Mike has a look at the morning commute. It is very light. The volume at least. You can go at speed. A quick look at the north bay coming through the curve, the es ess curve, moving smoothly into the Golden Gate Bridge without a problem were at speeds. Be careful, you do have company as you see. The u. S. Just hit a record of the highest oneday total deaths from the coronavirus as the numbers continue to rise, right now the u. S. Has more than 163,000 confirmed cases. March 1st, there were only 75. At the same time Big Companies are now pitching in to address the shortage of supplies. Today in the bays tracie potts is live from her home near washington this morning with a look at the challenges theyre facing. Good morning, tracie. Marcus, good morning. The president says its everyones patriotic duty to do everything they can to fight this virus and for Corporate America that means focusing less on profits right now and more on production. With the coronavirus expected to peak by easter,
Chairman heinicke all right. Good morning good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I will call this meeting of the San Francisco m. T. A. To arrested. I will read some preliminary rules after the roll is called. Call the roll. [roll call] clerk thank you. You have a quorum. Chairman heinicke all right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. It sounds great right now, but if you want to speak, unmute the phones and let us know. For this meeting, we would like public to participate remotely about writing
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Weekend. Meteorologist lisa argent. Good morning, lisa. Good morning to you, liz. Our storm impact scale will stay with us the next several days. Its a level one. Right now its pretty quiet out there. Weve had showers overnight. For the weekend, waves of showers, gusty winds, chance of a thunderstorm tomorrow with some hail. Mt. Hamilton could see some snow. Snow levels going down to around 3,000 feet. The sierra there and the activity to the north of us as we go in closer to the bay area. Its only been light showers from novato, highway one, highway 12, herk lease. In the mountains, temperatures are in the low 30s. A mixture of freezing rain and snow. 44 in cloverdale and this morning is the only morning well say we are warmer than we were 24 hours ago because the trend will be for cooler and wetter as we go through the day today. 9 00, its raining. Rain increases by noon, heavier in the east and south by, less in the north bay. Liz . Lisa, thank you. New developments on the coronavir
And i dont understand why would m. T. A. Take on a new project like fixing up pal street if theres really a question of revenue to support the full m. T. A. Programs. Thats my points. Herbert weiner, theres some issues i wish to bring up. Our bicycles and scooters on the sidewalk being cited. If so, how much revenue is being collect collected . I havent heard this statistic and i believe this is very important. Also, on towing, every time i see a tow truck, i think of the hangmans noose. Thank you. My name is anne stooldryer. I direct the financial district project in the office of the San Francisco treasurer. We worked in collaboration with the sfmta and Many Community groups to create the low income discounts for towing, booting, and payment plans. I really want to thank the m. T. A. Staff who are always open to being in dialog with us at the financial Justice Project and also Community Groups. I want to speak in support of the reduced towing fee for people struggling with homelessne