Secretary would you please call. Clerk thank you, president scott. Present. Commissioner brezlap. Commissioner freno. Excused and commissioner saff. Supervisor. Expected. We have a quorum. The chair thank you. I would like to ask the. Members of the board stand with me for a moment of silence for the passing of commissioner frignos mother during this recent period. So would you please. Thank you. We will now have action number 1. Check check item 1. Approval with possible modifications of the minutes of the meetings set forth bow low. Special closed session of january 11th. 2018. Regular meeting 2018. Randy scott are there any edits or changes regulated in the commission in the minutes of these two prior meetings . I do have a couple of edits i wish to bring forward. On page 5 of the minutes, it indicates that i indicated i had a duty to warm, warm. To introduce to the board. I would like to clarify that for the record that its a warm welcome and a duty and a privilege to introduce the
Gaf [gavel] there we are. Good afternoon. I would like to now call this meeting of the Health Service system board of the city and county of San Francisco. I order and ask that we please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for secretary would you please call. Clerk thank you, president scott. Present. Commissioner brezlap. Commissioner freno. Excused and commissioner saff. Supervisor. Expected. We have a quorum. The chair thank you. I would like to ask the. Members of the board stand with me for a moment of silence for the passing of commissioner frignos mother during this recent period. So would you please. Thank you. We will now have action number 1. Check check item 1. Approval with possible modifications of the minutes of the meetings set forth bow low. Special closed session of january 11th. 2018. Regular meeting 2018. Randy scott a
Pressure from the Wireless Industry to keep any kind of negative report on cell phone hidd hidden from the public. They have a vested interest in manufacturing confusion and theyve done a very good job at it and they suggest use hetset, speaker phone and text more. As we discovered, few people followed those recommendations. Lay it next to my head, like that. Are you concerned at all . Not typically. Reporter most people say they would consider adopting those recommendations. If there is a concerted message from sources that are trusted reporter but part of the reason why the state refused to release the document was because the centers for Disease Control and prevention insists more research is needed before we know if using cell phones causes health effects. In San Francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Now updating you on breaking nws we brought you at 4 00, sky 7 shows us the aftermath of a fire at the pick and pull auto parts yard on market avenue in rich monday. 15 cars there we
95 of americans, including us, own a cell phone of some kind. A draft report includes scientific studies regarding longterm exposure and recommendations. Lyanne melendez has been following the story and joins us from the financial district with details. This document goes back to 2010. It has been updated several time but never released until a uc berkeley professor decided to sue in order to get access to that document. Reporter holding a cell phone next to your head or body seems to be a way of life. Usually i have the phone down next to my body in my pocket or Something Like that and i will pick it up and hold it like that. Reporter but people have long suspected that all of that radiation may cause damage to cells and tissues. We have evidence of brain tumors and other head and neck tumors and we also have evidence of sperm damage in males, infertility in females. He is with Uc Berkeley School of Public Health and took the California Department of health to court to force the relea
Just a few. Rain is headed for the for the by is pay extra careful to the roads, we will get a view of what it looks like from abc7 news Amy Hollyfield. How does it look, amy . Good morning, matt, we have rain in met plume. That is where it saturdays started south of petaluma we get the wet weather. The windshield wipers are getting the first work out. It is more than drops were it is more than a diesel. It is a nice rain. Not sheets of rain but going to be a wet commute up here in the north by. We are headed north on highway 101 and you will want to give yourself extra time and make sure you also grab the rain gather. The tort bay is expected to get the most rain did you the storms. We will spend the money here looking at things and checking it out so stay with us. From highway 101. The army corps of engineers is releasing water from the lake with the Russian River expected foe rise quickly the next two days at 14 yesterday. It could be just shy of glad stage by saturday morning. The