The San Francisco county Transportation Commission for our meeting, september 15, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Brittany. Can you please call the roll. Yes. Commissioner fewer. Present. Commission haney. Present. Commissioner mandelman. Present. [roll call] ronen absent. Safai absent. We have corium. Thank you madam clerk. Do you have any announcements . Gentlemyes, i would like to announcement about Public Comment. Please proceed. Public comment will be available for each item via telephone by calling 8882045987 and the access code is on the screen. Dial 10 to speak. Each call will be allowed 2 minutes. Calls will be taken in the order which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn down the volume of anything around you. That completes my announcement. Thank you, could use please read the next item. Sorry, this is commissioner ronen. I can sort of hear you. Did you hear me when i said i was here. Now we can hear you, see you, and you are counted present. Good
Expect still ahead. Robin. All right, thank you. John yes, well get to the fog in just a bit but we do have a trouble spot to talk about in oakland, its a car fire that slowing down traffic a little bit we actually have some video coming up from the citizens at the shows us exactly whats happening there check this out you can see fire crews have made it out to the scene and it looks like an xfinity van that was involved in an accident there and caught fire so emergency crews are still blocking this is right along hagan burger next to the nimitz freeway so this is not on the nimitz but its the offramp so theyre requesting Traffic Control theyre shutting down the hagan burger offramp to the south only as they deal with that accident and vehicle fire so its going to be a little slow you may want to dump off before or after hagan burger, if thats your normal exit. Now the northbound side the ramp is open. But its a visual distraction and we have some commute traffic there as well to north
Game 70 and game 2 is currently underway. The as elected to postpone their game against the rangers today and they played last night is scheduled because there was an issue getting everybody together to make a cohesive decision and the shortstop, a bay area native said it was important to represent his hometown in this fashion. The city that we play in has a long history of fighting for what is right. That is what we are trying to do here. I feel like a lot of our fans will have our backs on this one. Especially when they turn on what they think will be an as game and it is not on there. They will understand why. Reporter for the second straight day, the nba playoffs have been postponed in the Orlando Bubble and according to reports, players voted to resume games this weekend and stay tuned for that. Also today, the wnba decided to postpone their season on hold in florida while the National Hockey League Postponed playoff games scheduled for today and tomorrow and my understanding is e
That is myers starting to move down along the coast. We are not done yet, the it is a busy morning. Thousands of acres burn across woodward fire in marin county several bay area counties, is also sending in plumes of homes have been destroyed. People are forced to evacuate, smoke, ive been looking at the and the weather is not letting up. It is like we dont know where to start. San mateo coast, you can see the smoke looking all the way lets dive right into it, down the peninsula, then, of course, look at all the smoke we are going to start in the north bay where we have seen thats boring right there, and several structures go up in now, you get into santa cruz flames, residents say they had very little time to react, as the fire spread so quickly. This is all part of the l and county and into the santa cruz you lightning complex fire, we mountains, the smoke is blowing toward san jose, you can see it right there. We have unbelievable amounts of smoke getting caught up in the have been
Exposed. I hesitate to say malpractice but i dont think it is a good idea especially in a context like Contact Tracing they absolutely need to be tested. The governor is also taking issue i dont agree with the new cdc guidance period full stop. Neither do leaders in the bay area, in the south bay specifically, they are blasting the new moves, calling them bizarre. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. As abc 7 News Reporter chris wynne explains south bay leaders say the abrupt changes could within st. Claira county this afternoon Health Officials didnt hold back after learning of the new covid19 testing guidelines from the cdc. When i first heard about this change in guidelines, i actually didnt believe it. Reporter the Nations Health Protection Agency now says as long as a person doesnt show symptoms testing may not be necessary. Health officers however are questioning the guidance saying it is important to identify infections in the small window preceding the onset of symptoms whil