the remarks enraged the larger arab, middle eastern, muslim, and southeastern asia the community who understood the remarks as reflecting a racist culture, and many had experienced firsthand in the aftermath of 9/11. the coalition of save san francisco first came around these remarks and fought for an apology. although an apology was issued, the then-police chief was not doesn't -- this about his plans to honor an intelligence unit. this give the coalition a new focus. the coalition started discussions on how the communities we come from were being impacted by bias law enforcement, and collectively, the coalition decided that arab, muslim, and south asian communities in san francisco needed a way to collectively voice their concerns to city governors. we approached the human rights commission with an idea that -- hrc had an official meeting to address these concerns. over six months, the coalition worked long sidestep to pull together a successful hearing. together with the hrc, we held an historic hearing with hundreds of committee members in attendance today, dozens of whom shared

and elsewhere in eastern continental asia, the ongoing showers here in southeastern china, that's going to be tapering off just a little bit this evening. however, another round of ongoing showers will continue in towards the weekend. the heaviest showers could be just south of shanghai. and the winds will be cranking up, too. eastern coast of china will be looking at high waves. please be aware of that. inland china will see some mountain snow as well as showers in the valleys. and indochina peninsula, wide spread scattered showers will be popping up. even isolated thunderstorms, gale, gusts, and also some large hail could be possibility here in southern thailand. taking a look at your temperatures, well, bangkok is going to be hot and hazy here at 35 degrees. hong kong will be a bit foggy in the morning hours at 19. seoul just seven degrees. and tokyo, ten degrees for the thursday high. all right. let's head over to the americas. things are going to be much messier as we progress in towards the week. we have a few system that will be just sweeping across much of the eastern portions o

asia this year. it's likely to intensify in the next 24 hours. so coastal flooding and flash flooding along the southeastern coast of vietnam is going to be very troublesome in the next couple of days. tokyo, we're looking at 14 degrees temperaturewise. reaching up to 17. in beijing, 19. heading over to the americas now, the system that was troubling south ontario and the great lakes, that will be moving towards quebec and in the new england region, dropping heavy amounts of freezing rain, as much as 5 millimeters. that's going to be causing troublesome dangerous winter weather driving conditions there. the associated front that is stretching all the way down toward the central plains, this is the area where you may see severe thunderstorms to be igniting. hail and damaging gusts are not ruled out. pacific northwest we'll still be looking at very heavy coastal rain along the coast of oregon and northern california. wet snow will be piling up in the mountainous regions. it could be very heavy. now, around the colorado regions, fire weather is still going to be posted up there as an alert. let's take a look a

asia showers are still going to be lingering here. widespread and sometimes locally heavy into the weekend. additional 50 to 100 millimeters could be seen in some provinces. southeastern coast of the philippines things are going to be continuously heavy rainwise. we have a low pressure system that is active that's going to be creeping. the southeastern coast will be looking at heavy rain. hong kong misty with 21 degrees. foggy here in bangkok at 34 degrees. and seoul 10 degrees. tokyo at 11 for our sat high. the americas, we had a much calmer day on thursday compared to what we had on wednesday. yet again another round of very severe activity especially many the mid western states. we have a potent winter weather system moving towards the great lakes dumping heavy snow which could pile up as much as 25 centimeters in some areas. winds are very strong up there. so blowing snow could reduce visibility. very dangerous for driving conditions. wherever you see this that's heavy snow. and wintry mix precipitation where you see this purple. out towards this area the red is the bull's-eye for the critical risk of tornado touch downs. not ruled out yet. tennessee, kentucky, al

asia showers are still going to be lingering here. widespread and sometimes locally heavy into the weekend. additional 50 to 100 millimeters could be seen in some provinces. southeastern coast of the philippines things are going to be continuously heavy rainwise. we have a low pressure system that is active that's going to be creeping. the southeastern coast will be looking at heavy rain. hong kong misty with 21 degrees. foggy here in bangkok at 34 degrees. and seoul 10 degrees. tokyo at 11 for our sat high. the americas, we had a much calmer day on thursday compared to what we had on wednesday. yet again another round of very severe activity especially many the mid western states. we have a potent winter weather system moving towards the great lakes dumping heavy snow which could pile up as much as 25 centimeters in some areas. winds are very strong up there. so blowing snow could reduce visibility. very dangerous for driving conditions. wherever you see this that's heavy snow. and wintry mix precipitation where you see this purple. out towards this area the red is the bull's-eye for the critical risk of tornado touch downs. not ruled out yet. tennessee, kentucky, al

asia is looking quite quiet. in fact, high and dry across the korean peninsula through mongolia, much of china. showers are clinging to the southeastern edge of china here and scattered thunderstorms across indochina. those are starting to dissipate in the next 24 hours, but there will be some spots of rain continuing across parts of vietnam. the philippines seeing scattered thunderstorm activity. rain heaviest to the north. here are temperatures. you can see they're diving down, even towards hong kong. rainy day for you, just 14 degrees. usually see the low 20s this time of year. 9 in shanghai. 11 forecast for tokyo. minus 6, still chilly in u lamb about a tour. in america, a winter storm in the pacific northwest. coastal rain, mountain snow. as the system progresses inland, it is going to be dying down a little bit. however, as it heads south here, you can see the cold front. we're going to be seeing significant snow, maybe 45 sent meters forecast kads and olympus. that's for monday. then you run into severe weather, low frontal system stretches across the southern plains to the gulf of mexico. around the ark-la-tex, you'll see seve