A first of all, let me begin by saying what a wonderful city im so luke for the mayor of a great city like San Francisco you know offer the years when i was city administrator i was working with then dominating to make sure that a city we also be prepared and read for the biggest disasters and i often used the term i continue uss it is another Internal Revenue magnify this great city if were ready then the words like recovery and reliantcy will be common words we use everyday where our departments or nonprofit organizations working the community or volunteers that by the constantly try to recruit and today, i want to say to you that we dont have to be waiting for big disasters on a citywide basis to happen before you we oozed use those word were challenged by disasters just as big for small families as and face certainly things certainly for the last two months well have 4 major fires in the city some of them as high as three or four alarms theyve effected theyve had the effect of us l
To make sure our Fire Department is ready for all those disasters and, of course their appear on the on the ground at the first instance our director of Human Resources agency and many of our City Departments are here to join me supervisor wiener and other members of the board of supervisors are here who have been working hard with me on forecasting what we do and can do better as a city when it comes to disasters and all of them working together with me now even more members of our innocence social Services Agencies in the community were practicing all the time how to do better to help our residents effected by those disasters well, im looking at a very, very good group of what weve termed Good Samaritans in our city and this means a lot to me the people standing in front of you are today people that i believe have hearts of gold and that im proud of their bold actions for our resident and neighbors and entire community that needed them as a special time im sure youre aware of our cit
That concludes business for us today colleagues thank you very muchment we are adjourned. A first of all, let me begin by saying what a wonderful city im so luke for the mayor of a great city like San Francisco you know offer the years when i was city administrator i was working with then dominating to make sure that a city we also be prepared and read for the biggest disasters and i often used the term i continue uss it is another Internal Revenue magnify this great city if were ready then the words like recovery and reliantcy will be common words we use everyday where our departments or nonprofit organizations working the community or volunteers that by the constantly try to recruit and today, i want to say to you that we dont have to be waiting for big disasters on a citywide basis to happen before you we oozed use those word were challenged by disasters just as big for small families as and face certainly things certainly for the last two months well have 4 major fires in the city
8 00 in new york city. It is saturday, november 21st. Its good for you to be with us. Im victor blackwell. Good morning, everyone. Im amara walker in for christi paul. This is a big step. Yes, were closer to the Coronavirus Vaccine but also consistently breaking records for daily hospitalizations and new cases. Just yesterday, the u. S. Added 195,000 new cases. Thats a record for one day. A second straight day of a record. Less than a week after we crossed to 11 million cases, the u. S. Is now close to 12 million confirmed cases. The most anywhere in the world. But here is some positive news, pfizer and biontech have applied for emergency use authorization for their Coronavirus Vaccine. In the meantime, we are seeing long lines for covid tests ahead of thanksgiving. The cdc is pleading with people to celebrate safely, and is recommending not to travel. Cnns Polo Sandoval is joining us live from john f. Kennedy International Airport in new york. And weve been saying this all morning, th
Video from earlier the fire broke out around two p. M. Firefighters seem to have gotten control of the fire around three p. M. This is the corner of delaware and 35th avenue here in Oakland Laurel district. The fire also started several spot fires along 5 80. Were told that three lanes of westbound traffic on 5 80. Are closed as fire crews worked to stop the spread. Now the cause of the fire is still under investigation. We have been told that about 7500 residents are currently without power in the area. Some of the residents we spoke to say there was a homeless encampment nearby. This area has seen a similar fire two years ago. That was really bad, you know . I was scared of house being burned out. You know, the in law unit. Its our backhaus. Kind of a man came. It literally burned down. Its i mean, the back of it is burned completely. The walls gone, and i saw them spraying water through the whole thing. Again four homes destroyed no reports of any injuries except for the one firefig