part of this celebration of the asian heritage month. i am the son of immigrants that came from taiwan, a look at asian heritage month as a way to celebrate happy accomplishments of our parents and the bright future that our kids have. this is a story i tell my kids frequently. she came here with no college education. during her first week, she was visiting the gross restore in the maze of all the things you can buy the grocery store. she came across a can that have a picture -- had a picture of a drumstick. she thought, amazing. you can buy chicken in a can. she opened it up and discovered it was crisco. [laughter] and it just shows how far we have come home and how far -- how much i owe to my mom and my dad. it is a great time to remind all of us that our success is dependent on our parents and grandparents. i am from minneapolis, have been here for two days and i was told it is always sunny and 75. i will be back soon. i am a director for merchandising at target. i am part of the team that pulls together what you see on the shelf, is a fun job. i have a sponsor for the asian busines

(narrator) on december 10th 1999, i made a short visit to taiwan on my way back to the u.s. it was ama's, my grandmother's 95th birthday. this would count as my eighth visit to taiwan. 1973, my first visit to taiwan. agu, my uncle, took us to their farm in the south to see my grandfather's grave. years later my mother tells me i was very sad to leave taiwan, unlike my brother. 1979, here we are in front of president nixon's head in kenting. january 1986, i visited with mom and my college roommate. i wrote: "my feelings are deeper than just visiting. "i love them all and really care "about our future relations together. i'm going to have to learn chinese well." 1987, that summer, i lived with ama, agu and his wife, my agim, and cousins. i studied mandarin and attended the overseas chinese summer camp. ama tells me my mandarin is at an eight-year old level. 1991, on vacation from my civil rights work visiting with mom. met women engaged in underground feminist activities. cousins discussed the rising crime in taipei. i wrote, "near the end of this trip, mom told me that my cousins ke

evening. i am honored to be part of this celebration of the asian heritage month. i am the son of immigrants that came from taiwan, lo

immigrants that came from taiwan, a look at asian heritage month as a way to celebrate happy accomplishments of

wanted to do something special before i have to go to taiwan. vincent, how did you know about taiwan? i heard you and mom talking the other day, in your bedroom. i will tell him. vincent... your father and i have talked, and we think to stay in san francisco is best for you. you and i will stay here, and your father will go and work in taiwan. really? your father will go for one year, and that is a very long time. i... i will need your help to... ( speaking mandarin ) manage. manage the store. i'll help. i promise. we expect you to keep up your grades, and to be an obedient son to your mother. i will. after tonight, i'm not so sure. vincent: honest, dad, we just thought this would be our last new year's together. you see? you will have another. vincent: no... it's still the last time. alex has to move to los angeles to live with his mom. mr. wang: is that right, alex? kevin disappeared once when he was a little kid. i thought i was going to die, till i found him. he had decided to go visit our father at the fire station. when i found him, he was crying... and lost, totally lost... ju

american heritage. people can learn about taiwan's history and enjoy delicacies and watch dance and music performances. the 20th year of a cultural festival. we cannot afford better weather. folks out and about today and and tomorrow is mother's day >>> i do not want to disappoint my own mother in san jose, unless she goes to the beach. i tried a counselor against that it will be chilly along the coastline tomorrow. we look live at ocean beach camp and see the low clouds that blanket the western shore of san francisco. and the embarcadero as well. the clouds are thickening and moving and we could get drizzle by tomorrow evening in parts of san francisco. after a lovely day today coastal clouds move and cooler tomorrow warmer by tuesday. we must bear some bring clouds come in and to the bay area. santa rosa hit the high of 80 degrees. mountain view on this day in the mid-seventies i think 1976 mountainview up to 103 degrees, so long way from record highs. most members are in the '50s and '60s and if you '70s. along the coast we will have persistent low clouds tomorrow. high-pressure

