some of the things that we were able to -- [inaudible] strict and with the help of our -- kristina wong and jennifer fong, the two people we work most closely with. we have a english learner program guide and we didn't have this before and it's also translated into english -- into spanish and conton easy and serves as a guide to our english learner family who is find coming to epc and to the district very intimidating and very confusing. we work with the ioc and the mpd, the multilink welpath ways and they have given us a great deal of support, and we have -- they do come as guests to our meetings and we learn a great deal from them, and especially epc because that's [inaudible]. that's an area where english language learners don't quite know what to do especially if they don't know the language and go to epc to try to get their child registered in school and epc as a result our requests has actually created written update the transfer process between schools so that it's in writing now, and this is really important because in many of the programs that are available to english language

roll call. >> ly. >> yes. >> wong. >> yes. >> fewer. yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> murase. >> yes. >> wynns. >> aye. >> item p, consent calendar resolutions, this our audit, 2-c, and our auditor is in the audience. >> i first want to congratulate president norton and vice president fewer, on your new titles. we have with us tonight leonard dana, to give you a short presentation on our 2011-12 audit. the company has done our audits for six or seven years now. and mr. dana has been a partner on this for three years now i think. >> i am on my second go around. >> exactly. >> usually when we present the audit reports, we usually have a lot to talk about. because of the findings. but i went back and looked at prior reports. and i didn't find one that didn't have one comment in them. and some comments if you go back in time, they are more than ticky-tack items, they were fairly serious items. and it shows from my perspective where the district has been and where it is now. and this leads up to the basic issue and comment, for t

the victims were held at gunpoint and there are no reports of injuries at this point but claudine wong is on the scene talking with investigators right now and she will have a live report in just a few minutes. >>> a 19-year-old sun noma county -- sonoma county woman was last seen at a celebration in lake tahoe. tara moriarty is in lake tahoe to tell us who she is and the effort to find her. >> reporter: they are tracing alyssa burns' last movements and statements records. many of her friends including her older brother and father have headed to lake tahoe to pass this out. 19-year-old alyssa burns has not been seen since shortly before midnight according to her friends who were with her. she was in town for a three day music festival which attracts thousands of people. she disappeared from the group around 11:30 and by phone she told her friends she was taking a shuttle back to the resort. she was spotted around midnight and a facebook page has been set up to find her after working as a hostess here at petaluma. she was studying to be a paramedic firefighter and she is 123 pounds, lon

wong. >> susan mccull a. it's the last person who has turned in a speaker card. * >> good afternoon, ms. mccull a. >>> good afternoon, susan mccall a, current vice president of north beach neighbors. john read the the official letter we have in partnership with telegraph hill dwellers, so, i won't repeat the information that is in there. i just want to reiterate that we have been very concerned about the impacts that the current option would have on the businesses and we have been very concerned about the, what we felt was the lack of public outreach in the past. over the last couple months we have been working with mr. funge and mr. reiskin and also representative david chiu's office to improve public input. [speaker not understood]. we didn't have a chance like russian hill dwellers to have a vote on the current option of the pagoda theater, but i do want to comment we have been working for years to try to get something into the pagoda theater and get [speaker not understood] off the street. not off the str

wong. >> join me in the pledge of allegiance if you like. >> mr. superintendent. >> thank you, vice president norton. good evening, everyone. i would like to announce that commissioners, wynn and norton and hany were sworn into office for four year terms by representatives and attorney general. the swearing-in ceremony took place last friday at tenderloin community school. a hearty congratulations, and welcome to new commissioner haney and welcome back to commissioners fewer, wynn and nort norton. >> thank you, mr. superintendent. now we will begin this evening as we do on the first meeting of every year with a special order of business, as stipulated in series 9000, the board will read out their rules and procedures, and may i hear motions on this item. >> so moved. >> second. >> any speakers? >> no. >> is there any comments or questions on the rules of procedure? yes, commissioner wynn. >> i wanted to point out that the board, the rules committee and the board of education it remains in the process of re-examining all of our policies. on which th

. >> council member wong? >> present. >> and roland wong is on excused absence. >> thank you. >> we'll now have public comment on items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc -- adoption i skipped something. i'm sorry. we need the reading and approval of the agenda and i need to mention we have one addition to the agenda. item 14 will be an information item from ken stein. item 15 will be adjourned. >> okay. regular meeting mayor's disability council friday, january 18th, 2013. one, welcome, introduction and roll call. two, action item, reading and approval of the agenda. three, public comment. four, report from the chair. five, report from the director of mayor's office on disability. six, information item new time sheets and payment process for ihss. seven, public hearing. services and programs for adults with disabilities and seniors in san francisco. what is working? what isn't? what is missing? 2:30 break. 8, report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. 9, report from

