phil ting's bill would start with allowing california community colleges the chance to observe lunar new year as a holiday. it would provide them the flexibility to alter other holidays so they wouldn't have to add any more full-day closures to the calendar. they believe it would help promote cultural understanding in schools. they plan to unveil it later this morning in the chinatown branch. >>> a live look down at san jose as we get started. meteorologist kari hall has a look at what we can expect in the forecast today. how will it shape up later? >> temperatures in the upper 30s for the south bay. it's 45 in oakland as well as 45 in santa rosa. as you get the kids ready for school in the tri-valley a look at livermore. they need the heavier coats at drop-off time. in pickup time it's in the upper 50s. a nice recovery today as we

[applause] >> and next up we have state assembly member and budget chair, phil ting. >> thanks, jeff. it's exciting to be here. we heard from our mayor, our state senator, we're going to have our speaker talk, but this is just an amazing moment. just demonstrates that if the city can put its mind to something, we can achieve anything that we absolutely want. but again, i think the mayor put it well. this was 30 years in the making. this was all about, all the past leaders who have the foresight to know that we absolutely had to invest in our transportation infrastructure, we had to invest in our city, that the only way for our city to grow is through transit. we're a city that is amazing. we'll welcoming people into downtown, we're welcoming people into our neighborhoods and we continue to grow but the only way we're going to have and guarantee the economics vitality for our city is if we can expand our public transportation. this investment, i think back about the state investment that started in 2000, 2002, $600 million in state money started but that was for many elected officials

assembly member phil ting introduced a new bill today in california that allows community colleges to observe the lunar new year without a holiday. last year a bill passed making the lunar new year a state holiday. this affects community colleges specifically. it is usually celebrated with a break from work and school as people enjoy the holiday with their families. >> i know for my parents it was the holidays they most look forward to because they have to go to work, we had to go to school. it never felt like a complete holiday our family could really take the time to celebrate, the time to be together and really be with each other. >> ting hopes observing the holiday will education students about the lunar new year while promoting cultural acceptance. >>> a popular camera shop becomes a crime scene. an armed robber's attack inside when we come back. >>> and tesla announces its highly anticipated earnings report. did the automaker exceed expectations? we'll tell you. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri with a little bit of a breeze today your allergies could be bothering you. el

. >>> bay area assembly member phil ting is pushing to make the lunar new year a holiday, a chance to observe lunar new year as a holiday and would give the flexibility to alter other holidays so they won't have to add any more to the calendar. supporters believe it would help promote cultural understanding. assembly member ting says this will help the community move forward. >> to do this lunar new year is a holiday for us where we're not supposed to be in school, we're not supposed to be doing anything. we're supposed to be with our families ushering in the new year. >> the bill is awaiting to be referred to state assembly committees. turning now to our climate in crisis over the past days we've talked about the latest series of storms have a significant improvement on the drought monitor. several feet of snow across the sierra and today a look at the latest snowpack numbers. let's bring in meteorologist vianey arana now. how are they looking? >>> it's looking good. you've probably seen the video of all of the snow we got up in the sierra. i want to show you the latest numbers. this

. >> going introduce assembly member phil ting. thank you. supervisor let me just first take our our share of for county sheriff, the county, the city. all the incredible work that they've done to make sure the community is first and foremost safe. also very much focused and all the families that have been impacted, families that have been directly impacted. but then this whole city has been and all the work really begin the healing process, leaving process. to this rich like many asian-americans. i celebrate chinese new year over this last week last week. it's part of our biggest holiday, asian-american community. holiday that brings people together. that we use of our homes, a focus on families and loved ones. they get ready to start the new year and really look at new. it's a time of rebirth. this time of really restarted everything. and to 2 shootings that our state run. park. and then this one, of day come on the heels of the lunar new year is unimaginable. it makes me think about everything that we've done. we would traditionally same c

it's called the freedom to walk act and was written by bay area assemblyman phil ting. >> it allows people to cross without being worried with a citation and i think this will help make our streets safer and, frankly, it will make walking much more enjoyable in california. >> reporter: minimum wage will rise to $15.50 an hour and expand to nearly all employees, including those working for small businesses. staying in the workplace, employers with over 15 employees will be required to list pay and salary ranges on all job postings. also, the pink tax ban goes into effect, the so-called pink tax is the up-charge on certain products or services that are specifically targeted toward women. >> it goes from everything down to socks. >> reporter: and women's razors. courts are charge penalties if stores are causing more on the sets of goods. >> it was costing women in california almost $1,200 a year that could be going toward their housing, feeding their kids, education, other things that continue to move our economy forward. >> reporter: another much anticipated law aims to curb catalytic conver

