Compliance under the 2050 Nuclear Agreement u. S. Will also come back to the deal. The u. S. Has temporarily frozen arms sales to saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Antony blinken says its typical for new administrations to review pending arms sales dont trump said mr a should have been doing deals down to the wire including one for 50 f. 35. 00 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin to the u. A. E. To a biden has signed executive orders to address the Climate Crisis it includes cutting fossil fuel subsidies and pause in oil and gas leases on federal land biden says Climate Change is at the center of u. S. National security and Foreign Policy. And just like we need a unified National Response to cope with 19 we desperately need a unified National Response to the Climate Crisis because there is a Climate Crisis we must keep we must lead Global Response because neither challenge can be met as secretary kerry has pointed out many times by the United States alone we know what to do we just got to do
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Fog and overcast weather to start tuesday. The air quality has been on everyones mine. Smoke from the fires is hovering over much of the bay area. This brings, on the seventh consecutive day of unhealthful air. Doctors warn about the Health Effects of the smoke. This is especially for older people. Cloth and surgical masks dont filter smoke. They are still urging people to wear them because of the pandemic. I was looking here at the apple i used to see the air quality. The air quality is much different in different cities. In oakland, it is much better than it is right now in San Francisco. Right, i live in the east bay. Air quality has been rough. My brother lives up in el cerrito. Things have been better for him there. I always check to see what my parents and siblings are going through. People who have asthma, the elderly, people who have trouble breathing, even on a good day, they are the ones who are required to be careful now. Thats a good time to remember, i mean, about what the
Gatheringpeople doing essential work and need to work in close proximity, we need to have that happen. Lets not gather for things that could otherwise be delayed or be done on zoom or in other virtual ways. With regard to specific out breaks, i cant comment on drawing conclusions from the gathering at dolores park except to say thats behavior that were very concerned about it. Our message continue continues o not gather unless absolutely essential. Do not gather out side your immediate household. If you do, wear those face masks and use good hygiene and socially distance when possible. Look, when i walk or drive around the city, we know this is still not happening to the degree it needs to be. We need to hit that 80 mark. Lets go for 90 or one hundred. We need to crush this curve. Thank you. The next set of questions are from the associated press. How have the states problems with cal ready effected San Francisco effective reproductive rate. Its based on the number of hospitalizations.
You may address the board once per agenda item for two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. [roll call] president tsen here. Director dunlop here. Vice president lai here. Director richardson here. We do have a quorum. President tsen excellent. Before we begin, hello, directors and members of the public. Thank you so much for joining us today. I am sorry that we still to conduct our meetings by teleconferencing. And i ask that everybody be patient as there is a lag time sometimes to hear the Public Comment. But our able secretary kate austin will guide us through the process. I would like to start the meeting with a quote, whose life and words inspired so many of us. He wrote a letter which was published and i quote from that letter. He says, ordinary people with extraordinary visions can redeem the soul of america by getting into what i call good trouble, necessary trouble, building and participating in the democratic process are key. Democracy is not a state. It is not an act. Each