's served many people in san francisco and this is a celebration day it's the 8th annual immigrant day where the st. island comes to city hall to raise awareness about the immigrant community. sf island is realizing the immigration project the multiple community based project done in accumulation with san francisco and capturing the low income immigrants in san francisco that have been touched by the services by sf island we have a well-informed understanding of what true immigration means it's more than welcoming immigran

the asian and asian pacific islander community and chinese communities there are serious concerns i want to thank my co-sponsor for the issues on obesity and especially the asian pacific islander community. my co-sponsors are here supervisor cowen and supervisor avalos and supervisor wiener and others for co-sponsoring the hearing. i'm calling for a hearing on increasing the access to drinking water in the unified school district. i think healthy constrain and communities require access to healthy drinks especially drinking water. freshwater at the schools gives children healthier choices everyday. one school peabody recently installed drink tap stations with facilities money it was wise in how they did it to have visible access i'd like to see that model replicated especially in low income neighborhoods in our city. so today, i'm introducing the acceptability for the tap stations in the san francisco unified school district. i know that in this case within the unified school district have been implementing many approaches but wild to coordinate with our city. many don't have drinki

assigned to the pacific island of mid-way. they stood at the pacific filming the battle. ford himself was knocked off that roof and received shrapnel wound. he produced a documentary called the battle of mid-way. and in 2000, ktvu's bob mackenzie found a former american sailor who was not part of ford's film and who's heroism went unrecognized for half a century. >> reporter: for more than 50 years nobody knew that art lewis was a hero. that he had risked his own life to save other people's lives in world war ii. that's because lewis never talked about what he had done and because the men who hand out medals and write military history had overlooked him. it's time we told his story. >> reporter: on june 4, 1942 a naval battle that changed the course of history began near the pacific island of mid-way. an outnumbered and outgunned task force faced military armada. the military forces had the advantage of surprise. they had cracked the japanese secret code. the war in the pacific would turn on this battle. art lewis was an 18-year-old sailor on the destroyer batch. his job

the ceremony took place during a visit to the pacific island nation by u.s. president barack obama. under the agreement, the u.s. military will regularly send troops to the philippines. the two sides also agreed to build or improve military facilities and infrastructure for joint use. the two countries say the number of u.s. troops to be deployed and specific plans to build new facilities will be decided in further consultations. >>> sources say the u.s. military could gain access do sites in the subic bay area on luzon island, and facilities on palaun island. both locations face the south china sea where china's increasing its maritime activities. the philippines once served as a major military outpost for the united states. but american troops withdrew from the country more than 20 years ago. and the defense ministers of japan and australia have agreed to speed up talks to bolster bilateral security. it follows japan's new principles on the transfer of defense equipment to ease its arms export ban. japanese defense minister itsunori onodera and his australian counterpart david joh

most of our clients are asian and pacific islander. a lot of them are, you know, program who believe they don't have any right to stamped up for themselves, they don't have a right to fight for their rights in housing. a lot of them when threatened leave. since i came on board, i've noticed that [speaker not understood] we add value. a lot of the time all they need is someone is to sit with you, i'll help you fight. it makes all the difference. my first client at [speaker not understood] was a family of persons, a family of seven with two disabled parents. she was getting ready to leave because the landlord told her to. we told her she had rights, we stood by, the land lord dismissed the case because there was no case. there are lots of cases like this. most of my clients are, you know, significantly marginalized. housing prices hit everyone, but certain people have significantly greater difficulties. so, i would, again, call for the expansion of more funding for any representation for any of these groups that have been marginalized. >

goal was to evangelize and educate students throughout the world, namely native americans and pacific islanders and then send them back to their respective communities as missionaries. this is about an hour and a half. >> well, thank you very much. i really appreciate the chance to talk to you tonight about this new book of mine. it's actually published only a week ago, and to me, this feels a little like a kind of kickoff of what's going on, actually, a number of talks that i'll be doing here and there. this is the first one, a chance to try out on all of you what i might hope to be doing later on as well, but i'll find out what works and what doesn't work when i talk here tonight. let me just say that my plan for this presentation has two or three different parking lots. i'll -- parts. i'll start by saying just a little bit about how i got on to this project in the first place and something, too, about the process working with it over a good number of years. then i will move to what, in effect, is a kind of thumbnail, a 15 or 20-minute maybe thumbnail of the story that lies at t

it covers the pacific coast and the islands of izu and ogasawada. agency officials say the tsunami could reach up to a meter. they're warning people covered by the advisory to stay away from beaches and river mouths. we'll bring you more updates as they come in. do stay with us. >> hello. i'm sumari.

