Ipmer briefs reporters in detroit. Detroit has nearly 200 deaths today. Good morning. I want to start todays comments and i wanted to acknowledge passing of epresentative icicson. Moral big heart and a compass on behalf to have people passing nted and his is a day of sadness that everyone in the capital and in the district are feeling. We are providing relief for michigan. This is helpful. This is a good thing for our state. Im hopeful that next the president will review my request for vedge assistance programs that provide meals to families who need them and the rental assistance and temporary housing for families. I look forward to federal governments continued partnership and we are grateful for the things that that happened over the last few dice help us fight this virus. I sent a letter to the u. S. Secretary of defense requesting that the deft of defense direct fema to support michigans request to use the Michigan National guard for humanitarian rposes and use the u. S. Army corp
Positive for the coronavirus. At a News Conference friday Vice President mike pence said 2 of the 21 our passengers and the other 19 our crew members its very likely that of the on the grand princess was a. Exposed on on 2 different. 2 outings, the ship bound from hawaii was due at the port of San Franciscos pier 27 on saturday that due to the coronavirus the Vice President said he will instead docking at an unspecified non commercial port we will be testing everyone on the ship. We will be quarantining as necessary. But with regard to the 1100 member crew. We anticipate that they will be quarantined on the ship. I will not need to disembark white house Officials Say its likely passengers that need to be quarantined will be transferred to military bases. But pence as precautions will be in place we are taking a all the measures necessary. To see to the health of the americans and those involved on the grand princess and just as importantly to protect the health of the american public.
Appropriators trying to come to agreement on an overall package and what would be adequate to respond to this fast spreading outbreak. House appropriations chairwoman nita lowey told us they would be working through the weekend to wrap this up. She said they were pretty confident that lawmakers would be able to finish a bill by the end of the weekend, and the house is preparing to pass this next week. And it also appears as though the senate will take it up the following week. Its very, very fast moving and it appears like were sort of homing in on a number around somewhere in the range between 6 billion and 8 billion, but again, it seems like theres a real good faith bipartisan real good faith bipartisan effort to get this done pretty quickly in the next couple of days. Essentially they wanted to take hundreds of millions of dollars away from Public Health efforts to fight ebola and other kind of squishy areas that werent super clear in the requests that they sent to congress, but dem
Tweets about whats happening on hill. L appropriators planning to work through the weekend to prep a coronavirus bill for passage as next week. 8cussions focus on a 6 to billion package. Whats the status of talks and who are the key lawmakers this . G on caucus are very closed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said as much the other day. House and Senate Appropriators trying to come to an overall figure for a package, what would be adequate to respond to this fastspreading outbreak. House appropriations chairwoman today they would work through the weekend to wrap this up and they were confident that lawmakers would be able to bill by the end of the weekend and the house is this next weekss and it also appears as though the senate will take it up the week. Ing its very, very fast moving and it appears like were sort of homing in on a number around somewhere in the range between six and eight billion but, again, it seems like theres a bipartisanaith effort to get this done pretty quickly in th
When he throws it up jump up and hands on 3, 2, 1 please rise for 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 with liberty and justice for all. President , i would like to take roll call. [ roll call ]. Clerk you have a quorum. Thank you, all. Welcome to the february 12, 2020, meeting. We have a long presentation regarding the budget tonight, so we will have two minutes for Public Comment. With that, we are ready for the first item. Clerk item 1, consent calendar, receive and file action. Sfpd dpa protocol report 4th quarter 2019. Do we have a report on this or this is just to accept . We dont have anyone from the d. P. A. Who can help us . Why dont we skip that item and go to the next item for now. Clerk line item 2, reports to the commission, discussion. 2a, chiefs report. Weekly crime trends. Provide an overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco significant incidents chie