union square met all 4 bench marks. we have also found that union square continued to identify needs and solutions to bring both local and international visitors to the area to support local businesses such as forming an economic recovery task force. they have partnered with community city stakeholders to activate and improve public spaces including streets alleys parks and (inaudible) great examples are union square park and holiday plaza. no reported violations of the are brown act within the reporting period and complied with the memo regarding surveillance technology, they have active board and community member jz well positioned to carry on their mission. that ends oewd portion of the presentation. if you have no questions for me or chris i like to invite up marisa to the podium. >> thank you. welcome ms. rodriguez. the floor is yours. >> good morning supervisors. thanks for having me here chair preston and madam clerk as well and i want to say good morning to the community here with us. my name is marisa rodriguez

union square met all 4 bench marks. we have also found that union square continued to identify needs and solutions to bring both local and international visitors to the area to support local businesses such as forming an economic recovery task force. they have partnered with community city stakeholders to activate and improve public spaces including streets alleys parks and (inaudible) great examples are union square park and holiday plaza. no reported violations of the are brown act within the reporting period and complied with the memo regarding surveillance technology, they have active board and community member jz well positioned to carry on their mission. that ends oewd portion of the presentation. if you have no questions for me or chris i like to invite up marisa to the podium. >> thank you. welcome ms. rodriguez. the floor is yours. >> good morning supervisors. thanks for having me here chair preston and madam clerk as well and i want to say good morning to the community here with us. my name is marisa rodriguez

union square met all 4 bench marks.ve also found that union square continued to identify needs and solutions to bring both local and international visitors to the area to support local businesses such as forming an economic recovery task force. they have partnered with community city stakeholders to activate and improve public spaces including streets alleys parks and (inaudible) great examples are union square park and holiday plaza. no reported violations of the are brown act within the reporting period and complied with the memo regarding surveillance technology, they have active board and community member jz well positioned to carry on their mission. that ends oewd portion of the presentation. if you have no questions for me or chris i like to invite up marisa to the podium. >> thank you. welcome ms. rodriguez. the floor is yours. >> good morning supervisors. thanks for having me here chair preston and madam clerk as well and i want to say good morning to the community here with us. my name is marisa rodriguez the c

right here in union square. right now. you can see the crowds are starting to form here. we had some sort of warm up acts that just finished up over here. right behind us. we got some of the dancers that we're getting ready. they were doing some little last minute preparations and some practices out here. also, you can see our ktvu fox to 10 up there. and that's where claudine wong and mike mibach were up there getting ready for the big show that's going to start in just about an hour. i can tell you even with the rain. people are still packing in not just here in the stands right here, but also look up here at macy's store. almost every window has people inside, trying to score a nice spot to see the entire parade. and we've been talking with people all up and down here, so let's go find some people to talk to right now. hey everybody, how you doing? we're on the air here right now at ktvu. we want to talk to some of the parade doors we got here. we got a family here. so tell me what brought you guys out here to the parade today? um well, we wanted to see, uh, the festiv

you go to union square. the hustle the bustle.t when those floats are going by and everyone in the streamers and stuff. it's just a blast. it's so much fun and we talk about, you know for us. we feel like it's our holiday, too, because it is one of the opportunities for all of us to get together and have a good time as well. so hopefully you'll come out. bring the rain gear. it is going to rain on our parade. we do have a little bit of drizzle out there this morning already giving you a live look here. at a very soggy golden gate bridge. the farther inland you are less likely that you are seeing this drizzle but rain in the forecast for all of us later today, right now, temperatures ranging from mid forties to low fifties centers are checking in at 45 degrees at san francisco, low fifties upper forties conquered oakland. san jose. good morning, partly sunny outside your door and 50 degrees . here's a view of storm tracker two and notice for not seeing right now there that drizzle is falling below the radar beams, so it's still fai

ktvu is amberleigh live in union square force tonight with what we can expect high amber hi, greg. there's a lot of excitement out here across the street. we can see crews setting up the bleachers for the audience. we went behind the scenes to give everybody a peek at what's to come tomorrow. along the seine, francisco waterfront crews put on the finishing touches friday evening floats that will be showcased in the chinese new year parade. this is the year of the rabbit, handcrafted in all colors and sizes, the rabbits that are jumping over the moon here, 21 floats designed to be a feast for the eyes. 10 contestants for the miss chinatown usa pageant held friday night. the young women are from all over the bay area and other states. the talent portion included singing , dancing and piano playing. organizers added two new titles , miss people's choice where the public votes for contestant online and a miss charity, the contestant who raises the most money for a nonprofit to showcase the best of chinese women nowadays, uh. i think there's a lot of chinese american asian woman empower