. >> state assemblyman phil ting was also at today's news conference. he said the half moon bay shooting and the monterey park shooting. both happens during a time when asian american communities are celebrating the lunar new year and it raises concerns about safety issues at the upcoming festival. events. ting said nothing is more important than making sure everyone can have a safe celebration. >> how is it was good or new year? >> so sunday that there's going to celebrations beyond. we have our big parade in san francisco coming up a couple weeks. i know that all the officials up and down the state are also working very hard to make sure that all the celebrations can continue and we can continue to work very, very hard to make sure all of our communities can really celebrate that holiday. >> assemblyman ting also called for adding more restrictions on gun use in california. >> the nonprofit organization stop aap. i hate also issued a statement on the recent shootings. in part, the group said, quote, after nearly 3 years of attacks targeting the asian

thank you to the budget chair phil ting. i mean what we've done in the last few years to address asian hate we're not reacting to it. we've been leading the nation and aspect the money we put up for victim services. i'm proud of that so we're well resourced. we were making that place known those investments known down in monterey park with the county sheriff. they had 8.7 million dollars directly to take care of that man. that said i can't afford my hospital bill. we said we got your back. don't worry those resources are there. i see the city administrator here to remarkable supervisors. they've been writing checks directly to some of the folks that were impacted. i say we have your back and we're here not just today tomorrow, but we hear from the long conditions that are probably not right with somebody that's working in a farm. where you clarified i i don't want to categorize that look i've spent a lot of time in the state in every part of this state. i'm not new to some of the struggles and challenges farm workers. i just

[applause] >> and next up we have state assembly member and budget chair, phil ting. >> thanks, jeff. it's exciting to be here. we heard from our mayor, our state senator, we're going to have our speaker talk, but this is just an amazing moment. just demonstrates that if the city can put its mind to something, we can achieve anything that we absolutely want. but again, i think the mayor put it well. this was 30 years in the making. this was all about, all the past leaders who have the foresight to know that we absolutely had to invest in our transportation infrastructure, we had to invest in our city, that the only way for our city to grow is through transit. we're a city that is amazing. we'll welcoming people into downtown, we're welcoming people into our neighborhoods and we continue to grow but the only way we're going to have and guarantee the economics vitality for our city is if we can expand our public transportation. this investment, i think back about the state investment that started in 2000, 2002, $600 million in state money started but that was for many elected officials

it's called the freedom to walk act, and it was written by bay area assemblyman phil ting. >> i think this will help make our street safer and help make walking much more enjoyable in california. >> reporter: minimum wage will rise to $15.50 and expand to nearly all employees including those working for small businesses. staying in the work place employers with over 15 employees will be required to list pay and salary ranges on all job postings. the pink tax ban goes into effect. the pink tax is the up charge on certain products or services specifically targeted toward women. >> it goes down to everything down to socks -- >> reporter: and women's razors compared to men's razors. the law allows courts to impose civil penalties if companies are charging more on two similar sets of goods. >> the pink tax was costing women almost $1,200 a year that could be going to better housing, feeding their kids, education, other things that continue to move our economy forward. >> reporter: recyclers will have to collect additional information from the people trying to sell catalytic converters incl

the state budget and doing so in the face of that huge $22 billion budget deficit, and assemblyman phil ting joins us now live. thank you so much for being here, boy a bit of the budget blues there at the state capitol. how concerned are you about the economic outlook? yeah not very concerned at all right now, heather. we've been planning for this moment for quite a while. what really happened is we had overly rosy projections from last year in terms of our revenue revenues a little bit more down this year. i don't think it's going to have a huge impact. it just means that there are certain priorities that we need to delay or spend in further, you know, further out years we've been working really hard because most of money we've been spending in terms of excess funds has really been one time spending. so i capital programs that we spend only once a year and so many of these are not ongoing commitments like education, like health care or many of our human services programs. we're going to get to those priorities in just a moment, but but i know you just wrapped up this this big two day summit

san francisco assembly member phil ting announced the bill this morning at city college. his proposal would not increase the number of days that community colleges would close. it would combine the lunar new year with lincoln's and washington's birthdays. this allows community colleges up and down the state to do this lunar new year is a holiday for us where we're not supposed to be in school. we're not supposed to be really doing anything was supposed to be with our families and really ushering in the new year, celebrating with loved ones. last year, a bill was passed declaring lunar new year as a state holiday for state employees, but it does not cover community college districts and the chinese new year parade in san francisco is scheduled for saturday, february 4th and for the first time since the start of the pandemic, you can watch it live right here on ktvu. we will have a special newscast at five pm and then our parade coverage begins at six. philadelphia eagles quarterback jalen hurts has plenty of respect for his 49ers counterpart who he acts. really played agai

