Transportation Authority Meeting for today, november 17th, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Britney milton. Ms. Millton, can you please make any announcements and then call the roll. Clerk yes. I will call the roll and then follow it up with my Public Comment announcement. Commissioner. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer present. Clerk commissioner present. Absent. Commissioner mar . Mar absent. Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk commissioner stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk commissioner walton . Supervisor walton present. Clerk commissioner yee. Supervisor yee present. Clerk im sorry . Ill now make an announcement oh, thank you. Commissioner haney present. I will now make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be available for each item on the this agenda, via telephone by calling 415 655000 41
City could reach the purple tier. The most restrictive tier by sunday good evening, everyone, thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis counties across the state that are in the purple tier will be forced to follow a limited but mandatory. Stay at home order and overnight curfew in the bay area that includes Sonoma Napa Solano contra costa alameda and santa clara counties are San Francisco and san mateo counties are in the slightly less restrictive bread here starting tomorrow night all non essential travel and gatherings are going to be banned in those counties between 10 00pm and 05 00am every day for one month and news of a possible economic rollback has some San Francisco business is obviously concern tonight, restaurant owners. Who typically have been serving customers past 10 00pm say another rollback they killed their business kron fours dan thorn live in north beach tonight with reaction there danny is wonder with this year of roller coasters how m
Reporter the president has suggested that maybe this news had been held back until after the election. Again, no evidence of that. The president elect, the biden transition team, is actually meeting with some of the drug makers this week to talk about these vaccines but what theyre not doing is meeting with the trump team, the government officials, to talk about distributing the vaccine. Developing it is one thing but getting it out to you, your neighborhood, your familiar si, your Doctors Office a differently. That cooperation is not happening while the president continues to challenge the results and not direct his administration to work with the biden team. Joe biden not getting intelligence briefs as the situation gets worse, we now know more than 11 Million People have contracted the virus. We are in a dangerous period, the most dangerous since 1918. We need to be talking to them as quickly as possible. Its great to have a vaccine but vaccines dont save lives. Vaccinations save li
Dr. Coal fox expects San Francisco could move to purple by then. A curfew would have to be implemented within 48 hours of that announcement. By the look of the citys latest case counts, we technically already qualify to be in that category. The third surge, there is no question. Its not a matter of if it will happen. It is happening. A stern warning from dr. Coal f colfax as covid is surging. What is really important is that curve, that steep slope of increasing cases. The 14day average of cases increased 152 since november 1st. Thats one of the highest spikes in the bay area. To put it in perspective, 217 new covid cases were reported in mid october. Nearly a month later, that number is 768. This rate of increase is higher than we experienced during our summer surge. On monday, San Francisco was safely in the red zone but todays data indicates the citys cases per capita is far past the threshold to be in purple. A surge that could overwhelm hospitals across the city that are already r
Approved. Plus stay at home as much as possible. Thats the message from l. A. County. The strict new rule about to take effect down south also a holiday tradition continues despite the pandemic. The major transformation they made to keep families safe and happy. We begin with breaking news in sacramento. A mall shooting leaves one person dead, another critically hurt. Sacramento police say they were called out to the ardent fair mall just after 6 00 tonight after reports of a shooting. It did happen in the mall, sent people running for safety. Some people stuck inside mall stores for hours. Turns out the mall was busy because there were a lot of black friday shoppers there. Police say it was not an active shooter scenario and the gunman was able to get away. At this point no suspect description has been released. Good evening, everyone. Even covid19 could not stop the day after thanksgiving shopping push. Black friday a go albeit with some modifications. That includes masks, shorter li