excitement is building in san francisco's union square ahead of the annual chinese new year parade. hello again. i'm cristina rendon tomorrow night, crowds will fill the streets ktvu is amber lee has more on what we can expect. francisco waterfront crews put on the finishing touches friday evening floats that will be showcased in the chinese new year parade. this is the year of the rabbit, handcrafted in all colors and sizes, the rabbits that are jumping over the moon here, 21 floats designed to be a feast for the eyes. 10 contestants for the miss chinatown usa pageant held friday night. the young women are from all over the bay area and other states. the talent portion included singing, dancing and piano playing. organizers added two new titles , miss people's choice where the public votes for contestant online and a miss charity, the contestant who raises the most money for a nonprofit to showcase the best of chinese women, especially nowadays, uh i think there's a lot of chinese american asian woman empowerment. a new entry to this parade, nine chinese women and seven lotina's al

the endurance of small business owners and merchants here in union square, in china town and north beach who endured this project. the endurance of the sf mta, city staff, architects, engineers, builders, laborers, and of course, policy makers, our mayors, mayor breed, thank you. i want to relay a message from governor newsom and a number of us was with him yesterday and he wanted me to say how disappointed he was that he couldn't be here today and of course the endurance of someone who i believe is truly a bionic woman, the speak of the house, nancy pelosi, thank you very much. [applause] as a chinese elected official, i want to also thank the endurance of china town. the endurance of thousands of residents, of tenants and of families who came to hearing after hearing for 30 years. i've been involved in the project for 20 years. when i served on the central subway citizen advisory committee and carried the approvals at the board of supervisors for this great project to move forward. it took the village of everyone in this room and thousands of folks beyond, including many lawyers in my

at night starting at 6:00 on saturday, they blocked off all streets around union square. it took me at least 25 minutes with passengers from fisherman's wharf to get to the grand hyatt and the officers would not let me through. i thought as part of the policy, we are allowed to get through the barricades and in fact, previous day in the morning at 10:00 to 4:00 in the morning, i was given a call by the hilton to good pickup someone to take them to the airport from the grand hyatt. it took me forever. one, some of the police officers were sleeping. two, i had to argue with them that i'm allowed to get through. and finally get through and kern street and come around sutter and i had to convince the police officer i had an appointment and i get there and it turns out the passenger left. was gone and i wasn't very far away. so i'm asking you, how do i file a claim for $60 for loss income of something beyond my control that you did not inform us that -- inform the hotel that you can't, we can't provide taxi service to the lodging establishments within the closed off area. i th

. >> abc 7 news was in union square this afternoon when it started all in. it did not last long and was not a lot, but it did leave the streets what. here is sandhya patel with the forecast. sandhya: it was a splash and dash kind of deal today. we talk about what's happening as we look back on the last two hours. an isolated lightning strike showed up in the east bay, but it was very quick with the shower passing through the region. now it is in the south bay. mount hamilton has been seeing snow today. i checked rainfall totals around the region, and believe it or not, it has only been a trace amount to a few hundredths of an inch at best. as we check out the wid picture in the sierra nevada, they are seeing snow showers, not amounting to a lot. there's definitely a cold distant whipping up the wind and waves. we have a beach hazard statement until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. watch out, there's a higher risk of wind currents. 28 in san jose, making it feel even chillier tomorrow. wind will remain gusty at 7:00 tonight, but they really drop off tomorrow morning. a li

they were rocking in union square. >> wearing a pink sequin number in the matching headdress marchedk. and activist with the sisters of perpetual indulgence. she was very confident but needed coaxing, despite some intense music. >> a ferocious appetite. >> she did not feel like raving. san francisco officers managed to get the goat walking, listening to sandstorm. she was dressed in an officer's coat. not as daring as the last but she had a sticker to complete the look. if you think she was stubborn, go with the sheriffs department did not want to go anywhere. she said i didn't do anything wrong. deputies had to carry jasmine across the stage. >> she was in a mood. >> pleading the fifth and all of the above. she had the dark blue one siena sheriffs hat. if you are wondering why, this was part of a bigger plan. they were raising money to support a nonprofit that uses them to cut down on wildfire fuel. that eat away at the hillsides and make it safer. they have better outfits for that. ♪♪ >> we understand. >> we understand the feelings of embarrassment of failing teeth and tooth loss.

