Chair peskin welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board for our meeting today, tuesday, june 9th, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Angela tsao. Madam clerk, could you please call the roll. Clerk commissioner fewer . Present. Clerk commissioner haney . Present. Clerk commissioner mandelman . Present. Clerk commissioner mar. Present. Clerk commissioner peskin . Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston . Present. Clerk commissioner ronen . Present. Clerk commissioner safai. Commissioner safai . Safai absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Clerk commissioner walton . Present. Clerk commissioner yee . Present. Clerk we have coreium. Chair peskin thank you, madam clerk. Do you have an announcement . Clerk yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, via telephone, by calling 888 2045987, enter access 2858465 as seen on the screen. And then follow the system prompts. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When yo
The coronavirus. They say they plan to release enough tests so all 50 states can free at least 2 of their residence. Joining us from amazons home seattle,he mayor of jenny durkin jenny durkan. We doubt that seattle was one of the early epicenters but early moves prevented seeing some of the dismal numbers we have seen elsewhere. Give us a status update in terms of the Testing Capacity. Mayor durkan on the good news front, at the height of the outbreak, we had a transmission rate of about three. We were seeing cases rise really quickly. We were able to do our measures pretty quickly, first by having the Tech Companies telecommute as well as the cities and larger employers. Today, the transmission level is below one, so every person who gets the virus is not even transmitting it to another person. All of the epidemiologists are saying that is where you need to be for a significant period of time. I think probably the worst news is that we are nowhere near the Testing Capacity that we nee
Its allies in western media today portraying china as either the victim of disinformation about the wuhan virus or claiming that western nations are using the contagion as distraction from their own policy failures. Even insinuating in one case that the United States is, quote, hiding something. The Trump Administration official telling fox news today they also have reason to believe the chinese have underreported, dramatically underreported the tally of deaths and cases of the virus in their country by a factor of at least 50. Can chinas initial and persistent lies and deception about the dangers of the virus have now caused the infection of 3 Million People worldwide and killed more than 209,000 people. Chinas maligned actions have killed 55,000 americans and infected nearly a million more. Much remains to be discovered, and among those discoveries we await are the dark reasons that motivated the ccp leaders to, first, release the virus and then to carry out can chinas deadly decepti
Its allies in western media today portraying china as either the victim of disinformation about the wuhan virus or claiming that western nations are using the contagion as distraction from their own policy failures. Even insinuating in one case that the United States is, quote, hiding something. The Trump Administration official telling fox news today they also have reason to believe the chinese have underreported, dramatically underreported the tally of deaths and cases of the virus in their country by a factor of at least 50. Can chinas initial and persistent lies and deception about the dangers of the virus have now caused the infection of 3 Million People worldwide and killed more than 209,000 people. Chinas maligned actions have killed 55,000 americans and infected nearly a million more. Much remains to be discovered, and among those discoveries we await are the dark reasons that motivated the ccp leaders to, first, release the virus and then to carry out can chinas deadly decepti
Teams and teams and delivery of cars for 2020 and so forth. Were starting to get a clearer picture on whats happening in technology as well. This is a big earnings week in general but we got the alphabet earnings last night. And one of the stark things was the difference between direct response advertising and general brand advertising. We heard direct response is doing better we heard it from snap. Heres the general idea from alphabet, gives you a read through whats going to happen with facebook. There were other numbers that alphabet talked about that could have implications for apple, certainly for amazon and microsoft in their cloud numbers. So that data, that intelligence were getting not only for what happened in q 1 but the trends in beginning of q 2, morgan, are so important. Yeah, potentially read through for apple when we get those results after the bell tomorrow, too. We started the week talking about the outsized leadership of these names, microsoft, facebook, amazon, alpha