Celsius over a hundred years, it does create pockets of these heat waves. Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan we are now on the eve of seeing a Senate Proposal for health care, including replacing the Affordable Care act. Republ
The senate. Kelly loeffler and david perdue facing off against Raphael Warnock and jon ossoff. Last pitches today, in person voting today, runoff record which is amazing, 3 million early votes already cast and people lined up today to vote in person. Todays voting is only part of the unprecedented moment in the country. Not only the balance of power up for grabs in the senate, but by this time tomorrow, republicans in washington will challenge the Democratic Foundation of this country. More than half House Republicans and 13 senators are expected to contest bidens win when congress meets to tally electoral votes. This is President Trumps last ditch effort to try to overturn the election and he is now applying maximum pressure to Vice President mike pence to go along with the charade tomorrow. It is incredible theater. We know the outcome. We have so much to get to in the next three hours in georgia where we have no idea what the outcome will be. Ryan young is in smyrna. What are you se
Reason has to do with toxic stress. And for those who dont know, toxic stress shows in people who are exposed to trauma, violence, much like what were dealing with in the city, the number of shootings that weve had in this entire city. So, its not a surprise that the numbers would be very high when we think about how many shootings weve had in the bayview and Visitacion Valley neighborhood alone. It is of epidemic proportion. So, i want to give some voice to what supervisor kim has raised. I think shes nailed it, which is interesting, because ive come to the conclusion to support lauras law because of that, because we need to provide support for people who are hurting. I appreciate the efforts of the colleague bringing this issue forward to the forefront where hundreds of individuals are suffering from Mental Illness. Many who i see encounter my district and quite frankly who i have in my own family. Many of the people that i seek to help are unable to recognize their own diagnosis and
Debate and i was ultimately persuaded at that time because the leadership of the department of Public Health, dr. Mitch katz, for those of you who remember that time, he was opposed to moving forward because he didnt think that laura alps ~ lauras law could be effectively implemented. Today we have department of Public Health leadership that think differently, that are ready to implement assistive treatment. And we should give our Mental Health experts time to do t. That being said, we should put together the best program we can. I do want to thank supervisor farrell for his leadership and advocates who who are moving forward because, as supervisor cohen said, we do have to do things differently. And i do support that. I just want to make sure we do it with the strongest program possible. Thank you. Supervisor kim. Thank you. I just wanted to clarify my earlier comments. My point was not that there are more Mental Health illnesses documented in the africanamerican and latino community.
Within the guidelines and its a small number of people that may be impacted, but i feel like its going down a road of further stigmatizing already stigmatized population of people. I wanted to also add that i think voluntary treatment thats culturally com p e he tent with Strong Community based but also San Francisco department of Public Health services is the answer. ~ competent i think healing of families and strengthening of our Mental Health is critical, and this policy doesnt go anywhere near enough to do that, and i do feel that it may lead to further the danger of violating civil rights of many mentally ill people in our neighborhoods as well. Lastly, i wanted to say that the advocates from nami and others have really helped me understand how the system functions for families and the grieving and high emotions among people, but i do feel again that this is a critical issue that without Adequate Funding and i think more time to think through how our systems could work in San Fran