Quorum. Which brings us to item 3. Clerk mayty make a brief announcement before we move on to item 3 . Yes, please do. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations, issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgov tv. For those of you watching the live stream, theres a brief delay. On behalf of the commission, id like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff and sfpuc for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 415 6550001. I. D. 146 500 3304 and then press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to please mute their microphones to minimize background noise, if they have not already done so. Mr. Chair, your first item is item number 3, commissioner vacancy and possible election of a new Vice President. Thank you. And le
Diablo range. Good afternoon, everyone i am michelle griego. And i am len kiese. Taking a live look outside where hot and dry conditions could lead to fire danger here lets get a check on the heat wave with meteorologist mary lee. Watching this all for you. For now, we are looking at the seasonal temperatures, but we will see the temperatures skyrocket as we head into the weekend and early next week with that high fire danger. In the meantime, heres a live look with the mt. Hamilton cameras exhort tory with a look at blue skies and high serious clouds in the sky. Lets talk about the red flag warning. That is in effect for our northbay mountains, east bay hills and valleys. It will be in effect from saturday 9 00 p. M. Until monday 8 00 p. M. Until for all the areas highlighted in red. Due to these easterly winds, looking at 15 to 25 sustained gusts up to 35 to 50 miles per hour, so especially looking into the higher elevations, we will see the strongest winds, low relative humidity val
City of rochester an announced their retirements amid protests over the handling of the death of a black man. But we begin with breaking news out of greece several fires are currently burning in the countrys largest migrant camp located on the Eastern Island of less bus they were deliberately set after additional coronavirus restrictions were announced following months of lockdown families were seen feeling from their tents that overcrowded facility holds more than 12000 people thats 4 times its capacity well ali i spoke to Douglas Hammond hes the cofounder of refocused media labs an organization that hosts citizen journalists inside maria can he explains whats unfolding. If the current moment there are several fires that are kind of all over the camp. Yes corona has been identified in this camp in recent days and the number of confirmed cases have been rising many of the asymptomatic people have been put into a quarantine area on the far eastern side of the camp and that area earlier
Increase and that will improve the air quality and that is the trend throughout the workweek. And of course today is the last day of summer. But temperatures trending cooler as much as 5 to 8 degrees cooler. Upper 70s inland by noon today. And well look for some mid80s and mid 70s arch tound the bay. Certainly cooler than yesterdays warmth. The room where it happen happening today, goouf will give an up candidate on the Coronavirus Response and also the wildfire. You can watch it right here at noon. It will also be on the abc 7 news app and on abc7news. Com. House house house house houe office is walking back a comment that she appeared to admit that she violated San Franciscos months long ban on indoor masses. Well, ive been to church in San Francisco recently. And i did receive communion. The church maybe holds 250 people. There were probably 12 people there. Here, there very, very spaced. But that was it. No more would be allowed. So the Catholic News Agency is reporting now that sp
One of the worlds most advanced vaccine trials has been put on hold after a participant fell ill astra zeneca says a patient has a potentially unexplained this which will need further investigation the pharmaceutical giant is working with Oxford University to develop the vaccine late stage testing got underway last week thousands of taking part in the u. K. U. S. Brazil and south africa its hoped 3000000000 doses can be distributed globally but judy fisher is from Georgetown Medical university and she explained why these steps have been taken. At this point a group of external experts will be consulted and its a normal part of the process theyll be called in to see if any adverse events that were reported and were serious are likely to be due to the vaccine or to be unrelated and their advice will help decide whether or not the vaccine trial continues we are all familiar with my old versa vents that can happen after vaccination like fever or pain at the side of the injection to put a p