State Health Officials are responding, from austin this is 50 minutes. I cannot tell if youre ready or not. Its good to go. All right, very good i want to thank everybody for being here today, we are here today to let texas know about the abundant Hospital Capacity that exist to treat texans who may test positive for covid19. Now understand the context that were dealing with, we are in the middle of a short period of time where all of us have to coexist with covid19 and the reality is, covid19 still exist in texas, it exists in the United States as well as across the entire world. This is going to continue to be the case for at least a few more months until we have medicines that are able to treat people who test positive for covid19 and until we have medicines that can prevent people from getting covid19. Remember this, go back to march and april earlier this year when there was a nationwide effort to slow the spread of covid19 so we would be able to prevent hospitals fr being overrun
President yee good afternoon and welcome to the june 30, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. Before we move into the meeting, i would ask that all participants please turnoff your camera. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record all the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during the pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate in the board meeti meeting through online conference as though present inperson in the chambers. We will receive your written correspondence and make it part of
A propaganda war amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and easing lockdowns once again you plans from britains Prime Minister to resolve the economy during a coronavirus. And sporting huge so support for the African American race driver who was the target of a racist act nascar drivers pushing his cart at the front of the open for mondays race in alabama. So were starting in yemen this hour with the who the rebels say they have launched what is their biggest military operation against saudi arabia yet h. Drones and 3 Ballistic Missiles have been 5 towards the kingdom since monday and the who to say they plan to launch even more for their part the Saudi Coalition fighting in yemen says it has intercepted a Ballistic Missile that was heading towards riyadh a Coalition Spokesman says that attack was launched from yemens capital sanaa towards civilian targets in the capital. In response to the continued and just blockade and brutal aggression on the great people of yemen and our gre
Yes, there is one final caller. I will unmute them now. Clerk thank you and welcome, caller. Caller hi. My name is tom angston and a Small Business owner in the sunset and i have lived here for 20 plus years. Im calling in support of the property at 1420 taraval. I drive by the taraval corridor often and i know that when i go by a building it screams to me what a gorgeous property that should be preserved. I think that putting in a multitenant building fits in with the properties that are around it. I understand the concerns of the other neighbors, but development is common in the city and we want to keep moving the city forward. As someone who is looking to invest in this community currently and conditions that were facing, i see the businesses close left and right in my neighborhood. And so if they want to push this city forward and invest and bring in jobs and construction and bring more housing into the city and modernize the city, im all for that. And im for supporting the local b
Will try to incorporate any of those questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we discussed are allowing unscrupulous actors to sell unsafe, illegal, and overpriced medical equipment during this pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across the social media platforms. This one is not a new problem. Social media platforms continue to allow these dangerous disinformation during covid 19 pandemic, and in so doing, they expose just how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role they play and continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theories make , confusingon worse people, distracting people. Social media platforms have the technological know how and resources to fix it, that they but they have little incentive to do so. Weve got a distinguished panel these problems. People on the front lines who are dealing with these issues directly and legislators who are trying to do something about it from two countries. First, a look at some