live in marin county claudine wong ktvu channel 2 news. >>> also in overnight news police in fremont say a home on party court is the scene of the city's first homicide of the new year. officers found the body of a 48- year-old inside the home early yesterday evening. two hours late aero27-year-old man showed up at the fremont police station with a suspected murder weapon to turn himself in. both the victim and the suspect lived at the home but police did not disclose the nature of their relationship or a motive. >>> your time now 5:04. in a couple hours from right now the new boeing dream liner jet will take off from san jose airport launching ground breaking service but there is developing news about the safety of that jet. janine de la vega joining us live. so what is going on? >> reporter: the faa will be holding a news conference concerning this. but that boeing 787 dream liner is supposed to take off from here for the first time all the way to tokyo. the recent problems with the plane is really bad timing for ana. the federal aviation administration will be holding a news confe

claudine wong is out there. just talked to the officials on the district on why they are changing the system and how it's going. >> reporter: the changes are coming. take a look at what is happening right now. you can see toll takers in place. you've got your typical toll lanes your fast track lanes your car pool lanes. that is how it has been business as usual. what you can't see is the testing that is going under way for the changes that are coming in late march. i'm joined now by spokesperson mary curry. let's talk about this. big changes and obviously the big thing is the toll takers are going away. tell me what is happening today and when the changes will officially go into effect. >> today is a milestone day. because we started the testing of the tolling system. we are 60 days away now. what that means is that the collectors will then come out of the lanes in 60 days. so far we have 28 full-time collectors. about half have been placed in other jobs and continuing to work with the others. we're also negotia

ktvu's claudine wong is there in san francisco with the latest on where a driver crashed into a caltran parking lot so what happened. >> reporter: the search is on the for the driver. father-in-law started as a traffic -- apparently it started as a traffic stop or attempted traffic stop and you can see the mess left behind. that power pole hanging there and you can see a pg&e crew just arriving. they are telling us these repairs could take a while and power is out. look at this, though, if we pan over, you can see when this car came crashing r went through a fence and ended up hitting this vehicle that's in the employee parking lot. the car that was involved in this has been towed away at this point but we want to show you video from earlier this morning when it was still here, and you can see the damage to it. chp says it started at 1:15 in the morning. the driver did the not stop and kept going. got off the freeway and ended up at 5th and townsend where he or she crashed the car and fled. they're serging for the driver at this point but they've taken away the vehicle and certainly sea

one on behalf of roland wong, who is in an excused absence today, he is the chair of the physical access committee and i will be providing a report on our 2013-2014 capital projects requests. the mayor's disability council physical access committee met on friday, january 11th, 2013. the new business was a presentation by me on the ada transition plan for the youth guidance center. that was a project we have been working on this year. and we're making capital requests for the next two fiscal years on this project. and the purpose of this presentation was to show exactly what we do in the structure of the drawings, plans, the contracts, the cost estimates in project meetings. we did have a second item, which was not on the agenda. and that was a presentation by mark paul on larson street shared public way on the top of rincon hill, where they are seeking public input from individuals with disabilities and groups that represent individuals with disabilities. especially input from blind and low-vision advocacy and they are seeking a meeting with the california council of the blind hopefully

putting one in place to conform with the requirements. >> okay, roll call please. >> ly. >> yes. >> wong. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> ma >> -- maufas. >> yes. >> dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> there are no board member proposals this evening. we come to item j, that i suspect many of you have been waiting for. i have a number of speaker cards first and foremost from members of the creative art charter community. through prearrangement, we have agreed to give your community 20 minutes of public comment time. you may use that time however you wish. i have speaker cards from fernando aligar. elson brook. greene. stones. pavalar. yes, please. we will start timing at 20 minutes and let you know when time is up. >> good evening, am fernando agliar, the interim director of the charter school. i have been at ccsss for four years, and i am here to talk about the proposal to relocate golden gate middle school to the golden gate campus. this move will show what we have worked hard to build. in my opinion and many opinions you can't place a school on a campus with alread

helen wong, field coordinator. thank you very much. you brought hundreds and hundreds of people together with my yellow t-shirt out in the street. it's been a long road for me. it's amazing for me to be standing here actually talking about pathways that nobody expected. i was born in the chinese hospital; i went to jean parker. at jean parker it was a struggle for me; i realize when i walked in, there are a lot of people that don't really know who i am. bear with me, for other people have heard this and million times. i struggle going to school. i had speech problems; i stuttered. it was really my parents that pushed me, tell me i would be okay. for me to be able to talk to you, and maybe i will stutter but it is a personal achievement for me. my parents are both gone, but they would be proud. if you have seen the king speech, you know what i had to struggle with. (applause) again, i was on the school board for eight years. prior to that i actually work in the community for a long time. served people throughout san francisco i met. i l

