Chair peskin good afternoon to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, september 14, 2020. I am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by supervisor and member dean preston, and shortly to be joined by supervisor ahsha safai. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss clerk, do you have any announcements. Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, the city, and the public, the city hall and board room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee members will be attending the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Depending on your provider, you can view on channels 26, 78, or 99, as well as sfgovtv. Org, which is currently streaming the call in number across your screen. Each speaker will be allowed Public Commen
There is too much warm air, it is down on the deck. There is reduced visibility and miss drizzle around oakland. Santa rosa has a halfmile of his ability. Reduced visibility is showing up. The fog will burn off. 5559. Santa rosa is a location with fog, warmer for most. On the immediate custody will not be, but the low clouds have fog. Warmer temperatures today. Sunny for all as temperatures make the move. Near average to a little bit above for today. Lets get over to sal, it is friday morning and he will be telling us to this time that we have better news . Yes, northbound traffic is moving along pretty well. As you drive past to the coliseum, it was slow. They are picking up roadwork in the fruitvale area. When you get to the bay bridge toll plaza, it is light. Usually it starts aslant 6 00 but it is a friday. Lets go back to the headlines. We are in for a hot and smoky bay area weekend. The operator of the power grid has issued a flex alert, asking us to conserve energy. This comes a
Thank you for joining us today. Were here with governor larry hogan of maryland to talk about the challenges weve faced as a country, grappling with the covid pandemic and some things that maryland has done to deal with their epidemic of covid spread. This is a time with the Intelligence Committee long warning us of the risk and put it on par with weapons of mass destruction and counterterrorism and cyber attack. As much as we thought we were prepared as a nation, we found going through this episode at that we really didnt have all the preparations that we thought we had. And weve been unable to find as a nation a medium between allowing this virus to spread in a way thats causing a lot of death and suffering, and strict lockdown, something thats acceptable to enough people that we can implement some kind of an approach that enough people find socially and culturally and economically acceptable. So were continuing to see spread around the nation particularly in the south right now. Mar
The Coronavirus Relief packages passed by congress. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I want to thank everyone especially our witnesses for joining us today for our committees hybrid hearing. I want to make sure to note some important requirements. Let me begin by saying that standing house and Committee Rules and practice will continue to apply during hybrid proceedings. House regulations require members to be visible through a video connection throughout the proceeding. So, please, keep your cameras on. And remember to remain muted until you are recognized to minimize background noise. In accordance with the rules established under hr965, staff have been advised to mute participants only in the event there is inadvertent background noise. For those members here in the room, i urge members and staff to wear masks while in the hearing room and i thank you in advance for your commitment to a safe enviro
Live from our studios in moscow this is our International Im sean thomas and certainly glad to have you with us the Chinese Foreign ministry has accused the u. S. Of violating International Law by breaking into its consulate in houston beijing has vowed to retaliate american agents were seen forcing their way through the back door right after chinese officials were required to vacate the building the raid happened on friday President Trump ordered the closure earlier in the week accused beijing of stealing intellectual property while the Justice Department claimed consular staff were obstructing an investigation officials said that they had been implicated in a fraud probe at a Texas Research institution meanwhile in the chinese city of chengdu the american consulate has been shut down in a tit for tat measure there have been allegations that both nations were seeking to get rid of Sensitive Information some footage captured a man taking rubbish banging out of the building in chengdu o