people what would you say that the attitude of the vietnamese is toward the u.s. for kind of this neglect over the last fifty years. well during the vietnam war and i was i was very active in the anti-war movement and i remember being very surprised that the vietnamese people did not hate the american people they understood that it was the american government not the american people that that was raining bombs and chemicals down on them and in fact there was a very strong anti-war movement the problem now and since the vietnam war the end of the war one nine hundred seventy five is that people don't know that the land and the people of vietnam continued to be poisoned by this chemical that was dropped by the u.s. military and when people do find out such as reading my op ed on huffy to post and other pieces like that they feel very responsible they feel like they want to do something about it i have been to vietnam recently there is not resentment against the. americans they understand that there are many americans who are trying to achieve compensation to to get

americans now vietnamese americans were exposed to agent orange and particularly the most egregious chemical in. in agent orange which is dioxin one of the most dangerous chemicals known to science you talk about how the use of agent orange was actually a violation of the geneva conventions why. well the geneva conventions and the hague convention prohibit weapons that target civilians and the land mass was sprayed with no distinction between. troops and this and civilians and certainly millions of civilians were affected and so that is a violation of the geneva conventions in the hague convention prohibits the use of poisoned weapons obviously agent orange decimated the entire land can you talk about the kinds of health of facts that were seen and actually they needed aftermath of its use was not just immediate aftermath actually the children and grandchildren of both vietnamese and americans exposed to agent orange continue to be born with horrific birth defects when i was in vietnam i saw children with no limbs i heard reports of children born babies born with no brain cavity peo

chinese foreign minister wang yi and his vietnamese counterpart pham binh minh met in hanoi on monday. minh said the dispute over the islands should be settled peacefully. wang replied that china has no intention of jeopardizing its relations with vietnam. chinese ships have obstructed vietnamese fishing boats near the islands and drawn protests from vietnam. china also has a territorial dispute with the philippines. china and the association of southeast asian nations or asean are to start official negotiations next month to draw up legally binding rules to settle the disputes. >>> south korea has once again urged north korea to hold talks on reopening the kaesong joint industrial park. >> translator: the patience of the south korean people is reaching its limit, and north korea should behave in a responsible way. >> the unification ministry said in a statement on sunday that the four-month suspension of the complex has caused south korean firms about $6.7 billion. south korea's requesting compensation from the north for the financial damage. south korea issued the statement one week

one man is injured after they were shot at a vietnamese restaurant. kron four's will tran is live from the restaurant in san jose, will? >> eight hours after the shooting the investigators are still here. you can see that there is a lot out here. three men that were shot, they do not know if they were the intended target or is it was the actual cholesterol. you concede markers on the ground. the investigators told me that the shooter is for so sophisticated that they have not been able to recover any casings. i wanted to know how that was possible? he stated that they may have read their guns that they used that cut across the casings. so far they have not been able to recover any of those. the men were sitting near the window when the shots were fired. they do not know what this point because they have no casings. they have no mode of. the men were in their 30's and 40's. there were still able to talk to investigators but not give them enough information. the man who died, he had a fighting chance. he was rushed to the hospital but he died at the hos

police in san jose are looking for suspects in a shooting at a vietnamese restaurant. one person was killed, two others wounded. jeanine joins us from the scene in east san jose. >> reporter: police are on the scene at this vietnamese restaurant located on allen rock avenue near capital. it is dark, but we have been told there is damage to the building from the bullets that went flying inside. police were called to the hong- hong restaurant last night. there were about 15 people inside of the restaurant at the time of the shooting. one man died from wounds, the other two suffered from nonlife- threatening injuries. >> at this point, we're not exactly sure the motive of the shooting or, you know, any suspect information. just that it appears that the rounds were fired from the outside into the establishment. and at this point, that's all we have. >> reporter: it's unknown if the actual restaurant or anybody inside was targeted or if this was a random shooting. witnesses have been interviewed, but there is no suspect information and no arrests have been made. so not too

