the merchants association. the stockton street merchants in particular, who are standing behind me. as well as the family association. then, certainly with supervisor david chiu and his staff, in thinking what we could do to enhance the time when it is most busy. we determined with the participation of our police department, our health department, our traffic division, and all the other agencies associated with our city administrator's office. the acting administrator is here to for dissipate as well. the 10 days before chinese new year is really the most impactual. we have a lot of families here not only eating, but buying the kinds of things that they need to do to get ready. in collaboration with all the agencies, and in particular our public safety agencies, we felt we wanted to try something out. what we have determined is that from sacramento street through to broadway, and i believe there's a couple of blocks on broadway as well -- on a grant as well that we also determined were very impacted. that we would take an opportunity to announce and develop a pilot program where the parking spaces would

are coming up tonight one person tied to the american family association is calling on eric holder to get rid of a lot to protect people from being victims of a hate crime from the details high school time and happy hour things are just campaign might take another hit after one of his ex-wives speaks out in a news interview and writing him into going to introduce you to one very very very cute little head on we come back. wealthy british soil it's time to. go. to the. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our. mission. when you take three. three. three. three. three. three bold video for your media project free media don carty dot com. hi guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight he goes to gary glen of the michigan branch of the american family association he's run the center of the crusades protect those who bully and commit hate crimes commission the anti-gay activists cloaked in the robe of religious freedom have been peddling in state houses across the country now we reported to you about gary's efforts to water down anti bu

tonight's tool time award and tonight he goes to gary glen of the michigan branch of the american family association he's run the set of the crusades protect those who bully and commit hate crimes commission the anti-gay activists cloaked in the robe of religious freedom have been peddling in state houses across the country now we reported to you about gary's efforts to water down anti bullying legislation with religious exemptions in michigan last year and unfortunately he's not alone in tennessee anti-gay activists are fighting for a provision to be added to a bullying law that exempts a person if they are practicing religious political or philosophical freedom when they bully somebody which basically means anything political philosophical now gary is trying his luck once again at the courthouse though talking points memo reports that glenn along with three michigan ministers are suing eric holder to overturn federal hate crime protections were created under the two thousand and six law title the matthew shepard and james byrd jr hate crimes protection prevention act so in a moving plea for equali

. >> most of all elderly people find themselves sitting in the family associations with friends, a fewfriends to pass the time of the day or many of them. most of them i would say congregate in porstmouth square, to sun, to visit, to play chinese checkers to pass the time away. there's no real structured program for the senior citizens in the china town area yet. >> there are many myths about the chinese people, the chinese families and china town itself. the close -- closeness of the family and that they take care of themselves. do you think this is holding back for you to look at the real problems. >> the myths can become an excuse. if you believe that people can take care of themselves, then you can look away from the problems that these people may have or any particular community may have. 67% of those 25 and older have less than a seventh grade education, because of the language they are unable to find employment outside of the china town community. some of the housing in the area, although very, very crowded are adequate but for the most part it is very inadequate in terms of its

candace is -- joined the national military family association government relations staff as the deputy director in june of 2007. prior to that, she served the organization in various capacities including chairman and ceo during which time she served as the association's spokesman before congress, the department of defense and the military and civilian community. as her government relations director, she addresses issues relevant to quality of life for families of the uniformed services, including responsibility for absentee voting rights and a whole host of other responsibilities. she represents this association as a member of the alliance for military and overseas voting rights. and serves on the advisory panel for the military heroes initiative. she's also the cochair of the personnel committee for military coalition which is compromised of 34 military veteran and uniformed service organizations representing 5.5 million members. she was an air force spouse for 22 years. and knows firsthand the effect overseas deployments and transitions have on military families. and we want to thank

will say once again as i have said through many corners of the city, whether it is a town hall meeting or just your regular family associationner, the hundreds i have been too -- i really feel proud of our asian community as a whole for allowing me to serve this great city and for all the years of struggle and coordinating and push to keep the doors of government open and to keep opportunities for many generations of asians to serve this wonderful city. thank you. i continue to thank the board of supervisors for this historic vote that happened in january. saying that, i want to kick off the celebration by doing the appropriate thing, signing the declaration that declares this month asian pacific american heritage month. i would like you to join with me the fantastic group of council generals here. if i can call up to join me -- the council generals from canada, china, japan, korea -- please join me. please come up. if i may, i would like each share of our apa volunteer committee to please come up and board president david chiu. and our new police chief, please come on up, chief greg suhr. please join us. [applause] >> just

