Board will not take any formal action but looking forward to peoples comments and questions. Any people on the line, moderator . You have seven questions remaining. Chair borden okay, our first speaker, please. Caller hello. My name is joel kamisher, a School Crossing guard and a member of the sfciu 10 to 1 bargaining committee. We have been trying to talk about not outsourcing people to protect the city workers and im hearing that discussion about the flaggers and the pedestrian monitors. I wonder if we could use our own workforce, the parking control people and the crossing guards instead of having the contractors hire private people. I realize that the flaggers might have their own union, so maybe thats a problem. But im hoping that we can do other things to reduce the need of contract people to prevent layoffs . Thank you. Chair borden thank you, next speaker, please. You have six questions remaining. Caller hello, members of the board, my name is Hector Jimenez and im with the loc
Department said they were following up on several reports of missing people in the fire zones. More than 77,000 other people are still evacuated from their homes. They are spread out around the county. Jesse gary joins us from one of the Evacuation Centers at cabrio college. Jesse . Reporter frank, good afternoon to you. To a man, woman, and child, there is one fourletter word that carries with it a combination of hope, anticipation, and frustration. That word is home. For the evacuation people here with a destination, a universal destination that is cloaked in questions and uncertainty. Is it ever gonna end . You know, i want to go home. Reporter Boulder Creek evacuee Barbara Andrews echos sentiments shared many of the people chased from their homes by the czu mega fire. Santa cruz county has set up near lay dozen evacuation sites for families, their pets, and their animals. Since that first night, weve expanded considerably. Weve gotten a lot of good infrastructure going on here. Wer
9 00 p. M. For most of the bay area. So pretty much everyone except the immediate coastline under a heat warning or heat advisory as we head through the next several days. Due to the dangerous heat. Well talk about what you can expect specifically for your neighborhood coming up in a few minutes. Michelle . Mary, thank you. And due to the dangerous heat, state officials have issued a statewide flex alert for today and were all being asked to voluntarily conserve energy between 3 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Concord broke the record high yesterday at 101 degrees. We spotted some people taking advantage of the slightly cooler temperatures last night to get out and enjoy the plaza in downtown concord. Iethe day, an ice cream shop near the square had a line out the door. Its good. Its nicer out here than it is at home. Lets go downtown and get something to eat. When theres excessive pete like this theres a lot of air conditioning use and of course that drives up the electricity demand. Everyon
Wednesday night im Jonathan Mccall as you just heard from governor Gavin Newsome california saw more than 12,000 new cases of covid19 in a 24 hour period. Its the highest number since the pandemic began. California now has more than 409,000 confirmed cases surpassing new york state for the most in all of the United States, new york state though still leads the country with 32,000 covid19 deaths, even though new york state has a population half of californians. Here in the bay area we saw more than a 1000 new cases of covid 1913 new deaths overnight. Tonight local leaders are continuing to call on the public to do their part to keep the virus from spreading. We need people to be responsible to keep their distance from others to avoid gatherings in to wash their hands. San Francisco Mayor london breed now urging folks to continue to Work Together to stop the spread of coronavirus today she announced new ways to make testing for the virus a priority for the city as kron fours michelle kin
Part of the city with the ability to do about 500 tests each day we can slow the spread of covid19. We have occur before. And we must do it again. Lives are at stake. The citys Public Health director grant colfax says its getting harder for people to book appointments and the turnaround times for test results continue to vary anywhere from 3 to 10 days in San Francisco, their goal is to conduct at least 1800 tests per day in the past week theyve exceeded that by averaging more than 3200 a day the new test sites in appointment slots will increase the amount of tests the city is currently averaging by about 45 but mayor breed says shes still upset by the amount of people in the city not taking this seriously im really disappointed because what youre doing when you gather with when youre not wearing your mask, youre making our recovery longer. Youre making it more difficult for people to send their kids back to school in San Francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news here in the bay area we