why aye. >> thomas. >> aye >> wong. >> aye. >> >> all right. moving along. have a question for staff. i feel like we have not previously used the one time permit to cover this type of like series. multiple musicians up and down the street. or have we done had? that's right you are like the polk street. yea. >> yes. [laughter]. since covid. >> got it. no other permit that is a fit for -- for like a solo busker. why for series. you know like, yea. there was a proposal around street musicians and street entertainers and should there be licensed or not. like this was a number of years ago. this is the same thing except organize exclude coordinated. and what was considered before was like a permit program that would permit the musician. and you have it like so this person had a designated your in the city. you know. and days. but we ran into issues legally with that. >> yea. >> i -- am i just like what happens if there is somebody in knar not a part of this but is like >> we have no recourse there. next permit is llp for wave collective at 66 low haight street. w

this is kelly wong, okay, she's not an american citizen. she's cannot legally vote in this country.owever, guess what she was just signed in for? she is now on the san francisco elections commission. how is this possible that she is on the san francisco elections commission, this chinese woman, kelly wong. she can't even legally vote in this country. they did the entire ceremony in chinese, mike. >> just when you think new york city can't -- is the stupidist city in terms of destroying itself in the united states, here comes san francisco from the top row to make it look even worse. this is unbelievable. how could a noncitizen hold any public office in the united states? even if you're a green card holder, even if you're here on a work visa, this is absolute insanity. he itit shows you just how muche left hates america, they don't even want americans sitting in positions of power but joe biden, i mean, look, when you have a son who has no private equity experience, debilitating crack habit and gets a mandate for a private equity fund with no priv private equity experiend your family

why aye. >> thomas. >> aye >> wong. >> aye. >> >> all right. moving along.previously used the one time permit to cover this type of like series. multiple musicians up and down the street. or have we done had? that's right you are like the polk street. yea. >> yes. [laughter]. since covid. >> got it. no other permit that is a fit for -- for like a solo busker. why for series. you know like, yea. there was a proposal around street musicians and street entertainers and should there be licensed or not. like this was a number of years ago. this is the same thing except organize exclude coordinated. and what was considered before was like a permit program that would permit the musician. and you have it like so this person had a designated your in the city. you know. and days. but we ran into issues legally with that. >> yea. >> i -- am i just like what happens if there is somebody in knar not a part of this but is like >> we have no recourse there. next permit is llp for wave collective at 66 low haight street. wave collective artist gallery applying for the permi

and i'm claudine wong. >> yes.'s talk about our weather ktvu meteorologist roberto gonzales is in, and this is a forecast. and i've said this, that i was watching like a year ago, and i was watching a week, and it really did change. like we were talking. you know, a week ago. and i'm like, that rain on while we know that far out, it's not reliable. but there was a point where there was rain predicted for this weekend. >> well, you started asking me in january. >> i'm like, it's all about this parade. >> but yes, you know, we started forecasting actually several weeks out and we do have a system that's working its way into the bay area. but timing falling apart at the seams. and it is timing. so here it is. that much awaited chinese new year festival and parade for cast. when the parade steps off at 515, it looks spectacular. at 64 degrees, tumbling to the high 50s near 60. by the end of the parade. meanwhile, you know no filter is needed there. did you see that beautiful view of the golden gate bridge just illumina

joining us is anna wong at bloomberg economics.rough the research coming from you and your team, one thing that struck me was not just about the idea of rate cuts going away, but the volatility around the idea of later this year. at what point does wage inflation in particular become too strong for the fed to really start to throw in a wrench for this tightening cycle? anna: i think the key data point will be wage growth, it needs to be adjusted by productivity and we saw that productivity was very strong the fourth quarter. so for the fed, they would discount the wage growth for that productivity growth. so right now, if you do that adjustment, in fact, wage growth is approaching a consistent level that the fed deems consistent with 2% inflation. but i think from today's payroll report, the most important signal for me is the backward revisions of 2023 and it shows that the momentum of the labor market going into 2024 was stronger than what we even thought in real time back in 2023. so what that means for nominal wage growth is th