more than 3400 people are participating at the conference at the union -- hilton union square hotel.anizers are speaking out against an increase in legislation targeting the lgbtq community. >> we as a community have a tremendous amount of power. whether that is in the ballot box or our hearts, when we are together, and we get to go home, we energize. we have the power to make the change we need to see in the world, even at a time when you look at the politics, the state of affairs, we have a lot of work to do. >> the conference continues through tuesday. >> happening now on interstate 80, all northbound lanes are closed due to repaving work. here's a look at the impacted area. the northbound lanes in closed last night at 10:00 p.m. they reopen tuesday morning at 5:00. caltrans posted these pictures where you can see the crews working last weekend, as well. lanes reopened on time. after this weekend, one more weekend closure scheduled. southbound lanes are not affected. bart crews began replacing more than one mile of track. no trains are running through the rockridge and lafayette s

becaus why is it that in union square when they began to rob $5,000 purses, gucci all of a sudden thecity came in, cleaned the streets, got rid of all the element and brought in security how come they can't do that here? it's pretty simple. >> oscar agrees. that's why he tells me he will stay here. hoping that this call for help could actually save the mission >> we asked major to ask about what the city is doing to make the mission safer. she sent us statement saying she sharing their frustrations. she says that's why the city's new investment to fill 200 vacant police officer positions. >>> so we're having our snow moment here in the bay area but how are they fairing up in the sierra? we'll check up on major snowfall in the mountains. >> plus a lifeline for artists trying to ke >>> thursday if we're talking about snow here in the bay area and seeing snow that the sierra is going to get a lot of snow, real snow. >> and if it's dropping you expect some snowfall to make it way into the lower evations into communities that normally don't get a lot. >> obviously a big mess for driver, a

. >> why have they been able to clean up union square? why is it the rich can get clean streets daily. steam cleaned, all the other services they get, and we can't here. >> they said violence, open air drug use and people selling stolen goods as well. >>> the pentagon released this video, the u.s. spy plane taking a selfie of the chinese spy balloon that was shot down. they tracked the balloon until the u.s. downed it over the atlantic. an fbi lab in virginia is studying what was taken out of the water. >>> back to the top story, the snow. this is highway 17 around 5:30 this evening. another look from a viewer who sent this video of snow coming down on his drive home on highway 17. mount hamilton over san jose has a fresh layer of snow. that's a treacherous drive. snow covering roads, cars and police vehicles there, homes up to the lick observatory. we're used to upper elevations. >> but seeing it on 17 with people driving. >> it's down in the lower elevations. >> that's a great reminder, keep a lot of distance between you and the car in

they are also closing their flagship store in union square. and there could be another round of layoffs in store for social media giant, meta. a recent wave of performance reviews ranked their employees as subpar, sounding alarms that were cuts could be on the way. mark zuckerberg declared 2023 hours a year of efficiency on a call earlier this month.>>> a new report reveals how much california has been spending to address homelessness over the last 3 years. according to the state's council on homelessness, california spent $9.6 billion on homelessness from 2018 through 2021. only 40% of individuals helped by that money found housing, meaning a majority did not. one democratic playmaker is pushing for a bill to create accountability measures for spending on this issue. >> we need our decision-makers to listen and really digest what folks are telling them and what their experiences are and reimagine these policies and systems in a way that is person centered. >> between 2015 and 2020, homelessness among hispanic and latino people increased by 55

hosting their flagship conference called creating change, and it's taking place at the hilton in union square. organizers say that conference is set to bring together philanthropists, elected officials, and even people from the business world. >> lgbtq folks and allies come from around the country and descend on a different city each year to collectively be together and effect change. they want to be in community together. >> this is the first conference in three years, and it runs through next tuesday. >>> happening now, calling all car lovers. the silicon valley auto show is back after two-year hiatus during covid. nbc bay area's bob redell has a look at all the hot rods at the santa clara convention center. >> reporter: you know, the beauty of these auto shows, you can come in here, get to look at all the new vehicles, kick the tires, test-drive some of them without the sales pressure, so it gives you an idea what you're looking at before you get to the show room. like i said, you can sit in the cars and check out new features. ryan moody from kelly blue book. i'm in the driver's seat obvi