market comes from thousands of miles away, places like china, taiwan, vietnam. it winds up in huge refrigerators and freezers like this one in the south bay. >> lea is here to make sure the shipment is safe from china. >> i'm looking from the labeling from the outside all the way in to the interior like. i'm looking that the product is what they say it is. >> one of these in here. >> dan: she randomly select a case, open a box and take a sample to send back for further testing. all of that happened here at the bay area lab. the fish has to clear this facility before it can be sold. it's tested for chemicals including mercury and banned pesticides. >> by identification by detection, we're looking for salmonella in the fish. the amount of bacteria, we're looking for the pathogens, the one that will make you sick. >> there is a person with a certified nose that nothing is spoiled or spells. >> we are looking for decomposition. you look at it and taking apart and looking. >> we can test for different pathogens and different toxins, foods and drugs. cosmetics, anything that comes throug

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tell you. he stole $800 million from taiwan and is now taking refuge in china. maybe that would be some sort of information to the director, and he can follow up on that. having said that, the people of the southeast sector, when it comes to transportation, have been fooled before. i have mentioned again and again, we had the third street light rail that ends in the middle of nowhere visitation valley. but right now, if you look at mta and they want to cut the 56 muni bus. we had to fight for it. the only bus that goes to executive park. what i am is saying is for the people to have a meaningful meeting, for you to bring all these agencies, is fine, but there should be a blueprint. [bell rings] right now, the real agency or a body dealing with all these issues is the successor to the san francisco read about the agency. and i have been attending all those meetings. they themselves do not have their act together. because, you know, properties are transferred. the have to report to the state finance office. it is very complicated. so i do not know how by having this hearing, the public wi

companies are delivering. >>> nylon on display in san francisco's union square the 20th annual being taiwan is cultural festival.

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exists that the problem is money. japan, mexico, taiwan, turkey and romania all have a warning system for qwikster. the average one is 28 seconds. some countries send out text messages, some use radio, television or sirens. scientists with the usgs have developed a test system which would give a few second, up to minutes of warning before an earthquake. state and federal budget constraints are slowing further progress. fans american geologists believe to implement this in california will cost between 80 million-150 million to monitor and reach the entire west coast. >> the geology community is worried that it would take a major disaster to create the will to get this project completed. >> the japanese system was built after a record number of people were killed in the kobe earthquake. >>gary: the san francisco giants suspended for using illegal drugs and a man about to risk his life. nine people before him have died trying to climb this summit in alaska. oxford >> police are looking for a man they say sexually assaulted a woman. an adult female was walking along this bike trail in liv

20th annual taiwanese cultural festival yesterday. there were performers from taiwan doing stunts and acrobatics. the goal was to help people to learn more about taiwanese history. the message from governors brown's office, we may see painful cuts to schools and public safety if voters failed to approve tax hikes. >> tomorrow we are expecting bad numbers, even worse numbers from the governor's revised budget plan but we have heard that before so this time we turn to former mayor willie brown and lt. gov. gavin newsom on the argument for the tax hike. is sacramento being honest? can we trust them? >> in the past we've had these cuts and we are a little hyperbolic and we overstate the impact and then people realize it didn't change dramatically so they accept him. if this goes on, across the board, trust me this will impact everybody. when we start closing down is not an exaggeration, we start shutting down the school's three weeks before we traditional do for summer recess. we start shutting down the buses that deliver your kids to school with increase dramatically did you see and csu

is hitting the runway in taiwan, not the fashion runway. asian airlines brought the cat e colorful flight from the kiosks to cuisine, officials aim to boost tourism. passengers of all ages say the friendly childhood character provides comfort as they travel. >>> one man in rio is pushing the boundaries of aviation. eve "jetman" rossi took to the skies with a rigid wing equipped with four jet engines. dropped from a helicopter in order to stabilize the wing, he zoomed over the city at speeds at 125-185 miles an hour. rossi completed the first jetman feat when he crossed the english channel in 2008. >>> finally in australia one woman takes her bathroom breaks seriously. the canadian stunt woman drove a motorized toilet at 46 miles per hour looking to break the world record for fastest toilet on wheels. that is right. despite having difficulty as she approached high speeds, she kept it under control and claims to have bested the previous record, and the big headline is there is a previous record, somebody else has done this, like 42 miles an hour. >> should we go there with the toilet

