analyst, nems, and it is a non-profit community health center serving the san francisco bay area, established in the san francisco china town north beach area, 1968 and providing comprehensive quality and affordable and compassionate healthcare services for four years, we operate ten clinics throughout the bay area including seven clinicks in san francisco. the majority of the patients are low income with limited professioncy and face the challenges accessing the healthcare and up until late of 2013, the majority of the patients were also unininsured and participated in the program for uninsured adults, it served over 61,000 patients each year and of these, 49,000 live in the city and county of san francisco. and this represents nearly six percent of all san francisco residents. and since 1997, we have partnered to provide primary care and hospital service to patients covered by the san francisco health plan, over the last 17 years and especially with the recent changes as part of the affordable care act, they are now jointly responsible for the care of over 30,000 medical managed care patients in san francisco. and in

annual comedy show has come to san francisco china town for the 22nd year. hundreds of people gather at the new asia restaurant on pacific avenue for some laughs and a lot of great chinese food. show jew he shall creator and producer wanted to give those who don't celebrate christmas alternative entertainment. >> i came up with the idea of doing jew he shall comedy on christmas in a chinese restaurant to give jews and other people something to did on christmas so we provide alternative to christmas and sense of belonging. community. people don't have anything to do that night. >> personal proceed this year will benefit san francisco suicide prevention in honor of late comedian robin williams and children services food president obama as well. also the beneficiary of tonight's performance. >> sandhya is enjoying christmas off but drew is here with a look at the forecast. what a great day we had. bit is chilly. >> chilly overnight tonight. if you like the sunshine we have today the 7 day forecast you thoroughly enjoyment not much rain in the next 7 days. we we

annual comedy show has come to san francisco china town for the 22nd year.undreds of people gather at the new asia restaurant on pacific avenue for some laughs and a lot of great chinese food. show jew he shall creator and producer wanted to give those who don't celebrate christmas alternative entertainment. >> i came up with the idea of doing jew he shall comedy on christmas in a chinese restaurant to give jews and other people something to did on christmas so we provide alternative to christmas and sense of belonging. community. people don't have anything to do that night. >> personal proceed this year will benefit san francisco suicide prevention in honor of late comedian robin williams and children services food president obama as well. also the beneficiary of tonight's performance. >> sandhya is enjoying christmas off but drew is here with a look at the forecast. what a great day we had. bit is chilly. >> chilly overnight tonight. if you like the sunshine we have today the 7 day forecast you thoroughly enjoyment not much rain in the next 7 days. we were

annual comedy show has come to san francisco china town for the 22nd year. hundreds of people gather at the new asia restaurant on pacific avenue for some laughs and a lot of great chinese food. show jew he shall creator and producer wanted to give those who don't celebrate christmas alternative entertainment. >> i came up with the idea of doing jew he shall comedy on christmas in a chinese restaurant to give jews and other people something to did on christmas so we provide alternative to christmas and sense of belonging. community. people don't have anything to do that night. >> personal proceed this year will benefit san francisco suicide prevention in honor of late comedian robin williams and children services food president obama as well. also the beneficiary of tonight's performance. >> sandhya is enjoying christmas off but drew is here with a look at the forecast. what a great day we had. bit is chilly. >> chilly overnight tonight. if you like the sunshine we have today the 7 day forecast you thoroughly enjoyment not much rain in the next 7 days. we we

. >> beloved restaurant in san francisco china town will close the doors on wednesday after nearly halfcentury in business. empress of china opened on grant avenue in 1966. the restaurant received notice in september that the building would be going on the market by the end of the year. restaurant is well known for its intra cat century old chandelier beautiful countless wedding and event hosted over the years. it was also visited by a fair share of celebrity as well. portrait of sammy davis junior frank sinatra hang on the wall. >> another 30 minutes of 7 news at 9:00 is next. coming up. disappearance of the asia airplane. the desperate search is expanding. >> also fast and furious for real. side show make appearance in los angeles shutting down major freeway. >> million things can go wrong on wedding day but it would be difficult to anticipate. this how the president turned that a wedding crasher. the past pass. >> it is daylight. now in south east asia and race is on again to find the air asian jet line they are vanishes out of the sky. indonesian officials asking the u.s. to help fi

