Technology, please keep your microphone on mute so we dont get feedback on everything. Id like to thank people who made this meeting possible. Our secretary, roberta boomer, along with shawn, art, jack from sfgtv, the staff at the board of supervisors, carolyn and sophia. A lot of people worked to make this happen at this unprecedented time. I will say to our staff, from jeff tumlin down through the ranks, the response has been remarkable, and well talk more about this as the meeting goes on, but i just want to say thank you. You guys are emblematic about this city. Clerk announcement of prohibition of sound producing meetings at this time. There is no prohibition at this time with respect to this meeting. Item 4, approval of the minutes. This is for the minutes of march 17 regular meeting. Okay. Very good. Board members, as is always, this has been circulated to us in advance. I assume there are no comments, so at this point, i will ask first if there is any Public Comment on item 4.
And fears grow over a potential Mental Health crisis triggered by the governments social distancing regulations. Welcome to r. T. U. K. The growth virus crisis is ramping up pressure on the Health Services the u. K. Death toll continues to rise and it comes amid reports of n. H. S. Workers suffering abuse with some becoming a target for muggers well for more on this on a shot it was dusty joins me now hi there shot is so pretty dramatic developments so its day 3 of the u. K. Wide lockdown a National State of emergency and the latest figures are quite stark now 1 more than 9500 people have contracted kovac 19 with the death toll at 465 which is up 43 in just the last 24 hours however on the surface it appears to be the smallest rise of the week but actually the government has moved when the time of death is a record it using a morning cutoff instead so potentially tomorrow morning we could actually see quite a spike now the n. H. S. Are treating this crisis as one that will get worse be
And we start with that breaking news story 2 people are believed to be dead and dozens have been evacuated after an explosion at an Apartment Building in the southern russian city of magnitogorsk this is on verified video believed to be from the scene which is circulating on russian social media the blast occurred on the 2nd floor of the 5 Story Building its believed to be a gas explosion although its not yet clear what caused this well bring you more on this story when we have more details. Well meanwhile here in the u. K. The government has published details of a new Police Powers designed to help enforce a social distancing measures thats as the u. K. Coronavirus death toll continues to rise well for more on this r. T. U. K. Shadi and was dashed he joins me now hi there shoddiest so what are these new police plans so its 3 days on since Boris Johnson of course announced the official u. K. Wide lockdown scenario and the idea is to get people to stay at home to protect the n. H. S. An
Protection, Transportation Security Administration, and a secret service answer questions from the House Homeland Security committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of Homeland Security use of a facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting to examine department of Homeland Security use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The government use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, finger prints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics includes dna, voice pattern and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen forum of Biometric Technology as facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the
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