So very much for joining us here on the show where my guests are Helena Marshall an environmental activist with fridays for future she says to put a stop to Global Warming we need to change the way we do things and to do so now im also with us is denotes a reader from the business and finance paper one spot who argues that if the economy doesnt pick up then well be going right back to where we started because theres no more funding for Climate Friendly modernization. And the very warm welcome to stefan ram stores hes a climatologist of the institute for Climate Impact research he believes the Climate Crisis is far more serious than the corona pandemic. Thank you all for being here thank you all 3 for your statements about. To begin with you helen a Climate Change activist that you are. Im guessing there was perhaps a moment in your life when you said or thought to yourself we cant go on like this you know being there was such a moment tell us about it and i would say it was more of lik
Alive cablecast did online, too. This is the same channel as the regular Board Meetings. The live video stream will also be available online. Welcome to the district Staff Members and members of the public. Thank you to the budget staff in advance for their the hard work and getting information ready for this special meeting. The process for this afternoon, i would like to turn it over first to superintendent matthews and the staff who will start out with a presentation. I will then open it up to Public Comment and depending upon how many speakers we have requested, i will also put a time limit in case, again, really wanting the purpose of todays meeting to have dialogue amongst the commissioners. We have had a lot we had lots of engagement as well the past tuesday evening at our Board Meeting and we will also have an opportunity this upcoming week as well. So at this time, i would like to turn it over actually, before i turn it over to dr. Matthews, you know, the purpose of the meetin
Good afternoon, welcome to the stand lus and Transportation Committee for today, monday, july 6th, 2020. I am the chair of the committee joined by supervisor safai and member supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erika major. Could you please do you have any inaudible . Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken inaudible state wide stay at home order and all local and state federal orders, declaration and directives. They will continued through participate in the meeting to the same extent if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the addenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunity to speak during the pluck comment periodd are by calli
Getting some headlines for the International Energy agency. The focus on what they see oil demand like in the coming years. Oil demand will not fully recover until at least 2022. That may have an impact on the price of oil. New york crude wti pretty much flat. Markets focused on this extra stimulus. We are also expecting to have more data points with damage the economy. Plans with sentiment in the wave of it would also be great to look at treasuries and things like that. Lets get a Bloomberg News here in london. President trump is weighing an infrastructure proposal worth nearly 1 trillion to spur the u. S. Economy according to bloomberg sources. The plan would reserve most of the cash for traditional work such as roads and bridges but they would also go to wireless and broadband pretty broadband. Ae eu and u. K. Seem closer to brexit deal. Russells is confident Boris Johnson is willing to compromise and the Prime Minister said chances of agreement are very good. Injected new momentum
Good morning. This hearing will come to order. , want to thank eyewitnesses first of all for your service to this nation. On behalf of the committee, if you can thank the men and women who worked with you and apron pretty tremendous effort, trying to deal with an overwhelming situation, as a nation, we need to be grateful for your effort. Had thebly have not days off. I really do appreciate that. Toant to ask for consent have my statement entered into the record. Just a couple of facts. Just to lay out how extraordinary and overwhelming this effort has been. Not thatanuary 21, long ago, we had the first case reported of covid and eight days later on january 29, the administration established the task force. At that time, we only had five cases and zero deaths. Two days later, President Trump announced travel restrictions in china. That was not a popular decision, but it probably saved many lives and but as time to flatten what bought us time. Fema began assisting hhs. 12 cases and zero