Need to maintain a safe distance from one another we feel that the mitigation that were doing right now is having an effect to extend. This mitigation process unl the end of april i think was a wise and prudt decision the corona virus has already killed more than 2400 people in the us. President trump says modeling shows the countrys death rate may peak in about 2 weeks. If we could hold that down. As were saying 2,000 its a horrible number. Maybe even less that 200,000 so we have between a 10200,000. We all together of done a very good to the us has the most confirmed cases worldwide with more than 139,000 as of sunday night. Hospitals in some parts of the country expect to run out of beds within 2 weeks as more patients arrive, we really have to have a new mentality a new culture. Hospitals working with one another this is going to be all hands on deck. This is everybody helping everyone else im John Lawrence reporting. And San Francisco supervisor matt haney says the stay at home or
Practice medicine. The state is looking to add at least 50,000 hospital beds and other sites. I hope the state can add as many as 37,000 more doctors, nurses, and specialist. We are hopeful with the effort we will see a surge of individuals to be paid and compensated to participate in the workforce and distribute throughout the caregiver system around the state of california. Reporter new retired professionals can find more information on the state covid 19 website. A bay area leaders preparing to extend stayat home orders until at least may 1. Christian captain joins us live from San Francisco where the mayor is expected to make an official announcement tomorrow but city officials there are stressing social distancing is still the best tool to combat the spread of the virus. Thats right. Most of the bay area under a state order to stay at home for two weeks. Now they expect the order to run all the way through april. Empty streets and closed businesses a common site the last two weeks
America. Google has become of verb its internet search tool is that commonplace in our everyday lives like kleenex and scotch tape its become a generic term googles Corporate Mission statement is to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful which google says it accomplishes by considering many factors including the words in your question the content of pages the expertise of sources and your language and location recently we introduce you to activist merriam 9 who spoke of google manipulating search results at the expense of alternative Health Information and while googles Parent Company itself. Has pharmaceutical subsidiaries if you miss that show you can find it where youll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture our t. And merriam introduced us to a former Google Software engineer who says there are other ingredients in the secret sauce they were intending to sculpt the information landscape so that they could create their own
Black and talk situations my. I had before he died. And i didnt find it funny. For me and headlines this hour check out our key dot com for more on those and other headlines you wont want to miss the big picture coming up next here. On this weeks show your newspaper or whats left of it notice how thin its gotten do you still read our copy newspaper your city still have a daily well talk with a digital disruptor who is making the most of the print media tailspin but 1st the president of the United States on the world stage as other World Leaders are laughing backstage yet trumps tribe is undaunted im holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our t. V. America. Dateline london the nato summit where President Trump soundbite rich appearance with other heads of state had him scoffing behind his back. Let us. Think. That. Others were amused trump was not. Well hes 2 faced. And i honestly wish to know hes a nice guy i find him to be a very nice guy but you know the truth is that
We have a quorum. Thank you, colleagues. I have a request from commissioner valley brown to be excused from todays meeting. Is there a motion to that effect made by commissioner stephanie and seconded by commissioner mandelman and we will take that without objection, even though it might upset council. With that, can we go to the Citizens Advisory Committee. Mr. Larsen, good morning. Turn your microphone on, john, and go ahead. Good morning. Im the care of the Citizens Advisory Committee and im here to report on the most recent meeting of the cac. Beginning with item 5, allocation and appropriations of prop k funds for 6. 5 million, cac members expressed concerns of tacs used the express lane by the doorpool and express lane project request. The main issue was t n cs adding to congestion in similar ways to add congestion on city streets. There was also keen interest in the equity study and how it would be structured and conducted. They were to free up regular lanes from slower moving h