southeast is implicated greatly but because of the demographic change in the last 10 years the asian pacific islander and the latino population 38 they needed need to have cultural strategy to focus on them so they too understand they're part of the community and get even though guidance regarding the greenhouses. we talk about the deficit one of the things about having spruce is to have the opportunity to use the funding for the scholarships for the youth and job training we never had a surplus so when we don't have the surplus we're not having the resources and having to do with the leveraging adequate resources to focus on the outreach effort. so outreach from the puc and the city commission aspect how do we ask the puc to support that and be strategic. so far the outreach does meet the slogan our number two is our number one. the citizens don't have computers and don't have the resources i think commissioners torres said it best how do we commit to the promise so when we talk about servicing the community and the families don't never, ever over promise and under deliver so with with that said, i

today, we celebrate the completion of one hundred and 7 homes and tomorrow we celebrate asian pacific islander list griffin and after that sunny value and the katrero hill. i want to thank the mayor for the investment in the community - itself up here i'm sorry. i want to thank leader pelosi for her devotion to san francisco to john stewart and the housing corporation none of this would be possible and tiffany with the infrastructure as well as the commissioners, thank you. again, i want to thank entrepreneurs community partners and the san francisco foundation and welcome back our brother fred blackwell and director olsen lee. and also want to recognize the executive director of the housing authority barbara taylor smith. thank you barbara i know you've had quite a year and at least i want to thank the hunter's view residents thank you so much for being patient. and recognize the hunter tenants association and as we help our people with walk it's a new organization that's been be born out of the entire process. to our housing authority and commissioners thank you very much for your services a

big hope is that the technology here can be rolled out to other small islands and communities dependent on diesel. across the pacificthere is fluctuating sun and wind harnessing it reliable could transform islands there more than this one. andrew thomas, king island, australia. >> a check on the morning's top stories just ahead. plus we will introduce you to some of the people who are risking it all, all for a chance at life in america. >>> good morning to you. welcome back to al jazeera america. i am morgan radford, and here are today's headlines. ukraine's interior minister announced that government forces have launched what he called an anti-terrorist operation. >> that's against pro-russian militants who seized a police stati station. one security officer has been killed and five others wounded when people who lived there are being warned to stay indoors and away from windows. >>> three provinces hild well chemical filled barely bombs. damascus and a branch of al-qaeda. the assad regime is supposed to get rid of all of its chemical weapons by june. >> illegal crossings along the southwest border have increased d

southeast is implicated greatly but because of the demographic change in the last 10 years the asian pacific islander and the latino population 38 they needed need to have cultural strategy to focus on them so they too understand they're part of the community and get even though guidance regarding the greenhouses. we talk about the deficit one of the things about having spruce is to have the opportunity to use the funding for the scholarships for the youth and

. >>> and a new report coming out tomorrow showing that asian americans and pacific islanders are movingy left. it could be crucial in swing states like north carolina and virginia and more important in the immigration debate. and the sen e ter for american progress found that after one presidential cycle the percent of asian americans supporting a path to citizenship has more than doubled. and then on taxes the group that tends to earn more than average supports raising the taxes on the rich to reduce the deficit at 67%, and 55% of asian americans support bigger government. that is above average. joining me right now is the report's coauthor, and thank you for being here with me. and president obama got 73% of the vote from the asian americans in 2012. when we look at the numbers and this report, what does it mean for 2014 and 2016? >> well shgs, i think that what shows you is that there is a pretty clear trend in this trend that has been happening over the past decade or two where asian americans and pacific islanders have been drifting more and more towards the democratic party, and t