the first time an oakland mayor visited the oakland chinatown family association during the new year.it was symbolic given kwan this first female asian american mayor in a new york city. >> a new warning. the scan san francisco police department has seen -- the caller asks victims to wire money. one san francisco woman was tricked. whatook to what to watch out for. >> the phone call came out of the blue, and when she answeredn voice. >> my nephew says i wasn't drunk but all three of us and they want $3,500 bail. >> the man on the phone said he was beverly's nephew, attending a wedding in the domestic dominican republic and they got a car crash. i said, why do you sound like that? he said my nose is broken. he need with beverly not to tell anyone what happened but could she please wire him $3,500 for bail. >> he didn't want his parents to know. so i could understand >> bev >> bevel is -- beverly is in her 80s. getting around is difficult. she got a friend to drive her to the bank and then wired $3,500 to the dominican republic. >> he called my back, my nephew, did you southbound the mo

operation what to do about mitt romney" the sponsor of the event is the former head of the american family association, done widon wildman financed rick perry stadium prayer rally before he kicked off his presidential campaign this summer. gary bauer, used to be the head of the family research council, who ran for president in 2000. mr. bauer becoming most famous during the campaign for this, well, oh! flipping pancakes in new hampshire and falling off the -- it was all mr. bauer -- oh. g gary bauer and don wildman hosting this, basically a religious right conspiracy to find someone to topple mitt romney as the republican nominee. sounds like a crazy liberal connoisseco conspiracy. they are not denying that that is what they are trying to do. they admit it. while some of the people have endorsed some candidates, the invitation asks they all be "willing to compromise and change your choice to one that the body as a whole supports in order not to divide our strength." that meeting in texas starts tonight. then i think there is a sleepover at the ranch, oh to be a fly on the wall, tomorrow they will repo

grow up there in recent years the whole house association has provided foster care domestic violence counseling and job-training to 60,000 women and children and families every year but the association says that the costs are too high and the income is too low to make ends meet so it will shut down by the end of march >>the blues brothers started it all when 30 years ago now the bulldozers will finish the dixie square mall and harvey was already taken when the blues brothers movie was filmed there in 19 79¢ several plans to demolish or rebuild that mall have fallen through the structures been an eyesore for that city thanks to federal funding demolition crews are now able to take down the project could take several months as of right now there are no plans for what will replace the property >> i know that all of you at home could not wait to see you tom skilling ... >>in a winter that has not produced very much snow the snow becomes the noose around here ...news here.. the visibility has been going away ... especially near o'hare ... the system has arrived on schedule today we will have 12 hours of steady snow fall ... we will even see some lake effect

the chief and die and the commission, we know, working with community programs, and our family associations are also here, and the merchants, and if we are ahead of it, we will continue this fantastic record that our chief is really helping us do, and that is lower the crime rate. we have been successful. in fact, this year we are down 6% in our overall crime. and we want to keep it that way and keep the statistics from ever overwhelming us. one of the most important things that we can do in evens like this that last for a good amount of time is work with our public safety officers and all of their efforts in making sure that everyone is safe, they all enjoyed the prosperity this event offers, and that we be competent in the way that we carry this out. so i want to signal, with the support of our supervisors, commissioners, and police officers on the ground -- there are many of them here but you will see them a lot. if anything, our officers enjoy our new year's here in san francisco. they enjoy being part of it. they also enjoy helping our residents, whether they're seniors, kids, or merch

mayor jean quan was greeted by dancers as she visited each of the criticals a historic family associationso wish them a prosperishous year of the dragon. the mayor's husband says despite two recall efforts quan has strong backing in the city. >> democratic clubs and here the american chinese community and on and and, so we're hear it from all sides. we have a major february 15th coalition meeting that i'm working on and it's been very heartwarming. >> today the chinese-american citizen as license passed a pets in support of mayor quan. quan's husband says the group collected more than 2000 signatures last weekend. >>> a raging fire, a report of a gunman, a chemical spill, bay area first-responders often rush in to dangerous situations. ktvu's lorain blanco with a sneak peek at a new exhibit that takes us "beyond the badge." >> . >> susan bachman says that tiny bit of green captured at volcano national park marks perseverance, a trait that the san francisco police inspector knows a lot about. >> we're exposed to an incredible amount of suffering and sorrow in this job and it's nice to show