>> there is freddie wong, he's huge in this videogame business.mer, with a show that subway paid for that has done well. it's not hundreds of stars, it's tens of thousands of stars. >> we will be speaking to freddie wong himself in a matter of minutes. with disney buying maker studios, dreamworks investing in awesomenesstv. what does this say about the future, and who was going to own it? >> right now they are still making lots of money in television and movies, but there are signs of weakness. the summer box office has not been great. the upfront advertising market was pretty weak. they have cash, and what you do with that? they are looking at this parallel universe on youtube, and right now that has a huge amount of attention. lots of young, rabid fans, but it is not making that much money. these independent companies have done a lot of the initial hard work, organizing this ecosystem and trying to figure out how to make money from it. but they have not made a lot of money yet. big media companies like dreamworks and disney find now is a great t

8974.9, construction management for terminal 3, boarding area e refurbishment project between pgh wong engineering, inc., and the city and county of san francisco, acting by and through its airport commission, in an amount not to exceed $12,000,000 to commence following board approval for term ending june 30, 2015, pursuant to charter, section 9.118(b); and authorizing the airport director to negotiate and execute, with airport commission approval, further amendments not to exceed $13,700,000 for a term end date no later than february 1, 2017. >> thank you. welcome, ms. wagoner. >> thank you. good morning, chair farrell, supervisor mar. cathy farrell [speaker not understood]. the airport is seeking your approval to the fourth amendment to an existing contract with [speaker not understood]. the proposed amendment would increase the not to exceed amount by 2.83 million dollars. future amendments to the contract would increase the not to exceed amount by another $1.7 million for a new total contract amount of $13.7 million. the program includes the refurbishment of the two piers that make

councilmember harriet wong? are you sure? okay. so first we have john alex from the pedestrian and safety advisory committee. >> thank you ms. o'neal for representing uber in san francisco. i have a question regarding service intervals. is it a functional request that you state you will have a service animal when you register the car and if so, do you state it's a registered, licensed service animal because there is a difference between over the years of exist some are and some aren't. do you specify? >> we don't specify. if someone says they have a service animal. they have a service animal in our book. that's not something that we require anyone to show any proof of. we take that at face value. >> we have charles raf bon. >> good afternoon, councilmembers. i am charles rather born from the cab company. we have been serving all the people of san francisco for more than 80 years and recent decades have been leading provider of accessible services. i would like to start off by saying to the people with disabilities of san francisco,

if he has trouble keeping his wong straight, viagra. it proves that two wongs make him right. >> that was a joke he tried to make. and can you apologize for that? >> why? i apologize for harry reid screwing up the joke. is that what i am supposed to do. >> i am not going to make a joke on wongs because i am enlightened. coming up, can joanne sustain a heavy state falling on her from six floors up? probably not, but she has agreed to find out. first a female fireman? what is next, a male housecleaner? what is the world coming to? >>> should we care if her butt's in the air? this week marvel comics released a special cover for the first issue of its spider woman series. well that will do well. it shows the super hero on all four's in a barely there outfit. it is the subject of tonight's. >> is this sexist? >> i would like to thank -- well i will put the sign up. who the [bleep] cares at this point? [bleep]. the cover has been called offensive and blatant sexualization. marvel comics released it with the regular cover seen here with spider

ktvu's claudine wong is live with new details about the side show and the video that shows how out of hand things got. >> reporter: we are at the port of oakland and you can see skid marks from the side show. but a side show yesterday wasn't the only one. news chopper 2 was over head when we spotted a side show underway that port of oakland but there were others. >> within 15 minutes we had multiple events going. >> reporter: on highway 580. >> they blocked off the whole freeway. it was shocking shocking to see the amount of people. >> reporter: she called 911 but even after police got on scene that group of 150 motorcyclists and cars continued to cause problems. they headed to the toll plaza. watch the driver in the tan car. he continues to drive around the stopped cars and the passenger throws what looks like a can at the vehicle. then at a steadsy stream of cars drivers -- steady stream of cars drivers got out and covered up their license plates and even after they started back in the other direction the chp says the side shows continued. >> they continued running traffic breaks an

here is me to l u.d lu wong. can you have an it search it and the planners weren't complying and this is how we went through six emails. i emailed him before i knew who he was and they got the message back then asking for a continuance of the hearing because i couldn't get the case files i needed so there was plenty of notice. he had plenty of opportunity. these are emails and compliance and after exhausting all of these measures and deprived us and the neighborhood association of all the public records we needed all along. >>i think we heard enough from you on this question and understand your position on it. >> i have a question though. >> yeah go ahead. >> i am understanding the timelines. what documents were you looking for or what are you still looking for that you need? >> it would help me greatly to have -- by statute i need everything that was given and so i'm having a hard time still getting all of the information. i am getting information through bits of discovery from the city attorney assigned to judi

