And tech is staging a comeback, or at least it was, after yesterdays big losses well off the highs. Another brutal day of nikola the first sell rating on wall street and colorados governor warning of a potential wave of Coronavirus Infections the governor will join us with the new measures he is taking to try to stop the spread first up, lets focus on the big stories were watching one hour left of trade we have the latest on the stimulus stalemate in washington a half hearted bounce this morning. It seems like the dip buyers they keep drawing new lines in the sand as they back up and this morning the s p 500 futures got down to 3200 almost right to the tick we did bounce off there and then we have the post 2 00 p. M. Eastern time selling again a little Risk Reduction where people are not quite sure if if the footing is there for a strong close this down trend developed here were going back gagain to the june 8th high. Were turning around i point to the late july area. A lot of the leve
[background sounds] good morning. Thank you for being here. Sunday evening i received a telephone call from my former colleague mark meadows, that e chief of staff of the white house, who asked me to put together a group of eight to ten members for the purposes of having a briefing in the skiff at the white house. I indicated to him that i would consider that. I talked to the speaker about it. Our view has been an always been that when the white house ask you to come down for a meeting of the briefed you respond to that request. At the same time i told mr. Meadows yesterday, and i repeated a couple of times today, that this briefing was not, and to emphasize, was not a substitute for the speaker and minority leader of the senates request for a full briefing of our members. The time when you have a threat to american personnel, whether they be military or civilian, it is a serious matter. And needs to be taken with the utmost importance. And utmost concern. I think its fair to say as my
Present. Supervisor stefani. Present. Supervisor walton. Present. Supervisor yee. Mr. President. All members are present. Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Place your right hand over your heart, please. I pledge allegiance to the flago f america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. What i would like to do is before we go to communications, and before we get into our special order at 2 00 p. M. , i would like to at least say a word or two. Before we get started i want to acknowledge George Floyds funeral today and thank the city family, particularly m. T. A. , for halting all Public Transit from 12 00 to 12 08 p. M. To acknowledge the wrong that happened to mr. Floyd and to the many other black and brown individuals in our country. C
Chair peskin welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board for our meeting today, tuesday, june 9th, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Angela tsao. Madam clerk, could you please call the roll. Clerk commissioner fewer . Present. Clerk commissioner haney . Present. Clerk commissioner mandelman . Present. Clerk commissioner mar. Present. Clerk commissioner peskin . Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston . Present. Clerk commissioner ronen . Present. Clerk commissioner safai. Commissioner safai . Safai absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Clerk commissioner walton . Present. Clerk commissioner yee . Present. Clerk we have coreium. Chair peskin thank you, madam clerk. Do you have an announcement . Clerk yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, via telephone, by calling 888 2045987, enter access 2858465 as seen on the screen. And then follow the system prompts. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When yo