san francisco. betty ann ong grew up in chinatown and the chinese recreation center was her playground. on september 11, 2001, betty ann ong, an american airlines flight attendant, called the reservation office. for 23 minutes, she relayed information, including the seat locations of the terrorists, which helped law authorities identified them. she was calm, professional, and in control throughout those 23 minutes. the commission has received over 3700 signatures supporting this. that is 3700 signatures. this naming is also supported by senator dianne feinstein, nancy pelosi, reverend fong, the executive director of the chinese historic society of america. to request to name the chinese recreation center the betty ann ong chinese recreation center of san francisco meet our guidelines. her extraordinary terrorism made a significant contribution, not only to the -- her extraordinary heroism made a significant contribution, not only to the city, but to the country. on september 11201,2001, she became an example of heroism. i cannot say enough about how important i think this is to the chin

in san francisco chinatown and playing at the chinese recreation center very clearly. the playground was a very important part of our childhood. we got great direction and participated in a lot of activities there. i really do feel that renaming the recreation center not only honors betty, but also the citizens who live in the chinatown community, and also for the san francisco community, as well as our nation, since betty is a national hero. thank you for considering the renaming. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> gloria, did you want to speak? >> once again, my name is gloria. i am the middle child to the ong family. i wanted to thank everybody. and to thank all the supporters that are here and have petitioned to the renaming of the rec center. as my sister and brother have mentioned, we all spend a lot of time during our childhood playing at the rec center. i think this would be a really significant symbol and a great honor and tribute to the ong family and to my sister. i just hope that you will consider renaming the center in honor and a tribute to my sist

i can still remember growing up in san francisco chinatown and playing at the chinese recreation center very clearly. the playground was a very important part of our childhood. we got great direction and participated in a lot of activities there. i really do feel that renaming the recreation center not only honors betty, but also the citizens who live in the chinatown community, and also for the san francisco community, as well as our nation, since betty is a national hero. thank you for considering the renaming. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> gloria, did you want to speak? >> once again, my name is gloria. i am the middle child to the ong family. i wanted to thank

it is in the center of san francisco's chinatown. that is where everybody gathers didn't you know that park with the elevator that comes up, and the little bridge that comes over. that is called portsmouth square but that is where they all gathered, and that is where a lot of people will gather, too, if there is a major earthquake in chinatown. you must go to golden gate park, showed the policeman. the city is on fire. go quickly now. dark smoke hurt our eyes. dust filled the air, our mouths and noses, too. this is where the policeman from way back then told them there was a fire, so they had to go to golden gate park to get away from the fire. the earth shook again. remember what i said? after an earthquake, it is not just once. the earth shook again. we stopped and watched in fear as buildings crumbled around us. pretty scared, huh? older brother, younger brother, and i cleared the path of the cart with our grandparents and our belongings. they did not have cars in those days. the had to have carts to carry people out. they cannot

we thank you for renaming the san francisco chinatown recreation center to the betty ann ong chinese recreation center. there have been so many ups and downs and struggles during the last 10 years. we deeply honored this renaming from the bottom of our hearts. the legacy of betty and all the 9/11 heroes will be remembered forever. members of this commission, thank you very much. president buell: thank you. >> thanks, everyone. >> that may get a sense of how many people would like to testify on it this -- ok, seeing the large numbers that would like to testify, we're going to go down from three minutes to two minutes on public testimony in consideration of everybody. i think we will clearly get the message of what you want to say in two minutes. >> terrific. good morning. commissioner buell: you get more than two minutes. >> i will try to keep it to two. good morning, commissioners. general manager, dan mauer with the capital division. i will be giving a brief introduction on the project, and i will basically turn it over to mta staff. i have the full confidence of the mta staff here

chinatown. no, we love san francisco. it is a great honor for us to be recognized for what we like to do every day. she mentioned transparency -- jarend mentioned transparency. that is something we believe deeply in. there have been some very nice things said about method today. we appreciate all of them. we certainly are not a perfect business. we focus every day on trying to get better. one thing, very coincidentally, that we have done is actually eric and i have written a book about our business model called "method money." it comes out today. it is the type of book that you right after you're not in the business anymore. but we believe very deeply that if other people can explore and see how we do things, both right and wrong, then maybe they can improve upon that, and maybe we can make it a little bit of a better place. so watch out for that. >> this is the best book launch recover ever asked for. [laughter] thank you. and we started the company, and a goal of ours was to have an impact bigger than just making oursel