benchmarks in china and taiwan lost three quarters of a percent each. investors appear to be concerned weak bank credit could continue to hurt chinese economic growth. checking in on wall street where our markets start the day. little bit of a fixed picture here as well yesterday with the dow jones starting at 12,029. and right now taking a look at the futures looks like a slightly lower opening. >>> some facebook investors whey getting a refund from morgan stanley. there is a lead report they are reviewing orders placed by retail clients. if they believe any of them overpaid for the stock, it will make price adjustments. the bank is not saying what it would consider an overpayment. >>> the continuing investigation into what some are calling the worst cases of animal cruelty. exploding fire works strapped to that dog. the big question, who did it? >> from the stage to the hospital the surprising revelation about the health of the newest american idol. ñ# lysol knows the soft places we love could be home to bacteria. so use lysol disinfectant spray on soft surfaces everyday when you're

the own phone called the nexus 1 built for google a taiwan company with factory in china. however making a phone isn't as easy as it sounds. >> it is hard to do a phone. first of all you have the technical issue. second of all you have the ecosystem of the carrier and the carrier are difficult company to do business with. steve jobs called them or physician referring to something you had to get through. >>reporter: apple succeedd with i-phone and google complete add 14 billion dollar deal to acquire motor role a mobility. that could lead to new breed of google made phone phones. facebook could do a similar deal flush that it is with escape billion dollars raised from the i p o. but reports indicate busy recruiting engineers who work on the i-phone. that could mean it wants to create its phone in house. >> i think facebook challenge is to not be a one trick pony. has to have multiple product if it's worth 100 billion dollars or more. certainly having a phone and lieutenants of apps and ecosystem around that theoretically could bring them a lot of money. >> now that facebook is a pu

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problem is money. >> japan, mexico, turkey, taiwan and romania all have earthquake warning systems. the average warming is 28 seconds. some send text messages, some used sirens. scientists have developed a system that would give a few seconds, up to eight minutes of warning before an earthquake. state and federal budget constraints are slowing further progress. it is slowing the development of this system from becoming a reality. for california it would cost between 80 million-150 million to monitor and reach the entire west coast of the united states. >> the geology community is worried that it would take a major disaster to create the will to get this project that. >> the japanese system was built after 6400 people were killed in the kobe earthquake. the mexican earthquake system was built after 9500 people were killed back in 1985. there is a pattern of building the system after a damaging the earthquake. we would like to not repeat that pattern. clock >>grant: if you look like to felt the system along, like to present it is and tell them the early warning system should be a priority

cultural stunts and acrobatics the goal is to help people learn more about taiwan and its history. about what to avoid pier 35 in san francisco today with road is closed for two cruise ships and a already docked northbound embarcadero at bay street and southbound between north point and currency closed until 2:00 today star princess and see princess carrying 2000 passengers each and they will be flooding the area on foot with both ships departing today at 4. >>> cut a day they're going after the pick is in sad to discover the bay area. >>> a little cloudy this morning giving way to mostly sunshine later today with a live look at the tower a little gray and in the '50s in most areas. the high point of san jose and 57 degrees in the bike race in santa rosa 51 degrees. the pinpoint weather forecast. >>> good morning. we have fog and low cloud cover forecast for along the shoreline early this morning and then things will be cooler today and there were yesterday. cloud cover along the coast summer clearing for later in the afternoon an infant mostly sunny but some cloud cover later in the day

in taiwan are monitoring traffic conditions from a busy street corner when a small car approaches the intersection. the driver shows no signs of stopping at the red light in front of him. front of him. as authorities look on, their dashboard camera captures an unsuspecting motorcyclist with the right of way. as he enters the intersection, the rider lands directly in a path of destruction. the car plows into the biker, then crashes into the median. shards of glass and debris go into the street. into the street. the violent impact sends the biker into the air and crashing down on to the car's roof, hood, then into the street. the motorcycle is reduced to a pile of scraps and rests in middle of the road. the motorcyclist lies almost motionless as the frantic driver exits his car. police run to the scene while witnesses call for help. the driver tries to help the fallen biker while calling for an ambulance. miraculously, the biker survives that spectacular crash. his injuries are minor and, unbelievably, within minutes, he's back on his feet. >>> paul mcdonald a school teacher and thr