councilmember roland wong? >> yes, i just kind of like to remind the audience that please join us at the independent living resource center of san francisco. we are going to have a grand opening. we are relocating and a commemoration of the ada. it's this saturday july 26th, from 10 :00 a.m. to 3 :00 p.m. at 825 howard street. the ground floor between 4th and 5th street. there will be lots of fun and have food, free food. and a second thing i would like to kind of mention is that we had the van ness brt, the bart rapid transit. we would like to see that we can write a support letter regarding the shelters on the route. thank you. >> thank you. with that. we move on to item no. 14. we shall adjourn. thank you again for those who stuck it out and we went to over time here today. we had a lot of great discussion. we will have our next meeting third friday in september. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> this is in memory of veil. let's observe one 1 minute of silence in her honor. please. >> thank you. with that, w

ktvu's claudine wong reports mese are worried there could be more victims. >> reporter: neighbors in this mobile home park say it is not uncommon to hear children which made the arrest of the 43-year- old even more upsetting to some people. >> yes, shocking. yeah. that is why i don't let them outside by themselves. >> reporter: neighbors confirm he lived in this home, working as a handy man. police say he was doing work for one family when he came into contact with two sisters, 7 and 10. the girls told their parents on separate occasion he lured them to a area and touched them inappropriately. >> he did provide a statement. based on his statement and the information they received it was enough to arrest him. >> he was arrested on friday and remains in jail today. a man who lives next to him says the charnels are hard to believe. >> i know that he does do contracting work and he seems like a good guy. >> reporter: other neighbors say they are not taking chances. when we told her about the arrest she immediately wept on to -- went on to find out what else she didn't know. >> there is a

ktvu's claudine wong with more on one report that is talking about what happened when the fire over tookm. >> reporter: the firefighters were in a truck just like this one. >> this is exactly the same rig they were on. >> reporter: carg to a report obtained by ktvu channel 2 news -- according to a report obtained by ktvu channel 2 news, the crew was sent into the area to support the firing operation. >> there is a guy here, we are making sure the fire doesn't get away. >> they didn't have a chance when things started happening. >> just got out of the rig. >> reporter: according to the report the fire got more intense and transitioned from a ground fire to a fast running capany fire. -- canopy fire. everyone got out on their own but 8 people including three firefighters suffered first and second degree burns. [ indiscernible ] >> these particular people i took them out two years ago, same folks. >> while the injured firefighters are home the rest of the strike team is still waiting to be released. >> they are just finishing up a interview process and they only have half through the proces

team coverage on the death of robin williams, claudine wong speaking to those who knew williams before the world did, but we are outside with ken wayne. >> reporter: new details about the death of robin williams only seem to add to the sense of said sadness. in almost clinical detail, they describe the scene their found behind these walls. officials say they got a frantic 911 call monday at 11:55 a.m., after williams was found by his assistant, he was unresponsive and cool to the touch, and pronounced him dead at 12:02 p.m. >> the preliminary and i say, preliminary results of the forensic examination reveal supporting physical signs that mr. williams life ended from asphyxia due to hanging. >> reporter: paramedics found him with a belt around his neck, his body slightly suspended off the ground. >> what that means his body is in a position that looks like he's sitting in a chair. slightly off the ground, suspended from the belt that was wedged between the door and the door frame that was placed around his neck. >> reporter: he also said williams had cuts on his wrist and a pocket knife

wong, who was onstage with reid. >> it was a light-hearted joke, i've heard all my life.s not an insult. >> reporter: reet apologized anyway, saying -- "my comments were extremely poor in taste. sometimes, i say the wrong thing." he's becoming well-practiced at saying he's sorry. he once predicted barack obama would be the first black president because he was "light-skinned" and had "no negro dialect" unless he wanted to have one. and then there was this awkward moment -- >> in the summertime because of the high humidity and how hot it gets here, you can literally smell the tourists coming to the capitol. and that may be descriptive, but it is true. >> reporter: but tonight, it's the leader of the senate who isn't laughing. jeff zeleny, abc news, los angeles. >>> and we have an update on that mystery that riveted the country. the strange white flags flying on top of the brooklyn bridge where once red, white, and blue american flags reigned. today, the germans handed the american flags back to americans. we now know the prank was the work of german artists. the two men her

senators who demand redskins name change can't keep his wongs straight.d made a similar gaffe against cheryl who told a group of hispanic students telling them they looked asian. he said, quote, my comments were in extremely poor taste and i apologize. sometimes say i the wrong thing. meanwhile reid's stand against the washington redskins has found a local ally. the editorial section of the "washington post" will not be using the team's name, calling it a slur. the sports and news sections will continue to use redskins. >>> so is obamacare affecting major league baseball? some officials within the chicago cubs think so. tuesday the cubs' ground crew struggled to cover the infield with a tarp, leading to a waterlogged field and the game being suspend. sources tell the "chicago sun-times" seasonal workers including the grounds crew had their hours cut to fall below the full-time worker definition under obamacare. the team denies the allegations saying staffing played no role in the tarp problem. >>> finally using generic photos is always dangerous. new jers

