Do we have any announcement. Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners City Employees and the public city hall is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local and state federal orders, declarations and directives. Commission members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgov tv. Com are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments to speak are available via phone by calling 4156550001. Then pound and then pound again. When connected you will hear the meet discussion and in listen mode only. When your item come up, dial star three to be added to the speaker line. Best practice is speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio
We been an unbiased resource to advance knowledge and understanding and an important part of our work is to serve as a resource for reporters and journalists. Today i am honored to welcome back our special guest doctor Anthony Fauci who as Everybody Knows has been at the epicenter of solving every Infectious Disease challenge of the lasttwo decades. Doctor fauci the last time we spoke it was 2018 and we were recognizing 100 years since the 1918 pandemic with the past two vaccinesand today where and another precipitous moment in history. Were glad science has evolved since 1918 standards and could not be more honored you are here to explain the latest science and the path to hopefully a Coronavirus Vaccine and to be here to answer the questions from the reporters so thank you so much. Im going to turn it over for your opening remarks now. Thank you sarah and its a great pleasure to be with you today to address the breakfast healthcare reporters by the alliance and health policy. It was
Please, send your proposal requests to people who are capable of doing the work well. We will now hear from josh klipp. Can you hear me. Does commissioner swig have a question . You are on mute. Let me unmute you. I think id like to interrupt the process, please. That was a very important point. I need to ask a question to mr. Buck about pruning. Yes, we have heard redundantly that its a low cost bid process. Mr. Buck. And i never built a bridge before would i get award the bid, probably not. Its the same level of Due Diligence on contractors doing or pruning throughou throughout. This is chris buck. We absolutely have those requirements, they have a contract license and they possess a certified or borrist credential so we have not have anyone bid on contracts. They can bid on them but if we were not satisfied with their qualifications they would be disqualified. Is we have customers that have been maintaining their own trees for decades and we have to have contractors who can prune th
On homelandttee security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on examining the National Response to the coronavirus pandemic. Without objection, the chair is optimized to declare [indiscernible] at any point. Today, the committee is meeting to examine our National Response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. This hearing comes at a critical moment. The number of coronavirus cases is surging, topping 58,000 per day for the first time on july 1, and setting alarming records with new cases over the past weeks. Dr. Anthony fauci recently warned that u. S. Cases could double to 100,000 per day if current outbreaks are not contained, putting the entire country at risk. As infections threaten to spiral out of control, President Trump has downplayed the impact of covid19, calling 99 of cases totally harmless, even as more than 130,000 americans have died, and many more have become seriously ill. Just this week, he falsely claimed the u. S. Coronavirus deat
Including those who were here during the 911 attacks and h one n one epidemic was surprised by the situation with the coronavirus it was unprecedented even for the. Story this hour the polish president narrowly secures another term for a tight race but there are claims that neighboring germany has been meddling with voters minds. And the decades old mystery of the deaths of 9 hikers in russia Ural Mountains investigators say they may have finally establish just how those men really died. Other good afternoon from russian this morning the 13th of july kevin 0 in here with the latest from the r. T. International World News Center for you this hour. A 1st a chilling echo of the George Floyd Killing which led to risk. Seargent black lives matter riots new videos emerged showing another officer restraining a man on the ground by leaning on his neck the Police Department says it was because the man was behaving erratically it happened in the state of pennsylvania where investigation is now u