Though still awaits aprooul from the house of rep sentives. That vote expected tomorrow. Jobless claims surging above 3 million americans, far outpacing the record of 700,000 and also well above what economists were looking for around 1. 5 million unemployment claims and the virus itself remains front and center for wall street as italy reports more than 6,000 new cases, the most in five days, the worldwide total now shy of half a Million People wilfred. All of the sectors of the s p higher up 4. 7 . All higher, but one to keep an eye on is energy it has been the best performing. Its now towards the bottom. Still up by 4 oil prices slipped a lot this afternoon. Theyre down 7 , so well hope that doesnt drag the rest of the market lower weve got a huge lineup of gu guesting coming your way, ceo of General Mills, plus peter orszag whether he thinks the stimulus bill is enough to ease the pleading and well speak with the ceo of hertz about their program the give free rentals to new York Ci
Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that given the stayhome order issued yesterday by the mayor to reduce the spread of covid19, the board of supervisors will continue to meet and deliberate on essential action items during this time
Trying to find out a way of funding if we spread it out too thinly, but which could support advertising if our board approves. In the short run, we are making sure that we are eliminating driver renewal fees for the extent of the Health Emergency. Drivers can continue working out on the street without paying their renewal fees while were in this Health Emergency. Its the least that we can do in order to support our operators. Were also thinking about if we can waive the taxi fees for the next two fiscal years, given the huge impacts being felt by our taxi operators. Those are things under discussion outside of our budget but which we would likely do. Im going to shift my bicycle gear and move on and talk a little bit about the Golden State Warriors. During this last fiscal year the chase arena was open and we were successful in that opening because this agency partnered with the Golden State Warriors and provided excellent transit and Parking Management and curb management. One of the
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Violating a curfew is more than a 1000000000 people go under lockdown for 21 days over the pandemic. And spain has recalled its worst day yet of the corona virus pandemic with more than 700 new deaths and that means more people have died in italy in china in italy than in china where the virus began in the past 24 hours a number of deaths has surged to almost 3500 nearly 48000 people have been infected and only its lead has seen a greater loss of life lets go straight to mt however who is live for us in madrid and mark so we look to the death toll we hope to see a drop but no we have 700 new just in 24 hours and as i say anything greater loss of life. Yes named as you was saying according according to spanish officials 738 new this have been reported in just 24 hours these mean does means were only taking china and spain is becoming the 2nd contrie will wind with the highest death toll also in spain the number of people infected by corona virus has increased to a 20 percent to nearly 8