Career has focused on americas relationship with the sea in a aing of notable books, from. Y offshore to abrams eyes second, comprehensive in cover not just a voyage or the first war, all of which have recently been done, but in covering the entire story, allowing us, the readers, to enjoy the true benefits of history, which is the scope, to follow consequences of actions through generations and narratives because what nat does best is to tell a story an adventure story, but in many ways, and unexpected adventure story. Look at the cover. I, of course, love it because it is our painting. The mayflower on her arrival. But what i really love is that even though the book is entitled the mayflower, this cover does not put the mayflower front and center. It does not show a ship tossed by waves. That would be the expected adventure story. Instead, it focuses on this little group of pilgrims leading a ship that has brought them through storms and peril, headed off toward shore on the verge of
Commissioners. We have a fairly full agenda, but everyone submitted 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
Tv as the final numbers came in over the weekend but of course is a long certification process and appeals like yes by President Trump going in the meantime weve got lots of news to get to this morning. Im darya folsom and im james what you can see by the shot behind us the live pictures from the base obviously very clear out there its getting brighter but that clear sky but a pattern john means what cold temperatures for a lot of folks this morning though yeah frigid start guys it sure does look beautiful out there though, but as you are stepping outside dont be fooled by the sunshine were off to a very cool kick this morning that a way to write up as she get out there at least theres the plus to it you can see that we do have frost advisories in effect across the bay area this morning most notably across the north bay so in purple, those are freeze warnings in northern solano and then also in lake county in the lighter blue and portions of marine sonoma and napa counties. Frost advis
However, our First Priority is always to protect the publics health, and the way that we do that is by preventing spread of this virus. Reporter today really is its bad those news, but it is a call to action. Its our time to act. And i know a lot of people feel like theyve done everything they can. Were asking those who have done everything you can to do a little more. Reporter still at this restaurant, they worried about how to keep the staff, that are like family, and as the weather gets worse, theyre hoping diners will still consider outdoor seating with heaters an option. We need people coming to the restaurant asks dining, and if we dont have that, we will not have that revenue, so it is hard. Reporter the new rules take effect tuesday at 12 01 a. M. Santa clara said they will be in the purple tier not long after, unless they get this surge under control. Contra costa county putting some of its coronavirus restrictions back in place because of a spike in days of virus. 50 team in
Of the United Kingdom has taken a major hit to cope with 1010 demick, leading to a flurry of borrowing not seen since. Or in times of peace, could the European Union be rolling out a Coronavirus Vaccine before 2021 . Straight ahead when to break down the potential for the move and where we stand amid the outbreak. And the later we do a deep dive into the state of the chinese fight against poverty. In fact, shown today, lets dive right in. And we need the program with the latest in the economic toll brought on by the kobe 1000 pandemic. The british economy is expected to contract by 11. 3 percent in 2020, according to the u. K. s office for budget responsibility. Now the o. B. Are also update its forecast for the next few years, predicting growth of 5. 5 percent in 2021 and 6. 6 percent in 2022. G. D. P. In the nation will not return to pretty coronavirus levels until the 4th quarter of, 2022. Now, according to the o. B. , our borrowing is set to reach 526000000000. 00 or roughly 19 per