Mayor breed good morning, e. Thank you all so much for being here. I am San Francisco mayor london breed. I am joined today by the director of the department of Public Health, doctor grant colfax, department of department of Emergency Management. Mary ellen carol, director of department of Human Services, trent rhorer, Abigail Stewart conas well as director of the department of m. T. A. , jeff tumlin, police chief, bill scott, and we have a special guest today from the Interface Council who will be speaking directly after my comments. As of today, we have confirmed 676 cases of the coronavirus, sadly, 10 people have passed away as a result of this disease. This is clearly a challenging time for San Francisco. What we have done time and time again, especially during this press conference is to reiterate is importance of staying at home. We know that a couple weekends ago we had real challenges with that. Over the past two weekends people complied and have been wonderful. We also think t
Are anxious to hear. Definitely if it goes past june, i dont know. Also not just a recommendation, its an order. The bay area county that just got stricter on face coverings. Plus its extremely dangerous for the operators. Not six feet apart. The crowded city buses that have muni drivers demanding change. Good evening and thanks for being with us as we begin week five of our shelter at home. Im raj mathai. And im jessica aguirre. Tomorrow Governor Newsom will lay out details on what will happen to get the state back to work. Nbc bay areas ian cull is in san jose with how businesses are eager to hear that message. Ian . Reporter yeah, they certainly are, jessica. Closed. Its happening around the state, around the country, and t a all reopen, and what will that look like . The financial toll of the virus is clear, but the uncertainty of when it will get better has businesses like james carters innovating. Hes holding online classes from his dojo to get by. If we dont get parents back to
And i say that to the mta as somebody who absolutely believes that the agency was chronically underfunded for many years when it was treated solely as a general fund department. Transportation, both on the operating and capital side, was in the puc days when muni was a puc property, always fell to the bottom of the list. And there have been a number of things that have happened, prop e in 1999, the Charter Amendment that i did in 2007 that brought a significant amounts of fee and fine revenue that used to go into the general fund was diverted to the mta and most recently what the entire board of supervisors put on the ballot and passed proposition d, the tnc tax that is a new source of revenue. And i look at those things, and i realize that fair box recovery is important. And i agree that people who are more affluent should pay for it, and we all know that, and just your slide 7 showed that in almost all of those categories, people of color and lowincome individuals were very large pro
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