Good morning, it is going to be a very pleasant day across the bay area. A Beautiful Day with that clearing and sunshine for most of us. We are warmer throughout the day and cooler at the coast with seasonal daytime highs. As we start off our day thursday temperatures are in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s with those clouds and in the afternoon, mid 60s in San Francisco and low 70s in oakland and low 80s in san jose and mid 80s for concord. We are where we sh are going to warm things up and i am tracking strong ridges of High Pressure to build and and details are coming up in just a few minutes. I am at the live news desk, looking at this hill where republicans say that they have reached a deal on key pieces of the new 1 trillion stimulus package and it includes more than 105 billion for schools and does not penalize people for not reopening in person. Also some funding for coronavirus testing and rpublicans pushing for another Forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loan. The democrats
The country. And now hospitals in the state say they are preparing to expand the number of available beds for covid19 patients as the surge in patients continues to grow kron fours reyna harvey is live now she is a live report with more on this rain. Marty good morning at a major concern for a lot of these hospitals now is running out of beds along with protective equipment for staffers to use now weve seen a surge in cases like you mentioned we a top new york a stark number for california and so now hospitals are looking at the data and typically when you see a rise in cases you also see an increase in hospitalized station rate so thats what hospitals are racing for right now, and its not just about the ppe its not just about the bad. They also are seen a decline or a shortage of trained qualified nurses that are able to help along with testing material so its a lot of concerns that they have. Now beds are used for other injured or sick patients, the size those who have the virus. Hos
Be turned around within 72 hours but were seeing back ups especially with our provider labs and some of our own labs within the city. We are backing up seven days, ten days at this point. Thats something were seeing across the state and across the country. thank you director. Thank you madam mayor and dr. C olfax for your time. Any followup questions or questions after this meeting can be directed to dem press at sf dot org. Thank you for your time and that concludes todays press conference. Concludes todays press good afternoon welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee San Francisco board of supervisors for today monday july 20th. Im the chair of the Committee Supervisor aaron peskin joined by supervisor ahsha safai and dean preston and joined by colleague supervisor Hillary Ronen. Do you have any announcements . Due to the covid19 emergency to protect board members, City Employees and public, board of supervisors legislative chamber remain closed. Committee members will at
Were really not too far off that 25 , if we look at it 10 years from now. Thank you very much. Thank you, now were going to open this up for Public Comment. Every member of the public will have two minutes to speak. Yes, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. The meeting id is 1463082077. Then press pound and pound again. If you havent done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. We currently have 20 people lined up to speak at this time. May we have the first caller . Yes, i will unmute the first caller. Thank you chair ronen and Committee Members. This is doug on behalf of Teamsters Joint Council 7. Were also members of the food chain workers alliance. I want to thank supervisor fewer for the shoutout and her leadership. I feel so proud when i think of how far we come since that fir
The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And byibutions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ros hello and welcome to todays outside source. Othe world healanization says too many countries are getting their Coronavirus Response ianwrong. Ito be straight with you there will be no retn to the old normal for the foreseeable future. Ros for the impact of this virus on the hearto how immunity works, theyre still lots ofhings to be learned about covid19. We are going to look at some of the lat research. In england, the message on Face Covering is shifting, wearing them in shops is likely to become mandatory. Parts of the u. S. Are struggling to get on top of the pandemic. In florida, the number of new cases in one day would put it forth in the world read a country. And manchester has overturned a twoyear ban on playing we will start with t head of he says too many countries are heading in the wrong di