so may wong lee, the person who talked about piece 42, for instance, she talked about working in allfactories in on the second and third floors all over chinatown since she was eight years old and could barely see tipped to reach the pedals with her tiptoes. but it was during baby doll dress, trendy time, and with ai. so i feel like eighties early nineties and. and she got a penny for each fabric belt she. she turned inside out and you just and when the union inspectors came they all hid in the laundry and on the fire escapes. you can't make this stuff up. so. so there was something about trying to give tribute to those ways of knowing and. and, you know, in researching usually a pre assigned topic or theme like race and class treated as two separate various roles often. and it's like you, you you can't separate those. which brings me like some quotes like stuart saying that race is the medium through which classes, but it's like, oh, here i see it in front of me in ways that i, i don't think i would have appreciated otherwise. it's just other way of knowing and to think about differ

joe wong, we have to wrap it there.r time this morning. >> thank you so much. >>> coming up, art as a way to preserve history. i speak to an afro latino the current feel historic. >>> first, if you don't know michael oher's name from his eight year career, you probably know it from the hollywood blind side. he is black, rescued from a home of poverty to a white family that took him to success in college football and beyond. but they never adopted him and instead started a conservativeship that they deny. the conservatorship has been ended in tennessee but the case about asking him information over the years has been ongoing. "blind-sided" is on hollywood's tape on him and the family. >> "the mindside." >> reporter: michael o'er, blind-sided. >> that they pushed a false narrative from adopting him. >> the movie showed a totally different person. >> michael didn't like the movie from the begipg, following him everywhere in the nfl. >> he felt someone was making money from this movie and it wasn't him. >> they said they ne

the crash just feet from the back door of wong's plant. >> we're still living in nightmare. basically. >> even after all this time. >> yes. >> we first interviewed wong last march when he voiced concerns about his future. >> and i'm not sure the impact will last for how long. that's the uncertainty. this is a year later. we are still paralyzed. we cannot do anything. this is very frustrating for us. >> just last week, wong's operation manager says there was another check for possible contaminants. >> they're testing the soil that's underneath the foundation. i'm not happy that it's taken them to long to get to this stage of checking to see how things are. >> throughout the past year, ohio's eps says continued testing has shown the air, water and soil in east palestine is safe and as of january 10th, more than 42 million gallons of liquid and 176,000 tons of soil waste have been removed. norfolk southern says it made a promise to make things right and that under the over side of the u.s. epa, it has completed the majority of remediation work as well as invested more than $103

this news tony award winning actor bd wong is bringing his talent to his hometown of san francisco ina new stage production at the american conservatory theater. wong, best known for his roles in jurassic park and law and order, suv, svu, sorry, appeared today on midday live. we spoke with him about his starring role in big data, which has its world premiere next month. >> well, it's it is about a family of people and how they are affected by by their devices, how they're kind of unwittingly ruled by their devices and how the, the data, the data that they are putting out there into the world kind of comes back to them and how the, the, the technology energy really rules our everyday life. it was commissioned wong says he's always excited to return home, saying he tries to do a play here every few years and he can't do it enough. >> now. bd grew up going to act as an audience member, so performing there will be like going full circle and extra special big data with bd wong. premieres february 15th at san francisco's american conservatory theater. that should be terrific. >> all right,

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. >> contestant number seven, taro wong. nash was crowned 2024 miss chinatown usa. she's 25 years old and she's from foster city. her talent is singing mike mibach claudine wong and i will be bringing you live coverage from the parade. hope you'll join us at union square in san francisco. amber lee, ktvu, fox two news. the parade route >> it starts at second and market streets, wraps around union square a ends at kearny articketed bleacher sections watching the parade at street level fre, and there are no bad vantage points. some nearby streets, though, will be closed for most of the day, and a reminder you can also watch it live right here on our fox socal app. you can also find our coverage leading up to the big event. all of it is free to download on your smart tv. >> dwindling enrollment at california state university campuses across the state. coming up, the facts that might be forcing some students down a different path, plus some changes are coming to one major airline. >> the new prices at united that will have people paying a little more at check in. >> but