korea and taiwan were down 1%. and that is effecting stocks here. greece blamed for another day on the market. dow closed down 76 points. actually that was a bit of a recovery. the markets recovered after a rough day yesterday. we are still looking at five days straight of decline. >>> investors that like facebook may be able to put their money where their clicks are. most of the large online broke ridge firms will let them quest ipos. analysts demand is expected to see exceeded the number of sales. >>> 5:21. a fire in antioch destroyed a tire shop and the practice of making used tires look like they are new could be to blame. >> a young dolphin trapped in an offshore construction site. the delicate operation to rescue him. >> the traffic on the richmond bridge looks pretty good. we'll tell you more straight ahead. >>> good morning. skies are mostly clear. a little bit of a sea breeze there. temperatures inland still warm. not as warm as yesterday. 60s and 70s coast and bay. >> 5:24. marine biologist closely watching a young dolphin out there became trapped in a construction site. they

taiwan. they have launched three jets with the feline plastered to the side. and onboard, passengers can take a catnap. and the in-flight meals are, well, the cat's pajamas. >> ding, ding, ding. >> wow, sam is doing very well. >> sam went outside. >> he forget forgot the raincoat. >> look at that. the weather central raincoat. this is going to be good. straight ahead. >> yes, it is. >> focus on you. >>> for the men and women serving overseas, there's nothing like a care package for mom, and no batter way to say thank you, than to send a picture back to your mom. and, well, almost a million others. that's how many people have viewed these hilarious shots that have gone viral in less than a day. four men striking a pose in the biebs t. shirts in combat gear. the pictures, we never thought we'd see them. but as biebs said himself, never say never. check those out online. >> can i unsee that? is that possible? >> they're funny. they're funny. >> come on. they're marines. they're marines. >> in those shirts. >>> and last but not least. it's not easy to find that special someone out there.

asian markets closed with modest gains on that report. china, australia and taiwan were all aloft about 1%. hong kong and japan also finished up for the trading day. >>> jpmorgan chase beefing up its operations in china. this morning the bank announced it would inject $394 million to expand its branch network. also increase corporate lending and recruit new employees. jpmorgan also has an investment banking joint venture with a chinese partner. >>> new graduates can expect to see more rewards for their hard work as a new survey shows a number of people planning to buy graduation gifts is increasing. the retail federation says one- third of americans plan to give graduate gifts. gift cards are the most popular present. the survey says total spending on graduation presents will be nearly $5 billion nationwide. >>> our time 7:20. again we're happy -- [indiscernible] we're looking outside. we have cloudy skies parts of the bay area. this is outside our window. will the clouds clear up and then the sun comes back on this unofficial first day of summer? steve has your forecast. >> also,

nominee for crazy video of the day. a bus accident in taiwan that injured 15 people, but as you can see, it could have been a whole lot worse. the engine apparently failed while the bus was climbing a steep mountain, causing it to then slide backwards. it veered off the road, over a low wall and off a cliff. but luckily, it got stuck on a ledge before tumbling down the ravine and into the river far below. all 13 passengers, the tour guide and driver were hurt. all were taken to the hospital, but none of their injuries life threatening. jenna: wow, lucky there, right? the fda raising some concerns about some very popular drugs on the market to help bone strength. rick folbaum has more on this. >> reporter: this is an important story because millions of women take these drugs, they're sold by the names bow neva -- boniva, others, they're prescribed to help keep bones strong, but the fda review says in some cases the drugs weaken the bones in certain women leading to serious problems including fractures, esophageal cancer, another painful condition that effects the jawbone x. this is a