. >> garden organizers say asians and pacific islanders make up the largest population group in bayview hunters point. >>> is the food you're eating and feeding your family safe? new data from the cdc says it's not. >> the government's latest report card on food poisoning is mixed. officials say not much has changed since 2006. here are some of the good news. the cdc says there were fewer cases of salmonella last year. it dipped by 9% in 2013 compared to the previous three years. there was, however, a spike in illnesses caused by bacteria caused in raw shellfish such as oysters. food safety experts say the report should issue a warning to congress to fully fund the food safety bill passed back in 2010. >> if fda does not get the resources, we're going to continue to see outbreaks, maybe even large outbreaks. >> congress is debating 2015 funding levels for the food and drug administration. coming up later on channel 2 news, what officials say could be causing that increase in illnesses related to shellfish and also why they're not necessarily celebrating the drop in salmonella. for now

least twenty one people were killed thirty others are missing queenstown a drenching the south pacific island on thursday. they've caused outrage across the country won his first over of riverbank in the capital for nana and swept away homes and think it's the flooding has closed airports and cut off roads. about fifty thousand people have fled into evacuation shelters officials from the abyss that day almost half of them are children. again i don't have enough water food or medical supplies. most of the town with only the clothes they're wearing and relief workers fear mosquitoes could spread infectious diseases. student protesters in taiwan's same bill ended their three week occupation of comments they say they've made substantial progress in negotiations with the government instead of being demanding that taiwan's leaders council a trade pact with china. legislative speaker wang jin being agreed to set up a mechanism overseeing all agreements with china. the government will close on the trade deal until that mechanism is in place. readers responded by agreeing to they keep the comments but

today, we celebrate the completion of one hundred and 7 homes and tomorrow we celebrate asian pacific islander list griffin and after that sunny value and the katrero hill. i want to thank the mayor for the investment in the community

if you are in the sahara or africa or and the low-lying pacific islands among people who are alreadyn a marginal situation, climate change could be the thing that pushes them over the edge. tavis: how do you respond to the argument that the world's worst polluters happened to be the big guys and that the little guys in africa and elsewhere and up suffering because of the damage that we are disproportionately doing to the environment and putting their lives at risk? >> this is a good point. if we look at the projections for crop production, in the northern mid-latitudes them in the northern u.s., canada, russia, the growing season is getting longer and crop yields are likely to go up in these regions. if we look at the tropical countries already today, crop production is limited by heat stress and it will only get hotter and have more problems for growing crops. north same way that the south will deal with the impact. tavis: we are not at the level that we should. often times i read these stories and accounts of where these countries are screaming loud. at the point of jumping up and

this is important because one in ten asian and pacific islanders is chronically infected with hepatitis worldwide. two out of three don't know they are infected and one in four will develop liver cancer or liver disease if left untreated. >>> this new legislation is an important step toward the eradication of the hepatitis epidemic, the silent killer. >> the santa clara county health department introduced its new hepatitis b prevention coordinator. it makes it the first county in the nation to create a position dedicated to prevention. >>> a channel 2 investigation uncoversers allegations of animals being misidentified as a bay area animal shelter and the mistakes turnly deadly. >> and the dog was euthanized as a pit bull when it wasn't a pit bull. >> workers say they have photos proving the problems. tonight at 10:00, 2 investigates looks into how it could happen and how often the biggest bay area shelters are euthanizing animals. it's all tonight on the 10:00 news. >>> already some changes out there. a lot of clouds moving into the bay area. you can count on some cooler temperatures a

one in 10 asian pacific islanders is chronically infected with hepatitis "b" worldwide. >>> it's beenee weeks since the century 21 theater dome in san jose closed and on tuesday it won a small victory. it's now eligible to be considered for the national historic register. it's the last of its kind in california and the last movie showing was packed but in a hearing this week the owners stood by the decision to close it. >> where were those audiences over the last number of years? if everyone continues to be so interested in going to that theater, i think we would have seen that over the decades. but we we saw was the opposite. >> the national park service will now consider the historic recommendation. the service has the final say on whether the preservation process moves forward. >>> michelle came back just in time for rain. >> sunshine to rain. >> she was walking outside it's so cold here. [ laughter ] >> somehow i don't feel bad for you just coming back from hawaii. >> but you know, yeah, we have a nice spring storm headed our way. could get interesting especially tomorrow. clouds

