Bill with a final vote scheduled for this morning. Theyll also work on the nomination of Justin Walker to serve on the u. S. Court of appeals. Live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Lord, god of heaven and earth, today teach our lawmakers to do things your way, embracing your precepts and walking in your path. Lord, make them powerful instruments for goodness in our nation and world. Remind them at the narrow and difficult road leads to life and few find it. You honor those who honor you. As our senators receive guidance from you and following your leading, replace anxiety with calm and confusion with clarity. Give them attentive hearts and open minds as they seek to find in the diversity of ideas what is best for our nation and world. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to o
Yes, there is one final caller. I will unmute them now. Clerk thank you and welcome, caller. Caller hi. My name is tom angston and a Small Business owner in the sunset and i have lived here for 20 plus years. Im calling in support of the property at 1420 taraval. I drive by the taraval corridor often and i know that when i go by a building it screams to me what a gorgeous property that should be preserved. I think that putting in a multitenant building fits in with the properties that are around it. I understand the concerns of the other neighbors, but development is common in the city and we want to keep moving the city forward. As someone who is looking to invest in this community currently and conditions that were facing, i see the businesses close left and right in my neighborhood. And so if they want to push this city forward and invest and bring in jobs and construction and bring more housing into the city and modernize the city, im all for that. And im for supporting the local b
Aggressively moved to contain the outbreak. We are fighting to support and to save our Small Businesses in San Francisco, and im so grateful that we at least can do this and there is definitely more that i want to do. Reporter the mayor ordered garlic noodles with shrimp. The outdoor tables must be six feet apart. Customers are given plastic utensils and offering Hand Sanitizer will be a part of daily practice. Despite todays encouraging news, breed could not ignore the fact that covid cases have been inching up in San Francisco and other bay area counties. Weve still got to be careful. Well be living with covid for a while but we cant continue to allow our county to be closed. Reporter restaurant were supposed to open for Outdoor Dining on monday but breed surprised everyone by moving the date up. It was a scramble. There have been a couple of sleepless nights. Your brain is running around all over the place trying to get ready. Reporter this customer was ready to order takeout from s
From last nights looting. We begin with the protests underway right now in downtown San Francisco. Good evening. Im brian hackney. Im juliette. Joe joins us in the market area. Joe. Weve been monitoring a large, loud, boisterous, yet peaceful demonstration as it makes its way through the streets of San Francisco. Lets take a look from up above chopper 5. This is a crowd of about thousands. They started at city hall, roughly 3 00 with a few hundred. Now it has grown exponentially. These folks are protesting the death of george floyd, one of many demonstrations around the country. Demonstrating against the death of a man at the hands of a Police Officer. Weve watched as just in the last hour, this crowd branched off in two different directions. One went toward the bay bridge. The other toward the hall of justice. One young demonstrator said he recognizes even gathering in this crowd presents a risk to him. Were all risking something by being here. You see, like, how armed the police here
A couple hours ago. The san jose mayor joining her. This is video from earlier, from San Francisco. This is a large group of protesters who have been marching this way and that, both sides of market street, near the embarcadero as well. Two separate groups have merged. There have been some confrontations with police. Nothing too violent. A little pushing and shoving at one point. A Police Vehicle was surrounded. But it was never approached by protesters. It was allowed to back out of there and everybody went about their business and thats the way it has been for the last three hours, at least. Now, two hours ago, san jose mayor sam liccardo joined ting a knee. The mayor took that knee to show solidarity with the cause and the he needed with the group to stay peaceful. Shortly after taking that knee, he held a News Conference covering a range of topics. He explained why he has ordered a curfew for the city. Not just for tonight but the next several days. We are receiving intelligence ab