then there san francisco election commission swearing in kelly wong as the newest member.ong in 2019 to pursue her graduate degree she's been here on a student visa and believed to be the noncitizen appointed to the federal election commission in san francisco after san francisco passed the measure back in 2020 removing the citizenship as a requirement to serve on city boards, commissions and advisory bodies election commission saying i support the board of supervisors authority in kelly wong to the elections commission we respect the law and the will of san francisco voters the gate stone institute senior fellow of the coming collapse of china and china is going to work gordon chang, good to see you. your reaction to the chinese woman who was on the federal election commission in san francisco. >> she certainly should not be there china's national intelligence law in 2017 requires every national to commit acts of espionage if demanded but the communist party top-down system means no chinese national can resist a demand from the communist party which is to include the unit

wong or miss wong? have you told them about your desire not to have the deck? if he. i'm sorry, i don't have you and your neighbors discussed this at all. um, yes. we're um. we uh, discuss it in. and they told him. they're saying that the deck is not going to extend, um, past my house, and they say they the, uh, allow you to build it, and therefore they want to go ahead and have a deck. and the deck does extend. and also the, the staircase to access the, uh, the is going to extend further out into the backyard. and when you go up the backyard, you look right into my, uh, two bedrooms in the back of the house. okay. thank you. yeah. thank you, thank you. i don't see any further questions. you can be seated now. thank you. thank you. we'll now hear from the permit holders. uh, mr. and mrs. wong. uh, now. okay. thank you. okay microphone. okay oops. okay dear board members and audience, my name is dana wong. i'm the owner of 525 first avenue. so we propose a seven by 14 foot deck with a three foot staircase to the back of our house to allow for backyard access. it is app

we have for a democratic congressman from florida, alan grayson and g. wong host the federal countdown on sputnik radio. and angela mccardle, chair of the libertarian party committee. i want to get to all of it, but i, i could not miss that clip right there. and i would start with you on this when angie shopping spree this on top of say, your part interview with anderson cooper, that most people think of the word rape as sexy. while the jury is, are contrary to roland or the rule in her favor, doesn't her behavior actually strengthen the argument that in all of this, that this is political in the court of public opinion? oh, absolutely. she should not be on air bragging about how she's gonna spend the millions of dollars that she's just one of that's going into appeals. i mean this, you can tell that this is all just for playing up to her base, which is the love who loves the fact that she, you know, just $183000000.00. and it's, it's, you know, it's gross and it's just brass for her to go on air to discuss buying shoes and clothing with this money. and then buying penthouses. this is

be sure to join claudine wong and mike mibach at 6 p.m.wscast at five of all right, 609, back over to james torres, covering traffic, doing a great job. >> you have a lot to talk about today, james. >> yeah, we do. and we're only just getting started here a few minutes after the 6:00 hour. i'll take you over to deep into the east bay talking about that niles canyon road, uh, trouble spot here. it's a typical trouble spot when we get a lot of rain, and it looks like it's affected somewhat from what we saw over the weekend here. caltrans of course, reporting that part of a roadway has washed off. it's not really new to that area, but certainly if you're driving through there, that can be a pain for the commute that you have to do a little later today. they say about six feet of the roadway has washed off. that's a pleasanton sunol road. uh, and that is now causing caltrans to try to figure out a way to get that to be accessible for folks who need to drive that way. the westbound side of that is still completely shut eastbound and is technica

all right, let's take this conversation further now with nelson wong, the vice chairman of the shanghai center for international studies. joining us had live on uh to international a very well welcome to today nelson and thanks for jumping on so quickly. you and we love having this conversation. i mean, washington now taking it sanctions regime internationally. the last calendar, russia had over 15000 a sanction was placed on its people by western partners. now the chinese entities are getting caught up. you your thoughts if any of this will change or is just now just the full costs for the immediate future as well. thank you for having me at this hour, right? i actually don't see the logic. no. the lower that right to of the, all the sanctions because a off to 2 years, even since the beginning of the conflict to the us government. and together with this partners in europe, have a leased out over $10000.00 sanctions against russia. but look at what has happened, these sensors didn't work at all. uh, most of them, and i think all of them were actually meant to, to, to, to we can russia t