there were pacific islanders, china, a few european jews, a couple greeks and that surprised me. i am a greek extraction but in those days greeks were considered to be heathen. why not? as time passed, there was growing number of american indians and in all i think about 15 different tribes would be represented at the school. i got to skip lightly over the actual workings of the school buchlt -- but i want to emphasis and it would be hard to overemphasis the intensely held hopes and ambitions that underlie this project. the idea was the grads would grat go and take what they learned and took it back to their country. if all went well, and they were very explicit about this, the entire world would be saved and that was the key word in every important way, saved in the shortest time imagineable. one particular happening in the school's first year should be mention mentioned. henry took sick, he was the centerpiece of this, and he had a case of typhus and after a period of weeks, he died. and the school sponsored and leaders then sensed the chance to constru the passing as a martyr'

. >>> good afternoon, dean ito taylor, executive director pacific islander legal outreach. i am here to support victor hwang. no one in my over, almost 40 years of providing social justice services in san francisco has as much qualifications as victor. he is going to be an outstanding addition to the commission. i asked victor before coming here why, why spend an inordinate amount of time committed to the commission's work, and he [speaker not understood] out of a sense of community service. no one i've met in working in my years of san francisco has committed as much time and effort to make san francisco a better place. and for us to appoint victor would just solidify that drive to strengthen law enforcement in san francisco. thank you. >> alan -- come on up. alan kriege. [speaker not understood]. jennifer [speaker not understood]. kevin bocus. malcolm young. david newsome. >>> good afternoon, my name is john rodney. i'm the communications manager for the california immigrant policy center. we're a statewide immigrant rights organization and i've had the honor of collabora

geological survey says the undersea quake was 10 kilometers deep, struck 75 kilometers from the pacific island. people felt a short and violent jolt but there were no reports of significant damage. thousands of people from around the world have started arriving at saint peter's square to watch the vatican can onnize two popes. some slept overnight. more plan to camp out to get the best spot ahead of sunday's ceremony. around 1 million people are expected to attend the canonization of pope john paul ii and pope john xxiii. a powerful storm and tornado has ripped through the u.s. state of north carolina. it damaged homes and downed dozens of power lines. heavy rain also made it near impossible to drive or walk outside. u.s. president barack obama has arrived in malaysia on the third leg of his asian tour. he is the first american leader to visit the country in nearly 50 years. his visit aims to rebalance u.s. attention towards the strategic asia pacific region and to push a regional trade agreement. the world's first permanent museum dedicated to the 1989 tiananmen square protest has opened in h

justa, coalition on homelessness, we heard from the san francisco bar association, the asian pacific islander legal outreach, tenants together, the tenants union, the tenderloin housing clinic, legal assistance for elderly, the housing rights committee, the bayview hunters point community legal services, and then any other member of the public who would like to speak. please go ahead. thank you very much.

justa, coalition on homelessness, we heard from the san francisco bar association, the asian pacific islander legal outreach, tenants together, the tenants union, the tenderloin housing clinic, legal assistance for elderly, the housing rights committee, the bayview hunters point community legal services, and then any other member of the public who would like to speak. please go ahead. thank you very much. >>> good morning, supervisors. thank you for your time and your consideration. my name is [speaker not understood] i'm the supervising attorney at the evictions defense collaborative. it is the primary agency that helps tenants respond to their eviction lawsuit. we do have some limited resource he to help some tenants, but the vast majority of tenants we do not have the resources to represent. in my role as the supervising attorney i oversee a lot of the litigation that happens and i'm very aware of the value that attorneys add in cases when we're able to represent tenants fully. last week at court we sent six attorney to court and five of though tenants were able to keep their rent controll

two struck on tuesday on chile the issue to tsunami advisory for areas south and down japan's pacific islands agency officials there tsunami of forty seven meters was seen in the north eastern t