can you imagine a san francisco without chinatown? chinatown burned down in 1906 and the committee rebuilt it. i cannot imagine oakland without west oakland, and that area is a very vulnerable. i am inc. in my plans, how do i save the community, too? how do we relocate people together, and how do we get businesses quickly in so that they survive? >> one of the things that i would like to ask the panel, and we all have our own private concerns and fears, each one of you could tell me, tell us, what's your biggest fear is in terms of disaster, a terrorist attack, fire? redstart down at the end. >> i think everybody's fear as an individual is that you will be isolated from everybody else. you do not know when the services are going to come. my fear is, there may not be enough people taking it as seriously as others to be self- sufficient during this time, that may have not worked with neighbors, that may not know that there seniors in homes isolated in the hills and down the block from you. so i really worry that we do not perhaps have e

. >>> a new recreation center in san francisco's chinatown will be named after the local woman who diedthe 9/11 attacks. the san francisco recreation park exhibition voted last night to name the new center on mason street in honor of betty ong, the first flight hijacked by terrorists and crashed into the world trade center. she was reportedly the first person to report the plane had been hijacked. >>> the doomsday prophet from oakland predicts today will be the end of the world. harold camping says the final judgment period ends today and that true believers will be raptured. previously, camping predicted a may 21st rapture, but nothing happened. the 90-year-old preacher and his ministry are avoiding the media this time around but he continues to post negligence on his website. >>> the bay area hikeers and cyclists have a new section of trail to explore. the newest section of the ridge trail opens up tomorrow morning in the hills east of san jose. new section is just east of alum rock park. the total is 5.3 miles, bringing the total bay area ridge trail to 337 miles. state park bonds an

recognized that growth in san francisco would be occurring, a significant amount along the eastern side of san francisco through mission bay, into south of market, into chinatown. it was 20 years ago that the people of san francisco and its leadership came together and began what has been a very long and thorough and rigorous process to get us to where we are today, and that is a process that has had extensive review, a technical review, environmental, transportation review, the extensive committee of reach, has been through a complete environmental process and has been heavily vetted by the federal government from whom we are seeking to leverage our investment in phase one in order to deliver on pace to -- phase 2. i may not be the foremost expert with regard to public works in san francisco, but having worked a little bit in the field here, i would say this is the most thoroughly vetted, analyzed and reviewed public-works project probably that the city will ever have delivered. i say that with reference to the fact that the question being raised in this report, while all good questions, are questions that have been asked and answered. these issues have been

she's due in court tomorrow. >>> supporters of san francisco may's ed lee campaign is accused of fraud. this voting station in the heart of chinatown appears to show workers using a stencil to fill in ballots for people. the head of san francisco's election department says he's seen the video, he's turned the matter over to the d.a. and the supporters say they have done nothing wrong and mayor ed lesion when he just had him here on our -- mayor ed lee, we just had him here, said he had nothing to do with it. >>> a day of reflection on the 20th an varies of the oakland firestorm. there is a new mural in memory of the victims. more than 2,000 hand-painted tiles pay tribute to the lives lost. the firestorm was 20 years ago last week. 25 people died. 3,000 homes destroyed. >>> taxpayers may bank roll a kidney transplant for a conflict. raj maton is serving 11 years for insider training. he needs a kidney transplant and it could cause taxpayers more than $300,000. >>> and in other business news, netflix is suffering an attempted change. >> third quarter earnings are expected to show dismal figures, this is in los gatos. netflix reversed

welcome to the border of chinatown, san francisco. this is amazing to be here to join administered jackson. thank you and welcome. administer mills, thank you. i also want to thank dan for being here. nancy pelosi's office has been a great supporter of us. and our business office at the region has been wonderful supporters as well. i am here to celebrate. this wonderful tribute to our city of innovation. you know, as you write of the elevator right here, they already have a model on the elevator that you can not have to think dirty. you can actually think clean. of course, that has tripled meanings in our city. [laughter] but as we approached coastal cleanup this week, there are already press releases. when you look at the way our beaches are looking now and the amount of debris that

