Peskin and matt haney. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. You will see on cable channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org the Public Comment callin number is streaming across your screen, your opportunity to offer Public Comment for each item will be available by calling 4156550001 and enter meeting i. D. 1461952214. Then press pound twice. When you hear your item, press star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. My name is john carroll, and i am the clerk of the government audit and Oversight Committee at john. Carroll sfgov. Org, and your comments will be included in the file. You may also send comments to city hall, room 204, s carlton b. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Will you please read item one. Clerk item one is a resolution receiving and approving annual report for the Japantown
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We have a Stringent Health and safety standard right now. We will have to raise that higher to be able to bring our schools back, and that is what we intend to do. We will have to focus more on testing. I want to emphasize testing is going to be crucial to the successful reopening of our schools. And everyone has to get engaged even more in testing. I guarantee you part of the plan will be an even heavier emphasis on testing, and therefore want to say to everybody in the stool School Communities we need to get the testing consent forms in this moment of pause. We need to get ready to come back and get the consent forms and so we can get into an even deeper testing regime. The state, the governor and i spoke. Some of the additional measures were laid out that the state will be taking quite soon in new york city. Across the board that will affect a number of different industries, different parts of life of this city, because we are dealing with a bigger problem all over new york city and
And covid continues to peak across the country, once again shutting new york city Public Schools down. With vaccines on the way but still not quite ready, we speak to 23andme ceo Anne Wojcicki. Could their research on genes and covid give us more clues on how to fight it faster . All of those stories in a moment, but first, u. S. Stocks dropping as fresh resections put in place to limit the spread of covid19 overshadowed positive news about Vaccine Development. Our Abigail Doolittle has more. Abigail, generally the markets were quieter today, but then it fell off late in the day. Abigail yeah, truly a sleeper for much of the day. Very small, fluctuating moves. Cyclical rotation trying to take over. Then new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. Earlier today, you had these two negative headlines. Of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3 , sevenday rolling Positivity Rate here in new york
Milestone, u. S. Deaths topped a new milestone as new york city closes schools again. Germanys finance minister tells bloomberg taming the virus is critical. E. U. Leaders will attend make a veto that threatens from hungary and poland. France says nations could be cut out of the rescue plan all together. Chinasy pledge, president xi jinping says the nation wont engage in decoupling, saying its policy of opening up wont waver. It comes after the u. S. And the u. K. Called for beijing to honor its commitments on hong kong, citing serious concern. Its just gone 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In germany. Bad news coming, 11,000 jobs to be cut from the business. Of justlow the estimate over 30 billion. No room for a dividend this year. The banks dividend has been restrained. You think about it, this is a disastrous year for steel. The future is unclear. We are grappling with rolling lockdowns and interruptions around the world. Recovering, but the reality of europe and the United States i