the south vietnamese city of da nang was falling to the north vietnamese and bruce dunning was aboard a 727 when it arrived to airlift refugees. >> as soon as the rear stairway was lowered the stampede of terrorized people tried to storm the plane. from the cockpit, the pilots reported by raidy this the situation was out of control. >> pelley: the mission was intended to rescue women and children but dunning, cameraman mike marriott and the sound man captured the chaotic scenes as desserting members of the south vietnamese army tried to escape. >> the heavily-armed men were menacing. they left their wives, their children, their aged parents on the runway while they forced their own way on board, a rabble of young enlisted men. the stewardess dragged people on and rushed them to seats screaming all the while "where are the women and children?" >> reporter: dunning watches add flight attendants took a head count. >> 268 people were on board. among them five women and two or three small children. >> reporter: and he listened at the flight crew, with the help of an escort, examined the pl

police are looking for suspects in a shooting at a vietnamese restaurant. one person was killed, two others wounded. jeanine has new information now about the person who was killed. she joins us from the scene. >> reporter: well, police say that it appears that the man who died here from this shooting at the restaurant appeared to be an innocent bystander. sources tell me that friends that were on the scene say he was an engineer that was just everyone joying a drink with friends. you can see crime scene investigators are here combing over the restaurant and looking for clues that may help lead to the shooter. shortly after 10:00 last night they received a report of multiple gunshots fired near the restaurant on allen rock and capital avenue. officers say about 15 people were inside the restaurant and three men were shot. all were rushed to the hospital where one died this morning from his injuries. the other two received superficial wounds and will survive. police say after speaking to witnesses, it appears whoever pulled the trigger did so from outside th

one man is dead and two others are injured after they were shot at a vietnamese restaurant.are in the hospital this morning following a shooting in san francisco's visitacion valley. it happened around 5:00 yesterday evening at the corner of sunnydale avenue and bayshore boulevard. a man and a woman were shot -- both were taken to san francisco general hospital. police say the man's injuries are considered life-threatening. as for a suspect. police don't have much to go on. witnesses saw a man in his early 20s driving away in a burgundy sedan. investigators confirm the cause of the deadly limousine fire on the san mateo bridge last may was *accidental. c-h-p and fire department officials say the limo's rear suspension failed. which allowed the drive shaft under the car to come into contact with the floor panel. that caused the carpet to catch fire. which ultimately the district attorney says surveillance video taken the day of the accident shows the limo appeared to be in good condition before the accident. authorities announced that the cause of the deadly limousine fire on

we have russian, chinese, spanish and vietnamese. we take every opportunity we can to go out to fairs throughout the city and pass out our literature and talk wherever we're asked from a public -- any kind of public event, we say yes. we delight in being able to go out and share the information we have to our very culturally diverse city. the city's outdoor warning, public warning system also has the capability of using multiple languages or testing in multiple languages. on the tuesday test you hear at noon in certain neighborhoods, you would hear cantonese and certain neighborhoods you would hear spanish. so, we continually test that and make sure that we have people who speak those languages because that is out of r 911 center who we also work, as i mentioned, with neighborhood groups. one group i wanted to point out was the chinatown community development center. we did a special disaster preparedness program for them. we actually put them through a little -- it's almost like -- i won't say nert, that's too big, but a disaster tr

family, and lyric and the samoan market and the community action network and the center and the vietnamese development center. so i would like to give the remainder of my time to the interns so that you can hear more about the experience and take away from the summer. david who is a non-profit partner who received a base learning grant young community developers that is working with the south east, sfi internship program that was done in partnership with the parson and whurs and brown and caldwell and srt and project mrur who was an intern who was based at our 525 headquarters to talk about the youth led on tours that they did. >> i am the deputy director here, and we are a non-profit in the city and to build the city and change with the lesbian and gay and queer and questioning youth. and we have the program for years and this is the first time that we have been able to take part of the opportunity in the pec to really engage our young people in the environmental justice work and to expose the career pathways that could lead to green jobs and other ways to them to benefit the community an