san francisco everybody is being pounded by moderate to heavy downpours. look at the bay bridge heading out of oakland all the way to the city at san francisco and china townbottom line is everyone will be experiencing a very difficult morning commute with temperatures in the 50. later today that chance of thunderstorm with winds gusting up in the 30s. >> there's a problem right here at the golden gate bridge involving a car hydro planing and crashing into the toll both. that -- booth. that toll booth is still shut down. you want to slow down and give yourself extra time. 880 we have a crash in the northbound area. two lanes of traffic are shut down. flooding in many parts of the bay area. that's a look at xcbs traffic. now to mitchell. >> a reduction in fees for taxi drivers so they can compete withube -- with uber and lift. >> cab drivers are coming up with all kinds of way to help vent their frustrations and show the public we're the ones following the rules and we're getting the bad end of the stick. >> at another bumper sticker like this one didn't your mother tell you not to ride with strangers. >>> the state water board will announce the last figure

and pay roll tax exemption and tax credit program in san francisco and the city's public and private business development initiative connecting china and san francisco and the tourism sector marketing and promotions program led by san francisco travel association and funded the renovation of the moss cone center and implemented improvements in 25 corridors and including pier 70 and the warrior's planned move to mission bay and with a heavy heart we're sad to hear jennifer has passed from us. . she has done so much and on behalf of the board i'd like to extend our deepest sympathies and we're grateful for for for her contributions to san francisco and mayor lee has opened a condolence book available in the mayor's office in room 200 at city hall and i wanted to announce on december 16th next tuesday at 11:00 a.m. that jennifer's memorial will take place at pier 27 and all the great work that she has done for our city so with that, again, i'd like to make this without objection from the entire board of supervisor's and i'd like to offer members of our board some remarks and also invite up todd rufo from our office of economic develop

china are huge. the one chase manhattan plaza deal. deal.ldorf it is l.a., it is here, it is san francisco. f china has been active since before all of those -- >> exactly. before that. they were active years and years ago. chinese investors who are paying for these deals, are they smart deals? do they look like good value? >> the chinese cost of capital is probably below where the 10 year treasuries trading at today. it actually looks like they're getting -- every time they get a deal north of a 2% return, it is accretive. there is the residual upside in their estimation, and i think there is in new york city because it is a pretty amazing place. >> the other trend we have been reading about that is fascinating is the shared workspace trend. the company subject to a big "forbes" magazine article, valued at $1.5 billion. i'm still trying to wrap my head around it. small businesses by membership and share secretary a coffee or copy machine and that is the future of the workplace. >> could have been one of my great mistakes because i met these guys before they really are getting going. >> oh,

china. san francisco police and san jose police are sending representatives to the service. the man who shot the two officers later took his own life. >>> new this morning, two police officers were hurt when they ran into a burning apartment complex to rescue a person inside. this happened just after midnight near roener park expressway and country club drive. a spokesperson says the two officers suffered smoke inhalation but they should be okay. the person who lived in that apartment is currently being treated for minor burns. three units were damaged in all. 14 people have been displaced. >>> the real life drama surrounding the controversial movie "the interview" takes a new twist this morning. we have just learned sony and youtube have reached an agreement and youtube will be streaming "the interview" tomorrow. meanwhile, independent theater operators said sony reached out to them about playing the comedy. many will play it on christmas day, including the elmwood theater in berkeley. the first showing is already sold out. it's a fictional movie with the plot to kill north

negotiation agreement between the port of san francisco and seawall lot 337 associates, llc for the lease and development of seawall lot 337 and pier 48 bounded by china basin channel, third street, mission rock street, and san francisco bay and adjacent to at&t park.

negotiation agreement between the port of san francisco and seawall lot 337 associates, llc for the lease and development of seawall lot 337 and pier 48 bounded by china basin channel, third street, mission rock street, and san francisco bay and adjacent to at&t park. >> thank you, amy, and good afternoon, president katz, fellow commissioner. my name is phil williamson, senior project manager of the port development group. here this afternoon before you with an e & a amendment which i will in a little bit of detail and will be available afterwards to answer questions for you along with other members of our project team. since executing a two-phase exclusive negotiation agreement in september of 2010 for the development of seawall lot 337, also known as parking lot a and adjacent pier 48, [speaker not understood] llc, the port and the city staff have negotiated a nonbinding term sheet with pro poed financial term for the lease and development of the site. last year along with the board the supervisor [speaker not understood] unanimously endorsed the term sheet which included phase 1 as the e & a. a described in the term sheet, the port and developer ha

