It is already here. Fauci also is set to receive his first dose of the vaccine in just about an hour from now. So you will see that live on camera. This comes, though, again, with devastating news in terms of the cases rising across the country. 190,000 new covid infections yesterday alone and nearly 1,700 people in this country died yesterday from covid. This just days before christmas where icus like this one in california are still at a breaking month. And in washington just days before millions of americans were set to lose key benefits, congress has finally acted on a relief bill set to be signed by the president. But we do begin this hour with more on this covid variant. We have team coverage, Fred Pleitgen is in moscow. First lets begin with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Walk us through the latest. What have we learned about this since yesterday . Good morning, poppy. This is moving so quickly. Lets get sort of a grip on what we know who far about this varian
Field so instead of opening up the waterfront as argue walking along the waterfront a lot of your views of acquit r coit tower will be restricted. Number 3 it increases the heights along the waterfront because theres 3 other particles along the north waterfront. F it destroys the tense club its been use that i thousands of san franciscans for years and its being built too close to a sewer line with great risks to the sewer line. Height, bulk, sewer risk, precedent. And then to on top of it in prop b which is written by the developer the developer he gets special rules to approve his project. If this isnt enough to vote no on b and c i think it is mr. Barb theres been some confusion regarding prop b and c why walls prop b was added later. Proposition c only asked for the approval the height. We thought it was critical that the voter be able to see what the whole project was with all the benefits. As to the height only a small frooshg of the height 85 percent is much lower than those all
We have this sister and brother Lloyd Rodriguez representing the family clapping i want you to then please stay and enjoy the celebration together we can it gives me great pleasure to introduce mayor ed lee clapping thank you andy for that introduction. Well, today, obviously is a very special day its not only the 2 hundred and third mexican today, its appropriate we recognize ann an Important Institution that will be built here, no San Francisco. The entire city and community are excited for this new home and well have this compliment the other worldclass institutions that arnold previously mentioned. All of those institutions by the way, are not just for our Cultural Heritage but also the great business of the city. I want to reminded everybody that the Mexican Museum will join the arts organizations to reflect a culturely inspired organization that generates 19 thousand jobs already in our city because of our cultural institutions and well celebrate this today, this great museum tha
Our final speaker is a friend a friend to the Business Community. A man who understands was it take to a create a job which is an investment. Mayor ed lee is a person who haves brought a lot of stability to San Francisco especially, after steady eddy were because ed has a background in administration and being tasked what getting things done and maneuvering through the San Francisco policies. So to talk about the future of San Francisco from the mayors prospective and the citys prospective in relationship to continue to build our economy i want to introduce the mayor of the great city and county of San Francisco. Mayor ed lee clapping thank you. Thank you for that introduction and good morning, everyone. I know youve gotten a lot of statistics their not only interesting and accurate but very guiding for what we need to do. Thank you greg costco and bob and all of the members of San Francisco chamber of commerce for extending this invitation and its great to see a lot of the officials a
There and relying on the reputation of your colleague. Well thats what the building inspectors are im not asking about that. But is the record unclear . I dont think it is and there is detail on the 2r assembly that was required by the building inspector a very Good Building inspector and verified that and ready to sign off on the permits. Thats all the code requires. I dont need to go back there and check the approved plans for that detail and i am confident the inspector would have gotten that detail. I dont have the approved plans here. If they were here on the overhead i would 100 say that the building inspector edward dontly got that detail and i am confident with that but i dont know lets put that aside. Thats not really the issue. Okay. The fire rating is up to the Building Department. The issue here is every assembly depending on the materials has a different type of sound insulation values to it and we dont know this what this one is. We dont know that the noise levels other t