harlan wong, director of the chinese new year festival and parade. thank you so much. go see have a great parade tomorrow. >> that's why sunday in five locks and in hong. thank you. >> oh, lucky. auspicious things. all right. thank you. harlan >> bye bye. >> bye. bye coming up, oakland comedian, commentator, author and tv host w kamau bell is joining us to talk about joining the hit abc hit and camera series. what would you do? don't that's the san francisco chronicle endorsing democrat katie porter for senate over all other options. porter is "easily the most impressive candidate." "known for her grilling of corporate executives." with "deep policy knowledge." katie porter's housing plan has "bipartisan-friendly ideas to bring homebuilding costs down." and the chronicle praises "her ideas to end soft corruption in politics." let's shake up the senate. with democrat katie porter. i'm katie porter and i approve this message. what do i see in peter dixon? with democrat katie porter. i see my husband... the father of our girls. i see a public servant. a man who served und

the joining me now to talk about this is commentator jamal thomas, i'm journalist and g wong. let's get to it. i don't know what to say, jamal. maybe i start with you. other than the fact that this doesn't seem to be the same country that i grew up in. yeah, we've got 2 guys running for president. one of them spends most of his time in court because he's got criminal cases and civil cases up. it was due and the other guy isn't even showing up to the debates. and these cancelling primaries on his part. he's already decided, oh yeah, he's going to be the guy. somebody bizarre here. a no, no, a break. and the primary thing for new hampshire. let me start with that. astonishing, joe biden got embarrassed, and the last primary that he was right now. yes. and if you remember, sanders, all these guys job, i'm in fact they didn't even think bite and was going to be able to carry the burden. she came to like 4th or 5th, a new hampshire. so then we're kind of parts of, you know, we're going to move to primaries. so it's sort of like iowa, new hampshire. first, we're going to go to south

i'm joined by selena wong who is the senior auditor who worked on this report. agenda item number 3 before you is an assessment that we completed last month, january 18th, 2024. this memo contained results from our review of invoices which we conducted in collaboration with the office of the city attorney. as part of this limited scope assessment, we reviewed invoices that were submitted by sf safe to the san francisco police department. our assessment subjective was to determine whether grand expenditure were reasonable. we reviewed sample of transactions from july 2022 to march 2023 for a nine-month period. our memo contained one over ar fpg finding which the sfpd agreed to implement. we follow-up on our recommendations, every six months from the time of issuance to ensure implement of corrective actions. and with that, i'll turn it over to selena for further information. >> this goes back to 2018. >> yes. >> but you sampled the most resent nine months. >> yes. >> and do you, or does the police department, they can answer that themselves contemplate looking in

and mike, i'll be joining you and claudine wong for our coverage. that's right.t union square, we still have a production meeting tomorrow. >> yes, we do. what time is that? sometime in the afternoon? yes. 1:00. anyway. always a great time to be down there. >> a big spotlight on san francisco. amber. thank you. thanks, amber. >> well, saturday night's parade will be home to a lot of dragons. and a lot of those dragons will be riding on some pretty big floats. many of those floats are being assembled right now at pier 54. the design actually started back in october and construction began in december. and today we saw dozens of volunteers as well as the artists putting those finishing touches on the elaborate floats ahead of saturday night's parade, the float director says to her and her talented team it is a labor of love. >> what i take very seriously is the importance of celebration, and i take very seriously the importance of ritual and tradition. it's something that actually means a lot to a lot of people, and that means a lot to me. knowing that what we're do