. >>> san francisco's union square transformed into a fashion runway this valentine's day and it wasn't your average catwalk, it was more of a goat walk. check out these guys. the goats were rocking it as the best session of the annual goat my valentine fashion show. the barnyard models were sequins and tutus. the goats that were camera shy were carried across the runway instead. the show was put together by the nonprofit, value culture. the group works to create local community oriented events. lovely to see. thanks so much for watching us. the news continues streaming on cbs news bay area. we will see you back at 11:00. have a good one. ♪ every search you make ♪ ♪ every click you take ♪ ♪ i'll be watching you ♪ - [narrator] the internet doesn't have to be so creepy, the duckduckgo app, lets you search and browse pria blocking most trackers all forf your search history is never tracked, so it can't be shared. and when you leave search, duckduckgo helps keep companies from watching you as you brows. join tens of millions of people making the easy switch by downloading the app today. duc

d'amico miller is the first out of 10 to be arrested in a brazen grab and go burglary in union square. it happened in november 2021. miller will serve additional time for vehicle break-ins as well. >>> still ahead, the mayor gets real about what it will take to save downtown. >> san francisco downtown , as we know it, is not coming back. >>> big tax breaks. part of a new plan to lure people back into empty buildings? reaction from a business owner who says that he has felt neglected by city premises. >> am i going to make it or not? i don't want to lose my business. >>> and infamous troublemaker comes ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you can beat it! ♪ visit youcanbeatit.org or call 833-422-4255 to ask for medication to treat covid-19. go the extra mile this presidents' day in a volvo mild-hybrid vehicle. business can happen anytime, anywhere. so help yours thrive and stay connected with the presidents' day in a volvo comcast business complete connectivity solution. it's the largest, fastest, reliable network. advanced gig speed wifi. and cyberthreat protection. starting at just $49.99 a month. plus, you ca

a real goat in union square today. a special valentine's day fashion show with some surprise guests. >>> let's give you a look inside rockefeller center. lester holt getting ready for "nightly news," on going fallout from the unidentified object shot down by u.s. fighter jets. why some lawmakers are asking if those objects were actually a threat. when i was his age, we had to be inside to watch live sports. but with xfinity, we get the fastest mobile service and can stream down the street or around the block! hey, can you be less sister, more car? all right, let's get this over with. switch to xfinity mobile and get the best price for 2 lines of unlimited. just $30 a line per month. i should get paid more for this. you get paid when you win. from xfinity. home of the 10g network. >>> they had to cokes the models down the runway with food. >> yes, it was a special fashion show in san francisco with goats. not the greatest of all times, real goats. the fifth annual goat my valentine fashion show. the goats gave it their

organizations are asking mayor breed to step in and provide the same excellent services that she did for union square and to the mission district as well. so we did reach out to the mayor's office for comment. they sent us a statement saying in part that -- budget increased public safety investments to fill 200 vacant police officer positions. so that statement then went on to say that the city is in the process of adding more safety ambassadors to the neighborhood. we will stay on top of this. ryan, we will send it back to you. >>> thanks, juliette. in the meantime, san francisco police have released details about the injury and assault of a woman in the tenderloin district. police say that this is the man who did it. he is said to be in his 20s or 30s and about five feet six with a heavyset build and dark hair. police say that if you see him, call the tip line. >>> to los angeles county now, where a man accused of shooting and killing a beloved catholic bishop at his home has been charged with murder. the l.a. county district attorney announced those charges today. sheriff's deputies arrested carlo