i know we don't just look at chinese and asian pacific islanders, but we relate in other low-income communities. could you talk about who you represent when you are a civil rights attorney or even on the police commission? i know you said you've been responsive. [speaker not understood]. >> thank you for asking that question. that's kind of the question that hits my heart. so, thank you for asking. so, i'm the daughter of chinese immigrants who owned a chinese restaurant in portland, oregon. the entire time growing up, i grew up in a place that was very white. there wasn't a lot of asian americans there, not a lot of other minorities. i spent the time thinking about what i should do with my life, especially given that my relatives often had trouble understanding how the system works. there were very few services for them and i decided really early on in high school i wanted to be a civil rights attorney. and i just didn't know where i was going to do that. and when i went to -- i was at law school in harvard. one summer he i was at the asian law caucus and i was just amazed by the way we respon

the big hope is that the technology here can be rolled out to small islands and remote communities dependent on diesel. across the pacific, there's plenty of fluctuating sun and wind. harnessing it could transform islands more than this one. >> still ahead - a stolen peace of art with deep mytho logical ties are found and may help authorities break up an international theft ring. >> into welcome back to al jazeera america. here are the top store yours, breaking news, shootings at three locations in kansas. one at the jewish parking lot and a jewish assisted living center. a suspect is in custody. >> ukraine launches an anti-terrorist operation, using the army against pro-russian militants in the east. the united nations security council meets in a few hours to discuss the threat in eastern ukraine. three provinces in syria have been hit with chemical filled barrel bombs. the suburbs of damascus were attacked. the syrian opposition blames a branch of al qaeda, the rebels blame the government. >> a fast-moving forest fire in chile's west coast kills 16. thousands have been forced to evacuate. the seaport town has been chai

a powerful earthquake struck off the south pacific island of papua new guinea early this morning. the earthquake registered a magnitude of 7-point-3 and was centered on bougainville island. there are no reports of injuries or damage and there is no threat of a tsunami. the country is in the pacific's "ring of fire" and earthquakes are common in the region. police force lays off one-third of their staff. judy wang joins us with more. >> it took effect at midnight. 16 full-time officers and no longer a detective division. the village and the police union tried for months to reach a contract agreement with no deal. worst-case scenario came true. the village sent layoff notices a week ago citing budgetary constraints. the fraternal order of police says with the cuts only one or two officers are on duty during some shifts in the southwest suburbs. the village board voted this past november to cut $1 million from the police department budget. at the time the village manager said the final chapter has not yet been written. the layoffs also, about one week after village announces the reti

the game was between the pacific islanders and the sacramento capital city fury. one of the players from sacramento was arrested on suspicion of brandishing a firearm. police recovered the weapon and said it was stolen. >>> a top executive at a.c. transit is phasing embezzlement charges accused of stealing more than $500,000 from his church. alex savidge is live in oakland with these allegations and where that money may have gone. good morning, alex. >> reporter: well, dave, good morning to you. to be clear, the charges in this case are not related to this man's work here at a.c. transit. the chief financial officer here instead is accused of stealing more than $500,000 from allen temple baptist church in oakland where he worships. we'll show you a photo of him. he went before a judge facing these charges. prosecutors say he spent that stolen money on everything from a luxury car to his kids' private school tuition to a golf club membership. clinton served on several boards of the church and prosecutors say those positions were used to steal church funds. he was b

the marshall islands is doing all nuclear powers were violating their legal obligation to disarm the pacific chain of islands was the sight of dozens of nuclear testing the nineteen fifties. he tells the story john kerry took aim at the park came over our ukraine coverage. this was while he went orchard for events in ukraine. more on that later nature a fan hello and welcome. i did it when it's at five pm here in washington dc. i found her watching our team there the story about the twitter like service that the us launched in cuba four years ago and failed. well there was an associated press investigation which revealed that the us has undertaken extensive efforts to hide the true nature of the messaging system calls and some mail. it was reported that the idea was to create a service that would carry neutral content at the beginning but once again the non subscribers that would be used to steer protesting about the us international development agency has admitted to running that what i like social networking cuba but said he was not an attempt to undermine the government and that it was no

