Questions after this meeting can be directed to dem press at sf dot org. Thank you for your time and that concludes todays press conference. thank this is a remoteo conferencing. Due to the governors order and the sixteenth proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency. The covid 19 emergency the Fire Commissions meeting at city hall is closed and will convene remotely. You can kawch a watch at sffd d. You can call and enter access code 146 7836196. Item one, roll call. roll call commissioner Tony Rodriguez has been excused. Item two general Public Comment. The general public can address any matter for up to two minutes that does not show up on the agenda. Commissioners are not to answer or enter debate into any speaker. The lack of response is not necessarily in agreement with or opposition of any Public Comment. is there any Public Comment at this time . there is no Public Comment. okay. Thank you. Public comment is hold on one moment. Did you want to make Public Comment
Over 7,000 new cases yesterday. The day before, over 5,000 new cases. The day before that, over 4,000 new daily cases. Were talking about a trend in the past week of many, many more new cases than we saw in april or may, so that is disturbing. And part of the governors message is that if we dont reverse this, he may have to shut down the economy again. So walk us back, just as the bay area economies are starting to reopen, in fact, the governor pointed to california during the News Conference in the bay area in particular saying that we were later to reopen, but now were starting to see the impact just in the last few days and the past week of numbers starting to go up. Not just the number one cases, that can be attributed to testing but also the test Positivity Rate is over 5 . That is bad. Tat means not just more people are getting tested but the people getting tested more are turning up positive. So we will talk with Alameda Countys Public Health officer about the implications of al
Grandfather. [applause] he founded the store known as book row just around the corner from here a he defied the odds by surviving were all other 48 bookstores were shuttered it was then passed on to my late father to go to the store or to scale and popularity he never that was possible. Now im the owner they said its hard to run the store in this digital age. I want to thank youou to the book Loving Community and this audience for helping us not only survive but thrive through the ages. [applause] it is impossible to read tonights book watergate girl without drawing a parallelel to todays headlines at the cross roads of the watergatecandal there was a young lawyer barely 30 years old and the only woman on the team to prosecute the highest ranking white house official. A failing marriage losing her house and privacy invaded she fought against the sexist preconceptions to receive the respect afforded to the fale counterparts tonighthts author is msnbc legal and is beginning her career as
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