Significant vote here in Santa Clara County. Two agenda items today, number one, support, officially the black lives matter movement, and number two, officially declare racism is a threat to Public Health. The two supervisors who coauthorrized them include cindy chavez. Corteze said if the resolution pass t would work with the community to ele cism. Black Community Leaders demanding action on several fronts including defunding the sheriff, jails, and district attorney. The supervisor said the cuts to the department are likely any way because of the covid19 pandemic. I think by august you will see te ofns cu in rectiof e dollars to try to help people. We dont want promises of equity in the future. We want to be compensated for everything taken from us. Reporter there seems to be a lot of momentum for change in the last three weeks with near constant protests and demonstrations across the south bay, but keep in mind, the proposals are authored by two members of the five member board, but
Ill have more on this and the fire danger coming up. Mike, do you have any update on the wrong way driver . No news on that. A wrong way driver reported southbound on the north side of 17. From hamilton they may be heading down across the santa cruz mountains. Usually with those situations no news is good news. That driver usually gets off the freeway without injury or incident. Were looking at the rest of the bay and tracking a smooth flow of traffic. We have a new crash, west 580 and a little slowing at vasco. Back to you. 5 01 now. Searing heat and high winds fueling possible fires in the bay area. The red flag warning remains in effect. There are shut offs expected to help prevent any fires from sparking power lines. We have a reporter live for us is santa rosa. Whats todays plan . Reporter were in a stand by mode for north bay. That means about 55,000 pg e customers waiting to find out if their power will be shut off as part of the Public Safety power shut offs as pg e monitors it
Extended it so another spare the air day for you folks in the north bay. Travel forecast, sfo clear, chilly, cloudy high of 55 at sfo. If you are traveling around the country, all the hubs looking good weatherwise. Cant promise you wont see delays, but we are not seeing significant weather issues for atlanta, chicago, houston or new york today. Futurecast showing some changes locally as we see the front move in overnight and into early tomorrow morning. Gusty winds associated with that front, especially as it passes through tomorrow morning. And then behind the front well see scattered showers. Also, chilly air mass in place things below snow level down to 3500 feet and a Winter Weather advisory is in effect for friday and saturday. Heres roqui with a check of traffic. Thank you, julie. Okay, it is 5 01. Lets start with the Richmond San Rafael bridge toll plaza. Looking literally no cars you cant count any cars on the road right now. Moving over to the Golden Gate Bridge, if you are he
Get in the future. Caa says the measure deprives Property Owners of a fair rate of return for their properties and evictions protections within the rent control measure transfers Property Rights from the owners to the renters. This can result in the loss of a lot of money according to a small Property Owners group in San Francisco. There was a building up the street thats now tic, but unfortunately, the owner hadnt kept had kept it vacant for 10 years because he knew if he let people live in there he wouldnt be able to get them out when he was ready to remodel it. Reporter in a letter to caa to local Property Owners they said there are 10 potential legal grounds to battle the rented control ordinance. 6 out of 7 Mountain View Council Members opposed the measure during the november election and instead supported a milder alternative. Mountain view is not obligated to defend measure v. City leaders new decide in a closed session to vote whether to defend the law or not. Live in the newsr
Justice that everybody in every kind of working job has access to their job at any time of day or night thanks to everyone that has been working on this. clapping. thank you. Okay. So thank you, everyone for being here today and great step forward and not the last implementing those recommendations until we get to a truly twentyfour hour Transit System here in the bay area so thank you very good afternoon id like to call the meeting of San Francisco Public Utilities commission to order can we please have the roll call secretary of state. Commissioner caen commissioner courtney commissioner kwon and we have quorum. Thank you next item. Please item 3 approval of the minutes of july 16th is there a motion to approve the minutes 30 the all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries next item. Please general Public Comment. Item 4 general Public Comment i have a couple of cards mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners ive come here before you before and asked for a