. >> yeah, and it's ktvu, claudine wong reports. now, the group says performing in the chinese new year parade is a tradition that fits right in with their mission of blending language, culture and community for the next generation in one, two, they have been practicing for months in costumes made with love, with volunteers leading the way in this year's chinese new year parade, the children from the cupertino language immersion program will tell the story of an old chinese legend. >> so the legend goes, it is carp dancers or carps that are jumping and they're trying to reach this gate. and if they reach the gate and they pass it, they turn into a dragon. organizers say the parade is just part of the mission of the program, known as clip, to bring together culture, language and community. >> it gave my kids a chance to be bilingual. biliterate in this , um, you know, in this world, my parents, my husband and i were both american born chinese, and i think neither of us ever envisioned that our kids would be able to keep up with the c

it was commissioned by i love bd wong. >> okay. it's so fun to see him here again. home and he grew up going to act as an audience member. so performing there again is going full circle. big data premieres february 15th at again, san francisco's act, which is right downtown union square, coming up at 530. the latest restaurant in oakland calling it quits because of rising crime and an apology from facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. >> the questions top tech ceos face from lawmakers on capitol hill i'm peter dixon and in kenya... we built a hospital that provides maternal care. as a marine... we fought against the taliban and their crimes against women. and in hillary clinton's state department... we took on gender-based violence in the congo. now extremists are banning abortion and contraception right here at home. so, i'm running for congress to help stop them. for your family... and mine. i approved this message because this is who we are. my dry eye's made me a burning, stinging, 5-times-a-day,... ...makeup smearing drops user. i want another option that's not another

like this, where people are desperate to earn a living, could multiply barn to below algebra to catch wong. how big province china has always a website out there, a dot com overlays as witness is on next here on, on to 0. i don't see often the, [000:00:00;00] the challenges with the guy the all of this call is that going ship it up. so that's what's going on with them. i mean, i guess the value for each or a single mama shore. this is fine. sure. on the surface and you know some of this, you know, there's all the uh, uh, the door is off. of course the christina please the the, the i'm with the for the city and the girlfriend was supposed to show the show showed us cuz i'll pull up the bullet to control october to come from from the bible, but ask you uh you have to skip the future shop, which was a surprise for the order for the i have appealed. michelle's typical dustin sees jessica that was the last 5 or 7. just the level that even on thursday, the pop up watching you flush, how you avoid mainly for josh the one of up share with her gaze with that as a 5 for finish his last so last time.

mike mibach claudine wong and i will bring you live coverage from out here.hope you'll join us here or at home. greg. christina, you've all been working incredibly hard in preparation. >> an amber looks great. we can't wait for the parade. the parade routetretes about 1.3 miles. it starts at second and market streets, wraps around unn sqre and ends at kearny street and columbus. avee. well, there are ticketed bleacher sections watching the parade at street level is free, and there are no bad vantage points. some nearby streets will be closed for most of the day. >> san francisco police will have extra patrol officers on duty during the chinese new year parade this weekend. uniformed and plainclothes officers will be deployed throughout the parade route and in the crowds. officers will also be using new surveillance cameras to scan the area and track down any bad actors. as police chief bill scott is asking for the public to be vigilant and to report any suspicious behavior. >> if you see somebody with a weapon, please call it in. if you see something that loo

however, if you can make it there in persons time, you can watch le coverage hosted by claudine wongbach that starts at 6:00 this saturday nightere on ktvu, fox two, and of course, on the fox local app for your smart tv. >> it's a make or break moment for house republicans looking to impeach president biden over his family's business dealings. i'm rebecca castor in washington. the latest on the president's brother's interview with congress. coming up and a barry weather. >> we are still tracking some showers this afternoon for your wednesday, but if you are waiting for a drying trend and some warmer weather that's in the forecast as well, we'll have the update in the timing coming up this ad? typical. politicians... "he's bad. i'm good." blah, blah. let's shake things up. with katie porter. porter refuses corporate pac money. and leads the fight to ban congressional stock trading. katie porter. taking on big banks to make housing more affordable. and drug company ceos to stop their price gouging. most politicians just fight each other. while katie porter fights for you. for senate -