so there were lots and lots of casualties. >> jan wong along with some other journalists retreated to a room at the beijing hotel which overlooks the square. >> the rest of the night, we just watched this carnage unfold. >> this is about the worst you can do to your own citizens, and they're doing it. that armored personnel group, as it worked its way down the main street toward tiananmen square, was firing at demonstrators. >> it was a bloodbath. i mean, you have one side with military-grade weapons, and then you have people in their summer dresses with their children. it's a massacre. >> the next day, "ap" still photographer, jeff widner convinces a man he just met named kirk to let him camp out in his room at the beijing hotel. jeff shoots photos until he runs out of film, but kirk locates one roll and gives it to jeff. >> i had one roll of film and had to make it last. >> by the morning of june 5th, the siege of tiananmen square is nearly over, and most of the protesters have fled. but there is one act of defiance yet to come. one that will live on forever. >> so i get wakened up

guy is ae wong, hootie new one here he is huge in the video gaming business.how this summer that subway pays for has done very well. not hundreds of stars. it is tens of thousands of stars. it is really on a different scale than television. >> we will be speaking with freddie wong himself and a couple of minutes. dreamworks investing in awesomeness tv. what does this have to say about the future of entertainment and who is going to own it? >> what it tells you is right now, the big media companies are still making a lot of money in television and movies but there is still signs of weakness. has beenffice sluggish. advertising market has been pretty weak. a lot of cash, but what do you do with that? right now, youtube has a huge amount of attention. and a lot of young fans. it is not making that much money. the companies that have popped up in the last couple of years, have done a lot of the initial the work organizing ecosystem and figuring out how you go about making money from it. they have not made money yet. media companies like stream works and disney dec

ken wong is a hong kong resident whose business is based in shanghai.e's been manufacturing and selling gold jewelry there for the past ten years. he has little interest in politics and says he cannot relate to either the pro-beijing supporters or pro-democracy advocates. it's ten days before the anniversary of hong kong's return to china rule. associate professor benny was at the university of hong kong. he's laumpnched a polling site r a civil referendum. he's calling on citizens to consider other ongs for choosing who they feel should be the chief executive of hong kong. currently only those approved by the mainland government can run for office. there's been several new election methods. their suggestions all have one thing in common. they focus on the desires of hong kong residents rather than the chinese in other words, each proposal is calling for a democratic election process. benny wants to see how many people who support democratization and approves proposals. he believes more people voting will increase the pressure on . a week after polling

we have one presentation tonight from christine wong who will report on this. commissioners, i have a presentation so if you wouldn't mind moving to the right or left. >> good evening, commissioners i'd like to take this opportunity to provide an overview of the new comer pathways we've established in the district for a number of years and the system of supports and the work we've can you think in the last couple of months given the anticipated increase in the number of unaccompanied children in san francisco. okay first of all, san francisco unified school district k through 12 has 12 newcomer pathways at the emergency room level see chinese ed center those are set sites where students are there from 120 years and troigsdz to a site and mayor ed lee at the middle school there's is visitacion valley and 4 sites it's a new comer comprehensive site where students are in a shrlthsd program and have others courses within the site and at the high school level lincoln and marshal and sf international and sf high school there's so much of the middle school it's a path

. >> i am claudine wong. >> we will start off with a quick look at the weather. rosemary, my windshield wipers were going early. >> mine as well. >>> patchy drizzle joining us outdoors and over the oakland estuary. you can see very widespread and marine layer is thicker. >> onshore breeze blows quite strong. temperatures were were around the bay and the cooling will continue for today. 33 miles an hour right now in fairfield with the gusts there. expect the onshore breeze to tip. they will begin to break cup for the afternoon. they will be partly cloudy for the second half. >> 63 in concord and 61 in redwood city. and in san francisco. low 6-0s outside your door in antioch. >> low clouds hanging around this morning. notice what is coming in from the south and southeast as we get into the afternoon. mid and high level clouds. back in the picture. muggy weather. even the possibility of a few sprinkles moving back in as well. >> it is 70 degrees in oakland. and 74 in san francisco and 86 in concord and livermore. >> 89 degrees in antioch. when i come back we will ha

