Black lives matter movement. The supervisors who coauthored these resolutions, they along with leaders from organizations like the naacp, they just discussed the need for this kind of change. They condemned Racial Injustice during this News Conference thats taking place here outside the county building in san jose. The supervisors believe that the recent George Floyd Protests have opened the communitys eyes to this kind of systemic racism that is clearly still a problem in this country. And that incidentally a disproportionate number of minorities are impacted by covid19. The resolution calls for a number of things. It wants the county to reaffirm its support for minority communities who have been disenfranchised, wants to better educate the public on how to address and dismantle racism, and calls for a review of county ordinances, hiring practices, and workplace policies equity lens. Despite the progress of black americans and other minorities, racial bigotry is hanging over this nati
We are seeing every single day. Reporter there are any number of ways to chart the spread of the virus. San francisco like california as a whole is seeing a relatively slower growth. Other parts of the country are seeing rates of spread nearly twice as high if not more. While that is good news even successful social distancing might only biased time. It is plausible that despite all these efforts we could have a scenario similar to the one that is playing out in new york this very day. Where we are today you will be in three weeks. Or 4 weeks or 5 weeks. Or six weeks. We are your future. Reporter new york is racing into a spike of cases that is not expected toat least another 2 to 3 weeks. But while we may have avoided that for now softening the front end of our curve is no guarantee for what the rest of it will look like. You can get an initial to flatten the curve initially. If things go back to normal that curve could easily go back up. Reporter talk about time we had the governor t
A huge financial stimulus package offered by the white. So get even youre watching r. T. International the number of confirmed cases of coronaviruses top 200000 worldwide with the death toll now more than 8000 as World Leaders scramble to contain the spread of the outbreak europe has become the epicenter and now has more confirmed cases than china while in the u. S. All 50 states there have now had recorded cases. When entire countries are now shutting their borders down russia has become the latest to deny entry to foreigners joining the likes of canada and the u. S. The e. U. Has also restricted access. 2 limits to support of the various bubel we agreed to enforce external borders both closed and coordinates temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e. U. Folk leave it or so to do this france meanwhile has put the entire country of 66000000 people on lockdown army trucks have been seen on the streets of paris while large numbers of Police Officers have been deployed to to e
Are 196 in Santa Clara County, the most in the bay area. San mateo county has 100 reported a San Francisco county with 76 contra costa with more than 40 and Alameda County with 35. Were also tracking the growing number of cases statewide the California Department of health released. New numbers tonight showing how cases really spiked each day this week we started with 3. 92 monday. And tonight there are more than 1200 cases statewide and this is attributed to ramped up testing this week Health Officials say. Are about 12,000 tests right now. Well, the results are pending. And today millions of californians stayed home from work and school after governor Gavin Newsome issued a statewide a stay at home order yesterday. Kron fours dan kerman explains how badly is this order hurting the economy. What the rest of california starting to experience San Francisco has been doing for 4 days and this is the result of the stay at home order empty streets and most stores shut down we can tolerate t
role call . Mr. President , all members are present. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfg tv, Mia Hernandez and kalina mendoza. Madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President , i have one to report. We received correspondence on february 14th, 2020 from mayor london breed communicating her veto of the ordinance with 2. 7 millions of general reserve conditioned upon an executed agreement at city college. Pursuant to 9. 104, my office received no request to consider this veto and therefore, file 1961 stands. Thank you, madam clerk. First of all, i want to apologize for starting a little late. We had a little press thing with the mayor announcing some issues that youll hear about in the paper. So colleagues, today we are approving the min