Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. Thinks the Mayors Disability Council public meeting. Friday, february 21st. A reminder to all our guests today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioners and interpreters. The agenda is as follows. Public comment. Initial Public Comment is open to all items not on todays agenda. But within the jurisdiction of the Mayors Disability Council. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for Public Comment at the beginning and end of the meeting as well as after every item on todays agenda. Each comment is limited to three minutes. To address the council, please complete a speakers card available at the front of the room, or approach the microphone during Public Comment, or call the bridge line at 14155549632. The clerk will handle requests to speak at the appropriate time. Council will respond to inquiries after the meeting to commenters providing their contact information. Cochair report
You heard at the top will close for 3 weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic were covering every angle of the outbreak governor Gavin Newsoms executive order to slow the spread of the virus and in the south bay for firefighters have tested positive for covid 19 well have more. On the firefighters now in quarantine 50 of them, well have that in just a few moments, but we want to go to kron fours justine waltman. Who has more on the San Francisco School Closures just well the entire San Francisco Unified School District will shut down on monday and this is what the district can deal th the ever evolving coronavirus. What i want to get to right now is some of the information we got from the School District because ty had this emergency meeting earlier this afternoon and then came out with this decision late this afternoon. The decision the district decided instead of shutting down schools, one by one as cases popped up shutting down the entire district at once it gives them a chance to get a
I will welcome you watching r. T. International with me. Now so ok is that to be carrying out attacks on the syrian army in northwest syria follows the death of 33. 00 turkish soldiers in italy a province according to turkish officials dawn of takes a closer look at this sudden escalation. Situation in the northeastern syrian province of idlib has been hated so far and lately turkey has been saying that more than 30 of its troops have been killed they say that the fire has originated from the syrian army now again just a disclaimer all that we know so far comes from the turkish side the syrian army is yet to comment but turkey is adamant i mean they hold no punches they are saying is that its the syrians who have killed their troops and theyre saying that essentially now they are designating all syrian soldiers as enemies turkey is determined to continue to it for phils its objectives in accordance with its legal rights the murderous regime and those who encouraged it will account for
Diseases. Docr, reporter jeff moore discusses william barr. Ont good morning, everyone this tuesday, february 25. We begin with the coronavirus after the dow jones chopped dropped 1000 points with a spike of cases rattling investor confidence. We have seen the disease spread from china to south korea to iran. What are your concerns with this outbreak . Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can text us at 2027488003 with your first name, city, and state. Also on twitter and cspan. Org and facebook. Com cspan. There have been more than 80,000 cases worldwide of the coronavirus. Deaths, nearly 2700 and 50 53 people in the United States who tested positive. The white house announced they would request 1. 8 building in emergency funding from congress and they plan to spend a total of 2. 5 billion on the response. The Obama Administration requested 6 billion for the Ebola Outbreak. The office of management and budget put out a statement saying the Trum
We lost thousands of people worldwide. The United States the numbers continueun to increase as we continue to increase number of people that we can actually test. Fortunately, the vast majority of the people will get this virus have little to no symptoms. Its a cold, a mild flu to them. But for a gullible population, our elderly population, those with heart issues, lung issues, smokers, diabetics, this can be a very, very serious thing. The challenge that we face in our health care is that for every person that walks in to get tested, they are facetoface with ones of her healthcare workers especially in rural areas ofy our state that may be the only healthcare professional for that entire county. And if the person who has not been vaccinated as well because there is no vaccine yet, if that person is not able to serve the rest of the population, and bad Health Situation becomes even worse because of diminishing care. We as americans have taken the seriously, as we should. We are paying