San francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for San Francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] fire station 35 was built in 1915. So it is over 100 years old. And helped it, were going to build fire boat station 35. So the finished Capital Planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on Sea Level Rise. The station 35, Construction Cost is approximately 30 million. And the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. It is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. Were looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. The historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respo
Supervisor fewer good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the july 29, 2020 regular board and finance Committee Meeting. I am sandra lee fewer, chair. And i am joined by supervisors mandelman and walton. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Clerk yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed, however members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local, state orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. You can call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 812 0226. Again, 146 812 0226 then press pound twi
The new york newsroom. Blake, we start with you with the latest from the president. Reporter the latest is about an hour away, connell. Were set to hear once again from President Trump, he will be once again bringing back the coronavirus briefings for the first time in many, many weeks. The brief from the white house is they say that the president will be talking about medical advances and the look ahead. That is why they say these are coming back. However when you hear from the top democrat in the senate, there is much different story as Chuck Schumer said today, these briefings shouldnt happen at all. These are going to be short briefings of the president mainly delivering information to the American People that is needed on therapeutics and vaccines. President trump should not take the podium. Every time President Trump takes the podium at one of these briefings he is a threat to public health. Reporter up on the hill earlier today Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell outlined rep
At 211 a share, now its 213 up again, those two Companies Amazon and microsoft have huge and growing cloud operations. That is a big part of their stock rally. Now look at tesla, 142, yesterday closing 1600 a share and this morning its up 11 bucks, 1654 but it is up again, are these tech stocks a bubble, is it like the dog, the late 90s, ive never seen anything like this before. Now look at the overall market, the Dow Jones Industrial going up again, maybe 150point of the opening bell, the s p of 21 points, two thirds of 1 . Look at the nasdaq, a half percentage point and more because a big tech again. The market is also getting help from the europeans who reached agreement on a near trillion dollar rescue plan that helps and they are still negotiating a plan for the United States as of right now. Bottom line, big tech in the market going up again today. A different story in our cities there is a confrontation going on on one side local largely democrat mayors on the other federal auth
Coping with covid19. Todays special guest. I am chris manners, you are watching coping with covid19. My guest is the director of economic and Work Force Development here to talk about the programs the city has in place during this crisis to help Small Businesses and vulnerable and disconnected residents. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to be here, chris. Start by talking about gift to sf. It provides many of the resources we are talking about. Could you tell us a little bit about the focus of gift to us. Then we will talk about specific programs. I very much appreciate the question. For anyone who is watching right now, so much of the work that has been accomplished to serve most vulnerable is because of very generous donations to the give to sf covid19 response and recovery fund. Over 28 million has been fund raised to support areas as important as Housing Stabilization for vulnerable communities, Food Security programs which has been a big issue not onl