Cases, we talk about it every day. We need to im starting, i dont know what youre hearing, im starting to see anecdotal evidence that things are slowing down a bit in the economy. Im getting that too. Im getting people who are saying, i really would want to make a big spend, this is in terms of the big tech spend, for instance, i got to figure out what is going on or when are people coming back, are people ever going to come back . This stay at home versus go back to work, we thought it was resolved, we thought that things it was just a matter of time before you go back to work and those involve big Corporate Capital spending decisions and i think that those decisions are right now on the balance, because people dont know whether this thing is just going to continue to rage. I think we can expect it to continue to rage for the foreseeable future until the vaccine is widely available. There are people people are starting to curb their behavior thats what im referring to, and there are c
Questions on many of the presentations, and weve gotten very thorough and thoughtful answers from staff, so hopefully that means we can go through our agenda in a very efficient way and we can go to our different activities of the evening. First item is the minutes. Are there any additions or corrections on the part of the commissioners . Okay. Any comments from the public . Clerk if youre on the Public Comment line, please press star, three if youd like to make a comment on the minutes. No comments, commissioners. Okay. So is there a motion to approve the october 20, 2020, minutes of the commission . So moved. Second. Can we have a roll call vote . Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk just for everyone to know, if the if youre not speaking, then please mute yourselves, and commissioners, if youre making rustling noises, and youre not muted, i am going to mute you. So i apologize, but we want to keep the sound quality good. So well move onto item 3, the directors report. Hi, commissioners. Gra
But i wanted to take this opportunity to just start with, really, how far weve come. Its been a very, very challenging seven months in San Francisco. When this pandemic first hit, we had to make some really hard decisions. And with those hard decisions, we knew it was not only going to hit our economy as a whole, but it was going to have a tremendous impact on our Small Businesses, especially businesses in the community. We saw, within the first time that we closed in the month of april, we saw unemployment go to over 60,000 people, and as of today, we have over 200,000 people who have filed for unemployment. Weve seen businesses close, and some that we have gone to our entire lives, weve seen them close permanently. Weve had to balance a 1. 5 billion budget deficit in San Francisco. Its been hard. Our unemployment before the pandemic was less than 2 , and at its height, went to 12 , and today, its 8 . So yes, from an economic standpoint, we have had some really challenges in our city,
California. Im reall a member of the leadep council. As chairman of the California Republican party and moderator for todays program. What a welcome our audience members and thank you for your support here. She was make a donation, please text the words donate to 415 3294231. We will be discussing this in the next hour and be sure to ask your questions as well. If youre watching along with us, please put your questions in the text chat on youtube and we will get to them later in the program. And now it is my honor to introduce our distinguished guests. Maria bartiromo is anchor the mornings with maria and with wall street on Foxbusiness Network as well as anchor of sunday morning features on the fox news channel. If you are a busy woman maria. And shes also twotime Emmy Awardwinning journalist who was the first person to report live in the florida New York Stock Exchange in 2011, made history once again as the first female journalists to be inducted into the hall of fame. Duf also with
Desensitized to these numbers. Imagine three boeing 747s crashing every single day. Thats what were looking at right now. Thats abc thats abc 7s special go ahead, ama. Please. Sorry, dan, go ahead. Thats abc 7 news special correspondent dr. Alok patel who just spoke on our 7 00 news getting answers. Good evening to you. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. Dr. Patel talked about 1,000 deaths a day. Experts say that could soon hit 2,000, matching or exceeding what we saw in the spring. Thats because just a little while ago we learned that a quarter of a million americans have died from the coronavirus, passing the number dr. Anthony fauci predicted in march. And tonight several counties are seeing the most Covid Patients admitted in a single day since the last wave hit in july. It raises the question will hospitals have to ration care . Abc 7 news iteam reporter stephanie sierra is digging into this question and leads us off tonight. I have not been in the military and i have not been in wa