Abuse but the army says theyre making it up. Thank you for joining us we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to pull vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic have been more than 64000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there are the Health Minister says the actual number of deaths is probably much higher iran introduced tougher restrictions to counter a 3rd wave of infections which included closing nonessential businesses russia has reported more than 28000 new infections. On thursday the highest spike yet the 2nd largest city St Petersburg has announced restrictions around the new Year Holidays indonesia meanwhile is seeing a record daily rise in cases reporting more than 8300 on thursday and several
Earlier. The strategy, shop now to be the december delivery rush. The stock took off yesterday and up again premarket about 24. Within the last year, amazon has touched a low of 1600, now 34. Double the past year, modest pullback for the dow, down about maybe 150, remember it was up to 50 yesterday, the s p will be down as well. Look at the nasdaq, powering ahead again on the back of another technology search, 31 again. I have trumped the video, it may surprise you, this is the crowd lining up for the president s event in florida, it is absolutely endless. And to impact largely mass close crowd, the president danced up a storm, he should his apparent boundless energy, the man is back, he is planing two or three events a day until the election. Then theres joe biden he went to ohio, forgot mitt romneys name, said he was running for the senate in question the memory of voters who say they are better off now than they were four years ago. However, the main event obviously, the hearings fo
Is that it, supervisor ronen. I remember the first meeting where trent came and we just were on the cusp of it and trent immediately pivoted. It was so crazy. It makes me sad to see this, but trent, i see you have 224 vacancies. I knew you would come to that. 224 vacancies and are those general fund vacancies . So, supervisor, none of our positions are 100 general funds. Either we charge them to a state or federal program and in some cases like a medicale would be federally funded. So because were the county designated Public Human Services agency, were able for every one of our employees, draw at least a portion of funding through federal and state sources. Its generally 40 issue, Nongeneral Fund for each position, yeah. And so its hard. When we say a hiring freeze, youre not hiring a medicale worker and even brings overhead. I think you understand. What i dont understand is that so many vacancies. Yeah, well, its a function of the hiring freeze, the modified hiring freeze, where we o
Major increases in the oec through the prop c opening, as you know, thats in the budget for 2021 and significant increase in our feeding in response to covid and that it will be included in the dos budget and the one Million Dollars increase for ihss is the wage increase and the impact on the general fund of that and given the economic downturn due to covid, we anticipate significant increase in our cash assistance programs in human services, specifically in county and assistance programs for adults and families. You can see the total of 19 million there and the bottom is our attempt to move thousands of people into subsidized employment through our jobs now, expansion to provide paid sick leave to employers in San Francisco so that their employees could take sick patients if they get ill. So next slide. And you asked in our presentation to lay out the fte count and we lay this out by department and you can see the bulk is in the department of human services, almost 1500 employee, dos,
Administered kashmir. And turkish troops in libya helped to clear land mines left by forces loyal to the world khalifa. And in sports event is to lose the game and their rivals to lose control lot c. O. Have a player sent off for biting as italys top 2 teams suffer a surprise defeat. Aid workers have called a move by russia and china to restrict a deliveries into syria reprehensible both countries permanent members of the u. N. Security council have vetoed a resolution that would have extended cross border humanitarian aid to 3000000 syrians for a year more than 11000000 syrians need emergency aid just to survive which comes from the u. N. The countrys economy education sanitation Protection Services and health care all crumbling under the pressures of conflict u. N. Officials have made a plea to countries to help end the crisis by investing money manpower political promises 5. 00 and a half 1000000000. 00 has been promised for humanitarian support this year. Well lets speak to rachel