let's take a look at a few other stories making headlines today. australia is for administer. penny wong says her country is appalled after a chinese court handed down a suspended death sentence to a chinese born australian writer in democracy. poor young hang twins was arrested on a visit to china 5 years ago. he was convicted in a secret trial of spying. charge he to nice, samsung chairman, lead a young, has been acquitted, a fraud and stuff. but if you lation in the south green court, the the charges rugs them from the merger of 2 samsung affiliates in 2015, which solidified lease control over the company. lee was previously convicted of bribery charges related to the same merger, but later pardoned by south various preston police incentive goals, capital duck. i have used tear gas against protesters a day after president marky saw postponed elections, and definitely decided in the lives dispute between lawmakers and that you did. sherry over the list of candidates, the organization that uses solid carrying out to the chile, where authorities say more than a 110 people have now died i

i'm the coast trump wong, in 2016 unemployed and 90. narrow the why? 5 by 3 points in uh in 2020. that was mike cockburn from the very now your opinion, diversity. many thanks indeed and we'd like to take him back now to our top of story and those strikes on who's the targets in yemen by the us and u. k. joining us to discuss this is roger shanahan. he's the middle east analyst and military expert joining us from sydney. so according to us officials, the strikes hit some $36.00 targets across. yeah. man. can you tell us more about those targets? yeah, this is what we were told that uh it was 36 targets in 13 different locations, any aircraft with, from united states and u. k. and they're all sides say vice themselves fired from ships in the red se. uh, the targets were um, uh, support mechanisms for any shipping weapons that the who sees i utilize so. right as a actual launch is as well as emanation stuff, pause of me stalls, ballistics hidden crews and some drives as well. so we'll see relatively wide range of products mechanisms to launch the projectiles into the red sea and als

i'm joined by selena wong who is the senior auditor who worked on this report. agenda item number 3 before you is an assessment that we completed last month, january 18th, 2024. this memo contained results from our review of invoices which we conducted in collaboration with the office of the city attorney. as part of this limited scope assessment, we reviewed invoices that were submitted by sf safe to the san francisco police department. our assessment subjective was to determine whether grand expenditure were reasonable. we reviewed sample of transactions from july 2022 to march 2023 for a nine-month period. our memo contained one over ar fpg finding which the sfpd agreed to implement. we follow-up on our recommendations, every six months from the time of issuance to ensure implement of corrective actions. and with that, i'll turn it over to selena for further information. >> this goes back to 2018. >> yes. >> but you sampled the most resent nine months. >> yes. >> and do you, or does the police department, they can answer that themselves contemplate looking in

okay, i have been reeling about this i not believe this is allowed, kelly wong is not american citizen not legally vote in this country yet was just sworn in to the board in san francisco, of the san francisco elections commission, to add insult to injury they did the swearing-in ceremony in chinese she said i -- i let's do it in chinese. >> i mean unbelievable if you want to understand this maria you have to appreciate the fact that these people view themselves as global citizens they don't they view our borders as arbitrary lines on a match they think anybody should get here for any particular reason, in be graded amesty they believe used to be writing white papers from liberal think bank they have complete populated spaces where people make decisions including white house. now we have this big problem american people need to stand up in november we need to do everything we can to sort of hold mayorkas responsible, joe biden responsible. this can't be the way we ge this is -- ultimately you will lose their way the idea of having open border, come here from anywhere without asking any

s, or little pengelly, from the pro for dish. democratic unionist australia informed mr. penny wong. the says that her country is called after a chinese court handed down a suspended death sentence to a chinese for an australian writer and democracy. plaza yang, hank june, was arrested on a visit to china 5 years ago. he was convicted of spying in a secret trial. a charge he denies parking in paris could soon get a whole lot more expensive for a particular group of drivers. residents and the french capital have decided that bigger vehicles, like su fees should be charged more for a space in the city. if they have come from out of town, it's part of a bigger push to make paris less car centric and more environmentally friendly. the trip to paris look set to get a lot more expensive for some motorist parking and s u. v in the central districts currently costs the same as any other car, 6 zeros an hour. but after this landmark vote, that could triple to 18 year olds. and for longer, 6 hour stays. the tariff would be a whopping 225 years. for opponents of the new fee, say the taller, wid

