Staff members from sfmta on what could be a critical component of this threepart plan. Engineering, education and enforcement. And a key role that sfmta can play on the engineering component. As an example of this, last year the board of supervisors was each granted 100,000 budget discretionary funding Budget Allocation for our office. And we used a portion of ours to fund the first ever pilot on sixth street where we know we have the number 1 and number 3 top collisions here in s. Were able to implement something quickly because we know that the longterm design process will take years including being able to find funding. We were able after that unfortunate death [speaker not understood] were able to move quicker on doing a bike lane pilot on folsom street. So, were asking in the near term to be able to fund through the budget process lowcost pilot projects in areas where we know that the road design will not come is not enough. We are actually ahead of new york city in the sense we a
We will ask you a question. Keep going. Hows that . We can understand what youre saying. I love being on the other side. [laughter] we did get some feedback from the director as well as Staff Members from sfmta on what could be a critical component of this threepart plan. Engineering, education and enforcement. And a key role that sfmta can play on the engineering component. As an example of this, last year the board of supervisors was each granted 100,000 budget discretionary funding Budget Allocation for our office. And we used a portion of ours to fund the first ever pilot on sixth street where we know we have the number 1 and number 3 top collisions here in s. Were able to implement something quickly because we know that the longterm design process will take years including being able to find funding. We were able after that unfortunate death [speaker not understood] were able to move quicker on doing a bike lane pilot on folsom street. So, were asking in the near term to be able t
Shutting workers. I think it helps to underscore the catastrophic effect this pandemic is having here on the american economy, but we are seeing that repeated in other countries around the world. And just to put in context for you, when you look back at 2008s recession in america, there were roughly 9 millionjobs lost. Now america, there were roughly 9 million jobs lost. Now we are talking about 10 million injust two weeks. The figures are staggering, when it comes to europe, the continent is very badly hit with the coronavirus. Talk us through how europe is comparing . Italy and spain are obviously the two countries that economists are talking about the most as having been the epicentre of europes coronavirus pandemic. In italy, the numbers people are talking about again, to benchmark it to the 2008 recession, which is what many people still remember, they are saying this could be two times worse than what that was like for italy. It gives you a sense of scale of the depth of the prob
Breaking News Coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. We are standing by for todays Coronavirus Task force briefing from the white house. Well see if it is a little shorter considering that some people are going to be having a celebration of passover tonight. This briefing is happening as President Trump knows his democratic opponent in november in an election we have to assume will be in part at least a referendum on his handling of the Coronavirus Crisis will be joe biden. Now that Bernie Sanders has officially dropped out of the president ial race. We expect the president will get asked about that today and hell probably do some predictable attempts at stirring the pot inside the Democratic Party but todays briefing also comes as the death toll in this country now 400,000 cases reported. New york is reporting its highest single day death toll of this pandemic, 779. The House Oversight Committee Just released these documents it claims shows the federal government has distributed just a
Word, good evening. I think people who sit in these chairs are aware of how we can be thrown. There is various ways we can be thrown. One is the oneword answer. Thats the last thing we expect from any guest especially politicians and so, it was especially delightful to watch you fielding a oneword answer from senator Elizabeth Warren on would she accept the Vice President ial nomination in the last hour. Do you mind, rachel, if we show that to america again during this hour complete with your reaction to it . Of course. I mean, i will say, it is a humbling thing. Part of the thing with the remote studios is we have a little more of a delay. Its a little more awkward for our satellite interactions with anybody but when she just said the one word that she said and i was like oh, thats it. Okay, right. It was probably not my finest, smoothest tv host moment but yeah, play it ad nauseam. It was actually smoother than the recreation you just did of it but well let the audience judge in this