underway in sacramento right now to make lunar new year a state holiday san francisco assembly member phil ting announced the bill this morning at city college. his proposal would not increase the number of days community colleges would close. it would combine lunar new year with lincoln's and washington's birthdays. this allows community colleges up and down the state to do this lunar new year is a holiday for us where we're not supposed to be in school. we're not supposed to be really doing anything was supposed to be with our families and really ushering in the new year, celebrating with loved ones. last year, a bill was passed declaring lunar new year as a state holiday for state employees, but that did not cover community college districts and reminder here. the chinese new year parade in san francisco is scheduled for saturday, february 4th and for the first time since the start of the pandemic, you can watch it live right here on ktvu. we will have a special newscast that day at five pm and then our coverage of the parade begins at six o'clock. we sure hope you can tune in or join us in

san francisco assembly member phil ting announced the bill this morning at city college. his proposal would combine the lunar new year with lincoln's and washington's birthday. this allows community colleges up and down the state to do this lunar new year is a holiday for us where we're not supposed to be in school. we're not supposed to be really doing anything was supposed to be with our families and really ushering in the new year, celebrating with loved ones. last year, a bill was passed declaring lunar new year as a holiday for state employees , but it does not cover community college districts, while the chinese new year parade in san francisco will take place on february 4th and for the first time since the start of the pandemic, you can watch it live right here on ktvu, fox two. we will have a special newscast at five p.m. that day saturday night and then our parade coverage. begins at six o'clock. coming up in sports a shocker at oracle arena as steph curry is ejected from the game against the grizzlies to the warriors come out on top after the loss of the two ti

[applause] >> and next up we have state assembly member and budget chair, phil ting. >> thanks, jeff.ng to be here. we heard from our mayor, our state senator, we're going to have our speaker talk, but this is just an amazing moment. just demonstrates that if the city can put its mind to something, we can achieve anything that we absolutely want. but again, i think the mayor put it well. this was 30 years in the making. this was all about, all the past leaders who have the foresight to know that we absolutely had to invest in our transportation infrastructure, we had to invest in our city, that the only way for our city to grow is through transit. we're a city that is amazing. we'll welcoming people into downtown, we're welcoming people into our neighborhoods and we continue to grow but the only way we're going to have and guarantee the economics vitality for our city is if we can expand our public transportation. this investment, i think back about the state investment that started in 2000, 2002, $600 million in state money started but that was for many elected officials many years a

[applause] >> and next up we have state assembly member and budget chair, phil ting. >> thanks, jeff. it's exciting to be here. we heard from our mayor, our state senator, we're going to have our speaker talk, but this is just an amazing moment. just demonstrates that if the city can put its mind to something, we can achieve anything that we absolutely want. but again, i think the mayor put it well. this was 30 years in the making. this was all about, all the past leaders who have the foresight to know that we absolutely had to invest in our transportation infrastructure, we had to invest in our city, that the only way for our city to grow is through transit. we're a city that is amazing. we'll welcoming people into downtown, we're welcoming people into our neighborhoods and we continue to grow but the only way we're going to have and guarantee the economics vitality for our city is if we can expand our public transportation. this investment, i think back about the state investment that started in 2000, 2002, $600 million in state money started but that was for many elected officials

consider affordable housing uses for this site and our office worked closely with assembly member phil ting ting and also his senior field representive naome (inaudible) have been instrumental moving these plans forward. assembly member ting office facilitated meetings with the dmv and department of general services of the state who partnered with our respective offices to try to find a creative solution here and we were thrilled last month when dmv went ahead and released after this resolution, they released a request for interest for the development of housing on the site and the rfi makes clear dmv is open to either affordable housing on-site coexisting with the dmv or rebuilt dmv office or converting the site to affordable housing and moving the dmv to a new home in san francisco. so, this is a really positive development and i want to note something that happened pretty quickly. we are often see government move slowly and this happened shortly after the meetings assembly member ting and my office were a part of. this is a neighborhood that strongly supports affordable housing on this s

consider affordable housing uses for this site and our office worked closely with assembly member phil ting who districts includes the dmv. assembly member ting and also his senior field representive naome (inaudible) have been instrumental moving these plans forward. assembly member ting office facilitated meetings with the dmv and department of general services of the state who partnered with our respective offices to try to find a creative solution here and we were thrilled last month when dmv went ahead and released after this resolution, they released a request for interest for the development of housing on the site and the rfi makes clear dmv is open to either affordable housing on-site coexisting with the dmv or rebuilt dmv office or converting the site to affordable housing and moving the dmv to a new home in san francisco. so, this is a really positive development and i want to note something that happened pretty quickly. we are often see government move slowly and this happened shortly after the meetings assembly member ting and my office were a part of. this is a neighborhood tha