[roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Madam president , i want to make a couple of announcements. First, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendation issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. Please note that there is a delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. 1467101398, pound, pound. To raise your hand to speak, press star, three. Please limit your Public Comment to the item that is under consideration. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. Madam president , your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020. Commissioners, do i have any questions or discussion
Buildings collapse, then a tsunami brings even more devastation. Well have the latest. And signs of the times from banners and billboards to Old School Lawn signs, these displays of democracy have been seen as a predictor for an areas election results. How true is that . We begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Millions more will vote by tuesday. And i believe when you use your power to vote, well change the course of this country and the course of history. There are just three days left before election day. There will be no heating in the winter. No air conditioning in the summer and no electricity whatever the hell you want it. Right now you have it made. Youre so lucky. You are so lucky im your president. We are better than this. And we deserve better than this. The candidates race across the country fighting over votes in the battleground states. Its really a choice between the trump boom and a biden depression. We are rounding the turn on the pandemic w
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Libre is set to debut next year. We will hear how the head of libre and the facebook coo touted this big promise. But first our top story. Recordbreaking sales for amazon. Posted itsrce giant largest advance on thursday. Amazon didnt release specific sales figures, but they say it backs up broader reports that Online Shopping picked up this year. I want to bring in spencer and darren baker. Spenser, talk to me about what we learned from amazon this holiday season. In terms of their statement, we didnt learn much. Every year is another record for amazon. What we did see was that this was the first year, one that they rolled out their oneday shipping pledge on millions of items, and that they handled so much of their own delivery on their own. I think a little bit of the boost is that amazon got through christmas without any disasters. Everyone was wondering how they would do this year. And darren, every year is a record year. Is amazon just riding the wave of ecommerce or are they doing
Discuss how to approach next season and work out what competitions we will do and go from there. Thats all from sportsday. Back to you now. Tonight sees the announcement of building of the year the stirling prize for architecture. Last year, the award went to the bloomberg building, a huge Office Development in london that cost more than a billion pounds. But this year, the bookies favourite is very different, a small estate of Council Houses in norwich. And there are five other amazing buildings in the running. Lets ta ke lets take a look at all the nominations now. Platform six and seven. I would nominations now. Platform six and seven. Iwould much nominations now. Platform six and seven. I would much rather work here than the old station it is just lovely. The roof is a piece of art in itself. You cannot see it from the outside at all, you enter the building and this remarkable space is revealed. We have something which is almost like an artwork that has come out of the ground. Was