china. >> james: the san francisco restaurant is trying to beat the record of over 10,000 lives donated in a single day >>will tran: there were hoping not to make history they're hoping to be done once again they're running behind while they're still looking for 10,000 zero is as to help people come down here and get into the christmas spirit did receive their care to all over san francisco you have phil martin to help sing christmas of this is so sensitive to the 14th year them doing that this is very much turned into an annual tradition where people of all walks of life was too intent said assistant police chief just showed up. you're here every year. everyone has one more chance to get toys and assure everyone is the magic of christmas. >>will tran: is former mayor bill you all with the mayor to san francisco will it from why is it important views of the year. is all part of what the spirit is you share with you have with those who have less. >>will tran: you donates a have parking is an issue you know you have to park your car they have people outside ready to go all you have to do is

san francisco. some areas, showers, likely to continue through china town. also here into the western edition. by 11:04. the other area with wet weather, it is now moving into danville. just a few minutes away here from san ramone. seeing wet weather. here's the thing. we have more rainfall offshore. it is spotty in nature. but yes, that is also going to be moving in. looks like by 4:00 in the morning. see more consistent rainfall, likely done here towards san jose. and we main actually have some rainfall linger until 8:00 in the morning. we are going to of course, track more of this through your weekend forecast. and after getting over 10 inches of rainfall in ben loman. 3 1/2 in san jose. in five days. we have two more storms in the next seven days. detail that in the full forecast. >> impressive. thank you, jeff. >> late tonight. protests around the country. and around the bay area. san francisco and oakland. at one point, protesters shut down the west oakland b.a.r.t. station. the station just reopened though within the past 20 minutes. they also got on to 880. blocking traffic for a short

san francisco. the areas such as the exelceir in china town has a high number of tobacco permits now the areas like the western addition, have a high number of african americans and also has a high number of tobacco permits. this last map is hispanic populations in san francisco and in an area like the mission, right here, also has a high number of latinos and a high number of tobacco permits. areas with low status are purchase denied with the tobacco outlet and also the areas with high density, have a higher prevalence of smoking and finally, the tobacco permits are disproportionately established between the districts. >> thank you. >> mr. chairman, i would like to ask if we could open this up for public comment. >> okay. >> the first public commenter is karin licaboli the co-chair of the tobacco free coalition and i am going to call a number of other names to come forward, dr. lisa henrickson from stanford, and dr. mcdanaled from ucsf and the senior director of programs from the youth leadership institute and (inaudible) from the leadership institute and noel knowels and (inaudible) it does not h

san francisco, thank you. >> and i have been living in the china town for about 14 years now. and i used to be part of it six years ago, and then, after that, i started working with kids and what shocked me was that i had a few students that are second graders and they were pretending to like smoke with the pencil, and i asked them what are you doing? and they said, oh, you know, everybody smoking. and it is cool. and it should not, and it should not be like normal, to smoke, and so, i really support her, for limiting the amount of tobacco stores in our neighborhood. especially in china town. and so there are so many, like, if you cannot have, like, take five steps without having to dodge a smoke or a cloud of smoke. so, i really support this campaign and this, and i hope that this passed and thank you. >> thank you for this six years of work too. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is joshua. and six years ago, i was once a member of the tobacco use reduction force, and today, six years later, i still currently live in the mission, and i still see the imp

the liu funeral will take place when relatives who live in china have traveled to new york. >> san franciscopolice are taking tribute to officer ramos with eight officers from the san francisco police department leaving town to head to new york to attend the ramos funeral tomorrow. as we first recorded this week, san francisco police chief order those to be traveling to be on high alert coming with good reason as new threats emerge targeting new york city police. seven men have been arrested in connection with throats made since saturday. three of those threats have been related 0 to posts on social media and two others for faith 9-1-1 calls. one threat came again the 84th precinct in brooklyn where the two assassinated officers worked. >> a san jose homeowner is taking action to capture a person who stole a daughter's christmas gift off the porch and will hand offer this surveillance video to the police. it was taken in the evergreen neighborhood on wednesday morning not long after a carrier delivered the package. you see a white car pull up, a man walk up to the pomp, take -- to the porch

