The haze and the fog. 50s everyone reporting clouding to mostly cloudy skies. Oakland and san dont see that all the time. Smoke for alburns off recent times. Wind this pick up later once the fog burns off. As far as i can see, a fog bank that we carried over to september 1st. Hazy skies today, morning fog, a little temperature changed. Big temperature change not until the weekend. Morn 10 minutes, temperatures except for livermore below average. Over to the sound emma picking up the bay bridge, still the case, you want to start there. I will start and san jose, steve, i will show the total times unless it is very rare i dont. Your right about that. I want to start with the san jose thing, we are finding out of a deadly accident southbound 880 at the old bayshore offramp where but the arrow right there. Not affecting traffic all that much, there will be a scene along with the corner coming up southbound 880, we are investigating that. Otherwise in the south bay we are doing okay, this g
Strangers and limit a National Death toll that now exceeds 150,000. Yesterday more workers brought home pink slips. More main street businesses saw the end of their p. P. P. Lifelines fast approaching. Yesterday more laid off americans filed new claims for Unemployment Insurance or laid awake wondering about next months rent. Yesterday more School Officials wondered what to tell parents, students, and teachers about september. So what happened here in the capitol yesterday, madam president . With the American People fighting all these battles and more, what did the speaker of the house and the democratic leader do with yet another day of deliberations . Yet again it was the exact same refrain. It never seems to change. Were feeling optimistic. We spoke very politely to the administration but were still nowhere close on substance. Its now been more than a week since Senate Republicans released a serious proposal for another major rescue package. A trillion dollars for kids, jobs, and he
Regard to covid19 back in march and april, we had at that point added about 3 trillion to the national debt. We then, of course, ended up with a debt the size of our economy for the First Time Since world war ii, which is in and of itself concerning. So i said, i felt we needed to push the pause button, begin to see the impact of the cares act and related acts during that period. To see how we did when the economy began to reopen and take another look at what the country needed in july. Weve been we meaning Senate Republicans and the administration have been consulting over the last few weeks to come up with a realistic proposal with what we think is an appropriate amount of Additional Debt to be added to the economy at this time. We think it is about a trillion dollars and weve allocated that in a way that we think makes the most sense for the country at this particular time. It will include liability insurance, which senator liability protections, which senator cornyn is going to des
There are other parts that have access indie indiscernible . Operator you have three questions remaining. Speaker i would like to commend the sfmta on the slowstreets program. I think its great and particularly, i have frequently used the one on sanchez and if anything, thats to be extended even further and the slow street on 20th can be extended west, as well. I think that would be a great idea. I want to reiterate what everybody else said regarding the tenderloin, an equity standpoint in ten in terms of mg everyones lives better, its unfair they dont have slow streets. And people should take a step back and remember 30 of people in San Francisco dont even own a car and yet up until now, almost 100 of the streets where dedicated largely to cars and even now, 95 , so i think thats important perspective to keep in mind and just remember as we go forward, i think that this would be great to implement, especially after the pandemic and hopefully, make the city a better place to live in. T
It is slow today. No problem. Operator this question is now in question and answer mode. To alert the speaker, you have a question, press zero. Each question will be heard in the way it was received. This is Public Comment for minutes on june 30th. So if you wish to address the board on the minutes, dial 10 now. There are no callers. Chair Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve. Chair is there a second . Second. Chair secretary boomer, can you please call the role. role call . Five communications, madam chair. Item 13 regarding the caltrian sales tax has been removed at the request of staff and proposing amendments to the board of directors and we will schedule a special meeting for members of the public to hear our item and for us to act. If you wish to address the directors today on this topic, you can do so under general Public Comment on items not on the agenda. Again, so the caltrain sales tax measure will not be heard at the end of the agenda but will be heard in a special m