Hundreds of covid19 patients. A to go when it comes to testing for covid19. The governor says the state is working now to speed up the testing process. All of this comes as no testing sites are opening around the bay area. Cristina rendon own joins us with more on that story. Reporter oakland and San Francisco each opened testing sites today with a focus on frontline workers. Both cities say we need to take care of the people who take care of us. I apologize for the technical errors here but we can tell you that in oakland today, a drive through testing site opened at the Kaiser Convention Center parking lot on 10th st. And that is only for frontline workers. People who are in direct care jobs, so we are talking about those who work in healthcare, people who work at homeless shelters, and people who work in the food service industry. Again, that is by appointment only and you have to have insurance and it is not open to the public. Here is more from what we learned today. The city of o
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
The weather is supposed to be nice before it turns over the weekend. Mostly sunny and breezy and we find out more in detail about the weather coming up. Me, right and garcia anhere we are in the new normalout it i w away for the family for a quick four day trip having a blast. I touched on this last week. Flipping on the old pictures of your phone. It seems like a year ago. Im thinking of news events that have been two months ago and it feels like three years ago. Im all about routine and speaking of phones we use them to stay connected and the liver than a halfhour of us. Every night we have a standing facetime call and some of us are eating dinner. My sister has a darling baby we love to gush over and these phones are more critical staying together because we cant just drive down and say a quick hello anymore expect when they do th uill keep their distance. We are getting used to this and the wonder social distancing will take a while. I dont think everyone is having a big hug party.
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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