the exhibit in union square featured pictures of young people executed by the regime back in the '60s and '70s. those executed this past year during the latest uprising. one of the organizers says the exhibition was very personal. she didn't want to appear on camera, but she shared her story. >> my brother, my cousin, my uncle, the top picture, they were executed by shaw's regime. after the shah was toppled, we were happy it's requesting to be democracy. unfortunately, khomeini hijacked that revolution. >> it falls on the anniversary of the 1979 anti-dictatorial revolution. >>> a popular winter phenomenon returned to yosemite, the firefall. it transforms into a ribbon of fiery orange. only happens mid to late february when the light at the sunset hits the water at just the right angle. >> look at that. >> i have seen this in person and i actually went early march. if you want to take a risk in early march, you might be able to catch it. >> did you see it? >> i did. >> in early march? >> in person. >> good to know. >> entering the park over the next two weekend, parking will be restric

the lunar new year upon us, preparations were underway friday night at the hilton san francisco union square. that's where hundreds gathered for this year's miss chinatown usa pageant. >> we've been around for over 60 years. reporter: the pageant court nader says this year's event is the biggest one yet. but the pageant is just one of several things happening in the city this weekend. >> we have a record number of units for the parade. we have more than 100 vendors lining the streets of chinatown. reporter: the chinese new year parade, the largest of its kind outside of asia, will take over the streets of san francisco. the parade has long been one of the highlights of the cities social calendar. this year will be a little different with security concerns top of mind following the two recent mass shootings at monterey park and half moon bay. >> with all the law enforcement showing us that they will be there and vigilant. reporter: rising hate crimes against asian americans following the pandemic has also been a cause of concern for the community for the past several years. despite those chal

they are hosting the flagship conference at the hilton in union square and organizers say the conferencering together philanthropists, elected officials and even people from the business world. >> lgbtq folks and allies come from around the country and descend on a different city each year to collaborate and strategize and celebrate what it means to be lgbtq folks and in community together. >> this is their first conference in three years and runs through next tuesday. >>> the weekend is here. let's get a check of our forecast and, wow, we are going to be soaking in a lot of rays. a lot of sunshine, right? >> lots of sunshine. warmer temperatures, too. it's going to be really present outside. let's get to your weather so you can plan out your weekend. it is going to be dry. as i mentioned slightly warmer. right noun satellite/radar we might have a couple of clouds rolling through early tomorrow. if you look, the current temperatures very comfortable, 58 degrees livermore, 68 concord, 60 san francisco. i mentioned that little bit of a warmup. 8 degrees warmer right now in social security

right now sfpd is using overtime to keep visible officers in areas like union square and the tenderloin. it will be up to the board of supervisors to approve this budget proposal. >>> a return to the big announcement from senator feinstein. a trailblazer, a political giant, soon a retiree. she's spent three decades fighting for californians in the u.s. senate. among her accomplishments, leading the charge to pass the 1994 ban on assault weapons. that ban has now expired. and repealing the defense of marriage act which meant the federal government recognized same-sex marriages. today nbc's ian cull spoke with senator feinstein's longtime friend and colleague. >> what was it like being trailblazers? i know that there have been plenty of challenges with that. >> yeah, it's so hard to describe. they called 1992 the year we won, "the year of the woman." i started to think about it. i was laughing because we did triple our numbers in the senate, but we went from two to six. so there were 94 men and six women in the senate. we worked together hard any time there was a california issue. for exa

it will be held in san francisco's union square on tuesday, february 14th, from 4:00 to 6:00, and ofrse the main stars are the goats. you can reserve your seat for the free event on their website at valueculture.org/goat. >> that's tough because goats typically try to eat clothes. might be one to check out. >>> you know what else? this sunday, super bowl sunday. if you're not interested in the game, we've got a preview of the commercials already trending. still ahead on "today in the bay," the average amount being bay," the average amount being spent on ads this year. everyone... i'd like to raise a toast... to that classic, ritz cracker taste... in a crunchy, toasted chip. (everyone) to the chip! to the chip! ritz toasted chips. the crunchy chips, only from ritz. >>> some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i'm not saying it's the majority. >> right now at 5:00, strong reaction from republicans during president biden's second state of the union address. this as the president touts his accomplishments over the first two years in office and lays out his vision for

