Welcome to the august 19th twept twenty meeting of the San Francisco police commission. Thank you for bearing with us. We had a few technical difficulties. Could you please call roll. roll call you have a quorum. Also here tonight chief scott from the San Francisco Police Department. Commissioner is not on video tonight due to some Internet Connection issues. But he is here on audio and able to participate in the meeting. Members of the public who wish to make comments on items on the agenda can call the number on the screen. Access code. As always please mute your lines. Mutiny televisions or devices that could contribute to background noise. It becomes difficult to hear speakers when comepter commentee things that are not muted. I thinkyou said we have two minutes of Public Comment. If you could please call the first line item. Line item one. Reports to the commission. Provide overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco. Provide summary of plan, activities, and events. Any unplan
To participate in todays hearing. Members are reminded to keep p their video function on at all ible for hemsel theyre notot recognized by the chair. Ve the members are also reminded ey that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. To mute themselves after they r have finished speaking. Consistent with regulations, 96s astaff will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise an otherre embarrassments. Members are reminded that all house rules related to order ano decorum apply to this remote trn hearing. G this hearings entitled exposure notification and Contact Tracing, how ai helps localities open safety and researchers finn it pure. Statem i will now recognize myself for four minutes to give an openingc statement. Good morning. Todays hearing will focus on the essential trade offs that ry the covid19 pandemic is forcing upon us to make between life, liberty, privacy, and the pursuit of happiness. A and the r
Good news for a lot of folks. If baseball is as american as apple pie, it seems only fitting the owners want to restart the league on the weekend of july 4. Mlb owners have reportedly approved a proposal to have opening day on fourth of july weekend. The plan will now be presented to the Players Association on tuesday. There are still plenty of hurdles to clear but here are some key points. A 50 50 revenue split between owners and players, thats going to be a sticky proposition. Spring training would start in early june at the teams home ballparks rather than arizona and florida, the regular season would be cut down to 82 games in the postseason will expand from 5 to 7 teams in each league, the 30 clubs, five of which call California Home will follow the rules of their respective states. I talked to the commissioner of majorleague baseball and he said we want to anything thats not consistent with state guidelines so im not concerned about what they do, as long as is consistent with sta
Airlines ucsf cardiologist was returning home after treating covid19 patients in new york in one tweet he writes i guess united is relaxing their social distancing policy these days every seat full on the 7. 37 is it simply a another you know like i for united douglas kidd is the executive director of the National Association of Airline Passengers even before the coronavirus pandemic his organization petitioned for more space and safer flight he says because fewer people are flying new standards should be implemented right now. The health and safety of the passenger has to come first as a part of its social distancing policy united says theyve been limiting seat selections in all cabins so customers wont be able to select seats next to each other or middle seats where available. But as documented by doctor weiss his flight had lots of passengers the airlines are really taking a lot of measures i actually just take me to make sure answer high range aviation expert, an Airline Captain la
The university of washington kron fours noelle bellow joins us from our newsroom tonight with a closer look noel, pam and ken researchers at the universitys institute for Health Metrics and evaluation have been projecting the numbers nationally. And state by state based on a number of factors today at named california has one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths. Are going up more than researchers expected now if you take a look at this graph you can see that by june first the institutes per project 4,276 deaths in california one month after that 5,555 deaths and by august 4th. Theyre looking at 6,806 1086 deaths in california now thats a jump of 1420 deaths since the institutes previous projection now just yesterday. The state added 2,244 coronavirus cases and 64 related deaths about 900 of the new cases and 45 of the new deaths were reported in los angeles county, the. The institute is also tracking the nationwide deaths. The latest model now projecting 137,184 d