Chair mar good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, february 20 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by Committee Member supervisor matt haney and supervisor raphael mandelman, who is substituting for supervisor peskin, who are unable to be here. Id like to thank john carroll, our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Copies of documents and completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors february 26 agenda. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair mar this item was continued from the last g. A. O. Meeting on february 6 and is sponsored by supervisor matt haney. Supervisor haney, the floor is yours. Supervisor haney thank you
Vows not to dilute, dither or delay that legislation. The white house focuses today on immigration as President Biden prepares to sign a series of executive actions, including Assembly Task force to reunite families separated at the border during the Trump Administration. Welcome to tuesday, its Groundhog Day, the longest Groundhog Day any of us have ever experienced, isnt it, anyway, it jen psaki will hold her briefing the house Impeachment Managers have filed their pretrial brief this morning as well. Well get to both of those in a moment. The Daily Briefing comes after President Biden met with ten of the most moderately minded Senate Republicans, not necessarily an ideology but perhaps in tone last night at the white house. The that meeting they proposed a covid relief deal that they probably knew biden could not support and biden probably knew they wouldnt be able to stay united on that anyway. Case in point, its not every day you see Mitch Mcconnell publicly renouncing or praising
Control of most of the rebel held aleppo province and well look at the u. N. Effort to get more countries to help the millions of afghan refugees in pakistan. Hello everyone 2 flights evacuating u. S. Citizens who were stuck on a cruise ship with hundreds of coronavirus cases on board have now left japan those infected are staying behind the ship is being quarantined in the port of yokohama 355. 00 of the passengers tested positive for the virus among them 44. 00 u. S. Citizens as we say they will stay there and be treated in japanese hospitals meanwhile china has confirmed another 105. 00 deaths on sunday this brings the global total up to 1770. 00 around 2000 more people tested positive for the virus and other persons died outside of china this was a taxi driver in taiwan the 5th overseas fatality after an elderly chinese tourist in france became the 1st to die outside of asia so were going to talk to katrina you in beijing in a moment to get an update from there starting those retur
After several days of declining figures the number of new corona virus infections in china has risen again only 2000 more people were reported infected on sunday it comes as hundreds of people are being evacuated from the diamond princess cruise ship in japan the bessel holds the largest concentration of cases outside Mainland China american australian and new zealand citizens are being flown home and will be quarantined on arrival the virus has now claimed 1007 170. 00 lives on chinas mainland forcing some cities to tighten controls even even further south than the city with more than 2500. 00 cases of the virus has gone into a complete lockdown at an hong kong theres been reports of panic buying and one and students Armed Robbers still hundreds of toilet paper rolls trying to you this is live from beijing so katrina in some instances the numbers are jumping in certain other places are going down can you put this all in some perspective for us. Thats right so over the past 24 hours we
After several days of declining figures the number of new corona virus infections in china has risen again really 2000 more people are reported infected on sunday the virus is down claimed 1770 lives on chinas mainland forcing some cities to tighten controls even further than a city with more than 2500 cases of the virus has gone into complete lockdown it comes as the u. S. Has begun evacuating hundreds of people from the diamond princess cruise ship and japan 14 of those evacuated were put and containment on the flight to the United States after they were confirmed to have the virus and in hong kong theres been reports of panic buying and one instance Armed Robbers stole hundreds of toilet paper rolls store clark joins us now from hong kong so sara what else can you tell us about these 14 confirmed cases of u. S. Citizens having run a virus. This is an extraordinary and unfortunate situation as you mentioned the American Government sent through an aircraft to rescue those american cit