It is slow today. No problem. Operator this question is now in question and answer mode. To alert the speaker, you have a question, press zero. Each question will be heard in the way it was received. This is Public Comment for minutes on june 30th. So if you wish to address the board on the minutes, dial 10 now. There are no callers. Chair Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve. Chair is there a second . Second. Chair secretary boomer, can you please call the role. role call . Five communications, madam chair. Item 13 regarding the caltrian sales tax has been removed at the request of staff and proposing amendments to the board of directors and we will schedule a special meeting for members of the public to hear our item and for us to act. If you wish to address the directors today on this topic, you can do so under general Public Comment on items not on the agenda. Again, so the caltrain sales tax measure will not be heard at the end of the agenda but will be heard in a special m
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Operator this question is now in question and answer mode. To alert the speaker, you have a question, press zero. Each question will be heard in the way it was received. This is Public Comment for minutes on june 30th. So if you wish to address the board on the minutes, dial 10 now. There are no callers. Chair Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve. Chair is there a second . Second. Chair secretary boomer, can you please call the role. role call . Five communications, madam chair. Item 13 regarding the caltrian sales tax has been removed at the request of staff and proposing amendments to the board of directors and we will schedule a special meeting for members of the public to hear our item and for us to act. If you wish to address the directors today on this topic, you can do so under general Public Comment on items not on the agenda. Again, so the caltrain sales tax measure will not be heard at the end of the agenda but will be heard in a special meeting which we will announce
, meredith mcgraw. Meredith good morning. Jesse it seems the relationship between the white house and chinas top leader seems to be deteriorating here. Is one of the lowest moments weve seen in terms of the United States and chinas relationship, as you outlined earlier. Weve seen that escalate in the past week, particularly with china asking the u. S. To shut down its consulate in chengdu and the u. S. Shuttering the consulate in houston and this also comes on the heels as weve seen the Trump White House really pick up their public rhetoric against china in the past few weeks. Weve seen a flurry of press conferences, opeds, highprofile speeches like the one from secretary of state pompeo, recently overseas trips, bigit has really been this push from the Trump Administration to outline issues, specific issues they have with china and make the case to the American People for some of the retaliatory things we have seen from the Trump Administration recently like tariffs, sanctions, things
Faced in over a century. The extent of the crisis cannot be overstated. Six months, over 3m people in the United States have been diagnosed with covid19 and more than 140,000 americans have died. Sadly these numbers will only continue to increase as new covid19 cases are searching all across the nation. I is possible. They also appreciate the chance to bring some ten i ten unseat e Trump Administrations work speed effort. This transparency will be crucial to secure the american Peoples Trust that the vaccine will be made available only once it is proven to be safe and effective. Congress has already taken actions to support these efforts. This spring, congress provided the Vaccine Development and manufacturing of birds and other medical countermeasures. Then two months ago the house passed the heroes act, the comprehensive legislation to strengthen the nations ability to fight the pandemic like altering the Strategic National stockpile and increase funding for Research Development and