on january 15, 2012, the pac will host our next community briefing with christina wong, a special assistant to the superintendent, who will provide an overview of the plan and service supporting english language learns in sfusd. and second we hope to hear how the district is addressing challenges and the plan. and third how the pac and our community partners might support the district to improve the remote better communication with our english language learners families and students. thank you. >> any questions or comments? vice president fewer. >> thank you, for your presentations. i wanted to know when you are addressing the pta with the restorative practices. do you have a date and location for that? >> good evening, and congratulations to president norton, vice president fewer. and welcome aboard commissioner haney. yeah, we do have a date set for monday, january 28. we don't have a location yet. but i can forward that once that is established. >> do you know the time? their meeting convenes at 6:30 and i think our spot will be at 7 or 7:30. >> thank you very much. all right, we will mo

ktvu's claudine wong tell us what led up to the early- morning crash and all of the work needed to clean up the mess. >> reporter: it started at a traffic stop but ended like, a mess on a san francisco street just before 2:00 this morning. the highway patrol says officers tried to pull over the man driving this 2003 bmw registered out of oakland but after pulling off the freeway, that driver refused to stop and ended up crashing into this power pole fence and caltrain truck. he ran from the scene. pg&e crews were left to clean up the mess he left behind. residents and businesses found themself in darkness. >> i saw the accident and thought this won't be up any time soon. i went back to the office and shut down the servers and now i'm gonna stand here at wait until it's fixed. >> reporter: all about 100s abouts were up within an -- within an hour. but this power pole was just dangingling from the -- dangling from the wires. for most people, the power was back on by 7:00 in morning. but for this building, the repairs were to be a little more complicated. so pg&e brought out this generator

in san francisco, claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a fight between a father and a son in dalyhis morning left both men with serious injuries. it happened at the kron colony apartment complex. daly city police say the father called 911 about 2:30 to report he had been stabbed. officers found the father who is in his 30s, had been stabbed four times. his 19-year-old son had a traumatic head injury. both were taken to the hospital and are expected to survive. there's no word yet on what caused the fight or in any charges -- or if any charges will be filed. >> two placer county teenaged girls are accused of drugging one of the girls' parents just to be able to use the internet. the suspects are 16 and 15 years old. they are accused of -- accused of putting sleeping bills in a milk shake -- pimms in a mill -- pills in a milk shake. they wake up feeling groggy and took a drug test. >>> a day-long rally at the state capitol is aimed at providing new protections for the homeless. >> right now, you can't discriminate against persons because of their race, their sex, their age, their co

claudine wong is there and claudine, you spoke to the victims, what did they say?rter: well they are describing a terrifying ordeal just before 3:00 and let me set the scene for you. this all happened in the first floor apartment. they had three people staying over and they were all asleep. i want to show you the front of this building because there is a gate inn front and they think maybe it was stuck and that's how the home invasion suspects got in. they were all asleep and a total of five guys came in with guns and they immediately started knocking down the doors, dragged us all out into the living room. >> reporter: now this is a picture of the door they say they broke down the door to get into the bedrooms and they didn't want their identities shown but when the five people said it will be okay. >> i said it's going to be okay and he kicked me and said done talk to her. he smacked the boys grabbed the girls' heads. >> he saw at least two guns and one of the suspects dragged a nun and it was recovered from the planner rocks at 40th avenue. at this point, police

claudine wong -- from the oakland museum of california. claudine wong has the new details on the reward that's on the table. >> reporter: it's been in this museum since the 1960s giving people a glimpse into the gold rush. >> it was a wedding anniversary gift from a san francisco pioneer to his wife in the 19 -- in the 1800s. it was created by a san francisco gold smith artisan. >> reporter: that is until monday when someone snatched it. oakland police would not release a picture citing the ongoing investigation. all we can tell you it's 7 by 9, about the size of a shoebox. it's gold with images of california on the box. >> this is a theft not just on a valuable object but the theft of the history and the heritage of our children. >> reporter: it's the second time this has happened. there was another heist in november. >> the museum believes in both theft, the thief came through the garden. in both thefts, he came to this area in the museum. back in november, took an item in there and then from here and then on monday took that box located

fixed asset infrastructure and this would favor investment and government spending in gdp. >> steven wong, adjunct associate professor at the university of hong kong. >>> let's get a check of the markets now on worries over china's accelerating inflation weighed on shares in asian markets on friday. shanghai's market index declined nearly 1.8%. hong kong's index down .4%. the nikkei bucking a trend on a weaker yen,i reaching the highet level since 2011. a big of a mixed picture moving into the session. london's ftse 100 just up by .10%. frankfurt up fractionally. paris's cac 40 down by more than .3%. the dollar higher against the yen on expectations that the bank of japan's bold monetary easing will help the economy but the u.s. currency is coming off a bit after reaching the highest point since june 2010 in early asian trading. dollar-yen at 88.80-84. the euro is also gaining against the yen. the european currency is now down at 117.74. that's going to do it for biz tonight. let's get a check now of the markets. >>> the eastern u.s. is seeing warm temperatures, but changes in the forecas