[applause] [applause]. Thank you everyone. [applause] good evening. [off mic] dragon. Thats why we have special and the dragon theyre always great. [applause] [off mic] lets give a round of applause. [applause] [off mic] and welcome to this years new year celebration. I am Claudine Cheng from the the San Francisco General Hospital foundation and [off mic]. [off mic]. Particular celebration because this is the first, the first of many, many of Asian Pacific cultural celebration in the new year and family and friends getting together and wishing each other a happy and healthy new year with lots of good fortune and thats what were doing here looking out at the rotundra today. This is Diverse Communities coming together and celebrating as San Francisco family and wishing all the goodness that the year can bring, hopes, optimism, all the good things so we want to thank you for being here and i would like to say a few words in chinese. [speaking foreign language] so i justin tsai to mention
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco chamber of mers citybeat breakfast im coraint nova with abc 7 news bay area. I will be your mc today festivity and im excited be here. This morning at pier 27. Is this a beautiful location . Yes. A very gorgeous vow. The sun is coming out it is incredible husit here you look out and think, this is our city and we get this imagine cal view. Thank you all so much for being here. All right we take a mobile home and think back to when our city locked like in 1850. Gold was discovered. The population was only 300,000 people in San Francisco was quickly becoming the learningest and most important mercial Financial Center in the american west. Since 1850 the chamber hen a leading champion of entrepreneurship. From the Trans Continental Railroad to the inter~ National Expo than i champed initiative this is makes San Francisco a global land mark there it is a cruise ship and people come become because they life our city so much. Today, the chamber i
Reporter it is in the kitchen where the smell of a simmering spicy sauce brings back memories of their homeland. You have to have it. Her mother is making a staple of the cuisine with rice, vegetables and chicken. They spent the first 17 years of her life to nepal before settling in the pay area. Her father left nepal to seek opportunity in america. After years of saving opened up the restaurant, catering to a fastgrowing nepalese community. Now he sees a lot of people in the streets everywhere. He just feels lake it is nepal here. The census data shows Asian Americans are the Fastest Growing ethnicity in california. They are the fastest population asian subgroup in the country. In Contra Costa County the number jumped more than 545 from 2010 to 2020. You are seeing the newer places where cost of living is not as high. They are creating ethnic communities of their own. I think that is exciting and it will be important to see what happens over the next decade in terms of the growth. The
In zip ties and you know, the whole situation, the entire time, was very calm, he was cooperative. Jose martinez has been digging into the Surprising New development in this case. He joins us with those details. Rose . Me tell you something, according to a federal complaint against Joseph Emerson after being arrested, he told the officers that he became depressed six months ago and talked about the use of psychedelic mushrooms stating that this was the first time he took them. Reporter according to a federal criminal complaint, Joseph Emerson, the offduty Alaska Airlines pilot, tended to shut down the engines of a plane headed to San Francisco. The affidavit says emerson and the responding officer talked about the use of psychedelic mushrooms and he told the officer it was his first time taking them. We i cant imagine what he was possibly thinking because everyone knows mushrooms are hallucinogens and that is absolutely , absolutely by far no way are we supposed to, we cant even take c
Present. You may recall back in august, crews with waymo got approval. Due to crashes. And that announcement comes as teamsters and their allies are working to put the brakes on expanding services in San Francisco. They gathered in front of the headquarters of the driverless taxi crews this morning. Theyre gathered to say it driverless taxis more jobs for humans. Released with the latest Earnings Report from general motors. Teamsters say the selfdriving vehicles are not ready to be on the roads just yet. In a recent statement, the chief executive says its the top priority. Certainly, a lot going on this midday. Im laura garcia, and im marcus washington. Its just confirmed out of the last few hours, the number of americans confirmed dead has increased to 33. This is according to secretary of state antony blinken. 11 americans remain unaccounted for. And so far, more than 7,000 people have died in the war. It was another violent day of attacks overnight. Israel escalating its bombardment