two sites in hunter's point with john stewart company and san francisco housing corporation, a 200 unit affordable project on third street in china bay that we hope to start construction on next march, and the largest of all, the redevelopment of the sunnydale housing site in vezation valley. we're very vested in san francisco, we're very accustomed to working with public agencies and on a personal note, which is of particular interest to me, i worked for the city in the 1980's with the mayor's office of public housing under mayor feinstein and then under mayor avalos so i appreciate the potential this offers as a city office building. i see harvey rose that i worked with 25, 30 years ago and i'm pleased to see he is still here advising you. thank you and we look forward to the opportunity to work with you further. >> thank you. we all hope mr. rose is here in 25 more years too. >> mr. rose, you have a standing invitation for the ribbon cutting when we open this up. so very briefly take you through what the project is beginning to look like as we move from massing to architecture and design. this is a sense of the project looking

san francisco. we were getting an award. we were riding around. i said, tell me something about the great walls of china? he said did you know how the quarry was built? you had to deal with it. >> my reaction was swift, aggressive, and negative. i saw that tape. we put out a statement that said he needed to clean up and fix it. quite honestly, i was left with the impression that it was not the first time in his life he did use that word. that calls into question a host of other issues. the team tried to deal with it. he suddenly had to go away. it was never really clear. they were just trying to get him out of town. out of the situation.

san francisco. the city unveiled the bid for the 2024 summer olympics. what stands out about this bid? >> couple things. one it is frugal saying $4.5 billion. compare that to $44 billion china spent on summer games 2008. bay area bid. not just san francisco. the warriors arena. looking ahead to that. san jose. berkeley. and a brand new facility. temporary facility in brisbane. >> want to talk the bay bridge. it would of course be crucial transportation system if the olympics come here to town. the new eastern span has been criticized for faulty engineering and bolts. but this week, official study contradicted that. >> yeah, a state study. looked at, the chronicle and the bee were really doing very difficult investigative reports. rust in places. the state report. said, no it is pretty safe. the vast majority of the bolts are fine. need to be maintained. keep a look after it. but it is come plotly sacomplet. don't think that's the final world. that tea this week. >> this week. stay tuned. >> thank you, scott. for all of, kqed news. go to kqed.org. >> i'm scott shafer. and i'm thuy vu. have a great night and a great holiday season. ♪ ♪ man: it's like holy mother of comfort fo

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china has been going around the world looking for areas to put their money in, and one is property, not just here in new york but all over the united states. miami, san franciscof china, which by the way is financing a lot of these property deals around new york, doing a kind of undercover, they just bought seven bryant park for 600 million dollars because with all of these chinese investors coming in, they are financing these deals, they are servicing this class of investors. they are expanding. >> betty, how much is this actually as an asset and how much is an investment and their kids because a lot of them are buying houses with good water, good air, good schools? >> it is both. there is certainly an investment side to this if you look at them buying into the waldorf-astoria. they bought a big stake in the gm building. that is an investment. you do hear about them buying properties as luxury condos for their families as well. they have got a lot of wealth, and they are looking at their future generations and where they may be. >> let me interrupt you here, betty. i cannot find a reason why markets are moving. we split in half, we have gone from -7 to -15 ou

china becomes important. the otter trade becomes important along san francisco and washington.those guys become viable because the chinese want our skins. this is what you can sorted of -- this is what you can trade for chinese tea. null and then the japanese -- the american navy, merchant marine, the largest portion of the merchant marine is in the pacific and it's substantial by the -- at least 1850s, as i recall. so, it's -- asia-pacific for the united states is very critical even long before the 20th century. the macarthurs knew that in the early 20th century. that obviously leads to a certain amount of competitive sort of rooifry with the japanese with the other rising power but there's plenty of recognition especially in the 1920s when the united states takes over britain as japan's most important trading partner, that this could be a very profitable relationship. it is a very profitable relationship. so, i wouldn't deny that there is plenty of worry in the united states from the get go. but i would say that's part of the story. there are profiting nicely from the rise of

china becomes important. the otter trade becomes important along san francisco and washington.those guys become viable because the chinese want our skins. this is what you can sorted of -- this is what you can trade for chinese tea. null and then the japanese -- the american navy, merchant marine, the largest portion of the merchant marine is in the pacific and it's substantial by the -- at least 1850s, as i recall. so, it's -- asia-pacific for the united states is very critical even long before the 20th century. the macarthurs knew that in the early 20th century. that obviously leads to a certain amount of competitive sort of rooifry with the japanese with the other rising power but there's plenty of recognition especially in the 1920s when the united states takes over britain as japan's most important trading partner, that this could be a very profitable relationship. it is a very profitable relationship. so, i wouldn't deny that there is plenty of worry in the united states from the get go. but i would say that's part of the story. there are profiting nicely from the rise of