san francisco. i remember looking at it back in 2003, when we discussed it. $650 million it is one thing. $1.2 billion is another. i want chinatown to get what it deserves. of what to make sure that folks through san francisco that the -- i want to make sure the folks at 3 san francisco the quality municipal system they are meeting and crying out for. >> final question? >> early every saturday morning, i walk down embarcadero with my 6-year-old daughter and we walk by the same dozen-plus homeless people sleep on the sidewalks, human excrement next to them, broken bottles nearby. you have children. what do you say to them when they ask, mom, how come the city lets these people live on the streets? what do you say not only from the perspective of the people on the streets but the people who are walking by and visitors? what is your answer to that? >> the answer is is not human to allow people -- and as a mother, the thought of having a child live on the street or sleep on the street, not have a home is a terrible thing. this is why we need to model some other programs in terms of how we treat address reform. i have talked often abo

importance of people raising their voices in a peaceful way not just in san francisco but in thousands of places across the country. in chinatown, coming up on sunday, october 30, the day before halloween, the association and many community- based groups are calling for an action from 10:00 to 3:00. i think we are calling it "from wall street to chinatown" and supporting people's right to assemble and raised concerns about the huge bailout for banks and billionaires and support community efforts to revitalize our neighborhoods. the rest i will submit. thank you. supervisor chiu: today i will be introducing a drafting request to helps avoid companies that provide social benefits to our community. for over a decade, social entrepreneurs around the country have been pioneering a new way to create businesses that do well as they do good with companies that have a double or triple bottom line. in recent years, there has been interest in establishing a new type of corporate structure, known as benefit corporations, as compared to the typical c corporations. they go beyond maximizing shareholder value or profits to include stakeholder

student, and i sat in the class is in san francisco state as well, and i remember growing up at that time around clement street. we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time. just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures a

will be on the second extension in chinatown or the people in chinatown and have some of the most heavies' it transit rider chavern san francisco that you do not want them to at the subway project? >> what i would say is it is not the same project the voters voted on in 2003 when it was 60 -- 6 and 50 two million dollars, and now it is a $1.6 billion project. and it was supposed to connect communities, and it was supposed to be part of the four corridors' plan. it does not connect communities in my opinion any more because of the route changes and no longer connects directly into connectsmuni metro system. when you look at your overall financial health of the muni, you look at how their routes have changed, you look at projections, and you look at the dramatic cost impact that would occur at a time when they're raising your parking meter rates to pay for a system that is broke, that it no longer fulfills its mission that was promised to the public. it no longer connects communities, and we need to come up with a system that is better designed and lives up to the promise that was made to people but in chinatown, and the southeas

. >>> tour buses could soon be banned from portions of little italy and chinatown in san francisco.residents of north beach have been complaining for years about the noise, traffic and the smell of bus fumes. the san francisco municipal transportation agency is now proposing banning emergency vehicles that carry more than 9 people down certain streets. the agency's board of directors will vote on that proposal on tuesday. >>> and san francisco south of market district is enjoying a growing influx of technology firms. many are marketing their company after apple where the process from design to consumer hand is tightly controled within the company. abc7's richard hart reports on the drive to discover one stop shopping for new tech ideas. >> you come up with a new idea. you hire someone to visualize it. that someone uses someone to use a prototype and they test it on real users. another gets regular will egulatory approval and another markets it. >> ability experts and anthropologists in some cases. there is a lot of skills that can be necessary to pull some of these things off. >> ev

. >> san francisco's mayor is under fire over a chinatown campaign event y he wants an investigations do. >> and carlos santana rocks his alma mater. his mission today at mission high. >> good evening, i'm dan ash lie and i'm carolyn tyler. and a touchy issue is causing a big controversy in san jose tonight. >> it started with an e mail from the man in charge of the city employee retirement plan n that e mail calling some city workers totally useless. now many of them have no use for him. >> this controversial e mail was written more than nine months ago but it's just now surfacing because one union says it got the communication through a freedom of information request.