micro and ceo said ai has hit a tipping point and mr wong is said they're edging good to be in point of another variety and sending personal wealth up by an estimated $8.5 billion which puts him on the verge of crafting the worlds top 20 wealthiest people. nvidia manufactured a chip for al and is the subject of so much excitement right now and with the magnificent seven text stocks that outperform the wider market and a handful of the other magnificent seven are their own customers and all, it totals a big day on thursday, the 500 in the industrial average and record closers not so for the composite but it is inching closer. sank shares to the public, on the new york stock exchange, the debut will be the first major of the year and social media listings since 2019. unveiling a new package of sanctions against russia on the ongoing war in ukraine and alexei navalny�*s death. these measures, are they working, our correspondent explains. the russian economy did collapse and that is a decline not far off that scene during the pandemic but since then, it has recovered somewhat and sharing

i'm brian wong, it project manager for 311. and today we're going to be going over the overview of 311. the general process flow for three and one service requests. and of course three and one versus public works categories and key factors to our successful collaboration. uh, here we go. so the first question really is what is sf 311. so in 2007 the city and county of san francisco established san francisco three and one to provide an easy to remember telephone number that connects the residents, businesses and visitors to the customer service representatives , or csrs ready to help with general government information and services. so a number of these three on one phone calls often result in what we call a311 service request. and on the screen here you can see that 301 allows for various channels in order for our customers to be able to submit these service requests. and our channels include the phone, of course, 2311 our mobile app, our website and x which is formerly known as twitter. so in these channels, what we do is we i

one that will put my view of jensen wong into perspective. he is the ceo of taylor swift. i'm not joking. i'm dead serious. while take taylor is on her tour going through the worldwide eras a, she is working on the tortured poet's department which will drop on april 19th. talk about an encore. taylor swift is a force. a larger than life force but that's the whole point. there's no comparison in the entertainment business but in ai, computing there's a perfect comp. the man jonas jensen though that does put him in a lesser liked category. every time he blazes through a tour he has something else he is working on. he is the tech vision department. do we think whatever happens tomorrow is yeah or no? no way. nobody is about to call it. jensen is more likely working on the formula to put a person on mars without crash landing as he solves the problem of black ice and self driving cars or gives robot dogs treats. those are some of his hobbies. taylor swift seems to do did all with ea seconds e. doesn't surprise us with her rise because its been a long time coming. same thing wi

lieutenant rob wong who is still working and retired ricky hughy. they would tell me about their advent urs. daily activities of being a firefighter. i think it was the unknown that sparked my interest and finding out more about the department. what it does. every day is different. that really made me want to work hard to get that job as a firefighter. when i got in the department in 1996. okay. asian firefighter association let me see what this is about. back then the main people what were in the organization, retired chief chan. retired chiefically. took he under their wing and said, you have to represent go out to the chinese new year parade. show up to events that are in item an town community and show an example to the community that our parents become doctors and lawyers, firefighting is a great job. you are helping others in the community. >> our program neighborhood emergency response team training program, started after the quake in 1989 and 6 course program where you take all sick classes to teach how to rely on themselves help themselves

claudine wong about her new role in an upcoming film, plus her connection to san francisco. when tens of thousands of people fill the streets of san francisco for the chinese new year parade, actress, comedian and rapper awkwafina will be front and center as this year's grand marshal. >> when i heard the news that, um, uh, that i would be able to celebrate in san francisco with you guys, uh, i was just i was. >> yeah, blown away. so i'm so excited to grand marshal the event and a little nervous, but it's i think it's going to be really fun. >> san francisco, she says, is a special place for her. >> i mean, i have family, i have a there that that lives in has lived in san francisco for many years. so i remember going it was my first the first city i've been to when i visited california for, um, and i was really, really taken aback by it. um, it's chinatown, um, and it's also it's asian community because in new york, i didn't grow up with, um, a ton of other, um, specifically chinese american, uh, people. so i remember going in, like, really loving the chinatown and being, lik