claudine wong, ktvu news. >>> an oakland plan pled not guilty today to charges of murdering his wife. 57-year-old lori wolf was found dead july 5th inside her home in mount claire where she shared with her husband. police said von tempo told them her husband fell down the stairs but an autopsy found that he died of blunt trauma. >>> texas based waste management -- the suit claims the council has personal and political connections to cws. and says cws is ill prepared for the job and the council violated many of its own procedures in awarding that deal. >>> serious questions tonight about the police response that left a hostage dead. >> was there confusion when all this was happening? >> it was intense. i don't know of any specific confusion. >> up next two investigates sits down with oakland police to find out what happened before its men opened fire. >> and new concerns about a crosswalk here. >>> tonight two investigates the circumstances surrounding the death of 41-year-old misty holt singh. she was the hostage killed last month. the mother of two was an innocent victim described by

denise senhaux, roland wong. present: >> thank you. now we'll proceed to action item no. 2. reading and approval of the agenda. city clerk: item no. 1, welcome. introductions and roll call. item no. 2. action item. reading and approval of the agenda. item no. 3: public comment. items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. item no. 4. information item: report from cochair supanich. item no. 5. information item. report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. >> item no. 6. information item. uber and future efforts to include people with disabilities. uber will share details of their technology and how their services can support customers with disabilities. presentation by caitlin o'neil, public policy associate, uber. pensacola comment is welcome. break. the council will take a 10 -minute break. item no. 7. information item. draft building blocks for accessible bicycle facilities. san francisco municipal transportation agency sf mta will present a draft set of guidelines for preserving and improving a

ktvu's claudine wong is live with what she has been able to >> reporter: good evening. yes, the suspect lives in that mobile home park. victims. >> reporter: neighbors say 43- year-old has lived in this mobile home park for a while. police say he acted as a handy man. >> he does do contracting type work and he seems like good guy. >> but he hasn't been home since friday, that is when police arrested him and charged him with lewd and lascivious with -- lewd and lascivious acts with a child. >> he is a handy man in the area and was doing some work for another family member who the girls were staying at and he lured them away on separate occasions and touched them inappropriately. >> reporter: they told their parents and their parents called police. police say he doesn't have a prior criminal record but are concerned these weren't isolated incidents. high is in custody -- he is in custody but we are looking for additional victims. >> reporter: he is not sure what to think but he isn't prepared to think the worse. >> i wouldn't believe it till somebody proves it. i would be

claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. >> i will miss the trees.ts role to supporter and said we are proud of the success we have had in leading the parade and thank the partners and participates who worked with us. >> the mystery is deepening involving a three story building. apple is building the facility as part of a product announcement next month. this morning we sent a news crew to the construction site. a driver delivering equipment said security is very tight. >> as far as i know everything is top secret. they don't tell us anything. they make us sign non- disclosures. >> only people with special wrist bands can access the area. on september 9 apple is expected to unveil its new iphone and a wearable device like the iwatch. steve jobs unveiled the first computer 30 years ago. >>> if you are a top performer at work a survey suggest a bonus may be headed your way. bonuses are at a record high levels. companies are trying to retain top talent. 91% said expect bonuses between 10 and 20% this year and next year. for top talent the bonuses range

it is friday, august 1st i'm claudine wong in for pam cook. >> good morning, i'm dave clark. let's check weather and traffic. steve, how did you appellant that? >> i got here very early. >> beautiful sunrise with a few high clouds. we had a lot more fog yesterday. today is a little bitless and there is hardly a breeze. that means it will be warm to hot inland. 102 in livermore. 100 in concord. 96 in east san jose. so temperatures did drop a little bit yesterday. right back up today. i can see the higher clouds scooting over us right now. 66 livermore. 60nd for many here. there are a few low 150s. napa is in there. the breeze, the delta breeze is a far cry from yesterday. it was roaring yesterday. that is not the case today. these higher clouds had a little humidity. it will be really hot inland. nice to mild to warm. i'm waving the white flag. i'm just waving. sal, you go for it. >>> all right. we have a lot to talk about. so we are going to take a look at some of these live pictures. 580 is a mess because of a truck that came over the center divide. the trailer part of the t

linda wong as well the members of sfgtv covering this meeting jonathan gomwalk and jennifer low. madam clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes,. [speaker not understood] be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the july 29th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay, thank you, madam clerk. can you

in san francisco, claudine wong, ktvu news. >>> thousands of people across the country are taking a standinst crime as part of national night out. the national event is already under way in several bay cities in the area. it encouraging people to get to know their neighbors by holding block parties. the city of oakland is hoping to set a new records for tphaálgs night out with 675 block parties -- for national night out with 675 block parties. >>> scrabble players now have 5,000 more words to choose from. meriam webster have added the new words. they include hash tag, frenemie and bromance. this new dictionary is set to be released tomorrow. >>> the heartbreaking pleas from a mother who says her daughter has been kidnapped by her former abusive boyfriend. >> i love you honey. please be strong. we're waiting for your return. >> reporter: the nationwide search under way tonight for her daughter and the man who police say shot and killed another young woman just days ago. >>> we're tracking summer showers making their way through the bay area tonight. well tell you how long those shoáeurs ar