I have the pleasure of chairing the committee today. Many of you know that chair bernal serves as representative pelosis chief of staff. I also want to thank the commissioners. We have a fairly full agenda, but everyone submitted questions on many of the presentations, and weve gotten very thorough and thoughtful answers from staff, so hopefully that means we can go through our agenda in a very efficient way and we can go to our different activities of the evening. First item is the minutes. Are there any additions or corrections on the part of the commissioners . Okay. Any comments from the public . Clerk if youre on the Public Comment line, please press star, three if youd like to make a comment on the minutes. No comments, commissioners. Okay. So is there a motion to approve the october 20, 2020, minutes of the commission . So moved. Second. Can we have a roll call vote . Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk just for everyone to know, if the if youre not speaking, then please mute yourselve
Lamar williams, and mr. President and madam clerk, i would like the opportunity to share a few words on mr. Williams after supervisor walton did his in memoriam as he has deep ties to both district five and district 10. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead. Clerk thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. While i didnt have the honor of knowing tui, so many people that i care about cared so much about her, and i just wanted to express my condolences to her husband and family as well as to our colleague, sonny angulo. What a tremendous loss. In addition, im introducing a resolution today, urging Governor Newsom and the department of Public Health to prioritize californias Public School educators for phase one vaccine access. In the early stages of this pandemic, San Francisco and other communities across the state closed schools to slow the spread of the coronavirus across our community. Schools responded by instantly switching to Online Learning
Using Curbside Pickup here in the bay area some stores did not see the large crowds that were anticipated, but that depends on where you did your shopping today kron fours gayle ong talked to shoppers in walnut creek. She joins us now live with more gayle. Vicki and can i actually spoke to a manager at lululemon where the wait time was about 45 minutes and part of the reason was because they were following Covid Protocols and up staying under the Maximum Capacity to avoid those lines Health Experts are encouraging people to stay home and shop online get your deals that way at least one person i spoke to got that message. Looking at the lines and thinking were glad that will be done most of our shopping online on black friday lines out the door at Broadway Plaza in walnut creek still stores doing their best to make sure everyone stay safe in the age of covid19 theyre doing a very good job with the social distancing a lot of people Wearing Masks out here a different story in the morning
Plainfield, illinois. Towe take you live now california, where governor gavin newsom is updating the state on coronavirus. Governor newsom we are experiencing all across the united states. To put this in perspective, our ofen day average is north 14,000, 14,600 seven, to be precise. Day case number is roughly in line with that sevenday average, 14,034. To put that in perspective, when you look back at the peak we experienced at the beginning of this pandemic, the seven day previous week was to1, compared to the close 15,000 cases we are now experiencing over seven days. We anticipate, based on what occurred over the course of the last number of days, that within a number of weeks, onetwo weeks based on thanksgiving activity and all the efforts to educate people against activities and anherings, that we will see increase in cases. It is important to put in perspective california as a state visavis other states just for purposes of comparison. People have inquired and asked how we are do
The start of the week, a huge. Otation towards value the s p up by 0. 6 . The pound is positive. The departure of dominic ,ummings at 10 downing street going at the end of the year, setting up expeditions that may be a brexit reset and a deal as possible. Interestingly enough, we are seeing a continuing move in what we are seeing in the bond market. Bonds are bid today. He was there moving back down, unsurprising and what we heard from Christine Lagarde yesterday. More broadly, the virus definitely back in charge. The vaccine news at the beginning of the week, the virus news at the end of the week. Alix such a great way of framing that. Lets break down the virus issues more. The global coronavirus case is now topping 52. 9 million, deaths climbing to 1. 3 million. Focus is on europe and how it is addressing the virus. Joining us is Bloomberg Opinion columnist ferdinando juliano. The story in the u. S. Is that you guys are doing targeted lockdowns, and it is working, and the cases are l