we held a goat fashion show in union square. the 5th anian goat my valentine fashion show featured a runway with goats tasked with man curing the beautiful city. the event featured several goats, greatest of all time of san francisco including the actor jimmy sales who wrote and (inaudible) featured at the india basin shoreline park, senator wiener, cathy and peter fang, raper (inaudible) from sister of perperchual indulgence and so many more. the star studded event was put on value culture, a adam swig creation quhoo sits on the india basin campaign cabner and others including (inaudible) union square alliance, (inaudible) some say farm animals are not fashionable but i say meh. thank you. my goat impersonation isn't up what it should be. these highlight the importance of public spaces and value celebrating culture in downtown parks and plaza and also critical part of mayor breeds roadmap to downtown. the roadmap insure downtown remain a place for people to grow and thrive. very hard work and talented staff is really focused on

why is it that in union square when they began to rob $5000 purses, gucci, all of a sudden the city came cleaned the streets, got rid of all the elements, and brought insecurity? how come they can't do that here? it's pretty simple! >> reporter: and oscar agrees. that is why he tells me that he will stay here, hoping that this call for help could actually save the mission. >> we asked mayor london breed about what the city is doing to make the mission safer. she gave a statement saying that she understands the people are fed up and shares her frustrations. she said that is why the new budget increases public safety investments to fill 200 police officer positions. >>> up next, we track this next round of the wintry blast as it arrives in the bay. your first alert weather forecast. >>> some local parks now have a fresh coat of snow. more scenes from around the bay area. >>> and a look at some >>> this is a first alert weather day on cbs news bay area. some spectacular scenes around our region today as we get a dusting of snow at higher elevations. will show you where people are enjoying t

for being a part of burglaries that happened across the city to michael miller ransacked the union squarely the time on november of last year. a total of 10 people they were arrested on charges related to smash-and-grab attacks at night. the superior court found miller had a long history in crimes related to smash and grab car break-ins. another tough. it was also convicted. but that court has not yet released details on his conviction. announces plans to lay off more than 20% of their workforce. that's more than 1600 employees. sonny bill bass internet platform. they're going to be making cuts within its at tech departments. the lamps are reportedly part of a major restructuring of the company's digital advertising unit. the company says it has nothing to do with any financial challenges. the company is facing a north bay man who says he caught legionnaires disease from the hotel in napa has now filed a lawsuit. he got a chance to speak with kron four's justine waltman about his near-death experience with the disease. >> your death experience for jason gross heart. he says a night out on t

so what we have now, we have a mixture of and really pull lion right now they're heading to union square and the route will then and at 30 in columbus avenue. so as you can see, if you notice there's a lot of a was up people did it it looked like there was smaller crowd than expected because of the rain. but people did not come prepared about their comfy clothes, their lawn chairs. they lined up to get a front row seat. i talked to people from all over across the state from traveling from fresno, stockton. and here is this woman from orange county. >> well, last time we were here was in 2014. see the chinese new year's parade. and, you know, covid put everybody with no traveling. and so we said, hey, we want to come back and see the parade. and so we picked this weekend and got that your seats and have enjoyed a great time. >> and back here live, you can see along market street, people are just lined rela in people have poncho so they were ready show does go on rain or shine of the cradle and around 8 tonight, you can see, just a great turnout overall despite the wet weather and i'll hav

a european union square area to handle most of the normal shot, especially with mm . well, a headlines of this. our 12 year old girl is killed by you quitting shelling in a rush of the western belgrade region. she is posted also to launch a barrage of rocket at the city of dallas cleaning at least one person on monday, 11 other according to the official 9 years since the bloodiest day of his, my done the protests. he takes a closer look at what has become of this controversial turning point in ukraine's history and hundreds of protest. march in washington in a rally pulled range against the war machine as they express outrage early u. s. involvement. the ukraine conflict with hello, i welcome to our teens and i still broke off seeing alive from those this policy out. and it's great to have you. i'm right her mommy. let's take a look at the top stories this hour. we saw with a tragic development from russia's western belgrade region near the ukrainian border has authority say, a 12 year old girl has been killed by a craning artillery a fact. it occurred in the village

the parade is set to begin at second and market it goes through union square and then through chinatown now the parade will start at 5:15. it goes about two and a half hours. so there's still some time to get down here. and of course, we'll have all the highlights coming up tonight at 87 abc news at 11 reporting live ansar hassan abc 7 news answer. thank you so much. lots of umbrellas out there. well today people in the south bay had an opportunity to speak out about their concerns expressions of grief and hope a local congressman held an open discussion in the south bay following the mass shootings and half moon bay and monterey park also, we'll check out a spell a special celebration here in the bay area for black history month a look at the crucial and often. overlooked role of african-americans in the military it's official, america. xfinity mobile is the fastest mobile service. and gives you unmatched savings with the best price for two lines of unlimited. only $30 a line per month. that means you could save hundreds a year over t-mobile, at&t and verizon. the fastest mobile servic

