I well and welcome the Hudson Institutes dialogue foreignpolicy series. Im walter need your fellow at Hudson Institute is my pleasure to be joined by a Sabrina Carter the chief Foreign Policy advisers for the Vice President and bank and former deputy secretary of state and deputy of National Secretary National Security adviser. During his career mr. Thomas lane has held a number of distinguished government positions. He was National Security adviser to Vice President biden during io bomb administration but also served as the senate staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008 and the National Security Council Staff during the clinton administration. During his time at the state department mr. Blinken played an instrument to world the diplomatic effort to counter ice is pretty worked on the global refugee crisis and rebalance of asia. His a contributing opinion writer for the near times and the Global Affairs analyst for cnn. Its good to see you and thank
Please standby. June 19, 2020, lafco. Good morning, everyone. This meeting will come to order. This is the june 19, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco local Agency Formation commission. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the body. Our clerk is here. I would like to thank madam clerk, do we have a name from sfgovtv . I think you are on mute, madam clerk. No, i am sorry. We did not receive the sfgovtv name. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Do you have any announcements. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners, City Employees and public, city hall is closed. Members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local, state federal orders and directives. Commission members will attend through Video Conference and participate to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the numb
Good afternoon, and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors today. Im the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by dean preston. Do you have any announcements. Yes, due to the covid19, to protect the city, the board of supervisors legislative chamber rooms are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stayathome order, declarations and directive. They will attend via Video Conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv a streaming the number across the stream. Comments are available via phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting id is 1455134299. Again, thats 1455134299. Press pound and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted. When your item comes up, press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quie
Governor would loosen restrictions. Not until yesterday did we know how that would be tied to Health Metrics and because most bay area counties are still having rising infection rates, Health Officers are sticking with these stricter local restrictions. While there is pushback, theyre also okay with waiting a little longer like this owner in napa. Always a good thing for the economy, but theres some mixed feelings, of course, too. Are we going to be able to be safe . Is there enough testing . Thats the big question. Reporter you were talking about that clarity, marcus. In order to meet the guidelines for lifting restrictions counties must meet testing and tracing requirements, they must have two weeks with no covid19 deaths. There must be a plan for health care to handle a surge in case infection rates spike again. Counties must provide for testing. Infection rates are lower and social distancing easier because it is a rural area. Theyre following the states guidelines. Well talk about
Out about 30 minutes ago and it does not look good. Its the worst in history. Keep in mind that number does not include workers who are furloughed. The impact is even bigger. New this morning unemployment now stands at 14. 7 . This is the worst since the Great Depression. Scott mcgrew is watching this story unfold and watching the futures board ahead of the opening bell coming up at 6 30. A live analysis in about ten minutes. Cnbc reports the facility will open with limited operations. Its not clear if Alameda County will try to intervene. The governors orders should supersede county restrictions. Bob redell will join us for a live report. Happening today three bay area counties will partially reopen. Napa, sonoma and solano counties and the bulk of the bay area is Still Holding fast to phase one, not moving ahead to phase two. The latest order leaving a lot of Business Owners wondering if theyre good to go. Today in the bays kris sanchez is live for us in san jose to break all of this