i'm andre senior and i'm claudine wong. >> today is monday february 19th.to meteorologist rosemary oroczo. and we saw that picture from tahoe rosemary. and it doesn't take much right. the slipping and sliding that andre was talking about it. it happens pretty quickly especially when the snow keeps just kind of coming in waves. it does. >> you're right i remember being up there for just some very minor storms. a little amount of snow can make it very dangerous. and the advisory for winter travel in the sierra goes until early wednesday morning. meanwhile, for us, we have our own advisories to talk about a live look there at the gray skies over oakland. and we do have a scattered showers now reported over the bay area. after getting a little bit of a break early this morning, they are back. temperatures in the 50s this morning and the advisories continue. a flood watch for the entire bay area and advisory in the north bay for small stream flooding going on there. meanwhile, a high surf advisory continues along our coastline and the winds are howling, with the

i'm claudine wong. >> hi everyone i'm frank mallicoat. happy weekend. yes, the round one of maybe 2 or 3 rounds that are going to kind of get us wet here to wednesday. let's check in with rosemary because we're just kicking off the big round. yes we are. >> and we have guests that just entered the studio and said, yeah, it's raining out there. we will have the light rain with us throughout the first part of the afternoon and then pockets of heavier rain expected for we're going to say right around dinnertime, five, six, 7:00 tomorrow, another system this time bringing with it wind. so a wind advisory expected on sunday in addition to more rain and scattered showers and the possibility of thunderstorms into monday. as frank said a moment ago, a wet weather expected through about wednesday . way a better look at what we can expect for the weekend and beyond. coming up okay. >> thank you rosemary. and as rosemary mentioned, the storm systems are headed our way. and so preparations are underway across the bay area. santa clara county is opening all seven of

i'm claudine wong, but we'll take the break. >> we'll take it.tty wet saturday night. more to come. hi everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. let's talk about weather and when that next round of storm is going to move in our show director dave said it looks like summer out there. >> i said, well, we can dream. yeah, that's what looks can be deceiving. yes indeed. we are looking at round two coming our way. the advisories for wind and the flood watch start at 10 a.m, and i do see the rain coming in just after the lunch hour. temperatures for the afternoon are in the upper 50s to mid 60s across the bay area. we are starting out this morning with the partly cloudy skies and a little bit of patchy fog. a better look at the current conditions and what we can expect coming up. >> all right, see you in a bit. thank you rosemary. more rain heading our way. and that's changing. some plans for some community events all across the bay area over the weekend. ktvu james torres joins us live in san francisco this morning with an update on how some organizers are makin

as cctv's claudine wong reports on one of the excuse me returning participants says performing in the chinese new year parade is a tradition that fits right in with their mission of blending language, culture and community for the next generation. one, one, two they have been practicing for months in costumes made with love, with volunteers leading the way in this year's chinese new year parade, the children from the cupertino language immersion program will tell the story of an old chinese legend. >> so the legend goes, it is carpe dancers, or carps that are jumping and they're trying to reach this gate and if they reach the gate and they pass it, they turn into a dragon. >> organizers say the parade is just part of the mission of the program, known as clip, to bring together culture, language and community. >> it gave my kids a chance to be bilingual. biliterate in this, um, you know, in this world, my parents, my husband and i were both american born chinese, and i think neither of us ever envisioned that our kids would be able to keep up with the chinese language. and so to have t

i'm mike mibach and i'm claudine wong. >> macy's announced today that it will close 150 locations over the next two years. that includes the city's union square location. macy's says a change in the retail landscape has forced it to change its strategy. so instead, the company is going to open 15 new bloomingdale's and 30 new bluemercury stores. the san francisco macy's will not close until the company can sell the building, which could take over a year. ktvu is amber lee joins us now live from the city. and amber, this is a devastating loss for many, many emotionally attached to it. but it doesn't mean the end of union square. that's right. >> claudine, tonight the people we spoke with say change is unavoidable and hard, but that they are optimistic about union square's future without macy's. corsetti serves up coastal italian cuisine at union square. the restaurant opened just six months ago. >> we've done a good job to create a little cozy pocket, um, in downtown san francisco, executive chef holly macerlean is a san francisco native. >> she says she's saddened by news of macy's uni