Quorum. Which brings us to item 3. Clerk mayty make a brief announcement before we move on to item 3 . Yes, please do. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations, issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgov tv. For those of you watching the live stream, theres a brief delay. On behalf of the commission, id like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff and sfpuc for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 415 6550001. I. D. 146 500 3304 and then press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to please mute their microphones to minimize background noise, if they have not already done so. Mr. Chair, your first item is item number 3, commissioner vacancy and possible election of a new Vice President. Thank you. And le
Finalized theres a process and theres a lot of things already baked into provide checks and balances. Moving down, we also have from a more kind of Performance Management framework struck youre, we have our competency model which ive mh370 to and i believe even jenny rice has come to this commission to talk more about the competency model and its basically a Performance Management framework that shows to every employee what success in the job, in their job, looks like. Its also a way for them to understand, how can i progress in my career. Then you can see what kind of competencies may be required for jobs that you are interested in. And so, we are developing this framework and its currently underway and been underway since want to say 2014. Through out our organization and that is such an important thing to show people what success looks like so discipline isnt even an issue, right. And and lastly things we are going to do is a huge focus of our employee Labor Relations group in a hr
Apple is above 467. 77 making it the first u. S. Company to have a market cap above 2 trillion, a discussion a few moments ago about tim cook and how he has led stewardship of the company through all kinds of cross currents josh lipton joins us to talk more about that. Josh, its funny to look at that change of market cap and think back to some of the more cautionary calls weve gotten in the past few weeks from the likes of b of a who worry about margin pressure on phones, margin pressure on services, less impact from the buyback and so forth yeah. Listen, you look at this recent run, carl, obviously they had those earnings in late july that blue past the streets expectation. You saw strong growth in sales of the new low cost iphone sc. You can chalk this recent run to a few big trends one, theyll say listen in Uncertain Times cash is king and obviously apple has a lot of it, net cash position of 81 billion and counting also, that work from home trend is clearly helping apple or at leas
It may be a while before we see dr. Anthony fauci delivering coronavirus updates on tv, because hes recovering at home after an outpatient procedure to remove a polyp from his vocal cord. A spokesperson says the 79yearold is expected to be working online today and back in the office on monday. Speaking of voices, a new study shows that singing is no more of a Coronavirus Spread risk than talking. It comes amid new optimism about having a vaccine by next spring. I spoke earlier with dr. Ryan ribiera. Good morning, dr. Ribiera, thank you for joining us. Lets start by looking to the future. The head of the administrations vaccine effort now says a safe and effective vaccine may be available by next spring, between april and june. What are your thoughts about that timeline . You know, ill say i actually do think it is plausible. There are safe ways to fast track drug evaluation, development. We do it all the time. Its not by cutting out the safety measures, its by cutting out the bureaucra
Are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our 2 International Im sean thomas glad to have you with us we start with breaking news right here on our Team International a devastating explosion has hit lebanons capital beirut government Officials Say at least 73. 00 people are dead and around 3700. 00 injured the blast went off in the citys port area destroying buildings with a large radius. My. But we heard from 2 reporters in beirut. And owen hall the way they told us more about the fallout from the devastating explosion. The devastation here in the lebanese capital is very massive it is being estimated by tens of millions of dollars as we said earlier the blouse had was felt 10 kilometers away from the port where it took place i believe this is going to be a sleepless night for the lebanese and a very sad night on social media a lot of lebanese are faring through the incident unfortunately there are for and through it as lebanons here shima course theres no compar