. >>> a beloved restaurant in san francisco's chinatown will close its doors on wednesday after nearly half a century in business. the empress of china opened in 1966. the restaurant received notice in september that the building would be going on the market by the end of the year. the restaurant is well known for its intricate centuries old chandeliers. countless weddings and events have been hosted there. it was visited by a fair share of celebrities over the years. portraits of sammy davis, jr., dean martin and frank sinatra hang on the walls. >>> fog was a big issue across the bay area today. these pictures are from petaluma this morning. fog was still visible on the san mateo bridge at 9:00 this morning. let's check in with meteorologist sandhya patel to see if any more of this fog will hang around. >> no, we won't see the fog return. that's because the winds are really going to kick up and that's going to help clean out the air as well. right now it's pretty calm out here. that's about to change. let me show you live doppler 7 hd. people along the embarcadero have their jackets on but they will have to bring out the wool coats

san francisco. we were getting an award. we were riding around. i said, tell me something about the great walls of china? he said did you know how the quarry was built? you had to deal with it. >> my reaction was swift, aggressive, and negative. i saw that tape. we put out a statement that said he needed to clean up and fix it. quite honestly, i was left with the impression that it was not the first time in his life he did use that word. that calls into question a host of other issues. the team tried to deal with it. he suddenly had to go away. it was never really clear. they were just trying to get him out of town. out of the situation. philly, michael irvin always loved playing in philadelphia. our fans are passionate. it is not an overreaction kind of town. there was a lot of reaction to that. it was a very negative reaction. i have some thoughts about how it was handled. whether it was handled properly. the season started and there wasn't much. he had a pretty good season. i am not going to say that all is forgotten. i think people remember. he is trying to get past it. when i see him on tv, i am usu

. >>> new at 10:00, a well known restaurant in san francisco's chinatown is preparing to close its doors. the building is being sold. the empress of china restaurant opened its doors in 1957. it once hosted stars such as jane manslaughter field, and sammy davis jr. it also played an important role for chinese americans. >> you didn't get married, unless you got a date for a wedding banquet at the empress of china. it has a special place in the hearts of many chinese american. it's really the passing of an icon. >> lee says it's a loss for chinatown, however, she says she is encouraged that a bay area native, and noted chef, brandon ju is taking over a nearby restaurant in hopes that the new sight will become the next big destination restaurant in chinatown. >>> concerns that google's g- mail is being blocked in china. large numbers of gmail addresses in china stopped working on friday, and remained blocked today. the traffic in china dropped to zero. china remains control over the internet with the great firewall of china. the chinese aren't saying why gmail is now being blocked. >>> los angeles police say two of their summers were shot

and there signs of weakness in china. wñ >> pam: business and residence in san francisco's mission district stock of damaged after the second flood into weeks. when >>maureen: kelly reports this some still haven't finished cleaning up from the last flood. >> reporter: once again a small army of city hired cleaners are reusing mops all the roads to clean up a mock which overflowed from the sewers. here he conceived what looked like yesterday when the mix of rain water and human way spool on the street because the city's antiquated system can handle so much rain and run off in such a short time. >> reporter: the city said the lease 50 property owners in the mission reported they experiences some damaged thursday the owner of a stable cafe says the last storm was the worst in terms of damage done to their business. which already took a big hit last week it will have to throw appliances furniture to file with contaminated water and workers will have to cut away the sheet rock even higher than after last week's flood. >> reporter: that's when they put up signs saying they would reopen in a few d

unemployment rates and although, san francisco and benefits more low over all rate, about 5 percent, there are subborn pockets of unemployment in certain neighborhoods like china town which is three times that amount at about 15 plus percent of unemployment. you have heard from city staff earlier around some of the positions available for the entry jobs. and these entry jobs require no more than a high school ged agree or two years of experience. cpmc is the second largest employer in san francisco. and within the hospital, truly requires a multitude of staff, performing many different types of jobs and similar to the hospitality industry. and in given the robust current workforce system in san francisco, san franciscans are well positioned to show these various jobs. the da lies out a process, which defines whether cpmc has made good faith efforts to reach the hiring target. the first step is that cpmc is to follow a special first source hiring process and that requires cpmc to notify oewd of every job opening and give candidates a two-week, hiring window. and to insure that oewd, also known as the city workforce system has an opportunity to refer those candi