. >> yes, so the central t-line project, another stop at union square that connects directly into powell station and a final stop in the heart of chinatown at stockton and washington. that project has also run into challenges. it's 120' under muni, under bart, 120' down and out under chinatown in some unexpectedly challenging soils. but that project is nearly complete. it's at about 98% completion right now which means we're testing trains, we're testing the elevators and escalators and the final electronics and we're still on track to open that in october presuming all of the testing continues to go well. so fingers crossed on in a one. we're really looking forward to allowing people to have a subway ride from the heart of chinatown all the way to the convention center to the caltrans station and all the way down to bayview and visitation valley. >> it's great to see all these projects coming to completion. we're all grateful for your team's hard work and i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. tumlin. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> my pleasure. thanks for havi

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people held a vigil in san francisco's union square over the weekend. people hauling posters, signs and candles to show their solidarity with the people of turkey and syria as well as the rescue teams. some of the attendees said that they were personally affected by the i'm in a lot of pain that i'm here and not there. and and the least i could do is come out and honor. >> the victim an affected by this earthquake. >> that woman echoing the sentiments of many who attended that vigil frustrated by what they call the lack of equipment for first responders in the area. it took until thursday for the first united nations aid convoy to cross from turkey into syria. coming up on the kron 4 morning news, a racist incident at the contra costa county middle school. so response from the naacp will hear more about what that was and officials are still looking into what caused an explosion in a san francisco home as well as lawmakers responding to yet another object shot down north america over the weekend. america over the weekend. we'll have the latest from a a l

the lunar new year upon us, preparations were underway friday night at the hilton san francisco union square. that's where hundreds gathered for this year's miss chinatown usa pageant. >> we've been around for over 60 years. reporter: the pageant court nader says this year's event is the biggest one yet. but the pageant is just one of several things happening in the city this weekend. >> we have a record number of units for the parade. we have more than 100 vendors lining the streets of chinatown. reporter: the chigestf ndof wrao social calendar. this year will be a little different with security concerns top of mind following the two recent mass shootings at monterey park and half moon bay. >> with all the law enforcement showing us that they will be there and vigilant. reporter: rising hate crimes against asian americans following the pandemic has also been a cause of concern for the community for the past several years. despite those challenges, local leaders say they are determined to make the festivities the best yet. >> we are very resilient community. in all the hardships we have face

it will get underway this evening at the hilton san francisco on union square. there will be several gala events during tonight's miss chinatown usa pageant, including entertainment and cash prizes, and it's just a warm up for the crown jewel to the chinese new year celebration. the annual parade in san francisco tomorrow night. hundreds of thousands of people typically lined the parade route, and organizers are expecting big crowds this year, an estimated one million visitors expected to come to the city to celebrate the year of the rabbit with the worst of the pandemic. now over the parade will feature dozens of entries, including school marching bands, martial arts reformers, lion dancers, and, of course, the golden dragon measuring almost 300 ft long and a long list of dignitaries to are set to attend tomorrow night's parade, including san francisco mayor london breed and celebrity chef martin yan. after rich ting is this year's parade grand marshal . he appeared in several popular tv shows, including magnum p i and chicago p d. he has strong ties to the bay

the inaugural con one was hosted by barnes and noble at union square. the sold out event featured authors who have grown their fan base through the medium, including tessa bailey, t.j. clune kennedy, ryan and hannah whitten. and in other news, publishers weekly recently profiled a brand new publishing house. it's called third state books. it's based in san francisco. it was founded by charles kim and stephanie lim. and its focus is on asian american and pacific islander voices and stories. third state said its first title will be, quote, not your model minority by diane lim. and at expect it out in early 2024. and one other book deal that we want to note, former uk prime minister boris johnson has signed a book deal with william collins. that's the uk based branch of harpercollins. it's worth about $630,000. it's about his time on downing street. no title or publication date yet. set. and now a discussion on the great books of western civilization, according to michael knowles. he hosts a program and podcast called the book club for prager, u. here's a