Everybody thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 im grant lotus and im justine waltman in for vicki tonight. Now Assemblymember Phil ting and other members of a San Francisco delegation are calling on superintendents in their districts. To reopen schools as soon as possible this is new coronavirus cases reach new heights in the last 24 hours. The country has reported more than 195,000 new covid cases and close to a 100,000 patients are currently in the hospital because of covid this is according to the covid tracking project in california nearly 21,000 new cases were reported in a single day. This is the most new cases recorded in a single day in the state since the pandemic started california has recorded more than a million total cases so far. In the bay area more than 153,000 cases have been recorded and nearly 2000 people have died. And despite a surge in infections, a San Francisco delegation has now sent letters to several School Districts in the bay area demanding that school
San Francisco Police said they responded to a physical fight between several men on market between fourth and fifth streets at 5 09 tuesday evening. It happened in front of the timberland store and walgreens. One of them and had a nice. We know that the male suspect was brandishing a knife. As to the steps and the time frames of what occurred here, they are all under investigation. Reporter police said the man was struck by gunfire, but did not say how many officers fired their guns. They also say an officer fired a beanbag shotgun and a sheriffs deputy used a taser. Police are not saying in what order the weapons were deployed. The man was taken to San Francisco general hospital. We are reviewing cameras, eyewitness statements, as well as any Video Surveillance that caught the incident. Reporter a hospital spokesman tells me the man is in critical condition. San Francisco Police, the District Attorneys Office and the department of political ability are investigating this fully shootin
Bring students back as soon as possible. Thank you for joining us on kron 4 news at 10 everybody im grant lotus im Justine Waldman in for Vicki Liviakis tonight now this delegation sent letters to San Franciscos Unified School District san mateo counties offices at of education and more. Urging for more plans to be made to kron 4 cylinder sackey joins us now live from outside of San Franciscos district headquarters for the School District she has more now on this push to get kids and teachers back in the classroom. Well despite the surge in cases and hospitalizations lawmakers and doctors say that school should still reopen as soon as they can and based on data from some of the other schools that reopened in the bay area with. In Person Learning they say that actually schools are one of the safer places to reopen during the pandemic. Do believe that schools need to be prioritize. We think that schools need to be open when many of the things may need to be should an Assembly Member phil
Thanks for that you know traffic is looking great out there, but you can see the bay bridge. A lot of backup there the maze to fremont street 13 minutes and you see traffic starting to build here in the Richmond Bridge traffic steadily moving along near the tulsa the one o one about 11 minutes. For your drive so make sure now is the time you want to give yourself more time to get out on the roads because were no longer in the green everybodys out there trying to get to work, san mateo bridge 92 you can to one o one a 17 minute drive for you can see everyone kind of stepping on those lights there you see the brake people making their way across but its going to definitely be a drive and thankfully, no accidents to tell you about no hot spots to get to but lets get a check at our drive times for you filling a out to conquer 21 minutes of steadily increasing there but take danville 40 minutes, san leandro to milpitas 27, san jose youre at a 35 plus drive the air and one more look out at t
I have the pleasure of chairing the committee today. Many of you know that chair bernal serves as representative pelosis chief of staff. I also want to thank the commissioners. We have a fairly full agenda, but everyone submitted questions on many of the presentations, and weve gotten very thorough and thoughtful answers from staff, so hopefully that means we can go through our agenda in a very efficient way and we can go to our different activities of the evening. First item is the minutes. Are there any additions or corrections on the part of the commissioners . Okay. Any comments from the public . Clerk if youre on the Public Comment line, please press star, three if youd like to make a comment on the minutes. No comments, commissioners. Okay. So is there a motion to approve the october 20, 2020, minutes of the commission . So moved. Second. Can we have a roll call vote . Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk just for everyone to know, if the if youre not speaking, then please mute yourselve