the vietnamese one come from the university of vienna, the original founder was carol who was a journalist who covered the stock market. this is why i have this connection with the economic. basically the economics is in the adam smith kind of school of economics. way to improve the model the system of natural lib i liberty. a firm belief in limited government, the balance budget. it's prosavings. very much in favor of sound money. the gold standard or something where inflation is controlled pretty critical of the federal reserve and easy money policy, deficit spending, all of the things that we're doing today would largely be opposed by the school. >> you talk about the gold standard here. what happened in 1971? >> in 1971, the so many dollars were printed up. you could no longer maintain $35 an ounce government guarantee program for gold. you couldn't mix the price of gold anymore. what was happening was the french and everyone else was going the u.s. government and saying, we'll give you $35. we want the gold. we know that gold is worth more than $35. so nixon closed the glold window in

and we know that the war planners knew it at the time the vietnamese people had turned against the us did not ever see them as saviors but we were being propagandized and i would say going through the vietnam experience where i almost was ready at the age of fifteen sixteen to enlist and then seeing that the u.s. mainstream media had been propagandizing me and millions of people and then seeing when the vietnam veterans came home to tell us the truth here's the real story of what we witness and they weren't allowed in the mainstream media by and large that's what turned me into the media critic what was your entry into the media when i started writing investigative pieces for alternative publications when i was very young i wrote for the detroit fifth the state an alternative weekly michigan and. new times in my expertise. he said the beginning was i wrote about the martin luther king assassination i wrote about f.b.i. and cia abuse when the documents were coming out the internal documents were coming out in the one nine hundred seventy four seventy five so that's where i really start

. >> the book dedicated is vietnamese waltz down wall street. the founder of freedom fest and the author and many other book. this is booktv on c-span2. >> the united states of paranoia is the name of the book. here is the cover. published by harper. the author is jesse walker of reason. mr. walker, are americans a paranoid people? there has been paranoia at the heart of america for as long as -- i can't speak to the unreported history. i would assume there's paranoia then and certainly since the colonial days. america has been filled with conspiracy cultural paranoia. i don't know we're anymore more paranoid about any other country. the book is about america. the french are very paranoid people too, for all i know. >> because you are paranoid doesn't mean you're not being followed or watched. >> right. >> is there some legitimacy to conspiracy theory? >> people conspire. that's part of life. it's one reason why we're always going have conspiracy theories. or fear of conspiracy is that there's going to be some conspiracy. it's not like fear of v

the vietnamese one comes from the university of vienna. the original founder was carl manger, a journalist who covered the stock market. this is why i've got this connection with austrian economics. basically, austrian economics is in the adam smith kind of school of economics, a way to improve the adam smith model of the system of natural liberty, a firm belief in limited government, balanced budgets, the school is very proceedings, very much in favor of sound money, the gold standard or something where inflation is controlled, pretty critical of the federal reserve and easy money policies. deficit spending. all the things we're doing today would virtually be opposed by the austrian school. >> host: you talk about the gold standard here. what happened in 1971? >> guest: so many dollars have been printed out that she could no longer maintain or d. $5 an ounce government guarantee program for gold. you couldn't fix the price of gold anymore because what was happening was the french and everyone else is going to the u.s. government, saying w

it happened at a vietnamese restaurant. strikes lighting up the bay area over night. >>darya: first a check of weather and traffic. >>george: we have been tracking and number of hot spot this morning. we will start off with marin county with an accident southbound of fraud is parkway when the backup has continued to grow and the drive times have jumped over 35 minutes. we continue to track slower than usual traffic through the south bay. 101 southbound. 33 to 35. a number of south bay freeway is looking at heavy traffic of there as well. we still have big delays through hayward union city of the nimitz freeway both directions again. earlier occurring problems. and we still have a big rig on its side. it should be clearing up some time around. >>erica: we are looking up to over cast as muggy conditions on this tuesday morning. temperatures raise from the upper 50s coast side to the low 60s inland. we will see more such i later on today. we do have the potential for full details on what to expect coming up at age 15. >>james:

or the youth of vietnamese youth center their collaborative in supporting the small businesses. one of the most spierg piece ofs legislation because of the bottom-up legislation groups and also the people who support the intends it's been a great learning experience to learn from our grassroots folks from the city. thank you >> colleagues can we take a roll call vote on this item? (calling names). >> >> ordinance is passed think is first reading . >> from sixth street subject to specified finding. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. since i've come into office it's been a fast-growing corridors. with those folks coming here on a daily basis. we're reaching a tipping issue where moss more residents come to this area. a few weeks ago a couple of folks who opened a small retail on second street is partnering now to have a few service grocery stores in a neighborhood that lacked one. it's been great we've been able to find a grocery store. as this area continues to develop at least 31 units will be coming on line and we're expecting thousands of workers. this is the time for the city t

this morning police searching for suspects in a triple shooting at a vietnamese restaurant. since 4:30 this morning. you are back now. so what do you know now janine. >> reporter: well, derblth detective -- welt, detectives will to wrap up here at the scene. they've been here for many hours. you can see them at the restaurant. no suspects has been identified yet. we're told by police it appears that nine bullets were fired into the restaurant but nobody saw the shooter. police say shortly after 10:00 last night, bullets came flying inside the restaurant on alum rock avenue near capital. officers say it appears who of fired the shots was outside. three men were hit by bullets and rushled to the hospital -- rushed to the hospital. one of them dayed at 2:00 a.m., the other had super fish am wounds and will survive. we spoke to one witness who heard the gunfire but didn't want to dwiv her name -- give her name. >> two or three shots. at first we didn't pay attention to it. and then the five shots later, we knew it was five shots. >> no word what led up to the gunfire. the victim

centers and a large majority of the immigrants are read the means, and this has drawn outrage from -- vietnamese, and this has drawn outrage from human rights supporters, but the campaign has been cheered by a lot of the media and the public, and the mayor of moscow says -- seeingrmal, sane this as an emergency situation. he is probably trying to defend his job because there will be a race for mayor september 8 and immigration is a hot button issue. >> in the u.s., a federal judge 'ss ruled that new york police stop and search powers are racist. >> yes. it's as a federal judge that says the new york police department's stop and frisk target unfairly target blacks and hispanics and this is a violation of constitutional rights. you can read about it in "the independent." she did not ban the policy but said the nypd had to change its ways, the mayor, michael bloomberg, as always defended these policies and says it is one of the reasons they have been able to cut back on crime. it is curious it was a judge on not the nypd that is starting to get rid of this racist policy. "slate" quotes the police c

yeah, check out that vietnamese guy giving the business to those vietnam vets. scoreboard!w, what happened to your friend?! hey, i know that guy! i kill him! he cry like a bitch! vietnam, undefeated! all right, this is the hotel where the bellhop works. hey, there he is. sal! well, hey, cleveland! what are you doing here? i was wondering if my friends and i could ask you a few questions. yeah, where'd you hear that dirty joke you told cleveland? that's none of your business! leave me alone! don't let him get away! (horn blares, tires squeal) hop on! where did he go?! i think he went that way, past the reflecting pool! damn! he's nowhere in sight. i'll ask these fellas. maybe they've seen him. excuse me, have you seen...? h-h-hold on a second. i'm trying... hold on a sec. hey, pal, stop talking while i'm talking, all right? you want a sandwich full'a knuckles? do ya? all right, that's it. cleveland, you take cleveland. joe, you take joe. quagmire, you take quagmire and i'll get fatty mcloudmouth. it's no use, peter. we've lost him. peter: our journey had abruptly ended, and

