And indeed i have a message to many close allies around the world to your people could be next. Also coming up tonight a warning from the un that millions of children are driskell of being put to work many families are turning to dangerous child labor to put food on the table during the Global Health emergency. My father was killed my mother is very ill. I go out to get money so we can buy medicine for my mother so we can treat her and so that we can buy food for us selves. U. S. President donald trump all for us sanctions against staff of the International Criminal court who are investigating u. S. Service personnel over possible war crimes in afghanistan the United States is not a signatory to the courts charter at and wrote select in retaliation for the inquiry the white house says it will block the assets. Of Court Employees involved impose visa restrictions on them and beth families and to corruption investigation into the court itself is also said to be in the works u. S. Secreta
Were sad to have the director not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this wil
Were watching up on some of that work as well as completing the westportal cross over that the former director advocated for. We should be able to complete the westportal cross over in time for the restorative rail service allowing us to be able to potentially offer threecar shuttles in the subway between westportal and embarcadero stations. Were also moving forward rapidly on the van ness Improvement Projects and the lack of transportation on van ness avenue and it has been able to allow the crews to accelerate the sewer and water work thats been the source of so much of the disruption on that street and that work is continuing quickly and it means that well be able to start the sfmta portion of that project and the transit portion starting this spring. Ill remind you all, that while the sfmta is in the lead of the brt project, none of our work has started yet. The work for creating the bus Rapid Transit line so were very much looking forward to that work getting moving and many of yo
Start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your insights. Thank you so much for your eight years of service and encourage you again to pleas
Our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala joins us live now to explain the difference between what will be opening up tomorrow actually. Yeah well under state guidelines retailers like toys stores Clothing Stores Sporting Good stores, flowers stores. Can all reopen only with Curbside Pickup. The days of shopping instore are still indefinitely away. This by no stretch of the imagination is over state leaders thursday released new guidelines and a checklist encouraging employee symptom in temperature checks, new training touchless Payments Systems special hours for the elderly and dozens of other recommendations allowing retailers and their supply chains to go back to work as soon as friday, we know that this is going to be a gradual move into stage 2. We are going to be able to and more businesses and sectors. As the date allows us Governor Newsoms administration acknowledging some counties and cities want to reopen at a faster pace than the state the requirements include know could tha