Comment is closed. Vice president follansbee okay. On the motion to move the budget to the Mayors Office, all in favor . Opposed . Lets go into item 16. Clerk item 16 is the infert willi infertility benefit status update for blue shield of california, presented by shawn lovering. I would be remiss if i did not think, on behalf of did not thank, on behalf of blue shield, natalie, for all of her work and support. We are going to miss you. Next slide. Next slide. So were here today to give you an update on our efforts around infertility. It was brought to our attention last year that there were some issues, and were going to bring to your attention that we can fix things. [inaudible] when they added the Custom Benefits that you see on the right. Next slide. So we did a ton of research when this was brought to our attention, and we identified the following areas where we had gaps. Benefit authorization and identification process. We understand that infertility is a prepersonalize very pers
We have a quorum. Thank you, commissioner secretary would you mind make the announcements please. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and the department of Public Health and governor and mayor lifted restrictions on teleconferencing and being televised. For those watching theres a time lag. On behalf of the commission id like to extend our thanks to sfgov. Tv for their assistance. If you wish to make a Public Comment on an item dial 8882733658 code 3107452 and pound followed by found again. When Public Comment is given youll hear when it is your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. I will alert you when your time is expired. The instructions will be repeat. If you have not already done so, ill ask Commission Staff to mute their microphone to minimize background noise. Before i read the first item id like to let everybody know item 12 [reading item] has been pulled from the agenda. The first item of business is item 3 approval of minutes of june 9, 2020. Commission
Supported the livelihoods of locacals. More than 270,000 people in the area make their living fishing. But many of them are now facing a serious crisis. By the end of 2020, fishing here will be banned completely. A Chinese Government policy has restricted industrial fishing in the Yangtze River and its main tributaries for at least ten years. The fishing ban was put in place due t to overfishing and Water Pollution caused by y economic develelopment. The catch here has shrunk here to onefifth what it was in the 1950s. And more than 90 aquatic species are now at risk of extinction. The finless porpoise is one of them. Standing at the top of the food change in the Yangtze River, this species is symbolic of the Natural Environment there. 30 years ago, 2,700 finless porpoises lived in the water. Now, only around a third of that number remain. Local fishermen are desperately searching for a new way to make ends meet. The fishermen are caught between saving the environment and saving themsel
Until more studies done in the meantime the federal Drug Administration is launching a parallel investigation looking at the supply chain. Theyre also trying to find exactly what is causing people to get sick live in the newsroom. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Thank you President Trump is taking aim at california and the bay area this time over the homeless crisis even asserting the problem is so bad that used needles are making their way into the bay, however, officials at the San Francisco, Public Utilities commission explain why a drug needle reaching the bay. Its highly unlikely kron fours Haaziq Madyun has the story. Used drug needles flowing in tof San Franciscos. Grades and thats what President Donald Trump says is happening in connection to the citys ongoing homeless crisis that the president called did tremendous pollution and warned that the Us Environmental Protection Agency will be giving San Francisco, a notice for being what he says in total violation the spokesperson for the S
Its great to have you with us on the show. Its changing and the new report from the un details the deepening crisis. Thats not made in africa but its already hits in the continental my colleague kamandi sends us this report from nairobi. Its a widely held belief here in africa that Climate Change is a problem for the rich its also a prize and the fridays for future protests badly gained any traction on the continent just about 10 countries participated in the events that tended to be fairly small the irony of course is that its poor an ordinary africans will most affected by the impact of Climate Change here in kenya had who are running away from up assistant drought having to bring their livestock all of the way up just to keep them alive and in nigeria more and more people are being forced into the cities. As desertification puts pressure on their land the african governments however say that they are trying and you can see that they are wind and solar farms such as this one sproutin