. >>> south bay, police are investigating a shooting at a vietnamese bar that killed one man. the bullet killed through the window at alum rock avenue. three people wer by the bullet. police say they have not found any evidence of disturbance inside or outside. the restaurant is more of a bikini bar. >> the crowd is pretty bad crowd and you know it is just not uncommon. >> the victims are expected to survive, one is release frd the hospital and the killing of san jose's 31st homicide this year. >>> how one program cut this year is now helping parents stop kids from cutting class. >>> a driver was distracted this afternoon when she hit a pole in san jose and missing a mother and her child. the accident happened around 12:30, officers say the woman's car ran up the tension cable before slamming in the pole and slamming over. they're on the sidewalk and the driver was injured but were told not seriously. >>> a woman's quick thinking helped her survive a major accident. the woman was in a white sedan when a truck crossed right into her lane, this happened about 5:15 this morning.

vietnamese, tagalog, chinese. just to let you can receive assistance from some very qualified individuals. >> any other questions? if not, thank you very much for coming. [applause] >>> i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rai

vietnamese, tagalog, chinese. just to let you can receive assistance from some very qualified individuals. >> any other questions? if not, thank you very much for coming. [applause]

according to the vietnamese television. father and son who ran away from their village during the vietnam war have been living in a treehouse in the jungle. a mine exploded, killing his wife and his two other sons. reminder of the headlines. barack obama orders no transparency and surveillance and says the u.s. is not spying on ordinary citizens. they will push ahead in the name of national security. the u.s. and russia look to find ways to progress. relation -- the relations between the white house and the kremlin are on the rocks because of edward snowden and syria. nine people are killed after mosque,pened fire on a one day after the suicide bomb attack at a funeral. say hello to marcus. you will start off with the arch rivalry between two giants in? have ane corner you mexican company owned by the billionaire, carlos flamm, and then you have a spanish telecom firm, together they hold a large part of the market already in latin america. but their rivalry is now spreading to europe as well. they say they want to make a fo

was manning i was burdened with the knowledge that the war was going on against the wishes of the vietnamese people the u.s. was prolonging that in some vain hope of success justifying the lives lost which meant a longer war, more people killed. to try to shorten that and avoid that i thought that if the american people knew the truth about how we got in here, how four presidents in a row and now a fifth one lied us in with threats of escalation, maybe he would take democratic process to stop it, which by the way eventual thank you. >> the pretrial hearings for the september 11th terror attacks case are continuing at guantanamo bay. they say the guards are depriving of food and psychological torture. ththe prosecutors deny this. >>> and let's check in with rebecca stevenson for more on weather. >> meteorologist: we see showers and thunderstorms not just in nevada but there are areas where we got caught with weather today i'll show you coming up next. >> meteorologist: with our primary weather systems moving west to east we're watching the pacific rights now, and we have an area of low pressu

vietnamese, tagalog, chinese. just to let you can receive assistance from some very qualified individuals. >> any other questions? if not, thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> this is smack in the middle of the tenderloin neighborhood where there are 50,000 people within walking distance. you see the kids that are using what's provided, but there is so much opportunity for this to be a stronger, more welcoming, healthier, cleaner, safer place for the people in this community to play. there are going to be new green areas, a full-size basketball court, outdoor fitness equipment, community gardens, a brand-new clubhouse. it's going to be a much more welcoming spot for a neighborhood that really needs it. ♪ ♪ >> (clapping) so this is a photograph of my father which was taken in 1986. it's one of the families farther photos it's the way i think of him. my father who could be very articulate was hesitate to speak about art. his own work or the art of

vietnamese, tagalog, chinese. just to let you can receive assistance from some very qualified individuals. >> any other questions? if not, thank you very much for coming. [applause] >>> >>> i'm audrey joseph. the acting chair of the entertainment commission. july will mark the 10th year of the entertainment commission and we as an industry have come a long way. our venues are safer, we have survived the recession, our city has produced an economic impact report that speaks to our value as an industry, we are looking forward to the next economic impact report on daytime events and festival and we continue to improve our permitting process most recently the help of supervisor scott wiener extending limited live permits to d j's. today we are introducing to the best i am practices manual based in security and we are discussing issues that are veflt relevant to us all. the 90s, san francisco nightlife awards recognized excellent and creative content and patron experience in the nightlife industry. we as an industry de

