Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, november 17th, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Britney milton. Ms. Millton, can you please make any announcements and then call the roll. Clerk yes. I will call the roll and then follow it up with my Public Comment announcement. Commissioner. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer present. Clerk commissioner present. Absent. Commissioner mar . Mar absent. Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk commissioner stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk commissioner walton . Supervisor walton present. Clerk commissioner yee. Supervisor yee present. Clerk im sorry . Ill now make an announcement oh, thank you. Commissioner haney present. I will now make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be available for each item on th
Im David Rubenstein coming from the library of congress, the Jefferson Building and its part of our National Book festival and have a pleasure of interviewing richard hoss who is the president of a foreign relation and ive written a new eczema book called the world a brief introduction by richard hoss, thank you very much for coming today. Great to be with you. For those of you that dont know your background, i want to talk a little bit about the bo book, you are native of new york and went to college in ohio and became a Rhodes Scholar, what did you do to become a Rhodes Scholar and for those of you who are not aware there is only 32 people picked every year in the Rhodes Scholar and youre one of the top 32 students, what did you do to be one of the top 32 students when you graduated. My children would claim it was an administrative error i did nothing to confuse the scholarship, i could also answer i was one of 32 people who peaked young and peaked at the right time, my own guess i h
Person, vis person, if you wish to vote in person, visit the bill graham center. You can avoid lines and save time by preparing your ballots in advance and going to the polling place during offpeak hours. If youre planning on filling out your ballot at the voting center, consider bringing some wipes to clean surfaces and Hand Sanitizer to use after you vote. For those who are planning to vote on election day, consider going to your polling place at offpeak time dos, such as midmorning, because it might reduce wait time. And finally, once you get home, wash your hands. Heres a quick recap. And thats it for this episode. For. Mayor breed good morning, everyone. Im San Francisco mayor, london breed, and i want to thank you for being with us today, to provide an update on covid and the election and halloween in San Francisco. We have 12,320 cases of covid total since this crisis began. 37 hospitalizations, 147 people have sadly lost their lives. San francisco has really stepped up its pace
Supported by the u. S. Government and resulted in the capture or death of more than 1000 men. This was recorded in florida in 2011. It is about one hour. This evening, books and books is pleased to welcome mr. Jim ratzenberger and his new book brilliant disaster jfk, castro, and americas doomed invasion of cubas bay of pigs. He has written for the New York Times, vanity fair, smithsonian, and the wilson quarterly, among others. His most recent book was american 1908, and he is also the author of high steel. He examines the u. S. Backed military invasion of cuba in 1961 in this book, one of the most ill fated blunders in american history. He draws on long hidden cia documents, and delivers, as never before, the truth and consequences of those five pivotal days in april of 1961. Here to tell us more, give a warm welcome to mr. Jim ratzenberger. [applause] jim perfect. Thank you. Thank you for that introduction. Thank you to books and books for having me. This is a wonderful bookstore. I
Later on today across the bay area we get a look for to this day time highs back into the 70s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose and all under abundantly sunny skies. Robin and we enjoy that sunshine. Thank you john, lets check in on the traffic we like when we can have a smooth quiet commute right. Were starting off with a look at 6. 80 this time around taking a look at the drivethru wanted creek. The shot not too far from the 24 split. Were looking at 14 minutes thats a cute direction for south 6. 80 from the highway 4 split through 24 and out danville youre clocking in at 14 minutes here the richmond sandra fell bridge. Its just now getting busy so were seeing the traffic come to a crawl leading up to the toll plaza typical commuters hitting the road heading into the north bay, but only 9 minutes for your total drive times so thats still good. Checking in on the bay bridge commute. We have a little bit of a backup in that car pool lanes its gone, its gonna come back youll see a