the family was bound for a south pacific island when the little girl became sick. >>> and finally, tetrise you have never seen it before. hundreds of gamers flocking to a philadelphia skyscraper to play the classic game on this 29-story building. hundreds of l.e.d. lights were used to illuminate the building, and competitors used huge joy sticks to get the maneuvers just right. in the end, the passes of the event fell perfectly into place. they are celebrating tech week in philadelphia and the 30th anniversary of the discovery, or creation of tetra this june. >> timeless game. >> timeless. >> one of my favorites. >> it is. >> thanks, ron. >>> turn now to the latest on the shooting spree at ft. hood that left three soldiers dead and 16 others wound. a memorial service will be held on the base wednesday as military investigators try to determine a definite motive for the rampage. let's bring in abc's martha raddatz who is co-hosting "this week" from ft. hood. good morning to you. on such a somber week, we will expect a timeline of the shooting to be released, what could that tell us. >> rep

unprecedented legal action rocket for the international court of justice at the hague, the tiny pacific island nation is accusing the nine countries of flagrant violations of international law, saying they're upgrading their nuclear arsenals instead of working to reduce them. the marshall islands chain, which includes the bikini atoll, was the subject of 67 nuclear test in the 1940's and 1950's, which have less -- left lasting health and environmental impacts. a federal judge has dismissed criminal charges against a former blackwater guard accused of firing the opening shots that triggered a massacre of iraqis in 2007. at least 14 civilians died in the new sore square massacre, including a nine-year-old boy. but the judge dismissed the indictment after a federal appeals court ruled the charges have been filed after the statute of limitations expired. prosecutors may seek new charges ahead of the june trial of three other blackwater guards in the case. the decision comes as an army sergeant faces a possible court martial for killing two unarmed iraqi boys in 2007. at a perimeter hearing this we

. >> the organization asian pacific islander legal outreach represents over 200 victims of forced labor trafficking in the san francisco area. but according to a 2004 report from the u.s. department of justice, an estimated 14 to 17,000 people are trafficked into the united states every year, making the crime as prevalent as homicide. put to work in popular restaurants, major hotel chains and factories, these silent victims, says lu, are the human cost of the low prices customers pay for food and services in big cities like san francisco. >> we' seen anyone as young as 7, anyone as old as 75 years old. men and women. we've also seen sex trafficking cases. but also a lot of labor cases so that involving domestic servitude, hotel restaurant work. >> and says liou, when they're wealthy foreigners or diplomats, they have little incentive to respect u.s. laws. >> exhausted and alone, lily worked up the nerve to speak with someone. >> heidi who works out of her home would often see lily when she went to pick up the mail. >> once in a while, she would be there and she would see me standing the

19th century who wanted to educate students throughout the world namely native americans and pacific islanders and send them back to their communities as missionaries. this is about an hour and a half. >> thank you very much. i really appreciate the chance to talk to you tonight about this new

pacific islanders/asian, 14%, and african-americans and others 7%.on-hispanic wite and latinos are about the same size. now take a look at the rest. take a look atthex pkted voters. the u.n.s we expect to see come out and vote. what do we happen to find out now? now hispanic whites are 39% expected. 60% of non-hispanic whites. latinos, 40%, expected, 20%. so what do we see? the same thing, african-americans. about the same. so when it comes down to the actual vote, whites will dominate, although not, i might add, not nearly as much as they did a decade ago. when they were not 60% but 70% of the vote. a big difference between who we are and who turns out. >> white voters are over indexing and latino voters are under indexing. >> one factor, citizenship, sure, of course, large numbers of latinos aren't citizens. therefore, not eligible to vote. okay. the second number, centers on age. latinos and to a lesser degree, asian americans are dr disproportionately young and not able to vote. a third factor is lower income people tend not to vote as much as pe

report stresses that no one racial group has all children meeting all milestones, asian and pacific islanderdren scored highest on the index with a composite score of 776 with southeast asian children faring worse than their east asian counterparts. white children next at 704, latino children at 404, native american children at 387 and african-american children at just 345. that dramatic gap held across the country, but for black children the states with the worst outcomes were in the south with the worst outcomes in mississippi, michigan and wisconsin. for latino children, the bottom was alabama. for native american children, with only 25 states supplying enough data to assess, the worst outcomes were in south dakota, which is home to some of the nation's poorest reservations. casey foundation president patrick mccarthy called the findings a call to action that requires serious and sustained attention from the private nonprofit philanthropic and government sectors to create equitable opportunities for children of color. the news of the nation's roughly 10 million black, 17.6 million latino