. >> thai authorities have arrested two vietnamese nationals, suspected of trying to smuggle more than00 kilograms of ivory to bangkok. a man and his wife were arrested at bangkok airport after customs officials found pieces of elephant tusks in their suitcases. >> news from the world of football. along with the old conquering munich, bavarian soccer fans might have something else to look forward to. >> the german football federation has chosen munich as a possible host for some of the 2020 european cup matches. >> the tournament will be played across europe instead of in one location. munich is gearing up for the opportunity. here is more. >> football fans in munich have another reason to celebrate. after wrapping up trouble with wins in the championship, the bavarian capital has been selected as the german candidate for the 2020 european championship. the city is already getting ready. munich's alianza arena will be expanded to seat more than 70,000 fans. the arena has hosted its share of events, such as the opening ceremony of the 2006 world cup. it is not always been good news for

vietnamese, tagalog, chinese. just to let you can receive assistance from some very qualified individuals. >> any other questions? if not, thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor farrell, for being here this morning, and also for your great partnership with the board of supervisors. carmen chu, you're helping us bring in the money already, thank you. assessor chu. (applause) >> london breed, thank you very much, supervisor, always a pleasure to work with you as well. all of you, friends, spouses, family, people who are just enthralled with this wonderful great city of san francisco like i am. thank you for all being here to witness and honor and thank the people who are stepping up with us to help manage this wonderful great city. thank you, chief hayes white, for being here as well, and other department heads and other commissioners, thank you for joining us as well. we have 25 individuals today who are sacrificing a lot of personal time, sacrificing their own family's time away for ni

vietnamese, tagalog, chinese. just to let you can receive assistance from some very qualified individuals. >> any other questions? if not, thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure wh

. >>> san jose police are looking for a gunman who opened fire on a vietnamese restaurant. one died at the hospital, and police say the shooting appears to be random. this is san jose's 31st homicide of the year. >>> contra costa county has been forced to close nearly half a dozen fire stations. the county now turning to outside help to figure out how to protect the people who live there. showing why some aren't too happy about the new plans. >> we don't support the study. but we do want the public to come out. >> reporter: it may not be the most cordial of invitationses, but they want this room filled tonight. >> the way we're currently doing it, i don't think, our community is entirely safe. i don't think our firefighters are entirely safe. >> reporter: because of a lack of money. contra costa has closed five fire stations like this one in lafayette and shut down five engine crews. they're spending a half million dollars to hire a company to analyze the fire protective services. >> a reorganization of some kind is inevitable, but i want it to be one that our firefighters

together our collaborative covers all of the major languages spoken by our clients, chinese, spanish, vietnamese, russian, other eastern european languages, burmese, tagalog and others. we urge you to attend upcoming naturalization workshop on august 10, 2013, to take advantage of the naturalization services which will be offered that day at number 1 south van ness. no appointments needed and free of charge. on behalf of all of our collaborative partners and our clientsv i want to thank mayor lee, president chiu, dr. hernandez, and all of our philanthropic funders. thank you so much for your generous support and your continued support through the san francisco pathway to citizenship will be a great success. we will give you our 200% effort. thank you very much. (applause) >> there is nothing more exciting and challenging as going through the process of naturalization in the united states. we're now going to hear from three individuals who are sharing their first person stories and have been very courageous and open about sharing these stories with us. first we will hear from claudia rodriguez an