[roll call] is commissioner safai present at this meeting . [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you, madam secretary. Motion is awarded to vote whether to disclose discussions held in the San Francisco administrative code section 67. 1a. At this time i make a motion. Motion not disclosed. Ill second this. Moved and seconded. We will take Public Comment at this time. Madam secretary. Please open the phone lines. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 408 4189388. Access code 1467135208. Press pound and press pound again. If you havent already done so, please dial star 3 to lineup to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Please state your name and make your comment. You will have the standard two minutes to provide your comments. Please let us know if there are any callers. Madam secretary, there are no callers. Thank you. Hear
His miserable life in jail. Right now kpix at 7 00 and streaming bay area, the pandemic showing no signs of slowing down a california and a new record tonight for the deadliest day yet. Good evening, im Elizabeth Cook im ellen martin. Health officials reported 149 deaths in just 24 hours yesterday. That is up 23 from the previous high. California also saw more than 7000 new cases. For those who think that now people are getting it and no one is dying, that is very misleading. It is fundamentally untrue. Californias numbers are reporting, 7349 yesterday are testament to that point. Just how deadly and devastating this disease continues to be. San quentin state prison as one of the largest outbreaks in to take action. They want to see better conditions inside the prison and for more inmates to be released. This is not about oh, they did a crime, they are humans. You do not have the right to put lives in jeopardy. Nothing less than the worst Prison Health screwup in state history. People
There. Reporter on thursday, the first person from Contra Costa County died from the coronavirus good this person was in her 70s and had a pre existing medical condition. The author recently traveled to europe. The Health Officer wouldnt release more details than that. We do expect the numbers of cases and dust to go up before they start to go down. Reporter contra costa Health Officer said there are 42 cases of coronavirus in the company and they are expanding tests every single day. He says they are preparing a hold order to prepare positive and negative test to be reported. At that point, we will have better information about the total number of testing that is going on. Reporter right now, most testing is being done in private labs. The countys Public Health lab is performing about 4100 tests a day but that is a small fraction of the total number of tests being done. Weeks ago, the county also started identifying available ventilators and reporting out to the state and federal gove
People from encampments into permanent housing. Ive been really upset because when i first got here it was deplorable conditions. In the stair center . Yes. It seems to be a glorified homeless encampment. There was so much drugs being used and the doors were slamming every two minutes you cant sleep because they are up all night in and out of the buildings. James says he moved into the stair center in september. During his two months there he says the building has gone a full week without hot water. Had things that didnt work, flooded bathrooms, broken washers and dryers and fire extinguishers that were more than six months overdue for inspection. Doesnt feel safe . No. Is it clean in there . No. That is why it was so deplorable. Bathrooms were disgusting. James said the only suannapeblo t en rmthe firsg t was in usincoonnci when he went to move in, he found out he was going to have a roommate. Someone he had never met. You cant hold it against me. It was rented to me as a single room.
Now at noon, beto o rourke in the bay area. The democratic president ial hopefuls stop at a cannabis dispensary. Im kenny choi. Im michelle griego. Kpix 5s an anne makovec is live. This has been a matt as an issue of racial injustice. We know that americans across race and different backgrounds and ethnicities use marijuana and have used Illegal Drugs at roughly the same rate but only some americans are more likely than other american to be arrested to it. Reporter orourke met with pot Business Leaders at blunts and more. The owner won a cannabis business license under the equity program. This is important for people to come and talk to hear from us what is going on. Reporter orourkes plan would expunge pot possession records and help businesses use banks and impose a new tax, part going to support reentry into society for those in prison for pot possession. The criminal code in this country has forever, as long as we have been a country, been used to keep some people down by law. Repo