Staff, and members of the public, the Commission Chambers and city hall are closed. Furthermore, the mayor and governor have issued emergency orders suspending select laws applicable to boards and commissions, making it possible to hold Commission Hearings remotely. On april 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene through may 3, 2020, recognizing that the commissi commissions condition of concern projects is an essential consideration. It needs to consider action items pertaining to infrastructure, housing, and Small Businesses. Today, the Planning Commission reconvenes for the first time in its history remotely using telecommunications. It may at times be slow, and it may be clumsy. Therefore, we ask your patience. Commissioners and staff will be participating in the meeting remotely but participate as if we were physically present. To enable public participation, sfgovtv is televising this meeting live. Sfgov is streaming the toll f
New at 6 00, abc7 news iteam reporter Melanie Woodrow takes a look at whether the bay area has enough hospital beds to handle an expected patient surge. Reporter covid19 is testing and stretching californias Health Care System to its limits. An abc7 news iteam analysis found if 1. 2 of the bay area population has covid19 at one time, and 15 of those people are hospitalized, local hospitals could run out of beds. According to state data, the bay area has less thantwo hospital beds per 1,000 people. San mateo, sonoma and contra costa counties have even less, just 1. 4 beds per 1,000 people. Compare that to italy, a country that has more than three beds per 1,000 people and still whose hospitals were overrun when Coronavirus Infection rates reached their peak. The numbers alone do not paint a positive picture, but californias Hospital Association president and c. E. O. Carmella coyle is urging people to look past the numbers and trust californias Health Care System will flex based on nee
You live to the state department for a briefing bisected trey pompeo. Sec. Pompeo im happy to take some questions as well about what we are doing. Tot being said, i wanted come here today to know the state Department Remains fully engaged across the broad range of matters even as we tackle this Global Pandemic. To defendgive so much life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness more than we do here in the United States. We are doing that work all over the world. That work continues. Thats what i wanted to share with you today. Lets start with one of our most important topics, terrorism. Today, the department of state is announcing our intent to a specially designated global terrorist. He was previously active in iraq. He was named the leader of isis after we killed abu bock after we killed albaghdadi last year. We remain continued to defeat isis no matter who they designate as their leader. Continuing on designations and our leadership, the department is sanctioning nine entities based in
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We have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. This morning we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to about emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of the sudden change we will significantly reduce Opening Statements. We will do 10 minutes so we can get right to questions. Witnesses, please keep your oral statements as brief as possible. At 11 45 we will recess the hearing and work with the agencies to determine when the witnesses can return. With that i recognize myself for a few remarks. I want to thank everyone for being at this hearing. Our thoughts go out to everyone and our colleagues representative meadows and representative gosar who cannot participate here today. Were now in the middle of a Glob